"Did you really think that you could kill me, child?" A tall red skinned alien with tentacles hanging off its jaw, is kneeling down to the height of a smoking cloaked man with two cylinders next to him. One on the left, another on the right.
Breathing heavily the masked man speaks. "You kill me?.. And I'll find a way back from the dead, just so I can kill you. And I'll keep coming back... over and over, until you're dead and rotting!" The Masked man spits the words out of his mouth, as if they were venom.
{A/N:No joke. Revan literally came back from the dead to try and kill Vitiate on pure willpower alone. Beat that Batman! Lazarus pit havin' ass.}
The Emperor contemplates this for a moment before smiling. 'This child, gave the order that caused a wound in the force itself. No doubt that he could find a way back like the immensely powerful resurrected sith pretenders. He already broke out of my control once, this fool will likely do it again...'
"Then I shall not kill you... But imprison you until I have taken over the galaxy! And for the end of time itself!" The Emperor cackles madly, before smashing the masked man's head into the ground. Knocking him out cold.
The Pure Sith carries the masked man to a shuttle, and reaches a newly built temple. The Emperor then enters and places him into a stone coffin. With sith runes etched on every inch of the sarcophagus. Symbolising youth and the force power of stasis.
The door to the coffin shuts, allowing no light to enter. While Revan lies there, unmoving. For an unknown amount of time...
-B0624-
20 BBY Jedi Grandmaster's Quarters...
The Jedi Grandmaster, Yoda, is feeling for ways to try and find out why Count Dooku, his former apprentice, would want the republic in this war.. He sits there for what seems like hours in the shaded, dark room, before he hears a familiar voice.
"Yoda..."
"Hear you, I do. Who are you?" Yoda closes his eyes and looks down. "My imagination it must be."
"No, It is I. Qui-Gon Jinn." The voice says to the ancient jedi master.
"That, cannot be... Dead you are." Yoda states to the voice of Qui-Gon.
"No... I am part of the Living Force, Yoda" The candle flames next to Yoda are blown out by the wind. In the windless room.
The tables and seats are picked up by an invisible force, including Yoda! The room stays this way for a second, then is dropped back to normal.
"Impossible." Yoda breathes in amazement.
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20 BBY Jedi Council Meeting Room...
"I am not sure that this council is admitting how grave a situation we are in." Jedi Master Ki-Adi Mundi states to the council.
"What are you saying?" Mace windu asks Ki-Adi.
"That Dooku is not the Sith Lord. Merely an apprentice."
"That. Like many things, remains unclear." Windu looks toward the grandmaster. "Master Yoda, your thoughts on these revelations?" Yoda does not answer for a second before realizing he was asked something.
"Hmm, hm! Oh. Oh yes. Yes... Forgive me, deep in thought I was..." The council members look worriedly at each other before yoda speaks up once again.
"Y-you were saying?"
Mace tells Yoda. "Master Ki-Adi Mundi, is worried."
"Yes, worried we all, should be." Yoda states.
"Lies and mistrust surround the senate, and perhaps... Even within these walls."
"Hmmm, on the precipice, we are. Yes..." Yoda looks down. "The growing darkside, endangers us all."
-B0624-
20 BBY Hallway of the Jedi Grand Temple...
Obi-Wan Kenobi is walking with a few council members before Master Windu walks up to him.
"Excuse me everyone. Master Kenobi, may I speak with you in private?"
"Of course." Kenobi bows to the people he was walking with before he walks over to a window with Mace.
"There is great turmoil within Master Yoda."
"Yes... We all sensed it." Kenobi tells Windu.
"For something to affect Yoda this deeply, concerns me." Mace turns around to face Obi-Wan. "We must keep an eye on our old friend."
"The war has taxed all of us to our limit. I guess we're just surprised that Master Yoda has one."
"I hope it's that simple. But I feel the shadow of something greater on our horizon..."
-B0624-
20 BBY Moraband, formerly known as Korriban...
After jumping through hoops on dagobah and The Five Priestesses trials, Yoda finally goes to Moraband, the sith homeworld.
Yoda lets the Force guide him to an Ancient Sith Temple. The door to his ship opens, revealing the battered Grand Master. R2-D2 ejects from his station and begins to follow Yoda.
"Again, leave you I must, my friend." Yoda tells the astromech droid as it beeps somberly. "Guard the ship you will. If return I do not, by three nightfalls. Take the ship to Coruscant you shall. Tell them, of where I went." The old master walks away, away until he reaches deep into the grounds of the dark temple.
Where he stops, sits down, and begins to meditate. For hours he does. But he is broken out of his trance by the hissing of dark worm like snakes, forming a dark apparition of a tall centipede. It speaks to the Grand Master.
"We are the sith..."
"Afraid of you, I am not." The Sithapede tries to attack him, but Yoda just raises his hand and dematerializes the apparition into black smoke.
Suddenly many ghostly apparitions of sith alchemists surround him, and begin berating the jedi master.
"There is no life after death... Only nothingness awaits you Jedi. Your fear feeds our hunger for power. They will know you are here..." The Alchemists begin to fly into Yoda, hurting him greatly.
"We will tell them! You will die and be nothing!" The final apparitions disappear into Yoda... Regaining his strength, he begins walking once again, up the stairs into the tomb of Sith.
Activating his lightsaber for light in the unlit tomb, walking to a stone coffin, surrounded by sunlight. Yoda deactivates his lightsaber as the coffin envelops itself in black smoke with large glowing embers of crimson red fire...
The Smoke turns into a more demented version of the Sith emperor that we saw before.
"Why have you come to my tomb... Jedi?"
"To learn." The crackling ghost of embers floats in front of the Grandmaster.
"Do you know who I am?" The sith asks backing away from Yoda's face.
"Yes, the Sith Emperor Vitiate. An Ancient Sith Lord, you are."
"And know why I am not forgotten?"
"Conquered the Galaxy, you did."
"The Galaxy was already weakened by Revan... It just needed a guiding push. And from the ashes of destruction, I alone rose. I created a legacy so resilient that now you have come before me! Have you come to become my apprentice? You must kill me in order to take my place..." The Ghost ends with a dark and raspy laugh.
Yoda points his cane at the dead Sith Emperor. "Dead, you are already."
The apparition laughs. "Then what stands before you?"
"An illusion, real you are not." Yoda says calmly.
"You do not fear me?"
"No. Exist you do not, anymore." Yoda then walks past the ghost.
The emperor seems frightened, before it gives out a shriek of pain, being dragged back into his coffin. The coffin then moves, revealing a set of stairs to Yoda. Who then hears one of the five priestess's voices. He walks down the stairs and finds a blinding yellow light floating. It then materializes one priestess, then another, and another, until all five have appeared.
"A warning we must give you."
"Yes?"
"All your trials that you have faced have been our doing, and you have passed them well. But inside this tomb, is a place we cannot interfere. It is a place of near absolute darkness. We implore you to open the coffin inside, to release the remaining light from this wretched place."
"What happened here?" Yoda asks.
"It is a place where the True Sith would sacrifice the Jedi. But you must be careful. For the Sith of your time will find you here in mere minutes."
Yoda nods as the priestesses disappear. He then walks into the chamber. immediately spotting the coffin glowing with a purple light...
But before Yoda can reach it he is cut off by blue flames and cackling laughter, belonging to Darth Sidious. Becoming dizzy, Yoda closes his eyes, only to open them to find himself in a Republic dropship.
"There is no question, the ship was carrying Count Dooku. We've scanned the area, and he's meeting with someone inside the building." The Clone Captain Rex, reports to his general.
"Thanks Rex. Master Yoda, what are your orders?" Skywalker asks him.
"Orders?" Yoda seems confused.
"Are you, alright master?"
"Where am I? Tell me, you must!"
"The Industrial Sector on Coruscant."
"What is happening here?"
"A rogue shuttle slipped through the security grid. We suspect Dooku was on board." Yoda looks to Anakin.
"And?"
"Master, this is your mission. Are you sure you're alright?" Yoda looks down.
"Clouded, the dark side has made me. Tell me, who is inside?"
"We intercepted a transmission calling Dooku to Coruscant. We believe he is... Meeting with his master, the Sith Lord."
"Feel it I do. Feel their power..."
"Your orders, Master?"
Yoda readies himself. "Capture them we will. The time has come to discover the identity of this Sith Master."
"And if they escape?" Anakin asks.
"Escape, not. If it comes to it..." The dropship doors open. "Execute them we must. End it now we will."
The dropship lands inside a tall run down factory building.
"Move in." Yoda commands.
The troopers and Jedi run into a small hallway leading into a dark room, illuminated by a cauldron of blue flames, with two people standing on either side of it.
Rex reports. "I've got two confirmed targets. Be ready for additional unfriendlies." As Anakin runs in, confronting the two sith lords.
Sidious speaks. "It appears we have... Company." Dooku walks forward and ignites his curved hilt. A crimson blade of plasma spewing out.
"Take 'em!" Anakin yells, ordering the troops as he ignites his Azure blade. Unfortunately, Dooku fires a torrent of force lightning, injuring and knocking out the clones.
Anakin engages Dooku in a duel as Yoda confronts the Master, shaking his head at the fallen soldiers.
"We meet at last... Darth Sidious."
"You cannot stop what is to come." Sidious states as his voice echoes throughout the room, before he runs off. Beginning a chase.
Crimson and Azure blades clashing, Anakin manages to knick the count's thigh, causing him to reach down. The Jedi Knight takes this opportunity to knock the red lightsaber into the air, catching it. Leaving the Sith apprentice to kneel before Skywalker. He activates the red blade and crosses it with his own, over Dooku's neck.
Yoda turns to Skywalker and yells, "Skywalker, no!" Anakin then decapitates Dooku, leaving Yoda to look down somberly, before he runs off to catch the final Sith.
On a flimsy walkway, Sidious turns around and activates his elegant handle of a lightsaber. Pointing it at Yoda, confidently.
The Grandmaster activates his own before acrobatically beginning the duel. It goes on until Anakin arrives and activates his, before running to the Sith Lord.
"No!" Yoda yells to the ambitious Jedi Knight.
Anakin is caught in a force choke, before he is knocked out with a torrent of unlimited power.
The sith then fires lightning at yoda, causing him to absorb it with pale blue force wormholes, coming from his hands.
{A/N: Gross.}
Until he can blast the final Sith backward off of the rusted bridge. Yoda looks over the edge only to find a red lightsaber cut through the floor next to him. Causing the bridge to fall. The sith Lord cackling lowly.
Yoda jumps to where the Sith Lord is, igniting his lightsaber before he looks back to see Anakin begin to slide off into the area below.
"Save him, Jedi?" The hooded being laughs. "Can you save him?"
Yoda begins to lift skywalker up onto the stable part of the bridge, just as Sidious begins to fire force lightning at him. He luckily blocks with his lime green blade.
This happens multiple times until Sidious questions Yoda. "Why save him? Let him die, and you can stop all that I will do." He unleashes another torrent of power at Yoda.
"No! The future is not yours yet." Yoda states defiantly. "Tempted I will not be. Sacrifice all I am ready to do." Yoda deactivates his short blade and turns his focus to save the young knight.
Blasted by electricity, the Grandmaster of the Jedi Order manages to put Anakin on a lower bridge. Saving the young man.
The section of the bridge that the two powerful force users are on begins to fall even more. Making them both fall and try to climb up to the stable bridge. Sidious almost makes it to the top before Yoda throws his blade, cutting the final part of the bridge. Causing them both to fall.
Sidious laughs as they fall, grappling with Yoda headfirst to the ground. Falling...
Falling...
Yoda reaches for his hood and pulls it off, revealing...
No one. Sidious had disappeared. Falling with a somber look on his face and closed eyes. Yoda accepts his fate before he opens his eyes once again. Finding himself in the Tomb on Moraband.
Getting off the floor, he sees that the coffin is glowing brighter than ever before, almost blinding. Yoda opens it with the force, as he climbs up, finding the masked man in the cloak from far before this time...
"Darth Revan!" Yoda Breathes. Finding the Unconscious form of the man breathing.
"Alive you are! Back to the Temple we must go!" Yoda picks Revan up using the force, and runs with a joyful smile to the outside of the temple, he calls for R2 for the ship.
Minutes later R2 arrives with the ship. Yoda loads Revan into the ship, he flies up into the atmosphere and reaches the starship attachment for hyperspace. Launching toward Coruscant.
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20 BBY Jedi Temple Hangar Bay 4...
The present Jedi Council members and Anakin rush toward the Hangar, finding Yoda's Starfighter, Yoda with a giddy smile, And a cloaked man with two lightsabers clipped to his belt.
"Master Yoda. Where were you?" The only jedi master to ever beat Yoda in a duel asks.
"Where was I, matters not! Who found, matters!" Yoda reveals the masked Human. Gaining mixed reactions.
A few masters, such as, Mace, Obi-Wan, Plo Koon, and Shaak Ti gasp or go wide eyed.
"Who is that?" Aayla Secura questions the Grandmaster.
"Revan." Obi-Wan says, realizing that this was the man from the Jedi texts who gave Qui-Gon his inspiration to become a Maverik.
"But that's impossible!" Anakin breathes.
"In the force, nothing is impossible, young Skywalker." Yoda reprimands.
Groaning, Revan puts his hand on his head, using the power that Bastila taught him, to heal his cracked skull. Before standing up.
"W-what i-in th-"
*Flop*
Revan collapses and passes out from the beating that he just took, 4,000 years prior. Leaving the Masters shocked that he could heal himself.
Anakin snaps out of it first. "We gotta get him to the Infirmary!" The masters nod at the thought but Mace stops them. "He's a Sith!"
Yoda shakes his head. "Sith he once was, turned to the light, Revan did."
Anakin just wanted to know how this guy could heal himself from a brutal wound to the skull. As he was already running to the infirmary with the unconscious form of Revan floating behind him.
-B0624-
20 BBY Halls of Healing, Jedi Temple...
A Jedi Healer is doing scans on the unconscious body of Revan, finding many electrical burns on his body, and decides to put him in a Bacta Tank. After a few hours of being healed, Revan is put onto a bed to rest. And he does, for a few hours...
Revan's eyes shoot open as he sits up and yells. "VITIATE!" Startling the Jedi healer. She tries to calm him down. In which he begins to realize where he is. He looks at the healer and asks. "How am I alive?" She tells him that she doesn't know. And that it's mind boggling really.
"Who are you?" He asks. "I am Rig Nema, a Jedi Healer on Coruscant."
"The Coruscant Temple? Is Bastila here?!" Rig shakes her head no. As he begins to get up. "You look much younger than the stories of you, tell." Revan looks at the healer Confused.
"I'm only thirty-two, you know."
"No, Your biological age shows that you've only aged twenty years."
'I shall not kill you... But imprison you until I have taken over the galaxy!' Revan thinks back to right before he was knocked out. "I'll... I'll check in later, I have to go find Bastila." He runs out of the infirmary, in his black robe, but without his armor or mask.
Running throughout the Temple, Revan makes many familiar turns to the courtyard to leave the temple, where he meets a small green creature, that seems like Master Vandar.
"Master Vandar! I thought you were on Dantooine?"
"Hmm, Master Vandar of old, you think I am. But Vandar, I am not." Yoda shakes his head.
"Then who are you?"
"Grandmaster I am. Older you are, than me." Revan's Hazel-Brown eyes look toward the city of Coruscant, seeing that many of the buildings have changed than last month he was here, before he hunted down Vitiate.
"Then... Grandmaster... What happened to me?" Yoda looks down somberly.
"A long time you have been asleep, a long time..."
Revan's voice becomes worried. "How long?"
"Nearly four-thousand years, imprisoned, you have been."
Revan becomes dizzy and sits down on the smooth pavement.
"Please tell me... Did Vitiate win? Did he conquer the galaxy?"
"Yes... Yes. He was killed two millennia ago. Mad, The Jedi found Vitiate. Buried he was, on Moraband. By the last of the Sith." Revan looks down and presses his palms to his head.
"Oh kriff. Bastila, I'm so sorry..."
"This Bastila you speak of... Who were they?" Yoda asks.
"My wife." Yoda goes wide eyed.
"Wife, you had? Attachments are forbidden! Were they not?" Revan looks at him oddly, still somber from the revelation that his wife is dead. "It was looked down upon but, it is a part of the force, to Love, to hate, and to find peace. Many Jedi before the time of Exar Kun, were able to settle down and retire. And judging by your age, you never got to retire, did you?" Revan questions as Yoda looks down and shakes his head. "Far too old, I am. Many need me, they do. Cannot relax, I cannot. This war has pushed me to my limit, I am afraid."
"War?" The Grandmaster humms. "The Clone War." Revan goes wide eyed, the setting star, making them flare like the solar flares of the stars.
"The Kaminoans figured it out? After all this time?"
Yoda nods. "Commissioned by the new Sith, they were."
Revan Speaks again. "May I tell you a story of mine. For you to better understand why I left the Jedi and Republic behind, to chase Vitiate?"
Yoda nods for The once Sith Lord to tell it.
"Before... Before I regained the memories that were erased by the Jedi, I travelled the galaxy. I-I found this slightly primitive planet of Humans. Space travel was within reach, but only taken to the hand of development by a few people. They had many cultures and many languages... around one hundred and thirty five I believe. The governments were different and far reaching, but they all had one thing in common. In one way or another, they were corrupted, from the inside out."
Revan takes a breath. "They all had enough hatred for the people they had jurisdiction over, that they took away their basic rights in one way or another. One: Didn't allow you to have more than two children, and if they were female? They would be murdered, just after their birth... Another took away their people's right to defend themselves from criminals... And one... One was so hellbent on ruling the entire planet that they launched missiles to their enemies. Missiles so powerful, that they ruined the planet for everyone on it."
Revan sighs and leans forward. "But the people themselves. They're what gave me hope about the galaxy... They spoke Galactic Basic as well, if you could believe it. The people showed me the meaning of everyday life. Not just so you could make it to the next day. They taught me that... Living isn't only about finding the path to enlightenment! It's about pain, it's about love, about discovery, about loss, about gain, about laughter, about sorrow, and most importantly... Finding someone you can share that with. Codes are unreliable, but honor and compassion are absolute."
"There is no darkness if there is no light... Governments are always evil in some different way, no matter how you put it. But the people? At the core? Deep down, they're always the same compassionate being they were from birth. They may have strayed from their path, but almost never find their way back. People are easy to come by, sure. But good people, they're hard to find... Yet they're all around you." Revan gestures to all around him. "Those are the people that I protect. The people that give hope to others. I protect the chance for redemption, no matter how red or dead I may have to become in order for others to reach that redemption." Revan finishes.
Unbeknownst to him, the entire courtyard was surrounded by Jedi and some stray people. Young and old. Renowned and unknown.
"I need to go somewhere, to see if something is there. May I borrow a ship with hyperspace capabilities?"
Yoda nods and begins guiding him to a hangar bay with a medium sized ship. Reminiscent of the Ebon Hawk that he once owned. "Just to make sure that you don't run off, we would like to send a Jedi with you." Obi-Wan asks the legendary Figure. "Sure. Who are you sending?"
"Jedi Master, Plo Koon." Revan nods as he walks to and boards the ship waiting to take off.
The Jedi sits down, Plo piloting the ship, Revan operating the guns. "So... Where are we going?" Plo Koon asks.
"Head directly to Mandalore, as if you were going to crash into it in Hyperspace. Go around the star facing toward the gas cluster of planets if the time of year is as I think it is, and enter Hyperspace for twenty seconds. And we will have arrived at the destination."
"But there's no hyperspace lanes there." The ship starts up as Plo Koon states. Revan just looks at him blankly. "Aright... Got it." The ship flies out into Coruscant's atmosphere, and Jumps to Hyperspace.
-B0624-
20 BBY Earth's moon...
{A/N: Play; Star Wars - Luke Skywalker Theme (Book of Boba Fett) By Flash Music.}
"The Planet looks like it's old green, white, and blue from here. Not a Tinge of green atmosphere in sight." Revan states while Koon is amazed by the sight of a planet with so many biomes.
"Why hasn't the republic discovered this planet yet?!" Plo asks Revan.
"As you've said. There's no hyperspace lanes here." Revan answers. "I hid a stash on this moon 4,000 years ago in a Plasteel container. Judging by the craters on this moon, It would be a few clicks away from here. We can load it into the airlock using the force. But when we are done here, You cannot tell any one person of this planet." Revan tells the Master Jedi, who nods.
The two spot a large, once colorful, faded red and purple sealed container, before they load it into the airlock, and blast off into hyperspace. Back to Coruscant.
-B0624-
20 BBY Coruscant, Jedi Temple, Hangar bay 2...
The ship door opens as the ramp lowers itself, allowing the two laughing men to walk out, baffling the knights and padawans in the hangar. Revan is lifting up the container with ease as he asks Plo Koon something. "Do you, ahaha, know where my quarters are?" Plo nods his head. "Follow me."
The two Walk out of the hangar, and make many turns, upstairs mainly. And reach a modest looking room. Bowing to Plo as a sign of thanks, Revan walks inside and sits down on the bed.
He opens the container, using the force, and pulls out a paper photo. It shows him and a group of friends at a bar with neon lights in the window.
A man with a fade and brown coat on. Another kissing a girl wearing a rolled up green flannel and a hat. The girl wearing a punk tank top and black jeans with a chain in the pocket. Revan in a brown leather jacket with yellow lines on the arms, open, and with a red flannel underneath. His arms around the three of the people that pulled him out of a dark place.
Setting it off to the side, Revan pulls out a perfectly preserved acoustic guitar, His clothes from the photo, a dvd player, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, and an old, what his friends called... An "Iphone", with a pair of earbuds, and a charger usb.
He throws the usb into an open trash bin, and fires a very small amount of force lightning into the phone. Instantly charging it. Revan plugs the earbuds into his... Well... Ears. And starts playing the first song that pops up in his playlist.
[Play: Halo 4 - Green and Blue (slowed & reverberated) by Deadfrijole]
Revan leans back onto the wall as the somber, alone, beeps are joined with the sound of stringed instruments played with "Bows". A piano joins in as well. As it turns out. Revan accidentally hit airplay. The signal connecting to the PA system, and beginning to play the somber music throughout the nearly barren Temple.
A thought many of the jedi had after the first battle of geonosis.
Around five minutes and forty five seconds into the song, the music swells into a melody of hope for a minute, before crescendoing into the somberness from the beginning of the song.
The music reaches its somber climax eight minutes and five seconds into the track, before it reduces to just the slowed violin fading out, with hints of the beeps from the beginning.
-B0624-
19 BBY, Anaxes, Republic base...
Anakin, Mace, and Revan are standing around a holoprojector. Revan wearing his beskar Battle armor that has never failed him, keeping his mask on. And Anakin has longer hair than last year. Likely inspired by Revan's thick, shoulder reaching, dark-brown hair.
"The droids have overrun our main production facility. It won't be long until the Separatists take Anaxes..." Mace summarises.
"Compromising our entire reserve fleet." Revan's distorted voice finishes. Just as Commander Cody and Captain Rex come in to report something.
"Pardon the interruption Generals. But Rex here has a good theory on why we keep, uh... Losing." Cody says with a grimace.
"Please, Captain?" Mace gestures for Rex to speak.
"Well, the droid army, uses analytics to predict our strategies. The first time we use a tactic, it's very effective. The next? Less so. In fact the more we use a certain tactic, the less effective it becomes! They learn our tendencies and use that data against us. To counter them, we're constantly working out ways to vary, our attack."
"But the losses we've encountered on Anaxes, are not common place." Mace muses aloud.
"Exactly. The counter attacks are so specific, it's my strategies the droids know! My playbook!" Rex turns off the projector before Cody speaks up.
"My concern is that Rex is one of our best. If the droids can learn how to defeat him, we may all be vulnerable."
Windu asks Cody the million credit question. "What do you propose?"
"That Rex and I take a small squad behind enemy lines. There's a Separatist cyber-center that relays all battlefield intel to their command ship. If we're going to find anything... It'll be there."
"if you think that it'll turn this fight around. Get going." Mace says.
"Thank you General."
Anakin looks up at his friend. "Rex, is there anything else?"
"We would like to take one of you with us, for extra support." Rex says.
"I'll go. These troops are gonna need all the firepower that they can hold." Revan states matter of factly.
"We're leaving in an hour. We'll see you then."
-B0624-
19 BBY, Anaxes, Republic base...
Revan is waiting with the Clones, Jesse, and Kix, outside the barracks.
"I've heard mixed things about these guys." Jesse says to Kix. "They have a 100% success rate." Just then Cody and Rex walk out the doors.
"It's not that they win, it's how they win that worries me." Jessie finishes while the five walk to the air-pad.
Just then, a shuttle with weapons speeds toward the airfield. Nearly hitting some troops.
"So why haven't I heard of these troops?" Rex asks Cody. "Experimental unit, Clone Force 99. They're defective clones. With, uh... Desirable mutations."
"99, eh? Nice touch."
"They call themselves... 'The Bad batch'." Cody comments as the shuttle ramp lowers, a squad of four gray and rust colored armored men walk out.
The first: A shorter but buff looking man.
The second: A short and skinny man with a vizor on their helmet.
The third: A thin but masculine man with a target painted over his right eye should be.
The fourth: A 6"4' Behemoth that looks like he could flip a large cargo crate as if it were nothing. He takes off his helmet revealing the grinning face of a clone with one white eye.
"The Cavalry has arrived!" The giant announces.
Revan analyses the four clones behind his mask, opting not to speak. The rest take off their helmets as Kix speaks to Jesse.
"These guys are clones? They don't look like clones to me."
"Sergeant, Good to see you again." Cody says as the two do a 'Dillon! You son of a bitch!' from Predator, and let go.
"You too sir." The long haired Clone says in a whispery voice.
Cody introduces the sergeant. "This is Hunter." He says as he turns around.
"Sorry we're late, commander. We were putting down an insurgence on Yalbec Prime when your comm came in. Had a few unforeseen..." Hunter pauses for a moment, thinking of the right word.
"Complications." He finishes with a grimace.
The giant laughs. "Ever fight a male Yalbec?" He asks while Jesse answers. "Um, no. Can't say I have."
The large clone points at Jesse. "You're lucky. The only way to kill 'em is with one of these!" He pulls out a large modified vibroblade.
"That's right. Wrecker here, cut off the Queen's stinger while she was still alive." He leans forward to Wrecker. "That's why all those Yalbec Males tried to eat us." The Balding one with glasses on cuts in. "Uh, technically, they were trying to mate with us. And for your information, the stinger of a Yalbec Queen is a delicacy on some planets."
"They call him Tech." Cody gestures to 'Tech'. "Yeah." Hunter punches the computer expert's shoulder. "He can fill your head with useless info for hours!" Hunter gestures to the clone behind him. "Crosshair, on the other hand, he's not much of a conversationalist..." Crosshair looks into the Black abyss of revans mask for a second and gains the ghost of a smile. "But when you have to hit a precise target from ten clicks? He's your man." Crosshair nods at 'The Tactitionalist', who nods back.
"So Commander, what kind of suicide mission do you have for us this time?" Just then a gunship lowers itself next to them.
"Let's get going, we'll brief you on the way." The group of nine loads onto the ship and the doors close, as it flies off.
The Bad Batch are staring at Revan, before Jesse speaks up. "What're you lookin at?"
"Nothing, it's just that we don't usually work with long dead Jedi." Hunter says looking at Jesse. "So... Who're you?" Wrecker asks.
"The greatest Tactitionalist in history. When he was twenty years old, he left the Jedi to fight the Mandalorian Empire, which the Republic was losing to. He beat Mandalore the Ultimate in one on one combat without the use of his powers. He led his army into the unknown regions, but came back changed. He nearly wiped out the Republic, with his once apprentice, Darth Malak. Was nearly killed. Turned back to the Jedi, and defeated the Sith empire, with a rag-tag crew of random people, and the remnants of the Old Republic. He then disappeared... And now?"
"I'm here." Revan's distorted voice says with a sigh, cutting off Tech.
"Alright everybody, our target is the Cyber Center." Cody states as he pulls out a holo projector. "The brains of the Seppie's attack. We take the intel? And we're easy cruising from there." Cody says right before the ship starts to shake.
"We're taking fire!" The pilot reports right before he gets hit by a blast from a spider-droid. The ship begins to divebomb to the ground, Wrecker yells "We're going down!" With manic laughter as it crashes hard.
The ship slides for a while before coming to a stop. The clones and Revan, climbing out the wingless gunship, coughing. "Aww. We always get shot down when we travel with regs!" Wrecker yells.
Kix looks back into the nearly exploded ship and sees... "Cody! I need some help over here!" He yells to the others. Revan runs to the open door to see a half crushed Cody groaning in pain. Just as he backs away and reaches his hand out to move the ship, Wrecker decides to flip the thing!
Doing so, Wrecker manages to lift the wrecked thing off of Cody and grabs him just as the Low Altitude Assault Transport catches fire. "Boom." Wrecker states a second before the craft explodes. Setting Cody down, Kix does a scan of him. Showing internal damage. The Arc troopers begin to argue with The Bad Batch before the General senses something and stops them.
"I Can heal him if i need to, but we have droids heading this way from both sides. So check your mouths, find your stations, and get set! For a combat encounter." Revan orders, grabbing and shoving Jesse's blaster rifle into his hands. "Force 99, do your thing with that group while I take care of this one. Rex, help Kix set Cody's bones. Jesse, provide covering fire onto the ridge to our southwest." Revan begins walking to the small battalion of droids, coming toward him.
The droids ready their blasters onto him as he raises his left hand and then turns on his red lightsaber with his right. The droids fire their blasters, but they all stop. An invisible wall is put between the droids and Revan. As the droids stop shooting and scratch their processors, Revan force pushes the blaster bolts back at the droids. Causing them all to explode in a shower of red energy.
A lone commander droid is left. It begins to run away, but Revan just tosses his lightsaber at it, causing it to be impaled through the chest. Revan calls his lightsaber back to him and turns around walking to the now settled Cody.
"Are all his bones set?" Revan asks as he pulls off his mask and hood. showing his face to the Clones. "I don't know what you're trying to do, but do it." Kex says as Revan nods and holds his hands over Cody's body as his pain begins to subside. He wakes up with a yell.
Cody then looks around. "What the hell happened?" Kix does a scan on him. "I don't believe it! How is that even possible?!"
"it's an ancient healing technique from far before my time. My wi- Bastila taught it to me during our days as public enemy number one. I only know the basics of it. So don't expect to come back to get your arm back if you lose it." Revan explains as Kix grumbles. "Wish I could just heal shattered bones with ease." Revan put's his hand on Kix's shoulder plate.
"Not even the highest Jedi know of this power's existence. Even if you did have force powers, and I was actually in the ground, no one would even remember it's existence." Kix thanks the former Jedi as Wrecker begins yelling. "Hey, look Crosshair, this little clanker likes ya!" Crosshair scoffs. "Grow up Wrecker."
"Some show you put on there." Rex compliments Hunter. "Just doin' our job Captain." He brushes it off.
"We should move out before reinforcements arrive." Rex tells Hunter. "I agree. They're going to try and overwhelm us soon." Revan states.
Cody tries to stand up on his own, but he falls, Kix catches him. "I would try not to use your legs so much for the next hour. The bones were put under a lot of strain, and I haven't perfected the technique yet." Revan explains before handing Cody his orange visored helmet. "Let's get outta here and find that Cyber Center."
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19 BBY, Anaxes Wilderness...
The group are scattered around a small fire, except for Hunter, who is off to the side tracking something. Revan is keeping the fire alight by meditation. And Jesse is joking around with Kix.
"So I get what makes the other Batchers unique, but what's so special about hunter?"
"He can put up with the other three." Tech then cuts in. "He was engineered with heightened senses, a place like the Cyber Center, Hunter can feel the electromagnetic frequencies from anywhere on the planet."
Jesse nudges Kix. "And here I thought we were smart for just bringing a holomap."
"Maps can be wrong. But Hunter never is." Tech states.
"Alright everybody, I've got a plan to get into that Cyber Center." Rex states.
Revan stops concentrating on the small fire, allowing it to burn out. "If your plans are so good, why did Commander Cody have to call us in?" Crosshair snidely remarks as Jesse stands up and points his finger into his face. "Hey! You can't talk to Captain Rex like that!"
"Says who?"
"WHOA!"
Jesse is picked up by the throat by Wrecker. "Put him down!" Rex commands Wrecker as the others begin to get into a fight.
"Wrecker! Drop him, now." Hunter commands, as the burned clone does as he's told. "Fellas, come on! We're all fighting for the same thing, right?" Crosshair and Kix stop grappling with each other as Hunter sighs. "All right then. Let's cut the chatter and finish what we started. We'll do it your way Captain. If Cody trusts your abilities then I trust them."
"Okay, let's gear up and move out." The clones and Revan move through the jungle of short mushroom trees for a few hours. The group reaches a clearing, outside an artificial tower.
"Not our primary target. It's an outpost, should we take it?" Hunter asks Rex. "Probably easier than going around." Hunter then turns away from the outpost. "Alright. Your orders? We pick them off one-by-one from the treeline?"
"Actually, I was thinking we'd take a page out of your book... Rush them head on."
Hunter chuckles. "I like your style." They are about to rush the building, but Revan stops them. "I noticed your footwork with that knife of yours... Wanna take a lightsaber for a spin?" Revan says holding out the golden hilt of his red lightsaber to Hunter. Whose pupils dilate underneath his helmet.
A minute later, Hunter is standing over the piled up chassis of multiple cut-up B-1 and B-2 battle droids with the lightsaber ignited over his head.
"You could've saved some more for the rest of us!" Wrecker whines.
"That's enough lightsaber for today." Revan says worriedly as the hilt flies into his hand.
"I didn't know that he could do that!" Tech states, completely shocked.
"I'll stay and guard the perimeter, while you guys take the ones up the turbolift." Hunter says contemptly as the group gets on the lift and swiftly takes out the droids at the top of the tower. Cody spots the Cyber Center after Hunter gets up.
"There it is. The Cyber Center." Tech sits down at a computer and reports on how many guards there are.
"Minimal guards, thirty to be exact... No wait! A new signal has been given out. A large platoon has been sent out to The Cyber Center!"
"Seems like somebody saw the handiwork at the crash site." Hunter states.
"Then we have to be quick..." Revan looks at Wrecker. "Or do you wanna see a light show?"
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19 BBY, Anaxes, Separatist Cyber Center...
The Clones are sneaking into the Cyber Center through the back, while Revan begins to falsely surrender to the droids in the front. Walking with his hands up and speaking.
"I'm a General in the Grand army of the Republic, and I humbly surrender to the might of the Separatist forces." The droids look to each other and walk forward. With a pair of
handcuffs.
A few minutes later, the rest of the forces arrive. Tanks and all...
"Who is this?" A T-Series Tactical droid asks a B-1 Commander.
"We don't know! He said he was with the Republic." Revan is standing in front of the Center's door, smiling under his mask. The Tactical droid then sees the lightsaber hilts on
Revan's belt. "You defective droid! It was a trap!"
Revan lifts both of his arms up, after shocking the handcuffs apart. Raising everything unnatural in front of him high into the air. The Clones walk out of the Cyber Center, with the knowledge that CT-1409 is alive. Revan looks behind him and speaks to Wrecker.
"I promised you a lightshow. Didn't I?" Wrecker nods dumbly at the sight of the hundreds of floating clankers. "Alright! Keep your eyes open, cause you're not gonna see any Jedi do this!" Revan unleashes a torrent of force storm at the Separatist forces, causing them all to blow up in a spectacular fashion. Revan turns around to face Cody. "You get the intel?" Cody nods dumbly at the man who took out an entire platoon in seconds. Revan claps his hands together. "Alright! Who wants some Rappoki (Pronounced Da-Poke-E)? Cause I'm starving."
{A/N: Damn, I really made Revan into a war criminal, huh? LOL}
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19 BBY, Anaxes, Republic Base, Mess Hall...
Revan and the clones are eating a red dish of noodles and rice cakes. The clones are drinking blue milk due to how spicy it is.
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19 BBY, Anaxes, Republic Base...
Revan is walking with Anakin, Rex, and Hunter, who is speaking to Anakin. They pass a GNK droid as he begins speaking.
"Word is, the general staff isn't completely on board with this mission." Rex then pipes in. "I admit that the idea that Echo being alive is a bit of a long shot."
"I'm sure that the Council will approve this mission. Just remember the primary goal is to learn how the separatists are predicting our strategy, whether it's Echo behind it or not." Anakin says before Hunter speaks up. "Well, if you want my opinion, sounds like a trap, but me and the boys will come along anyway, if only to say 'I told you so.'"
"Just make sure you're ready." Revan states to the clones before Anakin pipes in. "If we get the go-ahead from General Kenobi." Anakin states.
"If you're certain that he'll approve this mission, why wait? Let's get going!" Rex states.
"First, we have that thing to do."
"Uh, what thing?"
"You know."
"We don't have time for that," Rex pauses. "Sir."
"Yes we do." Anakin states matter of factly.
"Ah, i'm just gonna go find Obi-Wan. See ya." Revan walks off waving.
"Well, I'll just let you two sort this out. I'll be waiting on the ship with the rest of the team." Hunter walks off as well.
Revan walks around for a while, but then spots Obi-Wan walking to a helmetless Rex, in front of the barracks. Hearing them chatter for a second but unable to hear what they're
saying. Then Anakin walks out handing Rex his helmet. "Here you go, Rex. Oh, and try not to break it again." Obi-Wan tries to tell him something. "Anakin, the council needs to
send you to-"
"Skako Minor, I know. Let's get moving, Rex." Anakin and Rex then begin walking toward the Bad Batch's ship.
"No, wait. That's not-"
"No time!"
"I hope you at least told Padmé, I said hello." Anakin stops for a second, then begins moving again.
Revan sighs. "What did the council need him to do?"
"Find relations between the rogue Sith apprentice, Maul. And the Pyke Syndicate. On Oba Diah." Revan stares at Obi-Wan. "The council does know that finding things or people, especially Sith, is my speciality. Right?" Revan sighs again and raises his hand up like he's trying to get a teacher to call on him. "I'll go. Where are the Pykes located?"
"Oddly enough, they named the city they took over, 'Pyke City'. So you shouldn't have trouble finding their headquarters."
"Understood. I'll see you back on the Negotiator when this is all over." Revan then walks off to his Jedi-Interceptor and flies off.
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