Anuvuin: episode #21 The Invasion and the Treaty
Part 2
Previously: 2 Jedi ambassadors were sent to Naboo, and the Trade Federation has started to land battle droids in preparation for the invasion.
Sidious was surprised. He hadn’t expected the ambassadors to be Jedi. ‘”The Chancellor should never have brought them into this. Kill them immediately. And begin landing your troops…get the queen and hold her there.” Nute Gunray says, “You mean you want us to start the invasion. Is that legal?” “I will make it legal. You will crate a treaty and have the Queen sign it. The Senate will ratify it.” With that, Sidious broke the connection. “Rune, start on a draft of the treaty immediately. I’ll send out the destroyer droids to kill the Jedi.” Qui-Gon says, “I sense danger. Let’s go.” They took off running just as the destroyer droids showed up. Obi-Wan says, “I think we’d better contact the Naboo somehow.” “Better not try it from here. We need to get down to the planet.” So, Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon made it back to their ship after killing some of the battle droids that tried attacking them. Qui-Gon asked the ship’s pilot to drop them off at Naboo, and have the ship report back to Chancellor Valorum and Palpatine about this attack. Nute turns to Rune and says, “The Jedi have disappeared!” Rune says, “Their ship is gone! I guess we should inform our battle droids down on the planet.” “Yes,” says Rune. “I just sent the droid army to t he planet. They won’t survive down there. Do you think we should inform Lord Sidious about his turn of events?” Nute says, “No need to tell him until we have something to report.” But suddenly the message light (most of the messages in the stories have been or will be hologram messages.) appeared, and Darth Sidious could be seen. “How are things coming along? Have you killed the Jedi yet?” “Um…the Jedi seem to have disappeared.” “What? Nute Gunray, you can’t even kill two Jedi. I’m sending my Apprentice, Darth Maul, he will deal with them.” After the connection was broken, Nute Gunray says, “ This is outrageous. Things are getting out of hand! Now there are two of them! We should never have made this bargain, it’s getting worse all the time.” Rune Haako nodded in agreement. Now onto Queen Amidala. There is a hologram of Senator Palpatine and they’re talking to him right now. “I have assurances from the Supreme Chancellor that the Ambassadors did arrive. Of course…something could have happened to them…or maybe he really didn’t sent them…” and Palpatine was cut off. Amidala looks at everyone. “Senator Palpatine? What’s happened?” Captain Panaka checks the transmission…”it seems as if they’ve cut all the communication down.” An older guy with a long pointed beard says, “A communication shutdown could only mean one thing: invasion.” Panaka says, “This is a dangerous situation, your highness.” Suddenly a group of battle droids led by Nute Gunray burst in. “Drop your weapons,” says Nute to the people in the conference room. Come with me.” And he leads the group out of the palace, then turns to the head battle droid and says, “Take these people to camp Four.” “Roger Roger…” and the Battle droids and their prisoners break away from Rune Haako and Nute Gunray. Now back to Darth Sidious. “Nute Gunray?” He answers, “Yes, Sidious.” “You interrupted the communication, didn’t you? You should have at least waited until I was done…” he stopped. “Actually, this will work out nicely. Good work. You have landed the invasion now?” “Yes, sir. We have taken the Queen and everyone with us here prisoner.” “Good work now…what about the treaty.” “I forgot to mention it to her.” “You idiot!” “I’m going to tell her right now.” They broke connection and Sidious was thinking to himself, “Good, now they’ll be a reason for her to go to the Senate.” Nute Gunray luckily had not gone far from where the battle droids wand he had split. “Wait, one more thing.” Nute motions for Rune to produce the treaty, which he has just written, and Rune does. “We need you go sign this treaty to make our invasion legal. If you will not comply, we’ll take all your people to camps, and your people will suffer and die.” “I will sign no treat,” she says. “Dang it, she won’t sign. What will we tell Sidious?” “I don’t know,” says Rune. The battle droids again start leading the people to this camp 4 thingy. At the same time as this, the Jedi are running from the huge Droids…and Droid transports. Until next time!
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