Oh no. I knew exactly what had happened. Anakin Skywalker, the Chosen One, has been twisted to the Dark Side by this Sith Lord, and he's brought the entire 501st Legion with him, oh no. They're gonna storm the Temple. I turned to my right, Kazdan was already off, running away from battle in his own home! I placed my cloak even further over my head, if I manage to get away Skywalker will know I'm still alive, if I pretend to be just so random Jedi Knight caught n battle, I might just manage to escape Skywalker's clutches, I have to let him believe I'm dead. I heard a scream coming from down the hall, a battle cry. I saw three Padawans, who I recognised had almost finished their Jedi Trials, run up to oncoming war machine. Two were cut down by the Clones' blaster fire, and the last was easily sliced in half by Skywalker's blade. I stood suspended as many Jedi followed the Padawan's fate. I used the secret passages beneath the Temple, the one only Masters knew about, a Master, something Skywalker had not become. While in the passages I noticed some Jedi Masters leading Padawans and Younglings away from the danger. I noticed Mara Jade holding an injured Knight, the poor soul had a blaster impact square in chest, unfortunately, as I knew, he didn't have much more time left. I approached a dead-end, or what looked like, I did a secret Jedi ritual (which was basically sit cross-legged with eyes shut) in front of the "dead-end", and the wall slid downwards, I walked into the Main Hall, which was barricaded and filled with hundreds of people, all Jedi, all sitting down, all looking at Jedi Master Shaak Ti, who was co-ordinating the Jedi into groups that went into the secret passages, so that's what I saw earlier.

'Master Windu!' She called when she saw me. 'I thought you were dead!'

'Not yet.' I said. 'What's happening?'

'We're separating everyone into groups, every Master has a group, and as many Knights, Padawans and Younglings as we can through the secret tunnels, before the clones arrive.' She told me.

A voice rung out from the crowd. 'Their just clones! We're Jedi! We can take them down easily!'

The voice's speech brought many 'Yeah!'s and 'No!'s from many others.

'SILENCE!' Shaak Ti ordered. 'Master Windu has something to say!' She inclined her head towards me and took a step back, letting me be centre of attention.

I cleared my throat and looked at all the helpless faces, needing a guide to help them through these dark times.

'You may think we can destroy these attackers, you may believe you are the better fighters,' I heard a Youngling at the front whisper 'because we are.' But I didn't listen. 'That, my brothers and sisters in arms, is egotistical, that leads to fear, fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering, and suffering leads to the Dark Side, the Dark Side is something that the Jedi, when our religion was founded, is something all Jedi vowed to banish, as the Dark Side is used for evil! The Dark Side of the Force, is something that consumes both the Sith Lord co-ordinating this attack, and his apprentice, leading the Clone Troopers against their generals. Everyone, I'm sure that you've heard, of the Chosen One, a legend engraved in Jedi folklore, let me tell you right now, that this theory, isn't true! We found a young boy who had even more midi-chlorians in his blood than even Master Yoda! This boy grew to be one of the most reckless people I've ever met, but he was just as loyal, but he went down the path to the Dark Side, he fell in love with someone, and he feared to lose this loved one, and this Sith mastermind, turned him into a monster, now he is storming this Temple with his Clone Legion, this is what the Dark Side does, it turns you into an evil murderer, you can't love anything anymore, you will eventually end up being betrayed or betraying your comrades, and turning back from everything you know, it is a choice only selfish people take. A choice only cowards take. Always remember that the Force is with you, and don't go down the path to the Dark Side, and may the Force be with you, always.'

'Excuse me Master Ti.' I asked Shaak Ti who was standing next to me. 'But once they're out of the Temple, where does everyone go?'

Shaak Ti looked at me and replied. 'We've arranged for a close friend of mine to give us space freighters and small carriers to fly out into Star Systems in the Outer Rim, each packed with enough Escape Pods to jettison into different planets in the System.'

'For free?' I asked, raising and eyebrow.

'Oh no.' Shaak Ti chuckled. 'Like all dealers, he wants a price, but in the current circumstances he's given us a small discount.'

'Right.' I chuckled too. I guess a few people would call that a rare sight.

'Do you want to join with the other Masters, unless you want to take over?' Shake Ti asked.

'I'll join with the other Masters.' I told her.

She inclined her head forward slightly to signal she understood.

'Oh, and, Kazdan Paratus, I think he's fled.' I added.

'We heard that a small carrier left a few minutes ago, it's passengers an organic life-form and a few droids.' The Jedi Master replied.

'That sounds like him.' I confirmed.

I walked over to the line of Jedi Masters, who were ready to be assigned their own group. Next to me was Jedi Master Ether Koth, who turned to me.

'Master Windu, what do you think will happen to the Jedi who are on the front lines, like Master Kenobi, Master Mundi and Master Koon?' Ether Koth asked.

'I just hope they manage to sense this disturbance in the Force, and read between the lines, we know General Grievous is dead, who else could lead a full scale invasion other than him or Count Dooku?' I replied.

'I agree, Master.' Koth returned, turning back to face the groups.

One by one different groups of Younglings, mixed with Padawans and Jedi Knights, were assigned a Jedi Master, and delved into the secret passages of the Jedi Temple, not knowing what was in there, and what was waiting for them when they got out...

Finally, Ether Koth departed into a passage with a group, and I was assigned a final group, it was quite dangerous, as the Clones were smart enough to eventually realise where all the Jedi were disappearing too.

I was assigned a group filled with mostly Knights, I guessed Shaak Ti knew of the enhanced dangers for the final group, as she tagged along with my group as well. We entered a passage through a trap door which was hidden underneath a statue, which would move when the right ankle of the statue is pushed inwards like a button, Shaak Ti leapt into the passage first then giving us the all clear signal.

I gestured to the Knights to jump in through the trapdoor first, then the Padawans, then the Younglings, then just before I jumped in myself, I looked behind to the barricade, which was taking a beating, before it all crumbled, leaving a thick cloud of smoke from the rubble. Swiftly, I jumped into the the passage and shut the trapdoor and felt the statue move back in it's place above me before the smoke disappeared.