XVI

The hallway leading into the Hanger was littered with corpses and battle droids, including two droidekas that spun on their spherically crafted bodies, they trained their blasters on Obi-Wan as he and Ian entered.

"I'll handle this," said Ian as he spun his blade in hand and entering into a lightsaber form that his master had never seen, it was Aku, the second of the seven Seeker Lightsaber forms, crafted for over millennia's the High Lords of the order were the only masters of this technique though much tried to master its difficult moves, with his feet planted a foot apart from each other and his body in a slight turn he spun his lightsaber becoming a pure ring around his entire body making an impenetrable defense against the blaster bolts that came toward him.

"Jeddii-," managed a droid before the whirlwind of Ian came toward him ripping through their durasteel armor and destroying their circuitry.

As only the two droidekas remained, their independent energy shields protecting them from stray blaster fire and the lightsaber, Ian stopped and balled his hand into a fist, the air around the two droids became violent and solid as it crushed the droids' armor, Ian's new mastery of the Force was incredible Obi-Wan silently acknowledged, so much so that he was beginning to fear that his padawan was now even more powerful than he.

"Master," gestured Ian with a bow inviting his master to lead the way.

Obi-Wan blinked, "Great, a duracan opener," he muttered as his padawan followed him into the hanger.

Obi-Wan's lightsaber snapped on as they entered the hanger, seven battle droids were there to meet them but with a swift gesture with his hand they went crashing into a servicing ship.

Lord Fyte stood atop their ship, with the haggard looking form of Master Keroth Tyram behind him, obviously drugged, and disoriented, his eyes were heavy and his forehead was covered by a neuralizer, "Come Jedi, defeat me and my army and you shall receive the Jedi Master as a gift,"

"Keroth!" shouted Obi-Wan in an attempt to awaken his friend.

Fyte smiled wickedly and humor etched his face, "Keroth cannot awaken until you defeat me!"

Obi-Wan thought for a moment while Ian's expression was blank, "last time I counted you were outnumbered," the Jedi Master said.

Lord Fyte sneered, "then you'd better learn how to count Jedi,"

Simultaneous activation of lightsabers made Obi-Wan take an involuntary step back, as he saw ten lightsaber blades appear behind the ship, moving toward him, the wielders were now in sight and Obi-Wan was taken aback, droids were wielding the lightsabers, all used red, but one used a yellow blade, and his humanoid structure, similar to a battle-droid's shape had yellow markings.

"Destroy Jedi Master?" he asked referring to Fyte.

Lord Fyte nodded and smiled as he gave a small salute, "good bye Jedi," he leapt of the transport and entered his ship, "finish them!" he ordered before walking up the ramp.

"Spast," the ten droids came running towards them and Obi-Wan breathed deeply.

"Lightsaber Battle droids," said Ian as he shifted his lightsaber in his hand, he felt the weight of the weapon and tossed it in the air, getting a better feeling for it before the battle, "they are ruthless, and none can defend against them, aim for their chassis, that's their weakest point,"

"Alright, let's move carefully then," said Obi-Wan as the lightsaber wielding droids neared, the yellow marked droid hung back, obviously the leader of this excursion, six surrounded Ian, obviously going for the weaker of the two Jedi, the padawan while three came for Obi-Wan.

Ian lashed out and his lightsaber connected with the six lightsabers, with a twist he drove his lightsaber forward, through the chassis of the first droid, it made a cry out but returned to the battle, Ian was shocked, "that's not good,"

Obi-Wan plunged his lightsaber into the chassis of another it simply batted the lightsaber aside and came forward, "Oh great," he muttered to his padawan, "any other bright ideas?"

Ian looked thoughtful as the six droids came back towards him, being thrown back from a well aimed telekinetic push, "well actually yes," he replied, using the Force to throw them into a servicing shuttle, the droids began to rise but Ian clenched his fist and the stands that held the ship up crumpled, falling atop them and destroying them.

Ian joined his master who was luring the droids back, with a clean sweep he executed Sai cha, beheading, and two of the droids' heads flew to the floor with a crash, with two more swift moves he executed Sai tok, sheering through the droids at the waist.

The last droid was easily dealt with when Ian and Obi-Wan both slashed through the droid from both sides, "that was a slice," said Ian laughing at his own joke.

Obi-Wan shook his head, "don't celebrate yet, we still have another to deal with," they regarded the yellow marked droid that stood still, his lightsaber still clenched tightly in its grip.

With lightning speed the droid drew another lightsaber and leapt with inhuman speed toward both Jedi Knights. Ian in turn spun his blade forward, slicing the droid in two. The saber-droid fell to the floor, now scrap.

Obi-Wan leapt onto the ship while Ian boarded it, he scooped his old friend up carefully and leapt back to the loading ramp, "set course for Coruscant!" he ordered Ian as his padawan prepped the ship.