Outmatched

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(This chapter contains a basic summary of what has happened in this story within through the eyes of Maul. I apologize for it being so long.)
Obi-wan woke up in his corner and saw Ventress. He laughed looking at her.
"What a sight to wake up to." Obi-wan leaned his head against the wall.
"You're not much to see Kenobi. Some dream you must have been having. You were talking in your sleep." Ventress watched him as she stood in the same place.
"What? What did I say? How long did you hear me?" Obi-wan calmly asked as he looked up at her, his breathing was still heavy.
"You were calling for some people named Qui-Gon and Maul." Ventress crouched down to him. "Tell me your past with Darth Maul."
"You know, curiosity killed the cat, Ventress." Obi-wan said coughing
"Fine than. Don't tell me. We'll be landing soon on Tatooine to get more supplies." She stood back up
"Oh and let me guess, you want me to stay here?" Obi-wan cocked an eyebrow brow at her
"Basically and not to bring attention to yourself while I'm gone." Ventress turned to walk away.
"Oh don't worry I won't cause any trouble. I'm handcuffed remember not much I can do, but sit around." Obi-wan said watching her
"Just stay out of trouble and don't cause a ruckus." Ventress walked back into the cockpit and only after a few hours did Obi-wan feel the ship land and hear Ventress leave without a word.

Hardly an hour later, he heard the ship cargo bay door open and heard people walk onto the ship.
"Look around, she has to have something here she values." A boy's voice said on the other side of the stack of cargo boxes. A lizard-like alien peered around the corner and saw Obi-wan.
"Hey, Boba, I found something." The lizard waved to someone and a boy walked into Obi-wan's view.
"Well well well. Looks like we found a Jedi guys. Release him, Bossk." Boba commanded and Bossk walked over to Obi-wan. He pulled out a blaster gun and shot the cuffs breaking them. Obi-wan groaned rubbing his wrists as he stood up.
"Thank you for breaking those cuffs. They were getting a bit too tight for my likings." Obi-wan said than coughed than groaned at the tightness of his chest.
"He sounds sick." A purple female said walking into view. "We need to get him some medical supplies."
"Let's take him back to our room in the inn." Boba suggested.
"Actually that won't be nessasary. I thank you for wanting to help me, but I need to return to my friends." Obi-wan said walking over to them wanting to pass.
"I'm afraid I can't let you do that." Boba crossed his arms. "You're of some value to this bounty hunter and she owes us for ruining a bounty for us."
"So we're ruining her bounty of you." Bossk said walking next to Obi-wan. "You're coming with us." He hissed grabbing Obi-wan's arm.
"Well I can assure you I'm not leaving this ship." Obi-wan looked at Bossk.
"Your surrounded there's no where for you to go." Boba smirked and turned leading the way off of the ship. Bossk led Obi-wan onto a speeder.
"We have to get to the ship before she comes back." Latts said starting up her speeder. "The false information about that Savage guy won't keep her busy for long."
Bossk kept a gun pointing at Obi-wan as they rode to their ship. Once they got there they all rushed onto the ship.
"Highsinger, make sure the Jedi doesn't have any weapons or comms on him." Boba ordered and Highsinger reported that Obi-wan had nothing that posed them a threat. Obi-wan looked around and wandered where Ventress could be. He followed them knowing that he had nothing to use against them, but weakened force pushes and his hand to hand combat skills. They were fully armed, so he decided to stay and wait for an opportunity to escape. He feels his chest grow heavier as the ship began to fly into space. He hopes he'll regain strength with the force and with his own body soon.

Maul wakes up in Mother Talzin's hut. He sits up ignoring the ache of his wounded stomach and his tight chest. He looked around the small room like he would see something of his interests, but finds nothing. Not even the sight of his lightsaber intrigued him or the food at sat next to the bed.
/Has Kenobi eaten anything yet?/ He thinks as his gaze falls from the floor and he notices the daylight shining through the roof.
/I swear when I find Ventress I will make her pay from taking Kenobi from me./ He sinks deeper into his thoughts planning how to get Obi-wan back and is pulled out when he hears the crackling of the lighting in his hand.
"You must calm yourself and not let your hatred control you or else you may do unwanted damage." He says out loud to himself looking at his hand as the lighting dissipates. As if he said it it would seem like Obi-wan said it.
He stands and growls to himself knowing Obi-wan would try to tame him if he had any hopes for this bond to work at all. He looked back at the food knowing that if the Jedi Padawan saw she would yell at him for not eating and say Obi-wan would be disappointed at him for not keeping his strength and health up. He sat down and ate some of his food until his appetite faded. When he stopped eating he noticed one of his legs had felt odd and grabbed his lightsaber not wanting to go anywhere without it. He got back up and walked to the infirmary searching for some tools to fix his leg. When he walked in he saw the Jedi Padawan.
"Ah, so this is where you've been." Maul walking over to her bed forgetting about the tools.
"I wondered where you were. Naturally you would have found me and told me to eat." Maul continued stopping at her bedside.
"Is that why you're here to tell me to eat? Well you're too late I've eaten already." Ahsoka stated sitting up in her bed.
"No." Maul answered her question
"You look tired did you get rest?" Ahsoka asked
"Yes plenty of it. My dreams, however, did not agree with me." Maul said quietly as if he didn't want her to know.
"Nightmares?" Ahsoka asked a bit surprised. "You could go to Mother Talzin and get a potion to help with that."
"No, she would only worry and want to keep me here longer. I need to find Kenobi and quick. We don't know what is happening to him." Maul stated pacing a bit.
"I understand your concern for Master Kenobi, Maul and I'm sure Anakin, Savage and I all want to go out and look for him, but we will have to have some sort of plan to leave with out Mother Talzin finding out if we don't have her blessing to leave." Ahsoka said and Maul watched as a Nightsister silently entered the room gathered some stuff and left. It reminded Maul of the tools he came to get.
"I will return soon." Maul abruptly said walking to the door that led to the back rooms and returned with some tools.
"So are we going to talk or are you just going to stay and keep me company?" Ahsoka watched as Maul sat down on the chair near her bed.
"It is up to you Jedi. Do you want to find Kenobi now, or wait?" Maul concentrated on fixing his leg.
Ahsoka sat on her bed and thought about it. She wanted to leave and find Obi-wan as quickly as possible, but she trusted Mother Talzin's abilities to sense if he was alright.
"Dooku is an immediate threat of ours and we must eliminate him as soon as possible. I, for one, am unable to kill him due to the consequences that will follow, and you Jedi would never hurt someone who is unarmed. So Savage will have to do. If, of course, he will kill Dooku against Mother's orders to keep him alive." Maul began not waiting for we answer. He paused when he sensed a Nightsister come into the room and when she left he continued.
"It will take time for us to achieve that and I am unsure if we have the time."
"Maul," Ahsoka stopped him, "we can not start a plan with killing. Every plan I've heard you come up with always has killing in it. I know you want to stop Sidious, but he is not going anywhere. You must not rush things. If Mother Talzin says Master Kenobi is fine than we have no reason to rush."
"You Jedi." Maul hissed continuing his work on his leg not looking up at her. "All you do is wait for something to happen after innocent are killed! The Sith would stop something from happening before it happens so there are no problems."
"Like when you first met Master Kenobi?" Ahsoka asked curiously and didn't show her shock when she saw Maul's eyes shoot up and glare into hers. She counted herself lucky since he was taking apart his leg. If he wasn't he would be right in her face threatening her. She took this valuable time to slow him down and let him reflect.
"When I first met Kenobi, he meant nothing to me. All he was, was a smell the I some how yearned for. It was all too familiar yet somehow unknown to me." Maul started harshly and the edge in his voice began to soften as he continued to work on his leg.
He looked back up at her with a sharp glare, realizing she would want to know the full past of them. "You tell no one about any of this!"
"I had thought it was something from my past that he carried along with him. I knew I had to of figured it out somehow, but I couldn't get close enough to him without, Qui-Gon," He growled the old Jedi Master's name. "Getting in my way. Battle after battle I tried to get rid of that old man and finally I was able to separate them fatally wounded that old man."
"I had captured Kenobi and forced the old man to leave with a companion of his. After they left I realized that it was him giving off the scent not some object. After careful thinking I decided to keep him and tell my master that I had killed him. Sometime later my master had found out the Qui-Gon was still alive and that Kenobi was missing." He paused for a while, during his pause a Nightsister came into to check on Ahsoka than left.
"I was punished." Maul said breaking his silence. "My master had tortured me for the first time in a long time for my failure to kill them. I wanted to kill them. My blood boiled to see theirs pooling on the ground. Yet... I couldn't help but to keep Kenobi's whereabouts hidden from my master. Some part of me knew he was too important to hurt. I didn't want him to get hurt. I was given orders to kidnap a queen and when I brought her back I realized that Kenobi might have wanted a face other than mine around him. So I went to put her in his cell and I saw he wasn't there." Maul hissed clenching the tool tightly.
"He wasn't there." He repeated more calmly. "I had gone to look for him and found him in my quarters calling for help. I had only wanted to keep him safe and away from my master deadly grip. Anger and rage flooded my youngerself and I ended up... punishing Kenobi. When I was done with that I had put him back into his cell. I wanted to find out how far away the rescue team had been. I had tried moving my ship away knowing my Master was watching my ship's every move. As I did that I realized that I had hurt the only Jedi I did not want to hurt." He paused slightly and continued
"After Kenobi woke up I went to his cell to apologize. But I knew that wouldn't do anything to help him I hadn't even sent in a medical droid to heal him! When I saw him he still looked the same as I left him. The queen tried keeping me away from him and she said some nasty things about me and I threatened her back. She just kept talking and I ended up choking her with the force. That was until Kenobi acted and stopped me. My younger mind quickly thought to take advantage of him in which I did. Until Qui-Gon and another Jedi stopped it pretty quickly." Maul shifted in place as he put his leg back together after finding the problem. He tried to keep in mind that he was revealing his past to a youngling. A Jedi youngling. Although he deemed it nessasary if she was going to give him any advice about Obi-wan. Information for information.
"Qui-Gon had took my legs from me and quickly gathered Kenobi and the queen. Kenobi had just looked at me and walked away. I wanted to ask him for help, but I knew his master would come back and kill me. For all he knew I had bled to death in my ship. I had used the force to look for medical supplies, but those Jedi took all of it!"
"Leaving me with broken medical droids and no supplies. Kenobi had left. I had used the force to slow my bleeding as I crawled to the controls and I set my ship to land at the closest inhabited planet. My mind began to slip. Everything I worked for, everything I lived for was gone! I had waited for days for my master to find me. For his harsh words. For something! But nobody came."
"After days, a snake came to my aid. He helped me into the underground where the Firebreathers, acid rain and other inhabitants couldn't get me. We had made a deal if he would bring me parts to make new legs and bring me food, I would give him my leftovers. Days after days after day after days I waited to sense my master's arrival, but I could sense nothing. I was to busy using the Force to keep my legs together."
"Kenobi saw me bleeding and left me." He repeated with a soft and saddened tone to it. Ahsoka sat quietly watching his every move to see how his body movements also told the story to see if it matched. Every clenching of his fist, every swing if an arm, every hiss and growl and pause seemed to of deepen each emotion and soften when he mentioned Obi-wan.
"I slipped further and further into madness losing track of how long I was down there. That snake became nothing to me, but a servant delivering me my food. I couldn't get my mind away from Kenobi. I thought he understood me for that one moment, than he ripped it away the moment he looked at me like some trash and walked away. I couldn't stop thinking about my revenge on Qui-Gon. I wanted nothing more than to gut him alive." He had finishes putting his leg back together and continued with his story as Ahsoka quietly listened.
"It had been... 10 years since I saw someone other than prey and that snake. It had been a normal day until I noticed that snake was late with my food. I was about to go up there driven by my hunger until I heard someone falling. Finally, I thought, my food. Except when I tried to kill it it put up more of a fight than my other ones. After a while, it had called me 'brother' and I ran from him. Someone had finally come for me. After 10 long years!"
"Savage had convinced me onto his ship after we realized we had a common enemy. Kenobi. An enemy. I wanted nothing more at that time than to punish him for leaving me helpless and with no defenses. Savage took me to Mother and she healed my rabid, insane mind. I knew that I needed Kenobi near me I knew of nothing else and so I did what I knew how to get his attention. Slaughtering people. I yearned to see him again to be near him."
"I wanted nothing else more than to see him. And when he arrived I did nothing that I wanted to do, but punish him. He needed to know that I was in charge and that he should pay attention to me. I might of said that I wanted to kill him, but I didn't mean it. I was so caught up in the moment. You and Skywalker come in at this point. I just didn't want to lose him again. Not again to you Jedi. After sometime I thought my own brother was against me. I had became so paranoid I had rejoined the dark side and here we are now."
"I still can't get Kenobi out of my mind. It's like he haunts me whenever he's gone and thought of someone hurting him angers me... frightens me. I... don't know what I would do if I learned that Kenobi had died." Maul went silent as he confessed that to the young Jedi. Ahsoka got out of her bed and walked over to the silent Sith Lord. Her body a little sore from not moving around.
"Don't worry Maul, Master Kenobi will be fine and we will get to him as soon as we can." Ahsoka tried to comfort him. "I'm sure Master Skywalker will find us a way off of this planet."
Maul grabbed the upper part if his arm and looked at it, snarling.
"Maul? What's wrong?" Ahsoka asked and watched as Maul shook his head.
"It's nothing, just overacting nerves." Maul pushed aside the feeling and let go of his arm, which tingled as if someone was holding it. Some thing deep in his mind screamed for him to find Obi-wan.
"If we are going to leave to find Kenobi, we must go now." Maul stood up and walked to the door.
"But why?" Ahsoka walked over to him and Anakin walked into the infirmary.
"What's going on?" Anakin asked
"If we are to leave to rescue Kenobi, we must go now! There are things Mother must not be able to sense, but we have to leave now!" Maul ignored Anakin with some panic in his voice
"Maul, calm down. Master, Maul thinks Master Kenobi is in trouble." Ahsoka explains to Anakin.
"If you're coming than come on Jedi." Maul snarled to Ahsoka and quickly left.
"Maul!" Ahsoka called running after him
"Ahsoka wait!" Anakin said not fully grasping the situation and ran after them into Dooku's ship. A few Nightsisters ran after them to stop them, but the stopped once the three got onto the ship. Maul quickly got the ship off of the ground and into space before Mother Talzin could stop them.

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