About 5 months after the First Battle of Geonosis, Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and his apprentice,
Anakin Skywalker were sent on a pretty ridiculous mission by Mace Windu and the Jedi council
to a planet completely filled in Darkness, with no visibility at all, to stop a separatist
ambush.
While there, Anakin and Obi-Wan were ambushed by creepy creatures known as the Shadow Hunters
which were completely invisible to the two Jedi.
While trying to fight back, Anakin showed a strong darkness flowing through him, terrifying
his master.
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The story begins far out in the expansion region of the Galaxy on the dark, gloomy planet
of Nivek, which the council have told Anakin and Obi-Wan is filled with Shadow men.
As the two touch down on the surface, Anakin immediately realizes why they call Nivek the
night planet, and is completely blind, unable to see a thing.
This also leads Obi-Wan to realize why Master Windu was worried that this was a perfect
place for a separatist ambush.
The shadow hunters are silently and creepily watching over the two Jedi, and Obi-Wan has
no clue that they’re even there since he can’t see them.
The two ignite their lightsaber to gain some small amount of light, and know that if the
Jedi Council’s suspicious are correct, the Nivek Shadow Hunters are hiding separatist
weapons on the planet, willing to do absolutely anything to protect them.
As the two are moving forward on the dark surface of the planet, Anakin tells his master
that the Shadowmen can’t stay hidden forever, but Obi-Wan quickly replies that they don’t
intend to, as a massive net drop down on the two, almost catching the both of them in a
horrid trap.
Despite having pretty poor visibility on this planet, Obi-Wan immediately recognizes that
the net is made from durasteel cable, which confirms the Jedi council’s theory that
these shadowmen are very high-tech hunters, far more cunning that they had assumed.
Obi-Wan quickly realizes that these shadow hunters must be in the canopy above them,
but he still can’t see any movement in the darkness.
Because of this, Obi-Wan wants to use their sense of sound and hearing to locate the shadow
creatures, telling Anakin to remain focussed on that, but before he can even finish his
sentence, Obi-Wan is punched in the jaw from out of nowhere, spilling blood immediately.
After a short moment, he is then punched again in the chest, leaving him in a lot of pain,
before again being uppercut from seemingly nowhere.
The shadow hunters are too dark and too quick to be spotted.
Anakin calls out to his master, wondering what happened, since he didn’t see anyone
punch him, and Obi-Wan quickly realizes that this attack was only a small test to see if
the Jedi were really unable to see them, meaning that the next attack is going to be a whole
lot more painful.
At this point, Obi-Wan is completely done with this planet, and begins running away
from the area on the back to the ship.
Unfortunately, their path is very soon blocked by a foul smelling tar lake, which is smouldering
and burning like lava.
In this shot, Obi-Wan even has the high ground, which is some very unfortunate foreshadowing
of the future.
Because the two Jedi are still blinded by the darkness, Obi-Wan knows that leaping across
the scorching hot tar will likely result in them both jumping to their deaths, he knows
they have to go around.
As Anakin and Obi-Wan try to navigate around the hot tar, they quickly see sonic blaster
fire coming from above them, before Anakin spots something else.
He knows there is something there, but he can’t exactly tell where since it’s moving
in a rapid and random way.
Anakin wildly flails his arms out with the force, trying to slam the creatures with nearby
rocks.
Anakin knows that he may not be able to see these separatist shadow hunters, but he certainly
knows that they are all around him, before summing a storm of rocks and launching them
deep into the darkness.
He knows he has hit… something… but can’t see what just yet.
Obi-Wan immediately blasts Anakin for being reckless and careless with his use of the
force, warning him that he will hurt somebody one day if he does not take more care.
Anakin however, is too proud and confident to take this advice, telling his master that
he is only just getting started and wants to attack even harder.
As Anakin Rushes off eagerly to inspect the damage he caused, Obi-Wan is angry with himself
and promises that he will teach Anakin to control his emotions and use of the force.
As Anakin walks up to the impact site to see what he hit, Obi-Wan is disappointed and worried
at his Padawan, asking him “Not quite the target you wanted”...
Disappointed with his carelessness and imprecision… the way of the dark side.
The Jedi attack precisely and with care.
Anakin then fires back at Obi-Wan by saying “At least I fought back”...
But Obi-Wan cautions Anakin, warning that he lashed out… there is a big difference
between fighting back precisely and only at the target, rather than lashing out at everyone
and everything in your way.
Finally, Obi-Wan reminds Anakin that he must learn to be cautious and precise in his use
of the force in order to shield himself from the temptation of the darkside, but while
he is saying this two shady hands grab Obi-Wan around his shoulders and pull him into the
darkness .
In response to this, Anakin’s eyes turn red and he screams out in anger for the creatures
to ge away from his master.
Anakin then wildy swings his blue blade at the creatures, but he knows that they have
them surrounded because the two Jedi are basically blind.
Obi-Wan however delivers some more important wisdom, telling Anakin that they only *think*
they are blind.
However, they are actually not blind because they have the force.
Hilariously, Anakin then says to Obi-Wna “Master, I think you took a blow to the head”, but
wisely Kenobi tells his young Padawan that they have been relying on their ways far too
much, and they have failed them.
Now they will tap into the force and use only that as their guide.
Using the force to guide their actions, Anakin and Obi-Wan are able to fight off their shadow
hunter enemies and finally strike back.
Obi-Wan continues to remind Anakin that needs to let go of his conscious self and allow
the force to guide his actions, rather than his emotion or feelings.
The two can sense the shadow hunters crawling all over the surface of this dark planet,
but they must only focus on the ones they can reach and not be overwhelmed by the sheer
amount of these creepy creatures.
As Anakin slices a few heads off of the creatures, Obi-Wan warns him to wait but there’s no
chance Anakin’s stopping, rushing across the tar lake, using the force as his vision.
Obi-Wan demands to know where on this planet they are going and Anakin simply asks “Can’t
you hear it master”?
Obi-Wan is confused, but Anakin soon points to a massive separatist factory, where machines
are humming loudly.
This leaves Obi-Wan shocked and very proud of Anakin, because he wasn’t able to hear
anything.
Anakin then responds to this by saying “I guess we’re just wired differently, master”,
to which Obi-Wan Hilarious responds “There’s no question about that, Anakin., before returning
to their mission.
The two make their way up the ramp to the factory, sliving and dicing every b-1 battle
droid they see, obliterating anything in their way, before storming into the main building
and destroying all of the power converters.
For the larger ones, Anakin plants blast charges around the area, and the two Jedi quickly
make their escape, while being shot at by a group of Angry B-1 battle droids.
The two leap outside of the building, making it just in time before the blast charges detonate,
sending the whole place up in a deep red fireball and destroying the separatist weapons factory.
After this, Anakin is very pleased that their mission is complete, and asks his master what’s
next.
Obi-Wan recommends that they get back to their ship immediately as it will soon be getting
very dark and grim on this planet again.
Thankfully, the raging inferno and fireball created by the factory illuminates the surface
of the planet just enough so that Anakin and Obi-Wan can see the path back to their ship.
AS the two sneak their way back to the ship, Obi-Wan is very thankful and Anakin did not
embrace the dark side on this gloomy planet, and knows that he still has quite a lot to
learn about the ways of the Jedi.
And Obi-Wan himself knows that he still has a lot to learn about teaching a young apprentice,
especially one as wild and powerful as Anakin.
So that is the time Anakin showed his dark side to Obi-Wan on a dark, gloomy world.
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