Chapter 2
Luke was crawling everywhere. He crawled outside of the base to a back way platform that was different from the others. It was long and slender instead of circular like most of them. It had ships taking off from everywhere. He all the sudden saw General Cereus helping the ships take off by using the Force to block any attacks to them at take off. Luke walked down the platform. He saw Cereus stop with the Force, and slowly turn around. He must have sensed me. Cereus stood there shouting over the rain.
"Face it Skywalker. You will lose, and Lord Slain will take over," he shouted. Luke didn't respond to this. All the sudden, Cereus withdrew what looked like to be two light saber hilts glued together at the tip. He pressed a button to reveal a blood red light saber in the middle of the two hilts. Luke noticed this was a special light saber designed for blocking attacks for rather than applying one. Cereus took a hold of the two handles on the outside of the light saber. Luke withdrew his emerald green light saber. Cereus sprinted forward trying to jab the middle at Luke.
Ayden was throwing many attacks at Crusifidge. Crusifidge was extremely powerful. He was blocking every blow not missing a beat. Crusifidge counter attacked a blow from Ayden bringing it up from the ground. Ayden blocked it flying back rolling off the platform, holding onto the edge, with his light saber in one hand, and he held onto the edge with the other. He saw a water lizard passing by below. Ayden let got landing on the lizard. Crusifidge jumped down following Ayden. They were skimming above the raging seas standing on top of the water lizard. Ayden jumped forward attacking. Crusifidge dodged this, and tripped Ayden. He rolled over onto the lizard's tail nearly falling off into the seas. The lizard was circling the base. It started going deeper. Ayden and Crusifidge were waist deep in the water standing on the lizard. They swung at each other striking light sabers. Ayden didn't stop swinging; he was twirling his light saber in the air, trying to get a blow on Crusifidge. Crusifidge blocked them all.
Luke blocked all the feeble attacks from Cereus. It seemed as though all his attacks were even feebler because Cereus's light saber was designed for blocking attacks. Luke threw thousands of blows at Cereus, who would block all of them. Luke brought down an attack to have it blocked, so Luke quickly spun around. Cereus caught him off guard. He brought his light saber in. Luke blocked it, and held it in a lock. Cereus started pushing Luke back until he hit a wall. Cereus started to force the light saber so hard; Luke's light saber was getting closer and closer. Luke couldn't stop it. He started to use the Force to resist the light saber.
Ayden was getting extremely tired. Crusifidge was too powerful, but he could hold him off. The next thing Crusifidge did made it a lot harder for Ayden to hold him off. Crusifidge pressed another button on the hilt of his light saber to reveal another side to make a double sided light saber. Crusifidge threw an attack at Ayden. He blocked it, and blocked another one just in time from his other side. Ayden flipped over Crusifidge to land on the other side of the lizard. Crusifidge charged at him. Just as he planned. Ayden flipped him over into the water. Crusifidge was off the lizard. He turned around to call Ayden to him with the Force, but he was gone. The lizard passed by Crusifidge who used the Force to jump high up back onto the platform. The lizard swam under water to have Ayden holding onto its stomach. Ayden let go, and swam to the surface. Luke had already exploded the gunners, so it was safe to leave.
Luke resisted then got an idea. He kicked Cereus in the shins. He fell back taking him out of the lock. Cereus pressed a black button on one of his hilts, and the other hilt popped off to make a regular light saber. Cereus caught the other hilt, and ignited it to make two light sabers. He attacked Luke. Luke blocked many attacks rolling over on his back. Luke jumped up flipping over Cereus, and while he was above him up side down in the air; he sliced a long thin cut on Cereus's head. Cereus screamed, but tried to resist the pain. He couldn't concentrate. He blocked an attack from Luke. They were in a lock with all three light sabers.
"If you couldn't stop Crusifidge from becoming what he is now, you definitely can't stop me. You were weak, you couldn't stop him, and all he wants now is to kill you one day, cut your head off, torture ones you love one by one, and I will be there helping him. The best part is, all of this is your fault," Cereus said darkly. Luke felt anger fighting to free itself from deep inside him. He couldn't stop it. Luke broke the lock in anger, and while Cereus was spinning around, he kicked Cereus's hand as hard as he could. Cereus screamed dropping the light saber. Luke caught it, and sliced the hilt to the other one in half. Luke spun around putting the red light saber straight into the defenseless Cereus's neck. Cereus's eyes grew wide as his hands moved up to his neck. Luke let go of the red light saber not taking it out of Cereus's neck, and spun around with his emerald green light saber slicing clean through his neck. Luke stared at the body starting to feel guilty. What have I done? I did that with to much anger. I can't let that happen again. Luke thought to himself. Luke ran through a series of hallways, looking for another control room so he could destroy the base. He ran into a room full with controls. Slain was there waiting.
"Skywalker, ha ha ha. You think you can beat me. I can sense it. You think you stand a chance against me. Sure you nearly beat me before, but I have grown much more powerful since then. Anyways, you released your anger that day. That's not the Jedi way, but you were too foolish. You could've kept your anger, and turned to the Dark Side where you could've grown much more powerful to every whim of the Force. You want no anger inside of you, when I can sense anger in you right now. You are weak. You couldn't even stop your best friend from turning to the Dark Side. Must've been hard though when he knew you killed Jan," Slain said smiling.
"I did not kill Jan," Luke growled with his teeth clenched. Luke was resisting the urge to take out his light saber, and attack. Maybe I should. I could end everything. Luke thought to himself. His hand touched his light saber.
"Go ahead. Take out your light saber; release your anger, battle in epic duel with me, and join the Dark Side." The urge to battle was growing stronger wriggling through his insides, trying to release itself. Luke knew if he started to battle with Slain, he would lose control of his anger. Luke clenched the hilt of his light saber. All the sudden, he sensed Crusifidge at the base. There was a good chance that he could kill Luke. If he found him, Luke was putting the whole mission in jeopardy not to mention the war they were in. If he died, there was a very bad chance that the Republic would survive. Luke back flipped into a hallway using the Force to shut the doors. He saw Slain running forwards to attack while the doors were closing. Luke ran to the landing platform where his ship was. They had to leave. He had already blown the system's gunners. If they left, then they couldn't get them; well they could with their ships. But that was a risk he was willing to take. They had to get off; Luke wasn't ready to fight Crusifidge, and anyways, Luke saw where they were getting their ships, there were too many of them. They'd have to come up with a plan to attack again when they had more men. Luke screamed at the top of his lungs and into his radio transmitter, "abort mission." Now all of Luke's men were rushing towards their ships. All the sudden, Luke saw Crusifidge striding towards him igniting one side of his light saber. He must've noticed him when he gave his orders. Crusifidge raised his light saber, and brought it down to have it blocked by Ayden who came out from no where.
"Go!" Ayden screamed. He knew if Luke died, all would be lost. Luke obeyed, and ran into his ship. Ayden was blocking thousands of attacks from Crusifidge. Ayden flipped over him blocking an attack in the air. He brought his light saber down when he landed to have it blocked, so he spun it around to make it come up from the ground. He blocked that too. Ayden jumped up to avoid an attack to the legs, and attacked at the same time as Crusifidge to put himself in a lock. Ayden held the lock as long as he could. If he broke it, Crusifidge would have a clear shot to his chest, but he couldn't hold it forever. Crusifidge however could hold it all day. Ayden broke the lock back flipping onto Luke's ship which was just taking off. He landed right on the windshield. Luke opened it, and let Ayden in.
"Are you ok?" Luke asked.
"Yeah," Ayden said trying to pace his breathe. "Crusifidge, he's very powerful. Almost too powerful. He nearly killed me. I wonder how he became so powerful." Ayden questioned not expecting an answer.
After what Ayden just said, a stab of guilt erupted inside of Luke. He hadn't told Ayden yet of his horrible memories with Kyle. He remembered in pain Kyle attacking him. The anger he had sensed in him. The words, "YOU KILLED JAN" rang through his ears. He had night mares about that horrible day years ago. One of the ones he often had was seeing the hologram of himself killing Jan over and over again
"Are you ok? I sense guilt and, and, depression in you," Ayden stated.
"I'm fine," Luke lied. He closed his eyes to see that blue hologram of himself killing Jan. The most terrifying dream he had had was the one in the memory of him engaging in battle with Kyle, and it ending with him falling down the shaft screaming, "I HATE YOU." Luke remembered everything all too well. Many times throughout the years that had passed by. Luke couldn't help but to ask himself if he did kill Jan. But he'd always respond very quickly (though not sure of himself) "of course not. I'd never do that. Anyways, even if I did, I'd remember." Luke couldn't get the picture of Kyle's evil face down the hallway right before they battled out of his head. The thing that he remembered the most was when he left with Han and Leia, he sensed Kyle still being alive, and accepting the title of "Darth Crusifidge."
Finally, Luke landed the ship on a landing platform on Bespin.