Title: Destiny's New Path
Summary: A what if. What if it wasn't Revan on the Bridge when Malak fired on his Master's ship? Suddenly the Apprentice is betrayed by the Master, and Revan then infiltrates the ranks of the Jedi. The Dark Lords mission: turn Bastila to the Dark Side of the Force.
Disclaimer: George Lucas and Bioware own the basis of this FanFic. I am merely entertaining the idea that I am good at making Star Wars stories (stupid ideas).
Author's Note: And now, my storyline will take a turn away from the game, after following it for so long (or maybe I haven't been…but I haven't been able to tell much difference between the two).
Chapter 21: The Unified Force
Revan
"Remember the plan." I said from the front of small shuttle/fighter. "As long as the Jedi don't suspect us, don't blow your cover." The admiral had told me that the Republic fleet had finally arrived. Upon leaving the atmosphere of Rakata, both Dustil and I sensed several large presence's in the Force. At least half of the Jedi Council was on board one of the Republic Flagships. I intended to remove that small problem was quickly and as quietly as possible.
"Dustil, activate your Stealth Unit." I said. "As long as you have a Force shield around you, even the Council shouldn't be able to sense you." I had helped in tap into the Force as a whole, as I had Bastila, and he had proved strong enough by far to be a Sith Lord. Almost as strong as Bastila.
"HK, I'm afraid you'll have to seem deactivated for a little while so it looks like Malak really did turn on us." I added. HK seemed a little disturbed by this, but made no complaint. Our plan was to look as if Malak had turned on us on Rakata, sided with Bastila, and attacked the crew, with only myself (since the Council still did not know I was not really Zora Firemoon), Canderous and HK surviving. Dustil would be hidden nearby in case we needed back-up.
I reached back as we docked in the Republic ship hangar bay, and deactivated HK with a jolt of the Force. A moment later, Dustil's body seemed to shimmer and then vanish. Nodding in satisfaction, I deactivated the shuttle/fighter, opened the door, and exited, stumbling as if injured, which, technically, I was. Canderous and I had to look like we had been injured, so Dustil had attacked us both with his lightsaber power setting lowered just enough to not deal permanent damage.
"Padawan Firemoon?" I looked down and saw the troll, Vandor? Vendar? Vandar? Yes, that was his name. "What has happened?"
"Kayle, he…he attacked us." I said, reverting to my soft Zora Firemoon voice. "He went into the Rakatan Temple, to disable the disruptor field. But…something must have happened in there, because he came back with Bastila, and they…" I made a very well acted whimper. "They had both turned to the Dark Side." I refused to say the word 'fallen', since I did not see the Dark Side as a fall.
Vandar looked disturbed, but nodded. "I feared this would happen." He said. "Very well, I will send for a medic to take care of you and your…friend." He seemed even more disturbed when he noticed my comrade was a Mandalorian. "And a technician for your…is that a droid?"
I nodded. "It was acquired on Tatooine." I said. "It could speak the Sand People language." Vandar nodded, though I could tell he was suspicious of my choice of company. Behind him, I saw Masters Zhar, Dorak and a Jedi Master I'd heard of but never actually met, a Quarren named Lortho.
"We will escort you to an empty room, where you will be joined by medic." Zhar said. I nodded, and he turned and led Canderous and I down the hall. I looked around, and caught a glimpse of a shimmer in the air, almost impossible to see if you weren't looking for it. Good, the boy was following us.
When we reached the rooms, I saw Dustil slip in as I had a quick conversation with Zhar, telling him that both Bastila and Kayle had fallen to the Dark Side. Canderous made a low growl in the back of his throat when the Medic arrived and tried to give him a kolto injection. I smirked mentally.
Zhar left a few moments later, and I decided it was time to get some rest.
"HK-47, put that Padawan down!" Dustil shouted. My eyes were open in an instant, lightsaber in hand and activated, the emerald green blade throwing a green glow around the room. I saw Canderous sitting back with an amused look on his face, Dustil with his stealth field inactive and his lightsaber in his hand but inactive, and HK-47 with his (for once blasterless) hand around the throat of a Twi'lek Jedi Padawan.
"HK-47, drop him." I said, trying to hide my amusement. The assassin droid obeyed, releasing his grip. Sighing, I swung my lightsaber, beheading the Padawan. "I knew I should have left you inactive until we got back to the Star Forge, now we're going to have every Jedi Master on this ship on top of us within five minutes."
"Agreement: Indeed, Master." HK said. I didn't need to hear anymore to know that that had been his intention. I sighed again, and then hit him with another bolt of Force electricity to fry his circuits. "Okay, new plan," I said. "You two get this hunk of homicidal iron back to the shuttle, I'll take care of the Jedi Masters."
"All of the Jedi Masters?" Canderous said, just as Dustil said "There's got to be at least four on this ship."
"Yeah," I said lazily. "I might just work up a sweat doing it." I turned and left the room, hoping I'd get at least a bit of a challenge (Dark Jedi Masters are so boring, they are so weak). I went straight to the Bridge, hoping to find one or two there. All I found was a bunch of pathetic soldiers and one Admiral Dodonna.
"Hi." I said, before placing every soldier in a stasis field. Dodonna backed away from me, raising a blaster. She fired, and I spun my lightsaber, the blade erupting from the end and deflecting the bolt back at Dodonna. It hit her between the eyes, killing her instantly. "Score one for the Sith Lord." I said. I raised my hand above my head and began absorbing the life of the many soldiers controlling the ship.
When that was done, I walked up to a console and set the ship on autopilot, and then turned to leave, only to find my path blocked by Jedi Master Zhar, his single green lightsaber ignited, and two other Jedi Masters I did not recognize; one was a human man who looked in his late fifties, with a short white beard and white hair that was playing the vanishing act, carrying a single blue lightsaber, and the other was a Vurk, carrying a double-bladed violet lightsaber.
"By order of the Jedi Council, you are under arrest Zora Firemoon." Zhar said, taking a step toward me. "Or perhaps I should call you Darth Revan."
"Yes, I'd much prefer that!" I said, and I charged forward, my lightsaber blazing through the body of the old man before he knew what had happened. I then spun around in time to block Zhar's attack. I Force-jumped over both Jedi Masters and stabbed my lightsaber through his back, severing his spinal-cord.
"Two Jedi Masters down, only one to go…" I trailed off. "Make that two, where is the little troll?" I asked. I was somewhat disappointed at how easily I'd bested the first two Jedi Masters (how they achieved that rank is beyond me), and I was looking for a real challenge. Aside from me, Vandar was supposed to be one of the most power Force-users of the age.
"He'll be on his way shortly," Zhar said. "By which time, you will be dead."
"Oh, one of us will be dead," I said. "But it won't be me." I struck at him and he blocked the attack. I became one with the Force, surrounding myself in both the light and darkness, merging them into one like I had done in front of Bastila. With my Unified Force powers, I was strong enough to throw Zhar across the Bridge and out, throwing him into the corridor wall outside. I then summoned one of the fallen Masters' lightsabers into the air and through it at Zhar. The blue beam slid out of the hilt in time to block Zhar's attack.
I leapt forward, propelled by the Force, and struck with speed and strength only possible by use of the Force. Zhar only just managed to block my attack, before being stabbed in the chest by the blue lightsaber I had controlled with the Force.
"Score set: Sith Empire – 4; Galactic Republic – 0." I said, deactivating my lightsaber and clipping it onto my belt. "Anyone else care to try me?" I looked around the Bridge, eying all the dead bodies, and smiled like a blacksmith does at a well made sword.
"I see you have been busy, Revan." I spun around and saw the diminutive troll-like Jedi Master standing in front of me.
"Lady Revan, to you troll." I said. I ignited my lightsaber again, spinning it in a full circle in front of my. "I hope you're ready, 'else this will be a very boring fight." I leapt into the air, doing a flip and bring my lightsaber down on him. The troll's lightsaber, barely as long as my elbow to my wrist, blazed to life and met my blade.
I spun around and struck again, feigned a left strike and struck at his right side instead. He anticipated my attack and leapt into the air striking my blade and then kicking me in the face. His foot wasn't even as big as my hand, so I hit him with said hand and sent him flying across the Bridge.
"Not bad, troll." I said, and I fired a wave of Force lightning at him. He caught it in his hand and deflected it back at me as Bastila had, and I caught it, doubling its power and firing it back. This time even he couldn't block it, and he was pushed backwards by the electrical blast, pushed against the side of the Bridge and held there as I raised both hands and released even more electricity.
For the next five minutes all I did was throw Force lightning at the troll, until (finally!) he stopped struggling against the thousands of volts of electricity coursing through his body, and I let him drop to the floor.
"Hurray for me." I said. "I just killed the second most power Force-user in the Galaxy!" The most powerful Force-user being me. I smirked, and turned away from the spot the troll had been hanging, and activated my comlink. "Dustil, prep the shuttle, I'll be there in a few moments."
"Consider it done, Lady Revan." Dustil's voice came over the comlink. "We'll be ready for you as soon as you get here."
It didn't take me long to get back to the hangar, where I saw that Dustil had indeed started up the shuttle, and was only waiting for me to get in before taking off.
We maneuvered through the many Republic and Sith ships until we reached the Star Forge. I gave Dustil the correct codes, and we got into the top level of the Star Forge. I sent Dustil down to the Replicating Room, where he would find the Star Forge's materializing powers could be used to make items smaller then a shuttle.
I looked out at the space battle going on above the Rakatan Homeworld. In just a few hours, the fate of the Galaxy would be decided.