The following is the story of a brief event that was mentioned in Alternate TPM 2

What if Anakin had not ducked when Qui-Gon told him to?

Darth Maul and Asajj Ventress had tracked down a lone Jedi by the name of Khirik Infila. This was a mission for Ventress, her first solo Jedi kill. On many past occasions, they had killed the lone Jedi that they encountered together but this time, Maul would be waiting in the ship and Ventress would be on her own.

Asajj Ventress assessed her plan of attack. She could climb the mountain and confront Khirik directly but the climb up would be physically exhausting and the Jedi had the advantage of elevation. He would see her come up and she would be vulnerable. No. She needed to bring the Jedi to her.

The woman in the water powered city was tending to Khirik Infila's ship. It was in good condition and it'd be ready for him when he finally decided to leave the planet. The Jedi master had always fascinated her and she enjoyed his visits, though they were rare.

All these thoughts flashed through her head when she looked up and saw several of the security guards fall off the railing.

They were dead on arrival. The dam sucked them in and they suffocated quickly. Remaining security guards swept the perimeter. A strange figure in a dark hood was spotted running away. It was pursued. There was a fast green flash of light. The people looked in the direction the guards had gone. A few severed heads and limbs flew into sight.

The people screamed and started making a run for it. One of them knocked the woman over. He went for the Jedi starfighter and fled the planet. Suddenly, the dam exploded and the majority of the people were swept under. Ventress grabbed twelve of them with the force and tied them up.

Khirik was sparring with his droid. It had been several years since he had taken the Barash vow and it was pretty nice. He didn't have to live by the dogmatic pacifist Jedi codes. Fighting wasn't taboo and he could do it as a hobby.

"Nice one Master Infila." The training droid complimented his fighting skill.

"You have a hologram message."

A blue image of the woman appeared. "Master Infila, I have a question about your starfighter and I need you to look at it in person. Please come quickly."

Infila put on his robe and deactivated the training droid. He headed over to the village.

When he arrived, his mouth flew open in shock. The city was literally underwater and bodies were floating everywhere. His starfighter was nowhere to be seen. Khirik looked up and saw eleven people, including the women, hanging from the wall. Their mouths were gagged.

Three of them were already dead. Two had had their throats cut and one had been suffocated.

Five people were still alive but the ropes were hanging loose and they would soon fall in the water.

The final three were being suffocated.

Khirik ignited his green blade and threw it at the nooses. He first saved the ones who were being suffocated. As he was rescuing them, he forced them up on the railing. After he had saved them, he jumped up.

"What happened?" Khirik asked the woman.

"No. Master. It is a trap." The woman pleaded as she was suddenly forced off the railing and towards the water.

Khirik force grabbed her just in time but he suddenly felt significant pain and dropped the woman. She drowned.

"No." Khirik looked back just in time to avoid the second strike. He looked at his assailant. It was a bald gray skinned alien.

"Who are you?" Khirik demanded to know but the assailant simply pulled out two green lightsabers and attacked.

"Jedi?" Khirik thought. No it could not be. This was some other force user.

Ventress quickly realized that she was outmatched when the Jedi sliced one of her green lightsabers. Now she only had one.

She backflipped and landed behind the ten terrified people. They were pushed forward and she used them as human shields.

The Jedi was hesitant and that was all the time Ventress needed. She frontflipped and landed behind the Jedi. Khirik turned around in shock as Ventress swung her sword, cutting off his hair and then his head. His headless corpse was left on the railing, while the hostages were thrown into the water.

Darth Maul was waiting at the top of the mountain. He'd seen the Jedi departing and he had known that Ventress had concocted a great plan. She'd been a great apprentice so far.

Ventress saw her master as she stepped up the mountain.

"Good job Asajj. You have done well. Tell me about your mission. Was the Jedi hard to defeat?"

Ventress gave Maul Khirik Infila's head. He took it and smiled. She told him everything that had happened.

"Yes. Compassion makes the Jedi weak. They cannot bear the thought of innocent people dying at their expense. I am impressed with your planning. You used your opponent's weakness to your advantage.

This mission was a success but remember that Darth Sidious is not susceptible to such weaknesses. We will need to strike him when he is most powerful, for that is when he will be most vulnerable. His overconfidence is his weakness. But we must be patient.

Take the Jedi's training droid back to Cloud City. It will serve you well."

"Yes master." The Sith Lord and his apprentice left the planet.

Ventress put the head of Khirik Infila in a glass jar in her room on Bespin.

Battle of Lah'mu (where Galen and the Ersos were at the beginning of Rogue One, when Krennic came to get Galen) Grievous introduction.

Grievous spotted the seven Jedi, one of whom was Shaak Ti.

Another one was a young Jedi knight. She was fair and beautiful and if she hadn't been a Jedi, any boy in the galaxy would have already swept her up off her feet. (Actually, a few did and she had had meaningless one night stands with various young men across the galaxy). Her ample bossom and elegant figured mirrored her long curly brown hair and gorgeous brown eyes. Sometimes the male padawan would stare and the young Jedi knight men were infatuated with her as well. She'd kissed a few of them as a kind gesture. She only wore a dark pink braas and long black leggings.

The other five were full fledged Jedi masters.

The Jedi were looking off in the distance. Their plan was to take out the Lah'mu Separatist base.

Grievous jumped down and sunk his sharp toes directly into the skull of the nearest Jedi master, an older person, whose blood curdling screams were unbearable to hear. Grievous picked up the lightsaber and stuck it in his cloak.

The rest of the Jedi ignited their lightsabers.

"Ah! So many new trophies to add to my collection." Grievous cackled.

He had his Commando droids and Magnaguards occupy Shaak Ti, while he dealt with the other Jedi.

He pounced on the Mon Calamari and beheaded her. The Wookie swung at him but Grievous cut him open, head down and flat.

Ima Gun Di put up a brief duel but he also lost his head.

Aayla Secura tried but Grievous cut off her lexu, upper chest and her stomach.

The girl knight swung her green saber but missed. Grievous grabbed her arm and twisted it. He then pulled out a blaster and shot her near the heart. The monster sunk his claws into her toned midsection, near the braa, ripping part of it open. She fell on her back, her gorgeous brown eyes still open and blood leaking out of her chest. The knight used the last of her life force to call the Temple for backup.

When Shaak Ti slashed down the last of the droids, she looked up and saw Grievous collecting all of the lightsabers from the Jedi he had just killed.

Shaak Ti frowned and attacked Grievous. First, she cut his two blue lightsabers into pieces. She also cut off his right arm completely and struck his green lightsaber with her blue. The duel was short as she was the superior duelist. He suffered a hard kick to his mechanical chest, which dented his droid skin. She then stabbed his heart organ with an electrostaff. Realizing that the duel was lost, Grievous threw a bomb at Shaak Ti.

While she was uninjured, she was knocked out cold.

Grievous walked over and ignited his green lightsaber, ready to end Shaak Ti's life.

Just then, a small Republic ship arrived.

Six Clone Commandos exited and four of them confronted Grievous.

The other two moved Shaak Ti and the female knight's corpse to the shuttle.

The droid general's toenails slam through one of the Commandos and he stabbed another Commando in the chest with his lightsaber and beheaded him. The other two threw a bomb at him.

Grievous watched as the clones and the Jedi, one alive and one corpse, escaped.

The Separatists swarmed Lah'mu and used it as a jumping point to attack Dantooine, which they easily took.

At the Jedi Temple, there was a funeral. The boys all looked at the female knight's corpse as they checked it out one last time and bid their farewells.

Shaak Ti explained what had happened on Lah'mu.

The Council concluded that this was the new Droid Commander.

Grievous arrived at his lair and he wiped his feet on the Wookie carpet rug he had made out of one the Jedi he had killed on Lah'mu. The Mon Cala's head was in a glass jar, as is Ima Gun Di's head, Aayla's Secura's Lexus head, as well the other Jedi.

A transmission was received.

"Grievous. How was your encounter with the Jedi?"

"Good Lord Maul. I killed six of them and only one escaped. The Republic knows me now."

"Excellent. My training has paid off well. You will be the commander of the greatest Droid army in the galaxy.

Also, I wanted to let you know that Lord Sidious and I have found a replacement for Dooku. His name is Thrawn and he is going to be the leader of the Separatist movement."

"Very well my Lord." The hologram shuts off. Grievous is annoyed that he has to answer to another master now. He hopes that the Thrawn guy isn't too insufferable.

But worries aside. Today he killed six Jedi. Something to celebrate.

He puts the six lightsaber trophies on the shelves.

Citadel arc...Oppo Rancisis, Shaak Ti, Ashoka Tano rescue Even Piell. Tarkin dies because he trips and falls into the lavafall on Lola Sayu.

Thrawn kills Saesee Tiin and takes his lightsaber.

Thrawn kills Bultar Swan and takes her lightsaber.

Darth Maul slays Plo Koon on Eadu, where Galen Eros died in Rogue One.

Plo Koon was originally targeting a base on Eadu, where Admiral Trench was stationed.

Darth Maul arrived and he decided to take care of it.

Commander Wolffe

Shaak Ti duels Darth Maul on Endor.

Darth Maul brings the Nightbrothers with him because the Ewoks have been too effective against the droids. Their shrewd barbaric ways have pushed the Separatists to the edge and they are about to lose their secret base. Thrawn is busy.

Darth Maul thinks that the Nightbrothers can help put down the Ewoks because they are effective, ferocious warriors.

Jedi intelligence has spotted the base, thanks to the chaos.

Shaak Ti arrives alone, to assess the situation.

She sees the Sith Lord and the Zabraks hacking away at the Ewoks. Fur and Ewok parts are flying everywhere.

Shaak Ti jumps down and ignites her lightsaber.

"Sith!" Darth Maul hears and he turns around.

"Hello Jedi. Shaak Ti, is it?"

She wonders how he knows her name. Maul nods at Brother Viscus and he and his Nightbrothers turn away from the Ewoks, who escape.

They circle around Shaak Ti and try to intimidate her.

Unfortunately for them, Shaak Ti fights best in dense crowds. She quietly signals to her clones for reinforcements. Arc troopers and Commandos are on their way.

Feral throws his sharp sword thingy. Shaak Ti just ducks and it just chops down a Nightbrother.

Four more Nightbrothers charge at Shaak Ti but she jumps out of the way and they kill each other.

Feral tries to get Shaak Ti from the front and Savage aims for the back but she jumps over them and they get each other.

She turns around and slashes a Nightbrother on the back. He falls and screams in pain, as he dies. Another Nightbrother charges and she throws her saber directly into his bare chest.

The Jedi master is a fast blur. Nightbrother horns fall, arms fall, legs fall. They are slashed sideways, cut diagonally, up, vertically down into two. Faces are cut. Wickett and another Ewok are watching in wonder.

Eventually, only Viscus is left and he makes an impressive last stand but he swings too far and Shaak Ti cuts off his head, which falls at Darth Maul's feet.

The Sith Lord looks down at the open eyes of Viscus's head. What a shame. The Nightbrothers were some of the last of Dathomir. Now only he and Ventress remain.

The Jedi approaches him, lightsaber pointed in his direction.

"Are you the Sith Lord? What is your name?" Shaak Ti is frowning.

"You will never find out. Prepare to become one with the force Shaak Ti."

Darth Maul ignites both of his bloody blades and force screams.

Shaak Ti is momentarily caught off guard but she barely manages to block his strikes. It is a challenging duel for both of them. Darth Maul is relishing the opportunity and Shaak Ti feels a genuine challenge. He quickly notices that the dense surroundings are giving her an advantage and so he changes course.

Darth Maul spots and grabs Wicket and uses him as a shield. Shaak Ti falls into the trap and shreds the little thing. Part of him lies on the grass and the other part flies into a tree. She is in shock. The other Ewok runs back to the village. He finds Chief Chirpa and tells him everything. The army gets ready.

Maul strikes out more aggressively and Shaak Ti has to play defense. The Sith cuts down many many trees, disturbing the habitat.

Darth Maul grabs Shaak Ti's wrist and twists her lightsaber out of her hand. Then, he force chokes her and electrocutes her, slamming her hard against a tree.

Finally, Maul rams his horns into Shaak Ti. She screams in pain and falls on her knees. As she tries to reach for her lightsaber, Maul kicks her where she is wounded and punches her hard in the face, knocking her out cold.

Just as Darth Maul is about to kill Shaak Ti, he senses blaster fire behind him. A Commando's bolt is one centimeter away from Maul's back when it is stopped by the force. The Sith Lord simply steps aside. Then, he forces it forward. It hits Shaak Ti and she screams in pain. Two Arc Troopers rush to her aid and start to treat her as the rest of the clones engage Maul.

The clones cannot keep up with the Sith Lord. He dispatches quite a few of them with vertical, horizontal cuts, decapitations, sideway slashes, down theres. One manages to knock his lightsaber out of his hand. Nevertheless, Maul outmatches them and he beats them up in physical combat, literally punching one Arc through the chest, rupturing his bloodstream. Maul's hand plunges into the clone's chest rips out of the clone's back as the clone cries out in horrid pain. Meanwhile, the two Arc clones manage to stabilize Shaak Ti. Suddenly, a spear flies in their direction and hits one of the Arcs straight in the face, killing him instantly.

Two Ewoks grab the other trooper and maul him to death with horribly sharp rocks. His tough armor ends up with many bloody cracks. Darth Maul sees that more are coming and so he backflips over the clone, igniting his saber through the top of one red Commando's head. He throws another green Commando straight into three Ewoks, who are crushed to death, underneath all that weight. More Ewoks come. One of them shoots three arrows in Maul's direction but he forces a yellow Commando in front of him. The yellow clone is used as a shield and takes one arrow directly his heart, one in his stomach and another on his neck. He falls chestfirst into the grass, which only plunges the arrows in further. The soldier cries out as his blood pours profusely on the grass. One Ewok sees that the clone is staining the sacred grass and so he goes up to the dying clone and taps him. When the Commando finally struggles to look up, the Ewok drives his little axe straight through the front of the helmet and into the clone's face, thereby putting him out of his misery. Darth Maul sees an opening and he takes a speeder to the Separatist base. Thrawn is waiting for him. He too has just arrived.

The last remaining clones shoot down a few Ewoks but the furballs just get angrier and the clones suffer unspeakably gruesome deaths. The Ewoks close in on Shaak Ti and they take her, as well as the clone corpses, back to the Ewoks village.

A few limbs and Commando, Nightbrother remains, Arc helmets are left behind.

Chirpa sees Shaak Ti and he prays to the idols for guidance. He thinks that he sees a sign.

Shaak Ti must be sacrificed as a sacrifice to the idols and as revenge for the death of Wicket.

Shaak Ti is first slapped around with sharp spears. The Ewoks stuff her mouth with herbs and sedatives to stop her screaming. As she is bleeding, Shaak Ti is tied up, just like Han and Luke were, or would have been…

In a last ditch effort to save her life, Shaak Ti uses the force to raise a chair and drops it on Chief Chirpa, turning him into a puddle of furry mush. The other Ewoks look in awe at her and they conclude that she is a goddess in physical Torgruta flesh, who has come to save their souls by posing first as an executioner, captive, victim, martyr and then as a miracle worker. She came to depose their tyrannical leader and show them a new light. They untie her and heal her to some extent with stingy, fresh herbs and materials.

A feast is thrown in her honor.

Thrawn sees a red Zabrak approaching on a speeder. It is Lord Maul. Apparently his Zabrak entourage was running late.

Thrawn has a genuine respect for Lord Maul. After all, Lord Maul was the one who had saved his life and helped protect his people. It was Lord Maul, who had given many homeless Chiss refugees a new home in Dathomir. Maul knew the pain he had experienced. After all, he had also lost his people, just as Thrawn had. Though Maul had suffered much worse. He was thankful to Lord Maul and that feeling was further strengthened by the respect that Maul returned to him. He let him correct his strategies and have free reign in the military battles. Maul genuinely valued Thrawn's input and the latter could tell.

Now, Thrawn did not believe in the Separatist cause and he had reservations about Lord Sidious but his respect for Maul kept in line, at least for now.

While he could trust Maul, he knew that Maul still served Sidious, who seemed admirably clever but whereas Maul seemed to possess some empathy, Sidious was just apathetic. Yes Thrawn was apathetic too but that was only on the surface. Beneath that apathetic demeanor, Thrawn did have a heart and in that heart, he did care about his people.

And Sidious exploited that. In the beginning, when Thrawn had had some reservations about leading the CIS, Sidious had threatened to wipe out his Chiss people.

Since then, Thrawn had been very wary of the Dark Lord and he had tried to only talk to Maul if possible.

Darth Maul knew all of this and he planned to use Thrawn to his advantage the day when he would finally overthrow Sidious.

"Hello Thrawn." Darth Maul says to the Chiss.

"Welcome Lord Maul, though I too have just arrived. What is your status."

Darth Maul tells him everything and Thrawn thinks, considering the best strategy to wipe out the Ewoks village. He comes up with an efficient strategy, which he shares with Maul.

Shaak Ti is still recovering from her wounds. The blaster wound is gone but the cuts remain and she has trouble walking. She is dressed in the TFU outfit. It feels so comfortable and she hasn't dressed like that since ever. She'd never be able to dress like this at the Jedi Temple.

Shaak Ti is seated on a wooden throne and she is levitating the throne about eleven feet in the air, to keep the Ewoks entertained. If she bores them, they might realize that she is not a goddess and then they would eat her too. She would rather not take the risk. Her lightsaber is gleaming in the distance. She'd like to reach for it, but then they would be suspicious. The Jedi tries to formulate a plan to leave but she is having trouble coming up with one.

The Ewok party is fun, though she is of course repulsed by the clone dishes and the Nightbrother entrees. She had to turn away a fried clone leg when an Ewok offered it to her on a platter. As a Jedi, Shaak Ti has to respect the Ewok culture, but as a general, she is sad to see the Ewoks mutilate and eat her soldiers and those Zabraks she killed. The creative ways the Ewoks cooked and served the Nightbrother and the clones cannot be put into words. Some were stir fried, others boiled, a few roasted, half cooked, completely raw, all shapes and sizes.

A bowl of Clone eyes were passed around. The Ewoks ate one each and they offered them to Shaak Ti. This time they insisted and Shaak Ti grudgingly took an eye. She tried not to look at it but she sensed that it had belonged to one of the Arcs who treated her earlier. The woman closed her eyes and put the eye inside her mouth. It was not as wet and slimy as she had imagined, maybe because it had been dead for a while.

Chewable indeed. Maybe clone meat wasn't so bad after all. She took a Brother Viscus's eye and ate it.

Then, she helped herself to some more bizarre dishes.

Out of the corner of her eye, Shaak Ti spots a tiny baby Ewok tinkering with her lightsaber. It accidentally turns it on and the blade ignites directly into the baby's face. A child Ewok grabs it and starts swinging it around, hacking away at a few other Ewoks. Some heads fly. Some limbs fly. Vertical cuts, dismemberments. Grotesque things. Shaak Ti forced the lightsaber back into her hands before any more damage could be done. The Ewoks looked up at her and they started cheering for their goddess. They cooked up the dead Ewoks.

Some Ewoks were making music with the Clone helmets as drums.

Darth Maul and Thrawn were approaching the village on their silent speeders. Thrawn was having the droids stationed in strategic places. They were ready for an ambush.

"Brilliant plan Thrawn. I look forward to its execution."

"Thank you Lord Maul. Art is very important. Culture explains everything. And I know The Ewok culture well. The Ewoks are cannibalistic carnivores. They eat their enemies after killing them. Their drunken feasts last through the night. They're in incredibly high spirits right now and they are too distracted to put up a good fight. The droids were never able to beat them because they fought them in pure plain sight, when they were at their strongest, when they were alert. Now we got them."

Maul and Thrawn laughed their assess off.

Most of the Ewoks were very drunk and totally passed out. Shaak Ti was tired as well and she almost fell asleep when she suddenly felt a disturbance in the force. Super battle droids appeared out of the darkness and they began shooting at the sleeping Ewoks, who died quickly. Commando droids started chopping down trees with their swords. The trees fell on many Ewoks, crushing them into small puddlelike things. Commandos came into the open and started cutting up Ewoks with their swords. Blood was everywhere. Drodeikas, which towered above the Ewoks, shot down the Ewoks, who tried to fight back. Droid gunships come and lay waste to the village from the skies.

Shaak Ti jumps down and stabs a droideika in the back. She slices a few Commando droids but one grabs her and starts choking her with its claws. Another slashes her with a sword. This time, the cut was deeper, since she was wearing less. She manages to destroy them with their lightsabers but she feels herself losing too much blood. In the distance, she sees Maul and Thrawn approaching. There is no time.

Shaak Ti rips off a piece of cloth and wraps it around herself to slow the bleeding. Then, she musters up her strength and jumps, knocking a droid off of its speeder. She takes it and flees.

The Jedi flies in the darkness for a while, until she finally locates the clone ship. Shaak Ti gets in and sets course for Coruscant.

Thrawn and Darth Maul walk over the Ewoks corpses. The droids patrol the area and make sure that everyone is dead. Maul pokes a few Ewoks with one of his blades. A few grunt and quickly pass on. Six Ewoks jump out of the tree, ready to ambush their aggressors. One of them lands on Maul's horned heads. It is automatically stabbed by the horns and killed instantly. Thrawn steps on one and his foot literally goes through it. He then pulls out his blaster and shoots two others. Maul force chokes one and slashes up the other with his saber.

Thrawn pulls out his foot and wipes off the blood with another Ewok corpse.

He then collects a few souvenirs to take home.

Maul and Thrawn see the clone ship leaving. They let Shaak Ti go because they already got what they came for: a secure base.

Shaak Ti almost crash lands on the Temple. She is exhausted and the blood is pouring.

"Master!" Ashoka Tano comes and grabs Shaak Ti, before she collapses. Ashoka carries her master into the Temple.

Shaak Ti goes into the bacta tank. After a few hours, she fully recovers. After putting on her robes, she heads over to the Council meeting, where she tells them everything.

Meanwhile, Thrawn and Maul contact Sidious.

When he comes on, they both bow. This time, Thrawn dares to look up. He spots half of the face. It looks oddly familiar.

They tell Darth Sidious everything.

"Good. Now expand the base. Thrawn can stay for a few days and oversee it.

Now, my blue little friend, leave us. I have matters to discuss with Maul."

Thrawn exits but he feels curious. It is unlike him to eavesdrop but he taps into the sounds system in the room. He hears the audio.

"Yes master?" Thrawn hears something in Maul's voice that he rarely hears...subservience but this time, Thrawn is able to discern something deeper, for it is easier to analyze a person when only his voice is audible.

Maul's subservience does not sound genuine and Thrawn wants to know why.

"It is unfortunate that Shaak Ti escaped but she knows nothing and the foolish Yoda will do nothing. I have another task for you. Return to Coruscant immediately."

"Yes master." Maul turns off the hologram and slices it. He screams loudly, in disgust. The room is soundproof but since Thrawn is using his earpiece to eavesdrop, he can hear.

Maul goes on a monologue rampage. "Sidious! You damn imbecile! You wiped out my people and soon I will make you pay. Just wait and see. Ventress and I will destroy you. Soon, Thrawn will join me...!"

He keeps going.

Thrawn stops eavesdropping. So, Maul does not like Sidious. What interesting new information. It all makes sense. Sidious killed Maul's people and Thrawn supposes that Sidious does not know that Maul knows. Maul is serving Sidious for now and only because he wants to usurp the power. Of course, he will join Maul when he asks but he will wait for now. If Thrawn lets on that he knows too much, Maul would silence him.

Darth Maul looks at the wall and smiles. He knew that Thrawn had been listening in on everything. Sure, the tantrum had been genuine but he needed Thrawn to know a little bit, before he could approach him. It was obvious that Thrawn was no fan of Darth Sidious. Nobody liked that old man, at least not by choice. Fear motivates. That is why Sidious has mastered it.

The pieces were moving together.

The Jedi Council is silent.

Even Piell "Something must be done about the Sith."

Oppo Rancisis nods. "He seems to pop in and out of nowhere. He is unpredictable and he has taken way too many Jedi lives."

Yoda disagrees. "Seek him out we cannot. Reveal himself again he will."

"Yes. I agree." Mace states.

The entire council disagrees but no one speaks up. Even Shaak Ti, who had a direct confrontation with him says nothing. Of course, she is also just tired. Yoda ends the meeting.

Thrawn is "meditating." In his case, it is simply thinking.

He suddenly recalls that Sidious told Maul to meet him on Coruscant.

But why?

That is the Republic capital. If there were going to be a secret invasion, Thrawn would know.

Just then, Thrawn recalls that Sidious looked familiar in the hologram.

After a few minutes, Thrawn starts research on the past of Sheev Palpatine.

Jedi Knight Adaertyn Curt is a handsome young man. All the female Jedi Knights and the padawans think so, though, of course, they never say so. However, they do stare at him and become mesmerized by his broad shoulders, well muscled arms and strong chest. His blue lightsaber hangs on his belt and his toned abbs are so well defined that they can almost be seen through his thick robes. He's over six feet tall and his perfect short brown hair rests above his brown eyes.

The young women that he encounters on his missions do not hesitate to flirt with him, even when they realize that he is a Jedi.

Calicia Hen, a female Jedi Knight of a similar age to Adaertyn Curt, is excited to be on a mission with him. She was one of the many young women who loved to check him out on a regular basis. Sure, she was very shy and a bit giddy around him but she'd covered it up really well by pretending that she wasn't impressed at all by him. She seemed to be cold, detached and aloof but he did not seem to mind, which infuriated her because she wanted him to be crazy about her.

Unfortunate. On the bright side, attachments were forbidden for Jedi.

Their actual mission was a complete disaster. The entirety of both of their clone legions had been utterly decimated. And there had been no droid presence on that planet at all.

Every casualty was a result of the massive civilian resistance on the planet.

These civilians were great fighters, very resourceful and stubborn.

Adaertyn and Calicia had barely escaped with their lives and their shuttle was broken.

They made a landing on a nearby planet.

The two Jedi split up and looked for parts. Calicia was sad that she was being separated from Adaertyn but she hid her feelings well and they split. She blew her dark blonde hair out of her blue eye as she walked down the road. Her elegant shape and figure drew a lot of attention. One tall shirtless guy, cute and extremely well built, but not Calicia's type, tried to grab her as but she ignited her green lightsaber through his ripped abbs.

He fell back and died.

His friends all dispersed in fear.

Calicia smirked. As a Jedi, she wasn't supposed to be so cruel but no Jedi was really watching her.

Adaertyn came across a warehouse. He knocked but no one responded. The Jedi went in very cautiously.

There was a deep male voice coming from the center of the building.

Three young women, about Adaertyn's age, were tied down. Their hands were strapped to the wall and their legs were stuck to the floor. Two of them were wearing nothing but braas on top. One was a sports, light purple and pinkish and the other was a Cheryl Blossom type.

The sports one was wearing shorts and the other one was wearing long gray leggings.

The third woman was dressed in a sleeveless, elegant dress, short skirt that was knotted on both sides.

As he approached, Adaertyn noticed that the man who was talking had a dark metallic left arm. It looked very sturdy and painfully dangerous. The man was about as young as Adaertyn and he was shirtless, about as built and muscular as Adaertyn when he wasn't wearing a shirt. This man's black hair and his black eyes seemed about as cold as his demeanor. His right arm, all flesh, lifted up making some big muscles in the process. He struck the three women with the Zygerian whip and they grimaced in pain.

"Stop!" Adaertyn stepped out, his sleek boots leading and blue lightsaber in hand.

"Let them go."

The man turned around with a sinister grin on his face, his abbs and pecs heaving. Adaertyn noticed a big scar across the right pec.

"See. It's not that simple Jedi. Strike me down and we all die. Should I be killed, I have set this place to explode. And besides…" the man lifted his robot arm and the three women screamed as they were electrocuted.

Adaertyn tried to go to them but the man pointed a blaster in their direction.

"There is one scenario where I let them go Jedi. I am a young man of honor. You can fight me on fair terms. Put down your lightsaber. It will be a hand to hand match. No force. No nothing.

Just you and me. Shirts off. Guns out. We'll see who's more built. We will find out who the better man is. I look forward to shredding your bare chest." He cackled as he made a fist with his metallic arm.

Adaertyn saw no other choice. He threw his lightsaber to the side and took off his Jedi robe. Then, he stripped down to his belt and trousers. The girls looked at him, admiring his broad shoulders, ripped chest, perfect abbs and well formed pecs. He threw around a few punches in the air to get ready. His muscular arms thrilled the girls even more.

The two boys threw some punches. Adaertyn landed a few punches, hitting the boy hard in the pecs. He fell back a little bit. The Jedi kicked the other boy in the abbs and knocked his core. He fell down.

The boy got back up.

"Nice Jedi. You fight well. I figured you'd be scrawny but you're pretty ripped. I underestimated you. I surrender."

Adaertyn extended his hand and the boy took it. Suddenly, the boy punched Adaertyn hard in the chest. A sharp blade extended out from the metallic arm and the boy slashed Adaertyn across the chest.

"There. Thought I'd give you a scar like mine Jedi. You are so foolish. You really thought that I would fight fair?"

The boy slammed Adaertyn and he fell back. His built back slammed into the wall and it cracked.

Adaertyn looked up as the boy approached him, blaster in hand.

"Prepare to die." The boy had his finger on the trigger when Adaertyn jumped up and kicked the boy in the abbs, this time much harder. He grabbed the boy and ripped off his metallic arm.

The one armed boy screamed in pain as he fell back, bleeding profusely.

Adaertyn freed the three girls. The one in the dress smiled at him in gratitude but the other two did not seem happy. One of them grabbed the blaster and headed over to the boy who was down in pain.

He looked up. The girl pulled the trigger and the shot penetrated his bare chest.

Soon, his pecs and abbs were soaked in blood and his black eyes remained open.

Adaertyn objected, "You didn't have to do this!"

The girl looked at him and ran her other finger over her leggings.

"Sorry Jedi. But I have to do this." She set the blaster to stun and shot him. Adaertyn fell back, unconscious. The three girls took some time to check him out some more. He was very voluptuous.

Calicia went back to the ship and saw that Adaertyn wasn't back yet. Hmm. She decided to wait.

Adaertyn opened his eyes and he tried to move but his arms felt incredibly strained. He looked up to see that his wrists were tied up to the ceiling. He looked down and saw his armpit hair and the rest of his body hanging down.

The three girls were staring at him, obviously smitten with the physical attraction. The man's corpse was in the background.

"What are you doing?" Adaertyn demanded.

"Admiring your body." One of the braas replied honestly.

"Thanks. What else are you doing?" Adaertyn asked.

"The Separatists are paying a high price for Jedi. We're thankful to you for rescuing us. Honestly, we thought that we were dead the moment that awful man kidnapped us but obviously, you saved us.

Now we need money, so we are delivering you to the nearest Separatist base." The other braa said.

"They're going to kill you the moment you hand me over." Adaertyn told them but he quickly grimaced as one of the braas grabbed a Zygerrian whip and struck him hard on the open cut on the chest. It stung and he nearly cried out in pain.

The dress protested. "We can't torture him after all that he did for us!" She looked at Adaertyn in concern, trying to keep her eyes off of his abbs. He was already in so much pain and she didn't need to get any more distracted.

"Yes, quite so." The other braa smirked and she ran her fingers up Adaertyn's chiseled abbs. It felt good. Incredibly symmetrical and and well designed. She rested her hand on his bloody chest and kissed him.

The dress took matters into her own hands. She grabbed the blaster and shot the other braa, killing her. That was the last bullet and so she grabbed the lightsaber and slashed down the other braa, who had just finished kissing Adaertyn. She fell back, cut in half.

The dress slashed the ropes that were holding Adaertyn and caught him by the chest before he fell. She tried harder not to be distracted by how good touching his chest felt. It was very well built.

He put the lightsaber back on his belt.

"Thanks." Adaertyn managed to say, as he spit out a little blood.

"I am the one who should be thanking you." The dress replied.

The two searched the building a little bit. There was a large amount of credits and she took them.

They parted ways and she looked at him, checking out his voluptuous back muscles gleaming in the sun as he ran back to his shuttle. She froze the image in her head and went her own way.

Suddenly, she had difficulty breathing. Her throat closed up as she lifted up and flew towards a figure in a dark hood, who ignited a green lightsaber.

It slashed through the dress and into the girl's heart and she fell down, lifeless.

Calicia saw Adaertyn approaching and she nearly wet it and her face turned bright red. He was sweaty, bloody, shirtless and even more built than she had imagined him to be. His pecs heaved and his abbs expanded. It was literal eye candy.

The Jedi jumped down to him and threw her arms around him, feeling up his back. She kissed him and he kissed her back and they fell on the ground. He was on top and she felt up his chest.

Suddenly, they both felt a burning sensation. He fell back next to her. Both of them were dead.

Ventress deactivated her lightsaber and headed back to her ship. She'd simply been taking a little vacation but she couldn't resist the urge to kill Jedi.

Thrawn had recently demolished nine critical, heavily fortified Republic military bases in just the one day. He'd targeted vital medical stations and cut off crucial aid to Republic troops.

Thrawn was known to be absolutely ruthless. He occasionally took prisoners and manipulated them emotionally to the point that they broke and revealed secrets. Afterwards, he would dispose of them.

In other cases, when he didn't need information, Thrawn would execute all of the defeated. The commander had studied the Jedi and he knew that they had a compassion problem and he of course used that to his advantage. By endangering countless civilians, Thrawn had persuaded many Jedi to surrender. Then he would torture, exploit, break and kill them. Their order interested him a great deal and he collected his victims' lightsabers, ships, robes, heads and studied them intensely. It helped perfect his strategies and he was able to kill many more Jedi. He did the same with the clones by collecting their helmets and other gear.

After so many victories, Thrawn has much more free time on his hands, time that he spends researching the past of Chancellor Palpatine, who Thrawn believes to be Darth Sidious. Not much is known about the Chancellor's past. He was once the Senator from Naboo but that is the earliest record that exists. Nothing more is known about his past. Thrawn wasn't able to collect a single artifact from Palpatine's past.

The name Palpatine isn't even in any of the databanks.

Thrawn sets course for Naboo. Shaak Ti sees him leave and tracks him very carefully.

She has been tracking him for a few days at this point.

Thrawn approaches the planet and he passes by the broken waterfalls, where Theed once stood. It isn't there anymore. What remains of it is under the waterfall. When the Federation was occupying the planet, there was a rebellion that was quashed violently. The Trade Federation trapped the rebels inside the palace and blew it up. Then they lay waste to the city and turned most of it into rubble and now grass is growing over it. Remaining Naboo citizens were rounded up and shipped to Cato Nemodia for slave labor. By the time the Chancellor forced the Federation off the planet, there was nothing left of the Naboo people and their way of life. The planet is now a ghost town.

Thrawn lands in the city and he looks around. Nothing is there to see. Sure, something might be found underneath the rubble but it isn't worth it.

As he heads back to his ship, he steps on a long cylinder. Thrawn picks it up and it ignites. The green blade shimmers in front of his blue face and red eyes.

A Jedi lightsaber.

Interesting. The Jedi were here.

Thrawn digs around just a little and he sees a nearly fleshless skeleton with wisps of black hair.

It doesn't look Naboo. He concludes that it must have been the Jedi.

Substantial discovery. It may be linked to Palpatine and so Thrawn may return later.

Thrawn heads to Senator Palpatine's former Naboo residence, hoping to find some other clues.

Shaak Ti is close by. She landed on Naboo, out of Thrawn's sight.

Yoda and Windu tell Palpatine that they sent Shaak Ti to capture Thrawn. It was supposed to be confidential but they decide to tell him, as a warning, to say that they plan on ending the war soon. They would, of course, expect the Chancellor to give up his emergency powers and leave office.

Sidious summons Maul.

"Lord Maul. Yoda and Mace Windu have sent Shaak Ti to apprehend Thrawn. They look to end the war quickly and remove me from office."

"Not to worry Master. Thrawn is more than capable. He will easily outsmart Shaak Ti. She is just as foolish as the next Jedi."

"We cannot take this risk. Thrawn knows too much. I have never trusted him. I know that he is working to undermine me and he could unravel all of our plans. He doesn't know for sure yet but he suspects that I am the Chancellor. Right now, he is on Naboo. He cannot fall into Jedi hands."

"Should I go rescue him?" Maul makes sure that his voice sounds steady but he is still shocked, though unsurprised. He'd always figured that Thrawn hated Sidious, though he didn't know that it was to this extent. It is not surprising that Thrawn knows so much but if he knows this information, he might know Maul's true intentions to destroy Sidious. Then it will be easier to get Thrawn on his side.

"No. We cannot let the Jedi see you again, not until the purge. Send a bounty hunter to silence him immediately. We can continue the war through Grievous and the CIS council."

"But my Lord! Thrawn is a valuable asset and he is so helpful…" Maul's is cut off as his windpipe suddenly closes. He claws at his throat, trying to breathe.

"Lord Maul, are you thinking of joining our little blue friend Thrawn? I can destroy you in an instant. New apprentices are so easy to find." Sidious mocks him as he grips his hand tighter.

Darth Maul knows that Darth Sidious is bluffing, though he cannot ever be sure with him. His master does not yet know his true intentions but he may discover them soon and that would ultimately destroy his plans. He will need to modify his plans.

Thrawn is too much of a liability and he must go. Maul still has the underworld.

"No Master! I would never. I'll call a bounty hunter immediately." Maul chokes out.

Sidious releases his apprentice. The hologram ends and Maul falls on the floor, gasping for air, wanting to kill Sidious now, more than ever.

He uses his criminal connections and he tracks down Cad Bane and summons him to Cloud City.

Bane recognizes Maul, the strange client, who had him capture the padawan at the auction all those years ago but didn't really seem to need him. Regardless, Bane got paid handsomely without doing any work, which was a pluss. The bounty hunter is interested in what Maul has to offer.

Thrawn approaches the mountainside where Palpatine's residence is supposed to be. The estate is totally missing, no trace of its existence.

He lands elsewhere and begins sweeping the planet for clues.

Darth Maul and Cad Bane have refreshments in the Cloud City dining room, where Vader would have met Han Solo and blocked his gun shot.

"So what do you want Maul?"

"Go to Naboo. Find Thrawn and kill him. There will be a Jedi tracking him. Ignore her. Thrawn is your only target.

Money is of no object. You name your price." Maul offers.

"The Separatist leader is a very high profile target. He is bound to have a droid entourage protecting him. It is nearly impossible, not mention, deadly."

"He is alone on the planet. Only the Jedi is chasing him and like I said, ignore her. Just kill him before she can get to him.

Name your price." Maul reiterates.

Cad Bane looks out at the clouds. This is a golden opportunity for him. So, he negotiates

"I want four high class starfighters, plus a metal hat, better than Embo's, and five times my usual rate."

"As you wish." Darth Maul seals the deal.

Thrawn steps on something dry but still slimy. He picks it up. It is a decaying Gungans head. The skin is peeling off and the bones are showing. Hmm. That means that the legendary underwater village is nearby. The Chiss gets into his ship and takes a swim. Shaak Ti stays on land but she throws a tracker on Thrawn's ship.

As the ship enters the city, Thrawn is mesmerized by the architectural aesthetics and thoughtfulness of the design.

He tours the city.

Shaak Ti realizes that Thrawn is taking a long time and she decides to pursue him. Little does she know that Cad Bane is following her.

As Thrawn is admiring the beauty of the destroyed throne room, he feels inclined to sit in the Naboo leader's chair. Clearly it was designed for the amphibious. Thrawn is uncomfortable in it.

The doors bust open and Shaak Ti enters with her lightsaber drawn.

"Thrawn! Surrender in the name of the Republic." Shaak Ti commands.

Thrawn gets up and ignites Quinlan's lightsaber. Shaak recognizes it. He sees her shock and he takes advantage of it but she is fast and blocks the strike and disarms him.

He throws dust in her face and pulls out the lightsabers of Saesee Tiin and Bultar Swan. Thrawn fights well with the green lightsabers but Shaak Ti still beats him. She cuts out one of Thrawn's red eyes.

Her blue blade is inches from his throat. He punches her in the gut and falls back in pain.

Thrawn overpowers Shaak Ti physically by twisting her arms and throwing her down. However, she counterattacks with the force and he falls back.

Shaak Ti handcuffs Thrawn and leads him out but as they are about to exit with him leading, three blaster bolts hit Thrawn on both sides of the chest and on the forehead.

Cad Bane puts away his blasters and runs to his ship.

Thrawn looks down at the two orange holes on his chest. He can also feel the orange hole on his forehead and he is about to lose consciousness but he knows why this just happened.

Darth Sidious and Darth Maul have just silenced him. Sidious knows what he was up to, as does Maul. Thrawn supposes that Maul wanted to silence him as a means of moving suspicion from himself.

Well screw them.

Shaak Ti grabs Thrawn.

He looks up and exclaims "Darth Sidious! Darth Maul!"

Shaak Ti looks at the throne and the windows in shock as Thrawn's lifeless corpse falls face first on the floor.

His nose breaks on the way down and blood explodes on the floor.

Cad Bane is running towards his ship when he suddenly stops. He cannot move. Shaak Ti moves towards him, her left hand extended.

Todo, the droid flies up behind Shaak Ti and tries to grab her but she slices it up. Cad Bane shoots her and throws ropes but Shaak Ti cuts through it all. She throws the lightsaber and cuts his feet rockets. He falls to the floor and feels his bones break. His left arm is totally crushed and one of his face pipes is broken.

The bounty hunter tries to shoot the Jedi with his right arm but she cuts it off, which prevents him from using any more gadgets. He tries another move but it ends up with her cutting off his other arm and the other pipe, along with an eye.

Shaak Ti's lightsaber is less than a centimeter away from Thrawn's head.

"Who hired you bounty hunter?" Shaak Ti asks.

Cad Bane looks up. He sees no way out.

"Darth Maul did, in Cloud City on Bespin."

Shaak Ti tries to process what she has just heard.

It is a lot to take in.

Bane tries to attack Shaak Ti but she drives her lightsaber straight into Cad Bane's forehead, ending his life.

Shaak Ti contacts the Jedi Council and tells them everything. They brief the Chancellor on what happened.

Later that night, Darth Sidious contacts Darth Maul.

"My apprentice. You have done well. Thrawn is dead, as is the bounty hunter you sent to silence him. Two loose ends are gone."

"Good to hear, master."

The hologram shuts off.

Darth Maul contacts Ventress.

"Asajj. Sidious had Thrawn killed. We will be on our own."

"I see, master. We shall prevail."

Ventress looks out the window and sees a Jedi ship landing on Cloud City.

Two Torgruta women walk out. Their colorful montrals shine in the cloudy skies.

Shaak Ti and Ashoka Tano…

Time to kill them.

Darth Maul kills all the Chiss on Dathomir.