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Jedi_Sharoes
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Hi everyone! Hope I've not kept you waiting too long for this next update!
Ok, it's time to tie up the loose ends from this part of the Palpatine origin story. This has been really difficult to write and I lost my way in the middle of it which is why it's taken so long to get to the end of it. This twelfth (and last in this section) chapter is in three parts, the first of which is below.
Happy reading!!!
JEDI TALES: THE ORIGIN OF PALPATINE
PART II: DARK KNOWLEDGE
CHAPTER TWELVE
PART ONE
Darth Plageuis, Dark Lord of the Sith, stood outside Gondan Vez’s lair, trying not to breathe too much of the fetid air, pervasive throughout the Underground. He noted the various security sensors, the Force alerting him to their presence. ‘A fitting place for such scum’, he thought, ‘useful as they can be sometimes.’ The soft whirr of a security cam moving towards him caught his ear and he turned to face it. Although he kept the hood of his cloak raised, he knew the man inside would know it was him. As he waited for the door to open, a moment’s anger passed through him. It was not fitting, he thought, that a Dark Lord of the Sith should have to be here, carrying out what would normally be an underling’s task. Although he had many resources at his command, he did not yet have an army with which to conquer, as was his right. Still, he pondered, there were some things which needed to be done by oneself. Punctuating his thought, the door in front of him slid open.
He walked through to find a scene of devastation in front of him. To his left, his apprentice, Belo Palpatine, stood and bowed in welcome. Before he answered, his eyes swept the room, taking in the various pieces of what looked like some kind of security droid, noting the various notches in the walls carved by lightsaber and the force pike his apprentice held in one hand. Finally his eyes rested upon the stricken form of Gondan Vez, the notorious bounty hunter, the one who had killed Jedi in the past. To his satisfaction, and with some element of surprise, his apprentice seemed relatively unharmed, whereas Gondan Vez lay propped against the rear wall of the dusty antechamber, his head bowed and body shaking slightly. His body … or what remained of it, thought Plageuis, was covered in blood, and his limbs had been severed from it, one by one, it seemed, his legs and arms now having joined the parts of his former security droid in a pile in a corner of the room. His famed blue camo-armor was now equally red with his own blood, and the bounty hunter was now shaking with the shock and blood loss. It appeared to Plageuis that he had got there just in time, while the human was still conscious.
He finally spoke, but not to his apprentice. “Ah, the famed bounty hunter, Gondan Vez. We meet at last” was all he said.
“Wh-who are you?” Vez spat out the question, hardly having enough energy to speak.
“Does it matter?” he asked.
“It m-matters to me”, growled Vez, still unable to keep the tremor out of his voice. “So I can have r-revenge!”
Plageuis’ only answer was a laugh, cold and hard.
“Tell me!” shouted Vez.
Plageuis thought for a moment, before he turned to look at his apprentice. “Well, they do say you should grant a dying man his last wish” he said, mockingly. He knelt down, facing Vez so he could look him directly in his eyes. “I am Darth Plageuis, the Dark Lord of the Sith, and your employer has something for sale that I very much want, and I am not someone who takes no for an answer.” His voice was low and sybillant, forcing Vez to pay attention to his every word.
Vez stared back into the Muun’s eyes and his own gaze hardened as he spat out, “Wh-what makes you think I’ll tell you after this?” he asked. “I’d rather …”
“Die?” asked Plageuis. “Because I can either make what precious few minutes you have left to live so agonizing you’ll look upon death as a mercy.”
Vez blinked, unable to stop a wave of fear course through himself.
“Or if you tell me and lie, I could tell you that just like the Jedi, the Sith know when even such hardened liars as yourself are not telling the truth.”
There was a pause. Plageuis watched and waited as he let Vez think through his options. Vez spoke again. “I am Korunnai, we fear no pain.”
Plageuis watched Vez’s eyes harden as he spoke and knew Vez would never willingly tell him, on principle more than loyalty, he imagined.
“Or I could demonstrate that, unlike the Jedi, the Sith are always willing to take what they want!” On the word ‘take’, Plageuis seized Vez’s jaw in a vice-like grip, lifting his head and body up, Plageuis’ eyes glowing red as the Dark Side flowed through him, plunging deep into Vez’s mind, tearing it apart as he sought the information he needed. Ignoring Vez’s screams of agony, he ripped through the Korunnai’s memory, searching, searching … And then he found what he wanted. He let go of the bounty hunter, and Vez fell back against the wall, still spasming in the aftershock of the mind probe.
Plageuis stood up, a look of gloating triumph on his Muun face. He turned to his apprentice and spoke. “It is as I thought, we have been betrayed.”
“My master?” queried Belo, speaking for the first time.
“An agent, of some importance, at least to me. Still, we cannot let it go unpunished. I will explain on the journey.”
“As you wish, my master” said Belo.
“Wait for me outside, we must leave immediately” commanded Plagueis. With a small bow, his apprentice walked through the antechamber through the door. Plageuis turned, his eyes following his apprentice as he left. Once the door had slid shut again, he turned back to Vez and once more, knelt to face him. He had left Vez’s mind intact, so he could at least take one piece of pleasure from the fetid stench of the Underground.
“Look at me,” commanded Plageuis. Vez raised his eyes, but did not meet Plageuis’ mocking stare. “If you had co-operated, bounty hunter, then I wouldn’t have had to do this, but as you insisted …”
Vez watched as Plageuis reached inside his cloak. He pulled out a shining, silver orb that made Vez’s eyes widen in shock and fear. Vez’s gaze rose up to follow Plageuis as he stood up and away from the bounty hunter. “You know what this is, don’t you?” asked Plageuis mockingly.
“Wait! Y-you can’t …” stammered Vez.
“If you had co-operated,” reiterated Plageuis, “this wouldn’t have happened” he said in a mockingly sorrowful voice. “Now you will have to wait and watch your doom approach.”
Plageuis twisted the dial and flicked the timer set switch forward. “If only I could be here to watch, be here at the very moment.” Plageuis spoke over Vez’s muttered denials and pleas. Plageuis smiled, a hint of madness in his eyes, enjoying his power over the broken form of the once-proud bounty hunter. He set the thermal detonator down on the floor in front of Vez, out of reach of even the bloodied stumps of Vez’s former limbs.
“Enjoy your final few minutes. I did tell you they would be agony.” With this final parting comment Plageuis left the room, into the access tunnel, paying no attention to Vez’s screams.
Once outside in the tunnel, Plageuis turned to his apprentice, who he saw was just returning the Dark Eye Probe Droid to its compartment on his own speeder bike. Plageuis climbed into his own open-topped, sleek, black speeder and with a wave of his hand, turned on the ignition. “We must leave immediately, apprentice. I have left a little something to dispose of the trash.” Gratifyingly, his apprentice merely smiled and nodded to indicate he understood, with seemingly no troublesome thoughts about leaving Vez alone to die.
“What is our destination, my master?” he asked.
“To the Plaza of the Republic, young one. We have an agent to deal with.”
With this, the whisper silent speeder and speeder bike sped off down the access tunnel, back towards the upper levels. After the last small sounds of their engines faded into the distance, all that could be heard were the faint sounds of a man’s tears as he waited for the end.
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DARTH_VEZ
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11/27/06 7:19pm
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How deliciously evil...
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excellion_razor
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excellent post
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MasterTywalker
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12/1/06 12:15pm
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Double updates!!!holy sith!!! great updates hope to see more soon. 
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JimmySizzleChest
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12/1/06 4:23pm
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the weighty sensation of the dark side permeate throughout the chapter. stoic and cruel your grasp of the sith is truly a joy to behold. many thanks on the updates master shores :-)
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SithStarSlayer
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12/4/06 5:15pm
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"Excellent, Lord Sharoes... you have done well."
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Jedi_Sharoes
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12/6/06 11:53pm
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Thanks for the comments! I had to be careful writing that so as not to come close to breaking the rules! There are limits to how much violence you can portray. Readng it back just know I realised it was quite creepy!
Part two to come soon!!!
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JimmySizzleChest
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12/7/06 5:16pm
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I didn’t realize there were limits on content. I had always thought about contributing but i had never really looked into it. I can say without a doubt that you tale in no way seems hampered by any restraints. i don’t begrudge the board for instituting restraints since the movies are all PG rated it almost makes sense. i do feel some unease with the need for restrictions and am less enthusiastic to partake in fan fiction. i do find it hard to believe that you are delivering such an excellent tale within boundaries. you deserve another cheer for that. it doesn’t show. your prose is extremely entertaining master shores. bravo. more more more. please
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DARTH_VEZ
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JimmySizzleChest posted:
i don’t begrudge the board for instituting restraints since the movies are all PG rated it almost makes sense.
Actually, ROTS was PG13
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JimmySizzleChest
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my mistake. i bow to the correction. but still the point is simply star wars is not an x rated series. i can think of a lot of good and bad scenarios off the top of my head but this is neither the time nor the place. cheers master shores stay warm and warm our dark hearts with dastardly deeds of villains. mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
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DARTH_VEZ
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Aye, Sharoes indeed has drawn a brilliantly evil novel while staying within the limits. My only critisism (ever) of Sharoes is lack of updates, which is like JW at the moment (going to check that thread as well). Return soon, Sharoes!
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SithStarSlayer
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Perhaps a treat before the new year?
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You know the saying, Good things come to those who wait...
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SithStarSlayer
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Indeed.
There is no need to remind you that patience is a virtue of the Sith.
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dum dum da dum dum da dum dum da dum......sorry got no patience... must... have... update
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