Obi-Wan Kenobi was currently on the Outer Rim world of Aberfar. He was so close to finally completing his assignment, which Obi-Wan had technically given himself about 2 months ago.
At long last, Darth Maul would truly die at his hand.
"Maul, I know you're here. Why don't you come out and face me like a man instead of hiding like a coward. I have no more loved ones for you to hurt in my place. Come out now and let us finish this." Obi-Wan said.
"I could not agree more." Maul said as he leaped out of nowhere and attacked the Jedi Master.
"I have already killed your master, Qui-Gon Jinn and your beloved, Duchess Satine. And now, I shall finally rid myself of my greatest enemy." Maul screamed as he ignited both sides of his red lightsaber and attacked Obi-Wan, who barely had enough time to raise his own weapon in defense.
"And you will pay for the deaths of 2 of the people I cared for the most in this galaxy." Obi-Wan said
"No, it is you who shall pay for robbing me of my legs, of my sanity and of my place as Darth Sidious's apprentice. You shall pay for everything you have cost me." Maul said.
"A duel to the death then. And this time, only one of us will truly walk away." Obi-Wan said.
"I agree." Maul said.
"Then let us begin." Obi-Wan said.
The battle between the 2 enemies was hard fought, for both of them had grown more powerful since the last time they had dueled, however, just when it looked like Maul was about to win, the Force prevented him from bringing his saber down for the final strike.
"Anakin." Obi-Wan said, relieved that his fellow master was here to aid him.
"Did you really think I'd let you do this without me. Master Qui-Gon was important to me to. And Maul shall pay for his death." Anakin said with a grin as he ignited his own blade and lunged at Maul.
"Now that there are 2 of us, maybe it will be a fairer fight." Obi-Wan said.
Anakin nodded and as both Jedi began their attack.
While Maul had been able to hold his own against Obi-Wan, he was no match for the combined strength of 2 Jedi Masters.
Anakin quickly destroyed Maul's lightsaber.
"You deserve the final strike here master. After all, he's wronged you worse than he has me." Anakin said to Obi-Wan.
"Thank you Anakin." Obi-Wan said and with one clean strike, Obi-Wan killed Maul by slicing off his head, ensuring that this time, there would be no chance of survival for his old enemy.
"The threat of Darth Maul is finally ended. Now maybe the Sith won't be a problem anymore." Anakin said.
"Let us hope you are right. I get the feeling that there is more you'd like to discuss." Obi-Wan said.
"Yes. Satine. It wasn't really her that Maul killed was it?" Anakin asked.
"I have no idea what you're talking about." Obi-Wan said.
"Yes you do. I was sent to Kamino to negotiate terms of surrender with the Kaminoans due to their treacherous actions behind Order 66 on behalf of the new Chancellor, Mon Mothma, and I noticed that you put in a order for a clone of Sabine to be made as soon as it was confirmed that Maul had returned." Anakin said.
"Your point?" Obi-Wan asked.
"You knew that sooner or later, Maul would discover your connection with Satine and so you took precautions to save her from the same fate as Qui-Gon by having a clone of her made and replaced Satine with the duplicate, which was who Maul really killed. The question is, where is the real Satine?" Anakin asked.
"I suppose that with Maul dead, it is time to finally reveal my little secret. You are correct Anakin. And I think we both know that you would've done the same thing if it were Padme whose life was on the line." Obi-Wan said.
"I never said I wouldn't. However, the question still remains, where is the real Satine?" Anakin asked.
"Frozen in Carbonite on Tatooine. In my old hut there to specific. I'll report the truth to the council on our way there to revive her." Obi-Wan said.
"Yes Master." Anakin said, secretly thinking he was glad it wasn't him in this position.
After informing the Jedi Council, all of whom did not see any fault on Obi-Wan's part, Anakin and Obi-Wan took their fighters to Tatooine, landing right in front of Obi-Wan's hut.
"Are sure she wasn't found. After all, you know how the Hutt clans are about beautiful women." Anakin said.
"I'm positive because she was hidden underground for her own safety." Obi-Wan said as he used the force to reveal a secret passageway that led to cooler part of Tatooine.
"There she is." Anakin said as he saw the chunk of carbonite had encased Satine.
"Artoo, do your thing." Anakin said to his faithful droid.
Artoo beeped in confirmation as he rolled over to Satine began to work the controls until she began to defrost.
"Obi." Satine said as she fell right into Obi-Wan's arms.
"It's okay Satine. The war is over and it's safe for you to come out of hiding." Obi-Wan said.
"I can't see. How long was I in carbonite for?" Satine asked.
"About 15 years. It's a miracle you survived, but now you can return, though there is much you'll need to be brought up to speed on during the trip back to Chandrila." Anakin said.
"Okay." Satine agreed, wondering how much she had missed.