Chapter 6

FUTURE OF THE ORDER

The holo in front of Obi-Wan sprung to life, revealing the Council.

"Master Kenobi, news you have, hmm?" Yoda inquired.

"Yes Masters, the liberation of Soquine is going well. However-" Obi-Wan gulped. "I am afraid Knight Kasis Tan has been killed. Dooku appears to have a new apprentice."

Windu rubbed his chin. "Do you know their name?" he asked. Obi-Wan shook his head.

"I am afraid not. She was only there momentarily, and I could not make out her species." Obi-Wan responded.

"Return to Coruscant you must. Speak with you in person, I will." Yoda stated, before the connection cut. Obi-Wan was a bit taken back by Yoda's statement. Is there something that he knows, and I don't? Obi-Wan thought. He stroked his beard, before taking a shuttle back to Coruscant, thinking about what Yoda had said. Who is this assassin? he asked himself.

Anakin walked through the halls of the Senate building. Chancellor Palpatine had wanted to speak with him, but was very vague on what the topic of discussion was. There was some sort of show ocurring within the Senate, and Palpatine had wanted Anakin to watch the show with him. There were several Senators who gave him a look, as if saying subconsciously, "Why is he here?" Anakin ignored them, and continued to the Chancellor's position.

"Ah, Anakin. Sit down, my boy." the Chancellor said warmly, before motioning his assistants to leave. The people sitting near him obliged and left, leaving Anakin to sit next to the Chancellor.

"You wished to speak with me, Chancellor?" Anakin asked.

"Ah, yes." the Chancellor said. "Have you ever heard the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise?"

Yoda sat alone in his meditation chambers. He meditated on what was in store for the Jedi in the future. He continued to see the vision of the white and red blades, but saw a different vision. It was the temple in the forest.

Come here, Yoda... a voice called out to him. He seemed to be in control of the vision, as he walked around the temple grounds,

You know this world... the voice said. Yoda stopped, and turned around to see a woman he very well recognized. A Grand Master before him. Satele Shan.

"Come to this world, and prevent the Sith from ruling." Satele stated. She faded away, and Yoda was left walking through the Temple grounds. Destroyed droids, overgrowth covering the Temple. Yoda walked to the temple, when he heard a different voice.

You cannot save the Jedi. the masculine voice stated.

"Do not believe him. You can save them, come here. Bring the Chosen One." Satele said. Yoda saw her and what he assumed was Darth Sidious.

"The Chosen one will be mine. You cannot save him from his destiny." Sidious stated. Another cloaked figure entered the scene, but the landscape around the three dissapeared into blackness.

"You are breaking my rule, Sidious." the new figure stated. It was Bane. Darth Bane.

"How so?" Sidious inquired.

"You already have one apprentice, and that apprentice has caused three more. Your Zabrak apprentice still lives." Bane responded. Sidious cackled and dissapeared into the darkness.

"Come to Tython, Yoda." Satele stated, finally revealing the planet.

"Save the Jedi, I must. Come to Tython, why must I?" Yoda asked. Bane dissapeared, and the landscape and the Temple reappeared.

"It is the home of the Jedi. Save them, before it is too late." Satele stated, before Yoda jolted awake. The routes to Tython were long lost. How could the Satele expect him and the Jedi to go there? Yoda sighed, and exited the chambers. There was a lot of thinking to do about this.

"No, I have not." Anakin answered.

"Ah, I thought it was something the Jedi would have taught you. It is an ancient Sith legend." Palpatine began. "There was a Sith so powerful, that he could save the ones he loved from dying."

Anakin remembered back to a dream he had.

There was Padmé lying on a bed, in pain. Anakin saw Obi-Wan standing nearby. "There is still.. good... in him..." she choked out. Obi-Wan put a palm on her cheek, and Padmé stopped breathing. What Anakin didn't understand is why he wasn't there. The scene changed to the Jedi Temple, where Jedi bodies were scattered around, as Obi-Wan and Yoda traversed the Temple. Anakin watched the dream helplessly as he saw dead younglings and Masters alike. It changed to a scene on a volcanic planet, where he fought Obi-Wan. He couldn't bear himself fighting his Master.

While Anakin was in thought, Palpatine had been trying to return him to reality.

"Anakin- are you awake?" the Chancellor asked, shaking his shoulder.

"Oh, yes, em, continue, Chancellor." Anakin stated, dazed.

"He was killed by his own apprentice in his sleep. Ironic." The Chancellor paused. "He could save others, but he couldn't save himself." Just at that moment, Anakin turned to the large Senate room, where suddenly, the ceiling collapsed and a tall figure dropped into the middle of the room. Senators screamed and yelped, running frantically away. The figure glanced around the room, before dissapearing to the night sky above.

"What in the world!?" the Chancellor exclaimed.

"I'm going to contact the Council." Anakin stated, before turning on his comlink. The Chancellor was already frantically running away. The Sidious version of him would be calm, but he honestly had no idea what had just happened.

Obi-Wan sat down with Yoda in his meditative chambers.

"Know the identity of the mysterious figure, I do." Yoda stated. Obi-Wan nodded.

"Deep down, I think I knew as well. Ahsoka." Obi-Wan responded.

"Tell young Skywalker, we should not." Yoda said. "A different matter, we must speak of." Yoda paused. "A vision of the ancient Jedi homeworld, I had. Tython, it was."

"Tython?" Obi-Wan asked. Yoda nodded. "I've only heard of it in legends, Master."

"Go to it, we must." Yoda replied. "Know a way, I do. Use the Force, we will." Yoda stood up, and Obi-Wan followed him out of the room. They walked to the hangar, where a shuttle was waiting for them. Before they could get on the shuttle, Mace Windu interrupted them and said there was an urgent matter to attend to in the Council. When Yoda and Obi-Wan returned to the Council, a hologram of Anakin was there.

"Masters, there was an attack on the Senate. A figure that I did not recognize dropped through the ceiling, but did nothing but look around." Anakin said. Obi-Wan stroked his beard. "What I do know is that he had to be strong with the Force, as he seemed to use it to collapse the ceiling." Anakin continued.

"Search for this culprit, we will. Master Windu, go you will." Yoda said. Windu nodded. "A different matter, Master Kenobi and I must deal with." Yoda said, before him and Obi-Wan walked back to the hangar. None of the Council members knew what Yoda was talking about, and the two Masters returned to the shuttle. Yoda and Obi-Wan, after leaving the atmosphere, outstreched their hands and soon they were in hyperspace, traveling to an unknown location.

Grievous stared out of his small cell, waiting for someone to rescue him, but, as he expected, that never came. The cyborg really didn't think Dooku would care much for him, and probably would put his saving at a low priority. But he wasn't expecting some unknown person to save him. She wore a black cloak and a mask, and quickly moved him out after blowing up a wall. They entered Dooku's personal interstellar sloop, and traveled back to Serenno.

"What is your name?" Grievous asked the woman.

"Vagorum." she responded. "Apparently your master has a use for you, but would not give me the details." Grievous didn't really care, just remembered how Dooku went quite fast through apprentices. Ventress, Savage, and now this "Vagorum", who Grievous suspected was not actually her name, but why? Why would they change this person's name? Grievous suspected that if they had their original name, people would know who they were, and that explains the mask.

Serenno came into view, and the sloop flew down to a landing.

Obi-Wan and Yoda were relatively quiet throughout their journey. Yoda had meditated for more information on why they needed to go to Tython, but there was nothing to gather. Obi-Wan wondered about the same thing. The great Satele Shan had spoken to Yoda? She had been gone for thousands of years, why talk to him now? Obi-Wan sighed, but remembered the Council meeting. Who was the person in the Senate? All these questions raced through Obi-Wan's mind. He sighed, but looked in awe as the ship exited hyperspace.

It was a lush forest planet, with seas covering much of it, as Yoda hobbled to see it as well. Both of them had only heard it was a legend, a myth. But to see it in person - as a real place, it was mindblowing. The shuttle began to enter the atmosphere of Tython, and Yoda used the Force to make a landing in front of the temple he had seen. It was a grand temple, with banners and intricate designs. Old statues littered the front yard, and there were vines hanging from the temple. The banners were battered, and both Jedi Masters knew that this place had not been seen in quite a long time.

The windows were broken, and Yoda began to walk towards. Obi-Wan followed, taking in this amazing sight. The homeworld of the Jedi. Tython.

Vagorum and Grievous both walked out of the ship, were they were greeted by Dooku. He smiled, and began to talk to them.

"Grievous, Lord Sidious has announced that we will have a full scale assault on Coruscant soon. " Dooku stated. "He wants all of us to go. General, you will kidnap the Chancellor, then leave whatever Jedi dare attack to me. You will pilot the ship." Dooku paused, and turned to Vagorum. "Apprentice, I want you to assist me if the plans go wrong. Do not, under any circumstance, kill the Chancellor. We will lure the Jedi to us." Dooku smiled, while Grievous gave out a wheazy laugh. "Prepare, we will be leaving in approximately a month."

Dooku walked back into his palace, with Vagorum close behind. Grievous scowled. She seemed familiar.

Cin Drallig sighed when he saw Grievous' empty cell. Mace Windu was nearby.

"Someone had to know their way into the Temple to get Grievous back." Windu stated.

"The recordings seemed to have been tampered with, and there is a time where the General simply dissapears. However, there is a small part where we can see whoever infiltrated the Temple." Cin stated, then pressed a buton on a control panel. A hologram flickered to life.

A cloaked figure could be seen, and the video paused. Grievous was standing, moving towards the door, and several dead clones lie by this assassin's feet. The assassin could be seen vaguely as possibly a Togruta, but Windu and Cin had zero idea of her identity, and they didn't bother thinking of who it could be. They just thought it was another assassin Dooku had taken on.

Cin sighed, as the recording ended with both two dissapearing. "That's all we got." he said.

Obi-Wan and Yoda entered the Temple, and slowly walked through the empty halls, taking in the statues and artifacts. In the corner, Obi-Wan found a lightsaber shoto, and ignited it. It was a bluish-green color, and Yoda took interest in it.

"Long forgotten, these items have been." the dwarf said. Obi-Wan nodded, as they walked up the creaking stairs to what looked like a library. Ancient books were still there, although not in good shape. Both Jedi looked around. They couldn't believe what they had discovered.

"This surely is going to be where the Jedi go. I would say this is better than Coruscant." Obi-Wan said. Yoda chuckled.

"Darkness will fall, my vision tells me. Go here, we must. Safer, we are." Yoda responded, as both Jedi began to walk back out of the temple to their ship.

Next chapter- Yoda and Obi-Wan inform the Council of Tython and keep it a secret from the rest of the Jedi.