Planet Coruscant, BBY 22, moments before the "Scream"
Chancellor Sheev Palpatine, or as the separatists know him, Darth Sidious, an old man trained in the arts of the dark side of the Force; was about to contact his apprentice, Count Dooku, to inform him to continue with their plan when suddenly a shrill scream filled the whole room sending him into a world of pain, making him fall on the ground. The pain lasted for no more than a few moments but to Palpatine, it felt like it was hours, perhaps even days, but as he regained ability to control his own body, rising himself back to his chair, the first thing that went through his mind was seeing if his "master plan", a devious and evil plan of his to recreate the sith empire and rid himself of the Jedi, was still in a future in his vision through the Force.
"!" At this moment Palpatine's heart skipped a beat 'no… no, no, no!' "No!" His mind went into a panic
How? His vision, his plan, the one vision that showed him the young Skywalker taking his side as his apprentice and ruling the galaxy alongside him, the plan that has not changed ever since the death of that foul Jedi years ago was now gone. Not simply changed for the changes that are always happening and will always be there, to control the future in its entirety is borderline impossible and insane, but his general and most predominant vision of the future where he was in control of the galaxy was now completely gone.
"Chancellor!" A voice called from outside his room while the door opened showing a few Senate guards that were there for his 'protection' "are you feeling alright?" The guard asked as he and a second guard came to his side helping him up
Palpatine was going to say he was fine and pretend that nothing happened but after sensing that both guards were as disturbed by the sudden wave of pain and horror that passed through him, it was obvious that this event was not just Force related
"What just happened? What was that scream? A-and that pain? What was-" he pretended to be afraid, for this was what a normal person would do after been affected by something that was unnatural
"Please calm down Chancellor. A squad of clones was already dispatched to investigate the area and look for whatever was the cause of this… 'scream' just now" the second guard said, his voice filled with a little uncertainty
"Please do it. Now, if both of you excuse me, I would like to have a moment alone"
The two guards shared a look with one another, a little worried themselves "Are you sure, Chancellor?"
"Perhaps it would be better if we stay here just so to ensure that you are safe from whatever cause that" the first guard explained
"I can assure you that I will be fine, the only way for anyone to ever enter this room is through that very door you two should be standing guard right now. Now, leave" Palpatine said with a finality I'm his voice, making both guards exit the room without saying anything else
Once he was sure both guards were out, not hearing anything through the door and making sure that his room was completely secure, Palpatine placed a hood over his head and contacted Count Dooku. It took a few minutes but eventually the ex-Jedi and actual sith apprentice answered his call, the blue hologram showing the man in his latter forties
"Master, I am sorry for the delay but a few minutes ago-"
"A 'Scream' was heard through the Force, I know, it passed through here as well…" Sidious said in dark knowing tone "many non Force sensitive were capable of hearing it as well here on Coruscant"
"have.. have all the galaxy heard that?" Dooku asked, surprised and shocked for such event
"perhaps… but that does not change our plans, proceed with the captured hutt child and warn that assassin of yours to keep an eye out for this" Sidious ordered before cutting the transmission
he released a tired and angered sigh; what was going on? it was everything going according to his plan then this .. 'scream' came and suddenly his vision was shattered, what infuriates him the most was the vision that was coming to him now: two identical looking men, one with a look of madness and murder and the other a stoic expression in his face while his eyes were shining with a strong determination, both with lightsabers crossed, one green and one purple.
'what is happening… what is this… no matter who they are or what they mean to the Force, I will destroy them both and reestablish my vision!' Sidious thought furiously before he went back to his paperwork
Meanwhile in the Jedi temple
The jedi grandmaster Yoda was helping the younglings back to their feet, making sure they felt comfort from him. Not too long ago a strange disturbance was felt by the Force, followed by a Scream and from what the Jedi Grandmaster could conclude, this scream was the Force itself.
"Master Yoda!" came Master Mace Windu, his face serious and stoic as always and his worry palpable through the Force "are you alright?"
"Fine I am, but these padawans are not. help them we need" Master Yoda said as he continued to help the younglings
Windu nodded but didn't help the younglings, he ordered a few jedi healers to help as he wanted to talk to master Yoda
"What was that just now?" Windu asked referring to the Scream "I have never felt anything like that, nor did it felt natural, was that-" before Windu could continue master Yoda raised his hand in a silencing manner
"In distress the young are, to them we must tend" Master Yoda said with finality in his voice "with the council we discuss. now our focus on the needed, it must be"
"Yes master Yoda" Windu bowed his head and went to help those he could
'Troubling this is' Master Yoda grimly 'a shift in the Force has happened'
Planet Christophsis, Republic base, Med-bay area.
Anakin was impressed, baffled to say the least, this was by far the most advanced and realistic droid he had ever seen. it even has skin! or at least a very realistic artificial one. if it was an infiltration droid then it was a little…..
"I must say… if this was supposed to be a Separatist infiltration droid, it sure is… flashy…" Anakin said out loud
while the droid was indeed advanced, it was wearing an armor of sorts; a red armor with golden details around the wrists and heels, black gloves with white fingers, a pair of white… Anakin didn't even know what those things were on the sides of it's waist, a short red jacket on its torso and a red helmet, with no emblem, with a blue gem engraved on its forehead.
"General" Captain Rex said approaching the table "should we reactivate it?"
Anakin put a hand on his chin and gave the idea a spin on his head 'may it's not a good Idea, but I can't see any sort of plugins to download the data it has stored' "Sounds risky Rex. but given that we have being here for some time and haven't found a way to extract the data nor a way to open it unless we torn it apart, I guess we could try to activate it" Anakin glanced at the droid again not finding anything that could help "eventually" he added
Rex did his best to hide the smile that was forming in his face, but could resist and laughed a little, trying to hid it as a cough " *cough* hahaha *cough* ahem. sir, I think we may have found a way to activated this unusual droid while we were analyzing it"
"What did you uncover?" Anakin asked, momentarily letting the laugh slid but still, curious
"when Artoo saw the droid and came along with us, while we were discussing what to do, artoo saw something; it appears this droid is capable of interconnecting itself with some sort of special plug that comes out of its wrist, while we don't have the exact type, our engineers came up an adapted plug, in the best way they could since we don't know what kind of plug this droid has" Rex explained keeping it as summarized as possible
"did you try to use it?" Anakin asked with his hand still in his chin
"Well, we thought it would be better to inform you and general Kenobi" Rex then eyed the droid and looked back at his general, his face completely serious now "and with all the due respect general, I don't trust this, the whole situation. this droid was just lying there in the battlefield, almost like it was left there on purpose. I fear it may be a trap or worse"
Anakin placed his hand on Rex's shoulder, sending waves of comfort through the Force "I know, but maybe it isn't a threat as we believe." seeing his friend calming, Anakin smiled "call Ahsoka and the few troopers, we're activating this droid now, but that doesn't mean weren't taking precautions in case it really is a separatist infiltrator"
A few minutes later
"alright, everyone in position?" Anakin asked the clones, all which answered 'yes sir!', "Good, ahsoka?"
"ready" Ahsoka said as she held her lightsaber and stood her combat stance
Anakin looked at Artoo "alright buddy, plug it"
Artoo beeped a 'yes' and approached the droid's wrist, immediately a small hole opened and Astromechanic attached the plug, nothing went wrong
" *sigh* so far so good, alright, send the energy" Anakin said to one clone engineer that was near a terminal with the other end of the plug's cable connected to it
after pressing a button the clone immediately ran to where his brethren was and held out his own gun.
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"...uh… Skyguy…. I think this didn't work…" Ahsoka commented after seeing that nothing happened
Anakin didn't understand, what was wrong? he approached the droid to take a close look and sure enough it was still deactivated
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Suddenly the droid's 'eyes' went open and it looked straight to anakin, green emerald eyes meeting blue. the droid jumped from the table throwing its legs up first making its whole body go flying with the motion. it landed on its feet and stared at Anakin again, this time, its face was making an expression of seriousness and high alert. some of the clones were almost pulling their triggers but Rex held out a hand, 'hold your fire, wait for it to make a move'.
The Droid looked from anakin to the clones, to Ahsoka, to Artoo and then back to Anakin
(A/N: sorry, I used Google to translate this ^^;)
"Anatahadare?" the droid spoke
Anakin got confused "excuse me?"
the Droid's expression hardened "Kore wa dokodesu ka?" again no one understood what it was saying "Watashi no iu koto ga wakarimasen ka?"
"what the heck is this thing saying?" one of the clone asked, genuinely confused
The droid then looked around it and saw the terminal and the cable connected to his arm, immediately it placed it's hand on one of the white things on its waist that Anakin couldn't identify and pulled out a white hilt?
swish swoon
All inside the room were left speechless, because from the strange white hilt came a green, perfectly triangular, blade which cutted off the cable, just like a lightsaber would. Anakin was the first to recover and stepped back while pulling out his out lightsaber and igniting his blue cylindrical blade
"Master…" Ahsoka said apprehensive as she took activated hers
"I know Snips…" Anakin said taking a defensive position "this isn't your average separatist droid"
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