Anakin Meets His Match Part II

As news of the devastation spread, sirens wailed throughout the town. Anakin had never heard a sound exactly like that and asked what it was. Carrie told him it meant the fire trucks were coming, and the cops were going to try to find the person who did it--her. Anakin was worried for her! "I will fight them all, we can do it together. Not one will be left standing. We can do it together."

"They are not like the ones I just killed, they have guns. They might shoot us."

"I can stop guns with my lightsaber! Oh, that's right, it doesn't work." Carrie was puzzled by the strange object, but had a feeling about it. She put it in the radar range and turned it on. Sparks flew and it almost caught fire, but when she took it out, it worked again!"

"Ahaha!" Anakin laughed. "We can take them all now, you and me!"

"I don't know, what if we do, and they get the army? The army have nukes."

"What's nukes?"

"Nukes can blow up the whole world, and what doesn't blow up, gets poisoned."

"You mean the power to destroy an entire planet? Insignficant beside the power of the force."

"The force, like we have?"

"Yes! We can defeat them all!"

"I don't know about all, Anakin. Maybe we should run away."

"Don't you want to take over your planet? You, we, have that power! Join me, tonight!"

Carrie looked at Anakin strangely. "You aren't from around here, are you?"

"No, I am not. I come from space."

"Space? I knew it! I knew I was the weirdest person in the world. I'm just like a person from outer space!"

"Carrie, you are not weird, you are special! You have been misunderstood!"

This made her smile."You're right. They don't understand me."

"And they don't appreciate you! What a pity your power and skills are wasted on those who don't understand or appreciate you. Come with me, we will make them all pay, we will show the whole universe!"

Carrie's face became very excited. "You mean you're gonna take me to space with you? Mama would say don't go!"

"Your mama was wrong because she didn't understand her power either. Leave her here and come away with me! When you get to my home galaxy, we can rule and no one will have the power to stop us!"

Carrie stuck out her hand. "Do you mean it?"

He took her hand and bowed his head to her. "Yes! Now let's leave this place now!"

Carrie laughed as she grabbed his hand and they ran out of her house. Just as they did, she saw the candles overtake it. As they ran toward Anakin's spaceship, she looked back and saw it engulfed in flames. Her mother was gone, all those who had taunted her were gone, and now she was going to escape into space and never be caught! As they ran through the dark to the spot it was hidden, two of the boys saw them and hollered out: "Hey, look, it's that weird guy who can use magic on the football." "You mean that Alice Cooper dude?" the other one said. "Look, isn't that creepy Carrie White he's got by the hand? I thought she was the weirdest person in the world, but looks like she just met her match!"

The boys watched as they got into the starfighter and took off. "Whoa, it's a UFO!" They yelled out in their shock. "He was a alien, a real live alien in a UFO!"

The starfighter was up and gone before anyone else had time to see it. They were still standing there all stunned when two more of their friends showed up.

"Did you see what happened? Carrie White destroyed the gym, man, she killed everybody!"

"No way! Is that what that big fire was? We were headed over there but got sidetracked here."

"Yes! She's going to jail for sure!"

"Oh no she's not, she's run off with that weird guy in his UFO!"

"UFO? This is the weirdest thing ever! Nobody will ever believe it!"

A cop's car came up behind them and shown its lights on them. "Boys, have you seen anything suspicious around here lately?"

"We sure did! Creepy Carrie White and that weird guy, what's his name?"

"Anna something?"

"Alice Cooper?"

"Whoever he was, he was from space and he's got a UFO! He took Carrie in the UFO and they're gone!"

"A UFO?" The cop asked. "Really, boys. Are you on drugs?"

"No, sir, we saw it, Carrie and this alien dude, in a UFO!"

The cop stopped talking to listen to his radio. He couldn't believe it when there were reports of a UFO in the town from several people. Some had reported it earlier when Anakin first landed, but they were only disregarded as hoaxers. Now that the tragedy at the Prom had occured, and these boys reported the UFO leaving with Carrie and a strange man, he had to take it seriously. He turned back to them. "Boys, we might be needing you after all."

"You mean, you believe us?"

"After tonight, I wouldn't be surprised by anything anymore."

High above, Anakin started talking to his new companion.

"Carrie, who's Alice Cooper?"

"He's a singer. He dresses up and tries to look scary, and sings a song called "No More Mister Nice Guy." She sang a few lines:

I used to be such a sweet, sweet thing
Until they got a hold of me
I opened doors for little old ladies
I helped the blind to see
I got no friends cause they read the papers
They cant be seen with me and Im getting shot down
And Im feeling mean
No more mister nice guy
No more mister clean
No more mister nice guy
They say hes sick , he's obscene


He joined in and they sang it again, laughing. "That's me all right!" Anakin told her. So that was who the boys compared him to. It was not an insult. He'd like to meet this Alice Cooper.

Soon, they had flown out of the earth's atmosphere. "Won't I need a spacesuit or something? Won't I start floating all around?"

"What are you talking about?"

"Our astronauts, spacemen from earth, have to have special stuff like that, and they float around because there's no gravity."

Anakin couldn't believe such low technology. He had to laugh. "They have 'nukes' that can destroy everything but they can't even correct for gravity? Idiots! How deep can they go into space like that?"

"They only orbit the earth in Skylab or go to the moon."

"What moon?"

"That moon." She pointed as they flew by it.

"Your own moon? They can only get as far as their own moon?" He laughed harder and harder. "Maybe we will come back here for them later."

Passing by the moon, Carrie took one look back at her home planet. She might never see it again. "It's so pretty and blue with swirly white, just like the pictures the astronauts took."

"It is one of the prettiest planets I've ever seen, and I've seen quite a few."

"How many planets you been to?"

"More than you'd believe. I'll take you there."

"I can't believe this! I'm in space, and I finally found somebody who understands me! Now I know I wasn't weird, I was special!"

"That's right, Carrie, and don't you ever forget that."

She looked down and started to weep. "I feel bad about something though. There was this guy, his name was Tommy and he was nice to me. I liked him, but I think I killed him. When I got mad, stuff happened. I didn't mean to hurt him."

Anakin's mood changed too. This rung a bell with him as he remembered Padme, how he had choked her and left her on the ground. He didn't know if she, or his babies were alive or dead. "I know just how you feel. The same thing happened to me. The very same thing. I didn't mean to hurt her, I loved her."

"You mean it, you're not just saying that to make me feel better?"

"No, it is true. I know it doesn't make you feel better, I don't feel better. It's always going to haunt me and it will you too. I know how you feel."

"You really do, don't you? You hurt someone you loved, people didn't understand or appreciate you, and you have the same power as me. I never thought somewhere in the universe one person could understand just how I feel!"

"I do, Carrie. They call me "the chosen one." I think you are something like that too. I know that you must have a destiny greater than this. With our combined power, we can rule the galaxy, and no one can stop us!"

Carrie got all excited. "For real?"

"Oh yes, you wait and see! First we have to take care of this one old guy in my way, then it's all ours! We are a team, Carrie. Will you join me?"

"Yes! I will do whatever you say!"

"Then say this: I submit myself to your teachings, my master."

She shook her head and laughed. "Huh? Master?"

Anakin snapped back at her. "I am the new Sith Lord. Once we have desposed of the old one, you will be my apprentice. I will show you power, glory and greatness beyond your wildest dreams. A powerful leader you will become. Do it."

Carrie was afraid, but also thrilled. She couldn't go home now, there was no turning back. She had crossed the line. "Okay, I submit myself to your teachings, my master!" She almost giggled.

"Say it again, like you mean it."

"I sumbit myself to your teachings, my master!"

Anakin was full of himself. HE was MASTER now, and he had the most powerful possible apprentice. Nothing could stand in their way. "Good, good!" He smiled and laughed. "A powerful sith you will become. Nothing and no one can stop us. The galaxy is ours."

The alliance was made. Carrie glanced one more time out the back window, but earth and its moon were now so far away they were no different than any other speck of starlight in the field of black space. "What have I done?" She whispered. There was no more turning back. She turned forward, and faced the future, and the endless space ahead. She put her hand in Anakin's, and he gripped it back. A perfect match had just been made. Perfect for them, but not for those who stood in their path.