No. 2 – Talking is overrated
Garrote | choked | gagged
Anakin pulled his lightsaber towards him with the Force. Maul caught it midflight.
"I wouldn't advise that, Skywalker," he said.
Anakin gritted his teeth. Despite the spin in his head and the blood trailing down his face from a flying rock he couldn't block, he fought to climb to his feet.
Savage Oppress behind him kicked him to the cave floor. Anakin gasped, stars bursting across his vision. He grabbed Anakin's wrists and snapped stun cuffs around them.
"Anakin!" Obi-Wan's voice echoed through the tunnels.
Maul chuckled. He grabbed the neck of Anakin's tunic and hauled him to his knees. "Kenobi cares for you dearly, doesn't he?"
"Anakin? Where are you?" A tinge of fear coated Obi-Wan's voice.
Anakin tried to pull his wrists out of the cuffs. They sent a painful impulse through his body. His limbs went limp and a fog crept over his brain.
"Kenobi," Maul drawled.
It only took a couple minutes for Obi-Wan to come skidding into the cavern, lightsaber humming a beautiful blue. His eyes landed on Anakin and widened.
"Let him go, Maul," Obi-Wan demanded.
Maul curled the Force around Anakin's neck and lifted him up in the air. "You raised this boy, didn't you?"
Anakin kicked and fought to draw air in, but the pressure closing his throat in was too strong. His chest burned, heaving uselessly for nonexistent air.
"Please, let him go!" Obi-Wan said. "I'm the one that hurt you, Maul. Punish me, not him."
Maul grinned. "I am punishing you."
Anakin's head spun, darkness spotting his vision. He reached out to his former master, mouthing what he couldn't speak. Obi-Wan… Help…
Obi-Wan charged forward, lightsaber raised. Savage met him, snarling.
"Time's running out, Kenobi," Maul taunted.
Anakin's head dropped, his limbs slumping.
Rumbling spread throughout the cavern. Anakin was being dragged along by strong arms. He was thrown onto a hard surface. A ship's engine started.
"Perhaps this is the best approach after all," Maul said. "We are going to have fun together, Skywalker. With you in my grasp, I will break Kenobi. I guarantee it."