A/N: Welcome to the Phantom Menace, the first chapter of my Star Wars rewrite.

Disclaimer: I don't own Star Wars.

STAR WARS: THE PHANTOM MENACE

Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute. Hoping to resolve the matter with a blockade of deadly battleships, the greedy Trade Federation has stopped all shipping to the small planet of Alderaan. While the congress of the Republic endlessly debates this alarming chain of events, the Supreme Chancellor has secretly dispatched two Jedi Knights, the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy, to settle the conflict...

A silver protocol droid opened the door to a meeting room. In the room, there was a large table with multiple chairs. There was another door on the other side of the room.

Into the room walked a man and a woman. The man was much older, around his early sixties and wore a plain tan tunic with a brown robe. The woman was younger, about twenty-five, and wore similar clothing. It was Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his Padawan, Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Kenobi closed her eyes and let out a sigh. "I have a bad feeling about this." Jinn looked around the room. "I don't sense anything," he said. "It's not the mission, master. It's something... elsewhere. Elusive."

"Don't center on your anxiety, Obi-Wan. Keep your concentration here and now, where it belongs." Kenobi opened her eyes. "Master Yoda says I should be mindful of the future..."

"But not at the expense of the moment." Jinn cut in. "Be mindful of the living Force, my young Padawan." Kenobi nodded. "Yes, Master... how do you think the trade viceroy will deal with the Chancellor's demands?" Jinn scoffed. "These Federation types are cowards. The negotiations will be short."

As Jinn said this, a small grey cylinder rolled under the door towards the Jedi. "Poison gas!" yelled Jinn, Force pushing the door down. He and Kenobi quickly left the room as a green cloud of smoke began to spread from the container.

Outside of the room stood multiple grey droids, all armed with blasters. "Jedi!" one shrieked. "Blast them!"

Jinn and Kenobi activated white and indigo lightsabers, respectively and jumped at the droids. Jinn was an Ataru specialist while Kenobi worked with the defensive style, Soresu.

Kenobi spun her lightsaber in a circle, deflecting a blaster bolt back into one of the droids. Jinn performed an acrobatic flip over a droid, then quickly spun his lightsaber around and stabbed it through the chest.

Jinn fired a Force push, blowing all the other droids into the walls and roof. Kenobi quickly looked over the room before deactivating her lightsaber. "Well, you were right, Master. Those were some short negotiations."

Jinn and Kenobi proceeded to a locked door. Jinn put his hand to the door and closed his eyes. "What do you sense, Master?" Kenobi asked. "Droids. And lots of them."

Jinn activated his lightsaber and threw it up into the roof. He manuvered his weapon with the Force, slicing a rectangular hole into the roof.

"Come, Obi-Wan." Jinn jumped into the hole and Kenobi followed. The Jedi inched through the roof until they were directly over the droids.

Jinn activated his lightsaber and quickly slashed the roof open, falling on top of a destroyer droid. Kenobi fell behind him, spinning her lightsaber as she activated it.

The three remaining destroyers activated their shields, firing on the Jedi. Kenobi easily deflected the blaster fire back at the droids for it to be absorbed by their shields.

Jinn, on the other hand, was having issues. Ataru was not geared towards defense like Soresu. Kenobi jumped in front of Jinn, blocking a blaster bolt headed for his chest.

"You take them out, I'll cover you," Kenobi said. Jinn nodded and jumped over Kenobi, directly in front of a destroyer. Before it could fire, Jinn pierced its shield with his lightsaber, striking through its head.

He lifted one destroyer with the Force, locking its blasters at the remaining one. Kenobi jumped on top of said destroyer, ramming her lightsaber through its head, lengthways.

Jinn clenched his fist, crushing the destroyer. He threw it into the wall and deactivated his lightsaber.

"Lady Sidious, the ambassadors Chancellor Valorum sent are Jedi!" Two Neimoidians, Nute Gunray and Daultay Dofine stood in front of a hologram of a hooded woman.

"The scheme has failed, Lady Sidious. The blockade is finished. We dare not go against the Jedi," Dofine said.

Sidious' yellow eyes narrowed under her hood. She raised her hand and Dofine began to levitate. The Neimoidian clutched at his throat, coughing and choking. Before he suffocated, Sidious released him. Dofine landed on his face, but quickly got up and ran off. "Viceroy, keep that stunted slime out of my sight."

Gunray nodded nervously. "Yes, milady. What shall we do?" Sidious put her hands together. "Begin landing your troops on Alderaan, Viceroy."

Gunray cocked his head. "Um, is that legal?"

"I will make it legal." Sidious hissed angrily. "Kill those Jedi." The Sith Lord disappeared, leaving Gunray alone.

Once Sidious' hologram disappeared, another appeared in front of Gunray. It was Padmé Amidala, the fourteen year old Queen of Alderaan.

A smug smile formed on Gunray's face. "At last, we're getting results. Again you come before us, your highness," the Neimoidian said. "You will not be so pleased when you hear what I have to say, viceroy. Your trade boycott of our planet has ended."

Gunray's smirk grew. "I was not aware of such failure." Amidala crossed her arms. "I have word that the chancellor's ambassadors are with you now and that you have been commanded to reach settlement."

"Apologies, my lady. I know nothing of any ambassadors. You must be mistaken," Gunray said. "Beware, viceroy. The Federation has gone too far this time." Gunray feigned offense. "We would never do anything without the approval of the Senate. You assume too much." Narrowing her eyes, Amidala replied; "We shall see."

Once Amidala's hologram disappeared, OOM-9, a droid commander walked up to Gunray. "Find the Jedi." Gunray hissed. "Roger, roger." the droid nodded. Dofine walked back to Gunray. "Disable all communications on Alderaan," Gunray said. "Queen Amidala may be suspecting an invasion."

Alderaan

"Gunray claimed that he did not receive any ambassadors," Queen Amidala said, her handmaidens, Governer Sio Bibble, Captain Panaka and his sergeant next to her. In front of Amidala was the hologram of Senator Sindel Palpatine. Palpatine made a surprised face. "How could that be true? I have assurances from Chancellor Valorum. His ambassadors did arrive. It must be the... get... negotiate..." Palpatine's hologram sputtered and shorted out.

"Senator Palpatine?!" Amidala turned to Panaka. "What's happening?" Panaka turned to his sergeant. "Check the transmission generators." As the sergeant left, Bibble spoke up. "Is it a malfunction?"

Panaka shrugged. "It could be the Federation jamming us." Bibble crossed his arms. "A communications disruption could only mean one thing: invasion."

"Don't jump to conclusions, Governor," Amidala said. "The Federation would not dare go that far." Panaka chipped in; "The Senate would revoke their trade franchise, and they'd be finished."

"We must continue to rely on negotiation." "Negotiation?" Bibble asked incredulously. "We've lost all communication! And where are the Chancellor's ambassadors? How can we negotiate? We must prepare to defend ourselves."

Panaka looked back to Amidala. "I have to agree, Your Highness. This is a dangerous situation. Our security volunteers will be no match for a battle-hardened Federation army."

"I will not condone a course of action that will lead us to war."

Meanwhile, six landing craft flew in formation towards the surface of Alderaan. Three began to slowly descend through the cloud cover of the twilight side of the planet.

A/N: Thank you for reading the first chapter of the Phantom Menace. As you can see some of the changes, Qui-Gon Jinn has a white lightsaber instead of a green one. In my story, a white lightsaber represents those who follow the Living Force. Those with this color are known as Pure Jedi. Obi-Wan's lightsaber is the same as it is in the normal canon. I have replaced Naboo with Alderaan as they are so similar, I didn't see the point in keeping them separate. Anyways, thanks for reading and chapter two should be up sometime tomorrow.

Edit (8/16/17): You may notice that Obi-Wan Kenobi, Darth Sidious, Senator Palpatine have been gender-swapped. Why is this, you ask? During the writing of Attack of the Clones, I was looking at Palpatine's origin story, and I decided to make a few changes. Other than that, there's not many other reasons. So now, Sindel Palpatine, the younger sister of Sheev Palpatine has taken the place her brother held in the original canon. Kenobi, I really don't know. I just felt like it.