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Obi-Wan hated space travel,when he was a younger man he use to revel at the thought of going off somewhere with Qui-gon Jinn on some crazed adventure.But those days,much like his beloved master were long gone,nothing more than a fading memory. And space travel on the bounty hunter's ship was anything but pleasant,Boba Fett seemed to take great pains to fly as erratically as possible to further annoy and nuaseate the jedi. Slave 1,as the jedi had come to know the patrol ship,was as haunting as any memory could be......this was the ship at Topica,the battle in the rain....how strange to now be a passenger within it,accompanying the son of its former owner. "We're landing",was the only warning the armored youth gave as the ship began it's decent,bringing the jedi out of his contemplations.Kenobi's hand instinctively covered his mouth as the cockpit and the ship seemed to rotate in two completely different directions,muttering a silent prayer not to be ill in front of this deadly and troubled young man. An amused snort escaped the battered green helmet,"Don't go all soft on me,General Kenobi....",Fett said with a note of sarcasm,"....this was the easy part".
Obi-Wan had thought that Tattooine with its unending desserts and oppressive twin suns was perhaps the worst place to be self exiled to, until he was introduced to Ryloth.Half-scorched and half-frozen,its inhabitants were forced to live in underground communities,the activities of one of the planet's natives....a Bib Fortuna attracted unwanted attention to the planet's population.Although he had trafficked in the illegal spice called Ryll,it was slavers that took an interest in the planet...especially in its young women.
The jedi and the hunter sat secreted away in an alcove of a rocky cliff above a small twi'lek village,"We've been here for days......how can you be sure your information is correct?",Kenobi asked in mild frustration,he should be overlooking young Skywalker's home....not some underground town. Boba Fett didn't even look up from his sniper's position,Kenobi thought he might have even slept in that position the night before,"Patience master jedi......why so edgy?",the hunter's gravelly tone inquired. Obi-Wan frowned for a moment,he was edgy...."Something's wrong...I can feel it",he said quietly.The jedi tried to focus in on the Force,why was the bounty hunter's presense so distracting,he asked himself,perhaps it was some underlying guilt about his father. Yes,that was it....he had help make this boy into the thing he had become,perhaps he could help undo some of the damage....
"There...",the young Fett's voice interrupted the jedi's train of thought,as he gestured slightly with a gloved hand,"...slavers".Kenobi layed next to the hunter's armored bulk,squinting his eyes to get a better look."Here,look through this....",the cloned youth advised and pushed the scope of the rifle closer to the jedi,Obi-Wan nodded silently and before he knew it,Fett pushed the entire weapon into his arms. The rifle felt alien and replusive in the jedi's hands,but he willed himself to look through the site,as the hunter turned the rifle and the jedi toward their prey. "To the left of the meeting house",Fett stated as Obi-Wan fixed the devil's weapon upon the slavers."I see them....",the jedi started but was completely taken by surprise when a gloved hand covered his own on the trigger."No!",the bearded man shouted,realizing too late what was happening as the rifle unleashed a deadly beam of precise laserfire toward the slavers.The cry died in his throat as the beam cleaved a burly man's skull wide open as the slaver was about to do the same to a young twi'lek mother and child. "There was no time...",Fett growled as he pulled the rifle from the jedi's stunned grasp,it was as close to an apology as Obi-Wan thought he would get from the hunter. The odd pair scrambled to their feet as the first explosion rocked the town,that was when Obi-Wan saw a vision that would haunt him for many nights,the slavers seemed more intent on killing off the populace than capturing them."By the suns....they're killing the children!",Kenobi exclaimed,"They only want the young females...they'll kill the rest",the young hunter retorted as he grabbed onto the jedi's sleeve,"Come on...our position has been compromised". The jedi held his ground and gripped the young hunter's wrist on his sleeve,"We can't just leave these people to die",Obi-Wan protested fiercely.Boba Fett glared at the older man,"Then you better go save them...jedi",he hissed the last word with deadly venom,"I'm going after the slavers' leader,that's what I was PAID to do".
Both bounty hunter and jedi master released each other and stared harshly at the man across from them,before departing quickly on their seperate paths."I was a fool,he's a monster beyond all redemption",Kenobi thought as he slid down the rocky hillside toward the battle below him.The hunter brought him here as a simple distraction,so he could hunt down the slaver leader and collect his prize,nothing more.... And what a brilliant distraction the jedi master was,for the years had taken away none of Kenobi's grace and skill,as he moved fluidily in and out of the slavers.Had he been fighting for minutes or days?It all seemed to blur together until the explosion that rocked the entire town....... Like a vision from a dark nightmare,Boba Fett emerged from the flames of the meeting house,his armored blackened and burned.His weapon belched out beams of death and destruction at the remaining slavers,and from his belt tied with its own hair,dangled the slack jawed severed head of their leader.The bounty hunter paid no heed to the wounded slavers as he targeted them as easily as the living,their pleas for mercy falling on deaf ears. Obi-Wan Kenobi heard the force cry out in agony and grief as this tortured soul damned itself with each shot it fired,what would Jango Fett think of his creation,his son? The jedi master surged toward the armored human death machine,"Fett,stop!It's over...",he said grasping the man's wrist and pulling the deadly weapon in his own direction.The rifle swung about facing the jedi,the nozzle wavered slightly,"Kenobi?",the hunter said in a questionable tone. Obi-Wan tightened his grip on his lightsaber,he could activate and one upward thrust would end this devil's reign....before he grew any older and more deadly.Kenobi swore he heard the voice of long dead warriors telling him it was for the best...a dark song of power....nipping hungerily at the jedi master's very soul. A soft coo suddenly broke the silence between them,nestled against the blackened armor chest plates of the young clone and his left arm,wrapped in the dull colored heat resistant cape he normally wore,was a small twi'lek girl."Take her...",Fett ordered as his gun lowered,his voice was tired and drawn. Obi-Wan awkwardly reached for the child,so the devil had a heart afterall,and for all his benevolence he himself had almost crossed over to the darkside."Lyn Me!",cried out an older Twi'lek,as he stumbled toward the two men. Boba Fett wariliy raised his rifle at the male Twi'lek,but lowered it after a moment of recognition,"Tribal statesman,your daughter is unharmed...as promised.The leader of your oppressors is dead....",the young hunter stated as he tossed the head from his belt at the old Twi'lek's feet. The elder nodded and took his daughter from the jedi master's arms,"Your presense here will remain a secret,and your payment is waiting for you hunter".Boba Fett nodded and turned to walk away,Obi-Wan Kenobi followed the hunter in quiet thought.
One sickening space flight later......
"Name your price,jedi master...although my silence to your little secret in the dessert should be more than enough",Boba Fett grunted as he stood in the jedi turned hermit's stone house. Obi-Wan gave one of those charming smiles he was once famous for,"Very true young hunter,it is more than enough as payment",he replied. The bounty hunter shifted uncomfortably,this jedi is up to something he thought to himself.Boba Fett arched an eyebrow behind his black visor,"Out with it jedi,what do you want?",he growled impatiently. Now it was Obi-Wan's turn to fidget,"Consider it a favor to an old man.......I want you to remove your helmet....just this once",Kenobi said in as pleasant a voice as he could muster. The black visor stared at the jedi master for what seemed an eternity,"That's an extremely large favor...Obi-Wan Kenobi",the hunter said in a low tone.The jedi noted the use of his name in the armored man's last statement,"I owe it to a man that I respected,even though he was my adversary....young Boba Fett",he replied carefully. The helmet tipped down slightly in a curt nod,and the mandalorian cloned pulled it slowly and carefully away from his head.By the force,he can't be any older than twenty,the jedi master thought as he looked upon a face he had seen in his youth.How odd it was that Fett was older then,and now he looked into the same face but it was Obi-Wan who was older instead. Everything was almost the same,the short black hair,dark skin,broad nose and a long scar already adorning his youthful features....but it was those dark serpentine orbs that threatened to consume Obi-Wan Kenobi's spirit. "Find what you were looking for?",Boba Fett asked flatly as he refitted his helmet to it proper place in the universe,the jedi master nodded silently.
That night Obi-Wan sat alone in his tiny house and thought about that young boy turned bounty hunter,following in the footsteps layed out before him by his father.The haunting image in his mind's eye of that young boy holding the helmet of that man pressed to his forehead as he stood alone in the mighty arena of Genosis. The bounty hunter was more than just a mindless gun for hire Boba Fett had a soul afterall.One that grieved and longed,and wieghed heavily upon it's owner...that was tortured beyond repair,but a soul none the less.Perhaps one day,he could find a way to mend it.........and that little boy could live again unburdened with the tragedies of the past.
Obi-Wan hated space travel,when he was a younger man he use to revel at the thought of going off somewhere with Qui-gon Jinn on some crazed adventure.But those days,much like his beloved master were long gone,nothing more than a fading memory. And space travel on the bounty hunter's ship was anything but pleasant,Boba Fett seemed to take great pains to fly as erratically as possible to further annoy and nuaseate the jedi. Slave 1,as the jedi had come to know the patrol ship,was as haunting as any memory could be......this was the ship at Topica,the battle in the rain....how strange to now be a passenger within it,accompanying the son of its former owner. "We're landing",was the only warning the armored youth gave as the ship began it's decent,bringing the jedi out of his contemplations.Kenobi's hand instinctively covered his mouth as the cockpit and the ship seemed to rotate in two completely different directions,muttering a silent prayer not to be ill in front of this deadly and troubled young man. An amused snort escaped the battered green helmet,"Don't go all soft on me,General Kenobi....",Fett said with a note of sarcasm,"....this was the easy part".
Obi-Wan had thought that Tattooine with its unending desserts and oppressive twin suns was perhaps the worst place to be self exiled to, until he was introduced to Ryloth.Half-scorched and half-frozen,its inhabitants were forced to live in underground communities,the activities of one of the planet's natives....a Bib Fortuna attracted unwanted attention to the planet's population.Although he had trafficked in the illegal spice called Ryll,it was slavers that took an interest in the planet...especially in its young women.
The jedi and the hunter sat secreted away in an alcove of a rocky cliff above a small twi'lek village,"We've been here for days......how can you be sure your information is correct?",Kenobi asked in mild frustration,he should be overlooking young Skywalker's home....not some underground town. Boba Fett didn't even look up from his sniper's position,Kenobi thought he might have even slept in that position the night before,"Patience master jedi......why so edgy?",the hunter's gravelly tone inquired. Obi-Wan frowned for a moment,he was edgy...."Something's wrong...I can feel it",he said quietly.The jedi tried to focus in on the Force,why was the bounty hunter's presense so distracting,he asked himself,perhaps it was some underlying guilt about his father. Yes,that was it....he had help make this boy into the thing he had become,perhaps he could help undo some of the damage....
"There...",the young Fett's voice interrupted the jedi's train of thought,as he gestured slightly with a gloved hand,"...slavers".Kenobi layed next to the hunter's armored bulk,squinting his eyes to get a better look."Here,look through this....",the cloned youth advised and pushed the scope of the rifle closer to the jedi,Obi-Wan nodded silently and before he knew it,Fett pushed the entire weapon into his arms. The rifle felt alien and replusive in the jedi's hands,but he willed himself to look through the site,as the hunter turned the rifle and the jedi toward their prey. "To the left of the meeting house",Fett stated as Obi-Wan fixed the devil's weapon upon the slavers."I see them....",the jedi started but was completely taken by surprise when a gloved hand covered his own on the trigger."No!",the bearded man shouted,realizing too late what was happening as the rifle unleashed a deadly beam of precise laserfire toward the slavers.The cry died in his throat as the beam cleaved a burly man's skull wide open as the slaver was about to do the same to a young twi'lek mother and child. "There was no time...",Fett growled as he pulled the rifle from the jedi's stunned grasp,it was as close to an apology as Obi-Wan thought he would get from the hunter. The odd pair scrambled to their feet as the first explosion rocked the town,that was when Obi-Wan saw a vision that would haunt him for many nights,the slavers seemed more intent on killing off the populace than capturing them."By the suns....they're killing the children!",Kenobi exclaimed,"They only want the young females...they'll kill the rest",the young hunter retorted as he grabbed onto the jedi's sleeve,"Come on...our position has been compromised". The jedi held his ground and gripped the young hunter's wrist on his sleeve,"We can't just leave these people to die",Obi-Wan protested fiercely.Boba Fett glared at the older man,"Then you better go save them...jedi",he hissed the last word with deadly venom,"I'm going after the slavers' leader,that's what I was PAID to do".
Both bounty hunter and jedi master released each other and stared harshly at the man across from them,before departing quickly on their seperate paths."I was a fool,he's a monster beyond all redemption",Kenobi thought as he slid down the rocky hillside toward the battle below him.The hunter brought him here as a simple distraction,so he could hunt down the slaver leader and collect his prize,nothing more.... And what a brilliant distraction the jedi master was,for the years had taken away none of Kenobi's grace and skill,as he moved fluidily in and out of the slavers.Had he been fighting for minutes or days?It all seemed to blur together until the explosion that rocked the entire town....... Like a vision from a dark nightmare,Boba Fett emerged from the flames of the meeting house,his armored blackened and burned.His weapon belched out beams of death and destruction at the remaining slavers,and from his belt tied with its own hair,dangled the slack jawed severed head of their leader.The bounty hunter paid no heed to the wounded slavers as he targeted them as easily as the living,their pleas for mercy falling on deaf ears. Obi-Wan Kenobi heard the force cry out in agony and grief as this tortured soul damned itself with each shot it fired,what would Jango Fett think of his creation,his son? The jedi master surged toward the armored human death machine,"Fett,stop!It's over...",he said grasping the man's wrist and pulling the deadly weapon in his own direction.The rifle swung about facing the jedi,the nozzle wavered slightly,"Kenobi?",the hunter said in a questionable tone. Obi-Wan tightened his grip on his lightsaber,he could activate and one upward thrust would end this devil's reign....before he grew any older and more deadly.Kenobi swore he heard the voice of long dead warriors telling him it was for the best...a dark song of power....nipping hungerily at the jedi master's very soul. A soft coo suddenly broke the silence between them,nestled against the blackened armor chest plates of the young clone and his left arm,wrapped in the dull colored heat resistant cape he normally wore,was a small twi'lek girl."Take her...",Fett ordered as his gun lowered,his voice was tired and drawn. Obi-Wan awkwardly reached for the child,so the devil had a heart afterall,and for all his benevolence he himself had almost crossed over to the darkside."Lyn Me!",cried out an older Twi'lek,as he stumbled toward the two men. Boba Fett wariliy raised his rifle at the male Twi'lek,but lowered it after a moment of recognition,"Tribal statesman,your daughter is unharmed...as promised.The leader of your oppressors is dead....",the young hunter stated as he tossed the head from his belt at the old Twi'lek's feet. The elder nodded and took his daughter from the jedi master's arms,"Your presense here will remain a secret,and your payment is waiting for you hunter".Boba Fett nodded and turned to walk away,Obi-Wan Kenobi followed the hunter in quiet thought.
One sickening space flight later......
"Name your price,jedi master...although my silence to your little secret in the dessert should be more than enough",Boba Fett grunted as he stood in the jedi turned hermit's stone house. Obi-Wan gave one of those charming smiles he was once famous for,"Very true young hunter,it is more than enough as payment",he replied. The bounty hunter shifted uncomfortably,this jedi is up to something he thought to himself.Boba Fett arched an eyebrow behind his black visor,"Out with it jedi,what do you want?",he growled impatiently. Now it was Obi-Wan's turn to fidget,"Consider it a favor to an old man.......I want you to remove your helmet....just this once",Kenobi said in as pleasant a voice as he could muster. The black visor stared at the jedi master for what seemed an eternity,"That's an extremely large favor...Obi-Wan Kenobi",the hunter said in a low tone.The jedi noted the use of his name in the armored man's last statement,"I owe it to a man that I respected,even though he was my adversary....young Boba Fett",he replied carefully. The helmet tipped down slightly in a curt nod,and the mandalorian cloned pulled it slowly and carefully away from his head.By the force,he can't be any older than twenty,the jedi master thought as he looked upon a face he had seen in his youth.How odd it was that Fett was older then,and now he looked into the same face but it was Obi-Wan who was older instead. Everything was almost the same,the short black hair,dark skin,broad nose and a long scar already adorning his youthful features....but it was those dark serpentine orbs that threatened to consume Obi-Wan Kenobi's spirit. "Find what you were looking for?",Boba Fett asked flatly as he refitted his helmet to it proper place in the universe,the jedi master nodded silently.
That night Obi-Wan sat alone in his tiny house and thought about that young boy turned bounty hunter,following in the footsteps layed out before him by his father.The haunting image in his mind's eye of that young boy holding the helmet of that man pressed to his forehead as he stood alone in the mighty arena of Genosis. The bounty hunter was more than just a mindless gun for hire Boba Fett had a soul afterall.One that grieved and longed,and wieghed heavily upon it's owner...that was tortured beyond repair,but a soul none the less.Perhaps one day,he could find a way to mend it.........and that little boy could live again unburdened with the tragedies of the past.