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Typho accessed his Comm to warn Anakin and Padme of the boarding party storming the ship. He flipped the switch, but received nothing but static. Almost expected, normal operation guidelines; take out enemy communication. He slammed his hand down on the alarm, and warning klaxon began to blare out across the ship. The captain then picked up his light blaster from the console where he had placed it at launch, and set out to protect his lady. Too bad the quarters were on the other side of the docking bay, he thought to himself.
The two were knocked up against a wall, with Anakin sandwiched between the Padme and the wall itself. The shaking and rocking had died down, but now a warning alarm was creating a deafening noise, making it hard to think straight. Padme reached for a Comms link and tried to raise the bridge, with no avail. Next Anakin got to his feet, immediately trying to contact the Council with his own Comms unit. It was also blocked. What was going on?
"Come on Padme, I sense something really wrong here. Lets get moving," Anakin stated, trying to sound in control of the situation.
"We should move towards the control room. Captain Typho might know what's going on." The Senator replied. Anakin reached to open the door to the quarters hallway, when he stopped.
"What is it?!?" Padme asked quietly.
"Shhhh..." Anakin said as he motioned with his hand for her to stay back. He could clearly hear 3 sets of footsteps coming towards their room, when the lights suddenly went out.
Captain Typho had made his way down to the lower decks of the control section. Power had been cut to most of the ship, so he'd have to pry open the doors he came upon. After a few doors, he came upon one labeled "Comms. Control" Good, this is where he needed to be. Maybe he could get a strong enough signal from here to warn someone. He began pulling the door open when the alarm stopped. That could have only been done from this room, he knew, pulling back. Pressing his ear against the door, he could make out several voices.
"Yes, sir, we have taken out the Comms room," a serious voice said, with the precision of a special Ops. soldier. A reply, from a younger, cocky voice came over a short range comm,
"Good job, team 3. Team 1 has taken out the power, and team 4 is about to shut down the engines. Team 2 is scouting for the Jedi, so move to phase two."
"Yes, sir. The Captain is expendable?" the serious voice questioned.
"Correct. The captain and senator are to be killed. The Jedi needs to be brought to us, however. Unharmed. This guy wants him alive, for now," responded the cocky voice, sounding not in total control of the situation. Typho was taken aback for a moment at what he heard, but recovered quickly. He raised his blaster and quietly moved through the crack in the door. These men were coming for him, but with the element of surprise, he had a chance taking them first.
Anakin had pushed Padme back against the wall to the left side of the door. With his right, mechanical arm, he pulled his lightsaber from its belt clip, and held it to his side. Although the arm looked bulky and unworkable, it was really almost as easy to fight with as his real arm had been before, after have had trained days before to test its limits. The warning alarm had just stopped a few seconds ago, but it seemed like ages since all had gone quiet. The men outside had reached the door blocking the couple from them. With power out and only an emergency light in one corner keeping the room barley illuminated, Anakin could make out a small wedge object being shoved through the door. With a clicking noise, the door was flung open. Quickly, Anakin pushed Padme behind some chairs to hide her from view, and stayed close to the door against the wall. The men would have to come int the open door and turn around to see him, and that's what he needed to defend himself.
"Stunners on," a quiet voice whispered outside the door, then the first of the three entered. He was wearing black stealth gear, armed with a long stun rifle. There was a heavy blaster repeater swung on his back, held by a strap attached to it. His eyes seemed to glow green at first, so it took the Jedi a moment to realize they were all wearing night visions goggles. The second man to enter moved towards the side of the door Anakin was hiding at, then turned around. A blue glow and loud hum quickly filled the room, followed by screams soon silenced. Anakin had cut the hands of the second man before decapitating him. The first man swung around to see what had happened when the blue light flashed in front of him, right before he felt his torso slide from his legs, where he'd been cut in half. He reached down to feel nothing below his waist once he hit the ground. There was no blood on his hand, but then again, there wouldn't be. He'd been killed by a Jedi Lightsaber, and the heat from them is so extreme it burns wounds shut on impact. Two blasts from a stunner echoed through the hall, but the last thing the first man to enter the room saw was his other fellow soldier being run through by the Jedi. Then all was dark.
With blaster ready, Captain Typho was ready to strike. He was hoping for a moment of distraction to get the most out of his surprise, and he got it. A broadcast over the comm told this "team 3" that they had lost contact with team 2, and to prepare to move to the back of the ship to look for them and aid team 4. Once the comm was off, Typho began firing. He hit the first man with the comm device right on, killing him in one shot. The second man readied his blaster to fire back, but was hit a killed by 2 blaster shots to the chest and face. However, this gave time to the third man to take cover, and begin returning fire with a Heavy repeater. The room flashed orange, much different from the red the captain's blaster turned it. It seemed forever that the fire streamed overhead as Typho hid under a half wall separation from external to internal comms. There was a silence, but was broken by a clanking behind him. He turned to see a Thermal Detonator about to go off. Typho leaped from his position, over the wall, and under a desk before he heard the loud explosion destroy the area where he'd just been. Looking down, he saw the body of one of the men he killed, still holding his weapon. As he heard the third man stand up to admire his kill, Typho grabbed the repeater, and took three short breaths. He pushed himself from the desk with his feet, and aimed at the man.
Before the other could react with anything more than his jaw dropping under his concealed face, Captain Typho riddled him with bolts from the repeater. When the man's body fell, Typho let out a loud sigh. Twelve men, four teams of three. Made sense. He had just killed three of them, and from what he heard so had the Jedi, or so it seemed. Standing up, Typho picked up extra ammo and a Thermal Detonator from one of the bodies. The team that took out the power was between here and the Docking bay, and both were in between him and the senator. Team 1 would be next.
Anakin led Padme down the hall and downstairs to the kitchen area, far from the bodies of the men he had just slain. His eye jolted from one side to another, and Padme began to feel uneasy.
"What are we doing?" she asked the young Jedi.
"Looking for a place for you too hide," Anakin answered. He could tell his wife was disturbed by this.
"Hide? I'm not going to hide! I'm coming with you!" she yelled, forgetting they could still be being stalked by more attackers.
"Listen, these people must be after you. It has to be the Trade Federation again. If you stay here in the Kitchen you should be okay," he stated. Pointing to a large, unworking freezer, he motioned her to follow him.
"Please, stay in here. I'll be back for you, I promise" Anakin said. Padme could only nod her head and clutch the small blaster pistol she had picked up off one of the bodies. She managed to get out an "I love you," making her husband look at her and smile.
"I love you too. See you soon." He kissed her and then slammed the door shut, moving a food shelf in front of it to conceal it as well as possible. His lightsaber was back in his hand, and he was ready for action. Earlier, he had felt the ship come to a sudden stop, so that meant someone was in the engine room, which wasn't far from here. He'd find the next of the attackers there for sure.
Typho was hiding in the archway of a door when he heard the next team of three move into the hall. They must have known about the team he'd just taken out, so they were hunting him. This time, surprise wasn't on his side, so he'd have to fight it out with them. Clicking the Thermal Detonator on, he rolled it down the hall towards the team. Screams of "Get down!" were drowned out by the explosion. He peaked out the side of the doorway to see one of the men down. That's one. Seconds later, the remaining two opened fire towards him from either side of the hall. He couldn't risk returning fire, there was too much coming towards him that he'd get hit. However, looking down the far side of the hall, away from the men firing at him, he saw that the gray, horizontal strip running down the hall, halfway up the way, had repeater bolts bouncing off of it. Bingo, there was his chance. He couldn't get them both, but he managed to line up a shot with his normal blaster perfectly, hitting and killing the man on the same side of the hall as him. That's two, one to go. This last one was pretty dug in, however, and it wouldn't be easy. He'd need a miracle.
The door on the other side of the hall next to him was his only hope. That would be a power room, and it normally had three entrance doors, that being door number 2. He quickly jumped to the other side in between the fire, get grazed on the shoulder by a bolt. He dropped his repeater in the middle of the hall, so he would have to do without. His trick wouldn't work here, as the strip wasn't on the other side of the hall. This wasn't his plan anyway, but it would have been the easy way out. He pried open the door while the soldier was still firing wildly down the hall. With the door open, things got quiet inside. The fire was blocked out mostly by the metal walls, so he could move freely to the next door. Slowly, quietly, and in sync with the fire from the soldier, Typho pried a small opening in the door, just enough to slid a blaster pistol through.
"Pssst!" Typho said, announcing his presence to the attacker. When the man's head turned slightly, Typho put one shot into his head. Three. He finished opening the door, grabbed this guys repeater, and continued working his way toward the docking bay.
Master Yoda was suddenly awakened from his meditation at the Jedi Temple. Master Windu glanced over, awakened also by Yoda.
"What is it?" He asked with his powerful, yet calming Jedi master tone.
"Young Skywalker. Trouble he is in. The Dark Side I feel," Yoda answered with a voice that couldn't be mistaken. "For him a Dark Jedi come. Wish to kill Skywalker he does."
"One of the Sith Lords?" Windu asked.
"No, well hidden the Lords remain. Sith knight this Dark Jedi is," Yoda responded.
"I'll gather some Jedi and track the transport. I'll also contact master Kenobi right away. Maybe he can get to the ship before we can," said Windu, sounding the most concerned for Skywalker he'd ever been. Yoda returned to meditation as quickly as he was brought out of it, trying to uncover more of what was to come.
Anakin had watched the three men who had taken out the power earlier for a minute before he decided to strike. He was about to active his lightsaber when he stopped, and pulled back into the shadows. He remember something Obi-Wan had mentioned to him.
"Conflict can be the simplest way to gain victory, but often there is an easier way that remains hidden to those not looking for it," the lesson echoed in Anakin's mind, as he saw the pipes hanging over the three men. There was only one support brace keeping it up, and preventing it from crushing them. With a small smile, he activated his lightsaber, and threw it toward the brace. Using the force, he was able to guide it toward his target, bringing tons of metal piping down on top of his foes. Without a shot fired, he'd taken them all down.
"Thank you again, Master," Anakin said aloud to himself. Ahead was the docking bay, where he could link over to the other side of the ship and contact Typho, or at least get some Comms equipment that worked.
Typho entered the bay, sneaking up on the figure towards the back in tattered clothing. The two destroyer droids were in front of him about 20 feet, so if he came up behind quietly, maybe he could get the guy that looked to be in charge. It took him a few minutes, but he was soon right behind the man. He though he had him, when the cocky voice said loudly.
"Good job, Captain. You have much more skill than one would normally see in a security Chief." The man turned around.
"I am the Bounty Hunter Kral Wei. And you, my friend, are dead." Typho raised his pistol to fire, but stopped. He felt weak, and there was suddenly a warm pain running from his back to his chest. He looked down to see a red beam coming about six inches out from his chest. It then pulled back in, and Typho fell to the floor. He heard a dark, raspy voice say,
"He's not the one I want. Where is the Jedi?" There was a screaming somewhere. Typho then passed on, dying from his lightsaber wound.
"Noooo!" Anakin screamed as he saw Typho fall to the ground. His wife's trusted security chief had just died at the hands of a Dark Jedi he had only ever seen in his nightmares. The face of the Dark Jedi was covered in black and red tattooing, with a number of spikes poking out the top of his head. Maul. He remembered, Darth Maul. The man who killed Qui-Gonn, and was killed by Obi-Wan. He was killed, right? Anakin ignited his saber and slowly walked toward the two men left standing, guarded still by the two destroyer droids.
"Leave Wei. You are done here," the Dark Jedi said.
"Not without my men. I'm going no where!" the cocky bounty hunter replied.
"Your men are dead moron. Take your droids and leave." The Maul look alike said, raising his voice slightly. The Bounty Hunter made a motion with his hands, and the droids rolled up and entered the back of the ship where Kral had gone. Before Anakin had walked halfway, he could hear pat of the ship release as the Bounty Hunter got away. Now it was just the two Jedi left.
"Where is your Master young one?!? He has much to pay for," the Dark Jedi proclaimed.
"He's away. And who you calling young?" Anakin said.
"Hmm. I will have to send him a message, starting with your death," said the Dark Jedi, nearly snarling.
"Maybe then he will regret the day he murdered my brother, many years ago."
"Or maybe you will regret hearing the name Skywalker!" Anakin screamed, holding his lightsaber, ready to fight.
The Dark Jedi ignited his saber, jumping into the air, landing 15 feet from Anakin. He twirled his unusual saber three or four times, until the other side of it ignited also with a red glow. A dualbladed saber. More from his nightmares. Anakin jump towards him, swinging his saber to match the blows the fallen Jedi was trying to give. The battle was face paced, the hum and clashing of two sabers filled the room, illuminating it in weird ways with a red and blue glow. A strike left, a strike right. High, low, he had to jump to avoid losing a leg. He caught a small edge of the red beam in his right arm, luckily it was in no where important, just cutting through excess metal. He swung his lightsaber in a powerful blow over his head, striking one side of the dual saber. The Dark Jedi lunged back to keep control of his weapon. He apparently wasn't too proficient at using it yet. Anakin hit left, then blocked low. Using Force push, he managed to distract the Dark side Jedi long enough to cut the lightsaber he wielded in half. Another nightmare he remembered, as both sides still worked. The evil Jedi began striking with both sabers with more strength than before.
Anakin had trouble blocking all of them, as he was hitting too fast. In a final blow to regain control, Anakin swung his saber over his head again, and brought it straight down. The other Jedi made an X with his sabers to block the mighty attack. The block worked, and it left both of them locked in a battle of strength. Using this to his advantage, the dark Jedi tried to swing with one saber at Anakin's feet. Anakin could see this coming, however, being the "chosen one." He did a front flip over the Jedi while he tried to strike low, and remembered how Obi-Wan described killing Maul, this man's apparent brother. Anakin landed behind him, and cut the Jedi in half, the same way his master had before when he was still a Padawan himself. The body crumpled to the floor, lifeless.
Anakin sat on the ground for a moment before his Comms unit came alive with noise. He listened to the voice of Master Windu say,
"Skywalker, do you read? We have you on scanners. We will be linking on the top docking port of the ship, try to meet us there if you read us."
"Great timing," Skywalker mumbled to himself. He stood up, and began walking towards the kitchen where he had left Padme not too long ago. They would have a lot of explaining to do once the got back to the Jedi Council.
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Typho accessed his Comm to warn Anakin and Padme of the boarding party storming the ship. He flipped the switch, but received nothing but static. Almost expected, normal operation guidelines; take out enemy communication. He slammed his hand down on the alarm, and warning klaxon began to blare out across the ship. The captain then picked up his light blaster from the console where he had placed it at launch, and set out to protect his lady. Too bad the quarters were on the other side of the docking bay, he thought to himself.
The two were knocked up against a wall, with Anakin sandwiched between the Padme and the wall itself. The shaking and rocking had died down, but now a warning alarm was creating a deafening noise, making it hard to think straight. Padme reached for a Comms link and tried to raise the bridge, with no avail. Next Anakin got to his feet, immediately trying to contact the Council with his own Comms unit. It was also blocked. What was going on?
"Come on Padme, I sense something really wrong here. Lets get moving," Anakin stated, trying to sound in control of the situation.
"We should move towards the control room. Captain Typho might know what's going on." The Senator replied. Anakin reached to open the door to the quarters hallway, when he stopped.
"What is it?!?" Padme asked quietly.
"Shhhh..." Anakin said as he motioned with his hand for her to stay back. He could clearly hear 3 sets of footsteps coming towards their room, when the lights suddenly went out.
Captain Typho had made his way down to the lower decks of the control section. Power had been cut to most of the ship, so he'd have to pry open the doors he came upon. After a few doors, he came upon one labeled "Comms. Control" Good, this is where he needed to be. Maybe he could get a strong enough signal from here to warn someone. He began pulling the door open when the alarm stopped. That could have only been done from this room, he knew, pulling back. Pressing his ear against the door, he could make out several voices.
"Yes, sir, we have taken out the Comms room," a serious voice said, with the precision of a special Ops. soldier. A reply, from a younger, cocky voice came over a short range comm,
"Good job, team 3. Team 1 has taken out the power, and team 4 is about to shut down the engines. Team 2 is scouting for the Jedi, so move to phase two."
"Yes, sir. The Captain is expendable?" the serious voice questioned.
"Correct. The captain and senator are to be killed. The Jedi needs to be brought to us, however. Unharmed. This guy wants him alive, for now," responded the cocky voice, sounding not in total control of the situation. Typho was taken aback for a moment at what he heard, but recovered quickly. He raised his blaster and quietly moved through the crack in the door. These men were coming for him, but with the element of surprise, he had a chance taking them first.
Anakin had pushed Padme back against the wall to the left side of the door. With his right, mechanical arm, he pulled his lightsaber from its belt clip, and held it to his side. Although the arm looked bulky and unworkable, it was really almost as easy to fight with as his real arm had been before, after have had trained days before to test its limits. The warning alarm had just stopped a few seconds ago, but it seemed like ages since all had gone quiet. The men outside had reached the door blocking the couple from them. With power out and only an emergency light in one corner keeping the room barley illuminated, Anakin could make out a small wedge object being shoved through the door. With a clicking noise, the door was flung open. Quickly, Anakin pushed Padme behind some chairs to hide her from view, and stayed close to the door against the wall. The men would have to come int the open door and turn around to see him, and that's what he needed to defend himself.
"Stunners on," a quiet voice whispered outside the door, then the first of the three entered. He was wearing black stealth gear, armed with a long stun rifle. There was a heavy blaster repeater swung on his back, held by a strap attached to it. His eyes seemed to glow green at first, so it took the Jedi a moment to realize they were all wearing night visions goggles. The second man to enter moved towards the side of the door Anakin was hiding at, then turned around. A blue glow and loud hum quickly filled the room, followed by screams soon silenced. Anakin had cut the hands of the second man before decapitating him. The first man swung around to see what had happened when the blue light flashed in front of him, right before he felt his torso slide from his legs, where he'd been cut in half. He reached down to feel nothing below his waist once he hit the ground. There was no blood on his hand, but then again, there wouldn't be. He'd been killed by a Jedi Lightsaber, and the heat from them is so extreme it burns wounds shut on impact. Two blasts from a stunner echoed through the hall, but the last thing the first man to enter the room saw was his other fellow soldier being run through by the Jedi. Then all was dark.
With blaster ready, Captain Typho was ready to strike. He was hoping for a moment of distraction to get the most out of his surprise, and he got it. A broadcast over the comm told this "team 3" that they had lost contact with team 2, and to prepare to move to the back of the ship to look for them and aid team 4. Once the comm was off, Typho began firing. He hit the first man with the comm device right on, killing him in one shot. The second man readied his blaster to fire back, but was hit a killed by 2 blaster shots to the chest and face. However, this gave time to the third man to take cover, and begin returning fire with a Heavy repeater. The room flashed orange, much different from the red the captain's blaster turned it. It seemed forever that the fire streamed overhead as Typho hid under a half wall separation from external to internal comms. There was a silence, but was broken by a clanking behind him. He turned to see a Thermal Detonator about to go off. Typho leaped from his position, over the wall, and under a desk before he heard the loud explosion destroy the area where he'd just been. Looking down, he saw the body of one of the men he killed, still holding his weapon. As he heard the third man stand up to admire his kill, Typho grabbed the repeater, and took three short breaths. He pushed himself from the desk with his feet, and aimed at the man.
Before the other could react with anything more than his jaw dropping under his concealed face, Captain Typho riddled him with bolts from the repeater. When the man's body fell, Typho let out a loud sigh. Twelve men, four teams of three. Made sense. He had just killed three of them, and from what he heard so had the Jedi, or so it seemed. Standing up, Typho picked up extra ammo and a Thermal Detonator from one of the bodies. The team that took out the power was between here and the Docking bay, and both were in between him and the senator. Team 1 would be next.
Anakin led Padme down the hall and downstairs to the kitchen area, far from the bodies of the men he had just slain. His eye jolted from one side to another, and Padme began to feel uneasy.
"What are we doing?" she asked the young Jedi.
"Looking for a place for you too hide," Anakin answered. He could tell his wife was disturbed by this.
"Hide? I'm not going to hide! I'm coming with you!" she yelled, forgetting they could still be being stalked by more attackers.
"Listen, these people must be after you. It has to be the Trade Federation again. If you stay here in the Kitchen you should be okay," he stated. Pointing to a large, unworking freezer, he motioned her to follow him.
"Please, stay in here. I'll be back for you, I promise" Anakin said. Padme could only nod her head and clutch the small blaster pistol she had picked up off one of the bodies. She managed to get out an "I love you," making her husband look at her and smile.
"I love you too. See you soon." He kissed her and then slammed the door shut, moving a food shelf in front of it to conceal it as well as possible. His lightsaber was back in his hand, and he was ready for action. Earlier, he had felt the ship come to a sudden stop, so that meant someone was in the engine room, which wasn't far from here. He'd find the next of the attackers there for sure.
Typho was hiding in the archway of a door when he heard the next team of three move into the hall. They must have known about the team he'd just taken out, so they were hunting him. This time, surprise wasn't on his side, so he'd have to fight it out with them. Clicking the Thermal Detonator on, he rolled it down the hall towards the team. Screams of "Get down!" were drowned out by the explosion. He peaked out the side of the doorway to see one of the men down. That's one. Seconds later, the remaining two opened fire towards him from either side of the hall. He couldn't risk returning fire, there was too much coming towards him that he'd get hit. However, looking down the far side of the hall, away from the men firing at him, he saw that the gray, horizontal strip running down the hall, halfway up the way, had repeater bolts bouncing off of it. Bingo, there was his chance. He couldn't get them both, but he managed to line up a shot with his normal blaster perfectly, hitting and killing the man on the same side of the hall as him. That's two, one to go. This last one was pretty dug in, however, and it wouldn't be easy. He'd need a miracle.
The door on the other side of the hall next to him was his only hope. That would be a power room, and it normally had three entrance doors, that being door number 2. He quickly jumped to the other side in between the fire, get grazed on the shoulder by a bolt. He dropped his repeater in the middle of the hall, so he would have to do without. His trick wouldn't work here, as the strip wasn't on the other side of the hall. This wasn't his plan anyway, but it would have been the easy way out. He pried open the door while the soldier was still firing wildly down the hall. With the door open, things got quiet inside. The fire was blocked out mostly by the metal walls, so he could move freely to the next door. Slowly, quietly, and in sync with the fire from the soldier, Typho pried a small opening in the door, just enough to slid a blaster pistol through.
"Pssst!" Typho said, announcing his presence to the attacker. When the man's head turned slightly, Typho put one shot into his head. Three. He finished opening the door, grabbed this guys repeater, and continued working his way toward the docking bay.
Master Yoda was suddenly awakened from his meditation at the Jedi Temple. Master Windu glanced over, awakened also by Yoda.
"What is it?" He asked with his powerful, yet calming Jedi master tone.
"Young Skywalker. Trouble he is in. The Dark Side I feel," Yoda answered with a voice that couldn't be mistaken. "For him a Dark Jedi come. Wish to kill Skywalker he does."
"One of the Sith Lords?" Windu asked.
"No, well hidden the Lords remain. Sith knight this Dark Jedi is," Yoda responded.
"I'll gather some Jedi and track the transport. I'll also contact master Kenobi right away. Maybe he can get to the ship before we can," said Windu, sounding the most concerned for Skywalker he'd ever been. Yoda returned to meditation as quickly as he was brought out of it, trying to uncover more of what was to come.
Anakin had watched the three men who had taken out the power earlier for a minute before he decided to strike. He was about to active his lightsaber when he stopped, and pulled back into the shadows. He remember something Obi-Wan had mentioned to him.
"Conflict can be the simplest way to gain victory, but often there is an easier way that remains hidden to those not looking for it," the lesson echoed in Anakin's mind, as he saw the pipes hanging over the three men. There was only one support brace keeping it up, and preventing it from crushing them. With a small smile, he activated his lightsaber, and threw it toward the brace. Using the force, he was able to guide it toward his target, bringing tons of metal piping down on top of his foes. Without a shot fired, he'd taken them all down.
"Thank you again, Master," Anakin said aloud to himself. Ahead was the docking bay, where he could link over to the other side of the ship and contact Typho, or at least get some Comms equipment that worked.
Typho entered the bay, sneaking up on the figure towards the back in tattered clothing. The two destroyer droids were in front of him about 20 feet, so if he came up behind quietly, maybe he could get the guy that looked to be in charge. It took him a few minutes, but he was soon right behind the man. He though he had him, when the cocky voice said loudly.
"Good job, Captain. You have much more skill than one would normally see in a security Chief." The man turned around.
"I am the Bounty Hunter Kral Wei. And you, my friend, are dead." Typho raised his pistol to fire, but stopped. He felt weak, and there was suddenly a warm pain running from his back to his chest. He looked down to see a red beam coming about six inches out from his chest. It then pulled back in, and Typho fell to the floor. He heard a dark, raspy voice say,
"He's not the one I want. Where is the Jedi?" There was a screaming somewhere. Typho then passed on, dying from his lightsaber wound.
"Noooo!" Anakin screamed as he saw Typho fall to the ground. His wife's trusted security chief had just died at the hands of a Dark Jedi he had only ever seen in his nightmares. The face of the Dark Jedi was covered in black and red tattooing, with a number of spikes poking out the top of his head. Maul. He remembered, Darth Maul. The man who killed Qui-Gonn, and was killed by Obi-Wan. He was killed, right? Anakin ignited his saber and slowly walked toward the two men left standing, guarded still by the two destroyer droids.
"Leave Wei. You are done here," the Dark Jedi said.
"Not without my men. I'm going no where!" the cocky bounty hunter replied.
"Your men are dead moron. Take your droids and leave." The Maul look alike said, raising his voice slightly. The Bounty Hunter made a motion with his hands, and the droids rolled up and entered the back of the ship where Kral had gone. Before Anakin had walked halfway, he could hear pat of the ship release as the Bounty Hunter got away. Now it was just the two Jedi left.
"Where is your Master young one?!? He has much to pay for," the Dark Jedi proclaimed.
"He's away. And who you calling young?" Anakin said.
"Hmm. I will have to send him a message, starting with your death," said the Dark Jedi, nearly snarling.
"Maybe then he will regret the day he murdered my brother, many years ago."
"Or maybe you will regret hearing the name Skywalker!" Anakin screamed, holding his lightsaber, ready to fight.
The Dark Jedi ignited his saber, jumping into the air, landing 15 feet from Anakin. He twirled his unusual saber three or four times, until the other side of it ignited also with a red glow. A dualbladed saber. More from his nightmares. Anakin jump towards him, swinging his saber to match the blows the fallen Jedi was trying to give. The battle was face paced, the hum and clashing of two sabers filled the room, illuminating it in weird ways with a red and blue glow. A strike left, a strike right. High, low, he had to jump to avoid losing a leg. He caught a small edge of the red beam in his right arm, luckily it was in no where important, just cutting through excess metal. He swung his lightsaber in a powerful blow over his head, striking one side of the dual saber. The Dark Jedi lunged back to keep control of his weapon. He apparently wasn't too proficient at using it yet. Anakin hit left, then blocked low. Using Force push, he managed to distract the Dark side Jedi long enough to cut the lightsaber he wielded in half. Another nightmare he remembered, as both sides still worked. The evil Jedi began striking with both sabers with more strength than before.
Anakin had trouble blocking all of them, as he was hitting too fast. In a final blow to regain control, Anakin swung his saber over his head again, and brought it straight down. The other Jedi made an X with his sabers to block the mighty attack. The block worked, and it left both of them locked in a battle of strength. Using this to his advantage, the dark Jedi tried to swing with one saber at Anakin's feet. Anakin could see this coming, however, being the "chosen one." He did a front flip over the Jedi while he tried to strike low, and remembered how Obi-Wan described killing Maul, this man's apparent brother. Anakin landed behind him, and cut the Jedi in half, the same way his master had before when he was still a Padawan himself. The body crumpled to the floor, lifeless.
Anakin sat on the ground for a moment before his Comms unit came alive with noise. He listened to the voice of Master Windu say,
"Skywalker, do you read? We have you on scanners. We will be linking on the top docking port of the ship, try to meet us there if you read us."
"Great timing," Skywalker mumbled to himself. He stood up, and began walking towards the kitchen where he had left Padme not too long ago. They would have a lot of explaining to do once the got back to the Jedi Council.
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