Chapter 68

I'm waiting, waiting for the perfect time to act. Right now, I sit on a homemade chair made from scraps. Hundreds of my Ausra droids surround me, waiting with me. I carefully watch a security feed coming from my coms. It's difficult to judge the perfect time to strike. The time frame is all over the place, and I'm not sure when Palpatine will strike the Jedi.

The point I'm looking for is Master Windu's confrontation with Palpatine, that will be the time to make my move on the Jedi. I wait and receive a message from Yoda, it's not unexpected as I have sent him a message warning him about the clone troopers. A simple message that tells him not to trust them and separate himself and his fellow Jedi away from them. The reply I got was one of confusion, I didn't explain but sent him a schematic of the inhibitor chip. I'm pretty sure Yoda already knows about them but even if he knows he doesn't understand just how overwhelming the chips are. It won't matter how many battles the Jedi go through with the clones, they will betray them with a single order. The honour and trust the Jedi have built with the clone troopers mean nothing when order sixty-six comes.

I wonder if I should tell him what I'm up to. After a couple of seconds, I send a simple message. "Vision of the Jedi temple being raided, position myself to take advantage"

Quickly Yoda sends me a message back but it's not one I expected. No questions, no force debate, just permission to do what I may and a long overdue favour he calls in. The favour is so vague I wonder what he wants me to do but I realise he wants me to do as much as I can without hindering me. Yoda doesn't know what's coming next but he knows I was right about the clone war, Yoda doesn't dare ignore my warnings and for some reason, he trusts me despite delving into the dark side of the force.

I didn't have to wait long, just a further two hours and I witnessed Master Mace Windu enter the lift leading to the supreme council. Now was the time.

With a quick gesture of the hand, the Asura Droids fan out and take action. We are under the Jedi temple in the lost part. It was the only way I could enter the temple with this many droids and get away with it. We climb up into the temple and position ourselves.

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I was here for the Jedi treasures that they had collected over the aeons, the Jedi holocron cubes and also a certain someone who would complete my Jedi knowledge, Jocasta Nu, a Master of the Jedi Order who served as the Chief Librarian of the Jedi Archives, a person who wielded many a lost tomb.

Me and the Asura droids slowly used my old hidey holes and background cleaning droid corridors that I once used as a kid. None of the Jedi sensed me or the threat that was coming to them. As I witnessed the Jedi doing their thing I had to acknowledge Palpatines perfect way he blocked the Jedi's Force sight abilities. Even now I'm not sure how he did it, how was he able to not only block the Jedi council masters ability to sense future trouble but also every Jedi throughout the galaxy?

That's when I started to feel it, the death of many Jedis throughout the galaxy converging at one point in time. It feels a bit cold and the flash of pain and fear coming from the dying Jedi isn't new to me. Back in the Brotherhood of Darkness days, every war had Darkside users die with their light side causing a similar effect. However, I can understand how someone like Yoda would have a hard time getting over this sensation, it's possibly the first time for Yoda to feel such death in the force.

I shake it off and wait for the attack, the perfect time to start my plan. I don't have to wait long as I can feel the anger of Anakin rolling off his mind when he attacks the Jedi temple.

Almost without hesitation, he kills a couple of Jedi with the help of his clone troopers. It's at this point my Asura Droids attacked, not the clone troopers but the librarian of the Jedi Archives. They stun them and steal all of the Jedi Holocron cubes. This was why I was here, to steal the Jedi holocron cubes but there was also the area the Jedi kept Sith holocrons that could only be interacted with by the dark side. My droids stole everything whether it be the librarian, book or data pad and after they finished with one part they uploaded my labyrinth computer program that went on to destroy everything left over.

It was at this point I had to make a choice do I continue to steal everything not locked down or do I fulfil Yoda's request and favour?

It's a difficult choice on my end because once the Jedi start to get hunted, I won't be able to return here. I chose to keep Yoda happy, there were other Jedi temples that I could ransack but only one Yoda.

I give the order to my Asura droids to help out the younglings and for lack of a better word, kidnap them as well. I on the other hand have to change Anakins fate a little.