Chapter 1489, Order 66 (ExecuteOrder66) (6)
1489, Order 66 (ExecuteOrder66) (6)
Anakin Skywalker had no idea when and how he left the Council. At the venue, he was walking like a zombie in the square in front of the Parliament Building.
What just happened in the parliament meeting shocked his mind and almost caused him to collapse.
He felt that everything around him was changing, it seemed that everyone was cheating on him, everyone was betraying him! This feeling suffocated him, no one could believe it, loneliness... uneasiness... fear...
Anakin feels that his lover Padmé Amidala does not understand him. She seems to have been paying attention to her political ideas, but has always ignored him who is constantly fighting on the front line...
Him He felt that Darth Malthael had deceived him and turned his mother into a walking corpse, but said that he was resurrecting his mother!
He felt that the Jedi Order had betrayed him. Why was the Clone Army founded by the Jedi Order? What are they planning?
He felt that Master Yoda had betrayed him, because he went to assassinate Palpatine, but did not consider at all how much disaster it would cause to the Galactic Republic if there was a problem with the Speaker!
He felt that Master Windu had betrayed him. He actually betrayed the creed of the Jedi Order and went on a killing spree!
The creed of the Jedi Order? At this point, how much of the Jedi Order's creed is left unbroken?
In the meeting just now, the evidence presented by Speaker Palpatine shattered almost all his illusions and all his persistence for more than ten years!
Anakin Skywalker leaned against a statue. He wanted to find a place to go, but found that he could not go anywhere.
Jedi Temple? What to do when you go back? Go back and face the questioning of Shakti and the others? They will definitely ask why they didn't get rid of Palpatine, and whether there is any special information between themselves and Palpatine.
But how to answer them? Answer them because you started to form an army without the knowledge of the Galactic Republic 13 years ago, and then you joined it yourself?
Anakin just feels like he can't breathe as soon as he returns to the Jedi Temple. The heavy and desperate atmosphere makes people despair.
So, go to Padmé?
No, Padme may not have forgiven herself yet, and he himself has not figured out how to resolve the differences in philosophy between the two. If you go to her with such differences, maybe it will only end in a quarrel in the end.
What then? Barracks area?
The Kamino clones have been disbanded or sent to the extremely cruel northern battlefield, and none of his former comrades are left. Including Rex and the others, during the battle on the planet Onderon, they had infiltrated into the army to fight alongside him, but then as the battle ended, everything was a mess and they were separated from them.
Where else to go? Go to the planet Naboo to be with your mother?
But... she is already a walking corpse... turned into this by Darth Malthael...
When I think of this, Anakin Skywalker's eyes There was a terrifying killing intent.
At this moment, a deep voice suddenly came from behind, "General Skywalker, the Speaker, please go to his office to discuss matters."
Deputy Speaker Mas-A Maida, Anakin recognized this person's voice instantly. Asking the deputy speaker to invite people in person was indeed a big deal, but now Anakin was irritated, so he just said, "You still call me general? The Jedi Order should have been abolished by now." It’s a position within the Republic.”
"You are different, General Skywalker. The only person the Speaker trusts in the Jedi Order is you. He always believes that with your upright character, it is absolutely impossible to participate in those things." Mas - Ameda's attitude at the moment was even a bit flattering, completely different from his firm and mighty look in the parliament hall. In fact, it is not difficult to understand. Despite his tall and mighty appearance, Mas Ameda is essentially a person who immediately licked his face and hugged Palpatine's lap after losing the political struggle.
His true nature is to follow others and flatter others.
"Okay...I'll be right over." Anakin Skywalker stood up from the statue and walked toward the Capitol.
……
"I'm sorry, Anakin." After seeing Anakin, Sheev Palpatine, who was sitting in the center of the Speaker's office, apologized straight to the point, "I have always kept these things about the Jedi Order hidden. You."
"What happened to the Jedi Order? Was it really the clone army that Master Sever Dias signed 13 years ago?" Anakin Skywalker asked. He answered the question that he had always been confused about, "Why does the current Jedi Order feel so strange to me?"
"The Jedi Order has never changed. What has changed is just how much you can see." Palpatine said with a smile, "It is precisely because of their persistence that the Jedi Order has gone through tens of thousands of years and defeated countless enemies. But it is also precisely because of their stubbornness that the Jedi Order finally perished."
Palpatine said, taking out a document from the drawer and pushing it in front of Anakin, "This was after the war broke out, and I suddenly got news that the Republic had a clone army, and then I Send an envoy to the planet Kamino and get the authorization document from them..."
He pointed to the long series of numbers on the document and the signature below, "The person who signed the document was the Jedi Order at that time. A member of the Supreme Council, Master Seve Dias, and this plan involves an extremely large amount of funds and military industrial orders, it is also Master Seve Dias who runs between the Quat Power Shipyard and the Interstellar Banking Association. The support obtained by Zhou Xuan is the credit of our Galactic Republic."
"In other words, they are sure that the Republic will pay for this huge sum of billions?" Anakin Skywalker frowned.
"If war does break out, there is no doubt that the Galactic Republic will foot the bill." Palpatine said.
"What did they say about the Jedi Order?" Anakin asked.
"Just now, Master Shaak-Ti gave me a formal reply - the Jedi Order only learned of the existence of the clone army after the war broke out, and Master Seve Dias never There was a report on this matter. And according to the time when the document was signed, Master Seve Dias was just expelled from the Supreme Council a few days ago. "Isn't that familiar to Pal? Patin said still smiling.
“Familiar?”
"Yes, before this assassination attempt against me was launched, Master Yoda had just quit the Jedi Order..."
(End of this chapter)