"I am Padme Amidala, the queen of Naboo, and I thank you for your timely assistance." Sabe said as the real Padme and her handmaidens looked at the man who was not a Jedi.
In their defense, none of them knew any other way one could crush droids without touching them like that. But Padme guessed that maybe the man's appearance should have clued them about him not being a Jedi.
After all, she had never heard of a Jedi who walked around with armor like a Mandalorian instead of their usual robes. And looking at that armor she couldn't help but glance at the man's right arm, which was completely covered in silvery metal from his shoulder to his fingertips. She wasn't sure if that was also armor or if it was the single most advanced prosthetic limb she had ever seen.
Still, the fact that he had saved her life and the lives of her handmaidens and the life of captain Panaka didn't change.
"There is no need for thanks your majesty." The man said with a nod after a moment. "But I believe it would be in our best interest to move now, before any other droids find our locations."
"Indeed." And then they continued to follow after captain Panaka, who has been leading them towards an escape ship, but now with a mysterious savior by their side.
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"Master... did you feel that?"
"Yes Obi-wan." Jedi master Qui-gon Jinn said while trying to keep his voice steady so that his padawan could at least try to calm down, not that such a thing would be likely for a while after that shout in the force.
Qui-hon Jinn had once thought that he knew of the dangers of the Force, of the cold feeling of the Dark Side. He had lost his former padawan Xanatos to it and had seen the evils the once bright young man had been so willing to commit for no reason. He thought that he knew of the evil of the Dark Side.
He thought wrong.
The presence that had appeared on Naboo mere moment after he and Obi-wan had landed on the planet was… it was indescribable. If Xanatos' presence in the force had been akin to a deep shadow, then this presence was akin to a storm so dark that the light itself disappeared within and the coldness spread everywhere like a planet made entirely of ice. Qui-gon couldn't help but wonder if this was how someone like master Yoda would feel in the Force if they fell to the Dark Side.
Yet the feel of the presence was not even the worst part, no. The worst part was the Force.
The ever present force field that Qui-gon and the rest of the Jedi would surrender themselves in search for answers was… it was laughing. Mocking their fears and the suffering someone with a presence like that could bring to the galaxy, like it was all a joke.
"We need to hurry Obi-wan, we must get to the queen." Before this thing could reach her first.
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"Captain Panaka, I believe it would be prudent if we were to move faster." I said with a serious voice in order to hide the fact that I was basically about to start asking 'are we there yet?'. Had to protect my image as a mysterious helper of immense power and presence after all.
"There is no need, we have arrived." The captain said before turning to us with a frown. "But we have bigger problems."
By bigger problems the good captain had meant the small battalion of droids that were guarding the escape ship, one had to wonder just how many of these stupid things the Trade Federation had if they could spare this many for one ship.
"There are too many of them." The fake queen said with a furrow of her brows but no actual fear in her voice. Guess one needed to be kind of hardcore themselves if they were to impersonate Padme Amidala. "Do you believe that you can defeat this many droids sir..." And then she trailed off as she looked at me and everyone realized that I hadn't given them my name and none of them had asked for it. Awkward.
"You can call me..." Eh, fuck it. "Perun. Darth Perun, and yeah; I can deal with them." I said with a nod as I cracked my neck.
"Then we leave this to you, sir Darth."
...huh? Did she... did they actually think that my name was...
"Intruders!" I couldn't spent any more time pondering about how little fucking royalty, the government of a whole planet, knew about the Sith as one of the droids noticed my presence and I suddenly had about a few dozen guns pointing at me.
I could have crushed them all with telekinesis but I kind of wanted to exercise a bit so I pulled my lightsaber out and let the orange blade ignite with the iconic hissing sound. Then it was simply a case of slashy slashy that ended with the droids being cut apart, occasionally interrupted by a blaster bolt that I would have to deflect back to the droids that tried to shoot me.
It got so monotone that I decided to use the force again. I gathered a huge amount of air in my palm and then concentrated on the air molecules before pulling my hand near me and blew the air out; creating a huge gust of wind that froze the droids when it touched them.
That was a trick that I had reverse engineered from what I learned from the Sith holocron, and it didn't even use any Dark Side!
After dealing with the droids, I walked back to the Naboo group and had to hold myself back from showing any outward reaction as I saw that the little group had two extras.
"Master Jedi, allow me to introduce to you our savior; Darth Perun."
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