Chương 22: Chapter 22:The Senate Meeting
(AN: This chapter has a cliffhanger, so if you have no patience, I suggest you wait for the next chapter, you have been warned!!, for those who don't care,I hope you enjoy!)
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We just arrived at the senate dome, and we are in the corridors heading for the meeting place, currently we are just Padme, Palpatine and I as Naboo's entourage, some maids wanted to follow us to support Padme, but I convinced them to stay , it would be very difficult to fight while protecting them, and I already have to worry about Padme, I really doubt that the old goat will fall without a fight.
While I was in my thoughts, Palpatine led us to the entrance of the central senate chamber, and went towards a floating platform designed for Naboo representatives, looking around the chamber we can see hundreds of floating platforms similar to ours with the respective representatives of each planet, all lined up along the funnel-shaped room.
While Palpatine stay on the small podium in front, Padme took a seat behind and I sat next to her, but since we entered, I've focused my attention on Palpatine's back, judging by his body language, he seems to be a little nervous, which leads me to believe that somehow, he suspects that something might happen today, which leads me to believe that he felt something through force, maybe a little whisper of warning, but he obviously doesn't know what exactly is going to happen, or he probably wouldn't even be here, so I decide to keep my guard high around him, so I stay close to Padme, ready to defend her, or even launch a surprise attack if necessary, but as I'm not sure if I can currently defeat him , I will just let things happen and wait for the Jedi to arrive soon.
During my little monologue, the chancellor seemed to have given a brief welcome speech and currently faces everyone before saying, "The presidency recognizes the senator of the sovereign system of Naboo", and along with his announcement, Palpatine controls the platform , who gently stands out and begins to move towards the center of the chamber, at the same time that he begins his speech, '' Supreme Chancellor, Senate Delegates, a tragedy happened, which started here, with the taxation of merchant routes. .. '', I stop paying attention at that moment, already knowing more or less what he will say, and while he was arguing with the representatives of the trade confederation, I close my eyes and focus on my connection with the force, through I feel the small marks that I left with mechu-deru on my 3 small droid-bees, as soon as I connect the marks, I pull the 3 droids for my inventory.
Opening my eyes, I put my hands inside my clothes and pull out a Datapad and the 3 bee droids from the inventory, Padme beside me notices my movement and gives me a sideways glance, but just remains silent watching me, then my three small droids connect to the datapad and begin to compile all the images and videos of the invasion that is currently taking place in Naboo.
To be honest, this was supposed to be a Plan B, in case I couldn't convince the Jedi or something went wrong before that, and even if I couldn't expose palpatine with it, at least I could postpone his election as chancellor, which would postpone many of his plans, and it would give me more time to strengthen myself, but now that the Jedi are coming, that plan kind of won't make much difference, but well, it's better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.
After a few moments, all the data collected is compiled in the form of a small chip, I keep the Chip in hand while I keep the Datapad and my little droids in the inventory, before turning my attention back to the meeting just to see Palpatine. take a step back while Padme advanced towards the little Podium, not wanting to get too far from her, I also get up and stand a little behind her, while she starts to speak, '' Illustrious representatives of the republic, I come to your presence at the moment of the greatest danger, the Naboo system was invaded by the army of droids from .. ''
'' PROTEST !! '', before she could continue a neimodian representing the trade confederation interrupts, before going on and saying, "there is no evidence, we recommend sending a commission to Naboo to find out the truth"
And before Padme could say anything, a representative of Malastare, of the Gran race controlled his platform to the center and said, "the Malastare congress agrees with the distinguished representative of the trade confederation, a commission must be appointed"
And with that several voices rise in the chamber, some agreeing and others refusing, looking at Padme she seemed to be biting her lips in anger, she seemed to realize that this was all a scam, and they were just trying to sabotage and delay sending help for Naboo.
'' ORDER !! '' chants Chancellor Valorum before turning to Padme, helplessness could be seen on his face, he seemed to understand that everything was a scam and wanted to help Padme, but with so many voices agreeing he had nothing to do , then he said, "the point is accepted, and unless the Naboo delegation has evidence of his claim, a commission will be sent to ascertain the facts, and this discussion will be postponed, do you agree with that decision?"
I approach Padme right now and whisper in his ear, '' I knew something like this would happen, so I hid droids in Naboo to record the invasion that was going on and compiled everything on that chip, '' I discreetly hand it over to her. .
'' !!!!! ''
She opens her eyes wide when she hears me, and turns to me, "is this real?", Before turning her attention to the chip as if it were a treasure.
"Yes", I answer
She then gives me a look that looked like she could hug and kiss me right now, but with more important things in mind she turns to the chancellor again before saying, "I will not accept it !!, I came here to resolve this attack on our sovereignty, I was not elected to see my people suffer and die, while you discuss this invasion in a commission ''
'' We understand your situation, Your Majesty, but as the motion raised by the representative of the trade conference has been accepted, it is necessary for you to provide evidence of the invasion, and until that happens, a commission will be sent to ascertain the truth, '' he he says helplessly, while Neimodians have a smug look on their faces.
'' Yes, I have such evidence !! '', Padme says with a slightly cold smile, which immediately wipes the smile off the neiomodians' faces.
Valorum looked surprised before a smile appears on his face as well, "if you have the evidence to confirm your accusations, please show them now"
'' Yes, Chancellor '', Padme raises her hands and shows the chip I gave her before inserting the chip in the small droid that has been floating around us since the beginning, at the same time the lights go out and the droid begins to project a huge holographic screen.
Soon the image starts showing the droids marching through Theed, with the citizens fleeing and screaming, some were killed on the spot while others were captured, the driods didn't care if they were children, women or old people, so the image changed to show several citizens in captivity with squad of droids standing guard.
I make a confused face with this, I expected to see the droids wandering around Theed and destroying everything, but the citizens should be hiding, with the preparations we made, it should last at least a few days for the droids to find them, until it occurred to me , * (The droids probably tortured the guards or the council members themselves to get this information, and even though they are loyal, they have no determination to endure torture, I should have expected that, it seems that I am also still a bit naive ) *, I think when the frown on my face becomes more prominent.
I stop thinking about it and turn to Padme, and as I expected, her body is slightly shaking, her hands clenched into fists with her nails almost entering the flesh, while her eyes show pain and confusion when she sees her people suffer.
Seeing her like that makes me furious, and I promise inwardly that the old goat will pay for it, but that is for later, I approach Padme and using the sleeve of my clothes and the darkness as a cover I gently open her hand, before intertwining my fingers with hers, she freezes for a second when she feels me holding her hand and turns towards me.
I look her in the eye before saying softly to her, "I'm here with you, and we're going to work this out together, but you need to hold on, trust me, everything will work out", I squeeze her icy hands gently as confirmation of my words.
She looks at me for a few seconds before putting on a firm expression and gives me a nod, before turning her attention back to the projection, but she doesn't let go of my hand.
Currently the projection is showing a conversation between Viceroy Nute Gunray and a driod commander, "Capture all the citizens of this city, after we capture the queen, we will kill them all in front of her until she signs the treaty, and after that we will execute her too!! '', he said to the droid commander, who confirms the order and walks away.
Another neimodian beside him fearfully asks, "Isn't killing the queen too much? It can lead to problems in the senate"
"It doesn't matter,'he' already controls the senate, so we can only give some advantages and gifts to the right people along with some history and everything will be fine ..."
Not wanting to see more and believing that it is enough, Padme stop the recording, and at the same time the lights come back, and along with angry screams asking for punishment and exoneration for the trade confederation begin to sound through the chamber, looking for the neimodians, they are sweating cold and shivering without knowing what to do in the current situation, and helpless they turn to Palpatine, who simply ignores them, I can feel the anger threatening to explode from him, he doesn't seem to understand where the queen got it time and conditions to make these recordings.
But soon I can feel dozens of force-sensitive beings approaching the room in all directions, surrounding us, and Palpatine seems to feel it too, I can see him getting more tense with each passing second, I discreetly pull Padme by the hand and position her behind me, she looks confused, but before she can ask me who I'm protecting her from, several doors open around the room, and from them a few dozen Jedi enter, with Windu and Yoda in the lead ....
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Barruch
Barruch sorry for the cliff, but i have to stop the chapter at some point, and it is better that it is before the action than in the middle of it, right? besides that it is also not on purpose, i always write two full pages in the translator before choose a point to cut and follow in the next chapter, it helps me to keep the size of the chapters consistent.
And I have to say,this chapter was very difficult to do.
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