Bab 7: That's why the Mandalorians are feared across the galaxy
General Skywalker for once made a decision that Tanden actually respected, he gave the idea of using the AT-TE as a means of boarding the enemy starship.
Their mission was to rescue master Bolla Ropal and recover both the Holocron and its memory crystal. Ahsoka and Anakin went together on one walker as did Plo Koon and Tanden.
Everyone was wearing clothes that allowed them to stay in outer space for some time, but Tanden himself didn't need this, he was only worried if his I.P. would keep working if he engaged in combat, perhaps his armor would be revealed today and that wasn't something he wanted, unfortunately, it couldn't be avoided.
After thinking for a moment, he turned to his master.
"Master Plo, I'd like to ask for permission to advance alone..."
Plo Koon shook his head. "I'm afraid I can't allow this, it's too dangerous and you'll be vulnerable to attacks from the enemy blaster shots."
"Master, please trust me, those defenses are nothing compared to what I'm capable of doing, allowing me to go alone will actually give me the advantage, especially so if fights against large groups break out, you should know about my lightsaber skills..."
Plo Koon breathed heavily as he thought for a moment, the ground beneath them opened up and the walkers started 'falling' towards the enemy frigate.
Seeing how a group of Vulture-class droid starfighter appeared he sighed and said. "Very well, but be careful and remember, if anything happens you must retreat, don't try to fight a battle you can't win."
"Thank you, master!" Tanden nodded and activated his lightsaber.
Anakin, Plo Koon, and Ahsoka were busy deflecting the shots aimed at them and were preparing to jump and fight against the enemy droids when suddenly Tanden flew forward and his robes somehow changed in appearance to some sort of armor with a design that heavily reminded them of Mandalorian armor.
Although he wasn't using Mandalorian iron, Durasteel was much cheaper and could be easily bought on Coruscant.
"What is he doing Master Plo Koon! Quickly stop him!" Anakin shouted, worried that the Padawan would get himself killed. Before Master Plo could answer though, Tanden had already engaged in a fight.
Each swing of Durandal would cut in half either the body or the legs of the droids, and as he did in his training, the more enemies appeared on his FOV, the greater was the output of one of his favorite force abilities, the force speed.
He wasn't just increasing his bodily speed, he was also increasing the speed at which his brain was working, allowing him to react faster and see the world as if it was slower than normal.
Not even when their back up composed of more or less 20 common battle droids, was enough to stop him, Tanden's movements had a lethal efficiency that if used against an army of living beings, would make it look like a gruesome massacre.
Even Anakin was able to recognize the shadows of form VII with each of his attacks, in the end, they didn't have to do anything to stop the initial defense team that came to intercept them, they were easily and rapidly taken care of by Tanden who used his lightsaber to tore open part of the hull that led to the ventilation system and entered the ship.
"Well... I guess he can take care of himself..." Anakin sighed, and he and the others continued towards the entrance that Tanden had just created.
....
Tanden wasn't willing to play around with the other Jedi, they had their methods and he had his own.
As soon as he arrived at a corridor, the first thing he made was to search his memories for the general plants of such ships, although he didn't have the plans of this Munificent-class star frigate he more or less knew how they were usually built, and that could give him a general direction to follow while searching for the captured Jedi.
However, a minute or two after starting his search using his life signs detector, the ship suddenly shook and he almost fell to the ground, he frowned for a moment and more or less understood what was going on, Bane probably wanted to blow up the ship and use this as cover while he escaped to safety.
For some reason, though, he never found any droid on his way, which easily allowed him to find Bolla Ropal's prison cell.
Seeing the man's state Tanden frowned and approached him, he tried using the advanced form of the force heal, but for no avail, the man was dead for several minutes already, even if he was resurrected, he would sustain permanent brain damage and with his current power he wouldn't be able to do anything about this, sighing, he activated his communicator.
"I found Bolla Ropal, he is dead, I'll send the coordinates and search for Bane."
Anakin, Plo Koon, and Ahsoka who were together nodded, but Tanden's master was the one to answer. "Be careful, Cad Bane does not fight with honor, he will surely try some underhanded trick against you."
"Alright." Closing the communications he gave Bolla one last look and ran out in his search for Bane.
...
The Jedi and the Clones confronted the droids and Bane in the hangar, trying their best to stop him, however, it wasn't long before the battle started that Bane used his control of the ship to deactivate the gravity generator to make them float and make things harder for Plo Koon and the others.
"Be careful! Do not shoot at those cylinders or you risk blowing us all!" Rex, the clone trooper captain shouted to warn the members of his squad and the Jedi of the danger.
"Damn it!" Anakin growled as he tried his best to avoid deflecting the shots towards any of the dozens of cylinders floating around, the problem was the droids who probably didn't care that much about the consequences of shooting one of them.
Facing three Jedi Cad knew he was at disadvantage, while he needed one of them to 'help' him, he wouldn't allow himself to die or be captured because of carelessness, every time he shot at one of them he would take a few steps back towards the exit.
"R2 turn on the gravity field generator!" Ahsoka shouted to the droid that accompanied them.
The droid answered with a few beeps and set off to do his work, while she tried her best to approach the man who was trying to escape. Anakin, Plo Koon, and the others were too occupied with the incoming droids who never ceased to appear, and that for some reason seemed to be putting more and more focus on them, as if Ahsoka wasn't truly a threat.
When she passed through the enemy's line and headed towards Cad Bane, he smiled and shot at one of the cylinders.
"No! AHSOKA, RETREAT!" When Anakin noticed what was going it was too late, Bane had successfully lured his padawan towards him, and they now had a bigger problem on their hands!
"Don't worry, master, I'll capture him!" She shouted as she ran after him, leaving the Hangar behind.
And because of R2 who had already finished his job, big pieces of debris fell from the ceiling burying the droids, and almost burying Plo Koon, Anakin, and the clones, however, the two together managed to use the Force as a shield to prevent themselves from facing that terrifying fate.
"We need to hurry! Ahsoka won't be able to win a fight against him!" Plo Koon shouted, trying his best to hold the hundred or so kilograms worth of debris above them.
"She might not be able to, but I know someone who cans!" Anakin used his communicator.
"Tanden, can you hear me, answer!"
Tanden who was running towards the sounds of the explosion he was hearing from afar, stopped and activated his communicator. "I'm here, what is it!"
"Bane lured Ahsoka into a trap! We are currently incapable of leaving our position, I've sent you their location, intercept Bane before he can do anything against her!"
"I'm on it!" Tanden shouted and decided to use the Force speed with all his might, it wasn't time to save on his energy reserves.
As he ran through the corridors he heard Ahsoka crying in pain and clenched his fist, with his lightsaber in hand he didn't even blink his eyes as he crossed almost 10 meters in a single leap towards the wall that led to where Cad Bane and Ahsoka were fighting.
Noticing the man clad in what looked like heavy armor doing such a heaven-defying stunt in normal gravity made him clench his fist and jump towards his blaster that had fallen on the ground.
It was a fraction of a second, Tanden's eyes trailed towards Ahsoka who had fallen on the ground, he needed almost no time to check her pulse using the force to confirm that she was alright, and was only blacked out.
However, he didn't plan on letting that scum escape that easily, he had promised to fuck every criminal bastard he knew of, Cad was one of them, and now that he injured her, he had even more reasons to punish the man.
If Yoda or any other Jedi were to look at this scene they would suck a mouthful of air and look in amazement, the thing that truly differentiated him from any other person of this galaxy was what being a human meant in his own previous life. They had long ago changed the concepts of good and evil, and they could easily commit the most horrible of the atrocities, fully believing themselves to be doing something good and correct.
This affected the force in a way that no one could have ever predicted, the force held no influence on him, because his own body and mind subconsciously made it to be merely a tool, the light side wasn't he, it was the process through which he used those supernatural powers.
He fell on his feet and started walking towards Bane, seeing how his lightsaber was lowered, the bounty hunter didn't waste his time and shot at Tanden.
The blaster shot hit his shoulder leaving a black mark as if it had burnt the place, but there was no damage on a superficial level, only on his flesh but it wasn't enough to make Tanden pay any attention to it, superficial injuries didn't require his attention, after all.
Bane frowned and shot a few more times, one on his chest, one on his leg, and another on his face, that somehow managed to remove his helmet.
Seeing that emotionless face, Bane clenched his teeth. "What a freak. Don't tell me you can't feel pain? Or are you perhaps some sort of super Mandalorian?" He laughed slightly with a cold smile on his face.
"Tell me, Bane, do you know why my people are the most feared in the Galaxy?"
"Ho? Should I know why?" He smiled and slowly approached Tanden as he activated his shock gloves.
"It's actually very simple..." Tanden started speaking, but Bane didn't waste any time and directly grabbed Tanden's neck using his shock glove to try and do with him the same thing he did with Ahsoka.
"Hahaha! Naive, just like the girl!" He had a smile on his face that suddenly became stiff. "What!?"
Tanden coldly looked at Bane as he felt his skin burning and the waves of electric energy coursing through his body. "It's because we are always prepared to face our enemy without underhanded methods because we can deal with any trick that is thrown at us!"
He grabbed Bane's arm, using the force to enhance his muscles, and started to crush his muscles and bones.
"Aaaaagh!" Bane shouted and let go of Tanden's neck as he fell on his knees, sweating and desperately crying as he felt the bones on his arm slowly shattering.
"Unlike Ahsoka, and many other Jedi, I made sure to go through every single battery of training that the Jedi ever did, it doesn't matter if its lightning, poison, serums, or even the force itself, I'll resist it with a will stronger than iron." He looked directly at Bane's eyes who was already begging for forgiveness. "And that, Bane, is why the Mandalorians are feared across the galaxy."
Tanden head-butted Bane making him fall unconscious on the floor.
Seeing this, Tanden snorted and used the force to heal himself and Bane. He couldn't allow his master or the others to know what he did when they arrived, all they would found is an unconscious and perfectly fine Bane and him taking care of Ahsoka.
He walked towards her and placed her head on his lap as he carefully used force to heal not only the injuries of this battle but to also improve her physical condition and potential. He had studied the biology of her species for more than a year and knew exactly how to use the formula of the super-soldier from his previous life on her, that was one of the reasons why he was so much stronger than his peers at his age, he just didn't do it before, because he didn't want her to know of what he was capable of.
Besides, this isn't a really heavy defying thing, it just made a person's body and brain better by 10 or 25% and increased a person's lifespan by at most twenty years.
The best part of this thing is that he is probably the only person in this galaxy that can do something like this. Assuming that there are no Elvhenan in this place, after all, he still wasn't sure whether or not this is an entirely different universe or literally just another galaxy, he lacked the means to investigate this matter.
[A/N: Damn, my back hurts, this must be the feeling of messing up with the canon, what do you think of this chapter, did you noticed what I did here? I talked about how he was different in the synopsis and I can finally review part of the background of the future version of our Earth hahaha! Stay tuned for more, there are many secrets to be revealed about how our human society evolved in 10 thousand years.]
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