I don't own Star Wars the Old Republic or it's characters, this is only Fanfiction. Edited by Mandalore the Freedom.
Jack looked at Rurika as the Mandalorians left. "Thanks for the help, how about we go for that drink?" She was actually preparing one already it seems. She was even making one for Khem, him and Mako.
"The witch may be crazy, but she did have good taste. This is one of the best wines of Alderaan. Good year too." she made her drink last.
They all walked over and picked up their glasses. "To a continued friendship and successful working relationship." This caught everyone by surprise. They didn't expect Mako to make a toast like that. Seeing that they had no objections, they said cheers and took a sip from the wine, Rurika raise a brow once she gotten good look of Jack's face. 'My, my, his quite handsome.'
Jack was fair skin, though slightly pale from likely not being exposed to sun very much, he kept his black hair short, few bangs but that's it, he had a t like scar on his right side of his face, Mako assume that was where he was attacked by Rakghoul given how claw like it was. Mako and Rurika could see he was quite a eye catch.
Jack was the one to shock everyone next. "Sure this is nice, sweet wine and all. I still remember the brandy made by that Twi'lek settlement on Thyton. Now that is sweet, too bad the Jedi keeps that stuff for themselves."
Mako and Rurika laughed as they heard that. Rurika even said that the code may dislike emotions but it said nothing about good booze it seems. Jack decided to take the last sip of his cup and explained.
"Imagine if you will, you are the Grand Master of the Order. You have to have one meeting after another with boring, dry, and old men and women all day long. Now tell me if a glass or even a bottle of brandy is not something you would need to make it through the day."
Even Khem had to agree that he would. "I guess you guys are going to stick around. Do give us a call if you need a hand. You know what are friends for?" Mako said to them after she finished her cup, Rurika and Khem nodded. After they finished their drinks, they parted ways.
Jack and Mako arrived to the Mandalorian Enclave and they delivered the frozen Altaca, Crysta was quite happy. "So you did find the target that is good. That is one weird image though, most people look like they are in pain when frozen in that stuff. This is the first time I ever seen a person look so happy." Crysta was raising her brow when she noticed Altaca seem be smiling.
Mako told her the pain he was feeling before being frozen was probably worse.
Crysta then debrief them on their next bounty. "Now I know Tarro is a son of a Hutt and you be hard pressed to find someone that disagrees with me on that, but this takes the cake. I got a super secret, ultra hush hush bounty from an Admiral in the Imperial Navy. The blasted bounty says details are to be discussed in person. Talk about rude." if there was one thing Crysta hated, it was being left in the dark.
Jack was smiling. "It is nothing that surprising Crysta. It is just that one arm of the old Sith beast doesn't want to the other arm to know what it is scratching. I will take care of the Admiral's request. See you soon."
Crysta wave to them as Mako and Jack left the room, she was then smiling as she looked at Altaca. "I should really take a picture with this. I might never get another one like this."
Jack and Mako got off the speeder and as they walked towards the Plaza, someone called go them. "Bounty Hunter, I need to have a word with you." Jack and Mako turned, standing behind them was a male tan skin human wearing a Sith Marauder uniform.
He walked towards the Sith Marauder and waited to hear what he had to say. "I find myself in need of people of your caliber. My master is a Sith lord, he close to the Dark Council and he wants you to infiltrate a cult of traitors. They call themselves the Order of Revan. I need you to find the name of the leader of this cult. He suspects there is a traitor among the Dark Council and so he needs your help."
Jack didn't like the sound of this, it could be an order that tried to help his mother but on the other hand, it could be a person trying to use his mother's fame for his own benefit. "Alright, I will see what this order is about. I will of course be given clearance to do this right? Only a fool would agree to make a death warrant on himself."
The man nodded his head as he heard that. "It seems I was wise in choosing you after all. Indeed, you will be free of persecution as you will no doubt have to pretend to join them." Jack nodded and he and Mako walked away.
As they walked way they made sure that the man had left the Plaza. It was clear he was going to report to his master.
"Why are you willing to look into this order? Is it because they are using the name of Revan?" Mako asked.
Jack continued to walk towards the office of their appointment. "It is Mako, some other people tried to use my name. It would be no surprise they tried to use mother's. It is also a good opportunity to learn why did my brother become such a monster or everything they say is as I hope and they are just lies."
Mako saw that he was dead serious. "You really did care an awful lot about Malak didn't you?"
As Jack got to the entrance of the offices of the Admiral he smiled at her. "He was my brother Mako, what kind of a man would I be otherwise?"
As the two entered the office they saw an blonde haired man sitting behind his desk looking rather bored. It would not surprise him to see the man playing solitaire. Jack and Mako stopped front of him. "I have an appointment with the Admiral do announce that we are here."
The man looked at him as if the was an insect. "More worthless beggars it seems. I will tell you this once vermin, leave here now or I will have you executed for pandering in the offices of an Imperial Admiral."
Mako was shaking her head as she heard the idiot say that. Jack took out his blaster and pointed at the screen he was looking at. He blasted the screen to a billion pieces. "Now you will get up, do your duty you glorified bellhop and announce us to your master or you are the next thing I will destroy, AM I CLEAR?!"
A red haired man appeared in the from of a holo from the intercom system it seems. "WHAT IN BLAZES IS GOING ON IN OUT THERE?!" The man was clearly very upset about something.
The blonde idiot turns to his boss. "There is an armored thug, a beggar, I would think making a scene out here, sir. I will call the guards to have him executed, nothing for you to worry about." The Red haired man looked at the supposed thug and was not happy what he was seeing at all.
"YOU ARE POSSIBLY THE BIGGEST MORRON I HAVE EVER SERVE UNDER ME! I CLEARLY TOLD YOU THAT I WAS TO HAVE A MEETING WITH A BOUNTY HUNTER FROM THE MANDALORIAN ENCLAVE AND THAT WE WOULD NOT WANT TO BE DISTRUBED! NOW LET THE MAN INSIDE THIS INSTANT AND LEAVE OR I WILL EXECUTE YOU MYSELF!"
The aide saw that the Admiral was not kidding he opened the door apologized to Jack and Mako and ran as if a Rancor was after him. "You may go in now, go go go!" Jack and Mako were smirking behind their helmets as they walked pass the moron.
Standing there was the Admiral, he looked like he was having quite a bad day, however his face brighten slightly once he saw Jack and Mako. "Come in Mercenary, I apologize if my secretary cause you and you're companion grief. He is of low birth and his intelligence reflects on it." the Admiral place his hands behind his back.
"Am afraid many of our Imperial soldiers are hopeless with various of tasks. This is why I ask a professional from the Mandalorians." the Admiral has had past dealings with the Mandalorians before and they always get good results, that's why unlike many of his fellow Imperials, he shows them respect when ever doing dealings with them.
Jack and Mako were so far liking the Admiral, better then most people they had to work with. "If it's a professional you want, you got the right man for the job." Mako nodded, agreeing with Jack, they been getting jobs done pretty damn good. The Admiral nodded.
"I have every faith of the Mandalorian Enclave of it's ability of getting things done without drawing attention. My daughter.." Jack and Mako were now beginning to see the Admiral was having a very hard time keeping a straight poker face here. "Has become something of a liability to me... I want you to kill her." Jack and Mako's eyes widen behind their helmets.
Jack did not like where this was going. "What now?" Jack was really hoping it not the 'liability' he was thinking the Admiral was talking about, but he beat him to the punch. "Let me explain, things work very different on Dromund Kass, a matter that I have began to hate about." Jack however was having different thoughts here.
"Am a Bounty Hunter, not a assassin." Jack was beginning get tried of people assuming bounty hunters, mercenaries, and assassins were all the same thing. "You are more then welcome try take her alive, but she is likely cause too much trouble for you to do so." the Admiral begins explain the situation for Jack and Mako understand.
"You see, my daughter was born Force Sensitive and she was trained to be Sith, at first it was a great honor for our family. But unfortunately, the master she was assign to was Darth Grathon, both a madman who is disgrace in eyes of the Dark Council, and a monster who has done inhuman things to people." the Admiral still remembered going over reports on raids against Darth Grathon, and what happened to the prisoners taken by the insane Sith.
It was the kind of things that would haunt you for rest of you're life.
Mako then decide ask something. "But can't you just get her a new master?" Jack shook his head, "afraid it's doesn't work that way Mako." Jack had a very good idea how Sith affairs work, the Admiral agreed with him. "Yes, you're friend is right, the Sith manage their own affairs and we'll the ones who suffer the consequences."
Admiral then went. "If Darth Grathon's compound is raided and my daughter either killed or captured, her family suffers because she was with the traitor. This is how Sith politics. In the best case scenario, I will only lost my rank and position, but in the worst case..." the Admiral did not want think the worst case, it will only bring more harm to rest of his family.
Jack and Mako now see the problem here. "You and you're family will then get squashed like bugs?" Admiral raise a brow but nodded, "a inelegant phase say it but yes." Jack and Mako were beginning dislike Dromund Kass even more the longer they stay on this planet.
After that, the Admiral gave the two details regarding Grathon's compound and where likely his daughter will be at, Jack and Mako made sure remember everything. "Alright, but will there be any fallout with us taking down a Sith?" Jack wanted be sure on that, he rather avoid problems with the Sith.. for now anyway.
The Admiral shook his head. "Longest as no one is left alive know about it, there shouldn't be any problems. Good out there." Jack nodded and he and Mako left the Admiral alone, with much for him to think about.
However just as they left the building, Mako was looking over files regarding those who sided with Darth Grathon. "Hold on, I been looking over the data, turns out rogue Sith followers rack up some serious death marks and bounties like crazy. All of Grathon's top people, have prices on their heads." Jack was already ahead of her.
"Be a shame let those bounties go waste." Mako nodded, "though we might have quite a lot of credits from Nem'Ro and from the winning bet from Vort, we could always use more credits just in case." Jack nodded, the two made their way to where the speeders were being kept.
The Journey towards the supposed Revanite cult was quick. He did have to get some tech from some rather annoying cloaked wannabe killers for an Imperial Officer but it was done so fast it was more of a boring task that anything else.
He left the officer looking quite glad that his suspicions were correct.
As he made it to the camp, he was met by a rather strange sight. A man clearly in his elder years dressed in the robes of a Jedi. "I am sorry but we don't have anything to share and we are not welcoming to strangers. I would very much advice you two to leave. There is no shelter to be found here."
Jack took the medallion out of his pocket. "I am not a begger and your little speech is no way to receive a new member to the order." He handed him the medallion.
He relaxed somewhat as he received the medallion. "Do forgive the welcome but you can't ever be too sure. As a new member, you will under go several rites and when you complete these rites, you shall be fully initiated in the Order of Revan. The man under that tent shall be your first teacher."
Jack didn't argue he simply went to meet this supposed teacher, he was a elder man, human with fair skin, black hair and a full beard. He watched Jack closely here.
"I see that you have been sent to begin your path, and so you must first be willing to do as Revan did long ago. Tell me young man, are you prepare to die?"
Jack glared at him with his hand on his blaster, Mako was doing same thing. "Is that a threat old man?"
The old man laughed, "Hardly, you must go to a cave, in that cave you will meditate and you will learn, when you are done, your first rite will be over and I will give you your instructions for the next part, if you survive."
Jack and Mako made their out of the camp, heading towards where cave was, encountering beasts along way.
The beasts to the cave were a joy to fight. He never met so many tough reptiles before. The blasted things could temporarily do a Carbonite freeze with their breath. As he made it to the cave, he looked at Mako. "At least now I know where the idea of the Carbonite blaster came from."
Mako had to agree, it was quite the work out to break out of that stuff and fight the beasts.
As they killed the beasts that seem to guard the altar. Jack began to feel a warmth across his face. It was eerily familiar to him. As he walked to the altar, he sat down and began to meditate, a ring of energy formed and with the light.
He saw a large statute of what they believed Revan looked like but it was a man.
The idea was ludicrous and insulting. However, Jack then felt someone very familiar nearby, a force apparition appeared out of the statue. "You have to understand my son, it is easier for others to believe I was a man. It is nice to see you recovered and that you are well. If I was able, I would hug you in my arms as what you are my beloved child."
Jack looked quite concerned. "It is good to see you as well mother. I almost wished that the stories were a lie. That you were alive like I was. The things my brother did are bad enough as is."
Revan smiled at her child and tried to comfort him.
"I know son, it seems your loss didn't just affect me. It affected him even worse. He constantly blamed himself for you loss saying if he was stronger you would still be with us. This regret made him hate himself more and more, the event with the Emperor only did worst, he broken our minds and made us Sith Lords, he send us to destroy the Republic, but I broke free with Darth Malak, but."
Revan frown. "But the dark side left effects on us, I attempted create new Sith empire to battle the Emperor, but for Malak, it turn him into a monster, he become a butcher. It wasn't until finally at the end of Jedi Civil War, that I put him out of his mercy." Revan become teary eye at the memory of Malak, defeated and broken.
It was horrible to see her former friend become that.
Jack couldn't help but to feel guilty after hearing his mother say that.
"This is not something that you are guilty of my child. We are each guilty only on our own choices. I am alive my son, I've been held captive in a Dark and cold place. I can't even tell where I am. It happened after the Dark Wars when me and the Exile attempted confront the Emperor."
Revan looked at him and turned serious. "Help the Order my son, they work to free me and once they succeed, we can be together again. I am also happy to see that you found love in an unexpected place. This Mako girl seems like a good sort. Never forget that even though I can't be with you physically, I am always thinking of you. Your auntie should be with you if you truly find your life in danger."
Revan tried as she might to hug him, she could not as she only went through him.
"I am sorry that the Jedi Order was not a place for you as it was not a place for me. I hoped that it was not the case but the Jedi Order never really changes it seems. Now sleep my son, remember your mother will love you, always."
Jack seemed to go to sleep as he fell unconscious on the floor, the people of the order came to take him back. The weird thing was that unlike any other initiate he was actually smiling. Mako said that maybe he had a good dream.
A couple hours later, he woke up, he saw his helmet nearby him, he placed his helm back on, the elder man then came to see with Mako. "It is as I expected, welcome young man. How does it feel to start a new life as a Revanite?" Jack looked at the old man, confused so the old man continued.
"The path the cave was fraught with danger, in the cave you died, and are now reborn. Just as Revan once fought, died and he too was reborn. Now begins your new life as a Revanite and thus you are free from all your past troubles. So how does is it feel to be reborn?"
Jack knew he had to play along, even though it sounded like something that was making him angry. "Confused, hurt and a little angry." The old man nodded his head. He told him that this was to be expected. He then pointed him towards the next teacher.
The man looked more like a soldier than anything else as Jack and Mako made their way towards him, he was a bald fair skin human, wearing the typical Revanite robes as the others. "You are new to the Order and so to meet the master, you must earn the trust of those that came before you. You will go on a pilgrimage and pass a test for each of the inner circle. You will succeed or you will die. Do you have anything to say initiate?"
Jack looked at him and smiled something the man was not expecting. "Will this pilgrimage be a difficult challenge with many worthy opponents?" the man began to smile as he heard him say that. "Yes it will, the path of Revan is not for the weak after all."
He liked the sound of that, it seems that at least in this, they honored his mother.
He began to walk down the path and Mako marvelled at how easily he was killing the beasts, it was now only taking 2 shots get their thick skin. "I modified on this blaster with a power crystal from a lightsaber Mako. I am sending force power along with every shot. It is like shooting fish in a barrel.
Mako made a mental note to do the same with her blaster.
At the camp tent where their next teacher was at, they met a rather tough looking male Chargrian, wearing Sith uniform, he gave a scanning look to then. "I am Morrun Dokaas. Tell me why, did Revan train slaves and commoners to fight? Why did Revan wish for strong and able servants?"
Jack looked at him. "Because Revan knew that a servant is best when that servant was strong." Though Jack was unsure on servant part, slavery was never something his adopted mother ever approved of.
Morrun smiled. "Good, you speak as a Revanite. Your next test is down that path and near a river. You will meet Ceta Farr where she trains her fellow Mandalorians." Mako didn't understand what was going on so she decided to follow him.
It was rather good directions and he found Ceta Farr as the last person said he would. She was a tall female human, taller then Mako, short blonde hair with a long bang pull back on her left eye, there a small scar on her chin, her blue eyes were intension and shown great deal experience, she wore a blue Mandalorian light armor as it was only armored boots and wrist guards she was wearing.
Jack had to admit, Ceta Farr was beautiful in her own right, something that Mako noticed and did not like that.
Ceta looked towards her second in command, a male Mandalorian in blue armor. "Takan, send the recruits back to the city, they earn their right to rest." Takan gave a military salute, "yes commander!"
Ceta Farr then looked at the new Revanites recruits, she raise a brow, she was not expecting one of the Great Hunt hunters join them.
"I am Ceta Farr, I am the clan leader of Clan Farr, it is my honor keep the memory of Revan alive as she defeated my clan in the Mandalorian Wars, she taught us what it means be a true warrior." She gave a impressed look to them then.
"It is impressive you been able get here, not many survive the jungles, or Morrun for that matter. So tell me now why should I trust you Bounty Hunter? You are not bound by honor, you and you're friend may wear Beskar but are you willing follow the code of the warrior? What would you do for the Order?"
Jack didn't like the comment about him lacking honor. "I will beat them, and defend the order as I would defend a fellow students of Revan. I hate to lose time and I have yet to introduce myself. I am Jack The Reaper, you people know me as the Reaper of Malachor Three. I know that you say I have no honor but I challenge you to fight me in hand to hand."
She was not expecting him to say that. She was ready to have him fight the recruits since fighting her would be too much for a mere Bounty Hunter. The fact that he claimed to be the man she grew up admiring made her angry enough to actually accept.
"I will make you regret the day you claimed that you are the Reaper. Come, we will fight in the sparring pit. I will ask what you wish from me if you win right now." Jack told her that of he won and he would she would promise to follow him from now on.
"If you were a Mandalorian and proved to me that you are honorable, I would gladly do that. However you are not a Mandalorian. Let's fight, maybe I can think of a way to prove your honor to me but that will only be necessary if you win."
The two made their way over to sparring pit, the two place their weapons away, they got into combat stances. Mako and the rest of the Mandalorians began to watch, eager to see who would win.
For the next thirty minutes, Jack evaded almost every attack Ceta gave him, she was able land a nice spinning kick to his face but didn't keep him down. The rest of the Mandalorians were amazed but they got an even bigger shock when Mako told them to look at his feet.
That was when it dawn on them that while their Commander was moving all over the pit to try and strike him he had not moved an inch since the fight started.
"Honestly, it is like a man playing with a child. Jack, we got things to do. Quit playing and end this already." Mako said as Jack caught Ceta's fist and with a great deal of strength, he punched her in the stomach and then send her flying up with a strong jab, his crushgaunts were able help him do that given Ceta was wearing beskar.
The other Mandalorians had to admit this was impressive. They began to cheer as the fight came to a close. Ceta spitted out some blood, Jack helped her up and placed his hands on her shoulders he looked at her. "If I am ever a Mandalorian, will you come with me and let me prove I am honorable enough to earn right be a Mandalorian?"
She was blushing as she felt his hands on her shoulders. Nobody had ever managed to get this close to her before, she looked at her lieutenant, who came to stand next to her waiting his orders. Ceta looked at Jack.
"You are honorable enough for me to recognize you as a Mandalorian, as for your companion, we were see. I ask that you give me a few days to set the training of these men in order and then I will join you in the Hunt to see your honorable behavior first hand."
Takan Farr didn't even blink as she heard her say that to this person. "I shall begin gathering the necessary things to set the training schedule Commander. It was a great fight, we learned a lot from seeing you."
Ceta then turned to Jack. "You better return back to the Revanites camp, there will be other tasks take care of." Jack nodded, he takes his leave with Mako, nodding to the other Mandalorians they passed.
Ceta looked as Jack left camp, she always grew up admiring Jack the Reaper's strength and courage face her people, now after meeting him? It was interesting.'Am looking forward to what adventures await for us in future, Jack the Reaper.'
Something told Ceta things were gonna get interesting.
000
"Hey Jack, I gotta ask, what's your interest in Revan's mask?" Asked Mako as she and Jack made their at bridge, leading to Darth Grathon's compound.
They been given a new mission by one of the Revanites, a very creepy female Sith Pureblood who was actually once Grathon's assassin, she wanted them to get Revan's mask that was within a chamber in the base.
Of course then there was a another Revanite, a male human name Torrun who wanted Jack and Mako bring the mask to him so it could be use for study and etc.
Overall, Jack was not gonna do either for them and was actually gonna take the mask himself, though the other Revanite didn't mind, long as it doesn't go to the creepy Sith, Ladra. But when they got to the outpost station near Darth Grathon's compound, they accept few jobs to do, one for a Imperial soldier who wanted them look into where her missing troopers went.
Another was involving some Sith lord who wanted them kill a Sith spawn, but Jack had a feeling there was something more to what she told them about the Sith spawn, Mako and Jack had a feeling she was hiding something.
Jack stopped, he turns to Mako. "Mako, there is a lot of history behind that mask, it didn't just once belonged to my adopted mother... It belonged to my blood mother." That stopped Mako cold, her eyes widen slightly.
She was confused. "Wait a minute, Revan gotten that mask from a Mandalorian during the Mandalorian Wars, you saying that Mandalorian was your mother?" Jack nodded, just before he was knocked out back in the cave, Revan gave him full detail of what she saw when she found that mask.
"Yes, I caught images of flashbacks back in that cave from the force. It.. showed me who my mother was." He leans on bridge railing, he looked towards the base.
"Her name was Parjri, not sure which clan she was from. She was a Mandalorian warrior who fought in the small raids before the Mandalorians attacked the Republic, however while on a planet, Quelii I think. She fell in love with one of the people there, he was a former Jedi who left the order after Great Sith Wars... That man was Malak's father."
Mako was even more shocked, she thought by brother, Jack was talking about adopted kind of brothers, not half brothers. "Malak's mother died when she gave birth to him, his father become lonely, even more so when Malak was force leave the planet when the Neo Crusaders came. But he end up falling in love with my mother, they had me then."
Mako couldn't help but feel there was something gonna bad happen here. "But something bad happen didn't it?" Jack nodded, "yes, my mother was part of the force under Cassus Fett to attack Cathar. She try stop Cassus when he was gonna kill what was left of the Cathar, he refused and.. and he killed her, but she was able buy time for Cathar escape the planet... she's the reason why there's even Cathars still around."
Mako was quiet, she took Jack's side, rubbing his arm. "My father by that time was hiding on Tatooine, trying keep me safe, but he become overwhelmed by criminal gangs when he refused to pay them, he killed most of them but he was eventually overwhelmed by them. I ended up on streets after that, I was too young remember it all, until now. Revan found me after that, she's the reason why am even still alive, why am here."
They were quiet for bit, before Jack stood up. "Am gonna get that mask, if it's last thing I do." Jack walked to end of the bridge, Mako took time to think about what Jack just told her. She just learned a great deal more about him, now... Now she's gonna do she can help him.
She realize right there... She was in love with Jack...
