Here's the next chapter. Just to note, Darth Maru, I just made up on my own. However, "maru" means...I don't know what...I heard destruction from one, but I heard a list of other things on a translator site...but...yeah...I'm confused. I just like the name.
Disclaimer: I don't own Star Fox, Yugioh, or Star Wars, but I do own a few characters (heck, I don't own the subtitle to this chapter. That title belongs to Star Wars)
Dark Side Rising
Chapter 7
Duel of the Fates
Fox stood there in disbelief to see Wolf O'Donnell standing there. He clearly could remember killing him back on Venom. Now, Wolf stands there as clear as day, standing there in Sith robes.
"Wolf, I swear, I killed you back on Venom!" Fox said.
"Apparently, I survived and managed to become who I am now," Wolf said. "Now I finally can defeat you, Prodigy of Might! You can't defeat me now that I have mastered the teräs käsi!"
Serenity went next to Fox, wondering what Wolf was talking about. Apparently, she has never heard of such techniques.
Serenity leaned towards Fox a little and asked, "Fox, what is the teräs käsi?"
"The teräs käsi is a form of lightsaber techniques," Fox said. "That technique is used for those with staff sabers, in a general sense. If you think about how martial artists use bo staffs, then that's how it compares. The teräs käsi isn't like that, but it's similar in a few ways."
"And…what's up with Prodigy of Might?"
"That was my nickname I was given. I'll explain all of that to you some other time."
Wolf stood there with a confident smile, seeing that they didn't seem to be anticipating this. Wolf reached for something on his belt and pulled out a weapon that didn't seem like any normal lightsaber. As Wolf stood there with the hilt of his blade out, he activated not one, but two blades, filling the silent hangar with the low hum of two blades. Wolf stood there, now noticing that Fox doesn't have his lightsaber with him.
"So, did you lose your lightsaber to someone or did you just not bring it?"
"No, I entrusted them to someone. I, for sure, don't want my sister's to be damaged in any way," Fox replied.
Fox reached behind and grabbed the cerinian staff that he still had with him. The staff extended to its 6 foot range as he stood there with confidence in his eyes. Serenity took her lightsaber off the clip and activated it as the low hum of her blade also filled the room. Fox was ready for anything, but he didn't know Serenity's well-being in this situation.
"Serenity, will you be okay?" Fox asked.
"I'll be fine. Let's just hope we live."
"I want you to stay back until you feel it's the right time to attack, okay?"
"Sure."
They all stood there, waiting for one to make the first move. Fox then began to run forward towards Wolf. Wolf brought one blade up in a defensive posture in a vertical position, ready to block Fox's attack. Instead, Fox flashed by Wolf and attempted to stab him with the tail end of his staff. Wolf was able to anticipate that and deflect the tip away into the ground. They both turned around and began to stare into each other's eyes as if they were testing each other's wit to who would back off first.
Everyone else was running around in Theed after unsuccessfully finding no way out of the place as all but one exit is sealed. The only exit that isn't blocked off is the exit to the way that Fox and the others came in, yet that was on the other side of the city. As they were passing a corner, Falco noticed droids with blasters in their hands. Falco immediately activated his staff saber and began to block the bullets that were flying towards him. Thankfully, he knows most of the teräs käsi style combat, but he's still training to become better with the technique. After all, he's still in training to deflect shots back at his opponents. Some of the Nubian soldiers began to fire around the corner. Krystal jumped out as well and began to block bullets herself to ease up the stress on Falco. Some of the Gungans were standing behind the wall with no weapons at hand after using up all of their energy balls. Slippy had his blaster at hand just in case he needs to use it. Bakura brought both of his katanas out and began to run to the enemy lines. The droids noticed him and began to fire towards his direction as well. Falco and Krystal began to take this opportunity and ran towards the Battle Droids. Bakura reached two of them and ran by them. As he did, he stopped behind the droids and stabbed backwards with his katanas, one in both of them. Falco and Krystal managed to get to the other Battle Droids. As the Battle Droids were lying on the ground in a heap of spare parts, everyone else began to slowly come out after seeing them dispatch those droids with ease. They all began to run again towards the exit, which they still have a long way to go.
Fox was fighting it out with Wolf as he kept pressing on the offensive against him. Serenity stood there, waiting as she was letting herself become one with the Force. She tried everything to do so, but her abilities with the Force aren't enough to do so. She then felt something within her. She began to charge as soon as she saw Fox get shoved away by Wolf with a spinning sweep. Serenity pushed on her offensive, which has poor control. As soon as she saw Wolf attack her, she brought her lightsaber up in a defensive position. She managed to block the lateral attack that was coming for her. Within seconds later, Wolf began to attack Serenity with a flurry of blinding attacks. Fortunately, Serenity's defensive tactics have served her well as she managed to block most, if not all, of Wolf's attack. The ones that she didn't block, she managed to dodge instead.
Fox was already pressing the offensive against Wolf as Serenity managed to gain the offensive. Wolf used his Force energy and sent a wave at them. Fox and Serenity flew back, giving Wolf an opening to escape. As soon as Fox hit the ground, he did a backward shoulder roll into a kneeling position. Serenity managed to curl her legs and kick herself up into a standing position from her back with the nip-up. As soon as Wolf was a good distance away from them, he saw a small case of food rations and used his Force energy to throw that at a control panel to open it back up. Fox began to return to his assault again as he had his staff pointing at Wolf. Fox attacked Wolf with all he's got, but he can't get past Wolf's defenses. Serenity began to press her attack on him again. Even with their combined strengths, they can't hit Wolf at all. Wolf kept backing off as he entered the room full of walkways and columns of plasma. Fox stood there as Wolf backed off to an edge, feeling that something here is amidst. He remembered reading something about a battle taking place on Naboo and in this exact hangar in this exact setting.
"It's as if he wants to repeat history, but I won't let that happen. I won't die!"
Serenity and Fox stood there side by side as they stared into Wolf's eyes. Even though he stood there, staring at them with both his eye and his visual enhancer for the eye he lost, he still has that look that could paralyze someone. Serenity stood there with a defensive position as her lightsaber is pointing up and right, holding her lightsaber in front of her. She then made a quick motion, but feinted her attack, giving Fox a possible opportunity. Wolf then parried the attack and backflipped over to the other side. Fox took a running start and flipped to the other side while Serenity did the same, only she just made a long jump. They both landed on the next platform as Fox wound up for a powerful lateral attack. As he swung his staff at Wolf, Serenity went in for a low sweeping attack with her lightsaber. Wolf managed to block both attacks with one block as he stood there, snarling at the two.
Falco and Krystal were busy blocking shots from a huge platoon of droids that appeared from behind. As they were blocking the shots, the Nubian soldiers were firing their blasters at the droids. The bad part is that a droid with a missile launcher came in the scene. Falco saw the missile launcher and held his ground, waiting for the missile to come at them. As it did, Yami stuck his hand up and called upon his powers to stop the missile. As he did, the missile froze in the middle of the Battle Droids and detonated. The Battle Droids were thrown every way as the droids ended up in a pile of spare parts.
"Nice trick there, young padawan," Krystal said as she looked over to Yami.
"Thanks."
They all began to run again, hoping they aren't delayed any further.
Fox and Serenity were still making their struggle against Wolf O'Donnell as a clash was being heard. Serenity attacked Wolf with a swift attack while Fox went in slightly low. Wolf blocked both attacks, but Wolf not only jammed Fox's staff downward, but he was able to bend the head of the staff in an odd way, and then caused it to break apart. Fox still stood there, looking down at his staff.
"Oh shit!"
Wolf saw an opportune moment to get Fox out of his face. As he did, he took one jump towards Fox with his back to him and did a back kick in Fox's face. Fox fell over the edge of the platform they were on and fell to another platform. His arm hit the edge of the platform that was just below him 20 feet from the initial point and started to spin to the next one. He landed on his back there and could only like there as the world around him was still spinning. Wolf looked back over and only got a mouthful of Serenity's backelbow. Serenity then whipped her arm around into a backhand punch, causing Wolf to stagger a bit. Wolf then got back and spun around to strike at Serenity with a lateral strike. Serenity managed to duck the attack and spring back up. She began to turn counterclockwise while swinging her left leg into a roundhouse heel kick. Wolf took the hit, unfortunately, and fell down to the next level down. Serenity followed through and jumped down as well into a leap strike. With her lightsaber over her head, she was coming down fast to Wolf as he was lying on the level below her. Wolf saw her come down and rolled out of the way at the last second. Serenity looked to her left only to see that Wolf's lightsaber shooting for her. She barely turned away in time for Wolf's quick tap to miss. Serenity then began her assault again, trying to force Wolf to some energy fields.
Fox was able to get back up and grab what is left of his staff, which is quite a bit. He then began to gather what Force energy he had left and jumped to the next level up, which was just 20 feet above. Fox kept his staff with him and began to run full speed down the corridor, trying to catch up with them.
Wolf saw the energy fields fall down and managed to push Serenity away as soon as the energy field at his initial point opened. He began to run down it as fast as he can while Serenity was in hot pursuit of him. Fox began to run as fast as he can before the energy fields would shut. Wolf managed to get to the end and was stuck between gate 1 and 2. Serenity was in the next one down. Fox got stuck at initial point. Wolf tapped his lightsaber against the energy field and then deactivated his staff saber as he knew that it was safe again. Serenity did so as well, taking the time to hone her energy again. Fox stood there, hoping that Serenity can last long enough to survive the battle.
"Serenity, hang in there."