Soul Of the Jedi (Journey Through the unknown)

by Squasher

After the Execution of Order 66, several refugees attempt to escape the clutches of the Galactic Empire as they must overcome the journey along the way. Besides Lord Sidious, there are those that work deep in the shadows lingering as total Annihilation was their goal, leaving these Refugees to be the only hope. includes Asajj Ventress and Alpha-17. Discontinued, rewrite pending

6. Plan in the making

AN: this is by far the longest chapter I have ever written I hope you all enjoy

Disclaimer: I only own my OCs

(Chapter 5 A plan in the making)

After Daniel, with the aid of the Force defeated Mnggal-Mnggal, the group had as much time as they needed to scavenge the debris field, it took several days to loot the supplies they needed and get a surplus so much so that they could go about a year to a year and a half without needing to resupply, Daniel got to meet the new members of the crew when he first laid eyes on Auron the others were worried they were going to come to blows… that is until Daniel held his hand out for the young Sith to shake the two of them agreed to a truce, as they continued to loot the debris field a fleet from the Chiss ascendancy showed up and discovered the situation, to say the least they couldn't believe that this group had successfully cleared Mugg Fallow of the infestation despite that, they were given the award they promised anyone who was willing to take on Mnggal-Mnggal... and survived.

Daniel was currently meditating in the map room as he called it when he felt a presence enter the room and the sound of the turbolift doors open, and the sound of footsteps getting closer when he determined who it was he smiled "Hello Vega. What's up?" he greeted.

Vega just shrugged "Not much, how about you?" the boy reciprocated.

Daniel almost said 'I'm fine' but stopped himself "I'm not sure." Daniel admitted.

Vega understood "You don't know how to tell the group about your mother." Vega said knowingly as he sat down across from Daniel.

"No, it's just that I'm not sure if I want to endanger them." Daniel sighed; "That day when my mom and I met that darksider it was the most terrifying moment of my life… second only to Mnggal-Mnggal." he said with a shiver "I don't want them to encounter this man." 'If he can even be called a man any more' he thought to himself.

Vega nodded "Daniel you should let them decide if they want to risk their lives, I know that when the time comes I'll be by your side." Vega said with a smile.

Daniel chuckled at his reply "Thanks bro." Daniel said though he didn't wish for Vega to ever encounter the darksider, he was grateful for the boys enthusiasm, then Daniel had a thought if Vega were to encounter any Darksider he would need a weapon sure he had a blaster and he was good with that but it was always good to carry a back up "You know I think we have all the components we need to build you a lightsaber." Daniel said with a grin.

Vega's argentum eyes lit up like a child at the start of life-day "Really?!" Vega asked enthusiastically Daniel's smile widened and he nodded Vega almost jumped up to the ceiling in glee "Yippee!" he shouted, then he stopped "Wait a minute we don't have any crystals." Vega said.

Daniel sighed "That is true which is why we'll have to synthesize one." Daniel told him this made Vega frown in thought.

"But isn't that a Sith technique?" he asked seeing as the Sith mostly used Synthetic crystals to power their light sabers.

Daniel shook his head "No it's just not that common for a Jedi to make synthetic crystals and besides we don't have the caves of Ilum or any other crystal sites at our disposal now do we." Daniel reasoned.

Vega nodded "Okay, but before we make the crystal you have to tell the others about you know what." Vega told him.

Daniel nodded "You're right … oh great we have no idea how far behind us he is." Daniel realised; "and Qui-gon hasn't appeared to us yet." as he said that the Jedi master appeared in the room with them.

"My ears are burning." the ghost said humorously, the two boys sprang to their feet in alarm Daniel pulling out his saber and Vega pulling out his blaster when they saw who it was they calmed down.

"Blast it Master Jinn." Daniel growled; "Don't scare us like that." the deceased master merely smiled innocently, Daniel just sighed in exasperation "It's good to see you again master Jinn." he smiled.

"It's good to see you both but before I get to why I'm here I wish to say this, you made me proud Daniel." Qui-gon said proudly; "You accomplished something many masters fail to do in any day and age, you truly trusted the Force." Daniel blushed at the praise.

"T..thank you." Daniel stuttered not sure what to say, he opened his mouth as if to say something more but closed it.

Vega saw this and decided to change the subject, "Master Jinn," he began, he slowly got more confident over the last few months Daniel had noticed he seemed to have out grown his timid state; "What can you tell us about the man hunting us?"

Qui-gon nodded "This darksider is over 1,000 years old, and he comes from the brotherhood of darkness..."

"I thought the entire Brotherhood was killed by the Thought Bomb they made?" Daniel interrupted.

"A majority of them died, how ever a few did survive such as Darth Bane who went on to make the rule of two, and the one who hunts you now Darth Navѐ." Jinn told them.

"How did he live all this time?" Vega asked; "and what does he want?"

Qui-gon raised an eyebrow "Is it not obvious? he wants the complete, total, and utter destruction of the Jedi."

"But… why?" Vega asked.

"He's a Sith Vega he doesn't need a reason." Daniel muttered.

"Yeah, but Auron is a Sith... or a darksider at least and he doesn't want to kill us." Vega countered "Plus why is he going through all the trouble to torture Jedi, to break Jedi, if all he truly wants is to destroy the Jedi? there's more to this puzzle you and I both know it."

"I'm not denying that but I'm not concerned with trying to solve it at the moment." Daniel said tiredly.

Vega sighed and understood "Wait you didn't answer my question on how he lived all this time… is he not human?" he asked the ghost however it was Daniel who answered.

"When I saw him on my master's and I's mission together he wore a cloak that covered his body and a mask over his face, that being said he looked humanoid." Daniel said, Qui-gon nodded.

"Under that mask lies the face of a man who should have died a long time ago, he used the same technique Darth Sion used to will himself to stay alive for a thousand years." Qui-Gon said.

Vega turned to look at Daniel in confusion "Uh… who's Darth Sion?" Vega asked somewhat embarrassed, feeling like he should know this.

Daniel scrunched his face in concentration all the while his lips moved to pronounce the name, it was familiar to him he studied it before it was on the tip of his tongue "Wasn't Sion a member of the Sith Triumvirate during The Dark Wars? That Darth Sion?" Daniel asked, the ghost nodded, Daniel cursed under his breath "That means he's going to be impossible to kill."

Vega was even more confused "The Dark Wars?" he asked.

Daniel understood his confusion "It was a very dark time in history, the Jedi were nearly destroyed and were on the run from three sith who united their groups together to form the Sith Triumvirate led by Darth Traya, Darth Nihilus, and of course Darth Sion. Jedi Master Mical kept a record during the time, good thing too we nearly lost a lot of knowledge from that."

Vega felt that their were living in a very similar time with how he was describing it, "Sounds like we can relate to the people who lived back then." Vega said morbidly.

Daniel couldn't help but agree, "Indeed…" Daniel said and turned to the ghost "Do you know how far Darth Navѐ is behind us?" he asked both to change the subject and to see how much time they had to plan.

"He started following you as soon as you left Polis Massa, however your journey through Chiss Space widened the gap between you, so you should have about a month and a half." The ghost explained.

Daniel nodded a month and a half was plenty of time to plan and prepare "That's good we'll have Vega's lightsaber ready, and our armor at it's full potential by then."

The ghost nodded "About your armor I know of a way to make it better than even the Jedi intended." Jinn claimed

This caught both the boys interest and they turned their full attention to the ghost, seeing this Qui-gon started by saying "Turn the armor into living beings."

This caused the 'brothers' to look at each other in confusion and were beginning to wonder if the deceased master was going insane.

"I'm not going insane." Jinn said ruefully as if he sensed their thoughts... he probably did, "Let me explain. Daniel are you familiar with the Iron Knights?" He asked.

Daniel's brows furrowed as he thought about it "Are you talking about the force sensitive Shards trained by Master Aqinos?" Daniel asked, Jinn nodded "Yeah my mother's master would tell me stories of them."

Vega however was a bit confused "I thought Shards were unable to interact with the world." Vega said.

Daniel nodded "That is true, in their natural state Shards are nothing more than sentient crystals, however if you put them in a modified droid they can."

Vega had to admit he was impressed but then he had a thought "How come I didn't see any of them around... were they all killed?" He asked.

Daniel shook his head "No it's not that." He sighed "It was and still is deemed as heresy to combine technology with the Force, so all of them including Master Aqinos were cast out of the order."

Vega looked outraged "What?! oh come on how are the shards or other silicone based life forms supposed to join the order?"

Daniel held his hands up in front of him "Hey I don't make the rules or traditions." Daniel defended "Plus I never understood why that was, I mean our light sabers technically combine the Force and technology together."

"...Well now we can." Vega said with a smile "it's up to you, me and whatever Jedi are left to rebuild the order, we can do it the right way this time."

Daniel seemed to think it over "I have been thinking about that." Daniel admitted but he shook his head "But now's not the time or the place for this discussion." He turned to Qui-gon; "sorry for getting off topic, but how exactly do the Shards help…" he started to ask; "Oh I see. You want us to convert our armor into droid/suit hybrids." the apparition smiled knowing that the boy realised what he was trying to tell them "There's just one problem the Shards live on Orax and that's in the opposite direction we want to go." Daniel pointed out.

"Yeah and aren't droid/suit hybrids really big and bulky?" Vega asked.

"Fortunately there is a colony of Shards in a system 2 parsecs from here," Qui Gon explained, "the unfortunate part is that some of Mnggal-Mnggal is in that System."

Daniel had to resist the urge to groan in frustration "Again?" He asked incredulously "Can't we catch a break?"

"I said they were in the same system not on the same planet." Jinn said, much to the relief of the two boys.

"That's good we don't have to face him again for a while." Daniel said; "Wait a minute." He had an epiphany about something "How did a colony of shards get all the way out here?" Daniel asked.

Qui-Gon merely smiled "When you meet them you can ask them. They're on the planet furthest from the systems star you'll know the system because the sun is a red dwarf" he turned to Vega "As for your question Vega, yes Droid/Suit Hybrids are big and bulky but since you downloaded the Gree technological data base you'll find their specs for much sleeker and slim versions of the technology." Qui-Gon explained.

Vega smiled "that's great." He looked over at Daniel who seemed to be holding a scream in "Uh what the matter Daniel?"

"That database is in Gree." Daniel bemoaned.

"Daniel, I thought you were good with languages?" Vega said confused.

"I mostly am, but the Gree language is one of the few Languages I can't get a handle on... the celestials language is another one but that's beside the point." Daniel admitted.

"Why is that?"

"The Gree speak in a peculiar pattern that I never fully could comprehend unless I'm speaking to an actual Gree." Daniel said "I always found it easier to learn spoken languages than I did written ones."

Vega nodded in understanding and was about to say something when the console pinged Daniel immediately stood up and walked over to the counsel and pressed a button "Daniel here go ahead."

Micah's voice came back over the comm "Hey Daniel I found something on a Gree ship with in this field, you're not going to believe this but it's a functioning A.I." Micah said excitedly, this caused Daniel's eyes to widen at the implications, an A.I like that would totally make it much easier to read the data base and they could learn so much about the Galaxy and what it was like all those millennia ago.

"Can you get it aboard our ship?"

"That's the thing it wants to join us... more specifically you." Micah reported.

Daniel raised an eyebrow "And why would that be?"

"Because according to its own words "My last order was if the Blue nonagon evolved into a purple parallel, I was to Join with the Black bisector who found red parallel, and help them achieve Orange sphere" so I think it want's confirmation that your with us." Micah said after he quoted the A.I.

"See what I mean?" Daniel asked Vega, who looked confused by the weird speech.

"Yeah." Vega said simply, trying to wrap his head around what he heard.

Daniel turned his attention back to the console "I'll talk to it." Daniel said.

"Okay stand by." Micah said, a few moments went by before he spoke again "You're on."

"Are you the black bisector?" A synthetic voice asked.

Daniel nodded "I am the guy who fought Mnggal-Mnggal that is correct." He confirmed.

The comm was silent for a moment "... Your voice print matches that of the black bisector." The A.I confirmed, "How may I be of assistance?" It asked thankfully dropping the Gree speech patterns as it probably understood that Daniel didn't like them very much.

Daniel thought about it for a moment "Would you like to come with us?" Daniel asked.

"My operator's last command to me was to gather as much information on the creature as possible as well as learn as much as I can from these ship and should a black bisector come around to challenge the parasite I was to join them, that and the fact that there is nothing for me here, is why I will come with you and your crew." The A.I explained.

Daniel looked at Qui-Gon for a form of council, the deceased master nodded and smiled "Than I welcome you aboard." Daniel said into the comm "I look forward to meeting you."

"As do I black bisector." The A.I. stated.

"We'll be back soon." Micah reported and cut the link.

Daniel turned back to the others and noticed Vega wanted to ask something "What is it Vega?"

Vega had so many questions now ranging from 'is it a good idea to bring the A.I aboard the ship?' To 'Is that really how the Gree spoke?' However despite all this the question he asked was "What's a black bisector?" And resisted the urge to palm his face at the fact that he asked what was in his mind a 'stupid' question.

Daniel just sighed "Black bisector loosely translated means 'Hero' or 'Someone willing to take on a difficult task.'" Daniel explained.

Vega nodded and then decided to ask a 'better' question "Is it a good Idea to bring this A.I aboard?"

Daniel could understand his concerns "Well Qui-Gon said we'll be fine... but if it isn't we'll soon find out won't we." Daniel said with a shrug he looked at his watch and said "It's almost time for dinner let's head on up and see what needs to be done."

Vega nodded and stood up he twisted to face the apparition "Will we ever see you again?" He asked.

The ghost nodded with a smile "I have to go help our surviving comrades but yes you will see me again young ones."

Before he left Daniel caught his attention "Master Jinn…" the apparition turned to him with a raised eyebrow "... can you appear to my Mom and assure her I'm fine?" Daniel asked hopefully.

Qui-Gon thought about it for a moment "I could, but I run the risk of Darth Navѐ discovering me." Qui-Gon stated; "And I don't want to put her in any more danger than she already is."

Daniel felt crestfallen but understood his answer none the less "... Okay I understand." Daniel said somewhat down but he kept his composure.

"Daniel I know you're worried but trust the force and your crew they'll help you in this endeavor." Qui-Gon said; "I'm afraid I must depart." he said reluctantly.

The boys nodded and said their goodbyes as the ghost disappeared.

The two stood there for a moment before Daniel turned to Vega "We should head up to the lounge I need to tell the crew about My Jedi master still being alive."

Vega nodded "Do any of them know that she's your mother?" He asked.

Daniel nodded "Aaron does I told him my self, and so does Rohkea he was a member of the group trying to find my 'father'" Daniel said spitting the final word out as if it were poison, he only viewed the Jedi masters as his real father figures, not the man whom he shared a genetic connection with, for all he cared that man could burn in all the Nine Correllian Hells.

Vega could sense the animosity Daniel felt towards the man who sired him "... If you don't mind me asking, did they ever find him?" Vega cautiously asked as they stepped into the turbolift.

Daniel just sighed and leaned against the wall of the lift, the back of his head banged against the wall, "... No he wasn't brought to justice unfortunately, and now most likely never will be." Daniel said bitterly, before he released all his negativity into the force, he hated injustice so much, that hatred of injustice didn't just spread towards the incident with his mother it spread to all the injustice out in the outer rim one of the aspects of the Jedi Order that Daniel took issue with was with how subservient to the Senate the Jedi were, he hoped that he would get the chance to help reestablish the Jedi Order, an order that would remain their own separate entity and help the people who need their help, but that was some time down the road and Daniel knew he would have to take one problem at a time.

"It doesn't matter now though one day he'll get what's coming to him and I don't think it will be by my hand." Daniel said as he press the button on the turbo lift bringing them up to the first deck ending the conversation.

The pair walked in silence to the lounge in there they found Rohkea along with Caleb making dinner and the two imperial defectors in the chairs talking with each other, Caleb was the first to notice them "Daniel, Vega come in sit down everything's been taken care of." Caleb greeted them.

Daniel and Vega smiled "Caleb you know we're always willing to help with dinner if need be."

Caleb shrugged "I know." He said simply.

Vega regarded the others "Hello every body how is everything?" He asked politely.

Kaitlyn smiled "I'm good thank you." She said sweetly.

Auron just looked at him blankly "Nothing to complain about." He said simply even though Vega got used to him being a darksider he still was nervous around being near him.

Rohkea grunted something that signified that he was great.

"So any idea how long it will take for them to return." Caleb asked.

Daniel shrugged "They found a Gree Artificial intelligence on one of the Gree ships it shouldn't take them to long to get back."

"That's good." Caleb said not sure what else to say, he shook his head; "well enough about that take a seat and relax while we wait for them." Caleb suggested.

Daniel and Vega did just that they sat across from the sith imperial defectors, "So how are you two doing." Katelyn asked genuinely.

Daniel and Vega looked at each other "Well aside from one thing we're good." Vega answered hesitantly.

"Why what's the matter?" Auron asked he looked disinterested but Daniel could tell that was a facade he put up, possibly he was wondering to see if it was a danger to either him or the crewman.

"We'd rather tell everyone when they get here it's really affects us all." Daniel answered, "Plus I don't like to repeat myself." Daniel added.

Auron understood and left it at that "Okay then I can wait."

Katlyn decided to change the subject, "So Caleb over there told us that there was a war recently?" She asked.

Vega nodded "Yeah the Clone Wars."

"Let me guess the Republic fought an army of clones." Auron guessed.

"No we fought an army of droids the Jedi led an army of clones." Daniel said, this caused both imperials to raise an eyebrow.

"I didn't think that the Jedi would use an army of clones." Auron said.

"We didn't really have an option the clone army was the only military force we had available at the time." Daniel stated; "It's not like we created them."

At that the imperials could understand but that brought up another question "Why wouldn't the Republic have a standing army?" Katlyn asked

It was Caleb who answered "well you see about a thousand years ago we had fought a war against the sith… again." He started, "it was called the New Sith Wars with the sith order called the brotherhood of darkness led by fallen Jedi master now sith lord Skere Kaan..."

"Any way to make a long story short." Daniel interrupted knowing that Caleb tended to take to long to explain things, "Kaan eventually decided to craft a thought bomb to destroy the army of light, Jedi Lord Hoth decided to make the Sith detonate the Thought bomb on Ruusan because it was less populated and they did detonate it, wiping out Hoth's Jedi team and most of the Brotherhood, after that the chancellor believing the sith threat to be dead drafted the Ruusan reformation which basically demilitarized the Republic, among other things and that is why the Republic had no standing army we had the judicial force." Daniel said simply.

"Well the Judicial force was not all that bad." Caleb said.

Daniel nodded in agreement the Judicial forces definitely worked well in minor conflicts and they were converted into the republic navy during the war so there was that.

"Wow what a dumb decision." Auron muttered.

"I know right." Daniel exclaimed "Not only that but the RR made the Jedi nothing more than the Republic's lapdogs."

"So I imagine that during the war, things went back to how they were before the RR?" Auron asked genuinely curious.

(You would think that wouldn't you.) Rohkea growled.

"You see the sith weren't all killed we know of two survivors." Daniel said much to Caleb's confusion.

"Uh… Daniel there was one survivor Darth Bane, his apprentice wasn't a member of the brotherhood."

"The one important to history is Darth Bane, he instigated the rule of two, in hopes to put an end to the petty infighting and squabbles Bane said that their should only be two sith at any given time, a master to embody power and an apprentice to crave it, they started in hiding but through some series of events the Jedi eventually discovered Bane was still alive and a strike team was dispatched unfortunately Bane managed to kill them all with the help of his apprentice and we lost track of them." Daniel started, "Bane's line would continue for centuries till Sidious rose to power he somehow managed to gain political power under the name of Palpatine eventually becoming the supreme chancellor."

"Oh dear." Both the imperials said in sync.

"Yep, the Chancellor instigated the war to help spread our numbers thin to make it easier to kill the Jedi, after three years of the war the high council finally discovered the Chancellor's true nature and attempted to arrest him, unfortunately Sidious killed them all and made it look like the Jedi had turned against the Republic." Daniel said then he and Vega started to shake with tears welling up in their eyes it was so painful to talk about upon seeing that Auron and Katlyn could guess what happened.

"The Republic turned on you didn't they." Katlyn stated

"Y-yes they..hic. Did." Vega cried tears flowing freely down his face as memories of that night flashed through his mind Rohkea came around and placed a hand on the boy's shoulder to comfort him.

"With the clone troopers no less, apparently they had an order called order 66." Caleb said after swallowing his own sadness.

Daniel let out a shaky breath "About 1-2% of the order survived, not even the younglings were spared."

Kaitlyn looked horrified while Auron looked a bit peeved.

"... I'm sorry." Auron said genuinely which honestly surprised Daniel and Vega.

"But you have nothing to be sorry for." Vega said.

Auron turned to face him "Don't I? I am a member of the same order who has wanted your destruction and I don't get why that is." He said "and unfortunately my same order has very nearly succeeded, from my point of view I have every reason to be sorry not just for these transgressions against you but for every transgression against you." Auron said leaving everybody there dumfounded.

Abruptly the Doors opened to reveal Aaron and Micah walking through the threshold "Hey is dinner ready?" Aaron asked.

"Yeah we're famished." Micah said.

"What's the matter?" Aaron asked upon seeing literally everyone but Auron with a dumbfounded look on their face, immediately he rushed the young Sith picked him up and pinned him against the wall "What did you do to them?" He growled

Auron blinked once then blinked again "I apologized." He said, "now put me down before I make you."

At that Aaron reluctantly put him down "That's it you apologized?" He asked skeptically.

Everyone snapped out of it when Aaron rushed Auron "Yeah that's it bro he just apologized." Caleb confirmed.

"For what?" Both Aaron and Micah asked in unison.

"For the Sith's transgressions against the Jedi." Auron answered much to the surprise of the two newcomers.

Daniel then said something that also surprised the group "well in that case I feel that I should apologize for the jedi's transgressions against the sith as well."

Auron had a feeling he knew what he was talking about "You're talking about the Sith Holocaust?"

Daniel nodded "Yes I am."

"Tell me did you personally lead the Republic to annihilate the Sith?" Auron asked.

"... No I wasn't even born."

Auron nodded "Than you have nothing to be sorry for, I have committed personal transgressions against Jedi you haven't committed any personal transgressions against Sith." Auron admitted.

Daniel could sense that Auron wasn't very comfortable talking about his 'personal transgressions' against Jedi so he decided not to ask him about it so instead he decided to change the subject "Look it doesn't matter now let's eat, I also have something to announce." Daniel stated upon hearing that the group all got the food, sat down, ate a bit, then waited for Daniel to say what he needed to say "Qui-Gon Jinn contacted me with good news and bad news" he started, "I'll start with the good news My Jedi master is still alive and she's currently following us about a month and a half away." He said.

"That's great." Caleb exclaimed happily

"It is indeed." Aaron said with a smile, he was happy that Daniel in this time of strife would get to have his mother at least and having a fully trained jedi knight on the crew would definitely help.

"What's the bad news." Auron asked at that everyone started to fear the worst.

"Did she fall to the dark side." Micah asked worried.

"What no! she would never do something like that." Daniel retorted indignantly, the chiss held his hands up in defence.

"I'm sorry I was just making sure." Micah defended.

Daniel just sighed "I know, sorry about that, the bad news is she's being held by the sith lord that attacked us on our final combat mission together." Daniel said, the entire group minus Auron and Vega all gasped in shock.

Micah however recovered the fastest "Tell us everything we need to know." He said calmly yet underlined with gentleness.

Daniel began to tell them the things Qui-gon told them, from who Darth Navѐ was to what Qui-gon told them of the shards and how they could integrate them into the armor and where they could find a colony of Shards which was in a system two parsecs away, the entire group groaned when they heard that Mnggal-Mnggal was in the system but sighed in relief when they realized that it was on another planet, "But the main thing I want to know is this." Daniel started, "Are you all willing to risk your lives for this?"

The rangers all looked at him as if to say 'are you seriously asking that question?' It was Aaron who broke the silence "Daniel if there is a Jedi survivor you think we won't do whatever it takes to save them?" Aaron asked.

"Besides we can come up with a plan and find the battleground of our choosing we have the advantage." Caleb stated.

Micah and Rohkea nodded in agreement.

"Thank you all." Daniel said he expected nothing less from the rangers.

Auron cleared his throat to get the group's attention he looked at Karlyn and asked her a question without words she just smiled and nodded, he turned back to the group "We'll help as well."

Daniel wasn't expecting that at all "... thank you." He managed in his stupor.

"You know you never gave us your master's name." Auron stated with a raised eyebrow.

Daniel now knew he wouldn't be able to hide his relationship to his teacher at that "Her name is Naomi Valo." Daniel stated.

"Huh... she shares your last name." Caleb said somewhat cluelessly causing Aaron to smack him upside the head at that it dawned on him "Oh she's your mother, but… how?" Caleb asked

"Caleb you should know how that happens." Aaron deadpanned.

"You know full well that's not what I meant." Caleb retorted.

Auron didn't particularly care how that came to be he just assumed that she had a lover got pregnant and the Jedi just left it at that either that or something else happened.

Daniel sighed "Yes, she is also my biological mother." Daniel revealed much to the surprise of Micah, Katelyn, and Caleb.

"Did the Jedi do away with the no attachment rule." Katelyn asked even though she guessed that wasn't the case, she wanted confirmation.

"No." Aaron said simply.

"So she broke the rules." Auron said only to receive a scalding glare from Aaron.

"No… that isn't it either." Daniel stated.

"Than what is it?" Micah asked.

Daniel looked at Vega, Aaron and Rohkea they all nodded showing that they'd support him, he sighed "All I really know about this is what I learned from the mission report." He started, "Let's get this out of the way… the reason My mom has me... is because … she was raped." He finally admitted.

The ones who didn't know had various reactions Caleb and Katelyn looked appalled while Micah clenched his jaw and his glowing red eyes seemed to flare in anger, Auron just stared straight ahead though Daniel could sense the unbridled fury he had underneath the surface but also something else he couldn't pin down.

"Did they catch who did it?" Micah asked.

Daniel shook his head "No they didn't, they know who did it but he stayed out of republic space to avoid us." Daniel growled, then he sighed tiredly "look I don't really want to go into too much detail about this so shall we set course?" Daniel requested.

At that Micah snapped out of it "Of course we're done here any way." Micah said as he stood up and started for the door, "oh before I forget the A.I. is in the Tactical room he wishes to speak with you at your earliest convenience." He was about to exit before Daniel said something that made him stop in his tracks.

"Does this change anything?" Daniel asked melancholy.

Micah immediately knew what he was referring to "Absolutely not." Micah stated in a tone that showed he meant it.

"It wasn't like you did it." Caleb added, "I hate the guy who did do it." Kaitlyn nodded in agreement and the three turned to the sith apprentice.

Auron realised that the group was staring at him "uh… My opinion on you hasn't changed if that's what you're worried about." He stated simply.

"Thanks." He said with a smile earning a grunt from the… whatever he was.

Micah just smiled and said "I'll go set the course to the system." And left heading on over to the bridge.

"Well in that case I'm going to go see our newest member to our happy family." Daniel announced as he stood up.

"Okay." Aaron said.

Vega stood up and followed him out of the room wanting to meet the A.I himself, they walked back to the turbolift and Daniel hit the button to go to the tactical room or the map room as the boys called it, the Doors open to reveal Daniel's favorite area for meditation the only difference this time was a small black cube on the sitting in the holo display.

Daniel was the first to break the silence "So you're the A.I.?" Daniel asked

"I am indeed black bisector." The A.I said the black cube seemed to glow when ever it spoke "How may I be of assistance?".

Daniel and Vega looked at each other "Before any of that I must know, are you safe?" Vega asked.

"That is a reasonable question to ask, but you have nothing to fear I assure you." The A.I answered honestly.

Both Vega and Daniel sensed no deception from the A.I but that still didn't mean Vega would outright trust it, no it had to earn it and Daniel could understand that.

Daniel nodded "I believe you."

"As I have stated before I only wish to assist you and your crew black bisector." The A.I said.

"I understand that… what can we call you?" Daniel asked.

The A.I seemed to falter for a moment "... My designation is alpha ship A.I fifty-four." The A.I answered.

"That's a bit of a mouth full how about we call you 'Alpha'." Vega suggested.

"That is acceptable." Alpha said almost immediately "Though you may call me whatever you wish."

"Alpha will do for now I guess." Daniel stated with a shrug.

"Very well." Alpha said, "You both seem troubled."

At that Daniel nodded with a sigh "That's because we are, you see there is another mission we must undertake and I'm hoping you could help us." Daniel admitted.

Alpha was excited at the prospect of helping out on this mission "What do I need to know?" He asked with what could pass for eagerness.

Daniel and Vega spent the next 10 minutes explaining their mission what they needed and how Daniel would need his help to upgrade their armor and make it so the Shards could use it as a body.

It didn't take long for Alpha to come up with the design and he requested to be brought to the Assembler Room "If you jack me into the interface I can begin the construction." Alpha stated when they arrived.

"Uh there's just one problem we don't have an interface for an artificial intelligence as sophisticated as you." Daniel said somewhat bashfully.

"Perhaps you can build a temporary interface till we figure out a more permanent solution." Alpha suggested.

Vega looked at Daniel "Can you do that?" He asked curiously.

Daniel shook his head "Not on my own, no." he answered, "But, Rohkea is really good with machines he and I could pull something together." Daniel finished with a smirk as he pulled out his comm link to call the Wookie.

(Rohkea here) the wookie answered

"Hey Rohkea it's Daniel I need your help down in the Assembler Room also bring all your tools please."

(I'm on my way.) the wookiee growled though in a non threatening way as he signed off.

It didn't take long for Rohkea to show up with his tools (What is it?) He asked.

"I need your help to build a temporary interface for Alpha here." Daniel said while holding up the black cube.

Rohkea looked at him with a raised eyebrow (You want to get this done tonight?) he asked.

Daniel sighed "I know I'd rather wait till morning myself but I rather get this done and get started on the armor by the time we meet the Shards." He explained, "You don't mind do you?" He asked.

Rohkea just shook his to show he didn't (Let's get started the sooner we start the sooner we finish and can go to sleep.) Rohkea stated.

Daniel turned to Vega "Could you go get us some Caf? we're going to have a long night."

Vega nodded "Sure." and left through the door, it took him about 5 minutes to return with a thermos and two cups for them "here you are." He said as he handed the thermos and cups to the two who were leaning over some schematics and plans.

"Thank you." Daniel said gratefully as he poured himself and Rohkea a cup, "You going to bed?" He asked seeing Vega's eyes drooping tiredly.

Vega nodded tiredly and yawned "Yeah good night." He said and started his way back to the crew quarters, when he got to the crew quarters he found Caleb talking to Auron.

"So shortly before Aaron and I woke you up we found your master's corpse." Caleb said awkwardly.

"What about it?"

"Well you see he had a recorder on him and I think he'd want you to have." Caleb stated as he handed the recorder over to Auron who took it and studied the object "I would have given it to you sooner but between scavenging and preparing food for eight people I put it off sorry about that." Caleb explained apologetically.

"It's Okay." Auron murmured absently.

"Alright then." Caleb said with a nod "I'll be at my bunk if you need me."

Auron just nodded not taking his eyes off the recorder to show he heard him, at that Caleb walked over to his bunk with his brother still in the bottom one "Hey brother." He greeted as he climbed into his bunk.

"Hey." Aaron greeted back

"You know I never would have thought that we'd end up all the way out here." Caleb stated trying to make small talk.

"Indeed, it's crazy to think about where we were 4 months ago we were fighting a war against the Confederacy of Independent Systems, now we're on the run from the very government we onced served." Aaron said.

Caleb looked over the side and down at his brother "Do you ever regret becoming a ranger?" Caleb asked.

Aaron seemed taken aback by the question "No." Aaron answered honestly "Do you?"

Caleb hesitated "I don't know if I would call it regret but sometimes I find myself thinking about what if we didn't join the rangers and just stayed as independent mercenaries, we wouldn't be in this predicament for one thing." Caleb said with a chuckle but then he stopped, "But we wouldn't have met the people we did and got a perspective on the Jedi almost everybody else doesn't."

"We might have met those people just not on friendly terms." Aaron pointed out.

"True." Caleb conceded. "Though the more I think about it I'm glad we chose to become rangers."

"Why is that?"

"Well for one we wouldn't do any more odd jobs for those vile hutts, and second we got to meet some really fascinating people." Caleb said with a smile as he looked at Vega who was clamoring up to his bunk and going to sleep.

Aaron smiled at that "Yeah we did, the situation may be gloomy now but I'm confident the Jedi will spring back eventually."

"Yeah." Caleb agreed, "So I see that Katie has caught your eye." Caleb teased with a grin, "I didn't realize you like women older than you."

Aaron just groaned in annoyance "she's biologically younger than me." He said, "W...wait n...no t..that's n...not …" Aaron stuttered.

"Heh heh heh." Caleb chuckled, "Hey bro theres nothing wrong with finding her attractive." Caleb stated while chuckling "Just take things slowly."

"How many relationships have you had?" Aaron retorted.

"Okay that actually hurt a little." Caleb stated.

"I'm sorry." Aaron apologised

"It's okay." Caleb sighed, Aaron actually felt bad, he remembered what Caleb went through and was afraid he opened up some old wounds.

"Look bro I didn't mean to bring that up." Aaron stated.

"Aaron it's okay I'm fine." Caleb said unconvincingly.

"Caleb…" Aaron started

"Leave it be!" Caleb snapped.

At that Aaron sighed "Okay, good night bro."

Vega heard the whole argument because it kept him up 'What happened to Caleb to make him feel so… upset?" Vega wondered to himself 'I guess it's none of my business but… he's also my friend, I guess I'll ask him at the earliest convenience tomorrow.' Vega thought as he drifted off to sleep.

Auron had also heard the argument being wide awake and not finding sleep kind of did that to him that and he was debating whether or not he should listen to the recording, a few minutes went by when he saw Katlyn walk on up to their shared bunk in her sleep wear "Crewman." Auron regarded her.

"My lord." She said respectfully.

Auron sighed "You don't have to refer to me as that."

"Than what should I refer to you as?" Katlyn asked.

"Anything but my lord." Auron stated.

She sported a mischievous grin "Sweet cheeks it is than." She smiled, Much to Auron's chagrin.

'I suppose I had that coming.' He thought to himself, "Tell you what, I'll stop referring to you as crewman if you don't call me sweet cheeks." Auron said.

Katelyn seemed to think it over "Hm. I don't know I kind of like calling you sweet cheeks." She said playfully.

Auron just looked at her with a bored expression.

"Okay then Auron." She sighed as she climbed into the bunk above him.

"Thank you Katelyn." He said.

"You're no fun you know that?" Katelyn asked.

"I'm not supposed to be fun." Auron retorted.

"You have fun all the time." Katelyn retorted.

"I have fun by fighting that's the extent of my fun." Auron stated, 'Okay that may not be true I do have fun playing Dejarik with Rohkea even though I always let that wookie win, and I enjoy some pazak with one of the sobec brothers.' He thought to himself

"Heh. we all have our hobbies." Katelyn shrugged.

Auron could sense she had something to ask him "What's the matter?" He asked sincerely wondering what was bothering her.

"How are you coping with all this?" She asked.

Auron just shrugged nonchalantly "I am doing the best I can, I really had nothing I cared about back in our time." Auron answered "How about you?"

"I had a family... my parents and siblings." She seemed to choke on that last part and Auron thought he could hear her crying silently.

Auron wasn't sure how to deal with this "I'm sorry for your loss." He said sincerely.

"The worse part is that they were killed by the empire I served."

"Why was that?" Auron asked curiously.

"I don't want to talk about it please." She stated with a sniffle.

"As you wish." The young man said respecting her wishes

"Thank you." She said gratefully.

Auron wanted to brighten up her spirits and mess with Aaron a bit "It seems you caught the eye of the older Sobec." He stated.

Katelyn was caught off guard at the abrupt change in subject, "Really?" She asked doubtfully.

"I wouldn't call it love but he definitely finds you attractive, then again I don't see how any man wouldn't" he told her 'unless he was asexual or he wasn't into girls.' He silently added to himself.

"Uh… thanks I guess." She said awkwardly, but deep down she felt something stir.

Auron seemed to sense it 'Wait a minute she finds him attractive as well?' He thought to himself, 'They only met a few days ago… then again it is none of my business, if they decide to act on it good for them.'

"Well I think I'll sleep now goodnight Auron." She said punctuating it with a yawn.

"Good night Katelyn." He stated while looking at his master's recorder 'I'll look at it at some point just not tonight.' He decided and put it in the drawer on his bunk and tried to find some sleep.

When he did he found himself in a chamber 'I recognize this place.' He thought to himself in horror, 'Of all places why here.' He thought.

The chamber was furnished with a table held up at a 75 degree angle with restraints on it and a flat table right next to it containing tools of pain but the thing that horrified him the most was the woman strapped to the torture device she was in her forties but she was beaten and her clothes were torn and scorched as evident of being electrocuted she had white hair, but the lack of eyes told him that she was miraluka.

"M...urder...er?" The woman breathed.

"Please. Not this." Auron pleaded he didn't want to see her again.

"Murderer!" She bellowed causing Auron to wake up with a gasp and a cold sweat.

He looked over at his chrono and saw it was one A.M. he looked into the dark room but his eyes took too long to adjust to the low light levels so he decide to activate his force sight, this ability was passed on to him from his mother who was a full blooded miraluka and as such had no eyes, however him being a half blood not only meant he had eyes but he also had the unique gift of seeing through the force that all miraluka do, of course this was also the reason he was a slave for a bit of his early life.

He saw that Daniel and Rohkea were not in the room in fact he could see them working in the assembler room, one of the perks of force sight was the ability to see through walls and bulkheads.

Seeing as he wasn't going back to sleep he got up from his bunk and left the room as quietly as possible so as not to awaken the others he went to the lounge and sat down and covered his eyes with his hands.

He sensed a presence seemingly appear out of nowhere and looked up to see what looked like a holographic projection of a man in jedi robes, but he could feel the force coming off of it, he switched to his force sight and confirmed there was a presence in the room "Who are you?" Auron asked wearily.

"I am Jedi master Qui-Gon Jinn." the apparition said with a smile

"What are you are you some kind of non corporeal life form?" Auron asked as he studied him "Or are you contacting me with telepathy?"

"Neither. You see young one a Jedi can retain their consciousness after death." The ghost answered.

"What…"Auron was dumbstruck he never heard of anything like that.

"How could you not? some sith have also become spirits thought it required an anchor unlike the Jedi." Qui-Gon stated.

"Stay out of my head." Auron growled. "As for that, I guess that knowledge was kept from young apprentices." He muttered "But enough of that why did you appear before me?" Auron asked cautiously.

"You feel remorse for your actions don't you?" Qui Gon asked.

Auron looked at him eyes wide "How much do you know?" He asked terrified.

Qui-Gon looked at him with a stern expression "I know all of your crimes you have committed young one." He answered him

At that Auron dropped to his knees and started to weep "I… am s...so s...sorry."

"I can feel that young one." Jinn said gently as a father would to a distraught son.

"She t-told me that she was there to s-save me." Auron started shakily, "To save me from the dark."

Qui-Gon already knew the story but didn't intervene.

"And I just scoffed at her and did all manner of things to bring her pain." Auron shuddered in disgust at himself, "I wanted to cause her pain, I wanted her to break and convert her and if that wasn't going to be an option, I wanted her to suffer as much as possible before she died." He said as he looked at his hands in horror.

"But despite all the pain I inflicted on her she still wanted to save me she showed me the light...she showed me what I was doing to her I felt all the pain I inflicted upon her and on my other victims, and the pain I went through as a slave, I think I loved her but it wasn't that kind of love, it was the kind of love where you're willing to give up everything for someone you don't even know."

"That is what it means to be a Jedi young one."

"I killed her for showing me that, and to put an end to her pain." Auron said with a shuddering breath, "It terrifies me to think that before she opened her mind to mine, my only thought was I would have loved to kill her, And at the end I killed her because I loved her."

"As well as to prevent her from becoming a tool of the Dark side." Qui-gon also added.

Auron nodded his head "I wish I could apologize to her."

"Young one she wishes to see you." Qui-gon told him much to Auron's surprise.

"She what?" He asked numbly as another ghost appears she looked young and untouched, her flowed from her like the white crystals glaciers of Ilum and she had a cloth wrapped around her eye sockets, seeing her Auron immediately began to weep again and he dropped to his knees his head bowed and his frame shook "I… a...am...sooo sooo sorry." He sobbed.

The young woman walked up to him got down to his level and brought him into a hug he sobbed silently into her shoulder "How can you forgive me so easily, I thought you'ld be furious with me?" Auron cried.

"I was never angry with you." She answered, "I was sad because I thought you'ld be lost forever."

Auron pulled away "I am lost, when you showed me the light I was terrified and there was so much pain associated with the moment." Auron explained. "But now I'm not afraid I want to walk the path of the light."

"Auron you should know that the Dark side will always pull at you but if you have the will you will be fine." Qui-Gon told him.

"I understand." Auron nodded.

Auron wasn't sure what to do "What must I do."

The woman smiled at him "Just keep helping these people use your gift to help others you can do this." She told him.

Auron nodded "I will do so." He looked like he wanted to ask her something.

"What is it?" She asked soothingly.

"Who are you?" He asked, "I never knew your name and I can't help but feel that you're familiar to me for some reason." He explained

The woman smiled "Is it not obvious?" She asked.

Auron's eyes widened when he connected the dots "That's why you wanted to save me." He realized.

She nodded with a sad smile on her lips "Yes my son."

"Mother… I." Auron stopped looking for the right words "... I'll make you proud."

"You already have son." She told him "I'm afraid I must leave." She said regretfully.

"Wait what's your last name?" Auron asked "I'd like to take it as my own." He told her "that is if you'll let me."

She smiled and nodded "My name was Yisa Var."

'Var that's my last name? I like it.' Auron thought to himself "Will I ever see you again?" He asked.

Yisa smiled at him "I will come back to teach you and the other force users on this ship a few techniques I know so don't worry." She answered as she faded "Goodbye my son."

"Good bye." After that she left leaving only Auron and Qui-Gon in the room.

"How do you feel?" Qui-Gon asked.

"I don't know." Auron answered honestly "I got to meet my mother but… oh force." He exclaimed and covered his mouth "I tortured and killed my own mother." He said in horror.

"Yes you did." Qui-Gon said bluntly "But she loves you so much that she forgave you, besides you weren't aware of it at the time."

"Just because I wasn't aware of it doesn't make it any better." Auron stated.

"You can't change the past young one." Jinn told him.

"I know that, so I won't bother wishing to do so, instead I will focus on helping Daniel and Vega in their quest to fight the Galactic Empire and Darth Sidious when the time comes." Auron said his face full of determination.

"You can help them right now by teaching them how to defend themselves from sith techniques." Jinn suggested.

Auron nodded in agreement "However before any of that I'm going to tell them my past." Auron said with a sigh "Better to just tell them now than tell them later or force forbid they find out through other means."

Qui-Gon could see his point "A wise decision since Darth Navѐ wouldn't hesitate to use that to his advantage."

Auron nodded "I'll tell Daniel that I would like to talk to him and Vega when I see him."

"A solid plan." Qui-Gon told him "Now if you'll excuse me I must leave, may the force be with you, Auron Var."

Auron bowed and reciprocated the farwell "And you as well master Jinn." Then he was alone, he didn't know how long he stood there lost in his sea of thoughts he looked over at the chrono and saw it was 3:30 in the morning 'I should go back to bed now.' He thought to himself as he felt a wave of tiredness crash into him.

Just a he stepped out into the hallway the turbolift door opened to reveal a tired Daniel and Rohkea when they saw each other Auron decided to break the silence "You finished with whatever it was you were working on?" He asked.

"Yeah and we're tired." Daniel told him and yawned to emphasize it.

"Okay but before you go to sleep I should tell you I wish to speak with you and Vega in private at some point later today." Auron told him.

Daniel just cast him a tired glance "Yeah sure, where?"

"Training room." Auron answered.

Daniel nodded and walked into the sleeping area followed by the tired wookie, Auron went in as well and walked towards his bunk and climbed into it and fell into a dreamless sleep.

About a half hour later Caleb stirred and woke up and climbed down from his bunk to go to the lounge to prepare breakfast though on his way out he didn't notice Vega stir and wake to see him leave the room.

Caleb headed directly over to the kitchen area and began to make breakfast when he heard the door to the lounge open he turned to see Vega enter the room who was rubbing the sleep from his eyes "Hey Vega what are you doing up? Did I wake you?" He asked Vega nodded in confirmation "I'm sorry I didn't mean to." Caleb apologized.

"It's alright." Vega assured the ranger "I wanted to speak with you anyway." He told him "If that's okay?"

Caleb just smiled "You can speak to me about anything you want buddy." He told the young padawan.

At that Vega seemed to hesitate for a moment "I overheard your conversation with Aaron last night."

Caleb froze for a moment "Yeah sorry if that kept you up man."

"I actually like what you had to say about how you don't regret joining the rangers and stuff like that than I heard you tease Aaron about Katie and then I noticed that he brought something up and you got upset with him." Vega summarized the conversation.

Caleb looked at his feet and sighed Vega could sense the regret and sadness role off the ranger in waves "It's not something I like to talk about." Caleb said saddly.

Vega actually began to wonder if he should press the issue "Look you don't have to tell me it really isn't any of my business." Vega told him.

"No it isn't." Caleb said bluntly "but," he sighed "You're my friend, well everyone on this ship is a friend… or a frenemy in the case of Auron any way."

"Auron will come around." Vega stated.

Caleb chuckled "Perhaps he will, he plays a killer game of Pazaak as well." He mused with a chuckle, his expression went from one of mirth to sadness "some time ago back when Aaron and I first joined the rangers shortly after we finished our training ..." He began however before he could continue the door opened to reveal Aaron Sobec up and at em.

Aaron looked at the other occupants in the room and noticed the down look on his brother's face "You're going to tell him about Leela?" He asked.

"He asked and quite frankly Vega you could learn from my mistakes." Caleb answered talking to the both of them.

"You think I'm going to look for a girl to have a relationship with?" Vega asked quizzically Caleb just looked at him and dipped his head slightly "That is the furthest thing from my mind right now."

"Okay but still I think I should tell you anyway." Caleb took a deep breath "Leela was someone I got involved with even before my time in the rangers she was a mercenary like me and she didn't like Jedi I never understood why that was she tried to tell me it's because that they were all arrogant pompous jerks though while I can concede that is the case with some of them to say they all are like that is a bit unfair."

"Okay so when you joined the Rangers she started to resent you."

"Actually I didn't know how to tell her so I didn't but there was this one mission that I went on with a Jedi knight who I became a friend with in fact I found myself thinking that maybe Leela could see not all Jedi are like what she thinks they are, well any way he was incapacitated and this woman in mandalorian armor was going to shoot him and kill him in cold blood so I did the only thing I could I defended my friend and I knocked her helmet off in the struggle." Caleb said with a shuddering breath.

"Oh…" was all Vega said, Aaron looked away he remembered how hurt and upset Caleb had been after that mission.

"She looked at me with betrayal and she told me to 'move' I told her that 'I wasn't going to let her harm the man when he couldn't defend himself.'"

"That doesn't sound like something a mandalorian would do." Vega said.

"Who said she was mandalorian?" Caleb asked.

"Fair point."

"I found out that she was a member of a group who wanted to kill all force sensitives in the galaxy for some reason and well I wasn't going to stand for that."

"What happened next?" Vega asked Caleb looked at Aaron as if to say can you take it from here.

"From what Caleb told me he and Leela fought for a bit and she managed to subdue him and break a few of his bones and then she picked up her blaster to go kill the Jedi and Caleb saw no other choice he shot her in the back of the head just before she could kill him."

"Oh… so you killed her?" He asked.

"No but I should have, the blaster was set to stun." Caleb answered.

"But we learned a bit about her organization because of that Caleb." Aaron told him.

"Yeah we did but then her friends from the organization managed to break her out when we were transferring her to Desolation Alley on Oovo IV and she went on to hurt more people and Jedi because of that." Caleb countered while gritting his teeth.

"But…" Vega started

"No buts. I didn't spare her for so that we could learn more about the organization she works for, no I spared her because deep down I didn't have the guts to do what was necessary in that moment," Caleb interrupted harshly, his voice got progressively louder till he was practically on the verge of yelling, than his voice started to break "I spared her because I couldn't bring myself to kill her." He said with tears in his eyes.

"Caleb you can't keep blaming yourself it's never easy to take a life especially of someone you care for and what she did and does is not your fault." Aaron said as he pulled his brother into a hug.

"I wish I could believe that." Caleb said with a sniffle.

Aaron sighed and pulled away, his hands resting on his younger brother's shoulders. "Look you can't shoulder the responsibility for her crimes after that point because in the end she makes her own choices brother just like you made the choice to stun her rather than kill her, like you made the choice to defend the Jedi than let her kill him, like we chose to join the rangers." Aaron told him "Do you understand?" He asked.

Caleb nodded and took in a shuddering breath "Yeah I understand." He than shook his head "It still doesn't make it any easier though."

Aaron just squeezed his shoulders in reassurance before letting go of him and turned to face Vega "Do you have any questions?"

Vega looked at him with eyes wide in distress "There is an organization out there dedicated to killing force sensitives?" He asked fear lacing into his voice.

"They are a small group they believe that force users are a blight on the universe and so sought to kill them all." Caleb told him with a sigh.

Vega looked lost "Why would they think that, and why all force sensitives, that doesn't make any sense." Vega began to ramble

Aaron and Caleb never realized how naive the boy was before now, so Caleb walked over to the boy knelt down to his level and placed a hand on his shoulder, when he did that Vega looked at him fear in his eyes "It's okay we're far away from those people and we most likely won't encounter them for a while." He reassured the distressed boy.

"It's not fair! why must people be so full of hate so as to discriminate against or even kill an entire group?" Vega asked.

Caleb looked at his brother who just shrugged slightly "I don't know why these people are like that, maybe some kind of grudge or how they were raised, jealousy maybe, it could simply just be pride." Caleb answered.

"Pride?" Vega scoffed.

Caleb nodded "Yeah, pride can be one of the most dangerous of emotions kid, it can build empires or topple them." Caleb answered poetically.

Vega looked at him quizzically "Uh… What?"

"What my brother is trying to say is that pride can make people do great things but also some really stupid things." Aaron reiterated as simply a he could.

"Oh, Okay." Vega said with a nod to show he understood.

"There is more to it than that but I don't have the time to get into it right now." Aaron told the boy "You know what I think I'll tell both you and Daniel about the dangers of pride or at least my take on it at some point." The Ranger told him.

Vega smiled and nodded "I'd like that." He turned to face Caleb "how do you feel?" He asked.

Caleb's lips turned upward in a smile that didn't reach his eyes "I feel better than I did last night." He told them with a sigh.

Vega could sense that he genuinely felt better and smiled "That's great." Vega responded, "Do you mind If I help with breakfast?" He asked suddenly.

Caleb just chuckled "I would love the help come on." Caleb bekond and handed him a covering "Put this on." He told him, Vega complied and turned to Aaron "Are you going to help to?", the older ranger shrugged and nodded.

"Sure, throw me a covering." Caleb did so, and Aaron put it on and the three spent the next hour making breakfast.

Just as Aaron finished making hot cakes the door opened to reveal the only woman on the ship "Something smells good." She observed as she entered the room.

"I hope it tastes good to Caleb, Vega, and I spent the last hour putting this all together."

She smiled "I'm sure it'll be fine."

"Hey Katie please help yourself." Caleb told her.

"Thank you." She said with a smile and grabbed a plate with two hot cakes and some nerf sausage.

"Where are the others?" Caleb asked looking at the door.

"Micah and Auron are getting up, Daniel and Rohkea are sleeping like rocks and won't be getting up any time soon." Katelyn told them.

"That's because they spent a lot of last night building a interface for Alpha." Vega told them.

Aaron raised an eyebrow "Whose Alpha?"

"Oh that's the Gree A.I. you and Micah found yesterday." Vega clarified.

"Ah!" the group nodded.

The door opened again to reveal Auron walking in "Micah wanted to let you know that he went to check bridge to see how much longer it'll be before we enter the system." He told them.

"Thank you." Caleb said with a nod, then he grinned "How about a quick game of Pazak?" He asked.

Auron smirked "You're on."

"Seriously while we're eating breakfast Bro?" Aaron asked Incredulously.

"After breakfast." Caleb said dejected.

"Very well." Auron said deflated seriously wanting to play the game.

"Well help yourself to some food." Vega said politely.

"Thanks." Auron said and grabbed some food.

And again the Doors opened to reveal the chiss member of the crew "We'll be arriving in the system within about two hours." He reported.

"That's good." Aaron said, "who's going to wake up the sleeping members of the crew?" He asked.

"Not me." Caleb exclaimed causing the imperials to look at him in confusion "Have you ever tried to wake up a wookie before?" He asked.

The Imperials shook their heads but could imagine that it wasn't pretty "No and I don't think I want to."

Vega just laughed "It's not that bad Rohkea sometimes ends up grabbing us and cradling us like a stuffed animal."

"Than you can wake him up I don't like being cuddled." Caleb stated.

Aaron and the two imperials were struggling to not break into a fit of laughter "Actually waking up Daniel can be a bit dangerous." Aaron said after he successfully prevented himself from laughing.

Auron noticed a bit of somberness in his tone "Nightmares?" He asked.

"Yeah and sometime if he's having nightmares and someone tries to wake him up he can react... violently." Aaron explained.

"He participated in the war didn't he?" Katelyn asked.

Aaron nodded "All three years."

Auron nodded "I've fought in the war for three years myself." Auron stated.

"Then you know what it's like."

"Yeah I'll wake him up." Auron told them as he stood up and walked to the crew quarters with Vega following him to wake up Rohkea.

The two force users walked into the room and walked over to their targets to wake up.

Auron reached into the force and sent a message to wake up Daniel as calmly as possible, Daniel opened his eyes "What time is it?" He asked drowsily.

"It's Five in the morning you're burning daylight." Auron told him

"On which planet?" Daniel shot back with a grin.

"Just shut up and get up." Auron said.

"Ah! Rohkea let me go!" Vega yelled Auron turned to see Vega caught in hug by the sleeping wookie Daniel saw this as well and burst out laughing.

Daniel reached into the force and use the force to suggest to the wookie to wake up it worked and Rohkea soon realised the position he was in and immediately let the young boy go (Sorry young cub.) the wookie apologised.

"It's okay." Vega said waiving the apology off.

"Sorry about disturbing your sleep but Micah said that we would be arriving within two hours." Auron told him.

Daniel nodded "Okay thanks, however before we go to the lounge how about we go the the training room where you can tell Vega and I what you want to?"

Auron nodded seeing as he wanted to get this out of the way as quickly as possible "Okay sure." He said.

Daniel turned to Rohkea "You go on ahead and get some food." He told the wookie who nodded and left the room.

The three of them headed for the turbolift and entered it and took it down to the training area the group walked into the Training room "What's going on?" Vega asked.

"Auron wants to tell us something." Daniel answered, at this both boys turned their attention to the young sith Apprentice.

Auron took a deep breath "I want to leave the dark side behind." He told them.

Both boys' eyes widened at hearing that "You do?" The two of them asked in sync.

Auron merely rolled his eyes "Is that so hard to believe?"

"I don't know what to do about this, I mean it's your choice and I'm not going to stop you one way or the other." Daniel told him.

Auron looked at him with a raised eyebrow "You mean that If I was to remain a darksider you wouldn't try to kill me?" He asked with a tone to show that he didn't believe him.

Daniel sighed he supposed he could understand the disbelief "The thing is despite popular belief the Jedi don't go around killing every single darksider in the universe." Daniel started, "The Jedi believe all life is sacred and you must be damn sure that you or someone else is in danger if you are going to take it, we don't try to kill unarmed opponents we try to take them prisoner, sometimes it isn't easy and not all of us manage to follow this I won't deny that."

Auron nodded in understanding at that "Why do you want to leave the sith?" Vega asked curiously Auron turned his gaze to him.

"Went through slavery for a few years because of them, turned me into a killer, tried to turn me into a monster take your pick." Auron told him, "Though I will take responsibility for the people I've killed those were my doing."

"But you were fighting in a war I can't fault you for that." Vega told him.

"I did a lot more than fight on the battlefield."Auron muttered, "I was trained to be an inquisitor." He explained

"Inquisitor?" Vega asked looking at Daniel.

"An inquisitor was a sith rank for interrogators they often… Oh." He cut off upon realising what Auron was telling them "You tortured your victims to death?!"

Auron turned his head away unable to look the two young Jedi in the eye "Yes." he said quietly.

Vega and Daniel were almost drowned by the amount of guilt and grief the apprentice was radiating "What happened?" Vega asked quietly.

Auron's grief and guilt transformed into a fiery rage that would make Mustafar feel like a tropical vacation spot "They brought me a new Victim to torture a Miraluka female of the Luka Sene, She told me that she was there to save me that she came of her own free will despite that she was dragged there by some soldiers, I'll spare you the details but right when I thought she couldn't take any more she opened her mind to mine and showed me the Pain I was putting her through as well as the Pain I put my other victims through." He said with a shuddering breath "She also showed me the Light side and it's calming presence but in that moment it was associated with Pain and I pulled away from it though not completely."

"... What happened to her?" Vega asked.

Auron had a few tears coming from his eyes "I killed her so she wouldn't suffer any more, and because I love her." He explained he sensed confusion from the younger Jedi "Not that kind of love, the type where you're willing to give up everything for someone you don't even know." He told him

Daniel and Vega could sense the sincerity behind the words he spoke However Daniel wasn't sure if he was just really good at lying after all Inquisitors from what he learned were masters at deception "Who was this woman?" Daniel asked curiously.

"I didn't know her name until recently, her name was Yisa Var." Auron told them "And the worst part about this was that...she was my Mother." He told them choking on that last bit.

Daniel and Vega were horrified when he told them that they didn't know what to think "Did you know?" Vega asked numbly.

Auron shook his head to tell them he didn't know at the time "I found out just last night." He told them.

"How?" Daniel asked.

"She told me herself." He answered causing the two jedi to look at each other "Yes like Qui Gon Jinn he was there too." He told the two having guessed what they were thinking.

Daniel looked at him in thought "You said she wanted to save you?" He asked

Auron nodded "Yes because I was her son."

Vega nodded his head "No better motivation than that." He said out loud.

Daniel nodded in agreement "I don't know what to do." He stated.

"I don't expect either of you to just accept this, in all honesty you're taking this better than I thought you would." Auron told them.

"What's that suppose to mean?" Daniel asked indignantly.

"It can mean whatever you want it to mean." Auron answered.

Daniel just dropped the subject and said "I want to believe you but I can't trust you."

"Nor should you, I will earn your trust." Auron retorted showing he didn't blame Daniel for not trusting him "and I would like to start by helping you learn how to fight darksiders." He added.

"How can you do that?" Vega asked with a tilt of his head.

Auron smirked "By having you fight me of course."

Daniel was on guard "Now or later?" He asked

"Later of course after we meet the shards." Auron stated much to Daniel and Vega's relief though Daniel remained on guard.

"Well I guess we should go get some food then." Daniel suggested receiving a nod from the other two, the group made their way to the lounge in silence.

Two hours had gone by when the ship finally emerged from hyperspace in the system "R7 scan the system find the planet let's do this as quickly as possible." Micah ordered the droid.

The Droid beeped and whistled as it carried out its task, it swiveled its head and cast a holographic projection of the star system from its projector.

The System had a red dwarf for its sun, 10 planets orbited the star, 5 terrestrial and 5 Jovian, 4 of the terrestrial planets and 1 of the smaller jovian planets were within the inner system, while the bigger Jovians orbited in the outer system with the final terrestrial planet orbiting on the edge of planetary plane, there were also several other celestial bodies such as asteroids and comets, however there was something that caught Micah's eye "R7 magnify that object." He ordered pointing at said object.

The droid complied and the object got bigger, Micah's red eyes widened and he immediately pulled out his comm "Everyone please come up here immediately." He said urgently.

"We're on our way." Caleb responded.

It didn't take long for the crew to show up Daniel, Aaron and Caleb in there proto armor while the others wore their usual attire "What is it? Is it Mnggal-Mnggal?" Daniel asked his voice sounding deeper through the helmet.

Micah shook his head "No, R7 and I believe we found a ship, republic in origin." The chiss reported much to the group's surprise.

"Really all the way out here?" Aaron asked skeptically, the chiss nodded and showed them the readings.

"That's a republic medical transport." Caleb pointed out as he studied the craft, "a Sprint class rescue craft to be precise… Oh my goodness that the Bright Flight!" He exclaimed.

"The Bright Flight?" Katelyn asked.

Aaron turned to face her "It was a medical ship that went missing after the battle at Boz Pity."

"It has forty passengers aboard." Micah told them "And they're broadcasting a distress signal."

Vega and Auron sensed a lot of hostility coming from Daniel "Should we help?" Vega asked.

"Why should we?" Daniel asked somewhat harshly much to the surprise of Auron and Katie, Daniel felt as if he heard some voices telling him to get revenge and kill the bio droids who had killed the Jedi Daniel just ignored the voice not realizing what it was but thinking that maybe he should listen.

"Those passengers would be wounded clones." Micah stated, at that the two imperials could understand Daniels animosity.

"Daniel are you seriously considering leaving them there?" Vega asked "What if Mnggal-Mnggal gets them?"

Daniel thought about it for a moment he was tempted to just leave these clones to their own devices, he lost all respect for them the moment they started to kill Jedi, but then there were probably some non clone crew members on board the ship medics specifically and they would definitely be beneficial for his master's recuperation when they finally rescue her, that and he just couldn't bear the thought of Mnggal-Mnggal getting its hands on anyone when he could have prevented it, "I'll take the shuttle to get the crew." He sighed in resignation, he turned to Auron "How about you come help?" He asked.

Auron nodded his head in agreement "Will you be needing the armor now I mean the ship should have a breathable atmosphere." Auron pointed out.

Daniel shrugged "Better safe than sorry, you might want to grab something yourself." He suggested.

"I have an imperial pilot suit it should do the job, I will also bring HK-51." He told him, Daniel made no move to object to bringing the assassin droid.

"Just tell him it's a rescue mission we most likely won't have to kill anyone." The Padawan stated.

Auron nodded and left to go get ready for the rescue Daniel turned to face Vega "Why don't you take one of the spare space suits and go with Aaron and Caleb to meet the shards." He suggested.

Vega nodded excitedly, he was looking forward to meeting these fascinating creatures "Yeah I'd love to go." He stated excitedly, it was also a good chance to get off the ship and he was going to take it.

Aaron and Caleb just shook their heads in amusement "Come on let's get going." Aaron beckoned and left with his team leaving only Katlyn, Rohkea, Micah, R7,and Daniel on the bridge.

"Daniel I know you might hate the clones right now but you have to remember these Clones didn't take part in the massacre." Micah reminded him, Daniel turned his head and looked at him, though Micah couldn't see Daniel expression he could guess the young man was displeased.

"What's to prevent them from trying to kill us when we reveal Order 66?" Daniel retorted.

"Who says you have to tell them?" Katelyn jumped in catching the attention of the group.

Daniel seemed to think about it "You mean lie to them?" He asked, though deep down he had no problem with that.

"Just don't tell them the whole truth." She reiterated "Maybe we can find out why they followed the order.

Daniel wanted to say it was because they were 'no better than droids' but he just remained silent.

Micah brought his hand to his chin in thought "Most of them are most likely injured it might be good to run some brain scans see what we can find." He said seeing where she was coming from.

Daniel just sighed "I should get going." He said and left the room, one didn't need the force to see how angry the young Jedi was.

"Will he be alright?" Katelyn asked concerned.

Micah sighed "I don't know, he has every right to be angry at the clones they killed several Jedi along with Darth Vader at the temple on Coruscant, Daniel saw one of them kill a Jedi youngling and then he just lost it in that moment thankfully Master K'kruhk and padawan Piru managed to calm him down otherwise he would have gone on a warpath that most likely would have ended in his death or worse." He told her.

Katelyn heart went out to the young Padawan when she heard that, she decided to change the subject "I'm tired of feeling so useless I would like to help." She told the chiss.

Micah merely smiled and gestured to the console across from Rohkea "I thought you'ld never asked."

Katelyn walked over to the console and sat down at she looked at the read out and nodded "Thank you." She said gratefully.

"It's your station from now on." Micah told her prompting another nod from the former sith imperial.

"Daniel and Auron's shuttle has departed." She reported.

Micah nodded and turned to R7 "Set course for the furthest terrestrial planet." He ordered.

The Droid whistled and carried out the task.

Meanwhile Daniel, Auron and HK-51 all sat in the shuttle that they had salvaged from the debris field a few days ago.

Daniel was concentrating on his piloting skills and Auron could tell he was brooding "Daniel." He started, Daniel didn't turn his head to face him.

"Yes?" He asked.

"Are you going to kill the clones onboard." Auron asked bluntly.

"I would certainly like to." Daniel growled as he turned to face him.

"Hopeful query: does that mean we'll get to kill some worthless meat bags master?" The artificial homicidal maniac asked.

"Shut up!" Auron snapped at the droid which immediately obeyed before he turned his attention back to Daniel "The dark side is not all it's cracked up to be Daniel and I'd prefer you not find that out the hard way."

Daniel suddenly stopped when he said that 'was that the call to the dark I've been hearing ever since we discovered the ship.' He thought to himself in horror, then he felt sick and cold, the Dark side made him feel so sick "How did you handle that for so many years." He asked panting.

Auron sighed "When I was first introduced to the force the Dark Side was the path that I was forced down I never got to choose my path." He told him "I suppose sith just get used to it, I don't get how, it eats away at you both physically and mentally."

"Why would anyone want that?" Daniel asked.

"The Dark side offers power and false promises and is incredibly seductive, but in reality all it does is drag you down a slippery slope where you do more and more immoral things until you don't care about anything but your own pursuit of power." Auron told him.

"How can one climb out of that?" Daniel asked "can one come out?"

"I did." Auron answered, "As for how, It takes a genuine feeling of Guilt, Remorse, and desire to change to bring you out of the abyss at least it did in my case."

"But you continue to use Dark side abilities." Daniel pointed out.

"You mean like lightning?" Auron asked receiving a nod from the padawan "You mean to tell me the Jedi never used any dark side abilities?" He asked with a raised eyebrow though his helmet hid that expression.

"Well master Plo used a Lightning before, Mace Windu was a Korun and used the Darkside a bit." Daniel said.

"My point is that no ability is inherently good or evil it's how you use it." Auron told him.

"I fail to see how choke can be used for good." Daniel countered

"All choke is, is an application of telekinesis you can use it like a choke hold to knock out the individual in question without seriously harming them." Auron explained.

Daniel had to admit he didn't think about it like that "I think I can see the practical benefits to shooting lighting as well, you can power up and shorten out machinery that would be very helpful against droids." He said looking pointedly at HK-51

"Warning: Don't get any ideas meat bag."

"It is also a great long range weapon to use when you can't close the distance fast enough." Auron pointed out.

Daniel could see that logic "Would you mind teaching me some things you know?" He asked

"I already said I would." Auron deadpanned.

Daniel was about to say something else before the console pinged to let him know the ship was near by "Prepare for docking procedures." He told them, Auron secured his straps and HK merely magnetized to the floor.

Daniel carefully piloted the craft to one of the docking ports on the top of the ship, he landed on it and successfully attached to the port, afterwards he got on the Comm and attempted to contact the ship "Medical ship Bright Flight this is Padawan Daniel Valo of the Jedi Order please respond." Static was all that answered them.

"That isn't reassuring." Auron noted delving into the force to see what awaited them on the ship what he saw shocked him "Okay I have good news and bad news." Auron stated.

"Oh let me guess the bad news Mnggal-Mnggal is on board isn't it?" Daniel asked somewhat sarcastically Auron dipped his head in a slight nod "I think some deity out there is angry at us." Daniel said dryly.

Auron chuckled slightly "Well the good news is there are some survivors who have successfully sealed themselves off from the parasite and one of them is strong in the force, were there any Jedi aboard the vessel?" He asked the Padawan.

Daniel delved into his thoughts before he answered "Not that I know of the only force user they brought aboard was dead… unless reports of her demise were greatly exaggerated." He groaned, he wasn't looking forward to this.

"You know her?" Auron asked.

Daniel stood up and began to walk towards the hatch with Auron and the Droid following "Her name is Asajj Ventress she was a member of Count Dooku's Dark Acolytes and was one of the most notorious Jedi killers during the War however from what I understand she had a falling out with Dooku and became a bounty hunter apparently Dooku captured her and implanted Cybernetics into her to make her a servant again but she broke free of his control however she was severely injure but shortly before she 'Died' she managed to pass on that the Separatist were going to do a massive assault on the Galactic Core at some point."

Auron nodded "Perhaps she could help us." He suggested.

Daniel stopped at the door and shrugged "I wouldn't mind her helping at all If I didn't want to run the risk of her torturing us to death."

"You said that she moved on from that life maybe she might be willing to help due solely to the fact that we are the only ones with the means of getting out of this place." Auron said as he grabbed his lightsaber hilt Daniel doing the same HK getting his blaster at the ready, Daniel opened the airlock and walked inside to the other one he turned back to HK "It might be better if we have someone stay here and have the ship ready for take off." Daniel told him.

The droid was about to protest "HK just do it." Auron ordered exasperated.

"Compliance master." The droid sulked and walked back to the shuttle cockpit.

Auron sighed "Am I being too hard on him?" He asked himself outloud

"I would say you are but what you do with that droid is your business." Daniel told him as he opened the door to reveal an empty hallway with the lights off in such a way that it reminded Daniel of those Horror holo dramas he watched in his down time from the war every so often.

"I'll try to be a bit more easier next time." He said and activated his crimson blade to provide some light, Daniel doing the same with his Yellow blade.

Auron made use of force sight to better perceive the ship when they came to a door that Daniel was about to open he stopped the young Padawan momentarily confusing him "There's something on the other side of this door." He whispered.

Daniel was about to ask how he knew that then immediately made the connection and decided to stay silent trying to use his own senses to tell what was beyond the door what he sence filled him full of dread "It's Mnggal-Mnggal." He quietly exclaimed keeping his voice down "It shouldn't take to long for HK to come here he has a built in flamethrower correct?" He asked

Auron nodded and got on the comm "HK turns out we could use your help get down here immediately please." He ordered the droid.

"Affirmative." The Droid said excitedly.

Like Daniel thought it barely took the droid thirty seconds to get there "Okay look we're going to need your flame thrower here." Auron stated.

"Query: Can't the Jedi here generate fire?" The Droid asked while looking at the Jedi.

"Generating fire takes a bit of energy I'd rather save that until we absolutely need it." Daniel explained.

The Droid and former sith nodded and accepted his answer, Daniel went over and opened the door and on the other side were clones in battle gear? However Due to Daniel's resentment towards the clones and the fact he could sense that the clones were dead he refused to let his guard down as did Auron and HK-51.

One of the 15 'clones' in the room turned towards them and upon seeing Daniel in his armor started to laugh, the laugh was scratchy and unnatural "Hello Jedi padawan." The creature said in that same unnatural scratchy voice as if he was possessed by a demon.

"Mnggal-Mnggal." Daniel said while he dropped into a ready stance Auron doing the same.

"How does it feel to look upon the face of those who betrayed you?" Mnggal-Mnggal asked sinisterly.

Daniel's eyes widened behind his faceplate "How do you..." He started

"I know that Palpatine had reformed the Republic into an empire, I know about the war between clones, I even know the identity of Darth Vader." The creature interrupted "When I consume the cattle of the universe I gain knowledge." It added.

Daniel shook with rage "You consider life to be cattle." He spat.

Mnggal-Mnggal laughed again "How is it any different than how some people look at the clones as no better than droids?" Mnggal-Mnggal retorted.

Daniel didn't reply as far as he was concerned the clones were no better than droids but to say that it wasn't any different than looking at sentient life as livestock really got on his nerves, that was before he realised that's what Mnggal-Mnggal was trying to do it wanted to throw him off balance, he dispelled his negative emotions into the force with a sigh and calmed down.

"If you know so much then tell us what is the Identity of Vader?" Auron challenged, Much to the surprise of Daniel however before he could respond Mnggal-Mnggal beat him to it.

"He was the champion of the Jedi and perhaps the greatest Jedi of any age." Mnggal-Mnggal laughed.

Daniel knew right away who he was talking about "YOU LIE!" He shouted.

"Search your feelings you know it to be true."

Daniel sensed no deception coming from the creature, he let out a Scream of pure Anguish and betrayal "Nooooooooooo!" He screamed so loudly that the ship actually began to shook, Auron, HK-51, and even Mnggal-Mnggal were all stunned by the force enhanced scream and deafened by the noise Daniel saw this, rushed forward and cut the possessed clone down.

Auron recovered and fired bolts of electric energy at the Clones that Daniel had cut down catching the ooze that was Mnggal-Mnggal in the storm of lightning effectively stunning and burning it while HK used his Baragwin Flame Thrower to burn and incinerate the ooze.

The 'clones' that weren't destroyed in the confusion attacked Daniel and the others using blasters and their hands Daniel tried to slice one but it moved so fast and in such an impossible manner that it told Daniel they had no skeletons to speak of meaning Mnggal-Mnggal had devoured them all in the time it took them to get there, Daniel may have resented the clones now but not even they deserved that, Daniel reached out with telekinesis and held them in place and Cut them to ribbons as fast as he could before creating fire from the air and incinerating the remains.

Auron deflected blaster bolts back at the shooters and retaliated with force lightning and telekinesis with HK helping with his blaster cannon or flame thrower.

Daniel had just finished dispatching one of the Possessed clones when he found himself being tackled to the ground by a clone possessed by Mnggal-Mnggal behind a console so HK couldn't shoot him "Like I told you when we last met I will make suffer till you are begging for death." The Creature growled before forming claws with which to stab him through the joint, it was about to stab him when a blue blaster bolt hit the body in the head distracting it causing Daniel to throw it off of him and into the wall creating a dent before disintegrating the Body and the ooze inside it with pyrokinesis, after that was done he turned to see 2 clone holding a blaster carbine and 5 medics behind him carrying a crippled clone and other wounded soldiers and the thing that really surprised him Asajj Ventress taking up the rear.

"Are you alright commander?" The lead clone asked concerned causing Daniel to nearly lose his composure not surprising since a while ago the clones were and are his enemy.

"Yeah I'm alright." Daniel said "Is this all that's left?" He asked neutrally.

The crew nodded their heads "You can tell us all about it after we leave, come on we have a shuttle waiting." Daniel ordered the group didn't hesitate and went into the room just as Auron and HK finished off the last of the possessed clones.

"Statement: I thought you said there were about forty eight people onboard." The droid stated "minus the ones we torched here of course."

Auron counted nineteen survivors "Damn that Parasite got that many of you wait we killed fifteen, where are the last six?" He asked

"I took care of them." A silky voice said Daniel recognised it belonged to Asajj Ventress.

"Ventress." Daniel greeted coolly "It's a pleasure to finally meet you in person."

She smirked "Somehow I doubt that."

"Urgent Statement: as much as I would love to continue this pointless discussion I recommend we depart immediately."

The group did not question the droid and immediately began to move towards the shuttle Just as they heard an inhuman roar come from where the survivors came the didn't look back Daniel sped forward, leapt into the shuttle and prepared the departure sequence "Hurry up!" He shouted at the others the wounded were loaded into the shuttle first while Auron, Asajj the two uninjured clones, and HK did what they could to slow down the creature first Auron used the force to close the door at the end of the hall way.

"That ought to slow it down." He commented, then the Door dented inwards "Maybe not."

"If we hold the door up with our power that might help us." Asajj suggested as she started to do so Auron nodded and helped as well.

"Hey how are you coming along?" One of the clones asked the medics as they loaded the eight wounded clones.

"We are getting it done we have 6 more to get on."

"Threat: than I suggest you hurry up before I throw you at the parasite to slow it down." HK-51 said, The medic gulped and nodded .

Mnggal-Mnggal banged on the door like a battering ram causing Auron and Asajj to strain in effort to keep the creature out.

"Three more to go." A medic reported

"Shut up and just load them already." Auron grounded out.

Finally Mnggal-Mnggal Hit the door with enough force that it knocked Asajj and Auron off their feet and broke their concentration which allowed Mnggal-Mnggal to break through the door Auron shot lightning at the parasite HK fired his flamethrower while the clones shot it, and Asajj used her telekinesis to hold it back as much as she could, there efforts were met with some success but Mnggal-Mnggal continued to press forward.

The medics got the final injured clone inside and jumped in "It's all clear come on!" He shouted.

"Proclamation: I'll bored last, go, stagnant retreat." The droid stated.

Auron turned to the clones "You first, go." He ordered, the clones didn't hesitate and dived through the airlock.

Asajj turned to him "You next." She told him Auron nodded and jumped through himself and ran to the cockpit.

"I can take over you go back and help HK." he told him, Daniel nodded and ran back to the airlock, Asajj had jumped through to porthole and moved out of the way of the padawan who was holding a flame in one hand and reaching out with the other he clenched slightly as if to grab something and tugged back causing HK to fly through the porthole, as soon as HK was out of the way he sent a massive fire wave down the hall and threw a telekinetic wave at the creature which sent it back down the hall, he sealed the airlock.

"Let's get out of here!" He bellowed toward the cockpit, no sooner did he say that the ship had detached and flew away at top speeds when he did that he sighed with relief.

"Thank you commander." One of the uninjured clones said gratefully

Daniel looked at the clone "Don't mention it." He said succesfully without any hostility leaking into his voice, He got up and walked back to the cockpit "We should destroy the ship to prevent Mnggal-Mnggal from following us." He suggested to Auron.

Auron nodded and brought the ship around "Fire the missiles." He told Daniel, Daniel sat down at the seat and pressed the button to launch the missiles, the shuttle shot half a dozen missiles at the Bright Flight the first two hit the cockpit, the third hit the infrastructure and the final three hit the ship's critical systems and the ship exploded in a spectacular light show.

Daniel sat back in his seat with a sigh before he felt Asajj's presence approach the cockpit "What do you want Ventress?" Daniel asked.

"I'm not going back to Republic space with you I highjacked that ship to get away from the war." She told him.

Daniel sighed, "You don't have to worry about that, the War is over." He informed the group getting looks of surprise from the new crew members.

"Who won sir?" One of the crippled clones asked, which Daniel recognised as one of the Arc troopers more specifically the Alpha Arcs, this might prove to be a problem as the Alpha arcs were the most loyal to the Republic.

"The Sith won." He informed with great sadness.

"Damn it." The clone swore, "What's the plan sir?" The Alpha arc asked

"For right now... survive." Daniel answered.

"We're abandoning the people we swore to defend?" One of the clones asked.

"Why would you care?!" Daniel snapped letting his animosity slip.

"Sir?"

"Just shut up and leave me alone!" He seethed out leaving the clones and medics, heck even Asajj speechless.

Alpha was worried that they may have ended up in the hands of a Jedi, like Quinlon Vos or worse Pong Krell, he was going to ask what his problem was but decided to ask his master when they finally got to the ship they were bringing them to.

Auron expected Daniel to have lost it much earlier than here, he sighed and set course for the mother ship, 'I just hope the others did fine.'

Shortly after Daniel and Auron had left to go see if there were any survivors on board the Bright Flight, Micah had set course for the final terrestrial planet in the system which did have a breathable atmosphere but was extremely cold except in areas of Volcanic activity where the temperatures could reach that of a warm summer day on Naboo.

"Vega could you come up to the bridge please?" Micah asked through the comm realizing that it was going to be tough to find a silicon based lifeform on a planet like this and if anyone could speed up the process it was a force sensitive.

"I'm on my way." Vega responded and closed the line.

Micah turned to Katelyn "Can you scan and map the planet alongside R7?" He asked.

Katelyn nodded "It shouldn't take to long sir." She said.

"You don't need to call me sir it makes me feel old." Micah said humorously.

"Sorry it's an old habit I guess I'm just used to calling the man or woman in charge sir." She explained.

"As you probably guessed we don't have a real chain of command in place." The Chiss said waving off the apology with a smile.

Katelyn's console pinged and she looked at the read outs "Good news we just finished the Map sir." She reported once again adding the sir.

Before the conversation the Door opened and Vega now clad in his EV armor "What can I help you with?" He asked.

Micah looked at Katelyn "Please bring up the map of the planet ." Katelyn nodded and did so on the holographic display in the center of the ship "Vega can you help zero in on the Shards so we don't have to stay here any longer than necessary?" He asked.

Vega nodded "It should be within my capabilities give me a moment." He requested as he walked over to the display reaching out to the force to ask him where to go, the force swirled around Vega like a midsummer breeze and he followed the currents trusting that the force would lead him where they needed to go after a few moments he pointed at one of the warm spots on one of the southern continents "That's where they are." He said.

"Well it's a good place to start, you know what to do R7." Micah told the droid and turned to Vega "Thank you very much." He said gratefully

"You're welcome." Vega said and went back to join up with Aaron and Caleb.

"That's still a large area to cover." Katelyn pointed out

(Yes but the cub has reduced the amount of time we need to spend here by a considerable amount.) Rohkea said.

"That is if he's right." She pointed out.

"You both bring up a good point however I have come to know that usually it is a good Idea to trust a Jedi's intuition when it comes to this sort of thing." Micah cut in, "How long till we arrive?" He asked.

Katelyn looked at the readouts again "ETA is 3 minutes." She reported

Micah nodded his head in acknowledgement "Very good, And how are Daniel and Auron doing?" He asked.

"They are about halfway to the Bright Flight." She reported.

"I hope we don't have to stay here any longer than necessary if Mnggal-Mnggal is here we could have a problem." Micah thought outloud.

"I will continue to run scans to check on them." She reassured him.

"Thank you." He said gratefully, he than walked over to the communicator and activated it "Aaron is your team ready?" He asked.

"We're ready whenever you are." Aaron responded.

"Good you have three minutes to spare." Micah reported.

"Good to know."

"May the force be with you." Micah told him.

"Thanks and back at you." He reciprocated and closed the line.

After three minutes the ship set down in the sector that Vega had pointed at Aaron was looking over his equipment "Hey bro do we really need the armor if the atmosphere is breathable?" Caleb asked.

"There are other things to worry about Caleb, like wild animals and what not." Aaron pointed out.

Caleb shrugged in understanding and left it at that "Do you think the shards will want to come with us?" He asked.

Aaron shrugged "Only one way to find out."

Vega seemed mesmerized by something "Vega you good?" Aaron asked concerned.

"I can sense the shards there strong in the force." He said.

Caleb and Aaron looked at each other "How did you not sense them earlier?" Caleb asked.

"I don't know perhaps they were trying to hide and now that we're close and I'm actively looking for them I guess." He said apologetically.

"Hey as far as I'm concerned if you can find them that's good enough for me." Aaron said as the ramp lowered, when they stepped on the rocky terrain Aaron noticed something "The gravity is lower than normal." He commented.

Vega jumped up and started to laugh in jubilation "You're right." He said gleefully while jumping around without the aid of the force but higher than he would on other planets with normal gravity

"Okay okay come on we don't want to stay here any longer than necessary." Aaron said with a chuckle.

"You're right." Vega sighed it was fun to jump around on the planet with weak gravity, "Follow me there this way." He said pointing somewhere to the east and started to run that direction unfortunately he stumbled and tripped due to the weak gravity "Okay, probably not a good Idea to run." He commented.

The Sobec brothers were trying really hard not to laugh at the kid's blunder "Lead the way." Aaron said chuckling, "if you want to move faster in a low gravity environment, you either gallop or skip." He added.

Vega nodded and the group galloped in the direction Vega pointed in after 4 minutes Vega stopped "Do you hear that?" He asked.

The Sobec brothers strained their ears but heard nothing "No what is it."

"I felt Daniel scream just now." Vega said scared for his 'brother'.

"But Daniel's in the middle of space, there's no way you could hear it." Caleb said confused.

"Caleb he said felt not heard." Aaron pointed out

"You mean like how Master Vodo-Siosk Baas, Ulic Qel Droma, and Nomi Sunrider all said they felt Exar Kun scream when he was on Korriban?" Caleb asked Vega whom nodded "Sometimes I wish I was force sensitive then I could probably understand the jedi better when it comes to the Force." Caleb remarked with a chuckle.

Vega just chuckled at the remark "Does this mean Daniel's going to be like Exar Kun?" he asked in horror when he realised the implication.

"No! Daniel isn't Exar he will make the right decisions." Aaron reassured the young boy.

"I agree with my brother here, Daniel would rather die than join the dark side." Caleb added.

Vega nodded but still felt uncertain, suddenly the group heard some growling, and they all drew their weapons and scanned the area looking for any wild animals Vega eyes passed over a cave that was nearby "look over there." He said pointing with the barrel of his pistol.

Caleb and Aaron did so calmly so as not to provoke whatever the creature was, the both of them got a good look at the animal that was watching them from the mouth of the cave, it was bipedal, and tall it actually would be taller than Rohkea and considering that he was about 7'6" yeah, and it also had some kind of exoskeleton that seemed to protect the entire creature, "Ok just back away slowly and it might leave us alone." Aaron said calmly and the group did just that, however the creature seemed to get bold and charged the group prompting Caleb to raise his blaster to shoot it, he fired… it didn't even faze the animal in fact it only served to make the creature angry.

"Oh Skrag!" Caleb shouted as it pounced on him and brought him to the ground and attempted to strangle him.

"Caleb!" Aaron shouted as he tackled the creature off of his brother and started to pummel it on the back of the head, the animal road and bucked Aaron off, and it stood up stalking towards him with a growl.

Vega stood by unsure of what to do then he remembered a technique that Daniel and he had looked at together during the first few weeks of their trip he reached out with the force and touched the creature's mind sending it thoughts of reassurance and peace, it stopped and turned to Vega and tilted its head questioningly with a grunt, Vega seeing he was making progress attempted to use the force to tame the animal but then through further probing of the force he realized that the creature was sentient so he did the only thing he could "Can you understand me?" He asked out loud, while taking off his helmet.

The creature walked over to him, grunted something and tilted his head questioningly which told Vega that no it didn't so he communicated through thought, he sent images to the creature to convey something the life form looked at the Sobec brothers who were watching the scene in amazement, and turned back to Vega "They're friends they're not going to hurt you any more." It turned back to them a growled softly "Do you have a name?" Daniel asked while sending several telepathic images to better convey the question.

"Ju" he responded with a voice very deep and scratchy from disuse while pointing at himself "Ju." he repeated, then he pointed to Vega "W.h..at n...am...e?" Ju asked.

Vega pointed to himself and said "Vega."

"Ve...ga" Ju repeated, "Vega."

"Yes." Vega smiled.

Ju smiled back and ran over to his cave and turned back to the group "Vega Ju friend." He said and beckoned them over.

Aaron and Caleb stood there dumbstruck "He is a sentient?" Caleb asked.

"Not only that but Vega managed to calm him down." Aaron pointed out.

"Why did he attack us?" Caleb asked

"Why don't we find out?" Vega asked as he leaped over to the cave Caleb and Aaron flowing.

When they walked into the cave they were met with a bunch of drawings on the cave wall which seemed to show invaders from the stars coming down and decimating the world, "Well that might explain why he attacked us." Aaron remarked casually.

"If these drawing are to be taken literally then those creatures have bio technology or it looks like it anyway." Caleb said while studying the drawing of a warrior wearing bio armor and using a snake like creature as a sword or staff and another using a similar creature as a whip.

Vega walked over to Ju who was lighting a fire "Hello Ju." he greeted warmly

"Vega Ju friend." Ju repeated.

"Ju Vega friend." Vega replied he looked at the drawings and back at Ju "Did this really happen? Is that why you attacked us?" Vega asked while gesturing towards the drawings on the walls.

Ju growled at the creatures, "They hurt Ju and Ju tribe."

"Where is your tribe?" Caleb asked curiously.

Ju frame shook with rage and sadness "Keloe mleikiskoe take tribe away."

"I'm so sorry." Vega said and hugged Ju much to the fear of the brothers.

"Help get tribe back?" Ju asked hopefully.

The brothers looked at each other "I don't want to get your hopes up Ju." Aaron finally responded.

"We're trying to get a member of our tribe back." Caleb said.

"Ju help Vega tribe." Ju responded sounding determined.

"We would love your help and we'll do our best to help you." Vega said happily.

"Hey I'm not against this guy helping us." Caleb said.

"I'm not either, but what about everyone else?" Aaron asked.

"Ju kept up with us even though we had an advantage of being from a stronger gravity I'm sure he'll be welcomed." Caleb argued.

"If anything being on a planet with weaker gravity would make you slower not faster." Aaron pointed out.

"But it makes you able to lift heavier things, why are we even arguing about this?" Caleb asked "We came here looking for something and we can't tarry for very long." Caleb said in a commanding voice.

"He's right Vega, Ju if you want to you can come with us and you have my word we'll do everything we can to get your family back." Aaron said his voice full of determination.

Ju stood up to his full height "Ju go with Vega tribe."

"Great let's go." Caleb said "Vega please lead the way."

Vega nodded, stood up and made his way out of the cave with Ju following close behind, after they left the cave Caleb turned to Aaron "Ju learns quickly." He remarked.

"Indeed, we can look into that later for now let's find the Shards." Aaron stated and made his way out of the cave, Caleb following behind.

Vega lead the group for about two hundred meters before he stopped "The Force is telling me something." He said looking around.

The group looked around "Is it the shards?" Aaron asked.

Vega nodded "They're nearby."

The group split up and looked around, Vega sent several telepathic messages around to see if the shards could hear him he then felt something tentatively probe his mental shields he sensed no ill intent and lowered his shields allowing the presence to see who he was it then stopped and essentially told him where to go he followed its direction and found several irregular faceted cylindrical crystals, if one were to look closely one would see faint pulses of light inside of them "Are you the shards?" Vega asked telepathically.

The biggest crystal glow seemed to intensify a little bit "That is what some call us." It responded.

"My name is Vega Ryal Padawan of the Jedi order."

"I know who you are you trusted me enough to probe your essence not many would." The Shard said.

"So you know that we need your help." Vega said.

"I understand that and I would like to help but I don't know if you're going to exploit us."

"You don't need to worry about that I have no intention of doing so." Vega reassured him.

"What about the dark one?" The shard retorted.

"He says he want's to change and not follow the dark path anymore." Vega responded though with a little uncertainty.

"You don't believe him?" The shard asked.

"I'm skeptical I want to believe him but I have been deceived before." Vega explained.

"Then you understand my reservations about my children and I coming with you."

"Is there anything I can say or do that will ease your worries?" Vega asked.

"You already have by allowing me to probe you." The shard responded.

"So will you come with us?" Vega asked confused.

"... Yes we will." The shard answered after a moment of consideration.

Vega turned to the group who was still looking around the area "I found them." He called to them.

Upon hearing that Aaron and Caleb scrambled their way over to him while Ju stood their waiting and keeping watch

"This gravity sucks!" Caleb exclaimed while tripping over another rock again.

Aaron laughed at his brothers expense "Oh don't worry we're nearly done here."

When the brothers reached Vega's position they found about a dozen crystals in the formation "Are they willing to come with us?" Caleb asked.

Vega nodded "Yes they are."

"I'll call Micah and tell him to come pick us up." Aaron said as he did so.

Back at the ship Micah was studying the planet's topography when Rohkea began to speak up (Aaron is calling us putting it up.) he reported.

The holo display in the center of the bridge changed to show Aaron in his armor with his hand up in front of him "we found the shards and they are willing to come with us."

"That is excellent news we're on our way to pick you up." Micah said while pointing at R7 who made the preparations to take off.

"There is more one of the planet's inhabitants also wants to join us his name is Ju." Aaron reported.

Micah raised an eyebrow "Why does he want to come with us?" The chiss asked curiously.

"Apparently some invaders came to this world and abducted his tribe." Aaron reported.

"You do realise that we wouldn't be able to track down these invaders and the likelihood of finding his tribe is very slim." Katelyn pointed out

Aaron nodded "I am aware of that yes."

"Did he describe the invaders to you?" Micah asked curiously.

"No but there were drawings on cave he lives in that depicted a war between Ju's people and the 'Keloe Mleikiskoe' as he called them, I recorded the pictures on my helmet camera if you want to see it." Aaron told them.

"I will look at them when you get on board and things settle down for now let's get you out of here and go pick up Daniel and Auron and whatever survivors they rescued." Micah stated, as soon as he said that another communication signal reached them and rohkea put it up on the holo display alongside Aaron's projection to reveal Daniel and Auron piloting the ship "Ah good to see you two how'd it go?" Micah asked

"Mnggal-Mnggal was on the ship and claimed the lives of twenty nine clones now we have nineteen survivors 9 of them are wounded."Auron reported.

"That's good get here as quickly as possible, how are you holding up Daniel?" Micah asked.

"As well as can be expected, considering I have two homicidal maniacs on this shuttle and several potential turncoats." Daniel said with a bit of humor but also sounded as if he was gnashing his teeth in contempt.

Abruptly two more people appeared in the hologram one of the medics and an alpha arc trooper "Are you two of the survivors?" Micah asked for confirmation.

The Alpha Arc was the one who answered "Yes sir I am Alpha-17, but I'm also known as Alpha." He reported.

"I'm sorry sir he wanted to speak to the commanding officer aboard the ship." The Medic apologise.

Daniel just scoffed but was ready to move incase the clone tried anything, "Okay 'commander' what is your problem?" Alpha asked practically spitting out the word commander.

Daniel turned to face him though the Alpha couldn't read his expression, he could practically feel the Piercing Glare that bore into him that would make a lesser man soil his pants fortunately for Alpha's pants a lesser man he was not, "Do you want to talk about this now?" Daniel growled.

"Yes, I do sir." Alpha metaphorically stood his ground.

"Gladly you over hyped droid!" Daniel bellowed as he stood up from his seat causing the Medic to jump back in fright, which caused the Arc trooper to nearly fall over if it hadn't been for him holding onto the door frame "My problem is with you and your traitorous brothers!" Daniel continued.

"Daniel calm down!" Micah, and Aaron shouted.

"No I won't calm down it's because of these guys that we're out here, why the Sith won, why the Jedi are nearly extinct all because of you!" Daniel shouted letting his anger out as he pointed sharply at the now stunned clones.

They all looked at each other "Sir we would never betray the Republic or the Jedi." one of the uninjured clones said carefully, he got thrown against the wall so hard it would have killed him if Auron hadn't intervened by catching the clone with his powers and setting him down gently, Daniel didn't notice probably too caught up in the moment to care.

"Don't you lie to me!" Daniel bellowed he was shaking from all the emotions that were pouring out of him now rage, anger, grief, resentment, you name it, it was pouring out.

"Can you stop him?" Micah asked Auron.

Auron shook his head and sighed "He needs to get this off his chest."

"How did 'We' betray the republic? we were stuck out in unknown space." Alpha asked.

"You're brothers betrayed the very ideals the republic stood for and the Jedi stood for when you followed order 66." Daniel said silently sobbing now.

"Order 66?" The clones asked shocked not believing it.

"That Order was actually used?!" Alpha asked surprised.

"You mean to tell me you knew?!" Daniel asked while using the force to pick Alpha up by the neck, Daniel removed his helmet to show his face to the group.

"Sir, it was a precaution If ever any Jedi turned traitor." one the other clones stated trying to calm down the grieving Jedi Padawan.

"Did that 'precaution' also include to Kill the Jedi who couldn't defend themselves, like the younglings, the younger padawans, or the wounded?!" He grabbed another one by the neck using the force.

Asajj was watching the scene in silence she could tell how the boy felt she felt the same when her mentor was killed by that War lord.

Meanwhile Auron was using his powers to prevent Daniel from outright killing the clones, "Daniel realease them." Auron said in a commanding voice.

Daniel's eyes widened and he dropped the clones he was strangling with the force they dropped to the floor coughing and hacking.

"Why would the Chancellor give the order if it wasn't necessary?" Another clone asked cautiously.

"Because he was the Sith lord we were looking for." Micah answered much to the surprise of everyone in the shuttle who didn't know.

Alpha and the others now understood why Daniel was upset and rightfully so, but Alpha was also upset he and his fellow clones were used and he hated it so much, "I'm so sorry for what happened." Alpha said sincerely.

Daniel walked over to a corner at the far end of the shuttle and collapsed to his knees emotionally exhausted "Just shut up." Daniel said as tears of grief ran down his face "Just… shut ...up." He sobbed and buried his face in his hands.

Micah sighed "Didn't he say two homicidal maniacs?" He asked Auron.

Auron nodded "Yeah HK-51 and Asajj Ventress is who he meant." Upon hearing her Name Micah's eyes widened in terror.

"Ei vn'ini." He muttered.

"If that's all we'll be there soon." Auron said.

"Of course, see you then." Micah said and closed the link.

After the link was cut HK-51 came into the cockpit and sat down after sitting down he looked back at the grieving padawan who was still silently sobbing in the corner of the shuttle craft "Observation: if I remember correctly that meat bag is going through the second stage of grief." HK-51 told Auron quietly

Auron regarded HK "Yeah and it's understandable."

"Statement: If he want's to be at optimal efficiency he needs to finish grieving as soon as possible."

Now Auron raised an eyebrow "Can you explain?"

"Observation: Master you should already know this after all you were trained to break Jedi." the assassin droid pointed out.

Auron shrugged "I know what you're talking about I Just want to hear you say it."Auron told him honestly, he wanted to see if the droid knew what he knew about the subject.

"Explanation: When a Jedi is emotionally compromised it affects their powers and their effectiveness sometimes they are more dangerous other times they are hindered, but even in their hindered state they're still dangerous." HK pointed out looking at Daniel "Another reason that I am glad that I am a droid and don't have pathetic things like emotions." HK added.

Auron chuckled on the inside but decided to leave the droid to his own delusions of superiority, though what the droid said was true one of the best ways to kill or break a jedi was to attack them indirectly mostly by killing the people they care about and if the Jedi proved to have difficulty dealing with his or her emotions than you had them, 'however it is so much easier to break someone than to put them back together' Auron thought to himself and threw a glance at Daniel 'Though some heal stronger than ever'.

The rest of the trip was spent in silence, when they got back Daniel was the first to get off the shuttle and made his way to the turbolift ignoring the entire crew on his way even Vega who tried to reach out to him "Vega let him be he needs to cool off." Caleb said quietly.

Auron was the next to get off followed by the pilots of the Bright Flight "We'll help you move the wounded to the Med Bay unfortunately the droid can only treat one at a time." Micah told the pilot who nodded.

"Thank you sir." He said he was still visibly shaken from what had happened "is it true that the Chancellor was our enemy?" He asked.

Micah sighed "I'm afraid so."

"It doesn't seem possible." The pilot said while pinching the ridge of his nose.

"It took us by surprise too." Aaron muttered.

"Will the commander be fine?" Another voice asked coming from Alpha-17 and he was genuinely concerned about the Jedi's well being.

"Just give him some time." Micah told him simply "Infact that may be good for all of us if you simply give us time, the massacre at the temple…" he swallowed. "I suppose a lot of us haven't fully dealt with it yet."

Alpha nodded his head "I understand." He said simply he then noticed Vega in the hanger who was hiding behind a creature the likes of which he had never seen he than realised that he was a Jedi as well, a young one at that 'I hope that one day they will be able to forgive us so that together we can take down the empire… or die trying.' Alpha thought to himself.

Daniel had taken up residence in the training room knowing that his favorite place to meditate would be taken over for the wounded clones so he took the training room to meditate in, and meditate Daniel did, he was determined to lose himself in the currents of the Force.

Daniel suddenly found himself sitting in a field of grass 'What the?' He thought to himself as he looked around, wherever he was it was dark most likely night the only source of light was the pale reflection of the moon, the moon was what surprised him the most it was shattered into several pieces "Is this a vision?" He asked aloud, his voice sounded sluggish in his ears, but he was seeing so clearly.

Daniel looked around and notice the treeline of the forest with bright orange leaves that began to fall to the ground, the forest seemed endless and he felt it to be peaceful. There was a cliff that he reached; though once he stood on the ridge he saw what looked like a city in the distance. What happened next was disturbing to say the least as a black shadow began consuming the majestic city, like a plague. It didn't stop until it consumed the city whole and it kept on feeding throughout the land before him; The darkness was now heading towards his direction as he heard the sounds of howling and roaring made by creatures unknown to him. Frozen by his fear, he desperately tried to move but it felt like something was holding him there.

The Darkness moved at blinding speeds, Daniel blinked once but he regretted blinking because now the forest was sickly black as the dead trees that once held leaves were now gone. But the darkness that clouded the forest was terrifying, it was like a fog, one that you could not see through. Gasping for breath that he forgotten, he was able to move again but he didn't want to now. What's worse was that he began seeing red demonic eyes that lit up in the darkness, the growling and hissing of what was no doubt something evil just waiting to be unleashed. The shadows quickly dived towards him in an attempt to consume its prey, Daniel raised his hands to shield himself and clenched his eyes shut.

"Enough." The shadows disappeared in an instant as the spirit belonging to Qui-gon Jinn protected the young Jedi. "Daniel, it's alright now."

Daniel opened his eyes to find himself surrounded by mist so thick he couldn't see through it, he started to Pant and Gasp "What...in the name of the… Force was that?" Daniel panted out.

"That Daniel, is an ever growing darkness." He explained as he showed the world again though this time the life was thriving and the city was still there. "This darkness could almost match the Terentateks"

"Please tell me you're kidding." Daniel begged, knowing how dangerous a terentatek was.

"No, I am not. This is something much worse, unlike Terentateks they are not binded to the darkside per sѐ." Daniel didn't like where he was going with this, "They have no souls and are not bound to the Force."

"That's impossible!" Daniel gaped at the Spirit, "The Force flows into everything!"

"While that is true, this doesn't change anything, once they perish they shall be consumed by oblivion."

"What your telling me is that these creatures aren't alive, how is that possible?"

"Only the Force know's the answer to that as well as I but even then your mind could not comprehend that much knowledge that would surely leave you… insane."

"... Are they a threat to everything in the universe?"

"Not entirely the whole universe considering Mnggal-Mnggal, but they would be a threat if they ever leave the planet." The thought of Mnggal-Mnggal consuming these creatures would be nothing short of terrifying if he ever gained new forms.

"What about the planet's inhabitants?"

"The people are humans… well half the population is human anyway, They are an interesting people, they believe that naming their younglings by color as a fundamental aspect of art."

"That's all fine and dandy but what I meant was, do they know how to fight these creatures?"

"Like I said before they are interesting group of humans, they use their souls as a tool to combat the creatures of darkness." This somewhat confused Daniel before he had a conclusion.

"So… like the Force?"

"Well, essentially yes and no. The Force has many, many uses but the souls these people use are limited to what they can control, they call it an 'Aura." Jinn explained.

"Eh?"

"Okay, a force user can augment his body, use telekinesis, shoot lightning, generate fire, etcetera, you get the point, one who has mastered Aura can augment their bodies yes but they don't have access to the same field of power a force user does for example, one can use only telekinesis, or only generate fire, and some can teleport, or move at mind numbing speeds."

"Okay I am beginning to understand, is this 'Aura' limited to certain people like the Force is?"

"No, because every being in the Universe has a soul, only sentients can access it."

"Did the people discover the Force on this planet or are there any force sensitives at all?"

"That is an interesting question, since the Force is within them they could technically use the Force but due to the users 'Aura' this hinders a Force sensitive's ability to manifest their power."

"I don't understand?" Daniel inquired

"There are Force sensitives on the planet, but they are unaware of having these powers. That is why this vision was shown to you, To find these Force users and help them achieve what they could not. Before…"

"Before what?"

"Daniel the warriors of this planet were supposed to end the darkness, the vision you saw is what will happen thanks to the meddling of outsiders."

"What do you mean? What is causing them to grow?" Daniel asked nervously.

"There are a group of force users that live in the unknown regions called the Sorcerers of Rhand, Micah may know about them."

"What did they do?"

"What you were shown is what would happen because of the Sorcerers teaching the Force sensitives of the planet their ways, they would join forces with the one who created the Creatures."

"So we can prevent this... right?" Daniel asked uncertainly.

"Yes we can but you need to rescue your mother, she and Asajj are best suited for teaching force sensitives."

"Can't argue with that." Daniel agreed.

"Daniel after we are done here you should tell Vega, Asajj, the Shards, and Auron about this."

"Is Asajj even going to be willing to help us?" Daniel asked.

"She may surprise you."

"Okay I think I understand the mission there's just one flaw with your explanation."

"And what might that be." Jinn asked with a raised Eyebrow.

"Where is the planet?" Daniel asked.

"I am not permitted to tell you."

"Wait you can't give me a mission and not tell me where to go."

"I'm so….rr...y I'm l…..osi….ng th...e con...nec...tio...n " Jinn said faking a static holo communication.

"You're contacting me through the force." Daniel deadpanned.

"Yes, well that's all the time we have." And like that Daniel awoke from the vision.

"Seriously? Oh come on!" Daniel groaned, as he stood up, he looked at the chrono and was shocked at how late it was 'I've been meditating for over 10 hours?!' He thought to himself in surprise.

Seeing as it was nearly time for dinner he made his way to the turbolift and took it up to the living area, he walked through the door and found everyone who wasn't injured sitting down at the table everyone turned towards the door "We were beginning to wonder if you fell asleep." Caleb said killing the silence that fell upon the group upon seeing him.

"Given how deep in meditation I was I'd say I got the equivalent of a good night rest." Daniel commented.

Vega stood up from his seat and walked over to Daniel "Are you okay?" Vega asked.

Daniel could tell Vega was scared about something 'Is he scared of me?' He asked himself, "Today's been very hectic I learned something about who Darth Vader was." Daniel told Vega.

"Is that why you screamed?" Vega asked Daniel nodded "What did you learn?".

Daniel's eyes welled with tears he still couldn't believe it "Vader is what Anakin Skywalker became." Much to the shock of all the former Republic members of the crew

Vega couldn't believe it he shook his head in denial "That can't be true it can't be, how do you know?" Vega said.

"Mnggal-Mnggal told me." Daniel started.

"You can't believe what that parasite tells you Daniel." Vega cut him off before Daniel grabbed Vega by the shoulders firmly but gently and held him place.

"I sensed no deception from it Vega, Anakin Skywalker fell to the darkside and became Darth Vader." Daniel told him.

Vega shook his head in denial again "NO! Why would he do that?" Vega cried and buried his face in Daniel's chest who just held him tightly.

The others barring Asajj, Auron, Katie, and Ju all sat stunned unsure of how to process the news "Is it really that much of a shock?" Asajj asked catching the attention of everyone in the room "He was an aggressive person, he used his rage when he fought I saw it coming a mile away." She continued.

"Not everyone is doomed to Darkness." Auron pointed out.

Asajj scoffed at him "and what would a sith wannabe like you know?"

"I know a hell of alot more then you and I was more sith than you ever were." Auron argued "You're just some cast away Dark Jedi who gave into the dark side because your mentor was killed by some lucky shot.".

"SHUT UP!" Asajj screamed and dived for the former sith apprentice who moved out of the way she pulled out her lightsaber and charged him screaming again Auron met every single one of her blows but couldn't counter with his blade so he retaliated with Force lightning, the energy hit Asajj, she cried out in pain, and dropped her weapon.

"And just like that you proved my point you have no control a true sith would never let their emotions blind them by such a weak taunt." Auron pointed out.

"I'm not a sith and I have no desire to be! not any more." Ventress said brokenly.

Auron could sense the sincerity behind her words and realised that she like him is on the same path for redemption "I know what you mean." He sighed.

"I can't believe it." Micah said.

Auron finally let out an annoyed groan "Look a Jedi and Sith's ability to determine when someone is lying can be fooled, For all we know Mnggal-Mnggal is a really good liar so much so that it probably fooled your ability to tell if it was lying."

Vega looked at the former sith with hopeful eyes then turned to Daniel "Is that possible?" He asked hopefully.

Daniel sighed "It most certainly is possible Sidious did it with the Jedi for over a decade who's to say Mnggal-Mnggal can't do the same?"

At that all the people who knew Anakin in some capacity all relaxed except for Asajj "However that's not why I came up here." Daniel stated

Caleb nodded "Foods on the counter knock yourself out."

"Thank you I'm famished but that's part of the reason I came up here."

"What's the matter Daniel?" Vega asked concerned.

Daniel looked at the entire group with such seriousness and determination that they all stopped what they were doing and gave them their full attention "We have a new mission from the Force itself."

AN: Wow that was a lot to get done yes I finally referenced RWBY elements sorry that took so long any way I'm sure some of you might be wondering what Ju is well in all honesty he's an alien I made up so he and his species belong to me, also will the aliens that Ju's people were at war with be important? what are the Sorceress of Rhand? you will have to wait and see my friends until than I recommend you check out my fellow author and friends stuff RevengeS197, because chapter 6 is being written and will take awhile before it's done.