Second Chance Chapter 1

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"Ahsoka!" Ezra yelled as he tried to make his way back to help her fight off Darth Vader or at least help her escape from the tall man in the black suit. Ezra was hurled backward by Ahsoka. The massive stone door closed leaving the two people to duel inside.

Ahsoka pushed Vader back and spun around slashing at the half machine half man while the temple continued to collapse around them. The temple shook violently and parts of the ceiling began to cave in, Ahsoka jumped back barely missing being rushed by a giant piece of rubble.

Spark flew from the reactor where the Sith holocron was inside of the temple as it reaching critical level and began to melt down. Ahsoka jumped back up and Darth Vader was standing right in front of her bring his saber down to finish her off. A massive amount of built up energy exploded sent Vader flying away from her then everything went black. Was Ahsoka dead if she was at least Ezra and Kanan got away and she prayed that Vader had died along with her.

A light flashed brightly and Ahsoka had to close her eyes, it took several long moments until the light faded and for her eyes to adjust. Ahsoka felt warm not cold like she had been when ever she was in the Sith temple. Ahsoka felt several eyes watching her and she sensed several presences that weren't there moments ago.

The presences felt warm, welcoming; they felt alive not dead like she had thought and known some of them to be for so long. Ahsoka's vision slowly came into focus but not fully, she could see several figures standing in a brightly lit room. They were talking but not to each other, they were speaking to her.

Ahsoka looked down slightly and saw a hand being held out to her "We're asking you back Ahsoka. I'm asking you back" said the voice of a man who Ahsoka had come to care deeply for, but had been replaced by Darth Vader. Ahsoka looked up and saw Anakin…her master. 'What in the name of the force is going on? Am I dreaming? Is this some sick trick of the darkside?' Ahsoka thought as she gazed into the face of Anakin, not the masked face of Darth Vader.

Ahsoka looked around and recognized the faces of several Jedi Master standing in the room: Mace Windu, Obi-wan Kanobi, Mundi to name a few of them. She stepped back in shock and her mouth fell open, her heart was pounding in her chest threatening to explode from her rib cage. "…What?" Ahsoka said looking at all their faces.

"I'm asking you back" said the voice that belonged to Anakin as he held out her padawan braid to her. Ahsoka looked up at Anakin her eyes wide with shock and great confusion. Ahsoka senses nothing but warm happiness coming from the man that she had called master for over three years of her life, there was not a trace of darkness within him.

'I must be dreaming, I have to be; yea I'm dreaming. I'm somewhere inside the Sith temple, it had collapsed and I fell' Ahsoka thought to herself. But if this was a dream why could she feel the presences of all the masters in the room, why could she feel and connect with the force at all in a dream. The only reasonable explanation she could come up with and boy did it sound absurd was that she had somehow sent back in time.

"Ahsoka are you alright?" Anakin asked drawling Ahsoka out of her deep thoughts. Ahsoka looked to Anakin's face again then at his hand. Could she possibly change the future, keep Anakin from falling to the darkside, keep the Jedi from being whipped out.

Ahsoka reached out with a quivering hand but paused for a moment, her hand was smaller than she remembered, heck she was smaller than she remembered. She carefully touched Anakin's mechanical hand to make sure he was truly there and that this wasn't a dream. "Master…" Ahsoka said in a suddenly weak and soft voice, her hand moved to touch the padawan braid Anakin held in his hand.

Memories flooded back into her mind of Barriss, her former best friend betraying her, the clones chasing her and her being tried for the bombing of the temple. Ahsoka picked the braid up in her hand very carefully fearing that it might shatter like glass and she would find herself back in the Sith temple trapped with Vader hunting her down. Her thumb gently caressed every bead on the braid back and forth.

"Snips?" Anakin said in a concerned voice looking down at Ahsoka. Ahsoka thought back to the Sith temple, how Maul had used them and proclaimed himself Ezra's new master, she remember Kanan being blinded by Maul's saber; she remember Ezra escaping with the Sith holocron. "Ezra…" Ahsoka muttered thoughtfully 'perhaps if I can keep Anakin turning into Vader then Ezra will grow up and with his parents, then he could receive proper Jedi training at the temple. All these "if" questions and not many answers if any at all' Ahsoka thought.

Ahsoka felt two hands grasp her shoulders gently; she looked up and saw Anakin staring down at her with a worried expression on his face. 'I can save Anakin, I can keep him from ever becoming Vader I can save everyone…the only question is, how?' she wondered. Then the full weight of why she had been sent back in time hit her like a train at full speed, her legs became like jelly and she had to grab Anakin's arm tightly to keep herself from falling to the floor. The entire Jedi Order was counting on her, strike that, the entire galaxy was counting on her and they didn't even know it. They had no idea of what was coming if she couldn't stop it.

Ahsoka's eyes drifted back toward the padawan braid in her hand then up at the face of Anakin "I…I will…I'll come back" she said finally. Ahsoka felt herself being engulfed in the arms of Anakin her master who was hugging her tightly "thank you…" she heard him said softly. Ahsoka let herself wrap her arms around Anakin and she hugged him back tightly, something she had wished to do ever since she left the Jedi Order all those years ago; or well…her past life if she could call it that.