Chapter 16: duel of fates

So it has been a while hasn't it guys. At Least for me it has. Had a few family and work problems happen while working on this chapter. I do not want to burden you guys with anything and this is not an excuse but a reason for my lack of content this last month. Alongside with that I'm going to be working a lot more hours because I need a lot of money for something at the end of april.

Any who, this chapter is going to be a Star Wars chapter. I hope you enjoy one of the best fights in the prequels as it was one of my favorites when I was a kid. Also Thanks to those that answered my question about kiri's symbol.

Also, please stop saying that you don't like my choice in the roles as I don't feel like explaining it anymore.

{edited: sorry it was bold when i upload it guess i fucked something up thanks guys for letting me know}

Disclaimer: Rwby is owned by rooster teeth Star Wars is owned by Disney and lucasarts.


Slayer sat down and watched as the screen flickered to life. On his face he held a nostalgic look as he waited for the screen.

"What's with that look? Another slap in the face for us?" Mercury asked the man, who gave a smirk in response.

"What you're about is the journey of the chosen one bringing balance to the universe. Or at least his beginnings." Slayer said, a smirk still present on his face.

"Well what's going on, who are we rooting for, and is Jaune another psycho in this one?" ruby asked in quick succession.

"Right now the battle for Naboo is happening, the Jedi and the resistance are fighting a corrupt government trying to take over their planet. You will find out who you are rooting for in a minute. And Jaune is a surprise for now." Slayer fired back just as quickly.

"Naboo? Is that their version of remnant?" Weiss asked carefully.

"Nope, remnant is light years from this world. Naboo is another planet, one where Pyrrha grew up and became its leader. Before anyone else asks yes there are multiple planets that people live on and there are aliens living among them. Many planets are a part of the republic and thus are represented in the council room led by the chancellor." Slayer said in response to her question.

"Okay but what's a Jedi?" Ren asked in a curious tone.

"A jedi is…. Well in one way they are monks, in another they are peacekeepers, in another they are powerful generals; they are many things, but they are known as Jedi above all else. The Jedi utilize a galaxy spanning energy field known simply as the force to perform great feats in their quest for peace across the galaxy. They practice the idea of separating yourself from all emotion and attachments to better become one with the force." Slayer explained as best he could.

"Okay, so we're watching Pyrrha fight for her home world with the help of some unemotional magic space monks. This will be fun" Nora said with a giggle. The light darkened signifying the beginning of the viewing, they all turned towards the screen in preparation for whatever may come next.

The scene opens up on a hangar bay as several small yellow ships speed out of it while under heavy fire. One of the ships couldn't make it and crash into the flat lands below, as the rest flew upwards towards the sky. Inside the hangar bay is Pyrrha with several soldiers all of them wielding some type of gun in their hand talking with her as she arms herself as well. Off to the side are two men in robes: one the older of the two with graying brown hair and a curly mustache wearing a dark cloak over his robes and the younger one had black hair and wore a brown cloak over his robes.

"Well it seems both Peter and James are these Jedi you were talking about." Ozpin said with some mirth in his voice.

"You are correct Ozpin , they are a pair of Jedi. The most common Pair found, Master and Padawan or apprentice for you folks. I'm sure you can figure out who is who." Slayer said with a grin. As Port snickered at the general who could only frown in response.

"Well my young Padawan I wonder what amazing skill we'll bring into battle this time!" Port shouts boastfully, causing James to smirk a bit as he finally gets to see another version of himself actually fight this time.

"I wonder that as well. They don't seem to be carrying much in the form of weapons. So do they use some sort of martial art or something?" Taiyang asked curiously, slightly hoping he would get to see some hand-to-hand combat in this world.

"Red group! Blue group! Everybody this way" one decorated soldier shouted, leading the large group towards a door. As they began to walk in that direction they passed another yellow ship, and from the cockpit popped out a young blond haired child.

"Oh my god tiny Jaune!" Ruby said with joy seeing a child sized Jaune.

"Here is the Jaune arc of this universe at age 9. Born a slave on Tatooine, a desert wasteland. Following Jaune winning a pod race at the age of NINE I remind you, Port won a bet with his owner so that Jaune could join them as a Jedi as a free man. The young boy hopes to not only become a strong Jedi, so he may free the other slaves. But to see every star in the galaxy, one day. Slayer revealed to them getting varied reaction the most prominent was pissed at the idea of Jaune being a slave or the idea of slavery in general.

"What did I see in mister arc to go that far in freeing him?" Port asked the deity.

"You believed he was the chosen one. Mostly due to his high midichlorian count. Microscopic life forms that help communicate the force to living beings. The more you have the easier it is to use the force. Jaunes reading much like his aura were rather large; comparable to this universe's Ozpin, Who is a master Jedi and leader of the Jedi council." Slayer explained once more getting a small smirk from the headmaster along with his associates. The rest of them only got more confused and turned back towards the screen.

"Hey wait for me!" Jaune shouted as he stood to get out of the ship.

"Jaune stay where you are. You'll be safe there." port said calmly as he was passing the ship.

"But I-" Jaune began to say.

"Stay in the cockpit." port told him with a calm authoritarian tone, pointing right at the boy as he passed. Jaune gave a groan but still sat back down. As the group got close to the door it opened to reveal a figure garbed in black robes. On closer inspection it was revealed to be a female alien with red skin adorned with black markings. Her eyes were a sickly acidic gold color filled with hatred. The soldier drew their weapons and backed up a little from the woman in black.

"We'll handle this." Port said to Pyrrha who then ordered her men to take an alternate path as the two Jedi began to walk towards the female alien, who pulled back her hood to reveal her black hair. On her head also were several small horns dotted across her skull. The trio look at each other before throwing off their larger robes to free up their movement.

"What is she? She looks very familiar." Cinder asked with a curious glare.

"That would be you. You are what is known as a zabrak, a near-human carnivorous species of alien. You are also a sith apprentice sent here to fight Port and Ironwood." Slayer said to the fire witch.

"A Sith. Is it safe to assume they are the villains of this universe?" Salem asked the host.

"Yes it would be. The Sith are an order in response to the Jedi. There must always be balance in these worlds . For every light there must be dark. The Sith believe in power over everything and the using one's emotion to fuel their power. Evidently the Jedi forbid marriage and having children but the Sith allow it. Food for thought there." Slayer explained to the grim queen and the others in the audience. There was a small bit of silence before a small question was asked.

"How do they get more Jedi then?" Lie Ren asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Well some are recruited and others apply to learn the Jedi ways. Honestly though if it wasn't for that rule the jedi would have a lot more padawans then they do now." Slayer said with a shrug before turning back to the screen.

Near Jaune a round blue object on top of the ship turned and gave off a beeping sound. Jaune looked towards the sound and saw three brown metal things come rolling into the hanger. The object in question came to a stop before unrolling and revealing themselves to be robots and opening fire on Pyrrha and her group. They all jumped behind cover as the droids fired upon them.

"We got to do something R2!" Jaune said from inside the cockpit watching as his friend and her army are being attacked. Pyrrha was not just idly by, she ducked in and out of cover to take pot shots at the droid with her blaster.

Over with the Jedi; Cinder pulls out a 21-inch-long silver tube at the same time Port and Ironwood pull hilt length tubes out as well. From Ports a Green blade ignited out of the hilt, from Ironwood a blue energy blade. However, Cinder's tube ignited with a red blade coming from one end before igniting the other end with another red energy blade.

"LASER SWORDS! THEY HAVE LASER SWORDS!" Ruby shouted in weapon blissed filled joy.

"Yes they have laser swords or lightsabers as they call it. Blades made of plasma focused through a Kyber crystal. A force sensitive crystal that both Sith and Jedi use for their weapons." Slayer told the weapon nut, who grew even more excited.

"So they both use a lightsaber. But why does it come in different colors?" Ozpin asked calmly, finding himself liking the green lightsaber in particular.

"Depends on whom you ask. For me though, a red kyber crystal is only made through corrupting a blue or green crystal to the dark side. Lightsabers however are created and designed by the user. Some even being hidden in canes or having a curved hilt. And of course there are those who prefer the double-sided lightsaber" Slayer told the headmaster, getting him and Ruby to begin picturing what their lightsaber would look like.

The Jedi duo charge Cinder who easily blocks their first strike. Ironwood lands behind her and swings his blade at her, only for Cinder to nonchalantly block his attack. Port follows up with a downward swing from the front which Cinder bats away. They continue to swing their weapons at the Sith woman as she dodges and blocks their attack with her odd fighting style.

"I see this version of me went for more style and speed to fight while they fight with a more defensive style." Cinder mused as she watched this interesting fight continue before her.

"What you say is true. You specialize in one part of the form VII of lightsaber combat many used to take down opponents with speed and movement. However, Port and Ironwood specialize in form IV a majorly defensive style meant to block from all sides." Slayer told the false maiden.

"What style will Jaune use?" Pyrrha asked their host, curious about this Jaune's future fighting style.

"He will mostly use form V when he becomes a Jedi knight but later on he switches to form VII's other half of the style power and stability over movement and speed. I won't go into why he changes other than saying he suffered an accident that caused him to change his fighting style." Slayer informed the champion, who gave a nod in response before turning back to the screen.

The camera switched back to the young Jaune in the cockpit as the sounds of blaster fire continued outside. The little robot on top gives a long whirl followed by some beeps to Jaune who's looking around frantically for something.

"I'm trying R2, I don't know where the trigger is!" Jaune shouts to the robot before hitting a button, which starts the ship.

"Oops uuuh how about this!" Jaune mutters as the ship slowly moves forward, he pulls a lever which causes the canopy to slide into place.

"Not that one… Oh, here it is!" Jaune says with glee, grabbing the centrestick and begins firing on the droids, blasting them to pieces. Jaune then tries to stop but the controls aren't responding as his ship begins to take off.

"It's on the automatic pilot!" he shouts to his robot buddy as Pyrrha and her group head inside. When his ship takes to the air, he throws on a helmet and tells R2 to try to override it.

Back with Port and Ironwood, Cinder is still fighting the two Jedi with relative ease. With a spin she kicks Port to the ground and backs away from Ironwood. As she backs up she waves her hand at a piece of metal and it goes sailing in a door panel, allowing her to continue to block Ironwood's attacks. As she crosses into the next room with him, Port catches up with the two joining his apprentice in attacking the Sith woman.

"What was that? She just moved that metal with a wave of her hand." Nora asked curiously.

"That is simply one of the easiest uses of the force. Moving things with one mind or hand gestures is child's play to them. They can also influence the will of those that are weak-minded." Slayer tells the Valkyrie, who gave a small grin and nodded at this info.

"Reminds me of your semblance Glynda." Ozpin says to his right-hand woman, who gave a grin in response.

Cinder then high kicks Ironwood in the face before jumping away from port. Port charges her when she lands. After blocking three more strikes from Port she knocks him away and blocks Ironwood's next strike as he recovers quickly. Cinder backs away from the two Jedi near the edge of a pit as the two Jedi corner her. They stare each other down for an amount before Ironwood goes to swing only for it to be a feint as port comes from the side causing Cinder to backflip over a gap onto a bridge as the two Jedi hop across after her. She blocks both their strikes once again giving the two a sneer.

The camera shows Jaune's ship in space dodging fire from enemy ships as he tells R2 to disable the autopilot. In nearby ally fighter ships, the pilots that were attacking a large mother ship type vessel complained about its deflector shield being too strong. Jaune finally gains control of his ship and starts to try to lose his tails by spinning or running along the top of the enemy vessel. R2 suggests he goes back, which Jaune shoots down by using port's word against him, that he should stay inside the cockpit no matter what.

"Pfft~ well he is doing what you said Peter." Oobleck said to his rotund companion who had a scowl on his face.

"Yes but I doubt this is what I meant." Port grumbled out as his friends snicker at his attitude knowing he used to act just like that when he was a student.

"I'm just confused on how the arc boy can fly so well." Ironwood said looking towards Slayer who just gave a confused shrug in response.

Meanwhile, Pyrrha and her group are in another shoot out in a hallway, which she gets out of by firing and climbing a grappling hook up a couple floors. They then start to run towards another location quickly.

Another scene changes, and we're back where Port and Ironwood were earlier fighting Cinder on a high bridge above a deep pit. The two Jedi attacking and blocking Cinder with precise strikes. But then Cinder held Ironwood's blade down and kicked him over the edge. He falls a short way before catching himself on a platform below.

"What is with the kicking and you?" Ironwood asked the fire witch.

"Maybe I'm hoping it will knock some brain cells into that head of yours and convince you to give up. Or maybe I just like kicking people while I beat them!" Cinder said with a prideful glare and a smirk as both Port and Ironwood glare back. Meanwhile, Salem is snickering at her servant's bravado and at Ozpin's twitching brow.

Up top Cinder and Port were fighting still only for him to back hand her off the bridge to another platform below landing on her back. She barely had time to block Ports' strike as he jumped after her. Before he could land a second strike she kicked him once more and rose back to her feet with a spin. Port, not deterred, charged forward being the aggressor in their clash and driving Cinder back. down below Ironwood pulled himself up over the ledge and grabbed his lightsaber. He looked towards his master and jumped up to give chase after the two. The two continue to clash blades as they approach a hall of red lights which turn off as they enter. Their clash continues until the panels on the wall move, erecting a barrier between the two and more barriers separate Ironwood from them as well. Cinder tests the barrier by tapping her lightsaber against it doing nothing. The two warriors turn off their weapons and stare at each other for a moment. Port then kneel down and begins to meditate while Cinder paces back and forth, not taking her eyes off him. Ironwood outside the hallway turns off his saber as well watching from afar as he can do nothing right now.

"That seems like something Ren would do. As soon as they could take a break for a bit he just starts meditating to gain control of himself." Pyrrha said to Nora who snickered, as Ren gave them a glare.

Back to Jaune in space, he had just taken a hit and span into the enemy shuttle bay. R2 gave a loud whirl as they blitzed into the shuttle bay while Jaune tugged at the controls.

"I'm trying to stop. I'm trying!" he said, pulling as hard as he could to break. Finally, he slid to a stop but the enemy droids started to approach his ship. R2 gave a couple beeps to Jaune asking what was wrong.

"Everything overheated… oops this isn't good!" he said flipping switches and hitting several buttons trying to get the ship to work as more droids approached. Suddenly his ship sprung to life shield coming up to block the droids' laser blasts.

"Take this and this!" Jaune shouted, firing his ships blasters at the droids.

"And take this! Oops." the boy said, firing the missile into the power supply of the enemy ship before he took off out of the ship as it began to explode from the inside.

There was snickering at kid Jaunes 'mistakes' and some grumbles about lucky shots and how kids shouldn't be near missiles from the military faction of the group.

Back to the Jedi, Ironwood ignited his blade as the barrier began to open as soon as they were gone Port charged Cinder once again. Ironwood tried to reach his master in time but was cut off by the barrier reforming once more. So all he could do is watch as port and Cinder clashed once more. Cinder now adopting to take the offensive this time attacking port while spinning the blade in her hands and blocking his attacks she began to push him back. Cinder then gave a grin after pushing him back a little. When they clashed again she blocked his first few strikes before butting him in the face with her hilt and spinning around to stab him with the blade.

"NOOOOO!" Ironwood cried as he watched his master fall to the ground wounded. As he stares at the body of his master with sorrow in his eye he takes a deep breath before turning his gaze to Cinder with a withering glare showing the hatred and anger he felt towards her at this moment.

"Those were the eyes of someone who lost something close to him. What was the bond they shared?" Salem asked, seeing the same look in her eyes once, oh so long ago.

"While the title master and apprentice is a little formal to you all. It means a bit more with these two. Port was basically a father to Ironwood. As padawans are given a master at young ages, so they can learn as much as they can from them, so they may better pass on those teachings to others. But I must stress that the Jedi way prohibits emotional ties to anyone, even other Jedi." Slayer said to her as Ironwood begins to see why his other self is angry with Cinder.

"But that's stupid! The way you say it happens, They basically expect you to fail. Because if that is the only adult you have in your life as a role model then of course you'll become attached to them!" Yang shouted angry at how they expect someone to just be immune to their emotions just because that's how they want it to happen.

"Don't look at me. I don't make the rules, it was the Jedi council who made them. To be fair this isn't the first time Ironwood grew emotionally attached to someone and it won't be the last." Slayer said calmly to the blond only for more questioning stares to be sent his way to which he just smiled and mouthed 'later' to them.

Cinder paced tauntingly in front of the barrier as Ironwood began to regain control over his emotions. When the barrier fell the two ignited their blades and clashed against one another. Cinder slipping into a spinning style of fight only to be blocked by Ironwood's defensive style. He continues blocking her until he sees his moment and swings his blade, cutting one emitter off making it a one sided lightsaber like his and knocking her to the floor.

Cinder glare towards the general as her weapon was reduced to half as dangerous by the man's counterpart. Said man just smirked in response while port snickered at her.

"That defensive style looks quite useful, I wonder how long it takes to learn it?" Taiyang said, getting the stink eye from raven.

"So when summer and me tried to get you to learn how to use a weapon, that wasn't as useful?" the bandit queen asked her ex-husband dangerously, who just started to sweat nervously and apologize quietly as Qrow snickered at the man.

Cinder fell backward after her weapon was attacked. She blocked an attack from Ironwood as he jumped over her. Leaping to her feet to dodge another strike, she then tried to gain some distance between her and Ironwood, who swung at her as she ran. When she got her feet steady she then went back to her earlier style trying to incorporate spinning into her attack pattern. As they clashed for a couple more strikes Ironwood brought his saber down on her, which she blocked and with some struggle pushed him away before she blasted him with the force over the edge of a pit once more. As he fell over the side he grabbed onto a tiny ledge on the inside of the pit, but he lost grip of his lightsaber and it fell down the pit.

"Well this is a sticky situation to find yourself in. how are you gonna win this one jimmy?" Qrow asked the general who just shrugged in response.

"The answer is he can't!" Emerald grumbled out as Cinder began to grin in anticipation.

"Oh I wouldn't be too sure about that, Miss Sustrai. I have a feeling that general Ironwood is more powerful than you could possibly imagine" Ozpin said wisely to the pickpocket who just ignored the headmaster's words. Meanwhile, Slayer gave a small snicker in response to the headmaster's choice of words.

Over the pit Cinder struck the edge with her saber causing sparks to fly everywhere. Ironwood not being distracted focused on keeping his grip as he stared over to where his master's saber was laying. With a plan in his mind, he tightened his grip before jumping up above the pit focusing his force on the saber having it fly towards his hand. Flipping over Cinder and igniting the blade he struck her before she could even guard against him. Staring at the Jedi before her she fell backwards down the pit as she split at the waist from where he attacked her.

"That was anticlimactic." Ironwood said a little disappointed that he didn't get to fight a little more.

"It was Bullshit is what it was! I die not even trying to block such an obvious attack! Are you kidding me?" Cinder shouted in frustration.

"Well if it makes you feel better you're not dead. In Fact, you actually fight Ironwood at least a couple more times before you even die. And with kick ass robot legs to boot." Slayer told her which did cheer up a little but her scowl returned when he mentioned the legs.

Ironwood runs over to his master lifting him up to hold the man who was a father to him.

"It's too late…" port muttered weakly to his padawan

"No!" Ironwood muttered sadly, trying to keep himself from tearing up.

"James… Promise. Promise me you will train the boy?" Port asked his student.

"Yes master" he replied wanting to grant his request no matter what.

"He… is the chosen one…. He will bring balance… Train him." port said brushing his student face before finally closing his eyes for the last time faking limp in his crying padawans arms.

"Well that was a little sad." Roman said watching the scene and having some empathy for the man up there.

"What did he mean 'the chosen one'?" Ozpin asked with an edge carried in his tone. Causing Slayer to look at the man carefully, before sighing to himself.

"The chosen one is meant to bring balance to the force and bring about a new age of force users." Slayer said to the man.

"You said balance but for whom light or dark?" Salem asked curiously.

"Neither. It means to bring Balance between both halves of course you would see it as a fight to bring towards your side and against the other half." Slayer said with a grin as the two former lovers glared at one another.

The scene fades away to show a large temple room where James was knelt in front of a green skinned midget who walked with a cane.

"Confer on you the level of Jedi knight, the council does." the green midget said to him, his voice sounding familiar.

"But to take this boy as your padawan learner, I do not!" he shouted at James

"Peter believed in him," Ironwood said to the small man in front of him, who sighs in response.

"The chosen one, the boy may be. But nevertheless grave danger I fear, in his training." the green man said to Ironwood with a hint of finality.

"Master Ozpin, I gave Peter my word. I will train Jaune." Ironwood said to the now identified Ozpin who scoffed at him.

"Without the approval of the council. If I must!" Ironwood said with a bit of an edge in his tone.

"Peter's defiance I sense in you, need that you do not." Ozpin told him with a bit of scorn. He takes a deep breath and informs him that the council agrees with him and says Jaune will be his apprentice. The scene changes once more to a Peter's body being burned on a pyre as Jaune and Ironwood watch alongside Pyrrha and several others as the body is burned.

"What will happen to me now?" Jaune asks Ironwood fearfully, who had turned to check on him.

"The council has granted me permission to train you. You will be a Jedi, I promise." Ironwood tells his new padawan as the screen fades black signifying the end of the viewing.

"That's it! I was expecting more." Ruby whined wanting to see more lightsaber duels and space battles.

"That's it but don't worry we'll come back to this one. Probably later in Jaunes life." Slayer said as he walked towards the front and programmed the next world.

"Aren't you going to question why you were a short green alien , Oz?" Qrow asked the man with a raised brow. Ozpin turned to the drunk and gave a dead stare at the man before deciding to speak.

"Qrow we have seen crazier things so far. Why would this faze me in the slightest?" the headmaster asked him. Qrow stopped for a second to think, before nodding and deciding it wasn't worth being shocked by any of this anymore.

"What happens in the future of that world?" Nora asked, curious about her fearless leader.

"A Lot of things, some good, some bad. Jaune even gets his own padawan to train not by his choice of course but still." Slayer told her not revealing much other than Jaune will have a student in the future.


Again sorry this took this long I didn't expect it to be this hard to write a Star Wars chapter I thought I would have had this done at least by the end of last month. Anyway some news definitely don't expect any chapters at the end of April as I will be gone on a trip out of state for an entire week at that point.

Finally, after all the heavy stuff I've written I was informed that maybe I should do something funny or lighthearted next so expect some more lighthearted stuff coming up. Though I plan to do another movie afterwards. Something I just watched recently: "ready or not ' ''. The roles are going to be hard for me to pull off though my idea is to have Salem play as aunt Helene and the Schnee family play as the Le domas family. Tell me what you think? Anyways Be good people and see you next time.


Next Time: "AHHHHHH! OI! Ten thousand years can give you such a crick in the neck."