Supreme Chancellor's Office,

Executive Building,

Senate District.

"That's the second ship to leave the temple Mas, what's going on ?" queried Supreme Chancellor Palpatine who was also Darth Sidious. Palpatine has always stayed one step ahead of the Jedi and its allies by always keeping a close eye on them, both physically and through the Force. To Palpatine, information was power, and the lack of it in this developing situation greatly worried Palpatine. Somehow, the Jedi were managing to act discreet this time. Something that unnerved the Dark Lord.

"According to the flight plans filed by the Temple," informed Mas Ameeda while looking down at his datapad, "the two departing transports are departing to separate locations. Both of them are locations associated with the Jedi Order. The first transport headed to the Jedi training facility on Bogden, while the second one is heading to another facility on Kamparas."

Palpatine closed his eyes to try and sense what the were Jedi was up to. Instead of getting a clear answer like he used to in the past, Palpatine only got fragmented images that meant nothing to him without context. This infuriated the Dark Lord. I have worked too hard and too long to be undermined now, thought Palpatine to himself as he stared out his office's window.

Sate Pastage recognised the look that was on Palpatine's face. It was a rare look that Palpatine only showed in private and away from the prying eyes of the public. "Do you wish to implement the next phase of plan my lord ?"

"No, no. We must be patient and wait for the Jedi to play their hand," replied Palpatine to his Chief of Staff.

"But my lord, if the Jedi already know of our plan, we should act now," expressed Sate to his dark master.

"Do not worry Mas, I have a secret weapon that would soon come into my ownership," answered Palpatine. "But in the mean time, send my spies to those two locations and inform me when they reach."

"Yes my lord."

Palpatine turned his attention back to the Coruscant skyline. Soon it will all be mine.

Nar Shaddaa,

Kye Ern finished up his drink and proceeded to pay for it before making his way out of the crowded cantina. For a better part of his life, Kye had spent most of his life on Nar Shaddaa making delivery runs to various colonies and planets and living a very normal life by Nar Shaddaa's standard. But in reality, Ern was a sleeper Jedi who was recently reactivated because of Plan Zero. Ern was not the only sleeper Jedi in existence, in fact he was one of the many so called 'elite' Jedi, the best in their graduation class who were hidden away by the council. In all honesty Ern did not know whether he could still call himself a Jedi, he had long ago discarded his Jedi robes, he was more comfortable using a blaster than a lightsaber and he had more confidence using his wit and cunning than the Force.

Ern finally reached his destination, a rather secluded part of the huge planetwide city that was Nar Shaddaa. That being said, the area still had many people moving back and forth, most of them were refugees that were displaced by the war.

Someone tugged Ern's jacket from behind which got the Jedi's attention. "Do you have a few credit to spare ?" asked a young Twi'lek girl who could not be more than 10 years old, her big innocent blue eyes piercing through Ern.

Ern reached into his pocket and proceeded to take out about 100 credits and proceeded to give it to girl. "Here you go young one."

The girl surprised by the amount was stunned, before she gave a big hug to the Jedi while thanking him profusely. Ern just smiled and proceeded to walk off, leaving the young Twi'lek girl behind.

Like all sleeper Jedi, Ern was in charge of activating the Jedi safe house on the planet they are assigned to. And that was what Ern was doing. The Jedi safe house on Nar Shaddaa was cleverly concealed to be beneath a small warehouse that Ern housed his cargo. Ern entered the warehouse and was immediately greeted by his personal astromech droid B3-P3.

"Hey there B3," greeted Ern as he rubbed his astromech's domed head, "any messages for me ?"

B3 gave out a series of melodic beeps to his master while following his master closely behind. "Play that message back B3."

B3 activated his holoprojector and proceeded to play back the message he had just received. "Ern, open the bay doors in three rotations." Ern knew exactly what the message meant. Ern looked to B3, "come on B3 we got some work to do."

Anakin's Quarters,

Jedi Temple.

I can save her, those words still echoed within Anakin. Palpatine alluded to him that he had the power to save his beloved wife from the fate that he foresaw for her. But what was the cost ? Anakin had already lost so much, his mother, Ahsoka and he could not bear to lose Padme now. There must be another way, thought Anakin to himself, but what if Palpatine is the only one that could save her ? What if the dark side is the answer ? Anakin paced around his quarters. He knew that visions of the future were powerful, but he also knew that it was not set in stone.

Anakin walked over to his quarter's holo-communicator and proceeded to enter commands into it. Anakin waited for a response.

"Ani, this is unexpected," greeted Padme over the holo. Anakin rarely contacted Padme via holo, and it was even more rare that he contacted her from his quarters in the Jedi Temple.

"Hey there," replied Anakin to his wife.

"What's wrong Ani," asked Padme as she realised that Anakin had a pained look on his face.

Anakin took a moment, "If you somehow found out that someone close to you were to die, would you do anything to save that person ?"

"What is entailed ?" asked Padme in return, "what must the other person sacrifice in order to save the other ?"

Anakin did not know how to respond to his wife's question. Or rather he did not want to. He knew what saving her entailed.

"Ani, you're talking about me aren't you," asked Padme to her husband.

Anakin was taken a back with Padme's question. Padme has always had to ability to read a person .Padme offered a smile to her obviously distraught and confused husband. "Ani, life and death is a part of life. No one lives for ever. You as a Jedi should know this the best," consoled Padme, "do not sacrifice yourself for me. And I do not mean your physical self, but your spiritual self. "

"But I had a vision. A vision of you dying," stated Anakin to Padme.

"Remember the vision that Ahsoka had about me getting shot and being killed ?" asked Padme. Of course Anakin remembered that incident. It was an incident that plagued his former Padawan and him for days. Anakin just nodded. "The vision that Ahsoka had foresaw that I would be killed. But I was not. The future is not set in stone Ani, it's constantly in motion."

"I cannot lose you," replied Anakin, "i've lost too much already."

"Ani, you'll never lose me," assured Padme, "cause I will be always here with you," said Padme while pointing to her beloved husband's heart.

Anakin offered a weak smile to Padme, which was returned to him by Padme.

"Ani, I have to go. I have a meeting with Senator Organa and Mon Monthma. I'll call you back soon. I love you." With that the holo-image of Padme flickered off, leaving Anakin alone in the room again.

"I love you too," muttered Anakin softly to himself.