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'Still just as infuriating as you were as a child,' Vader seethed while unmoving from the end of the corridor.

'I think the word you used to use was 'snippy'.' 

'You are buying time. I am not here to converse with the pathetic minions of the Resistance. I have already been held up by the Mandalorian, and she was destroyed just as you will be-'

Revan had needed a reason to get to his feet, and Serrina's mention was enough. Before Vader could continue in his insults, the Shan leapt from his kneeling position and prepared to slice downwards with his sabers. The fury in his muscles powered his leap and the swing of his weapons aimed to cut at Darth Vader's chest and neck. But no matter how angry Revan was to hear about his wife's fate, his hatred could never amount to the power of the dark side within the Sith apprentice. 

With a call to the dark forces, Vader raised his hand and pulled a chunk of ice from the wall to his left. It dislodged with ease and collided with the Jedi, causing Revan to be thrown into the opposite wall. The ice crumbled against his head and his ear rang with the impact. More ice fell to the floor as Revan's body slammed into its structure and when he fell to the floor for the second time, his vision blurred until black was all he could see. 

Revan was knocked unconscious. Ahsoka gulped at the ease at which Vader wielded the dark side of the Force. To use the Force with such aggression and with the only aim to injure, was the aspects embedded in the abilities of the Sith. She dreaded to see Vader reach for the lightsaber that hung from his waist and knew that she wouldn't be seeing anything other than a red blade from its black and silver cannister. 

'I sense your fear. If you will not surrender yourself to the Empire, then I will strike you down and move past your lifeless body,' Darth Vader said without any hesitation or care for who he once trained. When his thumb pressed the button on his weapon, Ahsoka's suspicions were confirmed as a red blade appeared.

The crimson from the lazer reflected off the hues of blue in the ice. From Vader's side, his alligence to the Sith was shown without shame in the colours of his trusted weapon. As if the lights implanted by the Resistance dimmed in fear, the hallway was doused in red and Ahsoka's white sabers did little to counteract the fierce shade.

'I suppose I should put up a fight, then.'

Ahsoka parted her feet and held her lightsabers at the ready. Their white beams bathed her in its protection, while Vader's crimson blade sat by his side and reflected off his black mask from below. Revan was abandoned to the side and the Sith barely took the care to step over him to advance towards Ahsoka. His cape skimmed over the Jedi's unmoving frame, and it wasn't until Vader's pace quickened, that the realisation of fighting Darth Vader dawned on Ahsoka. 

Their lightsabers collided with a loud hiss. Ahsoka crossed her blades to block the first strike but was quickly met with another from the side. While the woman needed to swing her two weapons with agility and with a precise aim, Vader wielded his weapon in one hand of brute power and strength. Every attack he landed sent shivers down Ahsoka's arms and her shoulders ached struggled to hold a stable defense.

Darth Vader was powerful; even more powerful than he had been before he fell to the dark side. 

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Sol knew a battle had begun. The corridors seemed to go on forever, each more disappointingly bare than the last. But not once did the cold settle into Sol's unclothed arms or relieve the ache in her chest. The Force flared with the meeting of two sides and Sol recognised the signature that contained the black of a dying star. 

She couldn't lie to herself. She knew Darth Vader had infiltrated the Resistance's base and it wasn't hard to conclude that either Ahsoka or Revan was attempting to stop his advance. But even though she prayed that they wouldn't be injured or killed in their attempts, Sol also shamefully hoped that Vader would resist in his retreat.