A.N. My sincerest apologies for the long wait, if you had read my bio page you would know that I traveled. After I returned I had some personal things to attend to. Well now that those have passed I can return to writing again!

For the long wait I present to you probably the longest chapter I've ever written.

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Chapter 10- Master Dan and the Mysteries of The Sith

Kim and Ron hopped off the motor scooter and peeked round the corner at Bueno Nacho.

"Things seem fine from here" Kim shrugged.

"I bet he's got the whole place covered" Ron growled and Rufus did too, "Do you think he's got hostages?"

"Doubt it," Kim shook her head, "Ned wouldn't have been able to call…and he didn't sound too worried about it"

"So, we go in through the door!" with a confident expression on his face Ron took a step but Kim tugged at his shoulder.

"Of course not!" she snapped.

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Ned watched carefully from behind the wall as the hooded figure finished sucking his fourth soda. He quickly leaned against the wall and bit his nails.

"What could be taking them so long?" Ned nervously moaned to himself.

He peeked around the corner again. A sudden chill came down his back when the sudden feeling that he was being watched came over him. For some reason he could feel the man sitting at the counter was eyeing him even with the hood covering most of his face.

"Aaagh!" Ned jumped when a hand grabbed at his shoulder. He was then pulled away from the corner of the wall.

"Calm down, it's only us!" Kim said while holding Ned tightly against the wall.

"Oh, phew!" Ned wiped his forehead, "Don't scare me like that or you'll never see another extra hot sauce on your tray again!"

Ned pushed Kim's hands off and dusted his clothes.

"What's wrong, Ned?" Ron asked, "You seem a little jumpy"

"It's that man!" Ned quivered, "He's in there and he drank four sodas!"

Kim and Ron both gave each other confused looks.

"Go see for yourself!" Ned snapped.

"You said he was mentally disturbed." Kim added.

"Yes, he wishes to go to some planet called…uh…called…uh…Corridor."

"Corridor, huh?" Ron mocked.

"I'll have a word with this man," Kim turned away, "Wait here, Ron"

Ron had an annoyed look on his face as Kim walked towards the counter.

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Master Dan didn't flinch as a girl walked from the kitchen towards him. It struck him though that this girl wasn't dressed like most of the other colorful ones on this planet. She seemed like she was suited up for action. Yet there was a strange powerful aura radiating from her. Interesting.

She stood behind the counter and leaned on it.

"Hello, sir," she said, "How may I help you?"

'So much to ask for, so little time.' He thought.

He could ask for a napkin to wipe his robes from the various dirt and grime…and vomit.

Or he could ask for repairs to be done to his ship so that he may fly off this rock and head to the nearest vacation spot.

Or he could ask for another helping of Jawa juice.

But that would not be loyal to the path he chose all those years ago, the way of the Jedi.

"I require a transport to Courascant, but judging by all the people I have asked so far, it seems to me no one here knows Courascant."

The girl gave him a friendly smile, "Yeah, but it would really help if you could tell me exactly what you need so that I may help you get to Corri…Corro…that place you want to go to."

"If you could direct me to a nearby spaceport, or perhaps a repair shop, I'd perhaps be able to mend my ship."

"Your…ship?" her face twisted to confusion.

"Yes…I came under attack by my own army, which is why I sought refuge on your planet…if you don't mind my asking…what is your planet called?"

His response shocked the girl.

"Earth…" she said.

"I'm sorry, what?" he answered.

"Earth…you're on the planet Earth."

"Earth…interesting name." He rubbed his chin for a moment, "I don't recall this planet."

"You said you were attacked by your own army…what happened?"

"No doubt a plot by the only man who could ever give out such an order…"

"Who might that be?" the girl asked.

"The chancellor…and Dark Lord of the Sith" he grumbled.

"Did you just say…the sith?" The girl snapped.

"You know of them?" he asked.

"Yes…In fact there is an investigation into one of their ancient palaces going on right now!"

"A Sith palace? Here?" Dan wondered in fearfulness.

"What's so bad about them?"

"The Sith use the force to satisfy their own needs. They will always seek out what's in their best interest. And right now, that is to rule the galaxy."

The girl's pupils widened.

"The galaxy?" she shook her head, "Wait…what's the force?"

"The force is an energy field, which this planet is so rich of, that binds the galaxy together, not everyone has the ability to manipulate it though"

"Why would anyone want to manipulate it?"

"It's complicated to explain, but it is a great responsibility, one may use it for good or evil."

"And the Sith are evil," she added.

"You catch on quick!" he complimented.

"So what about the good guys?"

"Jedi," he corrected, "The Jedi destroyed the Sith thousands of years ago and now they have returned."

"That explains their ruins here on the planet." The girl looked at the man closely, "You might want to have a look at them."

"I would very much appreciate that, but I am in a hurry. I need to get to Courascant where the Jedi Council is based and alert the other Jedi of the Sith's new plot."

"How can I help?" She asked but Dan merely chuckled.

"I doubt you could do anything to help me" he got up and began to walk away.

"Excuse me!" her outburst caused Dan to turn around, "I don't think I introduced myself, I am Kim Possible! I can do anything!"

Dan was taken aback by her reaction.

"Very well, I guess I could use a guide on this planet." he sighed.

Kim placed her hands on her hips and a proud smile emerged on her face.

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Ron's eyes burned with rage as he watched both Kim and the mysterious new man converse about their new plan.

'So, you've turned my friend over to your side, eh?' he grit his teeth at the thought of these 'Jedi' coming between him and his training with Perfidious. Had it not been for Perfidious' training he would've never saved Kim from the collapsing cave. How could the Sith possibly be evil?

"Do not listen to that old man!"

"Huh," Ron looked around him, "Who said that?"

"Quiet fool! Do not draw attention to yourself. It is I, your master!"

Ron looked behind him and saw Ned looking at him.

"What?" Ron snapped, "Get back to work!"

Ned shrugged and continued making the Burrito he was busy with.

"What do we do?" Ron asked, "The old man is turning my best friend against me!"

"Relax! This is what the Jedi are best at, turning families and friends against each other in honor of their code."

"And that's supposed to help me relax?" Ron scorned.

"You know your friend better than I, but from what I've heard, she would never put her friends or family second…just like a true sith!"

"Oh, yeah! That sounds like Kim to me!" Ron then scratched his head, "What about the old man? What do we do with him?"

"First, we must gather intelligence from the Jedi, it has been a long time since I've received any news on the galaxy's condition, second we must take note of why he has arrived on this planet and what he intends to do next."

"Then what, master?" Ron giggled, "Master! That sounds so cool!"

"Focus, Stoppable!" Perfidious roared, "Then you must return to me at the temple and I shall give you your first lesson"

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Kim and Dan both stepped out of Bueno Nacho and strolled into the park.

"This is Middleton, my hometown," Kim explained as Dan admired the luscious trees and gardens, "I grew up in it all my life along with Ron."

Kim came to a halt and she began to look around the park.

"Where is Ron anyway?"

"He's coming" Dan stated, as if on cue Ron walked through the restaurant doors and began running towards their direction.

"Huh, interesting!" Kim exclaimed.

They both turned and continued on their path.

"Anyway as I was saying," Kim began, "Ron and I met in pre-school and together made it to high-school, I've become captain of the cheerleading team, head of the student council and a member of various other groups. Ron on the other hand," suddenly Ron caught up with them and walked along side Kim, "Well, he's just Ron."

"Pleased to meet you, Ron," Dan greeted, "Kim has said much about you."

"Yes, I'm sure she did" Ron returned keeping a straight face.

Kim then turned to look at Ron.

"Master Dan here is a master user of the force," Kim explained, "He's a Jedi, a defender of peace, they save the galaxy every now and then, but perhaps the coolest news I've heard so far is that they've destroyed the sith thousands of years ago," Kim put on a mischievous smile, "kind of blows away the whole ghost story you spoke a while ago, huh Ron?" Kim scorned.

With his arms crossed Ron muttered a couple of words.

"What was that?" she snapped.

"I said you'd believe me if you could actually handle the truth!" Ron shouted.

Kim frowned at him and he glared back.

"Now as I've said earlier," Master Dan intervened, "we thought we've destroyed the Sith, but they have returned, and one of them in the form of the chancellor, who plans to bring back the Sith Empire."

Ron pulled his tongue out at Kim and she merely scoffed and turned away.

"So it is possible for them to come to our planet and rule this palace here?" Kim asked.

"Indeed if they have any interests in your planet." Dan answered.

Ron drifted into thought.

'I wonder what my master thinks of these new sith? Perhaps he has heard of them.'

Suddenly Ron feels Master Dan watching him closely, he looks past Kim, and although Dan's hood is hiding his face he could sense that he was watching him, studying his every move.

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In front of an ice-cream parlor at the park Bonnie and a couple of the cheer squad were hanging with Josh Mankey and Brick Flag. They have all just purchased some ice creams and drinks.

Dan suddenly sensed worry within Kim and her pace has slowed down.

"What is it, Ms. Possible?" he asked.

"First I already told you to call me Kim, just Kim," she said with her eyes fixed on the crowd in front of the ice-cream parlor, "and second, it's Bonnie!"

"You mean that girl brandishing that fancy item in her hands?" suggested Dan.

"No I mean that girl showing off her allowance money by buying the biggest ice-cream!"

Bonnie's face twisted to an evil smile when she spotted Kim alongside Ron and her new friend.

"Hey, Kim!" she yelled catching everyone's attention, "What's the deal with the fashion alert?" The attention then turned to Kim and the gang, which was then followed by laughter. Kim realized her suggestion at her mission clothes and merely grunted at that.

"And why don't you introduce us to your new friend?" Bonnie added as she looked around at the storm of laughter she just brewed.

Kim's face flushed and Dan merely lowered his hood to maintain his mystique.

Ron on the other hand was too busy counting his allowance money for his own share of cold dessert.

Since the crowd was so intrigued by the duo's new friend they decided to examine him up close.

"What's your name? Josh managed through a giggle.

"I, uh" Dan began to say.

"Eww, what's that on his sleeve?" Tara interrupted, pointing at the colorful mixture that Dan had intended to clean off hours ago.

"Well," he tried to explain as he tugged his sleeve several times.

"Dude, why you covering your face? Something wrong with your hair?" Brick pulled his hood.

"Do not touch my…" Dan grabbed his hood, his voice sank into the crowd's.

Kim remained standing there covering her face with embarrassment when she heard counting coming from behind her, she looked and found Ron with a couple of pennies in his palm, and Rufus.

"Kim, you don't happen to have some change on you, do you?" Ron suggested, and then he plunged his other hand into his pocket.

"aaugh!" Kim grunted and rubbed her face, until she heard a familiar laugh walking out of the crowd.

"Congratulations, Kimmie, you've just hired a new recruit for the hero circus you've founded!" Bonnie's face shone brightly with her wide smile, "And just as I thought the day couldn't get any better!"

The dark grimace Kim had on her face only sweetened the situation Bonnie had always dreamed of living.

"Careful Bonnie that hot chocolate syrup doesn't harmonize with pink!"

"What?" Bonnie looked at her long sleeved shirt and screeched, "But I just bought this! how could it melt so fast!"

An evil smile appeared on her face as she watched Bonnie run to the nearest public toilet, strangely enough the crowd that was busy with Dan followed her.

"Why is Dan following Bonnie?" Kim asked herself.

"I'm right here!" a hand fell on Kim's shoulder, she turned around startled at his sudden appearance.

"What? How?" Kim's shock came, "You were right between that crowd!"

"Sometimes deception is the best solution to get out of a certain situation." He said, "I manipulated their minds into thinking I was with them."

"And that ice-cream, it was you wasn't it!" Kim laughed.

Dan merely nodded.

"Ha! I bet your powers must come in handy when finding your way around the mall!" Kim excitedly pointed out.

Dan put on a smile only to have his attention pulled towards Ron's recently purchased Ice-lolly.

"Ron! Why'd you decide to get this now?" Kim complained.

"What?" Ron defended, "I haven't had one of these in a long time!" Rufus nodded in acknowledgment.

"Do you remember why?" Kim questioned.

"No" Ron scoffed his mouth with the strawberry flavored delight only to spit it out and clutch his head with both hands.

"Aaagh!" Ron cried in pain and fell to his knees, "Brain freeze!"

Kim stood over him rubbing her forehead as he writhed on the ground in soreness.

"Very interesting," noted Master Dan as he observed how the two handle life's situations in the strangest manners.

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Finally, after both Kim and Ron lead Dan to the park exit they walked up to Dan.

"We have some advice for you, sir" Kim began.

"Pay no heed to what just happened in the park alright, dude?" added Ron.

"Everything that you've experienced today is not part of daily Earth life!" Kim added.

"Why are you telling me this?" Asked Dan with great confusion.

"Because we don't expect you to understand that we have the strangest hobby!" Kim explained, "We save the world!"

"From time to time!" Ron added.

Rufus jumped out of Ron's pocket and on to his shoulder to complete the exciting pose both Ron and Kim had taken up.

"I see…" Dan suddenly jolted, "I sense something!"

An expression of confusion came over Kim and Ron's face but Kim's kimmunicator pulled them away from their state with its beeping.

"What is it Wade?" Kim answered.

"A lot of satellites have suddenly lost communication!" Wade explained in alarm, "And more are going down by the minute!"

"What's wrong Wade?" Kim asked with concern, "You seem a little…alarmed."

"I should be! At any moment I could lose contact with you, the scary thing is no one knows who's responsible, some satellites have caught some transmissions from the source of the attack, but its been strongly encrypted!"

"Strange." Kim thought out loud.

"Who could be doing this I wonder?" Ron thought, "Frugal Lucre attempted to destroy the internet…could it be him?"

"Doubt it!" Wade quickly answered, "He's still doing time in jail for that heinous act! It's not normal…even satellites on different sides of the planet are being hit, this is a very big operation!"

Dan's eyes quickly widened to the horrid realization.

"It can't be!" He gasped.

"What?" Both Kim and Ron asked.

"Little man," Dan pushed into the view of the Kimmunicator, "Do you have any instruments to search orbital space?"

"Well, tall man," scorned Wade, "I do have the use of live planetary satellite scans."

"No, that will not do," Dan came back, "I need to look for floating vessels around the orbit of Earth!"

"Are you crazy!" Wade cried, "You don't really believe…"

Dan cut him off, "Tell me do you have any such instruments!"

"Well, yes, but not because I believe there's anything out there!"

"Check! And tell me what you see!"

"Here I'll show you." Wade hit a couple of buttons and suddenly the screen showed the orbital space around Earth.

Satellites floated in harmony around Earth space. Suddenly a strong laser blast hit the closest one, resulting in a tremendous explosion. Another was also hit and another.

"huh, what's going on?" Ron's voice came.

"Pan the camera right, Wade!" Kim ordered.

The view shifted towards the right and suddenly, coming from deep space, a fleet of enormous vessels appeared on screen. The colossal ships, escorted by smaller snub fighters, were slowly approaching the planet's surface.

"Oh my God!" Cried Ron.

"That's…that's…" Kim stuttered.

"Star Destroyers!" Dan gasped.

"That's impossible!" tears began to drip from Kim's eyes.

Suddenly blast rays spat out from a flying by snub fighter causing the Kimmunicator's screen to go completely blank.

"Wade?" Kim called, "Wade!"

For a moment everyone was staring at the blank screen of the Kimmunicator until Dan broke the silence.

"The Empire is here, we must get our act together, quickly!"

Rufus hopped with great panic into Ron's pocket as the group sprinted off towards the nearest pay phone.

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Within the deep confines of the orbiting ships a croaky voice spoke over a hologram.

"Commander Wiley!" it said.

"Yes, my lord!"

"Have we made it through the portal yet?"

"Yes," he laughed, "They were right! The planet Earth is exactly as they described it! We're beginning our assault now my lord!"

"Excellent!"

The clear blue sky echoed sounds of loud distant engines and orbital bombardments.

Waves and waves of ARC-Fighters and Tie-Fighters broke through Earth's atmosphere and soared over towering cities. Following behind were the enormous star destroyers that scraped the tall buildings during their low approach.

Alarms sounded in the cities as the landing pads lowered for the clone-troopers to hop into action. Cries for help and screams of horror were ignored as everyone sought their own wellbeing.

The continents of the world fell easily under the cold steel of the awe-inspiring machines and war toys the storm troopers lead throughout their assault of the planet. The latest plot by the Sith, which has been on their drawing boards for thousands of years, has finally come true.

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A Lambda Class shuttle, hovered harmonically across the snowy plains of the arctic and over the excavation compound not too far from the palace.

Doctor Venture and Doctor Quarrel both observed from the window as the shuttle zoomed towards the palace which is now surrounded by large floating beasts.

"What is this?" Venture asked Quarrel, "What is going on?"

"I haven't the slightest clue!" Quarrel exclaimed, "But I know this can't be a good thing"

"This is intolerable!" Venture whispered to himself causing Quarrel to peek at him with concern.

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The shuttle finally landed in front of columns of snow troopers. Its landing pad began to creep out of the rear as the doors slid open while spitting out smoke and heat from its engines. An officer wearing a black snow jacket, suiting his black uniform, also wearing large goggles over his forehead marched in front of the coloumns and towards the shuttle. He had tan skin and his hair was black and it flowed over his goggles in a spiky fashion. It was somewhat like Ron's hair.

A toothy smile appeared on his face when the two figures appeared through the smoke and walked off the landing pad.

"Welcome Emperor Sidious and Lord Vader to Earth!"

"You may dispense with the fancy pleasantries, Commander Wiley!" Darth Vader interrupted, "My master and I are here to inspect the palace!"

"Let's not get to excited now, Lord Vader," Sidious calmed, "This planet is rich in the force! Sometimes you have to stop to smell the flowers if you get my drift!"

"Yes, master" Vader sighed.

"This way my lord!" Wiley lead both sith lords into the palace entrance.

As Sidious walked along side Vader, he turned his head towards him to speak.

"The prophecy is true, it is just as the Ancient Sith foretold!" he said with a hint of excitement in his voice, "Had it not been for the ancient script I've kept, there is no way we could've found the portal to this galaxy!"

"Indeed, master" Vader replied, "The Ancient Sith have kept much from the Republic and the Jedi."

"Ha!" Sidious scoffed, "And the only safe place they have kept them in has finally been discovered, and it is under our control!" Sidious's hysterical laugh echoed across the palace grounds.

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A.N. Phew! That was long compared to my other chaps!

Well, I certainly hope that last bit caught you by surprise. And I certainly hope you get the big picture now. Yet again, behind the whole conspiracy, lay the Sith!

The end is near, just one or two more chapters, I leave you with the news that there will be a sequel, and it will contain plenty more action than this story and a load of mysteries to be solved!