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It's all in a Padawan's Job
Chapter 6
Ahsoka's POV
It was quiet as we rowed back to the cobblestone dock. The gondolas were crowded with the two new passengers, so Anakin rowed Padmé and the twins while Obi-Wan and I rowed the droids. They were uncharacteristically quiet, and I guessed they also felt the tension in the air as we rowed to face Sidious.
I sensed Anakin give me another worried look, and it was driving me crazy. Earlier this morning, we all were getting ready, preparing, and reviewing our plan. After that, Anakin asked me to come to the balcony with him, privately, making me all the more nervous. We leaned against the railing looking at the waterfall, until he spoke.
"Ahsoka...you know you could possibly die today?" he asked, his voice a tad hoarse. I was surprised by the question; I couldn't help but be sarcastic.
"No, and during the Clone Wars I thought I would end up talking like General Grievous from all the times I've shouted at the clones," I said, and he gave me a look that meant business. I slowly looked back out the water as I waited for him to talk since he was the one who brought me out here. He sighed and looked out at the water.
"Ahsoka..." he started, and then he shook his head. "Just be careful, okay?" His eyes held an emotion I couldn't describe and I pulled him into a hug.
"You too," I said against his chest when he hugged me tightly. We broke apart and I hoped the look in his eyes was gone, but it wasn't. As I was about to ask him, we got interrupted by Padmé asking what should the twins wear. Anakin left to go help her, while I was left pondering what his eyes were revealing.
Speaking of the twin's clothing, I was surprised when they came out in all black outfits; there was even a hood to cover their heads and black boots to match. Obi-Wan and I found it cute, while Padmé and Anakin argued. Padmé thought that they weren't healthy for the twins while Anakin thought it helped them conceal themselves when we get on the ship. Padmé said they won't need to because they'll always be with her and Anakin fired back that she didn't know that. Before she could reply he said that it doesn't matter since he found them in the blue bag which made Padmé all the more furious. Obi-Wan, the only suitable negotiator who can sort it out, finally stepped in saying Anakin was right about how it could conceal the twins, but there was a possibility it was unhealthy for them. Then he said would Padmé's sister put something unhealthy for babies in the blue bag, which he found highly unlikely, considering the way Padmé talks about her and the blue bag she put together. He finished by saying that the twins should keep them on and he believes Padmé will always be with the twins on the ship, so there's little possibility that they will be left in a corner concealed with a rash appearing on the side of their arm. I raised my eye markings at Obi-Wan when he smirked as he left the room to get the gondolas ready for us. Anakin being Anakin, he rubbed it into Padmé's face how he won and beaten her- a Senator at that- while smiling like he won a jackpot. Padmé was perfectly calm about it, only saying that he won because Obi-Wan were there to help him. I laughed at them and told them to hurry up with their babies in black. I had to leave the room when Padmé gave me a dirty look, but Anakin thought that it was a good name for them.
I stopped my thoughts as I sensed Anakin give me another look. 'What is he so worried about?' It can't be about the plan; I don't even have a major part in it. Not my nightmares Palpatine keeps sending me because I haven't told him it occurs during the day.
Nightmares.
'That's it! He must've had a nightmare about me!' I thought in triumph, having finally figured it out. 'But why is he so worried? The only thing that could've happened to impact that much of a reaction on him would be...' I gulped as it came to me.
'I die in the nightmare,'
The gondola softly bumped it the dock, knocking me out from my thoughts. Obi-Wan got out of the boat, trying not to rock it too bad since Threepio was still sitting there. Artoo used his rockets to fly out the boat while Obi-Wan and I brought him over to the dock with the Force
"And I thought I wasn't fond of space travel! But that was even more scary," Threepio said and Artoo beeped at him. "Hey you don't know it until you've experienced it!"
"All right, the speeders are over there on that small hill," said Anakin as he helped Padmé out of the boat. 'Hill?'
'I didn't see a-' I stopped that thought as I saw behind Padmé's ship, a small hill with about twenty speeders. 'Oh, that hill,'
Obi-Wan and I walked up it to get the speeders. We needed three, and just by chance, there were three speeders with 'The Naberrie Family' signs on them.
As we got everyone onto a speeder, I felt the Dark Side become stronger. I looked around, but there was no Sith or Dark Sider in sight. 'Sidious must be toying with me again' I thought with a scowl.
I had Artoo in the backseat, while Obi-Wan had Threepio, and Anakin had Padmé and the twins. We drove towards Theed through many Zaela trees. I looked up, amazed at how tall they were.
'Ahsoka…' I heard Qui-Gon say in my mind.
'Yes?'
'Know that I won't be able to help you physically, only mentally,'
I sighed as I already knew this. 'I understand. Will you be able to tell me the outcome of our plan though?'
'No. The Force has forbid me to see the future at the moment, but it must have a reason. Trust in the Force, Ahsoka,' His presence left my mind, and I focused back on driving. We soon arrived at the edge of Theed. We hid our speeders in the trees before we walked into the city.
A building that seemed abandoned was in front of us and Anakin, Obi-Wan, and I used the Force to jump on top of the roof. Anakin used the Force to bring up Padmé and the twins, and we all crouched to not be seen. The building was very tall, just tall enough to see the city's center square. There were few clones patrolling the area, with two shuttles in front of Theed Palace. The Republic Cruiser-now Imperial Cruiser, was hanging above us in the sky, darkening the bright sky with its gray color. It almost looked like a huge storm cloud.
"Well, this seems almost too easy; it's like Sidious expects us to attack and steal a cruiser, so he didn't send a lot of clones for us to fight. He wants us to come to him," Anakin said as he observed the sight before him.
"Seems like it, but we have a different approach, which will shake him. We will all be in different places at once, so he can't kill us all unless he destroys the entire ship. That is our advantage," I said to him. He nodded and stood.
"Alright, Padmé, the twins, and I will go. Once I get inside the shuttle and have left the atmosphere, you two can go," He told me and Obi-Wan as he turned to go, but I stopped him.
"Anakin wait! Your eyes…they… you need to…change them," I said, ending quietly. In order to change his eyes, he needs to be fully consumed by the Dark Side. I didn't want him to do this, but his façade needs to be believable.
He sighed and put a grim smile on his face. "I was hoping you would forget that," He said, an edge in his tone. Still, he sat down cross-legged and focused. I could feel him embracing the Dark Side hesitantly, but he still let it wash over him. I sensed he left a part of his Force-signature Light, but it was very small. He slowly opened his eyes at me, and I stared into venom yellow eyes.
"…Are they yellow?" he asked quietly, watching me.
"Very. I think it will work," I replied as he turned to Obi-Wan. Obi-Wan seemed to be fighting something within him, and Anakin noticed.
"Don't worry Master, it's still me. Just think it's that time when I bought contact lenses and they had purple pupils," Anakin said chuckling, along with Obi-Wan.
"Yes, I remember a certain Padawan waking me up with purple eyes when I remembered bidding good night to him with blue ones," Obi-Wan said with a smile, and Anakin returned it. I sensed Obi-Wan's unease from earlier lessen. Anakin stood up and faced Padmé, who slightly jumped when she saw him.
"Don't worry, I'll get used to it because I know you're not really on the Dark Side. Just don't talk super deep, it'll be pushing it," Padmé said before Anakin had a chance to say something. "Now let's go; the faster we defeat Palpatine, the faster I can go back to being a mother and a wife," she kissed Anakin's cheek and stood up with twins in hand. Anakin smiled at her and lifted them up with the Force and eased them back down to the ground.
Anakin turned to us saying, "May the Force be with you Ahsoka and Obi-Wan," before placing his hood over his head.
"May the Force be with you too, Anakin," Obi-Wan said, as I did after him. And with that, Anakin jumped over the building side and was gone.
Obi-Wan and I repositioned ourselves, laying on our stomachs and turned back to looking at the city's center square. We saw civilians who were walking around quickly move aside to let Anakin pass with Padmé, the twins, Threepio and Artoo. We saw him approach the first shuttle and a clone saluted to him. I could see it was the 501st, but I couldn't see the design of the armor to know which clone is it. Another clone emerged from the shuttle and put cuffs on Padmé and had her hold the twins close to her. She was pushed onto the ship as Threepio was shut off and I saw Anakin saying something, pointing to Threepio. The clone nodded and also took the droid onto the ship. Artoo stayed by Anakin's side, who put his hand on top of his dome. The clone came out from the ship with nod, which I guessed is the confirmation that everyone is onboard. Anakin then pointed to the area where we were and the clone saluted, walking towards the building we were on with a blaster in hand. Anakin watched him go for a moment before stepping onto the shuttle and flying up towards the Imperial Cruiser.
"Was it painful?" I asked suddenly, even surprising myself a bit.
Obi-Wan looked at me funny. "What was?" he asked quietly as the clone was getting closer to the building.
"Seeing Anakin with yellow eyes again," I said, quietly also. I saw Obi-Wan's eyes cloud over, but he still answered.
"Yes, it was young one," He drew a breath as he seemed to be remembering something. "I battled with a yellowed-eyed Zabrak before, and those eyes were filled with such hate as we dueled. After I sliced him through his midsection, his eyes burned with even more hate than I thought possible. I hoped I never had to see something like that again and…I did. Anakin had those hate-filled yellow eyes and it was a freighting déjà vu for me. I knew I couldn't kill him then, for I wanted to see those blue eyes of the boy I trained for thirteen years, not the yellow eyes of the darkness that lived in him," he stopped, as we saw the clone walk around to the back of the building. "We'll finish this conversation later, I suppose," He noted as I knew I had to go. I nodded to him and stood up, getting ready to do a run off the building. The length of the roof was roughly eight feet, so I called upon the Force for help. Obi-Wan moved out of the way so I could have a clear run as I got myself ready. Obi-Wan looked over the edge for the clone, and signaled me to go. I nodded and dashed across the roof, jumping at the last possible second and going over the clone's head into the bushes.
I landed with a squat and a loud thud. The clone turned to where I was in the bushes and aimed his blaster towards where I was. I stood walked towards the clone, revealing myself.
"Jedi!" he snarled at me as he was about to shoot, but I simply waved my hand and the blaster was taken from his hand to mine.
"I have a name, you know," I said to him as I pretended to examine his blaster; DC-15 carbine blaster, just like the rest of the 501st Legion carries. "What's your name?" I asked in a casual tone.
"Why should I tell you?" His voice seemed angry, and I guessed he could be stubborn. It still bothered me that I couldn't tell what clone it was from its blue markings on the amour, and we were losing time.
I released a sigh as I looked at him gravely. "I guess I'll figure it out the hard way then if you don't want to answer," I told him as I walked towards him. He visibly stiffened and I guessed he was too scared to even call for back-up. He instead raised his fists up to me, getting into a fighting stance.
"I'm not going down without a fight!" He yelled at me and I couldn't help but chuckle.
"No need for a fight, just stay still," I told him, using Force-suggestion in the words.
He stilled and I smiled. "Good, now," I waved my hand in front of him. "You will tell me your number and nickname," I said, using a mind trick to make him answer.
He replied in monotone. "Number is CC-1119. Nickname is Appo,"
'Appo!' I thought as I said to him, "Thank you for your cooperation," as I sent a sent a strong sleep-compulsion into his mind. He started to fall, but Obi-Wan jumped down from the building and caught him before he did. He nodded towards me and I turned around to let him change into Appo's armor. I walked to side of the building to see the city's square, but I quickly hid in the shadows when a clone walked by. The clone paused, parallel with me, and I was desperately hoping he wouldn't turn his head to the right. I strained my eyes to see which clone it was, but I was roughly grabbed by the arms and they were pulled behind me before I could identify who it was.
"And what do you think you're doing, Jedi?" I turned to see it was a clone, and the markings said it was Appo. But under it was Obi-Wan. He had the helmet on and-thank the Force it filtered his voice. Unless that was his real gruff voice that he was using.
"Appo!" I knew Rex's voice from anywhere. I felt my breathing stop as I remembered my feelings for him, and what could possibly happen if I acted upon them. He stepped closer to us, and I felt Obi-Wan remove a hand from my wrists to salute him.
"Sir!" Rex nodded to Obi-Wan and looked at me. Well, I think he looked at me since his helmet was turned towards me.
"Appo, was she a problem?" He asked sternly, still looking at me. I had to look away from the helmet, for I thought I was going to grab him and run away from where he might possibly die. Force, when did I become such a romantic?
"No sir, I just caught her right now," he told Rex, using that gruff voice again. I was starting to think that it was a mixture him really using that voice and the helmet filtering his accent. Rex nodded and grabbed something from his the back of his belt. Binders.
"Here, put these on her. I don't need her to do something reckless anytime soon," I thought I heard humor in Rex's tone, but with the helmet on, it could've filtered that too. As Obi-Wan put them on my wrist, I noticed they weren't Force Binders. I looked at Rex, only to see his back, but I saw Force binders hanging from his belt. I looked at Obi-Wan, who gave me a shrug as I raised an eye marking. I turned and followed Rex with Obi-Wan behind me as we walked to the second shuttle; all the while my mind was awhirl thinking about why Rex didn't put the Force Binders on me. I refused to think it was because of love, because that would only give me hope, and I didn't want it crushed by Rex pointing a blaster to my head. Maybe it was because he knew that I had a plan and wanted to help, like I had predicted.
I abruptly stopped my thoughts as I felt my lightsabers being taken. I almost kicked whoever did it, but I thought better of it and glared at the helmet in front of me instead. I realized it was Fives, who seemed to not like the idea of having the lightsabers in his hands. I glanced around and saw we were in the front of the second shuttle with Rex, Fives, and one inside the shuttle I couldn't identify yet. Rex was inside the shuttle already and mention for us to come in. Obi-Wan pushed me onto the shuttle with Fives behind him. Another clone was onboard, and it seemed to be Jesse. The door slid shut as the shuttle lifted from the ground and to the Imperial Star Destroyer.
I could sense there was a tense silence in the air; the only sounds were our breathing and the cruiser's engine humming. I had a feeling it was because of me, but I couldn't understand why. The clones stood unusually rigid and kept their helmets pointed to any line of sight that I wasn't in. Seeing that, it made me all the more determined to tell them that we didn't betray the Republic, but Palpatine. I heard the engine hum quiet down as I felt the ship settle onto a smooth surface. Realizing we had landed, Rex spun on his heel to face me and Obi-Wan. "Appo, take her to the prison level. Make sure she is nowhere close to the door or other prisoners,"
"Yes sir!" Obi-Wan said as the doors opened. We stepped off and walked to the prison level. We knew where it was since it this ship was used in the Clone Wars and belonged to the Repbulic. Well, used too.
"Palpatine really spruced up the place," I whispered while looking at all the gray walls with interest, but Obi-Wan could hear the sarcasm in my voice.
"If this is how it looks everywhere, I might get lost or end up in the garbage disposal," he whispered back and I had to bite my lip to keep from smiling. We eventually made it to the prison level, and after passing through security, Obi-Wan walked me down the hall to a cell.
But we had to find Padmé and the twins first.
"Do you sense them?" I asked Obi-Wan while I was looking through the yellow shields to my left and right.
"Yes, she should be on the right soon," As soon as he said that, we found her.
She looked up from smiling at the kids to us and her eyes widened. "Ahsoka! Are you okay?" She asked, quickly setting the children on the ground softly and walking up to the shield. "Is that…"
"Yes Padmé, it's me," Obi-Wan said as he deactivated the shield. I led Padmé out while Obi-Wan walked down the hall until he came to an empty cell some ways down from Padmé's.
"Here," he declared as he pointed to it. "Ahsoka will be in this one, as its far enough for the clones but close enough to you," We heard a voice as Obi-Wan was walking back to me and Padmé. Padmé was already in her cell with the twins in hand by the time Obi-Wan reactivated the shield. Obi-Wan grabbed my wrists again and was walking me to the cell he picked when, "Appo!"
We both turned and saw Fives walking towards us with helmet in hand. "Is there a problem?"
"No, just deciding which cell to put this Jedi in," Obi-wan said, going back to his fake gruff voice. Fives nodded and watched as Obi-Wan pushed me into the cell he picked and activated the shield. Obi-Wan walked away from the cell, but I heard Fives voice again.
"I don't like this,"
I felt my eye marking raise at this.
"What?" Obi-Wan asked and his voice didn't sound all that far away. I silently moved to a spot in the cell where I could see them and, to my surprise, I saw the two standing in front of Padmé's cell.
I saw Fives make a gesture to Padme's cell. "This!" he repeated again. "Keeping a mother and her kids in a cell like this…it makes me feel like a monster," he told Obi-Wan (actually Appo in his mind) with disgust in his voice.
"I…understand what you mean but, orders are orders," Obi-Wan said as he watched something going on inside Padmé's cell.
"And that's what confuses me," Fives whispered, but my montrals caught it.
"What confuses you?"
"The person who gave the order: Lord Vader. I had always thought he was attracted to the Senator but now…now I'm not sure," Fives said, and his face held a disappointed look. I was surprised at this, for he was more observant that I thought.
Obi-Wan seemed surprised too, but quickly gained his composure back. "Maybe he has plans for her, and one that requires her on the ship,"
"I certainly hope those are good plans, because I can't imagine Vader killing her. That seems out of his character," Fives seemed really worried for Padmé and Anakin. I smiled. Maybe persuading him to help won't be so hard after all.
Obi-Wan's POV
"I don't like this," Fives said and I became confused.
"What?" I said, careful not to let my curiosity into my voice.
"This!" he made a gesture towards Padmé's cell. "Keeping a mother and her kids in a cell like this…it makes me feel like a monster," he was disgusted, that was clear. I looked over at Padmé and she seemed to be surprised, as I was.
"I… understand what you mean but, orders are orders," I said to see what reaction I'll get. I knew Anakin gave the order to send Padmé and the twins to a cell, but has he given the second order yet?
"And that's what confuses me," he said, and I sensed honesty in his voice. I didn't get my answer though.
"What confuses you?" I asked, and I noticed Padmé was trying hard not to look interested and listen at the same time.
"The person who gave the order: Lord Vader. I had always thought he was attracted to the Senator but now…now I'm not so sure," I was slightly taken back by this, for he was very observant. He also seemed disappointed, but for Padmé or Anakin, I wasn't sure. He didn't seem to know what else Vader was planning, but I did tell him something to ease his worries that he seemed to have.
"Maybe he has plans for her, and one that require her on the ship," I said, hoping he would at least think there was a double meaning behind the words.
"I certainly hope those are good plans, because I can't imagine Vader killing her. That seems out of his character," He said as he looked at Padmé with a tad of pity. Padmé was looking at the twins as she kissed each of them on their forehead although I knew she could feel the eyes on her. "Come on Appo, Rex wants us to tell Lord Vader of Jedi we caught," Fives announced suddenly as he was walking away. I quickly caught up with him and nodded. We walked away from the prison level and to the Bridge. I saw that most of the crew members changed in gray, like the rest of the ship. 'Seems Sidious wants to keep everything the same,' I thought as we walked over to where Rex was.
We saluted when he turned and he nodded to us. "Fives, Appo, did the…prisoner create any trouble?"
"No sir, just as quiet as can be," Fives answered, but I noticed the pause Rex made when he referred to Ahsoka as a prisoner. 'Does he seem saddened by it?' I thought but couldn't answer it as Rex moved on.
"Lord Vader is currently meeting with the Emperor and our meeting with Vader will be delayed for an hour. Get cleaned up and keep an eye on the prisoner," Rex ordered as me and Fives nodded. We left the bridge and arrived at the clones' quarters. Fives walked right in, while I tried not to look like I moved in with caution.
"Alright, you can use the 'fresher first," Fives said as he tossed his helmet on the couch.
"No you can go first Fives; I was going to go to the cafeteria,"
He gave me a funny look, but shrugged anyway as he walked in the direction of the refresher. "Alright, but check up on the Padawan first," he tossed over his shoulder as he closed the refresher door. I looked at the time and estimated I only had about 5 minutes to talk to Ahsoka because of the elevator ride and the walk back to the room.
I was walking back to the prison level quickly but subtle as I could, but as I was about to enter an empty elevator, someone join me. The clone looked at me, but remained as rigid as a tree until the doors closed.
"Force, I don't think I'll get used to the new rules created by the Emperor. Can you Appo?" I recognized the clone as Jesse by his markings and I also remembered him from Saleucami.
"I'll try," I answered curtly, trying to making small talk and hoping he wouldn't go to the same level I was going. I realized I was wrong when he pressed the prison level button. I resisted the urge to sigh, but instead ask, "Why are you going to the prison level?"
"I have to feed them, on Lord Vader's orders," He answered as he took off his helmet. I noticed the Republic symbol wasn't on his helmet or head anymore. He noticed me looking at him and he answered the unspoken question. "Everything related to the Republic had to go, including my tattoos. I had to take it off myself, and I felt sadden that the symbol I used to wear proudly was going corrupt because of the Jedi, who you and I fought with. But, as I cleaned my helmet, I thought about it. Why would the Jedi try to take over the Republic? For good or bad? To make the Republic better? I'm hoping that that was the case because the Jedi wanted the war to end as much as everybody else, right? I know General Kenobi did; he believed the answer was capturing Grevious, who controlled the droid army, and I too believed that. I don't believe he betrayed the Republic; he seemed too…loyal to do such a thing. What do you think Appo?"
I was stunned by his words and his thoughts of me, but I didn't answer as the doors opened to the prison level. Jesse swiftly placed his helmet on as we walked out of the elevator and into the hallway of prison cells. He stopped in a pause between the elevators and put some gray looking stuff into two bowls. He gave one to me.
"Give that one to the Jedi," he gestured to Ahsoka's cell as he walked to Padmé's cell. I walked quickly to and went inside Ahsoka's cell, looking over my shoulder to make sure Jesse was inside Padmé's cell before I spoke.
"Anakin is having a meeting with Sidious at the moment and Rex said it would be an hour before we meet with him. I guess it will be about an hour and half before we can make our move," I whispered quickly to her as I put the bowl of gray food in front of her.
She nodded as she gave the bowl a disgusted look. "I'm not eating that," She pushed it away. "Also, talk to the clones and make them on our side in that hour; I think one already is,"
"Fives? I think so too and Jesse seems to believe that I couldn't have betrayed the Republic, so I'll talk to him on that," We both nodded and I left her cell. I noticed Jesse exiting Padmé's cell as I reactivated the shield on Ahsoka's cell. I walked over to him as I noticed he seem relaxed. I glanced into Padmé's cell and, to my surprise; I saw Luke and Leia drinking blue milk.
"I know, I know; we aren't supposed to give prisoners food from the cafeteria but…they just babies! I doubt they can do any harm!" Jesse looked at me and I nodded.
"They are just babies…I don't mind," I saw Padmé nod to Jesse and he returned it. We walked back to the elevator and as soon as the doors closed Jesse once again took off his helmet.
"Appo…you seem different today," he looked at me with a puzzled look, but I managed to stay calm.
"What do you mean?" I asked, ignoring Jesse looking at me up and down.
"I don't know…you seem shorter and…kinder. Why?"
I had to bite back the want to hang my head and shake it at my height and how almost everyone makes a comment on it. Instead I said, "I guess the end of the war took a weight off my shoulders and I don't have to be so demanding,"
Jesse seemed stunned and raised an eyebrow at me, but shrugged it off. "If you say so,"
It was quiet after that, and I quickly went back to the room Fives was in when the elevator opened.
Anakin's POV
"Take her and her babies to the prison level; the droid to maintenance," I ordered, and the troopers worked quickly. Two troopers quickly cuffed Padmé as another pair of troopers grabbed a twin and one trooper shut down Threepio and carried him. Padmé held her head high the whole way as I watched her go into the elevator and as she turned around to face my direction, she offered the tiniest of smiles. She seemed to be dealing with this better than I thought, and it put some of my worries at ease. It still made me upset that I had to put my own family in a prison cell, but at least their together. I walked quickly to an elevator with Artoo at my side as I pulled out my comlink to comm Rex.
"Captain Rex," I heard him say.
"Rex, this is Sky-Vader," I almost cursed at my simple mistake. "Has Appo captured the Jedi yet?"
"No, My Lord. My men and I are searching for him now, in case he needs back-up," It did sound like he was walking.
"Alright. When you capture the Jedi, bring them here and place them in a prison cell. Then have Appo report back to me in a hour; I'll be in a meeting with the Emperor,"
"Yes My Lord. Captain Rex out," I heard the communication line erupt with static and I shut it off and put it away. We reached the elevator and I let out a breath. Artoo beeped in question next to me.
"Being a Sith is harder than it looks, especially when I'm not really on the Dark Side," I told him as I took off my hood to shake my hair.
Artoo beeped something that sounded along the lines of, "You seemed to have enjoyed it the first time,"
"Hey! I was…deeply confused at that time and it seemed like the only person I could talk to was Palpatine," I sighed as I tried to ignore the memories of choking Padmé. I'm surprised she can even be in the same room as me, let alone talk to me after that.
He beeped at me angrily then let out a long hurtful beep.
"I know I could have talked to you…but I didn't want you to solve my problems since I thought I could do it myself. Besides what would you have told me to do anyway?"
He beeped each word out like it was obvious.
"Tell Obi-Wan and Ahsoka the truth about me and Padmé? How would've that helped?"
His dome spun as if he was rolling his eyes as he beeped how it would have helped.
"I would feel like I could have people to talk to about the growing darkness inside me besides Padmé and Palpatine?" I thought about how he was…weirdly right. I placed my hand on top of his dome. "You know Artoo, you're right about everything," I chuckled as Artoo whirled in happiness. "Who taught you how to be so smart?"
"You're wife,"
The doors opened at that moment, and Artoo rolled out towards my quarters as if he did not stun me. I placed my hood back on to hide my smile as I walked after the very smart Artoo-Detoo.
We arrived at the door that labeled Vader's Quarters and walked inside. I didn't pay attention to what was inside as I quickly walked to the closet to change into the tunics and pants. I knew my black shirt and pants made look like an assassin instead of a Sith Lord and I thanked the Force my robe was down to my ankles. I quickly changed into the pitch black tunics as Artoo plugged into the main computer. The tunics fit perfectly, and I realized I had spent that much time with the Sith Lord. I stifled a groan as Artoo beeped the location of him to me.
"He's in the Throne Room? Where is that and when was it made?" 'I don't remember a Throne Room on one of these ships before…unless it's a different model…'
Artoo beeped in surprise at me.
"Three days ago? But on that day I…." I trailed off realizing that was the day of my turn. 'Was he really expecting to be Emperor that long?
Artoo beeped at me again.
"It replaced where the reactor shafts used to be?"
Artoo's dome whirled back and forth quickly and I took that as a no. He beeped again and this time I understood him.
"It's built above where the reactor shafts are?" Artoo beeped in confirmation. "That a strange place to put it…" I thought, until I really thought about why he wanted his Throne Room there. I almost slapped my hand against my forehead as I realized it was easy for him to use the Force to throw someone down the shaft if they upset him. I patted Artoo's dome. "Thanks buddy. I'll be going now. You can check up on Threepio if you want, but make sure he doesn't say anything. If there's a problem, tell them you're…Vader's droid, okay?" Artoo whirled and I smiled.
I left the room with Artoo at my heels as we headed to the elevators. This time, though, we took different ones. I quietly chuckled at the thought of Artoo being in an elevator all alone, but I knew he could take care of himself. He softly beeped to me before he rolled into an elevator and used his claw to press the button. I watched the doors close as I saw my long-time friend disappear. I made sure no one came in with me as I entered the elevator and pressed the button that will take me to the reactor shaft level-to Sidious.
Yes, yes, I know it's a cliffhanger, and honestly I didn't want to end it here but school is starting soon and I know I will be really busy with that. Also, a few things about this chapter:
1. I'm not at all good with the Clones thing at all. How they act, talk, even their names and yet I've been watching the Clone Wars T.V. series. So don't punish me for that. I just couldn't do the story good without them.
2. The plan that has been talked about in the past chapters IS happening! I decided to just write it happening instead of writing about them talking about it then writing it happening. Just to keep you guys on edge!
3. If it bugs any of you guys, Rexsoka will not be big thing in the story. I'm not going to do a huge romantic scene with them, just know that's it there and if Ahsoka or Rex do weird things in the next chapter, know that it's because of their feelings towards the other!
I hope I cleared some things up and don't forget to review! Good night(Its 10:20 right now)and May The Force Be With You!
-StarWarsPeopleRule