Dimension jump!Obi-Wan having another run-in with Dooku pretty please?
These two anons came right ontop of each other and they…um insipred each other so to say… cut for length.
“Are you sure Obi-Wan?” Qui-Gon frowned at the other and Obi-Wan
sighed in response, shaking his head.
“For the last time, YES. I’m fully healed, the phsyic trauma is as
good as gone and I am not intending in engaging in a Force driven
battle on a high front.” He turned his eyes on Anakin who were
grinning at them. “Tell him Anakin!”
“Oh keep me out of this, this is hilarious.” The blond held
up his hands.
“Oh traitor…” Obi-Wan huffed then sighed and released his
tension, looking to Qui-Gon. “Please Qui-Gon, trust me. I know what
I’m doing, I survived a war for three years, I was one of the few
survivors of a Purge. Trust me to know what I’m doing.”
“Be careful…” Qui-Gon finally settled on, his fingers twitching
as if he wanted to reach out and touch the other. “Take with you a
small squad.”
Obi-Wan sighed but nodded and soon had Helix, Rex and two other
troopers with him. Ram and Akk, two of the shinies Obi-Wan had saved,
both giving the rest of the team jaunty waves before following the
third Jedi out into the jungle to flank and infiltrate the droids to
sabotage.
Of course, nothing goes as it should around Obi-Wan.
“Ah Count Dooku, I thought I smelled something rotten.” The Jedi
got in front of his troops, keeping himself between the Sith and
them, trusting them to take care of the droid squad. He had lost to
many, he had lost so much and in such a short time he had gained so
much.
He’d protect what he’d gained.
“Kenobi. I was hoping to encounter you again.” Dooku activated
his blade, eyes glowing in the red of the light. “My master was
most displeased with your appearance.” There was a jerk of a
muscle.
“I can imagine, tell me, how deep did the lightning go?” Obi-Wan
taunted before giving a enhanced leap, his blade lighting up in blue
in front of him as he fell into his natural stance.
Blue and red meet furiously with the vibrating hum of lightsabers
working away.
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“Do you hear that?” Anakin lifted his head towards the noise,
frowning. “That sounds like a saber fight.”
Qui-Gon’s heart plummeted to his stomach. There was only one other
known Jedi on the planet.
“Obi-Wan.” He whispered, itching to find the copper haired man
but unable to leave the field and his men.
They needed bother as the fight came closer, both Count Dooku and
Obi-Wan bursting from the jungle, mud and debris spraying up around
their boots. Though he knew the other had changed style, it wasn’t
until he was confronted with the visual proof that Qui-Gon could see
how Soresu fit Obi-Wan more then Ataru though he had been no slacker
in it either.
He meet each of Dooku’s precise blade work with his own defensive
stands, visibly looking for weaknesses in the others work, looking
for exhaustion and mistakes, feinting and then dodging the Count each
time he set to motion to eviscerate the younger man.
“Come now Count, I know you can do better then this, but perhaps
your old age has come to claim some victories.” Obi-Wan dodged a
close cut with a low pitched laugh that carried across the field even
to them. “Or perhaps your master took a tanning out of your hide.”
“He’s really edging the Count on.” Anakin stared, deflecting a
blaster bolt back at a droid.
“He’s being reckless.” Qui-Gon growled though without bite, in
awe of what Obi-Wan had become even without his tutelage. This was
the warrior Obi-Wan had become.
Qui-Gon had seen the man, had seen the negotiator, had even seen the
knight. But now he had the full picture of the Jedi Master his
student would have become had he only had the chance. And he was
magnificent.
Mud splattering his high cheekbones, water lodged hair to his
forehead with the blue glow of his blade giving his eyes a ethereal
ever changing light as he moved fluidly between motion. Qui-Gon felt
his heart jump a beat.
‘He’s gorgeous…’
Perhaps it was the taunts getting to him, perhaps rage or perhaps a
wish for revenge, but Dooku did something Qui-Gon never thought his
refined and honorable former master capable of. The man gave a yell
of rage and kicked up mud at the Jedi, splattering it in his face and
blinding Obi-Wan in the heat of the moment.
“Obi-Wan!” Qui-Gon was moving but found his path blocked by
droids and tanks, cursing out loud as he was forced on the defensive
with a desperate look towards the duel happening, his heart pounding
in fear.
But Obi-Wan was not faltering.
Mud was splattered across his face, his eyes were closed.
And he was meeting each of Dooku’s attacks still, dodging thrusts and
jumping sweeps, attacking in a careful motion of controlled actions.
“Poor form Count, I thought mud slinging was below you. But perhaps
the stench of being a sith is affecting your behavior.”
Anakin was laughing. Dooku was starting looking desperate and
Obi-Wan…Obi-Wan was sinking himself more and more into the Force,
using it to guide himself clearly through each action and motion.
“At least I won’t have to see your nose hairs like this Dooku,
couldn’t you at least have trimmed them from last time?”
“Ah!” The sith pulled a large boulder from the ground with the
Force and sent it flying towards Obi-Wan, forcing the Jedi to focus
on it while he made his escape from the duel he had been locked in.
Qui-Gon broke free from the droids and used his superior gait to
bring him to Obi-Wan’s side, the copper haired man panting harshly as
he threw the boulder at a droid tank. “Qui-Gon?” He questioned as
the other man came closer.
“Yes you damn fool, what were you thinking.” The older man pulled
the other by the shoulder and behind him.
“That I wasn’t about to let Dooku injure any of my troops if I
could help it. In my defense, he came looking for us in the forest,
not the other way around.” Obi-Wan deflected a droid blast and
shifted. “Also the battle isn’t done and we really shouldn’t stop
to chat in the middle of a fight. That’s how you die.”
And then he was on the move again, cleaving a path of broken droid
parts as he went.
“Oi! Dooku! Know how to get a second asscrack?! You cleave it into
the back of a head. Lets test it on you!”
Qui-Gon choked on his own tongue. Obi-Wan was still mud blind!