The Clone Wars-3 Sides
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Naruto didn't know how long he had spent curled up in ball of pain. It could have been minutes, hours, days, or even weeks. All he knew was that the pain he currently felt surpassed any other pain he had ever felt before now, whether it was emotional of physical. It currently felt as though his entire body was being ripped apart right down to the molecular level and put back together only to be ripped apart again.
Every Sith spirit that was in his body was not only battling Naruto for control but also all of the other spirits as well. Having his body destroyed over and over again was really beginning to drive Naruto to the edges of madness. His pain tolerance might be high, but this was on a completely different level.
Naruto tried his best to push them all out, but it was proving to be useless. He just wasn't able to concentrate long enough.
Naruto struggled with himself as he tried to listen to the Force. Even as the spirits waged a battle for possession of his body Naruto was able to hear the faint calling of the Force. To be more specific he was hearing the call of the Darkside. It offered him power, enough power to throw out all of the Sith and end this pain. While Naruto had no doubts that the Darkside could do that, this was about him being able to stay neutral in the Force.
So with all of his remaining strength Naruto strained himself in order to listen to both sides of the Force. He had to temporarily give up control of his body in order to do so, but he was safe in the knowledge that the Sith spirits would still be fighting with each other. The pain was somewhat lessened when he did this, and for Naruto this was a major reprieve. As Naruto listened to the Force he could feel both sides now trying to lure him in. The Darkside's voice was stronger, but he could hear the faint traces of the Lightside as well. Reaching out into his Force-reserves, Naruto began drawing on both the Light and Dark sides and combining them into the desired true form of the Force. Pain was still coursing throughout his entire being, but Naruto kept at it; concentrating on melding the two sides of the Force into one.
Naruto refused to draw himself into one side of the Force; even though both side's voices were getting louder and more persistent. It almost seemed as if the Force was also testing him on his ability to remain neutral. 'Well then, I'm not gonna disappoint.' Naruto thought to himself. As he gathered more and more strength the pain gradually became more and more bearable until finally Naruto returned into his own body and began to force the Sith spirits out.
Once Naruto returned to his own body he was once more hit with the full blast of pain he had originally felt. This time however, Naruto now had a reserve of strength to draw on. It proved to be his saving grace. 'ALRIGHT YOU FUCKING SITH FAGS, YOU'VE OVERSTAYED YOUR WELCOME. NOW GET THE FUCK OUT MY BODY.' Naruto mentally shouted to every Sith spirit. Creating a massive Force Repulse Naruto not only forced just about every Sith spirit form his body but also damaged the room he was in quite badly.
Now free from his burden, Naruto took his time in getting up and stabilizing himself. Once he was stabilized he was once more confronted with the original Sith spirit. "Hahaha, well boy, looks like you passed." Naruto who was pretty exhausted from his ordeal said in response "Fuck you." "Aw, come on, don't act like that, it was a part of the tests that you willingly took. Besides, you passed; so why so mad?" "Oh, gee, I dunno; maybe it's because I felt like MY BODY WAS DESTROYED RIGHT DOWN TO EACH MOLECULE AND REPAIRED AT THE SAME TIME. DO YOU EVEN KNOW HOW PAINFUL THAT IS?" "No, I don't; and I never will." the spirit said smugly. "Bastard." The spirit merely laughed and continued on with Naruto's success. "So, now that you've passed the tests, you are now officially a Sith Lord, congratulations. You will now receive no interference from us in whatever plans you have for some sort of war. Also, should you ever need to draw on our power you're more than welcome to. Now, for your victory present."
A red lightsaber crystal began to materialize in front of Naruto. Naruto held out his hand a caught it as it finished construction. Naruto brought the crystal up close for an inspection. It was a smooth and narrow diamond shape, and it seemed to have a glow, as the was a small red hue around it. All in all, Naruto liked the crystal a lot.
"Now, for a bit of info on your gift. The crystal is specially tuned to your Force-Energy; that means only you'll be able to use whatever lightsaber you decide to create out of it. Not only that, but it'll increase the power of your Force abilities."
Naruto whistled appreciatively and was about to leave when he realized he now had something dangling on his neck. Naruto saw that he had now gained a necklace; turning back to the spirit, it guessed what Naruto wanted to ask and answered "Ah, the necklace you have now gained will be what connects you to all of us. You'll be able to draw our power through that. You may also summon one of us in order to learn whatever it is that we can teach you. However, I would advise you not to lose that necklace, as if it falls into hands that aren't friendly to you and just as powerful, then you may find yourself in some trouble."
"I'll be sure to remember that." Naruto said as he once more began leaving the cave.
(Apologies in advance, but I really want to try out the paperwork joke.)
Palpatine was sitting at his desk finishing up some holochart work(Star Wars paperwork) which never seemed to end. Really, it seemed like he had to go over every bit holochart work in the entirety of the Galactic Republic. Seriously, he might be the Supreme Chancellor, but it wasn't as if he had any real power; stupid bureaucracy. Finally when he got done with the last bit of holochart work and was now able to rest his extremely sore hands. Palpatine looked at his hands and saw that they were swollen red. They also seemed to be making a beating sound like a heart; he wondered if that was normal.
Just as Palpatine was about to open up his secret stash of alcohol and enjoy the rest of the evening, one of his aids came in, walked up to his desk and deposited a large stack of holocharts in front of him. Shock was evident throughout his face as Palpatine stared at the new stack of holocharts. "Wha-What is this?" Palpatine questioned, hoping against all hope that it wasn't what he feared it was. The aid responed "Your Excellency, this is the latest batch of holochart work that you need to go through."
At the look of despair on Palpatine's face the aid immediately tried to consult him "Don't worry sir, this isn't all of it…" Palpatine was immensely relieved to hear those words; thinking that he wouldn't have to do all of the current stack on his desk. His relief was soon crushed by the aid's continuing sentence. "…the rest of it is being brought up on a hovercart. There's a lot more where that stack came from; so don't worry. You'll have plenty of work to do your Excellency."
The aids said this with obvious pride in his voice, thinking he had rectified the Supreme Chancellor's fears. He was completely oblivious to the enraged look Palpatine gave him. Just as he was about to walk out of the office Palpatine Force Pushed him against the wall. After that, the aid began to feel his throat constricting. He made choking sounds as he clawed at his throat, trying in vain to open it up. In his last moments he saw Palpatine for what he truly was.
As the Sith Lord tightened his fist, the aid felt his throat constrict further. Eyes bleeding a sulfuric yellow, Palpatine waved his hand causing the aid's neck to be snapped, killing him instantly.
Calling in his Red Guards to get rid of the body; Palpatine slumped back into his chair and thought about the colossal amount of holochart work he was going to have to do. He was about to have a huge mental breakdown when all of a sudden he felt a powerful pulse in the Darkside of the Force. Eyes widening at this, Palpatine stopped what he was doing for a moment in order to ponder on this for a bit.
Deciding he needed to visit his holocrons, Palpatine pressed a button on his desk that turned on an intercom to his secretary. "Valery, I want you to cancel all of my calls and meetings; something extremely important has just come up that I really must attend to." "Yes, your Excellency." was the reply of the female Twi'lek.
Palpatine left his office and went over to his private hanger where he boarded a Theta-class T-2c shuttle. After he boarded the shuttle lifted off and headed for The Works; an industrial section of Coruscant which had largely been abandoned by the companies that had owned the place in favor of cheaper production capabilities off world. It was here that Palpatine was able to express his true form; Darth Sidious Dark Lord of the Sith. As he pulled up his hood over his head, Sidious entered a room that was stored with Sith holocrons. Moving over to the center of the room, Sidious entered into a meditative trance as he began to converse with the spirits of the holocrons.
"Ah, Sidious, what brings you here this time?" "I'm sure you already know what the reason for my visit is. Now, I need to know what that pulse was." "Always to the point I see. Very well, that was the signaling of a brand new Dark Lord of the Sith." "What! That's impossible, there can only be two! My apprentice and I just so happen to be those two!" "Well, you might want to try telling that to the new Sith Lord. After all he did pass all of the tests on Korriban. Which is more than what I can say about you." Sidious' eyes widened at that statement. None of the Sith under the Rule Of Two had ever passed the tests of the Sith Lords on Korriban.
There lack of success had not come from a lack trying either. 'Well, great help they turned out to be. I swear, once I'm emperor I won't have to put up with this kind of incompetence (yeah right).' Sidious thought.
"Oh, come now Sidious. A little competition between Sith Lords never hurt anyone (again, yeah right)." another Sith spirit said as it came out of a holocron. "Besides, we're all quite interested to see how this new Sith will influence galactic events. So, I suppose you're just going to have to deal with it."
As Sidious snapped out of his meditative trance and began walking back to his transport he swore himself that he wouldn't lose this competition, no matter what. Right now though, he had to get back and finish his holochart work, damn the stupid bureaucracy!
It took Naruto a while to find his way out of the cave, but once he did he was greeted by his faithful HK-47 assassin droid. "Relieved Note: Thank goodness you finally made it out of that cave master. Worried Outlook: Why, I was starting to wonder if I'd already lost another master so soon."
Somewhat confused by HK's statement Naruto asks "HK, exactly how long was I in the cave?" "Answer: You were in there for ten standard galactic days master." This was a surprise for Naruto, who hadn't thought he'd have been there for that long. 'That's somewhat disturbing.' Naruto thought.
As they left the Valley Naruto noticed the large amount of recently dead people that had been in there. "HK, did you have anything to do with all of those dead bodies?" "Answer: Why yes master, you see there had been several thugs in the bar who had overheard you when you were looking for a guide to the valley. After you departed the thugs brought the rest of their group and followed you in the hopes of being able to ambush and kill you. Statement: As you can see master, they failed miserably in their task."
Naruto nodded his head in agreement at that. "Query: Master, now that you are a Sith Lord, do you feel any different from before?" Naruto thought about that for a bit before answering "Yes HK, in fact I feel much better than before. My power, it feels calmer than before; it feels much easier to control both Light and Dark sides of me now." "Statement: That is unusual, generally whenever someone becomes a Sith Lord they feel much more powerful, but they are also far less in control of themselves, the Darkside causing them to lose control of their emotions. I suppose that you're just better than everyone else."
Naruto nodded his head in agreement to that. "HK, I want you to go back to the Ebon Hawk and get it started. I'm going into town pick up some supplies." HK nodded its head in confirmation and went back to the ship while Naruto went into town.
Once there Naruto went in search of a store that could sell the parts that he needed. He found everything he needed in a junk shop. As Naruto was walking throughout the small town he saw just how poor the town was. Most of the people were wearing nothing but rags, and he could see a great many of them held their stomachs in pain from not eating much food. It didn't matter if they were human or an alien species, all of them suffered equally.
It was this sort of thing that made Naruto mad. Their situation reminded Naruto of his own when he had been a kid. Nobody seemed to care about all of the suffering that the poor went through. This is what Naruto wanted to change. This is why he vowed to himself that he would build an empire where things like poverty and suffering were kept to a minimum. Oh sure he was still going to be a dictator, but he'd cross that bridge when he got to it.
Things like poverty and suffering Naruto knew he couldn't completely obliterate, no matter how hard he tried. Instead what he wanted to do was help out as many people as he could. He figured that the best way to do that was if he was leader of the galaxy.
Sure, he could have joined the Jedi, but then he'd have been bound by all of their crazy restrictions. To Naruto, the way Jedi ran things; if you so much as enjoyed life you were gonna turn to Darkside. So it would be much easier if he just built his own empire.
As Naruto was thinking about all of this he began to feel a presence in the Force. Intrigued by it, Naruto began to follow the presence as it got stronger. Eventually Naruto found the source of the presence which turned out to be a small boy who was sitting in a corner with his head resting on his folded up legs. The boy had silver hair and amber eyes. His skin was a little on the pale side and he looked like he was in the beginning stages on malnourishment, also he looked like he was five years old. His eyes showed that he had recently been crying if the dried up tear tracks on his face and the slight redness of his eyes was any indication.
The boy also seemed to have a large Force Sensitivity. Easily large enough that had he been found by the Jedi, he would have been spirited away to the Temple for training.
The boy however seemed to not notice Naruto who was now standing right in front of him. It looked like he was lost in his own world. Deciding to bring him out of it Naruto spoke to "Boy, tell me; what is it that you want?"
Startled out of his pondering the boy looked around for a few seconds before settling his gaze on Naruto. As he looked at Naruto for a few seconds he got confused. The man in front of him was dressed up in a plain old tan jumpsuit, yet his voice was laced with such power. He had always been able to feel the power of others, himself included, and no one he had ever met had excluded the kind of power that the man in front of him did. It was like he was looking at a blazing sun that never seemed to lose its power even as billions upon billions of years passed.
The only reason he wasn't already on the floor struggling to breath was because somehow the man was able to keep all of that power in check. He then remembered that the man had asked him a question but wasn't able to recall what it was. In a meek voice he asked "Um, c-could you repeat that?"
"I said what is it that you want boy?" Confused by the question, Naruto decided to specify "Tell me can you honestly say that you would like being stuck like this? Poor, alone, no one to care about you, or you to care about, existing without reason. Is this truly an existence that you wish to have?" The boy responded "n-no, but what can I do? Momma and papa got rid of me. T-They said they didn't need a worthless waste of space anymore. S-So what can I do about that?" The boy was starting to show signs of crying again as tears began to build up in his eyes, his voice stuttered a bit, and he began to shake a little.
Naruto smirked and said "You can join me." The boy looked at him with a bit of surprise. "W-What?" the boy said, not being able to really believe what the man was offering him. "You can join me boy. I can train you, mold you, bring out your full potential. If you join me…then I can give you a reason to exist."
It was those final words that made up the boy's mind. He was someone who had no reason whatsoever to exist, just living without a reason. So to him, Naruto's offer was invaluable. It was finally a chance for him to do something, make something out of himself, and more importantly; it was finally a chance to get off this horrible planet.
The boy saw that Naruto had extended his hand towards him. Taking his hand and pulled himself up to his feet. "Come now boy, it's time we left this planet." With that Naruto made a motion for the boy to follow him. As he followed Naruto he said in response to him "My name's not 'boy', it's Kaemon (1)."
Location: Ebon Hawk, Cargo Hold
Naruto sat in a meditative form as he concentrated on building his lightsabers using the Force. Two crystals floated around him as he did this. One was the red one given to him by the Sith spirits while the other one was a blue crystal that was a part of the original lightsaber that Revan had constructed when he was a Jedi. Naruto began to focus assembling the parts for his two lightsabers. Using the Force and his extremely good mechanic skills that Revan passed down onto him, Naruto was able to make many fine adjustments to his lightsaber. For example, he was able to make it so that the lightsaber wouldn't short out when brought into contact with water, and another thing he was able to do was increase the heat output of the blade so that whenever it hit something it would cut through it that much faster.
Naruto was patient when creating each lightsaber. He gave his will to the Force and let it guide him with each one. Once he was done Naruto opened his eyes and grabbed both lightsabers before crossing his arms and activating them. Dark red and brilliant blue came before him, each illuminating his face with their glow. 'Red and blue, light and dark…these two colors are the symbols of opposites. Two halves of the same coin.' To Naruto, wielding these two colored lightsabers would only further symbolize his neutral usage of the Force. He then spun the blades around himself, slashing at imaginary enemies.
The blades felt weightless, like extensions of his arms. They were quick and fluid whenever he moved them; they were perfect. Naruto looked at the designs of the lightsabers that he had constructed. The red bladed lightsaber emitter guard had four spikes that surrounded the blade pointing upward (the blades look like the top of the tower of Isengard from LOTR). The pommel cap of the lighsaber was a cone that narrowed as it went lower. The midsection had a rubber grip so that Naruto could weild it easier.
The blue bladed lightsaber was the same as the red bladed one except for the emitter guard which had four spikes that pointed sideways from the blade. Their bottom ends were dragged out a few centimeters making the spikes look like right angle triangles. Both lightsaber handles were 18.5 cm in length, and the lightsaber style Naruto had chosen was a combination of Jar'Kai, Form VII, and Form V. Jar'Kai was a form that used two lightsabers, and when combined with the aggressive attacking power of Form VII or Juyo, and the defensive/counter offensive power of Form V or Shein; it allowed Naruto to either maximize his attacking power, his defensive power, or split his strength in between the two.
He was only able to split his strength between them while wielding both lightsabers though. Naruto was also quite skilled at using a single lightsaber. Once Naruto was done admiring his lightsabers he went over to the Main Hold where Kaemon was eating several energy bars that Naruto had given him. They weren't the best tasting meal, but they carried all the nutrients that were necessary in a person's diet.
HK-47 was also in the main hold and asked Naruto "Query: Master, I am curious to know why you've decided to take this pathetic meatbag with us?" Kaemon glared at HK for saying that about him while Naruto merely chuckled at his question before answering "Well HK, let's just say that Kaemon is like me and Revan." This stopped HK's doubts of Kaemon from coming up again.
Naruto headed towards the navicomputer and began searching through it for information of his master's journeys throughout the unknown regions.
What he ended up finding was something so valuable that if the Republic were to ever find out about its existence, they'd pay him whatever amount of credits he asked for in order to obtain it. What he found were reliable hyperspace routes through the Unknown Regions.
After launching several probe droids that had been 'liberated' from Korriban in the directions that were guided by the Force, Naruto found what he was looking for. A space faring civilization that dwelled in the Unknown Regions.
Naruto was transmitted the coordinates of the planet that one of the probe droids landed on. He looked at the same coordinates in the navicomputer and found a hyperspace rout that lead to the planet from his current orbit over Korriban. Naruto then set a course for the planet which apparently Revan had decided to name Coranda.
"Um, M-Master; w-where are we going?" Kaemon asked shyly. Naruto smiled at Kaemon and patted his head while answering his question "Well my young apprentice, we're going to a place that will be the start of my new empire."
"Oh." was Kaemon's response to Naruto's answer. "It'll be a while before we'll reach out destination, so I guess now's as good at time as any to start your tortu-I mean training." Naruto said. "Now, give me 40 pushups maggot!" Naruto suddenly said in a harsh voice.
Kaemon was surprised by the harshness in Naruto voice but did the pushups immediately. "From now on maggot, you're going to be in Sith training, which is just another way of saying hell." Naruto said. As Kaemon did his pushups he was able to glance at Naruto and saw that he had now changed into an cameo-uniform and also carried a bullhorn with him. 'How did he change so fast!?' was Kaemon's thought as he entered his hell.
Kaemon was currently in the infirmary after Naruto had him do a lot of physical training for four hours. It had been mainly to build up some muscles on him. Naruto had honestly been surprised that Kaemon had been able to last as long as he did. It may not look like it, but that boy sure had some willpower.
Naruto was back in the cockpit watching as the ship came out of hyperspace into the edges of the Coranda system.
Naruto had decided to enter so far away from the system in order to keep up his stealth. After all he didn't know just how far the detecting abilities of these people were. Naruto turned off the autopilot took control of the ship (he figured, if he was going to get any practice; might as well start now).
He slowly brought the ship closer to the planet, all the while checking the scanners for any other ships that could be out there. Eventually his scanners picked up the readings of a fleet of warships that was in orbit above the targeted planet. Having the computer indentify the ships, Naruto made an amusing discovery. Apparently the ships in orbit over Coranda were relics from the Jedi Civil War.
A fleet of Interdictor-class cruisers, Centurion-class battlecruisers, and Derriphan-class battleships (2) were clustered around a specific area of the planet. Naruto assumed this to be the capital city. Taking a chance, Naruto guided the ship through the fleet of old, but still extremely deadly warships.
Naruto then noticed he was receiving a transmission. Turning it on, he was greeted with the hologram of some random captain. "Foreign freighter, identify yourself." Naruto simply smiled and waved his hand, influencing the man's mind with the Force. "You will let me pass." "I will let you pass." the captain repeated in a daze. Soon enough the man began to repeat to the rest of the fleet that Naruto was allowed to pass. Not really understanding, and not really caring about one small ship, no one questioned why the captain's mind was so easily changed.
With that Naruto was allowed to pass through the fleet of ships unhindered. He received coordinates for a landing pad in a hanger bay that was located on the outskirts of the city. Descending into the atmosphere proved to be a difficult task for Naruto as he tried to improve his near nonexistent piloting skills. In fact he almost ended up burning up the ship in the atmosphere, or crashing into a completely different place on the planet. Once he had stabilized the ship, the rest of the ride went somewhat smoother.
As the city became visible Naruto was able to see that it was in a state of disrepair. The skyscrapers looked okay if a bit old. It was the many smaller buildings that were the main problem. They could vary from looking pretty good to being a virtual wasteland, and he was seeing this all from the sky!
Once the Ebon Hawk finally landed, Naruto got out of the ship and wobbled for a bit, shaken from his near death experience of piloting. "I swear to god, I really hate flying." Naruto muttered to himself.
HK-47 followed Naruto out of the ship and said "Statement: So many meatbags in this city to kill. Oh where to start." As HK was about to continue Naruto intervened "HK, you won't be going into the city with me just yet. I need you to stay on the ship and watch over Kaemon."
"Dejected Statement: Oh master, now I've been reduced to a babysitter. The humiliation, the indignity, why the ver-" "Yes, yes, I know. Now go and do as I say, or else you'll find yourself on a one way trip to the scrap heap!" Naruto interrupted.
"Excitement: Now that is the kind of motivation a droid needs in order to get the job done. I return and watch over the meatbag."
Naruto sighed at his droid's enthusiasm to his cruelty. Once he had managed to regain his balance, Naruto walked out of the hanger and headed over towards the entryway into the rest of the city. The entryway was guarded by a soldier that was wearing an armor Naruto recognized at once. It was the armor of a Sith Trooper during the days of the Jedi Civil War.
The silver armor of the soldier glinted in the sunlight as the solider faced him and spoke "Halt, since your new here, I'm going to have to do an inspection of your ship, and get it recorded into our databanks. I'm also going to need to see some identification." The soldier's voice indicated that he was male.
Naruto used a Mind Trick "You don't need to see my identification, or inspect my ship." "I don't need to see your identification, or inspect your ship." the Sith Trooper repeated, now under Naruto's influence. "You will forget you ever saw me or my ship." "I will forget that I ever saw you or your ship, whoever you are." the Trooper said already starting to forget.
Naruto then walked pass the guard and into the city.
Naruto kept to the shadows as he traveled across the city; his shinobi skills finally coming into play.
As he traveled hidden from everyone else, he noticed a large amount of people that seemed to be nothing more than beggars. A lot of the people on the streets were dressed up in rags, or old, and faded clothing. This was contrasted by a few people who were wearing regal clothing, and had a look on their faces that said that they were more important than everyone else.
By far the smallest amount of people that Naruto saw were the average class citizens. They were in the extreme minority on the streets.
Deciding to go after one of the rich looking ones, Naruto found someone whose outfit he liked. Jumping down into an alleyway, Naruto called out to the person "Hey you, get over here, I have something important to show you." Annoyed and acting like the jackass he was, the man walked over to Naruto and said in a snobbish voice "What, what is it that you have that could possibly be so important to one such as I, peasant?" "Well, if you would follow me down this alleyway, I'd be able to show you. After all, we don't want any uninvited guests seeing what I'm about to show you." Naruto used the Force to dull the man's rational thought.
Naruto lead the man down the alleyway through a series of bends and turns until they arrived at the spot Naruto desired. Naruto knew that this spot was far enough from the main road so no one from there could hear them. As for the people in the buildings, there were no windows facing them, so they wouldn't be seen that way; and just to make sure no one heard the noise, Naruto had put up several sound wave disruptors. Any sound waves that were produced when killed the man would be immediately disrupted and eventually deconstructed by the time anyone heard them
As they stopped the man let his impatience take over and spat out "Alright, I've followed you to hideaway, so now I think it's you showed me what it is that's so important."
Naruto simply smiled to the man and responded "Why, it's your death of course." The man laughed at that, not able to believe such a ridiculous notion. He was about to go and scare Naruto with his own death threat when Naruto activated his red lightsaber.
Eyed widening at the foreign weapon, the man pulled out a hidden blaster pistol and began firing. Not realizing what a lightsaber truly was, the man was surprised when Naruto used his lightsaber to deflect every single bolt that came at him harmlessly into the ground. Approaching the now whimpering man at a leisurely pace, Naruto continued smiling at the soon to be dead man and spoke in an eerily sweet voice "Now, now, don't be afraid; I promise that this won't hurt a bit."
The man fell on his back in his attempt to get away from Naruto and was now backed into a corner. Naruto the raised his lightsaber, the glow illuminating his face in a red light. The man tried for one last ditch effort in saving himself "P-Please s-stop, I'll-I'll give you anything you want. I'm about to get powerful connections. You can have money, land, power, women, men?" The last one was said a bit unsurely. With his eye twitching at the last one, Naruto swung down; decapitating the man.
Picking up the head, Naruto used the Force to examine the memories of the man. Examining and experiencing each memory Naruto deemed important, by the time Naruto was done, he had a large smile on his face.
Apparently this man whose name was Xion was suppose to become the new Royal Adviser to the king of the Sethelonian Kingdom, and he was suppose to meet the king in a few hours. This was simply too good for Naruto. Throwing the head away, Naruto donned the man's clothing which consisted of a white haori and hakama and a shoulder guard on his right shoulder that had a white cape coming out of it. He attached his lightsabers on the belt it came with. Naruto showed them openly, because he knew that no one would actually know what the lightsabers were until it was too late.
Now, how was he going to explain how he had suddenly changed his body structure to the king and everyone else? 'I'll make it up as I go along.' Naruto decided.
Currently Naruto was at the library researching on the history of the Sethelonian Kingdom. He now knew partially what the Kingdom was thanks to the memories he had gleamed from Xion, but the info wasn't enough for him. Most of the information was no good to Naruto anyway. Plus, Naruto was quite suspicious about the origins of the Sethelonian Kingdom and wished to confirm those suspicions.
After reading the info on the early founding of the Sethelonian Kingdom, Naruto knew his suspicions were correct. The early founding talked about how the kingdom had once been an empire that had been ruled by powerful magicians (or Sith Lords as Naruto had figured out) about 4,000 years ago. At first there had only been one magician that ruled, and they had had a large amount of lesser magicians following them.
The empire had then gone on to conquer a large portion of the galaxy after having betrayed there former government. It never said what the former government was, but Naruto was able to guess. There had only been two magicians who had ruled as the sole leader before the empire had been defeated by the government they had betrayed. It said that the first leader was betrayed by his apprentice and that the apprentice became the new leader.
After the defeat they were ruled by a Triumvirate of magicians that eventually betrayed each other and went down to two and were then defeated by some mysterious warrior, which was obviously a Jedi.
After the triumvirate failed the remnants of the empire scattered to the far corners of the galaxy. One of the remnants was lucky enough to bypass the hyperspace disturbance line that separated the Republic from the Unknown regions (3). Those that were lucky enough to bypass the disturbance line did so at the northern half of the galaxy.
Once they reached the unknown regions the remnants had settled in and took over the lower northwestern half of the Unknown regions.
While Naruto wasn't sure why the history was so vague as to the more specific details (like the fact that the Republic existed), but thanks to his knowledge of up until Revan left for the Unknown regions himself, Naruto was able to piece together everything and come up with an accurate history of the creation of the Sethelonian Kingdom.
Also, another thing that Naruto found weird was the fact that all the planets that were under the rule of the Sethelonian Kingdom had the same names as the planets that Revan had mapped out in the northwestern part of the galaxy. It was scarily similar. In fact, the only thing that wasn't the same as Naruto's maps of the Unknown regions were the markings of the places where the hyperspace disturbance line could be crossed.
For one reason or another, those places weren't on the map. Naruto was curious about all of these mysteries that he was beginning to uncover, but decided to save those for later.
Wondering if the Sethelonian's had any knowledge on the Republic; Naruto went over to a computer and typed into the search engine 'Galactic Republic'. Waiting for a few seconds for the search results to come up; once the results came up Naruto raised an eyebrow in confusion. All he had gotten was an error message that said the information he was trying to search for either didn't exist or was forbidden knowledge.
Interested as to what forbidden knowledge was suppose to be, Naruto typed in 'forbidden knowledge'. The results he got told him that forbidden knowledge was knowledge that had been deemed unsafe by the Sethelonian Royal Family.
Wondering why the hell the Galactic Republic was considered forbidden knowledge, Naruto knew that something obviously wasn't right with these royals.
Looking at the time, Naruto saw that it was almost time for him to meet up with the king and begin his eventual coup d'état.
As Naruto walked out of the library, he came upon an interesting sight. Not too far away were a group of armed men that were harassing a shopkeeper. The group contained men that were dressed in a purple-reddish bulky armor. Their helmets were hexagonal in shape and had a single horn coming out at the top, along with two eye holes that were colored black. They carried some sort of curricular device on their left arms, and a lance in their right. Naruto recognized these people as members of the Royal Guard thanks to Xion's memories.
They were apparently being lead by what Naruto would call a fat slob of a man. The was simply no other word to describe him. He had on a set of blue and yellow clothing (don't care what it is specifically), black hair tied up in a bun with a few strands falling down his face, eyes that were a green color, and a fatness that put some of the Akimichi Clan to shame. Really, it looked like he was struggling just to stand up; let alone move his arms around like he was currently doing while talking to the shopkeeper.
Also his face was extremely greasy. It was almost so greasy that it looked like some sort of transparent extra layer. Naruto wondered if this man even knew what a vegetable was.
Amplifying his hearing with the Force, Naruto listened in on the conversation that the fattso was having with the shopkeeper.
"P-Please your highness, i-if you gave me more t-time I could come up with the money. Don't take my daughter please, she's all I have left of my family." the poor shopkeeper cried out with tears starting to roll down his eyes. "Eh, well too bad. Everyone has to pay the tax on time, and for those who don't; they must pay something of equal value in order to show that we of the Royal Family aren't showing any favoritism."
Naruto took note of the fact that the shopkeeper was a Pantoran. Wondering what the hell that type of alien species was doing out in the Unknown Regions; Naruto just summed it all up to bad luck in order to save himself the trouble.
Naruto was somewhat shocked that the fat slob was a member of the Royal Family, but easily kept it hidden.
"Boys, you know what to do." the now fat royal slob said smugly. "Yes sir." were the replies he got in return as two members of the Royal Guard went into the store/house and came out with a struggling, young, and quite attractive Pantoran girl. Naruto could hear the girl crying "let me go you bastards" but that only earned her a slap from one of the guards.
The fat royal slob the said "Just to make sure you understand how things work, I think we should send a more permanent message. The Royal Guards seemed to need no further instruction as they all leveled their lances at the store like blasters. Naruto soon realized why they did this.
Apparently their lances had four spaces evenly distributed at the end of the lance and before the handle where a blaster nozzle was tucked in. The Royal Guards then fired their blaster lances onto the store, breaking glass, blasting apart wood, and virtually destroying anything else of value in the store. The father and daughter could do nothing other than watch in horror as their only means of support was destroyed right in front of them.
Tears were now openly falling down their faces as they looked at the barrage of lasers blasting apart the store. Once the barrage was over one of the guards threw a grenade into the store and walked back at a sedate pace, not worried at all by the grenade. His brashness was well founded as when the grenade exploded it only damaged the inside of the store.
Apparently the grenade was specially designed to cause and spread fires at an alarming rate; as the inside of the store was now covered with fire. It wasn't long before the fires spread to the outside of the store and from there to the second floor where the house was. In a few minutes the entire building was ablaze, with their owners being forced to watch as their home/workplace was burnt to the ground.
The royal slob laughed with pure delight in his eyes as he looked at the defeated faces of the Pantorians. "Now that you've learned your lesson, I believe I'll be taking my 28th wife now." There was no protest from the broken father as his daughter was taken away by the guards. Not even her protests, and calling out to him seemed to do anything for the unfortunate girl. All it really earned her were several more slaps; some of which were in less appropriate places. Several slaves pulled a cart for the slob to get in, and as he did so he forced the Pantorian girl to be with him. He gazed lecherously at her and said "Oh, I'm definitely gonig to enjoy you." With that the slob and his Royal Guards left the father to his misery.
Naruto stared at the scene with an emotionless gaze on the outside. On the inside he was absolutely furious. He was going to have to work for people like that! Oh, he could already feel the bile rising in his throat. He swore that he would have them all killed, when the time was right of course. He felt bad that he couldn't do anything for the poor girl, but he couldn't afford to blow his cover at this moment.
As the royal assholes were leaving Naruto saw an interesting sight. Apparently a bunch of Sith Troopers had also been watching the spectacle, and now that the Royals were leaving they moved in to help the broken man. Naruto was able to feel the absolute loathing for the Royals that the soldiers had. If Naruto had to guess, then judging by the fact that the Royal Guard had just destroyed the Pantoran's property with no remorse or apprehension; then that would mean that they had been doing this for quite some time.
Also, given the deep hatred that the Sith Troopers seemed to harbor for them, Naruto assumed that the Royal's and the regular military forces were at odds with each other, and taking in the fact that much of the city was in an obvious state of poverty, Naruto figured that a civil war was going to take place given enough time. However, now that he was here, he could use all of this to his own advantage.
As the Sith Troopers pulled the broken Pantorian back on his feet and had two of their number guide him away, Naruto noticed that one of the men who was wearing a uniform of a ranked officer (think of Saul Karath's uniform from KOTOR) stared at the retreating form of the slob with utter hatred in his eyes. Naruto knew in that instant that if this man ever got a hold of the slob, he'd kill him in the most painful way possible.
Naruto wondered how the man was able to control himself when he was filled with so much hate and anger and all other emotions that would enable him to destroy. Naruto was sure that had the man been Force sensitive, then the man would have literally been consumed by the Darkside.
Naruto took note of the man's appearance, he had smooth black hair, blue eyes, and a pretty handsome face. He also carried a vibrosword on his left side along with a blaster pistol holster.
As the Sith Troopers and their commander began to leave, Naruto committed the man's face to memory, positive that he would prove a useful ally in the future.
Location: Royal Palace, Throne Room
"Of course my King. It is such an honor to be serving one who is so wise, fair, and just. I only hope that one day, even a little of your greatness can be passed on to one so worthless as myself." Naruto felt like committing seppuku as spoke all of this while kneeling in front of one who would make a Hut look good in comparison.
Naruto had thought that Benarce who was the second son of the king and the fat slob Naruto had previously seen was fat. He was greatly mistaken. In comparison to his father, Benarce looked like an anorexic in comparison. Hell, the king was so fat that he wasn't able to use his own legs anymore and had to lay on a hovercart. Yes cart, not chair, but cart, that's how bad it was.
At one time the King may have looked quite handsome if the old pictures of him were any indication. However that time had long since passed, and now the King was nothing more than a giant ball of fat. Where muscles were once strong, now they were long since deteriorated and covered by layers of fat. His hair was brown, wild, unkempt, and oily. There also seemed to be numerous pimples on his face, along with oil, which was actually visibly dripping down his face. The Kings blue and yellow clothing (which Naruto learned were the colors of the Royal Family) were dampened with a mixture of sweat and oil.
Honesty, Naruto wondered how in the hell this guy was still alive. If his bad health hadn't killed him by now then Naruto was sure that some else would've just to get rid of such an ungodly sight.
"How -pant- very kind -pant- of you… what's -pant- your name?" the King said while panting, showing just how bad his health was. Naruto smiled and said "Why my name is Xion, Darth Xion." Naruto added the Sith title to his new name. "What -pant- a weird name -pant-, Darth." The King contemplated the meaning of the name for a few seconds before his degraded mind began to hurt from overuse.
Finally, one of the Kings aids; in an attempt to move things along said "And now, we are happy to end the initiation ceremony for our new Royal Advisor Darth Xion." Everyone else in the throne room from nobles, military officials, and other members of the Royal Family clapped as the ceremony ended while members of the Royal Guard stood at attention. Naruto inwardly sighed in relief as everyone seemed to accept him as Xion. Naruto wasn't sure why they weren't suspicious of his new look, but he resolved to keep things that way (later on he was to learn that the original Xion was himself a fake created by the people who were looking for a new Royal Advisor in the hopes of killing the King).
As they began leaving Naruto noticed that the same commander from earlier was attending the ceremony, and like last time he was still starting at Benarce with that look of utter hatred.
Curious as to why he stared at Benarce with such hatred, Naruto resolved to find out the cause for such a grudge.
Looking for another military official, Naruto eventually found one who was almost out of the room. Getting his attention Naruto questioned him "Tell me, why does that one over there" Naruto pointed to him as he said this and continued "stare at his highness Benarce with such hate?"
The military official looked surprised for a few seconds before asking "How were you figure that out? Normally Thrawn (4) has his emotions under controll." Indeed this was true; while Thrawn had been staring at Benarce with extreme hatred, he hadn't done it in a way that was noticeable. His face had remained quite impassive, in fact that main reason Naruto had known what Thrawn had felt like was because his emotions weren't under control as far as the Force was concerned. That and he was really good at reading a person's eyes.
"I just looked at his eyes, I learned how to read a person's eyes some time ago, and I must say it's a very useful skill to have." Naruto said while acting like a kind and smiling fool (like Sosuke Aizen from Bleach before he defects).
"Well, I guess that would be a useful skill, and as an answer to your question…" here the military official sighed and continued "…well, originally Thrawn was a rising member of the Sethelonian Navy. He had a genius so great that eventually he was about to become one of the youngest people in the history of the Sethelonian Kingdom to ever reach the rank of Admiral. Sadly, he ended up making an error in judgment when he was on a mission in which Benarce, the second son of the king was accompanying him. I don't know the full details of what the mission was about, but everyone knows the punishment that Thrawn received at the end of it."
"And tell me, how badly did he fail the mission in order to attain punishment?" Naruto voiced the question in an innocent voice. "Oh no, he didn't fail the mission at all, in fact he succeeded beyond expectations. The reason he was punished was because he protested orders from Benarce. Again, I don't know the full details, but what I, and everyone else knows is that after the mission, Benarce had Thrawn demoted from his position as a Rear Admiral to that of a Lieutenant. "
"Wait, just a demotion in rank isn't nearly enough of a reason to have that much hate against a person. There has to be more to it." Naruto stated.
"Well, you're right unfortunately…" it was here that the official looked around to make sure that no one was listening in and then continued "…look, please don't tell anyone that I told you this but -sigh- Benarce had several members of the Royal Guard kill Thrawn's father and kidnap his mother and sister. After that his mother was raped to death by the Royal Guards while Benarce took Thrawn's sister and turned her into his sex slave or "14th wife" if you prefer bullshit."
Naruto was pretty shocked that Benarce was allowed to do that, even if he was Royalty, and he voiced this too. "Bah, not a single one of those goddamn Royals actually follows the laws that they made. They just make us follow them. Tyrants are all they are. They line their own pockets with credits while the rest of us struggle to make even one. Look, I'm sorry I'm vent at y-" "Oh no, it's quite alright. You aren't an evil person, just an aggravated one. I shall leave your own thoughts." Naruto played the part of a good guy quite well.
With a thank you the official walked away while Naruto began his plans to turn Thrawn over to him.
Thrawn was currently in the library trying, and failing to not think about new ways of killing Benarce. He sighed and reached into his pocket for his pills. He had been prescribed relaxants in order to help him with his anger. He was already taking an anger management class (which wasn't going so well) and he also had therapy sessions several times a week. Once he had taken the pills and they started working, Thrawn only felt slightly less angry.
As Thrawn thought about all of the things he was doing in order to control his anger, the 23 year old wondered why the hell he listened to his friends when they told him not to kill the son of a bitch that ruined his life and destroyed his family. Normally he was a nice guy, had morals, loyalty, and all of those other good guy traits. Benarce however had largely destroyed them all and replaced it with a burning desire for revenge, which sadly for Thrawn had gone unfulfilled for quite some time.
Thrawn then picked up a holobook called Military Strategy for Dummies. Now you might be wondering why a military genius would be reading such a book. Well it was quite simple really, Thrawn always liked to relearn his basics. After all, without the basics, how could any type of complex military strategy be conceived. This holobook also covered the basics of military strategy quite well.
As Thrawn read his holobook in an attempt to calm himself, Naruto reached out with his Force, and made sure that no one was going to be able to listen in on their conversation. Naruto then approached Thrawn, acting like he was merely looking through holobooks on one of the nearby shelves.
Finally felling that he was within hearing distance, Naruto spoke "Tell me Thrawn, are you happy with your lot in life?"
Startled, Thrawn looked around for the source of the voice. Landing his eyes on Naruto, he asked "What?" Naruto put on his fake smiled of kindness and compassion and said "I asked you if you were happy with your lot in life." "What do you mean?" "Oh, I simply mean how you were once a rising star within the Sethelonian Navy, and now you're nothing more than some poor sap whose lost everything." Naruto said with that same smile on his face.
Thrawn was instantly enraged by the comment of this stranger. Had he ever suffered the pain of loss, did he know horrid it was to find the ones you loved either dead or some sort of slave? Thrawn sure as hell didn't know, but he was definitely going to make this guy feel some sort of pain. Thrawn got up from his chair and shoved Naruto into a holoshelf.
"How dare you!" Thrawn said in a whisper so as not to risk drawing any attention to them. "Do you know what it's like, has it ever happened to you, what in the blazes gives you the right to speak to me like that, like, like I was some type of scumbag, or trash that deserved everything he go?. All I did was stand up for innocent people that were about to be killed by that heartless monster Benarce; and what happens? I lose everything because of it." Thrawn then pulls a blaster pistol to Naruto's head "I might not be able to kill Benarce, but I can sure as hell kill you."
Just as Thrawn was about to pull the trigger, Naruto spoke in a calm voice "What if I could help you kill Benarce, and there's no need to keep your voice down. I've made sure that no one can hear us."
Thrawn at first didn't register what Naruto had said, but as his brain began to process Naruto's words, his face for the first time contorted into a furious visage and he once more slammed Naruto into the holoshelf. "Oh, and now you mock me. Taunting me with the very dream I've wanted for so long. What's next, are you going to tell me that my family isn't really gone, that they can brought back from the dead or something utterly stupid like that?" Thrawn didn't realize it but he had already begun listening to Naruto, as he now no longer whispered.
"No, but killing Benarce isn't something that's impossible. It can happen if it's planed right. If join me then I can assure you that Benarce will die in whatever manner you so wish." Naruto was now pushing at Thrawn's mind, weakening his will with the Force. "Join me and I can make sure that your family will be avenged."
Thrawn wasn't an idiot. For some stranger (even though he now recognized him to be the new Royal Advisor) to just come up and start telling him that he could make his revenge possible was more than enough of a reason for Thrawn to call the paramedics and have said person thrown into an asylum.
However, Thrawn was also an angry man who's mind thirsted for the sweet taste of revenge. So, two sides of him were battling it out. One was his common sense which was telling him not to trust this Xion (5), while the other was his revenge driven sociopath which told him to just screw caution and join up with Xion. Thrawn's sociopath was slowly wining due to the fact that he was being empowered by Naruto.
"Now, I suppose I should tell you about myself in order to gain your trust. So you might want to sit down, as it will be a long story." Thrawn did so and Naruto began to tell him all about himself being a Sith, his plans of turning the Sthelonian Kingdom into an empire, and about the true origins of the Kingdom. Needless to say, Thrawn was shocked at learning all of this info. If other people learned of the way the Kingdom was founded it would practically change the way the Royals were viewed. They would change from tyrants to illegitimate rulers. Right now everyone viewed the Royals as descendents of the magicians that had once ruled them.
Not really sure though if he should believe Xion or Naruto as he had been told was his true name, Thrawn asked from some proof. "Why certainly Thrawn, I won't be able to show you my full power here; but the tin demonstration should suffice."
Using the Force Naruto levitated several holobooks and crushed them into tiny scraps of metal while they were in midair. As tiny sparks flew out of the destroyed electronics, Thrawn looked on with interest. While it was possible that he could have been tricked, Thrawn knew the possibilties weren't too high.
"You said you wanted me to join you, well join you in what exactly?" Naruto smirked "Why in toppling the Sethelonian Kingdom and transforming it into my empire of course. I told you already that that was my main reason for being here."
"Very well then, I'll join you, but only if I can get my revenge on Benarce." "But of course Thrawn, after all nothing is free in this galaxy of ours. Lets shake on it." With that, Naruto held out his hand and Thrawn took it.
Their handshake sealed the fate of the Sethelonian Kingdom.
(1): There is a picture of Kaemon in my profile.
(2): You can look up all of those ships on Wookieepedia.
(3): Look at the galaxy map in my profile for a general idea of how the Star Wars galaxy is set up.
(4): No, not the original Thrawn from Star wars. This is a different guy with the same name.
(5): I may start referring to Naruto as Xion or Darth Xion. Just know that unless I specify otherwise, whenever I say Xion I'm going to be talking about Naruto.
Well this certainly was a long chapter for me to type. I never expected to reach 10 thousand words. Hope you enjoyed.
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