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Chapter 20: Preparing Plans
Mark is sitting in his quarters waiting for his Padawan to return from his meditation when he hears the door open. Yoda walks into the room and sits down on the couch besides him. "To talk to me you wanted." say Yoda as he looks up at Mark.
Mark did mention something to Obi-wan that he wanted to talk to Master Yoda about something. Mark look down at the elderly small, but powerful Grand Master of the Jedi Order. "Yes I do, Master Yoda. I have gather information that Vice Chancellor, Mas Amedda, was killed by Darth Vader in space above Kashyyyk. I have a feeling that it might be our only chance to get Leia and I do not want to make the same mistake. I was wondering you and some other want to join Obi-wan, Anakin, Rachelle and me to try to save her. I fear that Vader might have an army station there." say Mark.
Yoda rubs his chin a bit, as he looks around the room. He then looks at Mark. "Prepare the tea have you. Cup a tea during a visit, it nice to have." say Yoda looking at Mark. Mark raises an eyebrow at him as he crosses his arms. Yoda knows full well that Mark does not like tea. He never did like, not even the kind that most people on Bakura makes and like. Simply put he is not a tea person.
"Sorry, I do not have any tea." say Mark. Yoda smiles at this. "Seriously, Master Yoda I really need your answer to this. It will be helpful if you come since you are such good friends with the Wookiees. Knowing Vader he is going to hurt them somehow if he has to." say Mark.
"Peaceful but powerful creatures, Wookiees are. Great company too, are they. What Vader possible wants with them I see not. If endanger as you say they are, they then go and protect them and save Leia, we must. Sure that they will help us to save her I am." say Yoda as he looks at Mark.
Mark smiles as he felt relief washes over him as he knows that they could have greater chance of saving Leia with more help. Mark got up from his seat to grab 2 glasses of water and full them up out of the sink. He hands one of the cups to Yoda before he sits down. Yoda takes a sip of the drink.
Yoda sits there dangling his small feet over the edge of the couch as he was thinking of something. He then looks at Mark. "Along with us on our mission, who should come?" ask Yoda before taking another sip of water.
Mark puts his glass down on the coffee table and stretches out before he looks back at Yoda. Whom to take; now that is a good question? He has a basic idea of who he wants to take, but he really wants Master Yoda input on that idea. "Like I already state, Rachelle, Obi-wan, Anakin and you are coming along. I was thinking maybe Mace and maybe Master Kota. Master Kota I am bit confuse on that matter because I do not know if he would want to work with the Clones." say Mark putting his feet on the coffee table.
Yoda looks at Mark with a questioning look on his face. "Wise to take your young Padawan along on this mission, is it? Dangerous for a Padawan, this mission could be." say Yoda. "I have faith in her abilities. I have been training her since 20 BBY and she have learned a lot in that time. Besides facing Vader, I think she will be fine." say Mark.
"Young Rachelle, how good is?" ask Yoda. "She is good, Lightsaber wise she could stand up to me for a bit. Her connection with the Force is much better. Like I say, I think she could be ready becoming a Knight." say Mark.
"Ready for the trials, you think Rachelle is, hmm? Something the council has to think upon, this is." say Yoda. "Trust me Yoda, Rachelle is ready, there hardly anything else that I could teach or train her to be better. She is ready to learn things on her on. You have to admit, she have came a long way from when I first meet her." say Mark.
"To agree with you, that I do have. Improved greatly under your teachings, she have." say Yoda as he looks to the door that leads out in the hall. Rachelle walks into the room the next second.
"Master, I talk with some of the Clones and they are getting ready to head to Kashyyyk…. Oh hi, Master Yoda, how are you?" say Rachelle. She did not know Yoda was in the room until she was halfway through talking to her mentor. "Good morning Rachelle. Doing fine, am I." say Yoda.
Rachelle was surprise to see Yoda in the quarters. Yoda have never personally visits anyone quarters, that she knows of. To be honest it feels like an honor to have him in the quarters she has called home from the past 5 years.
"That great news, Rachelle. I was just talking to Master Yoda about our mission we are going on to Kashyyyk." say Mark. "But you got sidetracked and talk about me being ready for my trials." say Rachelle. Yoda eyes widen when he hears this. He was stun not a lot of people could sense what Mark was thinking like she just did. Even he has a hard time doing so.
"Sometimes she can sense what is on my mind. See how good she has become with the Force." say Mark as he looks over the back of the couch where Rachelle was standing. Rachelle cannot help but to feel very happy about the complement that her mentor just said to her. She walks to the kitchen to get something to drink to avoid showing her mentor and Master Yoda that she is blushing. She also is making sure that she protected her mind so they will not get a hint of the blushing and how she feels through the Force.
"More powerful, she is, then first thought, we have." say Yoda sensing Rachelle's presence through the Force. Yoda then turn to Mark with a smile. "Always the one who can teach the impossible, you were. Faith in your teaching abilities to teach Rachelle, I had, and right, turns out I was." say Yoda as he gets up after he finishes off his water. Yoda walks out of the room as he waves to Mark.
"Wait did he just insulted me?" ask Rachelle crossing her arms. "Nah, he was complementing me. I guess the Mark of this universe was as great of a teacher as I am. See back in my universe, I had to take on some Padawans that others would not train because of how difficult they would be." say Mark. "So I was difficult?" ask Rachelle.
Mark memory flashes back when it was the first day he meet Rachelle back in 20 BBY. Her current mentor at the time a Zabrak Jedi storm out of the room and begs Mace Windu to give Rachelle to another Jedi. Which that other Jedi, later turned out to be him.
He remembers how she thought with him being a Jedi Master that he was joking about taking her under his wing and she challenge his skilled, which he proved to her that he was not lying. He had outmaneuvered her bunch of times and she only caught him surprise once. Now standing behind the couch is a different Rachelle Hunter that he first met during his first day at the Jedi Temple in this universe.
As his thoughts filter this through his mind, he remembers when he learned about her being from Corellia. He has experience with Corellian before and they can be hard to get along with sometimes. It seems like that Rachelle is able to suppress those traits and way of thinking a bit.
"You have to admit you went through two mentors before getting me. The first one does not count since she died. Total you had 4 mentors trained you. I think that qualifies you to be a difficult Padawan." say Mark. Rachelle laughs as she sits down on the couch next to Mark. "Gotta make life fun somehow." say Rachelle with a smile on her face.
Mark laughs slightly as he shakes his head at his Padawan's antics. Then his smile faded and a look of seriousness appears on his face. "So how many Clones are coming with us?" ask Mark. "Currently, Padme arrange 2 Attack Cruisers of each the 501st Legion and the 3rd Legion. When we get report from Amelia about if there is an army, she may boost it up to 5 of each." say Rachelle as she looks at her mentor.
Each Attack Cruiser could fit 2000 troops in it; if there is no army, they will have 8,000 troops together. If there is an army, there will be 20,000 troops. "That seems like a lot of people." say Mark as he finishes doing the math in his head. "If all them are like Maxus Zane, then we might need them. Plus, think about if, Darth Vader, Darth Destria and other Dark Jedi is there we might need a lot more people. Also we will need forces up in the air and space too just in case." say Rachelle.
Mark look up at Rachelle. "Good reasoning. That is good, have protection on the ground, air and space. You cover all sides that you will need. Still do not forget that Jedi are not warriors, they are peacekeepers and sometimes being peacekeepers means they have to fight. This knowledge is good to have just in case, but there are more ways then using a violence to solve a problem." say Mark as he waves his index finger at Rachelle.
"Maaster I know!" say Rachelle dragging out his title. "Good, never lose that focus. When you start to crave for battle and violence that is a very bad sign." say Mark with a slight smile on his face when he looks at Rachelle's narrow eyes a bit. "I know." say Rachelle lightly as she looks at her mentor. She knows for well that he knows that she knows about everything he is saying to her. The means, in her eyes, that he is just refreshing her memories like he have been doing for the past 5 years.
"Just remember what I teach you and advance upon those teachings. You might be soon becoming a Jedi Knight if you pass your trials. Just because you are a Knight does not mean you can stop learning." say Mark. Rachelle nods to this, her mentor approves that she could become a Knight very soon.
Darth Vader launches Force Lightning at Leia as she is being torture by a torture droid. The 4-year-old girl screams pierce through the halls of the ship. Her tortured screams have become a common thing to hear aboard the ship, recently.
Darth Vader then lifted her up into the air in a tight grip of the Force. "I am getting sick and tired of these games. You care so much about your family then you will have the pleasure of watching them die. Maybe I will start with your "Uncle" Mark, we do have some unsettle business to settle." say Darth Vader as he fights the urge just to kill the girl that have been defying him since she got aboard the ship.
"Uncle Mark will make you pay!" say Leia weakly. "We will see, after I kill your family, if you still do not join, I will kill you." say Darth Vader as he slams Leia down hard onto the ground with the Force. "Put the torture droid on high, if she shows signs of dying, then stop. I do not want her dead." say Darth Vader to a female who looks heartbroken as she watches the little girl being torture.
"Sir no disrespect but she is a little girl." say the female. A red plasma blade appears through her back. Darth's Vader's Lightsaber have pierced her heart and kills her instantly. Darth Vader swings the sword upwards, cutting the dead female neck and head in half.
Her body falls down to the side. "Anyone else wishes to defy me. You dispose of this body and put the torture droid on high." say Darth Vader pointing at a girl who looks like the human female he just stabs. "Yes sir." say the girl.
Darth Vader holds his activated Lightsaber in front of the visor of his mask. He stares at the plasma blade for a few second, picturing killing Master Zane with it. Darth Vader flicks the Lightsaber forward and deactivates it.
Darth Vader walks pass the crew who was watching the girl being torture and the death of one of their members. They know wisely to not defy the Dark Lord of the Sith, because it could be the last thing they ever do. They value there life to much to cross the Sith.
Darth Vader walks to the lift the leads to his throne room. Once inside his throne room he put his hands together. After all the trouble Leia Skywalker put him through he really wants to kill her. No longer does he wants to train her. Little Leia Skywalker have one last usefulness in her useless life to him. It might be the way to force Chancellor Skywalker to hand him the power to the Galactic Republic. As he stated before, and will do often she will be a fool to not to take. Leia last defiance to him will be her last.
He can pictures his easy win over the pathetically weak Galactic Republic and all he had to be manipulate people weakness to get. He manipulated the Vice Chancellor by threatening revealing his dark secrets and later helping him getting the women of his dreams, manipulate both the Bakuran Prime Minister and Bakuran General by threaten to eliminate their families, which he did in the end. Now only one last manipulation to do, to manipulate the Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic by her love for her pathetic daughter who does not have enough brains to see when a great offer is given to her.
All the manipulations have gotten the Republic on alert now, since the Chancellor has told them all about the stations that will bring order to the Outer Rims. How wrong were them? There will be no one but him to bring the galaxy into order and his order will be his way and anyone who does not agree with his way will perish.
Soon the Republic will be no more and so will Master Zane. As soon as the Galactic Republic is gone and Master Zane is gone, there will be no one to be able to stop him. Not even the Chosen One will have guts to finish him off, because he will use the weakness of his pathetic love for Chancellor Skywalker and kill him.