Hey everybird! What's up!?

So the feedback from my time travel story idea is mostly positive, so after this short story is done, I'm going to do that! However the trade off is that the sequel to The Scarlet Rebel will be delayed for a bit longer! Hopefully you're all okay with that!

Now before we get on with the next chapter, lets get to today's question! And this one is very important and really requires some solid answers!

What do you all want to see from me to be better? In what ways do you think I can improve and make your reading experience more enjoyable?

I ask this from time to time to get a general feel of how you all are enjoying or not enjoying your reading and I want to make sure you all are still satisfied or if not, I try to work better or at least try to find a compromise between me, the writer, and you, the readers!

Obviously I will only listen to thoughtful, encouraging, and reasonable comments. Comments that contain curse words, unreasonable demands, or you're just a plain old troll will be ignored!

With that said, lets get on with it!

Chapter 4: Revelations

Mimi was currently using her lightsaber, holding the saber with the Force, cutting a hole in the wall where she touched it with her wing, even turning around while still cutting the hole and checking her communicator. As she finished, she turned off the blade as she brought her saber back to her belt while the cut wall, in the shape of a circle, fell to the floor. Looking inside first, Mimi then went in, going into an air vent as she then came down from the ceiling, landing on her talons on the floor. Walking around, Mimi found what she was looking for, a room with a collection of fancy objects, as well as some bounty hunter gear…

Outside, the bounty hunter that Tiago was chasing down, gently landed down from jetpacking, while opening a secret entrance. As the hunter entered and the secret doors closed behind her, he took off his helmet, the hunter being a white cockatoo. Walking towards the room that Mimi was in, the cockatoo heard a sound coming from there and was alerted to the fact that someone broke in. The cockatoo took out one of his blaster pistols as he peeked inside to see Mimi's back turned to him, only Mimi knew the hunter was there. As she returned to finding what she was looking for and when she found it, she hung her beak wide open.

Meanwhile the hunter was going to go back outside, only as he opened the secret entrance, Tiago was there, with one of his wings on his hip and the other holding his saber. The cockatoo raised his blaster, only Tiago reacted very quickly, igniting one of his dual blades, as he sliced the blaster in half. As the cockatoo was now defenseless, Tiago then ignited the other side of his saber, just holding it mere inches from the cockatoo's shoulder and neck.

As the cockatoo surrendered, Tiago tied the hunter's wings behind his back as Tiago told the hunter to lead him inside. However as they were passing by the room Mimi is in, Mimi used the Force to push the cockatoo against the wall, Tiago turning his head to see the fellow council member as she was holding onto a recording device. Still holding onto the cockatoo, Mimi tossed the device to Tiago, Tiago looking at the hunter for answers, only the cockatoo refused, rolling his eyes. However Tiago went about convincing him another way as he once again ignited one of his blades.

Meanwhile back at the temple, Jewel and Roberto were about to exit from an elevator when Bia was running past, wondering what was going on, the two joined Bia as Roberto's new Padawan and the red and white droid, who were with the two masters, peeked out to see what was happening themselves. As Bia stopped, Jewel and Roberto coming to her side a second later, the three saw Carla'a ship just touching down.

As the cockpit opened, the three masters could see that Carla was clearly fatigued as she could barely just get out from the cockpit. As Carla was standing, she only stood for barely a second as her legs gave in and she collapsed, resting against the metal body of her ship. Bia and Jewel came to Carla's side as Jewel wanted to know what happened to the master. Carla then told the three of what she encountered, which was not good…

Back on the planet where Carla found Blu's ship…

Carla crossed her purple blade with a red one, the owner of the red lightsaber was simply invisible, blending in with the pitch black that was all around as Carla put all her focus, the two holding each other as they then separated. The red saber then charging froward as Carla blocked the attack before trying her own, but missing whoever it was she was fighting as Carla blocked multiple swings at her. As she blocked those attacks, Carla brought her saber down upon her opponent, however the figure seemed to vanish in a puff of smoke as Carla's lightsaber went through nothing.

Dumbfounded, Carla stayed alert, keeping her saber up and ready as she sensed someone behind her. The red saber being raised from behind Carla as Carla managed to meet the attack just in time, blocking the red saber with her purple one as Carla kicked her opponent away with her talons. The two crossed blades again as Carla's opponent once again put on his or her disappearing trick as Carla's saber once again went through nothing.

Turning around, Carla took out the blaster part of her saber, shooting several shots at the figure who was behind her, the figure blocking the shots with his or her red saber and deflecting it back at Carla, who blocked her own shots as Carla fired some more. As the figure was distracted, Carla threw her saber at her attacker, the figure just in time blocked the spinning purple lightsaber from hitting him or her, but not enough time to react to Carla running froward. Sliding underneath the reach of her attacker's blade, Carla reattached her own saber. Blocking a strike from the red saber, Carla kicked her opponent hard, sending the figure back.

As Carls stood where she was, she suddenly saw many tiny rocks being thrown at her as Carla held her saber with the Force and spun it around like a wheel, the rocks all being vaporized by the blade. As the rock storm stopped, Carla felt a bigger rock come at her from the side. Carla reached out as the rock went into the palm of her wing before, with the help of the Force, she crushed into into tiny pebbles. Catching more rocks being thrown, one came from behind and hit Carla on the back, hard, Carla felt the rock hit some of her bones as she rubbed her wound.

It wasn't over however as Carla's eyes went wide as a huge boulder came rushing at her, using the Force she slightly changed the boulder's direction as the huge rock went flying past her. Only as Carla was directing the boulder, turning a complete 180 doing so, she felt nothing to stand on as one of her talons was in mid air. And the complete darkness Carla was in was gone as Carla found herself on a cliffside. Turning around to get back on solid ground, Carla felt someone, possibly her attacker, Force push her off the edge.

Carla fell off and into a rushing river where a waterfall was as her body impacting the water gave off a huge splash. Back on dry ground, the figure who has been attacking Carla stayed for a bit as the figure looked quite familiar before disappearing. Meanwhile Carla had survived the fall as she brought herself back on solid ground, wet and panting, dragging herself back to safety, she laid down on her back. As she rested and got her breath back, she made sure the datachip with the information she extracted from Blu's ship was safe, which it was.

And that was the end of Carla's explanation as she took out the datachip and gave it to Jewel, who took it, thankful for the clues as Bia helped Carla up and brought her to the medical room of the temple. Meanwhile Jewel and Roberto went back to the tech room to see what Carla brought with her, as an incoming recording from Tiago was being sent in. As Roberto saw it, he informed Jewel, the council member then putting the recording through, as the recording was put on, there was the cockatoo bounty hunter, meeting with a bird wearing a cloak, it wasn't the Scarlets that Tiago saw earlier, but someone else.

As the recording played, the bounty hunter brought up what the cloaked figure wanted, a small box containing something, as the cloaked bird reached for it, the hunter pulled it back, demanding payment. As a couple of tense seconds went by, the cloaked figure then used the Force to literally lift the hunter while forcing the hunter to take out one of his blaster pistols. Against the hunter's will, the cloaked figure, clearly a Sith, brought the blaster to the hunter's chin before the cloaked figure forced the hunter to fire off a shot, bringing the hunter's demise. As the hunter was no longer a problem, the cloaked figure picked up the box, opening it and taking out what looked like a small golden metal pyramid. The figure put the metal pyramid into the folds of his or her cloak.

As Roberto watched the recording, he had a funny feeling that he knew who the cloaked figure was as he felt his head ache a little before looking to see Jewel's reaction as Jewel was deep in thought before she herself looked at Roberto.

Meanwhile, on a different planet, in a very dark room, the golden pyramid from the recording was being lowered by way of the Force onto a half black metal pyramid on a mostly black diagram. As the golden pyramid was inserted into the half one, it powered four corners of the diagram, which shot out red lightning. As the diagram gave out a red glow, the one who lowered the golden pyramid was revealed…

The figure was Master Blu and he wore dark black and grey clothing, his eyes were different, the pupil a pitch black and his iris a fiery red as he had on an evil looking smile…

Yup! Bet you didn't expect that, did you!?

Although if you had seen the Duel of the Fates animation, than I guess you're not surprised…

Anyway… Two or three more chapters and this short story is done! And then we're on to the time travel story!

See everybird later!