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The False Apocalypse

The Zate Saga

 

Chapter 6

 

Victory and the Announcement

 

 

Dozens of Sith leaped down from boxes and access holes in the walls of the massive storage room Some with only one lightsaber others with two and a few like Darth Maul all flooded with enough killing intent to knock out a bear at thirty paces.

 

---With Nazomishi---

 

“Foolish move Emperor.” Nazomishi looked around at four Sith who had surrounded him and he used the force to detach two more Lightsabers hidden under his robe. He used the force to attach them to his feet while activating them and smirked. “Foolish indeed.” He leaped at one of them hacking away with the blades on his upper body while flipping over upside down. The blades from his hands were blocked by the Sith he attacked as well as another, the combined force of witch propelled him into the air where he overpowered one by axe kicking him in half with his Lightsaber.

 

As Nazomishi landed and adjusted his footing he turned his head to the remaining three not making full eye contact and said. “Do you surrender or are you next?”

 

---With Yoda---

 

Yoda looked at them and back flipped over to where he could face them all at once and in mid flip used the force to yank a large box of supplies out of its stack to land on them as he landed himself. “Many, but weak with the force they are.”

 

---With Sano---

 

“Come on five on one hardly seems fair, could you go find a few more, I'll wait for ya.” The Sith looked on confused but started laughing at the extreme overconfidence of the man as he withdrew his massive Lightsaber. “Look to make things fair I wont use the saber.”

 

“He's an idiot, I'll take him alone.” One Sith stated, taking a step towards Sanosuke

 

“Ok you guys really have no brains.” They smirked as his words and the one charged at him only to receive a force empowered punch to the stomach as he moved around the lightsaber. Sano then leaped up into the air and delivered a powerful axe kick to the ground letting the force ripple through the level and produce a gaping hole in the floor; sucking all of his opponents into another holding bay where they fell to their doom.

 

“Told ya you should have fought me together.” Sano stated triumphantly.

 

---With Hiko and Kenshin---

 

“So how many do you want Gaki” Hiko stated while removing his hood.

 

“I guess I'll just take the ones you leave for me that I will.” Hiko bent down and placed his hand on the floor picking up a massive floor tile with the force and the Sith leaped away. “Figures …” he then began making it spin rapidly and threw it at the Sith while they were still in mid jump. Only half of the ten Sith escaped by cutting it with their lightsabers in such a way that they could slip past the massive block. Suddenly all of them were floating in the air holding their necks as Vader's apprentice showed himself once again. “Very good my apprentice *breathing*, Now finish them.”

 

“No Vader leave one, we need to know where he is training the rest of them.”

 

“ *breathing* Your point is quite valid. *Breathing* However there are only a hand full of Imperial facilities capable of training that many in the ways of the force. *Breathing*”

 

“Bother not, already know that I do.”

 

Vader's student suddenly electrocuted them all and dropped their bodies to the ground. By now the room was covered with the mangled corpses of the many Sith ordered there by the emperor. All of which were dead, this much was blatantly evident by the saber marks and large objects crushing their bodies.

 

“Then we are off to the facilities?” Nazomishi walked over to Yoda then looked at Vader.

 

“You may not have our trust but you clearly have a chance to earn it.” He reached out his hand to Vader but his apprentice took his arm and pushed him away giving Nazomishi a glair as if to protect his master from those unworthy to grace his presence.

 

“ *breathing* Starkiller, from now on these are the ones we fight by *breathing*.” Starkiller stepped aside and walked away to be alone with his own thoughts. He was clearly angry and enraged by something, always on edge. Vader feared he had trained him a little too well in the dark side.

 

“It would seem your apprentice is very loyal that he is.” Kenshin attempted to smile at the heavily armored warrior but found himself too concerned for Starkiller's volatile emotional state.

 

“ *Breathing* Yes, loyal but unstable, I was hoping I could use that to destroy the Emperor. *Breathing* Now I fear it will turn him down his own path.” Vader was going to continue, concerned for the boy himself but was o so rudely interrupted by a certain bruit with a need to be loud.

 

“Oy guys we still have a Death moon to blow up, remember?” All remaining in the room turned to Sano nodding or accepting his statement in their own way.

 

“Sano's right we need to blow it up before the Emperor sends in TIE's to hinder our escape.”

 

The large group made their way to the main reactor and placed a series of explosives around primary stability computers as well as a few near the reactor's core. It was sure to be a truly marvelous sight. With all the bombs in place, they contacted the two members they had left back at the Docking bay, Kaoru and Kenji. After receiving the location of their escape ship they made their way back through the corridors of the battle station and made their escape. Much to their surprise and relief all ties or other minor ships had been ordered to leave the area, by order of the Emperor. Apparently the Emperor knew that were his Sith to fail the Death star would blow up and destabilize any minor Spacecraft in the area only causing a worse defeat.

 

 

 

--- Two days later, Zate Battle Ship---

A red haired Jedi was running through the ship with a communicator in hand. She ran down the corridors in a hurry, apparently looking for someone. After a few moments she turned a corner leaping into the air and kicking off from the wall at the corner immediately running flat into Mace Windu. Both fell to the ground, landing in an awkward manor.

 

“!!!… Rei? Rei what are you doing you know Nazomishi hates people running in his ship.” The ship was one of four stolen Acclamator I-class assault shipthe group had captured in a raid. It had been modified with a small army of droids to perform many of its functions. Virtually every turret was manned by a set of droids designed specifically for that purpose. Its ability to carry vast amounts of troops had provided the perfect base for the large number of Jedi held onboard and currently acted as the command center for both the Jedi and the Zate.

 

“… Master Windu?… Master have you seen Nazomishi I have a report to give him. It's urgent.”

 

“Master Nazomishi?… He's probably in that lab of his working on that metal again. I don't know how many times I've told him its useless to use that material but he just won't listen. Why, can't you find him? You are his apprentice after all.”

 

“THANKS!” She leaped up off the floor and was gone in a wave of dust, not even paying attention to Windu's final comment.

 

“…Something urgent huh?” `I swear that man is either clueless or far too obsessed with his hobbies.'

 

When she finally arrived at the lab she knocked but got no answer, after five minutes still no answer. So she finally decided just to open the door anyway. Nazomishi was there asleep with his head face down in a pile of Nextor Crystals. She decided to wake him, pouring a cup of cold water on his head.

 

He shook his head flinging the water everywhere “…oro…???…..IV GOT IT!” Nazomishi flung his hands into the air in exclamation before pulling out a sheet of paper and beginning to write down all kinds of what seemed to be random scribble… It took him a few moments but he eventually realized that he was not alone. Looking up his eyes narrowed while his mind attempted to process that someone was standing in front of him.

 

“….Rei?….What are you doing here?” He inquired, not even realizing that he was drenched in water.

 

“Uh I came to deliver this message you got from …” He grabbed it from her hands and opened it taking a quick look at the contents of the folder. “…YES!… I was RIGHT!” Nazomishi leaped from his chair and grabbed Rei's arms and started slinging her round and around dancing around the room. “I did it, by the Force I did it!” the awkward situation caused Rei to blush at her Master's actions but was rather happy none the less.

 

“Uh what is it you did?”

 

They stopped and Nazomishi gave her a cold stair before busting out into a fit of laughter. “What do you think I've been doing all this time! He smiled and dragged her over to his work station. “See here, once we combine the materials in the shipment mentioned in the paper you just gave me with the Nextor crystals charged with the force… I will be able to make fully stable pieces of armor capable of withstanding the blade of a lightsaber!.”

 

“By the Force… Could it really be that powerful…” She could sense the full meaning behind his words. He didn't mean that it could defend a lightsaber. If his belief was correct then it would fully stop anything short of a lightsaber attempting to torch its way through.

 

“That and more my young Padawan, that and more. With this mixture it should be stable enough to lace cloth with making it practically immune to all lightsabers not functioning by way of Nextor crystals. And even at that they will need to be very pure crystals with a lot of Force endowed within them. We could make light weight body armor capable of stopping even that. Although… the really bad part is we simply cannot get enough of the materials.”

 

“Wait I thought that's what the shipment was for!” That was particularly flabbergasting. All this excitement and the thing he was happy about wasn't enough.

 

“It is…” They stared at each other for a moment with very serous looks on their faces when Nazomishi cracked a grin and said “BUT it will be plenty to build a full set for all the Masters and their direct Padawans.”(in a very Urahara moment) “Gather the Masters and their students I have an announcement to make.”

 

“Yes SIR!” She ran out of the room to gather everybody to the control room. After she was gone Nazomishi began talking to himself.”

 

“And you will be in for a rather large surprise yourself Rei.” He smirked as he turned to his equipment and called for some druids to carry the materials to the construction lab.

 

---30 minutes later in the Control room---

 

Nazomishi stepped up onto a small platform and cleared his throat.

 

“May I have everybody's attention! Not long ago we received a shipment that I ordered a few months ago. It took a long time to gather and ship everything I've needed but it is all here. Last night I had a revelation confirming my suspicions. I have discovered a way to condense and magnify the blast door material by way of Nexor crystals. With the proper preparation I should be able to create enough breast plates, arm, shoulder, leg, and thigh guards to protect everyone in this room. In addition I should have enough left over that should I succeed; I could lace our robes with this material so that only rare and volatile lightsaber could cut it.” At this point most the room's jaws might as well have been on the floor, were that physically possible. None of them had thought it could be done, and yet… it had. Sure it had taken the man a few decades but he had done it.

 

“Oh that reminds me. The reason I chose these materials is due to a breakthrough I had about a month ago. By filtering the force through a wall made of several of the materials I ordered, we can stabilize the Nexor crystals while maintaining their potency. In addition the left over material from the Force filters should be enhanced by the Force and Nexor…I should be capable of creating normal blades with an effectiveness relatively close to that of a standard lightsaber but fully capable of blocking lightsabers in standard combat. I may not know the full effects of the filtration yet but that is my theory and am quite excited to see the results.”

 

“Master Nazomishi, I know you have been working hard on this but what is the point? The Jedi have never used armor to block light sabers, it is simply not reliable. And swords? What's the point?”

 

“This is the point Master Windu. Now that we are fighting a fully operational Sith we can go in with fewer members and achieve a more assured victory. As for swords, its still in testing and theory. However, should it work the members of the Zate and Jedi we have taught our styles to should have a much easier time utilizing the techniques of our style. Attacks like My Sora Wari (sky cutter) which requires a solid blade or the many other attacks which utilize pure force to manipulate the ground and air. Returning Battojutsu to our style would prove most beneficial. As for the armor, I am well versed in constructing armor with freedom of movement in mind as much as defensive ability.”

 

“I see, then how long will it take to create these weapons? We cannot wait too long to strike the Sith or our window of opportunity will vanish.”

 

“All in all everything should be operational within the month. We had not planned on attacking the possible Sith training facilities for around that anyway so our time tables shouldn't change by much. We need to wait at least three more weeks to add some level of surprise to our strike.”

 

“Another topic to discuss we have.”

 

“Yes, we need a plan for attacking these bases.” Master Windu answered, knowing this was very important.

 

“I have already been working on one.” Aoshi stated standing up and walking to the screen hologram projector. “We have determined from Darth… Um Anakin… that all possible Sith facilities are located on Coruscant . Here are the eleven most likely places since Anakin and Starkiller have already investigated six of the original count. My original plan was to send ninety Jedi into each facility along with a Master and his or her Apprentice. Once each location has been confirmed as a Sith Facility or otherwise we will contact the others with the result and the remainder will be sent to the functioning facilities as backup. However, considering Master Nazomishi's breakthrough I would suggest we still divide our forces but only send in an armored Master and Apprentice initially for confirmation to cut casualty cost in case of a trap.”

 

“I agree with this plan any others?” Nazomishi said

 

“Agree with this plan I do.” Many more began raising their hands until Master Yoda said that it was settled.

 

“Now we have two more topics for this meeting. One I request that after the meeting everyone here accompanies me to training room three to endow the force into the Nexor Crystals. The other thing… Rei would you please step forward.” Rei blinked, not having a clue what this could possibly be about. It was rare for apprentices to have much of anything to do with these meetings.

 

“Yes Master?”

 

“Over many missions you have proven yourself as a capable member of the Jedi and as you teacher I would request that the council consider that you take the trials to become a Jedi Knight.” The Council began talking away and after several moments Yoda spoke up.

 

“Agree with you the Council does, take the trails she will. From the day she joined our ranks, a powerful ally she has been. A strong heart and stronger will she has. Wish you the best we do.”

 

“Thank you Masters I am truly Honored.” Rei bowed to the council, humbled that she would be held in such high regard among the Masters.

 

“Now I have one final question for you Rei. You have been my apprentice for many years and I feel you are one of us in more ways that simply being a Jedi. I would ask you if you would join the Zate, to come with us once our time in this dimension is over. After a great deal of thought Masters Yoda and Windu have already agreed. As have most the Apprentices to the Zate. What do you say?”

 

“Absolutely Master!”

 

“Then if there are no other matters I believe Yoda wanted to say something to close this meeting.”

 

“Yes.” Yoda grunted as he stood up and walked over next to Nazomishi. “Nazomishi has calculated that in this dimension short their time is, under a decade should correct he be. New Masters appoint we must. Capable of carrying on the Jedi they must be. Master Windu and I, leave this dimension we will when leave the Zate does. Many strong Jedi go with them they will. One request I ask of you. Consider the Knights you must. Strong, wise, full of spirit they must be. Know the ones you will, choose wisely you must. Rebuild the Republic you must. A decade we have but no more than that… Dismissed”

 

The Jedi spent the next week endowing the force into the materials necessary for Nazomishi's items before getting their best engineers on molding the metals. The smelting, hammering, bending, lacing and forging went on for three weeks till they were finally done with the sets of armor. It took another week to lace the cloaks and another two weeks of all the best forgers to create the blades Nazomishi wanted.

 

When all was said and done Nazomishi had added one thing to the Cloaks. He added a symbol to the back of them. The newly created seal of the Zate. He planed on creating multiple divisions within the Zate with the same number of seats as Captains. The seal was a symbol of the division. Every seal is that of a Sakura tree as the sun breaks through the leafs raising over head at dawn. Each division had different colored leafs for the tree and a lightly embedded kanji for the division number. Nazomishi's division 1 was a tree with Blue petals. Division two was Kenshin with a normal Sakura tree due to his normal clothes which he still wore beneath the Robe. The third Division would be lead by Yoda with a Green tree as its symbol. This caused a few laughs among those who would end up under him considering it was his skin color.

 

It was decided that each division would have a Captain, a Vice Captain and twelve seats. However, it was up to the individual members of the Zate as to which division they were assigned since there were no where near enough members to fill all three of the current divisions.

 

So far the divisions consisted of the fallowing.

 

Division 1

 

Captain: Nazomishi Mitsukoi

Vice Captain: Rei Witok

First seat: Aoshi Shinomori

 

 

Division 2:

 

Captain: Kenshin Himura

Vice Captain: Hiko Seijuuro

First seat: Kenji Himura

Second seat: Kaoru Himura

Third Seat: Sanosuke Sagara

 

 

Third Division:

 

Captain: Yoda

Vice Captain: Mace Windu

First seat: Mitna Kantork

Third seat: Will be Mitna Katok should Vader…Um… Anakin Skywalker Truly end up good and decide to come with us.

 

 

This was the decision made after several days of signing up and such. In the end nearly 20 Jedi Knights decided to come with them but it was decided that only those strong enough to hold their own against a current seated member could become a seated member or defeat a seated member in a spar to gain their seating. The Zate was still small but their numbers were truly growing.

 

Many were drawn to the Zate, especially the few who held some level of discomfort with the strict rules of the Jedi. It made Anakin feel right at home. In a lot of ways he wished the Jedi were the Zate. Had that been, perhaps Padme would still be alive. He was quite pleased to see Kenshin so happily married and as one of their leaders that was a dramatic statement in his eyes.

 

Yoda, the Captain of the third divisions was a man of dramatically mixed emotions about the Zate. A great many debates had be held between himself and the other leaders long before deciding to join them. At first everything seemed to dangerous to him. So many of their thought processes seemed too much like the Sith. It made him think deeply about the Jedi's own theology and whether or not it was as good as he thought it to be.

 

One such debate was in regard to emotion. To the Jedi it was essentially a sin to harbor any strong emotion. There was supposed to be serenity and unconditional love. Anger, hate and negative emotions were especially frowned upon. The Sith relied on passion, ate and anger. The Zate on the other hand had come to another conclusion. Their conclusion was that none could live a full and complete life without some degree of every emotion.

 

To Yoda it was a dangerous notion for any force user to rely on anything similarly to the Sith. Windu completed the Zate's theology with some valuable insight from his Vaapad fighting style. Emotions can be a powerful ally and a powerful enemy. This was especially true when it came to negative emotions such as anger and hate. If the Zate were to use them then they must learn to harness those emotions and control them. Among the first few of the Zate's original writings was the statement. “The Zate encourage the feeling and use of all emotions, for a life without them is incomplete. Be wary, while essential to a complete life, strong emotions on any subject can lead one down a dark and volatile path. The Zate are masters of their emotions and servants of none.”

 

The Zate embraced the idea that none are perfect and that everyone must always strive to become a greater person. Not solely in knowledge, wisdom, or power, but as people; friends and allies to those in need, a people who at some significant level truly care for the wellbeing of the common man. In many ways they took the best of the ideals utilized by the Zate and the Sith to achieve a doctrine with a purpose not that dissimilar to the Jedi. Granted their methods could go a little further than some would like but the key to it all was balance.

 

After a great many debates over the past two decades Yoda had in many ways come around to the Zate's ideals. He could see the need for balance and how their insistence on some rules had in essence caused young Anakin's revolt. There were a number of ideas he particularly disliked but also saw how useful they could be, were certain unpredictable events to occure.

 

Luke though raised by the Jedi unlike his sister had decided to stay in this dimension and is currently one of the favored choices to take Yoda's place as the Grand Master of the Jedi the Council.

 

By the time the armor was finished Anakin himself and his apprentice Starkiller had destroyed all but three of the possible training faculties and had received intelligence pointing himself to the one place where they should strike. A place which they all felt was rather stupid and obvious but was surprisingly well guarded. A massive underground facility under the old senate building. Another was found to be secretly active within the old Jedi Academy on the planet though most of the place looked deserted.

 

 

 

--- Above Coruscant Zate battle ship the day of the attack---

 

“General Mai, bring the ship around to the Eastern corner of the planet.”

 

“Yes Sir!” Yoda stood from his position and began walking to his ship.

 

“General Mai have faith in you we do, Until we return under your command is everything. May the Force be with you.”

 

“May the force be with you!”… she grabbed a ear piece and turned on the com links to all squadrons. “Rogue squadron are you in position?”

 

“Red Squad ready”

 

“Gold Squadron YYAAAHOOOIE!”

 

“Blue Squad ready for battle”

 

“Black squad in position”

 

“… Silver Squad in position”

 

“…”

 

“Squads One through thirty report.”

 

“All squads are ready to go General”

 

“Good Commence Attack!.”

 

Literally thousands of Star ships ready for battle pulled down cloaking devices and paved the way for the Jedi and the Zate to enter the planet through its defensive system.

 

---With the Emperor---

 

“Emperor the Rebels are commencing an attack on the planet. And by the looks of it…”

 

“Good, Crush them.”

 

“But sir there are…”

 

“I said crush them, the Rebels are merely a decoy to let the Jedi through. Send everything within an hour of Hyperspace. I will not have this planet fall to a few thousand Jedi fools.”

 

“Yes My Emperor!”

 

“I will finally be able to crush the Jedi like I should have twenty Years AGO!” His voice became very violent near the end and he unleashed a wave of the force crushing many objects in the room. Much like Vader did when he discovered the death of his wife.