Chapter 11

Some time has past since the attack on Agamar. Karel has gone on missions nonstop since then. He had just had his first break. He went back to Gaia to be called back by the emperor at the end of the week.

I was in my bed when I jumped up. My mind's eye had been opened once again. I was transported to a battleship. I walked around and noticed that is was a republic ship. I looked down at myself and I was in my night clothes. Clones walked right past me. I walked to docking bay and saw a ship come flying in.

That Jedi who looked like Yang jumped out. The image of one of the imperial ships destroyed came to my mind's eye. She said something

"What are you saying?" I asked. No reply put she did stutter for a second. I don't know if she heard me. Another ship came flying in the bay. Out came that boy. I looked at him. The Woman ordered everyone to get ready to make a jump.

"Sander, something isn't right." I hear her say

"What?" He asked. I recognize his voice… and name. He was that boy that I spoke to on the train all that time ago. I look over him, and his eyes scan to where I was standing. He stopped where I was.

"It's very faint master."

"I know. Good. The force is showing someone something. We're part of that right now." She closed off her mind to me and she disappeared. I fall to the ground holding my head. I feel pain, and I see Sander vanish too.

My vision ended, and I was in my bed. Siren came into my room and when she saw me breathing heavily she asked what was wrong.

"I just saw a vision. I was watching the enemy take down one of our ships." I say

"I see. Well you have a mission from the emperor."

"What is it?"

"I don't know he just needs you to be on his ship very soon." Siren turned around and started to leave the room when she turned around.

"You've mastered French. Good job." She blew me a kiss, then I realized we were speaking French. I didn't even realize. I got dressed and got my bag. It was getting full of stuff all around the galaxy, including Gaia. On the rare occasions that I was given time to go to Gaia I gained something every time. When I went there last I got a bunch of these DVDs, and a few DVD players. I set up a room in my bag just to watch the collection I have.

I go to my ship, nowhere near as good as Murphy's old one. Daniel told him to rename it to the Titanic. That was funny, especially when I saw his face. I would have paid a hundred bucks to see that look again.

My ship flew to the emperor's personal flagship. It was very impressive.

I walked on the ship with two other mavens. Agents Illinois, my friend Daniel, and this other Maven that I never met before. The Maven turned to me and I saw that they were a female. I shake her hand. She was wearing a basically googles. Her hair was long and black. She was very tanned.

"I'm Lily Hart. I'm from Hawaii." I studied that state briefly. It seemed nice. Never got to go their last time. I was in France for most of my time.

"You look familiar."

"Yeah, I worked for Siren some time on a mission. You probably saw me around the ship." She sounds familiar.

"Sorry that I never really noticed you." I say

"Don't worry about it. I wash to places like a wave."

Daniel taps me on the shoulder. I turn, and he motions to an open poker a table.

"I don't have cash on me." I say

"You got stuff. I know you have a collection of things in that little bag of yours."

"Do we have time?"

"Are we gambling? Let's do it." Hawaii says.

"Fine" Daniel walks to the table and gets it set up. Hawaii walks past me and pinched my butt.

"What?"

"Siren said if I did that she would give me 50 bucks." Lily walks to the table.

You must be kidding me Siren. Can I have some peace away from you

I didn't look at the "table" until I walked into the room, which I learned soon enough was an arrow, and the table a box of weapons. Lily pulls out a pack of playing cards.

"You keep a deck on you at all times?" I ask.

"I love gambling." She informed me.

We started playing, and I had to get some of my favorite movies. I let go of the classic monster movies, Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy. I won at twenty bucks from Lily and a Stephen King Novel from Daniel. I don't know who this king guys is. His books probably aren't scary.

We kept doing this until I bet my Blade Runner, Lily pulled out a bunch of tropics magazines and Daniel put half a dozen more of those books from that King guy. Daniel must be a fan. Those books were kind of fat. If I had a few hours I could go through a few.

"Do you guys want to know what Siren's done to me?" I say

"What?"

"She put a bounty to any woman who could get me in their bed. And other things…" I say.

"Wow. You either like men or you have a will stronger than this ship." Lily says. Daniel laughs, and takes a swig from a flask he had, when He saw Kadabra standing in the doorway. He spits out the… rum I think it is by the smell… My master liked her drink… and stands up to salute Kadabra.

I look behind me and Salute to. Lily was the last one to notice.

"I see you've been busy." He says coldly. I can't get a good read on him.

"Yes, my emperor. We are just waiting for the pilot to prepare checking the systems of the ship before we go." She said. We were? Oh… She's lying… I think.

"Alright, you might be wondering as to why we are the only imperial ship going to Serenno. So, I'll be brief. I will be going to Count Dooku's personal palace to investigate something that's been going on behind our backs"

Were going to the heart of the CIS… Alone. Great, I wanted to go on a suicide mission today. Most of my missions are suicide missions. Actually, how is this any different from most of my missions?

"Do we get to kill anyone" Daniel asked. Of course, he did. He has the highest kill count of any of the Big 5

"If any droids or civilians impede you, Agent Illinois, you may dispose of them. However, you will not be joining me when I infiltrate Dooku's palace. You will have a more important job; scavenge the wreckage of the Traveler. That's right, the same freighter used by the space pirate, Daniel Rey. The Separatists made their greatest mistake yet; they kept the ship as a trophy of triumph over the Republic in Dooku's very backyard, corpses and all. The death there must make it a perfect place for Sith to meditate on the Dark Side. Are there any questions?" Kadabra said.

I had a question.

"Why are we scavenging the wreckage of a pirate's ship. Famous or not, he's just a space pirate. What do you expect us to find?" I mean I hate pirates as much as the next guy, but why are we scavenging a ship, and more importantly what are we expecting to find.

"You will be scavenging the ship for anything that could be of value to us. It is common knowledge that the pirate had a habit of being extremely thorough of keeping track of every place he's been to, in the event of him needing to tie up any loose ends. I want you to scour the ship for anything that might be of use, but I want you to find those logs; every place the Traveler has stopped, every hideout in the galaxy they own; those facilities will give us new routes and help us find new opening to strike at the Republic. Am. I. Clear?" It took him a few seconds to think of that.

"Crystal" I step back. The Pilot finally shows up, and we start our trip. The Emperor was sat next to me.

"So… how's your day going?" I asked

"Small talk really? That's what your going to talk to me about? Not what happens on the ship." The Emperor shakes his head

"Yeah… Siren's a pervert" I say

"Strong words." Daniel says.

"She put a camera in my bathroom." Kadabra smirks at that. He's on her side. There is literally nothing I can do about it.

Daniel takes out his flask and takes a swig of it. The balls on him. Kadabra doesn't say anything. He is kind of terrifying. I'm tempted to take a sip of that flask to make me more comfortable. I reach in my bag and get a screwdriver and screw a loose screw back into place. Lily fell asleep somehow. Daniel got plastered. How am I the most normal person on this ship?

The transport finally got into Serrano's orbit. Kadabra must have been hiding us.

"Well, this is my stop. Do not fail this mission." Kadabra jumps out of the transport. Showoff.

Hypocrite.

We fly over the wreckage of the ship and secretly get off. Daniel seemed to think that getting in our way was looking in our general direction. He used the force to make him go faster, and he took down every droid he saw. I look at Hawaii and she smirked. He pecked my cheek and got into a fight with a squad of droids.

I thought we were trying to be secret. I don't get the attention of dozens of droids and I get to the base of the ship. It's an impressive ship. I look over my shoulders and start cutting a hole in the ship. I kick in the scrap and I see bodies littering the ground. I placed my hand down on one of the skeletons and saw who they were.

They were a pirate, one of the newest members of the crew, He joined for the riches and the drinking, but he was cut down before his first raid. I feel sorry for him.

I go to the next body and I see this Pirate. They were a much more seasoned member. He was utterly disgusting. I see him… violating… I don't want to look at this scum anymore. He deserved this death.

I go to the next body and see they were a twi'lek woman. A prostitute. She chose the wrong day to give her services.

I move on and on and see no better man than that first one. They were all a drunken crowd who surrounded themselves with violence, murder, plundering, and unspeakable actions. They deserved this. They are all monsters, the worst kind of scum that I wouldn't think twice about feeding to a sarlaac. I walk to the next room and see the aftermath of a battle. I move to another skeleton and see they weren't a pirate, but one of Dooku's men.

I never would have though of Dooku as the good guy, but this may have just changed my opinion. He was good enough to kill pirates.

I fought pirates who kidnapped a Jedi. She wasn't the same. She grew darker after what they had done to her. I made them pay.

Every band of Pirates are evil. There isn't a single thing of gold on this career of trash.

The battle was more intense in the back of the ship, as seen by the at least a hundred different skeletons. As I got the door opened, lily and Daniel finally caught up to me.

"No more droids around." Daniel said

"That wasn't our mission." I remind him.

"Yeah I know, but we can just say that they got in our way." Daniel said.

"I haven't heard much about this Daniel Rey. What's he like?" I asked

"He was the most feared pirate captain in the galaxy about a decade ago. He pillaged so many passing ships that a caravan had to be at least two dozen strong with everyone having guns just to make sure your stuff got to where you wanted it to go." Lily said

"But as you can see, he was finally put down." Daniel said.

"I think we need to split up to find those documents." I say. We agree and go our separate ways. I open a door and my mind's eye opened again.

I was feeling the pain and seeing the monstrosities committed by some of the pirates. I saw a captain in rugged clothes walk out watching as one of his men were mistreating a woman. He walked up and blasted his head off.

"You must forgive me. I hate people like that. I'll compensate you for his actions." He gave the woman a few thousand credits.

I saw a mutiny on the ship, the crew gathering mostly in the great drinking hall that had most of the bodies in it. As soon as every pointed their guns at each other, Dooku attacked. His forced boarded the ship, and they started to bring the ship down. I felt as Daniel was shot in the gut. He was shot again in the leg, then the arm. I felt as the first and second mates dragged his body into his cabin. The Second mate left and was killed. The first mate locked the door and made a holorecording.

"If you see this, Save our Captain." I heard. After he ended the recording, the door busted open and he fired at the enemy. He killed one, but then Dooku came walking into the cabin. I felt as the first mate was slashed across the chest. Dooku looked at the pirate captain and left, assuming he was dead. I saw the first mate twitch. He started to move to the exit.

The vision ended. I walked into the Chamber and saw a crystal on the wall. I didn't know what that was, so I moved to what I did know what to find.

I found the holotape of the first mate, and a picture of… SALEM!

It was Salem… PREGNANT?! She could even become pregnant? And I saw the father, Daniel Ray?

This is just too confusing. I put the picture in my bag and move to the crystal. I touch it and realize that it isn't a crystal, but a force form of stasis. I use the force to break it and I see Daniel Rey come out. I take my blade out and get ready to take him down. He activates a lightsaber that was orange and blocks my blade.

I look at it. It looks like the darksaber. I kick Daniel in the stomach, knocking him back. He looked at me.

"Why are you trying to kill me?" He said.

"You're a pirate. Your lot is full of murders, thieves, and rapists. You're a disgusting breed." I slash at him. He rolled to the left.

"My men aren't rapists. If they were I would have killed them."

I pushed up and slapped the man. I know what some of these people were.

"Stop lying to me."

"I'm not lying. I hated those evils." He said

"You're a pirate."

"Yes, but I had a set of laws for my men." I dashed at him and slid on the ground, knocking him off his feet. I grab his body and slam it into the wall. I get my blade ready to slam it into him, but he grips my arm and twists me into the wall. I bring my leg behind his leg, knocking him to the ground. He pulls out a pistol and fires at me. I hold my hand out absorbing the power of the bullet.

"Impressive." He says. I don't answer back. I keep fighting. I don't know where he got the strength to fight on like this.

I send out a shockwave from the bell, but he used the force to shield himself. This made too much sense. He had the force. I take a breath and hold out my hand, closing it. The cabin space we were in was closing. He sent a large force push at me, but I was too focused to notice it. I was thrown against the wall. Daniel ran into the man hall. I get up and follow him.

"This was a massacre." He said looking at all the bodies.

"It was. And you are the cause."

Daniel rushed towards me. We were once more in a blade lock. He didn't have his full strength back yet. I turn off my lightsaber for a second, move out of the way of his lightsaber, and bash the back of his head with the pummel of my blade. He falls forward, then I pick him up with the force. I throw him to the left, his body breaking through a door. I go to the room and see that Daniel was starting to recover.

"I'll give you credit. You're able to take a beating." I say. I twirl my lightsaber while walking to him. I saw blood coming from his lip. He pushed me back. I flew through the doorway, into the old bar. It took the air out of my lungs. I took off my helmet and spat.

Blood, my blood now joined the blood on this ship. I Get up and grab an empty bottle of Gin. A skeleton was clutching onto it. I throw it towards the room where Daniel was. He turned on his blade again and walked out.

"You can take a beating to." I didn't see his hand move slightly, and a shard of glass came flying at my face. It cut my cheek. I felt it as the blood ran down my cheek.

I use the force to grip the railings from above him and bring it down. He jumped to the side, giving me enough time to put my helmet back on. He rushed me, but at the last second, he jumped in the air. He tired to get behind me, but what awaited him was a punch square in the face. I think I knocked out a tooth of his. I busted up his lip pretty good.

He jumped over the bar and tried to make a move on me, but I was able to defend myself. This is what I didn't do much of when I fought Skywalker. I am almost a master of Form III.

Daniel tried to get me to budge, and I pretended to. He thought he had the upper hand, rushing towards me. He was really cocky. I grabbed his hand, twisted it, making him drop the lightsaber, then I grabbed it. My black saber and his orange saber were in my hands. I pointed them at his neck.

"I'm sorry son. Looks like I'm not going to meet you after all." He said.

"No, you won't." I got ready to strike when he looked me in the eyes.

Those eyes. I've seen those eyes only one place before. This can't be.

"S-sander?" I asked myself, out loud.

"That is my son. I've seen him grow though the force. He looks so much like me." Daniel smiled.

I stood there looking at him. Daniel lowered his head, offering it to me. I lower the blades and turn them off. I throw his blade at him. He looks at it.

"I can't. You won it off me. I cannot accept it back now. Take it." He looks at the blade.

"What is its name?" I ask

"Dawnbringer. It was created by my ancestors thousands of years ago. Treat it well."

Daniel gets up.

"Leave. It's not safe for here."

"I have a ship. It'll take me away from here."

"Be careful. The galaxy is in full on war. When the time comes you will meet me at Gaia. Let me give you the coordinates."

"I will answer. I'll have to see how my first mate Hondo is doing."

He left the ship. I don't know why I told him to go to Gaia. It was the force. It was trying to tell me that something was going to happen at Gaia. This war will end on that planet, or the imperial part of it. That's all the force told me.

Shortly after a crushing realization came on me. He felt wrong. The force shot of rockets about him. The Force showed me… myself. I was wrong. My mere existence on this galaxy was wrong.

I fell to the ground clutching on my chest. I felt as if the Force tried to squeeze me out of existence like I was a pimple. I wasn't a wound in the force, I was a cancer to the force. I didn't belong. It was such an overpowering feeling that I couldn't feel as Daniel and Lily came rushing to my side. Lily threw off my helmet, and I puked.

"Not again" I heard Daniel say.

I collapsed on the ground. When I opened my eyes, I saw my master standing there. We were on that same island we were on when I was here last. This time the seas around me weren't violent, they were screaming.

"Karel, what has happened?" She asked. I went to her.

"I'm not meant to be here." I say. She held onto me.

"He's a cancer. He's added to the force. Too much of it in any form is lethal. He's the disease that found itself in the immune system of the force." I looked and expected to find Dark Jade there, but it was Kadabra. He smirked.

"What do you mean?"

"That man he just fought is very much like you. To the force he is almost the same. It can't accept that. It was so wrong that the force is trying to rip him apart as we speak." He laughs at the situation.

"How can I stop this?" I ask, no beg him.

"You can't no one has ever survived something like this."

I feel another wave of fire come over me. All the pain receptors in my brain are firing off. I beg for this to stop but that doesn't help.

"Meditate." Jade said

I did as she told me.

"Now let in the force in every cell of your body." I tried, I really did. I was trying to save myself from this unseen power. I screamed and fell on my face.

"Try again." Master Jade told me.

"Yes."

I started to meditate again, and it was working. I felt the light come into me… but then

"With light, comes darkness" I could feel the pull of the dark side in me. I broke my connection to the light.

"You have to banish it for this to work. I believe in you." Jade said. I tried one last time. Everything flashed before my eyes. When I met Bora for the first time, when I became a Jedi, when I crafted my lightsaber, when I met Weiss, so many images flashed past my eyes. When I opened them again, Kadabra was gone. My body was glowing, but the seas were still gnashing at me. I stood and held out my hand.

"I command you to stop." I say. The seas hiss back at me, but they follow my orders. It clams, but the storm in the sky still raged on.

"I command all to stop." The storm faded, the darkness that surrounded me was gone. This was the first time since I was a little kid that I felt like this. This light. My body didn't glow any longer, and I collapsed.

"Good. Remember me my young padawan." Master Jade said.

I opened my eyes once more and saw that I was still in the Traveler.

"What happened?" I asked

"You nearly torn this ship in half. We couldn't even get to you." Lily said.

"Do we have the data chip?"

"Yes." Daniel said. I got up, and started to walk, but I fell to the ground again. Lily grabbed my shoulder and helped me out of the ship. She called for the arrow. I looked up at the sky and gasped. The Black Phoenix was visible

"By the force." Lily said

The arrow flew down and we got on. Every gun in the area was firing at the ship. We moved to where Dooku's castle was, and Kadabra runs towards the open door. He jumps in and the door closes a few seconds later. He looks at us.

"Did you retrieve the package?"

And then some, my Emperor. I'm saddened to say that I didn't get to kill anyone; just some droids." Daniel said. I shake my head.

"Did you find what you were looking for?" I ask. I had to keep up appearances. I just want to sleep right now. Whatever I did, it took everything out of me.

"Oh yes. Everything is so much clearer to me." He was happy for a change.

We fly to the ship, with Daniel and Lily looking at me.

"My emperor, something happened on the ship" Lily said

"What?" He looked intrigued.

"Karel started to glow, and he almost tore the ship in half while he was unconscious." I don't even care that she's telling Kadabra that.

Kadabra looks at me. He must see that I'm exhausted.

"It's nothing." He waves it off, but I doubt that he'll be forgetting any time soon what he was told. He was hiding something. I don't care. I get on a ship to go back to Siren, and Lily comes along.

"The emperor told me that he would be assigning me to Siren from this point on. Looks like we'll be seeing a lot more of each other from now on."

I smile. It's all I can do. We jumped away from the planet and the pilot takes off. I fall asleep shortly after.

When I wake up I'm in my bed, in my night clothes. I wake up in my bed, with water on a nightstand. Siren walks into the room and looks at me.

"You did something that would kill a normal force user. The Emperor told me that I can tell you, but I would have told you anyway. You are my greatest asset, and I couldn't be so successful without you. You see, you became one with the force. It's a rare ability that end up killing most people who do it. You let the force come into every part of your body. You let it become you. Why it happened, and why it stopped suddenly, I don't know. No one really knows about it. It's so dangerous that we are forbidden to teach it. Only Kadabra himself has ever done it before in the history of the empire. He almost died. You have my respect Karel. I wouldn't move from that bed yet."

"How long have I been asleep for?"

"Three days. The force has kept you nourished. It is a wonderful thing isn't it?"

"I don't understand." I said. Siren walked over to me.

"You will in time. You are more powerful then you think." She said. She walked out of the room. Jade and Ninalex came into the room. Jade jumped on my bed.

"Are you okay?" She asked.

"Jade, please don't hurt him." Ninalex said.

I smiled.

"That Miss Hart has been really worried about you. She was just in here." Jade says.

"She's been coming in to check on you every day."

Agent Hawaii? She wouldn't seem the type. I don't know really. Jade hugs me.

"It's alright." I say.

Is it? I think I just put a huge target on my back. If only Kadabra has ever pulled this off, besides me, then some might think that I'm trying to get more power than the Emperor, or others will think that if they kill me then they might be given a promotion. I must be careful. Right now, this ship is my only haven.

"Oh, yeah. We're going back to Gaia for two weeks." Ninalex said

Gaia. Everything is pointing to that planet. The Galaxy will turn its eyes to the planet. It is where everything will end.

Author's notes: Yeah, Karel has become one with the force, and a very important character was just introduced.

Hope you liked this chapter. I know I talked about some really dark topics, but I think that those evils would be present on a pirate ship, even in Star Wars.

Like always, read the main story. It's actually complete. {I know I need to keep working on this, but I have another very large project that I'm writing right now. And I have a Lot of stuff that I must do.}

May the force be with you

-DragonZlayerx12