Shadow Showdown (Part 2)
"Brother, the Jedi run away..." whispers Anakin to Darth Maul through the Force.
"Just let them be, and keep watching our back... they will return, it seems..." said Maul, who then looking toward the newcomer, who quickly sheathe one of his blaster, and assume a ready, but neutral stance, with one blaster still ready at hand, just pointing on the floor in a rather implicitly non threatening way.
"Thank you sir... Fett..." said Anakin, tries to thank their helper, but Jango Fett just look at him silently.
"Thank you for your help, stranger. But may I ask about..." asked Maul, unsure on how to proceed with this.
"I just hope that you both will remember that you owe me one..." said Jango Fett coldly.
"Why?" asked Maul further.
"It was just happened, I just recently have a very bad deals with the Jedi, and they just happened to pick an unfair fight..."
"Why aren't you think if I was a Jedi as well?" asked Maul, while pointing at his lightsaber.
"I knew some of 'those-who-use-lightsaber-but-not-a-jedi', seeing them isn't much of surprise to me..."
"You're hiding something, I knew Mandalorians have honours, but..."
"So you want me to tell the truth, right?"
"Tell us..."
"Steer clear of the count, he is my target..."
"Political hit to that old man with blue lightsaber, huh? Thank you for your help, nonetheless..." said Maul, trying his best to be polite.
"You're welcome, but remember that in other circumstances, never expect for my help again. And do not try to cross my lines, or I will hunt you as well..." said Jango Fett coldly.
Jango Fett then quickly walk out of the starport, and they did not seen him again, not that Maul care, but Anakin cannot help but feel that they will meet again.
"Come Vader... looks like we could simply take a spaceship for ourself... those cowards has already abandoned them..." said Maul who then point out to the nearest spaceship.
"Where will we go then brother? Naboo?"
"I hope not, we will go there after you finished your training, as my old master is there, and he want me for dead..."
"Oh..."
"Now quick, take that spaceship before the cowards returned with reinforcements..."
"Umm, master... I have a feeling that whatever this Naboo was..."
"Just shut up Vader..."
"I can't believe it... Jango Fett was out for bounty on my head?" said Master Dooku while they listens to their opponents' conversations behind the closed door.
"Time to count how much political opponents you have, count... count that, and you'll see, how much those are, just count it yourself, count." said Qui-Gon irritatingly, while Yoda also look toward the Count with disapproving looks.
"Master Yoda, can we simply return there and subdue the dark Jedi and the bounty hunter? I'm sure we two could took on them while Qui-Gon..."
"No... Revealed, something will be... must be patient, we are."
"We can interrogate them at the Temple, and..." said Dooku.
"To die rather than betray it, he will choose. Bring more darkness to the boy's heart, it will be."
"Shall we keep watching them?" asked Qui-Gon, who earned him Yoda's irritated look.
"..."
"Stealing a civilian spaceship, they are..."
"Thanks for pointing out the obvious, Master Yoda... shall we follow them?" said Master Dooku, who earn him both a whack on his shin, and a scolding from Yoda.
"Return to our ship, we must, let them escape this easy, we should not..."
"Allow me to gave a personal opinion upon this, Master Yoda, but at least you could use a reinforcements..." suddenly, a Human male and a Twi'lek girl approach them from behind.
"Quinlan Vos, Padawan Secura, what are you two doing here?" said Qui-Gon while looking towards the newcomers.
"I hope Master Yoda himself could gave the explanations... actually this is an important undercover mission, but since I feels that we may be looking for the very same objective..." said Quinlan Vos while looking toward the diminutive Master.
"What did you mean?" asked Master Dooku, while Qui-Gon remember something...
"The Boy?" asked Qui-Gon, somewhat suspiciously. "He's one of the strongest being with such raw potential I've seen... if only we can confirm that with a midi-chlorian test..."
"Correct you are..." said Yoda suddenly. "Ten years ago, a disturbance in the force, we feel..."
"Oh, I see..." said Qui-Gon, full of thought. "This was something about the wound in the force right?"
Yoda and Quinlan Vos only nod their heads, but then Quinlan Vos said...
"And our investigation led us here... I'll spare you the details later, but it involved a certain influential Muun in the galaxy..."
"Ah, Magister Hego Damask, I see..." said Dooku.
"We better spend that for later, right now, we have a starship to pursue..." said Quinlan Vos, and all of the Jedi follow his lead.
"My own starship is much faster and it was nearby... I hope this will be a quick pursuit..." said Master Dooku.
"Where shall we going brother?" asked Anakin while he try his best to tweak the waypoints and coordinates, while piloting the ship.
"I hate to say this... but assuming this ship's hypermatter amount as you informed me, I could only said that the furthest we can go is..."
"... where? said Anakin while trying to look at the star map and the corresponding point..."
"Naboo..."
"So why you just don't... said that from the start?"
"You still have that foolish Jedi's lightsaber, aren't you?" asked Maul.
"Yes? Why?" said Anakin while holding Qui-Gon's lightsaber at his hand.
"Plot this ship in autopilot, then, you'll gona have a crash course in lightsaber training..."
"Cool!" said Anakin who simply press the destination at Naboo System.
"Just remember, that all the training you have until this point was mostly emergency ones... You must regularly hone your skills after this... but we did not have much time..."
"..."
"Speaking of the lightsaber, after we go to Naboo, we'll infiltrate the Palpatine family compound. There, we can stole a new crystal for your lightsaber..."
"New crystal? what it does..."
"The Sith's synthetic lightsaber crystals are much more powerful than the Jedi ones, and we will steal some..."
"Who's this Palpa... wait..."
"Yes, he's my former master... a Sith Lord of Banite lineage, but he lives under the guise of a noble senator..."
"So..."
"Listen well, because you must learn about this quickly..."
"..."
"..."
"I can't believe it..."
"..."
"Why?"
"... more correctly, that should be how... Qui-Gon..." said an irate Master Dooku.
"But we've lost them! I can't believe that..." said Qui-Gon.
"We cannot detect their signature anymore..." said Quinlan Vos.
"Cloak their presence, the boy already done... learning to shield his thoughts, he has..." said Yoda.
"Three Jedi Masters cannot pursue and track a Dark Jedi carrying a little boy?" said Aalya Secura, but Yoda made sure she earned a whack on her head rather quickly.
"Much more dangerous than we think..." said Dooku solemnly.
"Do you think that the Zabrak was actually a Sith?" asked Qui-Gon.
"To the temple, we must meditate about it..."
"..."
"umm..." said Aalya Secura meekly.
"... what?"
"Masters, I think the engines are smoking..." said Padawan Secura while pointing out at the wrecked hyperdrive engine.