Wedding and Senate Meeting
After a few hours of preparing, the secret wedding was relocated to a lake retreat that was a distance away from the Main Palace, allowing it to remain private.
Anakin and Padme were standing at the ledge of a balcony in their wedding clothes, with a few droids like R2 and C3P0 observing, with Silas in his usual armor beside them, but without his helmet, allowing his blonde hair to fall back.
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Silas didn't change into more nice clothes because even though he wanted to enjoy this moment with his friend, he was far from relaxed as he was basically the only actual guard, and he had to make sure not a single uninvolved person saw this.
His force senses were constantly expanded to their surroundings, making sure their weren't any secret observers.
He watched as Anakin and Padme made their vows with a priest standing between them.
While in thought, a robotic voice disrupted him, "My, my, I'm surprised Master Skywalker and Senator Amidala allowed for a third party to observe their marriage."
Silas glanced to his right, toward the golden robot C3P0, "And I'm surprised they invited a robot to watch."
R2D2 suddenly started beeping angrily as he looked up toward Silas's smiling figure.
Wooo!
Beep!
Beep!
Silas couldn't help but chuckle, "Relax, I'm just kidding."
"I don't think such a systematic racist comment can be considered a joke." C3P0 replied with his usual emotionless tone.
"Yeah, yeah."
He stopped talking as the the old priest finally left, prompting Anakin and Padme to lovingly look at each other.
As they were about to kiss, Silas's eyes narrows, he calmly turned around and noticed a seemingly microscopic wire hanging out the bottom of a crevice of the wall.
It was so small that you couldn't even see it with the blind eye, adding to the fact that it camouflaged with it's surroundings.
He focused his vision on to it and saw a lens of some sort at the tip.
'Some sort of camera and audio recorder...'
Silas then abruptly walked away toward the door that led back into the building, causing Anakin to raise a brow, but he didn't have time to wonder as he focused back on his beautiful wife.
Once Silas was about to open the door, he noticed the wire was suddenly pulled in notices, nevertheless he opened the door and closed it behind him.
The hallways were narrow yet tall, with a red carpet and stone pillars on each side.
But Silas's wasn't worried about that as he was currently staring at a Naboo guard who seemed to be guarding the door to the balcony.
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"Sir is their something I can help you with?" The guard questioned calmly.
Silas raised a brow, "So were going to play dumb?"
Beads of sweat conspicuously appeared on the guards face but he replied back instantly, "Sir I don't understand."
Silas shook his head with a light laugh, "Well I don't need you too."
"But I'm giving you one last chance, tell me who hired you or face the consequences."
The guard unconsciously stepped back as he said, "Sir I'm serious, I don't know what your talking about-"
Silas sighed before swiftly grabbing each side of the guard's helmet while saying, "See I could use a simple Jedi mind trick to get you to talk, but I'm going to do a more painful method just because I can."
Before the guard could do anything, his eyes rolled back as he gasped for air.
"Aghhhh-"
The guard quietly gasped for air as he seemed to be unconscious, but was still groaning in pain as his body started to violently convulse.
After a few seconds, Silas continued to invade the all the man's memories, forcing even foam to escape his mouth as his body continued to shake rapidly.
Until finally Silas let go of the guard's head as he fell with a soft thud, his body would still twitch occasionally as he lay their.
Silas just shrugged at the scene, "I did a background check on all the servants, and I noticed you were a man who would mysteriously get paid a lot of money, adding to the fact that you've stole from certain shop's and families, breaking your mind is but a simple punishment."
He then went into thought as he recalled what he saw.
'From what I saw, he seemed to be Chancellor Palpatine's informant, this was probably how he found out about Anakin and Padme in the original plot... Well I made sure to erase the man's memories of our altercation, so the Chancellor shouldn't have a clue at what I did.'
Silas then put the man in cuffs, and took the wire camera that recorded the wedding, before destroying it promptly with a stomp of his foot.
He calmly returned to the wedding ceremony as it reached the good part.
Silas watched as Anakin and Padme slowly kissed each other as they held the other in their arms.
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[Few Weeks Later]
It was a few weeks later, as Anakin and Silas were back to their normal duties at Coruscant.
Silas was currently in the circular training room from before that seemed to have been fixed, he was practicing his lightsaber movements in his usual armor with his helmet.
Doing front flips smoothly and slashing forward, beads of sweat could be seen on his face.
He finally stopped as he disengaged his sabers and drank some water from his bottle.
As he was standing in the center of the training room, his eyes locked on to the metallic door as it slid open and someone entered.
"Sir, it's Commander Cody." Cody walked in his usual orange striped armor, which Silas planned to change later on.
"What's up?" Silas asked back as he finished drinking.
"I thought you would like to know that currently theirs a Senate Meeting going on about Clones Rights, and if we should be treated as property of the Republic, or as equal to any other Republic citizen." Cody explained as he met Silas in the center.
Silas's expression didn't change much, but his mood obviously soured, "Why wasn't I told about this earlier?"
Cody shrugged, "I don't know sir, it's news to me too."
Silas then tossed his water bottle as he went to the other side of the room and put on his helmet, before heading toward the exit.
"Uh? Where are you going sir?" Cody questioningly looked at Silas's leaving back.
The General just smirked, "Where do you think?"
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[Senate POV]
The Senate meeting room was vast, it was immensely tall and wide, as hundreds of senators were on different platforms all around, some were their in hologram form, while others were their in the flesh.
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Namely Padme was their hologram form as she watched the arguing go on from all sides.
"Clones are a creation of the republic, therefore they are owned by us, they have no right to be treated as equal to us!"
"That's nonsense, they are living beings the same us, and have a free will of their own, they should be treated equally!"
"I disagree, adding to the fact we don't have much space for them, treating them as equals would just be an economic loss."
Padme sighed, she was on the side of equality and peace, therefore she obviously wanted all the clones to have the right to being treated equally, but the majority of the Senate didn't like that prospect.
She glanced toward Chancellor Palpatine's figure who was on the center platform and silently watching the interactions, not giving his opinion.
'If only Silas was here, he'd be a good representative for the clones-'
But as soon as she finished her thoughts, the entrance to the Senate Room was opened, no one noticed amidst all the arguing.
Yet Padme recognized the figure, as he confidently walked forward, however was soon stopped by blue armored senate guards.
Chancellor Palpatine who was at the center also noticed this figure as he raised his hand, "Let's calm down shall we."
And just like that, the Senators quieted down as they wondered what the Chancellor would say.
"It seems we have a guest."
With a wave of his hand, the guards stopping the figure moved aside, as a platform started to raise up beside Palpatine.
"I introduce you, to Silas Raven, the only clone to achieve the rank of General, and the Hero of The Battle of Geonosis."
A fit of murmurs went off from all around as people recognized Silas's name from the rumors going around about his feats in the first official battle of the Clone Wars.
Silas's figure stood tall in his golden armor as a metallic platform raised him up beside Chancellor Palpatine's at the center.
He didn't hesitate to speak as his words would reverberate in the quiet yet massive room, "Listen to me Senators, my fellow clones and I are not some mindless droids, we are living beings who have dreams and wills of our own, we're not fighting because we are forced too, rather we are fighting because we want to defend the Republic!"
"You can not simply treat us like objects, when we are far from such. Do you expect us clones to fight for you, when you don't even treat us right?"
Once Silas finished speaking, the hundreds of senators all around just quietly looked down at him, many still seemed dissatisfied while other seemed understanding.
Silas's expression was calm under his helmet as he thought, 'What I said was practically treason, not to mention it was pretty much a lie, most clones would definitely give up their lives if they were told too by the Republic, but some of these Senate members just need a rough push in the right direction...'
But suddenly a male voice came from one of the Senate's podiums, "Are you threatening us!? Are you saying if we don't give you clones your supposed equality, you would dare revolt!?"
"We are the ones who created you, and this is how you repay us!?"
Angry shouts filled the Senate Chamber as many of them were angrily yelling at Silas for his audacious words.
Silas himself scoffed, but opted to stay silent, what he implied was pretty dangerous, especially since he was practically speaking for all clones, nevertheless, the best rewards usually come with the highest risks.
Chancellor Palpatine who was on the Podium beside him, raised his hand, quickly making everyone go silent, "I trust General Raven with my life, and I know he did not mean the clones would revolt, I believe he's worried for our safety and the clones safety, because the clones might feel underappreciated, which in turn would cause them to not perform at their fullest, effectively making us lose the war before it even starts." He meaningfully looked at Silas's still figure before continuing to speak.
"Let's get more time to think about our decisions, and tomorrow we'll do an official vote on whether or not the Clone Rights Act will be approved."
Palpatine promptly ended the meeting as the Senate members started turning around and leaving their podium, or their holograms would promptly disappear.
Silas himself had a rather evil smile under his visor, 'So you guys wanna play it like this? I'll make sure you regret all those foolish words...'
His smile quickly disappeared as he and the Chancellor's podium lowered so they could exit.
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