Showdown at Toydaria

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|name=Showdown at Toydaria
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|conflict=War of the Ring
|objective=Kidnap King Katuunko alive
|date=August 11, 1982
|place=Toydaria
|result=*Failure; King Katuunko dies
*Judge Claude Frollo turns on Saruman and Jinx
|side1=*Confederacy of Independent Systems
*Order of the Sith Lords
|side2=Independent Human warrior
|side3=*Galactic Republic
*Jedi Order
*Toydarian royal delegation
|side4=Independent Hex Witch
|commanders1=*Darth Tyranus
*OOM command battle droid†
|commanders2=Claude Frollo 
|commanders3=*High General Sam Gamgee
*General Frodo Baggins
*King Katuunko†
|commanders4=Jinx
|ppl1=*1 Sith Lord
*B1-Series battle droids
*B2 super battle droids
*Droidekas
*1 Providence-class carrier/destroyer
|ppl2=*1 Judge 
*1 Punworcca 116-class interstellar sloop
|ppl3=*2 Hobbits
*Toydarian guards
*1 T-6 shuttle†
*Thief's Eye
|ppl4=*1 Hex Witch
*1 Judge 
|casual1=*Several B1 and B2 Droids
*3 Droidekas
|casual2=*Judge Frollo is wounded
|casual3=*King Katuunko
*9 Toydarian guards
*T-6 shuttle
|casual4=None
}}
A showdown occurred on the planet Toydaria between Jedi Generals Sam Gamgee and Frodo Baggins and Saruman's new Dark Acolyte, Judge Claude Frollo. Another duel occurred in orbit between Saruman, Frollo and the Nightsister Jinx, and later, another duel between Frollo, Gamgee and Baggins. In addition, Jinx and Saruman also had another brief skirmish.
Frollo, under orders from his new master, went to Toydaria in order to kidnap King Katuunko alive. Unfortunately for the Confederacy of Independent Systems, the mission was in shambles when Frollo killed Katuunko in a rage and presented the body to Saruman, enraging the Dark Lord who punished him as a result. The confrontation continued over Toydaria aboard Saruman's Separatist dreadnaught, where Saruman's former apprentice, Jinx, attempted to exact revenge on her old Master with the help of Frollo, who was under her control. However, Frollo turned on both Saruman and Jinx, and while Jinx pursued Saruman, Frollo dueled with Gamgee and Baggins, who had arrived to eliminate him.
The showdown ended when both Jinx and Frollo escaped their pursuers alive, while the hobbits also fled from the cruiser.
==The battle==
===On the surface===
When Judge Frollo arrived, a trio of Toydarian guards was patrolling the landing platform. The moment Frollo exited his ship, he ignited his lightsaber and quickly dispatched the first two guards before using the Force to strangle the third, throwing him against the palace entrance.
The king was informed of the attack and ordered his palace guards to stop the assailant.
Bursting down the door to the throne room, Frollo entered the palace and killed all the guards present. Taking an elevator platform, the Judge raised himself face to face with the King
Despite being alone with the Dark Acolyte, Katuunko stood firm and refused to be intimidated by the brutal show of force, drawing his sword and preparing to fight.
Gamgee and Baggins, both tasked with tracking down Frollo, arrived on Dathomir to seek an audience with Mother Talzin, who gave them a tip to Frollo's whereabouts. They arrived on Toydaria and touched down on the landing platform.
Back inside the throne room, the Toydarian king managed to elude his adversary's first few strikes, but Frollo quickly slashed the King's sword in two. Katuunko, making a bid for escape, attempted to fly over his attacker. However, Frollo managed to grab hold of his quarry's leg and slam him into a wall, knocking him unconscious. With his prisoner over his shoulder, the Sith turned to leave, only to be confronted by Gamgee and Baggins, who had entered the palace.
The two Jedi hobbits sprinted onto two elevators that flanked the kidnapper and were lifted up high about the palace floor.
Jumping onto Gamgee's platform, Frollo made a few quick strikes. Gamgee evaded the attack and leapt backwards onto an adjacent elevator as Frodo used the Force to ram an unoccupied lift into Frollo's foothold. The impact, however, succeeded in rousing Katuunko and enabled him to struggle free of Frollo's grip. Distracted by his prize, Frollo turned to recapture him. This momentary lapse allowed Gamgee and Frodo to leap down and tackle Frollo, deactivating his lightsaber.
As the Katuunko flew towards the exit, Frollo held out his hand, and began to Force choke the king.
Despite the Jedis' best efforts to stop him, the Dark Acolyte was able to strike them both in the face before crushing Katuunko's neck, killing him instantly.
Summoning his strength, Frollo shot to his feet, throwing Sam and Frodo high into the air. At the last moment, Frodo grabbed the edge of one of the lifts with his former Master dangling from his feet, high above the floor.
Frollo seized the opportunity and jumped on the same platform, stomping on Frodo's fingers and forcing the two hobbits to plummet to the ground. Frollo then attempted to finish the pair off by stabbing the platform and bringing it crashing down onto the men below. At the last possible moment, Sam and Frodo used the Force to slow the elevator enough to soften its impact. Quickly leaving his foes behind, Frollo took hold of Katuunko's lifeless body and dragged him out to his waiting ship. After throwing the corpse into his ship, Frollo used the Force to push the shuttle, that had carried the Jedi, over the edge of the landing platform. Frollo then boarded his starship and escaped with the King's body.
Inside the palace, Gamgee and Baggins pushed the collapsed lift off of them and ran, lightsabers at the ready, to the platform. Once there, however, they found their ship destroyed and the Sith gone. But, not yet giving up, Sam spotted Katuunko's personal star yacht, Thief's Eye, which the pair commandeered.
===Battle in space===
Above the planet, a Providence-class carrier/destroyer awaited Judge Frollo's arrival. The judge human landed his ship in the carrier's hangar bay and brought the body of Katuunko to Saruman. Angered by his apprentice's incompetence, the Sith Lord struck Frollo with a bolt of Force lightning. Frollo, doubled over in pain, begged his master for forgiveness, to which Saruman replied that forgiveness was not the way of the Dark Side. Shocking the weakened Frollo again, the door to the ship's bridge opened and Jinx stood in the doorway.
Shocked by the return of the apprentice he thought dead, Saruman ignited his lightsaber and told Frollo that he could redeem himself for his failure by killing the witch. Jinx, however, was unimpressed by this and calmly walked up to Frollo, placing her finger on his forehead and reawakening his loyalty to her. Both assailants then turned and activated their own lightsabers, preparing to duel.
During the confrontation on the bridge, the Toydarian ship piloted by Sam and Frodo streaked towards the Separatist dreadnought. Sam speculated that this had been a plot by Saruman to exact revenge on Katuunko for his refusal to join the Confederacy. The pair landed the ship in the hangar and quickly ran to find Frollo, dispatching three B1-Series battle droids in the process.
Back on the bridge, Jinx made the first move, lashing out ferociously at her former master. Saruman easily blocked her strikes and kicked her aside. It was then that Frollo lunged into the battle. Recovering herself, Jinx stood and attacked with Frollo simultaneously, but Saruman was still able to block or avoid every blow before kicking Jinx to the ground again. Attacking alone and with much force, Frollo swung wildly at the Sith Lord. Saruman, a master of lightsaber dueling, simply evaded every swing without even parrying. But, on the last downward chop, the wizard was forced to block and the strength behind the blow sent him flying across the room, knocking the lightsaber from his hand.
Jinx, who had gotten back to her feet, ordered Frollo to kill Saruman. However, as Frollo raised his blade to strike down the wizard, Saruman unleashed a blast of Disarming Charm of his wand and threw the Judge across the room. The Sith Wizard then attempted to recover his lightsaber with a Force Pull, but his former apprentice managed to pull it as well, sending it flying to another part of the bridge. Without his lightsaber, all Saruman could do was dodge, using his staff and evade as Jinx hacked and slashed at him with her blades. Frollo once again tried to strike down the Sith but was quickly sidestepped and tortured with a Cruciatus Curse a first time.
As he continued to electrocute the human, Jinx swung her blades at Saruman, who ducked away and pulled his lightsaber back into his hand. The two continued to duel as Frollo recovered. Standing up, the judge attempted to lunge at Saruman, only to be greeted by another blast of Force lightning. Jinx, disgusted at his weakness, repeatedly ordered him to kill Saruman, but each time he made an attack, he was electrocuted and blasted by the Disarming Charm. When Frollo admitted that Saruman was too strong, Jinx became even more enraged, saying that his lack of ability would not be her undoing. Saruman responded that a failed apprentice made for an awful teacher.
Frollo, torn between his loyalty to Jinx and his inability to defeat Saruman, roared in fury and used the Force to choke both of them, lifting them off the ground. Saruman and Jinx both struggled helplessly as Frollo threw them both across the room, slamming them into the wall. As the pair got to their feet, Frollo lunged in and began to attack them both, striking at them and again throwing them about.
Momentarily ceasing their duel, Saruman and Jinx retaliated with a blast of lightning and a powerful push. The truce did not last long, however, as the Wizard attempted to electrocute Jinx, who absorbed the bolts into her lightsaber. Seeing his chance to escape, Saruman opened a hatch in the floor and leapt down it, followed by Jinx who sealed it behind her.
Just as Frollo was about to cut through the hatch, Sam Gamgee and Frodo Baggins ran into the bridge. Planning on attacking together, the Jedi started to approach the Dark Acolyte. Frollo turned towards the both of them, charged, and with a load roar, Force pushed them hard out into the hallway. The two hobbits hit the wall and dropped their lightsabers, deactivating them.
In the corridors below the bridge, the duel between Saruman and Jinx continued. After a few moments of strikes and parries, Saruman managed to jerk Jinx's lightsabers from her hands with the Force, before subjecting her to a blast of electricity. Standing over his wounded foe, Saruman raised his blade and stabbed downward; trying to finish the job he had failed to do once before. But, just as the blade was about to pierce her, Jinx Force pushed the blade, causing it to miss her by inches and, instead, stab into a steam line. The steam burst forth from the pipe and into the wizard's face, blinding him for a moment. Jinx seized the opportunity and recovered her lightsabers before diving into an escape pod and jettisoning to safety.
Unable to pursue the woman who had escaped him for a second time, Saruman ordered the battle droids on the ship to destroy the judge, as he was now a traitor. Moments after the order was received, Frollo and the pair of Hobbits, still locked in battle, entered the hangar. The droids immediately began to fire on both sides of the fight, but Frodo noted that they seemed to be concentrating on Frodo. B1 and B2 battle droids, as well as a few Droidekas, encircled the human and fired on him, scoring numerous hits. In an attempt to escape, Frollo let loose a Force Shockwave, knocking back the droids and Jedi. Frollo managed to limp back to his ship and take off, leaving behind Gamgee and Frodo, who soon escaped as well.
==Aftermath==
Following the battle, Judge Frollo returned to Dathomir, where he spoke with Mother Talzin. Feeling that he was betrayed by Jinx and knowing the Jedi were after him, he lamented over his weakness. Mother Talzin, however, reassured him that he would become stronger. At first, Frollo did not believe her, pointing out that he no longer had anyone to teach him. Mother Talzin then told him of his long lost Sith Lord, Gollum, who was living in exile in the fires of Mount Doom. When Frollo asked how to find to resurrect the creature, Mother Talzin gave him a talisman that would act as a compass to lead him to his new master.
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==Sources==
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*Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide: Updated and Expanded
==Notes and references==
Category:War of the Rings battles
Category:Duels