Chapter 3. Surprises

Once Jaden had realized that her latest venture of the take-over of the city on the refugee planet had been successful she left the system in charge of her clone Captain and her clones. It was an easy enough task for them to watch what remained of the civilians as they slowly tore down and destroyed their own city. What would happen to them once the entire city was gone and melted down? Jaden didn't care. The clones could just leave what was left of the civilians to their own ends and they could sort themselves out.

Meanwhile those citizens who had pledged themselves to fight for her were willfully idling their time on her Star Destroyers, (not hers of course she had no time to deal with such simpletons) much to the displeasure of her troops and men who had to put up with them. Jaden assured her men that the time when they would be used as nothing but a distraction and target practice for the clones and young Jedi would come but they just had to be patient. Her time to attack Yavin 4 would come soon she just had to wait a little longer and build her army up just a little more. She wanted to make sure this attack was well planned and organized to make sure that it didn't fail and that all the Jedi there were slaughtered quickly and quietly.

Jaden still had one small problem to deal with, Luke Skywalker. If he was there at Yavin 4 when she attacked she knew even with an army that one powerful Jedi such as Luke could easily turn the tide of the battle against her. But Jaden had a plan to get rid of him, at least for a little while whilst Yavin 4 was completely destroyed.

'You requested my presence Lord?' Rallion said walking into Jaden's quarters where she stood up and walked over to him.

'Do you think you have been serving me well Admiral?' She asked calmly.

'As long as your believe I'm doing…'

'No I didn't ask that question I asked what "you" think.' She grinned playfully looking at Rallion who looked extremely nervous.

'Yes.' He said looking up at Jaden who paused for a moment before nodding.

'You amuse me.' She laughed. 'However this was not the only reason I asked for you it's because I have task for you since you have served me well and because you think you're doing such a good job.' Jaden said twisting his words around, but he said nothing. 'I want you to send two of my Star Destroyers to a planet known as Dagobah.'

'Dagobah Lord?'

'Yes whilst I was at that soon to be destroyed Jedi Academy on Yavin 4 I clearly remember Luke telling us about that planet and I could sense that for some reason it was important to him though he never actually mentioned to me the exact reason. I believe if we are to distract him long enough to destroy Yavin 4 all we need to do is play a little game.' She paused. 'I want you to personally oversee the bombing of the surface of Dagobah, I don't care where you start or what you actually do just make sure you make your presence known. If that dirty world is as important to Luke as I think it is he won't be able to help himself running off like a little hero Jedi to save it leaving me able to lead the attack on Yavin 4.'

'What if he brings an entire armada against our Destroyers? We won't be able to escape.'

'You know what? That is a risk I can live with.' Jaden cooed happily. 'I want you to begin organizing this attack as soon as possible Admiral and I want this plan of mine to begin in at least a basic week from now and if it is not ready by this time somebody will have to answer for it understand?' She glared back at him as he quickly nodded. 'Now get out of here you have a lot of work to organize.' Jaden said and watched as Rallion quickly nodded before leaving the room.

Finally everything was slowly starting to slot together for Jaden and she knew it. Once Yavin 4 and the Jedi there were destroyed it was only a matter of time before the major worlds still loyal to the Jedi would realize how weak they are and would run to join her New Empire and bow at her feet. With nothing to hold her back now she was going to be unstoppable.

-

Over the next week to her request Rallion managed to organize two crews for the Star Destroyers that he would lead an attack on Dagobah at the same time that she and the rest of the fleet would proceed to Yavin 4 where they would lead a ground assault against the Jedi there.

Whilst Rallion organized these objectives Jaden continued to exploit the worlds on the outer rim of the galaxy which were full of refugees and other low lives that would do anything for her if it meant they would receive something as little a food or water in return. Some may think that these worlds on the outer reaches of the galaxy would not be worthy of Jaden's time but she knew she needed numbers if she ever wanted to rule the galaxy. She needed followers who could spread her word across the galaxy, she would not win if she only gathered up one huge army whilst populations of civilians still followed the Jedi because Jaden knew from lessons of old that civilian uprisings could play a huge role in whether or not a planet was under her control or not. She had to control the people and the armies.

Every now and then on these outer rim planets she would find survivors from the old Empire willing to join and follow her lead and these people were the people that Jaden made sure controlled the cities on these planets after she'd run through them with her troops and killed those who didn't want any part of this new Empire.

Whilst she was slowly gathering followers and gaining control of the outer rim of the galaxy she so far had met very little resistance from the Jedi which made her nervous that perhaps they too were also planning something against her. Yes she had seen rebels standing up against her and every now and then some rogue soldiers but as of yet no real Jedi Masters. Jaden knew that this was most likely due to one of two reasons. Firstly she had killed many on Korriban when she took the scepter from Tavion so their numbers were once against very low, secondly it could be due to the fact that Luke and the others were in fact planning a huge attack her and so were simply keeping out of her sight whilst they did this. Or perhaps it was a combination of both? Jaden didn't dwell too much on this though because she had to prepare herself and her army for the attack on Yavin 4 which was now only days away.

During this time Jaden continued to absorb more and more dark energy from the scepter which fueled her dark feelings and emotions inside but this was at a cost because whilst she did this she didn't sleep very much at all and always looked very tired. Her eyes had gone from a bright blue colour to a pale orange colour and her skin had darkened from the light purple it had once been when she was back at the academy to a darker greyer shade of purple. However Jaden didn't seem to notice any of these changes about herself, in fact she felt more in tune with her feelings than she ever had before, this scepter was helping her control those feelings she had never been able to control before like regret and remorse. She no longer had to worry about trying to control her strong feelings of hate and anger and she now had no one around to tell her she had to either. Nothing could get in her way now.

-

Finally the day arrived, the day when she would cement into the history books that she was not a Sith to be messed with as she took out the entire Jedi Academy and every single Jedi in training down there.

Rallion and his two Star Destroyers had made their way to Dagobah and she had a spy planted near the Dagobah system to indicate to her whether or not Skywalker and his little minions took the bait or not.

A few hours after the attack on Dagobah had commenced Jaden received word from her spies ship returning from the system that Skywalker had taken the bait and had arrived along with a small army of his own to fight off the Star Destroyers. Jaden ordered her Destroyer's to remain and warned that if they fled before they were ordered to then they would be better off dead.

Ordering her new Captain of Star Destroyer to Yavin 4 Jaden quickly left the bridge with her Clone Captain.

'I want you to send our new little civilian class soldiers down to my coordinates first Captain to distract those pesky Jedi down there.'

'Yes Lord.' The Captain nodded.

'After I give my word I want you to send your troops down there to clean up every living thing down there including any of those stupid civilian soldiers understood?'

'Yes Lord, what will you do?'

'I will go down in my shuttle not long after the civilian soldiers are sent down. I don't want to miss out on any of the fun.' Jaden grinned looking at the Captain who nodded as she made her way to the shuttle bay with her shuttle.

As soon as they entered the system the Star Destroyers that had been carrying the civilian soldiers immediately began to send them down to the surface coordinates Jaden had given them. Jaden watched from her shuttle as they descended to the surface but was surprised not long afterwards when she received word back from one of the Civilian soldier captains that the entire academy appeared to be empty.

'No…' Jaden thought to herself shaking her head, they couldn't have known she was coming! She had made sure that no one knew of her plans that could escape and tell Skywalker and the other Jedi what was happening. They had to be down there!

'Get me down there right now.' Jaden yelled at her pilot who quickly set the shuttle down on the surface not far from the academy entrance.

Drawing her lightsaber she marched out of the shuttle and up towards some of the civilian soldiers who were waiting outside.

'There is no one inside Lord.' One of them said looking at Jaden who ignored him and walked straight past him inside the academy.

Walking inside she could see the civilian soldiers just standing around looking a little disappointed but when they saw Jaden they seemed to immediately register how displeased and angry she was and quickly got of her way, none of them saying a word.

Jaden marched through the hallways of the Academy remembering all the times she had walked down them with Kyle or Rosh when she had been nothing but an overlooked Jedi prodigy they never took into consideration. But she had no time to recall such memories because she knew that someone had to be here, it just couldn't possibly be empty they had no idea what she was planning! Could they have all gone to Dagobah to protect it against her Star Destroyers? No that was impossible because she didn't' register any ships leaving this system in the past 48 hours.

Walking towards the entrance of the main hall at the Academy she burst through the doors in a rage and glared into the huge room where she saw that it was completely empty.

'No, this can't be.' Jaden said under her breath quickly walking into the middle of the room. In a fit of anger she yelled angrily at herself before hearing someone yelling and the sound of gunfire outside the room. Could it be that the Jedi had actually set a trap for her and now they were going to try and kill her? They could try Jaden thought to herself as she quickly called the commlink for her Star Destroyer. 'Send down the clones now I suspect that some of the Jedi might be hiding in the jungle for a surprise attack.'

'Do we continue with the plan Lord and kill the civilian soldiers as well?' Someone replied on the comm.

'Not at the moment.' Jaden paused as the she heard the gunfire stop, they couldn't have killed all her civilians soldiers yet could they? 'Come get me then you cowards I'm not afraid of you!' Jaden yelled looking around the room waiting for the Jedi to suddenly appear and attack her but when no one did she was surprised. What was going on!?

'I'm not afraid of you either Jaden.' That voice Jaden thought to herself as she spun around towards the door. It couldn't be…it was Wyr standing at the door looking at her.