Chapter 12 Anger

The drugs that had put Luke asleep during his surgery were wearing off. Mara sensed this and she was sitting right beside Luke in his bed located in one of the Ahto city hospitals. Luke now had a full mechanical arm, it was chrome and golden in color and it connected with the little flesh he still had connected to his shoulder.

His eyes fluttered open and he saw Mara first. She smiled at him and he returned it, then reality hit him. Grevious had cut his arm off.

" Mara, my arm." Were the first words out of Luke's mouth. Mara nodded sympathetically.

" They were not able to attach it back on. When your saber fell, it fell on the mechanical hand and melted it into the arm which was poisoned it with the tiny amounts of lead and mercury in the metal." Mara said.

" So…" Luke said looking at his arm." Damn it. So when am I going to get out of here?"

" Physician said tomorrow." Mara said. Losing an arm was not a serious thing but it hurt a lot.

" Alright." Luke said." So what about Grevious?"

" He escaped but I threw a tracking device onto the ship. We tracked them and they winded up in the middle of space on an uncharted planet. We believe them to be in some sort of space station."

" Great just what we need. Death Star three."

" I don't think so. From space probe readings it is relatively smaller than the Death Star was and dose not appear to have any giant weapons on it. Just a lot of insanely strong turret guns."

" How could the Sith build one so quickly?"

" We don't think it was built recently."

" Then how…"

" We don't know."

Just then the physician entered. He was a Selkath naturally.

" You have some visitors." He said in the native language, Luke understood it. Mara however did not and wondered briefly if he was gurgling ship fuel.

" Send them in." Luke said expecting to see Kyle or a member of the council. Instead he got the Supreme Chancellor of The Republic herself followed by several bodyguards and her nerf-herder of a husband.

" Leia." Luke said.

" Luke. How are you?"

" Peachy."

" You look terrible kid." Han said. Same old Han. Chewbacca entered then roaring a greeting.

" Good to see you again Chewie." Luke said.

Star Forge Hours Later

Grevious entered the control room with the Sith General from Manaan. Revan and Sidious were conversing quietly.

" Lord Sidious." Grevious said bowing. It doesn't even need to be said he forgot about Revan.

" Rise General. I see you have brought our Sith commander from the base. However Darth Sylvia is absent." Sidious said.

" Yes milord. The Jedi overtook Ahto and Manaan." Grevious said. Sidious took this blow of anger without a change of expression.

" Then all we have are the seven command ships and the fleet of droids from here?" Sidious asked.

" Yes." Grevious replied. Sidious was angry no so angry it felt like a standing right in front of the hole in a volcano as it erupts. Revan was angry too but he did not possess it of that magnitude.

" And another thing." Grevious said almost apprehensively as he produced a metal device from a pocket in his cloak." The Jedi have tracked us.

That was it Sidious could not compose himself any longer.

" What! General how did this happen?" Sidious seethed through gritted teeth.

" A Jedi must have thrown it on after I fled."

" Why did you flee?"

" I cut off Luke Skywalker's arm and more Jedi rushed in."

" Ah. Skywalker, it has been long since I heard that name." Sidious said his eyes flashed yellow in hate.

" My Lord I was wondering is this Luke a direst descendant of Anakin Skywalker?"

" Yes."

" How is that possible?"

" He got married."

" To whom?"

" Senator Padmé Amidala."

" And they had a child?"

" They had children."

" Children."

" Yes didn't you hear me children. They were twins, Luke and Leia Skywalker."

" And…"

" I do not wish to speak of this subject." Sidious stated with finality. Vader had been a traitorous beast and a member of the Skywalker family. One day his family would pay, one day. He would kill one of them at least. One member of the family. And if only he had known how right he was. He would kill one of them. That is not a guess or prediction. That is a fact.

" And so the Jedi have our coordinates?"

" Yes."

" Then prepare, we shall let them make the first move."

" Is that wise?"

" Of course it is." Revan said. Grevious glared at him.

" Is that wise Lord Sidious?"

" Yes. And I sense that Jedi will most defiantly come aboard this station. I'll make sure they have a warm welcome."