I don't own Star Wars, this is a fan fiction only.
Jack was once a boy living in the slums of one of the port cities of Tatooine when he was found by his master. The lady became sort of like a surrogate mother to him and he loved her as such. She was however a tough disciplinarian and demanding as a crusty old drill Sargeant when it came to training though.
This was to be expected the outer worlds were in constant danger from being attacked by Mandalorian Raiders and it was believed that they would eventually consolidate their forces for a major push for the core worlds.
His master knew better and when she told the people in charge that instead of waiting around with their thumbs up their asses they should strike and defeat them while they were not prepared. The Jedi council told her that she had no authority to decide such matters and to watch her language, such vulgar language was not the language of a Jedi or a lady.
"Master I don't know why you put up with it. Me and Malak are able and ready to go and wipe out the Mandos, you just need to give the word and they will be a small note in the history books when we are done with them. "
Malak could not help laughing as he heard the young man say such things. "We don't want to wipe them out kid, you have to keep a few around simply for the entertainment value. Without good opponents who will we fight? Each other? That is the mistake of the Sith. "
Jack just said that as long as he lived in honor and trained to remain strong his life would be a worthy one to live. His master told him to be careful he was starting to sound like a Mandalorian already. This caused Malak and his master to laugh as he left towards the training dummies to work out some of his stress.
It was by the time he was fully recognized as a full Jedi that the news reached them of the destruction of an entire population out in the outer worlds. That was all the Republic Senate needed to ask the Jedi Council for aid against the now clear and present danger.
The Jedi Council didn't respond to the request of aid like the Senate had expected. They told them that they needed to further look at the actions of the Mandalorians before they would commit any Jedi to the possibility of war.
That was all Malak, Jack and his master needed to decide to do things their own way. They each gathered like minded Jedi, soldiers and engineers. They formed their own fleet and decided to go and fight this threat head on.
After six gruelling years Jack became well known for his merciless tactics and his disdain for any form of weakness, be it physical or even emotional. He earned the nickname among the Mandalorians as Jack the Reaper. For he would leave no enemy alive and when he entered a battlefield it was sure to become a graveyard.
His master seeing the elimination of the Cathar home world and seeing that a single Mandalorian tried to defend the innocent.
She was killed while trying to buy the few refugees time to escape. Jack's master picked up this brave woman's helm and mask and wore it from that day on wards. She was called Lady Revan from that moment on.
The fighting was gruesome but somehow the Mandalorians seem to be getting exactly what they always wanted it was the last year of the war when Jack contracted a degenerative disease. Revan and Malak tried their best to find a cure but the best healers in Manaan told them both that the only alternative was Carbonite freezing till a cure was developed.
The day Jack was placed into the Carbonite, many Mandalorians had shown up on the planet. Malak believed that they came to smash the Carbonite slab to finally kill the man that had killed so many of their kind. Revan knew better, the planet would not allow them to even land if they were a threat to the planet's neutrality.
Mandalore himself and many other very powerful Mandalorians came to pay their final respects to their most revered and respected opponent. To many of them this was a tragedy that moved them to tears. The idea that they would never get to test themselves against Jack the Reaper was simply too sad that even veterans cried.
Revan asked Mandalore why he was crying. "I am shedding tears because I too would like to have fought this man. We call him Jack the Reaper not as something to humiliate or to show disgust. In fact we call him this because we wanted to honor his prowess on the battlefield. You must be very proud Revan, you did what many female Mandalorians dream off. You had a good strong and a fierce son. There is little a mother could ask for more than this."
Revan was said that this was the last time she ever removed her mask. "I found him in the slums on Tatooine and I raised him as my son. His black hair was a mess, his face covered in so much dirt and grim that you could have mistaken him for a Rodian. Now he sleeps and so does my heart. Pray you don't meet me in battle Mandalore for he was the source of my mercy and after today I will show none."
Years passed and the time of the Mandalorian War had came and went. It was until his slab was stolen from the hospital storage and taken back to the capital world that Jack was finally cured of his disease. The men that formed the Jedi Council were not the same he knew and he could not help but to feel sad at the news Revan and Malak had tried to kill each other.
The news that eventually Revan stopped Malak and had to kill him struck him particularly hard. "To think brother would try to kill mother and mother had to kill him is horrible news indeed. I almost miss the Carbonite. So tell me what would you want from an old relic like myself?"
Satele was the first to step forward, "The Sith Empire has returned and we need help defending the Republic. I want you to take the test to reach the next rank of our order. There aren't enough people capable to train padawans. We need every able Jedi to train more to replenish our numbers."
Jack touched his head and found it strange somehow. "So do I get my blade back or is there more meaning behind this close haircut?" The other present laughed as they understood what he was saying.
"Take the test first and then I will provide the materials for you to rebuild your Saber again. So are you up to taking the challenge of the test so soon after you woke up? " Jack jumped from his bed and landed on his feet.
As he felt his surrounding he smiled and said that he was always up for a challenge.
The test would have his mother laugh as how simple it was. He passed it almost without trying which caused quite the commotion as he clearly understood what war was and how to fight in one.
The second highest achiever could not help but to look at him with a jealous glint to his eye, but he did his best to try and keep his jealousy hidden from those close to him.
"Are you familiar with the rule of one?" Satele asked him. He simply answered that it was not much in used during the Mandalorian War. He said it was the limit set by the Council to limit a master to a single student. His master did not follow the rule.
This made his rival look at him as if he was nothing more than a liar. "True enough, Revan did not follow the rule. I am the descendant of Bastilla Shan her closest and dearest friend. You could almost call her family from what I read in her writings."
"Mother was always a very kind person to those close to her. It would not surprise me in the least." Jack answered as he sat down on the chair in front of her desk.
"You however must follow the rule. As the Grand Master I must enforce this no matter the personal preference of the master. There are no exceptions."
Jack looked at the man sitting next to him and wondered if he was going to be his student not knowing he was there to receive the same lecture.
"So do I need to find my padawan or will the Council force me to train one they chose?"
Satele heard the anger in his tone. "Be mindful of your emotions Jack, anger leads to the dark side. As for picking one for you. You would be correct. I do believe I picked two very nice padawans."
She called in the supposed padawans. One was a female human with an almost suspicious feeling to her she was named Kira and the male twilek was named Rush.
Jack didn't want to waste time. He stood up and walked over to Kira.
"I don't know what you been taught but I will teach you now. I expect precision and commitment from you if you are to survive my training. No mercy shall be offered and weakness is a sickness I shall do my best to purge from you. Let's go Kira we don't have time to waste on meaningless ceremony. "
Kira was actually smiling as she heard his harsh words. It was almost as if she was actually happy. "Right behind you, my master."
The guy that was sitting next to him took Rush as his apprentice and just as he left he looked at the Grand Master and told her to keep an eye on Jack. He said that for a minute there he thought that he was listening to a Sith.
This made Satele remind him to be mindful of how he talked about those not present to defend themselves.
In the coming months Jack and Kira improved their work together and Kira got stronger by the day. The harsh training she received was almost a welcome relief from the way the Academy trained young initiates. She was happy to be presented with tougher and more difficult tasks.
Jack was not a cruel master by any stretch of the imagination but he did push his student to the limit. After several months their accomplishments were something that caused many to say that Jack would one day earn him a seat on the Council.
His rival would often say that he would allow a freak like Jack on the Council over his dead body. "The bastard is more like a Sith than a Jedi. I bet he knows the Sith Code better than our own Code." Rush didn't even try to disagree disloyalty was harshly punished by his master after all.
During a mission to capture a known pirate the two Jedi masters and their padawan had been ordered to work together. "Ringo I don't think I have ever done something to make you dislike me so much, but we need to work together to capture this criminal."
Ringo looked at him and smiled, "I just don't know you well Jack, but I am sure after this mission we can become good friends. Our Padawans seem to be rather friendly to each other. When we land we take separate paths. You take the left and I take the right. It should lead us to the main chamber of this pirate."
As the two groups fought against the pirate's goons Kira felt like something was wrong in the air. She was right it was as if the section of the space station they were in was slowly feeling with a nerve toxin, Kira was soon over came by the toxin. Jack quickly took Kira in his arms and ran towards a Kolto tank. Placing the unconscious Kira inside for healing he left towards the destination Ringo had specified.
As he made it to the chamber he saw as Ringo stabbed the pirate killing him. He was only able to stab him by stabbing through Rush killing him and the pirate both. "Jack, what a surprise. I was so hoping that my little gas left you a mindless drooling husk. I guess you did learn quite a bit from that traitor whore you called a mother. What was her stupid name? Ah, yes Darth Revan."
Jack was not about to let this man get away with the things he did. The only thing he didn't count on was that the gas was more specific to kill him, as he fought Ringo the effects took an acceleration in the effect. He lost consciousness as he saw Ringo standing over gloating.
Kira was rescued by Republic forces and was taken to the Jedi for more healing. While Jack was being treated in a Kolto tank. Ringo used that time to make it look like Jack killed the pirate after she surrendered and killed Rush when he tried to stop Jack from killing the pirate in cold blood and in such a cruel, heartless way the Council believed it.
"I can't believe Jack would do such a thing. There must be an explanation, there must be another side to this dreadful incident." Master Satele refused to believe Jack would do such a thing. His actions has been an almost example of what a Jedi Master should be, even when Jack didn't pre say follow the Jedi code. It made no sense for him to act the way Ringo had described. It was like he was talking about a completely different person.
"I know you have your doubts Master Shan but I was there and I only manage to subdue him with a paralysis grenade. He would have tried to kill me, had I not acted quickly enough." The Council said that they would need to deliberate on the appropriate punishment for Jack. Master Satele was not happy but she was quickly overruled by the rest of the Council.
"I don't agree with this punishment but I have no other choice. Jack will be stripped of his rank and weapon. He will be left in neutral space on a barren world where he can do no more damage to anyone. He is no longer a master of our order. By the order of the Council he is exiled from our ranks. May the force have mercy where he had none for others."
Jack was left on a barren world alright. The only thing they didn't count on was that while the world was barren and he technically was defenseless. He was not. In his rags he found a letter promising to continue his training even as the Council assigned her to a new master. Kira's letter went to great detail as to what happened after he was placed in the Kolto tank.
"They would have exiled mother, I guess I should not be so surprised the Council would do something like this. Ringo used me as a scapegoat and the Council believed him. It must have been Grand Master Shan that pushed to change the punishment from an execution to exile."
He kept walking trying to find his bearings. "I guess this means I don't have a place with my fellow Jedi. I guess I need to figure what I should do now that my rank and membership to the order have been taken from me. I will not brake. I will find a new path."
He stretch out his hand and sure enough he pulled a nice size rock out of the ground. "Guess they didn't decide to cut my ability to use the force that is always a plus. As long as I can use that I can eventually find a way off this rock."
Closing his eyes he began to feel everything for miles around. The stench of corruption and greed was coming from a cave a few miles from his current position. "Either slavers or pirates. Either way they will soon wish they had never come to this rock. Now let's go and make momma happy and proud."
He used his force speed and as he got closer his force camouflage. He was able to get in close to listen to the crooks saying how easy it was to capture a lot of imp citizens. One agreed that the Empire even with all their patriotic bolster they sure didn't keep their citizens safe.
He could feel at least two dozen young men and women in the ship. It was a rather nice ship by the looks of it as he sneaked closer to have a look. 'Nice Merc ship, now to deal with the scum around here. I am going to enjoy this.'
He calmly walked over to a bored criminal on hard and using the force he broke his neck easily. He even pulled the corpse back to where he was. 'Great, just my size too. I can't very well show up in the Empire wearing these rags. I will look suspicious. Got a decent armor and a few blasters. Time to get the party started.'
