Answers to reviews:
PH639: Thanks.
Arch-Angel-Writer: I am going to attempt something like that, make it as Jayden's final test to be granted the title of Darth, though this final test may happen in Season 3, and Jayden may be wearing Revan's robes, Revan's mask and wielding Revan's purple Lightsaber with his own crossguard red saber. Be a good change for someone being named Darth, right?
OechsnerC: Thanks.
Guest: Well, though Sidious would keep to the Rule of Two, he'd also want to make sure that someone like Jayden would remain under his control. He'd obviously keep tabs on Jayden and watch him to make sure he remains loyal until Jayden outlives his usefulness to him. Dooku will betray Jayden in season 4 though after the Slaves of the Republic arc, just like in the original because by then Jayden will have become much too powerful, too skilled, and it would worry Sidious. It's hard to understand without making it sound so messed up and complicated.
Spectacular Webhead 11: Well, Ahsoka's a Jedi, jayden's a Sith, they aren't going to be friendly and get together quickly as Ahsoka is against Sith but her opinion on Jayden will change and she'll be more curious about the mystery that he is.
And thanks for the opinion on voice actors. I did intend for Benedict Cumberbatch to voice Jayden from mid-season 3-season 7, and even into Rebels if I get that far. I mean, Ahsoka sounds chirpier in season 1-3 until the episode where she meets Lux, her voice sounds more mature.
Disclaimer: I do not own Star Wars: The Clone Wars. I only own the OC Jayden Shan.
Separatist leader Viceroy Gunray has been captured by the Republic on the planet of Rodia. Dooku's spies report that the Jedi Council had dispatched Jedi Master Luminara Unduli along with the Apprentice of Anakin Skywalker, Ahsoka Tano, to escort the Viceroy to Coruscant, where he will undoubtedly be put on trial for his war crimes.
And his information could be bad for the Separatists should Gunray spill everything to the Jedi and the Republic to save his own skin.
Right now, Count Dooku was sitting in his chair on his warship, where he has been contacted by his Master, Darth Sidious. As soon as the hologram of the hooded Sith appeared, Dooku fell to a knee and bowed to his Master.
Sidious wasted no time in getting to the point. "Gunray's capture could be a serious threat to us, my friend. The Viceroy will not last long under Jedi interrogation."
"I have already put a plan into action, my lord." Dooku said. "My best agents, Asajj Ventress and Khan will infiltrate the Jedi ship and either free Gunray or silence him."
"Ventress?" Sidious hissed. "You are putting a great deal of faith in an operative who has failed us in the past. As for young Khan, he has potential and has made up for his failures by killing Jedi, especially for one so young."
"They are gifted assassins." Dooku said with faith in his two Apprentices. Though there can only be two Sith, as the Rule of Two demands, Dooku knew that only one of them could truly be his Apprentice and he chose Jayden while Ventress will merely remain an acolyte like Dooku's other acolytes, though Ventress herself will not know this, right now both believe Dooku was having two Apprentices, that he wanted to break the Rule of Two. "You have my word, they will complete their mission to the letter."
Sidious was silent for several seconds as he considered it before he gave a barely noticeable nod. "Very well. You may proceed."
The hologram disappeared and Dooku stood as the door to the bridge opened and in walked Jayden and Ventress, the two having been sparring, well fighting again since they always seem to taunt one another and prove who's the better student to Dooku. The two were noticebly glaring at one another until they came to stand on either side of Dooku.
"Master?" Ventress began.
Dooku didn't look at them as he spoke. "There is no margin for error this time, my students. You must prove yourself worthy of being my Apprentices. Don't return with bickering excuses like children."
"Yes, Master." Jayden said and bowed before leaving, Ventress following a second later. though the two hated it, they did not want to anger or disappoint their Master.
Meanwhile, a Republic cruiser flew away from Rodia after Gunray had been brought onboard and put in a holding cell. Right now, Luminara stood in Gunray's cell with Ahsoka behind her, the two were interrogating Gunray with the experienced Jedi Master doing most of it.
"Your thoughts betray you, Viceroy. I can sense your concern, the fear that you will lose the wealth and the power that the war has given you." Luminara said, trying to get Gunray to talk.
"I have no idea what you're talking about." Gunray said, clearly lying as the Jedi could sense that. Ahsoka started to look impatient with how this was going.
Luminara closed her eyes before speaking again. "You hide a great many things: the names of your secret allies, the locations of their bases."
"I am an innocent pawn in all of this." Gunray lied again.
"If you're merely a pawn, then who are you protecting?" Luminara asked.
Gunray shook his head, knowing he shouldn't say anything or he will be killed, and not by the Jedi. "No one. I... I know nothing."
That was the last straw for Ahsoka who slammed her hand down on the table. "Liar! Liar! I'm tired of all this whining!" She activated her Lightsaber and brought it to Gunray's neck, threatening him. "Tell us what we want to know right now or I will gut you like a Rokaria'n dirt fish!"
Gunray cried out in fear, falling back against the wall and sliding to the floor.
Luminara walked up to Ahsoka, grabbed her hand and pulled her away from the Viceroy before chastising her. "Padawan! Terror is not a weapon the Jedi use." The Jedi Master said with disapproval.
"I wasn't serious. But the only way he'll talk is if he's scared enough." Ahsoka whispered back,
Gunray pulled himself up a bit before relenting. "Perhaps I was too hasty. Let us negotiate."
Ahsoka gave Luminara a 'you see?' look, making the Jedi master hold in a sigh. Suddenly the ship shook, nearly taking the Jedi off their feet.
"Captain, status report." Clone Commander Gree said.
The captain replied immediately. "Droid fighters incoming! They've brought boarding ships!"
"Green company, prepare to repel the enemy!" Gree ordered them.
The boarding ships landed and pierced the interior of the ship, opening their tripod legs and then their exit door to allow Super Battle droids to jump down. As that happened, something invisible flew into the hanger and lowered before it decloaked to reveal the Rogue Shadow.
The ramp lowered, allowing Jayden and Ventress to walk down it. Once they did, the ship's ramp went back up and decloaked again at Jayden's command.
"The Battle Droids will handle the Clones, distracting them so they don't notice us." Ventress said before they walked away from the ongoing fight.
"Gunray will be held in the detention level." Jayden said before spotting a shaft to the ventilation system. Activating his Lightsaber, Jayden cut a circle in it before climbing in, Ventress following.
"Do you even know where you're going?" Ventress hissed.
"Oh shut it, I'd rather be in front than having to stare at your behind the way there." Jayden retorted. "And all we need to do is just look for the detention level, all ships this big have them."
"Fine, you got there, I'll catch up." Ventress said as she turned down another way. "The reactor room shouldn't be far, we might as well cripple the ship before we leave."
Jayden just rolled his eyes and pressed on while Ventress went her own way.
Back at the detention block, Ahsoka smirked at Gunray. "Sounds like your rescue didn't work out after all."
"I am ready to discuss our bargain again." the Viceroy said, relenting once more.
"Padawan, may I have a word?" Argyus asked as he approached.
Ahsoka replied. "Certainly, Captain." She turned her attention back to Gunray briefly, before asking sarcastically. "If I leave. You won't go anywhere will you?"
Gunray glared at her, chuckling sarcastically.
Ahsoka turned back to Argyus. ""I've got the all-clear. The enemy has been repelled."
"And their attempt to free Gunray has..." Ahsoka trailed off as she heard noises that seemed to be in the ventilation. "Failed?"
At the control area of the detention block, a red Lightsaber made a circle before it dropped to the floor and Khan dropped down, killing the two guards with his Lightsaber easily. Khan then looked up and saw Ahsoka with her Lightsaber activated.
"Khan!" Ahsoka exclaimed in surprise.
"Ahsoka." Khan greeted her back as he twirled his Lightsaber. "Shall we get started?"
"Let's." Ahsoka said.
Khan leaped at her and went for a downward strike, looking to slice her in half but she moved out the way only for Khan to swing and nearly get the fatal blow had she not blocked with her Lightsaber. Khan blocked Ahsoka's attacks easily, holding his Lightsaber with just one hand. He then saw the guard coming, as did Ahsoka.
"Shoot him!" Ahsoka shouted.
The guard aimed and fired, Ahsoka ducked, and Khan deflected the blaster shots back at two of the guards, leaving the middle one, Argyus, alive. Khan then lifted Argyus with the Force and threw him into the controls, focusing back on Ahsoka.
Khan lunged and struck but Ahsoka blocked and the two ended up in a Saber lock.
"Skywalker's not here to save you this time, nor are we on a station about to be destroyed." Khan said tauntingly. "This time, you will die."
Ahsoka scoffed. "You could've let me die back on Grievous' station, but you actually saved me from being crushed by a box. Why?"
Khan's expression was unknown due to that expressionless mask. "Focus on this fight, not the past ones."
He didn't answer her question, he redirected the subject away and Ahsoka noticed it. He must not know why he saved her himself, and that made Ahsoka more confused.
She focused back on the fight as Khan parried her next attack and used the Force to send her into the wall hard.
"Over here!" Gunray called, getting Khan's attention. "Open this door and I'll buy you a planet!"
Suddenly, Ventress dropped down in front of the cell and deactivated the cell door. Ahsoka saw this and gasped before she ran at them, Lightsaber raised. Khan saw this and stopped her with the Force before throwing her into Gunray's cell. Khan then pressed the button to turn the cell's ray shields on, trapping Ahsoka there.
Gunray laughed as he started mocking Ahsoka. "Yes, yes, such delicious irony. How do you like your room now, youngling?"
Ahsoka growled as she got to her feet and tried slashing the shield with her Lightsaber but to no avail.
"halt, assassins!" Khan and Ventress turned to see Luminara coming, her green Lightsaver activated. Luminara used the Force to deactivate the cell and free Ahsoka, who immediately engaged Khan in a duel as Luminara took on Ventress.
"Surrender, both of you." Luminara ordered.
Ventress looked at Khan and gave him a nod. He looked at her before deactivating his Lightsaber, as ventress did hers. They raised their arms and a beeping was heard from the device on Ventress' wrist
Then there was an explosion and the ship rumbled, throwing everyone off their feet but it allowed Khan to blast Luminara with Force lightning, causing her to scream in pain. Khan and Ventress then ran for it and took the lift.
Ahsoka and Luminara ran to the lift and Ahsoka looked at the Jedi Master. "What are we waiting for?" She went to jump down but Luminara grabbed her arm.
"Ahsoka!" She said and a lift passed down.
"Thanks." Ahsoka said.
"Everything's running haywire: doors, lifts. Communication's down. Propulsion's dead. They've crippled the entire ship." Aryus said, looking at the console.
"Our attackers has come for Gunray. Stay here and guard him. I'll confront them myself." Luminara said to them.
"Master, all due respect, but Ventress and Khan are too powerful for any one Jedi to fight alone. Let me help you." Ahsoka insisted.
"I am more than capable of dealing with two assassins armed with undisciplined fighting skills." Luminara told her, sounding sure.
"But-" Ahsoka started, before Luminara cut her off.
"Stay here and keep a clear head." With that said, she jumped down the turbolift shaft.
When she landed at the end of the lift, Luminara activated her Lightsaber and followed the trail of dead Clones with Lightsaber marks on them Her trail led her right to the reactor room that had been blown, which had disabled everything to cripple the ship.
Luminara looked around, narrowing her eyes as she spread her senses for the two assassins.
Suddenly Khan dropped down and Luminara blocked his attack, then Ventress dropped down and slashed a pipe, causing steam to hit Luminara in the eye.
"Ah!" Luminara yelled in pain, clutching her eye before she jumped back. Khan and Ventress gripped their Lightsabers before they ran at the Jedi Master.
Luminara blocked their attacks quite well. She handled herself well against two Sith Apprentices, one even wielding two Lightsabers.
"Even with my vision clouded, I recognize the fighting style of Count Dooku." Luminara said to the two Sith. "Your version are unrefined, amateurish, sloppy."
Jayden narrowed his eyes behind his mask at that. He wanted to be so skilled he could take on multiple Jedi Masters at once, at Revan's descendant, he wanted to be powerful, to be skilled than any other Jedi or Sith in history. So to have his fighting style be called sloppy... it was making him think, yet also making him angry.
For Ventress, it just angered her and she charged at the Jedi Master. Jayden hung back, watching, waiting, analyzing.
Luminara started gaining the upper hand as she focused on ventress, but then Jayden got a slash across her back, causing her to yell in pain before Jayden used the Force to slam her into the floor then pointed his Lightsaber at her.
"And so another Jedi falls at my blade." He said.
"No, she's my kill!" Ventress glared at him, causing him to glare back at her even though the mask covered it. He then looked at Luminara before using the Force to throw her off the platform and down to the floor below, Ventress then leaped up and slashed some big pipes, which nearly crushed Luminara had she not used the Force to shift them aside so they didn't crush her.
Ventress jumped down while Jayden remained still, choosing to watch as Ventress went for the kill only to be intercepted by Ahsoka who freed Luminara. Eventually Ventress retracted to where Jayden was.
"And you didn't help because...?" Ventress asked angrily.
"Don't let your anger make you loose focus. There are two of them, we must be focused and attack together." Jayden said as Luminara and Ahsoka jumped back onto the platform and were informed of a betrayal by Argyus.
"We need to get back!" Ahsoka said and the two ran only for Jayden to drop down in front of them, Lightsaer activated and he assumed the Form II: Makashi stance. Ahsoka and Luminara assumed their own stances, Ahsoka facing Jayden, Luminara facing Ventress. "We'll take them together."
Jayden and Ventress lunged at their adversaries and began duelling. Ashoka blocked and parried Jayden's attacks. With Form II: Makashi, it relies on careful and controlled strikes instead of power and strength, which is what Jayden did in his attacks, unlike Ventress who' form was less elegant than their Master's.
"Surrender." Ahsoka demanded.
Jayden chuckled. "Never."
The duel continued until Ventress and Jayden decided to escape and Ventress used a thermal detonator to knock Luminara and Ahsoka off their feet. The two Sith ran to the hanger bay and got into the Rogue Shadow, which then took off...
So, I need to know something, which is the best lightsaber combats for Jayden to master to make him a skilled opponent against even Jedi masters like Obi-Wan, Mace Windu and Yoda?