Chapter 9

"Normal talk"

"Thought"

"Hologram & communicator"

THE FOX ENTERS THE FORCE-NEUTRAL BUBBLE

Kamino attacked!

In the invasion of the clone home planet

by the sinister agents of Dooku,

Asajj Ventress and General Grievous,

the young Sith apprentice Naruto Uzumaki

used the distraction for his personal gain,

capturing a group of Kaminoans,

the clone Commander Colt, as well as

multiple templates that he would need in order to make his own army!

This army, if built fast enough, could potentially destroy

both the Republic and the Separatist Alliance…

[Korriban-surface]

In one of the newly built medical facilities, we find a group of Kaminoans hard at work, assisted by groups of hovering medical droids.

Through the window of the room, you could see a large area filled with glass tanks where multiple clones from different species were being grown at an accelerated pace. Still, they would not be fully grown for at least a couple of years. Of course they could be grown faster, but it was proven long ago that they would go insane because of the Force, which would not allow the creation of life at such a fast pace.

The Kaminoans were trying to get around that problem, but every time they tried, they ended up with the same results. It was only in recent years that they had made their first breakthrough.

The scientists stopped their work when they saw the doors to the room slide open, and in walked two figures. The first one wore a long-sleeved black shirt that hung to his body and showed off his well-developed body. Over that, he wore armor that consisted of a black chest plate, and some shoulder guards. The shoulder guards were blood red, and they had spikes on them, but they were not so big as to hinder the user. The man also wore forearm guards the same color as the shoulder guards, and they also covered the back of his hand and had spikes covering them.

He wore black pants that were tucked into a pair of brown high boots that had shin guards over them. The shin guards were also covered in spikes and were painted blood red. A brown belt was strapped around his waist, on which he carried his lightsabers, lightsabers that had once belonged to Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker and the Jedi councilman Yarael Poof.

However, if you looked closely enough, you could see a mask that bore a striking resemblance to that of the one that had belonged to the dark Lord Revan, though this one had more intricate, detailed designs, and it had blood red markings that were a combination of the tattoos of Asajj Ventress and Ziro the Hutt.

He finished his look with a black cloak that flapped behind him. He had long blond hair that was kept in a low ponytail. He had a face devoid of baby fat, and was adorned with three whisker marks on each cheek, with a deep red tattoo on his left side. His eyes were a bright yellow color that signified his training in the ways of the dark side.

This was none other than our favorite Sith, Naruto Uzumaki.

The other person was a surprise, as it was a man dressed in clone armor painted chrome black with two upswept pauldrons, the right one of which was colored red. This was none other then the former Commander of the Galactic Republic, clone trooper Colt. Naruto still remembered the way he turned Colt to his cause.

[Flashback/Korriban-dungeons]

Commander Colt had awoken to find he was bound in chains and stripped of his upper armor. He could also feel that something was stuck to his head. As he tried to feel what it was, he found it to be some sort of round object. As he was about to try and remove it, he was stopped by a male voice.

"I wouldn't do that," said the voice. "You are still healing, and we wouldn't want you dying on us, now would we?"

As Colt looked up, he saw that it was none other that the Sith apprentice of Count Dooku.

"What do you want, Sith? Have you come here to torture me so that you can get me to tell you some information I might posses that could help you destroy the Republic?" said Colt with hate in his words; "If that's the case, I suggest you kill me while you still have the chance."

But it didn't get him the reaction he was expecting. He thought that the Sith would get angry, would bluster, threaten or at least that it would get him to scowl, but instead, he started to laugh. This surprised the clone, but surprise quickly turned to anger as he thought that the Sith was mocking him.

"What's so funny?!" yelled Colt with narrowed eyes, rattling his chains. Again, he was treated to the sound of the Sith laughing. This pissed off the clone even more, but he finally remembered his training, wrestled his anger into submission. Stay alert, he thought. If there's a chance to get out of this, it'll only come once.

When Naruto finally calmed down he looked at the clone.

"Well, for starters, I was laughing because you think I'd kill and/or torture you for something I can get with less effort than it would take to get it out of you," said Naruto, putting his hand on his chin. "But I do have to say that seeing you get tortured would brighten up my day," he added offhandedly, as if it was the most basic of things, like a mother making her son pancakes for breakfast.

"So what do you want from me, then?" asked Colt with confusion clearly evident on his face.

"No, no, Commander. It's not what I want from you but what you want from me," said Naruto, smirking knowingly.

"What do you mean? I don't understand, I don't want anything from you except for you to stand nice and still while I put a blaster bolt between your eyes," Colt said as, against his better judgement, his anger again began to rise.

"Well, I just thought that you would have wanted to know why you were created, and who was responsible."

"I already know why I was created and who created me!" Commander Cold yelled in defiance. "The Kaminoans, on the request of Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas, and he had us created so that the Republic would be prepared for war."

"I suppose that's true from a certain point of view, but you're missing some really key points to that story. Yes, it's true that Sifo-Dyas thought of the idea, but he was not the one that went to Kamino to start the army. And it was a Jedi, yes, but it was a Jedi that had become a Sith apprentice to a Dark Lord of the Sith. That Jedi was none other than Count Dooku, who had given the order to create you so that the Sith might rule over the whole galaxy once again."

As Colt listened to the young Sith before him, his world and everything he knew came crashing down around him. He was confused as to why the Sith would create an army that would fight for someone else. Since he didn't know the answer, he decided to ask the only person who knew.

"Why?" he said simply, masking his desperation as best he could.

"Hmm, why what?" asked Naruto in response.

"Why would Dooku do this?" said Colt, looking up at Naruto with eyes that showed that he was walking a thin line between sanity and insanity.

"You see, Dooku and his Master had thought up a plan that was as insane as it was brilliant. They had each clone implanted with a chip that would give the orders to kill all the Jedi, but they couldn't get any clone close enough to the Jedi to get the desired effect. They had to give the Jedi a reason to accept the clones in their midst, so our two Sith hatched a plan to start a little galactic war. It would make the Jedi vulnerable, and thus more trusting of their subordinates - in this case, you and your brothers. And, when the time came, the Sith lord would give the order, and the clones would kill the very people they held in such high regard."

Colt was yet again shocked by what he had heard, but there was still one piece missing.

"But…who is this Sith Lord, and why do you not follow him like your master?'" Colt asked the young Sith.

"That is quiet simple, and I think that, if you use your head just a little more, you will figure it out for yourself, and then I will tell you why I will never follow him."

Colt then went into deep thought as he went through all the information he had just received. He came to a conclusion that someone would have to be high in the Republic government to give them the authority to do such a thing, and Colt knew only one person could do that.

"The Sith Lord is…Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, isn't he," he said, and you could clearly hear the anger in his voice, a deep trembling undertone like a volcano that has been quiet for hundreds of years until people thought it was safe to start living there again, only to find that the ground beneath their feet concealed a storm of fire.

"Yes, and now I shall tell you why I do not follow him. I see him as a coward," Naruto said, playing on that rage, giving it a target. "He follows some rule that made the Sith weak, made us look as cowards who hid behind things such as power and money instead of being known for our skills in battle and our knowledge of the dark arts. The people should know to respect us as we hold their lives in our hands. Also, the one thing the old man of a Sith has forgotten is that in the Sith Code, it states that through victory my chains will be broken, yet he ignores it and just wants slaves that would do his bidding."

Colt looked at the Sith with amazement clearly showing on his face, but then he remembered the thing stuck to his head, and, with the knowledge he now possessed, he now knew why it was there.

"You removed my chip, why? What if I escape and tell the Republic?"

"But why would you do that, when you could just stay here and join me, and be free to be who you are? Besides, the moment you came forth with this information, Palpatine would have you killed and cover it up by telling everyone that you had gone mad," said Naruto with a smirk. "Now what will you decide? Will you be a slave, or a solider and a free man?"

After a while, Colt spoke up. "I…will join you."

"Splendid, then let's get you out of those chains, stop your accelerated aging, get you some new armor and then train you up to my standards," Naruto said, unlocking Colt's wrists and ankles with a simple sweep of his hand.

"Hmm, some training, I think I can handle that. I've survived worse," Colt said, massaging his wrists.

"Trust me, you haven't," said Naruto with a sadistic smirk on his face.

[Flashback-end]

Naruto kept his word and designed a training regiment so hard that it was do or die. He would drop Colt in the middle of the desert and give him a handful of blaster ammo and some water, then he'd say that the clone had to return to the Academy as quickly as he could, or he would die.

After that, he sent him into the tombs that hadn't yet been cleared of the local wildlife, and Commander Colt was only allowed take two battle droids with him. Of course, Naruto had already upgraded his army with newly produced armor, and the droids could survive almost anything Korriban threw at them, but Colt wasn't so lucky, as he hadn't yet earned the privilege of taking his new armor into the tombs.

In between those tasks, Colt would have to practice shooting as well as his skills with a vibroblade that had been made out of a special mixture of Cortosis and Zillosis. The Cortosis was refined so that lightsabers would short out on contact with it, giving someone a very good advantage against a Jedi or a Sith.

To give Colt an extra push, every time he missed a shot or mess up a stance, he'd get shocked by electricity, courtesy of bracelets attached to his arms and legs. They were modified shock collars of Naruto's own design.

Naruto had also taught Colt the ancient art of Teräs Käsi, which was used to fight force users. However, after the training was finally over, he could safely say that Naruto was one of the greatest sadists in the galaxy …but the Sith was also one of the greatest trainers he could have gotten. With Naruto's training, he could take on the best of the best in both the Republic and Separatist armies, but he was not arrogant, as Naruto would not allow anyone in his army to be arrogant.

He had beaten that into Colt himself at the very beginning.

[Beneath the Korriban Sands, in the Research Facility]

His research staff were a mixed bunch, the tall heads of the recently recruited Kaminoans bobbing high above the scientists of the other races. He'd discovered that the galaxy's universities and labs were teeming with bright, ambitious scientists whose ideas were continually discarded and ignored by their older, more powerful peers. Fearing that their own work would be disproven and that they would lose the fame and glory they'd amassed over decades of work, they sabotaged their younger colleagues.

It was, Naruto reflected, a situation depressingly familiar to any Sith. It was also a situation he knew how to exploit perfectly.

Now, they all worked for him, and were creating new miracles faster than they'd ever dared to hope.

"So, doctors," said Naruto on a visit to the laboratory of his Kaminoan recruits, "what can you tell me on the progress of the Army? And thank you again for the new armor you gave us, it will help us immensely – also, I hope that the formula for the armor is under lock and key?"

"Yes, sir," said Nala Wa, a female scientist who Naruto vaguely recalled had a sister working in the Republic medical core somewhere. "We have it secured, and we would rather die than give it up. Also, we may have found a way to accelerate the growth of the clones without the threat of insanity..."

"Well? Out with it! If it helps us, then I will do everything in my power to get it," said Naruto as he crossed his arms over his chest.

"As you know," said Nala We, in the tones of someone who thinks you probably don't, "we cannot speed up the growth process, as the Force drives the clones insane, but recently, I came across a reference to a planet that has a species that creates a bubble around itself that blocks the ability to manipulate the Force. Fascinating, isn't it?" she said happily.

"In theory, if we put a couple of them next to the clones, we could speed the growth of the clones significantly and, when they are ready for battle, we simply stop the accelerated ageing process so that you can still use the army after the war is over," said another Kaminoan, not wanting Nala We to get all the credit for the idea.

"Well, why have you not yet sent droids to the planet and recovered them?" asked Naruto.

"The problem is that the Ysalamiri sink their claws into native Olbio trees, from which they draw essential vitamins and nutrients. It is very difficult to remove a Ysalamiri from the tree without killing it, but I believe we may have found a way. It would, however, require that you yourself to go there, or another living being, as a droid simply could not manage such a delicate operation on its own."

"And how would I remove it? Do I have to bring more than one, because it will take a lot of time to collect many of them," said Naruto.

"No, no!" exclaimed Nala We, shaking her head like a dandelion in a heavy wind. "You just have to bring me four so, then we can then clone them and get as many as we need. Besides, removing too many from their environment may be dangerous. As for how the removal operation works, well, it's so simple even a human can do it. When you find them, you will just use this device, which I've named a 'Nutrient Frame', to suck up all the nutrients from the tree and transfer it to this containment pack. When the Ysalamiri notice that there is nothing more for them to feed on, they will detach from the tree, and you should be able to capture them and transport them safely."

"That is acceptable. We shall move out as soon as possible." With that, Naruto turned around and left the medical facility, with Colt following close behind. As they were walking along, Colt had something to ask his superior.

"Sir, may I ask where you got the spikes for your armor?"

"Of course you can, Colt, we are comrades. As for where I got them, they are the teeth of the Zillo beast, cut apart to fit my armor. Of course, I didn't just tear out our friend's teeth or anything like that, they fell out, as they have similar cycles as the scales. The beast needs to replace the teeth that are of no further use to him."

"But sir, how did you cut the pieces if they're virtually indestructible?"

"Well, nothing is truly indestructible, we just used a synthetic blade made of Zillosis, and cut it."

"Isn't that a big weakness? If someone were to steal our swords, they could cut our armor to ribbons," said Colt in a slightly worried tone.

"Not to worry, my friend. To actually cut our armor, they would have to use more pressure than any species in the galaxy can manage," said Naruto, putting Colts worries to rest. Then he added, "unless there's another Zillo beast somewhere out there."

Their conversation was interrupted when Naruto's holo-communicator started to flash. As Naruto answered, it he saw that it was his other subordinate, Cad Bane.

"Yes, Bane. What do you need?"

"Hello, master. I am currently doing a job for the Hutt's, and they want some incriminating evidence back from Ziro the Hutt. He escaped with the help of his old girlfriend, but I know he is heading to Teth with her, and I think he is keeping the data there. However, the Jedi are also on his tail, and that could complicate matters. What do you think I should do?" he asked his master who, although the bounty hunter had been forced into serving, he'd actually grown to respect.

This was not something that happened to Cad Bane very often.

"Hmm, well, since you said that his old girlfriend was with him, and she is risking a lot to help him, I believe she is doing it for an ulterior motive, so just stay outside of Teth's orbit, and when you see Ziro's ship, follow it. If she's killed him, just take the holo-dairy and leave her there."

"Wouldn't it be easier to kill her? Tidy up the loose ends?"

"You don't get it, Bane. If you kill her, you are saving her from Jabba's wrath, but if you deliver it and she fails, you make her pay for making you work more. Also, since you got paid a lot for the first job, ask Jabba to let us build some factories in the swamps of Nal Hutta so we have a way to attack if the Hutts try something. That also gets us a base in a neutral system." said Naruto.

Bane grumbled, but he reluctantly agreed, and was about to turn off the communicator when Naruto spoke.

"Also, just for safety, copy the list. The Hutt's are known to double-cross people." He got a nod from Bane and the transmission was cut off.

Naruto turned towards Colt before he spoke.

"Now, let's go catch ourselves some Ysalamiri."

When they reached the hangars, they boarded a Sheathipede-class transportation shuttle and flew of towards the planet that the Kaminoans had discovered. Accompanying them where two commando Droids who had new armor plating made from Zillosis.

[Myrkr-orbit]

As the ship jumped out of hyperspace, they saw a world lush with forests, and as they descended into the planet's atmosphere, they saw that the trees covered almost all the continents. Very little sunlight could penetrate through the thick brush of the trees, and the surface was wrapped in perpetual twilight.

"Seems that we'll have to take our night gear with us, sir, otherwise we'll be going in blind," said Colt as he looked at his leader, who was currently trying to find a clearing big enough to fit a Sheathipede.

Once they finally landed, they exited the ship and started the long walk to find the rare animal that could block the manipulation of the Force. The walked for hours and had little luck with finding the creature, so Naruto had decided to set up camp.

Naruto and Colt sat next to a fire they had created while the droids shut down for recharge. After they ate some rations, they decided that Colt would take the first watch while Naruto would take the second.

Colt sat by the fire and played with a stick that he had lit on fire as he waited for the end of his shift. He saw his leader toss and turn out of the corner of his eye. Naruto was having an intense dream, or should we say vision, as he dreamed that he was running low to the ground as he dodged the roots of the trees and jumped over the larger rocks.

As he looked down, he saw that he had paws instead of hands, and they were covered with fur as dark as the deepest oceans of any planet. As he ran, his long leaps eating up the miles, he realized that he was heading towards a light source, which was weird… because the only light that would produce that much light would be a camp fire.

He got closer and closer to it, and for the last few meters, he jumped and landed in front of Colt, who looked shocked to see him. Naruto was surprised when his body moved on its own and attacked the clone, then knocked him over and bit for the neck, long teeth ready to sever the spinal cord-

Naruto shot up in his makeshift bed, sweat dripping off his forehead. He suddenly knew that he hadn't had a bad dream, but a small glimpse into the future. Without thinking, he jumped out of his bed and ignited the blue and yellow blades. This action startled Colt, who was not expecting for Naruto to jump up so quickly.

"Sir, what's wrong? Your shift does not start for another two hours," said Colt.

"There's no time to explain, Colt! We have company, now go activate the droids and prepare for battle!" yelled Naruto as he waited for the attack to come.

Colt did as he was told and activated the droids, then hurriedly put on his helmet. Naruto then relayed the commands to the droids as they waited for the attack to come.

They were rewarded for their wait with 12 creatures jumping at them from the underbrush. Naruto used his mastery of lightsaber combat to strike down two creatures in mid-leap, while the droids and Colt each got one. The seven that remained surrounded Naruto's team. They all attacked simultaneously, and two managed to lock their jaws on the droids, but they quickly broke off, their teeth broken on the hard metal.

Colt had shot down two more, while Naruto took on the last there. He used the momentum from the first that had jumped at him to cut it in half, smoothly transitioning the movement into a stab that pierced the head of the second creature, all the while sending burst after burst of force lightning at the third.

He was, however, surprised when the beast dodged his lightning attack, something that was impossible to do unless you had some kind of connection with the Force.

He dodged a lunge by the third beast as he thought about what he'd just found out. The only thing that explained what had just happened was that the beast sensed his attack and, from what he'd seen in his vision, it could only mean that they hunted by tracking the Force.

As he continued to dodge the beast's jaws, he saw Colt preparing to kill it, and he knew that if he let the clone put a blaster bolt in the thing's skull, he would lose an incredible advantage against both the Jedi and the Sith pretenders.

"No, Colt, stop!" yelled Naruto, waving down the clone from shooting the beast. "Leave it to me! Do not shoot unless I give the order!"

He then turned his full attention to the beast. When it jumped towards him and was unable to dodge, he used a small force push to put some distance between them. As the beast got up, he extended his arm towards it and looking it straight in the eyes. The beast locked its own eyes on his, and they went into deep stare down, but if one was force-sensitive, they would see that they were actually battling for dominance that would determine who was the alpha in the pact.

"You will submit," said Naruto in an even tone, but he received a growl in response. He tried again.

"YOU will submit…and you will do so NOW," he said, putting emphasis on the first and last words. He was pleased when the beast whimpered and lowered it head. Naruto smiled and walked towards the beast, then, when he reached it, he petted it behind the ear.

The beast quickly rubbed its head against its new master's hand. At the same time, the Commando droid returned with two tied up beasts that had ran off after getting their teeth broken.

"Sir, we have captured two of the beasts so that they may be studied," said one of the droids.

"That is good - have you found out what gender they are?" asked Naruto as he continued to pet his new friend.

"Yes, sir, we have discovered that this one is a female and the other is a male. Also, the one you have by your side is a female as well," said the second droid.

"Hmm, very good. Take those two back to the ship and have them locked up while I have our new friend help us find the Ysalamiri," said Naruto as he started to walk into the woods, Colt and female beast following close behind, while the droids returned back towards the ship.

As they walked, Naruto busied himself thinking of a name for his new companion. After a while, he remembered the nickname that he'd heard given to Anakin Skywalker's Padawan, Ahsoka Tano.

"Well, since you'll be traveling with us, you need a name… so how about Snips?" he asked the beast, which barked in a tone that suggested that she was happy with the new name.

"Then it's settled. From now on, you are Snips!" he said, giving the now named Snips another small scratch behind the ear.

"I still can't believe how you manage to do it. You have turned everything you do into something that benefits you in the end," said Colt with a sigh.

"I have no idea what you mean, Colt, I have done no such thing," said Naruto, all the while having a innocent smile on his face, which, when you read his exploits, you know was as fake as a Hutt's generosity. Colt rolled his eyes at how easily the young Sith could tell a lie, and if the clone hadn't known better, he would have fallen for it.

"Never mind, sir. Shall we look for those Ysalamiri?" said Colt

"Yes, let us do that, Colt," said Naruto while he got on his knees and looked Snips in the eyes. "Okay, girl, I want you to locate a part of the Force where you cannot sense anything inside but you know that the force is still there, and then I want you to lead us there."

Snips nodded before she started sniffing around for anything that could help. After a while she finally picked up a scent, and she took off into the jungle with Naruto and Colt following close behind. They were moving very fast, bursting through bushes and hanging fronds and vines, and Colt knew that if it hadn't been for the training he'd received from his leader, he would have fallen way behind.

Snips continued track the sent as she ran, finally stopping when she came to a large tree. She started to look up and released loud barks. When Naruto and Colt came next to her, they looked up, and what they saw was a group of Ysalamiri in the branches of the tree. Naruto of course knew that the creatures were there, as he felt the disturbing effect of the Force slipping from his control. Now that he was next to them, he could do nothing Force-related, and he was unable to even sense anyone in the bubble they created.

"Remarkable," he said, his surprise clearly seen on his face. "They have completely stopped my ability to use the Force while I remain it the bubble."

"Yes, it seems that with this, we'll be trap a great number of Force-users and cut of their major advantage," said Colt. He was about to continue when Naruto finished for him.

"Then we can just kill them off while they are weak, as the clones do not have any such weakness, and can fight at the same level as they could outside of the bubble."

Naruto took off the nutrient frame he was carrying and sat it down next to the tree. He then took out a thick cable that had a large needle at the end, and he then stabbed into the tree, punching it through the bark.

"Now let's get those creatures off that tree and onto our backs," Naruto said. On the other side of the tree, Colt did the same, then they waited for the time that the Ysalamiri would detach themselves from the tree.

After a while, the packs were full, and the tree was looking half-dead. When the creatures felt that the tree was dying, they started to slowly remove themselves from the tree. This took some time, but once they did it, they moved towards the ground where they were picked up by Colt and Naruto.

Naruto had put one on his pack, while Colt took another one and did the same. They then took two more, so that they could take them to the ship where they would be put on the other two frames that were being kept by the droids. With this done, they moved towards the location of the ship, while Snips followed them. When they reached the ship, they saw that the droids were standing guard and the nutrient frames were already filled up. They put the other two Ysalamiri on the frames and entered the ship, where they saw the other two creatures they had captured, already in cages.

With everything they'd come for and more on the ship, they prepared to leave the planet. As they were leaving the planet's orbit, they received a transmission from Cad Bane, who was reporting on his progress.

"Hello, master. It was just as you said, the girlfriend killed Ziro and ran off with the disc, but luckily, I was there to intercept her and get the data. As you said, I asked Jabba to let us build factories on the planet. He was reluctant, but when I said that he would not have to pay for anything, he agreed faster than a parsec," said Bane.

"That is good, Bane. Now, relay the orders to the droids and send them there to begin construction," said Naruto.

"I will do as you wish, master," said Bane, tipping his hat as he turned off the communication.

[Korriban-surface]

As soon as they arrived, they moved the creatures to the laboratory where the clones were being made. They immediately handed over the creatures to the Kaminoan science team, who were excited at the prospect of cloning faster without any side-effects.

"This is simply fantastic, sir," said Nala Wa, in a tone that would have sounded bored from a human, but that was ecstatic by Kaminoan standards. "With this, we will be able to make you a massive army in a couple of months, while without it, we would have to wait for years. My nutrient frames have worked as I expected."

They quickly started to prepare for the cloning process, as they would need more of these marvelous creatures to make the army that Naruto needed. Before the scientists could get fully immersed in their work, Naruto spoke.

"Just so you know, after you finish the first batch, you will start to prepare for transport, as I have arranged another place for you to have a cloning facility. Now, while I like to have everything at arms length, just in case, this is still a powerful place full of dark side energy, thus a group of creatures that can negate the manipulation of said energy are a serious disadvantage to the future acolytes of the academy," explained Naruto to the scientists.

The Kaminoans nodded as they got back to work. With his message delivered, Naruto and Colt left the facilities and the scientists to their work. As they walked along the sandy road of the academy, Naruto suddenly felt a presence behind him. He used the Force to push Colt away while he took out his blue lightsaber and blocked a giant vibroblade.

As he looked at the weapon, he could see that it was held by a giant hand that had three fingers with long claws at the end. The hand led up an arm to a body that was pale white, with red markings and grey tattoos, bulging with muscle and multiple implants in between them. When he looked up, into the creature's eyes, he saw bright red dots staring at his very soul.

Naruto was unaffected by this, as he had stared down bigger things than this.

The creature wore armor on its, no, his left arm and lower part of his body. Naruto smirked as he was in a stand still with the beast.

"Well, it seems you're feeling better than the last time we spoke…Khem Val," said Naruto.

"You may have defeated me before, but I am Khem Val, servant of Tulak Hord, devourer of the rebels at Yn and Chabosh, consumer of the Dromund system! Servant of Darth Nox, the heir of ancient Sith Lord Aloysius Kallig! He who defeated Ffon Althe, Darth Skotia, Lord Zash, Darth Thanaton and he who is the Master of the Dead… And I am hungry!" said the now named Khem Val in his native tongue.

"Yes, you are, but you are forgetting something very important…I am now your master, and you shall obey as you did the others before me, and, when this galaxy is controlled by the Sith, you shall stand there to see it…now of course, you will get to feast on many Jedi that we will no doubt face," said Naruto with an evil look as he spoke of the deaths of his enemies.

"Yes, I will feast… but it will be you that I feast on," said Khem Val as he disengaged and attacked again with an overhead strike that was blocked by Naruto, who then activated his yellow lightsaber to get some distance between Khem and himself.

When Khem moved back, Naruto used this opportunity to unleash a powerful torrent of red Sith lightning that struck Khem. The powerful warrior continued to move forward thanks to his force resistance. Khem had already made it halfway over when anyone else would have been a black husk long ago.

However, even Khem's resistance to Force-basted attacks could not protect him fully from the powerful lightning that was being produced by Naruto. He had nearly reached the young Sith when his legs finally buckled under the power of the lightning. He fell to his hands and knees as Naruto continued to send lightning through his body. Naruto finally relented after a couple of minutes and watched as Khem started to slowly stand up.

Once Khem was finally up on his feet, Naruto spoke.

"Now you see that it is useless to resist, just accept it and we can go on with my plan to rule the galaxy while you devour the Jedi that stand in our way," he said with a smirk on his face.

"I will follow you for now, but I still do no see you worthy of the title of successor of my previous masters," said Khem, holding his ribs with his right hand.

"Good, now let's get you healed up so that you don't die on me," said Naruto as his hands started to glow green, and the energy from them flowed towards Khem and healed his wounds.

Once this was done, they both rejoined Colt, who had been standing off to the side, leaning against the wall with his arms crossed, watching the battle unfold. As they reached him, Naruto nodded to him and continued to walk forwards, while Khem and Colt followed after him. As they walked, Colt asked his leader one important question that was on his mind.

"What do we do next, sir? We still have to wait some time to get the army ready."

"What else, Colt? We prepare and we plot, so that our victory will come swiftly and decisively. We continue to play the game of an old man that calls himself Sith, and when the time is right, we strike, then take the galaxy for ourselves. The old fool of a Sith Palpatine will be helpless to do anything about it," said Naruto, as he and his companions walked towards the Sith academy, the setting sun shining on their backs.

TO BE CONTINUED

((Okay, so here you have it! There are some things that you will ask, so I'll just answer them now.))

((The aging process of the clones can be stopped, the thing was explained somewhere in the now Legends material. As for the reason why Kaminoans don't do this…well, that's really simple, they want more profit, since they make a lot of money by selling the clones to the Republic, and later the Galactic Empire, so it seems stupid to make clones stop aging. They would hinder their main source of income by doing so.))

((Zillosis- I decided to name it that because it sounded cool (at least, to me) and because it would get on both my and your nerves if I kept calling it the metal 'made from the beasts scales' or what ever else I managed to come up with.))

((Snips sounds cool to me and I thought It'd be funny.))

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