Greetings and salutations. Well, here I am again. First thing, wow. I honestly didn't expect to get that many reviews asking for more Slayer's Knight. Thanks to everyone who reviewed, if I haven't answered yet I will soon. I own nothing.
Okay, the third of my single chapters. Vote if you want it. This is Star Wars/Buffy. In this, Buffy has a connection to the Star Wars Galaxy, but what?
Thirty years ago, Coruscant.
"Focus, Janelle." Mace Windu said to his apprentice. She was attempting to levitate a small globe through a maze blind folded. "You can do this." Janelle Orland moved the ball around the corner, feeling her way using the Force. She could almost 'see' the end of the maze. Just a little more…
The hiss of the door disrupted her concentration and the ball fell to the floor. She looked to see how far she was. An inch, if that. She looked to the door. Standing there was Obi-Wan Kinobi and a sandy haired teen. "I hope we're not intruding." Obi-Wan said.
"Not at all, Master Kinobi." Master Windu said. "Janelle was just practicing with concentration. The one thing she hasn't mastered yet." Janelle looked at her master. "Close, but not yet."
"I'd be happy to help." The teen said. Janelle smiled at her friend.
"Thanks for the offer, Anakin, but I have to find my way alone." Janelle told him.
"Fair enough." He said. "How about some saber training? So the masters can talk." Janelle thought for a moment. There was definitely some tension in the air she could feel it.
"Okay." Janelle said, following him out.
Ten years later.
Janelle deflected the blaster bolt with her lightsaber. She couldn't believe this; these…storm troopers had invaded the Jedi temple at the orders of the new Emperor. Nearly all the Jedi were dead, and the shock was that the one that killed most of them used to be her friend. That was the thought as he stepped out in front of her. "Anakin."
"I don't answer to that name anymore. You Jedi need to learn that." He said. She looked him in the eyes, and saw none of the kind-hearted boy she had met when he first came to Coruscant. "My name is Darth Vader."
"I refuse to believe that." She said. "Anakin, please, we were friends once. Don't do this." He grinned, coldly.
"Then take my masters offer." He said. "All you have to do is accept his offer to join him, and I will spare your life. Janelle," The way he said her name, she could almost believe he had never gone over to the Dark Side. "I would take no pleasure in killing you. Join us." Her grip tightened on her saber.
"No." She said. She tried to look as determined as possible, but she didn't know how long she could hold it for. "Your not Anakin anymore, you've said it often enough. I won't betray my training." She brought her saber up. "If you want me dead, Vader, then do it now, because you won't get another chance." Darth Vader brought his own red blade in front of him
"That's your decision, 'my friend'." He sneered. "And the wrong one. Time to die, Jedi."
"No. Die, this one will not." Vader was thrown backwards with great force. Janelle turned to see Master Yoda hobbling towards her. "Come, Janelle, come. Running out time is. To safety you must go, before Palpatine arrives. Come, quickly."
"Janelle." Mace ran over to his apprentice. "Are you all right?"
"I'm fine." She said. "Just a bit shaken. I had a run in with Ana…Vader." She had to stop thinking of him as her friend. Anakin Skywalker was dead. She had to remember that.
"I'm sorry you had to experience this." Mace said. "But it's not over yet. We have to get you out of here."
"Why me?" Janelle asked. "What do they want with me?"
"Not you." Yoda said. "Your daughters, they want. Not born, not even considered, yet in Palpatine's downfall they shall a hand have. Powerful they shall be. Palpatine wishes them to be of his blood, easier to control they shall be." Janelle shook her head in horror.
"That's why we have to get you out of here." Master Windu said. He led her to a small freighter. "We've modified this freighter to be faster than it should be. We also managed to stow your fighter inside, and R4's already aboard. The nav-computer's already set on a course. Switch on the hyper drive as soon as you leave the atmosphere, it'll take you out of his reach." He placed a hand gently on her shoulder. "Whatever you do, whatever happens, don't change course. Trust me."
"Yes master." Janelle said. "Thank you for everything."
"Just be careful, and remember your training. Trust your instincts, you'll be fine." Janelle nodded and headed up the ramp. "May the Force be with you." She turned to face the man that had been like her father since arriving at the temple.
"And you, Master Windu." She said, then turned and entered the ship. Mace watched as the ramp closed, then turned to Yoda.
"Will she make it?" He asked as they headed towards Yoda's own ship.
"Hmm, clouded her future is." The diminutive Jedi said. "Uncertain whether she will make it I am. But if all goes to plan, safe she will be. And the universe with her."
Janelle worked the controls expertly as she headed towards the Imperial blockade. R4-C9, her astromech droid, beeped a warning at her. "Yes, I see them, R4, but what would you like me to do, blast them? This ship isn't exactly made for combat." She steered between two fighters trying to cut her off. "All we can do is get out of Coruscant's atmosphere, make the jump to hyper space and hope everything goes as Master Windu planned." She punched the buttons activating the nav-computer. The computer started running through the course plotted by Mace Windu. "I hope this thing hurries up. We don't have much time before those Destroyers are in range." That's when the nav-computer chose to beep, alerting her the coordinates for the jump were set. "I should never have doubted." She said, reaching to for the lever. "Hold on, R4. We're leaving." She pulled the lever and felt the ship lurch as it made the jump to hyperspace. Space folded and the ship disappeared.
Well, that's that one. You like it, let me know and I'll continue it.
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