Chapter 11 Grievous Vs Galen Marek

Grievous had escaped the wrath of the Jedi, Master Obi Wan Kenobi on Utapau, and had gone into hiding. The Clone Wars had still ended, and it turned out that it was Chancellor Palpatine who had been the mastermind behind the Clone Wars. It had also been made public that the Supreme Chancellor had renamed himself Emperor Palpatine and had reformed the Galactic Republic into the Galactic Empire. Quite a few years had passed since this had happened. And Grievous had fled Utapau, and had been moving from planet to plant to escape the arimes of the Galactic Empire.

A couple weeks after the end of the clone wars had been announced, Grievous had made his way to Mustafar, and found the dead bodies of all the Separatist leaders like Nute Gunray, Shu Mai, San Hill and so on. He'd taken what credits and anything that was useful from their dead corpses. He had noticed that they had lightsaber burns across their chests and other limbs, suggesting it was a Jedi or a Sith or someone else that used a lightsaber. He had then left the planet as quickly as he could. He had returned to his castle on the moon Virl that orbited around Vassek in the Outer Rim Territories.

Grievous had then returned to the castle and found everything in order. It looked as though nobod had come to this planet, which was expected. After a few days he stayed on Virl, lying low, in his castle. After the first few days Grievous was a little bit anxious of the Empire finding him. But as days passed no on came, on the scanners and radars in the castle hadn't picked up anything arriving in the system. So over the course of what seemed like a year, or more perhaps; he'd lost track of time, Grievous mostly stayed on Vassek, while occasionally travelling to other nearby planets and Kalee in the Outer Rim Territories for spare parts, fuel and various other equipment, as well as improving his own Castle's defences, by installing more perimeter defences such as turrets, motion sensors, holocams and alarm systems. Not just on the Castle walls but in the forest on some of the trees.

At this very moment on time he was on his way back to Virl, he dropped out of lightspeed and approached the Vassek system. Vassek itself was uninhabited, apart from wildlife and a few nasty creatures as it were. But no civilisations of any sort were based there. Grievous approached the planet's moon Virl, and started descending into its atmosphere. Suddenly an alarm inside the cockpit of his starfighter went off. He looked down at the screen, and on the radar it showed that a small blip-a starfighter perhaps had just dropped into atmosphere. Grievous continued flying down to the planet's surface.

Grievous soon arrived back at his castle before this unknown ship has arrived. As soon as he stepped through huge doorways of the castle, he could hear the alarms, he went to the control room that he used for communications, controlling the castle's defences. He turned off the alarms and watched the screen as the blip got closer and closer to Virl. It was obvious why this starfighter was here; looking for Grievous for whatever reason. He stood and waited as he watched the blip touch down on the ground of Virl. The starfighter had landed quite a distance away from the Castle. Grievous flicked a switch, and the screen changed. It was an image looking down at the main entrance of the castle, he could see the walkway directly down below. Grievous then started flicking through the images, until he found one of the ones he was looking for; an image from within the forest. He could see a robed man walking through the forest coming towards the castle.

Galen Marek was the man walking towards the castle. He had been sent here by his master, Lord Vader. As he came out into the clearing, the castle was directly ahead. There was a single walkway that led up to the gate entrance, there was a perimeter wall with turrets . Galen took out two lightsabers and ignited them both. Both lightsabers came to life with the usual snap-hiss sound, just as the turrets started firing down at him. Marek easily parried the lasers, without much difficulty, sending some back to the turrets that disabled at least two of them in one go. Starkiller then leapt up into the air, there was a trail of lasers following him, but he was too quick for them. Galen leapt straight over the wall and the gate, and then landed in the small courtyard. He looked back at the turrets, and threw one of his lightsabers at one of the turrets. In that split second with his now free hand, sent a burst of electricity at another turret, disabling it, then another destroying a second one as well. He had timed it perfectly as he caught the lightsaber in his open hand. He heard the doors of the castle entrance behind him creak open. Galen spun around and saw General Grievous walking outside towards him.

As soon as General Grievous had seen the intruder a few feet ahead of him. Grievous immediately realised that the intruder was a Jedi, which is why he had been able to destroy most of the turrets in the immediate area. The Jedi was holding two blue lightsabers. He activated all four of his lightsabers, two of them shone a blue colour, one was green and the other red. Grievous charged towards the Jedi intruder, spinning two of his lightsabers in front of him. The Jedi raced forwards to take him head on. That is unexpected, Grievous thought to himself. The Jedi's two lightsabers interlocked with two of his lightsabers. Grievous swung the two free lightsabers towards his head, but he broke the deadlock and ducked; missing them both by a few inches. The Jedi then took a few steps back, creating a distance between the two of them.
"What is your name?" Grievous asked him. He didn't recognise this Jedi, he had fought many of them during the Clone Wars, and had killed quite a number of them.
The Jedi didn't respond straight away. "Starkiller," And that was all he had to say. Starkiller then leapt into the air, closing the distance between him and Grievous very rapidly. Starkiller landed behind Grievous, who quickly spun round to face him.

Once again Starkiller ran straight towards Grievous, but at the last few seconds of reaching him, he dived into a forward roll, which could've paid off for him; Grievous was quick for a cyborg, in mid roll he had stabbed the lightsbers downwards right towards Galen. Two missed but one of them briefly cut along his arm and the other hs leg. Galen landed beside Grievous. Starkiller let go of one of his lightsabers as Grievous turned around fully to look at him. Starkiller lashed out, cutting into Grievous right leg, cutting it in half. This took the cyborg by surprise. But even that didn't stop him fully, Starkiller sent him a Force push that sent him flying backwards, he let go of the activation switches on his lightsabers causing them to deactivate and he crashed against the wall of the castle. Grievous reacted quickly, crawling down the rest of the wall like a spider. He had dropped two of his lightsabers in his flight. Grievous now using two of his arms for balance, walking on all fours and still managing to hold two of his lightsabers in two of his forearms, was quite fascinating in Starkiller's view of things.

Starkiller got to his feet as Grievous charged forwards again. Starkiller deactivated his lightsaber, and summoned an energy ball between the palms of his hands, he charged it for several seconds then released it. The charged ball hit Grievous head on, sending him blasting through the air like a rocket, he was sent straight back into the castle, and dissappeared from sight.
My job is done, Starkiller thought to himself. He jumped back over the wall, and headed back to his starfighter.

After he had returned to his starfighter, he took off, and flew in the direction of the castle, he fired several lasers and missiles at the castle. It soon erupted into flames. Without watching anymore of it, Starkiller flew back into space and left the cold moon of Virl behind.