Rise of The Empire

Betrayal

19 BBY~

Grievous was dead. I was waiting with Emerald, Spade and Tavo for Obi-wan to come back and pick me up. Jade felt something more terrible than anything she has ever felt in her entire life. Jade was in the middle of making jokes with Emerald and Spade as she was sitting at their central location with Cody and overseeing the battle so far. Obi-wan rode up quickly on the animal and Cody walked over with his lightsaber as Jade headed towards him.

Emerald had his helmet off so when he smiled at Jade it warmed her heart even though she could feel terrible things happening. Jade couldn't help but walk up to Emerald and wrap her arms around him, to which he seemed surprised of. He wrapped the arm that wasn't holding his helmet around her waist, "Stay safe, Jade."

Jade smiled, "After all we've been through, Gregor and all that. You guys are the people I trust the most."

Emerald, Spade and Tavo all smiled, "We didn't think we mattered before you, Sir, we respect and trust you more than anything."

Jade nodded once more, "Goodbye, gem squad."

They all saluted her and she walked back to the animal as Cody was handing Obi-wan his lightsaber that he had dropped. Obi-wan saw Jade and smiled, a smile that was rare between them and was full of passion and the words, 'glad you're safe' in a non-verbal form. 

Obi-wan helped Jade onto the back of the saddle and it took off up the ramp, as they were running, Jade felt dizzy and the words, 'Order sixty-six' rang through her head. The animal was climbing the wall and Jade saw it, "Obi-wan, jump!"

"What!?" Obi-wan asked as though she was crazy.

"Jump!" Jade said, though she wasn't taking any chances as she heard the tank go off. She pulled Obi-wan off the saddle and threw him off. The blast hit the rocks next to the animal and Jade was thrown off after Obi-wan.

On the way down to the deep pool of water at the bottom of the hole was too long for Jade. At one point she thought she was never make impact with the water as all the feelings and thoughts rang through her head. She could feel every single force-sensitive child being slaughtered at the temple, she could almost see it. She felt and saw Master Fisto's death and she had started crying before she even hit the water. Every emotion was running through her body and anger took over as she felt betrayed. She felt every padawan, every Knight and Master die and she was helpless, falling through air.

She put her hands together and palms towards the water as she made impact. She dove to the deepest part and just sat there. 

She soon started running out of air but she couldn't move, the negative emotions pulling her even deeper. It was when someone grabbed her and stuck her water breather in her mouth that let her breathe again. Obi-wan then looked her in the eyes through the water, bubbles coming out of the breather. He knew what was going on and quickly grabbed her hands, swimming into the darker areas of the pool and out of sight.

They were soon in a cave and Obi-wan pulled Jade up, putting her hands on the rocks and taking his breather out, "Jade, I need you to climb, okay?"

Jade shook her head violently, and Obi-wan sighed, "Jade, climb, now."

Jade was suddenly shaken back into reality, away from her visions and she looked at the top of the rocks and nodded, beginning to climb and soon followed by Obi-wan.

Once they got to the top they just laid down and Obi-wan looked at Jade hopelessly, "What happened?"

Jade shook her head, "The clones--" she paused, the breath completely knocked out of her, "they just turned on the Jedi."

Obi-wan's eyes widened but nonetheless stood up and helped Jade up, "We need to get back to Coruscant."

Jade's eyes searched for a moment and took his hands and nodded. They made their way up to wear Spade, Emerald and Cody were, though she had no idea where Tavo was, he seemed to have disappeared. They snuck behind the pillars and eavesdropped.

"Did you find Kenobi and Terrano?" Cody asked Spade and Emerald and a few other clones.

"Sir, no one could've survived that fall." Emerald replied back to Cody causing Jade to close her eyes. Obi-wan peeked around the pillar and watched.

"Start loading your men onto the ship," Cody ordered the clones.

Obi-wan and Jade quickly made their way to find a new ship to get off the planet. Away from the clones. On the landing platform that Grievous was killed on, a ship that sat two people was there so they took off running.

When they got to the ship, Jade stopped causing Obi-wan to turn around with a concerned look, "What is it?"

Her chest caved in when she took a staggered breath, "I felt them all," she paused running her hands through her hair, "I could feel every Jedi Master, knight and padawan be killed and instead I'm here with you. I should've stayed in Coruscant."

Obi-wan wanted more than anything to hug her but instead he grabbed her hand and pulled her towards the ship, "we must get there now, Jade. I need you to focus."

Jade reluctantly went and got in the ship with him and she was finally in a state of serenity as the ship took off. Obi-wan started getting on radio channels to try and contact someone. Suddenly, a hologram popped up causing Jade's serenic state to fade away.

"Master Kenobi--" Senator Organa spoke.

"Senator Organa," Obi-wan said, almost surprised, "our clone troops turned on us, we need help."

"We have just rescued Master Yoda, it appears this ambush has happened everywhere," Senator Organa spoke causing Jade to put her head in her hands, she already knew this. "We're sending you our coordinates."

Obi-wan nodded as the hologram faded away. Jade couldn't believe what was happening. Jade felt sadness, pain, suffering and anger as she felt all of them die. Anyone who was in the jedi order just died and Jade was useless.

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OMGGG IT'S FINALLY HAPPENED, THE MOMENT, THEEE MOMENT THAT THIS SERIES HAS BEEN BUILDING UP TO. *SIGH* ITS SO SAD, AND IM SO BAD AT WRITING LIKE DEEPLY SAD PARTS.

LETS JUST HOPE IT GETS BETTER FROM HERE, AYE? (JK, YALL KNOW HOW THIS ENDS)

-CHLOE