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The Order of Darth Traya Volume V

Chapters

The True Nature of the Force

Vestera Kai

Graduates

Ben's Decision

Loyalty

Jacen's Hunt

Showdown on Kamino

Darth Cadeus and Darth Divass

Darth Khaun

Attack on Keldabe

Part 1. Bloodshed

Part 2. The Power of Darth Khaun

Last of the Mandelorians

Chief of State Daala

The Hunt for Darth Khaun

Darth Starkiller

Face Off

Jacen's Victory

The Training of Nom Anor

Legacy of a Jedi

The Rule of Two

Alliance

Part 1. Darth Cadeus and Darth Voles

Part 2. Betrayal and Plans for the Future

The Hunt for Boba Fett

The New Clone Army

The Fall of The Hapes Consortium

CW II or The II Clone Wars

Jacen's Last Stand

I Am Darth Traya

The Sith Lord and The Jedi Master

Chapter 6. Showdown on Kamino

Vestera Kai sat behind her father who was piloting the star ship, she ignored the angry looks from Darth Lumiya and Veger who were no doubt jealous that her father had a lot of trust in her. She was here to save her father Gavar Kai or Darth Saber as he now called himself and if that meant being his apprentice Darth Kai, then so be it. "I am going to check on the prisoner!" She said unbuckling her seat restraint.

When the door swooshed shut Lumiya leaned forward, "That girl is going to get us all killed and all we have accomplished will be lost."

"My daughter is true and faithful to the cause-and I am confident in her ability to turn to Ben Skywalker over to the Dark Side.

"Then you are a fool!" Lumiya said without fear or reservation. Darth Veger flinched as Lumiya started gasping for air.

"Don't question my judgment! I am far more powerful than the both of you combined-I lead here-and if my daughter betrays me don't think for one second that I don't have the power to end her."

Ben Skywalker was shackled in energy cuffs. His lightsabers were on the stand in front of him. He could escape anytime he wished, but that was not his intent. He was here to protect Vestera, from herself, her father, and Darth Khaun if he must. The door to his cell opened and Vestera entered.

"I was hoping it was you."

"If you have a plan to escape then do it now!"

"I told you I wasn't going anywhere-at least not without you."

Vestera sneered, "Do you want to break your mother's heart?"

"That is beside the point! Besides-do you know where we are going?"

"Why so you can call your Jedi friends?"

"I love you!" He said she huffed as she knew what he was trying to do.

"If you love me then please get out of here-Escape when you can."

While Vestera tried to convince Ben to leave and he tried to convince her to come with him. Lumiya and Veger wanted to know what was so important that it took all three of them to do it. "Alright no more secrets-When the two of confronted Jacen Solo-Lumiya managed to sever his hand-I have kept it preserved-I also had Archon Beed Thane collect a DNA sample from his daughter Allana. I will use these samples to create clones to help us fight this Darth Khaun."

Darth Saber's vessel finally came out of hyperspace in the Kamino System. He had Lumiya land the ship while he went into the cell holding Ben. "Are we there yet?" Ben asked.

He looked at Ben then at Vestera, "Has he changed his mind?"

"I have!" Ben said speaking up before she could answer, "The Dark Side calls to me-I want it! I want Vestera!"

Saber couldn't tell if he was telling the truth because he was hiding his presence in the force. "If I release your bonds will you teach me to do that?"

"Tell me where we are first!"

"Kamino!" He replied waving his hand releasing Ben.

When they exited the ship Lama Su and Ton'Li were waiting for them, "Lama Su-Ton'Li it is an honor to meet the two of you in person."

"Have you brought the samples?"

Jacen and Anakin had closed themselves off to the force as well. They approaching Kamino in Jacen's X-50 star ship. "What makes you think they are on Kamino?" Anakin asks from the copilot chair. Anakin had apprenticed himself to Jacen after he was freed from Donovan Leers' mind control.

"A hunch-I had a vision that I and my daughter started a war-Then I remembered that during my last confrontation with Lumiya she took my hand. Now what if Gavar Kai took my hand to clone it. The force has lead me here and I am not wrong."

"And how did they get a sample of your daughter's DNA?"

"Well there was that attack by the Arquillions on the Hapan Cluster-Some troops managed to breach the palace-I will bet my new right hand that Archon Beed helped them get inside the palace."

Anakin hunched his shoulders, "I still say we should have brought Tahiri."

"She refuses to accept my teachings and besides if Darth Khaun is here she would only be in the way."

Kamino private cloning lab 21

The private labs were used to clone people for couples or individuals who wanted clones of themselves. "How much longer?" Saber demanded.

"Cloning a Jedi is a delicate process-It has been perfected, but the slightest miscalculation would result in a madness." Lama Su replied.

Ben closed his eyes and used his force mapping technique. When he opened himself up to the force Darth Saber drew his lightsaber. "You can put that away-I am not trying to warn the Jedi-I feel two blank spots in the force. There are only a handful of Jedi in the galaxy who can hide their presence in the force-Most of them are members of my family."

"Are you saying that your father is here?"

"No-I can feel my father all the way on Coruscant and my mother-That leaves my cousins Jaina, Jacen, and Anakin-Then there is my Aunt Leia. I think it is Jacen and Anakin-Anyway with your permission my lord I would like to find out."

"I will go with him!" Vestera offered.

"No! Darth Lumiya and Veger will go-You remain by my side."

"My cousin Jacen is mine the two of you should be able to handle my cousin Anakin."

"Who are you to give us orders boy!" Veger demanded. Both women gasped when Ben opened himself up fully to the force. It was like feeling the entire weight of a sun bearing down on a planet.

"That is who I am!"

Main Entrance to Tipoca City

With a wave of his hand the doors opened and they walked across plaza ignoring looks from the citizens. When they reached the doors that open to the hallway street that leads to the main clone facility both Jacen and Anakin felt Ben's presence.

"Ben is here!"

"I know I felt it too." Anakin said, "And if he is showing himself that means one of two things-He is leading us to Darth Saber or he wants to fight us."

"He'll probably want to fight us-He is blinded by his feelings for Vestera."

"We were young and in love once."

Jacen smiled, "What are you talking about? I am still young and in love!"

When they reached the main cloning facility Ben, Veger, and Lumiya were waiting. "I'm afraid that cannot let either of you pass."

"Step aside Ben I have no wish to fight you-Gavar Kai is cloning me and my daughter-The clones he creates will ruin the galaxy."

"And if I allow you to kill Gavar Kai you it will ruin Vestera-She will fall if go after him."

"Then help us subdue him!" Anakin said speaking up.

"That is not an option either because Vestera will never allow you to place him on trial and he will never turn from the Dark Side."

"No more words!" Lumiya said urging Veger to attack Anakin with her.

As they fought a two on one duel Jacen and Ben faced off against one another. "I know more about the force than you could possibly imagine Ben-Stand down!"

He smiled, "You mean the unbalanced force-I have studied your teachings Jacen and I will use them if I must-Now leave!"

"Your love for this Vestera has blinded you!"

"I am not the one who became a Sith Lord in the other time line and killed my own aunt."

"No you are the one who advised the burning of the Wookie villages to get close enough to me for revenge."

Neither of them were willing to make the first move-so they taunted each other with words that didn't affect either. While the two cousins talked Darth Veger and Lumiya fought desperately to overcome Anakin Solo, but Anakin was too powerful in the force and skilled with a lightsaber. No matter what the two did they could not best him. Veger jumped high flipped and tried to flank Anakin while Lumiya rolled forward cracking her whip at Anakin's feet. Anakin responded by stabbing his blade into the floor and raising his lefty leg high in a standing split kick. He managed to kick Veger in the side while Lumiya's whip wrapped around his blade. He spun around and kicked Lumiya in the gut. Veger charged him wildly again, so Anakin grabbed Lumiya by the hair and picked her up placing her in the path of Veger's lightaber.

When Lumiya died both Ben and Jacen felt made the first move swinging high and low with his dual swords. He was fast, faster then Jacen remembered, but Jacen had experience and managed to knock Ben's right sword from his hand. Ben batted Jacen's sword to the side and rolled forward into a half two handed-hand stand kicking Jacen in the back. Jacen went face first through the glass wall of the walkway that overlooked the main cloning facility. He had a force barrier up so the damage to his face and skin was minimal, as he dangled by one hand from the side Ben summoned his second lightsaber.

When he reached the rail where Jacen had fallen he was gone. There was a ripping metal sound and Ben looked up to see Jacen ripping one of the cloning pads from the large glass tube vats. He kinetically threw the pad at the walkway.

"You missed!" Ben said flying up to the pad Jacen was standing on.

There blades met in mid air as Ben swung his left then right, then he would alternate and combine swings in his assault on Jacen. Jacen blocked backwards then forwards, he repositioned his blade to block both at the same time. He batted left and right knocking Ben's swords away and elbowed him in the head. But Ben immediately responded by sweeping his leg from under him. He stood over Jacen knocking the his blade from his hand.

"I have been practicing since I could walk, because one day I knew I would have to face you! Yield Jacen I have beaten you!"

Jacen smiled, "Hardly!" He replied stabbing Ben with a stun dart. The toxin was meant to immobilize Ben not kill him. As Ben struggled to stay on his feet Jacen collected his sword and went after Darth Saber.

Anakin spun into Darth Veger and severed her head. He joined Jacen and the two of them made their way to the private cloning area. Ben was on his knees using the force to push the tranquillizer out of his system. He had studied the force techniques against poisons of the body since he was 7. He was breathing heavy but the agent was almost out of his body. He reached out to Vestera to warn her.

"The clones are complete, but they are still in stasis." Lama Su reported.

"Father we must leave-Ben says that his cousins are making their way to us!"

"Come we are leaving!"

They used hover sleds to move the clones as they lay in their cloning tubes unconscious. They were walking through the breeze walk that leads to the main hanger when Jacen and Anakin smashed through the ceiling blocking their path.

"I'm afraid that we cannot let you pass!" Jacen said.

"But I must this is the only way to defeat Darth Khaun."

"No it isn't-I can tell you the true nature of the force and together we can defeat Darth Khaun."

"There is only the Dark Side!" Darth Saber said as he took out a crystal dagger and pointed it at Vestera.

"Father! What are you doing?"

"Step aside-If I kill my daughter it will push Ben Skywalker over the edge...How is that for a future? Darth Skywalker." The walkway shook as Ben tore the breeze walk into three chunks. He dropped the part Anakin and Jacen were standing on into the water, then he levitated the part Vestera and her father were on to the hanger.

"Ben come with us!" Vestera cried from the ramp of her father's ship.

"If I stay behind they won't chase you! Go I love you!" He watched as Darth Saber dragged her up the ramp and the ship took off. "Be safe Vestera-I love you!" Ben said through the force. Jacen and Anakin leapt up out of the water and onto the balcony where Ben was. He unbuckled his lightsabers and handed them to Jacen. "I surrender."

"I hope you realize the consequences of your actions." Jacen said. "Now there is a clone of my daughter and myself out there and he knows what I know about the force."

"I am ready to face whatever awaits me-Bring me before the high council."