For Mandalore!

Pre: So this is how it ends... Fighting my best warrior for the throne... So be it!

Lana: I never wanted to fight you for it! But it seems destiny has other plans for us.

Pre: Destiny wants me to be Mandalore! Hey, you there! Give me your vibrosword! It'll have the honour of slaying a pretender!

The Mandalorian he points at throws his sword at him, elevating him onto equal terms of weaponry with you.

Pre: I don't need the darksaber to defeat you! Remember our first duel? Think this will end differently for you?

Lana: I have learnt much since then! I have become a powerful Jedi, but more importantly, I have earned my place among the Mandalorians! I'm someone you cannot hope to match! This time, you'll be the one humbled! I won't even use the **** to fight you, I'll win this duel solely as a Mandalorian!

Leader of Clan Dar'Manda: Hah, and now she says she's holding back during a fight to the **** for the title of Mandalore! She's either very strong or she's a great fool!

Leader of Clan Fett: If she can defeat Pre without the ****, she'll be truly worthy of our loyalty. None of us could match him with ordinary methods, if she can, she'll be clearly the champion of all present Mandalorians.

Pre (charging at you with rage following your claim to hold back): You daughter of a...! Aaarrr!

The Mandalorians form a circle around you two as your blades clash against each other. Satine and Obi-Wan watch in silence, with their bodyguards at the ready to defend them, should the need arise. But none pays attention to them at the moment, all are rather interested in seeing who the next Mandalore might be. And it will turn out soon enough. You haven't had time to rest following your clash with Kenobi, however, Pre has just awakened from his wartime nap, which leaves both of you in a weakened state to decide this climactic duel for power and control. His moves are a lot different from Obi-Wan's Soresu form, he is using slower, but more powerful strikes, trying to cut his way through your defense, or if unsuccessful at that, at least attempting to unbalance you. This is hardly your first fight against a physically stronger opponent, you know exactly how to counter such moves with speed and agility. Since you have decided not to use the ****, your resources aren't as wide as they could have been. Your energy shield has been running low on energy since you used it up against Gar's flamethrower. Your own flamethrower's fuel reserve has been redirected to your jetpack just before fighting Obi-Wan, leaving that out of the options too. A handful of diverse grenades, the twin blasters, and some other small Mando tricks are all that's left, if you exclude the darksaber itself of course. You want to prove yourself to your people as a Mandalorian, not as a Jedi and that's exactly what you are going to do, at any cost.

During the duel you attempt to get a bit of a distance after each of his slow and strong slashes, trying to find an opening in his defense. Each time you dodge his strikes, you fire a shot at his armour with your blaster in your left hand. Naturally, all your shots bounce off of his armour, which doesn't surprise you. You are just playing for a later surprise attack. That's a risky strategy however, with only one hand, you can't block his two-handed attacks, only dodge them. That's more tiring but could give you wider angles to counterattack.

Pre (slashing at you and receiving a blaster shot after each evaded strike): Disgraceful! Can't you see no blaster shot can pierce true Beskar?! Are you so simple-minded?!

Lana (dodging and shooting him continuously): Quite the contrary. Overconfidence in your impregnable defense will be your fall! Just wait and see!

Pre: Insolent kid! Should have killed you when I had the chance!

You continue your strategy until you get what you wanted all along, without Pre realizing what has been your goal. When it's done, you put your blaster away, detach a sonic grenade from your belt with a 3-second timer, and as it falls it flies and attaches itself to Pre's right foot, despite him trying to kick it off. You immediately activate your jetpack and get to just far enough not to be affected by the blast. He couldn't react to the surprise that your grenade had flown and attached to his foot instead of simply falling to the ground. Temporarily blinded and deafened, he slashes blindly around himself, trying to keep you away, but you easily knock his vibrosword out of his hand and kick him in the guts, forcing him onto his back on the floor. Nobody understood what had just happened. A second ago the fight seemed like two equals dueling, and now Pre's disarmed and lying on the floor with the darksaber pointed to his throat. All are in awe of what has just happened in front of their eyes. Bo-Katan is especially stunned by the revelation that her long-time boss has been overwhelmed by you in a fair fight.

Pre (furiously): What was that...? A Jedi trick?!

Lana: No, it was a lot simpler than that. Told you I won't be using the **** and I didn't. I said your defense will be your fall and so it was. When I was shooting at your armour, it might have seemed random or pointless, but it wasn't. After a few shots, you stopped bothering with them and just focused on your attacks. This meant you hadn't even noticed when I fired a shot at your wrist controls, pressing the button of your boots's magnetic sealing. When I released the grenade, it was magnetically locked to it. You didn't notice, since the floor isn't made of metal, so your movement wasn't affected at all. The rest is pretty easy to figure out.

Pre (grinding his teeth together): Grrr....! Damn you...!

Leader of Clan Varad: Impressive, Lana! Done like a true Mandalorian!

Leader of Clan Fett (clapping slowly): I knew my faith in your abilities was not misplaced.

Bo-Katan: Noo...! Impossible...! She can't have beaten him!

Ursa (placing her hand on Bo-Katan's shoulder): She has just done that Bo-Katan... It's over. Lana is our new champion.

Leader of Clan Dar'Manda: Sooo, what happens now? Do we announce you as a new Mandalore oooor, do we all take rounds in fighting you until we're all done? Decisions, decisions...

Tiber Saxon (brother of Gar, the new leader of Clan Saxon): As the new head of my clan, following my brother's perishing by your hands, there are fewer who would have more reasons to fight you and attempt to take your life or the darksaber. However, having witnessed your strength and skills myself, I have come to realize, it would be suicidal. Hence, I, in my whole clan's name, bend the knee before the new Mandalore!

Leader of Clan Fett (as all of Clan Saxon bends the knee following Tiber's initiative): I was among the first to have sworn my allegiance to you Lana. The moment you showed us the Mask of Mandalore, I knew it was destiny guiding you to us. Clan Fett and I are yours to command, Mandalore!

Leader of the Children of the Watch (bending the knee as Clan Fett does): You have the darksaber and the mask. You have earned to be Mandalore. This is the way.

Leader of Clan Dar'Manda (kneeling): I have made my bet on you earlier and you have just delivered me a few piles of credits by kicking Pre's ass! I'll follow your lead as a token of gratitude for those credits! As long as the money keeps flowing to my clan, you won't regret having us around, I promise!

The clans bend the knee one after the other until most of the Mandalorians have done so. Save for Bo-Katan and Ursa Wren and their respective clans, and Clan Vizsla, Pre's own family. They all look at Bo-Katan to see whether she'll follow the pattern and swear allegiance.

Bo-Katan: How could you bend your knees so easily?! She's half Jedi, our sworn enemy, have you all forgotten about that?! She's only half Mandalorian by upbringing, she's like an outsider! No outsider will ever rule Mandalore!

Pre (whispering to himself, while thinking on what has been happening): Bo-Katan...

Satine (whispering to Obi-Wan): My bright minded sister finally steps up to her own ideals! Out of all the numerous reasons why a random girl cannot rule the planet, whose throne is mine at the moment to add, she found xenophobia to be the biggest issue...! Not the illegitimate ascension, the terrorist actions, the mass **** just a few minutes ago outside the palace... No, she had to pick xenophobia! Oh my, if our father was here to hear this...

Leader of the Children of the Watch: You know our costumes Bo-Katan, if she had earned the right to wear our armour and wield our weapons, she is a Mandalorian like any of us.

Leader of Dar'Manda: What's the matter Princess Kryze? You have tasted sour grapes perhaps?!

Bo-Katan (drawing her blasters): Don't you dare talk to me like that! Look at yourselves, what a sorry bunch of fools you are! A handful of bigot zealots, a dozen credit hungry sellswords, a group of treacherous power grabbing upstarts! You aren't true Mandalorians!

Ursa (sadly): That's enough Bo-Katan... The clans haven't been united in anything like this for the last centuries... Let's not start another civil war. We are the minority here. Madnalore, we are at your service.

Bo-Katan (as Ursa and Clan Wren bend the knee): You too?! I should have known! Fine, I'll rely only on myself, Clan Vizsla ,and Clan Kryze! We'll never accept you as our leader!

Lana: Bo-Katan, if you want to fight me, come, I'm ready to meet you in battle. But don't forget how our last duel ended for you!{if Bo humiliated = true} I wouldn't risk that happening again in front of all the clans! They would get to see how quick your tongue could be in other scenarios as well, not just with insults!

Bo-Katan (quiet chuckle is heard from some of the people in the room): You daughter of a...! {if Bo licked = true}Then I shall let them all know, how much I came at your face when I spanked your ass the first time you challenged me! Probably we better show them, what do you say?!{endif}{endif}

Pre (standing up as your darksaber is pointed at Bo-Katan instead of him): That's enough you all! Huh... I have been defeated... I had hoped to be the new Mandalore to lead you all into a new era. But that won't be my role in this new chapter of our history. As much as it hurts my pride, I must bow my head in front of one who could unite you far better than I ever could. This historic unity of the clans cannot go to waste because of the pride of one man. Our traditions dictate, that only the strongest shall rule as all. I, Pre Vizsla, uphold our traditions and accept the consequences of my actions. Hereby, I entrust Paz Vizsla, my closest relative with leading Clan Vizsla.

Paz Vizsla (as Clan Vizsla kneels): I will make you proud, uncle!

Pre: As for you, Bo-Katan... I thank you for your unwavering loyalty to me! But times are changing, I am no longer your leader. Serve the new Mandalore as well as you have served me.

Bo-Katan: Pre...! You are the true leader of the Mandalorians! Don't give up your life's work like that!

Pre (kneeling and bowing his head low to be beheaded): Lana... I have said my part. Finish the challenge. End my life and claim your place as the new rightful Mandalore and lead the clans to glory, like I never could!

Lana (puzzled): I... I do not intend to kill you Pre.

Pre: That's not up to you. Tradition demands it. Anyone who loses a challenge for the title of Mandalore must die in the challenge. I have come to accept my fate and I will face it with dignity, having witnessed the true potential you possess as a new leader and unifier. Do it. Give your brother this final honour. This is the way.

Many, but not all Mandalorians: This is the way!

Bo-Katan: Blast the damned way, you deserve to live!

All the Mandalorians are watching in silence, waiting for your strike to finish him.

Lana (thinking): What should I do? I know I have the duty to kill him per tradition, but... He's still a formidable soldier and has much respect from some of the clans. They might never truly accept me as Mandalore if I kill him now...

(Note: The upcoming decisions in the next chapters will be available depending on whether you were helping Satine too or not.)