Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano vs. Darth Sidious
Rules:
1. Saber
2. Force
3. Hand-to-hant
4. All-out
Scenarios:
1. Ahsoka is dark
2. Anakin is dark
3. Ahsoka and Anakin are dark
4. Regular light-side duo
5. Light Anakin has Barriss Offee's lightsaber
6. Dark Anakin has Barriss Offee's lightsaber
Duo
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Name: Anakin Skywalker
Age: 21.9
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Height: 1.88 meters
Mass: 84 kilograms
Cybernetics: Cybernetic right arm
Era: Rise of the Empire
Affiliations: Gardulla the Elder's criminal empire, Watto's Shop, Jedi Order, Galactic Republic
Masters: Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan Kenobi, (dark) The Son, Ki-Adi-Mundi
Apprentices: Ahsoka Tano
Weapons: Lightsaber
Saber styles: Djem So, Ataru (with dual variant)
Force powers: Telekinesis, Jump, Push, Jedi Mind Trick, Speed, Visions, Sense, Barrier, Choke, Saber Throw
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Name: Ahsoka Tano
Species: Togruta
Gender: Female
Height: 1.7 meters
Mass: 54 kilograms
Era: Rise of the Empire
Affiliations: Jedi Order, Galactic Republic
Masters: Anakin Skywalker
Weapons: Lightsaber, Shoto
Saber styles: Shien reverse grip, Ataru, Djem So, Niman, Jar'Kai
Force powers: Jump, Telekinesis, Push, Sense, Jedi Mind Trick
Sith
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Name: Darth Sidious
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Height: 1.78 meters
Mass: 75 kilograms
Era: Rise of the Empire
Affiliations: House Palpatine, Damask Holdings, Royal House of Naboo, Order of the Sith Lords, Galactic Republic, Confederacy of Independent Systems
Masters: Darth Plagueis
Apprentices: Darth Athea, Darth Maul, Vergere, Dooku
Weapons: Two Sith Lightsabers
Saber style: Jar'Kai
Force powers: Lightning, Lightning Grenade, Telekinesis, Speed, Flight, Rage, Static Barrier
Mmm... Ahsoka is not much of a factor here. If they can flank Sidious, then she may be able to survive for a bit, but right when Anakin is seperated from her via the Force, she is raped, and Sidious proceeds to defeat Anakin.
I wouldn't under estimate Anakin. After all, he defeated Barriss, Cin Drallig and Mace Windu game-wise, Windu being the one Sidious lost to. Also, he reached for his second in saber in ROTS but Windu kicked him down before he could get it
Zonakin is a fan-made excuse for Anakin defeating Dooku. Anakin's boost in power resulted from drawing on the Dark Side, nothing more.
Anakin as his is on Mustifar is just as powerful, if not more powrful then as he was when he fought Dooku.
Obi-Wan's performance against Anakin has been explained by Nick Gillard to be a result of their constant sparring, and knowledge of the other's technique to the millimeter. His victory was a result of Anakin's overconfidence.
I'm calling bullshit on the above post I'm sorry. First off, Zonakin's pwnage of Dooku is clearly the best movie saber-feat.
Skywalker leapt from the balcony. Even as the boy hurtled downward, Dooku felt a new twist in the currents of the Force between them, and he finally understood.
He understood how Skywalker was getting stronger. Why he no longer spoke. How he had become a machine of battle. He understood why Sidious had been so interested in him for so long.
Skywalker was a natural.
There was a thermonuclear furnace where his heart should be, and it was burning through the firewalls of his Jedi training. He held the Force in the clench of a white-hot fist. He was half Sith already, and he didn't even know it.
This boy had the gift of fury.
And even now, he was holding himself back; even now, as he landed at Dooku's flank and rained blows upon the Sith Lord's defenses, even as he drove Dooku backward step after step, Dooku could feel how Skywalker kept his fury banked behind walls of will: walls that were hardened by some uncontrollable dread.
This is the death of Count Dooku:
A starburst of clarity blossoms within Anakin Skywalker's mind, when he says to himself Oh. I get it, now and discovers that the fear within his heart can be a weapon, too.
It is that simple, and that complex.
And it is final.
Dooku is dead already. The rest is mere detail.
The play is still on; the comedy of lightsabers flashes and snaps and hisses. Dooku & Skywalker, a one-time-only command performance, for an audience of one. Jedi and Sith and Sith and Jedi, spinning, whirling, crashing together, slashing and chopping, parrying, binding, slipping and whipping and ripping the air around them with snarls of power.
And all for nothing, because a nuclear flame has consumed Anakin Skywalker's Jedi restraint, and fear becomes fury without effort, and fury is a blade that makes his lightsaber into a toy.
The play goes on, but the suspense is over. It has become mere pantomime, as intricate and as meaningless as the space-time curves that guide galactic clusters through a measureless cosmos.
Dooku's decades of combat experience are irrelevant. His mastery of swordplay is useless. His vast wealth, his political influence, impeccable breeding, immaculate manners, exquisite taste-the pursuits and points of pride to which he has devoted so much of his time and attention over the long, long years of his life-are now chains hung upon his spirit, bending his neck before the ax.
Even his knowledge of the Force has become a joke.
It is this knowledge that shows him his death, makes him handle it, turn it this way and that in his mind, examine it in detail like a black gemstone so cold it burns. Dooku's elegant farce has degenerated into bathetic melodrama, and not one shed tear will mark the passing of its hero.
But for Anakin, in the fight there is only terror, and rage.
Only he stands between death and the two men he loves best in all the world, and he can no longer afford to hold anything back. That imaginary dead-star dragon tries its best to freeze away his strength, to whisper him that Dooku has beaten him before, that Dooku has all the power of the darkness, to remind him how Dooku took his hand, how Dooku could strike down even Obi-Wan himself seemingly without effort and now Anakin is all alone and he will never be a match for any Lord of the Sith-But Palpatine's words rage is your weapon have given Anakin permission to unseal the shielding around his furnace heart, and all his fears and all his doubts shrivel in its flame.
When Count Dooku flies at him, blade flashing, Watto's fist cracks out from Anakin's childhood to knock the Sith Lord tumbling back.
When with all the power that the dark side can draw from throughout the universe, Dooku hurls a jagged fragment of the durasteel table, Shmi Skywalker's gentle murmur I knew you would come for me, Anakin smashes it aside.
His head has been filled with the smoke from his smothered heart for far too long; it has been the thunder that darkens his mind. On Aargonar, on Jabiim, in the Tusken camp on Tatooine, that smoke had clouded his mind, had blinded him and left him flailing in the dark, a mindless machine of slaughter; but here now, within this ship, this microscopic cell of life in the infinite sterile desert of space, his firewalls have opened so that the terror and the rage are out there, in the fight instead of in his head, and Anakin's mind is clear as a crystal bell.
In that pristine clarity, there is only one thing he must do.
Decide.
So he does.
He decides to win.
He decides that Dooku should lose the same hand he took. Decision is reality, here: his blade moves simultaneously with his will and blue fire vaporizes black Corellian nanosilk and disintegrates flesh and shears bone, and away falls a Sith Lord's lightsaber hand, trailing smoke that tastes of charred meat and burned hair. The hand falls with a bar of scarlet blaze still extending from its spastic death grip, and Anakin's heart sings for the fall of that red blade.
He reaches out and the Force catches it for him.
And then Anakin takes Dooku's other hand as well.
If you read that you'd know comparing Pre-Suit Vader to Zonakin would be... astonishing to say the least.
Apr 19th, 2013 04:19 AM
