“Reeta is fine, Master.” Reeta replied with a small smile, as she followed Master Obi-Wan out of the chambers. She was still trying to process all that had been said in the Council chambers, much of it was confusing and some of it unsettling. The talk of Sith Lords and ‘something that has never been revealed to someone so young’ in particular bothered her as did the fact that Master Yoda and Master Ki-Adi-Mundi had asked her what she could see ahead of her; why should they care what she saw? It was all rather perplexing and Reeta was not somebody who liked puzzles she could not solve.

“Master,” Reeta spoke after a moment of trying to sort through her thoughts. “May I ask where we are going and why?”

Thericia hopped out of the LAAT, and hit the ground. The pilot then gave her her orders. "Walk? I suppose there isn't much other choice, is there? The LAAT wasn't carrying any speeders or somewhat. Right...." She said with a sigh. Geonosis was massive. Not to mention the aridness and heat of a barren desert. Only this desert was made of rocks. She caught the device thrown to her, and managed to get it on one of her belt pouches. "Yessir. I'll call in for support. If I require it. Thank you, and may the force be with you." She said, before heading off down into the canyons of Geonosis...

About an hour passed, and Thericia hadn't yet found anything but sun and more rocks. She had already removed her dark cloak, and had slung it over her shoulder. Not that her dark robes were any cooler. Her pace was also slowed. The hot climate was not fun for her. She panted as she wiped the sweat from her brow. "Blasted...Geonosis. If was any hotter, I might combust...." She muttered to herself. But suddenly her feet stopped as her eyes met the object in the distance. Up on the sides of the canyon was a large landing pad, and a cavern going into the side of the canyon wall. She didn't see any ships flying in or out.... Notr did she see any scouts on their way up here... She began to make her way up towards the supposed CIS base...

The climb wasn't terrible. A few force-leap up the side of the canyon wall gave her a good vantage point. She crouched low, and waited near the mouth of the cavern. She listened, but couldn't hear anything moving inside. Slowly coming forth from the rocks, she edged around to the mouth of the base, poking her head inside. It was dark, and ill lit, but she still couldn't see anything. She slowly walked around the corner, and stepped inside the base. She proceeded about twenty feet into the base, before the lights snapped on, causing her head to jolt around. She bolted for a large piece of machinery, and ducked down behind it. She looked around the hanger in confusion, unsure of what was going on. She heard a ship outside. Looking towards the outside of the hanger she saw a rather large CIS transport ship....

Suddenly, the blast doors at the other side of the hanger slowly rose. She watched as droid after droid marched out, in perfect lines and collums. She ducked her head down even further, praying they'd not see her. She watched as the droids would load themselves onto the ship, compacting once they got onto it. There must've been an entire battalion of droids! She waited for the longest time, untill the CIS ship started to take off, and she slowly rose, seeing no more droids. She would run from behind her cover to the large blast doors on the other side of the hanger. She engaged the door, and watched it slowly open. Sure enough, the droid factory was operational. She walked down the large hallway, before taking a narrower path. Chances are, the large hallway leads straight to the production line... she thought to herself.

Thericia followed the hallway untill she came out in yet another. She looked through a glass window, and looked to the other side. It looked like the control room. Maybe she could shut this thing down, before calling the clones in to destroy it! She jogged up to the door control. Of course. It had to be locked. She didn't have any of her hacking devices with her...so, when all else fails.... She began to pluck random buttons, each one making a bleep.
92744...incorrect
73251...incorrect
11111...incorrect
11112...incorrect
11113...incorrect
66814...incorrect
37643...correct
Thericia cheered to herself. The door slid open, revealing terminals and computers of every kind. Thericia looked to what seemed to be the main control board. She looked over all the tech-savvy giberish written across it. "Sheesh." She muttered to herself. "Is it so hard to put an 'off' button on the controls?" Not to mention that some of it she couldn't pronouce. She searched the entire room for a Off or deactivate, or halt button, or something to that effect. After finding no such button exisiting, she defaulted to her first tactic. 'Hit everything'. She began to press upon random buttons for a while, sure the computer was getting lost in her unknown commands. Finally, after a few seconds of this, she was stopped by a deafening alarm blaring out throughout the base.

"That is robot for 'problems', I'd guess!" She said loudly to herself, again pressing the buttons that she was earlier, trying to turn the alarm off. Yet it wouldn't shut off. It continued to yell throughout the base. She sighed, and pulled out the device that the Pilot had given her. "Hello?!" She almost shouted to get across the sound of the alarm. "Sir, I need some help! I've stumbled across an active CIS production factory, and seemed to have set off an alarm! Please make haste!" She said, before tucking the device back into her beltpouch. She walked to door, and pressed the door open button. As the hall on the other side came into view, she could just start to see two droidekas rolling down the hall towards her, before coming to a stop, and begining to unfold. She almost instandly slammed the 'close' button again.

"Now is when I wish I had stopped and calculated a 'plan B'." She said quietly said to herself.

Blas it! Thought Skiv to himself. Why couldn't this just be an easy discussion over peace terms or something. "Pilot, stay on course. If they lock on their weapons and look like they are about to fire. Then you have permission to fire at will. This is supposed to be a peace mission, so hopefully they are just an escort. But don't risk our lives on it." Skiv said to Unit 392.

**The Droid Tri-Fighters were gaining speed towards the LAAT that Seeker Skiv was on. One was on the back of the LAAT, and the other the front**

Droid Tri-Fighter Frequency: Please land on the designated coordinates; 18-92.09-567. When arriving keep all weapons on board your vessel to contain any accidents.

**The clones near the pilot that was listening to it were astonished**

Unit 392 - Pilot: Wait, without weapons how are we supposed to protect ourselves sir?

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**Seeker Thericia was soon being contained by droidekas. They unrolled, but did not fire. From the way she came Super Battle Droids, 5 at most, began to run out and aim at her. Then everything stopped when the sound of someone clapping was heard. It was the lead of all CIS strategy and authority, General Lactivus**

General Lactivus: So the Jedi shows herself at last.

**Arriving at his side the mighty leader of Geonosis, Poggle the Lesser and two more Geonosian gaurds**

Poggle the Lesser: We have company sir, we were just in the middle of an important discussion when our friend here . . .

**Unit 586 with out his Helmet, who is actually an Assassin Droid and not a clone walked out from a door behind Poggle**

Poggle the Lesser: . . . warned us that a Jedi had been nearing our planet. That device you had been given made it easy to find you.

Unit 586 AKA Assassin Droid: My orders were to take you near the base, lead you to it, and dispose of the Clones with you. Which are being held captive in our Prisons 10 levels down from here. Being tortured for information! **Laughing in a robotic sound standing under a air-vent that is connected to every part of the ship**

General Lactivus: Surrender and join us Jedi. **Putting his arm in the air, and at the same time all droids aiming at the seeker even more closely** Or be destroyed.

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Master Obi-Wan: Well, it seems that. Well . . .

**He stopped and looked around, and then looked at Reeta, now they were walking through the Library Archives**

Master Obi-Wan: There is one remaining sith lord out there that Master Yoda can sense. While on Felucia during the clone wars, clones found ruins. Ruins of past users of the force . . . **He stopped and looked at Reeta** I am going to accompany you on this Journey to the ruins, a Knight of my rank should be able to assist you on the Journey. Remember though . . . Mysteries lay around that planet like death on a battlefield. Are you up to this Challenge?

Well things are definitely getting interesting. Skiv thought to himself. "Do as they say Pilot. We're here on a peaceful mission, and so far they are keeping it that way. Everyone disarm yourselves thoroughly. We don't need to give them any reason to break the peace here. And we won't be completely defenseless. Even without your weapons you will have your training. And I will have the force. So take us down Pilot." Finishing his words Skiv wonders how this will turn out. And whether he was making the right choice or not.

Reeta tried to contain her surprise at Master Obi-Wan’s words. Never one to make a decision lightly or rashly she took a moment to consider what he had just told her. She couldn’t deny that she was pleased that she had been asked to complete this task and she always enjoyed solving puzzles and these ruins sounded fascinating. “I’m up to the challenge Master.” She replied, not completely sure that was the case but determined to do her best.

“Can you tell me any more about these ruins, Master?” She asked. “Mysteries are difficult to solve if you know nothing about them.” And she was curious; Reeta always liked to know as much about a situation she was about to get involved in as she could.

Thericia frowned at the situation. She doubted she could fight one Droideka. Much less two. Soon, a few S2 Supers were there as well. Yet, they hadn't reduced her to ashy pile of laser residue yet. Not to mention the ugly Geonosian and his two guards. Throwing Lactivus into the matter was no better. Blast! I'm good with my saber...but that's a minimum...of... nine people shooting at me. I can take three on a good day... Thericia thought harshly. As the assassin droid laughed, she couldn't help but hear his voice echo... Her eyes shot above the man, where they caught the air vent. As fast as her mind could, the fourteen year old began to formulate the plot...

She resumed her angry glare at Lactivus. "Fine. You win. I assume that you're going to send me down to the prison block and torture me too?" She asked snarkily. She would raise her hands in the air to show that she was 'surrendering', as she walked towards the group. Her face changed from an angry sneer to a cunning grin. Using her force reflexes, her right hand shot to her shoulder, wher her cloak rested, still off of her from heat. She flung the clothing forward, and watched it unsprawl in front of her. She had waited just long enough to begin a roll behind a control console, while the sound of blasters and lasers filled the air. She only waited for another second longer before standing up, looking to see all of the droid still trying to fire at where she was before beyond her now swiss-cheesed cloak. She dashed hard at the assassin droid, his head turning to see the jedi's new location. His weapon changed from aiming at the cloak to her, almost in slow motion. She was now upon him...

In one swift motion, she pulled out her lightsaber, the green blade jumping to life, and swept the Assassin Droid's weapon arm, not caring if she actually hit. Her legs gathered strength, and through her control over the force, she jumped high enough to smash through the vent's cover, which was flimsy and brittle. By now, all of the droids had refocused on her instead of her cloak, that had probably nearly combusted from all of the laser fire. She rapidly pulled herself up into the vent, disabled her lightsaber, and hastily crawled through the vent on hands and knees. She could hear laser fire behind her, following her. Oooohcrapohcrapohcraaaap! her mind screamed at her as her limbs moved fast as she could, before reaching a drop off. She gathered her guts, and began pushed herself along the vent, untill she hit the next floor. She shakily stood up, her legs hurting a little from the impact. "Sheesh...one floor down, nine to go?" She said to herself quietly, before begining to stumble towards the next drop vent shaft, thanking whatever deity and the force had kept her living.

**The Geonosian base was on full alarm now. General Lactivus walked down the hall way to the meeting room signaling the droids in the hallway to keep shooting the vent system until it they could find her. All around the base there were droids attacking vents and looking through them. General Lactivus was calm walking into the meeting room which included Nute Gunray, Viceroy of the Trade Federation; Passel Argente of the Corporate Alliance; Tikkes of the Quarren Isolation League; Wat Tambor, the foreman of the Techno Union; Poggle the Lesser of Geonosian Industries; and Shu Mai of the Commerce Guild. All Enemies of the Republic**

Tikkes: Welcome back, General. Has the Jedi been taken care of?

General Lactivus: Not yet, but by the time she figures out what is going on, it will be the end of her.

**Passel Argente stood up from his chair in the long room**

Passel Argente: We have made every effort to contact the Republic for a surrender, but everyone of your droids say the same thing! 'The general has not ordered such an action, please wait until the order is given'. What trick is this General? WHAT ORDER NEEDS TO BE GIVEN? Ever since Dooku died the chances of surrendering have widdled down to dust! And ---

Poggle the Lesser: **Looked at the General, as if expecting something, like if the General was ready, then Poggle walks out of the room with everyone staring, then they all stare at General Lactivus**

General Lactivus: There is no trick, it's pretty plain to see what fate you all have. **Walks out quickly shutting the door to exit the room**

**The remaining people in the council room were just the few left members**

Passel Argente: What does he think he is doing locking us in here! **Tries to open the door which won't move, but a hidden camera is on top of the door watching**

**The vents of the building were being damaged on purpose, there was only one room the vents would lead the young Seeker Thericia to, this room**

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Master Obi-Wan: Reeta, what I am bout to tell you is secret. No one else can know of this. Do you understand? **Stopped from walking, and is just staring at Seeker Reeta**

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**Seeker Skiv's LAAT landed on a loading pad in Utapau. The ship was greeted by Standard Battle Droids. The ship opened up and the droids looked inside at the clones and saw Skiv**

CIS Droid 1789 - You have been expected and are needed in the Council Chambers. Now.

**The clone pilot nodded symbolizing that he'll be there if anything happened**

Lark docked in the clone space base and told the troops with a serious look on his face before they walked off the ship "No matter what happens you are at my command. Understand?" Lark instantly grew a smile as the dropship doors opened. Lark and the troopers walked in organized fashion and Lark lightly bowed his head to the humans there to greet him and replied "Ah yes, I believe the Commander has some important information to tell me. If I am correct you have some intelligence on the enemy, yes?"

Lark walked with the two humans to the Commander in the bridge and odd enough Unit 675 whispered to him and asked him if they seemed a bit too happy for our arrival. Lark even understood this was still a harsh time of war and anyone in a gigantic space base in outer space is usually the strict ruling type. Lark's face changed from a bright smile to a peak of seriousness as he grabbed the clones shoulder and stared at him in the eyes through the visor in the clones helmet and whispered back to the clone stating "Even you think this is too simple." Lark continued with Jeogar and Theo to the bridge so he can meet the Commander, with a bright smile on his face and his arms crossed and were hidden in his large brown robes sleeves.

Nodding back to Unit 392 Skiv departed with the Battle droids. They led him through many hallways and rooms of various size and occupancy. Finally the arrived in front of a large set of doors. "Enter. They are waiting." With that the droids took up guard position outside the doors. Here goes, Skiv thought as he pushed open the large doors...

Reeta nodded. “I understand.” She understood that she was being let into secrets and getting involved in things that nobody of her age or rank would normally be let anywhere near. The question of why she was being told this bothered her momentarily but she dismissed it for now, instead paying close attention to what Master Obi-Wan said.

**Master Obi-Wan took Seeker Reeta by both arms and whispered in her ear as quietly as he could possibly be without spilling any information into the air**

Master Obi-Wan: On the Planet of Felucia there is something buried beneath the ground. Something that has never been seen by a Jedi. There is and intact ancient jedi temple. The only problem is is that we are not able to open it. This is where you come in, you and your fellow seekers, you all hold the key to our survival . . . we need you and your fellow seekers to arrive at Felucia. We are heading first to Felucia as scouts. Hopefully your ready.

**Master Obi-wan walks fast to the launch pad near the temple signaling for her to follow quickly**
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**There was no one in the room that Seeker Skiv entered, just a long table with chairs under it. There was a beeping noise in the room**

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**Commander Jeyo was pacing in the bridge seeing that Lark had finally arrived, he signaled for the two escorts to leave and he turned to lark**

Commander Jeyo: I apologize for my escorts being useless when it comes to giving you information. They try their best. **The Commander, walks around the space hologram in the middle of the room** We have a problem Jedi. We were picking up signals of and distress waves from a ship not to far from here. On the planet of Naboo. When it neared the planet it vanished. How does a whole Republic Star Destroyer just vanish out of thin air?

Seeing no one was inside and hearing the beeping noise Skiv looked around for the source. There were two things he could think of that would make such a noise. One was a communication device of some kind, the other was a bomb. He greatly hoped it was the former. He began by looking on the table and then searched all of the individual chairs...

Reeta stood for a moment in stunned silence before hurrying after Master Obi-Wan. She hadn’t been expecting that revelation, but surprised as she was she was also excited to be involved in such an important and interesting mission. She reached the launch pad a moment behind Obi-Wan and waited for him to lead them to the ship that she assumed would take them to Felucia.

Thericia ducked and covered, and did seven other dodge manevers trying to save her hide from the blasters. Apperently, the order had been given to try and blaster everything! She had a lot of close calls, and even got skimmed a few times. But all in all, she navigated down the one vent that didn't lead to getting blasted to bits. It was one to a small room. She peered through the grate. A few...people were in the room, near the doorway. She didn't know what was going on, but this definitely wasn't a cell block. She bunched up, before placing a harsh boot to the grate, and caused it to fall to the ground, with a loud clatter. She too, dropped from the vent, behind all of the people in the room. With a casual brush of her hair out of face, she looked over them.

"If you've got weapons, I suggest you disarm yourself, now." She said calmly and seriously.

Lark entered the room and the escorts left immediately. Lark met Commander Jeyo and he told him about them picking up signals of distress waves from a ship heading towards Naboo. Lark haven't been back to Naboo in a few years and he was surprised to hear that Naboo is somehow possibly involved in this. Lark stood in confusion and he only replied "There could be a number of reasons commander. Radar Jammer could have possibly been tampering with your signals. Most likely in my personal oppinion, maybe you got some faulty equipment or crew whateever you prefer. I wish I could offer any intelligent advice on what happened to your ship. However I'd like to hear your personal oppinion commander." Lark approached closer to the hologram as if he were having a live conversation with it with a serious expression on his face. Lark wouldn't truly know what had happened but it was just like him to be smart and take charge at the situation.