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In this chapter, Anakin is far from reaching his masters, whilst back on Coruscant the Jedi and Senators find connections to the number 16.

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What was a month on Glovis E16 was simply a week on Coruscant, so Anakin was losing his mind being stuck with the Dark Princess for 4 weeks, he had to hold it together though. He had continued to stay in the small village he had protected 3 weeks ago due to the villagers helping him out in locating and contacting his masters, but there had been no luck. The General of the little village, Tarkeeti had equipped the Jedi with supplies that he would need to continue his journey, food, water and even a pod to get him through quicker. "Thank you General Tarkeeti, I am very grateful for your kindness, I wish the best of luck for you and your village." Anakin nodded with a soft bow as he said his farewell to the general. After packing up the pod that was outside the hut he had been staying in, he made sure everything was ready to leave before heading inside to Padme. "We're leaving." He told her abruptly, the pair had been in much conflict after her attack on him, his trust in her was completely gone. "Finally." She said sarcastically with a roll of her eyes, as Anakin unchained her from the wall, escorting her out to the pod, before hopping in himself and flying off.

The journey to the main city took almost a day, and it had been a silent one. Padme had tried to get inside Anakin's head using her dark powers every now and then, but he had resisted, he had begun to figure out what she had needed from him, what the emperor had needed from him and he refused to be an apprentice to the dark side, so he did everything in his power to fight her efforts. After the long journey, they finally arrived at the city named Vona. He could see that the city once was a beautiful place, but had been destroyed by unnecessary war and conflict, the people weren't to discreet in taking a second look at the Jedi, it was a very rare sight to get visitors after all, especially from a Jedi Knight. Anakin ignored the looks and the whispers as he made his way through the crowd of people and rubble, leaving Padme in the pod as his prisoner, who wasn't far from Anakin's sight. He was stopped by a mutant named Nam'u, "Jedi knight eh, what brings you to Vona?" the 4ft mutant asked the 6ft Jedi. "My fighter crash landed a few weeks ago, I need access to your com links, so I can contact my masters." Anakin said simply squinting at the sun, before looking around at his surroundings and then back at him. "What do I get in return?" Nam'u was quite the hustler, he didn't do anything for nothing, there was always something he wanted. "I won't kill you." Anakin nodded looking at the mutant directly in the eyes, who by this time had cleared his throat and nodded, "Of course Master Jedi, right this way." Nam'u lead Anakin inside the small building giving him access to the com links, as he set it up to try and reach his masters he also kept an eye on Nam'u and his pod outside, so far so good. Just as he found a connection it was quickly interrupted by a shortening, and a large gust of wind. "Uh oh." Nam'u spoke to himself, Anakin heard and turned his head to the mutant before rushing to the door and looking out seeing a large hurricane like cloud approach the city, "I hate this planet…" Anakin told himself, referring to the constant climate change. Rushing to the pod, pushing past those scrambling around him to get to safety, unfortunately the hurricane had reached the pod before he had, and it had started to drift away from him, Anakin looked around to see what he could do or even use, but there was nothing. His quick wits came in handy though, running towards the hurricane and the pod he used his force power to pull the pod back to him, it was difficult yes, the storm was a powerful force in itself, but Anakin didn't give up, he even let out a scream of strength as he eventually got close enough, he jumped inside and started it up before blasting off away from the storm, but again it was proving to be quite difficult, Padme looked back at the storm before back to Anakin, "It is only going to proceed forward, if we have any chance of escaping it our best bet is to go through it." She told him, helping him for two reasons, the first; she hoped they would be a team one day for their dark lord and the second reason; she wanted to save her own back. Anakin looked at her through the reflection in the mirror and sighed softly, knowing he was going to listen to her because he was thinking the exact same thing himself. Anakin continued to fly the pod a little bit further before making a sharp U-turn and flying towards and through the heavy hurricane, with it pushing them back slightly he turned the speed up to its full ability, which fought against the strong winds. He could hear pieces from the pod falling from it, but he persisted in getting it through, the winds had brought with it a mixture debris and sand, dirt anything that would block Anakin's vision and be a threat to the pod by knocking it off its cause. "We're almost there!" Padme called out to him, as she began to see the light shining from the sun, he nodded flicking some switches to help with the control of the pod as they eventually made it out of the storm, only to crash into a pile of rubble. "Not again." He sighed to himself, before climbing out of the smoke inflamed pod, helping her out also. Looking back at the city that had now had become a mess – more than it already was from the storm, Padme spoke once more. "Can't deny the fact that I'd much prefer to be back on the imperial ship right now." She said sarcastically looking at the state of the place. "You shut up!" Anakin demanding as he began to walk back towards the city.

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After Obi-Wan had defeated General Greivous, the clone wars had been declared over. Little did any of them know, that the rise of the empire was slowly rising right beneath their noses. As Obi-wan flew his ship back towards Coruscant he put it in auto-pilot receiving a com link message from Organa and Windu, with Yoda included via another link. "Congratulations on defeating Greivous, Master Kenobi, you have ended the clone wars." Organa told him, "Thank you Senator Organa, but I am afraid we are far from being at peace just yet. We are yet to find Anakin and the whereabouts of the Dark Princess." Obi wan responded looking at his two master's and the Senator. "Well, I called this meeting bringing news. There have been 4 connections found to the number 16. There are 4 planets with the number 16 within its name, all of which have reported Jedi action. Two on the west of the outer rim, Fegwa A16 and Tholla Y16. The other two remain on the east, Aspoth 416 and Glovis E16" Organa nodded. "Search them we will." Yoda nodded. "I am close to Fegwa and Tholla, I can begin my search before returning to Coruscant?" Obi-Wan suggested. "Begin your search you will, send search party to assist we will." Yoda added to Obi-Wan's suggestion. "And myself and our search parties will take the two on the east. Any connections to the Sith Lady or Skywalker, report back to myself and master Yoda immediately." Windu said, "Yes Master, may the force be with you." Obi-Wan responded. "And with you also." Windu added before their com link ended and Obi-Wan changed his course to head for the first planet, Fegwa A16.

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Once again Anakin and Padme took shelter in an empty home, Anakin had found another com link, it was broken and of course he was quite handy in fixing things. He sat opposite the Dark Princess as he fiddled with its wires. "Would've thought your masters would have come to rescue you by now." She told him, messing with whatever it was in front of her to distract her from her boredom. "Could say the same for you. Where is your masters loyalty?" He asked her to know full well that there would be search parties out for him, but he also knew that there where other priorities at hand with the war too. "Well maybe I'm exactly where I need to be." She smirked to him, knowing it was messing with his mind. Anakin lost it and grabbed her pinning against the wall by her throat, "I have put up with your games for a month, its time you talk. Tell me whatever it is you want from me or I will go against the Jedi code!" he threatened, he was tired of her games, he wanted information rather than broken pieces, he wanted to get of this planet and he most definitely wanted his friend back. "Exactly this, your hate, your anger fuels your inevitable path to the dark side. My master wants a new apprentice to work along side myself and him to help create his new empire, who else is perfect for the job than a Jedi knight with attachment issues, a Jedi knight who has suffered loss, pain, sought out revenge…" she told him everything her master wanted Anakin to know, nothing more and nothing less. Anakin listened and let go, "I will not allow the emperors empty hopes become true. I will not succumb to the dark side." He told her adamantly. "You cannot escape your destiny Anakin." She told him, rubbing her throat with her restrained hands. "My destiny is to destroy the sith, not join them." He told her, frustrated by her words. "And how do you think you will do that? You have no mind of a Jedi, you want more, I can feel it and one day you will fulfil your destiny by becoming your destiny." She swore it to him, almost convinced him and he stayed in silence as he tried to take it all in. "You're wrong. I will destroy the sith but for now I refuse to leave your side until I can break you from the darkness within you." He told her, he was determined to bring her back. "Good luck, Master Skywalker." She grinned to him, before Anakin left the room.