Escape! Escape! (Part 1)
Anakin knew that for a bit more than three weeks in training with Maul, he has turned from a mere slave boy into an almost proper warrior. Darth Maul's crash course trainings aren't really best suited to teach the intricate skills in the Force, but at least he learned to properly manipulate the Force, and using his raw power to good effects. Maul always warned him, that to hone his skills, he must practice more, and it needs more time and patience. He also learn that brute force could be easily countered by skills and strategic experience, but now all he had is brute force power.
Anakin also remembered the first part of this old saying, 'when all you have is a hammer'. He did not knew well the second part, but he can guess that he need to try hammering his way out if he was stuck. So that's why he is here currently, running while hiding his force presence as best as possible, and try to blast his way out of this Force-Damned Jedi Temple by running against fewest number of Jedi available while still somehow getting some kind of weapon.
This all started rather unusually. He did tried to goad and taunt his Jedi captors, according to the Sith art of Dun Moch, who according to Maul, was merely trying to use your smartest smartass insult on your enemies, who was so insulting they end up enraged and turned reckless, and at least he can start to sap the anger to fuel his own. But no, his escape looks like nothing like direct effect of Dun Moch, but more like his captors put up with his whines. Isn't it ironic? Dun Moch failed when childish whines actually succeed?
Of course, when they arrived at the temple, he was placed in a room, that unlike the prisons for escaped slaves in Tatooine, actually pretty clean and well circulated, but also only have a very heavy bed, a set of simple bathroom, and nothing else (he has the experience of visiting escaped slaves' prison while he and his mom was still under Gardulla the Hutt, it bring back sad memories). He actually admit he like the bathroom, it has plenty of water, unlike Tatooine, but still, it still only a bit better than those he used while he visit the Gungan cities with Maul before. Those Jedi liars and cowards merely said they want to help him, and they badmouth his brother, Darth Maul, with laughable lies like asking if he was actually kidnapped or forcibly taken. He already suspicious about their efforts, looks like they really tried to recruit and brainwash him into their ranks, and of course, he was much smarter than that, he is always a smart boy, his mother always said that to him.
He didn't know why the hell this was happened, but just this afternoon, he whines again about the food they gave to him. For five days he was held at the starship, he only ate some weird tasting biscuits (tasted like vegetables, bleh), some simple fruits (the only delicious part of this) and drank plain, unsweetened milk over plastic cups. For the additional two days in this Force-Damned Jedi Temple, he was given sandwiches, fruits, as well as other foods who could be easily eaten by hands, and liquids are given in filmsy plastic cups. He simply cannot stand all of it, especially about the vegetable-filled sandwich, while it has tasty slice of meat, it has too many weird-tasting vegetables over that.
He missed his mother's food, while simple, it was made specifically with his palate on her mind... it just feels, different, than whatever he already eat this month. Three weeks with Maul, and a week under the Jedi's custody, and he feel that he still like his mother's cooking the best, even when his mother was supposed to cook using the worst ingredients compared to the others.
So, he asked for any kind of food, any kind, as long as it was properly served in a plate, a proper dinner plate, not some filmsy plastic tray. And for somewhat reasons, the Mirialan woman put up with his demand and gave him a plate of some kind of rice with curry, and a bowl of tasty soup, in ceramic plate and bowl. Well, after eating the food, he look around, and sensed that the two green trolls are now speaking to a Zabrak guy with long hair, and a mostly bald Cerean guy, a bit far from the now opened door. He remembered that the Mirialan woman actually said that she gave him what he want so he can trust the foolish Jedi.
So don't blame him when he smashed the plate and the bowl on top of that stupid woman's head when she isn't looking at him. He tried to finish that woman off with a force lightning, but before he could do that, the two green trolls are already launching themselves toward him, forcing him to blast the lightning towards the incoming trolls, and the long haired Zabrak, and the Cerean guy too, before running like hell and blast a rather weak point at the balcony window with a force blast. At least, he knew that from this point around, his next objective are how to set Maul free.
He sensed that Maul is still alive, but cannot really pinpoint upon his exact location, and he knew that several of those Jedi, who called themselves Masters, are much much more skilled than him, and he had no real weapons as now. He know that he must steal something from somewhere. So back to the point, he must try to evade Jedi Masters right now.
Before he tries his best to hide his force presence, he can sense their panic in the force, and soon, the loud sound of Alarm fill the floor he was in... so naturally he climbed downward and tries not to be sensed until he could get himself on a weapon. While his force lightning was enough to kill most of the non-force sensitive troops in Naboo, he knew that somehow, a Skilled Jedi could absorb or block his force lightning without getting injured if they are ready. So he must get his hand on a lightsaber, from someone weaker and less skilled than those Jedi Masters.
And as if it was the will of the Dark Side, he sensed the weaker Jedi Apprentice from before, in a bed, with three other Jedi around her. He sensed all of them in the force, and he found that only one has some skills to barely stand up him, the other two aren't really strong or skilled, and the one from before is still injured due to his force lightning from before (although she got a lot better, perhaps he should kill her to confirm it this time). Most importantly, the three other Jedi carries a lightsaber each, that means three potential stealing targets, and he is confident, that he could take all of them down before their Jedi Masters can help them.
So he run, and gather all his rage and anger toward this initial attacks, he has a somewhat simple plan to attack, steal at least one of their weapon, kill them quickly, and escape further. He know that from this time on, he cannot really expect the Jedi to use soft measures against him again, and they will be most likely want him dead. But he must do this so he and his brother could be free again.
Obi-Wan's sense of danger heightened, and while his reflex is one to dodge the incoming lightning, he know that he can't do that with Siri behind him. He did has some experience fighting a powerful dark sider like Xanatos, but he never knew what to do when the attack involving force lightning was used against him. So he did whatever he could manage this time, and telekinetically pull an empty bed to block the incoming lightning, only for it to be shattered and the biggest chunk to hit him in the left shoulder, while the chunks also bombard the Bant Eerin and Garen Muln who caught on it off guard. He then sense the boy must be trying something, so he focus his defense to block the incoming telekinesis, and...
"NOOO!" said Bant Eerin when she was taken in a force choke and violently thrown onto Siri's bed, before the Boy telekinetically stole the lightsaber from the very flipper of hers. The stolen lightsaber directly fly to the boy's waiting hand. Not long afterward, the boy activated the blue blade, and leap toward them with clear intend to kill, forcing Obi-Wan to activate his own lightsaber and block the incoming attacks.
Garen Muln also turned his lightsaber and try to help Obi-Wan, but before he can do anything, the boy suddenly turned toward him and make a hand gesture. Expecting a lightning, he tried to block it with his lightsaber, only for some chairs flying toward him from behind, nearly knocking him out, and quite enough to make him falter. At this particular moment of vulnerability, the boy then make a choking gesture and Garen was held in the air and violently thrown toward Obi-Wan, who tries his best to catch his friend before he got hurt more.
"..."
The boy then shot another Force lightning towards the position of Bant Eerin and Siri Tachi. Bant tries her best to shield Siri from the lightning, but it was too much for her and she fall down at her friends arms... dead. Siri screamed her name and soon fall unconscious as well,Obi-Wan did not have any way to knew whether she was dead or not this time, but he soon feels his own force presence struggle to maintain a firm grip under the Sith-Boy's immense dark side power.
Without saying anything, the boy immediately leap for another kill, this time to make sure Siri Tachi is dead with his lightsaber. Obi-Wan tried to block it, but his attack turned out to be a feint, the blue lightsaber was withdrawn at the last second and immediately attack from another angle, not toward Obi-Wan, but toward the unprepared Garen Muln. Garen only has chance to duck behind at the last second, but it was too late because the blue blade severed him diagonally at the torso. His lightsaber falls from his lifeless hand and immediately retrieved by the Sith-Boy, who then tuck Garen's lightsaber inside his pocket, and leap again for another attack.
But this time instead of attacking Obi-Wan, he's using the force to leap at tbe railings and using the stolen lightsabers to slash another the door, escaping from the temple's balcony before making a mad run toward the gate, surprising two Jedi knights who patrol the outskirts before the boy quickly shot a Lightning toward them. They falter from the effects of the Force Lightning, but then the boy quickly make some wild slashes and left them as a heap of mangled limbs and torso, before jumping out from the temple wall and to the downtown district.
The boy already escaped to the crowded City of Coruscant, and right now, they cannot even really sense his force signatures.
When master Yoda arrives, Obi-Wan cannot said anything except watch the shocked expression written upon Master Yoda's face.
"Apologies, I must say. Failed, I am... failed... I... am..." said Master Yoda while slowly closing the still opened eyes of the late Padawan Bant Eerin.
At this point, Obi-Wan can only kneel and cries over his dead friends.
"..."
Qui-Gon Jinn and Master Dooku arrived a bit late, and they can only look down in regret over what already happened here.
"That boy is definitely much more dangerous than we think before... right now, he must be caught before he can do anymore casualities..." said Master Dooku, while solemnly hold the lifeless torso of the late Padawan Garen Muln.
"Indeed... May the Force help us in this trial..." said Qui-Gon while checking the vital signs of Siri Tachi. "Thank the Force, at least she is still alive..."
"Master Qui-Gon..." Obi-Wan can only tearfully look toward Qui-Gon with pleading eyes.
Meanwhile, at the same time:
Darth Maul cannot clearly feel the Force at this point, the drugs and force-proof bands securing him rightly. But he did manage to gave himself a smile on his face.
"Vader..."
He cannot feel the force well, but he did not really need the Force to sense that his guards are being really tense and uncomfortable, his help is coming, sooner or later, and he knew it well.
The only question left in his mind are... "Now, how the hell I could run without legs?"
And at Hego Damask's private room at his starship:
Darth Plaqueis frowned, he did not forseen this to happen, and the boy is clearly too strong, the Jedi cannot reliably contained him. While he would like the boy to be his apprentice, at this point, he can sense that his loyalty was firmly lodged in Darth Maul, the false Darth, the overtrained Assassin.
"Xanatos is still away, solving his business with the remnants of his Offworld Mining Company. While I can recall him, I didn't know how to let him reliably solve this wayward problem. Darth Thulu is guarding Maul, I'm sure of it, but I cannot contact him directly because he will be most likely busy over this at the Jedi Temple... And at this point, the Jedi would be permitted to use lethal force against the boy..."
"Should I go over him myself? While I am sure about my own ability to overpower and subdue him, I cannot do that without attracting the Jedi's attentions... And considering the Republic's lockdown over InterGalactic Banking Clan's high ups, it meant there will be most likely a Jedi or two tasked to 'guard' me from 'some unspecified threats' soon after I land upon one of the core worlds. Refusing them will only raise suspicions about me, and that was not acceptable at this point..."
"Force... I just realize that trying to gave the boy over the Jedi was probably the most fatal mistake I have done... perhaps I better let Sidious killed him before... wait, but Sidious actually help the Jedi to subdue the boy..."
"... so, Sidious also has similar plan for this boy... I see..."
"I hate to act upon it, but it seems, I must temporarily help Maul to escape as well... but now, how to do that without rousing suspicion over the Muunilists? Hmm..."
"Must admit there is nothing I can do over this, except helping them by further clouding the Force with the shroud of the Dark Side, and hope they can escape under the shroud. I have no other choices..."