Walking your own path

When you look around Gar's crashed fighter you don't find him, neither dead nor alive. He must have ejected shortly before the crash happened, so you take a good look around the vicinity while the rest of the Mandos are fighting the clones around the palace. A rifle shot is fired from a nearby window, through your **** sense, you dodge the shot aimed at your back. Turning there, you see Gar running away from the broken window, having failed again to **** you. Activating your jetpack, you fly into the building through the broken window, activate your helmet's heat sensor and follow his footsteps deeper into the skyscraper. You spot him turning around a corner and fire a few missed blaster shots as you rush after him. When you finally catch up to him, he jumps off a platform onto a lower level, firing the rocket from his jetpack to blast a door open and running through it. You are right at his tail, going after him.

As you get into the deserted room, which is a small stockpile, you don't see him anywhere. That's because he lured you into an ambush. He had flown above you onto a small beam over the blasted door, having turned your back onto him, he starts flamethrowing at you, which you counter with your small energy shield built into your wrist.

Gar: And you wanted to have yourself called Mandalore?! You are a weakling!

Lana: I never said I wanted to be Mandalore! But even without being one, I'll kick your ass!

Gar: At least you have the spirit of a Mandalorian, if not the strength! I will take that mask for myself and rule us all!

Lana: You wish!

The shield can't hold the flames off for long, but nor needs it. Instead of trying to incinerate you, he jump kicks you by your shield against a wall, dropping both your blasters during the impact.

As you get up on your feet, he's a mere meter in front of you, attempting to stab you with his vibroknife. There's no time to pull out your lightsaber, so you try to handfight him and avoid his knife stabbing you. Following a few dodges, kicks, and punches, you manage to knock the knife out of his hand, forcing him to fight you on equal terms, barehandedly.

He might be physically stronger, but you have a trick up your sleeve he can't counter. You are a Jedi. After both of you have landed a few punches, you **** push him away from you, he tries to activate his flamethrower again, but before he manages to do so, you send a bolt of **** lightning at it, igniting his pressurized gas storage on his wrist, causing a detonation, which blows his left arm off immediately, Beskar armour or not. He drops to the floor, groaning and cursing vividly, you grab and ignite your lightsaber and point it at the man on the ground.

Lana: It's over! You are beaten!

Gar (trying to hide his pain): Arrrgh...! You think you have won...? You haven't won anything...! You are merely delaying the inevitable...!

Lana: What do you mean?

Gar (grabbing something from his pocket): You'll know soon enough! You won't kill me... I am the master of my own fate...!

He activates a thermal detonator and sets the timer to almost 0.

Lana (caught off guard): You are insane!

Gar (proudly and closing his eyes): See you in hell! For Mandalore!

You instinctively **** push him with the detonator in his hand away the moment you can react, gaining as much of a distance as possible in just a few seconds before it explodes. You contain much of the explosion through the ****, effectively keeping yourself unharmed by the detonator's blast. After the flames have gone out, you go and check on what's left of Gar. Mostly nothing, his armour molten, becoming unrecognizable, his body nothing but a pile of burning ash. You silently nod as a show of respect for a fellow Mandalorian, even if he tried to **** you for power. Still, he was a Mandalorian, almost like family. But a silent nod is all he deserves at best, you turn around and return to the battlefield outside. From the broken window, through which you have entered the building, you scan the surroundings with your binoculars. You see Clan Dar'Manda forming a defensive circle around your father, proving their leader truly kept his promise. You also see Pre and a handful of his followers making their way almost to the palace's entrance. On the other side of the palace, Bo-Katan is making just as much of a progress, pushing her way towards the ultimate goal, her sister. Without further due, you fly into the middle of the fray, landing near Pre, who's been cut off by a dozen clone troopers. You activate your lightsaber which shocks the troopers.

Clone: What the?! A Jedi...?! What is she doing here...?! Aren't they supposed to be on our side?!

Captain Vaughn: Don't mind them, we have our orders, protect Duchess Satine at all costs!

Lana: I mean no harm! This is a Mandalorian internal matter! The Republic shouldn't be here!

Captain Vaughn: Sorry lady, but our orders are to defend the palace and now, you are the enemy! I'm CT-0292, known as Captain Vaughn, if you refuse to surrender, we have ****! Open fire!

They open fire, which you deflect mostly by your double sabers. The shots you can't deflect hit your armour, but bounce off of it with ease. Some of their shots are deflected back at them, hitting some, but you try to hit their limbs and not kill them, if possible. They serve the Republic after all, you don't want to fight your own soldiers. When all of them are down, hit on their shoulders, feet, or any other mostly nonlethal points, you rush to their captain and check if he's still alive. He is.

Lana (bowing over the clone captain): I'm sorry captain, didn't intend to hurt any of you, but you wouldn't have let me pass otherwise.

Captain Vaughn: We knew we couldn't stop a Jedi, we just weren't made for that kind of thing... We did what we could... May the Republic forgive us...

Lana: Why did you come here? Mandalore is a neutral planet!

Captain Vaughn: This isn't an official Republic assignment. We volunteered to be here individually, master Jedi... We came here under general...

He is shot dead by one of the Mandalorians who's in turn shot in the back by another clone. The battle rages on further, you can't waste any more time, as lives are extinguished every second you spend talking. You run after Pre, who has since teamed up with Bo-Katan and the are at the palace door, the last obstacle between you and Satine.

Pre: Finally Lana, where in the Zakkeg's nest have you been?!

Lana: I had been... Compromised.

Bo-Katan: Compromised...?

Lana: Gar Saxon betrayed me and tried to stab me in the back.

Pre: Ah, hardly unexpected. Where is he now?

Lana: In a building. Incapacitated.

Pre: In one piece?

Lana: In ashes inside a molten armour.

Pre: Good, that's what traitors get if they betray a fellow Mandalorian!

Bo-Katan: What?! He was one of your lieutenants!

Pre: No matter the rank, a traitor is a traitor! Now, let's enter the palace! I have ordered the clans to hold their ground around the palace, once the duchess is dealt with, the clone resistance will collapse!

Just as you would fry the door console to **** open the door, it opened on its own. To your surprise, however, as the door slowly opens, it reveals somebody standing behind it. An old friend of yours, whom wasn't expected to show up here. His blue lightsaber's already ignited, ready to fight anyone who dares to enter.

Lana: What...?! You?! Here?!

?: I'll do what I must. I walk my own path now.