Chapter 19: Truth Within Deception

A lone cloaked figure walked through the doors of the bar as it entered the most famous club in the town, Drywellings Group Club. The figure, whose face was concealed by a hood, walked through the building as it neared the bar. Most of the people didn't give him a second glance as he ushered passed them. The strange figure finally arrived at one table with a gentleman at it. The gentleman was an old man in his late 80s. He had a white beard with dark blue eyes. His face was showing signs of wrinkling on the forehead while also having most of the front of his head hair entirely white in color. He glanced at the figure and motioned for him to sit down. He cocked a smile as he spoke up,

"It's been a long-time, Sim," said the man as he patted Sim on the shoulder. Sim pulled back his hood as he revealed his face, a smile plastered over it.

"Well, who would have guessed that I would find you here, Arthur," replied Sim as he pulled out a chair and sat down, "So how's it been?"

"Same old. Been doing work where I can find some." answered Arthur as he ordered up some drinks for him and Sim, "My friend, what brings you here?"

Sim looked around him before continuing, "Actually I came for some advice," said Sim. Arthur just smiled at his friend, "The day the great Jedi Master Sim Nam needs advice is the day that I am a piece of bantha poo." Both of them broke out laughing as it brought back memories of the good old days.

"But seriously, what kind of advice," asked Arthur curiously as the drinks arrived and he took a gulp of his drink.

"I need your opinion," began Sim, "Do you think that it is possible for someone to be wretched evil and then be good?"

Arthur looked at him and then back at his glass, "Let me guess, this concerns the newly-christened Emperor and his faithful companion."

"Yes, unfortunately," replied Sim with some disappointment.

"I'm not sure if I can answer that. I'm by far no Force-user or anything like that," replied Arthur as he nodded his head in dismay.

"This really has nothing to do with the Force. I've come to the conclusion that there really is no dark or light side of the Force, only how you use it. Jedi used to use if for good while the Sith use it for evil and power," said Sim as he took a sip of his beer.

"In that case, I think the answer is yes and no. It comes down to how willing that person is. Do they have anything to come back to is the question," answered Arthur as he finished his drink and looked around the room. He saw the doors open up as he saw a couple of figures come in.

"Well at least I got a second opinion," said Sim as he kept looking at his glass, not even making eye contact.

Meanwhile the figures moved over to the bar as they walked up to the clerk. Sim seemed not to notice as he was deep in thought.

"Hey, Sim, I think you should leave now," said Arthur with a serious face on. He wasn't force-sensitive but he knew danger. The figures that had just entered were bounty hunters, most likely from the Empire.

Sim nodded as he noticed the men with his eyes. Arthur departed him as they separated to make sure that the bounty hunters didn't go after Arthur too. Sim began walking to the entrance before a blaster shot was hurled at the door, completely destroying it. Sim immediately stopped as he turned around to see the man that had shot it.

"I thought I would find you here," said the smug man as he cocked his blaster along with his friends at Sim, "There's a large booty on your head and we here to collect you for the Empire."

"Well, go ahead," answered Sim. The man obviously wasn't thrilled with Sim's attitude. He walked up to Sim as he instantly shot the roof and dust crumbled down on to the bar, momentarily putting half of the bar in gray smoke.

Suddenly a black light ignited as out of the smoke, Sim flew out and spun around, twirling his lightsaber as he reflected the blaster shots from all around him. In two 360 degree spins he finally stopped. The blaster shots stopped also as the bar went into dead silence. Sim deactivated his lightsaber as one by one the bounty hunter and his friends fell to the ground.

Sim snickered as he walked up to see the pulse of the bounty hunter. He was unconscious because Sim had made sure that he had reflected the blaster shots at a much lower frequency to a level of a stun shot.

Casually Sim walked out of the bar as he headed down the street. He decided it was time to get home and he felt something wrong back at home so he knew that he had to get there.

Sim walked to one of the more deserted parts of the city as he uncloaked his Jedi ship. He got into the cockpit as he radioed to Leia and Tosh. Their faces appeared seconds later, unscratched or hurt, luckily.

"Hey, how's everything back at the temple?" asked Sim.

"Well, we had some of Vader's hands come to get us," replied Leia, "but we took care of them. There in the prison hold." Sim looked at her as he felt and realized that one of the prisoners was Myrenia. It was time he figured out about his former friend.

"Okay then, I is on my way back. I've finished up my business and expect me back within the next four hours," replied Sim as he strapped himself in and his star fighter began flying away from the ground.

"Good. See you in a little master," said Leia as she cut the link and Sim were left in silence once more.

He rocketed through the atmosphere as he began leaving the planet. He had gone on a four day mission to seek out some friends and made a pit stop at the planet of Kalmonia to check up on Arthur and see his friend again. He had missed being with his apprentice and friend back at the temple so he had cut it short.

Suddenly his ship lurched as he jolted back to the present. He looked at the controls and found nothing wrong except he was going pretty slowly. He pushed the throttle as he found it didn't respond. Suddenly the ship began moving backwards as its controls didn't respond.

"Well, there are only three possibilities why this is happening. 1. I am defying the laws of physics, 2. I am being sucked into a black hole, 3. I got caught in a tractor beam," muttered Sim to himself as he realized, to his dismay, that it was the latter choice. Suddenly a huge ship came in view as he recognized it as an Imperial Star Destroyer.

"Great," said Sim to himself. Things were getting interesting for him again.

Slowly his ship was pulled into the Star Destroyer as it settled into the hanger bay. He looked around and saw Storm Troopers coming in to surround his ship. He was tempted to go and just disperse them all but realized that perhaps he could figure out some stuff if he went quietly. Slowly he opened up the canopy as he flung his arms in the air and stepped out.

One of the Imperial officers walked up to him. He was dressed in a traditional gray outfit and was obviously the Captain of the ship.

"Hello, I presume you are Jedi Master Sim Nam," said the Captain with a huge smile.

"Well, I would think that. I'm pretty unique," replied Sim with a cocky grin.

"Good, you're under arrest," answered the officer as Storm Troopers walked up to him and surrounded him. He didn't give a fight as he allowed them to cuff his hands.

"You know, I'm surprised that you were caught. You should know that there is a huge bounty on your head in the galaxy," said the captain, "We sent a bounty hunter after you but he hasn't made contact."

"I guess I didn't know that," replied Sim, "Also your bounty hunter friends on the planet if you want to go get him. He's probably dazed right now, though."

The captain gave him a look before walking away from him back to the elevator to the bridge. Meanwhile, Sim found himself walking down a hallway as he found himself being thrown into a jail cell. The Storm Troopers watched him intently as he lay on the bed, quietly.

In his mind Sim was formulating a plan. He would get off this ship, sabotage it and even get some readout on the fleet and the whereabouts of Vader and his apprentice.

Back at the tower, Vader looked out as the sun set on Vjun and his son stood at his side. They had been on Vjun to further their dark side powers. They would need it to battle the Jedi in their upcoming duel. He could sense it.

Suddenly a beeping sound went off as Vader and Annihilator walked into the room. It was from Captain Tuwesh on board the Iron Fist Star Destroyer. An image of him appeared as Vader turned on the holo-projector.

"My lord, I have captured the Jedi Master you requested," said Tuwesh as he bowed before Vader, "It is Sim Nam. We have him in custody."

Vader looked shocked at him as he let the surprise wear away. He couldn't believe that they had caught the Jedi Master. It all seemed... too easy. His eyes suddenly narrowed on the Captain.

"Good job but I want you to keep an extremely close eye on him," said Vader, "I and Annihilator will be arriving shortly to talk to him personally."

"Yes, your highness," answered the Captain as he bowed and the communications was cut.

Vader stared in distance for a while without muttering. He could sense something was wrong and he as going to find out what.

Two Storm Troopers entered Sim's cell as they put up their guns. Sim got up from laying on his bed as he stood up for them.

"As a prisoner, we will need your weapons," said the leader of the two, "That includes your lightsaber."

"As you wish," replied Sim. He unclipped his lightsaber from his belt as he gave it to them. But as he gave it to them a sudden grin came over him as he activated his lightsaber in a second the two storm troopers fell to the ground dead. Sim deactivated his lightsaber as he walked out. He looked down the hall and spotted some officers.

He casually walked down the hall as he stopped next to them and listened to their conversation. They were so into their discussion that they didn't notice he had come up to them. As one of the officers laughed he turned to Sim and chuckled with him,

"That's pretty funny isn't it," said the officer as he turned and opened his eyes from his laughter to see Sim smiling at him. His eyes grew ten fold as if they were about to explode as Sim answered him.

"Sorry, I missed the joke. Would you care to tell me what it was?" The officers suddenly pulled out their guns but before they could shoot they found themselves flying into the walling and slamming into them. As their bodies slumped down to the ground, Sim walked up to the officer that had been telling him a joke.

"Fine don't tell me the joke, I guess it wasn't that great afterwards. But if you ever want friends, when you are asked to tell a joke, you don't shoot the person," replied Sim as he walked away from the officer's unconscious body.

Sim made his way through the hallways without most of the officers knowing since he was cloaking himself. Finally he came to the room he wanted to, the Information and Intelligence Room. Sim opened the door as he slipped into the dark room. He turned on the lights as he sat down at one of the computers.

Sim turned one of them on as he sorted through some data. He was looking for Vader. Suddenly a communications history index came up. Sim smiled as he saw one recent outgoing communications connection happen only a little while before. He traced its destination to Vjun.

"So that's where they are," said Sim as suddenly he heard a cocking noise behind him. He swirled his chair to find a group of clones pointing their guns at him.

"Get up and put your hands above your head!" shouted one of the clones.

"As you wish," said Sim as he pulled his hands up and the clones slammed into the ceiling. Sim continued his work as he force-closed the door and sorted through them. He burned the codes and information on a disk that he would keep. He put the disc into his robe pocket and got up. He left the room as he made his way to the tower. He had some business to do.

Tuwesh sipped his coffee as he savored the taste. Today had been a great day. He had captured the Jedi Master that the Emperor had been trying to catch for the past year and half and he was most likely going to be promoted to Grand Moff. Life was finally getting better for him. He snickered as he thought about the Jedi Master he had caught. The man seemed like he was in his early 20s, though, he knew from his personal file that he was in his early 40s.

Suddenly he heard blaster shots ring outside of his doors. He turned to them and saw nothing happen. He glanced around to meet the eyes of his crew. Suddenly the door blasted open as smoke filled the room. The Captain pulled out his gun as it suddenly flew out of his hand to the hand of the figure that had entered the room. He had a hood over his head so he couldn't identify who it was. The figure removed his hood and revealed the face of the Jedi Master.

"Hey, you might want to work on security. Doesn't seem to be working," stated Sim as he walked up the Captain.

"How... what... How did you escape?" asked the stunned Captain.

"Well for starters you need more security to be sent into a Force-user cells when you want his/her weapon," replied Sim with a big smile, "Also don't use clones. Their basically the biggest idiots."

"What...do you want?" stuttered the Captain as he backed away.

"Actually nothing except you deliver this note to his lordship," said Sim as he gave him a note. The Captain read it over and nodded as Sim walked out of the room met by the gazes of the crew.

Sim made his way to the hanger as he found his ship still in one piece as he got nearer suddenly the Force screamed at him as he ignited his lightsaber and deflected a blaster shot straight back at the clone. In an instance blaster shots poured into the room as Sim blocked every one of them back at the shooter.

Sim parried each shot as his perfect lightsaber form allowed him to twirl and spin, blocking every shot at him. He spun in the same place as he twirled his lightsaber, giving him complete coverage from the shots. He made his way to the leaders and instantly sliced them down before leaping above the shots and decapitating a group of clone troopers in one move. He used the Force to pick up the rest and chucked them at the wall again as heard cracking and thuds fill the room and then silence. He smirked at his work.

Sim made his way back to his fighter again as he opened up the canopy and climbed in. He used the Force to open up the hanger doors as he flew straight out of them and back into space.

He quickly entered hyperspace after his departure and finally was heading home.

Authors Note:PleaseReview.I hope you guys can fill me in on how I'm going. You don't know how much your reviews help, so please do review this. I thank you once again if you have reviewed this story and I'm deeply touched.

Also I would like to state that I changed Luke's Sith Name to Annihilator from Inhalator because I noticed today that I had been spelling the word wrong and that name meant someone that breathed, which wasn't really a good word. So sorry but I had to fix it. I will fix it in the early chapters when I got some time. Thank You for understanding

One last thing, I've enabled Anomonyous Reviews so please feel free to take advantage of that.Hope that helps increase the reviews. Thank You- The Yoda.