They were just coming to the higher levels of Coruscant as they saw the sun of midday gleaming off of other shis around them. Shaak Ti blinked as her eyes adjusted to the brighter light. Plo Koon relaxed, moving around another speeder as he made his way back towards the Temple.

"That Clawdite we saw back in the nightclub..." Shaak Ti brought up, ending the long moments of silence. It wasn't a heavy one, but merely one where both were too distant from the current time to truly bring up anything. "If he disguised as Master Windu, then where is the real one?"

"Maybe still in the Temple." Plo answered. Then after another few seconds he asked, "Can you sense his presense? He is still with us."

"Yes. But I hope it is not the way I am uneasy about." She responded grimly.

Plo Koon chuckled through his mask. "If Master Windu was dead, I do not think we would feel his presence as strong as this."

"I guess you're right." She sighed. "But where could he have been hidden? It couldn't be likely that-"

The speeder suddenly lurched, smoke pluming from their engine! Plo gripped the controls firmly as as he looked down at the screen then back up. "It appears Master Windu's attacker doesn't want us to return to the Temple."

"We know his plans." Shaak Ti noted. "And as long as we do, we endanger his own mission. We cannot let him get the better of us."

"The engine's taken damage." Plo pointed out.

"Can you still get us back?"

"I think we'll hold out." He then sent the speeder on a hard left, narrowly avoiding another hit. "But we will need to loose him first."

Shaak Ti looked back, seeing the speeder behind them gaining as the driver swerved and passed others in the lane. Her eyes could barely see the blur of light from the next blast. It easily zipped past her head. With her lips pressed to a straight out frown, she turned back around in her seat. "It seems he will do anything to stop us."

"Then we'll have to loose him." Plo Koon told her as he dived downwards. It should have been suicide, if he hadn't righted their path last moment. Shaak Ti grasped the side of the speeder until her knuckles were white.

"Don't. Do that. Again." She told him firmly, though she was just barely managing to slow heart beat back to a reasonable level.

Another cling as a shot hit. In that moment, there was an explosion, the engine was gone! Shaak Ti didn't have time to think before Plo Koon grabbed her by the wrist. "Come on! Jump!" In the very second before the ship crshed into the wall of a building, they lept out. Shaak Ti could feel the heat of the explosion across her skin as she fell towards a platform.

When they landed, they landed hard. Plo rolled forward until he managed to stop himself, laying face down. Shaak trying to lessen the impact, hitting the platform on the balls of her feet before she fell forward and rolled crashed on the ground shoulder first. Her legs screamed on impact, proving that she hadn't obsorbed the blow of the fall as well as she hoped.

She laid on the ground for a few long moments as she tried to slow her thoughts down. First thing was first, check to see if Plo Koon was okay. As she pushed herself up, her shoulder bursted in agony, the bad landing had taken it's toll on her. She took a heavy breath as she looked to an unmoving Plo Koon meters away.

"Master Koon...? Plo? Can you hear me...?" She called, her voice failing to be as clear as she'd of liked.

The other stirred, and relief made it's way to her. She pushed forward with her good arm as she tried to get up beside him. And when she was closer, she could hear him breathing through his mask. She knew that he had to shout in order to get his voice through it, so the fact she could hear him breathing wasn't a good sign.

"Plo? Plo! Please wake up!" She shook his shoulder, hoping to get him to come to. She then noticed something, the goggles he was always wearing were gone.

Plo Koon groaned. "I can't see..."

"I'm right here." She assured. Then looked back, his goggles were on the ground. She reached out with the force, making them fly straight into her hand before she handed them to Plo Koon. "Here. I think you might need these."

"Thank you." He answered quietly as he put the goggles back in place. She could assume he blinked behind them. "Are you alright?"

"I'll live." She answered. "And you?"

"Nothing too horrible." He replied. "Can you still walk?"

"I think so."

"Then we will have to hurry. Before that changeling catches-."

"Looking for me?"

"Up..."

They both looked up to see the Clawdite standing over them. He laughed. "Two Jedi. It must be my lucky day. I know where I can make a good profit off of you. But first, I'll see if I can't get you both to help with my plan. You're coming with me." He then grabbed proceeded to handcuff them and throw them into the back of his speeder. Shaak Ti looked down, they could have made it. And they should have. This failure was probably the worse thing that could happen.