The Great Holocron of the Jedi has many old and legendary prophecies stored on it, overshadowed by the repeated reference of the Chosen One prophecy. One of these less exposed prophecies is called the Prophecy of the Return of the Ancients, and tells of a figure that is almost as powerful as the Chosen One, that will be found near to the Chosen One, and that he will defeat those long thought to be dead. Due to its vagueness and that it doesn't state this individual has to be a Jedi, the prophecy was shelved and not paid attention to.

Prologue – The First Battle of Geonosis

Darkness. The clone squadron moved through the tunnels under the arena as silently as they could, but the sound of their boots on the floor was painfully loud.

"Clear" The clone called Deviss spoke over the comms to the other clones, his red striped armour shining under the torchlight, showing the pockmarks and flak of the previous battle on the surface.

The power was out in this section of the facility, and the clones moved room to room, checking for any geonosians or battle droids still in the facility. It was slow progress, but the Republic had to be sure they had secured Geonosis. Deviss' comms beeped.

"This is CT-7145. I've found something."

"Copy that Drifter." Deviss said as he ran down the tunnel towards Drifter's location.

"Found him in the cell" Drifter said as Deviss and the others rushed into the room.

Deviss looked around. About three metres from the doorway was a space for a ray shield that stretched from his right for a few metres before ending on the opposite wall. A small bed was behind it, and some faint scratching beside that. Drifter was beside a panel on the opposite wall, having just shut the ray shield down, and on the floor next to him was a human boy. Deviss thought for a moment. The small hallway leading to the room had multiple thick blast doors, and they were over a kilometre below surface level. Why did this boy have to be so well contained? This was unusual and in contrast to what him and the others had found so far on Geonosis. Prisoners were usually kept relatively close to the surface, and never this far down.

The boy was no older than fifteen, and looked pale and sickly. He had jet black hair and blue-grey eyes that seemed cold to look at. He wore the tattered remnants of a black cloak, a ragged shirt and patched trousers. On the right side of his face was a small scar that ran from the bridge of his nose down to the bottom right of his cheek.

"I'll call it in." Deviss announced.

Deviss turned on his long-range comms.

"This is CT-65/91-6210. I and the other troopers have found a prisoner at depth of over a kilometre deep. Prisoner is a male child, locked in room with ray shield and extensive defences against his escape. He has been released and is under our guard for now. Requesting a Jedi to look at this. Over and out."

The boy sat up, startled by the sound of Deviss' voice. His eyes darted fearfully at the clones and with the grace and agility of a cat was up on his feet and running

"After him!" Deviss yelled, fearful of what the boy could run into.

The clones followed him into another room, where they quickly locked off the exit. The child turned and looked at them, smiled and raised his hand. Out of the corner of his eye, Deviss saw something on one of the tables move, and a hood and a metal object flew into the boy's outstretched hand. He put on the hood, pressed a button on it, and then pressed a button on the object in his hand. A deep blue blade emerged, about three foot in length and flickering with small sparks of black, and a mask slid over his face from the hood. The mask was white with a black left eye socket and a right eye socket that was white with an outline of gray around it. Over the right eye socket laid a red line that mirrored the scar on the boys face.

Before Deviss could react the boy, with a single, lazy flick of his finger, sent Drifter and Deviss sprawling against the wall. Deviss watched as the child threw the rest of the clones back against the wall, before turning to Chase, who had successfully shut the door and broken the panel for it. Chase went flying into Deviss and knocked the latter over again as the boy raised his arm a second time. Deviss averted his eyes as the boy sent powerful blue arcs of lightning into the door, overloading it and blowing the circuits, causing the door to open. With one last glance at the clones, making sure they were still breathing, the boy ran out the room.

Deviss helped his men up and they took after the child. They ran down the corridor and found him, caught between them and another squadron of troopers led by Master Windu, who were running down a ramp.

"Stand down in the name of the Galactic Republic!" Windu shouted at him.

The boy looked up, scared and afraid of facing a Jedi Master, and deactivated his lightsaber.

"Take him to the ship." Windu said, and they all marched upwards towards the Venator class cruiser that awaited their arrival surface side.

A/N: So this is an idea I've had for a long time and wanted to share. For those interested, Domino squad will appear in this story, and this will explore an alternate timeline.

Don't know how often I'll be updating this, hopefully a chapter a week, but over the summer a lot more regularly. Anyway, hope you enjoyed!