Vader began to stroll menacingly towards Obi-Wan. Obi-Wan immediately crouched and assumed a defensive position, backing away slowly while pointing the lightsaber at him. Vader followed him, circling around him like a lion stalking its prey.

Obi-Wan took a deep breath and blew his sweat-soaked hair from his head. His heart raced in his chest, blood thudded in his ears, and his eyes were hyperdilated to adjust to the dark. Every vein of his body was filled with adrenaline, thrumming and pounding and screaming at him to run away.

Vader, on the other hand, did not seem particularly nervous. He walked slowly but deliberately, unable to sprint after him yet confident in his power.

He knows that he will get me eventually, Obi-Wan thought to himself, It's just a matter of when.

As Vader strolled towards him, he began to hallucinate things. Although he knew they were inside Fortress Vader, he began to see fire and lava. In his visions, ash and smoke rained down on them.

Ahsoka cried out to him, saying something that he needed to hear, but he was no longer focused on her. All he could think of was Vader.

Just then, Vader raised his lightsaber high above his head. He was no longer holding it with his left hand: this time, he lifted it with both hands. His expressionless mask blurred and faded away, transforming into the face of an anguished young man.

They were no longer Vader and Kenobi.

Anakin was back, and his ghost had come to haunt Obi-Wan and deliver the killing blow that should have been for him.

"You were the Chosen One! It was said that you would destroy the Sith, not join them! Bring balance to the Force, not leave it in darkness!"

The lightsaber began to come down. But this time, he was ready for it.

Obi-Wan took a deep breath, steeling himself. Then, with a scream, he ran up to Vader and countered the blow.

Vader brought the lightsaber down using both hands, exerting all of his physical strength and trying to push Obi-Wan's lightsaber down hard enough to break his block. But Obi-Wan refused to relent. He grunted loudly, pushing back against Vader, refusing to give up.

As he did so, he found himself directly face to face with Vader's helmet. In Vader's eyes, he watched his own reflection sweat and struggle, futilely trying to gain upper hand of the situation.

Suddenly, he was back at the fiery lakes of Mustafar. Anakin was snarling at him, his handsome face contorted with anger and covered in volcanic ash.

"I hate you!"

Obi-Wan gasped, his grip on the lightsaber slipping.

Vader immediately shoved his lightsaber harder until it was dangerously close to Obi-Wan's face. He could feel its scorching heat near his cheek, threatening to burn his skin off. He began to hyperventilate, and Vader grunted, impatiently waiting for his strength to falter.

"NO!" Ahsoka screamed.

Obi-Wan snapped out of it, remembering himself.

He groaned loudly and shoved Vader off him before stepping back quickly. They circled each other with their sabers pointed menacingly at each other, watching each other closely. Vader's body language had completely changed. He was no longer slow and domineering. His gait was quicker now. He followed Obi-Wan more closely and seemed more eager to strike him.

Both of them raised their lightsabers again, and struck each other, creating another brilliant blast of light. Vader raised his free hand, about to use to Force, and Obi-Wan immediately took advantage of the fact he was only holding his lightsaber in one hand by nearly disarming him. Vader snarled and put both hands back on his lightsaber, swinging towards him. Obi-Wan spun out of the way, turning his back to him. He blocked the lightsaber without turning around by extending his arm behind him. He then kicked directly at him, landing a hit directly on the helmet where Ahsoka had nicked him.

Vader immediately recoiled, covering his helmet fearfully with his hand. After realizing that Obi-Wan was watching them, he growled angrily and immediately stalked after him, stomping loudly. As he approached, Obi-Wan walked back, taunting him. Vader gripped his lightsaber with both hands and swung harder than before, aiming for his neck. Obi-Wan ducked and thrust his saber forward, directly towards Vader's mechanical leg. Vader howled angrily and stepped back, almost falling over. He then made up for it by slashing at Obi-Wan, nearly catching him in the waist. Obi-Wan jumped out of the way, stepping behind Vader and nicking his armor from the back. Vader growled again and twisted around, swinging his saber behind him. Obi-Wan ducked just in time to avoid getting his head cut off, and ran a few steps away from Vader again.

Vader was absolutely furious now. When he got back up and began to stomp after Obi-Wan again, his mechanical legs made loud clanking, creaking sounds. But Vader did not care. He continued to push his prosthetic limbs as he chased his prey, ignoring the metallic sounds of protest.

Ahsoka immediately took notice of this and looked up, forming a plan.

As Vader chased after Obi-Wan, Obi-Wan continued to taunt him, twirling his lightsaber and backing away instead of countering his swings. Vader grew more and more frustrated as Obi-Wan forced him to chase after him, not even using his lightsaber to block him. As he grew angrier and angrier, his swings became more and more wild. Suddenly, they were master and apprentice, chasing after each other in a seemingly unending dance. The apprentice screamed and ran and tried to reach the master. The master continued to back away, watching him closely, refusing to slow down and insisting that he meet him on his level.

Vader snarled angrily and lunged suddenly, thrusting his lightsaber towards Obi-Wan's closest leg.

Obi-Wan barely evaded the blow, letting out a groan of pain as he felt his ribs protest. Vader tried to take another step towards him, but his mechanical leg had accidentally become locked from the strain he put it through when he lunged. Obi-Wan stared at it, and Vader grew annoyed. Growling, he kicked with all of his strength until his leg became unstuck and the locks clicked back into place, allowing him to move again. Triumphantly, he began to sprint towards Obi-Wan in earnest as if to say See? I can run anytime I want.

Just then, both of them heard the sound of something cracking. Obi-Wan froze and immediately turned towards Ahsoka. She was still lying on the floor some distance away from them, but she was concentrating both of her hands towards the ground. It seemed as if she was trying to either push or pull something using the Force. Whatever it was, it was taking a great deal of effort.

Vader took advantage of Obi-Wan temporary letting down his guard and swung at him. Obi-Wan turned back towards him just in time to see the blow coming towards him, and instinctively jumped back. Vader stomped after him, making swing after swing with both arms, not paying any attention to what Ahsoka was doing or the strange cracking sounds from the floor below them. Obi-Wan ducked and dodged, panting with each blow. He, too, was starting to reach the limit of his stamina.

As he continued to avoid Vader, he began to notice the temperature in the room increasing. The rest of Fortress Vader was cold and uncomfortable, but in this underground room, the air felt muggy and hot, as if it was directly heated by the lava lakes itself.

Or is it? He realized with a jolt. Maybe Vader didn't actually build this room on top of the lava lakes. Maybe it's actually underneath it.

It just so happened that Ahsoka had been thinking the same thing.

Having seen the way that Vader's metal prosthetics began to malfunction as they overheated gave her an idea. As she looked above them, she realized that the room did not have a proper ceiling, unlike the rest of Fortress Vader. Instead, the floor and ceiling were made out of a black expanse of igneous rock. The room was likely carved out of an underground lava shaft that had dried up.

But that didn't mean all of the magma was gone.

It was still there, just lurking under the surface.

Focusing all of her energy towards the floor, she closed her eyes and asked the Force to be with her. Concentrating hard, she reached out and grabbed, trying to break through the rock. She knew there was more lava somewhere, churning violently, eager to consume and burn as it was meant to. All she had to do was find it and free it.

As Vader and Obi-Wan continued to fight, she threw her energy again and again at the rock floor, trying to find weaknesses within it.

The Force is alive, and it is found in every living creature, she remembered Anakin telling her. If you tell it what you need it to do, it will listen to you. All you have to do is open your mind to it.

And so she did, squeezing her eyes shut and pouring all of her energy into it. She was one with the Force, and the Force was one with her. She reached out and let herself feel every crack and fissure in the rock floor, immersing herself in it. As she did so, she began to feel the stone vibrate as Obi-Wan and Vader fought, creating small hairline cracks each time they stomped on it. She followed those vibrations until she could almost feel the source of those cracks.

Ahsoka took a deep breath and felt around, trying to locate that weak point.

Vader was growing tired of running after Obi-Wan. He now resorted to trying to scare him. Growingly loudly, he swung his lightsaber at Obi-Wan's feet, causing the rock to crack and come off the floor in small chunks. Obi-Wan watched fearfully as the rocks glowed red-hot when they made contact with Vader's lightsaber.

"You can't run, Obi-Wan," Vader snarled.

Obi-Wan desperately tried to back away. His back bumped into the wall behind him. Panicked, he looked around as if trying to figure out which direction to run away, but Vader immediately sprinted and blocked off his path, cornering him. There was no escaping him now.

Obi-Wan's eyes widened, and he held his lightsaber in front of him. Vader lunged at him again, his mechanical leg clanking horribly, and swung at his hand. Obi-Wan gasped as his lightsaber was cut in half in front of him and let go immediately. It clattered to the floor, the metal hilt now melting. Shards of kyber crystal fell onto the floor next to it.

Vader growled again and stepped forward, directly on the shards of kyber crystal. Obi-Wan winced as he ground his metal foot into it, destroying the last remains of the lightsaber. His weapon was gone, and he had nowhere to run. With nothing else to do, he raised his hands in front of him in a supplicant gesture.

Vader snarled. "You have wasted much of my time today, Kenobi." Obi-Wan inhaled sharply, feeling his heart palpitate rapidly in his chest. "But this ends here. No more playing games."

Obi-Wan sighed and closed his eyes, accepting his fate.

Leia, I hope you are somewhere safe, he thought to himself.

Vader growled and stomped his foot loudly, making his eyes flutter open from shock.

"Look at me, Kenobi! You dare turn away from me?"

Obi-Wan opened his mouth and began to stutter. Vader didn't care.

"You still think you are better than me? All because ten years ago, I bowed to you and called you my Master?"

He raised his arm and stabbed the lightsaber into the wall next to Obi-Wan. Obi-Wan screamed and recoiled, watching the rock wall next to him turn crack and crumble to pieces.

"You are not my Master. I will never again bow to a weak man like you. But today, you will bow for me."

Obi-Wan swallowed nervously. Vader reached towards him and used the Force to grab him by the throat, lifting him into the air and slamming him hard into the wall.

"The fight is over. You have nothing left, Kenobi. You have no weapon. No power. I have you at my mercy. I control whether you live or die. You will watch me as I take your last breath and kill you."

Obi-Wan coughed and reached up instinctively to feel his throat, trying to pry nonexistent hands off of him, frantically gasping for air.

Vader smirked and made another step towards him, but his mechanical leg would not move.

Annoyed, he tied to kick his leg and force the prosthetic to work again, but this time his foot remained stuck to the ground. He was able to bend his knee. However, the tip of his boot was caught in an enormous crack that had formed in the ground.

Puzzled, Vader spun around to look behind him. All around him were cracks in the rock that he had not seen before. The more he looked, the more he saw. He panicked and stepped back, forgetting that he was supposed to be enacting his revenge, that he was supposed to kill Obi-Wan. Obi-Wan grunted as the Force grip holding him disappeared and he fell onto the floor of the room that was not really a room but a cave, a lava tube that had been hollowed out but had never quite forgotten what it was made out of.

Vader began to back away, staring fearfully at the cracks that were forming rapidly around him. As they grew bigger and bigger, light began to pour out from beneath them, and they glowed amber yellow at their edges.

Obi-Wan looked down. Then, he looked back up and saw Ahsoka stretching her arms towards the floor, her brow covered in sweat.

She's breaking it, he realized. She's trying to bring the lava back to the surface.

Even with both of her legs injured, she was still holding on, using the Force to fight.

Vader turned around and saw what she was doing, letting out a howl of rage. He angrily started to march towards her and made a sweeping motion with his hand. Ahsoka's eyes fluttered open and she let out a cry as she found herself being thrown into the air and landed on her stomach, hard. She groaned loudly, and Vader ignited his lightsaber, swinging it towards her. She barely rolled out of the way and began to back away, pulling herself away from him using her arms.

Vader growled and stomped until he was standing over her. She watched helplessly as he loomed over her, furious. "I should have killed you while I had the chance," he snarled. "From the day I met you, I have always hated you."

Ahsoka miserably closed her eyes. He grabbed her arm and cruelly squeezed it until she let out a small whimper.

"I hope your little attempt was worth it," he hissed before raising his lightsaber to strike her.

Just then, the piece of rock he was standing on cracked open and his mechanical foot sank into a pool of hot magma.

Vader screamed and let go of her arm, nearly falling backwards. Ahsoka watched him with shocked eyes as he stumbled and cried out like a fearful child. Distracted by a sound, she looked across the room and saw Obi-Wan with both of his hands stretched in front of him, his face scrunched up from concentration. He made a grabbing motion and more pieces of rock that had been supporting Vader's weight were flung into the air, causing him to sink further into the lava.

Vader screamed loudly as the metal began to overheat and glow bright red. He cried out as if he was still made of flesh and blood and could feel the burning lava. Ahsoka rolled onto her stomach and pulled herself away from him, ignoring his screams of pain. She heard someone running behind her and suddenly Obi-Wan was by her side, pulling her up and away. At this point, they no longer needed to use the Force to make the cracks bigger. Soon, the room began to fill with smoke and ash, and Vader's other limbs creaked loudly as he tried to pry himself from the lava.

Obi-Wan panted, trying to think of a way to get both of them up the millions of stairs. Ahsoka could not walk with her injured legs, and he could not carry her with his injured shoulder.

Suddenly, they heard Vader scream again, making both of them turned to look back at him.

"DON'T YOU DARE LEAVE ME HERE!" He screamed.

He had finally dislodged his partially melted metal leg from the lava and was limping towards them, furious. His cape was smoking and he had lost his lightsaber, but he didn't care. He yelled and reached in front of him, trying to snatch them with the Force.

Ahsoka looked at Obi-Wan.

"We may have to end this here," she said, and he understood exactly what she meant.

"But if we stay here, we will go down with him."

She closed her eyes.

"Revenge is not the Jedi Way," she sighed. "But..."

Obi-Wan looked back at her. "There are no more Jedi."

She nodded silently. Both of them turned to face Vader.

"We don't have any weapons, General," Ahsoka observed.

"Hm. But, neither does he," Obi-Wan replied drily. "We should use that to our advantage."

Ahsoka reached out and experimentally lifted herself into the air using the force. Then, concentrating carefully, she lifted a large piece of rock big enough for a man to stand on it into the air.

Vader marched closer and attempted to strangle her. But he was interrupted when Obi-Wan jumped onto the rock that Ahsoka had lifted up and threw himself at him. Startled, Vader tried to pry Obi-Wan off of him, but Ahsoka maneuvered the chunk of rock through the air and dropped it right on his legs. Vader let out another scream which was filtered through the helmet vocoder. Ahsoka began to force grab large chunks of rock and pile it on top of him, trying to bury him.

As he continued to restrain Vader, Obi-Wan thought he heard the sound of a droid flying somewhere above his heads.

Just then, Ahsoka screamed and rolled away as Vader grabbed the same rock she was trying to drop on him and threw it at her. Grunting, Obi-Wan wrapped his arms around Vader's neck and received a blow to the face. He groaned and stomped hard on the rock he was standing on, trying to make the cracks appear faster.

I'm sorry, Anakin, he thought silently as Vader screamed and thrashed in his arms. At least we'll be together this time.

Miles above them, hiding in the imperial spaceship, a small child plugged in a holochron into the navicomputer interface.

Instantly, footage happening from an underground room flashed across the screen. The child's eyes widened as she watched the two figures struggle to fight the third figure. The man in black shoved Obi-Wan off of him and pushed him over until he fell down, groaning. Ahsoka screamed as she watched Vader shove Obi-Wan's head right net to the lava pool and stomp cruelly on his ribs. All she could do was watch helplessly as Obi-Wan hung off the piece of rock near the edge of the lava, losing consciousness.

The holoprojection became shakier and shakier as LOLA fearfully flitted about, trying to capture the scene as her gears became more overheated.

"No," Leia whispered, tears streaking down her face. "Ben, get up! Get up! Please, please open your eyes," she sobbed.

Just then, she heard footsteps behind her and turned around, panicked.

"Interesting," they drawled. "I was wondering where you went after you escaped. I guess you didn't go very far."

Leia's heart froze in her throat.

Reva strolled towards her, arms crossed. "I know you're wearing her holomask belt," she chanted. "It doesn't matter. I know it's going to run out of battery soon, and then you won't be able to hide from me anymore," she taunted.

Leia inhaled sharply.

"We can do this either your way or my way," Reva offered. "Either you take off the invisibility belt and come with me...or, we can sit here together and wait until the battery dies, and then I'll come after you. Which way do you prefer?"

Leia shuddered, but she did not respond.

"It's alright, I lied," Reva laughed. "You don't have a choice."

Before Leia could react, she reached out her hand, and Leia felt the belt unclick itself from around her waist as Reva yanked it away using the Force. She froze, unable to move as Reva triumphantly marched to where she had been hiding and bent down.

"Don't you know, the first rule of getting away is to never come back?" She whispered.

Leia immediately removed the holochron from the navicomputer and hid it behind her back, shaking from fear.

"What a shame," Reva sighed. "I was almost proud of you, too." She started advancing towards her again, reaching for her arm.

Leia scrunched up her face angrily. "I don't care what you do to me," she hissed, "But leave Ben alone! He's already going to die anyway," she sobbed.

Something in Reva's eyes lit up. Suddenly, they began to glow with a strange yellow light.

"What do you mean, he's going to die?"

"Vader has him," Leia sobbed. "Ahsoka told me not to come after her, but I sent my droid to watch over them. Both of them are injured. It won't be very long before he finishes them off."

Reva narrowed her eyes. The eerie yellow glow intensified as her face grew more and more furious, and for a second, Leia wondered if she might kill her.

"I see," she said coldly. "Well, we can't have that, can we?"

The strange glow in her eyes was scaring Leia, even more than when she had screamed at her and slapped her. "Wh-what do you mean?" she asked, shaking uncontrollably.

Reva snarled and grabbed her by the arm, forcefully dragging her. Leia cried out in pain. "Come with me," Reva said. "Let's pay your dear friends a visit, shall we?"

"No!" Leia cried as Reva yanked her. "They're already going to die! Please, please, just leave them alone," she begged. "Please don't kill them, I'll do anything you want-"

"Oh, I'm not going to kill them," Reva replied.

Leia's eyes widened and she stopped, staring openmouthed at her.

Reva smirked.

"On the contrary," she drawled. "I've decided to help them."