RGE Imperial Palace

[Sacrifice]

*Sam watches the lighnting blaze from Ire's hands awwed Anger indeed did make him feel powerful but he didn't know it could do that. That was another thing his father had hid from him.* I got a little info about the situation There is no security record of you giving orders about what took place at that riot. Somebody cleared their tracks. so they couldn't be found. Do you think she did it by herself?

[Luke Skywalker]

While Luke is waiting, he is thinking about what he is going to tell Ire. All of a sudden, he can hear the sound of Force lightning, and hears the scream of a young girl. He can sense her terror through the Force. He gets up and races towards the door, drawing and igniting his saber. The four guards begin to converge at the door to the Throne Room. Luke uses the Force to push the guards aside and down. He opens the door and rushes in. He sees Lord Ire and Sam near the throne, and a girl in red armor next to the wall.

"Stop, wait!" cries Luke as he goes over beside the young woman.

[Lord Ire]

"I don't know Sam, does she seem too inept to pull of such a plot by herself to you?" MCD says to Sam before turning to Athena to respond to her whimpered cries. "What was that, I-I don't what?"

MCD plays it cold as he then hears Luke's voice and sees him running towards him. "Oh, Master Skywalker, you're just in time for the conclusion to my investigation."

Turning his attention back to Athena, MCD targets the young Imperial knight in another fashion. He begins to focus on he organs inside he body and with the Force begins crush them. His grip on her is so strong that MCD lifts her writhing body off the cold floor of the throne room and hold her in the air. In a coldly calm voice, MCD begins to speak to the traitorous knight. "Now, tell me what I want to know and it all stops. Who helped you?"

[Lord Zairon]

Lady Athena gasp in pain and tries to break free as she feels her body starting to be squeezed tighter and tighter. "Ca...can't..breath...tell...you...let...down...first..." She gasp as she tries to draw on the force to help her, but can't do to the extreme pain. Her breathing is gasping and screams emit from her voice. More tears drip from her eyes as she tries to talk more but can't do to the pressure on her organs.

[Luke Skywalker]

Luke stretches out with the Force and pulls the heavy throne toward the back of Lord Ire in an attempt to break his concentration. "You can interrogate her without killing her Lord Ire!" yells Luke. The chair picks up speed the closer it gets to him. Luke has got to get his attention. " I don't want to fight you if I don't have to. But I will not let you kill her."

[Lord Ire]

Having to break his concentration, MCD rolls to the side out of the way of the incoming throne to avoid being his by it. MCD is now a bit more angry but this time for Luke interference. With his concentration now broke, MCD's gripping Force crush on Athena is broken and MCD knows it. He gets up, dusts his robes off, looks at Athena on the floor and then back at Luke.

"Kill her, who said anything about killing. I was torturing her, there's a big difference." MCD says then turns back to look at Sam and giggles.

"Remember that, Sam." MCD tells Sam to make a note on the difference for his lesson. "There'll be a test later."

[Sacrifice]

*Sam watches not really sure what to do.*

[Lord Zairon]

Athena hits the ground hard and takes a deep breath. However, noticing Luke, MCD, and Sam's concentration are all on each other she grabs the shirt MCD had thrown at her casually in order to not draw attention. Taking a breath to calm herself she draws on the force and starts to heat it up while keeping it hidden from the view of anyone who looks her way. She uses her body to block the line of sight of what she is doing and as she heats it up she lets a small smile cross her face as it ignites and quickly burns the shirt to ashes.

Then, with a quick push of the force she scatters the ashes before looking at Luke. The Jedi Master had just saved her from Lord Ire. "Th...thank you..." She said in a whisper not sure if he'd hear since he was focused on MCD

[Luke Skywalker]

Luke looks at the young girl, "You're welcome." He moves so that he is between her and the throne room door. "Lord Ire, if you would continue with your questions." Luke centers himself in the Force, and focuses on the young woman to determine whether she is telling the truth or if there is any deception. "And young lady, if you lie, I'll know."

[Lord Ire]

"Fine Skywalker, I'll do it your way." MCD as he goes and looks for the shirt. When he cant find it MCD looks at Athena and smells something burnt in the air. "What did you do with the shirt, wench?"

MCD turns and looks around, seeing ash on the ground. "Why you little..."

The insane clone looks at Luke and points a finger at him, intense irritation in his voice. "Good going Jedi, the little poodoo torched me evidence. I preformed a reading on the shirt, she's the 'woman' who was killed in the worker's district that day."

Turning back to Athena, MCD giggles manically. "It don't matter, destroying that shirt means nothing. Now, tell me who your friends helping you are and maybe, just maybe, you'll spend the rest of your days aboard a Jedi prison barge as opposed to being publicly beheaded."

[Lord Zairon]

Athena looked up confused, "Is that...what this is about..." She says starting to get her breath, "You are trying to use me as your fall girl?" She ask with a frown. "Why me?" She says looking at MCD. "Why do I have to be your fall girl to blame it all on?"

[Luke Skywalker]

Luke listens to the girl reply with all questions, and no statements. She is putting off telling what she knows. "Lord Ire, she is attempting to stall." says Luke. He adds, "Perhaps if you were to ask more direct questions that require a specific answer."

[Lord Zairon]

Athena turns and looks at Luke hurt. "You believe him?" She says eyes wide. "Look at him! He's clearly snapped! He's gone insane!" She says looking between the two. "You are a Jedi Master, surely you can sense the turmoil and confusion inside of him." She frowned, "He's become paranoid and crazy and now he's blaming me for an order he probably gave and forgot about in his insanity!" She said trying to word her words the way Naver taught her. She wasn't able to hide her lies with the force so it would all come down to wording.

[Lord Ire]

"Insane? Me, insane? You want insane, I'll give you insane." MCD says as he marches over quickly and goes to kick Athena in the ribs, hard. "QUIT AVOIDING ME, ANSWER MY QUESTIONS OR, SO HELP ME, I'll POP YOUR HEAD LIKE A TICK!"

Pacing around her, MCD removes one of his lightsabers from its concealment and ignites it before putting it an inch from Athena's nose. "I dare you to avoid this question; who put you up to betray me, who are you working with?"

[Lord Zairon]

Athena gasp hard as she is kicked. She grabs her stomach and looks up before she pauses, nearly frozen. She knows that Ire is too close and Luke Skywalker too far. She can't rely on him to keep her alive and at the same time if Luke tries to stop Ire at that distance she'd probably be killed too quickly. She takes a breath worried, "My intent was not to betray you sir. I was following orders to stop the stormtroopers." She says biting her lip. "Sir Zairon told me some stormtroopers were rounding up citizens without official orders and asked me to go stop them." She said as she bit her lip. "I didn't send the stormtroopers, why are you mad at me?" She asked her eyes watering. "You weren't always like this..." She said quietly while shaking with fear. "You used to be rational...now you just break out in crazy uncontrolled outburst..."

[ooc: No lies are being detected, because she honestly DIDN'T send the stormtroopers. She was told to stop them.]