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.
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