War of Champions

Chapter: 2

The Pre-game begins

Luke Skywalker had ignited his light saber in which he stared down the one called Dooku as he could sense the dark side from the man and wondered what happened to Yoda, one minute he is charging Dooku and then the next he simply vanished. Dooku just smiled at the young man who is the son of Anakin Skywalker who had beheaded him.

Then all of a sudden the scene change as they no longer felt like they are in Degobath, but something completely different as Luke looked around to find himself alone, but he can still sense the dark side and something else, something ancient. All the while Dooku can sense Luke and also something else, something ancient. They both don't know what is about or where they are.

"Luke Skywalker and Count Dooku," said the Collector "Welcome to the maze of Death, a straight forward duel between you two is rather dull," he continued to speak "For you two to survive you must pass the maze of death in which challenges you will ever face if you live long enough."

"Why are you doing this," asked Luke

"Because we can," said the Grandmaster "Simple as that."

"I do not care as long as I get to kill the son of the man who killed me," said Dooku

"With that settled let the game begin," said the Collector

Luke on one side of the maze began to walk, while Count Dooku on the other side of the maze began to walk as well their senses are on their surroundings in not knowing what to expect. Also who were those begins talking; there are more questions than answers.

Darth Vader stared down his old master Obi-Wan Kenobi, as the two are about duel in which the last time they dueled was on the first death star and he had won, but found it way to easy and he didn't know what happened to the body. Kenobi is young again as he remembered him being that way, how is this possible. He could signal his storm troopers to kill him. No, they are not needed and he will take great pleasure in killing him, himself.

Obi-wan Kenobi is very surprised in how he looked, the last thing he knows he was a force ghost of his older self, but now he is a young man again. How is this possible, but he did sensed something at work that is beyond his understanding. His blue blade hummed as the eventual duel is about to occur, then by some unknown force as the scene changed. Both of them found themselves not in the same place or facing each other more like a place that looks spooky and ruined, it is not the Jedi temple as Vader and Kenobi know this is not familiar to them, but the questions are where they are and who had done this.

"If you are wondering where you are," said the Grandmaster "You two will be playing a game, welcome to the House of Doom, the object of the game is to rescue the damsel in distress."

"We believe you two are quite familiar with her," said the Collector

"Someone help" said a female voice "I don't know where I am."

"PADME," voiced both Vader and Kenobi

"How dare you do this," yelled Vader

"This is so wrong," said Kenobi "Release her,"

"Oh no," said the Grandmaster "You two will have to rescue her first while facing challenges in the House of Doom,"

"Besides we can do what we want," said the Collector "The real contest will begin soon,"

Wordlessly with no choice Kenobi and Vader press on inside this house of doom.

Maze of Death

Luke strolls in the maze as he has his light saber in hand and he senses completely focused on his surroundings like Yoda and Kenobi had taught him, suddenly he made one step forward as something upon his feet lowered and at the end of the hallway in the maze something came out and started to roll. It is a large boulder and it is heading towards him. Knowing he could cut it up with his blade, he does the smart thing. Run as fast as he can in which he uses force speed to out-run the large rolling bolder and then all of a sudden the floor in front of him gave way as spikes can be seen.

Then at the very last minute Luke used a force jump on the ground and bounced to the side of the wall and to the other until he is on the other side. The large rolling bolder kept on rolling and then stopped at the edge where the floor gives way and the spikes can be seen. Luke paused to considering what his options are and headed left, guess that wasn't so hard and then he kept on moving, until his senses warned him of something as he quickly ducked as a swish noise is heard above his head and leaped over something else that swished below him.

Looking back he sees two metal blade spinning as Luke just wiped his brow, guess they don't call this the Maze of Death for nothing. Up ahead he spotted something, a creature he has never seen before as it look half-man and half-of-something else with horns and is carrying a large Axe, it's hove like feet stomped the floors of the maze and is coming towards Luke.

"I so have a bad feeling about this," mumbled Luke

Dooku strolls in the maze and looking as calm as any hunter would be, the maze doesn't matter to him as long as he kills the son of the man who killed him. Oh how he remembered it all too well as he rubbed his hands and neck. How his former master Sidious betrayed him, guess he was expecting that as betrayal is the way of the Sith. With his blade in hand he kept on walking and suddenly his senses alarmed him of something as he ducked as fire almost burned his hair as he used force speed to avoid the fire and then stopped as something is coming towards him.

He narrowed his eyes and is ready for anything as he sees a large boulder rolling towards him, seriously is this the maze has to offer as Dooku just sneered and used a force push to stop the rolling boulder, however to his surprise it came on coming despite him using the force to stop it. He pushed hard by calling upon the force, but the rolling boulder did not slow down. Fine he will do it his way and used force speed to run towards it and slice it in half, it does slice in half. Suddenly to his right he is hit by a boxing glove right to the side of the face.

Dooku is thrown to the adjacent hallway stumbling, until he regained his senses and rubbed his bruise upon his face. How dare whoever they are do this to him, if he was younger he would have sensed that sooner. Getting back up he kept on moving looking for anything that could attack him, he heard a strange sound coming from the end of the hallway of the maze and it sounded like crocking, then suddenly the figure jumped up in the air and landed not too far away from Dooku as it is a frog like creature.

The frog opened his mouth as it's long tongue grabbed the waist of Dooku as the count used his blade to slice off the tongue as he is now free or so he thought as the tongue regenerated and wrapped around Dooku once again, then the frog swallowed him with one big gulp. A few moments went by as the red blade slashed the body of frog and then Dooku emerged from the body of the frog, his clothes are torn and he has goop all over him. This was beyond annoying and kept on moving as the frog lies in pieces. Soon he would kill Luke son of Anakin.

Luke is ready to fight this creature as it's mighty ax swing at him, he ducked as he is met with a kick to the body as he goes stumbling backwards and then sees the Ax coming down towards him as Luke used his light saber to block the attack as he felt the full force upon impact as he slid backwards for a moment. The creature came running towards him in a charging motion as Luke is ready only this time the creature leaped over him and used its tail to slam Skywalker into the adjacent hallway of the maze.

Rolling on the floor, he got up as he braced himself by blocking several bladed objects with his blade; he was also hit by a few that ripped his clothing. The bull creature charged again with the Ax in both hands, Luke has an idea as he has to think fast and uses force speed to run as fast as he can. Then the bull swings his ax at Luke as he leaped up, landed upon the arms of the creature and then twirling his blade around he slashed the neck of the bull twice as Luke landed upon the other side as the creatures head rolled off and it's body slumped to the floor. He finally did it, or so he thought.

The creature's body got up and grabbed its head as it put its head back on its shoulders. The creature then picked up the Ax and started to stalk Luke as he noticed another adjacent hallway to the maze, the creature throws its ax at Luke as he ducked for cover as the ax crashed at the wall. Luke moved backwards as the creature moved forwards as Luke's senses are telling him to jump and so he did as the walls suddenly come alive on both sides and crushed the creature into pieces. Luke was relieved and regained his composure this is not an easy one.

Luke is walking still and senses he is alone, but can sense the dark side somewhere in this maze, he heard shooting and then laser shots are coming towards him as Luke parried all the laser shots and they kept on coming, he had to move and move now he will as the lasers shots are coming from two barrel like holes in the wall and uses blade throw to have his blade slice the laser barrels. Then he used the force to call back his blade and wondered if there is middle or an end of the maze. He doesn't even know.

The young Skywalker kept on moving on moving as he came upon dozens of death traps and using all his Jedi training he avoided them, but it wasn't easy and kept on moving using the force to guide him like Obi-wan had taught him. Until he spotted something up head, maybe it the middle of the maze and a familiar figure rears his ugly head Dooku had found him or he had found him.

"Well here we are," said Luke

Count Dooku navigated through the maze of death, but it wasn't easy as he came upon dozens of traps that tested the limits of his abilities, he maybe a master of the force in the dark side, but even he can get tired out. He so wished he was young again, as he is breathing hard, but calmed himself as he kept on moving as this maze seems to be endless until he sees something up head that made the old man grin a bit.

"About time," said Dooku "as I was wondering when I encounter you"

House of Doom

Darth Vader lord of the Sith had no time for these games, but the voice of Padme stirred his emotions and memories. How can she be alive and who were those voices to play this game, he had to find her now and explain to her what he has done in her name. Surely she could forgive everything he had done and the dark lord started to walk in this house of doom as it seemed to be a common, but ruined place. He walked on by the kitchen in which suddenly the refrigerator started to shake as the dark lord sensed something and then the door swings open as a large hand grabbed the dark lord and sucked him inside.

Then he was thrown out of the refrigerator as Vader is sent crashing into a couple of walls, Darth Vader got up as he red blade hummed and his senses fully aware of his surroundings, then suddenly thousands of rats swarmed out of no where and began to climb all over Vader as the dark lord struggles to get them off of him as he can feel them bite him everywhere as he used force choke to choke all the rats from attacking him. The dark lord stands there in victory as the rats are dead.

The dark lord heard a growing sound and turned around to see a large hairless cat with red eyes used his claws to scratch the helmet of Vader as he is taken back by this and used the force choke to grab the neck of the cat to choke it to death, then using the force to hover it up in the air. However the cat came alive and puked all over Vader with some green goop, then he is pounced on by the cat in which the floor gave way and Vader is consumed by the darkness below.

Obi-wan Kenobi had no idea where he is, as this appears to be a bedroom of some sorts that hasn't been used in a long time and then wandered around to look for any clues as he came upon the mirror of the bedroom of looking at himself. Only to see his reflection of a female version of himself staring back at him as Kenobi rubbed his chin in knowing he needs a shave and a haircut despite how young he looks now, then suddenly his reflection winked back at him and smiled.

Kenobi was taken back by this as the female version of him self lunged at him with both of her hands and is pulling him into the mirror, Kenobi can feel her grip is strong in face very strong as he tried to use the force to stop this, but instead he broke mirror into pieces as all of it lays on the floor. Suddenly those pieces came to life and are flung at him as Kenobi used his light saber to deflect them all as he is being drawn towards the bathroom as a burst of wind blows him inside the bathroom.

Looking around it appears to be empty as the toilet started to make noises, he looked at it with a puzzled look until a tentacle came from out of the toilet and wrapped around the neck of Kenobi as it is dragging him inside the toilet, he called upon the force by using objects in the bathroom to stop this, however it was too late as Kenobi is dragged into the toilet, until the toilet is then flushed and the tentacle then shuts the lid to the toilet.

Maze of Death

Luke Skywalker and Count Dooku are about to have a duel in the middle of the maze as they know there will only be one survivor, then their senses picked up something as he sees the Ax flung towards Dooku as Luke used force push to throw Dooku out of the way and at the same time Luke is slapped in the back by something slimy. Both of them regained their senses as the Frog and the bull are back.

"I didn't need your help," said Dooku

"I don't know what your deal is," said Luke "Please don't take it out on me, because my father killed you."

"I should," said Dooku "But we have other problems to deal with or at least I have."

"We should work together," said Luke

"And be betrayed like always," said Dooku "Never again I rather die and work with you,"

"I promise I won't betray you," said Luke "If you were a Jedi once, you know a Jedi will always keep his or her promise."

Dooku pondered on this for a moment and said "Very well, if you do break your promise I will kill you. Do you have a plan."

"Stay alive," said Luke

"Nice plan," said Dooku

Dooku avoided the hit from the bull and Luke slashed the leg of the bull as the frog got behind Dooku however the sith lord, ex-Jedi was having none of that as he used force lightening to attack the frog as the frog creature is hurt by the lightening as it leaped backwards to avoid it. Dooku stalked it a bit and Luke is being attacked by the bull as it swings its mighty fists at Luke until he bumped into Dooku as the bull picked up the Ax. Both of them nodded and then both creatures lunged at them as Dooku and Luke used force leap to leap out of the way.

The bull and the frog collided into each other as they shattered into pieces as the debris from the pieces had fallen on top of them in, climbing out of the debris Dooku and Luke Skywalker looked battle weary and tired. It wasn't easy at all or is this sign in things to come. Dooku gave warriors salute and Luke returned the favor. Also they stared in silence for a moment.

"It seems you kept your promise," said Dooku

"I'm sorry my father killed you," said Luke "There is still good inside of him,"

"Pre-game over," said the collector "Well done Luke Skywalker."

"What happens now," said Luke

"I don't know," said Dooku

Both of them vanished from the maze.

House of Doom

The dark lord woke up to found himself somewhere as he got up and looked around, he is still covered in goop and his armor is battered as well, he found himself in a large chamber in which someone is hanging upside down and over it is a lava pit that reminded him of the fires of Mustafar. His helmets sensors noticed who it is hanging upside down, it is indeed Padme and he walked over, however he sensed he is not alone as a familiar foe is there as well.

"You," snarled Vader

Obi-wan Kenobi woke up and found himself covered in slime and other sorts of stuff as he brushed himself off as he knows he will need a long bath after this one and he noticed his surroundings as he found himself in a chamber, he noticed someone is hanging upside down in a lava pit that reminded him of the fires of Mustafar and he spotted Darth Vader formally known as Anakin Skywalker, also Padme is the one hanging upside down.

"So we meet again," said Kenobi "We have to stop this or people are going to talk,"

"This time you will die and for good this time," said Vader

Their blades clashed as Padme is screaming in which she is getting lower and lower to the lava pool, Vader and Kenobi are concerned with this and wondered if they duel anymore she could fall into the lava pit. They kept on dueling to test the theory and turned out to be true.

"I won't lose you again Padme," said Vader

"Who are you," yelled Padme

"I'm….." said Vader

"I'll rescue you Padme," said Kenobi "I watched you die once, it won't happen again."

"Master Kenobi who is he," said Padme

"He's….." said Kenobi

Padme is being lowered even further and more faster as Vader called upon the force to stop her from falling into the pit, he is struggling to stop her from falling as he using all the force power he has to stop this, but it wasn't enough as Obi-wan used the force as well in which she is hovering in mid-air. Both of them glared at each other for a moment.

"I don't need your help," said Vader

"Yes you do," said Kenobi "We both need to save her,"

"It is your fault that she betrayed me," said Vader

"No, Anakin," said Kenobi "She loved you and always have, I seen her die and her last words were there is still good in you. We can save her."

Vader is tormented at this as he is still using the force, he wondered if he really had a second chance to save Padme the one true love and would do anything for her. Despite his hatred towards Kenobi his old master, he is indeed right as he poured on the force and so did Kenobi to save her from the lave pit. Both of them are exhausted from using the force.

"Did he called you Anakin," said Padme

"I…." said Vader

"He is or was Padme," said Kenobi

"Pre-game over," said the Grandmaster "Well done."

"How," asked Padme

"It is…." Vader "A long story,"

"Indeed it is," said Kenobi

All three of them vanished.

The Collector's ship

Darth Vader felt a new sensation as he is standing on a ship and across from him is his son Luke, the both of them look fresh as if they never encountered any dangers at all. Luke can see his father there and he is puzzled as in where they are, until two being appeared out of no where.

"Well that was interesting," said the Collector

"Indeed it was brother," said the Grandmaster

"Who are you?" asked Luke

"AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH PADME," bellowed Vader

"I am the collector," said the collector

"And I am the grandmaster," said grandmaster "And do behave yourself clone of Anakin Skywalker, your beloved wife is safe,"

"What do you want?" asked Luke

"Why play a game of course," said the collector "You two will be the generals in a game, light verse dark. The Prize the complete domination over your galaxy,"

"Father and son," said grandmaster "Pitted against one another, or clone of your father."

"Do we have a choice," said Vader

"No," both elders spoke

"Then I accept," said Luke

"So do I," said Vader

"Then let the game begin," said the collector "Luke you shall be my general,"

"And Vader you shall be my general," said the grandmaster "Let's call this the war of champions."

And so it begins.

Chapter: 3

Part.1 War of Champions