In the eastern barracks of Malak's ship, Canderous knelt beside a unconscious sith elite and began removing the man's uniform. As Canderous finished stripping the elite's uniform and began to dress himself in the uniform, his communicator beeped distracting him as he noticed it was HK-47.
"What do you want?" asked Canderous in a gruff voice.
"Statement, the Master has ordered us to incapacitate and capture Malak before he can betray him," HK-47 spoke gleefully.
Canderous had never liked Malak, he was only on his ship per Revan's orders to be his eyes and ears. Canderous finished equipping the rest of the sith uniform before responding "Finally a challenge worthy of a Mandalorian, what of those fools still loyal to Malak?"
"Gleeful statement, we are to kill any who try to prevent us from completing our orders," informed HK-47 his voice full of blood lust.
Canderous chuckled, HK-47 was the only thing in the Sith armada who's desire for battle rivaled his own. " Meet me in the main hanger bay , we'll coordinate our efforts from there," ordered Canderous as he switched of his comm.
As Canderous left the barracks, his mind wandered back to the end of the Mandalorian wars when Revan defeated Mandalor the Ultimate in mortal combat. That was the day Canderous had sworn loyalty to Revan, in his eyes Revan even though he wasn't Mandalorian was the new and only acceptable leader for the Mandalorian clans.
Admiral Gallan looked at Bastila in fear, " Captain move the fleet into defensive formation, everyone to your stations."
As the officers and crew members rushed to their stations, Master Vandar turned to leave the bridge gesturing for Bastila to follow.
"We must prepare to board Revan's ship, go to the hanger bay young Bastila," instructed the Jedi Master stopping in front of the turbo lift "the other members will surely be there and may the force be with you."
"Thank you Master Vandar," replied Bastila as she entered the turbo lift. As she turned around Bastila saw a worried look on Vandar's face as the lift doors closed and began to descend. "What was Master Vandar worried about, surely our plan will succeed," Bastila thought to herself as the turbo lift doors opened. She soon saw the rest of her team forming near the boarding shuttle, the soldiers looked at her has she approached.
" Ah Bastila good of you to join us, now we are ready o depart," spoke Master Kelsier as he turned away from a discussion with Carth Onasi the lead soldier for the mission.
"Then we'd better get going, this is gonna be a rough ride," spoke Carth as he stood beside the Jedi Master.
Everyone began to board the shuttle, Bastila suddenly felt nervous at the thought of confronting Revan. It was not the confrontation with Revan that scared her, it was confronting her feelings for him, feelings she never wanted to face again.
"Still your heart, child. To feel fear is natural but you must trust in the Force." Master Kelsier spoke as he put his hand on her shoulder.
"Of course Master," responded Bastila as she entered the shuttle and took a mediation stance and began to focus on her battle mediation.
Revan stood at the view port has his fleet began to surround the Republic ships. Activating the communicator in his mask Revan contacted Admiral Amour on the auxiliary bridge "Deploy squadrons three through seven, prevent any chance of retreat for Admiral Gallan's capital ship."
"Yes Master, we've detected a shuttle leaving their ship we believe its team sent to capture you," Amour responded.
"Good, make sure our fighters remember to harass the shuttle towards us but they are not to destroy it, deploy the security teams to the pre-designated points, reiterate the orders that Jedi Shan is to be unharmed," Revan ordered with a satisfied smile on his face. "I want radio silence until they have boarded the ship."
"Has you command Master," Amour spoke shutting off her communicator.
Revan smiled as he felt Bastila's presence drawing closer, although he would never admit it to anyone he regretted leaving her on Dantooine when he left for the Mandalorian wars. He soon spotted the boarding shuttle drawing closer, Revan quickly accessed the ship's broad cast system "This is Lord Revan, brace for impact."
Seconds later the shuttle crashed through the hangar, sending a shock wave through out the ship. The shock wave caused Revan to almost lose his balance, grabbing onto a nearby console he managed to steady himself, "Now things are going to get interesting."
"Perhaps Revan isn't as powerful as we were led to believe. Surely a true Sith Lord would see this as a trap," one of the other Jedi Knights in the cramped boarding shuttle said with a smile. Bastila smiled back weakly, but she knew he was wrong. Revan may have been headstrong and prideful, even as a Jedi, but he was no fool. He had never gotten involved in anything without evaluating every possible outcome and preparing contingencies for all of them, and through the Force, he could see things no one else could. If they made it to his ship in one piece, it would be because Revan allowed it, not because they had caught him off guard.
"Everyone we're approaching the hanger doors, brace for impact," Carth shouted from the cockpit.
Bastila quickly ended her battle meditation, and steadied herself against the shuttle's bulkhead. As the shuttle crashed through the hanger doors, everyone in the shuttle lurched forward some falling off their feet. Bastila and the others slowly walked out of the shuttle as its doors opened.
What they saw surprised them. The hanger was completely empty, there were no Sith anywhere in sight.
"Everyone be on guard," spoke Master Kelsier as he looked at each member of the boarding party, "We need to get to the bridge, Revan will be coordinating the battle from there."
As the team made their way through the ship, they stopped when the corridor split in two directions.
"Let's split up, the soldiers and I will take the corridor on the left," Carth said heading down the corridor.
"Very well, may the Force be with you,"Master Kelsier spoke as he led the Jedi to the right.
After awhile the Jedi came across the turbo lift leading to the bridge, as they approached a squad of dark Jedi exited the lift. Activating their lightsabers the dark Jedi attacked Bastila and the others. With every movement, Bastila wore down her opponent to defeat and she began to grow overconfident. Twirling her double-blade, she knocked her opponent balance and quickly ended his life.
Noticing that Bastila had defeated her opponent Kelsier saw an opportunity, "Bastila quickly get in the turbo lift, we will join you soon."
Bastila looked at the Jedi Master, giving him a quick bow, Bastila ran into the turbo lift. As the doors closed Bastila saw more dark Jedi approaching, she tried to warn the others but the doors closed before she got a chance. As the lift moved towards the bridge, Bastila thought about what needed to be done. She would have to capture or kill Revan. The man she had loved, the man she still loved and always would.
As the lift doors opened, Bastila saw a cloaked figure standing at the view port. Bastila slowly walked towards the view port, as she drew closer she saw Revan slowly turn to face her. As she began to speak Revan's hand went to his face has he removed his mask.
"Revan, I..." Bastila began but lost her train of thought has Revan's dark brown eyes looked into her blue eyes. He looked just as he always had in her mind – like a prince, tall, handsome, and with a frame that looked as if it was chiseled out of marble.
Smiling genuinely for the first time in years, Revan stepped towards Bastila.
"Hello Bastila, I've missed you."