Chapter 18. Darth Sidious

Palpatine had been invited to Tridaria Dzeen and the only reason he went because Dzeen had given him his first job in the Senate as an intern. When the ship was one feet from the sky hanger it was hit by an ion missile. The Nubian Two went down and splashed in the river two hundred miles below. Dzeen blamed the incident on the Tridarian insurgent clan. A military group who wanted Tridaria to break ties with the Republic.

When Palpatine awoke he was tied to a chair with a droid injecting him with a compound. "Where am I who are?" He asked to several figures sitting in the shadows.

"My name is of no consequence to you Senator Palpatine… What is of concern to you is whether or not I let you live… Now tell me your life depends on it… are you in league with a Muun by the name of Tin'sar Demask?"

He smiled, "Is that what all this is about… Let me see Lok was foolish to believe he could take down a Muun as powerful as Tin'sar Demask… No one can out think him… or get the upperhand over Demask accept maybe me for I weild the same power..."

"He is mad lets send the ransom and kill him…"

Palpatine's eyes turned yellow and a wave of power ripped the restraints from his body and threw the men to the ground. He threw out his arms unleashing a storm of force lightening killing most of his kidnappers. One of them was fully armored man with a personal shield. The man shot a line from his arm gauntlet that wrapped around Palpatine. From his arm his lightsaber sprang, he ignited it cutting the rope. The man grunted drawing a vibrosword and charged Palpatine. When the energy blade of Palpatine's sword didn't cut through the sword Palpatine gasped.

"That's right Jedi… Cortosis weaved sword." As they pushed against one another he bathed Palpatine in a torrent of flames from the blow torch on his arm gauntlet.

The man stood over Palpatine's burned body savoring his victory. That is when a Muun burst into the room with red lightsaber. The Muun cut down seven men before he faced the man who burned Palpatine. They fought back and forth until the Muun disarmed the man and grabbed him by the throat.

"Tell me your name…" He spit on Plagueis who squeezed tighter, "Tell me…"

"My name is Jan… go Fett…"

Plagueis dropped him summoning the vibrosword to his left hand. "You're a Mandelorian aren't you…"

"I am…" He replied rubbing his throat.

"Are you a pure blood Mandelorian…"

"I am…" He said standing up.

"I may have need of your services… I will contact you one day… Leave here and I will pay you triple what the black sun offered…"

"You have a deal…" Jango looked at his sword in Plagueis' hand.

"My sword give it too me…"

"Consider it a trade for what you did to my apprentice…"

Jango removed his helmet, "Fine… but tell me… Are you a sith lord…"

"I am…" Jango saluted and left as Plagueis knelt beside Palpatine's smoking body. There was a small flicker of life still in him, but it was slowly slipping away.

There was a large space station and Darth Sidious sat on the thrown inside the monsterous space station. At his side stood a man dressed head to toe in black armor. His breathing was irradict, but he had a strong power in the force, like a volcanoe waiting to erupt. Then his vision was replaced by a dark shadow, ("Who are you?") Palpatine asked.

("In life I was known as Darth Zannah…")

("Why are you here… Am I dead…")

("No not yet… I am here to guide you… You are a true sith… Plagueis is wise but arrogant and corrupt… You are a true sith and you desire true power… You must kill Darth Plagueis…")

("How he is immortal… He is invincible…")

("There is always a way and I shall show you the path… Look to the medi-chlorians…")

She began to fade away, ("Wait what does that mean?")

When Palpatine awoke his skin was restored as if nothing had happened. He could breath freely and could feel the darkside inside him. He finally noticed Darth Plagueis sitting beside the bed.

"I was dead… The darkisde was calling me…"

"You were dead… but I pulled you back and healed your body…"

"You can reverse death…"

"If I have mastered immortality then don't you think I would master death itself…"

Palpatine sat up, "Is there nothing you can't do?"

"The creation of life is near my grasp… and one day I will be able to use the force to control time and space itself…"

"Who was that warrior… I owe him a fire bath…"

Plagueis laughed, "His name is Jango Fett and you will do him no harm… He is the pure blood Mandelorian that I have been looking for…"

"The Clone army…"

Plagueis nodded, "I sense your anger my apprentice you may avenge yourself, but Jango Fett is not to be touched…"

Darth Sidious made no mention of Darth Zannah's advice, because he wasn't sure that it was her. It could have been a trick of his master and a test. But he would have been able to tell if Plagueis was in his mind. For his revenge Sidious took down each person involved with his kidnapping one by one. He killed Dzeen first making it seem like an accident. Then he killed Neldo and his entire family with his lightsaber.

As Palpatine Sidious could interact with heads of state and other Senators, but he longed to be known as Darth Sidious. He craved the power his master had and he longed to put the plan in affect. So Sidious came to a decision, he decided to kill Darth Plagueis and take his place as the lord of the sith. He needed a way to defeat Plagueis and that had to be done by cunning and not open combat with Plagueis. In a strait up lightsaber duel Sidious could hold his own with the Muun. The problem was that Palpatine was immortal and how would he overcome that. (Medi-chlorians…") Darth Zannah's words echoed in his mind.

Farmer was over three hundred years old and Plagueis' right hand. While his Master was conducting business Sidious decided he would interrogate Farmer on his Master's experiments. He used the force to break his mind and that is when Sidious heard in his mind Medi-Chlorians. He took a sample of Farmer's blood and removed the incident from his mind. Sidious discovered that somehow Plagueis had somehow altered his medi-chlorians and extended his life.

"In order to defeat Plagueis I must find a way to alter his Medi-Chlorian count…" From that moment on Sidious formed a plan to kill Plagueis and take his place.