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IF THEY were going to execute him, then they sure were going to make a big show of it. Because while Cad Bane couldn't see, he still knew that they walked a long time. They went inside lifts. At one point, he was even taken outside into open air, shoved into what he presumed was some kind of speeder, and then flown somewhere. Cad Bane could feel the brisk Coruscant air as they zipped away; the bounty hunter counted the minutes and estimated it was roughly a fifteen minute flight.

Cad Bane started to suspect where they were going.

Eventually, the speeder slowed down and Cad Bane could feel it descend. He heard the engines turn off, and then abruptly his arms were getting tugged off by the overaggressive clone troopers.

"Hey, hey, cut it out, take it easy!" Cad Bane yelled, struggling against them, but their grip was too firm. An arm looped tightly around either of his and he was marched forward, barely able to take a step on his own.

"I can walk, y'know!" Cad Bane growled, of course to no response.

Bane heard massive doors muffledly slide open over the quick-paced footsteps of the clone troopers (he assumed it was still clone troopers; those things were everywhere – it was an infestation) on either side of him. Soon, Cad Bane also heard the murmurings and footfalls of other beings, and inferred from the slight echo that the building he'd been taken into was very large.

He was yanked into another lift, and up they went on a rather long three-minute ride. Not only was it cramped with the two or more clone troopers in there with him, but the elevator music was gradually aggravating.

So Cad Bane was particularly glad when the ride was over and the clone troopers went back to pulling him around. They roughly shoved him out first, causing him to stumble (these guys were such gentlemen), and then in an instant they seized his arms and yanked him back to his feet before he could get up himself.

Cad Bane growled as they dragged him onwards again. He sure was getting sick of this overly physical trip.

Another set of large doors opened and suddenly Cad Bane sensed he had been brought into a large room full of many people. He let out a snarl of shock and pain as he was hit in the back of his knees by what was probably a blaster, sending him falling hard into a kneel.

"Master Jedi," one of the clones said in a low voice. "Bounty hunter Cad Bane."

Abruptly, the bag was jerked off of his head. Cad Bane looked up and his heart sank.

He was now in a room filled with the most powerful Jedi in the galaxy.