A/N: In the last chapter, Peabody and his students, (Except Barriss Offee) were captured by Sherman and had their light-sabers destroyed. And Sherman has found out the truth about how Vader killed his mother. Now this is where things intensify. Enjoy!
Sherman walked down the prisoner-containment unit of the Star Destroyer and pressed the button that opened up Peabody, Hayden, and Penny's cell. All three captives looked up to Sherman.
"You were right. Vader killed my mother. I should have listened to you" Sherman said, apologizing to Peabody.
"So, you finally realize the truth?" Peabody asked.
"I do. I wanna make up for all this. Atone for all the Jedi I've murdered, especially your friend" Sherman said.
"Rrraaarrrrrgggggh, rffffurrrrr, rufffff?" (Translation: Master, are you should we can trust him?) Hayden asked.
"I do. Padawans, if you wanna get out of here alive, do as he says" Peabody ordered. Penny and Hayden nodded and looked to Sherman.
"You'll have to stay tied up like that to get past the troops. I'll take you to my shuttle and then we'll land on a different system and take a different ship" Sherman said.
"Alright. Let's do this" Peabody said standing up and his students followed his lead. Sherman lead them out of the cell and down the hall. Storm-Troopers eyed them to make sure they wouldn't try anything to escape. Hayden was kinda frightened at the way the troops stared at him.
"Keep moving, we're almost there" Sherman instructed. Within minutes they had arrived at the docking bay where several Tie-Fighters hanging from the ceiling racks and an Imperial Shuttle sat in the very center. One Imperial Officer approached Sherman and the others along with some Storm-Troopers.
"Lord Shermanus. Where are you taking the prisoners?" the officer asked.
"Orders were given to me by Lord Vader to take these three Jedi over to Coruscant to be executed before the Emperor himself" Sherman explained.
"I wasn't notified. I'll have to clear it" the officer said as he walked past Sherman. If he were to tell Vader about this, the whole thing would have failed in just one shot. Sherman took out his light-saber and sliced off the Officer's head once the blade activated.
"Lord Vader was right. Shermanus has betrayed us! Blast him!" one Storm-Trooper commanded. Sherman was attacked with blaster beams fired towards him and was able to deflects most of them back and hit the Storm-Troopers in their armor to kill them.
"Come on! Let's move!" Sherman ordered before cutting off the energy ropes that bound Penny, Peabody, and Hayden. All three got on the ship except for Sherman who began deflecting blaster shots from more Storm-Troopers who were signaled by one of the others before he killed them.
"What are you waiting for!? Get on the ship!" Penny shouted. Sherman walked backwards and kept deflecting the shots which killed only half of the storm-troopers that were sent to stop the shuttle from taking off.
"Tell Peabody to start the ship and get ready for take off" Sherman ordered before holding out his hand to use the force to make all the storm-troopers fly backwards and some of the Tie-Fighters fall off the racks and destroying most of the docking bay. Sherman then got onto the ship, closed the boarding rail and deactivated his light-saber.
"Are you sure you know how to fly this thing?" asked Sherman.
"I don't know. I'm not the best when it comes to flying. I'm a Jedi not a pilot!" Peabody said pushing buttons randomly.
"Move over, I'll take it from here" Sherman advised. Peabody moved over to the other seat and began pressing the right buttons to activate the ship. Hayden and Penny got into the cockpit as well and took their seats behind Peabody and Sherman.
"Alright, fasten your seat-belts and don't remove them until we're ready to make the jump to lightspeed" Sherman said. Everyone did as the now former Sith Lord ordered and the ship began to take off out of the landing bay and the landing gear came into the shafts that were used to keep it hidden. Little did they know Vader came in just in time to see them take off.
"So, you want to make Peace with the Jedi? Then be a Jedi" Vader snarled at the ship as he watched take off.
Back on the shuttle, Sherman had been pressing the buttons and activated the navigational computer.
"Where can we go? We can't go back to Dathomir, that's the first place they'll look" Sherman asked as he was prepared to enter coordinates to wherever the Jedi wanted to go.
"Well since our light-sabers were destroyed back at the temple, we'll have to construct new ones" Peabody said.
"I've got some spare parts in the back. Most of which are light-saber components, you can use those" Sherman said.
"Rarr ruff, rummmmmm" (Translation: We still need crystals) Hayden piped in.
"He's right. We can't use light-sabers without their crystals" Penny said.
"That means we'll have to go to Ilum" Peabody said.
"Alright, setting a course for Ilum" Sherman said entering the coordinates in the navigation computer, took his seat-belt off and set it to auto-pilot before setting in another ship function.
"You can take your safety belts off now, I'm making the jump to lightspeed" Sherman said as he pulled a small lever in the center of the control panel and the ship moved faster than the speed of light.
(Back on the Star Destroyer)
Vader gazed out the window of the bridge of the Star Destroyer when an Officer showed up.
"We lost them, my lord" he said.
"I know. They just made the jump into hyperspace" Vader said.
"But we did manage to plant a tracking beacon aboard their ship. Once they leave hyperspace the signal will pick up and we will go wherever they are" the Imperial Officer told.
"Very good. Have Officers at every computer trying to pick up the beacon's signal" Vader ordered.
"Yes my lord" the Officer said before leaving the bridge.
(Back with the Shuttle)
The Shuttle's computer began beeping, which meant they were approaching Ilum and Sherman took notice of it.
"Alright everyone, we're getting ready to land on Ilum. I'm taking the shuttle out of hyperspace" Sherman said before lifting the lever in the center of the panel up to reveal a white and blue planet.
"There it is. Ilum" Penny said.
"Vader told me that was where the Jedi would take Padawans to construct their light-sabers whenever they felt like they were ready to fight in the Clone Wars" Sherman said.
"It was a great danger to send young Jedi to Ilum during the war. So the order decided we would bring the crystals from the sacred Jedi temple that resided there and take them back to the Jedi temple, where the Padawans would build their light-sabers" Peabody explained.
"Rarrhhhhh, rrruffffff, rargggghhhhh" (Translation: The temple hasn't been used in a while. Penny and I haven't been there since we were little) Hayden said.
"We built our light-sabers there at a young age when Peabody found us. When he decided we were ready, he took us there and we built our own light-sabers" Penny piped in.
"Raarrrhhhhhhh, aarrrrrrr, ruffffffff" (Translation: Master always told us, the light-saber is the Jedi's true connection with the Force) Hayden said.
"I'm surprised you remember that lesson, Hayden" Peabody said surprised. The shuttle then landed in the snow in front of the Jedi Crystal Temple which was carved into a mountain and a large white door was in front of it.
"I'll go get the boxes that have the light-saber parts you need" Sherman said getting out of the front seat and into the back part of the ship to get two boxes, one atop the other.
"Alright, let's get inside fast" Sherman advised as he activated the boarding ramp and got off the ship. The others weren't so used to Sherman helping them at first, but after he defended them from blaster-fire from the Storm-Troopers back on the Star Destroyer, they were willing to give him a chance.
"Come students, our new light-sabers will be constructed soon" Peabody said stepping off the ship with his students following him.
Ilum was an ice planet, similar to Hoth, so of course there would be a snow storm and unpleasant breezes. Peabody used the Force to open the door and shut it the minute the stepped in the temple.
"And I thought Hoth was bad, Ilum is much worse" Sherman said shivering. He had never been on Ilum before, he had constructed his own light-saber on Coruscant with a red crystal Darth Vader had provided for him.
"You've never been here before?" Penny asked.
"No, most of my training was on Coruscant. I built my first light-saber there and did most of my training before given my first assassination mission" Sherman explained. Peabody had lead the two humans and Wookie down a spiral staircase before leading them to the crystal caverns. Red, Blue, Green, Purple, Yellow, Orange, Black, White, and Pink crystals surrounded each and every single wall of the caverns.
"Wow" Sherman whispered.
"Rarrrr ruufffff" (Translation: I know, it's beautiful) Hayden said smiling. Peabody had got down in a meditation stance in the center and spoke.
"Sit, choose your parts, components, and crystals. The construction of your new light-sabers is about to begin" Peabody said as Penny and Hayden got down next to him and Sherman laid out the boxes of parts in front of them.
A/N: So, Sherman had gained the trust of the Jedi by helping them escape and has become an enemy of Vader and the Empire. Now Peabody, Penny, and Hayden must construct new light-sabers if they are ever to fight against the Empire again. More to come in the next update. Please review, thanks!