Travien as currently standing with the leadership of the Gungans and the Jedi as Padmé was explaining the plan to the rest of the group. She was about to explain the bulk of the plan when they heard Anakin calling them, "They're here!" Padmé nodded and sighed, "I had hoped they would make it. It would appear that the leaders of the resistance have arrived."

Travien nodded, "I'll gather a few of our guys to send back with them, so they can teach others how to use the armour. I'm sure as hell not going." Padmé smiled and nodded to him.

Padmé turned to Panaka a he walked up to them, "What's the situation?" she asked him. It was times like this when Travien thought she would make a hell of a military leader.

Panaka shook his head, "Almost everyone's in camps. There are a few hundred police and guards who have formed an underground resistance movement with the arms that Travien suggested we move," He nodded to Travien who returned the gesture, "I've brought back as many of the leaders as I could."

Travien nodded, "Good, we can send the armour back with them so that they have it when they need it."

Panaka continued, "The Trade Federation forces are also far larger than we thought. I don't see how we can win this battle your majesty." He said dejectedly,

Padmé sighed, Travien knew that something was weighing on her conscience as so many things weighed on his, she drew herself up,

"The main battle is a diversion; the Gungan armies will draw the droid armies away from the city. R2, the display please." The little droid bleeped a couple of times and displayed a blue holographic image of Theed Palace. A small series of lines traced around the image as Padmé narrated the attack, "A small task force will enter the palace through a secret entrance near the hangar bay. Once we are there then Captain Panaka will create a diversion, with the HK series assassin droids. The rest of us will sneak into the Palace and capture the Viceroy. Without the Viceroy they will be lost and confused. Travien, Master Jedi, what do you think?"

Travein stood back in thought and waved for the Jedi to go first. Qui-Gon nodded and began asking questions, "The viceroy will be very well guarded." cautioned the Jedi.

Panaka shook his head, "The difficulty will be getting into the control room. Once we are there we shouldn't have a problem." Travien waved a hand,

"Never assume that. I made that kind of assumption once and lost over fifty thousand soldiers in the space of twenty minutes. My father used to tell me that assumption is the mother of all fuck-ups. The bigger the assumption the more kids she has." That got an appreciative smile from Padmé and an acknowledging nod from Panaka,

"What do you suggest?" he asked honestly,

He looked at Padmé and the Handmaidens, "Do not be afraid to use your training. Go in with everything you have, once battle commences end it as quickly as possible." She nodded solemnly and Travien waved to the Jedi to continue,

Qui-Gon bowed slightly, "There is the chance that many Gungans could die."

Boss Nass looked up fiercely, "Weesa ready to do arsen part!"

Travien waved that off, "Many more people will die on both sides if we do not fight."

Padmé nodded, "Besides we have a plan to disable the droids. The command ship in orbit is also acting as a droid control ship. If we can destroy that ship then we can disable the droids on the ground."

Qui-Gon nodded, "It's a good plan, I admit, but what if your weapons cannot penetrate their shields?"

"That's something I've been wondering as well. Do your vessels have ion weapons?" Padmé shook her head, "When this is over I'm going to be talking to Parliament. I understand non-violence but not equipping what guards you have is just taking the piss." He sighed, "The most likely way is going to be getting inside the ship and hitting a critical system. There is no way a non-Force sensitive pilot is going to manage that. If we can capture the Viceroy he will be forced to give the order to stand down. There is no way he will risk his life on the off chance of rescue." The others nodded, including Padmé.

Obi-Wan butted in, "What if the Viceroy escapes, there are chances that he will return with another droid army."

Travien shook his head, "That one I have covered. I can get a droid army together in half the time with positive odds of five to one. I have superior firepower, superior droids and faster building facilities. He will not be setting foot on Naboo again."

Obi-Wan raised an eyebrow, "Can you be sure of that?"

Travien nodded, "Father raised a fleet of twenty thousand ships in two years. I've already started construction just in case."

Obi-Wan nodded, "If they succeed in taking us prisoner?"

Travien shrugged, "Then HK-47 will likely turn Pure Nemoidia into a puddle of smouldering glass. HK will not surrender, it's programmed into him." He paused for a moment, "A thought occurs. We don't need to destroy the control ship. Just it's communications array."

Padmé looked up in amazement, "Of course, if it can't transmit orders then it can't command the droids!"

Travien nodded, "That was done to me a few times before I stopped using battle droids."

Travien looked to Padmé, "That's most of my issues with this, now, where do you want me? I can do a lot of damage in the main battle or I can deal with Concido if he's in the palace which he more than likely is."

Padmé thought for a moment, "You'll be coming with me. I'll need every lightsaber I can get." Travien nodded, "Your will, milady."

Padmé nodded, "alright, let's move out. We have little time and we need to minimize the damage, did you hear that Travien?!" she asked humorously,

Travien rolled his eyes, for all the good it did, "Yes, I heard you. No wholesale destruction, no wanton slaughter. Good gods woman you sound like my mother. Travien don't do this, Travien don't kill that person, and Travien don't wipe out that planet." He huffed, "Fine, I'll behave." He said petulantly. Everyone got one last laugh from this display as they separated to go their separate ways and the spare crates of armour and weapons were loaded into the speeders.

Darth Sidious pondered the information given to him by the Viceroy. This was not looking good. He wasn't arrogant enough to think that there was no chance that the natives could win, after all even a Jedi can get lucky. He would have to be careful, he had attracted too much of Travien's attention anyway. He could hardly get rid of the man if he was constantly watching him. He finished listening to Gunray's latest report,

"She is more foolish than I thought." He said thoughtfully, either that or she knows something I don't.

Gunray looked proudly at the hologram, "We are sending all of our battle droids to deal with the army that is gathering in the swamps, my Lord. It appears to be made entirely of primitives that escaped our droids. This rebellion will be crushed." He said,

Sidious thought for a moment, even a primitive could be dangerous with the right incentive or weapon. Travien was not an adult yet, not galactically speaking, but he was an accomplished military leader. He decided that he really had no other choice,

"Lord Maul, be careful. Your intelligence gives no idea to the location of Lord Shan. He could be anywhere and his impact could be equally devastating at any point." Maul nodded, trying to hide the fact that he wanted to hide. "For now this may work to our advantage. Dispatch the primitives quickly and bring the droids back to the city."

Gunray had barely registered the warning about Travien as he was too involved in the idea of gaining unlimited access to the profits from Naboo's plasma trade. He looked at Sidious,

"I have your approval to proceed, My Lord?" he asked,

Sidious nodded, "Wipe them out, all of them."

Travien was back in his traditional black armour. He was sneaking along the streets of Theed with Padmé in front of him. It had been decided that his armour was a little too unique so that they needed him not to be at the front just in case they were spotted. They were not eager to encourage this Sith Lord to come out of hiding. Travien smiled as he heard the slight thumping sound of footsteps behind him as the HK-51 droids followed them. He felt a lot better with them at his back to be honest. What confused him was why the hell the Jedi had brought young Anakin with them.

They came to the corner of the street and stopped. Travien extended his senses and essentially looked around the corner. Padmé turned to him as she felt his power flow,

"Are you alright?" she asked in a whisper

He nodded and replied telepathically, 'Yeah, I'm fine. I'm not used to sneaking about, I tend to charge on in and destroy anything in my path.'

Padmé chuckled slightly as she remembered that Travien was not used to subtlety. She looked to Panaka who was signalling to them from across the street. She saw the light flashing and knew that meant that they were okay to go as soon as the distraction was complete,

Qui-Gon crouched down to talk to Anakin, "Once we get inside you find a safe place to hide and stay there, okay?"

"Sure," answered Anakin. Obviously Qui-Gon thought the same as Travien when the answer came too quickly and told him once more to stay there.

They watched as the land speeder came around the corner and targeted the Trade Federation hover tank before the droids even noticed a problem. The speeder fired with a large almost cannon like blaster that had been mounted on at which disabled the tank instantly. Suddenly there were dozens of soldiers streaming out of the side streets and alley ways in red Sith Elite armour and Travien felt the fervour of battle, something he hadn't felt since just after the betrayal and the Civil War, this was going to be fun. In time with Padmé and the two Jedi he activated his blood red lightsaber. He had instructed the girls to change to a silver crystal in case anyone was watching the battle and snuck around the pillar separating them from the hangar bay. While he couldn't intervene in the fight directly he did pepper the battlefield with pulse of energy that knocked several droids off of their feet. The HK units followed them into the hangar,

Meanwhile in Theed Palace,

Viceroy Gunray looked at the monitor in a panic, "I thought the battle was going to take place far from here. This is far too close. Summon the droids back."

Ruune Haako, his second in command looked at the screen, "What are those soldiers, I do not recognise them."

"Impossible." Hissed Maul,

"Wh…what is it, Lord Maul?" asked Gunray,

"They are Sith foot soldiers. Ancient Sith foot soldiers. There is no way that Shan could have assembled and trained such a force so quickly. He is here within the city that is the only possible explanation for them being here."

"What shall we do?" trembled Haako,

"I will deal with him." Hissed Maul as he walked off, still limping slightly from his last encounter with Travien.

They walked into the hangar bay to be confronted with almost fifty droids, Travien grinned,

"Well, that's more than we were expecting." He said loudly enough to attract the attention of the droids. They turned to the invaders all at once and Travien raised his hand releasing a force pulse that ripped up a couple of loose floor tiles as well as half the droids before raising his lightsaber to deflect the incoming blaster bolts alongside Padmé. He grinned behind his mask at the fun as he heard instructions issued around him,

"Pilots get to your ships!" screamed Padmé.

Travien 'spotted' Anakin running into the cockpit of one of the fighters but knew he could do nothing; this was a very clear warning from the Force. That was where the boy had to be. He was one of the few that didn't duck when the fighters began taking off over his head. He was still deflecting fire from the remaining battle droids and thinking about how much he preferred straight lightsaber combat. It wasn't long before they were rounding up the last of the battle droids and the majority of the fighters had left. Travien walked up to Padmé as they regrouped,

She looked around, "My guess is that the Viceroy's in the Throne Room." She said to Panaka,

He nodded, "Red group, blue group, everybody this way." He called. Travien followed them as they headed for the door.

"Hey, wait for me!" called Anakin.

Travien decided not to intervene when he heard Qui-Gon, "Anakin stay where you are, you'll be safe there."

"But I-"

"Stay in that cockpit!" he ordered. Travien had to grin at that. He reached out with his senses and noticed a Dark presence just behind the door as they reached it. The door began to open just before they arrived and revealed Darth Maul standing the other side of it. Padmé, Eirtaé and Sabé activated their sabres, as did Travien and both Jedi, all of whom moved to the front.

Travien removed his mask and grinned, "The rest of you leave. This is business between Sith." He raised his lightsaber in a salute to Maul.

"Are you sure?" asked Padmé

Travien nodded, "Yes, I should have done this on Tatooine." Padmé and the Jedi nodded, "We'll take the long way." Travien nodded, still focussing on Darth Maul.