Chapter 8:The Beginning
The sound of metal hitting metal filled the room as Revan brought the staff he was holding up blocking a hit from Robo-Teal'c's staff who then tried to sweep his legs out from under him. Smirking he jumped back bringing a leg up to kick the copy in the face only for him to dodge, hand reaching out and catching Revan's ankle giving him a smirk before turning and using his momentum and mechanical strength to toss Revan across the training room floor.
Letting the force guide his body he rightened himself in midair and dug his staff into the floor to stop his momentum stopping to look up to find Robo-Teal'c already above him bringing his staff down. The world slowed as he pulled the force into his body ripping his staff from the ground and meeting Teal'c's with enough force to match his enchanted strength, surprise in his eyes before Revan released his staff and kicked the copy in the stomach sending him flying back. Regaining his staff he looked at the copy who had rightened himself landing on his feet looking back at him eyebrow raised before raising his staff relacing into the stance he'd taken at the beginning of their spar, Revan smirked and readied himself.
Their spar was cut off by the sound of an alarm sounding, drawing their attention to the observation room where Eresh had already made her exit heading towards Revan with a look of worry on her face. Giving a brief nod of dismissal to Robo-Teal'c he rushed to meet her.
"Sam has activated the emergency alert on her datapad," Eresh said as they made their way out the room, "From what little she was able to send, Tollana is currently under the control of an unknown goa'uld...most of their High Council are developing bombs capable of phasing through any kind of stargate protection, under the goa'uld's orders," he could hear the worry in her tone and he gave a mental command and they were teleported aboard the Kreia, the ship already leaving the hanger.
"Why would they be following the orders of a goa'uld? Shouldn't their Ion cannons be capable of taking down any of the current goa'uld ships?" he asked, activating the ship's cloak then jumping to FTL.
"I'm guessing that whoever this goa'uld is...they've found a way to bypass the Ion cannons," she said, stopping to stare as they dropped out of FTL staring at ten motherships floating in orbit above the planet. They both looked to each other before Eresh started to scan the ships as Revan scanned for sg-1's signal finding that Sam's was coming from what appeared to be the center of the Tollan city.
"Scans show those ship's shields are more advanced than any other goa'uld's we've come across," she studied the design before turning back to Revan a smirk on her face "however they're not strong enough to withstand a standard drone," he gave her a nod pulling his mask into his hand using the force then slid it on feeling it locks onto his suit.
"Think you can get them all while I take out whoever's on the ground?" He asked, taking the dual-bladed lightsaber into his hand, receiving a nod. Nodding to her and closing his eyes he centered himself letting out any anxiety or doubt into the force then he was gone in a flash finding himself staring at Sam, Daniel, and some wide-eyed Tollans. Then feeling the force shout a warning he activated his lightsaber. Its black blade was seemingly drawing in all light as he redirected two blasts heading towards him. Looking in the direction of the blast he saw two men in black full body armor suits with what appeared to be shields that absorbed the redirected blast and a goa'uld raising his hand device.
"Conventional weapons don't don't seem to work on them!" Sam shouted, drawing their attention as causing one of them to aim their wrist-mounted blasters at her. Using his emotions to empower his force powers he clenched his hand into a fist, the goa'uld screaming as he and the armored men slammed into the ground creating cracks on the floor. Reaching into his emotions focusing on his hatred, his rage, sith lightning formed in his hand as he saw the black-suited men slowly rising from the floor. With a thrust of his hand, the room was filled with the smell of ozone burning as the lightning hit the two suited men and the goa'uld its intensity stopping the goa'uld's heart and setting him on fire in an instant and the men's suits withstanding it.
The two armor-clad men managed to raise their arms slowly causing Recan to launch himself forwards before they could aim at him, changing the lightsabers intensity to its highest setting he met a brief resistance before the suit's shield gave and he removed their arms then bringing the blade around and severing their heads, deactivating his lightsaber and clipping it to his belt as their helmets fell to the ground, turning to face sg-1 and the shocked Tollans.
Their shock didn't last as the sounds of one of their Tollan ion cannons firing filled the room as Jack and Teal'c ran in through the door with a grin on his face.
"Am I glad to see you!" Jack said seeing Revan. "There is te-" before Jack could finish he received a nod.
"I know, " Revan said as Eresh told him that she'd disabled the engines and shields of the enemy ships and was now firing at the life signs in the ships. "Eresh has already disabled the ships and is currently taking care of the crew," he looked at the Tollan who had disbelieving looks on their faces and sighed, "I am Revan of the Lantean people...and I am placing those of you that helped the goa'uld under arrest."
They stared at Revan with one of them raising their weapon only for him to wave a hand ripping their weapon from their grip. Glaring at him behind his mask, Revan had Eresh leave the clean-up to Helia who his mask's hub notified him had arrived then she beamed down giving him a nod as she walked to a desk containing a console.
"It should only take a few seconds, " she said, her hand sinking into the console despite protests from the Tollan. After about half a minute she nodded to Revan, removing her hand and walking over to the goa'uld beaming the two armored men to the Kreia and ruffling through the other man's pockets pulling out a crystal which sunk into her hand.
"You have no rig-" the woman of the Tollan group started to shout getting over her shock only for Eresh to glare at her.
"No right?!" Eresh said her tone dark informing Revan what she found over their mental link as she walked up to the woman, ignoring the other Tollan whose hand was on his weapon only stopping when Revan ripped it from his hip. "You made weapons capable of wiping out all life on a planet!" She lifted the woman by the front of her clothes, "you gave them gate address to the Nox homeworld!" everyone could hear the sheer hatred in Eresh's tone.
"I had to save my people!" The woman shouted back panic and fear in her tone as she was lifted further off the ground.
"At the cost of Trillions of innocent lives!" Eresh paused taking a deep breath dropping the woman, who didn't expect it causing her to land on her backside. Giving the woman one last hateful look as she was helped up, Eresh looked to Revan who gave her a nod stepping forward.
"While we have a friendship with the humans of Earth, we do not have an official alliance," he started, eyes wandering over sg-1 before continuing "we are however official allies of the Nox….a race that provided you the aid when you needed it," he looked at the Tollan disappointment in his tone before it became hard like steel, "as High Counselor of the Lantean people, in agreement with the terms of our alliance...I place Tollana under control of our alliance till its High Council have stood trial for their crimes." With a mental nod to Eresh, using the knowledge she now had from Tollana's systems the Tollan High Council was beamed aboard Helia's ship in its brig.
"What will you do with them?" asked a man who Eresh notified him was Narim. He could see the fear in the man's eyes as he looked between Eresh and him. Reaching up and pulling his mask off he looked the man in the eyes.
"They're currently aboard one of my ship's briggs," he said looking at Eresh who after a quick mental conversation she nodded heading to the planet's stargate to lock it down only allowing travel between Alantis's and Earth's gate. "They will be held till a trial can be held," he could see that the man was distressed so he gave a small nudge in the force to calm him a bit "Until then you will be the liaison between your people and the alliance," he smirked at Narim's shocked look, "You should notify them of events," his smirk widened as the man rushed out of the room turning to face an amused Jack and worried looks from Daniel and Sam.
"Can you do that?" Sam asked, moving to the desk retrieving her weapons. "I mean you just took over a planet...I mean it's not like they had a choice," he could hear the worry in her tone, giving her a small smile.
"You're right...if they'd only planned on using the weapons on Earth, but they gave the goa'uld the address to the Nox homeworld, " raising his arm, a hologram projected from his bracers showing the rules of the alliance, highlighting a part of it, "the Nox have always been a race that prided themselves on their non-violent ways...however they were a young race when our races met and to make sure they could continue to grow the Furlings and my race decided to add some clauses to protect them," his let out a chuckle as Sam studied his bracers while Daniel studied the document. "To sum it up should a government declare themselves an enemy to a race in the alliance then they are the alliance's enemy." He deactivated the hologram much to Sam and Daniel's disappointment.
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"Only you could go to save a planet and end up taking it over yourself," Egeria said with humor on her tone as they sat in the Tollan High Council chambers joined by Lya, Thor, and Narim.
He let out a tired sigh giving her a mock glare "I didn't plan on it….it just happened," he rubbed the bridge of his nose before looking to Lya who nodded standing up from her seat.
"But it did happen," she said looking to the others in the room "while the Tollan are a peaceful race," she looked at Revan "having Helia bring her ship down to hover over the city has given some of them the wrong idea," she nodded to Narim "Narim here has told me that some have started rumors of a hostile takeover...with their missing council members being the prime example," she said a holo-projector on the table which projected an image of the armored men both with and without their armor revealing their pale skin and humanoid features.
"And to top it off, these...soldiers are more advanced than anything we've seen from a goa'uld," Egeria took over, looking to everyone "Eresh has checked the motherships nav-computers but have found nothing on their point of origin...she thinks their systems were set to delete anything deemed confidential in case of a takeover of the ship,"
"We're there any traps in their systems?" Revan asked receiving a nod from Egeria who brought up a list of fail-safes that Eresh had disabled and deleted before Lya cleared his throat to get the conversation back on track looking to everyone again.
"While I do agree that it's worrying that the goa'uld have access to such technology we do need to deal with the current situation first," waiting to receive nods from Revan and Egeria she continued. "While I know some of you have been hesitant to agree to it I think with the current situation and the fact that the system lords meeting is within a few months, it's time we discuss the establishment of something more permanent than an alliance...something Thor, Egeria, and I have discussed in private," she looked to them all before waving a hand over the holoprojector the image changing to a symbol that Revan recognized, turning to look at Egeria who merely smirked at him.
"We have already offered the current High Council a deal," she smiled softly at Revan, "If they are willing to step down and appoint Narim who is the current highest-ranking member of the government, as the substitute High Counclour till another council can be elected," she looked around the table, "we will allow them to be tried by Tollan laws opposed to the rules of the alliance...some sentences created by the furlings are quite harsh," she looked to Revan who nodded in agreement with the deal before looking everyone at the table in the eyes " however this still leaves the concern that Tollana will be attacked again...so I propose the creation of the first-ever Galactic Republic," she looked to Revan who was lost in thought before he let out a sigh before looking to those around the table feeling interested from them before giving Lya a nod, who smiled and brought up the rough draft of a constitution "Now...let's get to work."
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"How goes your project to show the jaffa the truth about their false gods?" Teal'c asked as the Kreia broke through Tollana's atmosphere on course for Earth. Sam was looking over one of the bracers he'd let her study, while Daniel was using the holoprojector to read up on the alliance, looking over the agreement that had been made long ago, and Jack was sleeping in the co-pilot's seat hat over his eyes.
"Eresh says she's nearly got it complete," "Revan said as the ship jumped to the lowest speed of FTL making the trip take a couple of hours to let the sg team rest a bit. "We're planning on using it during their annual meeting," he looked at Teal'c "I hope you and Bra'tac will be ready," Teal'c gave him a nod before heading back into the ship's common area. "So how long are you going to pretend to sleep?" he asked Jack who let out a grunt sliding more into the seat. Letting out a chuckle Revan moved to join Sam who was still examining the bracer only to stumble as the ship shook, dropping out of sublight, the ship's alarms blaring.
Regaining his balance Revan jumped into the pilot's chair checking the ship's scanners and finding that they'd been pulled out of FTL by some kind of tractor beam, a big sleek ship outside his viewport that he couldn't recognize the build of. His hand became blurs as he set the Kreia's shields to their maximum strength as the ship rocked back and forth as it was pulled into the unknown ship and the cockpit was bathed in light.
Revan's eyes snapped open, pushing himself to his feet and taking in his surroundings he found sg-1 on the ground next to him getting up themselves.
"Anyone get the number of the bus that hit me?" Jack asked, rubbing his head as the sg team looked around, Revan's eyes widened in recognition as shouts and the sounds of energy weapons firing filled the clearing they were in, occupied by a ship Revan recognized. Sg-1 raised their weapons but paused as Revan shook his head and didn't move to draw his lightsaber, causing them to lower their weapons.
"Where are we?" Sam asked, looking around as the shouts grew louder, a woman holding a child in one arm with a blaster in her free hand appeared over a clearing, firing back making her way to the ship. She was stopped as a blaster bolt hit her thigh causing her to fall, dropping her weapon, and the child who appeared to be around seven a lightsaber hilt also hitting the ground. Sg-1 raised their weapons to help as an armored man wearing a mask similar to Revan's came into view, they moved to fire only for nothing to happen.
"What the hell?!" Jack shouted, pulling the weapon's trigger again with no result as the masked man removed his helmet revealing a grizzled face, blaster still pointed at the woman. Jack moved to strike the man with his weapon only to fall through him.
"You think we'd let such a valuable asset be taken without a fight," the man smirked, giving a small glance at the scared child on the ground before taking a step towards the woman. Without warning, she kicked the man's leg out causing him to let off a shot glancing her cheek before knocking the blaster out of his hand then slamming her fist into his jaw. As she reached back to throw another punch he regained his senses catching her punch twisting her arm which let out a snap with the woman only letting out a hiss of pain before slamming her leg into his side knocking him onto his back within reach of his gun as she pulled herself back, stopping as a shot landed near her hand looking to the man as he stood legs shaking and a bruise forming on his face eyes filled with rage. "The Mandalore order us to capture you seeing as you got some of that Jedi training for that dear old dead husband of yours...but he also said if you proved to be too much trouble then we were allowed to use lethal force," he raised the gun finger moving to pull the trigger only for a blue blade to pierce through his chest from the back eyes widening in pain, dropping the blaster and slamming falling to the floor revealing the child standing behind him holding the lightsaber to the woman's shocked eyes.
"Revan.," she whispered, and like a spell was broken the child dropped the lightsaber stepping back fear on his face as he realized just what he'd done. The image was then bathed in light with Revan and sg-1 finding themselves back inside the Kreia. Turning to Revan Jack opened his mouth to demand some answers only to stare at the new member of the group, a young boy who looked at them...Revan's breath hitching.
"Help," he said, looking at Revan who glared at the image letting the force flow through him to breakthrough whatever illusion they were in stopping only when he felt the force begging for him to listen to the plea letting it calm him down as he looked at the image of his son Vaner.
"Change your image first," he said. It gave him a look before his form changed into an image of Satele Shan. Memories of his fight against her flashed through his mind before he sighed giving whatever was using her form a nod to continue.
"We have spent forty-seven thousand years searching for the Lantean people," she stated looking to Revan then to sg-1 "usually this method of communication only works on a single mind...but due to unforeseeable circumstances we have pulled you all in," she gestured to the ship "we should have appeared first in a familiar setting, but we instead brought you and your friends along during our scans of your memories," Revan studied the program tilting his head.
"Your creators?," Revan asked before being interrupted by Jack.
"Wait! Hold on!" He shouted pointing to Satele's lookalike then to Revan, "you're telling me that was his memory," disbelief was in his tone as he looked at Revan who merely nodded his head.
"It was how I remembered it….but if it was my memory it should have been from my point of view...and we shouldn't have appeared in an empty clearing," he gave a curious look to what he assumed to be an AI who nodded.
"We use the memories you have of a familiar place to create a complete rendition of it to relax you...normally," she stated, gaining a pained look on her face. "However with the unknown interference from you we were unable to access only a fraction and nothing within the last few years," she gave Revan a curious look "We expected some resistance as Lanteans were known for their advanced mental abilities...but scans indicate you're abilities are beyond what our creators estimated to be possible,"
"You've mentioned your creators," Revan said a thoughtful look on his face as he studied her finding that while she did have the form of Satele there were subtle differences one such being a symbol on the side of her neck that he could swear he'd seen before, the woman smiled softly with an undertone of worry in her eyes.
"I am an artificial intelligence created as a last-ditch effort for the salvation of my creators," he could hear the desperation in her tone as she looked him in the eyes "however with many of our systems damaged in combat with an organic ship of unknown origin and without a means to repair them we have been traveling blind and at the maximum speed that our ship can safely function at," she looked out the cockpit "we have come across other ships...but with damage done to the ship and finding no trace of the Lanteans... I was forced to destroy those that proved to be a danger to my mission," she offered him her hand "I am allowed to reveal my mission to a representative of the Lantean people, and even then a full memory scan is required before I reveal who my creators are and more," seeing the determination in her eyes Revan closed his eyes letting out a sigh.
"Eresh," he said, the AI's eyes widening as the image of the Kreia shimmered and shattered as Eresh rose from the floor in front of them. The unknown AI seemed to freeze as Eresh raised a hand as computer-code spread out from her feet wrapping around the AI. Eresh walked up to her studying the AI before turning to Revan a smile on her face.
"She's telling the truth," she lowered her hand, the AI stumbling to the ground looking at Eresh with wide eyes, "Rev….do it," he could hear the desperation in Eresh's tone as she looked between him and the AI. Closing his eyes and opening himself to the force he could feel it shouting at him to do it...that by doing this he would save an uncountable amount of lives. Looking at the AI still on the floor he walked forward offering her his hand looking her in the eyes, fear prevalent in her eyes but underneath that was a resolve that showed that just maybe there was more humanity in her than he thought there was. Reaching her hand forward Revan felt a mental probe much like when he'd first met Eresh. Letting his mental defense down, the world went white as images went through his mind, places he'd been, things he'd done.
"Somehow my head feels worse than before," Jack said as Revan opened his eyes, his head resting on the cockpit's controls. Pushing himself up he looked out the cockpit being greeted by what appeared to be a hanger. Looking at the controls he noticed that the Kreia's ramp was down using the force to push his mental fatigue down making his way to the ship's ramp, feeling sg-1 moving to follow him with Jack still complaining about his head.
Making his way down the ramp he found Eresh talking eagerly with a hologram of Satele projecting from what he knew to be his datapad. "I take it I've passed your little test?" Revan asked, drawing their attention, his ears picking up the signs of a ship's engines straining and seeing that the Kriea had cables running from its engines into the ship" and how long have we been out and where are we heading?" He asked, Eresh gaining a sheepish look as the AI moved to answer him.
"You were out for six hours," the hologram said bringing up a map of the galaxy showing they were outside of the milky way bypassing Ida entirely towards the Togru Galaxy "We are currently on route to Roxas Prime homeworld of my creators...the Furlings," she looked at Revan "High Counselor Revan of the Lantean please help us...you are our only hope," she looked at him, eyes full of hope. Revan simply sighed before smiling at her and giving her a nod of his head.
"The Furlings were close friends with the Lantean people thousands of years ago...of course I'd be willing to help," he said looking to Eresh who nodded back to him with a smile before turning to sg-1, "Sorry for the detour...but I have a feeling this is something that can't wait," he said getting a nod from the hologram, "by the way you must have a name?" he asked her, receiving a confused look.
"My purpose was to find the Lantean people," she said her tone sounding like an automated response eyes losing focus, "any designation was not required for my mission...survival of the Furling people is my primary mission and that is all," Eresh gave her a sad look as the AI's focus returned to them looking at Eresh's sadness with curiosity and discomfort, "is that not satisfactory?" he could hear the nervousness in her tone.
'Well it would make communication easier," he said, Sam moving up to study the map, and Daniel and Jack headed back to the ship, "Plus it wouldn't hurt for Eresh to make some more friends of the AI variety," he smirked as Eresh gave him an annoyed look "he looked at her for a second study the AI before nodding to himself "How about Nomi?" he asked causing the AI to stare at him for a few seconds before nodding her head.
"After the Jedi Grand Master that fought in the Sith War," she said nodding again, "I accept that as a designation," she said with a small smile on her face as her image changed to that of Nomi Sunrider that he'd seen during his studies of Jedi Holocrons.
"Sith War?" Sam asked looking away from the map and at Revan and the hologram curiosity in the tone of her voice and her eyes. Sharing a look with Eresh and the newly named Nomi he let out a chuckle nodding back to the ship.
"It'll be easier to explain using the ships holo-table," he nodded to Eresh and Nomi "Remember not to kiss on the first date," he said with an exaggerated wink to the artificial duo before leading Sam back into the ship hearing Eresh sputter behind him and Nomi questioning her about what he meant.
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"Wow," Jack said looking out the cockpit as the Kreia flew out of the Furling ship revealing a city that looked like a mix of Kashyyyk and Coruscant a mix of technology and nature much like the Nox's ship, however unlike the Nox who had organic-looking machines the city appeared more mechanical with signs of wear.
"This is Orion the Furling capital city," Nomi said still using the datapad to project herself pointing to a tower in the center of the city, "Chiron the King of Furlings and his family are in stasis in the Palace," she paused a worried look on her face "shielding around stasis pod and the occupant's vitals are fine...but where are the security drones?" Eresh looked at Nomi then with a gesture of her hand the ship's sensors scanned the city pulling up the results. Revan's eyes widened at the sheer number of people in stasis under the city. Nomi seeing his look nodded to him. "Once the ship that was sent to help the Lanteans during the plague returned we underestimated the plague's resilience and rate of infection...within weeks it had spread across the entire population of Roxas Prime and had made its way into the colonies," a pained look came across her face. "They tried many methods with no success...so the King using the information gained from the alliance and his authority ordered the creation of mass stasis chambers capable of housing billions, ordering all members of the Furling people to return here."
"In hopes that the Lanteans a race more advanced than others in the alliance would come up with a solution," Eresh finished, getting a nod from Nomi "but it took years for your creation using the technology available and the fact that all resources were put into the stasis chambers didn't speed anything up...and by then the Lanteans had abandoned the Milky way with no way for you to know where they were," she said looking out at the city sadness in her tone.
"But now you've been found," Nomi said happiness obvious in her tone looking out at the city, "mixing Lantean and Nox technology allowed for the creation of stasis pods with a near to impossible chance of failure...and from what I've seen you will be able to cure everyone," she looked between Eresh and Revan eyes showing just how much it meant to her.
"Do we have enough nanites for a population of this size?" Revan asked Eresh who merely nodded smirking as she gestured to the scanners which showed something huge entering the planets atmosphere, his eyes widening at the familiar shape, "A city-ship?" he asked looking out the cockpits viewport at an unfamiliar city-ship that stopped in orbit miles above the city as the Kreia landed on a landing pad attached to the palace. He turned his attention back to a satisfied Eresh.
"Remember that planet with the damaged city-ship where the ruling family used it to remain in power?" she said, bringing up an image of the city-ship showing the parts that had been repaired and replaced to make it fully operational and upgraded. "Well after the lower class revolted and they had a government in place they contacted us through the travelers...apparently my duplicates have a great reputation among the people in Pegasus, they were willing to trade the remains of the ship for a similar situation to the Athosians," her smile widened as the image of the city-ship shifted the body of it opening to reveal trillions upon trillions of nanites, "Originally I wanted to use it for terraforming uninhabitable planets...but it can easily be repurposed for a cure dispensary," the nanites shot down from the ship blanketing the city before seeming to sink into the buildings and the ground "the disease isn't in the air anymore so all they have to do is remove it from the people," a serious look appeared on her face and the force shouted a warning in Revan's head "The nanites are picking up life signs...non-Furling in the palace," panic spread across Nomi's face as Revan slid his mask back on rushing out the cockpit with sg-1 moving to follow. With a mental command, he lowered the ship's ramp jumping from it as it opened, landing on his feet following a map of the palace Eresh put on his mask's hud.
Moving through the twist and turns of the palace hallways Revan found himself outside what Eresh told him was the throne room, he could hear sg-1 making their way to him. Making sure that the life signs in the throne room were the only ones he moved to open the room's door only to stop as the force screamed inside his head. Gathering the force throughout his body in a split second he jumped back as the throneroom's doors were ripped from the walls, in a flash his dual-bladed lightsaber was in his hand its black blade cutting the door in half its pieces slamming into the wall behind him. Looking to the now doorless entryway he found himself facing a group of twenty composed of men and women dressed in Lantean clothing, though his attention was drawn away from them as the palace's shield sprung up in front of the approaching sg-1 and the AI duo.
"So you are the anomaly the others couldn't shut up about," he could hear the disgust in the woman's tone as she stepped forward the group behind her taking a step he could feel the dark side around them like a savage beast. "I can say I'm not impressed," Revan's eyes widened as she pulled a cylindrical object from the belt on her waist, a twisted smile on her face, eyes a deep yellow. The others in the group drew similar weapons of their own and with a snap-hiss twenty lightsaber blades ignited and the throne room was illuminated in red.
Revan heard sg-1 and Eresh let out a gasp as he studied the group before him eyes narrowing "You know I gave Oma a warning about stuff like this," he stepped back raising his lightsaber "And I'm pretty sure this goes against your whole anti-interference policy...and stealing my weapon designs is kind of a cheap shot," the woman let out a chuckle as she took a step forward he could feel the force twisting around her and without warning, her hand lashed out the force rushing from her palm with enough force to render boulders to rubble. Raising his hand and feeling the force rush to him he gave a force push of his own back, the palace shaking as the woman's eyes widened and she was pushed back feet digging into the ground to stop herself stumbling a bit with blood dripping from her nose.
With a twisted grin, the woman stared at him, eyes full of madness as she let out a laugh that raised the hair on the back of Revan's neck. "Yes!" she shouted, dragging her red blade along the ground the sizzling of melting stone filling the room "This is what I wanted! This is why we descended! This is what I needed!" Then in a blur, she pulled one of the men in the group to herself, stabbing her blade into his chest laying hand on his cheek. Revan felt her rip the force from the man watching in horror as he withered and crumbled to dust and she merely smiled manically back at Revan while pulling the dead man's lightsaber into her free hand with the force. "You did this!" she shouted, rushing forward at force enchanted speeds, their blades clashing as the remaining members of her group rushed forward putting Revan on the defensive as he parried more force-empowered blows.
"How is this my fault!" he shouted back dodging a blade heading for his back activating his lightsabers other blade cutting through two unlucky members of her group before she stepped back a smile still on her face watching as he fought against sixteen opponents using the force to even the odds in the dance of blades. Grabbing an unsuspecting descended he pulled him into a path of another blade using their shock to cut them down as well and in an instant bring their number down to fourteen his black blades just a blur the force flowing through him. "All this is just senseless violence!" he yelled using his anger to channel sith lightning into his lightsaber hilt and through the blade stunning another group member and using his control of the lightning now flowing through the women to render her to ash, her screams echoing through the room causing a member to hesitate and be cut down by their leader and have his force essence absorbed by her.
"You don't get it, do you?" she said her voice lowering as she looked to her hand letting out a cackle as a spark of electricity flashed across her skin. "You changed everything!" her tone became manic again as she pulled two of her members into her blades severing their heads before they could even realize what was happening and absorbing their force presence bringing Revan's number of opponents to ten. He could feel her strengthening herself every time she absorbed someone her eyes becoming an even darker shade of yellow and her veins black. "Before the energy we used was dull, we could do whatever we wanted with it...but since your arrival, it's come alive!" With a flourish of her hand, Eresh let out a scream as she was forced through the shield separating them, her body smoking burnt nanites dropping from her blue skin like flakes. Feeling Eresh's agonizing pain through their link Revan pushed out with all his being and his anger releasing a force repulse that rendered the remaining members to nothing but ashes their lightsabers clinking to the ground and sent the woman flying into the throne room the sounds of bones snapping coming as she slammed through the opposing wall and kept going.
"Eresh," he whispered, pulling her into his arms wincing at the heat she was giving off as she gave him a small smile and a wince.
"It's just a flesh wound," she said with a British accent causing Revan to let out a sigh of relief before flicking her forehead causing her to hiss at the hit. "What was that for!" she shouted, raising a shaking hand to rub the spot as the nanites that she was composed of moved to cover her wounds and cool her down.
"Now I know I shouldn't have let you and Ayla watch those movies," he said with mirth in his tone as he held her shakily to her feet keeping a hand on her back in case she fell. Looking to the ashes and lightsabers on the floor he gave a worried look to Eresh, "So...even with the low opinion I have about the ascended, I don't think they'd allow something like this," she nodded looking worriedly at the remains of the descended.
"Something must have happened since you met Oma," she looked towards sg-1 and Nomi on the other side of the shield, "We're not going to get any answers sitting around," she reached down grabbing one of the lightsabers looking at Revan who nodded reactivating his blade and stabbing it into the shield as Eresh activated the one in her hand and stabbed it into the shield as well causing it to spark then fade.
"What the hell was that?" Jack asked as Eresh retrieved the dropped datapad Nomi's holographic form looking worriedly at the damage done to the throne room. "I thought you were the only one with a fancy laser sword," he kicked one of the lightsaber hilts. "She looked and sounded crazy," he looked to the hole in the wall "She is dead right?" worry was prevalent in his tone.
Reaching out through the force Revan could feel her presence almost like a sickness, her madness palatable in the force. Shaking his head to Jack's questions he looked to Eresh who gave him a knowing look "Eresh take them and go heal and wake up the King," he smiled at her pulling off his combat robes leaving him in his armor. Pulling the remaining lightsabers on the floor to himself he bundled them in his robes then handing them to Eresh "I'm going to go take care of something," he could see Jack and Sam about to speak and raised his hand to silence them "You saw what she did to her friends...what do you think she'll do to you?" he asked silence filling the room before he nodded to them clipping his lightsaber to his belt.
"Still have the instincts of a Jedi don't you?" Eresh whispered with a sad smile as he made his way into the hole in the wall he'd made giving her a small nod. Making his way into the hole in the wall he found a bloody trail on the wall and floor leading to a lightsaber cut hole in the floor. Reaching into a pouch on his belt he pulled out a glow stick activating it and tossing it into the hole watching as it became a speck in the darkness before letting out a thud as it hit the floor the sensor on the stick notifying him that it was quite the drop. Closing his eyes and centering himself in the force as he breathed in and out slowly letting it flow into his body feeling every beat of his heart, the feeling of it flowing through every inch of his body ready to be used at a moment's notice then he jumped. He could feel air rush past him as he fell, the force flowing through his body strengthening it and slowing his descent.
With a warning in the force and within seconds of impacting the floor he stopped, the ground indenting from the sheer pressure of the force bubble holding him in midair. Opening his eyes he slowly lowered himself to the floor with the force finding himself in a foot-deep crater of metal, the smell of blood, and the feel of madness from the woman clinging to the room. Looking around he saw only darkness while pulling his lightsaber into his hand igniting one of its blades as he stepped out of the crater.
"Can you feel it?" her voice came from every direction as he walked deeper into the room, his mask's night vision activating revealing the room as the force screamed a warning out to him causing him to jump back as a crimson blade headed for his neck missing by an inch before disappearing into the darkness. He tried to reach out with the force and find her but the room was saturated with her madness. The force's disgust was almost audible at the sheer amount of it making it impossible to get anything but flashes. "It screams and begs!" he brought his blade up deflecting a strike only to grunt as he was kicked in the ribs before the blade disappeared again. "The others thought I was crazy...they were blind!" he was forced to shut his eyes as his night vision became unbearably bright as she flung lightning at him causing him to raise his blade to deflect it and sending a kick to his left side feeling it connect with something before she disappeared from his senses again. "So I did what I must!" he barely dodged her blade as it clipped his mask leaving a line across it.
"And what is that?!" he shouted back using the brief second he could feel her, to grip her with the force feeling as her bones gave before he was forced to let go as the force screamed in his head letting out a hiss of pain as her blade glanced his side. "Turn your friends into batteries?!" he took hold of his pain using it to fuel his rage letting lose sith lightning from his free hand in all directions "Threaten innocent people!?" he cut his hold on the lightning as he dropped to the floor to dodge a kick before springing back up with a kick to her face only for her to grab his leg and sending lightning into his body making him convulse and scream before he used the pain to send his lightning into her sending her flying away from him, both of them slamming into the floor. He let out a groan as he tried to get to his feet eyes opening wide at the snap-hiss of a lightsaber activating and without thought and letting the force control his movement he rolled onto his back his lightsaber flying to his hand as he cut hers that was buried in the ground where he'd been in two.
She let out a laugh as she slowly raised herself onto her hands and knees, "They didn't appreciate the power it could give us...all we need was fear," she let out a chuckle as the room's light flickered on as Revan ripped off his mask looking to her "It was an accident at first," she stumbled towards him "but feeling its fear as I ripped the energy from them..it was intoxicating," she let out a disgusting shiver as he pushed himself to his feet causing her to pause "of course I left some of them to feed on for such an occasion as this," with a wave of her hand Revan's eyes widened at the pile of bodies the appeared the force clinging to them in what felt like fear. With a flick of her finger, the bodies rose one by one in the air and were flung against the walls, some letting out groans of pain. "Why let our little reject Anubis have all the fun," with a clench of her fist her victims screamed as he could feel the force itself scream as it was ripped from not just them but millions of ascended beings, he could feel their agony. He pushed his body to its limits as he rushed forward in a blur bringing his lightsaber's blade down on her head only for her free hand to grab it mid-swing her smile widening as she looked at Revan with elation, the bodies on the walls falling to the ground with some letting out sickening cracks. "Seems like you're not the only one with this fun new toy," the wounds on her body closed before she slammed her fist into Revan's chest, his chest armor caving in as he was sent flying back with an audible boom slamming into the wall with enough force to crack the entire wall and be buried feet into it.
Giving Revan a dismissive look he could feel her reaching back out ripping the force from other ascended beings, but he could feel they still lived. Looking to him as if she could read the question on his mind she let out a laugh "Why absorb everything from them when I feed off their fear and energy without end?" her grin growing she raised a hand and a cloaked figure appeared being held by their throat. "Take this one for example," she ripped her hood off revealing a head of black hair "She fought tooth and nail for your little group only for her to be stripped of her ascension by the very people she helped ascend and forced to be an observer...but being a true-blooded Lantean she still has some powers at her disposal," she moved her grip to hold the woman by her hair causing her to let out a hiss of pain.
"Leela," the black-haired woman whispered her voice echoing through the room reaching a shaking hand up to grasp the woman's wrist "Why?" she asked only to let out a scream as lightning arched across her body before Leela flung her up before delivering a bone-breaking force enchanted kick to her stomach sending the woman flying in Revan's direction who used the force to slow her momentum enough to catch her his back slamming into the wall as he gasped in pain from her hitting his chest.
"Why?!" Leela yelled the ground around her cracking as he felt her madness be pushed aside by a feeling of complete and utter loathing and hatred using her moment of distraction to pull the force into him focusing on healing his chest wound. "You could be gods! To rule this galaxy! But you Lanteans and your foolish position of non-interference were willing to be just observers! To force your views on anyone who'd want to ascend and remove their ability to if they don't follow your rules!" she gestured to Revan "Yet the second he appears and won't follow your rules, you throw your oh so precious ways out the window and side with Anubis, a failure! If you got off your asses and as one we used our powers to kill him we wouldn't be in this situation!" her eyes widened showing that the yellow had started to encompass more of her eye. "But I suppose it was a good thing that you didn't...after all, he's what caused the change isn't he?" she did a little spin, arms outstretched as Revan continued to gather the force feeling wounds and bones heal. The woman in Revan's arms gripped his shoulder pushing herself up with his help but not looking once at him.
"You're right," she stumbled a bit but kept her balance her back to Revan "The others threw everything we stood for away...even with my protest and willingness to fight them, they spit on what should have been our legacy," she coughed into her hand blood trickling out of her fist. "But what will you do now?" she asked, straightening her back and standing tall. " You've killed and descended most if not all of the ascended in the universe using the energy that till this one's arrival was a hollow thing without life," she stumbled forward before falling onto her hands and knees still staring at Leela. "You've got what you wanted haven't you?" The sadness in her tone was outweighed by the feeling of complete and utter defeat hiding what he could tell was a resolve made of steel.
"Got what I wanted?" Leela's tone sounded almost innocent as she stared at the woman before letting out a laugh and squeezing her fist, Revan felt millions of beings screaming in complete and utter agony before being silenced as Leela's power grew. The black-haired woman emptied her stomach on the floor at the sheer feeling of utter agony echoing throughout the force."Do you feel that Ishtar?!" Revan's eyes widened at the name "Your legacy...your people being reduced to nothing!" the feeling of madness returned to the room greater than it had been before. "Do you know what I want?" she whispered hand still clenched into a fist as she looked Ishtar in the eyes "I want you to die knowing that the Lantean people are nothing...that your millions of years of history amounted to nothing," she looked up to the ceiling a twisted smile on her face "I want to bring this universe to its knees and make the living energy scream...and what better way than to kill the one it seems to love so much and wipe out every being that has heard of the Lantean race," she looked to Revan before turning her attention back to Ishtar who stood up on shaky legs glaring at Leela.
"I am Ishtar, former High Counselor of the Lantean people," her legs stopped shaking, her voice hard as steel. "And I will not let you," he could feel the force surrounding and filling her as she glared at Leela "hurt anyone else!" she thrust a hand out, causing a force push with enough strength to shake the palace as it tore a path truth the stone floor slamming into Leela with an audible crack as she flew into the wall leaving a deep trench along the floor impacting the wall with another snap as the wall shattered and the ceiling collapsed on the side of the room. Like a puppet with its strings cut Ishtar fell to the ground with Revan rushing to her side to find her gasping for her breath. Catching her breath she looked up to Revan with a look much like Eresh's when she accomplished something. "This was easier when I wasn't in a physical body," she rolled onto her back "Think she's dead?" she asked just before the rubble started to shake causing a look of disbelief to spread across Earth's face as it was blasted from the floor at sound barrier-breaking speeds.
Raising a hand Revan created a bubble of force energy around him and Ishtar as the rubble slammed into it and was rendered into dust. A series of sickening cracks filled the room as Leela rose from the ground, wounds visible healing as she let loose her manic laugh as the rubble slammed into Revan's force bubble.
"No...I don't think she's dead," he said dryly as the last piece of rubble was turned to dust as it slammed into his shield with enough force to cause cracks to spread across the floor as Leela stopped a few feet across from them with her twist smile still on her face. Looking to Ishtar then to her he let out a breath as he gripped his lightsaber in his hand running his hand across its controls causing the hilt to shift, the hilt lengthened and with an audible click, it separated in two leaving Revan with a lightsaber in each hand causing Leela to raise a brow.
"You think just because you have two of your plasma swords it will even the odds?" she asked in a condescending tone. Giving her a smirk he closed his eyes feeling the force rush to him, filling him as he breathed in and out slowly letting the force spread across his body, but he didn't stop there he reached deeper into himself, letting his hold on his emotions go. Like a fire being fed gasoline, the force seemed to let out a yell of elation as he just let go of everything letting the force fill his entire being. Opening his eyes slowly, one now the same yellow as Leela's and the other his normal brown as he stepped forward igniting his lightsabers one black and the other blue. He could feel the force whispering in his head encouraging him as he walked forward, it was begging for him to destroy Leela to stop the sickness she was bringing into the force...to put everything back in balance.
"No, but I think they'll help," he said, stopping in front of her, staring her in the eyes as he felt the force continue to flow into him as the world became sharper. "And they're called lightsabers," he said in humor that didn't reach his eyes before bringing his blades forward in a blur only to be caught by Leela who used her hold on them and his momentum to pull him close bringing her leg up to meet his stomach only for him to deactivate his lightsabers dropping them and grabbing her leg and flinging her across the room. Pulling his lightsabers back into his hands he rushed forward meeting her with a slash as she landed on her feet drawing a hiss from her as she dodged the lightsaber's blade leaving a ling across her arm as he pushed forward letting the force guide his movement till he was a black and blue blur forcing Leela to keep up with his pace. He could feel her anger as he scored some hits leaving wounds that lasted only seconds but he could tell she didn't have full control over her abilities leaving her open for attack.
After what felt like hours but was seconds dodging her strikes and landing on his own, her rage reached a pinnacle as she let out a deafening scream thrusting both hands out, lighting flashing from them as he brought his lightsabers up to block it, wincing as he felt it's intensity. Using his defensive stance as an opportunity she increased the lightning's intensity as she walked forwards slowly gaining ground only to be forced back by Ishtar who held her hand up with a look of concentration. Letting out a hiss Leela fell back to using one hand to send lightning at Revan and the other to grab Ishtar in the force by the throat causing her to gasp for breath as she was lifted. Using her spit focus Revan raised his black lightsaber to hold back her lightning and used the force to throw his blue blade it's blade cutting through the air at force increased speeds causing Leela to quickly release her hold on Ishtar and bring her arm up to catch the blade only for it to cut through her arm forcing her to dodge and cut off her lightning as Revan and Ishtar rushed forward.
Pulling his blue lightsaber back into his hand he shared a look with Ishtar reaching out in the force to create a force meld feeling her shock and understanding in the force before turning his attention back to Leela who was holding her arm as it mended itself back together. Bringing his blades down on her, she leaned back moving to bring her leg up only for a kick on for it to be caught by Ishtar. Using the opening she gave he moved to strike her neck only for her to cover herself in lightning causing them to back off and she pressed her advantage attacking the still shocked Ishtar only to be stopped by Revan's lightning that slammed into her as he tossed his blue lightsaber to Ishtar. Catching the lightsaber she brought it down on Leela's injured arm cutting it off and moving to do that sane to her head only for them both to be shoved back by a rage-fueled force push. Revan managed to keep his feet on the ground using the force and caught Ishtar sitting her on the ground, but his distraction costed him as Leela let out a scream of rage her madness momentarily blinding his force senses as she ripped the lightsaber from his grip moving to bring it down on his neck only for him to catch it on his left bracer. He could feel the bracer beginning to give out as the heat of the lightsaber started to melt through the metal, then without warning a blue blade cut through her arm causing her to scream and drop the lightsaber jumping back to create some distance as Ishtar moved to Revan's side.
"You okay?" she asked eyes still on Leela as the force cascaded around the madwoman a feeling of sickness emanating from her in the force feeling like millions of voices screaming in agony. He could feel Ishtar almost lose herself in it and give her a mental nudge, getting a grateful nod in return as her attention was brought back to Leela.
"Revan," he could feel the concern from Eresh through their link "I'm an AI that is incapable of feeling the force with a group of humans that don't show any signs of the ability to feel it...but we can feel that," his eyes looked to Ishtar before he cut their connection putting his full attention on Leela.
"You know you and your sister are quite alike," he said, watching Leela as she drew in more force energy and the room becoming more saturated in her madness, the force's disgust palatable. He heard Ishtar let out a snort as she raised the lightsaber in her hand and Revan raised his, the force filling them both as he used the force meld to help her with empowering her body as they each took off positions ready to strike at any moment.
"So have any plans?" Ishtar asked, giving him a worrying look before turning back to Leela. " I mean you're a force expert," he gave her a curious look, making her sigh and roll her eyes "What? Do you think I wouldn't check up on my sister under the ruse of spying on you?...at least till that thing with the Tok'ra queen where you rewrote what we knew about the force," he looked at her with a smirk that quickly fell of his face looking to Leela only one option coming to mind.
"Well that depends...think you can hold her down for a few seconds?" she gave him a disbelieving look gesturing to Leela.
"You want me to hold back someone who was able to single-handedly wipe out all the ascended and has taken their power for herself?" she asked her disbelief obvious in her tone.
"Well from what I understand you ascended beings were kind of complacent to the point of laziness," he said smirking at Ishtar's glare before his look turned serious, "this is kind of an all or nothing sort of thing...if I fail we're not getting another shot," Ishtar simply smiled raising her hand and giving him a nod.
"Then we won't fail...Revan," he could feel her draw in every ounce of force energy she could handle, a brief feeling of pain coming from their meld before it was pushed down. Pushing the force out trying to counteract the oppressive madness silently eating away at them Revan gave her a nod eyes narrowing, his body almost glowing with the amount of force energy being pushed into his body Ishtar was momentarily lost in shock, "to be so close to ascension," she whispers the words sounding like shouts to his senses.
Leela's eyes snapped open and with that Revan and Ishtar moved minds working as one with Revan rushing forwards his body pushed beyond its limits muscles tearing, heart beating erratically, bones breaking as every cell in his body was infused with the force pushing his body to keep going. Leela's eyes widened as Revan was in front of her in a flash hand reaching out for her head, she jumped back only to be brought to her knees with enough force to make a crater as Ishtar held out her hand holding her in a force grip, blood dripping down her nose as she clenched her fist tight.
Reaching a hand out placing it on Leela's head Revan looked to Ishtar giving her a small nod before time seemed to stop, the world bleeding away as he felt his body pushed beyond its natural limits struggle to stand, he let go of his connection to Eresh, pausing before severing the master and apprentice bond between him and Meetra with a sad smile knowing what he had to do. He looked down at Leela, her eyes following him as her body was awash in the force, her body moving slowly to break physical contact with him.
Looking down at Leela, he smiled briefly as memories of his time with everyone rushed through the forefront of his mind. Steading his resolve he let go of the small hold he had on his now broken body matter turning to energy as he let go of his physical form letting his countless join with the force. He could feel it more than ever before, its emotions now more clear than ever before as looked down at Leela, he could hear the part of the force that she'd touched screaming, begging for its pain to end as he moved his free hand to Leela's check feeling the force within her early reach out for his touch only to be stamped down by her sheer will.
"The force doesn't belong to you," he said, eyes narrowing as he felt it flow through him, more than any physical body could handle, he could feel the sheer life in it as it flowed through his nonphysical form. "You used and abused it...for the sheer pleasure of causing agony to it...I won't allow you to do it anymore," he said in a whisper feeling Leela trying desperately to shed her physical form, something that even with how corrupted the force under her control was to her will it wouldn't allow. Pushing the hand still on her forehead forward it sunk into her, her body convulsing as he pushed his way through her mental shield tearing through them till finally his vision was bathed in light.
"What right do you have!" he heard as he felt himself being slammed against a wall then falling to the floor, his eyes opening as he found himself in a room that reeked of blood and facing what he could only assume to be Leela her form composed of darkness with millions of voices screaming coming from it in the form of something that looked like a giant Kath hound covered in spikes dripping with black ichor.
He was pulled from his observation as he was lifted by his leg and slammed again into the wall, its clawed hand squeezing his form with enough force to break bones as it held him up, the creature's head rising to reveal Leela's human head on top, her eyes pitch black.
"This energy is mine to use as I please!" she slammed him into the ground pressing her weight down on his mental form, "What's sweeter than making it scream?!" not getting a response she threw him into the wall rendering it to ruble as she glared at him "Well?! Not going to tell me how wrong I am?! You sounded pretty sure of yourself earlier!" She brought her fist down on him over and over laughing maniacally till she pulled back for a finishing blow and brought her fist down only for Revan to raise a hand catching it with what looked to be little effort. Leela stared in shock taking a step back and he rose to his feet showing his form to no damage from her attacks "How?!" she shrieked bringing a claw forward only to be stopped as Revan raised a hand, her form freezing like a statue.
Walking forward Revan slowly made his way to Leela who tried to move her body refusing to listen to her as Revan stopped in front of her grotesque for a hand reaching into the shadows that her beastly form was made out of, "You don't get it, do you?" he said looking her in the eyes ``You ripped the force from millions of sentient beings, forcing it to obey you like it was yours alone," his form started to glow, "But, it's not yours...it's alive and the only thing making it obey you was your sheer force of will, holding it inside you corrupting it with your madness and rage," he smirked as her form seemed to shimmer as the blackness was pushed back "but, we're inside you now," he removed his hand from her body causing her to fall back crawling away from him as he closed his eyes and placing his hand on the floor causing the room to be illuminated in the light showing they were on a small platform in an ocean of pure blackness. "And I've offered it a better home," he said wincing as the ocean of blackness shot out tendrils that sunk into his form arms making him his in pain as more pieced "where I can cleanse the corruption from it," Leela glared at him moving her fist to strike at his pained form only to scream a spear of darkness shot out stabbing into her form.
"You think you can withstand this power!?" she yelled picking herself off the floor, her beastly body falling apart leaving just her as she shakily stood up glaring at him, her madness clear as day as she let out a laugh. "You think you can remain uncorrupted?!" she yelled breaking into a run at him as he just stood there, more and more tendrils sinking into him. She pulled her arm back bringing it forward with all the force she could muster sinking it into his chest as her body started to break down "Let's see," she said with a laugh and Revan's vision became black as the ocean pulled him, and then all he knew was agony.
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He didn't know how long he'd been sinking, all he knew was that he was alone…
"Are you really alone?" his eyes snapped open finding himself in the Dantooine Enclave's training room standing across from Alek.
"Alek?" he asked, getting a laugh from his old friend before he drew his lightsaber, its blue blade activating with a snap-hiss.
"Alek or Malak," he got into a lightsaber stance nodding to Revan, who drew his lightsaber igniting its blue blade dropping into the Makashi form as they circled each other, "does it even matter?" they jumped forward the sounds of lightsabers clashing filling the empty room.
"I guess not," Revan said barely dodging a slash only to be surprised by a force push that sent him spinning through the air and rolling across the ground.
"You're not even trying," Alek said with no emotion tossing Revan's dropped lightsaber back to him. Moving to catch it Revan found himself no longer in the Enclave and instead on a ship he'd never thought he'd be in again.
"Revan!" he turned to find himself shorter as he faced his mother who had a worried look on her face as she grabbed the lightsaber out of his hands, "A lightsaber is not a toy!" she shouted before a look of remorse appeared on her face" Sorry...it's just the last thing I have of your fathers," she smiled pinching his cheek "You'll get it and the ship when you're older," she grabbed his shoulders turning him around and he found himself sitting in the command chair of his flagship looking at the Jedi strike team that had been sent to kill him.
"Darth Revan for the sake of the Republic we sentence you to death!" shouted one of the Jedi only to be pulled forward without warning a red blade going through his chest as Revan used the Jedi's dual bladed lightsaber to kill his two companions leaving only Bastila and him.
"Why?" his heart clinched at the sheer pain in her tone as she looked at him, her eyes that always showed something forbidden to Jedi now only showing pain as his body moved without his consent drawing his blades.
"Because I must," he rushed forward, his surroundings changing as he found himself standing across from Bastila her eyes yellow from the dark side that clung to her like a cloak. Their blades clashed with Revan on the defensive as Bastila tried to kill him, but was unable to get through his guard.
"Fight back!" she yelled increasing the strength of her stikes, "Why won't you fight back!" she screamed pushing him back with the force and bringing her lightsaber down only for Revan to deactivate his causing her to stop with her blades inches from his chest, the yellow fading from her eyes.
"Why," he could hear the disbelief in her tone as he reached a hand up slowly cupping her cheek a smile on his face.
"Because," the world changed again and he felt her lips against his before he pulled back the sounds of the spaceport fading into the background as he smiled at her "I love you," the words were barely out of his lips before he found himself flung across the ground his mask ripped off his face as he looked up at Mandalore the Ultimate, the taste of blood in his mouth.
"That face," the Mandalore said, kicking Revan in the side allowing him to get to his feet. "You're the spitting image of your father...minus the holes we put through his chest," a rage overcame Revan as he let out a yell force pulling his lightsaber to him as he clashed with the Mandalore his strikes powered by his rage. "That's it! Fight like a Mandalorian!" the Mandalore shouted joy in his tone. "Show me the spirit you mother lacked!" Revan rage increased as his strike got more brutal which seemed to overjoyed him, "You know she died calling out for you," and like a dam breaking, Revan's rage reached an apex as he brought his lightsaber down cutting through the Mandalore's armor removing his hands and bringing him to his knees.
"You win," the Mandalore said with a satisfied tone as Revan stood over him, "So traitor are you going to release me...or are you more Mandalorian than that weak mother of your-" the Mandalore's head was severed with a slash his helmet rolling across the ground as Revan picked it up his yellow eyes shining in the moonlit night before he was pulled from there and found himself in the sith Emperor's palace watching as Meetra was cut down before world seemed to turn on its head and he was on Surik watching Eresh failing to stop Meetra's crying much to everyone's humor.
"Rev help!" Eresh shouted, handing the crying baby to him, a look of disbelief spreading across her face as the baby became silent in Revan's arms before he found himself in Sam's lab with sg-1 watching as she tried to put together a working prototype using the holo-table he'd given her.
"I don't get it...it should have worked," she said, voice filled with disappointment as Jack and Teal'c used his datapad to play chess, while Daniel was reading up on a book on the Lantean language Eresh had made for him. Revan cleared his throat getting her attention as he walked to the hologram moving one of the hypothetical components to the left by about six inches causing the holographic prototype to turn on showing optimal readings.
"Well you've got the power converter down," he said moving back to his seat letting out a chuckle at Sam's gaping mouth, "Now just gotta fine-tune the motivator and you should be able to make a functioning prototype," he paused looking around the room before stage whispering "I'm sure I can talk Eresh into synthesizing the materials you'll need for an actual prototype," he couldn't help but smile at the look of happiness on her face.
"Are you really alone?" he was once again in the training room standing across from Alek who no longer looked like he was a padawan, now looking like the Darth Malak he'd fought on the Starforge, a red lightsaber held tightly in his grip. "Revan the conquering hero, Beloved of the force!" Alek rushed forward with Revan bringing his blade up to parry the strike as they clashed. "Are you willing to let go of all that!" Alek's blows became more brutal putting Revan on the defensive "My Master! My friend! brought to his knees by a tantruming spirit!" he grabbed his wrist pulling his arm up and delivering a hard kick to Revan's side sending him flying back.
"You were the best of us!" Malak shouted, his rage showing as he brought his hand up calling forth sith lightning that slammed into an unprepared Revan sending him reeling onto the floor "Have you let yourself fall so far," Revan looked up from through the lightning seeing not the yellow eyes of a sith but the brown eyes of his friend before he let out a scream as the lightning intensified "Maybe it would be a mercy for me to put you out of your pathetic misery," the sheer disappointment in Alek's tone hurt Revan even more than the lightning as it was cut off and Malak moved to stand over him his friend's red blade inched from his head.
"Alek," Revan said looking up to his friend their eyes meeting and the silence becoming unbearable as Malak raised his blade "I'm sorry," Revan whispered as Malak's blade came down only to stop as Revan raised his hand to meet it catching the blade in his palm "But as much as I deserve to atone for what I made you become," Revan looked at Malak both his eyes a yellow, holding no hatred of malice just sadness "But...I've got people counting on me to come back," and like a tidal wave the force rushed into his body as he stood up still holding on to Alek's blade giving one last look at his long lost friend who gave him the ghost of a smile before like glass the illusion shattered.
Revan's eyes snapped open as he found himself once again sinking into the ocean of blackness that Leela had created, madness and rage surrounding him, but the emotions couldn't affect him. He could feel through all the madness and rage was just the force wounded and begging for the pain to end. Reach his hands out Revan closed his eyes centering himself in the force feeling it come to him with a vigor that he hadn't felt before, telling him it wanted to fix the damage, to heal and that's what he did.
He reached into the depths of madness and despair that the force had become under Leela's control grasping it as easily as he could the force that was always a part of him and he pulled it into himself taking its pain and suffering from it and locking it deep within his mind with all the horrors he'd felt and seen during his time...much like he would push his fears and anxieties into the force to clear his head. He didn't know how long he had been doing it, the blackness disappearing from Leela's mental-scape as the ocean was slowly whittled down till after what felt like centuries Revan's feet touch the ground, the world now resembling Tatooine with sand being the only thing.
"How!" he turned his head, finding Leela standing in front of him, the blackness that had been on her body gone. "How can you stand such pain! What makes you so special you monster!" her eyes were wide with madness as she moved to attack Revan a red lightsaber appearing in her grip. Without effort, Revan dodged her slash bringing his hand to rest on her forehead, her eyes widening as she stared into his yellow eyes. "What are you?"
"Revan," he said and with a pull, he ripped the remaining force from her rendering her to dust, the mental scape shattering and his vision was bathed in light.
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"Revan?" he found himself looking down at a pile of ash and his clothes before turning to find a worried-looking Ishtar. He could feel the force, singing in his head, its full power at his fingertips just waiting to be used. He could feel sg-1 in the palace above, and he could even feel the Nox all the way back in the Milky Way, a smile appearing on his face as he felt Meetra's presence and with a thought reestablishing their master and apprentice bond.
"Revan!" Ishtar yelled, gaining his attention causing her to let out a sigh "I'm pretty sure Eresh is panicking," she pointed to the subdermal implant on the floor. Pushing down his curiosity he closed his eyes letting force guide him, energy becoming flesh as Revan let out a breath opening his eyes and letting out a chuckle at Ishtar's shocked look before looking down, his eyes widening as he realized he was naked using the force to turn Ishtar around and sliding his clothing on letting her go from the force grip when he was done though she still just stared at him as he pulled his lightsaber from her grip sliding both parts back together and clipping it to his belt and sliding the subdermal implant into his pocket.
"We should probably head back up," he said snapping her from her stupor as she followed his gaze to the hole he'd dropped down, "Maybe I should have kept unlimited power for a few more minutes," he said with a chuckle as they made their way to the hole and he pulled his mask to him wincing at the cut through the visor as he slid it on hearing Eresh's panicked voice before moving to answer her only to find that mask's mic was trashed letting out a sigh.
Pausing under the hole Revan nodded to Ishtar preparing to lift her with the force only for them both to be surrounded by light and finding themselves teleported into the throne room surrounded by guards that looked similar to Bothans and sg-1 with weapons pointed at them with Eresh, and Nomi standing next to an older man he assumed to be King Chiron and his family.
"Lower your weapons!" Eresh shouted sg-1 doing it immediately and the palace guards looked to their king for confirmation who nodded making them lower their weapons with Eresh stopping as she looked to Revan and then to Ishtar who gave her a small wave, "How?" she asked looking between them both disbelief in her tone and on her face.
"It's a long story," he said scratching the back of his head dodging a swipe from Ishtar who gave him a look as he sat down on the floor feeling his back pop as he stretched.