The Clone Wars-3 Sides
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"But father please! I'm begging you, let me take an army and crush the Free Kingdoms. They stand no chance against our might and we can only benefit from taking them over!" First Prince Sythan pleaded with the King.
"No, I have -pant- already told -pant- you that we -pant- wont' attack the Free -pant- Kingdoms." the King responded, getting an angry glare from his son as he said so.
"Now -pant- away with you -pant- I have other matters -pant- to deal with." the King said with an air of finality in his voice.
As Sythan was about to come up with an angry retort, the Head of the Royal Guard, a tough looking man with white hair who had a few scars on his face and was dressed in a purplish-red armor that had shoulder guards and a purple cape and was also armed with a vibrosword that was attached to the left of his waist and a blaster pistol that was on the right came forward and spoke "That's enough out of you Sythan, the King has given his orders and you will follow them."
The Head of the Royal Guard said the last part in a threatening voice and Sythan immediately turned a glare on him and said "Watch who you talk to you worthless servant! I don't believe I ever spoke to you, so shut up before I kill you myself!" he yelled.
The Royal Guard members who were in the room as well had reached for their weapons but were confused as to what to do. Their confusion was cleared when the King said "Leave, now -pant- Sythan." he said with a slight hint of anger.
Sythan gave one last glare to the King and the Head of the Royal Guard, whose name was Waylen, before he stormed out of the room with his own personal Royal Guard.
Naruto watched on amused at the events which had just taken place. He had now been serving the King for a few weeks and had built up some trust with him. He was able to see a good amount of the Royal Family, and personally he felt as though they should all burn in hell. But then again, that was just his opinion.
As for Sythan, he found out that Sythan was an extreme military supremacist. The way he went about doing things and the fact that he wanted to increase the power of the Sethelonian military proved that much. The way he did politics was pretty simple, if you were with him you lived, and if you were against him he ordered your execution. As for the actual military he commanded that with an iron fist and tolerated nothing less than absolute obedience from them. The major reason why the military truly put up with his actions was that he had poured as much money as possible into the military and was probably the only reason why there still was a military as the Royals had been trying to make large cuts in the military in order to gain more money for themselves. Sythan had even tried to use money from the Royal Vaults which from what Naruto had gathered contained vast sums of money and other valuables. He had been immediately stopped by his father who was very much against his militant ways.
The current animosity between Sythan and the King was because of their opposing ideals. As heir to the throne, Sythan's fighting with his father only made things more difficult for everyone else, as no one knew who to support. Although, most of the populace would be pretty happy if they just killed each other off. The nobility on the other hand was quite divided over who to support. Most were supporting Sythan, if only because he looked far more healthy than his father did. Indeed, for starters he was physically fit, and he was actually pretty handsome as well. His hair was purple and it went down to his neck while some of it covered his left eye. His eyes were an ice blue and he wore a black armor and had a vibrosword attached to his waist.
Those who supported the King however were some of the most powerful of the nobility and this was a major reason why Sythan hadn't already just gone in and disposed of his father already.
Anyways, as Sythan stormed out of the throne room, Naruto merely smiled at their fight and watched as Sythan was confronted by his little sister Bethany. Bethany was the third child of the King and that made her the Third Princess. She was probably the only one of the Royals who had any shred of decency in them. Naruto, for the life of him couldn't even begin to fathom how she had managed to remain sweet and kind in the face of all the corruption that surrounded her everyday life.
But it was true, she was one of the nicest people on the planet and she had a genuinely good heart. She had tried to help the ailing people of the planet, but the public mass wasn't exactly happy with the Royals and she was unable to do much for them anyways. This meant that no matter how nice she was, the public could care less about her and since she caused no fear amongst the nobility she had no real power. The only reason why she wasn't dead was because she was so nice that they either liked her too much or pretty much ignored her.
"Big brother, I really wish you wouldn't fight with father like that. I'm worried that one day father might really get mad at you! You could be in big trouble then!" Bethany said with nothing but the innocence of a child.
Sythan rolled his eyes and said "Oh, would you shut up you petulant child. Screw what father thinks, I'll do things however I want!"
Bethany flinched at Sythan's rebuke and her personal Knight, a teen around her age who was called Thrace became furious and yelled out "HEY, DON'T YOU DARE TALK TO HER LIKE THAT!"
This only caused Sythan to focus on Thrace, whom he grabbed by the scruff of his neck and lifted off the floor.
"YOU DARE TALK TO ME LIKE THAT YOU WORTHLESS PILE OF SHIT! MAKE NO MISTAKE THAT YOU ARE COMPLETELY WORTHLESS TO ME, AND IF YOU WEREN'T MY SISTER'S GUARD I'D KILL YOU MYSELF!" Sythan then took a few deep breaths before he spoke in a quieter tone "You had better watch who you talk to, because next time they might not be so forgiving."
With that final warning Sythan walked away from them while Naruto shook his head at how easily the man was riled up. He knew however that he would at least need Sythan's trust if only until he could find the right opportunity to kill him. Approaching Sythan who was now in a secluded hallway Naruto began to speak.
"Well, well First Prince, I have to say that I'm quite sad to see that your father couldn't see things from your point of view." Naruto said.
Just as Sythan was about to shout insults at the man his brain registered what he had just heard. "Really? I thought you of all people would be in agreement with my father.", he said the word with disgust.
Naruto smiled and said "While I agree on your father with a lot of things, the fact that he doesn't strengthen the military nor make what can only be described as beneficial movements to securing Sethelonian power does drop my opinion of him." 'Not that that changes my first opinion of him by much anyways.' Naruto thought to himself.
"You however, I can see turning the Sethelonians into a true force to be reckoned with. Under your leadership, we could possibly rule the entire galaxy." Naruto played to Sythan's lust for power while also influencing his mind with the Force.
Sythan, whose mind was being clouded was unable to realize that Naruto had no reason for helping him out. Instead all he saw was what Naruto told him.
"Your right advisor, I could easily conquer the known galaxy, if only my blasted father wouldn't keep getting in my goddamn way!" Sythan spoke.
"Well, I think I can help with that problem." Naruto replied.
"What do you mean?" Sythan said.
"Well, as the King's Advisor, I should be able to pull some strings that could get you your invasion fleets. After all, your father should be able to trust me; that's why he picked me to be his adviser." Naruto said with a smile.
Sythan said excitedly "How soon can you have the fleets prepared! I want to set out as soon as possible!"
"It should take about nine months." said Naruto.
"Nine months, what for!" Sythan said angrily.
"Well, most of that time is going to be spent convincing your father to okay the invasion. After all, even I can't just go straight up and ask him. Besides, there are other things you will have to do before you invade the Free Kingdoms. For starters, getting rid of the pirates that have be plaguing our trade systems would be a good place for you to start with. You needn't worry about getting that set up, convincing your father to allow their elimination will be easy." explained Naruto.
"Now, I'll tell you when I get the okay from you father, until then you had best better leave me. I have other duties to attend to." Naruto said to the still mind clouded Sythan who merely nodded in agreement before leaving.
Thrawn who had been hidden off to the side walked up to Naruto and asked "You're not planning to let him live are you?"
"Of course not, however we won't want him interfering with any of our plans, and the best way to do that is to let him think that I'm on his side. Besides he's going to be quite useful at eliminating most of the enemies that plague the inside of the Sethelonian Kingdom. For instance, you know those pirates that I was telling him about. Well it turns out that a few members of the Royal family have been using them to increase their own pockets. They intentionally let the pirates attack the shipping lanes and do nothing about it because the pirates give them 60% of the loot. The King is in on it too and that's a major reason why nothing has been done about them." Naruto explained.
"But, if the King's in on it too then how will yo- oh right, I forgot, you'll just use your life cheating powers and everything will fall into place, won't you."
"Hey! I don't use the Force to cheat at life… okay maybe a little, but it's so much fun!" Naruto whined.
Thrawn sighed and said "Whatever." before he got serious and said "Now, I believe that you wanted a report on all those who would be willing to join our cause. Based on what I know of our military, a majority of them would join up, however there are elements that are loyal to the Royals. Those will be the ones that we will have to eliminate first. Either that or we could just replace their leaderships with people who are more susceptible to our ideas."
Naruto thought over it for a moment and the responded "Have them eliminated. I don't want anyone around whose loyal to those bastards." he said with disgust.
Thrawn nodded in agreement before adding in "By the way, I've already started to gather up men for you. There are plenty of men whose loyalties I've won throughout the rising part of my career, enough to form a small army in fact. And these men aren't slouches either. They're quite experienced in combat, and they hate the Royals almost as much as I do. And that's saying something." he chuckled bitterly at the last part.
Naruto gave a smile and said "Well, looks like competence runs strong in your veins. Makes me wonder why I'm even needed for this takeover." he joked.
"Anyhow, how much of the navy have you managed to convert." Naruto asked.
"Well, I haven't started on the navy yet, but I know people in there that would be more than happy to join up." answered Thrawn.
Thrawn then remembered a question he had "Hey, Naruto, when you were talking to Sythan back there, why did you say that it would take nine months for an invasion of the Free Kingdoms to be ready? I'm pretty sure it wouldn't take that long."
"Simple really, in nine months, we'll overthrow the Sethelonian Kingdom!" Naruto said with a smile.
"Excelent." Thrawn said with a smirk.
Location: Naruto's Private Residence
Kaemon sweated as he swung his training lightsaber, practicing the first Form which was known as Shii-Cho. Shii-Cho was the basic form which contained all the fundamental elements of all the lightsaber forms, including the basic attack, parry, body target zones, and practice drills called velocities. He had been practicing the Shii-Cho for two hours now and was going for one more. Afterwards he would rest by meditating and trying to tune himself into the Force.
Previously Kaemon had do a workout consisting of hand-to-hand combat with HK, lifting weights to build up his muscles, and running around an obstacle course to increase his stamina and his dodging skills. The training Naruto was putting Kaemon through was hard, especially for a five year old, but in Kaemon's eye's it was all worth it. He was finally given a purpose, he meant something to someone; and if that meant that he had to go through this difficulty then he would do it.
While Kaemon was practicing, Naruto entered the building and went to get HK. As he walked around the elegant building he thought about how he had gotten it. The reason he had a luxurious house was because he was the King's Advisor.
Once Naruto found HK he spoke "Ah, HK; remember how you've been complaining about not being able to kill anything as of late. Well complain no further. I've already compiled a list of people whom I want you to kill."
"Joyous Response: Oh thank you master, I promise to make sure their deaths are extra painful."
"Actually you might not be able to do that. I kinda need their deaths to not be seen as assassinations and more so unfortunate accidents." Naruto said with a small sweatdrop.
"Resigned Statement: How disappointing, very well then master, at least I get to kill them so it isn't too bad."
"Right." was Naruto's response.
While HK went off to go and review the list Naruto went to watch Kaemon train. Naruto had to admit that the boy was quite good. He had a natural talent that when combined with his determination made him an upcoming prodigy. He was quickly learning the Shii-Cho Form and his skill with a lightsaber was already going up. When he had first started out, Kaemon was unable to even protect himself from a single stun droid; and in a few weeks he was now already practicing against three of them with a blindfold.
Of course, Naruto also liked to give some credit to himself, he was a decent teacher if he said so himself. However even though the boy was progressing at a very fast pace he still had a long way to go. Kaemon hadn't even had his first kill yet. He was far too innocent, but Naruto consented to breaking that innocence at a slow and steady pace.
Naruto saw that Kaemon was practicing trying to tune in with the Force and, curious at how his student was doing decided to sense his attunement himself. Naruto reached out with the Force and felt Kaemon's Force Energy. He found out that Kaemon's energy while getting there, was still quite unstable and uncontrolled. It would seem like it would still take a while before he would be able to train using Time Block. Naruto wanted Kaemon to have a better attunement with the Force before he started training him with such an advanced method. 'Well, the boy is young, can't expect him to be fast at everything. His attunement will come with time and training.' Naruto thought to himself.
Deciding that Kaemon had done enough practice for one day Naruto called out to him "Oy Kaemon, you can stop for today; you've done enough training!"
Kaemon was startled from his meditation and jumped high up into the air before crashing back down due to the laws of gravity.
"Owwww." moaned out Kaemon. "Why'd you have to scare me like that master?" Kaemon asked.
"Cause, it's funny, duh! Besides, getting scared builds character." Naruto retorted.
"Since when!"
"Since I just said so."
Kaemon grumbled while Naruto laughed. While Kaemon was loyal to Naruto and would never question his orders, whenever Naruto acted silly it always brought out the five year old kid that he was supposed to be.
Naruto smiled at Kaemon and patted him on the head, ruffling Kaemon's hair in the process. Kaemon smiled while he wondered whether this was what is was like to have a father who cared about you.
"Sniff, Sniff" Bethany struggled not to cry. She had been devastated by how Sythan had treated her and her friend/protector Thrace. Sythan was usually tolerant of her if nothing else. However he had been more brutal than usual when she had tried to get him stop arguing with their father. She had only been trying to warn him because she genuinely cared for her brother, even if he was an asshole.
Thrace looked at Bethany with sorrow. He wanted to comfort her, hold her close and whisper to her saying that it was alright, that Sythan didn't mean anything he said, that everything would work out. He had fallen in love with her from the day he first met her. This was six years ago (he's currently 16 along with Bethany), back when he was still in the Royal Guard training school which was known as the Royal Academy over at their headquarters.
Flashback
Several bullies that had been chasing him in the school. They were chasing him simply for the reason that they had failed a test recently and they had decided to take their frustrations out on some unlucky sap. That unlucky sap just so happened to be Thrace who's only fault was simply being at the wrong place at the wrong time.
Thrace had simply been walking around the hallways trying to get to his next class when he walked in on one of the bullies saying that they should just beat up the next kid that they saw. They all agreed and when one of the bullies saw him he yelled out "Hey, there's fresh meat right there!" Thrace had taken that as his queue to run.
Thrace had managed to see what they were wearing before he ran and knew from that that they were nobility as well. He was stronger than them and could have easily turned back and fought them but since they were nobility Thrace could have gotten in big trouble if he had attacked one of them. So he ran from them and was hoping to lose them but instead ran into Bethany and knocked her down injuring her slightly.
Two members of the Royal Guard had instantly hauled him up by the scruff of his neck while a third one gently helped up Bethany. "HOW DARE YOU SULLY HER ROYAL HIGHNESS. YOU'LL PAY FOR YOUR INSOLENCE!" said one of the Royal Guard.
One of the Royal Guardsmen began to choke Thrace while the other took out his lance and was about to stab him with it when Bethany suddenly cried out "WAIT!".
This stopped them as they then turned to look at the princess who said "Don't hurt him! I'm sure he didn't mean to do it. It was just an accident, there's no need to kill him over it!" Bethany said worried.
"B-But your highness, this piece of trash has dared to injure you. Not mention that this filth also happens to be a trainee for the Royal Guard! We can't allow this shame on honor of the Royal Guard and Family to exist." one the Royal Guard said before he went back to preparing to stab Thrace.
"I SAID STOP! I ORDER YOU AS A PRINCESS OF THE SETHELONIAN KINGDOM TO STOP!" screamed Bethany. This immediately stopped the Royal Guardsmen who bowed before her in apology. After that she ordered them all to leave. They had been about to protest again about how she shouldn't be left alone with such filth when she glared at them silencing their protests.
Thrace stared at her amazed as she asked if he was alright.
"W-Why? Why'd you save me your highness?" Thrace asked confused.
Bethany smiled and said "Because you didn't deserve to be killed. All you did was bump into me, that wasn't a crime last time I checked. Plus, I also hate killing, its mean and downright hurtful; and in the end everyone is sad."
Thrace looked at her with wonder in his eyes. With her kind and smiling face she was radiating an aura of peace, and in Thrace's eye's she was the most beautiful girl in the world. She had light brunette hair, eyes that were a radiant green, fair skin that looked smooth and creamy, and an angelic face that looked like all the innocence of every child in the world had been gathered up and placed into her.
Thrace swore to himself that one day, he would be the one protecting her just like she had protected him today.
Flashback End
Once he had graduated from the Royal Academy he immediately set out to distinguish himself from the rest of the Royal Guards. At first he had had no success, but later on an opportunity came up when several terrorists tried to kill Bethany while she was traveling through the city. He hadn't been on her guard detail but he had been nearby and had instantly gone to her defense. Most of the Guards that had been with her were initially killed in the terrorist's surprise attack so Thrace's appearance and vicious defense of Bethany had been a welcoming relief for the remaining guards. They were able to fight off the terrorists and kill them all. Afterwards Thrace was commended on his bravery and sense of duty and was put on Bethany's personal guard as a reward.
This meant that his paycheck was increased but he got substantially more authority over the men in the regular military. All members of the Royal Guard had authority over the regular troops with the lowest of the Guard having a rank equal to Captain. As for Thrace's authority, it was elevated to that of a Major.
Once he was on Bethany's personal guard it took a while, but she eventually recognized him when he had taken his helmet off once due to it being an extremely hot day. Bethany had been happy to see him again and Thrace was honored that she would even remember him at all and from there it was only a matter of time as the relationship between the two deepened and Thrace eventually became her personal Knight.
For Thrace, this was the highest honor that there could ever possibly be for him. He did everything in his power to make sure that Bethany was safe and happy. Right now however, Thrace felt that he was sorely failing in his duty as her personal knight. He didn't know what he could say to Bethany without insulting Sythan, so he opted for staying quiet. That proved to be difficult as he saw her continue to grow closer to crying.
Finally, he decided to take a risk and grabbed her, embracing Bethany in a warm hug. Bethany was surprised at first but then realized that Thrace was hugging her.
Thrace then spoke "I know that what Sythan said hurt you, that what he said wounded you more so than any blade. And I also know that I'm no good with words. I don't know how to explain that everything will work out, that everyone one will get along and make this nation of ours happy. All I do know is that you're hurting and that I'll be here for you if you ever need me."
Thrace knew that he was way overstepping his bounds. Hugging the Third Princess was not what a Personal Knight was supposed to do. Protect her yes, get intimate no.
Bethany held a small blush from what Thrace was doing but stayed in the embrace. She did admit she had always held some form of attraction for Thrace. His blue hair, and grey eyes gave him a unique look. He was well built too, not overly muscular; but enough to make him attractive. His face was more rounded than angular and he had a kind look about him.
Thrace had always been kind to her and that was one of the things she had loved about him. Bethany had grown up in an environment where kindness was treaded upon by hate and greed. So for even the smallest amount of kindness and sincerity to be shown to her by someone had truly made her happy.
"T-Thank you, Thrace." Bethany said a little shaken as she stayed within his embrace.
"If you ever need me your Highness, I'll always be there; I promise you that." Thrace said with all the conviction he could muster.
Nestor hummed happily to himself as he walked towards his speeder. He was a noble of medium importance, and governed a few minor planets that were in the Kingdom. Right now he was on the capital in his private villa and was going to go for a joy ride throughout the Corandian countryside to see some of the beautiful scenery the planet had to offer, especially since the capital city was in ruins.
As he came up to his speeder he noticed a droid that was standing next to it. As he got into the speeder the droid spoke "Statement: Greetings Nestor Gilame, I have preformed all maintenance checks on the following vehicle and have concluded that it works. Please enjoy your ride."
"Uh, okay." Nestor said, a bit confused at the maintenance droid.
Nestor then took off and rode through the city, heading towards the countryside. While he was driving, Nestor thought to himself 'Man that was a weird maintenance droid. I wonder when the hell I bought it. Oh well, probably just needs a memory wipe. Wait, I've never seen that droid before in my life. Where the hell did it come from! Ahhhh, I'm thinking too much about this.'
As he continued driving, Nestor soon had to come to a stop to allow a large cargo transport to go past him. As he pressed on the brakes, Nestor noticed nothing wrong at first until after a few seconds he saw that he wasn't slowing down. He decided to press the brakes down a bit more, but that didn't change his speed at all. Nestor began to press the brakes frantically as he headed towards the cargo transport. When he finally realized that the brakes were broken it was already too late. Nestor screamed as he tried futilely to turn his speeder and avoid a crash with the transport.
HK-47 walked out of Nestor's villa with all the information that Naruto needed in order to take control of Nestor's finances. As HK left the building it spoke "Self-Satisfaction: I said that the speeder worked. I just never said that it worked correctly."
The atmosphere around the Eastern Barracks was tense from what Naruto could sense. Thrawn had gathered all the soldiers loyal to his command and had stationed them at the Eastern Barracks. Most of them didn't have the faintest clue why they were here save for the fact that they were told that Thrawn himself had called them all here to give them vital information. That of course had gotten a majority of them to come here right away. The more cautious ones had investigated first but hadn't found any lie about Thrawn calling them.
As the soldiers chatted amongst themselves Naruto was talking with Thrawn.
"So, are all these soldiers serving under the same command or are they spread out?" Naruto asked.
"Their more spread out. It was quite difficult getting hold of all the soldiers under my old command and it is possible that I may have missed a few, but they'll get the info if tonight's meeting is a success." answered Thrawn.
"Good, having them spread out will allow our message to travel through the ranks faster." said Naruto
One of the Sith Commandos who was a part of the troops came up to the two and asked Naruto "My Lord, are you ready to reveal your plans to the soldiers. If you are I'll call them to attention immediately." There were a total of ten Sith Commandos here and Thrawn and Naruto had already told them what they were going to accomplish.
The Commandos had quickly agreed and were now also a part of the plan. Naruto nodded towards the Sith Commando and he took that as his queue. He quickly contacted his fellow Commandos who all went to the front of the crowd and began yelling for the troops to get into order. The soldiers quickly lined up and had stood at attention.
They all looked at the stage where a podium was and watched with confusion as Naruto walked up to the front of the podium. Naruto gave a smirk at the confusion on their faces and spoke "Now, I'm sure you're all wondering why we're here today aren't you? Well for starters, you were chosen to come here based on a fact that all of you share. You all hate the Royals and have a personal vendetta against them."
When Naruto said this a spike of worry went through the crowd and the soldiers tensed, making sure their blasters where ready to be drawn. Naruto only smiled as he saw everything going as he had predicted so far.
"Now you all must be thinking 'Oh no! He knows about our treasonous thoughts! What's he going to do, rat us out to the Royals, have us all executed for treason, our families murdered for our hate, my land taken away from me, lives destroyed? No, that is not why I have had you all assembled. You see, I also happen to hate the Royals just like each and every one of you. I have seen the tyranny that they have, I have seen the horrors that they commit, I have seen as they carry out crimes with such a degree of comfort you'd think that was what they were born for!" Naruto ended this with a yell.
"But don't just take my word for it. I have told you that I hate the Royals, but I have given you no such proof. Well, allow me to prove myself." and with a wave of Naruto's hand Thrawn came from behind him and kneeled to Naruto shocking many of the troops.
Thrawn then spoke "I have dedicated myself to this man here for my own selfish goals. However, he does not lie when he says that he hates the Royals, and I know for certain that he will be the one to lead us. Lead us into a new future that is prosperous and free of those wretched scum who currently rule over us. If we follow Xion then the anger which each and every one of you has felt will finally be sated!" Thrawn finished.
Now the troops were much more moved to Naruto's side when they saw that even Thrawn was working with him. Naruto gave an internal smile as he felt the troops become more accepting of him.
He then spoke once again "And now you have all witnessed proof from one who is the most righteous in their vengance! But tell me, Thrawn was not the only one wronged now was he? YOU! Over there, tell me how have the Royals wronged you!"
The confused soldier pointed at himself to make sure it was him and when he spoke, it was with a nervous voice, "Well, uh, t-the Royals, t-they took my home. They kicked my family off our land and forced us to move into a city. I had to enlist just to insure my family still had a source of income." he said the last part with anger.
"And what about you soldier, what crimes did the Royals commit against you!" Naruto asks while pointing at another trooper.
"My family is forced to pay outrageous taxes. We're barely getting by as it is, and the Royals when they heard of the problem that my family and numerous others also faced, instead of lowering the taxes they just had the Royal Guard come in and take all the money we had. Now poverty has destroyed my old home town and my family died of starvation!"
"And You!" Naruto continues.
"They had their Royal Guard kill my best friend because he said something that sounded like an insult to the Royal Family!"
"They've destroyed entire communities and had countless people murdered just so they can have their possessions!"
"My wife was taken to become slave to them!"
"They're no better than beasts, fucking beasts!"
"Their monsters in human flesh!"
"Death to the Royals I say!"
"Yeah, we should march up and slaughter them all!"
"YEAH!" was the cheer that was starting to go throughout the crowd. Naruto smirked when he saw that he had them all riled up. Now they would listen to anything he'd say.
"QUIET, ALL OF YOU!" Naruto yelled out in a powerful voice silencing them all. "I understand that the anger you feel in your hearts calls out for revenge. I know that hate slowly consumes you until you rage on out of control. These emotions are natural and they are perfectly fine for you to have. However, you can't let them get out of control. Do you honestly think that we can just go up there to the Royal Palace and kill everyone there. Don't kid yourselves. At the most you number at three thousand; the Royal Guard numbers at twenty thousand. They are an army in their own right and not only do they have better equipment and numbers, but they also have better training."
Many soldiers grimaced at this. They knew it was true; being a member of the Royal Guard got you the best Sethelonian tech that money could buy. You also got great combat training. Nothing that could ever match them against a Jedi or such, but more than enough to make one Royal Guard member a match for five Sethelonian Troopers.
"They aren't all in the Royal Palace but that doesn't mean that they can't get their before us. Their headquarters is located very close to the Royal Palace and that is where the majority of the Royal Guard is. And even if we did succeed we would only look like power hungry men without the support of the people. So now, here is the big question. What do we do? I've ignited your anger, told you that I myself hate the Royals, so what is next?" Naruto spoke.
"Well, as Thrawn told you all earlier; listen to me and I can lead you into a new future. One in which every Royal is dead with their spirits rotting in hell! I can lead you all into a rebellion which can overthrow this regime and establish a new one. Swear yourselves to me and I can bring down everything that is despicable about this society! I can burn down this wretched government and from the ashes establish a new order. One that is just and fair, where order and prosperity are the norm not the exception! Join me, and I will build an Empire which will throw off the shackles that bind us to this horrid existence, and create a new and better Galaxy!"
The soldiers began to cheer at the end of Naruto's speech and started chanting "Xion!" (1) repeatedly.
'And with this, I grow ever closer to your fall. So my dear Royals, enjoy your last nine months in this existence while you can. Because soon you'll be nothing more than rotting corpses.' Naruto thought to himself.
Two months later:
Two months had passed since Naruto had given his speech to the men loyal to Thrawn. During that time he had ordered those troops to begin spreading word of his rebellion to soldiers under specific commands. These commanders were ones that Naruto knew hated the Royals as well and would be more than likely to join him, especially after Thrawn was sent to convince them. Word soon spread throughout the ranks of how a rebellion was forming again and that Xion was leading it. This got many reactions from various people in the military that Naruto had not sent Thrawn or his soldiers to. While some were eager to join and placed themselves under Naruto, others were not as eager and others still were quite skeptical that Naruto was planning a rebellion at all or that he would succeed.
Still, it seemed like everything was going well for Naruto. The Royals had yet to catch wind of any sort of plot whatsoever and Naruto's forces were slowly growing. As for convincing the skeptics, this was going to require a show of some sort of power, and Naruto knew exactly how to do that.
"My king, think about it. The pirates are taking away that which rightfully belongs to you. You make a profit off the taxes that are paid by traders when they make money off of trade, which means that the pirates; by raiding and stealing their goods are in reality stealing your profits as the traders are unable to trade anything. Therefore we must punish these inferior pirate scum and annihilate them in order to show that no one steals from the King." Naruto explained.
Naruto could see the nervousness in the King's eyes. He was probably trying to find a way out of getting rid of the pirates but Naruto had him pinned. All of Naruto's points were valid so ignoring them would weaken his standing. On the other hand, the amount of money he made from the pirate's activities was far more than what he made based on the taxes gotten from the traders. Finally, the King conceded to Naruto's view when he was unable to figure out how to counter Naruto's argument.
"Very well -pant-, the pirates -pant- must be eliminated -pant-." The King responded.
"Excellent decision, your majesty. And I know exactly who will lead the campaign. First Prince Sythan is more than capable of leading this campaign, I recommend that he set out immediately though in order to maximize the element of surprise. The pirates have thus far not had any sort of opposition whatsoever, and as such they won't be expecting an attack when it comes." Naruto said.
The King was subtly Mind Tricked into agreeing which caused shock amongst the rest of the Royal Family. Most of the Royals had never expected the King to do anything about the pirates as they had been plaguing the trade routes for years and nothing had ever been done about them. For those who were in on the scheme, they wondered why the hell the King was allowing their and his profits to suffer.
Sythan wouldn't spare any of the pirates so there was no hope of reorganizing them and many profits that they gained from the pirates would dry up. The King himself was slowly finding himself in a haze where everything Xion was saying was starting to make more sense. He tried to convince himself that Xion was wrong and that he was also a part of the scam, but Xion's logic and use of the Force were far too strong for the King's weak mind to resist.
"Also my King, I believe you've heard about the recent deaths of several of the nobility?"
The King nodded his head, which took a bit of effort; and Naruto spoke again.
"Well, then I suppose you also know that the transition of their assets and offices that they held will need to be taken care of."
The King nodded his head again whilst inwardly cursing the fact that he had to deal with the nobles scrambling to grab the power left behind by those who had died.
Naruto smirked inwardly and began to extend his influence over the King's mind again, warping it as he sought to make the King subservient to his goals.
"My King, you need not worry yourself with handling such things. You're above these troubles which seek to plague you. Please, allow me to handle the transactions. After all, why should you have to work when rest is so easily within your grasp?"
The King was quickly agreeing with what Naruto was saying while the rest of the court was starting to get a bit worried at what Naruto was saying. They got even more worried when they all saw the King nod his head to it and then saying out loud that he agreed to having Xion handle the transactions.
Even the Head of the Royal Guard Waylen expressed his concern with the decision only to be silenced by the King. Naruto smiled as he was put in charge of the transitions, this was a vital part in his plans and it was important that he be put in charge of the transitions. Now he could just simply place all of the power that the nobles had under himself while setting up proxy governors and such.
"You needn't worry your majesty, I will use the power you have so wisely given me responsibly to ensure the wellbeing of the Kingdom." Naruto finished.
Naruto was currently scanning through the accounts of the nobles that HK had killed so far. The amount of money that all of them had together was a huge amount; easily enough to begin the charity works that Naruto wanted. The charity works were going to be used to gain the support of the people while at the same time denounce the Royals even more, ensuring that when the time came; Naruto would be seen as a hero to the people for freeing them from the wretched rule of the Royals.
Naruto's charity works were mainly going to include giving food, shelter, and many other basic needs that a majority of the Sethelonian population were not receiving. In addition Naruto was also planning to use the money to begin raising more troops to help with his take over.
Raising more troops would also create more jobs thus making people happier as work was really hard to come by at current times.
Once Naruto was done scanning through the accounts, he picked up a map which had records from the Ebon Hawk's travels which had been taken from its navicomputer. Naruto searched through them in the hopes of finding a specific planet that Revan had been to before. It was taking a while as the Ebon Hawk had been through many planets and had accumulated a vast amount of locations.
Finally when Naruto found the place he was looking for he smiled; once he had acquired what he wanted, there wouldn't be anything that could stop him.
Location: Lehon System
Five Sith Interdictors along with a fleet of construction ships appeared out of hyperspace in front of the planet Lehon, otherwise known as Rakata Prime. Naruto was inside the head Inderdictor and was commanding the fleet. Naruto had 'convinced' the King to let him go on this expedition to set up a 'mining operation' on a planet that had been found to 'have a great abundance of gold'.
While the thing that Naruto was here for wasn't gold, if it was still their then it was something that was far more valuable in the long run than mere gold. The fleet Naruto had accompany him was made up of men who had joined him in his coup so any chance of word reaching the Royals of what he was actually going to do here was slim to none.
"Alright, Canard have the fleet stop here. I don't want it getting damaged from the debris that surrounds the planet."
Indeed. Lehon was surrounded by massive amounts of debris that if one wasn't careful of, could easily kill you. The debris was leftover remnants of the massive battle that was fought here at the end of the Jedi Civil War all those years ago. It was filled with many valuable resources that could easily be used to build many things if it was collected. Now, one might wonder why such valuable resources were left floating in the orbit of a planet. The reason for this was because the Lehon system wasn't a very well known system anymore.
Back during the end of the Jedi Civil War, Lehon was incorporated into the Republic and for a time it was well known as the site of the final battle of the Jedi Civil War. However, there were not many visitors to the planet as the Republic had quarantined the system in order to help keep some semblance of order; as with the chaos of the aftermath of the war the Republic did not need to have people panicking over the fact that an ancient species known as the Rakata who had once enslaved much of known galaxy were back.
With the planet quarantined, and the Rakata refusing to leave, resulting in their extinction due to an ever limiting gene pool, Lehon eventually fell into the back of the Republic's mind. As the years passed and other wars damaged the Republic, Lehon was eventually forgotten; its location now lost to the Republic.
That would in the future become one of the Republic's greatest mistakes. But for now it was blissfully unaware of what was going on at Lehon.
"Prepare my personal shuttle Canard. I'll be taking with me a few squads of soldiers as well. I want you to stay here and be in charge while I go and investigate the planet surface, understand?"
Canard nodded his head and said "Yes, Lord Xion."
Once the shuttle was ready it took off from the hanger and navigated its way through the debris, eventually it got through and began its descent to the planet surface below. It landed in the area that Naruto had specified and once everyone save the pilots began getting out. Many of the soldiers were surprised by the warm and tropical climate that the planet had. Many of them had to admit it would make a nice vacation spot.
Those thoughts were quickly dashed as Naruto commanded them to follow him. They all marched up to the location of the Temple of The Ancients. Naruto was really glad that the Rakata were now extinct as this made entering the temple so much easier. The temple doors were still blocked by the force field which Revan had required the Elders help to get past. This was not the same for Naruto who used his command over the Force to deactivate the force field. Many of the soldiers were confused by what Naruto had done but followed him anyways as most felt it better to not ask questions.
Once inside the temple Naruto commanded the Sethelonian Troopers to begin searching through the whole temple to begin mapping out the temple and start clearing it up as well while a small amount would stay with him.
Naruto was currently trying to find a computer terminal that Revan had used all those years ago to gain the secrets to the Rakata's ultimate weapon, the Star Forge.
Naruto stopped for a moment and began using the Force to try and find a trace of Revan's signature and follow its path. This was extremely hard to do as not only was Revan dead, but the signature was 4,000 years old by now and would have disappeared considerably. However a trace amount would remain no matter what. The major problem was finding it and following its trail. Naruto struggled for a few minutes to find the signature and follow it while the soldiers just stood looking at Naruto confused as to why he was just standing there with his eyes closed.
Eventually Naruto was able to lock onto the trace of Revan that still remained. Once he found it he began to follow it towards the computer terminal that contained the secrets to the Star Forge. Once he got to the terminal an eerie smile appeared on Naruto's face. He activated the terminal and began analyzing the information that was on it.
'I can't believe it! It's all here, the blueprints to the Star Forge. Everything needed to build it also just so happens to be floating around this very planet. This is too perfect, as long as I'm not discovered by any Republic ships, I could very well have a second Star Forge built, given enough time.' Naruto thought to himself.
Naruto then downloaded the information onto a datapad and deactivated the terminal. He then gave a small chuckle at acquiring the information he wanted and ordered the rest of the troops with him to go and help the others.
As Naruto exited the temple he could hear the sounds of excavating and repair going on. Naruto made his way back to the shuttle and contacted the commander of the troops that came with him.
"Commander, you and your men are to stay here and continue with clearing out the temple. I will send in construction teams to help you start renovating the place and getting it back to optimum levels. Is that understood?" Naruto ordered.
"Yes, Lord Xion." replied the Commander.
After that Naruto shut off the communications and ordered the shuttle to lift off and head back to the fleet. Once there Naruto ordered for several construction teams to be sent down while he called for the Head Engineer.
Both of them were now in the command bridge with Naruto who was explaining to them what they were going to be doing.
The Head Engineer was staring amazed at the hologram of the Star Forge. Even scaled down as it was in the hologram it was still a very large image.
"Whoa, you want me to build this?" the engineer asked incredulously.
"Yes, the blueprints and everything are inside. I imagine that it would be difficult to make such a colossal project-"
"Difficult, do you have any idea how many resources it would take to build that monstrosity! And not to mention the money, where're you gonna get that? Money just doesn't come out of thin air. And last time I checked most of the Kingdom is strapped for cash at the moment." the head engineer interrupted.
Naruto looked at the man annoyed while the Head Engineer looked at him sheepishly when he realized he had interrupted Naruto.
"As I was saying, while I'm sure it would be difficult to build I will pay you for it. You should obviously realize that if you do agree to build this, you could easily be a very rich man when all of this is over, right? And, if want material to built the thing, you can just use the massive amount of debris that's floating around the planet. That's what it's there for after all."
The Head Engineer thought about it for a few seconds and then asked "How much?"
"Well, how much do you want?"
The Head Engineer thought about again for several minutes and then said "600 billion credits, note that not all of it will go to me, some of it will go to my men and other bits will go to pay other expenses needed to construct this Star Forge."
"Very well then, I'll admit that I won't be able to pay you the entire amount right away, but a can pay you a good starting amount. How does 200 million sound?"
"Fair enough." replied the Head Engineer.
"Great, well then it seems like you've got a lot of work to do."
"Indeed." the Head Engineer sighed.
"By the way, there's a certain problem you will encounter when powering the Star Forge. This will be needed inside power core. Don't open it up before it needs to be placed there." Naruto said while giving the Head Engineer a medium sized package.
The Head Engineer looked at the package in confusion for a bit before nodding his head. Hey, he was being paid 600 billion credits for this; he could handle anything weird that might come up.
While the Head Engineer was trying to figure how to start construction, Naruto pulled out his comlink and spoke "HK, I've got some nobles that need to be taken care of."
4 months later:
The city of Srieadia was once a beautiful city. Back when the Sethelonian Kingdom was first set up and Srieadia was built it was made to look rich and lavish. The architecture was grand and elegant and was once made of fine stone and marble. There had also been many plants throughout the city in order to help make it look clean and beautiful.
However, as the years passed and the Royals grew steep in their corruption, they stopped caring for the city and allowed it along with much of the Kingdom to fall into ruin. They sucked Srieadia's wealth dry and made it a ruin of what it once was. Now most of the people there lived in squalor with only the nobles who were on the same planet living in any sort of luxury. The nobles didn't live in the city but 12 miles away from it in a rich and enclosed mini village.
A young woman who was trying to be discrete and walk back to her home as quickly as possible wasn't discrete enough and several guys noticed that she had her hands and part of her arms hidden. They immediately mobbed her and grabbed all the bread she had on her. The woman tried her best to hold on to some of the loaves but the men were merciless when it came to food. They left her with nothing by the end of it. No one tried to stop it as several others were hoping to mob the men and take the bread which they had stolen.
A small boy watched all of this with disgust. He hated what everyone was forced to do in order to survive, but that was how life worked around here. The Kingdom had sucked the place dry and anything that wasn't taken by the Royals was quickly devoured by a populace desperate to survive. In this type of world there was no looking out for anyone but yourself. He had learned that the hard way when his little sister whom he had always taken care of had stabbed him in the back, figuratively of course. In the end he was alone though, his little sister more than likely dead, she might have known how to use someone else's misfortune to their advantage but she most defiantly hadn't known how to continuously gain supplies to keep yourself alive. Basically she couldn't steal worth shit.
The endless suffering of the people of the city and planet Srieadia were just perfect examples of the near collapse that the Sethelonian Kingdom was about to come to. A major reason why the Sethelonian Kingdom hadn't collapsed completely already was because of the Royal Guard which was keeping order in its barest minimum just so it could hold on to the power it possessed and the military which even though was only a shadow of what it was at the height of Sethelonian power was still strong enough to defend its borders and instill at least a semblance of safety in some places.
As the small boy walked through the decaying city he wished that one day someone, or something would come a save them all from this wretched existence that they were forced to endure. Alas, if wishes were horses; beggars would ride as the saying went.
While the small boy sat down and began to contemplate what he was going to do for his next meal, he didn't notice how a large amount of people were running towards the town square. It was only when the smell of food hit his nostrils that he came out of his thoughts and looked in the direction that the smell came from. Curious as to why someone would actually be cooking food in broad daylight in a place like this the boy went towards the smell. He however did so secretly, always keeping to the shadows and trying to remain hidden just in case this was a trap of some sort. This meant that it took him longer to get to the town square, but once he did make it he was greeted to one of the most shocking sights he had ever experienced.
There in the middle of the town square were Sethelonian Troopers and they were cooking and distributing food! The small boy was only able to look on in shock. The military was distributing food to…well everyone. The boy saw dozens of loaves of bread being given away, soups and such being served in bowels, and many meats that were being cooked and served to people.
The soldiers had organized everyone into neat and orderly lines in order to make things easier. They had also warned no roughhousing or trying to cut in line, saying that there was plenty of food for everyone to share. While it was hard for some people, they obeyed if for no other reason than they were being given free food. It also may have had something to do with the fact that the soldiers were still wearing their blasters, but oh well.
As the people ate the boy watched them with jealous eyes. He was still hiding and had yet to decide if this was a trap or not. However the choice was soon taken away from him when a blond haired man with blue eyes, whisker marks, and a scar going down his left eye noticed him and smiled at him. A few of the soldiers saw where the man was looking at and found the little boy hiding behind rubble.
One of the soldiers went to go and get him out. While the soldier was approaching him, the small boy was cursing himself for getting discovered so soon. He had wanted to look around a bit more and determine whether or not these men were to be trusted.
As the soldier got him out and began leading him towards the food line he was stopped by the blond haired man. The soldier then left the both of them and the blond haired man got down to eye level with the boy.
"Well now, I do wonder why someone as young as yourself seems to be all alone. Don't you have any parents?" the blonde man asked.
Normally, the small boy would have just told anyone else who'd ask that that it was none of their business. Yet, something about this man made him want to tell. It went against all of his principles of safety to tell this man anything, yet once he started he couldn't stop. Maybe it was his kind eyes, or that strong but soft look the man had about him, but the boy felt that he could trust this man.
Naruto listened to the boy and his life story. He was somewhat sympathetic to the boy, having experienced very similar hardships at his age, with the only difference being this boy had a family at the time. Once Naruto knew the boy was done he had several soldiers bring a plate filled with food.
When the plate was handed over to the boy he looked at it with wonder. There were plenty of foods he had never seen in his entire life. The most he had ever seen was bread, a few meats, sparse vegetables, and almost no fruits. He didn't even want to think about the dairy products. Yet on the plate there was a big juicy steak, mashed potatoes with cheese and butter, a healthy amount of green beans, and a few exotic looking fruits.
The boy could find no words to describe what was before him. All he could do was look up at the man who had given him this treasure. Naruto looked at the boy and smiled while saying to go ahead and eat.
The boy tore into the food with wild abandon. He didn't really have any sense of manners and only slowed his pace when he felt the blonde haired man looking at him. The boy had decency to blush and began to eat at a slower pace. As he was eating Naruto left and began walking towards a stage that had been set up.
Once he reached the stage he looked around and made sure that everyone had gotten something to eat.
Once he had made sure of that he cleared his throat and spoke in a booming voice "Attention people of Srieadea, I hope you have all enjoyed this little feast I've prepared for you." He received many nods of appreciation, indicating how they felt.
"Any who, the reason I have done all of this is because I can no longer stand by and watch as you suffer in poverty. Tell me, how many of you have been able to eat a full meal like the one I just gave you in the past?" Unsurprisingly, not a single hand went up.
"How many of you have a nice comfy house to live in, beds to sleep in, water to bathe in?" Again, not s single hand went up into the air.
"These are some basic necessities that all of you should have, that you shouldn't need to fight for. But instead you are denied these things, they are striped from you, taken just so that they may appease the greed of those who have forgotten their duties to their people. Those people are you, and those who should be looking out for you are the Royal's! But instead they just steal from you every last bit of wealth and property that you have until nothing is left. And they do this all to feed their endless greed. They care not for the people they are responsible for, they have abandoned you, left you for the dogs!"
By now many people were yelling out their agreements, anger slowly consuming them.
"My name is Xion, and I am the Advisor to the King. However, I have seen how deplorable the King truly is. He and his children are all fat and lazy slobs who seek only to appease their own wants and needs. I may work for the Royals, but I have no love for them. I instead care for you, I care for those of you who are now suffering through no fault of your own. When I look upon this city and her people I see the splendor that has been destroyed. I see lives that are ruined, families ripped apart by circumstance, and it puts me through agony. I love the people of this Kingdom, and I want to see them happy again, I want to see them prosper like never before and become strong so that all may live in peace and harmony!"
The way Naruto was speaking with such sincerity in his voice was causing many people to believe him.
"However, this will never happen as long as the Royals continue to exist. Their taint will continue to corrupt all that is good in this galaxy as long as they live. Every last one of them must die! But first, we must start with their support, we must take that away in order for their fall to become a reality! And let me tell you, their support is naught but 12 miles away from here. The nobles who live in their walled off settlement think themselves better than all of you all due to the fortune of their birth. I say we go to their little village and slaughter them. Make them pay for their own sins, for it is doubtless that they have stolen from you as well. Let us go and teach them a lesson in suffering!"
Now the crowd was opening cheering for Xion while many were grabbing any sort of weapon they could find. At once the march to the nobles walled off village began. Naruto was not too worried about the guards there, for they were minimal at best and were far outnumbered by the angry mob that was about to descend on the village.
Once they arrived it wasn't long before a battle started between the nobles' guards and the people of the city. Naruto had made things easier for the mob by hacking one of the gates and opening it wide, allowing the populace to spill forth into the village. Things quickly took a turn for the worst for the nobles who were now trapped within their homes, merely awaiting their slaughter. Their guards tried their best to defend them but they were either killed or some realized the hopelessness of the situation and tried to flee instead.
It wasn't long until the entire village of nobles was cleansed of her previous inhabitants. Those who were lucky enough to escape the slaughter found themselves being rounded up by the Sethelonian Troops and taken captive.
The entire village was raided for any riches it possessed and its food supplies were taken for all the people to use.
Naruto smiled as he saw these events. Everything was going the exact way he wanted it too, and it was also happening on many planets similar to Srieadia. Food Drives and Recruitment Programs were being set up on many planets that were either under his governorship or were extremely poor. If those organized events just so happened to produce mass riots like this then all the better. It wasn't like he didn't have enemies whom he could shift the blame to if necessary.
The Great Fire of Srieadia is what the massacre of the Nobility there was called. Naruto had manipulated the information so that the rest of the Nobility and Royals thought it was just a tragic accident that took the lives of valued members of their society.
Naruto scoffed at the title. The event hadn't even happened at the city and yet they were acting as if this was some sort of great loss for the place.
Now with more of the nobility dead, Naruto gained even more power even though he kept up the appearance of giving it away to other people.
Another bit of good news was his relationship with the King. Naruto had been using the Force to make the King dependant on his advice by supplanting his mind and constantly filling it with uncertainty and indecisiveness. He then made them go away only when the King listened to him, thus making it seem as though Naruto was his only source of strength and wisdom. With the King growing more reliant on him, other aspects of the Kingdom were also falling under his control.
However, this hadn't gone unnoticed. By this point people were starting to notice how close he had gotten to the King, and in such a short amount of time too. This was earning him the ire of many of the more powerful nobles while the weaker ones were hoping to get into his good graces. Certain members of the Royal Family was just plain worried about his growing closeness to the king. Those people however were kept in check by Sythan who was starting to become a very useful tool.
Sythan had annihilated the pirates that were plaguing the Sethelonian trade routes like Naruto had wanted. Sythan had received a reputation boost amongst the Nobility and Royals not a part of the plan while Naruto made the pirate defeat public knowledge, but gave credit to the Sethelonian Commander who served directly under Sythan. The Sethelonian Commander worked for Naruto and was constantly reporting to him about Sythan's activities so that Naruto would know if Sythan was suspicious of him or not.
So far, all Sythan seemed to think was that Naruto was useful in allowing his goals to be accomplished.
As for the Nobility, they were being picked off at a slow pace. Naruto would have liked to up the pace a bit but opted instead for waiting for while. So far, the deaths of most of the Nobility was because of the Great Fire. However, an increasing amount of deaths were being caused by HK. While the Nobility had started to notice the increasing amount of deaths among their ranks only a few of them were truly worried about it as the deaths that weren't a part of the fire were caused by tragic accidents that could have been avoided had some common sense been used.
There was no evidence that pointed to assassination, and while some of the more paranoid nobles were trying to secretly investigate the deaths, no one was able to figure out the truth behind them.
The Military and its growing support for Naruto was easily the most important factor in his plans, and he was happy to say that part was proceeding with only minor problems. Much of the Military was now on his side and most of the skeptics had been 'convinced' by Naruto personally to join him. A majority of the military was on his side now and those that weren't would be dealt with when the time was right.
The Royal Guard was another problem that Naruto felt he was handling well. A month or two back he had started replacing the members of the Royal Guard who guarded the palace with Sethelonian Troopers. At first he had done it in areas of the palace that no one was going to bother caring about. Then he had slowly started replacing the Royal Guards in more important areas until before anyone realized it, Sethelonian Troopers had taken on the burden of guarding the palace.
People were of course wondering why Sethelonian Troopers were doing what should have been the Royal Guard's job and Naruto had come up with an excellent way to deal with that problem. Naruto had gone directly to the King and advised him on the usefulness of the Royal Guard, saying that it was too important to be used for merely guarding the palace. The King agreed and upon Naruto's advice began sending them to problem areas that were being handled by Sethelonian Troopers. Or rather, that's what Naruto had the King believing, in reality he was just sending them to their deaths. The coordinates for those problem areas were really just hazardous areas of space like black holes.
For those who were actually sent to problem areas, they were always killed off there by the soldiers or if there was an actual problem then they were killed by it. While this started to decrease the numbers of the Royal Guard, it was happening at a slower pace than Naruto would have liked. However, since this was just to start weakening the Royal Guard he was able to live with it.
The Royal Guard was mad that their members were getting killed off but didn't protest as the King was in agreement with Naruto over sending them out.
While Naruto thought on how to continue with his plans, Thrawn came up behind him and gained his attention with an 'ahem'.
"Yes Thrawn?"
"I've received important info you might want to hear. It looks like the King has had a heart attack." Thrawn replied.
Upon hearing this, Naruto worried about the King's fate. The King was still needed by Naruto as he was protected from most investigation by acting with the King's authority. If the King died then that would put a dent in his plans. It wasn't as if he couldn't just control Sythan like the King, but it would be harder and he already had control of the King so he'd rather the King be alive than dead. After all, Naruto would rather have the decision of when the King died be up to him.
"So, tell me; is he alive?" Naruto asked in a low voice.
"Yes, he is; but I think that heart attack might have done a bit too much still. It seems as if his body is slowly starting to fail based on his medical reports."
"I see, this won't put much of a dent in our plans; I'll be able to keep him alive long enough."
"Well, with that problem out of the way there's another issue to tell you about. The soldiers over at Reaper's End have joined us. The Warden however is a firm supporter of the Royal's however. We'll have to get rid of him if we want to take over the prison. The Warden's Assistant is on our side though, so we'll probably want to have him head the prison when the Warden is dead." Thrawn advised.
Reaper's End was a large space station that served as a prison. It housed only the Sethelonian Kingdom's worst criminals. Beings who were so foul that only the Royal's themselves actual matched them in foulness were held in that place, and the soldiers there often had to use horrid methods in order to keep control of the prisoners. Though in retrospect, most of the men there weren't guilty about using said horrid methods to keep the prisoners in check. These were horrible beings that in their eyes were just having karma come and bite them in the ass.
"I'll take care of the Warden myself. Besides I'm going to visit the prison myself anyways. There's a prisoner that I want out. Tell me, have you ever heard of Koga Kuchiki?" Naruto said.
Thrawn replied "Yes, apparently a few centuries ago he was a Lieutenant who discovered how to use magic or the Force as I would assume it was what he actually discovered."
"Correct, Koga had discovered how to use the Force when he was surrounded by slavers that were going to capture him. Once he discovered the Force he began using it to aid the Sethelonian Kingdom in its defense against the criminal cartel known as the Shadow Syndicate. The Royal Family heard about his powers of course and while some feared that he would take over the Kingdom and return them to the rule of the mages, others like the King knew the truth about his powers and refused to let him learn the truth about his powers."
"So it was decided that they would let Koga take care of the Shadow Syndicate, and once they were eliminated the Royals betrayed Koga. They had him arrested and locked up like a criminal. They silenced anyone who dared speak out against their treatment of him. As for Koga's imprisonment, they had him sealed with frozen carbonite and placed in Reaper's End. He has his own special room that's all just for him. And to this day, all who do hear about Kuchiki Koga generally hear the tale developed by the Royals; which is one that spins him up as an evil villain who was trying to destroy the peace that the Royals were 'trying so hard to keep.'" Naruto finished.
Thrawn was stunned for a few moments after hearing about how Koga was treated. 'He was betrayed, and right after he served them all so faithfully. How did such scum ever become leaders of a nation!'
Naruto could feel that Thrawn had his sympathy for Koga. It truly was sad that he had suffered the fate that had befallen him. As for how Naruto had discovered about Koga Kuchiki, well it was due to the help of history logs and Flow-Walking. As for Thrawn knowing the bits he knew before Naruto explained everything to him, well he never trusted the Royals after they screwed him over so he did his own investigation about anything the Royals did say and had managed to come out with that tidbit of info.
"Well it looks like Koga has gained your sympathy." Naruto said, startling Thrawn out of his thoughts.
"However, I would advise you to not let your sympathy cloud your judgment of him once you two finally come face to face. Remember, he has had many years to foster his hatred, and with the Force his fury makes him all too dangerous. He'll be a loose cannon, especially when he first wakes from his imprisonment." Naruto warned.
Thrawn nodded his head in understanding, he was no fool.
A transport ship came out of hyperspace and flew towards the prison station that was Reaper's End. It was an extremely large and terrifying construct, built with the style that only Sith Lords could appreciate. The prison was guarded by five Sith Interdictors which were there to make sure that in the event any prisoner did manage to escape onto a shuttle, that the shuttle did not escape.
Once the transport entered the hanger bay the Warden and several others came out to greet their new guests. The soldiers lined up and stood at attention while the Warden, his assistant, and a few others stood waiting for their guest to come out.
Soon enough the transport doors opened themselves and Naruto walked out followed by Thrawn and Kaemon.
The Warden who was a male Twi'lek spoke "Ah, welcome Advisor Xion. It's a pleasure to receive a member of the Royal Court."
Naruto, smiling, nodded his head and spoke "Oh please, the pleasure is all mine. To be able to come and see this fine example of Royal Order is simply invigorating."
"Ah, too true, to see the enemies of the Royalty punished in such sever manners brings joy to my heart. But tell me, why do you have a boy and an officer from the military here with you?" the Warden asked.
"Well, the boy is learning from me while the officer is hear on an inspection of the facility. You know, just to make sure that those tax credits are being put to good use." Naruto explained.
The Warden nodded his head in understanding "Well, I can assure you that all the money that is used on this prison is used for a very good reason. We do not squander those credits that the Royals have so graciously given us at all. But, you can see for yourself if you are unsure.
Naruto nodded his head in fake appreciation and walked along with the Warden and his small entourage as he gave the tour.
As he was being shown around Naruto looked towards the Warden's assistant who looked back at him and gave him a knowing look. Both of them nodded and Naruto spoke up "Well Warden, I believe its time I make known my real reason for coming here." he interrupted.
At the Warden's confused look, Naruto explained "You see, I am here for the release of a specific prisoner."
"R-Release? A-Are you mad! Do you know what some of these people in here have done? You can't possibly mean to actually free one of these wretched monsters!" the Warden said with shock.
"You're right, I don't intend to release anyone of these criminals. You see the person I'm here to release isn't a criminal at all. In fact, he's quite innocent of any law breaking." At the Warden's skeptical look Naruto came outright and said it.
"I'm here to release Koga Kuchiki."
"W-Who?" the Warden said with shock and a bit of fear.
Naruto gained what could only be described as a terrifying smirk. "Oh, you heard me, I'm here to release Koga Kuchiki. And you will lead me to his prison."
"I-I don't know what you're ta-Oh screw this, tell me what you want with Koga and your sentence might just be les-aaarrrggghhhh!" The Warden at first was afraid after hearing Koga's name but that period of fear only lasted for a little while until he regained his confidence. However, Naruto had at that same moment decided that the Warden had outlived his usefulness which wasn't much to begin with.
The Warden felt a sharp, burning pain erupt from his chest and when he looked down he saw a red beam of light going right into his chest burning a hole into it. The last thing the Warden felt was the sensation of having something being pulled out of himself before he fell to the ground dead.
With him gone his assistant immediately saluted Naruto and responded "I'm afraid I don't know where Koga Kuchiki's cell is. I would assume that only a select few like the Warden were ever informed. However, we should be able to find out Koga's location if we look through the prisons schematics. Access to the schematics should be on the Warden's person."
The assistant's name was Zrthurm and he was a human male with brown hair and blue eyes. He looked to be 34 or close to age. After he was done speaking he then went over to the Warden's body and began searching it for the access codes needed to look at the schematics. Once those were found it wasn't too much trouble for them to find Koga's prison cell which could be more accurately described as a prison ball room. Seriously, the place was friggen huge for imprisoning one guy, even if they did have Force powers.
"Well Zrthurm, or should I say Warden, it's been a pleasure to meet you and I do thank you for your cooperation." Naruto said.
"Please, the pleasure is mine; just make sure you get every last one of those goddamn Royals and we're even." Zrthurm responded.
"But of course." Naruto ended before going off in the direction of Koga's cell taking Thrawn and Kaemon with him along with a group of soldiers.
Zrthurm then turned to several soldiers and spoke out with authority "Alright, listen here all of you! The previous Warden died due to a blaster malfunction. Is that clear?"
After getting a chorus of "Sir, yes sir!" Zrthurm said "Alright, now someone get rid of this body, we don't want word getting out!"
While Zrthurm was giving out orders, Naruto had found and entered Koga's prison. He had troops surround the place where Koga would eventually appear. Koga was located in an underground part of the room.
Naruto went up to the console that controlled the systems keeping Koga locked up and entered in the codes needed to unlock them and begin reversing the process.
In the center of the room the floor opened up and a platform started to rise. This platform had a large shape that was blasted with frozen carbonite. Out of the walls came four blaster looking mechanisms that began to spray the mass with a solution that slowly began to melt the carbonite. As the carbonite melted away it revealed features of the person trapped within. The most noticeable were the giant canisters that Koga's hands were trapped inside. Koga himself was in a bowed position as though he were repentant about something.
Once all the carbonite was gone, Koga remained unresponsive for a few minutes before he gave a deep breath that was made all the deeper with the filter on his mouth. Slowly he began to move, his head rising to look at them all.
As he looked at them, everyone got a good look at his face. It had aged considerably and now looked like it belonged to an old man. And his eyes had become a sulfuric-yellow with red outlining them and blood vessels seen in the sclera. His arms which had no clothing on them were also noticed and they had a ancient look to them. They still had their muscled look, but the skin had gone pale and purplish and it had also tightened up around the arms.
Slowly, Koga tried to move his arms making the canisters they were attached to go up and down as he moved. Then, Koga slowly put his strength into pulling out his arms from the canisters causing the metal to groan in protest. The canisters then began to go up as Koga increased his strength and pulled, his groans of struggle coming out through the filter in a mechanized voice creeping out all the soldiers inside.
As he finally pulled the canisters free from their attachment to the platform their bottom was revealed to be giant balls that were connected electromagnetically to their emplacements. Koga then lifted up one of his arms to the shock of the soldier, most of which were still trying to get over the fact that he lifted the canisters out of their emplacements.
Naruto who was watching all of this with an impassionate eye looked on as Koga used the Force and crushed the canister that was on his right arm. It fell off with a clunk as it hit the floor. Next went the canister on the left arm as it too was crushed. Once his arms were free Koga ripped the filter off of his face and threw it aside.
He then took a deep breath and looked at everyone and gave a small smirk when most of the soldiers raised their blasters at him.
"So, I see that the Royals have finally seen fit to release me. That must be the only reason why I'm out of my little prison. Right?" Koga said.
"The Royals are not to thank for your release, that is entirely my doing. You see, I have heard of your prowess and have decided to have you work for me now." Naruto answered.
"Hah, you think I'll bow down to you? You know nothing of power. My long years of imprisonment may have dulled my body, but that doesn't matter at all. My abilities go far beyond mere physical limitations. I think I'll show you what I mean." Koga smirked and grabbed out with the Force, reeling in two troopers and smashing them together hard.
A crack could be heard as the two men crashed into each other. This was more than enough for the rest of the troops to begin firing at Koga. Naruto did nothing to stop them and Kaemon watched curiously as Koga began slaughtering the Sethelonian Troopers.
Thrawn winced from behind a protected room as he watched through a one way window as one of the soldiers was killed with a brutal slam onto the ground. Naruto had ordered him to stay in their and simply watch the events go on. He didn't know why, but he had to admit he was rather glad he was in here.
Koga was getting tired of simply killing men one at a time so he decided to go and end this. He started gathering a large amount of Force Energy and at the same time created a shield of it to protect himself from the blaster bolts.
Once he was done he unleashed it all in a powerful Force Repulse that disintegrated all of the soldiers in the room, pushed Kaemon far back, and had no effect on Naruto save for making his half-cape flutter. It also caused extensive damage to the room as cracks could be seen all over along with scorch marks, and several of the lights had been destroyed as well.
Koga smirked and said "So now do you fear me, well I wouldn't blame you. But not to worr-HEY ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING TO ME?"
Indeed, Naruto wasn't paying attention to him at all, instead he was sitting down going over designs for new ships that he found interesting.
When Koga had yelled Naruto's attention was finally gained, although it might have been better if it wasn't "Hm, you say something?" was his reply.
Enraged, Koga immediately attempted to blast Naruto with a Force Push. Naruto countered without much effort using a Force Push of his own. When the two powers met, Naruto's easily overpowered Koga's and continued going straight towards him. Having not expected to have had his attack overpowered Koga had no defense.
He was flung back so far he hit the wall on the other side of the room. With a clang signaling that Koga hit the wall, Naruto got up and began walking towards him at a leisurely pace.
Koga was breathing hard having had the wind knocked out of him with that attack. When he finally recovered enough to stand up he was greeted to the sight of Naruto standing before him. The look Naruto gave him was one of obvious superiority. That made Koga furious; looking somewhat to the side, Koga noticed the canisters that were laying on the ground. Trying to pick them up unnoticed he failed to realize the amused look Naruto was giving him.
When he flung the canisters over, Naruto stopped them before they hit his head and flung them away. Koga then disappeared from his current spot and reappeared right in front of Naruto having used the Force to drastically increase his speed. Koga then launched a punch aimed directly at Naruto's head and right when it was about to connect, Naruto caught the fist with his hand.
Shock entered Koga's face as he had thought that Naruto would have been caught off guard. Naruto then gave his own punch to Koga's face and followed up with a kick that sent Koga several feet in the air. Koga learned one very important thing about Naruto that day, when Naruto hits, he hits hard.
Coming back down due to the laws of gravity or artificial gravity in this case, Koga landed a few feet away from Naruto.
Naruto then picked him up with the Force and began a brutal cycle of slamming him repeatedly into the walls. When Naruto felt that had lost its appeal he decided to end things the only way a Sith Lord can. With extremely powerful and probably unnecessary doses of deadly Force Lightning.
As Koga screamed from having lighting poured into his body, Naruto cut of the stream of lighting soon enough as he was trying to take Koga alive.
Koga was lying on the ground, a bit of smoke coming from his slightly singed flesh.
Naruto crouched down and whispered into his ear "Well now, I do hope you can see the futility of continued resistance. So, will you join me or not?"
Koga glared at Naruto but in the end he gave in and said in a quiet voice "I'll join."
"Hm, can you repeat that; don't think I heard you?" Naruto said mockingly.
"I said I'll join you!" Koga grimanced as he said the words, hating that he was forced to pledge allegince to someone else again but did it anyways out of self preservation.
"Good, now why don't you stand up. Laying on the ground doesn't look good ya know." said Naruto.
Kaemon was only able to look on in amazement at his master due to how easily he dispatched Koga. He wondered just how powerful he would need to become in order to do what his master had done. He knew he would never become as powerful as his master but that didn't mean that he wouldn't be able to do what Naruto had just done. Granted he would need a lot more experience, but hey; for now he could dream.
"Well my young apprentice, I hope you enjoyed that display of power. Now you've seen a battle between two Force wielders, you know what you will one day have to accomplish." said Naruto.
Kaemon nodded and followed his master out. As Naruto was leaving he reached into a pocket and pulled out a long cylinder object. He then threw it to Koga who was getting up from his abuse.
Koga was a bit surprised by the object but was still able to catch it. He looked at Naruto's retreating back with confusion and heard him say "Consider it a gift for having picked the smart choice and joined the winning team."
Koga looked back at the object and saw two buttons, one close to each edge. Not having much of an option in figuring things out Koga pressed both the buttons and watched amazed a beams of red light came out of both ends revealing the object to be a double-bladed lightsaber.
Koga smirked, he may not like his new master; but at least he gave his servants useful gifts.
Thrawn anxiously bit into an appetizer as he looked around at the party going on before him inside the Royal Palace. In all reality he really didn't want to be here. This party was in celebration of Second Prince Benarce's Birthday, a day that should hardly be celebrated in Thrawn's opinion.
He had taken several of his pills in order to help control himself and Thrawn felt that they were the only thing stopping him from going crazy and killing Benarce. 'Calm down Thrawn, you'll get your chance, only a little while longer until they all get what's coming to them.' Thrawn thought to himself.
Naruto looked around with distaste. Everything looked amazing, of that there was no doubt but the fact that every single decoration and spark of celebration was all for a horrid monster. This made everything look wretched and disgusting in his eyes.
Naruto sipped a beverage while he waited for his cohorts to arrive. The party was being used by Naruto as nothing more than a convenient cover up for all of his important military officials to meet together to discuss and finalize plans.
Once all of Naruto's men had arrived, Naruto activated a signal on comlinks that each one of them had been given by him personally. Every official looked at their comlink discretely and began to make their way towards the meeting place. The fact that all the military personal was leaving the party didn't went unnoticed by all save one.
Waylen, Head of the Royal Guard saw all of them leaving at the same time and was curious as to where they were all going. He blended himself into the crowd and followed an official that he was close to. The official tried to make sure that no one followed him but was unable to spot Waylen.
Once everyone had gathered in the meeting place which was just a conference room in the palace that wasn't being used, Naruto began the meeting already aware of his uninvited guest.
"Gentlemen, I believe you all know why we're here; so let's get straight to business. General Skyrec, will we have enough troops ready for both the Free Kingdoms and the Royal Guard HQ?" asked Naruto.
"I admit there have been some difficulties, especially with falsifying the recruitment reports but we will have our troops on schedule, of that you may have no doubt of." responded General Skyrec.
"Good, and what about the increased building of warships. Has anyone noticed?" asked Naruto.
"Not yet my lord, though I don't think we'll be able to keep that a secret for much longer. After, only so much money can be taken from the Royal taxes before even they start to notice." responded Captain Adrel.
Naruto nodded in agreement but said "Well, we won't be worrying about that for much longer if everything goes as planned."
With that he continued to go over plans and ask how operations were doing and assign new ones. Waylen who had been outside the room using a device that picked up sound waves had been listening to the entire conversation. 'Those goddamn bloodsucking traitors! I round up every last one of them, now to go get reinforcements.'
However, right before Waylen could leave he was tapped on the back. Waylen turned around to look at them and was about to chase them away when he saw that they were Sethelonian Commandos. Before he could do anything against them the last thing he ended up seeing was a boot in front of his face before his world turned dark.
"My lord, we've captured the little rat. And it turns out that it's none other than the head of the Royal Guard." one of the commandos replied into a comlink.
"Good work, bring him over to the coordinates that you'll be receiving." Naruto ordered.
"Yes my lord."
Endgame:
Royal Guard member John White stared nervously out at the city where smoke could be seen coming from the fires that had been caused by their artillery bombardment. This city was the capital of the Grinshi Kingdom, a member of the Free Kingdoms. Their invasion had caught the Free Kingdom's by surprise as they hadn't had to deal with outside threats for a thousand years. Most fell quickly enough, but those that stayed proved to be more difficult to take.
The Free Kingdoms were a collection of space-faring kingdoms which had at one time been a part of the Sethelonian Kingdom but had long since freed themselves of their control. The Sethelonian Kingdom controlled the entire southeastern part of the northwestern galaxy and was the largest space-faring civilization in the northwestern galaxy. The territory that the Free Kingdoms encompassed was abysmal when compared to the Sethelonian Kingdom but it was still large enough that it prevented the Kingdom from reaching into the rest of the northwestern galaxy. The Free Kingdoms was pretty much just used as a border for the larger civilizations in the northwestern sector of the galaxy. It surrounded the Sethelonian Kingdom and cut it off from the Turian Hierarchy which controlled the northeastern and the Salarian Union which controlled the southwestern parts of the northwestern galaxy(2).
Naruto wanted the Free Kingdoms conquered and he wanted them conquered fast. A major reason as to why the Free Kingdoms had been able to remain free for so long was because of the fact that every time someone tried to conquer them they always managed to put their differences aside and unite to face a common foe. They fought viciously enough that most enemies felt that it wasn't worth all the effort needed to win such a small amount of territory. This time however, there would be no retreat for the Sethelonians; Naruto needed to get the Free Kingdoms under his control and there was nothing that would stop him.
And now the Free Kingdoms were weaker than ever before. A thousand years of fighting each other hadn't seen wonders for the many Kingdoms there. Most were severely weakened and simply didn't have the resources to combat the far greater and fresher Sethelonain Troops.
Now, back to John White.
As John White continued to look out he thought about the position he and his fellow Royal Gaurdsmen were in. The King's Advisor Xion had sent a great many of their number over to the front lines. Xion had claimed that it was because they were a better quality of troops and that their skills would be vital for victory but John wasn't so sure about that. After all, what was wrong with just having the regular troops come out here to die? Why did they have to be sent out here anyways!
'Guess there's no use complaining about it now." John thought miserably to himself.
"Hey, John get ready we're about to charge the city, and all Royal Guard members are going to be attacking the main gate!" one of John's fellow guardsmen said.
"Isn't that where the Grinshi's defense has been impenetrable so far?" John asked panicked.
"Yeah, it is, but orders are orders." replied the guardsmen.
He may have gone insane from the panic, but John was pretty sure that someone in the higher ups was defiantly trying to kill them all.
Thrace looked around worriedly at the throne room. For sitting on the King's throne was Xion himself. He was going through most of the responsibilities of the King while the actual King was sick. The King's health was failing and while it was kept as quiet as possible to the public, everyone inside the palace knew.
Another thing that worried Thrace was all the regular soldiers that were in the palace now. At first he hadn't noticed it but slowly he began to see amount of regular troops replacing the Royal Guard while they were sent to the front lines. Every day Thrace saw less and less members of the guard within the city and it wasn't a comforting sight. They were supposed to be the ones protecting the Royals while the regular troops went out to fight not the other way around!
Every day he heard about more and more about Guard members being killed. And there wasn't anything he could do as while Xion was killing members of the Guard indirectly he was doing so on the authority of the King. Also, everyone wondered where Waylen had disappeared. No one had seen him after the Benarce's birthday party. Xion had said that Waylen had decided to take a long vacation, and while most people seemed to buy the story, those who didn't had accused Xion of his disappearance as he was the only one with an explanation. Of course without solid proof, most of these accusations were just laughed at by Xion, and personal assurances from Sythan that Xion had nothing to do with Waylen's disappearance shattered most arguments.
The final problem which troubled Thrace was the fact that members of the Royal Family were being sent off to the front lines as well. While they weren't fighting they were still in danger. Xion said that it was to increase the moral of the troops and no one was willing to argue with him.
It made Thrace mad to know this but he kept his mouth shut. He realized that saying anything could get him into a large amount of trouble and he still wanted to be able to protect Bethany. As he was leaving the throne room he saw Bethany who was outside the throne room with a worried look on her face.
"Princess what's wrong?" Thrace asked concerned.
"Oh Thrace, I'm worried about father. I've tried to check up on him but the guards Xion has posted won't let anyone save for the doctors and him in. I've tried asking some of the others around the palace but most of what I'm told is what I've already heard. And all of it sounds horrible. If father really does die then what'll happen to the Kingdom?" Bethany asked worriedly.
Thrace sighed and answered as best as he could "I'm sorry, but if it really does come down to the King dying then it'll be Sythan who takes control. And if that happens, well in all honesty I don't see how things could get worse my lady." Thrace said bluntly.
At Bethany's confused look, Thrace decided to take her somewhere private in order to explain things without getting in trouble.
"Well, my lady; I'm afraid that as offensive as it may seem, the Royal Family hasn't exactly been taking care of the Kingdom. I tru-"
"I know that Thrace, you don't need to coddle me on that fact. Or are you forgetting all the times I've snuck out?" Bethany interrupted causing Thrace to smile sheepishly.
"My apologies my lady. Now, back to how things wouldn't be different, well with your father as the King right now, the people are suffering in poverty. Most of the money is just spent or hoarded up by the Royal Family with just barely enough left to keep the economy running. If Sythan were to take the throne the only real difference would be in where the money was going to be spent. Sythan would want all of it going into the military without beefing up anything else. It may fix a few problems at first but Sythan wouldn't really think about the support that is needed for the army to keep running. It grow bigger and bigger and then collap-actually now that I think about it, we'll be in worse hands if Sythan does takes over." Thrace said somewhat embarrassed, correcting his earlier statement.
Bethany giggled at Thrace who was rubbing his head and smiling sheepishly.
"It's just too bad that you weren't born first Bethany, then you'd be the one inheriting the Kingdom. I know that with you at its head, the Sethelonian Kingdom would prosper like it did back in the elder days." Thrace said.
"Oh, now you're just saying things. I probably wouldn't make much of a good ruler anyhow. After all it isn't as if I actually know how to run the Kingdom. All I'd do is mess everything up." Bethany said sadly.
"That isn't true Bethany!" Thrace disagreed. "You have a genuine desire to help the people of the Kingdom and I feel that if you were to take the throne then you could solve a majority of the problems by yourself. After all, most of the problems you already came up with solutions for whenever I asked you about them." Thrace finished.
Bethany's eyes widened when she heard Thrace disagree with her. She smiled and said "Thank you Thrace. It really does mean a lot to know that you think I'd make a good ruler."
"No problem. I really do feel that you'd make the best ruler. Sadly unless Sythan and Benarce die all of a sudden then I'm afraid we're all doomed." Thrace said bitterly.
Bethany sadly nodded her head in agreement. While she tried to see the best in her family she knew that Benarce was a horrid person and that Sythan, while not nearly as demented as Benarce was just far too militaristic to actually care for the Sethelonian people.
"I guess all we can do is hope for a better future." Bethany said solemnly. Thrace just nodded his head in agreement.
The King was breathing heavily, his struggle proof of his failing health, not that one could have called it passable in the first place.
Naruto was beside the King watching with fake sympathy as he was dying. Naruto was cutting off any support that he had given the King through the Force thus causing him to die faster. Naruto watched disgusted as sweat and oil dripped down the King's face and his skin turned into a clammy color. His eyes turned bloodshot and his breathing turned into wheezing gasps signifying that his death was coming closer and closer.
"Xion-pant-. What-pant- what will-pant- happen-pant-once-pant- I am-pant- dead?" the King rasped out, his delirious mind unable to remember.
"Sythan will take over my King. Remember, he's the first prince." Naruto said.
"N-no-pant- Sythan-pant-w-will-pant- not take-pant- over. He's not-pant- suited-pant- B-Bethany-pant- she's-pant- better." The King whispered.
'So the fatass actually has some common sense. Well, too little too late.' "Of course my King, whatever you desire. But first, I'll need the code to get into the Royal Vaults." said Naruto.
"Why?" the King asked.
"Well, surely Bethany doesn't know the codes, and she will need someone to tell you. And sadly enough my King, you won't make it long enough to tell her. So tell me so that Bethany may know of the codes."
"Yes-pant- of course-pant. The code-pant- is 55-pant-673-425-pant-8921-pant." the King said.
"Excellent, now I'm afraid that I no longer have any use for you. Goodbye, you worthless pile of flesh." Naruto smirked and began to drain away any remaining life from the King, killing him.
He then looked at his hands which had some oil on them and wiped them off on the King's robes in disgust. Once Naruto walked out of the room he spoke to one of the guards "Remind me, hasn't furnace been low on fuel as of late?"
The soldier nodded his head and Naruto smiled and said "Well then, use him." he pointed towards the King's body.
Both soldiers nodded their heads in agreement and saluted Naruto.
Naruto quickly made his way over to his private office and activated the comlink calling the commander that was on the Terian Front. The Terian Kingdom was the largest and most powerful amongst the Free Kingdoms and it was the one that Sythan himself was assaulting.
"How goes the assault commander?" Naruto asked.
"It has gone well so far but we are having trouble with the capital city my lord. So far their main gate has yet to fall, but it shouldn't be much longer now." the commander replied.
"Excellent. And what about the Royal Guard troops that accompanied Sythan?"
"Mostly dead my lord. They were some of the first into battle and they went into the most difficult of places. By this point, Sythan is surrounded by mostly our troops. Last I heard he only had five of his Royal Guard with him. And that number must have surely been reduced by now."
"Well, it seems everything has gone according to plan. Good work commander." Naruto finished.
Once the comlink was shut off Naruto looked towards the side where he had a very specific button installed. This button when pressed would send a signal to all troops that would tell them to initiate the coup.
As Naruto looked at the button he thought 'Funny, how something so small as a button will change so many lives. It's nothing more than an insignificant piece of plastic and yet it will lead so many others to their deaths. I wonder, does anyone ever think about how such small actions can have such large consequences?' Remember folks, never underestimate the power of a button.
And with that, Naruto pushed the button sending the signal to all troops and forever changing the face of the galaxy.
(Queue sad star wars music…or happy depending on your point of view)
In the capital city of the Terian Kingdom it was currently raining as the Sethelonian Army continued to try and penetrate the main gate. The rain did nothing to quench the fires that raged on the battlefield as cannon and blaster fire streaked past each other destroying what they hit.
The Sethelonian advance was being lead by a tank which fired several shots at an the main gate finally bringing it down. Just as the tank did so however a Terian defender fired a missile launcher which hit the tank in a vulnerable spot causing the entire thing to go up in flames.
Sythan who was cutting down several Terian soldiers with his vibroblade noticed the main gate fall. He turned back towards his soldiers and motioned them forward. Charging forward, Sythan grew confused when he heard his troops stop suddenly.
He looked back again and saw that they all had their comlinks out and that there was a red light flashing on them. They all took one last look at their comlinks before looking up at Sythan and pointing their blasters at him.
This caused Sythan's confusion to skyrocket and that quickly turned into disbelief when his own soldiers began firing on him!
Sythan's personal shields defended him at first but the fact that the shots were coming in so close and fast combined with the fact that Sythan was only making a half effort to defend himself as he was still in shock was enough to cause the shields to fail and for Sythan to begin taking in baster shots. His armor helped defend him but again repeated shots broke through and soon enough Sythan was dead.
A transport that contained several members of the Royal Family was landing in a hanger bay while the control towers guided it.
There were six men in the control tower. Two of them had both received the signal and looked at each other. They nodded and pulled out their blaster pistols firing on the guys nearest to them. Two men went down and before the other two could do anything they were shot as well.
With both traitors in control of the tower they began to send the wrong directions to the transport. It didn't take long for the transport to start flying out of control and crash into the hanger bay destroying in a ball of fire and killing the Royals.
A Royal Family member was touring the fronts of the war with the Free Kingdoms and was currently heading towards a conquered city on a speeder. He was being escorted by two Sethelonian Troopers that were also on speeders.
Meanwhile back at the main camp the men controlling the artillery cannons pulled out their comlinks to see a red light flashing. Knowing what it meant they contacted the escorts and had them pull back. Afterwards they took aim with their artillery and fired.
The shots hit, blowing apart the speeder and incinerating the Royal.
In outer space three Sith Interdictors escorted a Royal Barge as it planned its descent onto the planet below.
Within the command ship the captain looked at his comlink which had a flashing red light. Calmly he walked up to the command bridge and ordered the operators to open fire upon the barge.
The laser cannons began blasting apart the defenseless barge and it wasn't long before it succumbed to the three warships' fire power.
Within the walls of the palace a slaughter took place as Sethelonian Troopers now turned on the Royals and their allies. Soldiers were killing anyone who was a noble, Royal Guard, or Royal Family. The screams of the Royals could be heard throughout the palace as they begged for their lives or ran away screaming in terror.
Koga sighed blissfully as he swung his lightsaber through two Royal Guards. He may not have been a master when it came to using the lightsaber, especially a double-bladed one, but he knew enough to not let it touch him and that it would cut through most anything it encountered. The Royal Guard's lances and armor were no match for the power of a lightsaber. Continuing with his slaughter, Koga took particular glee when his victims were able to recognize him for who he really was. He enjoyed their horrified faces and put them to memory right before he sliced their heads off.
"Statement: Oh how I enjoy this. I'll have to remember to send master a gift basket if I get the chance." HK-47 said joyfully.
He then fired his shotgun into a group of Royal Guards who were prepared to attack. Afterwards he blasted apart the members of the Royal Family.
"Exclamation: Yes! Die meatbags, die; so that I may gain some entertainment in my often dreary life. Oh, how I wish every day could be like this." HK-47 said, his sociopathic tendencies running amok.
HK then took out a vibroblade and stabbed a fool who had hoped to get past his guard in a bid for freedom. Afterwards HK continued on his trek of death, killing anyone that got in his path except for the men in the sliver armor who Naruto had told him explicitly that he was not to kill much to HK's disappointment.
*Warning: Rape Scene*
Benarce stared hungrily at the woman in front of him. She was quite beautiful with a nice hourglass figure, a sizable bust, and a pretty heart shaped face with green eyes, and two tails coming out of her head signifying she was a Twi'lek. She wore a very minimal amount of clothing and she had nothing covering up her sex. The girl tried her best to get away but the fact that she was trapped in Benarce's room pretty much made the attempt useless.
Benarce grabbed her and forcefully shoved his disgusting cock down her throat. He then began to pump it at an extremely uncorfortable pace causing the girl to choke and gag on his dick. Tears built up in her eyes as she struggled against her captor in vain. Benarce wasn't exactly strong but his massive girth gave him an advantage over his victim who struggled to hurt him in some way.
The Twi'lek girl then bit down hard on his dick causing Benarce to scream with pain and slap her. Once he pulled out of her mouth he stared furiously at her and grabbed her head and slammed it against the wall jarring her.
He then spread her legs apart and forced himself into her pussy. Benarce screamed with pleasure while the girl screamed with pain from having her virgin pussy rammed into and broken apart by that monster.
Benarce enjoyed his victims screams and tried to find more painful ways of raping her in the hopes of hearing her tormented cries grow louder. Benarce loved the feeling of having his victims in pain as it gave him a sense of power over them and everything else.
As Benarce continued to fuck her one of his friends who was also in the room raping a girl looked over at Benarce and said "Man, your sure are a sadist. Don't know why you like hearing them screaming. It's so annoying. Way easier when they just accept it."
"Its-pant- not about-pant- just the sex. Its-pant- about making-pant- it-pant- known-pant- that you're-pant- superior!" Benarce said in between breaths as he continued ravaging the Twi'lek.
The poor girl screamed in pain as Benarce continued thrusting into her pussy and she grew terrified when she heard him say he was cumming. She tried to get him to pull out but Benarce wasn't having any of it. He held her legs tight and made a final push deep inside her before cumming. The Twi'lek cried as she felt his vile liquid go inside her but was unable to do anything else.
"Ahhhhhh" Benarce sighed with pleasure as he ejaculated into the girl. Once he stopped he pushed her off of him and decided to go to another one of his 'wives'.
He looked around and eventually found one of his favorites. Thrawn's sister was before him draped in a sexy garment. She looked for all the world like one of those fancy escort girls that could be hired with what she was wearing (I have no idea what they wear, so don't bother asking!).
*End Rape Scene*
Right as he was about to go for her however banging noises were heard from the door. Both Benarce and his friend looked at each other confused only to become afraid when the door was busted down revealing Sethelonian Troopers who barged in. Benarce's friend was shot immediately while Benarce himself was subjugated to a beating.
"Alright, don't hurt him too bad. Xion wants him alive. He's gonna be Thrawn's play with." The Sethelonian Commando said.
Both soldiers holding Benarce down gained huge smirks at hearing that.
"Wha, what are you doing to me? You can't do this! Do you know who I am. I am the sceo-omph!" Benarce tried to say only to receive the end of a rifle to his head as a reward.
"Fucking shut up you monster. We're taking orders from you or the rest of your inbreed freaks that you call a family."
With that the two soldiers that held Benarce roughly brought him up to his feet and began 'escorting' him over to the 'Correctional Facility' or just torture room.
The commando then looked all over the room and activated his comlink "Hey, send a med group over here stat. Looks like they could really use it."
The commando then left Benarce's room and caught up with a terrified Benarce.
"Ar-are you going to k-kill me?" Benarce asked scared when he saw the slaughter going on inside the palace.
"Oh trust me, when I say that when everything is said and done you will be wishing you were dead." The commando just smiled evilly after that.
Kaemon, dressed up in a dark cloak calmly walked up the stairs leading to the entrance of the Royal Guard Headquarters. He was small and looked smaller still when compared to those following him. For behind him were 50,000 Sethelonian Troopers all marching up towards the building.
Kaemon could still remember his master's words when he sent him off for his first true test.
"Go forth my apprentice, show no mercy. Kill all your emotions. Harness the Darkside of the Force, and master it. Don't let its hatred overcome you. Now, harden your resolve and prove to me that you are worthy of being my apprentice!"
He would kill his emotions, harden his resolve, and show his master that he was worthy!
Now, one might wonder why an entire army was following the lead of a five year old boy. Well that can easily be explained by the fact that the first soldier to question Kaemon was rewarded with getting Force Choked to death. After that, no one dared question him again.
Kaemon immersed himself in the Force and felt its power flow through him, calming him, strengthening him, and energizing him. It wasn't much longer before Kaemon and the first troops entered the building. The confused looks on the Royal Guards changed to ones of horror when Kaemon brought out his lightsaber and lead the charge into battle.
Guardsmen dropped like anvils when Kaemon cut into them. His superior weapon more than made up for his lack of experience. The Guards had no real defenses save for their shields which were bypassed by Kaemon due to his smaller stature. Most were killed before they could do anything, and those who were concentrated on the boy, forgot about the soldiers pouring in and were killed by them.
It wasn't long before the entrance was taken. With it gone, and no alarms having gone off yet, the assault was going well enough. Kaemon then proceeded to enter the ventilation system and make his way towards the control room. The reason why Kaemon was using the vents to get to the control room was because the Royal Guard Headquarters had numerous defenses on the inside with the entrance being the only place without. That's why Kaemon used the vents to head to the control room. Once he reached there he would be able to disable the defenses using the access codes given by Waylen during his interr-I mean torture.
Once Kaemon reached the vent that was in the control room he took the time to look inside and see if enemies were there. There were three guys inside and all of them much to Kaemon's anger weren't even paying attention to the monitors.
'Those men are drunk! What the hell? Granted, this makes my job easier but still. They don't even have enough responsibility to take care of the lives entrusted into their hands. Well, I'll be ending them soon enough.' Kaemon thought.
With that, he kicked open the vent and jumped down surprising the men. He Force Pushed two of them into the walls knocking them out and then he Force Pushed the third guy who had yet to realize what had happened due to his drunken stupor.
Afterwards he brought out is lightsaber and slit all of their throats, ending their lives.
Once that was done Kaemon turned towards the controls and entered in the codes shutting down all Headquarter defenses. He then looked towards the monitors which showed Sethelonian Troopers now moving through the Headquarters near unopposed. Most of the Royal Guard was asleep as it was nighttime and without the defenses there to hound them the soldiers poured into the building at an overwhelming pace.
The killing soon commenced as soldiers got deeper into the Headquarters. Troopers barged into bedrooms and fired on helpless Royal Guardsmen or they caught them while they were hopelessly ill prepared for battle. As the sound of fighting began to ring all throughout the place the Royal Guard finally realized it was under attack, and began to fight back.
'It's hopeless, there's just too many of them!' was the thought of Royal Guard member Varison Clath. Varison had brown hair that went down to his neck, forest green eyes, and an angular face. Dressed up in his armor and wielding his energy shield and blaster lance, Varison was one of the few who was able to fight when they encountered the Sethelonian Troopers.
Now he was fighting a desperate battle, not to win but to escape. Varison had already come to the realization that the Headquarters was lost and was now trying to get out. He knew that from his current position which was the communications room he wasn't too far from the hanger bay.
Varison made his way out into the hallways and began heading towards the hanger bay. He could hear the sounds of fighting going on throughout the building. This place had been his home for as long as he could remember. He had been taken from his parents as a baby and was raised to be loyal to only the Royal Family. This was common with all members of the Royal Guard that weren't nobility. They were often taken from their parents as babies, a practice which was started a thousand years ago by Queen Mariet the Mad and was continued by her successor Endrin the Cruel.
As Varison continued heading towards the hanger he heard the approach of several Troopers.
He hid behind one of the pillars that permeated the hallways and waited for them to pass by. As they were passing Varison hear one of them speaking "Hanger bay has been taken commander. Yes, the explosives have been set. They'll go off in five minutes. Understood sir."
"So, what're our orders sir?" asked one of the Troopers.
"We're to keep guard and ensure that no one gets to the hanger bay before the explosives go off." replied the leader.
"Easy enough." Or rather it would have been had Varison not decided to attack at that moment. The Sethelonian Troopers were caught completely unprepared when Varison unleashed a deadly burst from his blaster lance. Two of them were immediately killed while a third was injured. The other two were lucky enough to escape without injury.
"Wha-what the hell! K-Kill him damnit!" screamed out the injured leader. The other two soldiers began blasting away at Varison trying to kill him however their shots couldn't get through his shield. Varison then charged right at the two forcing them to move out of the way. One of them however tripped while doing so and fell down. Varison took that opportunity and fired on him. Afterwards he quickly brought his shield up in defense while the other trooper fired on him. Varison then entered close combat with the remaining trooper which proved to be a cake walk for him as the trooper had no close combat weapons.
Before he could relax however, Varison was attacked from behind by the injured trooper with a vibroblade. Varison's armor protected him from most of the attack but he still got a nasty jarring from it. Varison turned around and was assaulted with a swing to the head which managed to nick the helmet. Varison responded with a jab from his lance which was avoided and countered with a direct slash to the chest. Varison blocked that with his shield and then grabbed that arm which held the vibroblade and twisted it causing the trooper to cry out in pain while dropping his weapon. Then Varison took his lance and stabbed it into the trooper causing blood to spray out onto the both of them.
With a twist and added spray of blood the lance came out and the trooper fell dead.
Varison then made a mad dash towards the hanger bay, completely disregarding any forms of stealth. It was to his luck that he did not encounter any Sethelonian Troopers on his way there. Once he reached the hanger bay he thought about trying to disable the explosives and save the place.
'Ah screw it, I ain't no demolitions expert. Not like it'd actually help much anyhow.' Varison thought.
He entered into one of the starfighters and took off. As he was leaving the Headquarters he could see that fires had erupted all over the place from the attack. The hanger bay itself soon exploded after he left destroying everything in there and crushing any hope for others to escape.
As he flew away, Varison remembered about Thrace and Bethany. Being one of Thrace's closest friends he knew that the two of them were on the outskirts of the city visiting one of Bethany's aunts who lived outside of the palace.
Varison then decided to turn the ship and warn Thrace and Bethany.
Kaemon entered the cadets quarters and began his search for them. He had been ordered by Xion to kill every cadet over the age of 3. Anyone under this age could be spared if he wished. Soon, Kaemon opened the door which lead into the training halls.
His way however was blocked by a twelve year old boy who looked down at him and said in a voice filled with false bravado "Good, you're here. I assume that means that whatever trouble that's been going on is over. Now, go fetch us some refreshments servant, everyone in here is annoyed with this fiasco and we can all use something to calm us down."
Kaemon was able to other kids behind the twelve year old and decided to begin the slaughter here.
Igniting his golden colored lightsaber, Kaemon looked directly at the boy who blocked his path. The twelve year old shivered in fright at the cold look in Kaemon's eyes. No emotions whatsoever could be found by him. It was just unnatural. Good thing for him he didn't have to think about it for too long as being headless takes all earthly concerns away.
When the boy's boy fell to the ground lifeless and headless the other kids in the room all had differing reactions. Most did the obvious and screamed out in terror while others were put into a state of shock, and a few others immediately went into hiding, with the smallest amount being the ones who decided to try and fight Kaemon.
Of course in the end it was all futile. Kaemon killed them all anyways and there wasn't a single thing they could do about it. Running, hiding, fighting back, none of it helped. All of them died by Kaemon's hand.
As two kids ran from Kaemon, he followed them at a leisurely pace, seeing no reason to hurry. They were dead no matter what they did. As the two kids continued to run they ran right into to Sethelonian Troopers. The troopers were confused as to what kids were doing here and simply watched as they continued running away. When they saw Kaemon walking up to them with his lightsaber on they immediately saluted fearful of what could happen.
"I see you let them get away." Kaemon commented.
"You mean the kids sir?" one of the troopers asked.
Kaemon nodded his head and said "Yes, now go after them and kill them."
Both troopers were shocked. They could kill any one of the Royal Guard members with no question on their conscience no matter what situation their victim was in. Killing children however was another matter altogether.
"B-But sir! They're just kids! What's point in that?" the other trooper asked, shocked.
"Wrong, those are things who have been infected with the ideals of the old order. And it is your duty to eliminate them before they gain the potential to infect others with their beliefs. Or would you like to be the ones to explain to our new emperor about how you let dangerous individuals escape when they were right under your nose?" Kaemon reprimanded.
"U-Uh, s-sir no sir! Well get them immediately, come on!" one of the troopers replied scared and beckoned to his companion to follow. It wasn't long till Kaemon heard the satisfying sound of blaster bolts hitting their mark.
Kaemon let out a small smirk and walked away from the cadet quarters.
He ended up walking towards the balcony that overlooked the main hall of the Headquarters. As Kaemon looked down he could see a huge battle going on between the Sethelonian Troopers and the Royal Guard. The Royal Guard was apparently making its final stand out in the main hall as most of the Headquarters had already been purged with what communications Kaemon had received.
As he looked over at the battle, Kaemon showed no emotion on his face as he watched his men slaughter the Royal Guard. They put up a valiant fight, but the numbers overwhelmed them and one by one they fell.
Bethany stared horrified at the burning Royal Guard HQ even as it continued to grow smaller with her ascension. She, Thrace and Varison had fled the planet onboard Varison's own transport ship as soon as Varison had told them of the situation. Although they hadn't known how bad it was until Varison had gotten to them they did know something was wrong as they were able to see the burning HQ off in the distance.
The aunt that Bethany was visiting had decided to stay behind and hopefully try to ensure that they wouldn't be followed.
As they entered orbit they now only had to get past the fleet which protected Coranda.
"Alright people, hold on to your butts and hope we get through this because if that fleet figures out who we are you bet your ass they'll wipe us off the face of the galaxy." Varison said as he piloted the ship.
Varison piloted a Bartel-class 48-c shuttle which was reminiscent of a manta-ray. It was 60 meters in length and had a 2.0 class hyperdrive. It was also a very reliable ship in terms of maneuvering and speed. On the inside it came with many comforts such as good furniture and entertainment along with good restrooms. It was a ship that only people on the higher end of society could afford.
As it moved past the fleet several men who were in the flagship looked out at it.
"Wow, now there's a ship; man what I wouldn't give to own one of those!" the officer spoke to his fellows who nodded in agreement.
"What's going on here, why aren't you at your stations?" the fleet commander said up from behind them scaring them into attention.
"Uh, sorry sir; but there hasn't been much activity as of late. We haven't had anything interesting to do for a while sir." one of the officers replied.
"So, you think that gives you the reason to slack off on your duties without any sort of permission? Well, WRONG!" the fleet commander yelled.
"You guys are so getting cour-wait a minute, I think I've seen that ship before. The fleet commander then took out a list composed of all the ships that Xion didn't want getting past the fleet. He began looking through it and eventually found the same exact ship on the list.
"YOU BLOODLY MORONS, YOU LET ONE OF THE ROYAL GUARD'S SHIPS PASS THROUGH! THERE COULD HAVE BEEN A ROYAL FAMILY MEMBER ON BOARD!" the fleet commander yelled furiously at the officers.
The fleet commander then turned around and began issuing orders to the rest of the bridge crew.
"Don't let that ship escape! Shoot it down now! Alert the rest of the fleet! Scramble the starfighters goddamn it!" he said.
Meanwhile back with Varison and friends, Varison was starting to slowly relax as nothing had come after them yet. Thrace was watching the monitors to make sure that they weren't surprised by anything the fleet might do.
"So, any idea where we're going to go Varison?" Thrace asked.
"Yeah, there's an outpost on the edge of Sethelonian Territory that's run by a good friend of mine within the military. He's loyal to the family so we should be safe with him, and with its minor status I'm pretty sure that whoever started this coup would have over looked this place. First of all, let's just concentrate on getting past the fleet and out of range of the planet." Varison replied.
Thrace nodded and went back to monitoring for enemies and it wasn't a moment too soon as the monitors picked up starfighters coming in from behind them.
"Varison, we've got starfighters coming in from behind us!" Thrace warned him.
"Aw damn it. And this ship doesn't have any weapons too! Shit!" Varison then picked up a speaker and said "Attention all passengers, this is your captain speaking, just want to let you know that we are about to enter into some extreme flight maneuvers, so please fasten your seat belts and hold on tight. And thank you for choosing Varison Airlines, we enjoy your patronage."
Bethany had gotten the message and strapped herself in.
And not a moment too soon as laser bolts soon began rocketing the ship.
"Thrace, how are the shields holding up?" Varison asked.
"They're doing good for now. You might not have any weapons but you've got quality shields. It'll take more than starfighters to bring us down." Thrace replied.
And that's when Murphy's Law came into effect in form of three massive warships known as Sith Interdictors which had started firing at them; one of the shots actually hitting causing massive damage to the shields.
The entire ship shook violently from a direct hit by one of the laser cannons of the Interdictors. It was a good thing for them that it hadn't been a turbolaser battery that had hit as that may have even destroyed the ship entirely.
"Shit! What's the damage Thrace?" Varison yelled out.
"One of our engines is gone. The shields are only at 50% of power, and it's possible that the generator may have sustained minimal damage as well." Thrace responded worriedly.
"Damn it!" Varison cursed.
At 50%, the shields were now susceptible to damage from the starfighters; and even with all the evasive maneuvers that he was employing the amount of fighters only continued to increase. And, their fire was becoming more and more accurate. And just when Varison thought that his problems couldn't get any worse, two more Sith Interdictors showed up in front of him and began firing.
"SON OF A BI-wait a minute, this could work." Varison cursed out before gaining a new idea.
"Wait, what could, what are you doing. Why are we slowing down. And getting closer to the warships. AND NOT TURNING THE OTHER WAY!" Thrace yelled out the last part.
"You'll see." Varison said with a smirk as he increased his speed while carefully aiming down towards the open space that was where ideally a hull should have been on the Interdictors right as they passed by each other.
In the future, Thrace would always come to wonder how they had survived this ordeal. In the end, he just summed it up to the divine providence of luck.
Varison made it through both Interdictors at the perfect moment and immediately went full throttle on the engines getting the ship fly as fast as it could before jumping into hyperspace and escaping the grasp of Xion's men.
"FUCK!" the fleet commander yelled as they got away. He was so getting fired for this, if he was lucky.
A huge crowd had gathered in front of the palace by order of the king. The crowd was composed of the people who lived on Coranda and a few of Naruto's men hidden amongst them. Most of the people there were extremely confused. All of them had seen the burning Royal Guard HQ and while most were quite happy to see the place burn they were all wondering why it had happened. They knew it was no accident as there had been eyewitness reports of troops entering the building getting rid of any such notion.
The gathering was being broadcast all over the Sethelonian Kingdom, hence the presence of all the hovercams.
Soon enough people were able to see figures walking towards the balcony. When they finally were able to get a good look at them, everyone recognized the figure on the left to be Thrawn, but the figure who was in the center, they had no clue as to who he was, but they were intimidated by his outfit which consisted of dark robes with armor over it and a mask covering the figure's face.
It was only when he spoke that everyone recognized him to be Xion, the Royal Advisor.
"Attention good people of the Sethelonian Kingdom. I am sure that you are all curious about the events that happened last night. Well let me be the first one to say it. The Royal Family and it's tyrannical rule has ended! They and their allies are dead. What you witnessed last night was a cleansing of the Kingdom from those wretched monsters. "
This news was greeted with a shocked silence at first. Not a single person in the crowd, or indeed all throughout the Sethelonian Kingdom was able to say a word. And what could they say? They had been under the tyrannical rule of the Royal Family for so long that they never dreamed that a day would come when they would be free of them.
It was then that Xion's men who were planted within the crowd began to act. They began cheering and clapping, voicing out their happiness at being freed and gradually it spread out to everyone else until the entire crowd was cheering. With the crowd's cheering being broadcast throughout the Sethelonian Kingdom it wasn't long before the entirety of the Kingdom was happy cheering at the news.
Xion, who once more donned the robed of Darth Revan smiled underneath his mask and spoke again "First of all, I would like to commend the heroic actions of our proud and powerful military, for without their brave and noble actions this would not have been possible. Second, it has come to my attention that the Sethelonian Kingdom has been failing."
This was a fact that everyone knew, but it raised curiosity as to why Xion brought it up.
"As of now, in order for the people to once again prosper and live in security, I have decided to reform the Sethelonian Kingdom into the Sith Empire!"
This news was met with a mixture of emotions, shock and fear being the most predominant. Most people felt that with Xion announcing the reformation that he was going to seize power and that they would all now just be under the rule of a new dictator. They were completely right, but Xion's actions in trying to help the populace of the Sethelonian Kingdom like organizing Food Drives, increasing the recruitment of troops thus supplying more jobs, and public denouncing of the Royalty had earned him the favor of many people; which was why they weren't all in a mass panic right now.
Thrawn took this as his queue to speak and stepped forward yelling out "All hail Xion, Emperor of our new Sith Empire!"
And just like that Xion's men within the crowd also began cheering, crying out "All hail Xion!" gradually inflicting a mob mentality upon the crowd as they too began to cheer.
"ALL HAIL XION, ALL HAIL XION, ALL HAIL XION!" was the enormous roar of the crowd. Xion smiled triumphantly beneath his mask as he relished in the control that he now had.
A Centurion-class battlecruiser along with its escort of two Sith Interdictors could be seen in space. Onboard the command bridge Xion stood, dressed up in the robes of Darth Revan he truly looked like a Dark Lord of the Sith, and it also made sure no one questioned his orders as it did a very good job of intimidating others.
Soon enough, Xion's apprentice Kaemon or Darth Catherous as he could now be called stood beside him and looked out towards the object which held his master's attention.
Out in front of them was the massive piping of the Star Forge which had been completed. Now other parts of the Star Forge were now being built like the metal plating and such. And with the hundreds of ships which now crowded around the Star Forge aiding in its construction, progress could be easily seen.
Xion crossed his arms in satisfaction as the master and apprentice looked out at the strategic weapon of war being built.
Yes, I am finally done with this chapter! Yay! Sorry it took so long to get this chapter done, but I wanted to finish the coup arch in one chapter and my own stubbornness wouldn't let me do otherwise. That and other story ideas have also been plaguing my mind. But for now I am quite happy to give you all this fourth chapter of The Clone Wars-3 Sides. And yes, I totally stole parts from Revenge of the Sith! So don't tell me about that.
(1): Remember, Naruto and Xion are the same person.
(2): If you get too confused then just try looking at the galaxy map link on my profile, and bring a compass with you as well. That or just don't think about it.
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