CHAPTER TEN
STARKILLER LANDED ON THE Death Star to present Vader with Shaak Ti's lightsaber, and tell him about all the Jedi he killed on Dantooine.
"Very impressive, my young apprentice," said Vader. "You will be rewarded for this, and I won't even consider how the other Jedi got away. I'll go after them myself, and give you the rest you deserve."
"With all due respect, Master, I would like to go after the last few Jedi," said Starkiller. "Talon tracked them to Chandrilla, and I only need one good night's rest to prepare."
"Then you have my permission to go. And I trust that you won't fail me, considering there are only three left." Vader turned around and started walking out of the room.
"Which reminds me, your Jedi Apprentice is one of them."
Vader stopped in his tracks, surprised at Starkiller's news. "Ahsoka is alive? New order, bring her to me, alive. Don't kill her unless necessary."
"Yes master." After getting the sleep he requested, Starkiller found Talon, and left on a ship to Chandrilla, to confront the last three Jedi.
Jack, Ahsoka, and Luminara landed on Chandrilla near the burial place of a Jedi master. And because of the Master's tomb, this area had the biggest concentration of Light Side Force energy in the galaxy.
Jack climbed down the mountain to the entrance of the tomb, and stood there while Ahsoka climbed down to meet him. When she got there, she looked at Jack, who had a stunned look in his eyes.
"Jack, where are we?" she asked. But Jack ignored her, and walked slowly to the front of the tomb, where a coffin stood in the middle of a room, suspended in the air by the Force. "Whoa, who is that?" she asked again.
"My half-brother, and someone I'm sure Obi-Wan's told you about before, Qui-Gon Jinn," said Jack.
"He was your brother?" asked Ahsoka.
"Half, we had the same mother, different fathers," said Jack.
"Hey, Ahsoka, Jack, come up here please," yelled Luminara.
Jack and Ahsoka did so, but got an unexpected surprise, a Sith ship, circling them, up in the air. "Get to the tomb, there's a high concentration of Light Force energy that'll help us," said Jack.
They all turned around to go to the tomb, when Talon landed in front of them and activated her lightsaber. They turned around, but Starkiller landed and activated his lightsaber also. All three Jedi activated their lightsabers. Luminara stood toward Talon, Jack toward Starkiller, and Ahsoka pointed each lightsaber at each Sith.
"You think you can run, well think again," said Starkiller. "I've killed all your friends, and now it's your turn. And I'll give you the same offer: surrender and die quickly, or fight and die slowly."
"How about we fight and drop your dead bodies over the side of the cliff?" threatened Ahsoka.
"You won't be killed, little girl," said Starkiller. "Lord Vader knows you're still alive, and requests that you be taken to him alive."
"You'll have to kill me before you can take me to him," said Ahsoka. "Which will be hard when you're both dead."
"Threat, threat, gloat, gloat, enough talking, let's dance," said Starkiller.
"Ahsoka, help me with Starkiller, Jack, do you think you can take Talon?" said Luminara.
"Wherever I want to go," said Jack.
Ahsoka and Luminara charged at Starkiller and started fighting, as did Jack and Talon. Jack swung at Talon to start the duel, and Talon was forced to walk back toward the edge of the cliff. When Talon couldn't walk back any farther, Jack swung at her, and she twirled his saber while they were locked. Jack pulled back and started to move around beside her. Then he swung around in a circle at her head, but she blocked the swing, and started to force Jack back while they fought. When he got to the edge of the cliff, Jack saw a small ledge, about three feet out of the mountain, twenty feet down from where he was standing, and six feet long, but he jumped onto it to get away from Talon. But she followed him down.
Starkiller was slightly overpowered by Luminara and Ahsoka. They forced him bat as he swung back and forth to block swings from both of them, and he had to go fast because Ahsoka had two lightsabers. She swing at him with both of them, so he blocked both swings, then blocked a swing from Luminara. Then he had to quickly block a swing from one of Ahsoka's sabers, one from Luminara, then another from Ahsoka's other saber. And when he got the chance, he used the Force and pushed Luminara out of the way and started dueling with Ahsoka.
Jack and Talon were dueling on the ledge, both struggling to keep their balance. They started a saber lock, and Jack looked up and saw a crystal hanging out the side of the mountain. He cut the ledge off the mountain, then jumped and grabbed the crystal. Talon fell, and landed on the bridge just below the ledge. Jack climbed back up the mountain to help Luminara and Ahsoka fight Starkiller. But when he got to the top, Starkiller used the Force to push Ahsoka into him, knocking them both off the cliff. As they fell, Jack quickly put away his lightsaber and held onto Ahsoka tightly. Concentrating really hard, he ghosted them both through the bridge, and grabbed another crystal that was hanging below it.
"Hold off Talon 'til I get up there, ok," he told Ahsoka.
"Ok," she replied. Then Jack used the Force to lift her onto the bridge Talon was on.
Once up there, Ahsoka activated both of her lightsabers, and connected them to make a staff. "Round two, space hooker," she teased. With a furious yell, Talon jumped at Ahsoka, twirling in the air. She started to swing at Ahsoka, but she blocked every swing.
Up above, Luminara was inching closer and closer to the edge of the cliff. Starkiller swung from his left and hit her saber, then they hit sabers between their chests, and Starkiller swung at her feet and got blocked. Then he swung over her head, hit sabers on her right, and she twirled them over their heads, causing a saber lock. Starkiller started to overpower Luminara's strength on the lock, causing her to give out, and step back. Then Starkiller charged at her, swung down from over his head, and started another saber lock. This time, he led her to the edge of the cliff, where there were no bridges for over 200 feet down. "Not the slow and painful death I warned you about but good enough," said Starkiller, before pushing on his lightsaber.
Luminara fell off the cliff, screaming loudly. But Jack only caught a glimpse of her as she hit the bridge. He sensed that she was dead, so he used the Force to pull her lightsaber to him. Then he used the Force to jump back onto the bridge, and watched Ahsoka knock Talon onto a bridge, a long way down the mountain. They heard a loud thud, and turned to see Starkiller land on the bridge.
"Finally, the Ylesian's kid," he said. "Your death will give me the credit I need to gain Lord Vader's full respect."
"Not today, Starkiller," said Jack. "Now, you pay for all the blood you've spilled these last few days."
"Go ahead and try," said Starkiller.
"Fine, me and you, one on one," said Jack. He activated Luminara's lightsaber and held it in his left hand, and his dad's saber in his right.
"Fine, let's dance," said Starkiller.
They both charged at each other, and Starkiller clashed with Jack's green saber. He then swung his orange, and Starkiller blocked it. Then Starkiller blocked a hit from the green saber twice before blocking another from Jack's orange. He blocked Jack's swings for a few minutes before ducking from a swing, swinging up and cutting Luminara's saber in half. Then he swung down toward Jack's feet, but he blocked it, which started a saber lock.
"You lost one saber, next you'll lose the other, and then you'll die slowly and painfully by Force Lightning," said Starkiller.
Jack lost his temper after the "lose the other" comment, because the "other" was his dad's. "No," he screamed. He charged at Starkiller, swinging quickly, but Starkiller barely kept up with Jack's quick swinging.
Back on the other side of the bridge, Talon had jumped back up to challenge Ahsoka again. "Round three," she said, activating her lightsaber.
"Bring it," said Ahsoka. She activated her lightsabers and connected them into a staff. Then she jumped at Talon, twirling in the air. When she landed on the ground, she swung up with her saber, got blocked, kept twirling and swung down, got blocked again, then back up and blocked again. Talon pushed Ahsoka's lightsaber down, swung to her other side, and started a lock.
Ahsoka broke the lock by swinging her other saber blade at Talon's feet, making her jump onto a ledge. Ahsoka jumped after her, and they started dueling on the narrow ledge.
Jack forced Starkiller out of the tomb, where they started a saber lock; regardless, Jack still forced Starkiller farther and farther back, 'til he was at the edge of the bridge. Jack shoved forward as hard as he could, and knocked Starkiller off the bridge. He fell down, and landed on another bridge, that was only wide enough for him to barely keep his balance.
Jack jumped down after him, and Starkiller kicked him back while he landed. Jack rubbed his face where he was kicked, and started dueling with Starkiller again, forcing him onto the narrow bridge, to a point where they could hardly keep their balance.
Ahsoka swung at Talon's feet, making her jump onto another ledge, a few feet up. It was barely big enough for her to stand on. Ahsoka jumped after her, so Talon jumped onto a ledge a few more feet above them. Then she jumped onto the top of the mountain, and Ahsoka still followed. When she got to the top, Ahsoka was surprised that Talon had disappeared, but even more surprised when she snuck around her back and took her lightsaber. She turned her back to find Talon, then a clone trooper pushed a blaster against her neck. "Hey kid, Lord Vader requests some catching up time with you," he said. He then cuffed Ahsoka and put her onto the ship.
When the ship launched, Jack and Starkiller were at the middle of the bridge, engaged in a saber lock. "Look at that, your little girlfriend is on her way to become my apprentice," said Starkiller. "But to earn her, your death is in order."
Jack got even angrier, and pushed Starkiller away. Then he cut the bridge across where he was, then he jumped over Starkiller, and cut the bridge completely off. Starkiller fell with the bridge, which was actually directly above the ship he took to the planet. The bridge section fell and twisted, and Jack watched 'til he saw the ship explode. Finally Starkiller was dead.