Star Wars: Age of Peace-Chapter 2: Attack on the Jedi Temple

Deveste blocked the attack, but was caught off guard as the mask covering his face loosened and fell to the floor. His sharp red eyes and veiny white skin pierced Frey as they continued their fight.

Malewa was too preoccupied on his and Saren's fight with the super soldier Adam. The two backed up in fear as they continued to block strike after strike from the large Sith. Libb and the other padawans finally reached the bottom of the stairs and he rushed the other ones to the escape shuttles in the hangar. He turned and took notice of the battle going on between the two padawans and the Sith Lord. He quickly jump in front of them and started fighting with the monstrous man.
"Get out of here!" Liib cried.
"We-sa not leavin' you here," Malewa said.
"Go now!" Liib said. "I'll be right behind you.
Malewa and Saren glanced at one another in doubt and fear and then ran off towards the hangar.

Torn and the Wookiee sent sparks flying all over the main hall as they clashed.
"<I'm going to kill you, Jedi scum,>" the Wookiee roared.
"Sorry," Torn said. "I don't speak Wookiee."
Torn got a lucky strike and severed one of the Wookiee's arms sending him back in agony. Torn then moved to help the padawans.

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!" laughed Deveste, hacking and slashing at his old master before shooting lightning bolts into her and sending her flying backwards. "The stupid slug! Ran right into my sword! HAHAHAHAHAH!"

He blocked her attack and fought back hard, his laughter growing louder and louder with each strike.
"Killed the slug! Killed the master!" he sang as he went back into the motions of striking at his master again and again.

"We-sa gotta help dem!" Malewa said.

Liib felt himself growing tired in his fight with Adam. The brute was more powerful than he had anticipated. Luckily, Torn raced to his side and the two focused their efforts on the massive Sith.

"We-sa can't be leavin' dem behind!" Malewa cried over the shrieks of clashing lightsabers.

Malewa looked back at the battle in the main hall and then back to Saren. He ignited his lightsaber and charged back into the battle.

Malewa engaged in combat with a Sith clone and a padawan, easily taking down the padawan then focusing on the Sith which took slightly more effort, but ultimately was finished by the Gungan before he moved on to more enemies.

RS-X13 ran up behind Deveste as he fought.
"The Jedi are evacuating," said the droid. "Our job is done, Kronus has decreed a retreat."
"A retreat?" said Deveste. "Why would I do that when I'm having so much fun."
The Sith Lord swung his saber at the Jedi master and flung her backwards once more with the force.
"We are to burn the temple to the ground with the remaining Jedi inside," said X13.
"There's no way, I'm leaving here until my saber cuts through Frey's throat!" said Deveste.
"Your chances of surviving the blaze are--"
"Do you droids ever shut up?" Deveste leapt towards his master, sabers at the ready, third blade flying closely behind him.

"<You should suit up too, Condrez,>" Jubb Nubb said.
"<Oh, but watching them is so much more fun,>" Condrez said, speaking Ewok.

"<The three of you are going to drift from here a few yards to the station,>" explained the Ewok. "<The trash compactor flushes out every few hours and by my calculations the dump shoot should open soon and you'll have approximately five minutes to get in and climb into the compactor. From there you'll need to work your way into the station, find yourselves a few disguises, and make your way to the hangar. The ship is called "The Moon Slayer." It's the big one with lots of laser turrets and a Zillo Beast painted on the side. There will likely be a lot of guard posted around it, but don't worry about them.>"

Rectar laughed.
"That's rich coming from the woman who exiled me," he said. "Rectar's too dangerous. Isn't that what you told the Council?!"
Rectar shot a bolt of lightning at Frey.

Malewa ran up behind the battle between Adam, Torn, and Liib. The Gungan swung his blade at the Sith Lord who blocked the attack.
"Malewa!" cried Liib. "I told you to get out of here!"
"Me-sa not leavin' you behind!" cried the Gungan.
Adam went to swing at the apprentice and was suddenly swept backwards. Master Cregan Judis had arrived with both his green and purple sabers ignited.
"Get everyone out of here!" cried the pure Sith.
The two older masters took Malewa back towards the escape vehicle. Cregan turned and saw Deveste zapping Frey and pushed him back with the Force.
"Rectar?" he said, seeing who it was.
"Cregan," Deveste said, standing back up. "The Sith Jedi. The ultimate paradox."
"You were a mistake we never should have made," Cregan said.
"Soon they may think the same about you, Sith," Deveste replied.
The two clashed in combat lightsabers striking as Cregan tried to fight off the three blades with only his two.

Deveste used a huge rush of power to force push his opponents away. He charged to strike at the Padawan but felt something overcome him. He dropped his sabers and fell to his knees.
"No!" he cried. "Not now! You were supposed to stay asleep!"
"I won't let you hurt them!" he said in a slightly different voice.
"You don't have a choice," he said to his other self.
"Go now!" he cried to the three Jedi. "I can't hold him much longer."
"Shut up, you idiot!" he shouted, picking up his sabers and igniting them.

Cregan pushed Rectar off his feet again and ran after Frey and the Padawan as the last of the Jedi made their escape.

RS-X13 and several Sith warriors shot flamethrowers across the temple. The Sith began their retreat as they watched the temple burn. The droid recovered Rectar from the flames and carried the unconscious Sith from the burning building. Rectar woke up on the ship taking them all back to the Sith base.
"Damn," he said.
"We have confirmed that Frey was among the living survivors," X13 said. "It appears your plan to kill her did not go as well as you'd hoped."
"Shut it, you scrap heap," Deveste said. "I didn't think he'd try to stop me."
"To whom are you referring?"
"I said shut it, Bolts!"

The padawans and Jedi masters in the escape ship sat in mourning over their lost comrades and the burning ruins of the Jedi temple.
"Where do we go?" asked Cregan, breaking the silence.
"I know a place," said Torn.
"Me-sa sorry about Masta Gutta," said Malewa to Frey.

"Rectar was always stronger than we gave him credit for," Cregan said. "Clearly he's not right. When he left us he was messed up, but not like that. Something's happened to him. But what?"
"Where are we going Torn?" asked Liib. "Where is this place you say you know?"
"Some place we can lay low for a while," said Torn.
"Where exactly?" pushed Liib.
Torn took a deep breath. "Alderaan."

"Hey, check this out!" said one of the guards aboard the space-station orbiting Lothal. He pointed to one of the holoscreens that was displaying a news report on the burning Jedi Temple.
"Breaking news today as the Jedi Temple was set ablaze during an invasion from unknown forces," said the announcer. "Witnesses claim that ships full of what appeared to be Sith soldiers unloaded around the temple and burnt it to the ground. No word yet as to where the Jedi have fled, but so far it looks like their numbers have been significantly cut down."
Behind them the guards didn't notice the three figures of Thagusa, Reyuun, and Condrez sneaking up behind him. Condrez pulled his vibroblade and grabbed it by the blade. Then he smacked both guards over the head with the hilt, knocking them out cold. He tapped a few keys on the keyboard while they all started climbing out of their space gear.

"The bird we're looking for is in hangar F," said Condrez. "But everything looks like it's on high alert. Some Wampa scat's just burned down the Jedi Temple and now the entire Union is putting their guards up."

"It might actually make things easier," Condrez said. "Sure, they may be on high alert, but on this outpost they employ reserved soldiers so most of them are porbably on their way to the temple. We better move fast."