A/N I know many people were hoping I'd use the SC-38 re-imagined fight. While it would be more entertaining if one were to actually sit down and watch the movie, it makes very little difference in text form. I came to the conclusion that writing it out would only serve to make the duel unnecessarily long and complicated.
I decided it was best to keep it short and simple. That way I can focus more on writing their reactions, which is the real important part. It comes with the added benefit of being able to copy and paste from the script instead of having to write it all out myself, so I can get through more of the movie in a chapter.
VADER I've been waiting for you, Obi-Wan. We meet again, at last. The circle is now complete.
"There's goning to be a fight here, isn't there?" asked Padmé.
"Let's hope Obi Wan still has his skill with a lightsaber" said Anakin.
Ben Kenobi moves with elegant ease into a classical offensive position. The fearsome Dark Knight takes a defensive stance.
VADER When I left you, I was but the learner; now I am the master.
"I ca-I don't want to kill my former student" Obi Wan finally voiced aloud.
"Have a choice, you will not" said Yoda grimly.
BEN Only a master of evil, Darth.
"Who is this? Did they say what his real name is?" asked Kit Fisto.
"No, they just called him Darth Vader" said Obi Wan.
The two Galactic warriors stand perfectly still for a few moments, sizing each other up and waiting for the right moment. Ben seems to be under increasing pressure and strain, as if an invisible weight were being placed upon him. He shakes his head and, blinking, tries to clear his eyes.
"I hope we don't have to wait until the prequels to find out who Vader is" said Mace.
"Wait, if this is roughly twenty years in the future, and the Jedi Order fell during the movie we were about to start, how long could he have been Obi Wan's Padawan?" asked Shaak Ti.
Not long. "Perhaps he was trained while in hiding with Master Kenobi" said Plo Koon.
"Then the fall of the Order would've had to have been quite prolonged if Darth Vader helped the Empire hunt down most of the Jedi"said Ki Adi Mundi. No one wanted to entertain that idea.
Ben makes a sudden lunge at the huge warrior but is checked by a lightning movement of The Sith. A masterful slash stroke by Vader is blocked by the old Jedi. Another of the Jedi's blows is blocked, then countered. Ben moves around the Dark Lord and starts backing into the massive starship hangar. The two powerful warriors stand motionless for a few moments with laser swords locked in mid-air, creating a low buzzing sound.
VADER Your powers are weak, old man.
BEN You can't win, Darth. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
"Now that was a cool line!" said Anakin excitedly.
"What do you think it means?" Padmé asked.
"Learned from his former master, Obi Wan may have" said Yoda. "Find out, we shall"
Most people weren't quite sure what Yoda meant, but they resolved to do as suggested and wait for the movie to reveal.
Their lightsabers continue to meet in combat.
INT. DEATH STAR - MAIN FORWARD BAY
Han Solo and Chewbacca, their weapons in hand, lean back against the wall surveying the forward bay, watching the Imperial stormtroopers make their rounds of the hangar.
HAN Didn't we just leave this party?
Chewbacca growls a reply, as Luke and the princess join them.
"As least their back together soon enough. It'll be easier to leave if they're not split up" said Padmé.
"Hopefully Obi-Wan will be on the ship too" said Mace Windu, not voicing the alternative they were all thinking.
HAN What kept you?
LEIA We ran into some old friends.
LUKE Is the ship all right?
HAN Seems okay, if we can get to it. Just hope the old man got the tractor beam out of commission.
INT. DEATH STAR - HALLWAY
Vader and Ben Kenobi continue their powerful duel. As they hit their lightsabers together, lightning flashes on impact. Troopers look on in interest as the old Jedi and Dark Lord of The Sith fight. Suddenly Luke spots the battle from his group's vantage point.
LUKE Look! Luke, Leia, Han, and Chewie look up and see Ben and Vader emerging from the hallways on the far side of the docking bay.
Obi Wan and Anakin looked at each other in alarm, both thinking the same thing: What if Vader attacks Luke and the others to distract Obi Wan? That would put both Obi Wan and the other characters in danger, so hopefully the young heroes would go unnoticed.
INT. DEATH STAR - DOCKING BAY
Threepio and Artoo-Detoo are in the center of the Death Star's Imperial docking bay.
THREEPIO Come on, Artoo, we're going!
Threepio ducks out of sight as the seven stormtroopers who were guarding the starship rush past them heading towards Ben and The Sith Knight. He pulls on Artoo.
INT. DEATH STAR - HALLWAY
Solo, Chewie, Luke, and Leia tensely watch the duel. The troops rush toward the battling knights.
HAN Now's our chance! Go!
They start for the Millennium Falcon. Ben sees the troops charging toward him and realizes that he is trapped.
"He's not going to survive, is he? Ahsoka asked quietly. All the audience's faces were painted with shock and horror at the same realization.
Except for one man, in the back of the theater, tied to a stool, whose lips curled upward in what most would call a smile.
Vader takes advantage of Ben's momentary distraction and brings his mighty lightsaber down on the old man. Ben manages to deflect the blow and swiftly turns around.
The old Jedi Knight looks over his shoulder at Luke, lifts his sword from Vader's then watches his opponent with a serene look on his face.
"He's just, letting Vader kill him?" Anakin said confused.
Vader brings his sword down, cutting old Ben in half.
"Obi Wan!" yelled multiple people. Upset as they may be, they were helpless to stop what was happening on screen.
Obi Wan tried to accept his death, just as his future self did. He told himself he was glad to have helped with what he could, even if he couldn't survive the movie. At this he remembered that they were watching the future, and now things wouldn't play out he same as they had in the movies.
Ben's cloak falls to the floor in two parts, but Ben is not in it. Vader is puzzled at Ben's disappearance and pokes at the empty cloak.
"He just...disappeared?" asked Palpatine.
As the guards are distracted, the adventurers and the robots reach the starship. Luke sees Ben cut in two and starts for him. Aghast, he yells out.
Memories rushed back in a flash. The battle of Naboo, Darth Maul, Qui Gon...
Obi Wan blinked away the pain as a mirror of that day played out before him on screen.
LUKE No!
With a sigh, Obi Wan realized history had repeated itself in another way as well. Anakin had his mentor ripped from him, days after leaving his mother behind on Tatooine. Now, the same thing had happened to his son, who, like his father, had to face a larger galaxy of war and the Force, without the one who'd promised to guide him through it.
The stormtroopers turn toward Luke and begin firing at him. The robots are already moving up the ramp into the Millennium Falcon, while Luke, transfixed by anger and awe, returns their fire. Solo joins in the laserfire. Vader looks up and advances toward them, as one of his troopers is struck down.
At least Luke was much older, Obi Wan thought. Anakin had been only nine. But Luke was still just a kid...
HAN (to Luke) Come on!
Obi Wan had at least been able to look out for Anakin when his mother and Qui Gon couldn't. But now that his parents, aunt and uncle, and Obi Wan had died, who would help Luke? Why did fate have to be so cruel to the Skywalkers?
LEIA Come on! Luke, its too late!
HAN Blast the door! Kid!
Luke fires his pistol at the door control panel, and it explodes. The door begins to slide shut. Three troopers charge forward firing laser bolts, as the door slides to a close behind them, shutting Vader and the other troops out of the docking bay. A stormtrooper lies dead at the feet of his onrushing compatriots. Luke starts for the advancing troops, as Solo and Leia move up the ramp into the pirateship. He fires, hitting a stormtrooper, who crumbles to the floor.
BEN'S VOICE Run, Luke! Run!
"Where did his voice come from?" asked Padmé, not certain she hadn't just imagined it.
"Become one with the Force, Kenobi has" said Yoda.
Luke looks around to see where the voice came from. He turns toward the pirateship, ducking Imperial gunfire from the troopers and races into the ship.