Sheer Will and Determination
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Jedi Temple.
In the Jedi Temple, in one of the many sparring areas, stood a teenager, this teen hailed from Mandalore and one could tell by the armor he wore, the one thing his mother sent him with to the Temple, the armor was typical Mandalorian design and made of Beskar, painted black with silver highlights and red Jaig Eyes, and also lacked a jet pack and his gauntlets were simply thicker plates of beskar. On his hips were a pair of lightsabers similar in design to the legendary darksaber, whose black crystals symbolized absolute determination and strong willpower, as well as a pair of unusual looking Blaster pistols, well, they looked like WESTAR-35 hand cannons, however they were a bit thicker and there were large cylinder shaped extensions on the ends of the barrels, these were a pair of custom made Blasters made using rather large kyber crystals and were much more powerful than your average blaster, even when compared to WESTAR-35 Hand Cannons, on his back was what appeared to be a larger version of the pistols on his hips, being twice the size of a WESTAR-35 Carbine for the main body and had the same canister types barrel extension as his blasted pistols, this was because it was a multi-shot-type Blaster Rifle that used a fist size Kyber Crystal for the main firing mechanism. In any case the Teen, who was 17, a Padwan by the name of Raxus Atiin Shan(who unknown to him and the rest of the galaxy save for force ghosts was a descendant of the legendary Jedi Revan), was waiting for his newly assigned master. Many Jedi Knights and Padwans kept their distance from him, as he was one of the most skilled lightsaber combatants in the Temple, short of some of the stronger Knights and practically all of the Jedi Masters, as he had created his own technique he called Form IIX "Blitzschatten" or Lightning Shadow, as it used a mix of Jar'Kai duel blade fencing, Vaapad, Trákata and the use of switching to the grip of the lightsaber after every swing to catch the opponent off guard, not to mention that in the fields of Tutamenis, Force Blast, Force Speed, Force Strength, Force Barrier, Force Protection, Force Repulse, Shatterpoint and Force Defend he was unmatched in skill by any other than Jedi Masters that had themselves mastered such techniques, to top it all off he had a wildly uncontrollable and large force presence that mirrored his massive pool of force power that, while only just barely matching the signature and power of Anakin Skywalker, allowed him to preform difficult and powerful force abilities with an ease and control that was unheard of in the wider galaxy.
He sighed once more as he looked down at his wrist, where a holographic Chrono appeared, and sighed, she was suppose to be here ten minutes ago.
POV switch Raxus.
I lowered my wrist and decided to try to find some way to pass my time…I could practice my shatterpoint, but there weren't many things to practice it on. However, I could practice my tutamenis abilities, I did have a my lightsabers…"Fuck it." I muttered before activating my lightsaber and focusing on my Tutamenis, I then grabbed the lightsaber by the blade and let go of the hilt, using the force to keep the grip safeties depressed as I started flipping the lightsaber from blade to hilt and hilt to blade, switching hands every other flip. After about ten minutes of this I was approached by a Blue Twi'lek.
"Padwan Raxus Atiin Shan?" The Jedi asked.
"Yes." I replied catching the hilt of my black bladed saber and extinguishing it.
"I am Jedi Knight Aayla Secura, your new master." Master Secura said.
"Glad to meet you Master Secura." I said bowing slightly.
Geonosian Orbit, 1 day later.
I looked at the planet below as I flew alongside Master Secura, we had gotten the call for volunteers while we were sparring yesterday and had made best speed there in a fleet of Delta-7 fighters with the rest of the volunteers, mine having been delivered to the Temple a month before while I was waiting for a Master to be assigned to me, so naturally I had customized it to the best of my abilities, I had added a six inch plate of Durasteel to the top of the fighter and an eight inch plate to the rear, I had also replaced the power plant with a small hyper-matter annihilator generator, the two engines were replaced with a single light freighter engine that was also armored, I had also tweaked the repulsors, gyros and inertial dampeners to make the craft as maneuverable as possible for the speed and armor it had, the twin blaster cannons were replaced with a proton torpedo launcher and a quad-barreled heavy rotary blaster, the cockpit canopy was replaced with a sheet of mandalorian iron and one large holoscreen allowed me to see as if the canopy were transperisteel, to top it all off was a 200mm mass driver that could fire either a cluster of four solid armor piercing darts or a single Proton or Sonic warhead. The astro-mech slot was taken up by a customized R2 unit called R2-4X, painted with a sharks grin and wolf eyes on the matte black coating, he matched the paint job of the Delta-7 save for the Fighter having Jaig Eyes instead, he was kitted out with a cut down WESTAR-35 hand Cannon in his head and a tool for every occasion, with a pair of cut down missile tubes welded to his dome on either side, one look at him and one would mistake him for an additional turret added to the fighter.
"How do you even see in that thing?" Master Secura questioned. "I knew you were gifted in the force but flying purely by the force must be difficult."
"Holoscreens master, holoscreens, plus they add the benefit of low light, IR, UV, and magnetic vision modes." I replied.
"Interesting, but I must ask why you Astromech has missile launchers on his head?" Windu asked as we approached the planet.
"Prepare for the worst, hope for the best." I replied.
"One wonders on the sanity of your Padwan, Aayla." Master Shaak Ti said.
"I'm mandalorian, not crazy." I rebuked.
"Can that thing even fly in planetary gravity?" Master Fisto asked.
"This thing is powered by a hypermatter annihilation reactor, it does have the power to do so." I replied.
Then 4X started squawking.
"Anti-orbital cannons detected." I reported. "I suggest we hold back. 4X start scanning."
"Agreed." Windu stated.
Then 4X reported in.
"HA! This should be easy!" I said over comms.
"What?" Master Secura asked.
"Master Windu, requesting permission to move in and take out the cannons." I said.
"What is your plan?" Windu asked.
"Well my ship can take a few hits, it's fast enough to get through the cannon spread, and there are several clusters of these cannons powered by a single generator." I replied.
"You believe you can make it through?" Windu asked.
"Yes sir." I replied.
"Do it." Windu answered.
"Alriiight, 4X divert all power from shields to engines." I ordered, then I formed a Force Barrier around my fighter.
4X reported he had finished. "YEEEHOOO!" I exclaimed as I sent the modified Delta-7 forward at close to 2000kph. As I approached the planet I was greeted by a screen of turbolaser and laser fire, the turbolasers were relatively easy to dodge and I had used the force to allow me to dodge several laser blasts, however as I was entering the atmosphere I took a trio of shots, the first two were blocked by my Force Barrier and the third had simply detonated upon the upper hull armor. I grinned as I spotted the generator complex that lowered the anti-orbit cannons for the region that the arena in which Skywalker, Kenobi and Amidala were held.
"Padwan Shan, what is your situation?" Windu asked.
"Took a direct hit from a laser blast, minimal damage, target in sight. 4X arm the Mass Driver." I replied.
4X replied.
"What do you mean the reactor is acting up? I just did a diagnostic on the damned thing before we left!"
4X let out a few beeps and whistles.
"Alright, drivers all power from engines and repulsor lifts and divert it to the mass driver on my mark, we only got one shot at this." I ordered.
"Padwan what are you doing?!" Master Secura asked.
"That blast shook a few capacitors on the reactor loose, ignition systems are misfiring, power output is low, I'm cutting power from engines and repulsors for a burst from the mass driver, hopefully with the force I can keep this hunk of weapons and durasteel in the air long enough for 4X to get enough power into the engines and repulsors that I can have a somewhat safe landing." I replied. "See you guys on the ground!"
4X reported in. "Alright buddy," I replied getting the starfighter to fly as fast as possible as I lined up on an attack run, I set the mass driver to que up a sonic warhead followed by a proton warhead. "3…2…1…NOW."
The engines cut as I used my telekinetic abilities to keep the fighter flying as long as possible without them, then I lined up the Mass Driver on the fuel bunkers for the generator, which were the only thing the generators showed, I fired the first shot, at around 10,000 meters per second the charge detonated on target a fraction of an instant after it was fired, causing fuel and rubble to fly everywhere, revealing the reactor underneath, I fired the proton warhead which had a timed fuse, it was flying a lot slower too since the driver's capacitors were drained, only at 2,000 m/s, it impacted on the outer casing causing the timer to start counting down. "Give me engines!" I ordered.
4X complied to the best of his ability, the repulsors were only being fed enough power to keep us from dropping turning that into a glide, and the engines only had enough power to propel the ship forward at around 500kph. This carried us about half way to the arena and I had to put it into a rather rough landing in a plane of red sand, causing us to skid another 100 meters.
"Alright Master Windu, target destroyed, though I'll have to wait for repairs before I get this thing in the air again, I'm about two klicks from the arena." I reported.
All I got back was static. 4X made a rather unhappy burst of binary that I couldn't understand. "Jammed huh? Fuck. Oh well, might as well head to the arena, 4X get on those repairs I wanna be able to get out of here once we're done here. 4X simply squawked an acknowledgement before ejecting from his slot and started to do his best to get the top armor plate off. I chuckled before I hit what would have been the cockpit release, however it simply raised the durasteel armor plate and the Beskar canopy.
"See ya later buddy." I said handing him a com link. "I'll letcha know if I need some fire support."
4X replied with a happy tweet.
I then donned my helmet, concealing my Amber eyes, black crew cut and short cropped beard. I then grabbed my rifle and weapons from compartments in the cockpit and headed out.
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A/N: alright some of this stuff is different, but I tried to keep it as Legends as possible(because Disney's Cannon it AIDs, Cancer and Ebola all wrapped up in one disgustingly expensive package…FUCK YOU I WANTED AN OLD REPUBLIC TRILOGY AND A VONG TRILOGY!) however this is a Legends AU with an OC not everything is going to be completely accurate.