"Darth Venison," Darth Vader chuckled. "I should have known you were the cause of all this mess. You truly do stand for the Rebel Alliance."
"Don't think you're strong enough to stop me now, Lord Vader." I growled lowly at the helmeted Sith Lord. "I've done many things that have greatly helped the Rebellion against your oppressive Empire."
Vader and I stared coldly at each other, our lightsabers drawn.
"Your Empire's mission to liberate Kommaden? I was there. The destruction of the Imperial ship that came here? I was there." I snarl at him and make a large threatening smile with my fanged teeth. "The death of Sot-Kolok, I was there!" I hold out the Inquisitor's lightwhip which I used to kill him, and showed it to Vader.
The TIE Fighters that landed in the back opened and units of stormtroopers ran out and cocked their guns, pointing them to me. Vader held a hand out to them.
"Stop. This one's mine." He turned to me and ignited his red blade. "So, you've revealed you're the little slab of meat who's been causing all the trouble here,"
"Aye, Darth Vader. It's all my doing." I grinned mischievously.
Vader pointed at me and made a crushing gesture with his hand.
"I find your actions very disappointing, Venison." He scoffed in ridicule. "Venison. What a truly ridiculous name. Yet ironic. After I finish your campaign here, you will live up to your name, as the wasted sack of deer meat you truly are."
I glare at him coldly, knowing what my name truly meant, and slowly walk toward him, ready for battle.
"I know what my name means, and I roam the galaxy with that name as my pride, my reputation. What drives me, knowing what Darth Venison can truly do to change everyone's lives. And nothing you can do or say will stop or distract me from stopping your Empire." I Force throw Vader into his TIE Fighter and turn to Antilles. "Gather the survivors into any fighter ships, help stop the Imperial attacks above."
"Yes, Lord Venison." Antilles helps get the rebels and Kommadenians on their feet and they start to evacuate to Kommaden City's hangar, leaving me alone with Darth Vader as he gets up from his impact with the TIE Fighter. He Force flips his way back into the city square and sticks his blade into the ground, landing in a kneeling position.
"I am slightly amused by you and how your little adventure got you here." Vader pulled his lightsaber out of the ground and slowly started to circle me. "Left your family behind. Turned to the Dark Side. Insulted the Empire. Joined the rebellion. Interrupted our goal for liberation. Killed our best Inquisitor. And you still want greater power."
"What other power could I need?" I rolled me eyes.
"I know why you suffer. Why you hate the Empire truly."
I only glared colder.
"Because we killed your village. All your friends, your family. Everyone you swore to protect. But you failed. You failed to save them." My anger began to rise more, and I hatred for the Empire and my hatred for Vader both increase dramatically. "Your chief. Your neighbors. Your mother and younger sibling too."
I notice Captain Antilles begins to pull out his communicator to record me yelling at Lord Vader, starting to keep a recorded holographic image of me and Vader in the Kommaden City square. If I can't show the galaxy how evil the Empire is myself, at least Captain Antilles is helping to record a message for the whole galaxy to see.
"You knew my family and my Zan-Deer friends were important to me. Everyone that lived in that village I had a connection to." I whisper to myself, "even mum." I speak loudly again. "My mother was the only person in that village I truly looked up to, after my father died."
Tears began to streak down from my eyes and I start lashing at Vader with my anger. In the corner of my eye, I see Rakine run into the city and stop at the town square entrance, watching me confront Vader in the center.
"I've tried so many times, spent so much time in my younger life, trying to impress my family, trying to prove I can do things right. And when I turned my back to them just once, you had killed them all, everyone I had left! You think the First Galactic Empire is so great and powerful, that it was meant to rule the galaxy. Yet you mercilessly end millions of innocent lives like we're worthless animals. Animals! My own mother was pregnant with a fawn when your army had gunned her down!" I began to cry out in rage, screaming at Lord Vader, more tears falling from my eyes. "You hear me, you ruthless, Imperial hunk of metal?! She wa-"
Vader held a hand out to me and began Force choking me, interrupting my rant and slowly lifting me off the ground. Antilles gasps in horror and I notice Rakine reaches for his lightsaber to help me, staring Vader down with all his anger, showing his Dark Side eyes. Antilles sighs in sympathy for my loss, and stops the holographic recording, before running back to reunite with the evacuating rebels.
"So was my dear Padmé when she died! I was too late to save her, as you were too late to save your mother." Vader focused his attention on me, letting the rebels go to escape, and join the fight in space. "Now Venison, hear me. There are some people that no matter how hard you try, no matter what you do to help the people you love and care about, but you can't save them! We both know the same pain, and I'm going to end yours!"
He pointed his lightsaber at me and I raised a hand and swung the lightwhip, it's blade wrapping around Vader's red lightsaber blade. I jerked the lightwhip and pulled his lightsaber out of his grasp and it hits the ground rolling. As he chokes me by crushing my neck tighter via Force, the tear streaks on my cheeks evaporate from my anger. Vader's leather glove starts to sizzle and small white columns of steam come from between his fingers. Rakine quickly intervenes and runs up to Vader by slashing to him with a swing of his lightsaber blade. Vader jumps back to avoid the swing and drops me to the ground, I cling to my life, gasping for air laying motionless on the floor of the town square I watch Rakine swing at Vader again and start shooting storms of Force lightning at him. Groaning in pain from the shocking effects of the lightning, Vader Force pulls his lightsaber back to him and blocks Rakine's lightning attack. Rakine stops shooting his Force lightning and they hold their blades down to their sides, staring each other down.
I turn to hear the sound of ships taking off and the rebel troops that joined me all left in five massive starfighters, green with three pairs of wings, and each wing had at least three laser cannons. I watched as a thick blue elliptical forcefield grew over the ship, to block off any attack, like blaster bolts or lasers from cannons. These ships were giant war machines, indestructible, and their sole purpose was to destroy all opposing forces. I watch as the ships flew up through the metal forest to aid our rebels in space. I turned to Rakine as he and Vader prepare to fight.
"Rakine-" I cough weakly and throw my lightwhip to him, he catches it in his free hand and ignites the long blade. The lightwhip's blade extended down to the ground in a long red coil next to his feet. The ground starts to sizzle under the lightwhip's blade as Rakine drags it across the surface of the town square, before lifting his arm and swinging the sharp, plasmic, red blade at Lord Vader. Sharply jerking the lightwhip in rapid swings, Rakine starts to overwhelm Vader, sending him backing away. The long red whip slashed the air violently and Rakine quickly spun in one circle, the whip swirling around him in a bright red disc.
The whip spun rapidly around Rakine as he glared at Vader with his Dark Side eyes. Vader lifts his lightsaber to stop the spinning lightwhip blade and it instantly wraps around his blade. He tugs aggressively on his lightsaber to try to pull the lightwhip out from Rakine's grasp, only for Rakine to keep his grip on the lightwhip tighter. Rakine throws his lightsaber in the air and with his free hand, Force throws Vader to the ground. Rakine's lightsaber drops back down and he catches it in his hand. Vader groans and Rakine towers over him, about to finish him, and as he swung the lightwhip blade down on Vader, he quickly rolled to the side, and the lightwhip struck against the ground. Vader jumps back up and Force pulls my darksaber out of my grasp, throwing me back down on the ground, and his lightsaber off the ground, igniting both of them in his hands.
I groan weakly, still rubbing my neck, feeling the right grip Vader has on me. But I watch as Rakine swung the lightwhip off the ground and jerked the long red snake sharply at Vader again, lashing it against my darksaber blade, which Vader took from me. Vader swung his red lightsaber and Rakine manages to block it with the blades from both the lightwhip and his lightsaber. Rakine jerked the lightwhip's blade out from Vader's grasp and swung it repeatedly, as if trying to tame a wild beast. Vader barely manages to block most of the attacks and groans loudly, deactivating my darksaber and holding the side of his helmet in pain. Thrashing at Rakine with his lightsaber, Vader holds out his hand with the darksaber, holding it by two fingers, and throwing Rakine back with he Force, deactivating his lightwhip in the air. Rakine and his weapons crash down to the ground and I try to get up myself. Vader walks slowly toward Rakine, about to finish him, but Rakine Force pulls the lightwhip to him and as it ignites, the long red blade slashes at Vader and slices across the armor of his shoulder and upper chest. Rakine Force jumps back up on his feet and turns to me, throwing his red lightsaber to me. He turns back to Vader and swings his arm above his head, the long whip blade circling around him in a large red disc. He Force throws Vader back with his empty hand and Vader flips through the air, landing on his feet, smoke starts to come from the damage on his helmet. Rakine slowly walks toward Vader and slashes at the ground with a sudden jerk of his arm, the long blade falls to the ground around him in a circle and he stares down at Vader's smoking helmet.
"That's it. He needs his helmet to breathe." Rakine turned to me and nods his head.
I swung Rakine's lightsaber at Vader and in a quick spin, I raise one leg and knock Vader's legs out from under him and he falls on his back. I swung at him and he swung a leg at me, kicking me in the jaw, the force if the kick sends me back a few steps. He starts to get back up and I swung the red blade at him, slashing across the armor on his back. He groans and drops my darksaber, I pull it to me and as he gets up, his black cape falls to the ground, completely sliced off just under the shoulders. Rakine Force jumps over me and swung the lightwhip around him, the long red blade grinding against Vader's lightsaber blade, sparks flying between Vader and Rakine, as their blade grind and bang against each other. Vader swing his blade and knocks the lightwhip's blade out of the way and aggressively kicks Rakine back. He turns to me and with the Force, picks me up, slams me against a building, and throws me down into the ground. I groan and hold my head in both my hands, and as I look up, Vader towers above me.
"You cannot easily stop me, deer. No matter how hard you try, I'm far superior both in combat and the Force. Accept it. I'm just better than you."
I Force kicked Vader in the stomach and sent him back into the arena with Rakine. Vader turned to Rakine and the long lightwhip blade swung at him again, he barely ducked under it. The lightwhip's blade left a gash across the front and side of Vader's helmet. Rakine continued to attack in circular motions with the lightwhip and Vader tried to repel the flexible blade. He starts raspy breathing and he looks at the lightwhip, Rakine looks down at it too. The weapon started smoking.
"The lightwhip is unstable," I moan weakly as I slowly tried to get back on my hoofed feet.
Rakine continued to use it in the battle and as it wrapped around Vader's lightsaber, he yanked it out of his grip and threw the lightwhip aside, disarming both of them. Rakine started using Force lightning on Vader with both hands and Vader crumpled to the ground, groaning and flailing his arms about, trying to stop the lightning attack. Rakine stopped and one of his hands formed into a fist, he picked up Vader by the shoulder and started punching away at his chest with his fist. His eyes still darkened in anger, Rakine threw Vader back to the ground and mercilessly shocked him more with the Force lightning, a snarling glare grew on Rakine's face. Vader Force pulled his lightsaber to him and ignited it, blocking the lightning and Rakine stopped, pulled the lightwhip back to him, and ignited it again. The lightwhip smoked more and Rakine stared at it with a sadistic grin. He continued to lash against Vader's blade and walk toward him, swinging his arm in circular motions and the lightwhip swung in circles around him. As it smoked more, and performing a Force backflip, landing away from Vader, and throwing the lightwhip at him. Vader is knocked back screaming as the lightwhip explodes in midair right in front of him, the chunks of the lightwhip's hilt fly down to the ground and the explosion even knocks Rakine on the ground on his back. The explosion dies down and Rakine jumps back up on his feet and turns to me, slowly picking me up with the Force.
"You okay?" he asked me and I nod silently, letting out a weak, injured moan. I pointed to the stormtroopers who camped at the TIE Fighters, as try open fire on us. We both activated our lightsabers and deflected the shots, I Force charged at them and started swiftly slashing them dead, dodging their blaster bolts and their falling bodies as they all crumpled to the floor. I deactivate my darksaber and pant as Rakine pat my shoulder.
"That'll do, Ven."
We both turned to Vader and see him on his back on the ground, rubbing his helmet with raspy breathing and groaning coming from the mouth piece. Rakine and I walked over to him and Rakine held a hand down to him, holding Vader down with the Force.
"Call of the Imperial invasion." Rakine glared at Vader with his Dark Side eyes.
"Never." He moaned quietly.
Rakine started Force choking him.
"I see how it is, Vader. If you refuse to retreat now and give up on invading Kommaden, you won't have a use for your helmet anymore."
Vader grabbed his throat and felt Rakine's invisible hand tightening.
"I-" one of Vader's hands reached for his lightsaber and I immediately swung my darksaber blade through his wrist and literally disarming him. He groaned more and Rakine glared on.
"Well, Vader?" Rakine tightened his grip and Vader started choking and gagging under his mask.
"I'll do it," he pleaded. "I'll get the Empire to retreat. The invasion is over-"
Rakine let go of Vader's neck and Vader slowly got up, still raspy from his helmet damage. He got up and walked to his TIE Fighter Advanced and turned to us, Force pulling his lightsaber to him.
"You're only lucky you won because you damaged my protective armor. I have only a few minutes of life support without my helmet fully working." He entered his TIE Fighter and flew up to the sky of Kommaden, through the large metal forest.
"Should we make sure he's telling the truth?" I looked at Rakine as his eyes returned to normal.
He shrugged then looked around.
"Where are the ground troops?"
"They left when I distracted Vader. They went to evacuate, to join the fight in space and transport all the Kommadenian weapons to Yavin for the Rebel Alliance to use them."
"Then Kommaden is left abandoned and defenseless now."
"Not entirely, the Kommadenians are staying here to continue making weapons for the Alliance's use. They will easily ship weapons to the base on Yavin 4 in secret and successfully defend this system without our presence now. They are tough, and their weapons can destroy entire fleets. They will be fine."
"Seems like it," Rakine nodded. "Well, we better get back. You said the troops took Kommadenian ships to join the space battle?"
"Yes. I have seen them leave the surface to fight. They have large warplanes. Those ships will completely destroy the Imperial fleet."
"Good, then the battle is won." He turned to the outskirts where my ship and the abandoned rebel ships lay. "Time to go back the ."
I nodded and we walked slowly put of the outskirts and we look at the Kommadenian citizens come out and stare at us. Some murmur and the group starts to cheer in celebration for the great victory.
"We are glad to have defended your system. But we must report the victory to the Rebel Alliance on Yavin 4." Rakine nodded his head.
"You have a whole army of fighters and a whole hangar of those fighter ships, yes?"
"We have only twelve of these ships completely made, ready for handling." A council member answered. "Your fleet has taken five of them for the battle in space. But these ships are a wonder made by the genius Kommadenian scientists made process our weaponry and technology."
"Wonderful." Rakine chuckled. "You should have no problem defending this system and the galactic west from any further Imperial threats."
They nodded.
"Glad to see that the Battle of Kommaden was a success. Now the entire Wild Space is safe from Imperial harm." Rakine turned to me. That should include the Zant and Ikana systems."
I sighed in relief.
"The Wild Space is safe from the Empire now," the council member nodded. "From the corners of the galaxy, to the Endor system in the galactic southwest."
Rakine and I looked at each other with grins.
"Should we report back to Yavin?"
"Yes," Rakine turned to the Kommadenians. "Thank to all for your help as contribution to the Rebel Alliance. We are now one large step closer to defeating the Empire. But we must go back now, to report the success of this battle."
They nodded and a Kommadenian child walked toward me, staring up at me with her bright yellow eyes, smiling at me. She had bright turquoise skin, with a flat nose and a thin neck. She wore a dark crimson robe with white sleeves.
"You protected our home. Now we protect you. What is your name?"
"Me?" I looked at the Kommadenian girl and softly pat her diamond-shaped head with my cybernetic hand and I kneeled down to her as she hugged me, standing on my knees.
"Yes you, silly deer." She giggles as she wrapped her arms around my neck. "And you." She pointed at Rakine with one finger.
"Both of our names?" He looked down at the little girl.
She nodded.
My name is Yalu," she smiled.
I picked up the girl and put her back on the ground on her feet and I chuckled as I stood up.
"I have two names. Which do you want to know?"
"What do the rebels call you?" She asked me as she looked up at me.
I turned to Rakine and he nodded. I turned back to her and answered.
"Venison," I grinned. "Lord Venison."
She giggles and looked up at Rakine.
"Rakine," he chuckled as he pat her head.
"Venny and Rakine," she smiled. "The heroes of Kommaden." She giggled as she ran back to her family in the crowd of Kommadenian citizens as they looked at us.
"I kinda like the sound of that," I turned to Rakine with a chuckle.
He nodded and folded his arms, and with one finger, he pointed to the left to where my Nightmare remains.
"Right," I nodded and we walked off, hearing the Kommadenians begin cheering for us, for saving their system.
We walked to the outskirts of Kommaden City and toward my ship, the door opening for us. I entered and sat in the pilot's seat as Rakine stayed outside, turning to the rebel ships and waving his hand with the Force. The rebel ships turned on and he fully entered the Nightmare, the doors closing behind him. The Nightmare took off the ground and the rebel ships followed after us, Rakine stood in the back of the main room, closing his eyes and with the Force, still flying the ships behind us. The ships flew through the metal forest of Kommaden and into space, through the atmosphere. The rebel starfighters were already gathered and the pilots all celebrated in their cockpits as the Imperial TIE Fighters had all retreated. I chuckled and I knew that they won the battle in space as well. I flew the Nightmare back toward Yavin 4, and the starfighters all followed after my ship and Rakine's Force piloted ships, to rejoin the rest of the Alliance. Where Mon Mothma, Rulus Knil-Wean, and Rooda wait for us to return.