Location: Dagobah

73 days after Order 66

Anakin Skywalker carefully walked through the swamps of the planet Dagobah. Padmé wouldn't tell him what was so important that he would have to find on this backwater planet.

However, the Force was very powerful on this planet, but he couldn't pinpoint the source. R2-D2 was with him, and for some reason, the little droid knew more about where they should go than he did.

"R2, what is so important that you and Padmé can't tell me what I'm looking for on this planet?"

His response didn't make Anakin any happier. As they walked, he looked up ahead and he could barely see a column of smoke rising into the air, and so he continued. As they walked, Anakin turned around to R2.

"Who, or what, would live in this slimy mud hole?"

"Slimy? Mud hole? My home this is."

Anakin wheeled, his lightsaber in his hand and activated. However, when he saw who it was, he deactivated the blade and, returning the hilt to his belt, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Master Yoda! I'm so happy to see you."

"Sensed your presence, I did young Skywalker. Though, surprised I am to see you, especially after young Obi-Wan's report on the events of Mustafar."

"It's a long story Master Yoda."

"Come with me, young Anakin, and time we will make, to hear your story."

Anakin and R2 followed Yoda to the source of the smoke Anakin had seen minutes earlier.

He had to duck low to enter the small adobe hut, and once Yoda had made them both a bowl of his weird stew, Anakin told him the tale of how he had been captured and cloned by Palpatine, the clone being made with technology far more advanced than that on Kamino. When he finished, Yoda stood and paced across the floor, deep in thought.

"Master, the Jedi need you. Master Windu and Obi-Wan have rebuilt the Jedi Order and we are gathered on Dantooine. The council have voted Master Windu temporary Jedi Grand Master, but we really need you Master Yoda. Darth Sidious will one day find us on Dantooine, and we'll need you to defeat him."

"Fought Sidious I did, in the main chamber of the Senate building. Too strong for me to defeat, he was. As we fought, realized something I did."

"Master?"

"Allowed the Jedi to become bloated and dead, I did. While the Sith changed and adapted, evolved, I trained our Order to fight the last war with the Sith."

"Master, this is our second chance. There is time for you to rebuild the Jedi Order and fix the mistakes it has become apparent led to our defeat over two months ago."

Yoda said nothing, but stayed in his world of thought. Anakin could sense the turmoil and conflict inside of the ancient Jedi Master, and Anakin actually felt sorry for him. Yoda was almost 900 years old, and he had the weight of the entire galaxy on his shoulders, and that was when Anakin realized that Yoda might actually be afraid of failing in his duties, Suddenly, Yoda looked at Anakin with a crooked smile.

"Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering."

"Do or do not, there is no try." Anakin echoed, causing the ancient Jedi Master to nod his head.

"Take me to your ship, you will young one, and then to Dantooine, you shall take me, so see I can, this New Jedi Order."

"Yes, master." Anakin said, smiling.

Together, Anakin, Yoda, and R2-D2 walked back to the Naboo skiff, where they found Padmé, Duran, and Portia waiting for them. Once on the small ship, Yoda sat down and began to meditate while Anakin and Duran took the skiff out of the atmosphere and then into hyperspace.

Two days later

The Jedi High Council, minus Anakin, sat assembled in the council chambers. They were discussing the message from Bail Organa about the attack on Alderaan and the proposal of a Rebel Alliance to help fight back against the Empire.

"What we must do is face reality. The Smuggler's Alliance has yet to bring us any healthy Jedi who can assist us in rebuilding the Order, and though a few have found us, we are still too low on trained Jedi Knights to help defend the galaxy from anyone, lest of all the Sith. With that said, what should the Jedi do?"

No one immediately answered, nor did they get the chance to. For as soon as Mace had finished that question, the doors slide open and a voice answered for them.

"No matter how many Jedi we have, it remains; do their duty, the Jedi will. Adapt we must, changed the rules have, and change with them, we must, lest we face the end of the Jedi Order."

And then Yoda walked in, his walking stick clanking on the floor of the council room. Every Jedi in the room, from Mace and Obi-Wan to Shaak Ti and Ki-Adi-Mundi smiled.

"Master Yoda, it is so good to see you alive and well." Mace said as he stood up and bowed to the old master.

"To see all of you alive and well brings warm feelings to my heart. Dark Times do we live in, and extra care, we must all take. Everything we thought of the Sith, been proven wrong, we have, and now, fight back for the fate of our galaxy, we must."

"Master Yoda," Aayla Secura stated. "Do you suggest we actually condone a massive rebellion against the Empire? I thought the Jedi did not want war."

"War, we do not want, but thrown at us and the galaxy, it has been. Now, fight back we must. The creator of peace, war now is."

… … … … … … … To be continued … … … … … … …

Star Wars Jedi Knights Episode III: The Rebel Alliance will be coming up soon…