To start off, I own nothing but the plot and Krista. Next, I am thrilled at the response I am getting from you readers. I never thought when I started this story that so many people would like it. I know that people hate these things, so on with the story.


Ranma vs. Darth Maul

"Quick, run!" shouted a guard just before he was shot down by a droid. The droid then leveled it's blaster at a young boy, but it was destroyed when its blast got deflected back at it from a lightsaber.

"Anakin, take cover!" said Qui-Gon as he helped protect Queen Amidala. Ranma deflected a blast and let out a sigh when he saw that the droid he destroyed was the last one in the immediate area. He quickly thought back to how they got there.

First off, there was the very fun trip to the planet. Well, Obi-Wan didn't have too much fun; he was busy being pranked not just by Ranma and Krista, but by Anakin too. It turns out that the kid knew some good pranks involving machines. One time, he rewired the light switch to Obi-Wan's room (They all had separate rooms since it was a big ship) and when Obi-Wan turned on the light, he got a major shock instead. His hair stood straight up for hours after that. Ranma had quite a shock when he met Jar-Jar Binks. The Gungan was quite funny, but not on purpose. He and Ranma became fast friends and they traded stories and jokes. But Ranma swore to never be around him when he was working on something. Jar-Jar was the clumsiest being Ranma had ever met, worse than Akane!

Then there was the trip to the Gungan refuge where, luckily, the real Queen Amidala convinced the Gungan leader to help. That had led to Jar-Jar being made a General in the Gungan Army. Ranma was glad for him and wished him well. The plan was for the Gungans' to divert the droid army away from the city so that the Queen and the Jedi could capture the Viceroy. Things went fine at first. They completely surprised the forces guarding the palace. They were making their way to the hanger so that Naboo fighter planes could try and take out the Droid Control Ship. That's what Ranma and the others were doing now.

As they burst into the hanger, chaos ensued.

"Anakin, take cover," Qui-Gon yelled as he couldn't protect the Queen and Anakin at the same time.

Anakin scrambled to find a safe hiding spot. He finally hoped into an empty fighter plane. He then looked behind him when he heard something whistling and beeping.

"Oh, hey R2," said Anakin.


It wasn't long until the Hanger was clear of droids. Anakin started to come out of the ship, but stopped when Qui-Gon told him to stay there.

"But…" Anakin started to say.

"Stay there," commanded Qui-Gon.

"Come on, this way," said Padmè.

They all made their way towards a large double door, but stopped when it opened before they got there. Standing in the doorway was the dark warrior who attacked Qui-Gon on Tattoine. The Queen and her guards looked to the Jedi.

"We'll take care of this," said Qui-Gon.

"We'll take the long way. Come on," replied Padmè as she turned around.

Ranma turned to Yoda. "Master?" he inquired.

"Let them fight, we shall. A hindrance, we would be," Yoda told his Padawan.

"If you say so," said Ranma, unhappy at not helping his friends.


The fighters took off their outer robes and activated their lightsabers. Qui-Gon took the lead in the fight with the Sith, Ranma knew now that it was a Sith Warrior, with Obi-Wan lending support. They worked like a well oiled machine, never once hindering the other. The Sith was hard pressed to block and parry their blows, though he got in some good attacks as well. Ranma watched carefully, analyzing each fighter's style. Qui-Gon was smooth and graceful, like water flowing. He did tend to favor side-slashes though. Obi-Wan had a strong, semi-aggressive style. He tended to favor broad sweeps and spins. The Sith, on the other hand, had a very aggressive style. He favored spins, kicks, and parrying attacks.

Ranma paused in his studying to look around. It would be bad for something to sneak up on them. He saw the Queen's group laid down by three destroyers. He briefly thought about helping, but then he saw a ship start to hover and head towards them. It was with a start that he realized it was the ship that Anakin was hiding in. He grinned as Anakin took out the Destroyers and headed out to space.

Ranma turned back around and found he was alone. He looked around and saw an open door. He rushed through it and found his friends still combating the Dark Jedi. Lightsabers whirled around, kicks flew, and death approached. Ranma could feel that one of the group would die this night. The area they were in was very dangerous, walkways filled the air around them, going up at least ten stories. Ranma watched with worry as they jumped around like grasshoppers on steroids, using the walkways to make their way up. However, Obi-Wan gave him a shoulder check when he had his guard down, sending him off the walkway. The Dark Jedi wasn't going alone, he pulled Qui-Gon and Obi-Won with the force, sending them falling as well. They all fell back down to the bottom floor with a dull thud that didn't sound good. However, Ranma didn't have time to go check on them as he heard noise from behind him.

Ranma whirled around, lightsaber blazing and was confronted with twenty droids, all of them with their blasters aimed at him. He smiled a mean smile as he looked at them. Time to have some fun! Ranma became a whirlwind of activity, charging forward while deflecting blaster bolts. He went through the middle first, dividing their strength and numbers while slashing them to peices with his lightsaber. Within a minute, there were no more droids and Ranma was clutching his left arm where he had been clipped by a blaster bolt. He focused on his ki and he felt the wound heal almost instantly.

He turned back to the fight in time to see the Sith throw a piece of debris at the door panel to another room with the Force. Yoda, Ranma, and Krista followed the combatants to a courtyard filled with plants and trees. The Sith jumped over a low wall, and when Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan jumped over, he Force-pushed Obi-Wan away. Obi-Wan slammed against a tree and hit his head on a rock when he fell to the ground, rendering him unconscious. That left Qui-Gon to fight the Sith Warrior, and Qui-Gon was starting to tire. He slipped up ten seconds after Obi-Wan regained consciousness. He slashed too high and the Sith blocked his lightsaber up, leaving his torso wide open.

"Look out!" Krista yelled out in warning.

Qui-Gon managed to dodge a little bit out of the way of the return strike, so it penetrated his side, not his stomach.

"Noooo!" screamed Obi-Wan as he ran to his Master.

The Sith sneered as he pulled his lightsaber from the Jedi Master and allowed him to fall.

"Master, are you alright?" asked Obi-Wan.

"Does he look alright?" said Ranma as Krista set to work stabilizing Qui-Gon.

"I'm going to kill him!" growled Obi-Wan as he stood up.

"No, you're not. You are in no mood to fight. You are letting your anger control you," said Ranma as he pulled him back down.

"But I have to do something," Obi-Wan told him.

Ranma looked to Yoda, his look telling Yoda everything he needed to know.

"Stay here and tend to Qui-Gon, you shall. Help Krista heal him, we will," he told Obi-Wan.

"I'll handle horn-head," said Ranma, pointing over his shoulder to the Sith.

Krista and Obi-Wan were shocked at this announcement.

"You can't, he'll kill you," protested Obi-Wan. He turned to Yoda. "Tell him not to do it, Master Yoda," he pleaded.

"Trust Ranma you must. More than he appears to be is he," said Yoda.

"Huh?" said Obi-Wan and Krista. What didn't they know about Ranma? They had grown up together after all, so they should know just about everything about him.


Ranma got up and took off his over-robe and handed it to Krista. He calmly walked over to where the Sith was waiting for his next opponent.

"So, they send a child to do a man's job," sneered the Sith.

"Do you have a name?" asked Ranma.

"My name is Darth Maul. It is the name of your death," he spat out.

"I am Ranma Tou'shin, Padawan to Jedi Master Yoda. For the attempted murder of Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn, terrorist acts against the Republic, and for just being so butt ugly, you are here by sentenced to death," Ranma said as he activated his lightsaber.

"You think you can kill me with that toy?" Darth Maul sneered.

Ranma just smiled as he deactivated the lightsaber and tossed it to Obi-Wan.

"Hang on to that for me, will ya Obi?" asked Ranma.

Ranma then held his right hand out and called upon the Force. His dual-bladed lightsaber shot off his back and slapped into his hand. He then held it out in front of him and activated it. Darth Maul actually looked impressed. They bowed to each other and got into their stances. At some unseen signal, both of them leapt at each other. Obi-Wan gawked at what he was seeing. He knew that Ranma was good, but this was unbelievable.

Ranma jumped in the air and did a flip over Darth Maul. When he landed, he immediately did a low spin kick that Darth Maul jumped over. He retaliated with a slash that Ranma parried. This continued on for a few minutes, both of them in a stalemate. Ranma dodged out of the way of a particularly fast spin-slash, which sliced a thick tree limb off a tree.

"It needed pruning anyway," commented Ranma.

When Darth Maul landed from a flip, Ranma used the Force and tugged on the ground beneath him, which caused him to stumble.

"Watch your step," said Ranma.

"Shut-up you little brat," growled Darth Maul.

"Temper, temper," admonished Ranma.

Darth Maul let out a wordless roar and charged in, lightsaber slashing, pushing Ranma to his limits and beyond. He finally managed to hit the middle of Ranma's lightsaber, but instead of cutting it in half, it stopped. He looked up, shocked. Ranma just smirked.

"Cool, ain't it?" he remarked.

Ranma back flipped away and charged up his ki. Darth Maul didn't know what to make of this glow surrounding his young opponent. Suddenly, Ranma shot forward at double his previous speed and started slashing away, sending Darth Maul on the defense. Darth Maul was starting to get desperate. Nothing he did even fazed this kid. He started to pull out all the stops. He used his anger and frustration to power himself up to match Ranma's speed and then beyond. Ranma then had to push himself farther just to keep up. Finally, they took a quick break. They both jumped back to get some room and take a quick breather.

"You know," said Ranma as he caught his breath, "you're pretty good."

"As are you," said Darth Maul, as he too caught his breath. "A pity I have to kill you."

"Don't bet on it, creep," Ranma told him.


Darth Maul had one more trick up his sleeve that he was going to try. It had to be now, as Ranma's defenses weren't up. He quickly raised his hand and violet Force lightning shot out and hit a surprised Ranma who started to scream in pain. Smoke started drifting up from Ranma's writhing form, as his robes started to burn. Ranma looked around quickly for anything to help him and saw Yoda about to pull out his lightsaber.

"NO!" shouted Ranma as he threw off the lightning with a Force shield. "He's mine," growled Ranma as he focused the Force through his lightsaber and jumped, just as Darth Maul resumed his Force lightning. While in the air, Ranma spotted the tree limb that had been sliced off earlier in the fight and a plan formulated in his mind. He started darting around, avoiding the lightning being shot at him, trying to get in a good position. Finally he was in the right spot and he once again jumped, this time not as high as before. While in the air, he pulled on the branch and sent it flying at Darth Maul's back, just as Darth Maul was shooting off more lightning. The branch nailed Darth Maul squarely in the back and caused him to stumble. He looked up in horror as Ranma darted in and he attempted to slash Ranma in half, but Ranma just parried the strike high, spun, and sank one end of his light saber into Darth Maul's chest.

"Impossible," said Darth Maul as Ranma withdrew his lightsaber with another spin. He fell to his knees, grasping the wound, and rolled to his side and lived no more.


"Alright, you did it!" shouted Krista, as she had stabilized Qui-Gon during the fight and had patched him up as best she could. It wasn't pretty, but he'd live.

"I don't believe it," said Obi-Wan in shock.

"Doubted you once, I did not," three guesses who said that, the first two don't count.

Krista ran up and gave Ranma a big hug after he put his lightsaber back in its holster. He grunted as her hug squeezed some of his burns.

"Are you alright?" she asked, concerned.

"Just a little well-done, but I'll be fine. I just feel a little weird," he told her.

"Well done, my Padawan. Most impressed, I am," Yoda said as he walked over to them.

"That was amazing, Ranma. How did you manage to beat him?" Obi-Wan asked.

Ranma just looked at Yoda and smiled as he turned back to Obi-Wan. "I was just lucky, I guess."


"So, do you think Master Qui-Gon will be alright?" asked Anakin as they headed back to Corusant. The victory celebration had been very cool. The Gungans seemed to love showing off for their once rivals. The only downer in the whole day, at least for Ranma, was finding out that Palpatine had been elected Supreme Chancellor. He always got a bad feeling around that guy. He had shown up and complimented Anakin on destroying the Control Ship before sucking up to the Queen. Anyway, now they where heading back to Corusant so that Anakin could be initiated and Obi-Wan could be tested.

"I'm sure that he will be, Anakin," said Obi-Wan as he sat down with a glass of water.

"Healing, Master Qui-Gon, is. Krista's skill, I do not doubt," said Yoda as he watched the young people relax. "Careful, Obi-Wan, you must be."

"Huh? What do you mean, Master Yoda?" he asked as he leaned forwards to get his glass.

Suddenly, his seat slid forwards as the bolts holding it in place had been severely loosened earlier. He yelled out in shock as his hand smacked into the glass and sent it flying across the table, drenching Ranma.

"I'd be happier if my prank hadn't backfired," Ranma said as he wiped the water off his face.

"Are you alright, Ranma? You're voice sounds funny," commented Anakin.

"Yeah, and your hair is a different color now," said Krista as she looked at his now reddish-black hair. Her eyes traveled down and she noticed two bumps on his formerly flat chest.

"What the hell are those?" she shouted in surprise.

"Are those… breasts?" asked a very confused Obi-Wan.

Ranma just scratched the back of her neck.

"I guess I owe you all an explanation,"


Sorry this chapter is so short, but I felt that this is a good spot to end the chapter.