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A/N – Ok so if you can remember back to chapter 3 (The Bounty), Jango had just followed Darth Maul into hyperspace heading for Bestine…
Maul brought his ship out of hyperspace as close to the planet as possible. He did as last time and headed for the north magnetic pole to hide his ship. This time he cloaked so that the bounty hunter, whom his sensors had identified as Jango Fett, would not get so lucky.
He knew about Fett. He knew that he was the best. He knew that he was the smartest. He knew that he was the deadliest. But none of this mattered, he was not going to be a problem, just an annoyance- and he wouldn't even be that for long. He already knew how he was going to get rid of him.
During the journey to Bestine he had been meditating on his new mission which was quite simple. He hated these simple missions, they were not testing enough of his abilities, but he didn't let this fact make him complacent because he knew that if he did he could fail the mission- and the consequences of this would be unimaginable.
The mission was to make sure that his Master's shipment got to Viceroy Gunray safely and to make sure that only the Viceroy knew what was in the crate. This alone shouldn't be too hard, but he sensed something about this mission which would make it a little bit more interesting, he sensed deception surrounding the mission. His Master must have sensed it too or he wouldn't be here.
Maul sensed a slight ripple in the Force- Fett was in the system. That was fast, he is better than they say, thought Maul, as he moved from the flight controls to the sensor screens. He knew he had a little time before the Trade Federation cruiser arrived, so he would distract Fett until they got there.
His ship, theScimitar, was armed with six hidden blasters and an array of precautionary measures like the cloaking device and the sensor masks. He took pride in his ship as most of it was custom built by himself, but he didn't want to let anyone know what weapons he had. If he did he would be classed as a bounty hunter and he didn't want that for two reasons, first of all everyone would recognize his ship and know what weapons it had because it would be all over the holonet and secondly, he wasn't a bounty hunter.
He checked the sensors and waited until Fett's ship was facing the other way, then he fired one shot just past its port thruster. He then quickly maneuvered his ship into a polar orbit so that he was never where the shot came from. This technique, he found, could keep most mercenaries occupied for at least an hour, though he didn't expect Fett to be fooled that long.
As he expected Fett's ship spun around, and fired in the direction the shot came from. Maul was impressed with Jango's accuracy- if he hadn't moved he would be in a million pieces. This was a good thing; it let Maul know how good the sensors were on Slave 1.
He did this a few more times with the same result, before Fett fired first; he had anticipated the position of the ship he was pursuing. One of his lasers deflected and when Fett looked there seemed to be nothing there. He checked the sensor logs and there was a flash when the laser bolt hit the cloaked ship as the ship flashed into view for less than a second.
Alarms went off in Jango's head. Oh no he has a cloaking device, how will I get him now and how will I not get killed myself. Then alarms started to go off in the ship, this day was just getting better and better. He checked the screen to see a Trade Federation Cruiser heading for the planet. He looked again, yes he had seen it, Maul's ship was uncloaked. He must have done more damage than Jango thought, and although he still couldn't get a lock on the ship, at least he could see it.
This guy is as crazy as a Dug, thought Jango as he watched Maul's ship speed towards the huge cruiser. What was he doing? Using his magnetic docking clamps he attached the ship to the side of the cruiser. Jango took back his previous thought; this guy was crazier than a Dug.
Jango decided to take the shot; he could take out Maul with one good hit. He took manual control of the weapons and took aim. He would disable Maul's ship, contact the cruiser to apologize and explain and then he would tow Maul's ship back to Coruscant and collect his payment.
The tactical officer on the cruiser was going over his schedule when his sensors picked up a faint weapons signature, he checked it. Someone was charging weapons pointed at the cruiser, a small patrol ship. He pressed a button and went back to his schedule.
As soon as Jango had aimed the shot, he fired. At the exact same time a green bolt from ion cannon came from the cruiser. He had not expected that, surely their scanners could detect the ship attached to their hull? As the green bolt hit his ship he noticed that his red laser bolts had hit the durasteel hull of the cruiser.
"WHAT!" he shouted. Where was Maul's ship? It had been right there!
Slave 1 spun out of control. It had lost all power, all it could do was drift and he was heading for interstellar space. It could be days before anyone found him out there, just drifting. There was nothing he could do, he checked the supplies and went to the engine room to see if there was anyway to get power back.
Once clamped to the hull of the cruiser, Darth Maul set the cloaking device to come on as soon as the sensors detected a shot from Fett's ship. As he sat in the pilot's chair he watched the yellow light labeled 'cloak.' As soon as it was lit he took off, pushing the ship forwards with full thrusters and a little help from the Force.
"You were nearly a worthy opponent Jango Fett, but not today," he said to himself.
He now headed for the communications dish of the cruiser. This was the cruiser he was to keep his eye on. He didn't care what happened to Fett, he knew the Federation would probably disable, if not destroy, his ship so he would no longer an annoyance.
He docked on the communications dish of the cruiser where he could intercept all transmissions. He also remained cloaked, so not to be detected- he would not fail this mission.
A/N – thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed this, not my best chapter but I needed to get Maul onto the cruiser and I though this would be a fun way to do it, lol. R&R