During a Mid Rim raid, Grievous found himself face-to-face with a padawan. The child offered no tears, no trembling pleas for mercy, and no desperate cowering; instead, he fought with a calculated ferocity, searching for any vulnerability in an opponent who vastly outmatched him. In that defiant gaze, Grievous saw a ghost of his own past—the warrior he had been before the metal and the circuitry took over. He recognized a spirit trapped in an unwinnable war, yet fueled by an unyielding, primal will to survive. After striking down the boy's Master and claiming the fallen saber, Grievous didn't deliver a final blow to the Padawan. Instead, he seized the boy and casted him into his personal shuttle. 'You will not be a Jedi.' He rasped, the mechanical chill of his voice underscoring the grim fate ahead. 'You will be the ultimate symbol of their failure.' He sneered sinisterly.

Grievous didn't keep the Padawan out of pure kindness. He did it to prove something to Count Dooku and the Jedi Council: that he could train a killer surpassing any Jedi using only relentless logic and brutal discipline. He wouldn't teach him the Force, since he didn't master it, but he would train him to become the ultimate Jedi killer, exploiting his Force sensitivity to hone his reflexes and anticipation. Forget meditating on crystals. Life under Grievous was a nightmare of survival. The Padawan was trained in all seven forms, but with a twist—Grievous forced them to fight against his four-armed mechanical onslaught daily. He teached the child that the Force was a tool, not a master, and that the Jedi Code was a weakness that leads to death. He even considered 'upgrading' his Padawan with cybernetic implants or specialized armor to match his own terrifying aesthetic.

The Council was horrified. A 'Dark Padawan' being raised by a droid commander was a PR disaster and a tactical nightmare. Master Jedis would likely be sent on a high-priority rescue-or-terminate mission. On the other side, the Count Dooku primarily saw the child as a distraction that made his general sentimental, a trait he obvioulsy considered pathetic. But more than that, Dooku viewed the Force as an elegant weapon and himself as a master of Form II Makashi. Seeing a 'beast' like Grievous—who has no connection to the Force—attempting to 'train' a Padawan is kinda offensive to his sensibilities. Dooku is always looking for Dark Acolytes—Like Ventress. He planned either to train him as a true assassin, or to execute the padawn if he proves too obstinate. However, Grievous made it clear that he would defy Count Dooku to prevent his 'pet project' from being seized or executed. In response, the sith reprimanded Grievous for 'collecting trophies' instead of winning wars. Darth Sidious reacted with cold, calculating amusement and long-term vision. Sidious might allowed the experiment to continue just to see if the Padawan’s presence would makes Grievous more or less effective. If the Padawan helped Grievous kill more Jedi, Sidious winned. Nothing pleases Sidious more than seeing a Jedi’s spirit broken. He would enjoy watching a Padawan be raised in the 'cult of the droid,' potentially creating a Dark Side user with a completely unique, mechanical combat philosophy. In the grand scheme of Order 66, Sidious would eventually see this Padawan as a loose end. Unless the child showed extreme potential to become an Inquisitor, Sidious would likely order Grievous to 'dispose of the trophy' once their usefulness in the war ended. However, you seemed promising to him...