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Across the wide Galaxy, the Clones, the Jedi’s own armies, and in many cases friends, turned on them. Suddenly, the Jedi find themselves in a nightmare, the lucky ones die before they can realize what was going on, and the unlucky ones feel the death of thousands of like-minded in the force before they join them.
In the middle of this chaos going on. Ahsoka Tano and Maul stare at one another. She had knocked out the two Shook Troopers that were sent to kill Maul and was pointing the rip of her lightsaber at the thought of the Zabrak.
“So, Lady Tano, have you finally decided to join me?” Maul asked as he looked her in the eyes, completely ignoring the ‘saber. Said Togruta apparat to be deep in thought.
“I didn’t free you to join you.” She finally said, meeting his piercing stare with her own. “I freed you to cause a distraction. I plan to free at least Rex before I make my escape from the ship.”
“Oh so the Padawan has already made plans, hmm I would be lying if I said I would be hurt that you didn’t include me, think about it WE could work together and bring an end to our mutual friend Sidious before he even can begin his regime. He has already killed all your Jedi friends.”
“You don’t know that!” She snapped back at him, trying to convince herself more than him. Her sharp fangs were on full display.
“Ohh, that is the right mindset, Lady Tano, let the rage consume you.” Maul began with glee in his voice before he returned to the original topic “I know that the Jedi are all as good as dead, even inside the vault I felt them all die, It is still going on as we speak. The light is vanishing and you are here, talking with a sith, one that could help you with freeing your beloved clones.”
“Tell me, Maul! Tell me why I shouldn’t kill you here and now?” She demanded and Maul simply began to laugh.
“Kill me? Do that if you want to, Lady Tano but I promise that it won't stop him or your clones from killing you. Sooner or later they will come for you and all you can do is run. You were a Padawan, not even fully trained, and yet here you are. In the middle of a great purge on all Jedi and only luck allowed you to survive and come to me. And you came to me because you needed me, you need me and my knowledge to finish your training!”
“N-NO! I would never join you! I would rather DIE than join you!” She declared firmly but before they could argue any further both felt a shift in the force.
Ahsoka blinked and found herself in a dark place. A small white glowing circle was beneath her but only darkness surrounded her, “Wh? What have you done now, Maul?” She asked into the darkness.
She began to point her lightsaber at different parts of the darkness but nothing seems to get through it.
“Oh, if it isn’t the little lady that came with the Chosen One.” A sinister and well-known voice said as none other than the Son emerged from the darkness. “Oh, the little Ahsoka Tano has grown quite a bit in the time I didn’t see her. You look good all things considered.”
“Wh-What are you doing here? Obi-Wan said has Anikin killed you! We don’t need you outside!” She screamed at him before turning her lightsaber towards him the blue shine of her saber glowed between them.
“Oh, you are still emotional about this old story! Well, doesn’t matter,” He dismissed as both lightsabers vanished from Ahsoka’s hands, “to make a long and boring story short, thanks to your good friend Sidious and the Chosen One, could I and my beloved Sister escape from the prison that was Mortis. So that leads me here. I will need a vessel to move freely in the world outside of Mortis. To put it simply, while neither I nor my sister can vanish from existence, our physical forms can temporarily die and without the Father, we can’t get new ones except we chose a vessel to inherent our essence. Basically to become one with.” He then grinned at her, "please be so nice and become mine.”
“What?! Why would I agree to help you!?” She asked him, “I can’t remember much but you have stated yourself that you want to use me like a puppet before biting me… and the next thing I remember is me waking up in my master's arms. You are evil and I will never let you use my body.”
“Oh, No, No! You misunderstood. You will gain my memory or I will gain your memories. You can see it eighter way but the core of the point is that we will become one, it will happen regardless if you are happy about that or not.” He told her as a matter of fact and she could feel that everything he said was the truth.
“I-I will…” But she couldn’t come to a conclusion. The words from Maul began to circle.” Will you be able to help my men?” She asked.
“Hmm, oh yes. That should be much more simple than escaping from Mortis.”
“Ok. But please promise me that you will help Rex and the others. I-I don’t know what is going on but I know that Rex would never attack me so suddenly. He… Please help him.” She bowed to the Son.
“No, No! None of that, I will promise that I. No, We will help your little friend and his brothers, but stop bowing to me. You are a prowed warrior and that is why I chose you! I have seen that as I took you over on Mortis. You shouldn’t bow to me.” He told her firmly and Ahsoka nodded at that as she looked back up at him.
She didn’t see the Son anymore instead, the darkness turned into a mirror that showed herself. Her sclera turned into an obsidian black with her blue eyes beginning to glow in deep amethyst colors. Her teeth, especially her fangs, elongated and became much more pointy. Her fingers also looked now more like claws, her toes feel the same way.
Ahsoka blinked and found herself back on board the Tribunal still flying through Hyperspace with a new set of memories in her head and a changed appearance. “Hmm, Oh right Maul.” She said as she looked around.
“Hmm, that seems to be the case, sister,” Maul said before he blinked and his eyes changed colors. His eyes became a vivid green while he overall became less imitating looking without actual changes.
“Impresses.” She said simply. “Ok, we should get going. I made a promise that I would like to keep.”
“Aren’t you going to help your poor innocent brother out of this evil device?”
“Bite me. You should be more than powerful enough to free yourself. Heck, you should be able to heal those legs of yours. Metal doesn’t suit you.”
The Vault opened completely and Maul stepped out of it. “You are no fun, Lady Tano but I must say these metal legs really don’t suit me, ah maybe later.” He said with a shrug before turning back to Ahsoka. “It would have been much more fun had you played along. I am your poor innocent brother, am I not?”
“Ahh, yeah. Of course, because the last time we did something like that it ended so well. Father had me locked away at the well of the dark side for a century.”
“Not my problem when you can’t save the princess.”
“You chose to jump from the tip of the tower and didn’t say anything to me beforehand! You just expected me to save you!”
Maul just shrugged. “Yeah, you should have swooped in and caught me mid fall, that would have been so cool.”
“Yeah, Yeah… Let's just go, we have about 7000 men to save on this ship alone. Come, I will give you your ‘sabers”
“Right behind you, sister, ” Maul said teasingly and Ahsoka simply rolled her eyes.
Rex was utterly confused. The last thing he remembered was that he was called for news from Coruscant and a hooded figure appeared on the holo after that, everything was like a nightmare where his body wouldn’t listen to him. He ordered his men to kill his Commander but as they sprat out, he blacked out and awoke again in the med-bay of the Venator.
“What happened?” He called out and a figure moved in his field of view.
“Welcome back, Rexter.” His Commander said. Even if something was offputting about her. “You have been out for the better part of a day.”
“Commander Tano? What happened?” He asked as he looked around the Med Bay. He saw a few medical Droids, medics, and even Astromechs moving around the Med-bay.
“Nope, sorry Rexster. I am not your Commander.” She said with a laugh. “But I am Ahsoka Tano, adviser to the 332nd. And to what happened… you and all your brothers just got enslaved by our good friend the chancellor.”
“Wh? What do you mean, ‘enslaved’? He asked completely shocked.
“I will tell you more later, I bet you still have a headache and you will need sleep.” She said before standing up and leaving the medics to their work.
“So everything looks fine?” Maul asked outside the med-bay.
“Hmm, oh yeah, everything seems fine,” Ahsoka said. “...the chips are removed and they should age normally now.” She finished after a moment of silence.
“I would have never thought that I see the day that you are not acting selfish but on the behave of others.”
“Ha, behave of others, what a joke. These men are all mine. Nobody gets to control what is mine.”
“If you say so,” Maul said with a smirk.
“Yes, I say so.”
Emporer Palpatine didn’t know why he thought this would be different but apparently not even The grandmaster of the Jedi Order, himself could go against him and beat him. “Are you done, Master Jedi ?” He asked as Yoda was hanging from the Chancellor's podium, his lightsaber had already fallen to the ground. He was struggling to hold on but finally slipped and began to fall but before he could hit the ground he stopped mid-fall.
“Ohh, you caught him. But not me?” A male voice asked from one of the Repulsorpods. Both the dark lord as well as the Grandmaster turned towards the voice to see a Togruta female as well as a Zabrak male.
“Little ‘Soka, that is?/MAUL?!” Both Yoda and Sheev called out together. “Flee you must, Padawan Tano. In the dark side, too strong, he is.”
“Oh finally you are here, so I mustn’t waste any time searching for you, Maul,” Palpatine said.
“Oh don’t worry, Master Yoda, Chancellor. We have watched the entire thing and it was quite amusing.” Ahsoka began and quite enjoyed the look of shock from the two old men at her proclamation. “Oh and Sidious a tip for the future, delete the security footage of your office if you want to keep them secret. You have never deleted them, there is quite literally a meeting with 3 Jedi before you turn around pull your hood up and talk to Dooku via hologram. It is actually quite amusing actually.”
Both Yoda and Palpatine simply look at her with their jaws hanging.
“...So~” Maul began. “What would happen if, let's say we published that on the Holo-net, along with your meeting with the Kaminoans about a certain clone army before you were supposed to know it even existed along with basically everything else that happened in that office?” He asked and Palpatine paled… even more than he already was.
“You- You wouldn’t dare, that is high treason!! I will let all of you be executed!! You can’t simply waltz in here and destroy the plan my master and I have been working on for decades! I have killed and murdered and manipulated so many, you aren’t a threat to me! I will not accept anything less than total control over the galaxy!” He began to shout/rant.
“Changed you have, young Ahsoka.” Yoda began as he eyed her over, ignoring Sheev and Maul for the moment. “Fall you have, no, not quite the case. Something different you are.” He then looked over to Maul. “Hmm, the sith Kenboi and the others who have met you described, you are not. Much brighter in the force, you seem.”
“Well, the embodiment of the dark and the light side have such effect on a person. Especially when they become one with a normal being.” Maul said and Yoda’s eyes widen as he caught up to the meaning and remembered the tale of Mortis for Kenobi, Skywalker, and Tano.
“Yes, the Daughter,” Ahsoka began as he pointed to Maul, “And the Son,” she continued as she pointed to herself, “Have merged with us. We could escape from Mortis as little Sheev over there ordered the clones to kill the Jedi. You can leave now, every clone onboard the Tribunal is healed. Go meet with your friend, you can tell him what I told you.”
“Stay you will.” Yoda meant to ask but knew it was more of a statement.
“You are quite right, master Jedi. Go fish Kenobi from Mustafa before he does anything stupid.” Maul finished as he ignited his lightsaber, both sides shining in a pure brilliant white light.
“He is right, Master,” Ahsoka said as she also Ignited her lightsabers but instead of white like Maul’s, they were pure blackness. Yoda then left through the exit of the docked Repulsorpod.
“DARTH SIDIOUS!!” Both began together, as they raised their lightsabers to point at the man, “BY THE FORCE WE ACCUSE YOU OF BRINGING THE WORLD INTO UNBALANCE AND KILLING TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FORCE USERS AS WELL AS ENSLAVING MILLIONS OF PEOPLE! ALONG WITH KILLING A TRILLION MORE NONE-FORCE USERS!”
“What utter nonsense! I never killed that many Jedi! I only killed, the Idiots that stormed my office and my brilliantly stupid master! And I haven’t had the chance to enslave the Wookies, just yet!” He counters before igniting his own red lightsaber.
“SO BE IT! BY THE FORCE! EX-SUPREME CHANCELLOR AND NOW EMPEROR SHEEV PALPATINE, WE SENTENCE YOU TO EXECUTION!”
With that, the duo leaped at the Chancellor, Maul beginning with an aggressive onslaught of attacks that forced Sheev to back down only to be ambushed by Ahsoka about to cut him up but he manages to block last second.
Palpatine pushed Maul away into one of the Repulsorpods before he focused on Ahsoka. He pulled a second Lightsaber out of his sleeve before he attacked her with all his might. “You are weak, Tano!” He began as they came into a double-blade lock.
“Oh, I am weak? Don’t be ridiculous! I am much stronger than you think!!” She snarled at him, breaking the blade lock before pushing him back further.
“YES! That is right! Use that anger! You will become much stronger if you use it properly! No Jedi has such power but I could teach you!” This made Ahsoka stop pushing him back as she backflipped away from him to stare at him.
“Are you trying to make me join you ?” She asked completely lost.
“Yes, of course! You would make a great Inquisitor to hunt down Jedis that have escaped and hidden away.”
“... yeah, no.” She said simply before sighing painfully. “I mean, really you wouldn’t even make me your apprentice but instead would use me as a glorified bounty hunter? Fuck off! I am already much stronger than you simply by the virtue of being the embodiment of the dark side.”
“What nonsense are you talking about? If you were a true user of the dark side you would join me to become stronger but you aren’t and you also won’t join me so you must be DESTROYED!” He finished off before binding her in place by using Force-Lightning.
Ahsoka on her part, crossed her swords to block the Lightning as it impacted the area around her. She continued to block the lightning as Maul dove at Sheev again, forcing him to stop his attack and focus on Maul to dodge or block attacks from the ex-sith.
“And what is with you, Maul? I have trained you and you should have been happy to follow me again but you decided to work with the ex-padawan of my new apprentice? You have truly fallen from grace. You could have been one of the most powerful men in my new galaxy!” Sidious said as he blocked one of Maul’s horizontal stricks with both Lightsabers before repelling it and throwing him off balance. “AND THAT IS WHY YOU DIE NOW!” He called out as he trusted both of his sabers at Maul. Only for Maul to be pushed backward and away from the trust attack.
“Sorry, I would like to keep him,” Ahsoka said, having Maul pushed out of Sidious range. The Sith Lord jumped on top of the Chancellor’s Platform in the center of the room while Ahsoka and Maul both jumped in Repulsorpods on either side of the man.
“Hmm, you both work well together but you are nothing against me and my UNLIMITED POWER!!!” Sheev yelled out as he put both of his hands up and shot Force Lightnings at both of them at the same time.
Both Ahsoka and Maul countered that by firing their own technics at the Sith Lord, Maul sent a stream of Emerald Lightning at Sidious that was glowing in said emerald green colors, while Ahsoka also used Force Lightning but hers was glowing in ruby red colors in contrast to Sidious own purple-blue ones.
The bolts of pure Force power collided in the middle and electric discharges danced through the air of the Galactic Senate Chamber. Many more Repulsorpods were destroyed by the onslaught of energy while neither of the 3 dueling forces was hit by them. But both Ahsoka and Maul were slowly gaining ground on Sidious.
“Wh? How can I be overpowered by such blatantly inferior creatures, such as you! I am a Human Sith Lord, I should be the strongest creature in existence! ARGH!” He yelled out as he pushed harder and actually managed to push both a bit back before losing ground again.
“You will lose, Sidious! You had your shields up so tight that you can’t feel other Force users anymore. By evading the Jedi for centuries you have blinded yourself.” Maul began.
“He is right, both sides of the force want to kill you because if you were left in reign you would bring the force so much out of balance that the galaxy would begin to collapse. You are trying to control a supernova, but in doing so, you will turn it into a black hole that will eat everything!” Ahsoka continued.
“What nonsense are you talking about? The Force is on no one's side!” Sheev said before his opponents made a last final push, both the dark side as well as the light side pushed Sidious lightning away and began to fry the old man… even more than he already was. “ARGH! NO! I WILL- N-NOT D-DIE HERE! I-I WIL-L RULE THE GALAXY! Noooooo~!!” With that, his skin began to flake off and his blood boiled as the electricity of the attacks streamed through him. But the cruelty of the dark side didn't let him die just yet and he felt his nerves being brunt by the current before finally darkness overtook him and he began to disintegrate from the Force powers.
Yoda arrived with Bail on Mustafar just as the duel between Obi-Wan and Anikin reached its peak but before Obi-wan could finish the duel Anikin was pulled from the platform over the molten rock and towards the grandmaster. “Anikin, Obi-wan, fighting, you must not.” He said firmly.
“Grandmaster Yoda,” Obi-Wan said surprised. “I thought you would be facing off against Sidious.” He began before his eyes began to wide. “YOU TOLD ME THAT I NEEDED TO KILL HIM!” He screamed at the old master.
“Sorry for that, I am. Faced Sidious, I have. Lost to him, I did.” The old master said with shame in his voice. “Padawan Tano and Maul rescued me, they have. To stop this useless fight, I have come.”
“WHAT! HA, Not even the great grandmaster of the Jedi can defeat my master!” Aniki- Vader bosted. “After he killed those two pests he will come and kill you two then too.”
“No, young Skywalker, embodiment of the dark and the light side, they are. Access to immense power they have.” Yoda told them and both Kenobi’s and Skywalker’s eyes widened at that. This shock even let Anikin’s eyes fade back to their natural blue color.
“The Daughter and the Son?!” Obi Wan asked concerned, remembering now more vividly what happened at Mortis. “But! They both died, Ahsoka being the embodiment of light, I understand. Anikin revived her with the remaining lifeforce of the Daughter but he killed the Son with his lightsaber!”
“Wrong you are, Master Kenobi. The embodiment of the light side, young Ahsoka is not. Still acting like herself, she does.”
Again, this shocked the two Jedi that had just been dueling as they had not expected to hear something like that. “S-Snips? I-Is she well? T-the last time she was turned was…” Anikin began but trailed off at the end, not finding the right words to describe the creepy feeling of the dark Ahsoka. His eyes began to flicker before turning back to their natural blue color.
“Anikin, are you back?” Obi-Wan asked quietly and his ex-padawan nodded not knowing what to say.
“Skywalker, your wife, live she will,” Yoda told him, and Anikin collapses from the hard fight, the channeling of the dark side, and the shock from the news “Go back, we should. More to tell, there is.” Yoda said as he began to walk away. Leaving Obi-Wan back to pick Anikin up.
“What I would not do for you.” He said as he pulled Anikin’s Lightsaber to himself and picked it up along with throwing Anikin over his shoulder and carrying him back to the ship.
“Wh? Where am I?” Anikin asked out, he could see the white interior of a ship but his mind couldn’t say where he was.
“Ahh, welcome back, Anikin.” Obi-Wan greeted the young man.
“Master… I had a strange dream.” Just then the information about said dream came back to him. “Master! Palpatine is THE sith lord we have been searching for!” Anikin called out. “He… He wants to use me… to make me his apprentice.”
“Anikin.” Obi-Wan began his voice sounding sad. “He has already done that, Anikin. He turned you, made you fall, and we fought but before we could finish Master Yoda stopped us.” At that, Anikin’s eyes began to widen.
“Anikin, you have killed many Jedi, can you remember that?”
“Y-yeah,” Tears began to leak, “I-I have killed so many… I-I know it doesn’t change any-anything but the younglings, they are safe. I-I wanted to turn them, ‘safe’ them from the Jedi. Please, look after them, I-I have destroyed so much…” He trailed off and began to sob at his actions.
“Ahh, welcome, master Jedi.” Maul greeted the two Jedi that have just entered the Council chambers. Both Ahsoka and Maul were already seated and waiting for them.
“Maul.” Obi-Wan greeted back emotionless before turning to Ahsoka with a smile. “Hello, Ahsoka. It is good to see that you escaped.”
“It is indeed nice, Obi-Wan… Master Yoda. It is also nice to see you.” She said with a smile that showed her sharp teeth but didn’t unsettle the Jedi.
“Master ‘Soka, Master Maul.” Yoda also greeted them before they also took a seat. “Fall from grace, the Jedi have. In unrested, the Republic is. Tell us more, you could?”
“Hmm, that is possible. The Clones are all free again… many have chosen to take their own lives after they became able to move freely again.” She said grimly and both Obi-Wan and Yoda looked down at that, remembering how many Clones they themselves killed. “The most prominent are Commander Bly and his men as well as Commander Grey and his men, along with many others that were overwhelmed by the guilt of killing their friends.”
“Lady Jocasta Nu and Lady Luminara Unduli are tending to the younglings and overseeing them,” Maul continued. “Cal Kestis, Caleb Dume, and a few other Padawans that survived are helping them. It is also helping the padawans that have seen their masters die in front of them.”
“Nearly all the younglings that were in the temple are all safe, Vader had all younglings thrown in the detention cells after executing the prisoners. A few attempted to resist too hard and have been killed by the clones.” Ahsoka finished before her a message came in. “Master Plo has contacted me a while ago, he is hurt, badly at that but he will live. He was shot down by his own men but a company of troopers whose radios stopped working found him and patched him up… it was quite literally a stroke of luck. At the moment he is tending to his soldiers, mainly Wolffe, and the clones that tried to shoot him down, dispirited begin heavily wounded. Shaak Ti is doing the same for the others that killed their Jedi, despite also being wounded but this time by Vader.”
“Strong we need to be. Still, too many die today, Jedi and Clone.” Yoda began. “Wish for a memorial, I do. Honor the dead, we should.”
“Yes, Master Yoda.” The other 3 said before Obi-Wan spook up. “Anikin is awake but he is being eaten up by his quilt and has already tried to take his life. He is restrained at the moment but it will be hard for him.”
“Well, that is the outcome if you betray everything you have known to gain more power,” Maul said unapologetically. “He has chosen his path and it led him to that.”
“Even if his words are quite… hard. I must second that. The ball is in Anikin’s cord and he must make up for his actions on that day. Padme and the twins will also need him.”
“…Yes you are right, Ahsoka. I… So many have lost their lives and it has already spread that the clone wars are over and what has happened to the Jedi… The galaxy is already descending into new unrest and this time, there is no secret army or a mass of Jedi to stop it. We can’t make any special cases at the moment.”
“And that is where you are wrong, Kenobi. We need to evaluate every child of the light that has suffered on a case-to-case base. Sidious once was a normal child but has been corrupted by the darkness, he then attempted to do the same thing with the Chosen One, a begin, while born from the force, is still a normal sentient, and partially succeeded in doing so-” But before Maul could continue, the door to the chambers burst open and a dark skinned man with his purple lightsaber ignited walks in.
“Where is he?” Mace Windu asked enraged... well at least one more council member that lives. Obi-Wan thought.
"You look good, Windu." Ahsoka joked as she pointed to his missing arm.
"Oh, the illustrate lady Tano is here. I have to thank your old master for that, civilian."
"Ahh, I see. Good then. Old fossil." She bite back and shortly thereafter they were throwing insults at one another.