this chapter contains a not so subtle reference to another fanfic someone made(yes I got his permission to use it) see if you can spot it
CHAPTER 8
On the planet, Tatooinee, Malacard was lurking, he traveled to a Hutt's palace and poured an elixir into the palace's water supply and then went to a zoo on
the planet of Onderan and poured the same elixir into the animal's water supply both times he did it under the cloak of night, so no one saw or heard him
"imagine the chaos this will cause" Malacard said to himself he then let out a monstrous evil laugh and headed back to his fleet. That morning at the Hutt's
palace the Hutt and everyone in the palace fell mysteriously ill the morning that followed everyone in the palace turned rabid and started to deform, the
same was happening on the Onderan zoo from beneath his mask Malacard smiled.
On Typhon, Satele Shan and Blasilver were having problems with the war as the Republic began begging the Jedi counsel to send more Jedi to help out on
several worlds; same worlds were all planets that Darth Malacard had previously attacked. "We do not have many Jedi to spare" Satele informed the senate
"they are all off on missions or helping out with the war on countless other planets" Blasilver added. After a long conversation Jedi masters Vegeta and
Goku showed up "we will take care of those problems" Goku offered with a determined smile, Vegeta just stood there with a look of indifference "are you
sure you two want to do this?" asked Satele with a concerned look she could clearly tell that these two Jedi masters were more than willing to do these
assignments themselves but wasn't sure if it was a good idea "positive, don't worry we can handle ourselves" Goku told Satele reassuringly. "Very well I
wish you two good luck" Satele said to them "thanks" Goku said with a smile "but before we go, Kakarot isn't there something you are forgetting?" asked
Vegeta, who called Goku by his birth name, for you see Goku when he was a baby was originally going to be trained by the Sith but the Jedi got to him
first, fortunately "oh yeah, listen there is some trouble on Onderan and Tatooinee" Goku informed Satele. "What kind of trouble?" Satele asked "Rakghoul
trouble I'm afraid" Goku told her, he quickly gave out all the known details on the situation however in his eyes you could tell he was concerned with how
this happened.
"I will send the only Jedi we have available to those locations" Satele said with her head hung low, she wanted to send some more experience Jedi to those
locations but none were available, as she was needed to keep the Jedi order in line and Blasilver was going to be leaving very soon to help defend the
Organa's. "May the force be with us" Blasilver said as he, Vegeta, and Goku left for their respective assignments, after they left Satele called in the only
Jedi she had available "glad you could master Yukari and Master Nyamo" Satele greeted "glad to be here by the way will you or Yukari ever call me by my
real name?" Nyamo politely asked "maybe but as you can tell you have been called by that nickname for so long it kind of stuck, Minamo" Satele said with
a little bit of a chuckle, it was definitely rare someone called Nyamo by her real name of Minamo, Satele quickly put on a serious face and informed the two
Jedi masters of what was going on "sounds like trouble" Yukari said "it is, which why I am separating you and Nyamo into teams for these missions" Satele
said with a professional tone, the situation was so severe that there was no way that Satele would have either of them do this alone, "ok so which teams
will we be assigned?" asked Yukari "something tells me will have to bring the padawans we have been working with since forever on these assignments"
Yukari continued "you are correct, we literally don't have anyone else available, which pains me, once they get here I will tell you you're teams" Satele said
"understood" the two masters said in unison which kind of creeped them out a bit, while they waited for the padawans to come Satele told Yukari not to get
distracted by any bars, cantinas, etc. this time around much to Yukari's dismay. "Well we are here" Yomi politely said a she and her friends walked into the
room "good for you to have come well here is what I need you to do….." Satele said she then informed them of what needs to be done "rakghouls?..."
Kagura said a little annoyed that she and her friends will have to face those kind of monsters "afraid so young one, I didn't want to put this kind of
assignment on you kids as it will be extremely dangerous, but there is no else available" Satele said sadly, "don't worry we can handle!" Kagura said with
enthusiasm not wanting the famed Jedi master to worry despite the fact she and her friends really didn't want to face rakghouls. Satele smiled at her
enthusiasm then gave them the teams they will be in "Nyamo, you, Kagura, Chihiro, Yomi, Osaka, and Chio will go to Onderan and deal with the problem
there" Satele said "man it must be serious there if your sending that many Jedi there!" Yukari exclaimed "you don't know the half of it" Satele said to
Yukari "ok Yukari, you, Kaorin, and Sakaki will go to Tatooinee and deal with the rakghoul problem there it's been mostly contained in a presumably dead
Hutt's palace so you will hopefully won't have too much trouble" Satele continued "will do" Yukari said with a determined, serious look on her face on the
inside Kaorin was fangirling over the chance to work with Sakaki, up until it dawned on her that Yukari will be flying the ship to Tatooinee "I am so dead"
Kaorin thought to herself especially after she saw the ship that she was going to be flying in "um master Yukari" Kaorin said "yeah what?" Yukari said with
a smile "why does that ship have dents all over it?" Kaorin asked "no reason, besides don't worry about it you can't live a full life if all you do is worry"
Yukari said to her with a smile "ok" Kaorin said nervously "well good luck to all of you" Satele said as she saw them off "hey master Satele, don't you think
you could have sent a few more Jedi with us?" Kaorin asked "no like I said you were the only ones available, besides Kaorin your flying with Yukari, the way
I see it, the fewer fatalities the better right?" Satele said to Kaorin ending it with a rhetorical question "yes….." Kaorin said about ready to wet herself. As
the two Jedi teams took off to their destinations, with Yukari's ship taking off into hyperspace before leaving the docking bay, Satele went to check up on
the currently healing Jedi padawan Kagami to see how she was doing.
In the imperial fleet Darth Malacard was watching as the chaos unfolded on Onderan and Tatooinee as the rakghoul virus caused fear and panic acrossed
the planets, with great amusement "ah what a beautiful sight" he said to himself, he then sensed the two Jedi teams heading towards the planets so he
called upon his apprentice and as he put it servant, Darth Shadius and Darth Kaizer, "what is it my lord" Kaizer said bowing before the dark lord, "I want
you to head to Tatooinee and deal with the Jedi party that has landed there" Malacard commanded "it will be done" Kaizer said "and as for you my young
apprentice I want you to deal with the Jedi party that landed on Onderan" Malacard commanded her "yes my master" Shadius said while also like Kaizer
bowing. The two Sith headed for their respective ships "shouldn't be too much of a problem, we have faced Jedi before" Shadius said full of confidence
"true but haven't killed any, we merely beat them" Kaizer said "well that's true" Shadius smirked the two Sith then rocketed off to their respective
destinations. When Kaizer landed on Tatooinee he was greeted with an annoying sight, Jawas that were trying to take his ship apart for literally no reason,
they didn't last long Kaizer then walked off to the Hutt's palace to deal with the Jedi there. As for the Jedi, Yukari was trying to talk one of guards blocking
the door to let them in so they can kill the rakghouls "no one deserves a death that brutal mam" the guard said "don't we are Jedi we can handle ourselves"
Yukari said trying to reinsure the guard but he still wouldn't let them pass after about an hour of arguing Yukari used the Jedi mind trick on him to get him
to let them pass and then had him go to a cantina so he wouldn't be so scared, and annoying "easy as pie" Yukari said confidently "yeah, but why didn't
you do that sooner?" asked Kaorin, but Yuakri didn't answer and they just walked into the building killing a few rakghouls that might have been
Gammoreans at one point but none of them were sure as they got inside.
As for Nyamo's team, after they landed they were greeted by a rakghoul disease infected Acklay, it went down quickly however thanks to the fact that it
was out numbered "well thanks goodness that was quick, ok let's get going" Nyamo said as she and padawans headed for the zoo. It didn't take long for
them to be greeted by a member of the Onderon military "master Jedi glad you came" the soldier said "what's the situation?" asked Nyamo "well I got good
news and bad news, the good news is we have been able to contain the problem at its source location, the bad news is we won't be able to do it much
longer." The soldier answered. Meanwhile not too far away, but still well hidden, Darth Shadius's ship landed she quickly ran towards the location the Jedi
were at the while staying in the shadows so she wouldn't be spotted, she whipped out a pair of high-tech binoculars and surveyed what was going on "oh
it's those Jedi again" she said to herself. "All right let's move out" Nyamo said as she and her grouped headed towards the zoo "by the way we ran into a
rakghoul infected acklay not too long how did it escaped?" Nyamo asked the soldier "I honestly do not know master Jedi" the soldier answered, Shadius
followed them from the shadows, the group came across "hey I heard about you but I thought you weren't a medical doctor" Yomi said to
she recognized him from Yukari's description of him "I am not I am just observing the rakghouls, hey ladies if you get a chance can you bring me
a corpse or a live specimen so that I can study?" asked everyone just stared at him "no promises" said Nyamo, she and her group quickly
entered the zoo to take care of the rakghoul problem before it got too out of hand, shortly after they entered one of the soldiers asked "hey, I
heard you were on Taris, why did you leave?", "OH, well people kept dying in my care" answered clearly embarrassed "but I thought you said
you weren't a medical doctor?" The soldier asked "I'm not….." answered with his head hung low. "This will be easy" Shadius thought to herself
but as she followed the Jedi she got side tracked by a rakghoul infected Nexu pack "oh…this is going to suck" she thought to herself.
Back on Tatooinee, Kaizer was having no trouble sneaking through the Hutt's palace "best part about this the rakghouls here are so stupid I can sneak up
to them and use the force to kill them" Kaizer thought to himself as he stalked Yukari's team waiting for an opening to strike, "well things have been going
by smoothly I do not sense many rakghouls left in here" Yukari said cheerfully completely unaware of Darth Kaizer's presence "wow none of them have
sensed I am doing better than I thought" Kaizer thought to himself "Sakaki can I get you to check the room to your left, Kaorin and I will check the throne
room" Yukari said "sure, will do" Sakaki calmly replied, Kaorin was bummed she couldn't go with her idol but wasn't about to complain either even though
she really wanted to. "Alright I will take her out first" Kaizer said in his head after Yukari and Kaorin left to head to the throne, which wasn't that far away,
Sakaki walked down the hall to the room Yukari wanted her to explore with Kaizer following her. It didn't take long for Sakaki to encounter a rakghoul it
was the only one there, just standing around in the room, it then spotterd her and let out a horrid screech Sakaki readied herself but before she could do
anything the rakghoul began choking "what the?!" Sakaki asked herself in her head the rakghoul floated up in the air followed by a sick popping noise
after that happened it fell back on the floor, dead. "Amazing thing the force, huh?" Kaizer asked Sakaki from behind her, Sakaki turned around slowly but
calmly "what brings you here?" Sakaki asked him "my "master" ordered me to take you and your two friends in the throne room out" Kaizer answered
slowly and clearly, he actually had no interest in killing Sakaki or her friends since he didn't want to lose such worthy opponents, but he had his orders
though he was by no means happy about it. Sakaki activated her lightsaber ready for battle "well if you're going to take me out I suggest you do it now"
she said sternly "so be it" Kaizer replied activating his own lightsaber, Kaizer and Sakaki charge at each other from opposite sides of the hall and when
there blades collided you could see the heat in their eyes, Kaizer began pushing Sakaki back into the room the rakghoul was in during their clash another
rakghoul tried to ambush them but Kaizer merely snapped its neck with the force as well "I am surprised you don't use that against me" said Sakaki "I only
use that tactic against animals and monsters, I will not use it against sentient beings" Kaizer told her "I see you do have some honor" Sakaki replied they
then went right back to their fight after a long fight Kaizer unleashed a force push so powerful it knocked Sakaki right through a wall and into the throne
room, which was littered with rakghoul corpses thanks to Yukari and Kaorin, Sakaki got right back up she did get the wind knocked out of her though "man
you are tough, it truly is a shame I will have to end this" Kaizer said with a subtle ting of sadness in his voice "HERE I COME SAKAKI!" shouted Kaorin
with her lightsaber activated charging at Kaizer, big mistake, Kaizer simply choked her with the force then through her against a wall then proceeded to
knock her out with force lightning "no offense but your isn't too terribly bright" Kaizer said with a bit of snark in his voice "yeah well neither are you Todd"
Yukari said to him as she walked into the room with her lightsaber activated Kaizer just ignored her and activated a second lightsaber, he then proceeded
to fight Yukari quite aggressively, Sakaki after catching her breath joined in on the fight, Kaizer despite being out numbered held his own quite nicely, it
was only when Kaorin regained consciousness and joined in on the fight did he began having trouble. "Three against one, now where is the honor in that?"
Kaizer asked though he didn't mean it "you Sith don't know honor!" Kaorin yelled at him, Kiazer just ignored her even though he agreed with her
completely, after a long and grueling fight Kaizer acknowledging he was beaten threw a smoke bomb and retreated. "Hate to be a coward, but I know when
I am beaten" he said as he left, Yukari, Kaorin, and Sakaki were exhausted "well I guess there is nothing left to do but to head back to Typhon" Yukari said
they then left the palace although Kaorin and Sakaki were not at all happy to have her flying the ship again.
Meanwhile on Onderan Nyamo and the rest were having a horrible time with the countless rakghouls; sure they were slowly winning but the sheer number
of them made life hard on them. As for Shadius she barely managed to escape the rakghoul infected nexu pack "sure I killed a few of them but there was
no way I was going to win" she said to herself in her head, it didn't take long for her to find the Jedi team and when she did she waited for a moment to
strike, "hey I am going to check out the area over there" said Yomi pointing at a nearby hill "ok be careful" Nyamo said as Yomi left, Shadius followed her
when Yomi got a good distance away from the group, Shadius attacked, but she failed to hide her presence so Yomi managed to dodge her attack with ease
"yeah, my bad I was going to ambush you but oh well, a fair fight is better anyway" Shadius said "Darth Shadius, huh? Well prepare to defend yourself if
you're going to challenge me!" Yomi yelled at her, Shadius just chuckled "with your weight gain I shouldn't have too much trouble" Shadius said with a
psychotic smile "first off that made no sense, second HOW DARE YOU MENTON MY WEIGHT!" Yomi snarled a fight then broke out between the two, during
their clash Yomi got a good look into Shadius's eyes without even meaning to, "have we met?" asked Yomi "no you idiot of course we haven't!" Shadius
answered quickly, the way she said it though made it clear she was hiding something. Nyamo was looking around "what is it master Nyamo?" asked Chio "I
sense a presence, a presense I haven't felt since…." Nyamo answered slowly, quietly and calmly all at once she then stood up and turned in the direction
Shadius and Yomi were fighting, Nyamo quickly headed off in that direction walking with the others following her when they spotted Yomi and Shadius
fighting Nyamo just stood there and walked slowly over to Shadius without even grabbing her lightsaber. "Could it be?" Nyamo asked herself in her head,
Shadius shot lightning at Nyamo which was quickly deflected by her; Shadius managed to get a good look in Nyamo's eyes and realized what she was
thinking Shadius's reaction was to panic and attack her "she knows who I am I can't have that happen" Shadius thought to herself Nyamo activated her
lightsaber "don't worry I can take her" Nyamo said "are you sure?" asked Osaka to which Nyamo nodded to "you may find yourself regretting that choice"
Shadius said confidently almost slipping out of her fake voice "hey her voice is fake" Osaka pointed out "yeah we all knew that Osaka" Chihiro told her
raising an eyebrow at her cluelessness. After a brief duel Shadius retreated "yeah I am not staying around for this" she said as she took off like a rocket
"wait come back we can help you" Nyamo said raising a hand at her "I am sorry but it is too late for me" Shadius told her with a lot of sadness in her voice,
she then threw a smoke bomb in their direction and left. After the smoke cleared Nyamo was just standing around with a look of horror in her face "uh
master Nyamo are you ok?" asked Chio after a brief moment of silence Osaka repeated Chio's question "lets head back to Typhon now" Nyamo said without
looking at anyone "ye-yes master" Chio said
After everyone had got back to Typhon, Yukari greeted everyone with a triumphant smile, well at least until she saw Nyamo's frozen face "he y what
happened to you? You look like you've seen a ghost" Nyamo asked her old friend "I need to talk to you and the counsel in private" Nyamo said without
even looking at Yukari "wow this must be serious" Yukari said as the two masters entered the council chambers everyone else just talked to one another
about what was going on.
Back in the imperial fleet, "what makes you think I would except a Eddorian for an apprentice?" he asked a bizarre floating creature "well according to a
Sith inquisitor it's because my descendant will bring terror to the galaxy, so if my descendant could, why not I?" the Eddorian said "yes I have heard about
this Eddorian Sith his name is Darth Nochichi but the inquisitor also said he wasn't sure if it was a future or just an alternate reality!" Malacard growled
"well maybe but can you afford to take any chances?" the Eddorian asked "yes I can" Malacard said as he threw the bizarre alien out an air lock and then
watch him explode. "So what was that about?" asked Kaizer as he entered the room "oh just some alien wanting to become my apprentice, all because an
inquisitor said there would be a member of his species who would become an effective Sith, I don't believe and the way he described him he compared him
to me! How did he figure that, the Sith in question was too hammy and too loyal to his empress to be anything like me!" Malacard roared "well he is not
wrong about the loyal part" Kaizer thought to himself, after listening to Malacard's ego for about an hour he was saved by the stupidity of a random soldier
"Malalcard we just lost blew a hole in our own flee-"the soldier got killed midsentence, shortly afterwards Shadius showed up "Malacard I fought the Jedi
on Onderan like you wanted but I think one of them knew who I was" she informed him "what?" Malacard asked with an unpleasant tone of voice "I
said….." Shadius began to answer him but found herself the victim of a force choke "shame really I was really hoping to keep your identity a secret for a
little bit longer but oh well" Malacard said with a creepy sounding tone he then released her from his grip "tell me did either of you kill any Jedi on your
assignments?" He then asked both Kaizer and Shadius said no, then got hit hard by a flurry of force lightning "WHEN I WANT SOMEONE DEAD YOU DO
IT!" Malacard yelled very much ticked off, "yes master" the two Sith said one at a time as they got back up "you know it is truly a shame you didn't
except that Eddorian for an apprentice" an man said as he walked into the room, the man was the Sith inquisitor who told Malacard about the Eddorian Sith
"Darth Tren what are you doing here?" Malacard growled "to inform you more about the vision I saw of Darth Nochichi" Tren said "tell it to these two I don't
care" Malcard said with anger in his voice, Darth Tren then decided to do just that knowing how it's impossible to get Malacard to listen, after listening to
the tale of the Eddorian Sith, Darth Nochichi, Kaizer said "this Nochichi may be a monster but he sounds like something from a good story", "somehow I am
not surprised you said that" Tren said sighing slightly "and quite honestly he sounds more like an alternate universe thing" Kaizer said "why is that?" Tren
asked "because the way you described his empress, she sounds a lot like someone who exist right now, only she isn't evil and she can use the force" Kaizer
pointed out which not even Tren could deny "so yeah unless she got a non-force sensitive descendant who looked, and maybe acted, just like I find it
highly unlikely this is a future thing" Kaizer continued "true, now if only Malacard was as leveled headed as you then maybe this empire would be an easier
place to live in" Tren said with a smile, but it was a mistake to say that in Malacard's presence as the dreaded Sith lord grabbed Tren by the neck and threw
him out the air lock "how dare he compare me to such a weak fool" Malacard thought to himself the only reason he didn't say it out loud was because he
wanted to use Kaizer as a slave for a little bit longer, he already knew the real reasons the dark council put Kaizer here with him too keep himself on leash
"it will never work they know I can't be controlled" he said to himself in his head. Kaizer and Shadius were soon dismissed on to their next assignment.
"So no one has any idea as to what's going on huh?" asked Kagura "not really" Kaorin said "great so now what?" asked Chihiro "we just have to wait for
Yukari and Nyamo to inform us of what is going on" Yomi said her mind however was on something else "Shadius, who are you? Are you….." Yomi kept
asking the question in her head over and over. Master Yukari and Nyamo walked out of the council chambers both with the same look now "so how did it
go?" asked Kagura "fine, but we need to think for a little bit" Nyamo informed her "oh, ok" Kagura said she had never seen Nyamo like this before. The
two Jedi masters left with the group of Jedi padawans just standing around wandering of what just happened, they couldn't ask the council on account for
the fact that there was a meeting still going on. "Hey Yomi, you seem very quiet, what's wrong?" asked Chio "oh nothing, Chio I was just thinking about
that Shadius girl" Yomi answered "yeah I know every time I see her I can't help but feel I had met her somewhere before" Kagura said "I know and she is
wearing a mask with a hood over it, but she has an aura about her one that feels so familiar." Yomi said all of her friends couldn't help but agree with her
Shadius did seem awfully familiar but no one could place their fingers on it.
what could Darth Shadius's true identity be? oh who am I kidding you more than likely already know. special thanks to x to zoltron for letting me reference his work