I Am Not a Puppet!
"This is Dathomir planet, my brother," Savage Opress said in a deep voice.
Darth Maul glanced back at him and said coldly, "No... in all these years, you never opened your eyes to the Force and looked upon this planet. So you do not understand what Dathomir planet once looked like within the Force."
He stared at Savage Opress and repeated, "Dathomir planet has changed. Who?"
Savage Opress considered it before saying, "Perhaps you mean that great being—the Night Queen, Gethzerion."
"Gethzerion... I think I heard her legends when I was very young..." Darth Maul's expression darkened.
"That's right. She has now been resurrected and is under Darth Tenebrus's control. She is extraordinarily powerful, even capable of withstanding the combined attacks of Darth Sidious and Darth Malthael." Savage Opress said, "We have enough trump cards to contend with those two Sith Lords. What we lack now is greater accumulation, and an opportunity."
"Then what does this... Darth Tenebrus want us to do?" Darth Maul asked again.
"He will support us in creating a powerful legion—the Shadow Collective! And we will command this vast army to seize what we want!" Savage Opress said.
Darth Maul merely sneered. "Seize what we want? What we want, or what Darth Tenebrus wants?"
"There is no difference. He will meet our demands, because his enemies are Darth Sidious and Darth Malthael!" Savage Opress said.
"And then become a blade in his hand once more? To be manipulated like a puppet?" Darth Maul asked coldly.
Savage fell silent for a moment before slowly saying, "They possess incomparably powerful strength. We cannot resist them and can only submit. Besides, he has promised to give us everything."
He paused, then repeated as though convincing himself, "He will give us everything."
Darth Maul turned