Disclaimers 'n' crap: Haihai peeps! FINALLY. I UPDATED. THOUSAND KNIGHTS. About damn time, me. I really want to get this finished so that I can focus more attention on Back in Britain, a Devil May Cry-based Crystal Journeys fic I'm thinking of writing, and MTA (see my FictionPress account). Fortunately (for me, that is), all there really is after this is an epilogue. You'll see why it's special when I put it up. I don't own any Star Wars characters, but you knew that already. Enjoyz!

Mason led the group of Dooku, his droids, and their captives down a long underground passage. They seemed to go forever. Their echoing footsteps seemed to be the only sound that existed. After what felt like an eternity, Dooku finally boomed "Where are they? How much further?"

"Just around this corner," said Mason, shakily. They finally came to an enormous, towering door. The center bore a circle of ancient runes that Anakin guessed must be a long forgotten Elfonian language. This was contradicted slightly when Mason closed his eyes and began reciting the ancient text.

"Temin su na-gri…omo su tu na…si ma goff…unima!" He clapped his hands together and slapped them in the center of the runes. The runes began to glow and suddenly the door just…melted away. The passage was clear. Everyone gasped.

There, in long rows of what looked like bacta tanks, were the Thousand Knights.

Just as Dooku had explained, they were all dead.

His face tightening with fury, Dooku rounded on Mason. "Yooouuuu…"

BOOM

Everyone froze and looked up.

"What the hell just exploded?" said Nightshot. As if to answer his question, Dooku's comlink started to crackle as the voice of one of his droid officers echoed through the room.

"Sir," it said "We are coming under Republic fire. We don't know how they found us, they just…" There was another jarring explosion and the comlink went dead.

Everyone exploded into action.

Anakin and Obi-Wan both wrenched their hands out and force-pushed all the droids into the wall. Dooku immediately went for his lightsaber. While his hands were occupied, Anakin and Obi-Wan force summoned their own lightsabers from Dooku's belt. They charged. Dooku raised his blade…

CLUNK

…he was on the floor. Everyone froze…and looked at Mason, standing on the sidelines with his hands outstretched and looking at the hefty chunk of metal that had just rammed into Dooku's head and was now lying innocently on the floor near his motionless body.

"Mr. Miller?" said Nightshot in astonishment "You're…a Jedi?"

"No, of course not!" said Mason, a little taken aback "We Millers can manipulate wind, remember?

"I thought I felt a really strong breeze in here," said Padmé. Keita smiled and ran to hug Mason. Anakin and Padmé got that weird shudder again.

"C'mon," said Mason "We can take the express turbo-lift back to the surface."

"And," said Anakin, smugly "We can finally say we've captured Dooku." Obi-Wan hoisted the Sith onto his back.

This really hasn't been your day, has it? he thought.

"Commander Skywalker."

"Alpha!" Anakin smiled at the sight of his old ARC Trooper friend "How've you been?"

"Never better, sir," said Alpha "The enemy wasn't anticipating an attack. We wiped them out with great ease. It was almost insulting." Anakin laughed. Alpha looked behind him at Obi-Wan.

"You captured Count Dooku?" he said, amazement apparent in his voice.

"Yes," said Obi-Wan, smiling broadly "Today is a day of great triumph for the Republic!" There was a grand burst of cheering from the amassed crowd of Elvinoids. Peace for their people once more. Several clones came over to take Dooku to a hostage transport.

"We'll bring him back to Coruscant for trial, charged with treason," said Padmé in her diplomatic voice "It'll be an ice age in hell if even one person finds him innocent."

"Yeah, like that'll happen," said Nightshot with a snort. Anakin smiled and turned back to Alpha.

"Where's your Jedi commander?" he asked.

"In the main ship," said Alpha "He's new blood, this was his first mission. I just hope he doesn't think that all battles are this easy…sonuva gun, here he comes now!" Anakin looked. His jaw dropped.

"JENJI?"

"Yo," the orange echidna said with a huge grin on his face, giving his best friend a two-fingered salute "Surprised to see me?"

"Hell yeah!" said Anakin, grinning back "What are you doing out he…wait…don't tell me you…"

"…passed the trials?" Jenji finished "Yup." Anakin's eye widened.

"That's…wow! That's so great!" Anakin gasped. The two friends embraced each other warmly. "And, speaking of great news," he whispered in Jenji's ear "Guess what WE found…"

"No…f-ing…way…"

"Yup."

The group had returned to the Thousand Knight's underground chamber. Now that Dooku and the Confederates had been taken care of, there was a chance to finally gaze upon the faces of history. The Thousand Knights came in all species. Human, Rodian, Twi'lek, Falleen, you name it. Jenji put his hand on the glass of one of the tanks.

"Hmm. 'Swi Ka-Lank'," he said, reading the nameplate "So these were the first senators of the Republic. I shudder to think what they'd say about the Republic now. I mean, not to sound like the voice of doom, but what with the war and everything…it's really falling apart, y'know." Anakin nodded, solemnly.

"Are you going to take them back to the Jedi Temple?" said Padmé.

"No," said Obi-Wan "I think we're going to leave them here. The Elvinoids were very kind in giving them shelter in their final days. I think they deserve to stay here."

"Hey," said Nightshot "I just remembered. I really wanted to see Master Shenn Ryo. Wasn't he like, the leader, or something?"

"Over here," said Padmé. Anakin and Nightshot came over to join her in front of one of the tanks. She was smirking about something. When the brothers looked inside the tank, they saw why. Their jaws dropped.

"Master Shenn Ryo…is a GIRL?"

Contrary to popular belief, women can kick ass too. SO THERE. evil eye Catch ya on the flipside!…when I get there…(tries to write epilogue)…