Star Wars Episode X: The Shroud of The Dark Side

Chapter 16:Finn

Finn liked using Rey's office. He knew that he would need to give it back eventually whenever Rey came back. So far the work that had been left for him had been numerous but easy. They had four new Jedi Padawans here now. Alastor's apprentice Jackson hadn't been the only Padawan to graduate to knighthood. Two more Padawans had gone to knighthood as well. Finn had been embarrassed to admit that he didn't know their names and had to keep looking at the sheets he had during the ceremony to know their names are John (Oddily boring name) and Penelope. He really needed to start learning everyone's names. Alastor walked into the office.

"Hey are you ready?"

"Uhhh" Finn had no idea what he was talking about.

"The Black Sun bunker?" Alastor sighed.

"No idea dude." Finn shrugged.

"Maybe I didn't tell you. My bad. Well, There's a bunker on Naboo. That's where they got their army for the attack on Theed. I figured that we could go try and take it. We'll take Jackson with us. Apparently they have a lightsaber there. We should get it back." Alastor said all of this while rubbing his robotic hand.

"Yea, I need some action. Let's do it." Finn nodded, stood up and grabbed his lightsaber.

They walked out and Alastor pointed at his old apprentice in the hallway and Jackson ran up to meet them. The three of them walked to their Jedi starfighters and flew to Naboo. Landing a safe distance away they jumped out and walked up the hill.

"I don't see it." Jackson said, scratching his head.

"You're not supposed to. It is the hill over there. We'll have to wait for someone to come by and join them at the entrance." Finn explained.

Alastor grunted. "Smart. Cut off the chance of a sneak attack."
"How long will that be?" Jackson asked

"Could be all day. We'll have to cross the hill naturally as so to not raise suspicion and then camp out on the other side." Finn laughed at Jackson's face. "I thought Alastor taught you patience!"

"I did! He's just young. The kids these days have no patience." Alastor grumbled and started walking.

Finn and Jackson shared a look and then joined him. They made it across the field and up the hill.

"Jackson, feel the ground." Finn told the young Jedi.

Jackson leaned down and tried digging into the ground but only could move a few inches down.

"There's metal." Jackson reported

"Then we're in the right place." Finn nodded at him. "Good job."

Jackson beamed at the approval and they sat down. To be honest Finn didn't know how this would work. There wasn't any cover and as the hours went by he started to think that their original plan wasn't going to work.

"No ones coming. What if we cut our way in? We have lightsabers. Who even knows if someone is there right now?" Jackson was raising some good points.

"I think you might be right. Let's get down the hill and cut open an entrance." Alastor stood up and they started to walk down the hill. The three Jedi ignited their lightsabers and cut a huge rectangle for them to walk into. Keeping their lightsabers on, they walked through the hole. It was pitch black. The only sound was the hum of the lightsabers and the only light was the blue hue from Finn and Jackson's lightsabers and the purple hue from Alastors. They walked slowly and cautiously and didn't leave each other's sides. Eventually they came to a door. They split up going on either side of the door and Finn and Alastor looked at each other. Alastor made a cutting motion at the door. Finn nudged Jackson and pointed at the door. Jackson quietly moved forward and cut through the door. If fell apart because of the heat from the saber, and Jackson quickly moved back just in case it was a trap. Nothing came. The three of them looked at each other confused.

They moved into the next room and Finn used the light from his lightsaber to find a control panel. He pressed what looked like the lights and all of the lights in the room came on. It was smaller than the first one but still big. There were three entrances to new rooms on each wall, two of the walls had windows that showed droids being made. They looked like the old droids from the clone wars years ago. It was a droid factory.

"What the hell...." Alastor walked over to one of the windows and watched.

Jackson and Finn joined him. They watched in awe.

"This is so much worse than I thought. They're building a huge army..." Finn said horrified.

Suddenly, the two doors opened up on the left of them and five Black Sun members came up.

"Hey, you three!" The member in front charged and fired his gun at them.

Alastor blocked the bolt and it flew back at the guy and hit him square in the chest. Finn and Jackson jumped at the remaining guards and cut two down each. They looked at each other.

"Let's go this way. There must be something there if they came from that way." Jackson explained.

Finn and Alastor nodded and started walking down the hallway. Everyonce and awhile a guard or two would charge out of a room, but the three Jedi were just too strong to deal with. They made it to the end of the long hallway that kept winding and bringing them further down in the bunker. At the end of the hallway and stairs they found a door. It was larger than other doors around them. Finn used the force and pulled the door open. Finn and Alastor walked into the room and left Jackson to guard the door. Inside was a Pedestal with an odd hilt on it. It looked like a lightsaber blade, except it was rectangular and not very fancy. It was grey, with one button on one side of it. Finn walked up and picked up the hilt. He moved it in his hand. Finn and Alastor shared a confused look.

"Is this the lightsaber?" Finn asked.

" I dunno... Maybe. Press the button, let's see what happens." Alastor said mystified.

Finn pointed the hilt upwards and pressed the button. An odd Black blade came out of the hilt. It was almost flat, and was sharp at the end. It made the same hum as a regular lightsaber. Finn had no idea where it came from.

"This is cool. It feels right though." Finn said, moving it around in it's hand.

"Then it's yours. If it feels right, then the force wills it." Alastor nodded.

They left the room and Finn felt better than ever holding the new lightsaber. When they got out of the bunker they flew back to the Jedi temple.

"Did that seem too easy? Like it was a factory and we walked it, beat up like 7 guys and then left. None of the droids even came to get us." Finn said, confused.

"Well maybe it was still a new base. If they didn't have anything important going on, why cover it? Plus if they just started that base and started moving things there and they knew we were looking for them it makes perfect sense for them to tell us the smallest newest base to take, thinking that we had a victory. We got scammed." Alastor grumbled annoyed. "They got us."

Finn sighed. "Idiots probably just forgot that they had moved this lightsaber. That was convenient."

Alastor laughed. "Yea. I was nice to do something with you again buddy. Thanks for coming with, you're doing a good job taking over for Rey while she's gone."

"Thanks. I'll let you know if I find anything else out about anyone. We really need to figure out what's going on with Darth Caedus and the Yuuzhan Vong. Rey doesn't want the Jedi actively in the war because of the last Jedi order. They got too involved at it turned them away from their morals and turned everyone else against them." Finn explained all of this while they walked down the temple.

Whatever happened next, Finn knew that the response by the republic and the Jedi order was critical. The wrong response could lead to total annihilation.