Chapter 14
News of the Assassination attempt on the emperor spread like wild fire. No one knew that Karel had anything to do with it except him and the Order.
I was called to meet with the emperor. Did he know that I had a hand in the crash? It's not like I'll be working for the order anymore. If I want to get home, I must do it with Kadabra's help.
I got on the arrow the emperor provided me.
"You're going to the Black Phoenix. That's all I know"
Oh great. The pilot has no clue either.
We exited beamspace and I saw dozens of ships. I don't think the empire had ever made a force this big. Are we going to attack Coruscant? We docked, and I was met with a squadron of imperials. They led me to the bridge, and there he was, sitting in on his throne.
He looked at me.
"Agent Pennsylvania, step forward."
I went to the throne and went to one knee. I can feel the power. How did I never see it before? He is more powerful than even Sidious.
"I have answered your call my lord."
"I can see that. As you may or may not know, I was recently attacked by the Order of the Phoenix. They have shown to me that you were just a distraction. For this reason, you are given this glorious mission. We are going to attack the Chiss home world. We have two mavens on the job for this one."
"My lord, Only two? Is that enough?"
I felt pain throughout my body, and realized it was the Force. I cancelled out the effect.
"That is your answer. That would have incapacitated a lesser being."
He was testing me.
"I see my lord. Who shall be the other Maven coming with me?"
"Agent Alaska. You have helped him capture Agamar. Now he's been using the planet to grow in the dark side. Have you been there recently?"
"No."
"It's now nothing more than a ball of ice."
My eyes open wide.
"How is that possible?"
"The powers of the Dark side are great. You have shown incredible strength, and a great tactical mind, but you have yet to show many great achievements in the dark side. This will change that."
"What will I be doing?"
"You will see. Now, I do have a question for you."
"Ask whatever my lord. The answers yours."
"Do you know what a wound in the force is?"
"I know that the Jedi purge four millennia ago was headed and closed by wounds in the force. I know they have incredible power. They are created when massive amounts of live are lost."
"Correct. The event that was the making of the three Sith lord and lost Jedi was the destruction of Mandalore V. Do you remember when the empire was formed?"
"Yes. I didn't see much of the destruction, but I saw the affects it's had on Gaia." Only a half truth.
"Yes, you see, I believe that when I eradicated the Wizards, that is caused another wound in the force to come about. I think you are that wound."
"I would doubt that. There's nothing special about me."
"Modesty will not save you here. Now silence, so I can put to words why I think this."
I stopped talking.
"You would have been about 13 years old when it happened. You most likely have Jedi blood running in your veins, no matter how small. Your ancestor was a Jedi master who was killed in the line of action defending the Bothan home world. We have records of the name popping up a few times in history, and about the time of Year 1, the name pops up again in Israel. Some sources point to him being one of the wise men."
The emperor pulled up documents and handed them to Karel.
"Thought the chance of you heraldically gaining the force after so long is almost zero. We have no real records of you until you saved my wife. You were a simple farmer. This would be waved off as mere coincidence, but there is one thing that can't be proven, but I can feel. You are off."
"What do you mean my lord?"
"You feel wrong. It's as if the force is trying to erase you. You are unique. I have been watching you closely, and I have been very cautious about you. No one just appears out of nowhere. Some how you slipped past both the wizarding world, and my empire. That would suggest that you obtained the force, in a since, recently. That points to you being a wound in the Force."
"Even if I was, why would that matter?"
"You truly are uncreative, or slow. Wounds in the force are powerful tool against force users. Now that I know that I can trust you, I shall use you. That is why only two mavens are required. If you weren't a wound, I probably would have sent at least half of the mavens on this mission."
Wow. He's putting a lot of pressure on my shoulders.
"I can trust Siren to keep you in check if you ever had any thought to try and take my seat."
"I would never."
"You are SITH!" He pounded his fist on the throne "It is in your nature to conquer! If you have no ambition, then you will be cast aside as the filth you are. Only true Sith are worthy to be in my empire. Do you think the seat of any of the Darths is secure?! I doubt Siren isn't experiencing sleepless nights because she has three rivals on her ship. That forces her to be on her best."
"I understand. I haven't thought of Siren as a rival." He was wrong about one thing, and why I know I'm not a wound in the force. I am not from this universe.
"And this is how you will fail. If you aren't ready to kill another Sith your as good as dead."
"I've been a fool."
"Yes, you have, but you are still a warrior. Now you will be sent down to the planet. You will go to where I want you to go, then you will kill every Chiss that gets in your way."
About half an hour later I'm ready and on the Arrow. We have a squad of imperials with us, and a squad of imperials on the other ship. Alaska's with me.
We take off and we get ready to get to the ground. We were shooting plasma blasts, but they weren't distracted enough to not notice us. The other Arrow had a hard landing, but there's was a million times easier than ours. The Chiss shot at us, killing the pilot. We crashed into the ground. Alaska and I were the only ones who survived. I cut open the door. Four Chiss troops were standing in my way. I grabbed them by with force and allowed Alaska to freeze them. I crushed them.
"We're only a few minutes from where we were meant to land. We have to get moving." I said
"Agreed." Alaska said
We move forward, killing four squads of Chiss that tried to ambush the other Arrow.
The planet was so cold. Ce came up in my helmet
"Master, would you like the heater mode to be activated?"
"Is that even a real question?" Since I learned about these different things about my suit, I've been unlocking them. I've unlocked them all, but I forgot about some of them, like the Centralia mode.
It goes off and I feel warmer immediately. Before we could get to the other Arrow, ten whole squads of Chiss pop us.
"Good. I thought this was going to be boring." I said. I pull out my lightsaber and fire a blade at first Chiss that was trying to fight me. They had a thermal detonator, so I used the force to activate it. I tossed the body by the top of mountain. It exploded and caused an avalanche.
The Chiss see what I did. They get to places to hide, Alaska and I put up our hands up.
The snow doesn't crush us. I can't say the same for the other Chiss. Some of them survived. I can't say how many, but I still feel them. Once Alaska and I get out of the snow we're getting shot at. Alaska swore then fired at nothing. They were concealing themselves.
"Ce, make those coal blasts."
"Will do."
The bell moved back, and a ball of carbon is formed in the air. It burns whoever and whatever it touches. I shot it towards where the Chiss were. I think I got one, since I started hearing screaming. There was a large hole in the snow.
"Get down." I tell Alaska. I never tried this, but I started to form multiple coal shots. After I had a dozen made, I fired them in a circle around me. Some of them were wastes, but some hit more Chiss.
"Now!" I yell. Alaska gets up and uses the force with me to push the snow away from us. He goes to the west and I go to the east. We start our slaughter of the Chiss, and since my coal blasts melted the snow, we have a nice trail to get to them.
When I get to my bunch, I turn on my lightsaber. They scream something I couldn't understand. I make another coal shot and fire it at the Chiss. It hit one right on the head, going though them. I use the force to destroy their cover, then jump down. At least thirty Chiss were there. I soon changed that. I quickly take out four.
I switch to Vibro blade form, and a blade comes out. As I swing my saber, I'm cutting down others with my other hand. They stood no chance. When I got to the last one, I picked them up, then sent an electric wave threw them. They were fried so good that a cannibal would be able to eat it.
I may or may not know a cannibal. I think they're a cannibal, but I can't prove anything. I've been keeping an eye on that Agent. I think they would take a bite out of this body. They weren't of the fifty state Mavens. Which maven was it again? I don't know.
I take a sample of blood from the Chiss. Each of them besides the BBQ. I was going to send them to one of the cloners we captured to discover things about this race. We have almost no information about them.
I get out of my hole, and Alaska gets out of his dragging a frozen Chiss with him.
"Hey, this one told me that the thousands of Chiss fled before we came. I think they found out somehow."
"We'll tell the emperor after our mission is over." We get moving. We walk to the edge of the ridge and I see the troops fighting the Chiss.
One of the troops were hit and went down. This caused one of the other troops to charge.
"Save that troop please."
"Got it."
Alaska shot the Chiss before the troop would waste her life.
"Good Job trooper." He said sarcastically
"Agreed." I add. We go to where they were.
"What's that?" One of the troops asked. I looked at the sky. The ship was launching a dozen arrows, carrying something
It comes towards us. I see a Chiss ship trying to flee from the fight, but we destroy it easily
The thing I recognize as the drill. Alaska and I were going to activate it. It would drill to the capital city of the planet, then we would move in and take it. That's what we were told.
Ce comes up.
"No Chiss in the area."
"Good.
The drill lands where they planned it.
"Well, that leaves us alone." One of the troops said.
"Keep your eyes and ears open. We need to keep the enemies away from the drill until it has done its job" Alaska's no longer that boy who was bullied at Hogwarts. He walked to the control panel. He stood there for a second. "Um… I can never remember which…" Scratch what I said about him. He's still the same kid as before.
I go to the drill and push him out of the way.
I activate the drill
"That one." I tell him. Suddenly the drill becomes a lot livelier. Its top comes off, then Alaska moves to the other side of me and does his part. The four kyber crystals activate and start spinning. They launch a beam that was going to melt into the surface of the planet.
A troop comes up, and so does Ce. I listen to Ce.
"Master, the enemy is going to come from the mountain range the private came from."
"How many?" I asked
"200 or so."
"Alright."
"Alright. Where are they coming from?"
"That way, Sargent Sanderson" I pointed to where the private came from.
She told us to stay here, and to watch over her troop she left behind, then went to battle.
I look at Alaska.
"Did you do it?"
"I don't know what you're talking about."
"Yes, you do. Agamar."
Alaska sighed.
"Yes, but I didn't mean to turn it to a frozen wasteland. I just lost control."
"How did you do it?"
"I don't know. I was at this ancient Rakatan building, and something happened. I turned the planet to a wasteland. I must have killed everyone who couldn't get out. That would be millions."
"Why were you at a Rakatan building?"
"I went to try to figure out how to become more powerful. Now I turned the whole world dark."
"The emperor told you to go there?"
"No. He sent me to the world to improve myself… I'm on of the weakest Mavens. I know that. I can never even come close to your achievements."
"So, you tried to find an artifact or some lost knowledge."
"Yes. I'm not as talented as you. Or New York, or any of the Big 5. I could never hope to get to your level as I was. So, I went looking for it. In the end I found something greater."
"Is it worth it?" I asked.
"Yes. I can now stand on my own two feet."
"But you painted a large target on your back. If one of the Mavens get jealous of you, then you'll go missing."
"I can handle myself."
I hear a noise.
"Master, you're surrounded. One hundred to one." I turn on my lightsaber, and grab snow, melting it though the force. Thirty Chiss pop up, and I soak them. Then I send out rods of metal. I shoot out lightning, making it bounce off the metal into the Chiss. They all die.
"One to ninety now" I say.
"It was a distraction." Alaska says. Alaska changes the setting of his gun to flames. He melts snow and ice surrounding us, uncovering a few dozen Chiss. He switches it back to ice and freezes them all. He then uses the force to destroy the bodies. It had to be at least Thirty again.
"Good job." I say. The troop that stay behind lifted his rifle and opened fire. He took out three Chiss before they took him down.
We kept fighting. I lost count, so I had Ce but a number on the display. It went down fast.
The troops that left start coming back. We get in a circle, killing Chiss after Chiss, until we're half the number we were before. The Navy troops drop down and start to help us.
We were finally able to push the Chiss back. Ce put a time telling me that we didn't have much time left.
Before we could celebrate anything four more Chiss, this time in what seemed to be royal guard armor fired at us. I was able to block the shots, sending back a few. I killed two of them.
I hear something. I look at Alaska. He had a heat insulator on his suit. They shot it. I look at the Chiss and faster than I knew was possible I reached them. In fewer seconds then it would take to breath I sliced them up so many times that there was almost nothing left of them.
I turn off my lightsaber and go back to Alaska. The snow was turning red. Four more Chiss were killed but I didn't give it much heed.
"I'm fine." He started to get up with a lot of trouble. I tried to help him up. "No. The drill has yet to finish its job. Whatever the emperor's planning, you need to be gone by the time it happens. Get out of here while you still have the chance."
I didn't want to leave him. But finally, I realized I had to.
"Alright. I will pick you up when we're done" I go to the Arrow. Alaska turns back to look at me. I nod. He doesn't want me to come back.
I send him a vision of the Emerald forest. I send him pictures of beauty. I showed him Remnant.
The Arrow door closed. I took my seat as we started to fly away.
We land on the emperor's ship. I rush towards the bridge. When I get there, I see everyone looking at the Planet.
I hear the emperor
"Let this mark the destruction of the Chiss empire. For their destruction is the will of the Force. Lieutenant Tauk, FIRE AT WILL!"
The ship starts to shake. We send out a single round. I watch as it moves closer to the planet's surface. This round goes through the hole. I hear Alaska say something to me.
"Good bye my friend. Remember me."
I feel as he passes on. Then something happened that I could only imagine in my worst nightmare.
I can feel an explosion in the planet. Thousands die in an instant. I feel pain. Seconds later, I see the planet start to crack.
By the force it was cracking. Everyone on the planet would probably be dead now.
"Checkmate." That's what the emperor said.
I was feeling the deaths of everyone. I feel sick. I caused this. This is just as much my fault as his. Then soon, the planet explodes. Any Chiss off the planet were in the ships. So many of them were destroyed.
Something in me breaks. It was a spell. The emperor put a spell over me, so I would do what he wanted me to do. I feel sick.
The emperor walked towards me. He mumbles something then started to fall. I caught him. I stood still. I was still shocked about the planet. I burned it.
I take him to the med bay. They started working on him immediately.
He was so weak in this state. Was he as powerful as he said?
I went back to Siren's ship. Three days we waited. Three days of self-hatred. Three days of gloom. I was almost suicidal. I thought about it more than once. It is my shame, put I couldn't do it. I had one thought that kept me from ending it. I needed to get back to Remnant.
Then I got another assignment from the emperor, and so did Hawaii and Ninalex, all the same mission. We were going to Tatooine. We were going to end the tyranny of the Hutts.
I brought Jade with me, but she had to stay in my bag. Ninalex and Hawaii also stayed in there. As I got on the Arrow, I had a feeling that I was never going to step foot on this ship again. Then we flew off.
Author's Notes: Now is these next few chapters are going to be one story arc. The last story arc.
Stan Lee has died. He's definitely changed all of us, and he even changed society.
There's not much more I need to say.
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