A/N: After a small break, I believe it's time for another update of 'Star Wars: Jedi Assassin'. So now Sherman, Penny, Peabody, and Hayden have built new light-sabers, and Hayden and Penny have been given the privilege of battling a training simulation of Darth Maul, one of the greatest Sith to ever duel the Jedi before the start of the Clone Wars. And Darth Vader has found out that Sherman had taken the Jedi to Ilum, and that is where they make their attack. Enjoy!
In space, a Star Destroyer came out of lightspeed to approach the Ilum system. One small freighter that contained several Storm-Troopers came out of the docking bay and entered the gravitational pull of the planet, following the tracking beacon that was placed on Sherman's shuttle where it landed.
(Inside the Crystal Temple)
Sherman was in a meditating position looking at his newly constructed light-saber. He had never felt so at one with the Force before until now. He felt like he was no longer a Sith who only stole and murdered to gain what they desired, but a Jedi, who swore to defend the innocent.
"How's it going?" Sherman asked Hayden and Penny as they still dueled Darth Maul and his dual-bladed light-saber.
"Pretty good. I feel like I can take on a million Sith after this" Penny said with confidence as she bounced one of Maul's blades of of her purple one.
"Ruuuuurrrrrrrffffffff rurrrrrraarrrgghhhhh!" (Translation: This feels challenging, but nothing I can't handle) Hayden said. Penny then saw an open spot to attack the training simulation. She swung her blade from underneath and cut Maul's light-saber in half and Hayden kicked him in the chest, which made Maul lose grip of his light-sabers and drop them, and disappeared. Hayden and Penny concluded the duel after both of them did a swift lunge to the chest and Maul turned back into the Sith training droid and it deactivated.
"Well done, you both did so well" Peabody said, proud of his apprentices for finally succeeding in winning their first and official battle against a real (almost) Sith lord.
"Thank you Master" Hayden and Penny both said in unison before deactivating their light-sabers and attaching them to their belts. Peabody had been collecting more crystals from the cave to build more light-sabers in case their new ones were destroyed or lost in any sense. Sherman then gave off a grunt that made it sound like he was in pain.
"Sherman, what is it?" Peabody asked.
"I sense a disturbance in the force" Sherman said. Hayden then looked up to the ceiling.
"Ruuffff rarrgh" (Translation: I sense it too) Peabody and Penny looked up.
"The Empire has found us, but how?" Penny asked. Sherman got up and took his light-saber into an attacking position.
"They must have placed a tracking beacon above the shuttle" Sherman said as he walked up the pathway with the others following him.
"What's the master escape plan?" Peabody asked Sherman.
"Kill them all, then we take their ship. I don't want the Empire finding us again" Sherman said.
"Grrrarrrrrgggghhhhhhhh" (Translation: Good enough for me) Hayden said. Sherman then used the force to make two large ice crystals beside the temple doors melt and evaporate into large clouds of hot steam.
Meanwhile, outside, the Storm-Troopers opened up the door to the temple and pointed their guns as it opened only to be greeted with steaming hot mist.
"Leave none alive, except Shermanus. He must answer for treason by order of the Emperor and Lord Vader" the leading Storm-Trooper said.
"Yes sir" the other troopers said. They then saw two green blades, one blue blade, and one purple blade show themselves in between the mist.
"Jedi! Blast them!" the trooper commander shouted. They shot a few shots but the lasers were deflected off the blades and into the foreheads, eyes, and chests of only a few Storm-Troopers.
"Now!" Sherman's voice shouted. The four Jedi jumped out of the mist and began cutting up Storm-Troopers and their weapons as well.
"Sherman! That one is heading for the ship! We can't leave if he takes that ship!" shouted Penny pointing to one Storm-Trooper that was running away to the freighter.
"Not on my watch" Sherman hissed before raising his hand and letting Force lighting scorch the trooper's armor so bad that he fell to the floor dying.
"Come on, we'd better get moving before the Empire sends anymore of them" Peabody said. Everyone then ran up to the ship and got inside.
"Alright, buckle up everyone. We're gonna make the jump to hyperspace as soon as we see the Star Destroyer" Sherman said as he took his seat and got the shuttle ready for takeoff.
"But we don't know where we're going" Penny said getting in the co-pilot seat and Peabody and Hayden sitting behind them.
"I have an idea. We can see an old friend of mine. He'll know what to do" Peabody said.
"Raarrghhhhhh ruffffff rargh?" (Translation: You mean, another Jedi?) Hayden asked.
"Yes, he knows where we can get a better ship and supplies as well" Peabody said.
"Just name the system and we'll still be able to make the jump to lightspeed once we see the Star Destroyer" Sherman said pressing the buttons that prepared the ship to put all it's thrusters into the hyperspace jump.
"Set a course for Tattooine" Peabody said.
"Alright, Tattooine it is" Sherman said once they left Ilum.
"Making the jump to lightspeed now!" Sherman said pulling down the lever on the very middle of the control panel. Once their seatbelts were unbuckled, they took off into hyperspace.
(Inside the Star Destroyer)
Vader had suspected that the freighter that made it's way up to the Destroyer was good news that the Jedi were dead and Sherman was captured. But once it made the hyperspace jump, he knew that they had hijacked the ship.
"I should have suspected as much" Vader said looking away from the windows.
"What do you mean, lord Vader?" asked one officer.
"I sense the Dark Side is being drained from Sherman. All the work I have put into training the most lethal Imperial Assassin this galaxy had ever seen has now gone to waste" Vader said slamming his fists onto the hologram computer table in rage. The buttons were dented and so was the glass on the center of the table.
"Anyone who dares defy the Empire is blinded by the light side of the force. A side which is inferior compared to the power of the Dark Side" Vader snarled.
"I agree, Lord Vader. I believe we..." before the officer could finish his sentence, Vader took out his light-saber and activated it. Then he used the force to make the officer come closer to him and get stabbed with the blade.
"I don't need your reassurance, Captain" Vader said before deactivating his light-saber and letting the body drop to the floor. Two Storm-Troopers picked the body up and took it out of the bridge.
(Inside the hijacked freighter)
Penny and Hayden were sound asleep in the trooper quarters of the ship which contained beds for them to rest. Hayden and Penny snored lightly, Hayden mostly mewled in his rest while Sherman and Peabody were on the bridge of the ship.
"So, who's this old friend of yours on Tattooine?" asked Sherman.
"One of the remaining few Jedi to survive Order 66. His name is Obi-Wan Kenobi" Peabody explained.
"Vader told me much about him. How he was a fool, and how he treasured the ways of the Jedi and the light side of the Force more than anything" Sherman said.
"He was a great warrior. He was a dear friend of my master, Plo Koon and fought beside him in the Clone Wars against the droid armies" Peabody explained.
"Obi Wan was wise to stay in hiding. The Empire would have hunted him down, or worse, send me to destroy him" Sherman said looking down at his control panel in shame.
"But you've learned the error in your ways and are now walking down the path to becoming a Jedi. Don't you feel good about that?" Peabody asked placing a paw on Sherman's shoulder.
"I do. I feel like I'm ready to avenge my mother and join the rebellion" Sherman said with a smile.
"What do we do once we reach Master Kenobi?" Sherman asked.
"He will take us to the nearest Space Port where we can have someone give us a special lift to where we can get support. And he will provide us with supplies as well" Peabody explained.
"Sounds good to me. How long is it a walk to Kenobi from where we are landing?" asked Sherman.
"He lives beyond the Dune Sea, we are landing in the Junland Wastes, just outside the Dune Sea. We land the ship in the wastes and then we continue on foot from there" Peabody instructed. A loud beeping sound went off and it woke up Penny and Hayden.
"What's going on?" asked Penny, rubbing her eyes.
"Rarrrrggghhhhhhh" (Translation: I'm still tired, Master) Hayden said sitting down in the chair behind Peabody.
"We're approaching Tattooine now. Fasten your seatbelts" Sherman ordered. Once the ship was out of hyperspace, they saw Tattooine.
"There it is" Sherman said.
"Tattooine. I've always heard it was a desert wasteland" Penny piped in.
"You're right. And it's controlled by the Hutts" Peabody said.
"I hope your plan doesn't involve crossing paths with any of them, the Hutts are gangsters. They're all double dealing slime-balls" Sherman said.
"Don't worry, we won't" Peabody promised. After that, Sherman accelerated the ship's engines and it began moving faster torwards the desert planet.
A/N: There you have it. The escape from Ilum and the plan to meet Obi-Wan Kenobi on Tattooine. Now Sherman feels like he's doing the right thing being a Jedi, he's helped his new friends escape, taken them to Ilum to build new light-sabers, and helped them train in combat with a training module of Darth Maul. More to come in the next update. Please review, thanks!