A.N. The final chapter but not the end just yet!

This chapter of the saga will set the scene to the events in the coming sequel!

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Chapter12- Divided Allegiances

Darth Sidious, seated on a throne that once belonged to an Ancient Sith lord, took in a deep breath and smiled.

"Who would've thought, lord Vader," he spoke in a tone of marvel, "That we would ever conquer the very planet the ancient sith hid their secrets in!"

"I do not understand, master" Vader shook is head, "What's the difference between the ancient sith and us?"

"All the difference in the galaxy my young apprentice!" Sidious rose out of his seat and walked down the steps to his on looking student.

"For thousands of years the Sith and Jedi fought, during these times the Sith have conjured up secret weapons and derived different ways to use the force against the infidels!"

"So, what happened to them?" Vader walked along side his master and observed the hieroglyphic and artistic battles on the walls.

"The walls and tablets tell us exactly that!" Sidious answered.

"That's it? That's why we came?" Vader scoffed.

"No Vader…there's more!" Sidious paced faster and arrived at a giant door.

"What's in here, master?" Vader asked eyeing two giant statues.

Darth Sidious walked over to a small computer panel on the side and tapped several buttons.

The large doors opened and both Master and Apprentice walked through.

"Come, apprentice" he ordered.

When climbing the steps Vader could hear deep vocal music moaning inside.

"The Ancient lords had twice the knowledge I bear, lord Vader" Sidious explained, "And some even more!"

Darth Sidious stopped after climbing up the steps and raised both hands.

Suddenly a gust of wind blew across the corridors of the temple from his hands and the musical humming came to a halt.

"What did you do, master?" Darth Vader inquired.

"Due to the strong presence of the force on this planet, the dead possess the ability to co-exist with the living. Since we're unwanted guests in their tombs the ancient sith will do what they can to drive us out"

"But we're Sith like they are!" Vader exclaimed.

"I wonder sometimes, Vader if what they say about your learning pace are more than just rumors!" sidious scoffed, "I told you, they are not like us! It will all be cleared up in time."

Sidious and Vader continued their journey into the tombs.

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"I thought it would never fly over us!" Ron remarked as he observed the massive ship hover over the neighborhoods.

They rose and cautiously walked from under the bridge and into the empty street.

Ron's scooter lay their smoking.

"My scooter!" Ron cried and ran towards it placing his hands on his cheeks. Slowly Ron fell to his knees and stroked the wreckage sentimentally. Rufus also crawled out and hugged what's left of it.

"We must keep moving!" Dan insisted as he approached Ron.

"This is all your fault!" Ron stood and snapped at Dan pointing his finger and prodding him with it, "You lead these people here! Blew up Bueno Nacho! Destroyed my scooter and now you think you can fool me into thinking this has nothing to do with you?

"Ron!" Kim placed her hands on his shoulder to calm him, "They're after him as well! Calm down…"

"Don't tell me to calm down!" Ron snapped at Kim causing her to stagger back.

"Anger is of the dark side. Do not allow your emotions to cloud your judgment!" Dan instructed.

"Don't tell me to shut up!" Ron glared at Dan for a moment, breathing heavily, while Rufus blew off a raspberry at him from Ron's pocket.

"I'm outt'a here! I need to check on my folks!" With that Ron stormed off.

"Is your friend always this aggravated?" Dan asked.

"He'll get over it…I hope…" Kim watched anxiously as Ron turned round the corner.

"This reminds me!" Kim jumped, "My family! Let's go!" Kim pulled Dan by his robe and dashed off pulling him along the way.

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Dr. Venture finished packing his stuff and rushed out of the room bumping into Quarrel along the way.

"You ready?" Quarrel asked.

"Yeah, you?" Venture returned.

"Yeah!" Quarrel answered.

"Good!" Venture acknowledged.

"Fine, lets go!" Quarrel rushed out the door.

Both arrived on the scene where a helicopter, with its rotors working hard, was awaiting them.

They hopped in and shut the door.

"You have our studies?" Quarrel asked.

"They're all safe in the bags" Venture nodded.

"We must show these to Team Possible, they're the only ones who witnessed the events in the cave!" Quarrel remarked.

"I know, I know" Venture turned his face towards the window as the helicopter took off.

Both men swallowed at the same time when the sight of the star destroyers caught their attention.

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Kim arrived at her house running, still dragging Master Dan. She stopped suddenly, and Dan almost toppled over. He straightened his hood and watched as Kim paced very slowly towards her front door, as though a spell had been placed on her.

Her eyes were fixed on a piece of paper clasped to the door.

She ripped the note off the door and read it,

'Dear Kimmie,

We're praying that you're still alive and healthy. Dad spotted the ships before they attacked, but we couldn't contact you, we've left to a safe place and we can't tell you where.

Be safe and always remember anything is possible for a Possible!

Love your family.'

Kim's hands began to shake, Dan watched from a distance in a straight and firm pose with his arms crossed. In an instant, Kim placed the note on her chest and rubbed her eyes. A moment later a hand came on her shoulder and Kim turned to find Dan towering over her with an easing smile.

"The force is strong with you, Kim" Dan spoke softly, "I've felt it"

Kim's eyes narrowed with determination, "Teach me! I want to become a Jedi, show me the ways of the force so that I can save the world and destroy the Sith!"

Kim looked back at her house, "My family is safe for now but that won't last as long as the Empire stays in control!"

Dan nodded, and with his arm around Kim's shoulders, strolled off with her.

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Ron arrived in front of his house porch and knelt down to his knees panting. When he looked up he was overwhelmed by an image he thought he would only see in his nightmares. Before him lay a large heap of rubble with smoke rising from it.

"No," Ron moaned.

Slowly he crept to the door that remained standing. A note lay on the floor in front of it with the mark of a foot step plastered on it. The note was ripped and a small flame was burning it, which Ron quickly put out. He picked up the piece of paper and anxiously read what he could.

'Dear Ron,

your Dad and I…Be brave…

Love mom and dad!'

Ron's hand shook and the note fell onto the crispy ground. He clutched his fists as hard as he could, hoping if he could do so hard enough, every person involved in this would suffer a horrid death. Rufus stroked Ron's head from his shoulder trying to comfort him.

Suddenly a movement from behind him catches his attention, he turns around to see his master, Perfidious, standing in his ghostly form, smiling.

"Teach me!" Ron snapped and stormed towards him, "They've torched my house! I have nothing left! Show me the true ways of the Sith! Help me master the darkside!"

Ron knelt on one knee and bowed his head low before his master then sighed. Rufus bowed on Ron's shoulder as well.

"I'll do whatever you ask," Ron mumbled, "Just teach me"

Tears were streaming down his cheeks as he waited for Perfidious to respond. It came in the form of a chuckle. When he stopped, Ron wiped his tears and sniffled.

"Those infidels have overrun our home as well, Stoppable" Perfidious remarked, "they think they can get away with taking our knowledge and using it for their own good."

Perfidious stretched his arm out and let his hand hover over Ron's head, "Indeed, you are powerful!"

When he let his hand down Perfidious stared at Ron's bowing position for a moment and smiled. His own apprentice…his own student! Never did Perfidious imagine he would have one, in living or death. Especially one who looked just like him.

"Very well, Ronald Stoppable, I will instruct you." Perfidious nodded, maintaining his nobility, "Rise my apprentice!"

"Thank you, master." Ron wiped more tears from his eyes and stood slowly eyeing his instructor, his mentor, his master. This man, this dead man, who surprisingly enough also looked like him and once had the same life goal as he does now is the only man he can trust.

"For your first lesson, my apprentice," Perfidious strolled over towards Ron's house and studied the wreckage, "I will tell you exactly who these new Sith are, and why they are your enemies, just as Dan and his Jedi friends are."

Ron watched Perfidious carefully and quietly nodded.

"When the Jedi began winning the great galactic war, we, the ancient sith, had already constructed Great War weapons and discovered incredible knowledge concerning the force!"

Ron looked around him as he listened. Rufus sat carefully on Ron's shoulder, also listening carefully.

"So we needed a place to hide them. The knowledgeable people among us spoke of a mystical place in the galaxy, what people of earth would describe as our Atlantis," Perfidious strolled back and forth as he spoke, "And we found it! A portal that lead our fleet to another galaxy. We took up ruling Earth and constructed the temple you found me in. It became a training ground, a safe archive for our knowledge even a war factory, where the people of Earth were enslaved!"

"Wow," Ron exclaimed, "How long did this last?"

"Not long," Perfidious sighed, "Due to the Jedi's victory back in our home galaxy, the Sith left this place abandoned. But with the strong belief in the prophecy that they will return and dig up everything they hid here!"

"The Jedi never knew about this?" Ron asked.

"No"

"So where did these guys come from?" Ron inquired.

"These are the new Sith!" Perfidious began, "After the slaughter of the Sith, one Sithlord, Darth Bane, began his own new cult. He called it the Sith, but with his own rules!" Perfidious grimaced, "It was limited to only a master and an apprentice, two, no more no less!"

"Why couldn't he just raise an army?" Ron asked.

"It wasn't so simple at the time, but it stayed that way for hundreds of years!" Perfidious walked closer to Ron now, "They changed the rules of engagement, these Sith are sly, devious, destroyers of cultures, they rely on technology more than knowledge in the force and pay no heed to traditions. Sure they ruled the galaxy, but they completely went against the rules in doing so!"

"I see, master" Ron nodded.

"It's insulting! We Sith have pride and honor!" Perfidious raised his head, but then lowered it, "We don't steal the enemy army and turn it against them!"

Finally Perfidious took a breath and Ron sat on a piece of stone.

"I understand what you mean, master…they showed the same respect to me!" Ron said as he gestured towards the rubble that was once his home.

"Those fools must be taught a lesson!" Perfidious ordered, "They have insulted the Sith name!"

"I will do what I must, master!"

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And thus, cites across the planet Earth, cities like Middleton, suffered the same fate under the might of The Empire. This campaign, lead by the two Sithlords Darth Sidious and his apprentice Darth Vader, was supposedly as they believed the very prophecy that was spoken of by the Ancient Sith.

But, just as Perfidious explained, The Ancient Sith do not believe that they were the ones described by their nobles.

Kim Possible has taken up training with her new master, Jedi Master Dan, to save her world, protect her family and friends and destroy this new threat, both ancient and modern.

Ron Stoppable, now Sith apprentice to dead Sith master Perfidious, plans to destroy The Sith lords in honor of, as he believes, the good people of the Ancient Sith. In doing so, he believes he will achieve the title of supreme Sith lord. In becoming so, he will use these new powers to fight evil and make the world safer for everyone.

Unfortunately for both Kim and Ron, neither know that their best friend have taken up a vow to serve the opposing side.

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A.N. And so we leave the planet Earth divided into three parties!

Hence, the chapter's title.

Three masters, three apprentices!

Who will prevail? What will become of Earth? What of Kim? And Ron?

How about Rufus? And The Empire? Will Jolly continue to run and hide?Is Ned Alive?

All will be answered in the sequel.

Be sure to check my profile frequently for any news on the sequel. Title not figured out yet.