Jedi Enclave Ruins,
Khoonda Plains,
Dantooine.
Plo Koon's personal Delta 7-Aetherspite touched down gently on what used to be the landing zone for the Jedi Enclave. Plo Koon exited his starfighter and scanned his surroundings. The Jedi Enclave looked worst that it actually was. Much of the rubble was cleared away by Master Kavar, Zez Kai-Ell and Vrook Lamar when they returned to the ruins to debate the future of Meetra Surik.
Plo Koon's astromech R7-D4 gave out a concerned beep to his master. "Don't worry R7, I'll be fine. Just stay here," assured Plo to his astromech. "And scan the surroundings. Inform me if anyone comes near the ruins."
Plo made his way to the entrance that would lead him into the main ruins. Fallen rubble blocked Plo's entrance into the ruined enclave. The Kel Dorian Jedi Master lifted both of his arms and proceeded to move the rubble away from the entrance using the Force. With the way cleared, Plo proceeded to enter the ruins and make his way to the lift that would take him to the basement of the ruined enclave. The place in which the Jedi had built a safe room as part of Plan Zero
The basement of the Enclave has definitely seen better days ever since it was razed by Darth Malak over three centuries ago. Plo walked up to an unassuming wall and placed his hand on it. As soon as Plo placed his hand on the wall, the wall proceeded to give out a faint blue glow before sliding open to reveal a dimly lit passageway. Plo entered the passageway, and immediately made his way to the safe houses' control room. The safe house followed the same construction plans used for Jedi Academies and installations throughout the galaxy. The only difference was that these safe houses had more state of the art security and detection systems to protect its inhabitants from intruders.
As sson as Plo entered the control room, Plo made his way to the master control console and proceeded to enter commands into it to activate the safe house. Activating the safe house also meant activating the beacon which signal can only be read by Jedi communication devices to inform all Jedi about its location.
"Greetings Master Jedi. How can I be of assistance ?" asked a cordial voice coming from behind Plo.
The Kel Dorian master turned around with lightsaber in hand, only to see an ancient protocol droid standing in front of him. Plo decided to place his lightsaber back on his belt as soon as he saw the protocol droid. "Protocol droid, where did you come from ?"
"I was activated when you reactivated the safe houses' power," answered the protocol droid.
"I see. Well protocol droid do you think you could help me get this safe house operational ?" asked Plo who was now standing in front of the droid.
"It would my absolute pleasure master Jedi," answered the protocol droid.
"Very well then, let's get to work," replied Plo.
Unmarked Jedi Transport,
Unknown Planet,
Outer Rim Territories.
"We have arrived at the coordinates Master Sinube," informed the human Padawan Meechum who was piloting the transport. The transport was carrying around two dozen younglings, Padawans as well as a handful of trainers and elderly Jedi.
Master Sinube looked out of the cockpit's window, "Good, good. Take us down to the planet."
"Yes master," replied the Padawan as he put the transport into a gradual descent. The transport entered the planet's atmosphere. As soon as it cleared the clouds, a magnificent view greeted the Jedi who were in the cockpit. Green rolling plains could be seen that went on for miles as well as towering snow covered mountains that touched the skies and crystal clear rivers that ran across the fields and plains.
"Padawan, take us to this coordinates," instructed Sinube to the pilot.
The Padawan proceeded to enter the coordinates that Master Sinube had just given to him into the Nav Computer and then steered the transport towards the coordinates.
"Master Sinube, according to this, we have to go down that huge chasm," voiced the pilot . According to the coordinates given by the elderly Cosian Jedi Master, the transport was to enter the chasm. "Are you sure we have to enter it ?"
"That's right," replied Sinube.
The Padawan knew better than to second guess such an experienced Jedi Master and proceeded to take the transport into the chasm. The Padawan put all his trust in the Force as he gently and carefully maneuvered the transport. Finally the transport reached an opening, revealing a huge chamber that contained a towering structure in the middle of it which was surrounded by a crystal clear lake.
"By the Force," muttered the Padawan to himself as he brought the transport nearer to the structure.
"Truly an amazing sight is it not ?" asked Sinube rhetorically to the young Padawan. The Padawan just nodded in amazement. "Young one, land on that landing pad," said Sinube while pointing to a landing pad that was located at the eastern part of the structure. The transport gently touched down on the platform. Meechum powered down the engines while Sinube exited the cockpit to the passenger section.
"Are we here yet Master Sinube ?" asked Katooni to the elderly Cosian Jedi Master who was sitting down next to the cockpit's entrance.
Sinube patted the young Tholothian girl's head. "Yes we are Katooni," informed Sinube to the youngling. "Go and inform the rest."
Katooni then proceeded to run off to find her fellow younglings. As soon as Katooni had left Sinube to find her friends, an elderly Jedi approached Sinube.
"Master R'aya, how was the trip ?" asked Sinube to his fellow master.
"Much better than traveling in a starfighter that's for sure," replied R'aya jokingly.
Sinube offered a smile to R'aya, "I have to agree with you on that one my friend." Sinube and R'aya proceeded to make their way to the transport's exit to lower the transport's exit ramp.
"So do you think that the order has to go to ground completely ?" asked Master R'aya as he and Master Sinube neared the exit ramp.
"Hopefully not," answered Sinube, "but it is better to be prepared than being caught off guard."
"Come on Byph, hurry up. We've landed and I want to see where we are," said a voice that was coming from the transport's living quarters.
"Don't be too eager Petro. Wait for the rest of us."
"But I want to see where we are Ganodi."
A Wookie's voice could be heard. "Gunji is right, it's not like we're going anywhere."
Sinube and R'aya looked at each other and smiled. "At least we know that the next generation of Jedi is safe here," expressed Sinube. Master R'aya nodded in agreement. "Hopefully."
Edge of the Shadowland,
Kashyyyk.
Quinlan Vos walked cautiously through the forest. Eventhough Vos was at the edge of the Shadowland, he still sensed great darkness emanating from it. It was a familiar feeling to him, considering that he himself grappled with his internal darkness on more than one occasion . "Now where is this village," thought Vos out loud. Vos felt his foot step on something. Without warning, two giant logs both from opposite directions came directly towards him. Vos leaped out of the way on to a branch to avoid being crushed between the two giant logs, barely escaping the two giant logs."That was close," muttered a relieved Vos to himself, "hopefully nothing else goes wrong." Brief flashes of light lit up the partially dark forest, which only source of light came from the slither of light that penetrated the thick Kashyyyk jungle top. The brief flashes revealed to the Kiffar Jedi Master that he was surrounded by more than a dozen Wookies, their bowcasters aimed directly at him. "Great, just great," said Vos before raising his arms to signal his surrender to the Wookies.
Vos followed the Wookies that had captured him closely behind. The thing is, the Wookies did not rough him up like he thought they would. In fact they were surprisingly friendly. Vos and his Wookie 'captors' stopped in front of a exceptionally large wroshyr tree that stood alone. The Wookie that was taking point who was also the group leader walked up to the three and proceeded to tap it. As soon as the Wookie was done, a lift descended from the top of the giant wroshyr tree.
"Get on the lift, outsider," ordered the Wookie group leader in Shyriiwook.
Vos did not argue with his 'captors' and proceeded to get on the lift. As soon as Vos stepped on to the lift, the Wookie group leader stepped on it as well. The Wookie then tugged on one of the ropes, which made the lift start to ascend to the treetops. What greeted Vos as the lift reached the treetop was the sight of a village. So this must be the village Master Yoda was talking about, thought Vos to himself. The lift came to a stop and the Wookie leading Vos stepped out of it before signaling Vos to follow him.
The Wookie led Vos through the village and to a rather large hut located at the top of the village. Must be the chieftain's place, thought Vos to himself after taking into account the location of the hut in relations to the rest of the village. The two Wookie guards by the entrance conversed with the Wookie leading Vos before allowing Vos to enter. The hut was decorated with many wood carvings as well as hides of fallen beast. The Wookie leading Vos bowed before a Wookie that was sitting at the end of the room. Vos followed suit and bowed to the figure.
"I am Chief Zaarbal," introduced the Wookie to Vos.
"Quinlan Vos. Jedi Master," introduced Vos to the Wookie.
Chief Zaarbal signaled to the Kiffar Jedi Master to sit down, in which Quinlan obliged. Chief Zaarbal proceeded to sit down as soon as his guest had.
"So what are you doing here Master Jedi ?" asked Chief Zaarbal in his native tongue. "As I know it, the war is being fought somewhere else on Kashyyyk. Not here."
"I was asked by someone to show this to you," said Vos as he reached for the amulet that Master Yoda had handed to him.
The Wookie Chieftain reached for the amulet from Vos. Zaarbal studied the amulet closely. "I see, so it is time to repay the debt," said Zaarbal to a confused Vos.
Jedi Shuttle,
Jedi Temple Hangar,
Coruscant.
"All right, that should disable the shuttle's locator beacon," informed Kcaj to Anakin who was preparing the shuttle for takeoff.
"Good, the shuttle is almost ready for takeoff," informed Anakin to the Ongree Jedi Master. The Ongree Jedi Master took the co-pilot seat next to Anakin. Anakin looked at the co-pilot seat that Kcaj had just sat in, and a wave of sadness washed over him. That would be where Ahsoka would be sitting if she was still here, thought Skywalker to himself. Although it had been almost a year since Ahsoka had left the Order, Anakin still could not come to terms with it and has always tried to reach out to his former Padawan.
"Is something bordering you Skywalker ?" asked Kcaj.
"Just remembering someone and better times," answered Anakin.
"I see. Do you want to discuss about it ?" asked the Ongree Jedi Master.
Anakin looked at Kcaj. "It's fine. Don't worry about it. Let's just focus on the mission."
"Very well Skywalker."
Anakin turned his attention away from Kcaj and back to his shuttle's instruments. "Okay, we're ready for take-off. Next stop, the vault." The Jedi Shuttle exited the hangar and proceeded to fly into the horizon and the rising Coruscanti sun .
500 Republica Building,
Palpatine's personal residence,
Coruscant.
Palpatine awoke. He had sensed a disturbance in the Force, more specifically that off his secret weapon, Anakin Skywalker leaving Coruscant. Palpatine got out of his bed and proceeded to put on a crimson coloured robe and made his way to his residence's living room. The rays from the rising Coruscanti sun slithered through the blinds. Palpatine closed his eyes and tried to concentrate the energies of the dark side as to ascertain where young Skywalker was heading. Nothing, thought a frustrated Palpatine to himself, so this is how powerless the Jedi must feel. Rage and anger grew within Palpatine. If he could not locate young Skywalker through the Force then perhaps through more conventional means. Palpatine used the Force to pull to him a control which activated the holo-communicator in the living room and immediately pressed it upon reaching his hand.
"My lord, how can I be of assistance," asked the holographic figure of Mas Ameeda.
"I want to know where Skywalker is heading," demanded Palpatine to his Chief of Staff.
"I'm sorry my lord, but I don't have any information about Skywalker or the Jedi Temple filing a flight plan with Coruscant Traffic Control," informed the Chagrin.
Palpatine's face darkened as he lifted his hand. Mas Ameeda reached for his throat as if was choking. "Find him," ordered Palpatine.
"Y-y-yes m-m-my l-l-lord," replied the Chagrin as he struggled to breath. Palpatine released Mas from his hold and closed the channel. Palpatine did not like being made a fool or a puppet, not when he was the puppet master. Rage and anger still boiled within the Supreme Chancellor's chest. Palpatine unleash his anger and rage by using the Force to destroy or upheave everything in his living room. When he was done, the furniture in the room was either destroyed or overturned by the sheer power that Palpatine had just unleashed.
I will not be made a fool, thought Palpatine to himself, perhaps its time to accelerate my plans.