KotOR 3: Return of Revan

Ch. 2: Explanations

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Revan went wide-eyed the Jedi who had come to greet him was the spitting image of Bastila and even had a double-bladed lightsaber like her. "Hello I am Satele Shan." The young Jedi told Revan.

Revan eyes grew even wider. "Uh… hello my name is… Kotor Raven." Revan lied.

"Pleased to meet you, but why are you here? The Council did not tell us they were sending another Jedi." Satele questioned.

"I just escaped the Emperor's Citadel on this old freighter." Revan said. Revan hated lying, even to his enemies, but this girl might be his descendant for all he knew and that stung far worse.

"Have you encountered Vitiate?" Satele questioned, she felt doubtful of this man's identity.

"Yes." Revan stated simply. Satele opened her mouth for another question but was interrupted when a droid with shiny silver plating with red arms, hands, legs, and feet came off the shuttle.

"Query: master, why have we come to Alderaan?" HK questioned him. Revan was only now able to notice HK's new paint job. 'Guess it comes with the upgrades.' He thought.

"Rest and recovery HK, we will leave within three days I promise." Revan replied to the overly blood-thirsty machine.

"Statement: Very well master, I hope we will be able to resume killing shortly." HK said before stalking off.

"What kind of Jedi has a droid like that exactly?" Satele asked.

"I do. HK is violent but he means well and loyal as all hell." Revan responded seeming further into thought then he used to be.

"He seems familiar though, would I know him if I got his full designation?" Satele questioned further.

"No. But if you want to check his designation is HK-51." Revan told her.

"Master Shan!" Revan and Satele looked up to see a Republic trooper running towards them. "Master Shan I just got a report from Commander Venn he says… wait a second. Revan! Master Revan what are you doing here how are you alive?" The soldier exclaimed.

"Revan? No, this is Master Kotor Raven not… wait… how stupid am I? Kotor Raven was the named programmed into Revan's brain after the Council captured him three hundred years ago!" Satele analyzed. "You lied to me!" Satele accused. "You're a servant of the Emperor not a Jedi." She continued.

"You clearly haven't been reading your history Satele. If you had you would know I am no longer a Sith Lord I redeemed myself. Furthermore you would know that I am your ancestor." Revan retorted.

"What? You are my ancestor? Do not mock me. I was born on Tatooine. I am the daughter of moister farmers who could not feel the Force." Satele accused.

"You're wrong; your ancestor was Bastila Shan an amazing Jedi and more importantly my wife. We had a son named Vaner. Bastila was pregnant before I left to aid Canderous Ordo recover the mask of Mandalore so he could rebuild the Mandalorian tribes." Revan responded with cockiness brewing.

"Prove it." Satele challenged. "Very well, allow me to start from the very beginning." Revan said feeling remarkably like Jolee at what they called "story time" whenever he asked about the old man's past.

"It started about three-hundred and twenty years ago…" Revan began but was soon interrupted by Satele "Three-hundred and twenty?" she asked incredulously. "Yes, Vitiate kept me alive for three-hundred years with Sith alchemy." He stated coolly.

"Anyway it was three-hundred and twenty years ago when I was eight-years-old and the Jedi order first discovered me on my homeworld of Nar Shadda and my family was slaves to the Hutts." Revan continued.

320 years earlier

"Mother I'm sleepy." a young boy with blonde hair whined "Hush Andis, your father and brother are still busy." a woman with deep black hair told the young boy.

"Revan and father have been working for seven hours." Andis recited to his mother. Dalia Shin sighed as Andis complained "I know sweetie, but there is nothing to be done I'm afraid." she told her younger son.

Just then a man with brown and gray hair walked in with another young boy with brown hair. "Kraan, Revan how was your day?" Dalia asked.

Kraan shot his wife a dirty look and walked to his bed and Revan looked up at his mother "It was fine mother. Please don't be mad with father he just had a long day." The young boy looked at his mother with pleading eyes.

Dalia was heartbroken that her eldest son only eight years of age would defend that Womp Rat of a man that would constantly beat him over the smallest thing, yet still love the man like he was a saint.

"Very well dear, why don't you and your brother go and play for a little bit." Dalia told him. Revan's pleading face was replaced with one of joy as he looked to Andis and both boys ran out of the crummy apartment to indulge in a game of tag. Dalia smiled a bit as her sons left. Revan and Andis made their way over to Shana's Place, a bar run by the Twi'lek woman Shana and her daughter Vallie.

Andis went to go and investigate a pile of junk that caught his eye while Revan went inside the bar to find Vallie. Revan grinned as he saw her tending to the customer's orders despite being only eight-years-old, and his grin only got wider when she noticed him and offered a smile. Vallie went back into the kitchen and gave a hand motion for Revan to follow her. Revan walked towards the kitchen and saw Shana cooking some sort of toxin filled dish for a Gand customer.

Vallie tugged on her mother's arm and Shana looked down "Mother may I go and play with Revan and Andis?" she inquired.

Shana looked up and saw Revan standing in the corner with a sheepish smile on his face. Shana knew the Shin family, but she knew Revan Shin like the back of her lekku, which also gave her knowledge that Revan wanted to be more than friends with her little Vallie.

Shana returned her gaze to Vallie and said "Of course dear, in fact bring them back for supper this evening." Vallie's eyes lit up. Shana knew Revan well, but she also knew her daughter well enough to know that Revan's feelings towards Vallie were not one-sided. Vallie hugged her mother then ran towards Revan, grabbed his hand, and dragged him out of the bar.

Revan and Vallie found Andis and they made their way towards the Refugee Sector to play in the empty cargo hold apartments. Andis volunteered to find Revan and Vallie after they hid so they took off faster than old man Vokkus's airspeeder. Revan and Vallie hid in a cargo unit with an empty air vent and began to giggle uncontrollably.

"Think he will find us?" Vallie asked "Not in a million years, I love my brother but he can be as smart as a Gizka sometimes." Revan replied with a smug smirk.

"Vallie, why are you friends with me?" Revan asked her. Vallie was caught completely off guard "Why would you ask that?" Vallie inquired.

"Because my family isn't well off like yours. You and your mother are the richest family in this sector of Nar Shadda, yet you are friends with a slave boy and his little brother." Revan replied with a hint of sadness in his eyes.

"I'm friends with you guys because you're nice Wookie-hair." Vallie said smugly. Revan smirked at the nickname; they each had nicknames his was Wookie-hair because its color matched Wookie fur. His brother was called Astromech because of how he always built things and hers was Dancer-girl for her affinity for dancing.

"Well I just feel that when it counts that won't be important." Revan stated. Vallie looked at Revan intensely and sighed "You wanna know why I'm friends with you Rev?" Vallie asked.

Revan nodded his head and waited. Vallie then gripped his face and pressed her lips to his; Revan was taken aback but recovered and returned the kiss. After about ten minutes the need for oxygen came into their brains and they parted. "Well that must have been the best answer I have ever gotten." Revan said.

Vallie just blushed and opened her mouth to speak when they heard screaming. Revan and Vallie burst out of the cargo unit and saw two Exchange thugs holding Andis by his throat. One thug was a Trandoshan and the other was a Human.

The Human spoke first "What is a little boy doing in Exchange territory huh?" he asked sadistically. Andis couldn't respond as the man was choking him and the Trandoshan spoke in its language "Looking for trouble I bet." It said.

Revan was in utter shock two fully grown sentient beings were choking his little brother. Vallie shouted out "Let him go you lousy core-slimes!" both thugs looked over and saw Vallie and Revan.

"What did you call me?" the Human thug asked.

"She called you a core-slime you pathetic schutta!" Revan exclaimed. "Now let go of my brother!" He called out.

The next few seconds destroyed Revan, the anger in the Human thug's face became evident as he snapped Andis's neck then pulled out a blaster and shot Vallie in the torso.

"Any wise-cracks now kid?" the Human asked while the Trandoshan laughed. Revan became absolutely furious these men took the life of his brother and his best friend they were his life. Revan screamed as a pulse of powerful energy caused him to push both men over the edge of the platform with a flick of his wrist. Revan ran to his brother's corpse and began to weep Andis; his little Andis had been taken from him. Then he remembered Vallie and ran to her she was dead as well the blast had killed her. Revan felt sad, confused, and more importantly angry. Revan was contemplating thoughts of revenge before he felt and hand on his shoulder. A hand that would guide him through the next chapter in his life.