Authors Notes: As I have said in the previous chapter, I updated for flashback but knowing some who read this story but not that one I am sorry for my long absence but after the loss of my sister to her second bout of cancer I have had no interest in anything much especially my writing, my imagination has been all but dead I have tried to process her passing. It has been hard, and now slowly I seem to be regaining my imagination and my interest in writing. I hope this chapter and the one I posted for flashback are just the start of me regaining my normal drive for fanfiction and other things, I hope some of you are still interested in this story and I hope you continue to enjoy it. Also just in case some of you wonder why I have chosen not to write up all of the adventures in the tombs that are in the game, I feel there are enough stories already that do that and I wanted to get off Korriban and get this story moving again which is why I have only used one of the tomb encounters for this story.
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(Leviathan Class Battleship Revenge)
Meetra sat crossed legged in her quarters meditating having decided to take a break as nothing seemed to be going on that required her attention, and until Revan returned from Korriban nothing major should happen. The Mandalorian Canderous seemed to be doing well for himself, he had beaten several challenges from those who had answered his call to arms. None had proven capable of beating the veteran bounty hunter and former solider, it seemed Revan's faith in the man was proving correct. Her one concern in the whole affair was whether Canderous could truly control whatever kind of force he managed to summon, and the other concern was if he were beaten would the new Mandalore still be willing to work with them or would he try and destroy them. She was already beginning to draw out several plans to deal with either outcome and counter it, they could ill afford to have their supposed allies turn on them when at any time Malak and his followers could finally locate them and launch their assault.
Her eyes suddenly opened as she again felt her connection to the force ignite and this time even stronger than before, clearly her connection to it has slowly been renewed even if she had no idea how. Perhaps she had never been cut off from it in the first place, maybe instead what the mass shadow generator had done was dampen her connection for a time even if the effects lasted years but was now slowly fading. She felt a shifting darkness slowly approaching and it was not Malak or his followers, no this was something far more dangerous elsewhere unknown. Was it the Sith Empire out in the rim finally beginning to move or was it something else?
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(Korriban)
Revan was growing impatient to get off the planet, it seemed no matter where they went, they were challenged by one or more problems, they'd already dealt with an insane assassin droid in one tomb and another two Terentatek in another. They'd helped some people escape from a cave filled with an assortment of beasts they'd killed; they'd advised them to get to the spaceport and leave post haste which they had with some ids of dead Sith they had found earlier. They had also had to deal with some of the other recruits wanting their help with their own attempts to gain prestige only to then turn and try and kill them once they had finished which led to them killing said students. Utter waster of life which made him wonder how Malak's Sith were winning when they so easily threw their lives away trying to kill whoever was ahead of them to gain their place even if their chances of succeeding was slim.
Now he awoke to find himself and his group on the floor of another cave and their weapons were on the other side of the cave on a table, one of many he noted as he climbed to his feet. He looked around and noted someone with his back to them, he remembered how they'd ended up here on another scavenger hunt for one of the last of the new recruits. It was a trap he assumed as he noted the student standing off to the side pointing a blaster at them, he noted HK and T3 were behind him deactivated and the others of his group still recovering from what he suspected was knock out gas. He looked around and noted someone leaning over a very shabby desk with all sorts littered over it, he could already guess who it was from his force signature.
"Jorak Uln as I suspected you are still alive" he stated gaining the attention of the figure who turned and laughed at him in a rather demented way that showed whatever had happened when he was driven out of the academy had affected him badly.
"Of course, I am still alive Lord Revan" Jorak cackled as if insulted by the idea Uthar might have managed to kill him when he turned against him. "As if my apprentice actually had it in him to kill me, he took advantage of the students who were displeased with my leadership and had them drive me out" he explained. "Just like his pathetic master who dared not face you when he turned against you, they do not deserve the title of Sith and especially not Dark Lord of the Sith" he added before smiling at him. "But then again you do not deserve either title either do you general? After all you were never truly a servant of the dark side" he observed.
"No, I was not and for a time neither were you" Revan reminded him. "We were all working for the same goal, to save the Republic from itself and ensure it was strong enough to fight the true Sith" he said knowing it was pointless trying to turn the man back to the light but the more he kept him talking the more time he gained to work out a plan to escape as well as allow the others to wake up. "Unfortunately, Malak, yourself, Bandon and the rest of your followers were too weak to resist the dark side and gave in to greed and lust for power" he accused him.
"Ah yes the great dream, save the Republic" Jorak said with clear amusement and distaste. "A noble dream General but a useless one as far as I am concerned and more than likely that sentiment is shared by Malak and the others, what good is saving a corrupt government when we personally would get so little out of it" he mused aloud before breaking into another disturbing laugh. "But now we have power and all the riches we could want, and if we are strong enough, we could end up controlling the galaxy" he crowed with delight at the thought. "Whilst Uthar moving against me has put me goals on hold I assure you I will first regain control of the academy and then I will dispatch Bandon and Malak and assume my rightful place as Dark Lord and I will lead the Empire to come when the Republic is nothing but dust" he stated his gaze now becoming cold, yet Revan felt nothing truly threatening from the man. "I admit I did not expect to see you again General, however your arrival is timely" he added after a short silence.
"Oh really" Revan inquired as he noted Rikka and Niks begin to show signs of life.
"I do not know why you have returned to Korriban or what your current plans are but leaving without dealing with Uthar or Bandon who I know is on this planet thanks to my new apprentice S'var is not something you intend to do and that aides my own goals" Jorak explained and his plans did not actually surprise Revan that he intended to use him to remove Uthar and Bandon for him, in fact it was exactly what he expected of the man.
"So, you will let us go so we can kill Uthar and Bandon for you and thus leave you to reclaim the leadership of the academy" Revan surmised.
"I will let you go General, I said nothing of your companions" Jorak hissed his personality suddenly turn dark and cold as if he had a split personality as before he had been speaking calmly if not a little unhinged but now, he could see the darkness that lurked within the man. "Do you think me a fool who would so easily allow you to all leave with just your word you will do as I want?" he demanded before he unleashed a hail of force lightning that too Revan by surprise and knocked him to his knees making him curse. "No, you will kill both for me and then I will allow your comrades to leave my care" he stated as he stopped the attack.
Revan ignored the pain from the attack and locked eyes with first Rikka and then Niks and indicated where he wanted them to attack with his eyes, both nodded with the barest hint of a nod even as Carth began to groan as he came round as well. Melkor too was coming around and that meant they had the advantage, there would be no deal with this man. He just had to be quick enough to catch the next blast of force lighting Jorak would attack with, S'var would be no issue for Niks and Rikka to deal with even if he was armed and they were not but they were combat veterans of two wars whilst S'var was just a stupid young man with delusions of using Jorak to gain power for himself.
"Tell me Jorak, do you really think the other students will just except you back as they all backed Uthar's rebellion against you and his choice to exile you" he asked as the others slowly prepared to move.
"They'll have no choice General" Jorak spat incensed at the idea of the students refusing to obey his orders. "I have grown more powerful in my exile; they will do as I tell them, or they will die painfully as I strip their very souls from their bodies with the darkest force powers and Sith sorcery" he boasted as he turned back to the table in front of him where multiple items lay items which Revan guessed would be for Sith sorcery probably smuggled out by his so called apprentice.
Didn't matter Jorak turning his back was exactly what he needed for this to work, he gave a suitable nod to the others and instantly Rikka and Niks charged S'var but made sure to move out to different sides so he could not bare down with his blaster on them both at the same time. Melkor also moved heading straight for him as well this time in a straight line, S'var froze having no idea who to try and shoot first. Which was all that was needed for him to be taken out, Revan himself shot toward Jorak who jerked back to them and raised his arm and unleashed another blast of force lightning, but he was ready for it this time and moved into its ark and using a boost from the dark side energies of the planet he deflected it right at Jorak who screamed in agony as this twist. He dropped to the ground even as he stopped the attack, the energy he had unleashed made him easy prey and he rammed his knee straight into the man's face breaking his noise with a solid and satisfying crack. Even as the man dropped to the ground, Revan picked him up and locked him in a headlock squeezing tightly to cut off any attempt at him using his force abilities to try and escape before twisting his arms sideways and breaking Jorak's neck even as Rikka, Niks and Melkor finished off S'var who had easily fallen to the three-prong attack. He dropped the body even as Carth finally rightened himself, clearly still groggy from been knocked out.
"What happened?" Carth asked as he looked around to find himself somewhere he did not remember been.
"We were captured by the old academy master and his weakling servant hoping to use me to kill Uthar and Bandon so he could reclaim his position and then use that to kill Malak and become Dark Lord" Revan answered. "But as usually with Malak's followers they are arrogant and stupid, believing their power is enough to deal with any number of people, he is now dead as is his servant and we are free, and this is the last cave we need to explore" he continued. "Once I have reactivated HK and T3 we can arm up and head back to the academy to deal with Bandon, then like I said we will have to leave quickly once he is dead" he added finishing with a reminder.
"How do we get back to the space port as fast as we need to when we have an entire academy full of enemies plus whoever is in the space port to deal with to reach our ship?" Carth wondered as he moved to retrieve his blasters.
"We run and defend ourselves as we go, we kill those we can and move on" Revan stressed his response. "We do not allow ourselves to get bogged down fighting no mater who it is, just keep moving and remember grab your son from where you stashed him as you will not have time to turn back and get him if you forget" he added his tone somewhat grim making Carth shiver at idea of forgetting to grab Dustil as they left leaving him to whatever grim horror the Sith spirits would bring down on the planet.
He watched as Revan moved over to the two shut down droids and began working on bringing them back online, it was a relatively easy process and both droids gave vent at been disabled even if he could barely understand the whistlers and beeps of T3. The rather graphic description HK gave of what he wished he could have done to Jorak was unsettling even knowing the droid's blood thirsty nature, he then waited as the others armed back up with their weapons.
"We are ready General" Rikka stated as she replaced her lightsaber on her belt.
"Once we are confronted by Bandon remember focus on the assassins but leave one alive but injured so he cannot run away but do not shoot him in the legs if you can help it, if not just wing him so he goes down but can still move" Revan instructed as he began to lead them out of the cave.
"May I ask I why you want of them alive?" Carth inquired in clear confusion as they exited the cave and began the trek back across the valley to the academy knowing they would soon be confronted by the Dark Lord's apprentice.
"I will want him to deliver a very special message to Malak that will push him even more into rage and hatred, the more he feels like that the more mistakes he will make and the weaker he will become" Revan explained in answer. "The weaker he becomes the easier it will be to destroy him" he stated coldly having come to fully accept that his friend was long dead and all that was left was his body corrupted by the dark side like a puppet. Before he had tried to separate what Malak had become from what he had once been, tried to put everything that had happen to what the dark side had made Malak do but now he had accepted Malak had sought the dark side and turned willingly to what he had become. A beast eager to kill and maim and slaughter for nothing more than power, Alek was lost forever and whatever good deeds he had once done would be lost as well forever drowned out by the screams of his victims and the memories of his crimes. Dismissing this line of thought he turned back to what was about to happen, he looked up to the turning where they would then head up hill to the academy which is where he expected Bandon to make his move.
"HK reactivate your stealth generator and remember my orders" he commanded.
"Statement understood master" HK responded as the droid did as it had been ordered and then vanished as the stealth generator became active.
"Be ready" Revan added to the others as they turned and then headed up hill.
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Within the academy Bandon looked up as the assassin he had placed on look out came rushing into the room he and the others had taken over to wait for their time to strike, his first impulse was to punish the fool with a bout of force lightning but he restrained himself as he needed the entire group to ensure by the end of this face off Revan and his foolish followers were dead and he had at last claimed the prize his master wanted so badly in Bastila Shan. Yes, once he had her in his hands and dealt with Wynn and his second, he would lure his master here and then kill him with help from the students and their teachers as they would see he was the more powerful and worthy of been followed once he had killed Revan something his master had failed to do.
"My Lord, Revan and his group are returning from the valley" the assassin reported to which Bandon stood and smiled a satisfied smile that his plan was about to pay off.
"Grab your weapons and let us go welcome our former leader and show him what true power is" Bandon ordered as he marched for the door and ensuring to glare at the assassin who had reported the news as he left.
Unaware that the group of assassins were not the same ones he had landed with Bandon marched through the academy towards what he saw as his crowning moment, so caught up in his dreams of the glory and power to come he missed the looks exchanged between the assassins and Wynn as they went. Whilst their faces were covered by the masks they wore, their eyes were left uncovered so they could easily make eye contact with their master to alert him that the time had come. Wynn smiled as he watched the group head for the entrance to the valley, the eye contact with the supposed lead assassin told him his plan had gone without a hitch without Bandon becoming aware of the switch. He wanted to laugh at how easy it was to fool the man, powerful though he was he was clearly not very observant and perhaps to focused on his goal of capturing Shan and killing Revan. Soon Bandon and Revan and his group would be dead bar Shan who he would use to lure Malak to Korriban, where he would kill the man with some help from his students and then he would claim his rightful place as Dark Lord of the Sith.
Yuthura also noticed Bandon the group and Bandon heading for the valley entrance way and knew the time had come, she had to warn those few she had found to prepare for what was to come and to ensure Revan made it off this planet alive. Granted only five of them were trustworthy and like her were still true Revanchists, the other three only wanted Revan to retake the mantle of Dark Lord of the Sith thus meaning they were as lost to the cause as Wynn, Malak, and the rest of those on Korriban. She had placed them in the more dangerous areas in her plan to ensure Revan made it off Korriban alive by disabling the weapon systems so their ship was not destroyed, the others were closer to the hangars to lift the lockdown and would like her survive to make it off this damn planet alive.
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(Trayus Academy, Malachor V)
Sion entered the quarters of his fellow Sith Lord Nihilus to find him seemingly asleep, it was always kind of hard to tell since the battle of Malachor. Before that battle Nihilus had been like any other man or woman, but since then he was vastly changed. He as far as they knew could not speak, if he could he chose not to preferring to instead speak through his slave or apprentice it was even harder to tell which the Miraluka woman was. She had been captured during a raid on the planet Katarr where several Jedi had gathered to discuss certain events that belied the threat the triumvirate posed, whilst they were hidden, they had not been inactive.
Their attacks though had been secretive with everyone who had witnessed them been killed as well as their targets, if by some luck of the force someone had survived the attacks were put down to been caused by Malak's so called Sith a useful cover. The Jedi had all been killed and thus the Jedi council remained unaware of their existence, which was the point of the attack. However, since that raid Traya had refused to allow any more, which is what had begun his concern over his master's actions. The sudden appearance of Visas made him refocus as Nihilus seemed to stir having probably sensed his presence, he moved forward and waited to be addressed by the red clad woman.
"My Master wishes to know why you have come?" Visas inquires as the came to a stop of the side of the seated Dark Lord.
"I have concerns about our master and her plans" Sion admitted. "Her refusal to allow anymore raids, her refusal to take part in the war currently going on between Malak's Sith and the Republic and just not she has sent Celeste Alira on a mission but refused to say what that mission was" he explained his concerns. "As she left, I felt a tremor in the force a disturbance that I took to our master, but she refused to even discuss it and sent me away rather heatedly" he paused here as he looked at his fellow Dark Lord but could not tell if anything he was saying was provoking a reaction within him. "She is up to something, something that may go against the interests of the triumvirate, we have to find out what that something is" he declared.
Visas glanced at her master as he contemplated Sion's words, more than ever she wished she had never been taken captive when Nihilus had led the raid on her planet to kill several Jedi who had met there to discuss what they believed to be a hidden threat even beyond what Malak and his Sith was. She had sadly been in the wrong place at the wrong time, why Nihilus had spared her when he had killed not only the Jedi but everyone else present was still a mystery to her. She had watched as he had killed a few of the people there including two of the Jedi by sucking out not only their life force, but also before that their force energy leaving them husks of their former selves before their lifeforce was consumed as well. It had been a truly horrifying sight to behold, and she had believed that was to be her fate, instead he had taken her as a prisoner and the forged a force bond between them to use her as a way of communicating with his fellow Sith. That may to some seem to be the end of things as to why she was alive but considering her master's thirst for energy she doubted it as she was a force user something that had been discovered after she had been captured.
"My master agrees something seems off, but he does not believe master Traya means to betray the triumvirate" Visas finally responded as Nihilus finally sent her his response through their force bond. "Whatever mission Celeste Alira is on, it is a mission approved by master Traya and thus not our concern unless that mission brings danger to us" she went on. "However, my master agrees we should keep a closer eye on what is happening at the academy from now on and if it turns out master Traya has betrayed is in someway we will have to dispose of her and take power for ourselves, but that action will only be taken if it is proven she has betrayed us" she stated.
Sion grunted before turning and leaving, he had hoped for more from Nihilus but clearly, he did not see things the same as he did. Still, he at least had agreed they had to start keeping an eye on their master and her actions, and if she had betrayed them, he had stated she had to be removed and that was something that appealed to him. Long had he served Traya as had Nihilus, the idea of removing her and taking her place was something he had thought of from time to time as most Sith did when it came to their masters. He headed for his room to make plans on how to start finding out what Traya was up to, in her chambers Kreia looked up as she felt the force shift and she knew time was against her now and she had to do what she could to aide Revan and his people whilst she still could.
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(Leviathan Class Battleship Revenge)
Meetra looked up into the darkness of the void through her window as her force connection seemed to come back to her like a wave washing over her, she could feel a darkness building somewhere out in the galaxy and she did not think it had anything to do with Malak or the True Sith in their hidden empire. It was somewhere else, she frowned wondering what the force was trying to tell her? Where was this danger and why was it her that was feeling it considering her connection to the force was still faulty as this was the first time her connection had felt fully reconnected since Malachor. She moved closer to the window and stared out when her mind finally trailed to an answer, Rikka had mentioned another section of the fleet which had broken off and stayed behind on Malachor, in the ancient academy which was all that remained on that blackened rock which was all that remained of Malachor five. Was it possible they were behind this warning, that they may be soon coming out of their isolation to cause more trouble? Trouble they could ill afford whilst Malak and his ilk were still to be dealt with.
Elsewhere in the ship Bastila was beginning to feel like she had recovered from her overuse of her force abilities, still she remained in the med bay until such time as Senna released her. She had found it wise not to argue with doctors as they usually knew better than their patients when they should be out and about and using their abilities. She worried how Revan and his party were doing on Korriban, she had long heard tails of that dreaded planet and its long history in the annuals of the Republic and Sith wars of the past. She did not know exactly what horrors they were facing but she knew they would be beyond what they had faced so far, and she worried just how much darkness Revan could endure before it overwhelmed him and Korriban was a nexus of the dark side.
She sat up and crossed her legs and began to meditate, she let herself fall onto the comforting embrace of the force as she focused on her force bond with Revan and whilst as she suspected it was all but silent due to the distance between them. She could still feel an echo of him in the bond, she could tell he was focused and ready for something to happen. She felt him briefly latch onto her presence somehow before the distance cut the link again, she let out a breath and focused on the bond again just in case she was able to link them again if even briefly.
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(Korriban)
Revan paused as felt the bond between him and Bastila connect, and he felt her worry and concern for him flow into him, he had doubted that the bond would be able to link them over such distance but somehow, he could feel her. He latched onto her comforting presence for a few seconds before the distance proved too much and he lost her again, he cursed but did not allow it to disturb his focus on his coming confrontation with Bandon. He moved on and was not surprised to see at least nine figures waiting for them up ahead, in the middle was the black clothed Bandon looking supremely confident. It was a stance Revan intended to shatter; this would be the true beginning of the Revanchists revenge.
"Ah Revan so you have come at last" Bandon said gleefully once they had gotten close enough. As he spoke the assassins rushed to form a semi-circle around them.
"Bandon Ja'kal, why am I not surprised you have become Malak's pet apprentice" Revan shot back with a smile deciding making Bandon angry would help in the fight to come.
"Have a care Revan I am apprentice to the true Dark Lord of the Sith and soon I will replace him and become Dark Lord myself" Bandon growled insulted at been called Malak's pet.
Revan let out a deep laugh at the idea of either Bandon or Malak been a true Dark Lord. "You and Malak are not true Dark Lord's; you are Jedi lost to the dark side twisted by it's power because you were not strong enough to resist it" he taunted. "The emperor and his dark council are the true Dark Lord's of the Sith as you well know" he told him knowing been reminded of the power of the emperor and his elite Sith would anger Bandon even more.
Carth glanced at Revan as he mentioned the mysterious Sith Emperor he had told them about had a powerful group of elite Sith who made up a council of his empire, he wondered how many of them they were. What kind of powers they had? How many of them they were? He glanced at Bandon as Revan finished speaking and noticed a slight tremor run through the darksider before he mastered himself, clearly the reminder had struck home and made its mark as Revan had intended.
"The emperor and his lackeys mean nothing in the here and now Revan, more than likely they will never come here content to have us destroy the Republic for them" Bandon said as confidently as he could however the reminder of the true Sith, and their power had indeed left its mark in him.
"So, you would like to think Bandon, but putting that aside another reason your supposed position of Dark Lord or even an apprentice has no standing is that you haven't even realised the assassins you arrived with are all dead and these men you have brought with you are all Wynn's men preparing to kill us all" Revan stated moving onto the more pressing issue.
Bandon narrowed his eyes as Revan spoke and then glanced at the assassins around them and noted that two of them had moved behind, so they had a clear line of sight to his back, he snarled as he realised his former leader was correct and they meant to kill him as well as Revan and his party. He snarled again before he spun and unleashed a powerful blast of force lighting at both men, both fell screaming as the pain of the attack ran through their bodies. This was the signal for the fight to start, Revan charged towards Bandon whilst his companions all began firing at the assassins who had been thrown by how quickly the fight had started. Two were killed instantly by blaster bolts from Carth and the invisible HK, Rikka drew her lightsaber and charged another of the assassins even as he opened fire on her. She dodged the blasts easily aided by the force.
Niks and Melkor also charged forward with their lightsabers deflecting the blaster bolts coming towards them from three more of the assassins, as they got closer two of the assassins dropped their blasters and pulled viroblades from their backs and moved out to meet their charge. They clashed violently and as HK nailed the third member with a glancing blow to his leg and then to the arm holding his blaster, the man fell crying out in pain as he dropped his blaster wounded and out of the fight. Carth Dodged as two more of the assassins fired at him even as T3 rolled past him dodging a blast that close to him before opening with his own weapons which included a flame thrower, one assassin ran screaming as he was set alight allowing for Carth to land a shot straight to his head killing him instantly. The other assassin managed to just dodge the blast form T3's other weapon, which was a standard droid blaster, but it left him off balance as he moved to bring his weapon to bear on the droid, he was shot dead by Carth.
Rikka pushed the assassin she was fighting backwards before she swung her lightsaber sideways, but the assassin countered her move and blocked it, she reversed her swing and came back at his other side, but her opponent was just able to block it as well. Cursing she lashed out with her foot and was able to send him tumbling backwards, this allowed her to swing her lightsaber and cut him in half as he tried to right himself. HK blasted one of the last assassins left unengaged with a straight shot to his heart, Melkor exchanged rapid strikes with his opponent having to admit the man was good with a bladed weapon. But Melkor had noted his footwork was off and thus tried to make him lose said footing with rapid advances with ever swing he made.
Eventually this worked as on one fast advance the assassin stumbled backwards as he lost his balance from the force of the blow Melkor had used, thrusting forward with his lightsaber her pierced the assassin straight through the heart and watched him collapse dead seconds later. This left Niks been forced backwards from someone who was clearly very experienced with a blade and with combat, Niks believed he was dealing with a fellow veteran of the Mandalorian war, their blades clashed again and again and he was forced backwards for a few seconds before he rallied and then without warning spun and lashed out with his foot in a back kick which caught his opponent off guard and sent him stumbling backwards and he quickly shot forward and brought his lightsaber down in wide arc killing the assassin in seconds. Deactivating his lightsaber he watched as HK shot the down assassins Bandon had hit with force lighting before he was engaged by the General, this left them all to watch the fight between Revan and Bandon unfold.
Bandon had spun when he felt Revan charge him leaving the two helpless assassins to drop withering in agony from his attack, he caught Revan's wild swing his own lightsaber and tried to push his former leader backwards but found he was not strong enough. They began to exchange blows as each fought to overpower the other, he spun away after a few minutes and unleashed another blast of force lighting, but Revan quickly deflected it with his lightsaber and then smirked at him as if to taunt him. His rage spiked and he charged forward and slashed out with his blade, but Revan rolled under his stroke and then tried to take his legs from him in a back swing, but he managed to jump over it with a little use of the force. Revan was quicker than he had expected, he had believed been on Korriban a nexus of the dark side would give him the edge, but it was clear this was not so. But he could not back out now. If he ran then it was certain his master would kill him and painfully at that, no he had to succeed and kill Revan and capture Shan and speaking of the girl where was she?
"Where is Bastila Shan, which of your group is she" he demanded to know. "When you are dead, I will take her and break her slowly over your corpse before I use her to lure my master here to his death and then she will become my apprentice" he snarled hoping to anger Revan and make him make a mistake in his anger.
"Becoming a Sith really did not improve your intelligence did it Bandon?" Revan asked sarcastically with a grin. "Do you really think I would bring Bastila of all people to Korriban? Her features are well known to all Sith and when we arrived, we each had to take off our helmets something I considered before we came so your plan is useless as she is not here" he taunted.
Bandon growled in response before unleashed a powerful force push at Revan hoping to unbalance him, but Revan was ready and quickly dodged the attack and jumped at him forcing him to jump out of the way himself. Their blades clashed again as they each struggled to overwhelm the other, Revan waited until Bandon made another push before diving backwards allowing for Bandon to stumble forwards as he was not ready for the pressure to suddenly vanish. He raised his hand and unleashed his own bout of force lightning which struck Bandon catching him completely off guard, Bandon screamed as the power washed over him. He stumbled to his knees as he just barely managed to get his lightsaber up to deflect the rest of the attack, groaning he forced himself to his feet and swayed slightly as he glared at Revan trying to use his hatred and anger at the man to give him strength.
"You are a disgrace Bandon; you hate me for a mistake I made during a battle that got some of your friends killed and that hated led you to betray the very thing your friends died for" Revan stated readying himself for the last charge of his enemy as he could see that Bandon was off balance and weakened from his attack. "You disgrace their memory and spit on their sacrifice" he added. "They would be horrified to see what you have become" he taunted.
As Revan had spoken Bandon had grown angrier with each word out of his former leader's mouth, it twisted the hatred inside him even more, letting out a pure scream of rage he rushed forward with his blade angled downward ready to be brough upwards towards Revan's head. He unleashed another bout of force lightning as he went but instead of deflecting it this time Revan just rolled out of its way and moved to counter him, he lashed his blade upwards towards Revan's head hoping to separate it from its body with satisfaction. Instead, Revan twisted sideways out of range and then shoved his own lightsaber behind him straight through Bandon's torso, Bandon's eyes widened in pain as he felt the wound and he felt all his strength leave him. The minute Revan retracted his blade he collapsed to his knee's his breathing hitching every few seconds, his lightsaber fell out of his hands as he glanced up at Revan with hatred knowing he would never kill him or become Dark Lord. Everything he had done was for nothing, he let out a curse.
"HK, pick up the injured guard and get ready to run and that goes for the rest of you" Revan stated as he readied his lightsaber. "Rikka send word to Shepard and Schafer to start raining down hell, then tell them to get to their ships after seven minutes, I want us all of this planet alive then send the signal to Yuthura we are on our way" he ordered.
"Understood general" Rikka said and quickly moved to comply even as she continued to watch as Revan raised his lightsaber just as HK picked up the guard after deactivating his stealth generator then slashed it forward and separated Bandon's head from his shoulders killing Malak's apprentice in one stroke.
Instantly a deadly calm seemed to fall on the planet and was felt by all on its surface even those within the academy and the space port, seconds later a cold chill seemed to seep up from below the surface and soon screams from the valley of the Dark Lord's followed.
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(Authors Notes: I am going end this chapter here and finish the Korriban chapter of the story in the next one, I hope you enjoyed the chapter as it has been extended somewhat to make up for my lack of progress this year as I explained in my earlier notes.