A/N: So on with the Jedi Civil War, again it will be short only the to battles that matter and a little in between, well you will see, Review please.
Disclaimer: See chapter 1
The Fallen Knight
The Jedi Civil War
My Darling, I don't ever want you to leave me
My Darling, you and me were meant to be together
My Darling, if I can't have you then no one can
My Darling, 'cause I possess your soul, your mind, your heart, and your body
-My Darling, by Eminem
1 year and 4 months after the invasion of Revan's Sith fleet.
Victory. That's all Revan and his armies had known since they entered into Republic space. With the invincible fleet from the Star Forge and Revan's genius battle strategies the Sith were unstoppable. While he distracted his troops, the Republic, and his apprentice with a few isolated large battles he began his takeover of the Republic. Assassinating key targets and destroying the right military targets was his true battle. He succeeded in crumbling most of the leaders that had plagued him during the Mandalorian Wars but there was one major obstacle left. The Jedi.
Even though they were not worthy opponents they had proved to be a major annoyance. Revan needed to break the back of the Republic so that they could give into his demands but first he needed to get rid of its crutch: the Jedi. Now that the Sith was the threat to the galaxy the Jedi Order didn't hesitate to join. Revan despised the council so much he hated them for sending hundreds of Jedi to their death to try and stop his plans while they sat in the comfort of their temple. He wanted to bring his full force to Coruscant and burn the Jedi Temple with them still in it. But he didn't, he needed the people of the galaxy on his side and for that he needed to not give the innocents a reason to fear him.
Though Malak destroying Telos did not help his plans at all. Revan stripped him of giving orders without Revan's approval and he took away his fleet leaving him only his flagship. That's when Revan sensed it in Malak's heart. Betrayal. Malak had felt that Revan was becoming weak by attacking isolated planets with minimal Republic presence. Malak also openly disobeyed him when he told Malak to stand down when a Republic fleet fled to the core worlds. Malak only stopped when Revan moved his fleet in between Malak and the jump to hyperspace.
Revan meditated aboard his flagship the Liberator. He focused himself on feeling around the ship, and then to the battle below he felt his armies pushing the Republic back. He searched for his desired target. Then finally he found him. He stood up putting his hood and mask back on. He opened the door and walked to the bridge.
"Query: Have you found the target Master?" Revan's custom droid HK-47 walked next to the Dark Lord.
Revan pulled out a datapad and punched in the coordinates. "Yes HK you are clear to take him out." Revan said handing it to the droid.
"Thankful Response: Oh thank you Master it was getting so dull up here, now I will have pleasure in killing finally."
"Kill all in your way and make sure the target is dead, then download the information he has and send it to me."
"Acknowledgement: Of course Master I shall do as you say." The droid turned and left leaving Revan to his viewport.
He stared intently down at the world below. His forces were fighting a diversion but of course they never knew that. Only three knew of his true plan. One was himself, another he created so that it only answered to him, and the last was in hiding as a spirit on the forgotten world of Tython. He made a mental note to visit his Jedi spirit Master soon.
Revan was winning the war with minimal losses. On both sides actually there had only been the necessary deaths so that he could make it look like a war. Recently though some of his forces had suffered defeats at battles he was not at. Now he made sure he was present at every battle.
His fleet was orbiting the planet Lennik where a small ground battle was taking place. He had sent HK-47 to kill a Republic General and retrieve information. After that he would force the Republic forces to surrender. A plan that had worked two times before, and saved thousands of lives.
After a couple of hours he still stood over the viewport staring at the planet when an alarm went off on his ship.
"My Lord a Republic force has just arrived, they are preparing to attack." Admiral Quel stated.
"Put up our shields. I want 4 ships to be cloaked and move in between us and their fleet. Tell them to keep the Republic from landing reinforcements." Revan watched as the Republic fleet appeared directly in front of him. The ship started shaking from the attack but it was not damaged due to their shields. He was angry, how did he not see this coming?
"My Lord you have a transmission from the surface." The Admiral reported.
"Put it up." Darth Revan saw one of his captains appear onscreen. "Ah Captain you have news?"
"Sir they have broken through our lines and took a quarter of our forces captive. We had to fall back and a few shuttles landed with Jedi leading their forces now."
Darth Revan felt his anger rising. How could they be doing this? Is this how they have been losing? The Republic comes with a fleet accompanied by Jedi? But how did they break his lines? Darth Revan paced for a moment thinking.
"Alright I want half your forces to retreat to the landing platform and the other half to go underground. When the Republic reach you send word to the other half of your forces to attack and surround them quickly. Knowing the Jedi they will be at the front of the lines so I want most of your men at the front to contain the Jedi and try to make them surrender. You are dismissed captain." Revan said turning of the screen as he saluted.
Revan waited for almost another hour then HK finally contacted him. "Proud Statement: Master I have completed the task, I am now sending the information to you."
"Alright HK return to me immediately."
"Acknowledgement: Of course Master."
Revan turned off the comm and turned on the screen and received the transmission from HK. He quickly scanned through the text until he got to the most recent message. Hopefully it would shed light on what they were planning. Under his mask Revan's eyes went wide and he clenched his fists. He slammed his fist into the control panel destroying it.
"Lord Revan, are you alright?" The admiral spoke.
"Leave me!" Darth Revan said. The admiral nodded and instructed all of the men in the bridge to leave. Once they left Revan ripped the panel out of the ground and threw it out of the triple reinforced viewport. It shattered as the vacuum sucked everything out the open window until the automatic blast doors shut leaving Revan standing angrily.
He cried out in anger as his aura turned red and circled him like a cloud. He called upon the force and stretched his hands out to a Republic ship and started crushing it. After he was done it was basically folded in half. He threw it to the surface of the planet and collapsed to his knees. He calmed himself and focused on the Force trying to detect disturbance in it. Surely enough he found it, he hadn't noticed it before but now it was clear.
He stood up and threw off his mask and hood and walked up to the blast doors of where once was a window.
"BASTILA!" He cried out punching the door with all his force. The door bent to his will and left a fist mark in the impenetrable door. He stood for another minute thinking putting his mask and hood back on. He turned around and found a working control panel and contacted his ground forces.
"Captain pull back your forces, the battle is lost today. We will fight another day." He cut off the transmission before the officer could say anything. In truth his true mission had succeeded but at more cost then he would have liked.
"Admiral you can come back in." Darth Revan said over the comms. All the bridge personal stepped in and looked at the wreckage of Revan's rage. But they didn't say anything, they knew better. "Send word to our forces to retreat, the battle is over."
The admiral was left speechless for a moment before arguing. "Sir we are deadlocked with their forces on the ground not to mention we have their fleet on the run, they have lost more ships then we have in the entire war."
"Admiral you will do as I say or I will have someone else command the ship." Darth Revan warned him. The Admiral nodded and made preparations for the retreat.
Darth Revan scowled under his hood at the holo image of the battle and directly at the ship that was causing all the problems. As the hyper drive fired up he took one last glance before turning the image off. "We will meet again Bastila."
3 hours after Revan's retreat.
Bastila broke out of her Battle Meditation as the last of the Sith forces retreated. She had been an experiment ever since she completed her training six months prior. They Jedi presented her to the Republic as their secret weapon for winning the unwinnable war. Before Darth Revan invaded the galaxy the Jedi Order had tried repeatable to try to stop her training of the Battle Meditation. But now they all looked to her for answers. Now she knew how Revan must have felt during the Mandalorian Wars.
The Republic first tested her during a small space battle where Revan was not present. Besides her emotional attachments to him they didn't want to overwhelm her by putting her against the greatest strategist in history. So a few isolated battles later the Republic chanced this one chance to break Darth Revan's morale by putting Bastila against him in combat. When Bastila first went into meditation she searched him out and found him aboard his flagship just standing there for hours. She quickly went into her Battle Meditation and broke the Sith forces will and gave the Republic hope.
Even with her Battle Meditation the space battle resulted in heavy losses. She knew that Revan sensed her and was angry. The weapon he had created was now used against him. She broke out when she saw the ship in front of her mysteriously crumble up and crash into the surface. She knew he had done that. It was a message to her, Revan knew what ship she was on and destroyed the one next to her.
But what came next was totally unexpected. The Republic fleet was getting decimated while the ground forces all but won. But the Sith fleet retreated. The Republic officers didn't care as to why all they cared was that they finally won a battle against the great Darth Revan. The Jedi Order speculated that it was because he knew the power of the Battle Meditation and knew he would lose. Bastila knew the real reason. He knew that the Battle Meditation was not invincible and that if he could distract her he would win. But he didn't, instead he retreated. Bastila knew it was because he did not want to harm her. He knew his forces could easily crush her, but he left leaving her as a powerful weapon of the Republic. Probably another gift to her, she was glad he stilled care, but what he was now….
Bastila was now twenty years old and still a Padawan. Maybe it was because she spent all of her time teaching herself Battle Meditation, or maybe it was because she was trained by Revan, or maybe it was because recently she had been staying up all night crying herself to sleep over her broken heart. She didn't care about being a Padawan. She was the secret weapon of the Republic, and the tool of the Jedi, her rank in the Order barely mattered to her.
To say she missed Revan would be an understatement. She missed him with all her heart and waited for almost two years after his gift for him to come back. And he did, but he wasn't himself.
He was Darth Revan the Dark Lord of the Sith. When she found out she locked herself in her room and cried for what seemed like days. She refused to eat or sleep for almost a week, then she finally pulled herself together and continued her training in Battle Meditation. When she accomplished her task and they told her that she would face Revan on the front lines of the war she didn't accept. The Republic stepped in saying it was not worth the risk so the past few months they placed her on smaller battles where Revan was not located. The Republic was victorious at every single one. But when they presented a plan to attack him directly she reluctantly accepted. It was because she wanted to send him a message more than anything, and he had gotten it from the anger she felt from him in the Force.
She walked down the corridor to the bridge, the admiral and Master Zhar had summoned her. Zhar had accompanied her on this mission for her protection and guidance in case anything happened. She opened the door to the bridge to see only Zhar standing there.
"You called for me Master?" She asked.
"Yes Bastila I wanted to thank you and congratulate you on your impressive victory over Darth Revan, this was a major victory for us." He said gesturing her to stand next to him.
She looked out the window to see the stars and clear sky of where once was the massive Sith fleet. "I fear this war is far from over Master, knowing Revan he will do anything to prove he can beat my Battle Meditation in combat." Bastila said looking down at the floor.
"Yes he has always been persistent like that, he will do anything to prove himself better than anyone." Zhar agreed.
"Then perhaps that is his weakness." Master Vandar said walking slowly up to the two.
"Master Vandar," Bastila said bowing.
"No need for formalities young one, I believe I should be the one bowing to you. You are the only one who can beat him Bastila, though I fear you are correct since it was he that taught you the Battle Meditation he will find a way to defeat you in battle." Vandar said gazing out the viewport.
"What do you suggest Master?" Bastila asked.
"We give him what he wants, a battle against you, a massive space battle wear he can challenge you though you will have to lose the battle in the end."
Bastila looked at the shorter Master. He wasn't making since, he said she could defeat him but how if he wants her to lose this supposed battle. "Master I don't follow."
"You will have to give him a fight, a good one, then at the last moment before the Republic retreats I want you and a team of Jedi to board his ship and defeat him."
Bastila thought the plan was bold but foolish. "He would suspect a diversion, and how would we board his ship?"
"Simple we attack his vessel and cripple it, making it impossible to defend. Revan will be caught off-guard and you can defeat him easily." Bastila liked the idea but she did not want to be the one to strike down Revan. She still cared about him even though he had betrayed her and the galaxy. "I would not put you up to this if I didn't think there was another way Bastila. I am sorry."
Bastila fought back tears as she bowed and left to her room. Once she got inside she grabbed the locket and let her tears flow freely. She knew it would come down to this somehow. Her against Revan, the Jedi never said it but the attachment Revan had to her couldn't have been better for them. Especially today when Revan retreated instead of defeating Bastila. She threw herself on her bed and cried, like she was the small scared five-year old again. And for a split second she thought she felt Revan's presence in the room.
She also felt words come into her mind from nothingness. They echoed in her head sounding like Revan had spoken them. "Don't cry for me."
1 month later.
Darth Revan stormed into the bridge. He had been gone to Tython trying to control himself desperately. When he found out the Jedi were using Bastila against them he hated the Jedi more than anything now. His Jedi spirit master had told him that they wouldn't force Bastila in battle against him without her agreeing. Deep down he knew the truth, Bastila was doing this to stop the monster she once loved.
Revan had often felt her pain through the Force when he meditated, especially on Tython. He had sometimes felt himself in her room where she had been crying for what seemed like hours. The night after his retreat from her he meditated and found her crying for him in her room. He felt like he had gone into her room and whispered in her ear: "Don't cry for me." He knew that it happened when she stopped crying and looked around the room for him. He knew there attachment had let them communicate through meditation when he was in the Mandalorian Wars but he guessed that it had grown through their years of separation. He didn't think it was a Force bond otherwise it would be stronger and she would hear his thoughts as he would be able to calm her through their bond without being near her. It wasn't a Force bond not yet, though, the Jedi ghost had told him it was the closest thing to what they shared though.
Revan opened the doors to the bridge of the Liberator and was greeted with an unwelcome sight. Darth Malak was backed up by four Dark Jedi. "Ah my Master finally shows." Malak said condescendingly.
Darth Revan walked past them and to the newly repaired viewport. He looked out to his invincible Armada. "I did not summon you Malak, go back to your ship."
Darth Malak laughed darkly and turned towards the men on the ship. "Lord Revan dares talk down to me when he is the one putting our plans at risk. And for what?" He turned back towards Revan. "For some Jedi girl you fantasize about."
Darth Revan slowly turned around and approached his apprentice without saying a word. "You retreated from a battle you surely could have won because she was too close to being defeated. You always question us where our allegiance lies and now I question yours. Do you choose that whore over the Sith?"
Darth Revan now stood directly in front of Darth Malak. "Revan it seems that you are no longer fit to lead this army I challenge you for mantle of the Dark Lord of the Sith. Do you accept?"
Darth Malak grabbed his lightsaber with Revan watching. Darth Revan smirked under his mask and turned around mocking him by having his back to Malak. Malak grew angry and drew his lightsaber swinging it at Revan's head. In one swift motion Revan tilted his head to the side, avoiding the blow and grabbing his own lightsaber swinging it at Malak. He sliced his jaw clean off, ending the battle.
The Dark Jedi all kneeled in front of Darth Revan as did all the crew. Malak collapsed and had his hands over his missing jaw. "Let this be a lesson to anyone who tries to betray me again. You speak out against me I cut off your jaw. You try to stab me I cut off your hands. You raise an army against me I burn your family in front of you and cut off your head and give it to the men your turned against me." Revan looked at his pitiful excuse for an apprentice. He kneeled down beside him. "You were supposed to be my friend, my most trusted advisor. I will not kill you, no you will continue to serve under me as a reminder to all those that try to betray me." He grabbed Malak by the throat and pulled his ear to Revan's mouth and whispered. "The deepest circle in hell is reserved for traitors Malak. You were always so quick to capture power that you never took the time to look at it from the outside." He threw Malak to the ground and gestured for the medics to take him away.
He turned towards his generals. "We are to meet the Republic fleet and surprise them. I am to take half of the Armada and crush them and their tool. This war will end soon."
Fin.
A/N: So deleted scene time. I wanted to include more of Bastila fighting Revan but I found it to contradict with the next chapter. Also I had to skip most of the war because all it was, was Revan crushing the Republic. I had originally had the whole HK and Malak scene where he calls him a meatbag but it just seemed like filler and everyone knows that story anyway. Review por favor.