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"Oh that's evil!" Aayla said, quickly realizing what the two women had planned. Her lips twitched into a wicked smile. "How can I help?"
"Well for a start, I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to teach Harry as much about your version of Force Stealth as you can. You and Master Quinlan are both students of Master Tholme's style and I think it will be essential in the near future."
Aayla suddenly turned serious looking at the older woman as they all three made for the doorway, gathering up Shmi as they went. She had been standing in the doorway, looking around the house for one last time. "Does that mean we are going to the temple?"
"If you can teach Harry how to use your version of Force stealth we will be able to stay there for a day or so, without the disaster, whatever it is, occurring. I will explain in greater detail later," Fay said quietly as they joined the others.
With Anakin surprisingly leading the installation process it was the work of only about 20 to 30 minutes to place the new engine into Padme's yacht and for them all to leave quickly. Anakin joined Padme on her ship, waving a hasty farewell to his mother as he followed Master Qui-Gon and Padme onto the ship.
Shmi joined Master Dooku. They waved farewell to the silver-painted ship as it left for open space, then turned and made their way to the patrol craft. Moments later they too left Tatooine, hopefully to never return.
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Listening to his assassin's report, Sidious seethed with quiet fury. He had hoped Maul would return with news of two Jedi dying. With them and with Naboo's new queen also dead, he could have had some of their pawns push for a vote of no-confidence and gotten elected himself. Not that the young girl couldn't be manipulated, but it would have been nice to be able to place his own direct pawn in her place on Naboo. There was a lot he could have done under that sort of circumstances. But it was the death of two Jedi which he would have truly enjoyed, especially the death of Qui-Gon Jinn.
Instead, his assassin had been stymied by sheer chance. Force take it, with the Veil so strong such chance is supposed to work in our favor alone, not the Jedi's! Perhaps Plagueis is right in that the Veil still needs to be fine-tuned before it's effect is impossible to overcome.
But why Dooku was involved in the rescue operation like that is beyond my knowledge. Perhaps it has something to do with Fay being involved with him now? Damn that woman! Her aura of serenity and good will, even in his mind those words came out as a snarl, has finished undoing all the work Plagueis and I put into Dooku in trying to subtly guide his interests into the Sith!
"Something about this bothers me," Sidious said aloud not realizing he was doing it for a moment. "Were you able to find any survivors of their assault on Jabba's palace?"
"No master, at least none of Jabba's thugs who were there at the time. I mind probed several dozen of Gardulla's people who arrived on the scene after, but they could not tell me anything concrete," Maul replied, his head bowed.
How did Dooku know to be there? How did this group of Jedi realize that this other Jedi was in danger? The Veil should've stopped any such vision, and if it had not, the Council surely would have been able to see it. What is going on here? Sidious thought furiously.
"There are questions here that need to be answered Maul, but I am pleased you knew not to push things," Sidious said aloud, setting those thought aside for the moment. He would get to work on them as soon as he gave his assassin his new marching orders. "You will go directly to Naboo. Take command of some of the Trade Federation's droidekas. We might have to assume that there will be more Jedi assigned to the Nabooan crisis than we previously anticipated."
"I can still manipulate the Queen into pushing for a vote of no-confidence, that is not an issue, but Qui-Gon Jinn must die. He is one of the Jedi who is most suspicious of the Senate as a whole, and I know he has begun to mutter about there being some power behind the rise in the Dark Side. That shows too much perspicacity for me to be happy with. He must die do you understand me apprentice?" Sidious snarled.
"Yes master I will not fail you again," said Maul, bowing his head even further on the other side of the communication.
"See that you do not." Sidious replied, his voice low and dangerous before he cut the communication. Now, what assets can I activate on Serenno and on Tatooine to figure out what happened here…
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During their trip from through hyperspace, Aayla started to teach Harry how to use Force Stealth her way. With their mental connection it was almost easy to get across the ideas, though experience still played a factor. It was a mix of both Force Stealth and Force Cloak, as well as a few other factors, very mild subtle ones, which merged the ability to camouflage yourself into the surrounding environment with a sort of notice-me-not of a sort and covered your own Force presence to boot.
When Harry tested his new abilities on Master Fay however by trying to walk through the sitting area of the patrol craft she shook her head and pointed directly at him. "Not good enough," she said simply.
Across from where Fay was sitting Aayla gaped and the older woman laughed. The sound was like the tinkling of bells in the patrol craft's sitting area, a small bare area, dominated by the bunk beds which lined the walls and which doubled as seats. This was after all a combat ship rather than a personal yacht like Master Fay's.
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