16 Leaving the Temple. Naboo Part 1

"So nightmares on force people. Bad ones really dangerous ones. The council spoke about this but not in detail. Old enemies returning. Tch at least it is not any time soon." XoXann said exasperated. "Darth Nihluis will end this galaxy. I may need to change my plans."

"Uh-huh, night night." Alex turned back over to go to sleep. They had talked for hours and that was more than he wanted to right now. "Dont let the door pinch your ass on the way out."

"Back to sleep.. what is going on with him?"

"Healed two people recently. Bad idea bad bad bad. But it worked for him well enough. He will be stronger when he wakes up." Inferna scanned the woman in front of her for any news developments. "You should rest as well. Alex would be upset if you get sick."

"Hmmm, to much to do." XoXann turned and left.

"Stupid woman. Health is dropping due to overworking. That will not happen to Alex." Inferna turned to the wall and plugged up new emergency energy charges. She went into standby mode.

"Woosh," traces of Dark side inside Alex was turned to neutral energy. His Light side thrumming trying to gather more. Oddly enough, his Dark side did nothing. As if it was full... almost bloated. Under Alex's eyelids, his eyes turned golden before returning to normal. Tossing in turning he heard the force voices speak.

-Next Morning-

"What in blue blazes?" Alex asked himself. Then he focused on his stats.

(Attributes have auto-assigned due to fatigued state. Racial abilities from Rakghoul has been cannibalized.)

Name: Alexander Primus

Rank: Force Guardian

Title: The Quiet One, Defender of the Corscanti, ?????, ?????

Race: Human Adaptive

Bonds: 2 Allies: 37 Enemies: ???

Vitality: 21

Strength: 12

Muscle flexibility: 10

Speed: 12

Force Energy: 23

Intelligence: 8

Mental Endurance: 14

Mental Aptitude: 13

Willpower: 14

Resistance: 10

Equipment: Lightsaber

'Well, at least I can take a beating more.' Alex turned to the side and noticed Inferna hand was on his thigh. "Did you watch over me the whole time? What a good droidca." Alex gave her a rub on her chassis. "Need to get the upgrades finished. But not here."

After a long clean up and dressing up he returned to the temple with Inferna. In the courtyard, they came across The Rakghou humans and the citizen fighters he fought with.

(Rakghoul humans have gone through training through the force while they were checked. They are yours to command. Self-preservation causes them to follow you. All are force sensitive.)

"Reporting for duty sir." A woman stepped forward. "Name is Amy." She looked around at the others and figured there would be time later for a full intro. "Balfour there has been very helpful. Your droidca got us a ship so we are ready to go wherever."

"Nice to meet you, Amy. Right introductions later. Head.. head to Naboo. That is where we will be going." Alex smiled. The information came to him last night when he slept. "I will head there right after this little meeting."

"Right." Amy said and turned to the others and rounded them up.

"Ok Balfour, what do you have for me?" Alex asked.

"Hmmm, nothing much. Everyone is waiting to see whats next." Balfour still had the same look as before. A kid that went through hell but was doing fine somehow.

"Ok doke. Time to go, guys, we have work. Means money." Balfour said to the others. "Oh yeah, Alex give you a heads up. The Republic skimped us on payment. A lot of the people that were affected didnt get anything. You got us for compensation though."

"Well shit, guess we need to get some stuff done to get you all paid." Alex smiled. "Tell everyone to send some account information to Inferna. We will see about getting them helped." Balfour and the others left. 'Hah feels like things have changed some. Then again I guess real world applications maybe.'

"Teacher, Inferna, and Alex. We have a task for you. There is something on Naboo that has come up that your special skill maybe be able to help." Mace asked. "Will that be a problem?"

"Nope. Send me the info and I am so out of here." Alex replied. 'So the mission coincides with events that will happen to me? Makes sense.'

"No trouble?" Mace raised an eyebrow. "That is good. I will make sure you get the info at once."

-At the spaceport-

"As I was saying time to get going Inferna," Alex said as he turned the starship on. The droidica getting in on the side. "Are you coming with or going to do whatever nonsense you had planned?"

"I am coming with," XoXann said. She jumped into the Copilot seat and strapped in. "You better not crash this thing."

"Mehh right," Alex said. "Goodbye council folk. Try not to get malarkey or wiped out by your mistakes."

"Drrooo." The platform turned as the starfighter engines hummed to the flight level. Antigravity was already starting to correct it before take-off.

"Alex... When you finish with that mission." Mace started to say. "You will come back yes?"

"...should be. Unless something terrible happens. Like I dont know, crash on some moon. Or into a Separtist ship. Or a crazed Republic admiral ship. WHAT are the odds that happens to me?"

"..." No one said anything for a bit.

"Just be careful," Anakin said. "We still have to spar."

"Right." Alex smiled and engaged in the final launch sequence. "Blasting off. Woo-hoo!"

"What are you a child?" XoXann asked. She had a smile on her face, however.

"Child at heart maybe. Can't wait to open this baby up." Alex responded and focused on piloting. Inferna fed Intel on traffic and astro conditions. XoXann messed with the map. Seeing the level of security she started to add to it. Increasing it with what she knew. Inferna adapted as she did so.

In three hours' time, they punched into hyperspace once everything was navigated and they were far from prying eyes and scans.

"Jump complete. Coming out of hyperspace." Inferna said. "Still think we should have played it safe, oh foolish one?"

"Yes. I rather loose time on this instead of dropping out quickly in tim buk too. What are diagnostics showing?"

"We are good to go. Small errors here and there but nothing major." Inferna responded.

"Take care of them right now. Next jump wanna see efficency climb."

"You got it." Inferna went to work computing.

"That was different. We were surrounded by the force just now." XoXann said. "This technology...."

"Can be used by myself and Inferna. No one else. Not even you. Unless I give permission. And that won't be happening."

"Why is that?"

"Trust. Just like you have things you won't tell me. I have things I won't tell you. Also for my safety."

"Ehem." Inferna responded.

"And my lovely droidca partner." Alex added.

"That's better." Inferna felt her processors kick up a bit. 'My ability to calculate has increased once again!' Her robotic eye looked at Alex before she returned to work. 'This pattern is dangerous. But I like it.'

"Is this because of what happened?"

"Yes among other things. We are coming up on the planet. Hope you are ready."

"Yes." XoXann said quietly.

Planetfall-

"Greetings. Welcome to Naboo. I am Nuvo Vindi. Sorry that you had to land at our grounds, but we will do our best to help you." Nuvo Vindi was a male Faust from the planet Adana. Height 2.07 meters

Eye color Gray. Skin color Pale blue. Alex was bothered by the man. Especially the weird bad things around his eyes.

"Just here to do a check is all. This area needs to be checked all the same as the other places. Can't have you giving stuff to the Separatist causing trouble." Alex wave off the false pleasantries. "To business."

"Haaa very well. No decorum how refreshing." The aide Nuvo said. "Makes things easier."

For the next three days Alex and company searched every factory and planet surface with scans.

Day 2 the Rakghoul humans arrived and did a deeper search through the area and abandoned area. Day 5 the assement was done besides a facility found near the swamps. It was not on official Naboo documents. However, it was on private property. A bunch of red tape buried it from checks.

Day 6 everything changed when they arrived at a private area with the warrant.

XoXann and a few others had gone to the capital to help protect Amidala. Something was unsettling her about the entire planet itself.

"This is private, you cannot come inside. Take your troops and leave." Nuvo said.

"Kool now open the door." Alex said. "Your privacy rights were revoked. Read the warrant geez." Alex shook his head at that man, then toward the others he signaled. "Cut it open. He stays in the way I will cut him down personally."

"Sweet. Please resist. It has been a very boring week." Mary said. She dared him to retry something.

She was itching for combat. The man didn't much to her disappointment. "Aww shucks. You heard the boss double time."

"Yes mam!" The nearest cutter started to get the door opened.

"Hmm." Alex paused then sent his senses out. Now that there was a crack in the door, he was able to dive in deeper with his perception. "Stop." He then gave the signal for danger.

"Static formation!" Mary yelled. The troops complied instantly. Inferna stepped behind Alex that had taken off his rope. The bulk pieces from her armor connected to him amd he was outfitted for combat.

"Boom!" The door blasted open sending debris flying out.

Energy barriers deflected everything to the side. All rifles and pistols were at the the ready.

A droid walked out. Then another and another.

"Fire!" Mary said.

"Pew, pew, pew!" A wave of blaster fire tore into the front ranks.

"Woom!" 200 feet above them a few bomb fighters decloaked. Ion batteries at the ready. They dropped down and did a small low yield bombing.

"Second shields up!" Inferna said. Instantly the soldiers stepped back and linked the heavy shields. Force fields layering on top of each other. "Wait for the drop in heat!" A few seconds later she gave the signal. "Safe for level 2 shielding! Proceed with caution."

The back half of the factory was destroyed and caused a large portion to become exposed. The dust wave hit against Alex and company.

"Ah, that was so perfect. Well time to the bad crap." Alex felt something inside that felt just off-putting. But it was towards the swamp area. "Amy take a team around to the swamps." She acknowledges and left in a sprint. A squad following behind.

"Balfour, you ready for some craziness?" Alex asked.

"What noo it should be completely fine." Balfour said sarcastically. "Alex this will be the third thing crazy that has happened. We are getting use to it." Balfour had a little floating drone next to him. His rifle was at the ready. "This still beats the undercity."

"See what a good boy he is." Inferna added in. On her left, an ion blaster was finishing up installing. "He knows oh foolish one. This one will live longer than the others." A few of the troopers gave her a look. "What? I just said longer than the others. He is still gonna get killed."

"Ok Inferna, I am sure you have gotten them to dread enough. Give me the reading on whats deeper."

"Cant tell. Something is interfering. You are gonna have to go inside." Inferna said. "After we clear the way a little more. You should be brought up on charges. Having me murder my unliberated people."

"They dont have A.I.'s." Balfour added. "Then again you dont either you crazy droidca. No droid acts like you."

"Awww so sweat. His life expectancy has gone up." Inferna eyes flickered. "Get ready to launch plasma grenades." The troopers to her left moved forward and waited for the signal.