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never seen before In reply Plagueis used a variant of Ataru and Niman combined, continually attempting to use Force powers in conjunction with his attacks, which pushed Dooku to the brink.
At the same time, he was also concentrating, trying to use his Force powers to his advantage. Yet here, Plagueis ran into several problems. His attempts at Force Crush were blocked, his attempt to reach inside Dooku and manipulate the Force inside his body likewise came to nothing. He then decided to use Force Illusions to fool his opponent's senses. He tried several types, from simply trying to create an image of himself a single step from his actual position, to a sound from behind Dooku.
None of them worked; the Jedi was able to see through them all and even once tried to lay a small trap for Plagueis in return, acting as if he had fallen for an illusion only to attack Plagueis as he tried to take advantage of this weakness. Plagueis fell back, only protecting himself at the last minute with a blast of Force Lightning that forced Dooku into the defense, using his lightsaber to absorb the lightning. They were so close together that both of them suffered from the backlash of the lightning, and Plagueis howled, creating a blast of sonic power that hurled Dooku away.
More Sith Lightning lashed out, but Dooku raised his Force Shield, absorbing the lightning and then suddenly popped out of existence! Plagueis whirled, his Force Precognition screaming at him and was just barely able to block the lightsaber coming for his side. What?! Is that how he boarded my ship, teleportation!? Now on the back foot, Plagueis desperately pushed his Force powers into his body to a level he would never do usually, taking Dooku's best attacks head on and turning them aside to attack in turn.
For several moments both combatants relied solely on their lightsabers as their Force Precognition skills probed and strove against one another, like two master chess players looking for the opening in their opponent's game plan, or two Aikido masters striving against one another in an effort to unbalance their enemy. Plagueis tried to use Dun Moch, but it failed. He tried to open the distance once more, but Dooku kept the battle close, anticipating his moves, every attempt at Force Grab either on Dooku or the surroundings blocked or redirected. He tried to use another Force Bellow, but Dooku simply backed away, replying with the same odd explosive technique Plagueis had never seen before. The explosion went off so close the shrapnel nearly caught the Sith Lord, slicing him here and there. Plagueis attempted Sith Lightning, but Dooku's Force Shield blocked it, and Plagueis nearly fell as a moment of disorientation hit him along with a red beam, but he shook it off before Dooku could capitalize.
By this point, however, Dooku was feeling it. Two teleportations had drained him, but so was his age, forcing him to use the Force to aide his physical skills to a high degree. That and Force Precognition was taking so much of his attention that he couldn't use any more to conjure up further Force assaults of his own. He was able to anticipate and block his opponent's continued attempts to use other Force powers, but that quickly became all he could do.
In short, he could feel his body giving out on him, while his enemy was still going strong, and Plagueis could feel it too, the battle slowly turning against the human Jedi Master. But then, I knew I would not live through this…
When the opening came, it was sudden and small, as it always was between two masters. Dooku's footwork seemed to fail him for just a brief second as he danced back over the shattered floor. The next instant Plagueis's red blade slipped past Dooku's green to take him right above the ankle, sending him crashing to the side as it sliced off his foot. The next second Plagueis' lightsaber came back into a thrust, flashing through Dooku's now broken defenses and burning straight through his chest, barely missing his heart. When Plagueis pulled his lightsaber back out, it left a gaping, smoking hole straight through Dooku's body.
Plagueis stood over his opponent's body, shaking his head mock-sadly. "Pity, Dooku. You would have been an asset to the Great Plan. Now you will simply die alone, with no one, not even the Order, realizing what has occurred."
"Did, did you think that I would have come here without leaving behind clues?" Dooku gasped, while using the Force to cut off the pain receptors in his body from his brain. He could feel the Force opening up its arms to him, beckoning, but Dooku refused to listen. Not yet, not just yet… Even as the Force reached for him, Dooku reached out subtly with the Force, grabbing up a lot of the debris from the fight.
Plagueis felt that, but didn't respond to it just yet. Instead he glared down at his dying opponent. "What did you do!?"
"I, cough, I left copies of my findings about cough, you, my suspicions, and cough anything else I could discover, ready to go out after a cough certain amount of time has passed without my, my input," Dooku replied honestly, though that wasn't all he had done. The rest he would sooner be tortured to death than share with the Sith standing above him. Which, Dooku acknowledged with a certain amount of gallows humor, was exactly what was about to occur. The Force was still there, reaching out, beckoning him into its embrace. Not yet, not yet…
Plagueis narrowed, his wide mouth twisting into a vicious sneer, struggling with a megalomaniacal urge to tell Dooku how badly he had underestimated the Sith Order. That even if he had succeeded here, the Sith would still have continued on. But he fought that feeling back easily, instead raising a hand. "I think that a slow death is not quite enough. Let us see what we can do to also make it agonizing!" Force Lightning crackled around his fingers and he gestured downward, lashing Dooku's fallen body.
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