Chapter 54

Choices

Author's Note: Well the last chapter got much more positive feedback then I was expecting, I'm pretty happy about that. Also, I've being playing Black Ops recently and I have to say that it is a great game. I've been looking through the chapters I have already written, and I still like them but I really need to clean them up, so after this story is over, I will go back and proofread every last chapter of this story. There's one thing that's bugging me in my story, the superheated bullets, it's bugging me it seems kind of stupid now. I'm not going to use it anymore, I'm using regular bullets from here on, I'm going to go back and take them out when I revise this story. Also, I HAVE NOT ABANDONED NEW ORIGINS, I will continue it after I am done with this story, which is coming to a close. Well here's chapter number 54.

Ahsoka gritted her teeth as Vader swung his light saber directly at her throat, only for it to be blocked. Vader followed it up with a series of seeming wild strikes, aiming at random parts of Ahsoka's body, her head,chest, arms and legs among them. Ahsoka blocked the assault that Vader was throwing at her, although there were a handful of close calls. Ahsoka blocked a particularly vicious strike and began to clash her blade against Vader's.

"You really think you have the heart to kill your own master?" Vader hissed over the clashing blades.

"You stopped being my Master when you attacked the Temple," Ahsoka snapped back. "The Anakin Skywalker that I knew would never do like that, you're not him."

"You have no right to criticize me for what I did!" Vader shouted angrily. "Everything that I did I did for Padmé, I did it to protect her! You would have done the same thing for Aaron, you would do the exact same thing if you were in my position!"

"NO I WOULDN'T!" Ahsoka shouted. "You and I are nothing alike!"

"Don't be childish," Vader growled at Ahsoka. "We are both warriors in a war, we have both killed countless over the course of this war. You have dedicated your life to killing the Sith, just as my life is now dedicated to killing the Jedi. Tell me, how are we different!"

"It's Simple," Ahsoka said in calm voice. "Unlike you I have justified reasons for killing the people that I kill, unlike you I fight for the right reasons." Ahsoka intensified the strain that she was putting on her light saber, her muscles tensing. "Unlike you, I'm fighting for a purpose!" she shouted as she pushed forward with her light saber, causing Vader to stumble back.

Letting out a snarl as Ahsoka began to dash forward, he extended his hand and made clenching movement. Ahsoka stopped in her tracks, clutching desperately at her throat. It felt as if there were metal bands tightening around her throat, squeezing the air out of her. Panic began to flood through Ahsoka as her lungs began to empty, and she desperately attempted to break free, but she could not focus enough to draw on the Force. Vader's face was twisted in anger as he strangled Ahsoka.

As he continued to clench his fist, Vader noticed that a small targeting laser was pointing at his chest. Vader looked up to see Aaron, who had maintained a fair distance from the fight until this point, aiming his Spartan laser at Vader, his jaw clenched in anger. Vader released his grip on Ahsoka and dove to the side, as a massive red beam tore through the air. Vader managed to dodge the beam as he dove...mostly. Vader let out of a roar of agony as his left arm was clipped by the beam. The flesh was burned off of the arm, and the bone was charred, as the entire arm was burned off of Vader's body.

Ahsoka let out a strangled gasp as air flooded back into her lungs. Ahsoka began to cough as she attempted to catch her breath. "Ahsoka!" Aaron shouted, as he ran to where Ahsoka stood. "Are you alright?"

"I'm fine," Ahsoka said, as her breathing leveled out. "Nice shot," she said, looking at Vader getting to his feet, clutching his stump of an arm angrily. "I thought that he would dodge it."

"Easier said than done, even for a Jedi," Aaron said. "Lasers aren't like bullets and blasters, they move at the speed of light. If a laser is shot at you, it'll hit you before you can blink. Crap he's back up." Aaron aimed his Spartan laser at Vader, who was holding his light saber in his remaining hand, rage etched across his face.

Letting out a roar, Vader charged forward, swinging his light saber. Seeing that Vader was heading directly towards him, Aaron instinctively held his Spartan laser in front of him as Vader swung violently at him, severing it in half. Dropping the destroyed weapon, Aaron jumped back as Ahsoka stepped in between the two of them, swinging her light saber at Vader, who blocked it with some difficulty. Aaron activated Ramore's energy sword and dashed forward, swiping at Vader, who was blocking a blow from Ahsoka at the moment. He barley managed to avoid the blade by side stepping it, opening an assault from Ahsoka. Aaron and Ahsoka pressed in on Vader, relentlessly stabbing and swiping at him, Ahsoka blocking any blows that he threw at either her or Aaron.

As Aaron and Ahsoka continued to force Vader back, his from became less and less disciplined, as he wildly blocked and attacked with unnecessary viciousness, roaring like an animal as he did so. Aaron was rather disturbing by the inhumane look at was spreading over Vader's face, and judging by the way she was looking at him, so was Ahsoka.

As Aaron and Ahsoka lunged forward at the same time, Vader jumped back, glaring at his opponents while let out animal like snarls. Aaron turned his head to look at Ahsoka, who was also staring at him. Ahsoka nodded at Aaron, who nodded his own head before they turned back to face Vader. They did not need to use words as they both knew what needed to be done. Vader needed to die, NOW.

Both of them sprinted forward, swinging their blades at Vader, who blocked them by the skin of his teeth, greatly hampered by his missing arm which caused his light saber to jerk slightly. As they continued to press in, Ahsoka and Aaron's swipes and stabs becoming faster and more frequent, Vader completely abandoned anything resembling a technique and began to swing his light saber without any thought, as he roared madly.

Aaron raised his energy sword over his head and brought it down. Vader managed to intercept the blade with his light saber as he raised it over his head. But while he was blocking Aaron's blow, Vader did not notice that Ahsoka had dropped to her knees and swung at his legs. Vader could not avoid her light saber as they severed his legs.

Vader let out a roar the tore through the sky like a razor, as he fell to the ground, his light saber falling out of his remaining hand, out of reach. Aaron and Ahsoka panted as they looked at Vader writing on the ground, furiously but futilely attempting to reach his now inactive light saber. As he realized that he could not reach it and lacked the energy to call on the Force, he glared at Aaron and Ahsoka as he roared at the top of his lungs "I HATE YOU!"

Aaron's eyes narrowed in anger as he stepped forward, energy sword in hand. He was surprised when he walked into Ahsoka's outstretched hand, blocking him. "No Aaron," Ahsoka said softly. Aaron was shocked at Ahsoka's voice, which was unusually low, and unless he was mistaken, slightly frightened. Before Aaron could say a word, Ahsoka walked forward, and with a single fluid movement, stabbed Vader through the heart. Vader let out of roar that nearly deafened Ahsoka as he thrashed wildly, then became eerily still.

"He…he's dead," Ahsoka said in a disbelieving voice as she pulled her light saber out of Vader's chest and deactivated it. "He really is dead." Ahsoka paused for a second before she raised her hand to her com unit. "Emily," she said quietly "Vader's dead, Aaron and I took care of him. I recommend that you start looking for Palpatine." As she finished speaking, her arm fell to her side.

"You ok?" Aaron asked as he deactivate Ramore's energy sword and walked up towards Ahsoka. "He used to be your master after all."

Ahsoka took a deep breath before she replied to Aaron. "I'm not going to lie, it does hurt, but…" Ahsoka shook her head "I can't really bring myself to feel sorry for him. He did so many evil things, of his own free will too. I didn't enjoy, it was just something I had to do." Ahsoka rubbed her head in fatigue. "In reality I don't know how I feel."

Aaron put his hand on Ahsoka's shoulder as they looked at each other and began to lean in. Their lips were about to connect when a shriek tore through the air. "Oh damn!" Aaron swore as he spun to face the origin of the shriek. "Padmé!" Both he and Ahsoka began to run up the hill as fast as they could, heading towards the origin of the shrieking. As the landing platform came into sight, both Aaron and Ahsoka ran to the edge of the cliff and jumped towards the platform, landing on it with a dull thud. 'Never again," Aaron thought as he and Ahsoka approached Padmé, who was writhing on the ground in pain.

"What's wrong with her?" Ahsoka asked in a panicky voice, looking at Aaron.

"I'm working on it," Aaron muttered as he furiously typed at the new medical scanner on his forearm. "Oh Jesus H. Christ," he said as he read the scan results. "She's giving birth."

"Right now?" Ahsoka said in a shocked voice.

"Right now," Aaron said grimly. "Help me get her on the ship," he said as he grabbed Padmé by the arms while Ahsoka grabbed her legs, and they both lifted her up. "Padmé I know that you're in a lot of pain right now!" Aaron said, trying to shout over Padmé's shrieks, but I need you to focus!"

"Oh this is going to be agonizing," Ahsoka groaned as they carried Padmé onto her skiff."

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"Roger that," Emily said as she lowered her hand from her com unit. She looked at Amber, Aayla and James, who were standing right behind her. "I just got the word, Vader's K.I.A..

"So what's the plan, search and destroy, or do we hunt down Palpatine?" Amber asked, resting her shotgun on her shoulder.

"Whichever option presents itself to us first," Emily replied. "We see a factory, we blow it up, we see Palpatine we kill him."

"Clones!" James shouted, pointing at an oncoming patrol party.

"Duck and cover," Emily hissed, as they ducked behind an outcrop of rocks. "Wait until they pass by," Emily whispered, as she unholstered her assault rifle and magnum, holding one in each hand. "Then drown them in bullets."

"Got it," James whispered, as he produced his new dual SMGs. The clones continued to march forward, scanning the landscape for hostiles.

"Now," Emily hissed. There was a blast as Amber's shotgun blew off the main clone's head. Before the other's could even register, Emily and James both leaned out of cover and gunned down three clones each with their weapons. As the two remaining clones raised their blasters, Aayla charged forward, slicing the chests of the clones open.

"Well that went well," Aayla said, as she deactivated her light saber.

"Hey mom," Amber said, as she rummaged through the armor of the headless clone and produced a holographic projector. "Look at this," she said as she activated it, a hologram of a map materialized as she did. "Looks like it's got detailed descriptions of all of nearby Imperial bases."

"Let me take a look at that," Emily said, as she took the map from Amber and studied it more closely. "Looks like there's a base not too far from here," she said, pointing to a large structure on the map. "Looks like a major structure, feel like blowing it up Amber?" she asked, looking at her daughter.

"Oh Hell yeah!" Amber said eagerly. "Let's do this."

"All right," Emily said, smiling slightly "Let's move out." Gray Team began to sprint across the barren wasteland of Mustafar. After fifteen minutes of running, they came across an overlooked that gave them a good view of the Empire base.

"All right," Amber said, as she spun a dial on the side of her helmet causing her helmet to zoom in. "Looks like it's pretty heavily guarded," Amber said, as she gazed across the bases' defenses. "Couple of platoons have got the place manned," she said. "And it looks like..." Amber broke off as she spotted a clone in armor that had yellow trims. 'I recognize that armor,' Amber thought as she stared at the clone. 'I saw him in the Outer Rim, when I first met Aayla. What was his name...Bly, Commander Bly.'

"Amber, you alright?" Aayla asked, putting her hand on her shoulder.

"Wha-yeah," Amber said hastily. 'Jesus,' Amber thought 'If Aayla finds out, it'll crush her.'

"All right," Emily said. "Move in." She said as Gray team began to creep down, towards the base.

Author's Note: Well Vader's dead, but Bly is still alive, and commanding clones. Well sorry that it is so short, but still I think that it was pretty good, aw well tell me what you think.

And by the way, I know that some people will be angry at me for killing Vader, they will have wanted me to redeem him. Well let me tell you something my father told me about Vader, he doesn't deserve to be redeemed. He killed countless Jedi and children, he killed his own wife, he killed his mentor, he killed Luke's Aunt and Uncle, he blew up a planet just to install fear in others, he cut his son's arm off, he sold Han Solo to Jabba, and he's off the hook because he killed ONE SITH? NO, I DON'T THINK SO. JESUS PALPATINE DIDN'T EVEN STAY DEAD. I'm sorry, I don't buy his redemption, and I think he deserves to die, sorry if you disagree.