Chapter 15: Truth and Corruption
-[Republic Cruiser Judgement]-
"Admiral..." Captain Calia said, walking up next to Jane Callus.
"Report." Jane said continuing to watch the fleet battle, neither side with the upper hand.
"I've gone to everyone as you asked... Everyone, even the few who did not know Revan during the Mandalorian Wars is with you. If Revan calls for us to fight... we will fight. With what you found out about the Jedi... I don't think anyone trusts them now."
Jane smiled and nodded. "Return to your post captain, and be ready." She said watching the captain salute and walk away. 'We are ready for your call, Supreme Commander.' She thought to herself.
-[Star Forge: Inner Sanctuary]-
Revan pushes away Malek's saber, before swinging her blue saber down.
Malek leaps away from Revan as the blade barely misses him. "You getting slow Revan." He said laughing.
"No I'm not. I was just going slow." She says rolling her shoulders.
Malak glares at Revan as he charges at her swinging his blade quickly in his form two Makashi. "You will not best me Revan. Today I will see to it your life ends, and then my true reign as the Dark Lord of the Sith will begin." He cries out laughing as Revan dodged each swing of his blade.
"You know Malek. As I fell unconscious after your attack, I swore you would pay for betraying me, but as it stands I must thank you." Revan says leaping over the dark lords swing using what appeared to be a form four Ataru evasion. Seeing Malek's confused look she explained. "With my much older mind during jedi training and learning the forms of combat, I had a very interesting idea. One that at the time was impossible because I no longer had mastery, but with my memories restored, the idea came full force." She said a smile under her mask.
"What are you speaking of Revan. One of your damndible ideas that nearly got you killed in the wars again?" Malek said sneering, continuing his assault on Revan.
"No actually... one to augment my fighting to an even higher level." She said grinning blocking a two handed strike from the dark lord using her two blades. "As you knew, before the wars I had full mastery of Ataru." She said pushing the mans red blade away and striking out herself. "During the wars I came to master form six Niman to aid in my dual wielding style." She continued as Malek blocked each of her attacks. "During my new jedi training, I was pulled towards both Ataru and Niman once again."
Malek pushed his old master back before swinging at her legs, which she easily jumped over. "What are you talking about you daft fool!" He cried out swinging his blood red blade at Revan.
The woman dodged it effortlessly. "I have perfectly mixed Ataru and Niman into a single style. Using Niman's offencive arts, and Ataru's evasive ones, they create a style like no other." She said with a laugh.
"Bull shit! That is not possible." He cried out swing his blade at his master again.
Revan blocked the blade with her blue one smirking under her mask. "Deja Vu? Nah..." She said shaking her head before bringing her viridian blade up and down in a single movement feeling her blade dig into the metal jaw of Malek, before it dropped to the ground showing his vocabulator, her lightsaber passing by the same path that it did during the Mandalorian Wars. "Now it's Deja Vu." Revan said with a laugh, kicking the dark lord in the gut to send him flying backwards.
Malek looked at Revan with raw hatred in his eyes as he got up from the ground. "YOU WILL PAY FOR THAT!" He screamed out, his shoulders shaking in rage.
Malek rushed at Revan swinging his blade horizontally at the former dark lord only for the woman to leap over it, before striking out with her blue saber. Malek pulled his blade up in time to block the blue blades path but was unable to stop the viridian one as it slashed across his back, leaving a shallow burn.
"ARGG!" Malek cried out in pain, one of his hands reaching behind him towards the wound. "I will kill you Revan!" He screamed out turning around to face the woman only for her not to be there. "What in the..." He began to say before seeing Revan charging him, only her viridian blade in hand.
Revan swung her blade down using all her strength and augmenting it using the force, at Malek. The former sith raised his blade to block the attack and as he did he was instantly send to one knee from the force of the blow.
"You can't beat me Malek. You couldn't beat me when we were Jedi... you couldn't beat me when I was dark lord of the sith, and you can't beat me now." Revan seethed into Malek's face. "I fought Mandalore the Ultimate one on one and won. You fought him and got destroyed. If not for Meetra you would have died that day." Revan said, pushing down harder with her saber, forcing Malek to grab his blade with both hands. "Instead you die today." She said as a blaze of blue erupted from the left side of Malek's chest.
Malek's eyes widened at the intense pain he was in. Meetra's very first saber was pressed up against his back, Revan controlling it using the force to pierce him.
"This is the end Malek." Revan said stepping away from the dark lord. The mans hands went limp his saber falling to the floor, Revan using the force to bring it to her hand. "You were once my friend Alek. For that... I will end you as you wished. In one final battle of two sith lords."
The woman used the force to return the blue blade to her belt, and returned her viridian as well to her belt. She reached behind her and pulled the ceremonial sith saber from her back, igniting the blood red blade.
"Know this Darth Malek, today you die at the hands of Darth Revan." She said, quickly taking her red blade and piercing it through the dark lord's heart. She ignited Malek's own saber in her left hand and lopped off the mans head to ensure his death. Malek's body fell backwards pulling off Revan's red saber.
Revan looked down at the dead body of her friend and let out a sigh, letting the two red sabers fade, replacing her ceremonial one to her belt. She turned around seeing the door to the sanctuary open and from it Mission and Bastilla walked in.
"I felt that the battle was over, so I thought it would be okay to come." Mission said with a smile to Revan.
"It is over." Revan said giving her girlfriend a nod before looking over at Bastilla, noticing her looking at Malek's body. "Bastilla." Revan called out. Once Bastilla looked over to her Revan tossed Malek's lightsaber to her. "Catch."
Bastilla raised her hand catching the saber, before looking at Revan confused.
"So you will always remember. Malek, the one who broke you and turned you from the light, was bested by me." She said clearly, glaring at the girl.
Bastilla nodded her head, and looked down at the saber.
Revan turned and walked away towards a large view window on an upper level, Mission following closely.
"Is it time?" Mission asked as they stood side by side seeing the fleet battle around the Star Forge.
"It is my love." Revan said sweetly. She raised her hand to the com unit in her ear. "T3 do you read?" She called out. She heard a series of beeps on the other end. "I want you to link my com to every sith and republic ship. Use the Star Forges antenna to do so." She said hearing another set of beeps.
She waited a few minutes before hearing some beeps from T3 causing her to smile. She hit a button on a nearby console that T3 had hacked to give her station wide coms along with the two fleets.
"Sith and Republic Fleets. This is Revan on board the Star Forge. Stand down. Darth Malek is dead." She called out.
She felt though the force the ships ceasing their attacks on both sides at her command causing her to smile.
"Listen to me all of you." She called out into the coms. "I am neither Revan of the Mandalorian Wars, nor Darth Revan of the Sith. I am something else. During my time in the Mandalorian Wars I came to understand the depth of the corruption inside the republic senate. They ordered me to let certain worlds die and save others instead. I did not follow those orders. Instead I sent elite teams to the worlds they told me to let die and saved them." She said over the coms, pressing another series of buttons on the panel hearing T3 talk to her over her personal com, allowing her hologram to appear on the bridge of each ship.
"At the end of the Mandalorian Wars I left known space to follow the force. When I returned... I came back as Darth Revan, leading the sith fleet." She said, looking around herself to make her hologram appear as if it was looking at each person. "The republic was weak... It could not stand up to my might. Only through the efforts of a small elite Jedi strike team were they able to even come close to my flagship. I killed three Jedi masters with ease, and when I was able to kill two more, Malek attacked my ship injuring me greatly. Bastilla Shan took me to the Jedi council, and instead of giving me a second chance and healing me, they instead wiped away all my memories and gave me a new name and identity so they could use me as their pawn." Revan said looking down at the ground. "Only one master wanted to give me a true second chance. Vandar."
-[Republic Capital Ship: Odin]-
Vandar's eyes widened hearing the woman speaking on the hologram. "What is this? What is this speech all about?" He wondered, watching Revan's hologram look back up as it began to speak again.
"As I said, I am neither the jedi or sith I was. I am what the force wills me. I hold both the light and the dark in equal measures in myself." Revan explained.
-[Republic Cruiser: Judgement]-
Jane Callus smiled as she watched Revan give a speech. 'Just like during the wars isn't it?' She thought to herself.
"Neither the jedi or the sith follow the force, only themselves. I follow a code that's main principle is to follow the force." Revan's hologram said on the bridge of the Judgement. "There is no dark side, nor a light side. There is only The Force. I will do what I must to keep the Balance. There is no good without evil, but evil must not be allowed to flourish. There is Passion, yet Peace. There is Serenity, yet Emotion. There is Chaos, yet Order. The force shall guide me."
-[Star Forge: Inner Sanctuary]-
Revan took a breath after reciting the first code. "It is this code I follow." She calls out to all the ships. "It is because of this I will not allow the corruption of the senate to remain." She cries out. "I ask that anyone willing to fight for me do so now. I do not seek to rule the galaxy, only cleanse the republic of the corruption that weakens it. This even includes the Jedi and Sith. They follow incomplete codes, codes that only harm them."
-[Republic Capital Ship: Odin]-
Vandar watched as Revan's hologram appeared to look around the ship. "It is only through this code, the code of the Original Jedi Order can balance be brought." He heard Revan say. "Any Jedi, be them light or dark may join me, and I will happily train them in this code, but those unwilling to... may either be willing to let me cut their connection to the force, or... I will forcefully do so." She calls out causing Vandars eyes to widen in surprise.
-[Star Forge: Inner Sanctuary]-
"I am transmitting a code. Those who are willing to either surrender or join me send it. Otherwise..." She says letting her statement float. "You have ten minutes." Revan said as she cut the com.