Luke used the Force to unlock the cell and walked in to see his sister sitting on the berth, like she was waiting for something.

"Come. There is little time. We must leave immediately." Luke beckoned to his sibling and made his way to the sounds of battle outside.

"Who are you? Why are you here?" Leia asked following him. Luke paused, then said, "Your questions will be answered when we are off this space station."

Luke turned around and gave their mothers pistol to Leia. When she took it he added., "I need that back." Then he walked into the fight.

The others were holding off the stormtroopers when he exited the cell. Ventress was deflecting shots back at the clones but more kept coming, pouring out of the lifts.

"About time you got here, it's turning into a war zone here." Ventress commented without even looking at him. Luke joined the fight and ran toward the soldiers with the Night Sister following. The pair burst out of the smoke and laid into the enemy with lightsabers blazing.

Luke slashed the clone in front of him in two and started cutting up the canon fodder around. He decapitated two with one swing of the double bladed red sword and deflected three laser bolts at the same time while Ventress dismembered a pair of troopers arms then stabbed them both in the chest. The brother was massacring half a legion to protect his little sister that meant the universe to him.

Luke twirled Savage's lightsaber round and round, forming a circular shield of glowing crimson energy, constantly twisting to avoid laser bolts and cover all angles of defence until he was bored of toying with the imperial troops. He ran back down down to the corridor where Leia had dived down the garbage tunnel that she had blasted open. Luke smiled at his sisters ingenuity and creativity.

He was about to throw the saber-staff at the clones when he heard a scream that came from the cell next to him. He sent a message to Assajj across the Force. 'Cover me. I'm going to find out what that was'

She acknowledged his message with a sharp nod and Luke opened the cell. He was quite surprised at who he found.

Darth Maul was screaming, clutching his head. His cybernetic legs had been disabled crudely, the wire had been cut inside his legs. He was broken by years of torture, both mental and physical. Maul kept crying out "Nooooooo! Savage! I'll kill you for murdering my brother, Sidious! I swear!"

Luke felt sick. The Emperor had tortured this once great warrior for far too long. He rushed over and helped the broken Zabrack Nightbrother up.

"Maul. Come with me. Come and Mother Talzin can fix you, as she did before." Luke said, lifting the red and black horned cyborg in his arms. Maul looked at him with shattered eyes and nodded.

The human carrying the Nightbrother ran back out into the corridor and exited it through the shaft Leia had blasted open with Ventress in tow.

When he dropped out of the shute, Luke set Maul down against a pile of scrap while Ventress set about opening the doors. He handed the fallen Sith Lord his lightsaber. "Here. Take your weapon. Use it to defend yourself. I will carry you for there is not enough time to fix your legs." Luke said in a calm voice.

"Thank you. I shall defend you as you have me, child." Maul Opress spoke in a voice that was filled with pained determination.

The Night Sister called them over. Assajj had opened the doors to the disposal unit and everyone stumbled out, Luke carrying Maul.

They advanced through the corridors, back to the hanger where the Millennium Falcon was trapped by the tractor beam which, if the old fool had done his job, should be deactivated. When Solo ran after a fleeing stormtrooper, Maul muttered, "Deluded fool."

"You said it." Ventress agreed with the Zabrack as Han came running back screaming. The group ran too the hanger, Ventress and Maul deflecting shots at the legion of clones pursuing them.

When they reached the hanger they found Kenobi duelling with Darth Vader in one of the entraces to the place. The Force sensitives all had the same thought running through their heads when they witnessed the old Jedi let Vader kill him. 'You kriffing idiot.'

They all sensed a change in the Force when the black suited Sith saw Maul. A spark of recognition. It almost rippled the air as the party got aboard the Falcon and took off.

'Goodbye Vader' Leia thought as the ship entered hyper-space and raced out of the Alderan system.

Once the ship was out of the system Leia demanded her answers from Luke, who had just set Maul down.

"I am Luke Skywalker. I freed you because you are my sister and I would do anything for you." He said evenly. Goodness, his sister was stubborn!

Leia accepted this then asked for a full explanation. Starting with why they were separated and who decided to play God in their lives. By the time the explanation was complete they had nearly reached the rebel base. Luke carried Maul again and whenever some asked questions, Leia pulled rank with her position on the board of The Rebellion and shooed them away. The trip was short and in no time they were in the droid repair centre that shared the same area as the medical bay.

Luke then set about fixing Maul's legs. He had always been good with mechanics and technology so it wasn't too hard. He had to admit though, the Madalorians made good prosthetic limbs and had done a good job of restoring the former Sith's lower body.

Luke detached the artificial legs from Maul's body with the help of a medic droid. He then asked it to see if the upper half of his body had healed properly from the near fatal wound.

First he took of all the plating and put it to the side. Then he took out all the wiring and replaced it. The medic droid came over and told him, "The patients body has heal miraculously well considering his circumstances. The only thing required is to put him in a bacta-tank for a few hours to let the sever wound seal properly."

"No. When I am finished repairing his legs, reattach them but tie the systems into his nervous and muscle systems and the signals sent by his brain. to give him greater and faster mobility than he had before instead of only programming them to respond to the messages his mind sends to them."

The droid protested for a short while but gave in and Luke went back to repairs. After he had finished, legs where replaced but to the alterations Luke had ordered.

Leia came to fetch them when the briefing for the attack on the Death Star was about to begin. After the pilots had been filled in on the details of the attack plan they went to their ships. Everyone got into x-wings or y-wings except for Maul and Luke who got in the two seated fighter that had been added to Maul's original ship that was used by the Dathomirians.

"Ready young one?" Maul questioned as the fleet of fighters flew out to the designated attack zone.

"Like you even had to ask." Luke replied.

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