Vader stood there motionless, his lightsaber buzzing at his side, aiming downly towards the zabrak. With apprehension in his yellow eyes, Vader raised the blade and surprisingly deactivated it.

Maul seem to be caught offguard by this sudden motion from Skywalker. He walked over to him and gotten into an position as Vader just stood there. "Strike me down," he urged. "I feel myself telling me to kill you but your powers, Maul."

Maul dashed over to him and swunged at him, but the Jedi Knight easily pulled back and dodged under the zabrak's fury. Surprised, Maul turned to see Vader standing there, his arms crossed across his chest.

Before the zabrak can react, Vader send an kick towards his stomach which forced him to the ground. Vader flipped to see the figures running up to him, but he simply raised his left hand and shook his head as three of them were send into the lava below.

Vader force blasted five of them and send them to the ground, hearing cracks from their neck. "You fools are insignificant to me." Vader said mockingly. "I can show you the true power of the Dark and Light."

Vader released lightning upon ten of them and caused them to fall the ground with surprising thuds. He only disintegrated them. Maul can see that Vader seems to grow more powerful.

He manage to finish the rest by force pushing them into the volcano lava below. With a victorious smirk, Vader turned to the surprise Maul. "It's just you and me." Vader said. "This is Plagueis wanted. He wanted me to destroy you. I won't destroy you and we can come together to defeat him and build a new Order."

"Sidious killed my brother!" Maul bellowed with such rage and anger in his yellow eyes and struck towards Vader.

Barely affected by this, Vader activated his purple lightsaber and blocked the lightsaber blow. Vader knew it would be wise to watch where Maul would try to aim his second blade.

"Let me guess," Vader states, pushing up against his blade. "Plagueis promise you to bring him back if you do his bidding like an puppet and be his pawn. Plagueis too promise me everything but look where I ended up."

Not faltering, Maul try to get him off balance with twirling his double-blade, but the young man simply parried the move and pushed the blade back. Vader parried the strike and yanked the blade away and send an kick towards his abdomen, sending another slash to his arm which cause him to pull the other blade to block it.

Vader struck at his shoulder before sending an slash towards his leg in which his second blade below barely manage to parried. "This is the way of the Sith, Maul!" Vader strike upward towards the zabrak's blades, not caring which blade gets the assault. "They will lie! But at the end of the day, you will only get more pain! Come at peace with yourself!"

Vader slashed towards Maul, in which he block again. Backing up, Vader continued to send assaults, trying to regain the offensive. "The CIS is dead! Plagueis knew I would have found them! He wanted you to come out and get yourself kill, or for us to just kill each other!!!"

"Plagueis never lied to me," Maul growled back to Vader, pushing harshly against his blade. "And after I kill you, I'll have my brother back!" Maul send an harsh attack towards Vader's lightsaber in hope to disarm him.

He didn't, for Vader's blade came up towards him and he deflected it before pushing up with the double-blade. Vader moved around the zabrak and purposely missed a strike that would have cut the zabrak in half.

Ducking and dodging, Vader slashed towards his chin, which force him to back. As he and the zabrak did their best to not trip over the dead bodies, one of Vader's strike struck the control panel which force the lava to beam out of control.

Maul kicked Vader up in the stomach. Staggering and dazed, Vader managed to dodge. Not allowing him to regain the offensive, Maul strucked the hilt and forced it out of his hand.

Maul strucked, ready to end Vader's life with both of his blades. But to his surprise, he found himself frozen into place and stopped in his tracks. He felt something from Vader as he brought it down, but Vader ducked to the side and continue to move backwards.

The former Sith gritted his teeth and clenched his jaws. Unable to control himself, Vader hacked away at his blade, gaining momentum. Vader pushed up against him and he would have cut him in half but Maul barely manage to parried before pushing him back and knocking him off to a ledge.

Bemused and surprised he was caught offguard, Vader shouted and dropped his lightsaber onto a nearby railing. He grabbed onto an railing luckily and attempted to pulled up.

Vader looked up to see the zabrak with his double-bladed lightsabe buzzing. He than send a crooked smile at him and turned around and then ran off. "Maul!!!" Vader shouted, finally ascensing upon to the top of the ledge.

Running towards where Maul just ran at, Vader tried to catch up, not willing to let him to escape. But he have a feeling Maul didn't want to escape, because if he reported back to Plagueis without carrying out the mission to kill the murderers of his new... alliance he will be kill without a second thought.

Outside of the Jedi Temple, two Jedi and other clones seem to be taking out clones who were trying to save them. Smoke and the flames were at the Jedi Temple, since the Jedi Temple been taken out a few days ago.

Ahsoka, Rex, Obi-Wan and others who haven't executed the Jedi, shotted... or in the Jedi's case striked the traitorous clones down. Of course they won easily but it was hard to strike their companions down.

Soon, they'd gain the advantage and deactivated or put away their weapons. Obi-Wan and Ahsoka had put Rex and the other men under watch as they walk into the Temple. They then walked into the Jedi Temple to do some investigating and to hope someone survived but bodies scattered everywhere.

"Obi-Wan, where is the younglings?" Ahsoka asked, her eyes wide. "They were certainly at the temple in this battle but yet none of their bodies can be found."

Obi-Wan frowned at that but then a thought came to his head. "Let's go search up the security recordings, shall we?" He insisted. Biting her lip, Ahsoka nodded and begin walking down to the artifacts room, where the two Jedi discovered the holo-recording was on.

Master Kenobi recalibrated the system that warned all Jedi to stay away. No doubt the clones caused this because they're the ones who were behind this assault on the temple; that providing the blaster shots on the walls and grounds.

They then went to check over the recordings of what happen over the last events of one day. Hurt burned off of them as they saw Jedi being shot down relentlessly by men they'd trusted.

Placing a hand against her lip, Ahsoka felt her bones shivering and shaking as she saw many Jedi she had respected so much died before her very eyes. Even Obi-Wan felt the great pain as the clones outnumbered and shot the Jedi down.

Then they saw it buzzing for an second then saw Anakin Skywalker blocking the blaster shots without much struggles and leading the younglings out. He made it seem like the Jedi could have used him, but no doubt did he had problems of his own.

He took the clones down with the speed of his lightsaber or returning the blaster shots to their respective owners. Ahsoka immediately felt grateful and glad that Anakin was her Master and that he have saved the younglings.

Then something hit her as she felt a massive pain to her head. "Wait! If Anakin leaded the younglings and padawans out, that means he still alive and may need us!"

Obi-Wan nodded with agreement, feeling like he was about to fall back onto the ground with too much shock. So much had happened. He was proud that Anakin managed to survive and lead the future generation of the Jedi Order out. But disappointed as well that all of this had happened.

The communicator system on his pocket begin buzzing. Obi-Wan lifted it up and turned it on, only to be met by the blue version of Senator Organa. "Master Kenobi," he spoked.

"Senator Organa," Obi-Wan said shock but still cautiously since the senate had so easily turned on the Jedi even after everything he'd done for them. "Why are you currently making contact with me? Haven't the senators turned on the Jedi?" He asked, staring at the senator through the system.

"Not all of us," Bail responded abruptly. "Now there is a new Chancellor of the Republic... well was the Republic... named Plagueis."

"What do you mean 'was the Republic'?" Obi-Wan inquired, narrowing his eyes at that. What have happened in his and Ahsoka time at running in the shadows for two days at most?

Sure, they were aware that the clones falling, but what had happened to the Galactic Republic? Had democracy fallened and the Republic with it? That's impossible but the two Jedi knew it to be true.

"The Republic have been transformed into an Empire." Bail continued. "Currently, me and the other senators are in hiding, such as Senator Mothma, because ever since this man had assumed the Republic, senators been disappearing."

"We will have to fight then!" Ahsoka shouted to both men, pointing her index finger at Obi-Wan.

"Ahsoka," Obi-Wan said, a scold cleared in his voice. "We can't just go up to this man. He is more powerful than us in controlling the senate and will take us prisoner."

Gritting her teeth, Ahsoka clenched her jaw and bitten back an growl, but backed down slightly. "What do you purpose we do?" Ahsoka finally asked after a minute of silence beside the buzzing sound of the communicator system.

Obi-Wan pursed his lips before responding with a slight edge in his tone. "First, we would have to track down Anakin. Then we would go after this mysterious threat. These are dark times."

Ahsoka didn't responded with words but simply nodded.

Anakin had chased Maul down, not determined to let him escape easily. He have to stop this. After all, his friends and ones he felt as his family been shot down by his former kind and Maul's current kind.

He had tries to reach out for Maul, but couldn't find him anywhere. Well, Maul most likely would be hunting, for he hasn't yet escape.

He ran inside of a dark area, feeling his senses leading him down. Then something knocked into him from behind and forced him down. A deactivated lightsaber hilt rapped him on the back of his head and he dropped the blade out of shock at being sneak up upon.

Maul smirked, placing his robotic leg over Skywalker's torso and picked up his lightsaber and activated the purple blade. "You have fought an warrior death, Knight Skywalker. It is clear Plagueis have taught you well. The only reason to why you isn't yet death is because Plagueis would want you alive to tempt you back to his side."

Those words were the last Anakin had heard before passing out unconscious. Maul lifted up the communication system on his holster with his left hand, due to the right still containing Skywalker's lightsaber, and activated it, only to be met by the dark figure of Darth Plagueis.

"Master, your former apprentice had eliminated the CIS agents that you have made a deal with. But fortunately for you, I have your apprentice and will be returning soon with him."

Plagueis, a little disappointed by Skywalker killing his new allies who would have been an importance to his Empire, frowned at the zabrak. But he can easily shrugged it off with now having Skywalker.

Things have turned out to be better then he have first attended for his plan to be.