Hello readers, this is RC-1197! This story is the result of a plot bunny that refused to go away. So I decided to write this beginning and if enough of you guys like it, I might continue with this story. The events of the entire prequel still happened up until the Mustafar duel. I refuse to give Obi-Wan the idiot ball (look that up in T.V. tropes) since he was such a revered Jedi Master and practically Anakin's brother, so I 'knocked' some sense into him. I hope you guys would enjoy this! May the Force be with You!


The Japor Snippet

The galaxy had never experienced a day so bleak. Many things have changed in the span of mere hours. Jedi, the Republic's lightsaber wielding guardians of peace, fell victim to the betrayal of their own troops. Few had managed to slip past the vast numbers of the men who they had once called friends and brothers. Palpatine, the Chancellor of the Republic, had declared the Republic unstable and dissolved the very thing he had promised the public to protect. After twenty millennia, the great Republic, which stood as a beacon of democracy and freedom, died in a furor of applause.

Obi-Wan Kenobi dreaded what he was about to do. Tracking down his brother had been fairy easy as the Jedi master figured that Padmé Amidala knew of Anakin's whereabouts. Obi-Wan had come to her apartment and was rather shocked when he saw the heavily pregnant senator, as he had suspected that Anakin had more control of his feelings then he would let on. You knew that it could lead to this, the small Jedi voice in his mind spoke, but you didn't do anything. The Negotiator gritted his teeth in frustration. Why did he let it slip? He was the older one; the wiser one and he had failed to do anything about it. Instead of leading Anakin to the light, he helped Palpatine spiral his brother into the darkness.

Some Negotiator you are, Obi-Wan criticized himself as his ship, formerly General Grievous's, entered Mustafar's atmosphere. After Padmé refused to believe that Anakin had turned to the dark side, one of the few options that were available to him was to follow the senator, knowing that Padmé would seek out the truth from Anakin himself. Sneaking on her ship wasn't a good idea as Obi-Wan knew that Anakin would take his presence as an act of betrayal on Padmé's part and he didn't want to risk the only connection that could keep Anakin grounded to who he really was.

So, Kenobi went for a different option, and subsequently forced C-3PO –Anakin's protocol droid– to reveal Anakin's location. The golden plated droid, much to Obi-Wan's luck, had spoken to Anakin's astromech droid and had a recording of Anakin saying where he was going. Mustafar. Not willing to take any chances, Obi-Wan wiped part of the droid's mind to erase the fact that he asked the droid about Anakin.

Padmé kept Anakin human and Obi-Wan wasn't about to destroy that. Force, he had been wrong. Wrong about the code, that Anakin can't have attachments, he should've known. He should've listened even if the words would hurt him and not listen to what he wanted to hear. Obi-Wan Kenobi, the Negotiator of the dead Republic, had never felt so wrong in his entire life.


Thanks for reading! I hope Obi-Wan's reasoning made sense as to why he chose a different option than jumping into Padmé's ship.