It took us another hour to get through the door, even if the work went faster when the hole was big enough to get Yoda through so he could work at it as well from the other side.
Getting their bodies out of the base and back to the surface took another two hours; I did the carrying, naturally.
I put them down on the ground outside the entrance and Yoda looked up at me "Go get hover sled, I will." before starting to make his way up the ramp. I watch him for a moment before turning and heading back into the base to gather some more things, including a couple of the most intact droids I could find. With two of them, I should be able to put one whole droid together from the parts for study. I want to know how their shields work as theirs wasn't shorting against the ground.
When I return Yoda is on his way down the ramp with a hover sled floating behind him. I drop the droids and wait for him to arrive before I lift the bodies onto the sled, along with one of the droids before carrying the last one.
We start on our way up the ramp again and I let him set the pace, before halfway up he shakes his head and jumps up to sit on the front of the sled; glancing back at me and shaking his head before commenting.
"Realize I am old, I need."
I fold my helmet back and continue pushing the sled as I shake my head as I answer "Old maybe...But with age comes wisdom and you are older than anyone I know. Besides, I bet you got at least another hundred years in you, if not more."
Yoda shakes his head and sighs "Perhaps."
We soon reach the ship and lower the hover sled to the deck in the cargo bay. I drop the droid remains to the side before I call Commander Swan down with a white blanket to cover them with.
I shake my head and help Yoda up to his cabin before I head down to engineering to tell my engineers to rig up a cooler rig around the sled.
Can't have Jedi go bad in my cargo bay.
Twenty minutes later I enter the bridge and curl around the pillar "Miss Visa, set a course for Coruscant."
She glances back at me and swallows before nodding "Yes sir. Things went bad?" she asks as we lift off and I sigh, nodding before answering.
"Things went bad. You got the bridge." I tell her before leaving for my quarters.
I enter my quarters and remove the lightsabers from the harness, hanging them on the wall before removing the armor, and then coiling around my pillar while burring up my feathers. That's one drawback of wearing armor, it messes up the feathers something crazy.
Closing my eyes I start to relax, trying my hand at meditating again, but my thoughts keep wandering.
What shall I do now? Do I accept Jedi training or not? Do I go to Naboo and shoot Palpatine in the head if he is even alive yet? Or do I just do my best to make it as I have so far?
I shake my head and sigh. The third one is at least out of the question. Killing Palpatine is a bit like killing Hitler in the Red Alert universe.
You stop the second world war and suddenly you are up to your neck in Psychic Soviet conscripts.
...Besides, it would leave his master alive, Darth P...something. I can't quite remember what he calls himself and even less what his 'public' persona is, and it leaves it open for him to pick a different apprentice which I would have no idea who that would be.
Frowning I uncoil from the pillar and lay down on my pillows. I need some sleep, I can think of this later.
Minutes later I am deep asleep.
A few days later we have returned to Coruscuant and I follow Yoda off the ship onto the landing pad by the Jedi temple. A pair of Jedi walk in front of us, pushing the hover sled with the dead Jedi on it off the ship.
As we step off the ramp he glances up at me "Atreus, invited to stay a small while you are." he says and I frown slightly down at him before answering
"I have not accepted the offer of training yet..." and he nods.
"Accepted you have not. Need to take it up with the council I do. Stay because debriefing of mission, you should. Also...funeral. Just one week, it can all be done in." he answers and I sigh before nodding.
"Very well. One week...Mekak still hasn't found us some cargo droids anyway and it can't hurt to give the rest of the crew another week of vacation. Somehow I doubt they will complain too hard."
He smiled slightly and turned to head towards the temple as I return to the interior of the ship to find a com to inform my crew about the change of plans.