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Ahsoka Rewrite:
Episode I: FALLEN JEDI
Within a building of Coruscant, Hera Syndulla is recounting the heroic tale of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Leia Organa to her five year old son, Jacen Syndulla, with Chopper holoprojecting images.
Jacen asks about his mother’s own adventures and about his dad and the entire Ghost crew. Hera then has Chopper show images of Kanan Jarrus, Hera, Chopper, Garazeb Orrelios, Sabine Wren and Ezra Bridger and explains how they weren't just a band of rebels but also a makeshift family who fought against the Empire.
Hera tells of how Kanan was a former Jedi who trained Ezra as an apprentice, and the two managed to become a formidable team, facing down foes such as Inquisitors, Vader, Maul and Thrawn.
Hera briefly goes into how another former Jedi Ahsoka Tano had joined them in the fight with the growing rebellion until she disappeared following a Jedi only mission.
Hera then tells of how in order to liberate Ezra’s homeworld, both Jedi had to make sacrifices in order to save the planet from the hands of the imperial Grand Admiral Thrawn, who had set up a TIE advanced factory. Kanan would sacrifice his life in order to save Hera and the crew, and Ezra sending himself and Thawn away with the use of space whales called Purgill, giving the rest of them the chance to free Lothal from the Empire’s clutches.
When Jacen asks about what happened to Ahsoka Tano, Hera can only say that as far as they all know, she could still be out there…
On Malachor, Ahsoka Tano recovers from her encounters with both Darth Vader and Darth Sidious, before beginning to look around the barren planet for a way off. During her search, she comes across the injured 8th brother, who immediately surrenders to the former Jedi upon seeing her white lightsabers.
When Ahsoka ‘asks’ him to see if he can communicate with anyone, the inquisitor coldly replies how the explosion of his own lightsaber has damaged his communicator and how his ship was stolen, leaving the two of them stranded.
The 8th brother then attempts to convince Ahsoka into killing him, saying that he would do the same in her position and that there was no point in him leaving as Vader would end him for failing to recover the Sith Holocron, but Ahsoka insists on keeping him alive, as a prisoner.
The two of them then scrounge the ruined temple, finding very few resources for ways to escape and for food, with only water from under the temple being found. Ahsoka asks how the 8th brother managed to survive while hunting Maul for him to reply that he had only recently come to Malachor, shortly before her arrival.
After some time passes, both begin to starve, with the inquisitor suggesting they eat the bird Morai, which Ahsoka strongly rejects. When finding the bodies of both the 5th brother and 7th sister, the 8th brother comes up with the plan for each of them to eat their carcasses to survive, which Ahsoka also refuses to do.
When he asks what they should eat then, she brings up an ancient meditation method that Jedi use to stay in a sense serenity, which the inquisitor chalks up to jedi lies, and insists that he would kill himself rather than starve to death, leading to Ahsoka letting him have his way while she chooses meditation over eating dead bodies.
Upon scavenging through his fallen comrades, belongings, the 8th brother is frustrated to find no communications, but is elated to see the 7th sister’s lightsaber fully intact, taking the opportunity to try to sneak up on the meditating former jedi, only for Ahsoka to announce that if he attempts to kill her, she will cut him down without a second thought, leading to him hesitating and focusing back on his ‘food’, deciding to ultimately not reveal his new lightsaber until the right moment.
More time passes and while Ahsoka forces the 8th brother to gather material in the hopes to build a communication dish, finding pieces of material from Maul’s destroyed ship and from the fallen inquisitors. When he asks how she knows how to make one, she replies how this isn't her first time surviving stranded which he can only say it's a matter of time until they both die on his forgotten sith world.
Some time later, Ahsoka and the 8th brother begin to open up before a makeshift fire, with Ahsoka saying how they were both Jedi at some point, and the inquisitor snarkily replying how everyone knew who Anakin Skywalker’s padawan was, until she was accused of bombing the temple, revealing the Jedi Order’s weakness and causing her to leave before it fell. When Ahsoka asks who he used to be, he only tells her that he was once a padawan like herself and eventually saw the corruption of the Jedi because of Ahsoka’s and the true culprit, Barriss Offee’s actions.
Ahsoka would ask how he survived, to which he states that he had gotten a message from Palpatine before order 66, telling him to kill his master and flee to a set of secret coordinates. The 8th brother then tells of how he committed the deed and fled right before the purge began, leaving everything and his name behind.
Before Ahsoka returns to her meditative state, the inquisitor speaks of how he used to be known with the name ‘Marrok’.
Much later, while Ahsoka and Marrok attempt to build the communication dish, the Togruta asks the Terrelian Jango Jumper what he would now do if the chance of rescue came, he only replies how he would likely go into the bounty hunting business as the skill of using the force to hunt his prey was the only life he knows. Ahsoka suggests a path of redemption, and he only laughs saying that would be impossible for someone like him, and when Ahsoka keeps insisting on him rejecting the dark side, he reveals that he had hunted down the Jedi council member Coleman Kcaj in the past, killing him with no mercy, causing Ahsoka to stop in silence.
After a long period of time, the functioning transmitter manages to get a signal, and upon contacting a scavenging ship Ahsoka calls out to them for pick up, and it's only after Ahsoka gets a response does Marrok make his move, making a slashing attack with his hidden lightsaber against Ahsoka, who barely dodges the unexpected betrayal which results in the communication dish being destroyed, catching her off guard while Marrok makes a run for the arriving ship.
Ahsoka attempts to catch up and subdue the fallen jedi, only for Marrok to send a few S-Mine detonators in her direction, slowing her down enough for him to enter the ship, kill its crew and jump into hyperspace, leaving her alone with Morai.
Time passes by again and Ahsoka delves deeper into her force meditation, and with Morai’s help, eventually a tremor in the force is felt, and Ahsoka reaches out and calls to the distant feeling, and soon enough, a Mandalorian ship arrives, and a familiar face comes out to meet her, a former member of the Ghost crew, Sabine Wren, who looks both happy and disappointed to see her.
The Mandalorian artist states how she had found this place thanks to Rex mentioning it during her search for potential places Ezra could have disappeared to, and how she had a ‘feeling’ which she can’t explain.
Ahsoka then realizes that Sabine was the presence she had felt in the force, and faints from exhaustion and near starvation, with the Mandalorian taking her inside the ship before departing, leaving Morai to fly back into the temple…