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Chapter Seven
Geonosis

The Marauder banked silently through the atmosphere of Geonosis. Despite reassurances that Shmii was going to survive, the reunion between Anakin and his mother was a difficult one. Ginny was not sure she wanted to leave Tatooine with Anakin in the fragile emotional state that he was in, but after she had explained the growing situation on Geonosis, both Padme and Anakin were adamant about going with her to help.

Ginny had left Padme to comfort to Anakin for the trip, knowing that the Naboo senator would be good for the young man. She gave them plenty of privacy during the trip, but was still able to overhear Anakin talking about a kiss they shared on Naboo and how he was tormenting himself over it, whether or not it was the right thing. Apparently, Anakin had laid his cards out on the table regarding his feelings for her, and Padme was still denying that there was something between them. Ginny decided that once they were done on Geonosis, she would work on convincing Padme that Anakin was no longer a little boy from Tatooine.

"We're here!" Ginny called out from the cockpit, effectively interrupting their conversation.

Both Anakin and Padme entered the cockpit and if there had been anything going on, both were able to conceal it from Ginny. Deciding that she would not bring it up, Ginny acted like everything was normal and saw the two droids that were no accompanying them enter the cockpit as well. R2-D2, Padme's favorite droid and the bi-ped protocol droid C3P0, a gift from Shmii to Anakin since he had been the creator of the droid and out on the farm, a protocol droid was not very useful. Ginny had been amused with the protocol droid at first, as it seemed to bubble with nothing but complaints regarding its situation and how hopeless everything was, but as the trip through space had ended, she had grown annoyed with its endless prattling about how things 'should be done'.

"Can you still sense them?" Padme asked.

Ginny nodded, "They're alive. Captured, but alive. I'll set us down near their ships."

"How's that invisibility booster holding?" Anakin asked.

A modification Ginny had added to their ship was an invisibility charm hardwired into the ship, something she remembered her father had done to the first car they had owned. The second mod was for the fuel cells to never run dry, saving the Potters the need for refueling, "It's holding, and we haven't been detected."

She guided the ship on a round about course before eventually spotting the two fighters. There was not enough space for them to land there, but Ginny spotted a lot of steam billowing out of a vent where she sensed also was home to a landing platform.

Letting the Force guide the ship, she set down and they left the ship, ordering Artoo and 3PO to remain aboard, locking the ramp to prevent them from following regardless. Entering the only door at the platform, they had only gone twenty feet inside when the Geonosians attacked.

Anakin and Ginny dodged and sliced the bugged out aliens, while Padme drew her pistol, preferring to only fire if necessary. Ginny made sure Anakin and Padme moved away from the main force while she brought up the rear, stunning several of the bugs from a distance, but cutting down the few bold ones who got too close. It was not until they were deeper into the catacombs that they realized the path they chose was a dead end. That was until Anakin found a door which opened into a vast and open cavern with a production assembly area making battle droids.

Some of the bugs still followed, remaining cautious and outside the range of either lightsaber. She threw a couple more stunners at them, and finished with a reductor towards the ceiling, caving the tunnel, "Can't go back that way." she muttered and waited for first Anakin and then Padme to jump from the ledge.

Ginny landed last, cushioning the ten meter jump and realized that with the conveyor belt working, they were now cut off from each other. Pulling both weapons out again, she put down a couple more bugs and spotted Anakin, "Stay with Padme, Skywalker!"

Two more bugs came too close and she hit one with a bone breaking curse and the other was banished into a piece of machinery. Two more swooped towards her, firing their sonic weapons at her, forcing her to raise a shield and jump away from the danger. More came towards her, firing to keep her engaged while others went for Anakin. That was when Ginny realized that Padme had been tossed from the conveyor by a bug. Conjuring a coil of ropes, she tied the creature to the conveyor belt, leaving it to get crushed by a metal cutter.

Spotting the fallen Senator, Ginny levitated her friend from the container that was en route to be filled with molten metal, "You all right?"

Padme nodded, "Yeah, thanks."

"Where's Anakin?" Ginny looked around for her padawan while shooting a pair of spells at one of the more evasive bugs flying near them.
The other woman shrugged and frowned as they heard the rolling of multiple destroyer droids, "Get behind me!" Ginny shouted.

Padme could only comply as she had been disarmed from the fall after the bug had tackled her. Ginny shot a handful of spells, bludgeoning hexes mostly and was rewarded with two explosions before the rest were able to raise their shields, though four others managed to aim directly at them with more than a dozen bugs flying above. An armored soldier, that Ginny recognized, dropped in front of them and drew a pistol, "It'd be best if you surrendered, Jedi."

Anakin was already being escorted towards them, a crushed lightsaber in the hand of one of the battle droids. Ginny frowned and spun her disengaged lightsaber towards the bounty hunter, "Jango Fett?"

"Yeah."

"Harry mentioned you earlier from Kamino."

"Kamino? Never heard of it." he answered as he stepped forward to take their weapons. He saw Ginny with her wand and conveniently ignored the action of her tucking it up her sleeve, "You must have me confused for somebody else."

"I guess so," Ginny shrugged her shoulders, acknowledging the oversight on his part with a brief nod.

x x x

"You stand trial against the Confederacy of Independent Systems, Senator. You're being charged with attempted sabotage. I'd be able to listen to your plea except your planet isn't recognized by our government." Count Dooku explained, "Of course there are others interested in seeing you dead anyway, along with you, Master Potter."

Ginny glared at Dooku and spat on the ground, "You have no authority to hold us. We are of the Republic and..."

"We are not of the Republic." Dooku answered, "Now, tomorrow, you three shall be executed for crimes against the Trade Federation and the Confederacy. Have you anything else to say?"

"How does it feel to be the apprentice again, Dooku? I mean, you used to be a Jedi Master, but now you're just a Sith Apprentice." Ginny laughed, "Pathetic."

Dooku fumed at the redheaded witch, "I serve no one you impudent little whelp."

Ginny scoffed and turned her head to Anakin, "He's a little mad right now. Guess the truth hurts, right, Dooku?"

He raised a hand and unleashed a torrent of lightning but she was ready and wandlessly raised a shield that reflected the storm of energy back at him. Dooku dodged his own lightning and then glared at Ginny, except this time, he had fear behind them, "Take them to the Arena holding cells! Your execution is immediate!"

Ginny shrugged, "Good, I hate long waits. It's probably also where Harry and Kenobi are. You ready to get out of here, Anakin?"

"I don't know, Master. I was beginning to enjoy myself here."

Padme snorted, "Let's find Harry and Obi-wan first."

"Yeah, though I'm surprised Harry didn't break out yet." Ginny frowned. The conversation continued as their guards led them through the various tunnels from the courtroom until they arrived at the entrance of what appeared to be a very large arena. Daylight was pouring in from it and Padme fell unnaturally silent from their bantering, "Anakin?"

"Yes, Padme?"

"I lied."

"What?"

"About us. I didn't want to admit it, but you've become too important for me to be without."

"What if we will have to hide our relationship?" Anakin's heart was pounding from how close she was to himself.

She leaned in closer, "Whatever it takes for us to be together." Padme smiled timidly at the man she had come to depend on. He was starting to lean towards her as well and as Ginny smiled at them from behind. Their lips met and even though they were cuffed, they were able to fuel the kiss with a passion Ginny recognized as something only two who are in love were able to do.

They jerked apart when the driver of their cart whipped the beast pulling it and Ginny grinned, "All right you two, we can have to the wedding later. And look, we found Harry and Kenobi."

Both looked up and saw the two captured Jedi chained to a large pillar of rock, their hands above their heads, bound in a similar fashion to the three approaching, "Ginny! I was wondering if you'd show up."

"You knew I wouldn't let you start this without me, right?" Ginny chuckled.

"You owe me twenty credits, Kenobi." Harry grinned at his friend.

"Damn it!" Obi-wan frowned, "Anakin, I thought you'd be more level headed than the other two and would keep them from coming! Especially since you were supposed to be protecting Padme." he muttered, though they all heard him.
"Oh you know, Master, once Master Potter gets something in her head there's nothing to stop her." Anakin quipped, "And besides, Padme wanted to rescue you and I was forced to stay with her to keep her safe."
"Technicalities, I'm sure." Obi-wan frowned, "And good job on keeping her safe."

"You're just mad about the twenty credits." Harry laughed as the last of them was shackled to the pillars.

"Oh, Harry! Guess what?" Ginny smiled at her husband, oblivious to the chains being shackled to the pillar above her head, and shot a glance over at Padme and Anakin.

"Yeah?"

"It happened!"

Harry broke into a brilliant grin and glanced down to where Anakin was working on his shakles, "It's about bloody time!"
"Are you two done yet?" Obi-wan frowned as three arena doors opened and three large imported beasts exited into the daylight, "I hope you guys can bring a little magic to the table, cause being out of these cuffs would really help."

"Alohamora!" both Harry and Ginny unlocked their chains within seconds and moved to help Ob-wan, "Alohamora. It's amazing how easy things are when they don't know magic."

Harry and Obi-wan turned in time to see the giant Akalay raise up to attack them. Obi-wan jumped away while Harry apparated behind it before he drew his wand, "Stupefy!"

The stunner struck the beast and it collapsed, unconscious. Harry saw the smaller of the creatures going after Padme and Anakin, and was about to hit it with another stunner when a reductor slammed into its head with an explosion of gore. Ginny and Harry turned to the final beast and fired several stunners at it while it continued to charge. Unfortunately, its hide appeared to be thicker than the others and they were forced to apparate out of its path, seconds before it collided with one of the stone pillar, knocking it over. Ginny appeared behind it and fired two cutters and a bludgeoning hex at it.

All three landed and the beast roared in rage, a light trickle of blood forming where the hexes had hit. It turned towards Ginny and charged again, before Harry appeared next to her, "Sectumsempra!" The spell landed and it shied away from its charge. A second later, a coil of chains wrapped itself around its legs and the beast was brought down to its knees. Harry was about to address Dooku, the man having watched the defeat of his planned executions, but saw ten destroyer droids enter the arena, herding the Jedi and Senator into a city. Harry, Ginny and Anakin started throwing curses at the droids, scrapping four of them before the other six were able to get their shields online and open fire.

"Protego Maximum!" Harry's shield encompassed them all and the lasers were reflected away. While Harry held the shield, Ginny levitated one of the droids and banished it into another, both taking a reductor that crippled a third in the explosion. Anakin fired a high powered reductor into another, the power behind the curse overloaded its shields and sliced the droids head off before the final two were easily banished into the arena walls fifty meters away.

With the lats of the threats gone, Harry carefully lowered his shield, "Looks like we won, Dooku. Doesn't that mean we get a pardon?"

"What makes you think you won?" Dooku laughed, but the Jedi could sense his fear. They had just taken down a force that would have killed any Jedi of the Order and Dooku realized that he might have to get involved in dealing with this group personally. His thoughts were disrupted however, as a lightsaber ignited from behind him. As calmly as possible, he turned to see the purple blade of a former friend, "Master Windu, welcome."

"This party's over, Dooku." the Jedi was holding the blade against the throat of the bounty hunter.

"I think not my old friend." Dooku smiled as nearly a dozen Super Battle Droids appeared from behind and began to fire at the Jedi. Mace spun around, deflecting several of the lasers before having to jump away from a stream of flame from Jango.

Battle droids were marching into the arena by the hundreds as Jedi appeared within the crowds, engaging their lightsabers and prepared for battle. Unfortunately, the numbers of the Order were quickly outnumbered.

Ginny began firing spell after spell into the droid ranks, but her spells were barely having any affect as the destroyed droids were easily replaced by several more each time. Deciding to get a little more complex, she conjured vines in middle of a droid formation closest to her and within seconds the droids were ensnared and crushed. She spotted Harry with his back against Obi-wan, both having gotten lightsabers again and were engaged with several squads of droids.

She ran over to Harry, banishing a pair of droids into a Super Battle Droid and fired off two cutters through its armor, it collapsed in two pieces. A Geonosian turret was being set up and opened fire at arena, hitting five Jedi with the blast. She vanished from her position and reappeared with a crack, before she sliced the gunner in half with a newly acquired lightsaber, and followed that with four cutters into the turrest, effectively destroying it. From her position, she realized the Jedi would soon be overwhelmed as more droids poured out of the tunnels. Ten droids flew threw the air with a single banisher from Harry and Ginny remembered back to Tatooine with the Tuskans. With a quick incantation and a tap to the stone wall, she created a stone golem and released it against the Droids.

Several Jedi recognized the golem, having see Ginny conjure it before in a demonstration, and rallied around the twenty foot stone creature as it lumbered into the battle. A Super Battle Droid unleashed a rocket at the living stone, but it barely made a dent as the golem crushed rank after rank of the droids. Using the distraction, Ginny disapperated and appeared behind Dooku. Jango was about to fire at her, but she conjured a thick rope and as he was tied up, she banished him against a wall and applied a sticking charm to the ropes.

Dooku ignited his lightsaber and attack Ginny, but she had just enough time to dodge the red blade, and spot her own lightsaber, "Accio lightsaber!"

From the Dark Jedi's belt, Ginny's custom lightsaber sailed into her hand and ignited, while she jumped back from another swipe of the Sith, "Expelleramus!" her spell hit Dooku and sent him towards the edge, his weapon flying through the air and over to Ginny who banished the weapon from the platform. She turned to demand his surrender but was caught by a burst of lightning. Ginny yelled from the power and was tossed off the ledge by the Sith.

From below, Harry felt her pain and watched as Ginny began to fall. He summoned her and the falling witch was caught in his arms a second before a laser struck him in the shoulder with a laser bolt. Ginny was unconscious from the lightning and without her directing it, the stone golem keeping the majority of the droids back, crumpled lifeless in middle of the arena. The tide turned as the wounded Potters were moved behind the rocks by Padme, Anakin and Obi-wan. Jedi continued to fall as the countless droids continued their assault and by the time the Jedi were surrounded completely and the droids ceased their fire, barely thirty were left.

"A battle well fought, Master Windu." Dooku announced, his voice a little shaken from the fight with Ginny, "Worthy of recognition in the archives of the Jedi Order. But it was not enough. Surrender now, and your lives will be spared."

"We will not be hostages to be bartered with Dooku." Mace answered, though he agreed that the situation was looking grim.

Harry was hovering over Ginny, having muttered the few healing spells that he knew for his shoulder as well as his wife. She was in shock from the lightning, but would recover quickly, once the battle was over and she could see a real healer. Padme was beside her friend, tending the few visible wounds with several bandages Harry conjured for her, "She'll be fine, Harry. She's strong." Padme handed Harry both Ginny's wand and lightsaber.

"I know, it was just a shock to see her fall like that..." he looked up, "Help's arrived!"

A second later, a dozen transports flew down, opening fire into the droids and turning them into scrap metal. Harry carefully lifted Ginny over his shoulder and followed Padme, Anakin and Obi-wan onto a transport. They lifted off with the guns blazing into the broken ranks of the Federation.

"Do we have a casualty point?" Harry shouted to the pilot.

"Yes, sir. It's by the Command point."

"Set down there!" Harry ordered and then turned to Obi-wan, "Once Ginny and I will get off, go find Dooku and get him before he escapes!"

Obi-wan nodded, "We'll stay in the air and try to spot him."

They crested a plateau and gaped at the array of clones setting up in the assembly area opposite to an equal army of droids on the other side of the battlefield. Anti-air guns were already firing at the clones trying to land and they watched one of the transports near them take a hit and explode. Their pilot landed next to a command module where Yoda and Mace were getting out.

"Good to see you, Master Yoda!" Harry shouted as he carried Ginny from the ship, which immediately took off.

"Your war to fight in, has arrive, Master Potter." Yoda looked at Ginny, "Injured by Dooku, she was?"

"Caught her with some lightning. Where's a medic?" Harry looked around.

A pair of clones rushed over to help, "Follow us, sir."

Harry followed and dropped Ginny off, running off to find Yoda again, "Orders?"

"A squad of Commando's, assigned to you they are." Yoda pointed to a handful of clones, "Others will join you, at the Droid refinery you go. Destroy it, we must."

"Got it!" Harry looked to the clones, "Let's get a transport!"

They were quickly lifted into the fighting and Harry was impressed with the pilot's skill as he set them down near the doors of a Droid facility in the middle of an intense firefight. Harry had his wand and lightsaber and erected a temporary shield to get his men off the ship.

He followed while launching a series of redactor curses at the fortified enemy. Parts went flying and the Commandos pushed closer to their primary objective. Harry's spells had little trouble with keeping the droids back, though Harry saw three of his men fall before they reached the doors, "Get this door open! I'll cover!"

The commando with the det packs ran forward, Harry throwing up a reflective shield over the man as several droids mounted a counter attack. Once the clone had finished he hurried back, "Didn't know the Jedi could do that, sir."

Harry grinned, "I'm not just a Jedi, I'm a wizard."

A little confused with the difference, the man triggered the detonator and the explosion ripped through the door. Droids flooded from the breach, firing wildly at the clones as dust enveloped both sides. Harry ignited his lightsaber again and stood out in front, deflecting the bolts back at the droids while his men fought back, hitting with a deadly accuracy and ending the counter attack very quick.

The Republic troops moved inside, and Harry's green lightsaber illuminated the path to guard against stray droids or attacking Geonosians. They still rarely got close enough for him to engage them as the Clones were very deadly with their weapons. Their march continued and they picked up a stranded trooper, part of a Commando unit that had been dispatched immediately to the facility but all had been lost. Several others of Harry's unit had been killed inside, but Harry fought back the idea that he was at fault, since the clones had been bred for this war, to fight and die for the Republic. He tried to reason with himself that it was better they were here instead of conscripts that had families to leave behind.

Harry also came to the conclusion that he and Ginny were put into the Galaxy for the sole purpose of fighting this war. These clones were more his brothers than most of the Jedi. They were who he would fight for, not the Republic.

With that in mind, he looked at the Commando's, "General, we found the reactor. Were getting the charges set now."

"Any word from command?"

The clone captain shook his head, "They're still jamming our signals. We'll have to destroy their jammers so we can detonate these in here anyway."

"Then lets find their jammers. Any of you here know what they look like?" Harry asked, unsure of the answer himself. His clones all shook their heads, "Then lets find the control room."

He pulled out his want and cast a notice-me-not ward over the area, "What was that, sir?"

"Can you find the charges?" Harry smiled and waited for the confused clone to look back, shaking his head, "I threw up a security measure so the Separatists wouldn't find the charges."

"Will it work on droids?"

Harry shrugged, "It works on astromechs and I think their intelligence is greater than a battle droid."

The clone agreed and Harry led them out of the reactor area. Their group wandered for an hour, fighting droids and the Geonosian bugs until their search brought them to the control room, several more clones were killed as the fighting thickened until it was only Harry and four others left.

"Wait here." Harry turned himself invisible and opened the door. Droids and the few Geonosians inside drew weapons but did not see any reason for the door opening. Unsure why the door opened, they returned to their tasks. Drawing both of his weapons, Harry attacked. He animated four of the chairs in the room to assault the droids and threw a mix of cutters and bludgeoners at the Geonosians while deflecting the random blaster shots back to their origins with his lightsaber. twenty seconds later, they were all destroyed and the chairs were back to normal, well, except the one that had been shredded with blaster fire. His commando team entered, still unable to see their General as he had not lifted the invisibility spell, and the captain whistled in admiration of the carnage.

Harry cancelled his charm, "That was fun. You guys know how to hack this? I guess I could have stunned one to do it for us, but I got a little carried away."

"You can do that, sir?" one of the clones asked, "Make us do stuff we don't want to do?"

Harry grimaced at the question, "I do know a curse that would give me control over another being, but on my home planet, it's considered one of three unforgivable curses."

"You'll have to show them to me when we get out." the clone answered and Harry could feel the curiosity and awe in regard to his own power.

"Very well, but the third one is the worst. It's a curse of pure hate and evil and I refuse to use it."

"But you used the others?"

Harry grinned intrigued by the clone's curiosity, "Yeah, in emergency situations only. I was being hunted at the time and I was barely seventeen."

"Got it!" the slicer at the comm console shouted, "Patching you through to command, sir."

"Master Yoda, this is Potter."

"Potter? This is Windu. Where are you?"

"I'm with a commando team inside a production facility. I'll transmit our coordinates for immediate extraction. What's the status out there?"

"The Separatists have retreated to space and Dooku escaped. Master Kenobi and Skywalker almost got him, but they're both down. Alive, but wounded."

"I can sense them." Harry nodded to the clone, "Transmitting our position. See you shortly."

"Then we won?" the clone asked.

"We still have to get out of here." the clone commander said, "Do we know the pickup site?"

"Yeah, follow me."

x x x

The transport landed easily near the medical tent. It was where Harry had ordered the pilot to take them since the surviving clones had minor blaster burns. Among their protests, Harry followed them inside and spotted his wife tending several of the badly injured Jedi brought in from the arena. She turned the second he entered and ran to him, "Harry!"

There was a very passionate kiss between the two before she pulled back and smacked him in the shoulder, "Don't even pretend you don't know what that was for!"

Harry cowed beneath his wife's glare and heard his team of clones snickering behind him as the petite redhead was making their Jedi General who had led them through hell, cringe, "You were unconscious, Gin. And they needed me!"

"Poor excuse, Harry. You could have easily woke me and healed me before you left. Instead, I wake up in this medical tent and find that you're gone and out of contact, Obi-wan and Anakin are chasing Dooku and Padme was missing!"

"She's missing?" Harry frowned as he looked around the tent.

"She was knocked off Anakin's transport while they were chasing Dooku. They were barely a couple meters off the ground and she was thrown into some dunes. I took a transport and extracted her, Kenobi and Skywalker in time as Yoda dueled Dooku."

"Do you know where I've been?" Harry motioned with a hand at the four men being treated, "These four are the only survivors from a droid refinery assault! These guys are commando's, Gin! Some of the elite of our clones. I'm tired and my men have injuries. Can we just forgo a fight this time?"

Ginny nodded and blew out a deep breath before softening her tone, "I felt so alone with you gone, Harry. I could feel fighting, the conflict as well as your pain with each clone dying. We might not be powerful Jedi, but we are connected through the Force. I'm sorry for their losses." She turned to the commandos, "Come on, you're injured and I used to be a healer."

Harry motioned for the clones to approach, "This is my wife, Ginny. She'll take care of you." he turned back to Ginny, "I'm going to find Obi-wan and Anakin and check on their status."

x x x

There were only four Jedi in the council chambers, Harry listening to the other three discussing the battle, "If it had not been for the clones, it wouldn't have been a victory."

"Victory?" Yoda asked, "Victory, you say? Not victory. The shroud of the dark side has fallen, begun Potter's war has."

Harry agreed, "Our future is hidden, Master Yoda. But out immediate path is shown. We must train our padawans to fight and strategize before allowing them on the front lines. They're young, and they're eager to fight. But we can't let them go without being prepared."

"You were right to warn us, Master Potter." Mace said, surprising the others, "We should have been more heeding to your warning."

"Wrong we were." Yoda said, "Arrogance blinds even the wisest of the council. Train our youth to be warriors we must. No longer keepers of the peace, the Jedi are."

Harry knew they were apologizing, "Perhaps a course of training with clone squads on Kamino will give our padawans and even the full fledge Jedi a taste of what to expect in the war. The way our advanced clones are trained, they believe even our youngest of students are leaders. If we remain stagnant, the clones will know more about fighting than their leaders. Only after finishing a course on Kamino should we let them join the war. It'll also help us determine where their talents are like fighting, intelligence gathering, healing or anything else.

"Wise advice you give, Master Potter." Yoda nodded, "Take ten padawans and their Masters to Kamino, I will. Learn our soldiers tactics, before going to battle."

"Who should we appoint as liaison for this training?" Obi-wan asked.

"My first choice would be Potter, or his wife..." Mace started.

"On the front they must be. Young Skywalker as well. The most experienced they are. When more trained Jedi there are, young Ginerva, my choice is."

Harry laughed, "I'd have made you tell her if you were keeping her from the front."

"Like that, I would not." Yoda chuckled.

"Where is your wife?"

"She and Anakin went back to Naboo. Once we're done here, I'm going to take the Marauder and meet her there." Harry said, looking from Mace and Kenobi, "You want to join us?"

Mace shook his head and Obi-wan hesitated, he had a feeling there was more to this than the Senator's safety, "Yeah, I think I'll go too."

Harry grinned, noticed that Obi-wan caught on that there was something else going to happen on Naboo, he just did not know that Anakin and Pamde were planning to get married once he had arrived. He thought he might warn the man, but where would the fun in that be.

x x x

Darth Sidious walked through the hanger with his apprentice, Darth Tyrannus. His war to end the Jedi had started, "The battle went according to plan, Tyrannus?"

"The Jedi were defeated until the Clones arrived, we killed nearly a hundred in the arena. Master Yoda arriving when he did was a minor inconvenience."

"Excellent news." Sidious laughed, "And the boy?"

"I was able to disable him, but he is a very powerful Jedi, my Master."

"I sense doubt in you. What is it?"

"The two who trained him, Master Potter and..."
"Yes, the Potters." Sidious nearly spat her name, "I'm unable to predict what their actions will be to our plans. We must keep them focused on the war. Begin a vicious campaign against the Republic. I don't want the female to remain on Coruscant and thwart our plans in the Senate."

"I wasn't aware the Jedi involved themselves with the Senate."

"She and the other Potter have been trained something more than what the Jedi teach. My spies have been unable to get close to either them or the boy."

"Skywalker will be turned, my Master. I sense his hate and the swirl of emotions in conflict against the Jedi Code."

"Yes. I sense it too." Sidious answered quietly, his mind whirling with plans in case the boy failed to live up to this expectations, "Return to the Separatists. Begin the campaign we have planned against the Republic. In three years, the Jedi will be spread out and betrayed by one of their own. I have foreseen it."

"As you wish, my Master."