It's become almost as easy as breathing, executing Jedi after Order 66, after Starkiller had helped put an end to the rebellion attempts. Now nothing stands between the Empire and total domination- not even those straggling Jedi that he's tasked with hunting down. It's always the same, a padawan who can barely lift a saber, or old masters who know nothing of his brute-force techniques and deadly mastery of the saber. Should they withstand his physical attacks, they soon bow under the pressure of the Force. It always ends the same, with the same kind of heroic speech before they die.
This time will be no different.
An alleged master of the sword, his subject goes by "Strider", last seen occupying an unremarkable planet by the name "Earth". Starkiller's ship is nearing Earth's orbit, cloaked against even the most advanced radars, not a soul is aware as his ship pinpoints the location and he begins his descent, to a location known as "Texas".
"Target confirmed," the voice of his droid, Proxy, says over the intercom as Starkiller begins to ready himself for combat. A holographic image of an apartment building appears, with a flashing red dot indicating Strider's presence within the apartment. He's spent weeks preparing, fighting a training simulation of his opponent to prepare himself. Starkiller is just about to jump ship, when an alarm overhead begins to go off. Starkiller immediately springs into action, the buzz of his lightsaber roaring to life as it casts an eerie red glow along the walls. This
never happens.
"It appears we've been breached."
Starkiller doesn't need to be told; he can feel it. Him.
Strider.He throws up his lightsaber just in time to fend off the blade of a fierce orange lightsaber, the owner of whom seemingly appearing out of nowhere. Tall, blond, wearing some form of strange eye protection, but absolutely lethal in the way he moves and twirls his blade.
And so the two of them fought like that, a whirl of red and orange, seemingly hit-for-hit with no end in sight... until Starkiller lands a blow to his face, cracking those triangular shades in half. The blow is enough to send Strider backwards, the blade slipping from his grip, giving Starkiller enough of an opportunity to rench the blade from his grasp using the Force, to then send it hurling back at its owner, searing through his chest with ease. Strider falls to the ground, as Starkiller brings the blade whirring back through the air into his grasp.
"Sir... our scans indicate-"
"I know. Bring him in... use Strider Protocol. He will be no match for you."
Proxy gave no response, leaving Starkiller to stare down at the body in front of him. He had to give it to Strider, it had been no easy feat masking the other's presence but now that he was dead, Starkiller could sense it clearly. A sudden flash of memory, of his own father defending against Vader in a scenario disturbingly like this, has Starkiller reaching up to press a hand to his forehead. It was brave- no... foolish, of them. Both of them.
He no longer has any time to consider it, as Proxy the room. "Initiating Strider Protocol." Before his very eyes, the robot in front of him began to transform, until he was no longer staring at a robot but instead at the very man who lay before them both. Starkiller holds out the orange lightsaber for him, which Proxy-Strider takes. "Keep him alive," Starkiller says. "For now. I'm going to let Vader know our mission was a success."
And so he did, though he elected to keep certain things to himself. In time, perhaps, but his mission was for Strider and Strider alone. This turn of events could be... useful. Starkiller had never dreamt of having his own apprentice, sure that Vader would never allow it. Now he's in a perfect position to do so under his master's nose. It's simply too much to pass up.
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