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Trial By Error
Chapter 6
It had been a month since Vanderaka had lost her memory, and she was relearning things fast. The only real problem had been connecting to the dark side.
Some things came easy, like she could barely remember select lightsaber forms, but they seemed familiar, in a sense.
Mara hadn't been the least bit kind after the day she woke up in the hospital ward. She pushed Vanderaka to the limit, sometimes forgetting about her slowly healing injuries.
Luckily, both her wrists and leg had healed, though her ribs were still painful. Her back was scarred permanently, and she secretly wondered if it was really an accident that she was in. They didn't look like anything a crash could cause.
But she didn't bring it up.
She was given a lightsaber, but the time had come to construct her own. They were headed towards some planet – Mara had not said – and descending fast.
Vanderaka wondered often if Mara actually trusted her. Mara always seemed hesitant to divulge information, and spoke little about both of their pasts.
Then the small craft jolted.
"What was that?" Mara snapped at the pilot.
"We've been hit! Our shields are down, but nothing is being picked up on our sensors, and the blast sure didn't come from the planet," the pilot spoke quickly.
"SlealthXs," Mara muttered. "Jedi ships. They are extremely new, I had no idea they were flying them yet. They weren't due for the temple for thirty years."
(A/N: The StealthXs are from the Legacy of the Force series, which is set after the movie saga... but they fit my plot, so sorry!)
Vanderaka looked through the side veiwport to see a ship on their tail. "Master," she said. Mara came to look.
"Fire upon that ship!" she commanded.
"Yes, ma'am," said the copilot.
"Entering the atmosphere in three... two... one," the pilot said.
"The StealthX is off our tail for the time being," the copilot told Mara.
"Good. Where is it headed?" Mara replied.
"The forest floor,"
"Continue our descent, we won't let that little ship worry us."
"Yes, ma'am."
Obi-Wan sat in the cockpit of his new toy. Or, well, ship. It hadn't even had the right test runs yet, but he had 'borrowed' it from the temple for a while.
He was able to fire on the ship once before they began to return the fire. He could sense his Padawan aboard the ship, but something felt wrong.
He pulled back and plunged into the atmosphere, pulling past the other ship and landing in a small clearing in the forest.
He got out of his ship and headed for the lightsaber crystal cave. He was sure that was where they were headed. After a whole month, he finally found his Padawan.
It ended up that he underestimated the small ship, and it jumped into hyperspace and shot a couple of systems over, where it joined it's battleship.
That was where Obi-Wan made his mistake. He assumed it had little or no hyper-drive generator.
He hid just inside the cave and masked his presence so the Sith would not feel him in the force.
Just a few minutes later, the Sith entered the cave with his Padawan trailing behind.
"Master, I sense someone in here," Ari spoke. Obi-Wan almost choked. The Sith? Her master? Something was defiantly wrong.
He stepped out of his hiding place, lightsaber ignited. "I've come for my Padawan."
"Ah, Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi. Pleasure to make your acquaintance."
"Let Ari go. You're not her master." Obi-Wan looked at Ari and was startled to see coldness and confusion in her eyes.
"Master?" she asked. "Who is that?"
The Sith smirked. "No one of concern."
"Ari? You really don't recognize me?" Obi-Wan asked. This was getting out of hand.
"Where would I know you from?" she asked.
Obi-Wan blinked. "Ari..." he was so preoccupied, he barely noticed the Sith's lightsaber igniting and swinging towards his head.
Vanderaka, following her Master, ignited her lightsaber as well. Obi-Wan stared at it.
The blade was red.
Qui-Gon and Egan, after rescuing the Queen, were on their way back to Coruscant, when their hyper-drive generator failed.
They chose Tatooine to stop and refuel and repair the damage, though the captain objected forcefully.
They landed at Mos Eisley and Egan, Jar-Jar and Padme set out for a dealer.
Inside, they met a small boy, a slave. Egan could tell at once he was special, but was unable to haggle a price for him. Knowing they had a greater mission, they headed back with the working parts they had won by betting, Egan knowing if his master knew of the boy, he would want to go back for the boy.
Egan was surprised that his master let him go and get the parts, but was glad. Trust was always a necessity and a Master-Padawan relationship, and Egan felt guilty about not telling his master about the boy. He figured his master had too much to worry about anyways.
Way to much, for when Egan and company returned, he found his master locked in a duel with a black-robed figure.
Egan immediately rushed to help his master, and together they were able to wear down the figure's defenses and slash through his neck, killing him instantly.
Qui-Gon checked the corpse, and found nothing. "I believe he was a Sith. I could feel darkness radiating from him and he was wielding a red lightsaber."
"Do you think this has anything to do with Ari? This was too much coincidence."
"Nothing is coincidental."
"Yes, Master."
In counsel chambers, the Masters sat, discussing this latest development.
"If the Sith that attacked Qui-Gon was not the Sith Lord, and the one that kidnapped Ari wasn't either, then what has happened to the rule of two?" Mace Windu asked.
"Know not, I do. Troublesome times, these are. Hope to get Padawan Jinn back, we all do. Know the answer to your question, we do not.
"Possible, could it be, that changed, the rule of two has?" Master Yoda continued.
"How would we not know of it?" One of the less important masters questioned.
"Know everything, we do not. Assume we understand everything, we must not. Lead to our destruction, it will."
Mace Windu changed the subject. "Master Kenobi has yet to report his recent findings, as soon as it comes in, we will know more. For now, Counsel adjourned."
All of the Masters except Yoda stood up to leave. "Sit down, you must. Finished, I am not."
The counsel members sat back down in their respective seats like children in class.
"Darkness is rising, I have foreseen it. But if underestimated it is, destruction of the temple and life as we know it, erased, it will be. If turn a blind eye, we do, truly then, win, the Sith will."
The Masters said nothing, all too disturbed by what the small Master had said. He tapped his gimer stick on the floor. "Leave now, you can."
And with that, the counsel was adjourned.
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