Padmé leaned forward intently as the muun began to speak.

"Darth Plagueis." Yes, this was definitely the Sith Lord that Sidious was speaking about.

"You must be very far in your training as a Sith in order to be able to have access to this holocron. Only the best Sith are destined to have access to this, it shall be passed down from master to apprentice and onward." Plagueis started and Padmé had to fight an eyeroll.

"Force, is he wrong." She thought.

"I am recording this for the purpose that I am unable to achieve my goal of immortal life and so I can pass down what knowledge I have gained to future Sith with the hope that one will unlock the secret to immortality should I fail.." The Sith Lord continued to speak about the manipulation of midichlorians, the past experiments he had conducted, and about how certain Sith legends backed his theories. Padmé was surprised to find out that she knew most of what Darth Plagueis was talking about. It was likely due to the fact that Anakin explained once or twice some of the terminology that was common to most force users. However, the information that the dark lord verbalized was of no use to her. She knew that this was information that Anakin was looking for, thinking that he could prolong her life. But behind the outer shell of those "visions" Anakin was having, she could feel that there was something else going on. This wasn't like his mother. Something else was different about this one...

Padmé continued to listen patiently, but nothing that Plagueis said caught her attention enough to see if it could help her and her husband. She sighed as Plagueis continued to ramble on and decided it would be best just shut off the holocron. Her hands reached over to close the pyramid but just when she thought hope was lost, Plagueis paused, rubbing his hands intently.

"I also have discovered another power that the Sith are able to manifest unlike the putrid Jedi. With proper training, a Sith can learn to actually use the midichlorians to influence the dreams or thoughts of people. This I have successfully mastered. However, thoughts only work on the weak minded as does a mind trick. On the contrary to this, the influence of dreams can be practiced on anyone. This in turn, can create realistic vision-like dreams and cause them to be distressed-"

The senator silently gasped, the puzzle pieces finally fitting into place. This Sith was Sidious' master, and he said that this technique could be learned. Anakin was having dreams such as the ones described above. They caused him great distressed-

Her mouth was now agape as she finally came to a conclusion.

Sidious was the cause of Anakin's dreams.

These were not visions, forseeings of what was yet to come. No, this was just simple 'scare into obedience', something many powerful people used to get what they want. She wasn't going to die in childbirth... unless...

Unless Anakin tried so hard to save her that he lost her...

Lost her either to the force, or lost her because of his fall to the dark side. This revelation Padmé had made her breath catch in her throat, oxygen cut off from her lungs. She choked in surprise, was the force actually with her?

She unconsciously glanced down at her womb, why did she do that? Protectiveness? A sign? Padmé shook her head, that was not of priority at the moment. What was first in her life was trying to get Anakin to see that Sidious was just using him and that his dreams were all rouse.

"-And with that power the Sith-" Padmé's head shot up as her ears now registered that the Sith lord was still talking.

"Magister Damask! Where are you, master?" A tinny voice called out in the distance.

"The Sith will rule the galaxy." Plagueis finished and the holocron faded away as a small droid entered in the background.

"Wait- Damask?" Padmé muttered under her breath. One of her hands found her temples and they began to rub forcefully.

"No wonder he looked familiar, force!"

Padmé recalled the years ago, Magister Hego Damask was the one of the leaders of the International Banking Clan. He helped fund her campaign for Queen and also mentored Sheev Palpatine into climbing the political ranks.

"He was a Sith..." She whispered. Her mind was blown. How much of the politics were corrupted by the Sith? How much of it was just a manipulation to their plans? How much of the true Republic was left?

Stress rocked her body and she shuttered at all the horrid thoughts running through her mind. However, she knew, anything deeply entrenched would take time to uproot. And with that, Padmé reached over yet again for her datapad and worked on the speech for the new empire.

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"I don't like this master," Anakin Skywalker murmured to Darth Sidious, his eyes ringed with fire and topaz flecks.

"Oh you will soon enough, Vader, soon enough, you will." His master responded as they looked out through his window wall towards the Jedi Temple.

"But burning down the entire temple when you announce your Empire? How do you know for certain that they will oppose it?" Anakin asked, flicking a glare at Sidious. The dark lord scoffed.

"Vader, is that even a serious question? You know that they will be opposed to it. So, it is imperative that we are ready to strike when the time comes."

"Yes, master."

"You know where to enter and set the fire, am I correct?" Sidious questioned, his tone a deadly viper, waiting to strike.

"Yes, master." Anakin repeated.

"Good, good; you are a fine apprentice, Vader. A fine one, indeed." The Sith murmured and folded his hands into his deep robe sleeves.

"I sense there is something else you want to discuss, master." Anakin guessed and his master sighed deeply.

"Yes, sit down, Vader." He extended his hand as a gesture for his apprentice to sit on one of the plush office chairs. He himself sat down behind his desk as Anakin hesitantly chose a chair to be seated in.

"Have you heard any news about the Jedi Temple itself as of late?" Sidious inquired casually. Anakin's eyebrows drew together as a wave of confusion radiated off of him.

"Uh- no master, not of late..." Anakin drawled, taking a quick glance at the temple again. Nothing out of the ordinary stood out to him.

"Well, maybe this will clear things." The older man said and threw a datapad into Anakin's lap. Anakin's shook away the shock that was rising and turned his attention towards the datapad.

TEMPLE BREACHED.

The bold letters stood out like a disfigured limb. Anakin's jaw dropped, the Jedi Temple had only been broken into one time and that was when...

"Cad Bane?" Anakin blurted out, anger spilling out from his voice. Sidious shook his head.

"No, that bounty hunter is currently on Corellia. Also, through some of my trusted spies, I have discovered what it was that the perpetrator stole. It is something of interest, I might add."

"Then what is it?" The younger man inquired.

"A Sith holocron-"

"Can't," Anakin interrupted. "No such thing in the Jedi temple." Sidious smirked and laughed.

"I guess another thing that the Jedi lied to you about because trust me, it was a Sith holocron... I can sense it." The old man revealed and Anakin's eyes hardened.

"Typical," He muttered under his breath. "But what is so special about this holocron."

"For one my dear boy, a unknown person is in possession of it. That could led to unforeseen problems. Second, the holocron was the only one of its kind. The only one my master ever recorded."

Anakin's eyes widened, his breath hitched.

"You mean-?"

"Yes, Darth Vader, my master who knew about how to manipulate midichlorians. So, if you can retrieve that holocron-"

"I can save, Padmé." Anakin breathed out, the realization hitting him.

"Yes, yes you can. And I can find out more about how my master's other powers that he never taught me. This holocron can make us both the most powerful beings of all time." Sidious' words slithered into Anakin's ears sweetly. He grinned.

"Where can I find this holocron?" Anakin asked, his heart racing, adrenaline pumping through his veins.

"That is the problem. I do not know where it is, I cannot sense it. However, I do believe that it did not leave Coruscant." Sidious answered as Anakin's face fell.

"I have to search all of Coruscant? That would take ages!" He exclaimed.

"Stretch out with your senses, Darth Vader. I am confident that you will find it sooner than you think." The future Emperor instructed and then waved his hands. "Now leave me. Your former master, Kenobi has engaged Grievous on Utapau and won. Now is the time to finally end it all. I hope your wife has the speech prepared to announce my Empire because tomorrow is the day that the Republic will change forever."

"I will make sure of it, master. Good night." And with that final sentence, Anakin strode quickly out of Sidious' office and made his way towards his transport to Padmé's apartment.

Tomorrow, Anakin would take his place as second-in-command to the Emperor of an entire empire. Tomorrow, he would burn down the only place that he had called home. Tomorrow, he would reveal to the galaxy that he was a Sith. Tomorrow, he was going to have nearly unlimited power, enough to make the galaxy in his image.

Oddly enough, however, the only thing that flowed through his mind was one question.

"Where is that holocron?"

Yay! Part 8. Okay, so yeah, as you can tell, things are gonna get pretty intense. However, this is only about the half way point! \(*0*)/ A lot more stuff is gonna happen so prepare yourselves. Now, a little bit about Plagueis. Yes, he was Darth Sidious' master. I am actually reading the book Darth Plagueis James Lucento. I am only on Chapter 6 because it seems interesting but it's one of those books that you have to plow through first and force yourself to get into before it gets good. So, yeah, I am kinda going slow on it. But if you want more information on Darth Plagueis (a pretty awesome sauce character) go to Wookiepedia. Or just look up his name. You'll find out stuff. Oh yeah, and just like Darth Sidious, he had an alter ego as well, Hego Damask. I am becoming more fascinated with the Sith now. I used to hate them (bad guys obvi) but now, I can't help but be mesmerized by them... but I still like the Jedi better! :)

Anyway, this part is dedicated to annabethgrace6 for being my newest comment-or! Whoo-hoo! Thank you so much! :D

MEDIA IS WHAT DARTH PLAGUEIS LOOKS LIKE. THIS WAS RIGHT AFTER HE KILLED HIS MASTER, DARTH TENEBROUS.