Hey guys! How's everything going?! It;s the middle of November and all hell is breaking loose! It's crazy seeing at how this whole battle started off it looks like both sides are suffering major loss. Will anyone make it out, who knows, but it looks like Aaron is ready to finish what he started on Naboo many years ago. Star Wars is owned by Disney while I own my OCs. See you all at the end of the chapter!

The Final Stand

Rhen Var

War raged throughout the castle. As the sun was beginning it's decent from the sky, the battle between Aaron and his friends against Desric's army of assassins continued on. Upon learnging that Desric was taking part in this battle, Aaron leaves his wife to help her Jedi comrades before running towards the castle to find Desric. While Ahsoka ran to help her other friends, Aaron grabbed his wrist comm. and contacted his two friends. "Derric. Grace. I need you to meet me inside the Castle. Desric is here!"

"Which way did he run?" Derric said on the communicator.

"He's somewhere inside the castle." Aaron responded. "I want you and Grace to come help me find him. We're going to end this once and for all."

"I'm on my way." Derric said.

"I'll meet you as soon as I can." Grace added before Aaron deactivated his communicator and ran up the steps into the castle.

While Derric and Grace were on their way, Aaron makes it to the front door and noticed a path of blood, and crushed rocks were lying on the floor in front of him. He knew that this must be Desric's doing. As much as he wanted to run in their and quickly find Desric, Aaron knew that he needed both of his friends to help him find this man, and surely kill him.

As the battle continued on, Ahsoka runs over to Kai and helps him fend off everal assassins. "Need a little help?"

"Always happy to see you!" Kai responded before he and Ahsoka used their green lightsaber to block several bullets fired at the both of them. While Kai deflected a few shots, Ahsoka manages to slice several of these assassins in two. The two then switched places and in an instant, Ahsoka used both of her lightsabers to lock swords with two assassins before Kai jumps over her and decapitates both of their heads. "How many more are there?!"

"This is the final wave!" Ahsoka said, while she knocked out a few assassins. "We're almost there!"

"Where's your friend?" Kai asked.

Ahsoka looks around and sees Aaron, Grace, and Derric gather at the front entrance of the castle. "There he is! He's with Grace and Derric. He's bringing his best fighters."

Kai looks at the front entrance before Aaron and his two friends ran into the castle. "Where are they going?"

"They're going to cut the head off this beast."

After reuniting with his two afriands in the middle of this battle, Aaron leads Derric and Grace into the castle before they saw a trail of blood and crushed rock beneath them. Grace kneels down and rubs her finger against the blood. "This is fresh, which means he must have been wounded at some point during the battle."

"Or one of his Shadows must be injured." Aaron pointed out.

"The trail leads to the east wing of the castle." Derric. "I'm not sure why he's heading there."

"He may want to get a good view of the battlefield to point out which targets to attack." Grace. "Aaron, there's a communication signal on top of the east wing, if he makes it on top of the tower after the storm passes over he may be able to get a signal to the Empire."

After learning that Desric could call fro reinforcements, Aaron knew that they had little time to waste. "Come on!"

How could Aaron be so blind? How could he have forgotten about the fact that maybe Desric was avoiding Aaron, just so that he could get a signal to the Empire. If Desric managed to reach any nearby starships, the new empire would be able to send its troops down to finish them off. The tower in the east wing also served as a vantage point for Desric to over look the battle below and allow him an advantage to command his army to launch more precise attacks.

As the three of them ran through the castle, Aaron, Derric, and Grace, managed to run into two assassins along the way as they ran up a set of stairs. Aaron runs past the two assassins before Grace and Derric surely take care of them. Grace runs by with her knife and slits one assassins throat, while Derric thrusted his sword deep into the assassin's gut. In just mere secends both assassins bled to death while the three friends quickly ran through the castle in search for Desric.

While looking down at the trail of blood, Aaron and Derric continued to press on with their search, that is until Grace noticed something that Aaron and Derric didn't notice while they were running through a hollway.

Up ahead of them, she spots an odd shadow being casted behind a pillar, before noticing that the light was being bounced off weird. She suddenly knew that the two were running into a trap. "Guys!"

"Surprise!" From out of the shadow, Ruin deactivates his hidden camouflage before lashing out towards Derric and Aaron. "I've been waiting for this!"

Aaron is caught off guard when he sees how much Ruin has changed since their last encounter on Onderon. His body was replaced with nothing but machine as he was a now fully functioned cyborg that stood seven feet tall. His eyes orange while several parts of his new body were glowing orange as well. As Aaron tried to get up after the attack, Ruin launches a full out frontal assault on Derric and Grace.

While the two were able to hold their ground, they're attacks proved nothing against Ruin. Any punch, any kick, any form of combat landed against him did nothing. Ruin's metallic body was more stronger than what anyone could expect. As a special surprise, Ruin activates his small thrusters within his boots and launches Derric Against a wall before he chokes the life out of him.

Grace and Aaron rush in to save their friend until Ruin managed to swat them away with his arm before slamming his fist over at Derric's face with full force. However, thanks to Aaron and Grace's intervention, Derric was able to move his head out of the way before using his robotic hand to slightly crush one of Ruin's hands. The robotic assassin drops Derric onto the floor before he turned around to see Aaron and Grace.

When Derric noticed that Ruin was now focusing on Aaron and Grace, he looks down at the floor and sees his sword lying away from him.

"Oh how it always good to see you Aaron." Ruin said before he lifted Aaron off the ground with one arm and threw him against the wall and soon grabbed Grace. "And Grace, you're as beautiful as you were the last time we met."

Grace looks up at this human-turned machine, wall a small drop of blood was flowing down the side of her head. She throws a small kick to his knee before the droid suddenly falls onto his metal knee. He looks up and sees Aaron running at him with his black saber fully ignited while letting out a war cry. Ruin places his hand up to prevent Aaron's attack and is easily amused. "Oh please, you think you're going to stop me? You think this will change anything? In the end, you've already lost this war."

Before anything could be said, the sound of a blade piercing metal echoes in the small hallway. Ruin looks down and sees a blade coming out of his chest before turing around to see Derric yank the sword out of his chest. Ruin suddenly releases Aaron, and falls on both knees while blood and oil came flowing out of the hole Derric created in his chest.

"If this is the end, we're going to make sure you all come down with us." Aaron said as he took a few steps away from Ruin.

"Well…what are you waiting for…" Ruin asked who wanted Aaron to quickly end his life right there and now.

Aaron shook his head while looking at the fallen warrior. "It's not my life to take."

Ruin looks behind him and sees an angered look on Derric's face while he wielded his iron sword. Every bit of rage that was inside Derric was dripping down his bod in sweat and blood as the young man gritted his teath and looked at the assassin who took joy in murdering innocent people. Allowing him to live would be a crime in its self, and after what had happened with Barriss, Derric was going to make sure that this assassin would pay for everything that he did.

While Derric prepared to make a final strike against Ruin, the cyborg assassin remembered the first time they fought on Onderon. But the last time they fought, Ruin was able to get the best of Derric and almost killed him. Now the tables were turned and now Ruin was the one on the brink of death. Thinking of only one thing to say, Ruin turns over to Derric to say one final thing. "At least we kno-"

SLICE

Not even giving Ruin the satisfaction of finishing his sentence, Derric had already sliced his sword through the human cyborg's neck, cutting the head off completely before it rolled onto the floor. Ruin's body sono squirted out a mixture of blood and oil as it fell on the floor and rolled off to the side. After so long, Derric had finally killed Ruin. Now all that remained was Pain, Misery, and Desric.

While Aaron and his two friends followed him deep within the castle, three small younglings are seen running through the castle with their lightsabers ignited. After Katooni was tired of running away from her fears, she, Ganodi, and Gungi, summoned up the courage to fight alongside their friends.

As the three made their way through the castle, to go outside to help their friends, the younglings spotted three assassins in front of them. Katooni signals Ganodi and Gungi to fall back into the shadows before Katooni allows one of the assassins to spot her.

"Hey you!" The Assassin said before the other two began to chase the little girl down the hall. But little did they know that they were falling right into her trap. As they chased Katooni, the little girl runs past two statues before signaling her two friends.

"Now guys!" Katooni said before Gungi and Ganodi sprung out from behind the statues and attacked the assassins. While Ganodi launched at one of the assassins, Gungi used his arms and legs to swing him towards one of the three assassins, before lnading a good kick to the face. Katooni soon helps out her two friends before using the force to push one of the assassins against a statue. The force of the push manages to knock the assassin out cold while Ganodi did the same as well to the final assassin.

With all three assassin knocked out cold, probably for the rest of this fight, the three little younglings high fived one another after being able to outsmart these so called trained killers. Although they could have easily cut them in half with their lightsabers, neither one of them felt it was right to kill. Despite what they went through at the temple, neither Katooni, Ganodi, or Gungi, wanted to have blood on their hands in this new world. Their Jedi Masters would not have wanted them to abandon the lessons they learned and would not want to see them take the life of another out of anger.

Knowing that these three assassins would be taken care of, Katooni looks at her three friends with a smile. For the first time in what seemed to be a life time, Katooni was smiling, as well as her friends. "Come on! Our friends need our help!"

Ganodi nods while Gungi lets out a small roar before the three soon ran off towards the entrance of the castle to help Ahsoka and her friends. Maybe with their help, their friends could win this battle.

With the battle tearing throughout the castle, Aaron and his friends continued to run through the narrow hallways and stair cases to reach the east wing of the castle. Knowing that Ahsoka could handle herself against the assassins, he knew that she and the rest of their friends would be able to handle these assassins. The question was though, how many were there still. This battle had waged on long enough, and surely both sides of this fight were beginning to wear down. It wouldn't be that long until either side fell apart at the end of the battle.

As Aaron and his friends finally reached the east wing of the castle, the noticed that Desric was no where to be found. He and Grace look around up and above them as they saw nothing but small bridges and an empty tower that stood before them. Grace looks around and noticed that Desric was seen no where near the command controls at the front of the tower.

While the two friends looked around, Derric began to pace back and fourth as his anger began to build up within him once more. His patience with Desric was thinning down to the point that Derric might snap at anyone who gets near him. "Where the hell is that piece of filth?!"

"It doesn't make sense." Grace said. "He should be here."

Grace soon walks over to the controls and began to type in several codes to see if Desric even used this machine to contact the Empire in the first place. Derric soon looks around and sees that there are multplie towers near by and thinks that maybe Desric may have fled like the coward he was. However, Aaron felt as if he had been in this situation before. He knew Desric wouldn't just lead them astray, but he knew that Desric was no stranger to brutal tactics.

"I say we split up and search for Desric." Derric suggested to his friends. "We can cover more ground if we split up and search the castle."

Before Derric could wonder off, Aaron places his hand on his chest to prevent him from moving, as he looks all around him. "No…that's what he wants us to do. He wants to split us up. To divide us."

"Oh no…" Grace said quietly as she suddenly realizd what was going on.

"This is a trap." Aaron said nefore the three of them looked around to see where Desric would strike first. With a few bridges going above them and connecting to other towers, the layout of the field was too confusing for Aaron and his two friends to keep a track of, making it perfect for Desric to confuse them and launch an attack on one of them if they split up.

"Well well. What have we here?" A familiar voice said. Aaron knew who this was. It was Desric for sure, but with the voice coming in so many different directions, it was hard to tell where the voice was coming from. All they could do was listen. "Three little assassins have finally come home. After all we've been through, our final reunion has brought us here, where it all began."

"Show yourself you coward!" Derric said.

"Very well." Desric said before he walked across a bridge above them before he signaled both Pain and Misery to come fourth. "I am so excited for this. It's finally happening, isn't it?! The moment we've all dreamed about!"

Ignoring everything ever said, Derric charges towards the tower to make his way forward to Desric. "DERRIC NO!" Aaron yelled before the two assassins in front of him jumped out of the way and launched themselves over to Aaron and Grace.

In an instant, Aaron and Grace are suddenly locked in a battle with both Pain and Misery while Derric charged and ran after Desric who was waiting for him at the bridge above them. Aaron and Grace knew that Derric's anger was going to get him killed, but with their hands full, they had to kill these assassins fast if they were to help Derric take down the leader of the assassins.

Misery makes the first move and uses her whips to try and disarm Grace. The young woman dodges one attack by jumping out of the way, but forgets that the four of them were fighting on a narrow bridge. She holds onto the ground as she slid across the snow before reaching the edge. Aaron on the other hand has his hands full when Pain used his beams of energy to try to vaporize him. Although Aaron was able to block the attack with his black saber, it was still hard for him to hold his ground when the beams began pushing him to the edge of the bridge.

Using all his strength, Aaron manages to force his saber forward, allowing him to deflect the beam of energy right towards Pain's legs, causing the cybernetic assassin to fly towards the wall. While Aaron ran off to try and finish Pain, Misery looked over and saw how close Aaron was reaching her brother. "Uh-uh-uh. Not on my watch." She playfully said before she wrapped one of her whips around Aaron's ankle and began to electrocute him.

As Aaron screamed in pain, Grace runs over to stop Misery, but as she soon runs over to the assassin, Misery looks over and shoots her other whip over to Grace. The blonde girl ducks beneath the oncoming whip, and slides across the snow before quickly reaching Misery. Grace suddenly uppercuts the robotic assassin in the jaw before Misery released her grip on Aaron and focused on Grace.

Once Aaron was freed from his pain and torture, he looked up and noticed that pain was beginning to charge up for a powerful blast. "This time, I'll make sure you stay dead!"

Aaron's eyes widened when he saw Pain chargin up his repulsor gauntlets and fired all of his energy over to him. Aaron flips above the beam of red energy and watches it as it suddenly flies over to Grace and Misery. But Grace is able to see the attack coming and rolls out of the way for cover, hitting Misery with her back facing towards the blast. A loud robitc scream could be heard as the heat of the energy is able to fry the assassin within the metallic armor encasing her. Grace watched as Misery's glowing yellow eyes begin to short circut and burst in front of her as the beam destroyed everything that was her foe.

After the beam blasted Misery to nothing but a pile of melted armor, Grace watched Aaron fall to the floor while Pain began to walk up towards Aaron. She spots Aaron's sowrd on the ground and looks over to Grace. "Aaron!"

Aaron looks over and sees Grace throw the sword directly at Pain who was trying to charge up another blast. But once the sword reached his hand, Aaron quickly thrusts the sword inside Pain's chest. Because the assassin was charging his blast with kaiber crystals, once Aaron thrusted his black saber into his chest, the crystals were unstable and were beginning to crack and release uncontrollable energy.

Aaron Grabs, the assassin and drags him over to the edge. Not wasting any minute, Aaron throws Pain over the edge before the assassin exploded, releasing a cloud of red energy that caught everyone's attention during the battle, but also shook the castle greatly.

With assassins dead, Grace and Aaron look over to the side of the edge before they suddenly remembered that Derric was fighting Desric alone. They suddenly look up and saw Desric, with out his helmet, fighting Derric alone.

In just mere seconds, Desric is able to block several and dodge several strikes Derric had with his sword, before he soon swatted the sword out of Derric's hand. As the sword flew off the edge of their bridge, Aaron slides across the snow and is able to grab the falling sword before it was able to fall down the castle. But as he held onto the iron sword, both he and Grace watch Desric throw several punches to Derric's face, and ribs. They watched Derric stood no chance against him, for the master of the assassins, was able to lock arms with Derric. "You think you can beat me that easily?! I gave you this new arm of yours, and I can take it away just as easy!"

Desric soon throws a right hook punch across Derric's face before he used both hands to grab onto Derric's robotic arm. As if he knew the structure of the arm, he is able to use a combination of moves to disarm Derric from his robotic arm, giving him only one to fight with. However, his efforts were useless when Desric suddenly has Derric in a headlock and soon faces Aaron and Grace down below. "Look upon this Aaron. I want you to watch as I tear your family apart! This one will die first! Then Grace! You will watch as I bathe in your families blood!"

"Aaron! Stop him! At all costs!" Derric yelled. But as Derric yelled to his friends, Desric activates the syrum within his tubes that flowed across his body. Aaron, Grace, and Derric, watched Desric's muscles grow while his veins glowed yellow. "Kill h-"

SNAP!

Derric's voice was silenced forever when Desric used all his strength to snap his neck in two. Aaron and Grace felt as if Desric reached in their hearts and ripped it out before they watched him hold Derric's lifeless body as if it were a trophy. "This is the beginning of the end!"

Desric soon dropped Derric's body off the edge of the bridge, before Aaron and Grace dove near the edge to catch the body from falling down to the floor of the castle. As they pulled Derric's body onto the bridge, they looked down and saw Derric's eyes still open. Looking into his lifeless eyes, Aaron and Grace gently closed his eyes before they looked up and saw Desric starring down at them. After watching Desric murder their friend, their brother, right in front of them, Aaron and Grace felt a rage within them that was unleashed. A fire within their hearts ignited and the two ran into the tower to meet Desric on the bridge that connected above them.

After many years of hunting Desric down, Aaron and Grace had seen enough of Desrci's actions. Ever since this started, Desric has murdered both of their families, filled their heads with lies, tortured them, turned them into merciless killers, and killed practically everything they have come to know and love. Today, the two would now have their chance at vengeance. With no one to hold back their rage and hate, both Aaron and Grace would have their revenge and avenge the friends and families they lost. Today, it would all end.

Oh my. Were any of you guys expect that to happen. Like I said a few chapters ago, this is a battle and anyhting can happen in all the chaos. Although it pains me to watch someone like Derric go, we needed to unleash the inner rage within Aaron and Grace and now they have it and it looks like Desric will be facing off against the two one last time.

With that being said, Derric was a strong warrior. Although his journey does not have a happy beginning or a happy ending, his actions inspired Aaron and Grace in their darkest times. From the moment they first met, to the moment they last saw him, Aaron and Grace will never forget their brother. And it looks like now, Derric can now be reunited with his two older brothers in a life beyond the force.

I'll see you all after Thanksgiving for the next chapter! Bye!