More warriorculture? What’s going to go down with maul? Is jango going to play nice with the senate so he can stay close to obi? What’s going on with anakin?
Crashing through the trash and hitting
hard enough to crush through the crumbling duracrete wall, Obi-Wan
gave a cry of pain as he felt something in his chest shatter as he
finally came to a standstill but couldn’t take a moment to check as
the hum of the lightstaff was already in motion again.
Forced to roll away, Obi-Wan barely
avoided the red blade that had clipped him five times already in the
last five minutes.
‘Sithspit!’ Obi-Wan struggled to
his feet, the Force aiding him in numbing his ribs as he blocked the
saber as the zabrak sneered at him with bloodthirsty delight, yellow
and red-rimmed eyes sparking with his desire to murder Obi-Wan.
Obi-Wan had just wanted to visit Jango
before the Duke returned to Mandalore, the last of his negotiations
with the Senate wrapping up in a satisfactory manner but had been
lured away by flashes of darkness that Obi-Wan as a Jedi had been
oath bound to investigate.
Yet he had not expected to find a
kriffing Sith of all things
on Coruscant!
They were suppose
to be extinct and yet here one was about to kriffing murder Obi-Wan,
the zabrak a violent and terrifying example of the enemy of old
because Obi-Wan feared he would not survive this encounter at all as
the Sith was trashing him with what seemed like ease.
Or maybe it was
that the other had gotten the drop on him, had tapped his left thigh
with the staff before the dueling even began properly and thereby
slowing Obi-Wan down.
Force at this point
all Obi-Wan could hope for was that someone had summoned Jedi from
the temple since the Judicial could not do much against a kriffing
Sith.
Hopefully someone
with a brain had seen it and anonymously reported the lightsaber
battle happening in the bowels of Coruscant slums.
‘But
I might be dead by the time someone arrives!’ Obi-Wan barely
managed to parry the next lunge of the Sith’s saber in time, his
arms screaming in exhaustion even as he tried to build an opening by
feinting to the left but attacking from the right.
No dice, the Sith
expected that and just sneered at him, his victory already assured in
the yellow eyes.
Obi-Wan could see
his death in those eyes.
‘I wish I could
see Jango one last time.’ He thought hopelessly to himself before
preparing himself, preparing himself for the short end and hoping
that at least someone interrupted the Sith so he wouldn’t take
Obi-Wan’s saber with him.
Only…
Blasters impact at
the zabrak’s feet, forcing him away from Obi-Wan as he turns his
head upwards to a spot high over Obi-Wan’s head with a sneer of
rage before snarling out loud as he’s forced further and further
away from the exhausted and wounded Jedi by more blaster shots.
Confused for a
moment, Obi-Wan jerked to and almost severed a limb from one of his
saviors as Bo suddenly landed beside him.
“Kenobi, easy
there.” She snapped out, blaster in one hand while more shots were
fired over them.
‘Must be her
team… Jango had me followed again.’ Obi-Wan thought with some
hysteria before disengaging his saber and wrapping his arm around his
ribs as the Sith was forced on the run, the skilled Mandalorian’s
shots coming too close to comfort.
Obi-Wan
felt the eyes on him one last time before the zabrak disappeared into
the dark, the red sabers disengaging and letting him fade into the
shadows with his own black clothes even as two of Bo’s team tried
to pursue him, their jetpacks
filling the alley with sound.
“You smell like
trash,” Bo said and Obi-Wan turned his head to her to find the
woman wrinkling her nose at him as her helmet was under her arm. She
narrowed her eyes and plucked at something on his shoulder. “Is
this fruit peel and duracrete?” She asked with some amount of
horror.
Quirking his lips,
Obi-Wan nodded towards the hole in the crumbling duracrete wall. “I
came through there.” He rasped, watching Bo turn her head to stare
at it.
For a
long moment neither said anything even as the two hunters returned to
inform they had lost the target. Finally Bo turned his head back to
him with narrowed eyes. “You actually rolled through trash and went
through a karking wall,” She said with some amount of dryness that
had Obi-Wan shrugging his shoulders before hissing as that aggravated
his ribs, not to mention the rest of his wounds. “That can wait,”
Bo said briskly, grasping him a bit kinder by the shoulder. “We
need to get you to a medic.”
Giving
the woman a faint smile, Obi-Wan nodded as he started walking the way
she pushed with the rest of her team dropping down from the buildings
around. “I would kindly appreciate a medic yes.” He agreed,
taking shallow breaths so not to harm himself. ‘Least I get to see
Jango before he leaves.’ Obi-Wan thought tiredly to himself while
wondering how the kriff he was going to inform the council he
encountered Sith on
Coruscant of all places right beneath the temples noses. “…Bo-Katana,
you wouldn’t happen to have a cam on your armor would you?”
She quirked her
brow. “My helmet has automatic record function yes, why?” Bo
questioned in some suspicion.
Feeling relief in
his bones, Obi-Wan smiled meekly at her as he saw the skycar he was
being lead towards. “Oh, just need evidence. Could I kindly have a
copy?” He asked hopefully before grunting and falling forward the
blackness that had threatened him since Bo had landed finally took
over. ‘Well so much for that conversation.’