Star Wars - Jedi Rangers

The Jedi Rangers Part 5


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"My Liberator is practically defenseless in it recharge state, and it's fighter drones destroyed.", Darth Michanikos said in frustration after seeing the initiates destroying the two fighter drones with ease. "If I don't do something, we'll lose the billions worth of credits and worse they'll reverse engineer the tech I've installed."

"I'll say. The Liberator is practically the cost of two Resurgent-Class Star Destroyers.", Darth Hakk said.

"Oh, please. Those hunks of junks are full of flaws. The Liberators only weakness is force-sensitives that knows what they're doing, and those are rare.", Michanikos said.

"Perhaps, but it seems that those initiates know what they're doing.", Darth Hakk said.

"Let us give these initiates a little test. Our spies have confirmed that they're highly gifted with the Force.", Darth Shirudo said as he opens his comm. "Major Tendor, send in a thousand animates to these coordinates and set their programming to Knightfall."

"Isn't that overkill? The number ratio and program setting are exactly that of Operation: Knightfall and Order 66.", Darth Hakk said.

"That's the point. If those Initiates die from this, then they're just as weak and pitiful as those Jedis, but if they survive and succeed then they surpass that generation.", Shirudo said before picking up his weapon. "I'll be playing Darth Vader in this one."


(Opening Song - Transformers Beast Wars II Movie Opening - SPACE DREAMER ~Haruka naru Beast Wars~)

Note: I don't own any of this.

The opening starts with a journey through hyperspace for coming out before the Star Wars logo before changing to the Jedi Rangers logo.

Cut to the Jedi Rangers ready to fight; Ben Skywalker drawing his lightsaber, Leida Mothma twirling her quarterstaff, Bradon Jenson swinging his vibrosword, Alice Ty throwing her disc blade, Bali Payton firing her energy bow, Gaile Gaze shooting fireballs from her hands, Damien Faro wielding his lightsaber and Zekk swinging his crossguard lightsaber.

A Starhawk-Class, the Unity, departs from Coruscant and jumps to lightspeed. On a forest planet, the Jedi Rangers travel on foot, marveling at the beauty before setting up camp. The almost shadowed Neo Sith Order members slowly walking away from a burning city, leaving behind death and destruction before Darth Pein raises his right hand and conjures a Force Storm.

The Unity charges and then fires it's orbital autocannon, before switching to a brief shot of a Spherical Holocron.

The Jedi Rangers are entering their starfighters and launching out of the Unity, before switching to a brief shot a black sword and white sword crossing.

Ben Skywalker stands over the cliff staring at the moon, seeing an illusion of Anakin and Luke in their glory days before seeing Anakin change to Darth Vader and Luke becoming disappearing, causing him to use the Force to cast them out out of anger and shame.

The Unity once again travels through hyperspace and visiting different planets.

The opening finally ends with Darth Pein and Ben Skywalker staring at each other before both sides ignite their lightsabers and clash, resulting in a powerful shockwave.


Darth Cyber picks up a First Order AT-ST and throws it with great Force towards Ben, who does a Force Jump to dodge the object as it hits a tall building, which then crumbles down.

"How pathetic. If you Jedi use your powers in the Force for battle the perhaps your kind would've survived.", Darth Cyber said. "Your ways led to your endangerment."

Ben said nothing aside from heavy breathing as Darth Cyber takes a stance and raise both his fist, ready to throw a punch. Cyber throws a punch, which, combined with his enormous strength and power of the Force, repels the very air sending a shockwave in the shape of a fist at a breakneck speed. Ben barely dodges the shockwave and sees it pulverize a boulder into dust. Cyber then throws in his punch multiple times.

"Oh, hell!" Ben mutters upon seeing a barrage of shockwaves heading for him.


The Liberator...

"You know aside from the drones, and I expect that droid to use some anti-infantry on us.", Bradon said, seeing the Liberator still bend down completely immobile.

"I guess, it used up a lot of energy to fire that last shot.", Leida said. "We were lucky to get this close, but I get the feeling that the Sith will send in reinforcements to guard it."

"And you guessed right!", Darth Shirudo said, appearing before the Initiates along with his Crownguard blocking their path to the Liberator. "I cannot allow you to destroy the Liberator. It is a necessary weapon to create a utopia for the galaxy."

"Utopia?! That thing murdered millions of innocent people!" Leida yells in frustration.

"So what?! Those innocent people have brought ruin to the galaxy, and already many powerful organizations have failed to fix it.", Shirudo said. "The Republic, Confederacy, Empire, New Republic, Jedi Order, and Sith Order have failed miserably. The Neo Sith Order is born from the despair and pain of those within its ranks will right the wrongs."

"My lord, That girl over there is the daughter of Mon Mothma, the former Chancellor of the New Republic.", one of the Crownguard said, stepping up to Shirudo.

"Normally I would cut your throat for speaking up, but this information makes up for that.", Shirudo said before staring at Leida. "Mothma's daughter? Now that's a surprise, but now that I get a better look at you, you do resemble her. Funny, I know she had a son, who died in Hoth. A dumb idiot who fought Darth Vader himself."

"Don't you dare talk about my brother like that! He was a brave man who fought for the Rebellion.", Leida said.

"Oh? Then tell me Mothma, are you feeling brave right now?", Shirudo asks as a thousand Animate Troopers surround the Initiates with their blasters pointing at them. Bradon looks around and sees that while most are regular troopers, there are also specialized variants as well. "These troopers have the programming of Order 66 and Operation Knightfall. You have no chance of surviving."

"What do we do? We don't even have lightsabers, and we're in a Jedi Purge situation.", Zekk said nervously.

"Great, our first day of Jedi, happens to be the day we die.", Damien said.

"Not really. We have Ben's teaching on our side.", Alice said. "Remember the lectures he gave us during a flight here?"

Getting what she meant, the other Initiates smile, much to Shirudo's confusion. Suddenly the seven students raise their hands and release powerful explosions of light, blinding their enemies."

"My eyes!" a Crownguard scream is covering his eyes.

"I can't see!" another said.

Because of the confusion, the Animate Troopers start firing wildly in an attempt to kill the Jedis, but as everyone regains their sight finds them gone and many troopers dead from friendly fire.


The seven ran as quickly as possible to find a better area to fight.

"Not only did we gave them the slip, but we also decreased their numbers.", Zekk said. "But the odds are still too high against us."

"We can't fight them in one place, so it's better to spread out!" Gaile said. "Remember Ben's lecture."

"Right!" the others said before splitting up to separate paths.


Gaile runs into a cave as a hundred troopers chase after her. The cave stalactites and stalagmites give her cover from enemy fire. The soldiers spread out to cover more ground, unaware that Gaile is hanging onto a stalactite above them. She then let's go and kicks the trooper beneath her to the head. The other soldiers point their blasters at her, but Gaile releases an electrical pulse rendering their weapons useless.

"Not so tough without your toys.", Gaile said as the troopers charged at her using the blasters as makeshift clubs or combat batons.

Gaile draws out her staff strapped to her back and use it to block off the attacks and then counter by striking the legs or jabbing the heads. After defeating the ones around her, she turns to see a large number of Animates charging at her through the cave entrance, exactly that Gaile is hoping.

Gaile raises both her hands and aim for the approaching troopers. She then fires a powerful beam of light-side energy. The soldiers have no means of escaping as they're trapped in a narrow path and thus vaporized by the blast. Gaile looks at her hands and smiles upon seeing no burnt flesh, then frowns as more soldiers enter the cave.


Alice enters the ruins of a destroyed city looking for anything to be of any use to eliminate a large force chasing her. Finding what she needs, Alice stops and turns to the approaching soldiers. She draws out a double-bladed spinning lightsaber and ignites two blue blades. The lightsaber spins and Alice throws is like a buzzsaw. She then uses the Force to direct the spinning blade to several tall towers and cut them down. The cut-off portions of the towers then fall on top of the enemy soldiers crushing them as Alice catches her blade.

Those that were not crushed climb over the rubble to continue the pursuit, but Alice simply readies her blade for a frontal assault.


A hundred soldiers enter the forest searching for Bali, who they lost sight of. On top of a tree was Bali, who then sit down and close her eyes.

As the soldiers spread out to find Bali, one of them finds her and fires a shot. Upon getting a closer look, the trooper sees that "Bali" he shot is actually another Animate. Suddenly that Animate is shot by another Animate. All the Animated start firing on each other, due to seeing one another as Bali, until the last one falls dead to the ground.

"Too bad, it won't work on droids.", Bali said. "Then again I didn't think it would work on zombie-like beings."


Shirudo watches the skirmish from afar and isn't happy. He lost more than half of the Animates deployed.

"It would appear that I underestimated their capabilities, or perhaps Ben gave them some useful pointers.", Shirudo said.

"Shall we go?", one of the Crownguard asks.

"No, I merely want to test their capabilities.", Shirudo said continuing to watch the battle. "To see if they are indeed worthy of being called Jedi."


Zekk finds himself in a dead-end as Animates blocking off his escape from behind. The Animated fire their blasters onto Zekk and after a minute of firing notice that Zekk is still standing with no injuries. One of the Animates moves forward to Zekk until he walks pass him revealing to be an illusion.

Suddenly gas leaks out of the pipes followed by a cannon shot, which ignites the gas creating a massive explosion that wipes out all the Animates in the vicinity.

From afar is Zekk, who manages to hot-wire a downed AT-M6 and fire its main weapon before finally shutting down for good.

"That's that.", Zekk said with a smile.


"Well, that was dumb.", Bradon mutters to himself after activating a magnetic crane to strip the Animates and unintentionally himself of weapons. "Guess we'll have to do it with fists."

The Animates charge forward with their fists raised and attack, but Bradon proves himself to be an expert martial artist as he fights off the Animates with various kinds of fighting styles. His strikes are powerful enough to break the Animates' armor as if they were glass. In some cases the secretly activates a thermal detonator on one of the Animates and toss him to a large group wiping them out.


Ben and Cyber continue their duel, with Ben continuously attacking Cyber head on to prevent him from using his Force abilities, while at the same time dodging his saber swings and fist strikes. This caught Cycber by surprise as moments before Ben had a hard time, but has quickly adapted to his fighting style. Regardless Ben is unable to harm Cyber's body despite landing several blows. The two blades once again lock against each other.

"How could you, such a powerful man, do something this cruel?!", Ben asks Cyber, struggling against his strength. "Why do you not save the galaxy with this might?!"

"Is this galaxy really worth saving?", Cyber responds. "What about you? Should you really save the very galaxy that tried to kill you just because you bare the name Skywalker? Why did you become a Jedi in the first place?!"

"Don't talk like you know me!", Ben shouts in anger as he kicks Cyber to the stomach knocking him back for a moment. Ben then moves in for a quick strike, but Cyber performs several back-flips with one hand to dodge the strike.

"Ha! You don't even know yourself!", Cyber said before blocking several more of Ben's saber strikes. "Impressive, your powers exceed all my expectations! Perhaps I may have to use this after all."

Cyber sheathes his lightsaber and raises his hand to the air. Suddenly a buster-like sword shoots out from space and lands onto Cyber's hand.

"What?!", Ben exclaims in shock. "He has one too?!"

"Bear witness to the power of a weapon wielded by a Celestial!", Cyber shouts raising his sword crackling with electricity.

EXPLOSIVE TEMPEST WAVE!

Cyber strikes the ground releasing a whirlwind of explosive electricity towards Ben.

"Damn in this case!", Ben raised his free hand and a longsword flies out of the Unity and lands on his grip.

WHITE SHINING FLASH!

Ben swings his sword which releases a large beam of white light towards Cyber's attack.

The two attacks collide resulting in a massive explosion that covers the area in smoke and knocking both combatants away from each other.

"He's troublesome. At this rate, there won't be a planet to live on.", Ben said to himself as he disappears into the smoke. "I must retreat."

Cyber stands back up as the smoke clears and finds Ben gone.

"Hmph! He is very wise to know when to run.", Cyber said. "Still I never thought that he too would possess a Celestial Weapon. I wonder where he got it?"

From a distance is a beautiful woman in black robes watching the fight.

"He pushed Fengclaw so far...", the woman said to herself. "Ben Skywalker is a foe to be feared."

"No matter where you run or hide, I'll find you and put an end to your accursed bloodline.", Cyber said darkly.


Damien finds himself surrounded by Animates, but wasn't worried at all. Damien then punches the ground and use the Force to create a shockwave to knock the surrounding Animates aside. He then ignites his lightsaber and charges at the Animates standing back up. Suddenly Damien vanishes from their eyes unaware that he is moving at incredible speed allowing him to cut down his enemies before they could react.

After all his enemies fall to the ground, Damien stops feeling nauseated.

"Now I know why no one uses Force Speed this long.", Damien mutters. "This will take getting used to."


Ben leans onto a wall completely exhausted.

"I never thought I would have to use the blade.", Ben said staring at the white longsword. "I never thought it was this powerful. So this is the power of a weapon wielded by a Celestial, but why would the Force Priestesses entrust me with such a blade?"

Ben then pulls himself up and heads for the temple.


Leida fights off her pursuers with her quarterstaff before it got shot out of her hands. Leida then resorts to using the Force to fight them off. She uses sharp shrapnels to impale the Animates. She then uses the Force to grab several stun cuffs on the ground and use them as makeshift whips, while using an electric cable on several Animates neck squeezing hard enough to decapitate.

"They may be dead, but I still don't feel good about that.", Leida said in disgust as the last dead Animate burst into flame. Leida looks around the ruined city before falling to the ground and curling to a ball position looking all traumatized. Outside is the sound of battle and fire, but through her ears are the screams of death and despair of the people residing on the planet.

"I'm sorry... I'm sorry...", Leida cries as the screams get louder.


"Sir, all Animates have been destroyed.", A Crownguard reports. "Ben Skywalker and his Initiates are on their way here!"

"Well. they surpass my expectation far better than I expected."

"However the Mothma girl sees to collapse and suffering some breakdown."

"Is that so? Her Observation Force must be advance enough to hear the souls that died today.", Shirudo said. "I won't have to kill her then. I'll let her suffer from the guilt her mother caused."

"It won't matter anyway.", Pein said walking to Shirudo. "Salot is now ours."

Sali walks up before the dormant Salot and uses the Force to connect with it. Salot eyes glow blue and fire a beam at Sali teleporting her inside its body.

"The first thing she'll commit now is revenge.", Pein said watching Salot fly into space. "We're done here, so let go and find the next artifact."

The group teleports back to the Worldcraft with Pein being the last, but before doing so he leaves being a small sack and Sali's datapad.

Ben arrives too late to stop them. He then picks up the sack and datapad just as the others arrive.

"Return to the ship. We've done all we can.", Ben said looking up to the sky as the Worldcraft teleport to another location.


Bradon carries the unconscious Leida to the shuttle as the others watch Ben speaking to Sali's grandfather. The two bow respectfully before Ben enters the shuttle with the others.

"So did we fail?", Bradon said as Gaile tends to Leida.

"We dealt with an organization capable of wiping out a planetary force under the control of the First Order and survive despite the odds.", Ben said to the initiates. "In my eyes, you all pass the first test. Coming from me, that's saying a lot."

The Initiates all lot at each other in shock and joy.

"It also appears that their leader has the same idea as well.", Ben said pouring out the contents of the sack revealing to be Kyber Crystals. "This is his way of saying that you are worthy to called Jedi."


(Ending Song - Transformers Beast Wars II Ending - Yume no Iru Basho)

Note: I don't own any of this.

The ending comprises of each Jedi Rangers sleeping in their rooms with Ben Skywalker, the only one awake, standing in the ship bridge staring out to the vastness of space.

Leida Mothma's room is Chandrila theme with some Naboo and Alderaan architectures and a holo of Mon Mothma holding an infant Leida next to her bed.

Bradon Jenson's room resembles a blacksmith workshop with multiple primitive weapons like bows, swords, and axes hanging on the wall.

Bali Payton's room is a Dathomirian theme with a cauldron in the center of the room, some desks holding tools, and multiple ingredients stored on shelves.

Gaile Gaze's room resembles a library with scrolls, books, and Holocrons scattered all over the floor. The ceiling is a star chart—paintings of different wars hanging on the walls.

Damien Faro's room is a Corellian theme with many decors formerly belonging to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant.

Zekk's room is a Coruscant theme filled with many rich and luxurious decorations.

Alice Ty's room resembles that of Yoda's hut with simple basic needs and nothing more.