Chapter 1: In a Galaxy Far, Far, Away

Buffy looked out from the tower as the sun begins to rise over the horizon. Below her and Dawn a portal has formed. Buffy then looked to Dawn and gave her sister a sad smile.

Dawn looked at Buffy and it dawned on her what Buffy is about to do, "Buffy...no..."

"Dawnie...I have to–"

"NO!"

"Listen to me! There's no time, Dawn, please listen." Buffy pulled Dawn close to so she can speak into her ear. "Dawn listen to me. Listen. I love you. I'll always love you. But this is the work I have to do. Tell Giles I...I figured it out. And I'm okay. Give my love to my friends. You have to take care of them now; you have to take care of each other. You have to be strong. Dawn. The hardest thing in this world is to live in it. Be brave. Live. For me."

Tears begin to fall down Dawn's face as she nodded, "I will Buffy, and I love you."

Buffy smiled giving her sister a quick hug. She then turned and ran toward the end of the tower and jumped. As she does two tendrils of energy erupt from the portal and hit both Dawn and Glory, they both disappear in a flash of light. Everyone on the ground looks up and sees Buffy falling into the portal before she too disappears in a flash of light before the portal closes.

Giles blinks and looks around, "Where's Dawn?"

Willow looks up at the tower, "She was up there. You don't think that Buffy was too late?"

Giles shakes his head, "No I don't. I don't think Buffy would have jumped if Dawn was dead. I think Buffy jumped so Dawn wouldn't have to. She sacrificed herself for her sister. Still where is Dawn?"

Spike sitting in the shadows out of the sunlight, "Did you guys not see the flash of light. Not talking about the one when Buffy disappeared but before. There were two. One down here, and the other up there. If you notice Glory is gone, I would hazard to guess that she went home after all. I would bet that Dawn may or may not be where Glory is. I wouldn't be surprised if that's where Buffy disappeared to as well. I would bet that they are in another dimension somewhere. I just hope wherever they landed it wasn't a hell dimension."

In a Galaxy Far Far Away

On the planet Mustafar three flashes of light appeared five feet above the ground as the three women flew out of the portal. Glory was the first up and off, smiling. "Darth Glorificus is back home at long last." Glory didn't notice the other two women laying 10 feet away from her; if she had she might have tried to kill the girl and the Slayer.

Buffy slowly sat up, "That just hurt." She looked around and noticed that she was no longer in Sunnydale. Suddenly a human form moves next to her and she turns as her eyes widen. "Dawn?"

Dawn laid there for a moment, "Buffy, 5 more minutes." Dawn mumbled.

Buffy looked around at the landscape. At the molten lava flows and shook her head. "Dawn, get up. I don't think were in Kansas anymore." Buffy said worriedly.

Dawn finally sat up and her eyes go wide as she looks around her, "Buffy, where are we?" Dawn asked in alarmed voice.

At that moment a man, a slaver by the name Adros, steps up behind them, "You are on the planet Mustafar. And I daresay you will make excellent slaves." Adros gave the girls a cruel smile.

Buffy jumps up in to a fighting stance as the man pulls out some sort of weapon and fires it at her. She slumps back to the ground as the man slaps a collar around her neck. "Now girl are you going to give me any trouble?" The slaver said looking towards Dawn.

Dawn looked at the man and then at Buffy and shook her head as Adros slapped another collar around her neck. Adros picks up Buffy up and he along with Dawn walk back to the slaver camp.

Several hours later Buffy wakes to find herself in a small room lying on a hard bed, she notices Dawn standing next to her. "Dawn, what's going on?"

Dawn absently fingers the collar around her throat, "Looks like we're slaves now. I think these collars are like some kind of taser or something. They gave me a mild shock to make sure I wouldn't try and run away. Not that I would try and run without you. Before you jumped off the tower you asked me to live, for you. I promised I would and I will, regardless of what happens now." Dawn explained.

Buffy smiled and sat up hugging her sister.

Weeks went by and the sisters worked the nearby spice mine for the slavers. Then one day Adros and a few of the other slavers came for Dawn, leaving Buffy at the camp. Months went by and Dawn never returned. Buffy hoped that wherever her sister had been taken that she was being treated nicely. She made a silent promise that she would do whatever she could to find her sister.

Tatooine

Adros sat down in Mos Espa spaceport to do some trading as they needed some equipment for the mines. They quickly made their way to Watto's shop, dragging Dawn behind them.

Watto looked at the assembled group, "So you need more mining equipment. What do you have to trade this time?" Watto asked with greedy tone.

Anakin Skywalker sat behind the counter looking at the girl, who was not much older than he was. He noticed the collar around her neck and felt sorry for her, as one of the men pushed her forward, "We have 10 thousand credits and the girl," Adros said.

Watto nodded and looked Dawn over, "Give me the credits and the girl and you have a deal."

Adros nodded and handed the control box to the collar to Watto, "We have not got her implanted yet." Adros warned.

Watto nodded and they concluded their business before the slavers left. "Boy, take the girl home with you. She will stay with you and your mother. I will have her implanted tomorrow." Watto dismissed them both.

Anakin nodded and motioned for Dawn to follow him, "What's your name? I'm Anakin."

Dawn smiled as she followed Anakin, "Dawn Summers."

Moments later they walked into Anakin's home, "Mom, I'm home."

Shmi stepped out of the kitchen, "Your home early. Who is your friend?" Shmi looked over at Dawn curiously.

Dawn stepped up to Shmi and held her hand out, "Dawn Summers."

Anakin looked at the girl and smiled as Shmi took her hand and shook it gently. "Mom, Watto just bought her off some slavers in trade for equipment. He told me to bring her here to stay with us." Anakin explained.

Shmi nodded and looked at Dawn, "Welcome Dawn."

Mustafar

It had been a year since Buffy and Dawn had appeared on the planet, and 5 months since Dawn had been taken from Buffy. Buffy was working in the mine when she heard sounds of weapons fire outside. She ran to find the slavers firing at some men in uniforms she did not recognize. The battle between the slavers and the unknown men lasted for all of a few minutes.

Once the fighting was over the men looked over the camp, one of them spotted Buffy. He noticed the collar around her neck and took it off her. "You're free! Can you tell me your name?"

Buffy rubbed her neck and nodded, "Buffy, Thank you for freeing me. May I ask you your name?"

The man nodded and smiled, "Ruwee Naberrie. Where are you from, my dear? What is your last name?"

Buffy decided that it would be best to feign memory loss as she wasn't sure these folks would believe her about portals and other dimensions, "I don't remember. I think they used the shock collar one too many times. I can't remember much past a year ago."

Ruwee looked at Buffy and nodded. He thought to himself that she was hiding something. But he felt until she was ready to talk that he would not push the topic. "Very well I will take you to my home then. And you can stay with my family. One of my daughters, Padme, is the current Queen of Naboo, having recently been elected. Least until we can find out where your from and return you to your parents." Ruwee spoke with a kind smile.

Buffy nodded and smiled, "That would be much appreciated, thank you."

Over the course of the next few months, Buffy was adopted into the Naberrie family. She decided to hide her identity she would take their family name as her own.

One day Adros was monitoring the holonet when he came upon a holovid.

"The recently elected Queen of Naboo has, with permission of the Senate, setup a task force to look into reports of slavery in the systems of the Republic."

Adros noticed that the girl next to the Queen in the video was one of their missing slaves from the recent attack. "Think you can escape so easily, do you girl? Well, we'll have to fix that won't we?" Adros growled and reached for his comlink to ready his men.

Naboo

Buffy tossed and turned one night as she slept. She was in the throes of a dream. A dream that showed her new "sister", Padmebeing killed by the slavers who had enslaved her over a year before. When she woke she sat in bed the remaineder of the night wondering if it had been a Slayer dream or just a simple nightmare. She decided to err on the side of caution and chose to accept that it was a Slayer dream.

Over the next several days Buffy kept close watch over Padme. The only time she let Padme out of her sight was when they slept. She didn't want to take any chance that her dream would become real.

Then the day came when the slavers came. Padme and Buffy had slipped out of the palace to go swimming at the Naberrie lake home. They were lying on the beach when the slavers surrounded them.

"Hello your Highness. You have something of ours." Adros said.

"Padme get out of here." Buffy said as she sprang up and into a combat stance.

Adros dives at Buffy and they begin to wrestle. She swung out her leg, kicking him hard with all her Slayer strength sending him flying backwards a good several feet. Padme watched as her eyes went wide as Buffy took on a man twice her size.

Adros gives about as good as he gets as he knocks her back with a couple sidearm shots and a low kick. But Buffy knockEd him back again with a couple uppercuts as Padme dove for a blaster that Adros had dropped and pointed it at the other slavers who had been watching the fight.

Buffy knocked Adros back and jumped on top of him pinning him to the ground. "I'm free, you are never ever taking me back." She and Padme held the slavers waiting for Captain Panaka to come take the slavers into custody.

That evening Buffy and Padme were back at the palace having dinner. Buffy knew Padme had questions that needed to be answered. "Padme I am going to tell you a story, one that will answer all your questions – I assure you. I will not tell you my whole life story but I will start with the day I turned 15 when I first heard this little saying. 'Into every generation a Slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. She alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness; to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their number. She is the Slayer.'"

Padme looked confused, "Vampires? I thought that they were a myth?"

Buffy sighed, "Don't I wish, but no they were very real where I cam from. Not sure what myths you know but if you mean the blood sucking undead walking, creepy crawly monsters with bumpy foreheads then yea…that's a vampire."

Buffy went on to tell Padme her world, about who she really was and about Dawn. "When I leapt off that tower, I was intending to sacrifice myself for Dawn so that she wouldn't have to. Little did I know that Dawn had been hit by some energy from the portal and had already gone through. As I fell through the portal it closed behind me and deposited me and Dawn on Mustafar where the slavers captured us. Dawn was taken from me about 5 or 6 months later, I haven't seen her since. Then Dad came and rescued me. I made a promise to myself that should I ever get the chance I would look for Dawn."

Padme looked at Buffy and smiled, "And you will have that chance. As Queen I can set up a task force to search for her just like the task force I setup to uncover the slavers." Buffy opened her mouth to object but was stopped by Padme's finger on her lips. "No objections Buffy, I want to do this for you. You have not only been my savior today as I am sure they would have killed me to get you back. But you have also been my sister, and I love you as much as I do Sola. I know how I would feel if I lost you or Sola, and I am sure that's how you feel for losing Dawn. So I will help you find her, if it's the last thing I do."

Buffy smiled and hugged Padme, "Thanks, sis."

Padme sat back and pondered what Buffy told her about the role of the Slayer, "Buffy, you said the Slayer was something of a protector of the innocent, those who can't fight back because they lack the skills and strength, right?"

Buffy nodded slowly not sure where Padme was going with this line of thinking but was willing to hear her sister out, "That was the general idea, yeah. Me against the big bad."

Padme smiled ruefully, "So wouldn't you say, while there are no vampires here but there are still some big bad people like slavers. Naboo doesn't have that kind of training here. What if I was to make you my Protector?"