Chapter 9: At last I will have revenge
As time passed Tala still explains how she's been helping surviving Jedi like in the original timeline.
Mainly the only difference is Leia telling Tala her father was a Jedi.
"Is he now?" Tala asked.
"Uh-huh, he even defeated the Sith bed day." Leia said.
"Anakin Skywalker?" Tala asked.
"How do you know that name?" Obi-Wan asked.
"There's a lot of talk going around about Anakin Skywalker being the savior of the Galaxy. But the Senate declared him as the murderer of Chancellor Palpatine. Now they're building an Empire to create a securing society against the Jedi. Buy anyone who knows otherwise…looks up to Skywalker…and the Jedi Master who helped him stop Palpatine." Tala explained.
"I haven't been a Jedi in a long time." Obi-Wan said.
"If people knew the truth you would not have to hide. The Jedi Order can return again. There just has to be a way to show the Senate the truth." Tala said.
"The truth died with the Sith. The time of the Jedi is over." Obi-Wan said.
"It doesn't have to be. It can begin again." Tala said.
There were a lot of disagreements during this conversation but as soon as night fell Obi-Wan felt…a FAMILIAR presence…one he hadn't felt since…
He peaked out the window seeing Stromtoopers and Inquisitors stand in for an important arrival…
He then saw Darth Maul approaching through the village.
With hate and rage in his eyes.
Like Darth Vader in the original timeline Maul used the force to pull innocent people out of their homes.
And KILLING them just to draw Kenobi out.
"Who is that?" Tala asked.
"Another Sith Lord. One that keeps coming back even from the dead. I'll lure away. Take this." Obi-Wan said.
Obi-Wan hands her the transmitter Anakin and Padme were tracking them with.
"Her parents are tracking us with this. Take her down to the tunnel, get her as far away as possible and her parents will come." Obi-Wan said.
"Sure thing." Tala said.
"Don't go please." Leia said.
"I'll be right behind you. You need to get home to your parents. I'll lead them away." Obi-Wan said.
Tala takes Leia by the hand and leads her down the tunnel with the transmitter the former Jedi Master snuck out the back and Maul sensed him leaving and followed him.
In time Anakin and Padme finally landed and they exited the ship in worry and determination.
"Stay with Luke and wait for my signal." Anakin said.
"Be careful out there. Bring our daughter home." Padme said.
Anakin and Padme kissed.
And the Chosen One left in search for Obi-Wan and Leia.
However Obi-Wan made it out of town only to encounter…
…Maul igniting BOTH blades of his lightsaber.
Lighting up the darkness around them Obi-Wan ignited his just to see clearly who it is…
The demon from his nightmares, the monster that killed his master Darth Maul…after all these years he's still been chasing him for revenge ever since the middle of the Clone Wars.
Obi-Wan turned off his lightsaber and ran again with Maul still after him.
In a minute or two he cut him off.
"Did you think…you could run from me…forever Kenobi?" Maul asked.
"After all these years…you're still chasing me for revenge?" Obi-Wan asked.
"After your apprentice killed Sidious I couldn't waste the opportunity on taking his throne. I'm not a pollution but I attended to build the Empire he tended to build only I will be Emperor. I supported the Senate enough for them to allow me to train the Inquisitors to hunt any remaining Jedi. Especially you. I assumed Skywalker would fall to the dark side from what Sidious told me of his plan. But I thank him that he didn't and for killing him for me. Sidious may have raised me like his own son and trained me but I never forgotten when he ripped me from my mother's arms and killed my brother and now that he has fallen I will take everything from him as he took from me. But you were never forgotten Kenobi. When you left me for dead on Naboo after I killed your master. The Jedi may have fallen but every single calm breath you take is a reminder when you took my legs. And now…I have found you again. At last…I will have revenge." Maul explained.
Obi-Wan runs again but Maul pulls him back with the force igniting his lightsaber, forcing Kenobi to ignite his and clash.
And the more they clashed the more Maul became more fierce. Obi-Wan could barely hold him off and like the Vader fight in the original timeline Maul kept chasing him while clashing.
Meanwhile Tala still tells Leia to keep going, someone will be waiting for her to take her to her parents and she goes to help Obi-Wan.
Anakin runs as fast as he could following the tracker.
But someone…got to her first…
"Are you who's gonna take me to my parents?" Leia asked.
"No child…but I will take care of you." Third Sister said.
Meanwhile Maul and Obi-Wan continued clashing but Maul barely broke a sweat; he clashed so aggressively Obi-Wan wasn't fast enough to avoid being cut in the shoulder.
And fell beneath Maul's knees.
If you remember in the Obi-Wan series Darth Vader merely burns him alive to even things between them when he burned on Mustafar.
In this timeline Maul wanted to even things too by CUTTING Obi-Wan in half.
"Years in the darkness denied from true destiny…it all comes down to this! When I kill you I will make you feel every cut on your body." Maul said.
Obi-Wan seemed helpless and Maul was just about to slice and dice him but Tala still saves him by shooting an oil container and shooting again to set it on fire to separate them.
Tala got him out of there leaving Maul angry and hateful as ever.
But by the time Anakin made it to the tunnel Leia wasn't there he tracked her signal with the transmitter and her signal was leaving the planet.
"NO!" Anakin said angrily.
To Be Continued…
