Chapter 53: A Reunion

Anakin was in the training room, helping Luke with his lightsaber techniques. "Dad, when am I going to get a lightsaber of my own?" he asked anxiously. Anakin chuckled lightly at his son.

"Soon," he assured him, touching his head, "remember patience."

"Dad you're not patient," Luke answered.

"Do as I say not as I do," Anakin insisted as they left the room.

Leia walked up to her father and brother with a serious expression on her face. "What's going on princess?" Anakin asked, resting his hand on his daughter's shoulder.

"Dad, mom needs to talk to you," she informed her father, looking up at him.

"Alright, you two just stay out of trouble alright? Don't bug Threepio too much? The poor droid's already losing a lot of his circuits," Anakin commented as he walked into the direction his wife was.

"We promise," the twins said in unison.

Smiling, he went down the hall to see what his wife needed.

Walking into Command Central, he saw Padmé standing in front of the many maps in the room. "What is it Angel?" he asked, kissing her cheek. Padmé sighed as she stared quizzically at one of the planets.

"We have seemed to have lost contact from our Training Command Center here on Cularin," she told him, pointing to the planet.

Anakin stared at the planet, crossing his arms over his chest. "Not one word from any of them?" he asked.

"Not for a few days," she replied.

"I don't like this, we need to get everyone together and find out what's going on and why they haven't contacted us," Anakin told her.

Nodding, Padmé followed her husband out of the room to gather everyone.

When they arrived on Cularin, Anakin looked around as he walked down the platform. "Everyone just keep your eyes open, I sense the Empire," he told them.

"I sense it as well," Obi-Wan answered.

Han drew his blaster from it's holster and looked around as they got off the ship. "Which way to your enclave?" Han asked.

"This way," Anakin replied.

Padmé pulled out her own blaster as they went toward the enclave.

Pulling out his lightsaber, Anakin sliced through several branches until they saw their destination. Except, what they saw made them freeze in their places. "No!" Anakin exclaimed when he noticed all the bodies littered across the ground. Anakin ran to each individual person, but none of them had pulses. "NO!" he exclaimed again before running toward the Enclave. He started banging on the doors before he put in the security code and ran inside. "Hello?" he called.

Anakin kept his lightsaber raised as he walked along the dark halls when he heard a little noise underground. He let out a couple of different toned whistles, which he got a response. Feeling relieved, he ran over to one of the trap doors and put in the code, the doors lifting open. "Are you all alright?" he asked the Sentinels that were in their hiding area if they were ever attacked.

"They ambushed us," one young man replied.

"It's alright, come on, I'm getting you out of here. Hand me the children first," Anakin instructed.

One by one, the children were passed up and they were hurried out of the building. "Hey Justice, not everybody is gonna fit on the Falcon," Han told him.

"We need to make room then Han, we're not leaving them here," Anakin answered.

Han nodded as he grabbed one child and hurried out of the Enclave. "Come on Chewie!" he called to the Wookie. The two of them ran out of the enclave, but then they stopped when blaster shots were fired at them. Chewie ran in front of his friend, firing back at them while Han took out his blaster, firing back at the troopers.

Back inside, Anakin grabbed another child and lifted them up. "Justice we're being ambushed," Obi-Wan told him.

"Of course we are," Anakin muttered.

He started pulling the children up faster. "Go children, go, go," he told them as someone would lead them out of the enclave. Once all the children were gone, he pulled out his lightsaber as the adults would get out of their hiding place. "Remember what we taught you," he told them as they ignited their own lightsabers.

"Go!" Obi-Wan called out as they all ran out of the building.

Anakin looked over at the Falcon to see Han and Chewie fighting off troopers. "Solo! Get them out of here," he ordered the young man.

"You out of your mind? Leave you guys here?" Han asked.

"Just do it!" Anakin ordered.

Chewie let out a few grunts and growls before he followed Han onto the ship. "What are we going to do?" One Sentinel asked.

"We take back our own Enclave," Anakin replied, looking at the bodies that had scattered the ground, "remember your brothers' and sisters' sacrifices. We will fight so their deaths won't be in vain!"

Anakin reached into his belt and activated his saber boomerang, throwing it at the Stormtroopers charging at them. "Separate!" Anakin called out, "scatter!" Everyone scattered, each going into their own part of the Cularinian jungle.

Going down his own path, Anakin jumped up from the ground, kicking off one tree, then another before he grabbed a branch to a third tree and threw himself up high into the tree. "He was here," a Stormtrooper informed as they searched for Anakin's trail.

"Impossible for him to have his own cloaking device," the commander of the group told his second irritably.

Grinning behind his mask, Anakin held up his double-sided bladed, gripping the branch he was standing on. "Did you hear that?" one trooper asked. Anakin swung down and his lightsaber slashed through the trooper's middle.

"Blast him!" the commander ordered.

Easily blocking their attacks, Anakin saw one Stormtrooper holding up a flamethrower. "Blast it all to Sith Hell," he muttered under his breath as he leaped up in the air into a backflip as the Stormtrooper aimed the flames at him. Putting his deactivated weapon back into his belt, Anakin landed back on his feet and held his hands up. A blue shield appeared in front of him and the flames bounced off the shield going right back at the gunman, destroying him.

Flying back, Anakin hit the ground. Leaping back up onto his feet, Anakin reached out into the Force, throwing a Stormtrooper into his comrades before he continued running down his path, reigniting his lightsaber.

Padmé hid behind a tree with her blaster hanging by her side. She had lost the group of Stormtroopers who had been chasing her. Breathing heavily, she pressed her hand against her forehead as she was trying to catch her breath. As she went to go down the trail, she felt someone grabbing her arm. She reached out, moving to punch her attacker when they grabbed her other arm. "Padmé stop! You'll break your hand if you try punching me," her husband told her as he pinned her arms to her sides.

Feeling relieved, she reached up and wrapped her arms tightly around Anakin's waist. Anakin hugged her back, wrapping his arms around her back. "Are you alright?" he asked.

"Yes, what about you?" she asked.

"Just another day at work," he replied, smiling behind his mask.

Padmé laughed when a blaster shot flew right by them. "Well break's over," he commented as he held her hand and the two of them ran down the trail.

They arrived in a clearing, but then stopped when Obi-Wan and Bastila ran in their direction. "Blast we're surrounded," Obi-Wan muttered as he held up his lightsaber. Anakin pulled Padmé behind him as the Stormtroopers surrounded them.

"Any ideas?" Anakin asked Bastila.

"Too many for my ideas," she replied.

"Force Storm?" Anakin suggested.

"I was just thinking that my old apprentice," she answered smiling.

Anakin smiled as he clipped his lightsaber back onto his belt. The three of them held up their hands and a Force Storm began to form. Padmé watched as Stormtroopers were dropping from the Force lightning crashing at them. As she was aiming more lightning, Bastila suddenly felt like someone had just thrown fire into her middle.

Suddenly feeling the power of their Force Storm dissipate, both Anakin and Obi-Wan looked at Bastila as she collapsed from a blaster shot into her side. "BASTILA!" Obi-Wan shouted, grabbing hiss wife before she hit the ground. She gasped, gripping her husband's arm from all the pain.

"I'm getting too old for this," she commented, making him smile a little and rest his forehead against hers.

Anakin grabbed his lightsaber and began fighting off the Stormtroopers with Padmé beside him. Anakin ducked as a blaster fire was aimed at his head. "It seems like as soon as we destroy several dozen, a hundred more come," he commented to Bastila.

"The Emperor has been keeping busy," Bastila answered, fighting to stay conscious.

Grabbing Padmé's arm, he pulled her over his back. With her blaster raised, she fired several shots before she took out her own vibroblade, stabbing another Stormtrooper in the stomach.

Anakin did a back flip into the air, a few blasts hitting his armor as he went. Landing on his feet, he took his double-sided lightsaber, slicing off a few of their arms. The Stormtroopers collapsed, screaming in pain, but once more Anakin was surrounded by more of his enemies. "Force this is harder than I thought," he muttered.

Just as a Stormtrooper aimed for his back, a blast could be heard and someone landed behind Anakin. "Well the infamous Justice is surrounded and defeated? Never thought I'd see the day," a voice quipped from behind. Anakin turned around with wide eyes.

"Annalie?" he asked shocked.

With a grin, his twin took her newly built lightsaber, defeating a few opponents. Her hair was no longer down around her waist, it was cut up to her chin with a few feathers clipped into her hair. She had on brown boots, brown pants, a tan shirt that showed off her midriff, and she had some paint by her eyes, her wrists, and arms. Around her forearms she had some cuffs that had black designs stitched into them, the designs were in the shape of a type of bird.

The woman grinned as she gripped her brother's arm. "How about a double team?" she asked.

"Read my mind," he replied.

Gripping her hand, he swung around while she jumped up and kicked a dozen clones that had them surrounded. When she dropped down to the ground, she rolled out of the way from a Force Pike aimed at her head. Holding up her hand, the clone was thrown backwards. Reaching up to the Force, Anakin watched as a bow flew into her hand along with several arrows. "Annie…" he started.

Instead of explaining, she took her weapon and fired several arrows, all them hitting their target. However, as soon as the arrows touched their bodies, the Stormtroopers would scream as lightening erupted from them.

Impressed with his sister's weapon, Anakin began fighting his own Stormtroopers, defeating them all. Soon, the army retreated and Padmé got up with her husband's help. "Are you alright?" he asked.

"I'm fine," she assured him smiling.

Looking over, Padmé gasped when she saw Annalie. "Annalie!" she gasped. Hurrying over, she embraced her. Annalie hugged her back with a smile. Bastila looked down at her own injury, closing her eyes tight as Obi-Wan began to use the Force healing on her side.

Annalie smiled at her brother, hugging him tight. Anakin hugged her back with a smile, lifting her up off the ground. "Thank the Maker you alright," he murmured as he set her down, "where have you been?"

"Finding myself, as I told you," she replied.

Anakin smiled as he kissed the side of her head. Obi-Wan helped his wife back up off the ground. "You alright?" he asked.

"Yes," she assured him smiling as he checked her side.

Annalie smiled, letting out a deep breath. "Better call your ship, we have to go before they come back," she told them. Nodding, Anakin got a hold of Han and he showed up with the ship. Once they gathered the rest of their Sentinels, the boarded the ship and went back to Mustafar.