So, I may have given you all the wrong impression when I said that Robert will lose everything. When I mentioned it, I was trying to say that it will be because of a plot instigated against him by Sidious and the Traitor in the republic military, in order to either kill him or turn him to the dark side.
I am glad that you all enjoyed my Umbara chapters. I have noticed a lot of people skip that important battle of the series and I figured I would include that battle in my story. For those who guessed Krell tampered with the simulator during Roberts flight training, you hit the nail on the hammer. I figured I would develop his descant to the dark side a little more since we only saw the bastard for four episodes and was mentioned during the temple bombing.
Anyways its time for the Togruta arc. Disclaimers are the same as before. Enjoy.
Chapter 18: Kidnapped
November 28th 2018, 21BBY
Kiros, Expansion region
0800 hours
Normal point of view
A beautiful planet with vast fertile green valleys and flowing waterfalls and population of over 50,000 colonists, Kiros was a symbol for the Togruta people. The entire colony was populated entirely by artisans who pursued the ideas of art and beauty instead of war. In short, a place where violence had no place in.
But that was about to change. While they claimed neutrality when the war started, the colony choose not to take up arms in case of an invasion fearing that an armed conflict would destroy there way of life. Governor Roshti the leader of the colony decided to negotiate with the separatists, having learned of Count Dooku's new goal of peace.
After he explained the situation to Master Yoda, who advised him not to trust the separatists and would send help as quickly as possible the separatists arrived. Six CC-9979 landing craft and a YV-865 Aurore class freighter flew over the colony and landed in front of the entrance to the colony, deploying their entire compliment of battle droids and tanks, much to Roshti's surprise.
What shocked him even more was that instead of Count Dooku, exiting the freighter was Dark Star herself, her helmet off revealing her short blonde hair. Besides her, a Zygerrian male and a tactical droid. "I was expecting Count Dooku, where is he?" Roshti asked as he approached the separatist forces.
"Count Dooku is busy attending to other matters at the moment. I, Dark Star am here in his place." Dark Star explained. In truth, Dooku was more focused on planning a new peace proposal and decided to focus his efforts on that instead of the war. Dark Star had received her orders from Sidious who had heard rumors that the Togruta's had a fleet of powerful weapons that could turn the tide of the war into the favor of the separatists. Her ordered were to 'take care' of the colonists and search for any information regarding the location of these weapons.
"Well then, Dark Star. We are a peaceful people and have chosen to remain neutral in this war. So why have you launched this invasion?" the governor asked. "Think of our presence as merely a peaceful occupation for your protection as well as ours." Dark Star replied lying to the elderly Togruta.
"I have heard the tragic stories of worlds caught between your droids and the republic clones. What of my people?" Roshti asked. "While I am helpless to stop the fighting, I can offer your people sanctuary. A safe haven until the conflict is over." Dark Star lied to the elder. At first Roshti was reluctant, but the Sith warrior 'persuaded' the governor to accept the offer. Once they were clear, the Zygerrian gave his orders for the droids to round up all the citizens.
While the droids marched into the colony separating loved ones from each other, Dark Star grinned with delight. "Soon, we will regain our power and the Jedi will fall before us." She said before leaving the system.
Ten rotations later, a republic task force consisting of one republic cruiser, one assault ship, one consular ship and two light-cruisers arrived over the planet and found no sign of any separatist ships in orbit. On the bridge Obi-Wan, Anakin and Cassie watched as came nearer and nearer to the planet. "I hope we're not too late." Anakin said as Obi-Wan ordered Rex to take the assault ship down.
In the armory Robert finished detaching the long barrel of Morita and pulled the trigger. "Perfect, now this baby is a Carbine as well." He said as he loaded up a fresh magazine into his weapon. Two months had passed since he turned sixteen, since the victory on Umbara, since Krell had severed Barney's arm. Immediately following the victory, Barney was sent to a nearby medical station where he was wounds were treated. Normally, he would have received a prosthetic limb to replace the one he lost, but someone in the chain of command had deemed Barney's survival a low priority.
So, Robert contacted Satine, asking her to help his uncle. Having been saved by Robert and being informed by Padme that he was Mandalorian, Satine agreed and by the time October began Barney had a new arm made from Mandalorian iron making it resistant to lightsabers, his limb was even given artificial flesh to cover the metal. To Barney, it was like nothing happened at all. He had seen people lose limbs before so it didn't bother him one bit.
But for Robert, it upset him greatly. When he gave his report to the council about Krell's treason and descent to the dark side. This caused the council to become much more alert and were now observing any Jedi that showed any signs of falling to the darkness. Unfortunately, the republic soon heard about Krell going rouge and were now more in favor of having the Jedi removed from their positions as generals even more, despite the orders best efforts to cover up the treachery.
During that time, Robert met with Dooku on Rhen Var and asked if he knew about Krell's decent into the darkness. Dooku however claimed no knowledge of this, but claimed he was concerned when he had a vision of Robert fighting Krell and seemingly died. Needless to say, Dooku was relieved that Robert survived and gave him his condolences for the loss of his brothers in arms.
The loss of Duke, Lockon and Viper took a toll on Red Squad and Kilo. When two new pilots came to Red Squad, Robert immediately shut himself off from the rest of the squad before finally warming up to the new pilots. Their names were Jet-Fire and Wing Saber. Robert joked that more clones had chosen the names of Autobots, claiming that it looked like the Transformers series was coming to life. That brought him out of his sadness, but not his anger.
He still felt the darkness gnawing at him like termites on a wooden trestle and soon began to remember several painful memories of the time after Courtney and her family were killed, but the memories were new to him. "What's happening to me?" he said to himself as he attached his rifle to his back and placed his Hand Cannon into his holster before joining up with the others in the hanger.
As the assault ship deployed gunships and tank lifters to the surface, Cassie was thinking about what Robert did on the shadow world. The last time he showed anger like this was on Tatooine, D'Qar and Scarif. She knew something was wrong, but she didn't know what.
As the gunships dropped off the ATTE's, Barc speeders, AT-RT's and troopers, the sound of a two-water cooled Revolution-X engines was heard and exiting the third gunship were Robert and Cassie on two heavily-customized 2017 Harley-Davidson V-Rod Muscle Motorcycles, each sporting the logo of the Expendables on each side, a skull and a vast number of assault rifles.
While Robert was armed with his Morita and Hand Cannon, Cassie was armed with two FN FNP pistols, chambered to fire .357 magnum rounds from a fifteen-round clip, a FN P90 with red-dot sight and muzzle break and a FN SCAR-L with a fifty-round-magazine, hybrid ACOG/Holographic sight and a flash hider. "Surprised you didn't take the BFG with you." Cassie said as her nephew pulled up alongside her. "I don't want to destroy homes. The people need to have a place to comeback to and wrecking the homes isn't exactly something it was built to do." Robert said as Anakin and Obi-Wan made their way further into the city as the two Earth soldiers followed them.
As they caught up to them, Ahsoka in the side car attached to her master's speeder looked around the city, feeling a bit on edge. "Anybody else think its to quiet? I haven't seen any colonists." She stated. "There probably hiding." Anakin replied, which Obi-Wan hoped was the case, since it would make their job a lot easier if they didn't have to worry about civilians getting caught in the crossfire. "I don't like it. The clankers have never been shy about using civvies as living shields." Rex stated from the side car on Obi-Wans speeder. "I'm sure there here somewhere. Let's make for the city center." Anakin suggested as Robert and Cassie pulled up alongside them.
"Good thing we modified our bikes to go faster than 144mph and run on different fuel other than gas, otherwise we would be very far behind you guys. But I agree with Anakin, the city center will give us a good command post so we can begin searching for the colonists." Robert said in agreement before the speeder/bike squad increased their speed and made their way towards the center.
Ahead of them a squadron of commando droids on Flitknot speeders rounded the bend and blocked their path. "Squad, tighten up. Form on me." Anakin ordered as the commando droids sped towards them. Rex downed one of the commandos with his sidecars dual-barrel turret while one of the droids killed a clone with their E5 blaster. Standing up Ahsoka activated her lightsabers and deflected the enemy fire back at the droids while Anakin slashed one of the enemy speeders with his lightsaber as it got close, destroying it. The droids then attacked them from behind, bashing one of the clone driven speeders and killing the trooper.
Returning to her seat, Ahsoka turned her turret around and blasted the pursing enemies with Rex following her lead downing several of the droids. One commando got close to Robert, but he sent the droid crashing into one of the tree's only to see Ahsoka get behind another droid and sliced its head off. "Show off." He said to himself as the group continued towards the city center.
When the group arrived, they were met by two AAT's and a platoon of B1 and several more commando droids. Downing them with their cannons and guns, one of the enemy tanks tried to aim its cannon at the group only to be destroyed by Rex's RPS-6 rocket launcher while Ahsoka leapt into the air and lobbed two grenades into the last tank, landing back on the speeders side car as the explosives detonated, taking the tank down and smiling at her accomplishment.
After the rest of group arrived and the area was secured, Waxer and Boil approached Obi-Wan and gave him their report. "We're still mopping up clankers here and there, sir." Boil replied. "We've established a perimeter around the Governors Tower, no one gets out without a fight." Waxer added. "Good work." Obi-Wan said to the two before he walked over to Cody.
"Cody, any word from the separatist commander?" the council member asked. "He's barricaded inside, his name is Darts D'Nar. He sent you a message sir." Cody explained and held up a holopad and Dart's appeared. "Master Kenobi come to the tower. We will negotiate terms for surrender." Darts said.
"Well, that was easy." Obi-Wan said as Anakin approached them. "Zygerrian's. You better be careful master. He is obviously a slaver and slavers can be very tricky." Anakin said, he was trying to hold back his anger towards slavers and he had succeeded. "Thank you for the advice Anakin. I must say, you showed a great deal of control there." Obi-Wan said impressively. "I don't like slavers and I know how they operate. I don't want you getting killed for not knowing your enemy." Anakin replied. Suddenly, the holopad flew out of Cody's hand and into Roberts who then crushed it. "Slaver shit. If he wants to negotiate, then let him negotiate with me. I can make him talk." Robert said cracking his knuckles and getting Cassie and Ahsoka's attention.
"He asked for Obi-Wan Robert, we need to focus on locating the missing Togruta colonists." Anakin reminded him. "Find. Have Admiral Yularen initiate a planetary-scan. I am going hunting for droids." Robert said as he pulled his Morita from his back and left the group.
"Why did you tell master Kenobi to be careful?" Ahsoka asked her master as she walked up beside him. "You know how I never talk about my past?" Anakin asked his padawan.
"Yes, and you have told me that you don't want to talk about it." Ahsoka answered as Anakin took a deep breath. "As a child, my mother and I were sold into slavery by the Hutt clans." Anakin admitted. "Oh… and these Zygerrians, they're slavers?" Ahsoka asked.
"I have struggled to put my past behind me and it has worked, but now that I know that we are dealing with slavers I am concerned." Anakin admitted again. "But what about Robert?" Ahsoka asked.
"When he was five-years old, he and his preschool class were taken hostage by a notorious human trafficker. They were ransomed back to their parents, but they were going to be sold off any way. It wasn't until I found them and killed them all." Cassie said, remembering the day she took down over two dozen traffickers with her Fathers revolvers. "The pain Robert endured from that day was suppressed when he went to a psychiatrist who helped him forget the event's, but it looks like those memories might be returning." Cassie said worriedly as she watched Robert disappear behind one of the buildings. "We'll keep an eye on him." Ahsoka assured Cassie. "Thanks, Ahsoka. You know I think you would look good in a dress. I think Robert would like it." Cassie said as Anakin talked to Yularen leaving the two alone.
"You really think so?" Ahsoka asked as her Lekku darkened a little and her cheeks blushed with embarrassment. Then she realized what she just said and covered her mouth. "It's no secret you like my nephew. A woman can tell these things and I think you two would make a great couple." Cassie said to the young Togruta. "I wonder if he feels the same way?" Ahsoka asked herself.
In the tower, Dart's was taking too Dark Star and Atai Molec, the prime minister of Zygerria and advisor to the queen of Zygerria. "The last shipment has been received D'Nar. I understand the Jedi have attacked, why are you still there?" Molec asked as some of D'Nar's Hesten pets made noise from their cages.
"I am going to make the Jedi pay for their arrogance. I have them right where I want them." Dart's replied, stroking the head of his pet bird as Obi-Wan exited the lift. "Do tell." Obi-Wan said with a small smirk as Dart's two commando droid guards aimed their blasters at him.
"Gentlemen, meet Obi-Wan Kenobi, Jedi Knight." Dark Star said bitterly. Atai growled at the sight of Kenobi before Dark Star ordered Dart's to bring Obi-Wan to her on his knees. Dart's was more than happy to oblige and soon the holograms disappeared.
"We were going to discuss surrender?" Obi-Wan asked as he moved closer to the commander. "Yes, you will surrender to me." Dart's stated. "We obviously seem to have a misunderstanding, my friend." Obi-Wan commented as he put his hands behind his back and secretly turned on his commlink.
"You are wrong Jedi." Darts said. "Am I?" Obi-Wan asked as Ahsoka, Cody, Anakin and Cassie listened to the conversation outside the tower. "You are no doubt aware your droid forces have been destroyed and you are surrounded. Do the honorable thing and give up now D'Nar. I promise you will receive fair treatment." Obi-Wan said while Anakin chuckled to himself. His former master knew how to keep the enemy talking.
"You have broken through my defenses, you think you've won? Think again. I have planted bombs all over the city, no one will survive, now surrender." Dart's demanded. He knew that the colonists weren't on the planet but for a Jedi, sacrificing the lives of civilians was not something they could do.
"If you're not bluffing, then I must concede." Obi-Wan commented. "But you'll have to make considerations, first, you release the colonists." He added.
"Here's my counter-offer." Dart's admitted and motioned for his tactical droid to push a button on a remote, detonating one of the bombs near the Anakin and the groups position forcing them to cover their heads. Obi-Wan ran towards the rear window of the tower and saw the devastation below. "There were no colonists in that structure, but there could have been. Now bow down and surrender to me, you Jedi filth." Darts barked causing Obi-Wan to consider his options.
As Kix ran over to check one of the injured troopers, Anakin ordered Cody to hock R2 up and locate the bombs while Anakin, Ahsoka and Cassie went to disarm the bombs. "What about Robert?" Ahsoka asked.
"I sent Rex after the Sergeant, no doubt they heard the explosion and are looking for them as well." Anakin said before looking back to Cody. "Cody, once R2 locates the bombs transmit their coordinates to Rex and Robert." Anakin instructed the commander who nodded and watched as the three departed on the AT-RT's.
Roberts point of view
Fifteen minutes before the bomb detonates.
Proxy and I had run simulations of urban warfare in the simulator at the range and I knew how to handle myself in an area like this.
Cody told me that buildings are just buildings and what really makes a city is the inhabitants that live in them. He couldn't be truer. Cities like Hamburg, Berlin, Tokyo, London, Denver, Chicago and Boston are like that. Vendors selling food, people playing guitars, taking photographs and tourists always make a city livelier and not like a ghost town.
Every building I checked I found no sign of any Togruta civilians. "Another empty building. No cellars either. Where are they?" I asked myself as I noticed the dinner table of this home was set, but nothing was on the plates. "Proxy. Has the planetary scan been initiated yet?" I asked into my commlink. "Yes, master but the scan hasn't been completed yet. It will still take a few hours." Proxy responded.
"Copy that, I'm Oscar mike." I responded and proceeded to the next house.
I had rounded the corner when I heard the sound of an explosion coming from the area in front of the governor's tower. "Oh, that's not good." I said aloud and no sooner had I spoke, something leapt from the roof of one of the buildings and latched onto my armor. "Get off of my back you pathetic accuse for a flood infection form!" I shouted and pulled the unknown creature off me and threw it back several feet before I got a good look at it.
The creature was some sort of droid with four razor sharp spiderlike legs and a tube in the center of its body glowing yellow with a set of optics near its lower part glowing the same color. No sooner had the droid gotten back up right, more of them appeared from the roofs of the other homes nearby and dropped to the ground, some of them with glowing green optics.
"Oh great. I attract all the attention." I said sarcastically as I unclipped my sabers from my waist and activated them as the droids attacked me.
The ones that were closer tried to latch on me and tried to inject something into my armor but I dodged several of them and slashed four of them in half with a throw of my blue saber. The ones that were farther from me were given a strong blast of the force and sent them hurtling into the wall of one of the homes breaking them into pieces.
"These guys aren't so tough." I chuckled to myself before jumping into the center of the mass of droids and preformed the same maneuver Krell did on Umbara, slicing over more than half of the them into bits.
One of them managed to get around me and tried to latch onto my back but was destroyed by a timely blaster bolt to the tube section. I turned around and saw Rex with a DC-15 in his hands with the barrel smoking aimed right at the droids. "Looks like you could use a little help." The captain said as he fired his rifle again downing more of these new droids.
"I can take care of myself captain." I responded before unleashing a strong force repulse and obliterated the droids. "I just received word that there are bombs all over the colony. Cassie, Commander Tano and General Skywalker are handling them, but they are going to need some back up. There not far from us so let's give them a hand." Rex explained while I looked back to remains of the droids before following Rex towards the first bomb location.
By the time we arrived at the first bomb, all the droids were either blasted or cut to pieces and the bomb was disarmed. "Looks like we missed the party." I joked as Ahsoka approached me on her AT-RT while Rex boarded the one Cassie was on. "We still have plenty of bombs to go." My friend said as he headed towards the next bomb, this one located in the cities market area.
"Tango's dead ahead." I shouted as I aimed my rifle over Ahsoka's shoulder and fired. The bullet impacting one of the super battle droids with the rest who then proceeded to open fire on us. Leaping off the walker, I cartwheeled over the droids firing short controlled bursts at the enemy units taking them down before laying down covering fire while the others went to deal with the bomb. "Cassie, Rex, suppressing fire." I called out as the other two assisted me.
Rex gunned down several battle droids with his rifle when a super droid flanked him from behind. His instincts kicked in and he bashed the droid with the butt of his rifle before turning his attention back towards the approaching droids. He then threw his rifle at the droids before pulling out his dual pistols and fired, gunning down more droids.
I fired a full burst of rifle fire at four approaching super droids before ducking diving behind a nearby stand and avoided blaster fire as my shields were down to twenty-five percent. I reloaded my rifle and was about to fire when I noticed two Togruta children one a boy with blue skin and orange eyes and a girl with red skin and yellow eyes, both about four years old hiding behind a basket of fruit.
I was about to inform the others about the kids when a droid lobbed a thermal detonator towards my position but missed and landed several feet away from the kids. Quickly I sprinted towards the kids and pushed them away from the grenade just in time. The explosion knocked out my shields but I was more concerned about the safety of the children.
I looked down and saw that both of them were ok. I smiled under my helmet for the first time since I heard that we were dealing with slavers, the two of them reminded me of Hera and I couldn't bare to see children get killed in war.
As my shields recharged, I instructed the kids to stay down and returned my attention too the enemy droids. I took out my pistol and charged towards the enemy droids downing each with a well-placed shot to the head. I then thrusted my shoulder into one of the remaining super droids before pulling back my fist and punched a hole clean through the armor as Cassie downed a group of standard battle droids with her P90.
As the bomb was disarmed I looked back towards the kids who were still hiding. "You two can come out now, its safe." I said to them. Nervously, the two children did and ran over to Ahsoka hugging her leg. Apparently, she bared a striking resemblance to their older sister. "What are your names?" I asked the kids and they told us their names were Sana and Zono's Kalu. "When the metal men came, our sister told us to hide and we did so. But after that, we stayed hidden from the metal men only coming out to get food." Zono said. "We can't find out sister." Sana added before the two of them started to cry.
"Don't worry. We'll find your sister, I promise." I said to the kids who wiped the tears from their eyes. I quickly called in and reported the situation to Admiral Yularen who said he would be coming down personally in a gunship to bring the kids to safety. "We have people coming to get you two. Do as they say and it will be alright." I said to the kids who nodded. Soon the gunship arrived and the children were onboard. "They look like they need medical treatment." I said to Admiral. "We'll take good care of them." Yularen assured me as the gunship returned to the cruiser.
"Well we found two colonists, but where are the others?" Ahsoka asked as the gunship left. "Hopefully not far, come on we still have a few more bombs to defuse." Anakin said as we climbed back onto the walkers and proceeded to the other bombs.
Normal point of view
While Anakin, Ahsoka, Robert, Rex and Cassie handled the bombs, Obi-Wan had challenged Dart's to hand-to-hand combat in the Zygerrian tradition and was getting his ass handed to him. In reality, Obi-Wan didn't fight back and was keeping Dart's distracted while the bombs were being disarmed.
As he was beaten mercilessly, a battle droid attempted to inform Dart's of the situation with the bombs but Obi-Wan crushed the holopad by crashing his opponents face into the communication device, further angering the commander.
Meanwhile, Robert and his allies arrived at the location of the last two bombs, these ones guarded by more droids then before. "These are the last of them." Anakin said as he forced his walked to jump onto a super battle droid, crushing it before jumping off the walker and activating his saber and began to take out the enemy forces while Ahsoka went to defuse the bombs.
Unfortunately, when she removed the lid of one of the bombs the other one began to beep. "Master, I think the bombs are linked." Ahsoka said worriedly. "That's not good." Anakin said as he continued to deflect blaster fire away from them. Before they could come up with a plan, super battle droids appeared on the roof of the building in front of them forcing them to focus on them instead of the bombs.
"You're going to have to defuse them at the same time." Cassie shouted, firing her SCAR-L at the enemy droids with Robert and Rex flowing suit. No sooner had the droids been downed a newer threat appeared. Sniper versions of the standard Droideka rolled up to the edge of the building at began to take potshots at them forcing them to take cover. "We're pinned down." Rex stated as he popped out of cover and fired a burst from his pistols at one of the snipers. His shots hit the droid, but the armor on the droid was a lot stronger than usual.
As the bombs began to beep faster and faster, Anakin noticed that he had an angle on Ahsoka's droid. "There weak from the side. Ahsoka at the same time, move forward and deflect the shot back at the other droid." Anakin instructed.
The two then moved and when the droids fired at them, the shots from the heavy blaster rifle were redirected towards the others targets. Then the two Jedi disabled the bombs just in time. "That was a close one." Ahsoka sighed deactivating her lightsabers. "Just another day at the office." Robert joked as the group headed back towards the tower.
As this was going on, Obi-Wan was still getting his ass beat when Dart's finally heard that his bombs were deactivated. He pressed the button on the detonator but found that the droid was right. While Dart's was distracted, Obi-Wan destroyed the two commando droids in the tower and recalled his lightsaber, igniting its bright blue blade and demanded Dart's surrender again.
Dart's however wasn't frightened for he had placed a bomb on his tactical droid and activated it, forcing Obi-Wan to push the droid out of the tower before it blew to pieces, allowing Dart's the time he needed to make his escape with his Convor.
Once Anakin was informed of the situation, he, Ahsoka and Robert pursued D'Nar after dropping Rex and Cassie off back the base camp. When Ahsoka pointed out that they wouldn't be able to catch him in time, Robert stated that he wouldn't let that slaver get away, while Anakin kept his composure.
By the time Obi-Wan reached D'Nar's ship it already began to take off just as Anakin, Ahsoka and Robert arrived. Leaping into the air with there walkers, the three then flew up into the air with great power and landed on top of the ship. Anakin then disabled one of the engines with his saber.
"So, what's your plan?" Ahsoka asked as the three hugged one of the freighters outer walls. "I'm open to suggestions." Anakin responded before the doors to the cargo hold opened up and the trio entered. Dart's however soon opened the cage containing a Blixus which grabbed Ahsoka and Anakin them with two of its tentacles before it grabbed Robert by the leg with another.
Ahsoka cut the tentacle that was holding her off and then jumped as close as she could to the creatures back and thrusted her lightsaber into it, causing the creature to scream in pain. "Ahsoka, you're only making it angry, stabilize the ship with Robert I will deal with this thing." Anakin said as he used his saber to cut the tentacle holding him before cutting Robert down. "I hated that." Robert said as he and Ahsoka entered the cockpit.
When they entered the cockpit, Ahsoka stabilized the engine getting Dart's attention in the process and activating his whip. "Young Jedi, you will learn your place." Dart's said. "I'm not so young anymore." Ahsoka said before a small fight ensured and she had her lightsabers placed by Dart's neck in a x shape. "Good work Ahsoka, Robert." Anakin said as he entered the cockpit after dealing with the creature.
"Where are the colonists?" Anakin asked. "I will tell you nothing." Dart's replied. "We can make this easy for you. Tell us where they are and you won't be harmed." Anakin said, but Dart's refused to answer. "TELL US WHERE THE COLONISTS ARE YOU FUCKING SLAVER OR YOUR GOING TO DIE! IN FIVE MINUTES!" Robert shouted as he unsheathed his knife and stabbed D'Nar in the leg causing the Zygerrian to roar in pain.
"Robert, don't he's not worth it." Anakin said as Robert pulled his knife out of the slavers leg. "My queen is going to bring back the royal slave auction as in the days before the Jedi. Zygerria will be rich and powerful, the Jedi won't stop us this time." D'Nar said firmly before Robert knocked his lights out. "We'll see about that pissant." Robert retorted.
By the time the council, Barney, Erik and Fenrir along with the Lagoon company received the results of the planetary scan no colonists were found on the planet. "They took the entire population? Slaver scum." Fenrir said clenching his fist.
"Troubling is the return of Zygerrians." Yoda commented. "It is likely they mean to use the separatists as a means to rebuild their slave empire. Dooku would have allowed it before, but he would not now." Plo said.
"We cannot allow that." Robert said. "I made a promise to the two kids I found that I would bring their sister back to them." He added.
"Agree I do, but first find the colonists you must. In grave danger, they are." Yoda said. "What is it, Master?" Plo Koon asked the elder council member. "Sense I do a darker hand in this mystery. Slavery, a great tool for the return of the Sith." Yoda replied causing everyone to become quiet and deep in thought. Robert then spoke. "I think I know someone who can help us with this." He said and began to explain his plan to the council.
Part one of the Zygerrian slave arc complete. Quite different then the original material but remember this is an alternate universe story so there will be a lot of changes.
Erik and Fenrir will play a part in the next chapter, but should I have Barriss assist them in finding the slaves and if so should I have disguise herself as a slave and what should her outfit be, who is this help Robert mentioned and should I have Obi-Wan, Rex and Anakin in different clothing then what Zygerrians wear?
Find out in the next exciting chapter of Lone Wolf: The Long Road. Until then please rate and review.
