Here's a Hondo chapter. Not too much gonna happen, but I needed a formal confrontation before I executed the next part of my story.
"General." Anakin Skywalker looked up from his datapad. It was Rex.
"You need something, Rex?" He asked casually.
"Yes sir. The Jedi Council would like to see you in the hologram room. Someone's on to talk to you and General Kenobi, sir."
He sighed and got up. "I hope it's not another planet that's been taken over."
Rex replied, "It's not, sir. He said he was an old friend. Didn't know you had pirate friends, if you don't mind me saying so, sir."
"Let's not keep him waiting, then."
They walked to the Hologram Room, and Anakin entered into the room occupied only with a hologram of Hondo and Obi-Wan Kenobi. He closed the door and crossed his arms upon reaching the hologram. "Hondo. What do you want?" He asked, slightly annoyed.
"Oh, yes, you act like I'm an enemy after I was a delivery boy for you, and saved your snippy friends?! How hospitable."
"Just tell us what you want, Hondo." Skywalker asked impatiently.
"First, you lose me a promising bounty on the Sith Lord, then another bounty on Sillum, then the Sith Lord blows up my base, and I get attacked again by two crazies, then I'm delivery boy, and now, look what you've done! You've brought another crazy man to my home! Calls himself a bounty hunter, named The Reborn, and that he's trying to kill me! For being a delivery boy for you, I demand you come and get rid of this crazy before all my men are dead!"
"You're too weak to deal with a bounty hunter, but you outsmart a Sith? Where's that Hondo I used to know?" Skywalker taunted.
"I don't have all rotation, Jedi. Are you going to help me, or not?"
Anakin sighed. "Alright, but no more favors. I don't like being affiliated with scum."
"You still don't think I'm more than just a pirate? Impossible Jedi." The hologram powered down.
"Guess we'll have to find out what's going on over there. Can't believe we have to deal with Hondo again though."
"Who's The Reborn?" Kenobi asked.
"You're asking me?" Skywalker replied.
Kenobi sighed and started for the door. Anakin activated his comlink. "This is Ahsoka." Came the voice from the other end.
"Snips, get the ship ready. We're supposed to save Hondo from someone called The Reborn."
There was silence. "The Reborn?" Ahsoka quivered.
"Do you—" Anakin started to ask.
"I'll meet you at the hangar." Ahsoka said quickly, and switched off the connection.
Anakin was slightly bewildered, but walked to the hangar. Ahsoka and Obi-Wan were already onboard, and the ship was powering up. He ran up the ramp that was retracting, and the ship blasted off soon after he boarded.
He sat down just behind Ahsoka and waited until they were in hyperspace to ask Ahsoka about The Reborn.
"Ahsoka."
She slowly swiveled her chair to face him.
"What do you know of The Reborn?" Anakin ventured.
A tear fell down her cheek. She heard the whoosh of her lightsaber as The Reborn plunged the blade through Barriss's chest. "He… he's the one who killed… Barriss…" She trailed off, brokenly.
Ahsoka had never answered anyone's questions about the death of Barriss, and so no one knew of The Reborn.
"He was the one breaking in to the base on Xanius. I tried to stop him, but he managed to get outside into the jungle, where he…" She couldn't stop a strangled sob escape her throat at recalling her death.
"I'm sorry." Anakin said quietly.
The rest of the trip was spent in silence. After a few hours, they came out of hyperspace to Florrum. They immediately saw the problem. There was a ship that was forcibly docking on Hondo's command disk ship. Ahsoka hit the accelerator and they sped towards the enemy ship.
"I'm gonna do something crazy." Ahsoka said.
She docked onto the enemy ship.
"What are you doing, Snips?!" Anakin shouted.
"We have to run through that ship to get to Hondo!" Ahsoka yelled back. They docked, and the security doors opened. The enemy ship was vacant. They dashed through the small ship, drawn by the sound of blaster fire. They ended up just behind a staggering amount of Separatist droids… led by The Reborn. He was walking right through the middle of the battle.
"Stop!" Ahsoka screamed.
Reborn was the only one who paid mind. He turned and Force-pushed them back. Ahsoka was the one who got up first.
He pulled out her shoto that he had taken. "You mind want this back." He said, and tossed it to her. She caught it neatly in her left hand, and activated it simultaneously with her primary.
They all were up now; lightsabers flaring to life.
To everyone's surprise, he pulled out two double-bladed lightsabers, one blue and one green, just like… Master Krell's. He flipped some buttons on them and they blazed with life.
"Attack… Jedi." He said menacingly. They lunged and he did Ahsoka's signature razor attack. It was clear he was no ordinary bounty hunter when he knocked Anakin unconscious and was breaking Obi-Wan, following a short lightsaber match. Obi-Wan fell, quite stunned by his power.
He turned to Ahsoka. Ahsoka sensed something strange in him. There was something familiar about him. Her eyes widened, and she said,
"You're a clone."
She felt his smile. "Yes. You remember me, don't you?"
"Captain Snake… you disobedient bastard. You led your troopers with Gregor and got everyone killed!"
He screamed in hate and lunged at her. She was no match for his skill, strength, and hate. She, too, soon lay sprawled out on the ground. He raised his lightsaber to kill her.
Then, he felt her scream on Xanius once again. The look of horror. Her friend falling dead. He stumbled back, recalling his troopers falling. He turned and realized that Hondo's men had surrounded him after they destroyed his droids. There were too many, and the Jedi were getting up. He suddenly tossed several explosives, and everyone coughed and shouted in confusion until the smoke cleared. He was gone.
Ahsoka felt him. "This isn't over." He spoke through the Force.
She knew it wasn't.
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