My Brothers Empire
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Summary: Darth Vader rules the galaxy with his master, Darth Sidious. His brother, Anakin Skywalker, lives with him against his will.
Chapter 9
The meeting of the rebel council was definetly going to be something to remember. Obi-Wan was fuming about the descision that they had reached about Anakin and Ashoka and was more than happy to go to their meeting and scold them. Ashoka swore that she would remember this day until the day she died because this was about as good as it got.
"Master Kenobi, you are alright we trust?" One of the rebel leaders asked sweetly. But Obi-Wan was a Jedi to be reckoned with when there was a point to be got across.
"I am fine." Obi-Wan replied. "But I do have some problems about the way that you view Anakin and Ashoka."
There was a very tense moment of silence.
"We have already reached a descision on the matter." Another of the rebel leaders spoke.
"A majority vote," Obi-Wan corrected. "and you made the wrong choice." Obi-Wan scolded. "You wont allow them to help in any way, when both are more than capable to do any task that you could set them."
"They are here to-"
"Kill the sith and make sure that you can retake the galaxy, right?" Obi-Wan cut across him. "Well that is not what they are here for, and if you dont see that then I can take them away to a place where they will actually be appreciated and not used as tools. Mon Mothma tells me that you came to this descision because you are afraid of their power?"
"That is true." A rebel leader said. "They hold far too much power-"
"The force." Obi-Wan cut across them again. "They can use the force in powerful ways, that is all. But you are right, they do hold great power within themselves, and that is because of the fact that Anakin was born from the force itself." Obi-Wan explained. Silence reigned over the room. "He can use it in ways that many people might never be able to, and he taught Ashoka which made her more powerful. Over the course of five years she became as powerful as she is now, and she is still only a child."
"That is why we are cautious of them. They cannot control their power and-"
"Cant control it?" Obi-Wan said in disbelief. "Have you seen them practising? Day in and day out to make sure that they dont do something wrong and get someone hurt, I know that they both have immense power but they keep it well hidden. You can still let them help you. Anakin is the best pilot I have ever seen, and quite possibly the best in the galaxy, and both of them are the best engineers I have ever known. They could fix something with a piece of string it you asked them too."
"Master Kenobi, they are here for one reason and we can handle without them."
"Oh really? Then you wont mind if we all leave you here then?" Obi-Wan said. "Because without them you are finished, the Jedi order would be gone by now if they did not exist and you would have most certainly been killed on Yavin 4 if they had not shown up when they did and pushed Vader back into space."
"Vader is immobolise by his suit and a quick shot to the-"
"He is not immobolised by his suit." Anakin butted in. "He only wears it because he has a breathing problem and by the end of the week his lungs will be fully healed, and when they are he is going to be ten times as powerful as the emperor."
"If you knew this then why did you not say it before?" Mon Mothma questioned.
"Because you wouldnt let them help you." Obi-Wan answered. "The empire is evil and corrupt and the rebel alliance, it seems, is nothing more than a bunch of cowards who rely on the power of these two and the brains of Senator Organa and Amidala to save them. Neither of you has the right to rule the galaxy and you never will."
"What makes you think that?" Mon Mothma asked.
"If I take Anakin and Ashoka away from you and never return, your alliance will be gone the moment Vader returns to full strength. Now either knock some sense into one another or start runnning because, if you dont, the alliance will be destroyed." Obi-Wan stated. He turned to Anakin and Ashoka. "Follow me." He ordered.
Anakin and Ashoka followed him willingly, leaving behind a roomfull of squabling rebels. Ashoka was happier than she had ever been; Obi-Wan was the best lecturer in the Jedi order to date and he had just put the alliance leaders in their place, but after a lecture usually came something either disasterous or easy.
Ashoka knew that the alliance would never give in to what Obi-Wan had said, nor would they let them leave. But, unknown by them, Anakin and Ashoka had their own plan already; their plan was not easy and seemingly impossible, but it was their only hope if the alliance was going to be like this to them.
Obi-Wan led them back to the hanger that he had crashed in and Ashoka sat back down on Anakin's ship whilst he began making another device for Obi-Wan to use. Obi-Wan simply stood there with his arms crossed looking frustrated.
"Relax, Obi-Wan." Anakin said. "The rebel leaders only came here because they were pushed out of their homes, its no wonder they're spineless."
Obi-Wan sighed. "They arent just spineless, they're stupid. I just hope that Senator Amidala and Senator Organa can talk some sense into them."
"And if they dont, what will we do? You arent really going to be taking us away are you?" Ashoka asked.
"No, I couldnt if I tried. The council used their combined force powers to set me free so that I could find you both and look after you; you arent the most mature of people." Obi-Wan said.
"Us? Not mature? You must have hit your head hard in that crash." Anakin said sarcastically.
"Very funny, Anakin." Obi-Wan replied. "What do you both do around here? There doesnt seem like there is much to do if they wont let you help them."
"So far I've just been making these devices," Anakin gestured to the ones on his and Ashoka's belts. "whilst Ashoka has fallen asleep, done a bit of mediation and spent two hours with me running around the base to keep ourselves warm."
Obi-Wan nodded. "So you get bored easily then?"
"You have no idea." Ashoka replied.
Anakin's head suddenly snapped up and he turned to Obi-Wan. "Hang on, what else did the council ask you to do?"
"Make sure that you are both being safe and that when the time comes you will be able to hold your own against Sidious and Vader."
"And Dooku, and Ventress, and Starkiller." Ashoka added. "Right?"
"Right." Obi-Wan replied. "But you will not be fighting all of them at once."
"No, we'd be dead within five seconds if that happened." Anakin muttered. There was another wooshing sound from the new device that Anakin was working on and he handed it to Obi-Wan. "Just leave it on your belt and let it do the rest."
Obi-Wan took the device from Anakin and looked quite surprised when it actually started to work, which made Ashoka smile. "How did you do this?" Obi-Wan asked.
Anakin shrugged his shoulders. "I made it up." He replied. "Things like this are harder to make if you're following a set of instructions."
Obi-Wan nodded. "What will you be doing now?"
"Well, we could either wait for the council of rebel leaders to decide whether or not we are allowed to help, or we could practise an escape plan." Anakin said, glancing at Ashoka.
"What do you mean by that?" Obi-Wan asked.
"Well, in the toughest of situations there are certain objects that might be lying around, so we figure out how to use them to make a quick get away."
"Why do I get the feeling that this will be extremely dangerous?"
"This isnt a good idea, Anakin." Obi-Wan spoke a few minutes later.
Anakin had got a cannon and rope and set it up so that once the cannon fired, the momentum would carry him, on the rope, upwards and he would land on a thin pole, which did not seem easy to stand on.
"You worry too much." Anakin said, rolling his eyes.
Obi-Wan shook his head. "You're mad."
"Well its a good thing that I am because if I wasnt this would probably never work." Anakin replied, igniting the cannon.
There was a loud blast which made Ashoka and Obi-Wan duck out of reflex and Anakin soared into the air with a yelp as the rope took him up faster than he had thought it would. The rope swung Anakin around and he let go, landing on the pole that he was supposed to.
Obi-Wan looked up at him and frowned, that should not have been possible.
"See, nothing to worry about." Anakin said cockily.
"You know that would never work again in a million years." Obi-Wan said.
"Dont need it to, I've made my point." Anakin replied with a smile.
The rebel council had come to a descision, which was the same as before. They were both simply too powerful, too...god like, to be trusted in any way. But they did not want to recieve another lecture from Master Kenobi, so they were not allowing him or Ashoka or Anakin into another meeting so that they would not have to deal with it.
But what worried them was Kenobi's promise, he would take Anakin and Ashoka far away from the alliance if they did not agree to let them do something. Mon Mothma had not been happy about this and suggested that Master Kenobi was under the influence of the sith and a traitor to the alliance and should be imprisoned; Padme had something to say about that and when troops were sent to retrieve Master Kenobi, Anakin and Ashoka defended him easily.
No troopers were harmed though.
Mon Mothma had suggested that they all be imprisoned but everyone was against the idea, they needed Anakin and Ashoka and so far there was next to no chance that they would cooperate given what had just happened with Master Kenobi.
This was not their only problem.
The Jedi council had given him a mission and they did not know what it was; he had told Anakin and Ashoka but no one else, especially not the alliance leaders.
This was getting far more frustrating than they had first thought it to be; now all they needed to do was free more Jedi from the temple and defeat the empire.
Then Anakin, Ashoka and Obi-Wan could go to hell for all they cared.
Obi-Wan was being very suspicious as he took Ashoka outside for a reason that he would not give; Anakin did not look too keen on the idea of Ashoka even going outside, given the amount of imperial forces that would surely be looking for them, but let her go with Obi-Wan anywhere.
The silence that insued as they were walking outside into the snow of Hoth was torturous; Ashoka did not like silence. On Vader's cruiser there had always been something to talk about or someone talking; in the temple there had been nothing but silence and that was why she despised it, anything that reminded her of the temple was an unwelcome thing.
When they stepped outside, Ashoka did not feel the cold air that was supposed to sweep past her skin and was thankful that the device that Anakin had made worked so well; Ashoka wondered what he had used as a power source for it, she did not know since she had been asleep for five hours. Obi-Wan stopped when they were a ways away from the rebel base, though it was still in view just barely. Ashoka stopped beside him as he turned to face him, his expression completely unreadable, which she did not like.
"Ashoka." He said simply.
"Yes, Master Kenobi?" She asked curiously.
"Anakin, does he treat you well?" He questioned.
Ashoka frowned. "Of course he does, he treats me like his little sister."
"Has he defended you from Vader?" Obi-Wan asked. "Has anyone tried to hurt you whilst you were onboard the Exactor?"
"He has defended me from Vader, and no one tried to hurt me at all, not even Vader." Ashoka replied. "They knew that he would easily be able to kill them if they tried."
Obi-Wan nodded. "And of your training? What has he done about your Jedi training?"
"Well, he took me to Ilum to make my own lightsabers." Ashoka replied. "And he's taught me how to fight and use the force, sometimes he would teach me how about mechanics if we got bored, which was a lot of the time."
"What do you think of him as? A friend or your master?" Obi-Wan questioned.
"Usually I think of him as my friend, but in situations that are dangerous he is more of my master." Ashoka replied.
"What happened, Ashoka? After Vader tried to kill you he erased our memories of what happened. We could only remember that he had tried to kill you and Anakin had saved you and taken you away, thanks to the force, but the council cannot remember anything else. So what happened?"
Ashoka sighed. "How much of from the moment when I first met Anakin and onwards do you want to know?"
"Up until the point where you came to the temple."
"This will take a while to tell, master."
"We have plenty of time."