Sorry the last one took so long. I had a writer's block. One other note, Serenity's birthdate isn't at November (unless I guessed right…). I don't know for sure when, but I had to throw something in there so that it wouldn't screw a certain thing up. Besides, I've already fixed an age split a couple of times. Please read and review. Now that I think about it, Dark Side Rising is nearing the end.

Disclaimer: I don't own Star Fox, Yugioh, or Star Wars.

Dark Side Rising

Chapter 6

I Have Returned

Fox, Serenity, Joey, Yami, Duke, Tristan, Seto, and Bakura were creeping along the forest as everyone but Seto were carrying sentry turrets. Seto had a whole set of sniper bullets around him as he held a long, powerful gun. Tristan and Joey both had their sentry turrets slung over their backs as they were carrying their M-16 semi-automatics. Duke was carrying his set of sentry turrets as he had a heavy artillery gun meant to take out tanks plus an RPG launcher with four missiles in it and one more set of missiles. Yami, Bakura, Fox, and Serenity were carrying their sentry turrets as they had their melee weapons with them. Fox stopped at the rendezvous point where they would meet up with Slippy and the small band of Gungans. As they waited there for a few minutes, they saw a small band of 10 strange creatures with bills as their ears, if they were, flopped down as far as their backs were. Among them was Slippy.

"You made it," Fox said.

"This is all I could gather since their army was setting up for their battles," Slippy explained. "So, what are your orders?"

"Slippy, I need you to take Joey, Tristan, and Duke to set up a post with their sentry turrets and program on your datapad to begin firing upon command. Seto, I need you to set up your sniping post at the coordinates I showed you. Bakura, Yami, and Serenity are with me to set up sentry turrets. The Gungans will be setting up around the city and awaiting my orders to ambush them. Once they do, then we'll fire away with the sentry turrets."

"Understood," everyone said in unison.

"Okay, let's move out!"

Half an hour has passed as they all set up their turrets. Seto finally got to his post as he has his sniper rifle set up. Slippy and Duke finished setting up their turrets as they had their missiles ready. Duke also had his heavy artillery gun ready to blast away at the tanks. Fox, Bakura, Serenity, and Yami already set their turrets up in the city in various hidden places as the band of 10 Gungans was with them. Fox and Serenity had their lightsabers ready when they were going to go and attack. Yami had a metal pole that Fox found to use as a bo staff. Bakura had his katanas ready as they were still sheathed on his back. He began to send a transmission to Slippy to begin firing.

As the cylinder like structure began to form a base and a head turret, they began to fire away at the enemies as the 21 turrets were barraging the droids with heavy fire. The droid armies were firing their missile launchers in random directions as they were guessing where the shots were coming from. Fox made a hand motion to begin their siege as the Gungans began to throw strange energy like balls. As they hit the droids, they began to fall over as the electrical energy stored in them short circuited the droids. Duke and Slippy fired four missiles in one shot as they flew to the tanks. As they hit the tanks, only two of them were destroyed. Duke dropped the missile launcher and used his artillery gun to take out the other three tanks after taking heavy fire from the eight missiles. Joey and Tristan began to fire down to the droids with their semi automatics as their bullets were flying into a random direction to the droid army. Seto was sniping as many droids as he can with his sniper rifle after posting back about 2 kilometers away from Theed. As the droids were falling, Fox, Serenity, Yami, and Bakura began to run across the battlefield, trying to find Falco and Krystal and whatever soldiers there were left.

"Fox, where do you think Falco and Krystal are?" Serenity asked.

"I can feel them still, so just follow me!" Fox yelled over blaster fire.

As they saw a group of 4 droids with blasters blocking their way, Fox put his hand up and blasted the droids back with his Force energy. The droids began to get back up until each of them hit the droids with their weapons. Fox and Serenity used the same basic spinning upward slash as Yami stabbed down with his bo staff while Bakura stabbed the droid with his katanas. They all then began to proceed into the city, trying to find Falco and Krystal. As they got to the central square, they saw that Falco and Krystal were already busy with some droids with missile launchers. They had their staff shields up as they were repelling the missile attacks while the soldiers were blasting the droids with their blasters, or at least trying to. Fox pulled his blaster out and began to fire at them as he fired two shots every second. Within a matter of seconds, the droids began to fire upon Fox. He jumped out of the way of the missiles as they flew by harmlessly into the ground. Fox put his blaster away and came down with a flying top down hack against one of the droids as he split it in half with his lightsaber. He then took the missile launcher and fired it at a group of droids that were aiming for him. The missile hit the droids before they could either move or fire back at Fox. Falco and Krystal jumped into the fray right away as they were holding back the group of droids.

As they were dealing with those droids, three droids that were rolling in came to Serenity, Yami, and Bakura as it began to unfold into a standing structure. Serenity activated her lightsaber as Yami and Bakura took cover back behind a corner. As Serenity stood there in her defensive position, the droids put up what appears to be a deflector shield. The droids began to hail Serenity with thousands of shots that aimed for Serenity. Serenity was blocking a number of the shots while others were flying by her harmlessly. As she kept blocking shots, two more of the same droids came in and began to blast at her. Serenity felt a sudden yank as she flew back behind the wall where Yami and Bakura were hiding. She looked behind her and saw Krystal against the wall.

"Krystal…what…"

"What they are? They're known as Droidekas; best known as destroyer droids."

"So, how do we get rid of their shields?"

"We'll have to wait it out, that's how. Or if we have some kind of EMP grenade."

The droidekas kept firing at the wall until they turned around to the right and began to fire at Fox and Falco as they were running past them. Fox pulled his lightsaber out quickly and began to block the shots that were flying towards him. Falco dove behind the wall where the others were as Fox kept Falco covered all the way. Fox was still standing there, blocking shots that were coming at him. Without hesitation, he stopped at the right moment and ran to get behind the wall with the others. Fox held himself against the wall as the droidekas were still hailing fire at them. Fox pulled some kind of spherical object off of his belt as he stood there, holding a button. Fox wheeled around the corner to face the droids and threw the object at them and went back behind the wall. As he did, they all began to hear an electrical field forming as they could see a small amount of a glimmer of the grenade's electrical field. Fox wheeled around and pulled his Desert Eagle out of his carrying backpack and began to fire his gun at such speeds that it'd seem like he's firing several shots in less than a second. As he kept firing, the droidekas were desperately trying to shoot down Fox. As he stopped firing after taking out the five droidekas, he waved the group out to help the injured Nubian soldiers out. The Nubian soldiers and the group were working on the injured while Fox was keeping watch for other enemies approaching.

However, something caught his attention. He began to sense a strong disturbance in the Force. He knew what General Scales' and Dessan's presence feels like, but the presence is neither of the two. He stood there as he looked over to the group, seeing that they're done tending to the group of injured soldiers.

"Fox, what's wrong?" Krystal asked.

"Krystal, Falco. I need you two to take the others out of here with the exception of Serenity," Fox said.

"What's going on?" Serenity asked.

"Serenity, I may need your help in this. You may not have the greatest skills, but you're probably best suited for this."

"Fox, why do you need her to go?" Krystal questioned. "She's too young to go with you. I'll go in her place."

"Krystal, the reason why is unknown to even me. I just feel that she can do this. I also need Bakura to be entrusted with my lightsabers."

"Why me?" Bakura asked.

"Bakura, just remember this. Use them only when you really feel you have to."

Fox handed Bakura both of his lightsabers, his own and Laurens, as he still had two other weapons left. With that, Fox turned around and began to run off. Serenity followed as well as they both were heading for Theed's hangar. Falco only opened a comm. link and began to call for the others to gather to where they were.

"I don't think Joey's going to like what he's going to hear," Yami said.

"I agree with you on that," Bakura concurred.

Falco stood there with his staff out, waiting for the others to arrive. Within a matter of minutes, Slippy came in with the small group that they had, plus the Gungans that helped out in the raid. Joey looked around, apparently searching for Serenity if she was around still.

"Hey, where's my sis?" Joey asked.

"She went with Fox for some reason. He wanted her to go with him," Krystal explained.

Joey had his head down, hoping that Serenity comes back alive. Falco looked over to him and could feel the anxiety coming from Joey. Yami placed a hand on his shoulder and tried to reassure him.

"Hey, don't worry," Yami said. "She's a strong person, and I know for sure that she'll make it out alive."

Joey looked over to Yami and saw that Yami was either confident or was hiding his worries for Serenity.

"…You're right. She trained for this…and…I can't stop her from doing what she has to do."

"You still have the right to tell her things on what to do and what not to do with certain things," Falco said.

"Falco, what are we supposed to do now?" Seto asked.

"We're to leave the city and return to the Great Fox. Peppy sent me a message saying that the drop ships have arrived."

Before anyone could either agree or question this, they all heard blaster shots coming towards them. They all retreated back as Falco and Krystal waited out there with their weapons. Falco then threw to Yami his staff. Yami stood there, wondering what Falco had up his sleeve. Instead of pulling his blaster out, Falco pulled a weapon that looked similar to a lightsaber, but this one had blades on both ends and the hilt was about 3 times longer than a lightsaber hilt. Falco began to block blaster shots that were flying at him, but the shots were going back to the enemies in random directions. Everyone else was behind a wall as some of them began to fire around the corner.

Fox and Serenity arrived at the hanger with little trouble as they entered through the side doors. Without question, the hangar was empty with only crates, whatever supplies were left behind, N-1 Naboo Starfighters, and one person standing in the middle of the hanger that exhumed a lot of Force energy. He or she or it had a black cloak, concealing whoever the person is, making it harder to see the person's face. Fox approached the person with a couple of steps and stopped. The person began to talk in a familiar voice, but Fox can't put his finger on who it is."

"So, you've finally come."

"Fox…this guy…even though I'm not as trained, I even can feel the energy off of him," Serenity said to Fox in a whisper.

Fox knew that Serenity was as scared as him; maybe even more. He also could feel the energy off of the Sith as the person stood there, not revealing who he is. Fox could guess that he was the leader of the now known Sith syndicate.

"Who are you?" Fox yelled.

"You know who I am! I am Darth Maru; leader of the Sith Syndicate!"

They both stood there, not knowing who this Darth Maru is, but they now know that he's the leader of the group. Fox only stood there without any expressions of fear, but his heart is telling him something that is reminding him of someone.

"Fox, I know that you should remember me."

With that, the Sith brought down his hood to reveal his face. Fox's eyes shot wide open as soon as he laid eyes on him.

"It…can't be…"

Fox stood there in shock as he saw the same grey wolf Cornerian who fought against him back in the Lylat Wars. He couldn't believe that he returned. The sith began to smirk as he stood there, seeing Fox's reaction.

"Yes, Fox McCloud. I, Wolf O'Donnell, have returned!"