Vestara felt Pra's death in the Force about a couple minutes or so after his A-wing seemingly disappeared out of existence before her eyes and the medical frigate's sensors. After the Twi'lek died, his human counterpart watched in surprise as a YT-2400 appeared to just manifest hundreds of miles from the viewport, and Vestara saw that it was now flying toward the frigate and off to the side. She knew that those aboard-for she could sense two familiar presences, Jaina Solo and Jagged Fel-were intending to board the frigate to take her, whether it'd be dead or alive.
Knowing that she didn't have the time or resources to formulate a plan to even escape, Vestara decided to try the only thing she could do left: Fight.
She stood up from the chair she sat in and rushed out of the cockpit, rushing headlong to the airlock, unhooking and activating her lightsaber along the way as she felt the frigate connecting with the YT-2400. Sure enough, once she rounded the corner for the airlock, having already heard the activation of a lightsaber just a few meters back, she wasn't surprised to find Jaina standing there, her purple lightsaber alight and ready to cauterize Vestara's blood.
Jaina's eyes, in turn, seemed like they could do just that all on their own without the help of a super hot blade.
"Jaina," Vestara said. "How pleasant it is to see you again after all these months."
"Save it, Khai," Jaina replied intently. "I'm only giving you one choice and one chance here. Surrender or-"
"Die, yeah, I got that," Vestara said. "Seemed like an empty platitude that your Order gave before you murdered thousands of my people back on Coruscant."
"They made it an empty platitude when they decided to fight," Jaina replied. "You wanna make it that for yourself?"
"I think you want me to make it more for myself than I do," Vestara said.
"Damn right, I do," Jaina said as she began to slowly walk toward the Sith. "Especially after you nearly had my cousin and parents murdered, and revealed Allana's secret to boot. You know how badly she grieved after her best friend died because of you?"
"I won't attempt to justify myself to you like I tried to do with Ben," Vestara said derisively.
"Wait, Ben?" Jaina asked. "What did you do to Ben?"
Vestara was about to tell Jaina when she stopped herself as a plan almost instantly formed in her mind; it was a long shot, but it was the best she had just short of dueling Jaina herself. The Sith then smiled menacingly as she said, "If you kill me, you'll never find out."
"Nice try," Jaina replied. "Even if I did agree to let you go, I think you forgot you're aboard a medical frigate whose engines have just been blown out; there's no way you're going anywhere. And besides, we can make you tell us where Ben is without needing to resort to torture like you Sith would; that is, if you agree to surrender."
Vestara sighed; it seemed like she would have to duel Jaina after all. "And why should I do that?"
"Because there's no other way you're getting out of here alive, Khai," Jaina replied. "I just killed your Twi'lek friend, so you don't have a chance of getting past me."
Vestara laughed. "I guess you're going by the assumption that I'm still a Sith Tyro, huh?"
"So you're a Saber now?" Jaina asked. She shrugged. "Still can't beat me."
"Maybe not," Vestara replied. She then brought the tip of her lightsaber up in Jaina's direction. "But a Sith Lord like me certainly has a fighting chance." With no more words, she leaped forward and clashed blades with the Jedi.
In the opening moments of the duel, Vestara was forcing Jaina back the hallway of the frigate in a flurry of wild strikes and counters. Several meters away from the airlock now, Jaina halted her backwards progress as she twirled her and Vestara's blades into a lock that allowed her to cement herself in place with the Force while she stared down her opponent. Less than five seconds later, Vestara broke her blade out of Jaina's block, but the Jedi used that distraction to her advantage to force Vestara back a few steps with a few blocked slashes before the Sith managed to trap the Jedi's blade in a block of her own, opening up an opportunity to kick Jaina in the sternum and send her flying back several meters.
Jaina came crashing across the deck in a painful heap, though not losing her lightsaber in the process. Once she landed solidly on her back, she quickly brought her blade up to guard against a strike from Vestara, who was then blown back to the ceiling above her with a Force shove from her downed opponent. But regardless of the impact, Vestara still managed to block the decapitating strike that Jaina intended as the former descended back to the deck, and the Sith managed to send a powerful punch across her foe's face.
The Jedi stumbled back from the attack, but was instantly on the guard again when Vestara tried to strike her down once more. A few clashes later, the combatants decided to temporarily halt their duel and regard each other.
"Impressive," Jaina commented in a genuinely admirable tone, as if they were just engaged in a mere sparring match as fellow Jedi-or Sith, as Vestara liked to think-than a duel to the death. "You've improved in your skills and abilities since we last met. Those few months really did a lot for your training, I'll admit; it's more than I could say for your friend."
"He was an arrogant fool," Vestara stated. "I was deigned a Sith Lord by Ship himself."
"Ship, eh?" Jaina asked. Then she nodded as if in recognition. "He can hold his own against me in a dogfight, I'll say, so I can certainly trust his judgment of others' skills at least." She then leaned forward to trade a few more clashes against Vestara before backing away again. "So you, a Sith Lord. I can honestly see that."
"Certainly means a lot coming from the Sword of the Jedi," Vestara replied genuinely before ending up in another brief bout with Jaina.
"Then take this into heart before I kill you," Jaina said. "Thanks for offering me at least something of a challenging opponent." The next bout they ended up in lasted for a good minute with no more words spoken between them.
When that bout ended, Vestara managed to pull a move that not only rendered Jaina's lightsaber in two, but also Jaina herself in two, right across the waist.
Vestara watched triumphantly as the Sword of the Jedi fell in two at her feet.
"Careful what you wish for," Vestara smirked.