Star Wars : Arise In The Future

"If Master Yoda could not...then what chance does Luke have against him if he ever faced the Emperor?", Rex uttered out.

Said Grandmaster could only close his eyes in regret, seeing that his failure to detect the Sith had led to the Order's downfall.

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Inside the Control Room, two sabers blitzed with one another in a seemingly never-ending pattern of strikes and parries that came against one another. Both men continued to clash valiantly as they tried to overtake the other.

Focusing their energy in a series of twirls, they both attempted to land a clean strike towards one another, only for it to end in a saber-lock. Using their free hands, Kenobi and Skywalker called upon the Force in an attempt to push the other, but this ended with both of them being pushed over the edge of the control panels.

At every moment have passed, only nervousness, anxiety and fear shrouded Rex, Ahsoka and Padme. None could bear to see the other harmed because of the actions of the other, even with the need for one of them to be stopped.

For Obi-Wan, even with the man he faced was everything he had devoted his life to destroying: Murderer. Traitor. Fallen Jedi. Lord of the Sith. And here, and now, despite it all...he is still the brother that he had raised and loved as an Apprentice to a Knight. And he could not live knowing he had a hand on the death of his brother.

For the other, even when they often had their disagreements and disputes, Anakin could not bring himself to resent or hate the man whom he had for a parental figure when he had lost his mother continously. Because by the end of the day, he could still reach out to him whenever he needed him.

He slid Anakin's following thrust through the wall on the opposite side, guiding both blades again up and over his head in acircular sweep so that he could use the power of Anakin's next chop to drive himself backward through the wall, outside into the smoke and the falling cinders.

Anakin followed, constantly attacking; Obi-Wan again gave ground, retreating along a narrow balcony high above the blacksand shoreline of a lake of fire.

Mustafar hummed with death behind his back, only a moment away, somewhere out there among the rivers of molten rock.

Obi-Wan let Anakin drive him toward it.

It was a place, he decided, they should reach together. Anakin forced him back and back, slamming his blade down with strength that seemed to flow from the volcano overhead. He spun and whirled and sliced razor-sharp shards of steel from the wall and shot them at Obi-Wan with the full heat of his fury. He slashed through a control panel along the walkway, and alarms began to blare around the Control room.

"That is not a good sign...", Saesee Tiin uttered for his fellow Jedi. "The Ray Shields protecting the facility has been deactivated, and its foundations could cause the entire structure to collapse at any moment because of the extensive heat"

"Meaning they have to escape or to separate to fight another day", Plo Koon finished for him, but none are so enthusiastic of the scenario.

Fire rained around them.

Obi-Wan backed to the end of the balcony; behind him was only a power conduit no thicker than his arm, connecting it to the main collection plant of the old lava mine, over a riverbed that flowed with white-hot molten stone. Obi-Wan stepped backward onto the conduit without hesitation, his balance flawless as he parried chop after chop.

Even with all their experiences throughout the Clone Wars, none of them could reach to the level such as Mustafar. The fiery inferno meant death was hovering both above and below them, and the fact that most of them never faced an actual Sith Lord themselves, which would add to their psyche when confronted by one.

Caleb could not help but marvel the entire scenery as if this was straight from a holo-movie when two of the most formidable duelists were fighting for the fate of the galaxy.

Most of the Masters have conceded that they never reached Anakin nor Obi-Wan's level of dueling, as this was nothing that they had ever seen with their lives, even with encounters of Dark Jedi such as Ventress. Not even their encounters with Count Dooku had escalated to this level.

Anakin came on.

Out on the tightrope of power conduit, their blades blurred even faster than before. They chopped and slashed and parried and blocked. However, a backhand struck the Jedi Master's face as he looked at the Sith Lord's enraged visage, as if he was egging him for a fight.

"Look out!", Anakin cried out for his Master, no longer caring what will happen to himself. His son needed Obi-Wan to watch over him, to protect him from the monster of whom he called his father.

Raising his blade towards the Jedi, his wrist was grabbed by Kenobi, just as he tried to do the same against the fallen Jedi, who in turn grabbed the wrist that held the lightsaber. Neither of the two minded the huge pillar of lava that erupted between them below, as they struggled to overpower the other.

Lava bombs thundered to the ground below, shedding drops of burning stone that scorched their robes. Smoke shrouded the planet's star, and now the only light came from the hell-glow of the lava below them and from their blades themselves. Flares of energy crackled and spat.

"They are just as determined to end one another, even with the dire circumstances regarding the environment around them", Master Mundi uttered in complete disbelief at the lengths they are willing to go through.

Silently, Padme and Ahsoka were already begging for the two to stop fighting already, given how the structure will collapse at any moment now. But they felt helpless that they couldn't do anything about it.

Obi-Wan backflipped from the conduit to a coupling nexus of the main collection plant; when Anakin flew in pursuit, Obi-Wan leapt again. They spun and whirled throughout its levels, up its stairs, and across its platforms; they battled out onto the collection panels over which the cascades of lava poured, and Obi-Wan, out on the edge of the collection panel, hunching under a curve of durasteel that splashed aside gouts of lava, deflecting Force blasts and countering strikes from this creature of rage that had been his best friend.

"The climate, the intensity, and the significance is not like any other for all the years I have served in the order", Plo Koon professed in sheer astonishment for the former Master and Apprentice.

The lake of fire, no longer held back by the ray shield, chewed away the shore on which the plant stood, and the whole massive structure broke loose, sending both warriors skidding, scrabbling desperately for handholds down tilting durasteel slopes that were rapidly becoming cliffs; they hung from scraps of cable as the plant's superstructure floated out into the lava, sinking slowly as its lower levels melted and burned away.

"They have to do something, and fast", Rex said with urgency as the structure them collapsed.

Anakin kicked off from the toppling superstructure, swinging through a wide arc over the lava's boil. Obi-Wan shoved out and met him there, holding the cable with one hand and the Force, angling his blade high. Anakin flicked a Shien whipcrack at his knees. Obi-Wan yanked his legs high and slashed through the cable above Anakin's hand, and Anakin fell.

Every moment caused Padme and Ahsoka's breaths to be taken away, as one mistake would lead to either men falling to a fiery death. By this time, their emotional psyche was getting fragile at every moment have passed. Not when Mustafar was a completely dangerous environment.

Pockets of gas boiled to the surface of the lava, gouting flame like arms reaching to gather him in. But Anakin's momentum had already swung back toward the dissolving wreck of the collection plant, and the Force carried him within reach of another cable.

Obi-Wan whipped his legs around his cable, altering its arc to bring him within reach of the one from which Anakin now dangled, but Anakin was on to this game now, and he swung cable-to-cable ahead of Obi-Wan's advance, using the Force to carry himself higher and higher, forcing Obi-Wan to counter by doing the same; on this terrain, altitude was everything.

Simultaneous surges of the Force carried them both spinning up off the cables to the slant of the toppling superstructure's crane deck. Obi-Wan barely got his feet on the metal before Anakin pounced on him and they stood almost toe-to-toe, blades whirling and crashing on all sides, while around them the collection plant's maintenance droids still tinkered mindlessly away at the doomed machinery, as they would continue to do until lava closed over them and they melted to their constituent molecules and dissolved into the flow.

A roar louder even than the volcano's eruption came from the river ahead; metal began to shriek and stretch. The river dropped away in a vertical sheet of fire that vanished into boiling clouds of smoke and gases. The whole collection plant was being carried, inexorably, out over a vast lava-fall.

Obi-Wan decided he didn't really want to see what was at the bottom. He turned Anakin's blade aside with a two-handed block and landed a solid kick that knocked the two apart.

"MASTER/OBI-WAN!", Ahsoka and Anakin cried out in terror, but barely managed to remain calm when both turned out fine.

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