The Destroyer let out a cloud of black smoke and lost the ability to move.
"Little Green! Start wrecking things!" Kirk ordered the little troublemaker to get to work.
Little Green let out an excited dragon's roar and flew beneath the hundred-meter-high ceiling. It spewed dragonfire again and again, its massive body bouncing playfully from one assembly line, crane, and furnace to another like a child on a seesaw. It tipped pot after pot of freshly poured molten steel onto the production lines, and the gleaming finished robots were quickly melted back down.
Brunhilde began wreaking havoc as well. Her Lightning Spear kept severing circuits, and one production line after another plunged into darkness as the power supply faltered.
But their good fortune didn't last. The intruders' destructive rampage quickly brought security running.
A tall, slender Sith Warrior leaped down from the stands, holding a crimson lightsaber with two blades joined together!
"Darth Maul!" Anakin cried in disbelief. "Aren't you dead? My master, Obi-Wan, cut you in half with his own hands, and saw you fall into the abyss!"
Darth Maul grinned, his face tattooed in the standard, savage Sith pattern. A terrible smile spread across his fearsome red-and-black face, and his pupils had transformed completely into golden slits—the mark of a Sith Warrior!
Darth Maul was a weapon forged from the energy of hatred in the Dark Side of the Force, created to ensure the Sith's victory over the Jedi Order. A thoroughly evil man, Maul was utterly devoted to his master, Darth Sidious—so much so that no one could surpass his loyalty. His goal was simple: exact brutal revenge on the Jedi for the slaughter of the Sith, who had been outnumbered and outmatched.
In the final battle of the first prequel, The Phantom Menace, Darth Maul fought