With a quiet sighed he rubbed his face. How would he escape this deathtrap of a building? He almost was caught. Twice! That's too many close calls for a person like him. He needed out of this place. And now!
That was when he saw a well built, dark skinned Jedi pass. He had an idea.
With care, he snuck up from behind and turned on another device in his pocket. One end lit up with electricity, and he smirked before forcing it into the back of the man's neck. He slapped a hand over his mouth to suppress his scream before his victim slumped against his hold. He was out cold.
It didn't take him more than a couple minutes to take his shape and change clothes and hide him inside a closet. He was also sure to lock the door as well. He didn't need him wandering about while he was still here after all.
It was easy to walk through. Some gave him respectful nods, not suspecting a thing. But it begun to change as quickly as he shapeshifted. A Kel Dor brushed past, but greeted him in a calm voice through a black mask.
"Master Windu, it's good to see you. Is the meeting still on? The Council Room is the other way."
He froze midstep and turned to face him. "No. It has been... postponed until later. I have other business to attend to."
The Kel Dor was unconvinced. "But you yourself said that this meeting was sustanial. What could have come up for you to postpone it?"
Clearly this wasn't the owner of the disguise's nature. "I... must meet with someone. I will be back soon." He then turned and picked up his pace a little in order to make some distance.
Plo Koon watched a suspitious behaving Master Windu leave in a hurry. He then pushed up his breathing mask and shook his head. "I will get to the bottom of this." He then looked around for another Council member, not wanting to let this situation leak out. Of course the closest was Master Shaak Ti.
She stared at him through black eyes, "I don't know. It's none of our business what Mace does in this situation."
"But he wasn't himself." Plo Koon pointed out again. "I think we must follow him and see where he is going."
Shaak Ti sighed, looking at the floor a moment before nodding. "Okay. I will follow. But what if Master Windu isn't doing anything suspitious? How do we explain our spying?"
"Leave that to me." Plo told her. Now if he could he'd be casting a simple smile. "Now we must hurry so we do not loose him." Then he sprinted down the hallways in the direction Master Windu had gone. Shaak Ti was right on his heels. They then stopped as they saw Mace walk out of the Temple. Where could he be going outside that was so urgent?
The two hurried out and begun to follow Master Windu as he walked across the platform, straight towards a speeder that niether ever recalled him owning. Actually, they didn't think that they saw that particular one before. Windu hopped inside and took off, diving into the lower levels. As soon as this happened, Plo took another speeder and Shaak climbed in after him. He was quick to track the Jedi Master down.
They soon found the speeder left outside a club. It didn't make sense. Master Windu was always opposed to the lower levels and nightclubs. But maybe he was meeting someone. It wasn't like he was going to talk with the Jedis' long time friend Didi, they would have followed him to that man's cafe if that was it. No, this was something completely different.
"Do you sense him?" Plo Koon asked lowly as he landed the speeder.
Shaak Ti shook her head. "No. I did not sense him to begin with. He wasn't him. Something else."
"A changeling prohaps?" He guessed.
"Possibly." She agreed.
"Then we must be causious. We don't know if it changed form."
With that said, the two left the speeder and entered the club. Through the lights and many creatures inside, few were sitting down. That's what helped. Plo was about to ask if Shaak Ti saw him anywhere when she pointed discreitly to a table in the back corner. Out of most people's view.
There sat a cloaked figure, as well as a male Clawdite. There was their target. They drew in a little closer and focused on what they were saying.
"I need you to take on this one's shape, I don't care how you do it. You can choose whether to kill him or not, but make sure he does not interfer should he live." The cloaked person said. Her voice gave away of a woman.
"No problem." The Clawdite replied. Reaching for the datapad on the table. "Another Jedi?"
"Yes. Another Jedi." She answered. "He is close to our target, and with his voice and 'guidance' it should be easier a task to convince him should his apprentice be telling him so."
"I see your logic. But this one is only an apprentice. What possible affect could he have on his Master?"
"If you do not think that it is good take his shape, then I could find the remains of his Master so you can use that." She told him lowly.
"Remains?"
"Ashes. He was cremated when he died." She explained. "If I'm right, then the ashes should be in the Temple. Either way you must break in again and take another shape."
"I don't know if I can take a shape from ashes." The Clawdite sighed. "I need to see what it is that I'm forming into. I'll go after the apprentice. And come back to you."
"Good. Make it appear that Skywalker is missing, and you will speak through the comm to the microb as if you are reaching out to him through the force for help. That poor fool won't know the difference." She explained.
"It should be easy." The Clawdite smirked.
With this, Plo and Shaak left. On their way towards the Temple again. They needed to find Mace, and they needed to warn Anakin and Obi-Wan. They didn't say a word until they were back in their speeder.
"You were right. I should have trusted your word more." Shaak Ti admitted.
Plo Koon shrugged as he kept looking forward. "You didn't think Master Windu would do such. And you were right. I did not look deeper than what I saw, and assumed that he was the real one. If the situation were different, and the information was not important nor a threat, it would have been foolish for us to have followed this intruder."
"But it is both." Shaak Ti added. "And if you listened to me then we would have never known of the threat to come to Master Kenobi. It was your suspition of him that led us to this knowlodge."
"Then I supose we both have slight fault in how we reacted towards the situation. I thought that Master Windu would be something else, a traitor maybe. You did not want to follow to see the truth. But we both have some good in it as well. If I hadn't convinced you then we wouldn't have followed. But you knew that Master Windu wouldn't do such, and you looked to find it wasn't his presence when I didn't bother to check."
"Agreed. There is still much we could still learn." Shaak Ti sighed. Then a smile came. "No one can be perfect, not even a Master. The more we know, the less it is we understand about the universe. But we must prepare for surprises so that we do not fall when they arrise. But at the same time, we should not burden ourselves with fear and suspition."
"Wise words." Plo remarked. "If only more would follow by them."
I'm stopping here. Just because I can't think of a better way to conclude this chapter. Now we can find out what is yet to come next time in this fic!