It happened a lot faster than Master Yoda had envisioned. Two weeks had passed by and Anakin was practicing with Riasara the bout had gone on nearly three hours neither one give one single opening. Anakin was on the defensive for most of the fight, and it was quite obvious that Riasara was holding back. For the last ten minutes it seemed that she had run out of tricks to show him and his energy in the force had been waning until he realized this and his efforts had increased. Both jedi were tired not in a physical sense but more on the lines of the force. The fight ended when they stunned each other in what could be mutual death blows. Riasara congratulated Anakin as they both breathed hard. Yoda giggled when she came up to grab a towel.

"Master Yoda was our fight amusing?" Ria asked.

"Like a game of feline and rodent." Yoda replied. "Amused I was. Skilled you both are." Ria laughed as she dried off. She smiled at Yoda when his look changed and her smile faded. "Changed the force has, hard to see you it has become."

"What do you mean?" Ria asked.

"Time to go the force is saying." Yoda explained. "Gather your people you must. Bring us to the station you will." Ria went into full gear and only took time to replace her lightsabers. They followed her as various members of her team gathered. Nearly four hours passed before everyone was accounted for. Then a pause happened. They had noticed the fading in and out only after Master Yoda had picked up on it and as they waited on their ships, arguments flared up in the pause. Each crew fought on whether they believed what was happening. More so on the trooper ship as Anakin could see Aric fighting with Elara nearly at blows with each other. Then both jedi had to use the force to remain in place as they vanished. Anakin's ears popped and the bay alarms sounded. He picked himself up and went back to the little ship he was working on for most of the time. It had made him very angry that they didn't help him with the ship and it was even more aggravating when they did leave. He was mad that they didn't give him any parts either and he had taken one while they were not watching. That part was now gone just like they were.

"Angry with yourself will not get this ship working." Yoda stated as he climbed in.

"Angry for not believing them yes I know." Anakin replied. "I don't know how I can repair this ship without that part."

"Station full of parts. Find the parts we can. Leave here we shall."

"Doesn't make it any easier." Anakin complained.

"Neither was the decisions that we made during the clone war." Yoda stated. Anakin was tired of going over the war with Yoda. His decisions during that war lead him to supporting Palpatine in his rise to power and the revelation that he could stop the war. That he did, but the cost was great. Not just for the galaxy, but for all the soldiers and jedi warriors involved. Anakin gladly became his apprentice. He learned the dark side of the force and much more. Old holocrons taught him the tactics of Revan and of the Mandelorian Wars. Saul Karath his personal journal taught Anakin the art of total war. It ruined his life, but won the war and started the next. The jedi were split on how the war was handled, so many switched sides as atrocities were committed by Republic forces. Anakin went from a heroic pilot to a jedi to an admiral of the war. His victories were total and no enemy was allowed to live. His last battle with Obi-wan left him scarred nearly dead, but victorious.

The things he did in the name of the Emperor and the hunting of his former friends colleagues and jedi the political executions all in the name of the empire that he, Tarkin and Palpatine built. The loss of his limbs and the damage to his lungs built the monster he became. This drove his wife in to hiding and was the final straw to accepting the dark side. Restoring his body has changed his thoughts the fact that cloning processes helped him regain his humanity made him laugh. Hysterically then it turn sad and he cried. He had hidden it from the others, but not from Master Yoda. He stood by him far longer than the others and if it wasn't for the actions of Kenobi he may have saved him then, but it only locked him into the mask of Vader. Burning that contraption was such a release. Sure Master Perig and Master Yoda helped, but he was right only he could heal himself and to forgive himself. That he had not fully done. This was just another step in the process. Master Yoda sat by and merely waited for him to calm down. His urge to rage out was balanced by his need to center himself. An hour passed before he felt calm and he silently got up and to work. Searching the old station slowly painfully gave up the parts needed to fix the ancient shuttle. Thoughts of his wife haunted him as the shuttle lifted from the deck for the first time in thousands of years.

It groaned and jerked free of the deck almost hitting the ceiling before he got it under control. Master Yoda flew around the small cabin checking for leaks or possible failing parts. If Anakin could have relax he would have burst into laughter. The trip was anything but normal. The hyperdrive was slow and the ship was weak. The Navicomp had to be balanced with what both jedi felt in the force. The path was nearly the end of them more times than they could count.

"That's it ten light hours is as close as we will get to the Koros system." Anakin growled out his frustration.

"Worried that we will not make it you are?" Master Yoda asked.

"No just worried that we will." Anakin replied. "As Vader I would be instantly believed and able to commandeer any ship I wanted. The right type of ship has to find us and a patrol ship would most likely shoot first and fly away."

"Power you lost, but freedom you gained." Yoda stated. "The force guide them it will." Anakin grinned moments later as a ship came into view. It wasn't very big maybe thirty meters long. The name came slowly to Anakin, Out System Long Range Patrol Craft, or Solpac. The ship would be perfect. Used by planetary defense networks and by the ISB it would serve nicely.

"Unidentified craft you are in violation of BoSS regulations. You are to power down your engines immediately." the voice ordered. Anakin smiled. The comms crackled and sputtered.

"Understood engine power minimum life support failing lost all controls." Anakin replied in a panicked voice. "We are glad to see you. Please help us." He felt their reaction and the force mind trick worked as the craft spun around and minutes later opened the hatch. Anakin smiled at the man as he launched himself through the tube and to their ship. Master Yoda followed and touched the man on the head. He fell unconscious as Anakin reached the cockpit and did the same to the female.

"Taken this craft we have." Yoda stated. "Improvement it barely is." Anakin chuckled the cabin smelled like two very active humans. Being this far out he didn't blame them one bit.

"Normally I would have no problem dumping them out of the air lock and I would do so to simplify things." Anakin stated. "But now I wonder what hope they will have if we dump them in our shuttle? The loss of their craft will sentence them to death and I wonder if the ship can handle the extra load on the life support long enough to dump them on a planet. Our presence here can not be easily explained."

"Live they must survive the trip out we will." Yoda replied. "Hibernate we can." Anakin frowned but remained silent as he worked the controls to take them further in system. The logs gave him a primary excuse to go in for a refuel. The unmanned station was another gift and the perfect place to put them. Master Yoda wiped their minds and put in a false memory of them losing the ship to an engine problem while Anakin planted a modified log on the stations computers. He had hours to think of it and only used the excuse because of the many reports that the crew had in the past. They would wake up in the air lock of the station and report the loss. It may not save them from being executed, but that it could was enough.

Using codes that only he knew Anakin got the hyperdrive updated and proper clearance to get out of the deep core as quickly as possible. The man's uniform fit him well, and that was good enough to pass without ID. As long as they remained on board his ISB codes would bypass any curiosity. At least that is if they hadn't changed in the past ten months. The ship and system refueling stations provided the hole he would have choked many officers to plug. They had no problem making it all the way out of the deep core and passed Coruscant's patrol grid.

"So where do we go now?" Anakin asked. "We have no credits not enough to pay for fuel. This ship will be more trouble than it is worth. I can't even think of a port that will take it off of our hands."

"Hoth a planet I see. The force told me." Yoda replied. "Worry not a way we will find. A old place I know of. Supplies we can use." Anakin rolled his eyes, but listen to where they needed to go. The directions lead to a small system not too far from Coruscant. Barely a few rocks in orbit of a brown star. Anakin swore as he saw the derilict station and whooped in excitement as not only would they have full tanks, but prime rations. He found enough clothing to put together a few needed outfits and finding a case full of jedi robes humbled him. He had been working on a new lightsaber, but lacked the equipment to form a new crystal. What he found gave him enough for not only two blades, but a blade for Master Yoda as well. Yoda smiled and opened up the case and dropped in a green gem. The blade came to life for a second before he put it on his belt.

"You wouldn't have another one would you?" Anakin asked. Yoda just waved his hand while giving him a sad look as a crate burst open and hundreds of crystal fell out.

"Many the clone war took from the order." Yoda explained. "Padawan, knight, master all collected the stones of the fallen. Here they were brought after the temple fell to your forces. Here they remained. Chose them you will."

"I feel the jedi that used these crystals." Anakin replied as he picked up one and then another. Each told a story and gave him a glimpse of the jedi that wielded the blade. Some memories made him smile others made a tear fall to the deck. A few made him gasp as he remembered the jedi. He picked two that felt stronger in the force then the rest. He still needed to assemble the cases, but he had what was needed. The next bonus that Anakin found was ship paint. Light gray and red was dominate with a bit of black or blue. The equipment was there and after fiddling with an old droid the Solpac was no longer imperial gray. The Republic Judicial paint scheme made the craft look different and after a few hours the transponder was ready for a new registration. It really didn't matter if they ran with the ISS code or a blank one. Both would carry a prison sentence or death. Having a blank one would allow it to be changed at any shadow port. Master Yoda picked out certain crates and the items in the crates would provide enough to get them to the Hoth system.