(Here we are, I'm so sorry for being gone for so long everyone. Here part one of the beautiful partnership between the Republic and the Autobots. Plus I will be creating things that have not been seen before due to some ideas that dawned on me while writing this chapter out. You'll see as they try and stop a deadly virus from re-entering the galaxy and you should not be disappointed.
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The Nabooian cruiser entered the Naboo palace's hanger as it smoothly landed and opened the hatch. Standing there waiting were the current Queen of the Naboo, Queen Neeyutnee, and near her was the dark skin black haired human with an eye patch, head of security of Naboo, Captain Typho.
After the ramp lowered out hurried the senator from Naboo and her Gungan representative, Padme Amidala and Jar-jar Binks. The former greeted the queen and captain and exclaimed, "We came as soon as we could, Milady. Have you found anymore droids?"
"Only the three." Queen Neeyutnee confirmed, "You can be sure that they aren't tourists. I need you to convince the Senate, the Jedi council, or whoever is in charge of this terrible war that we are threatened."
Looking down sadly Padme lamented, "They'll need more proof. Finding a couple of battle droids will not be enough."
Then the captain's wrist comm. beeped and a voice came from it, "Captain Typho! The battle droid is ready for analysis."
They headed to the storage room like lab where they had kept the droids.
Placing the OMS battle droid's head on a berth the medical droid walked over to another where a tactical droid laid.
Padme and her group entered the lab as she asked the queen, "Have you been able to retrieve any information?"
"Unfortunately the Naboo security who discovered them preferred to shoot first and retrieve data later." The queen told her senator as they focused on the tactical droid on the berth.
"Add that to the list of questions." Captain Typho said as he turned to the tactical droid in their possession. Jar-jar sniffed the air as if smelling something before turning to see a small blue insect crawling out of one of the battle droids. He licked his lips and went to get it.
"How come this one appeared less damage than the other two?" Padme asked seeing little to no damage on this droid and noticing how it's armor seemed familiar to her somehow.
"We do not know. Although it was close to the droid that was shot down it received little to no damage." Queen Neeyutnee answered, confused as was her senator, "Whatever armor plating it has on in its head and chest, is like nothing we have ever seen before because it was able to not be damaged by the rocket explosion."
"It's circuitry is far more advance than previously thought. There are systems that not even our greatest scientists or medical droids know about as well as its memory capacity. Must be a product of the combined technologies of the droids and theses…Decepticons that you mentioned earlier, milady." Captain Typho added moving the mud from the chest of the tactical droid and a heat pressed stamp, as if from an old farmer's poker, Decepticon symbol on its chest.
Narrowing her eyes in anger she added, "Yes…I'm afraid it is…"
"Begin the surgery on this…Droid-icon." The Naboo security officer ordered the Medical droid proceeded to bring over a saw with it as it reached the head of the droid-icon and cut open the top of its head as it then began to disconnect its optical circuitry.
"I'm getting a bad feeling about this." C-3P0 murmured as he turned to his mistress, "With your permission, Senator Padme I would like to shut down before I receive sensory overload."
Looking to her protocol droid she bluntly replied, "Request: denied."
"Denied?" C3P-0 asked horrified.
"3P0 you may be able to get information out of him." Padme told her gold plated droid, as the medical droid began to reconnect certain wires for the prisoner.
The Droid-icon was reactivated as it sat up on the table and said, its voice sounding more alive than the usual tactical droid, "Wh-what happened?! Why can't I see?!"
Getting his cue, C3P-0 approached the confused Droid-icon, "You are in very capable hands, on board a separatist ship. Count Dooku would like to reward you himself for your bravery. Along with the Decepticon general, Obsidian."
"Bravery?" The Droid-icon asked confused.
"For your assignment on Naboo." C3P-0 corrected himself as he got closer.
Leaning in he pleaded, "Do try to activate what left of your memory…we all want to hear your tale of medical heroics."
"Th-the virus." the Droid-icon said his voice glitching a bit.
C3P-0 looked to her mistress who smiled back and dig for more, "Yes the virus. You do remember. Please go on."
"A small amount had leaked from the lab…my patrol was sent to investigate…rust at the wall…leaked into the terrain…needed to contain it before the Naboo or the frogs know about it…" The Droid-icon told them.
Jar-jar, who somehow had gotten his head in a head module of an Astromech droid fell.
"I…remember…the secret lab…" The droid said.
"A secret lab on Naboo? Where?! You must tell me!" C3P-0 added sounded a little too despreat to know. Padme moved to stop the droid from revealing the truth.
It alerted the Droid-icon as he surmised, "The lab's supposed to be a secret, if you want to know about it then, I've been captured…"
Pulling out his blaster, Captain Typho threatened the blind Droid-icon, "Unless you want to be a box of spare parts AND have your new upgrades melted down. You'll tell us were that lab is."
"You think I am at a disadvantage because I cannot use my optical sensors…if I had not been upgraded then that would be true…however, that is not the case." It then lunged at the captain with a sudden speed that caught the later off guard.
They continued to struggle while Padme, the queen, and 3P0 hurried out of the way as blaster bolts were fired at some parts of the wall and ceiling. Being punched in the gut the Naboo officer was thrown to the other side of the room the droid-icon aimed the human's blaster at its previous owner.
"I get to snuff out an enemy's sovereign ruler and allow the alliance to take this planet." The Droid-icon gloated as it began a mechanical like laugh, before hearing the stacks of droid parts behind it were leaning towards the advance droid.
"Oh Scrap…" The Droid-icon muttered as the stacks crashed down on it, ending its threat swiftly.
Captain Typho went to investigate and surely the Droid-icon's sparking corpse was evident that it was destroyed, "We'll never get anything out of him now, even if we wanted to…"
The three humans turned to the source of their unlikely rescue as their clumsy Gungan representative walked to them, sad by what he thought was ruin the interrogation, "Mesa sorry…it was an accident."
"Actually Jar-jar. You saved our lives." Padme said in relief, accepting the Gungan's help up.
"Meesa, Milady?" Jar-jar asked confused as he lowered the head and a small blue insect fell out of it.
Kneeling to look at it she asks her Gungan friend, clearing her throat as she spoke, "Is this what you were after?"
Placing his hands together in joy Jar-jar explained, "Meesa loving! Thesa is very good tongue-grabbing. Found only found in one placen."
"Where?" Padme asked getting a sneaking suspicion about the bug involving the droids.
"In mud under the parlote tree." Jar-jar answered
"Like the mud on these droids…" Turning to the Queen and the captain she said, "The Eastern swamp. I think Jar-jar found the location of the lab."
It didn't take them long to be able to get a message to the Jedi as Master Yoda and Master Windu's holograms were on the holo-table on the left of Yoda. The leader of the Autobots, Kup who stood with his cane was there as well.
They had told everything that they discovered about the droids, the virus and the location of the lab.
Getting the message across the captain of the guard said, "They're planning an attack on Naboo. There's no other explanation."
"Delicate, the situation is. Two Jedi, we will send." Yoda told them through the hologram.
"I'll get a team of Autobots ready for Naboo as well." Kup added as he moved to contact one of the team leaders.
Stepping forward Senator Amidala suggested, "May I recommend General Kenobi, General Skywalker, and the Protectobots? Relations with the Gungans are a little…tense now but they trust General Kenobi like one of their own. If we are dealing with Decepticons and chemical weaponry then we need Autobots who are specialized in the safety and security of the citizens."
The two jedi masters shared a look before Yoda answered, "Send them, we will."
"You got your bots, lass. If you're about to deal with a virus, First-Aid is the best bot for the job of helping your people, human or Gungan." Kup added, thinking that the Nabooians should know that at least one of his men have been studying about their medicines so that they can help more than just be bodyguards and soldiers.
The holograms disappeared and Padme turned to Captain Typho more than her queen, commanding, "I want as much information before they arrive. See if you and C3P0 can download any of the other battle droid's memories. I'm going to find that lab."
Concerned for their planet's senator's safety Captain Typho asked, "Are you sure that's wise?"
Not answering him, Padme left while telling her Gungan representative to come with her.
It wasn't long until Padme and Jar-jar put on containment hazardous suits entered a Nabooian scout ship and took off to scan the area.
It was a long trip until they approached a stream of Gungan water and noticed the dead Shaaks. They landed to investigate. What they saw disturbed them. What could cause Shaaks to be killed quickly and result in their corpses to become blue like that with red eyes?
Jar-jar gave a gasp and asked, "This is Bombad…whatsa happened to them?"
Padme replied, "It's the plague. We're definitely getting close."
Then while Jar-jar wasn't looking someone attacked Padme from behind and then Jar-jar was pushed forward. Standing there was a pink female Gungan who had her web leak ears tied back in a ponytail with a straw hat over her head, in her hands was a shock staff that kept sending electicity into Jar-jar every time she rams it against him.
"Whosa are you?" She asked as she dropped her staff and grabbed Jar-jar's helmet.
"What are yousa doing?!" Jar-jar asked terrified by what he thought was going to be his death.
"Why are yousa here?" She asked as she removed his helmet. The male Gungan gasps as he moves to cover his mouth.
Giving a shout Jar-jar looked glaringly back and asked, "What's yousa thinking?"
Realizing he was without his mask he covered his mouth again.
Getting up Padme aimed her blaster at the Gungan and "Don't move! I don't want to hurt you."
Looking at her friend Padme ordered, "Jar-jar put your helmet back on."
He rushed and taking the helmet roughly he slammed it over his head and took deep breathes, fearing the worse until the female Gungan that attacked them said in a reassuring tone, "Yousa okeey-day, Is not in the air. Is in the water."
Taking a chance at this Gungan's word Padme lowered her weapon and took off her helmet to fins that the Gungan was right. Looking to the Gungan before her Padme asked, "Who are you?"
"Meesa Peppi Bow." The pink Gungan introduced herself.
"We think the virus that made your animals sick came from the Perlote tree." Padme explained to the herder Gungan.
Peppi pointed upstream of the river telling the two officials, "Yousa follow thisa river, Yousa finda yousa Perlote."
Turning back to Padme, Peppi offered, "Meesa take you."
"No, Peppi, you stay here." Padme warned, not wanting to take another person with her, fearing for the female Gungan's life.
Placing a hand on the pink Gungan's shoulder Padme assured, "You'll be going home soon, I promise. I'll send some soldiers to pick you up and take you back to Theed."
Feeling appreciating for Padme's kindness, Peppi gave a smile and nodded. She wanted to help them find the cause of her Skaar's deaths, but she had to agree to the Senator.
Time passed as it was approaching the twilight hour when Padme and Jar-jar made it to the Eastern Swamp. Padme, turning to her Gungan friend said, "Keep your eyes open. Look out for anything out of the ordinary."
However the two did not notice as a rock they passed began to rise from the ground to reveal a security camera hidden. It began turning until its lens found the beings that made it activate, focusing on the human and Gungan.
In a dark room, surrounded by machines stood a life form with gloves and a lab coat watched what his camera saw when it turned to the darkest corner of the room.
"I suppose one cannot have too many lab rats. Wouldn't you agree?" The strange male life-form asked.
"Certainly not, they will be excellent on testing out our little creation." A garbled voice answered from the shadows. The voice was male and sounded metallic where it seemed to find pleasure in what will await the two intruders.
Turning to two of the droids he ordered, "Please, escort our guests inside."
The Super Battle Droid nodded, "Roger…"
"Hey! That's my line…" The Battle Droid complained only for it to be punched in the face by the more advance model.
"Nevermind the fragging line, get out there and bring them in…" The garble voice ordered threateningly.
"Okay! I hear ya…" The droid complaint as he and the Superbattle droid turned and followed.
Back on the surface of the swamp, Jar-jar and Padme continued searching for the laboratory. The clumsy Gun-gan was not watching where he was going for he stepped on a broken off branch from one of the trees and fell face first, yelling loudly in surprise.
His body collided with a metallic thud of a sound. Padme, concerned for her friend, hurried to Jar jar's side and saw him getting up enough for the two to see a metal hatch.
Surprised by his discovery, Jar jar exclaimed loudly, "A hatch!"
Activating her communicator Padme spoke into it, "Captain Typho, I think we're standing right on top of the lab. I need a geo-scan of coordinates SP127."
As she was talking however the camera beeped before retreating back into the earth. Getting on her knees Padme sighed, "No way we're gonna open this…"
Looking at Jar jar Padme began, "We'll just have to-"
"Freeze! Hold it right there!" A familiar mechanical voice cried, interrupting her. The two turned to notice they were surrounded by battle droids. A super battle droid approached, under its face, Padme and Jar-Jar can see the Decepticon symbol on it.
"Yousa let us go!" Jar-jar demanded as he and Padme was forced into the lab with battle droids and a droid-icon aiming their blasters at them while in the middle was a Faust, a humanoid species from a planet in the galaxy, they are a tall, slender humanoid figure, had a double set of eyelids, light-colored eyes. It has long, humanoid faces with slanted, almond-shaped eyes, a long nose, large ears and a cranial ridge. He was also wearing a lab coat and gloves.
Seeing the Faust, Padme then demanded, "Who are you? Why are you holding us?"
Ignoring her questions, the Faust pulled out a pair of spectacles and examined the Gungan ambassador.
He smiled, "What wonderful specimen."
Lowering himself to look at the human woman, he saw her turning away from him, the Faust asked, "What's a life form like you doing in a swamp like this?"
Looking back she spat, "I could ask you the same thing."
Placing the spectacles on his bet he answered, "Thanks to the support of my compassionate friends in the Separatist alliance, I am creating life!"
"Howsa yousa creating life?" Jar-jar asked his eyes narrowed suspicious.
Looking back to the Gungan the mad doctor smiled, "I'm so pleased you inquired. A demonstration is in order."
He commented before walking over to a cabinet with glass vials of some kind of blue liquid in them. He took one vial out and hold it for the two to see, "Allow me to present, the return of the infamous Blue Shadow Wirus!"
"The Blue Shadow Virus?" Padme asked, suspiciously, "I thought that deadly disease was extinct."
"Yes it was wiped from the galaxy generations ago, but I have given it life again, with the help of my new assistant." The Faust added nodding to the shadowed area where a metallic voice came from that direction.
"The pleasure was all mine, Dr. Vindi, and I must say for an organic…you have the most interested ideas to follow through your research. I can personally agree with that."
A hologram of a humanoid being with a glass helmet over his head appeared on his shoulder looked like a shoulder guard based of some sort of creature. It wasn't how bizarre this life-form looked that made Padme gasp in fear, it was the symbol on his chest, and it was in the shape of a menacing face. Unlike the Droid-icon its body was completely looking a mechanical version of an organic life-form so it didn't take Senator Amidala to figure out what it is that has come into her view.
"You're a Decepticon. Aren't you?" Padme glared at the hologram of the now identified partner of this mad-scientist.
"You are correct, my dear senator. You may call me Oil Slick, chemical weapon specialist of the Decepticons Army." The tube headed Decepticon introduced himself with a slight bow.
"Yousa no creating life, Yousa taking life! Yousa poison the Gungan water!" Jar-jar accused as he glared at the pair.
Dr. Vindi smile grew as he agreed with the Gungan's statement as he turned around with a glower, "Unfortunately, in its natural form, the Blue Shadow Wirus, thrives only in water. Until I -"
A cough from the hologram interrupted the mad doctor's rant as he corrected himself, "we… improved upon that weakness."
Then Doctor Vindi placed the vial of the virus on a table before heading over to a machine as he pulled the lever. At once bolts of lightning hit the vial, turning the liquid strain into a gas form. He laughs as he takes the vial in hand and told the two surprised officials, laughing, "Your eyes do not deceive you, I have perfected an airborne strain of the Blue Shadow Wirus."
Turning back to the Decepticon, Vindi smiled gleefully, "I must thank you again for assisting me in my work, Doctor."
"It was my pleasure, Doctor." Oil Slick returned the compliment.
Small tapping sounds, were heard as a LEP servant droid approached, holding what seems to be a bomb and reported, "This is the last of the bombs doctor."
"I'm well away this is the last, you think I loose count?" He snapped at the droid taking the bomb and went to the table.
Taking the vial in his hand the mad doctor explained, "The wirus in its gaseous form, combined with these bombs, will be release the Blue Shadow Wirus BACK into the galaxy, more potent than ever before."
"And when I have some samples of this organic virus I can develop a compound involving a Cybertronian little disease I call, Cosmic Rust. The combination of the two will be in order to infect the Autobots and deal with both wars in a matter of cycles. Which is a short amount of time if you have not been taught our time units yet, Senator Amidala." Oil Slick added in a sinster smugness.
Padme was horrified by this and asked, "Are you both insane?! The Blue Shadow Wirus is a deadly disease, no life forms is immune to it!"
Glaring at the tube dome Decepticon she added, "Unless you're a mechanical life-form. That's why it was eradicated!"
Oil Slick pretended not to hear her while Dr. Vindi roared back, "You mean, Murdered!"
Handing the bomb back to the small droid the mad doctor told it from, ordering calmly, "Take this away."
"Okay." The droids reply before walking away with the bomb in its arms.
He approached is two captives and continued his rant, "Meanwhile, thousands and thousands of so-called 'superior life forms' are spreading their disease of war throughout the galaxy."
Padme however had her eyes on the droid with the bomb before returning to the doctor, "Perhaps, they are the ones that should be eradicated!"
"But, surely we do not need to get rid of them too quickly?" Oil Slick asked grinning deviously.
"Of course not, Dear Oil Slick." Dr. Vindi affirmed the thought that the chemical specialist had came up with. Then the battle droids approached the two captives. Padme and Jar-jar looked back in fear of what these two would do to them.
(Will Padme and Jar-jar be able to survive what the two mad-scientist have in store for them? Will the Jedi and Autobots find them before it's too late? Find out next time on The Blue Shadow Virus, part two.
So what did you guys think of my idea of the Separatists and Decepticons combining technology/biology to be more effective on the battle field? Let me know what you thought of this chapter in a review.)