Chapter 7

Anakin has just woken up and his whole body feels like crap. He had come from the dead yesterday so he knew that it would take some getting used to before he could actually feel like himself again. He went to the refresher to go and get ready so he could start training his daughter to become a Jedi. After he fixed himself up he had noticed that he was somewhere in his late 20's.

You are 30 my former padawan. A voice said.

Anakin looked around to find no one but his master Obi-wan Kenobi. Anakin was happy but also sad. "Hello Obi-wan."

You sound sad Anakin why is that. Obi-wan asked in a fatherly like manner.

"Well..." Anakin started. "...When I saw that I was 30 I thought it was all a dream. I was back in the clone wars, you were my brother, the Jedi order not nearly extinct and you were alive."

I know my friend... Obi-wan started. If I too could change everything I would tell you of your path so that you wouldn't have turned. You were my brother Anakin. I thought that Anakin Skywalker died on Mustafar, but I was wrong. My friend you were holding onto Vader hoping that you would still be able to make things right. In the end it all worked out. But we aren't quite at the end are we.

"No were not." Anakin told him. "I promise you that my second chance of short life will be worth while I'm here."

Good. Now go. Go to your family Anakin. They need you as much as you need them. Obi-wan told him trying to cheer him up from what was really on his mind.

"I will Obi-wan. Thank you for everything." Anakin told him hoping that they see each other again.

We will see each other again Anakin. Obi-wan told him sensing now how much he hated the ability to read minds now. I'll try to bring you wife and mother for a visit knowing the twins must be dying by never really getting to meet them.

"I think they would like that Obi-wan"

Well I must be going now. Obi-wan told him. You know I can only stay for a limited amount of time. May the force be with you Anakin.

"May the force be with you too Obi-wan." Anakin said in reply.

With that the old Master was gone and Anakin was left alone in his room. He left and ran towards the council chamber thinking it would be faster to let them come to me.

As he reached the room bad memories started to run through his mind. He would not let them get to him as he snapped back to reality. He commed into the senate building to let them know that the Hero with no fear has returned. After he got a reply he instantly jumped into a speeder and went to the senate building.

He went straight towards the chancellor's office knowing that he must confirm with the new chancellor about the new jedi order, before his son comes here and he has no idea what is going on.

"Chancellor Mon Mothma," Anakin said taking a bow.

"Anakin Skywalker." Mon Mothma said. "When I heard the transmission I was wondering, that's impossible he's suppose to be dead. But I guess that's not the case is it."

"No Chancellor." Anakin told her. "I'm here to discuss about the rebuilding of the new Jedi order."

"Your son is supposed to come in next week to discuss about that." Mothma told him.

"Yes about that I believe that there should be a few tweaks to the code that people should know about." Anakin told her like it wasn't that obvious.

"Like let me guess the no attachment rule" Mon pointed out trying to remind him that he has two children that should not be allowed.

"Yes that one along with a few other rules." Anakin pointed out.

"Well let's hear some of them shall we." Mon needed to get this done so that she would be able to prepare for the next senate meeting.

"Ok. So as we all know Alderaan was destroyed," Anakin stated. "But I propose that Leia be the new senator of the new jedi order."

Mon was shocked to hear this, for in any time in history there was either a Jedi or a politician but there weren't both of them as one. "Anakin, you do realise what you are saying is that your daughter would be a Jedi and a politician. In all of history there has never been a thing."

"But that's what I'm trying to say..." Anakin tried to find the words. "...The reason the Galactic Republic fell was because of the Jedi being in the darkness of half of what was happening. That and it was being controlled by the dark lord of the sith."

"I will consider this since there is a lot of work that must be done for the next senate meeting so this will take a while for everything to be in motion." Mothma told him. "But you do have to go Anakin, because there is so much to be done in so little time."

"Thank you for your time chancellor." Anakin told her as he was making his way out the door.

Anakin got back in his speeder and raced back towards the Jedi temple to start training his daughter and other force sensitives. He knew that Vader wasn't foolish enough to attack Coruscant by himself, so he would have to get as much Jedi as possible trained and ready for combat. He would also need the New Republic's army to help out with the cause too.

As he arrived at the temple he got out and ran towards the training room. Right when he was about to open the door he heard voices. He opened the doors a little bit to see his son teaching his daughter to become a Jedi.

He opened the door and went inside and they turned and saw him. "Luke, Leia I haven't seen you two in so long."

"Uh, do we know you?" Leia asked mysteriously.

"Yes, you do." Anakin hoped they would remember him, but not the Vader version. "I'm your father."

"Our father." Luke and Leia said in unison.

Luke was in shock knowing his father was alive especially since he had seen the life drift away from his father on the second Death Star and he had burned his father's body on Endor. As for Leia she felt all the hate in her body rise up until it was like her new blood. Then she didn't have all the control over herself and she said things that should have not been said. "Stay away from me you bastard you!"

Luke and Anakin were both shocked to hear this. "You ruined my life, the life of my husband, my brother and the lives of everyone in the galaxy."

"Leia..." Anakin started. "...That was not me, that was Vader." Know he was sensing that Leia would need to pass all the anger but in order to do that she cannot be force sensitive. I must knock her out and give her a special pill. That will buy me enough time to put her under sedation and allow me to tell her the truth.

"You ruined the life of millions of people around the galaxy." Leia started to say. "I'm going to right that wrong and kill you myself." She activated her lightsaber and started to attack.

With a simple hand gesture Leia went flying to the wall. She wasn't unconscious but that gave Anakin just enough time for him to activate his lightsaber and jumped to Leias' side. Attack and anger are the ways of the dark side; Anakin must make his daughter use defence in order to make sure she didn't fall down the path of the dark side.

Luke had never seen anything like this. It was like his father was a whole army himself. He was so skillful he was sure that Leia would be beaten in just seconds. Even he knew there was only so much that basic lightsaber manoeuvre's can do.

Just like that Anakin had found a week spot and he went for it. With that he destroyed Leia's lightsaber. If the New Republic had a man like that who had experience from the Clone wars and the Galactic civil war they would be unstoppable. Though he wasn't cruel to only think of what he wanted it was his father's choice too.

Just as the lightsaber was cut Leia went flying to the wall and fell unconscious. Just as Luke was about to jump to her side, his father beat him to it. He saw his father put something in Leia's mouth and was satisfied about enough.

"What did you do, to her father?" Luke asked. "I won't let you take her without a fight."

"I have to take her Luke." His father said. "The thing that I put in her mouth was something to stop her from using the force. She was too close to falling to the dark side of the force that's why I did what I did."

Luke tried to look through his feelings and he saw that the man was telling the truth about everything. His sister being so close to falling to the dark side would've destroyed him if he was forced to kill her.

"Where are you taking her?" Luke asked.

"To a hospital." His father told him. "You don't just expect me to leave her out here when I can sedate her and make her try to like me a little more do you."

"Ok then. Let's go already before she wakes up."

The two men ran to Anakin's speeder and they took off a little too fast for Luke's taste. He knew that if Leia were to wake up, her path would be completely sealed on the dark side and nothing would be left of her to save.

"Luke I know you have may question's for me, like for instance how am I alive and why did I do what I did to Leia, but all will be revealed in due time." His father told him.

"Can you start answering some of my questions now?" Luke thought that the faster he knew answers the better.

Anakin told his son, "Sure, you can go ahead and ask some."

"They are the questions you knew that I was going to ask."

"I was hoping that there would be more." Anakin said disappointingly. "There is a great danger in the force so; the late Jedi council assigned me to be the one to come back to the real world to deal with the problem." It was partially the truth but I guess it would have to do for now. "As for your sister, she was starting to turn to the dark side. The rate she was going by the time I would be done with her there would be nothing left of your sister that you know about. You see I was the only Jedi in the galaxy to hold on to the brink of death and destruction by the dark side of the force so when you sensed that in me you tried to get more of the Anakin in me back. That thing should be active for a week, so your sister can hate me all she wants for the rest of the week as she will be no longer force sensitive for the little while."

They had arrived at the hospital to find Anakin carrying attempting to carry her daughter who must have gained a few pounds on that ride, because she felt a lot heavier. Everything went through with a blast and she was sedated so she would be sleeping for a little while which gave Anakin a few more moment's of freedom to not have to go and fight his daughter.

"Don't think I'm done with you just yet father. I want more answers'." Luke told him like a child demanding to open their presents when their birthday comes. "I want to know why you really are here and why you turned to the dark side."

"I was hoping that it wasn't going to come down to this." Anakin told him as he gave out a long sigh. "Vader is back. He and I are now completely different people. And don't even think that you can save him as you did me because he is purely evil. He even erased someone from existence in the force to get a second shot of life."

To this answer Luke was shocked. He had known his father didn't come back from the dead to stroll around the galaxy to see what he had done, but not even Luke thought that it would be this bad. "We have to contact the New Republic Army so that they can be on alert."

"We will in time my son. First we must train more Jedi so that we have a better chance of facing against whatever is left of the Empire. The Jedi might be erased from the galaxy if we do not stop the empire. We don't know where they are, we don't want to do something rash that might be the end." Anakin hoped that this would be enough to convince his son because if he was as stubborn as him this would be a lot of trouble.

"Your right but that still doesn't explain to me why you went down the path of the dark side." Luke told him needing to know answers.

Anakin started going on about how he met his mother. "Your mother was Queen of Naboo and she along with 2 Jedi escorts came to Tatooine because their hyperdrive broke down. Qui-gon Jinn who had been Obi-wan's master went with your mom who was disguised herself as one of the Queen's Handmaidens. They came into the Junk shop where I worked as a slave, and from the moment I saw her I fell in love with her. I even first thought that she was an angel. But then soon it was all up to me to Pod race so that our gambles wouldn't be wasted for nothing. Once I won I was freed even though my mom remained as a slave. I went to become a Jedi. Ten years had passed by and it was like fait but I was assigned to protect your mother from the people who were trying to assonate her. We went to Naboo, to make sure that she would be safer there. But one night I had the worst vision of your grandmother dying and I couldn't ignore it any longer so I went to Tatooine where I met Owen and Beru. By the time I found my mom the sand people did their work and she had died in my arms. I was so angry that I started to kill all the sand people in that village. That was the very start of my path to the dark side. After 3 years of your mother and I being secretly married after I came back from my last mission and she told me that she was pregnant. After that I started having nightmares of your mother dying in childbirth. I was so desperate to find a way to save her I eventually lost myself in the process. Palpatine used this as his advantage and lured me to the dark side. He told me that the only way to save her was through the dark side. My first mission was to wipe out all the Jedi in the Jedi temple then go to Mustafar and kill the separatist leaders. After I saw Obi-wan on your mom's ship I thought that she brought him there to kill me. So we fought but since he was the one who trained me, that gave him his advantage. At the end he cut off my left arm and both of my legs and left me to die as the flames did its work. Now I guess you know the rest of the story."

Luke looked shocked to hear this information. Who knew that Ben would've done something like that to his father. Before when he looked in his father's eyes he saw hate and regret, but now when he looks into his eyes he sees a great man with lots of sadness in him.

"Skywalker's." A droid called out. "Your daughter is awake and is willing to see you."

"Ok thank you." Anakin said as the droid led the way. "Oh well here is where the fun begins Luke. You ready."

"Yes," Luke exclaimed with excitement.

Then they walked in the room to find Leia surprised hoping that it was all a dream.