The Chosen Ones Ones And The Path To Truth
Disclaimers: Star-Wars or Stargate SG-1 are not owned by me. The story belongs to me everything else belongs to the George Lucas and MGM studios.
Warnings: If anyone noticed a pattern to the titles, it's that this is matter of his having to explain certain things to the youngest generation. As he uses the titles from the stories as he names off each one in addition to the titles given to his own circumstances as they work out what needs to be changed. And where as this continues, but this next chapter has the young knight stories in reverse.
As this latest chapter reflects that, to him, that Ferus was acting like the night brother that got cleaved in half by Zekk in their present. As he ends up playing the part of Zekk and Ferus is the dead candidate for the title Darkest Knight. But it's two pieces as half is the young Jedi knights and the other half is Obi-wan's rival and the rival's side kick in the Jedi apprentice novels.
With this chapter now it continues with his explanation of Darra's death to the third generation as they prepare to change the past. As Anakin reads the truth to his past when he created his lightsaber then. Seeing their father in a new light, Luke and Leia now see who was truly to blame. regarding the destruction of their family, as they learn who it was that caused Anakin to crash now.
Sorry for the rewrite everyone, I lost this chapter when I was expanding the story, so I'm working at rewriting the chapter. Just before I put it back up and continue making the story bigger, before the Skywalker twins. Han and their friends and family return to their present and the story keeps going now.
Chapter 46: Jedi Quests And Young Jedi Knights VI: Darkest Knights II
"And they think that just because you took a life in self defense, and that you never talk about your capture by Zan Arbor. As well as the fact that you had a prior commitment to Uncle Ben, you made it clear, Ben depended on you in the same way. That you depend on him and they think you turned to the darkside, because you were protecting the girls. And Ben was protecting you?!" Lando said and Luke finished that with a furious growl.
"Reputation based on infamy, you killed this trader to save billions, you were a hero!" Luke snapped and the duo swallowd hard at that. "I know, but the council and the outside world saw me as a hero, to these guys, I was murderer. But not, I am not the one forsaking everything I am to get a chance at early graduation. I followed direct orders and turned them in, I did my job, they turned to the darkside, I saw this."
"They refused to see the truth, they were the ones that crossed the line between Jedi and the darkside, by letting the envy, anger and greed, let alone the lust drive them. The lust to get into the program sooner then this, the envy that everything I had, he wanted. Greed that even though they had everything, they still wanted more, and anger that I abandoned them when I had orders by your godfather." he said and the twins nodded.
"But you were injured you needed a chance to recuperate, but you had to stay by Uncle Ben and with Aunts Soara and Darra, that is not going to the dark side. That's not going to the darkside at all, you made the best choice you could have to turn them in. Said them whoever it was that caused us to lose you, daddy." Leia said and Luke nodded. "She's right dad, you made the choice for the team." he said and Mace crossed his arms.
"The twins are right you made the best decision you could have now, Anakin, this was a test nearly every padawan goes through. We test every student during the choosing ceremonies and your acceleration program. This is and was the senior padawan version to the choosing ceremony, as we determine who deserves to make it to the trials. And who doesn't and you passed our test." he, Damon, Tiana and Adi said together at that.
"So to you this was not a darkside action at all, but a test you set for me and I passed the test, they flunked it and I got off easy by turning them in?" he asked and the quartet nodded sternly to him. "Yes that's exactly right, you more then them were being tested, as you turned them into me and Adi, and Siri immediately, we are your branch. You had to tell us and fast, and you did that." Mace said and he nodded as he looked at him softly.
"But here it is, when I was trapped in the shield trap, I saw two things that made clear they brushed the darkside. That darkside action had their eyes change color for one instant that is not talked about in these books at the moment. Making it sound like I was the bad guy the entire time, but no, not a chance at all I saw two things now. The third was a flash of reddish gold in their eyes as well." he said and the duo paled at that news.
"You never wanted to admit that piece, nor did you ever want them to know that, did you, you gave into the power lust, Ben kept me focused that day. But I notice that of the four of us, who here of us had his, or her, mentor get killed by a Sith. Not just any Sith, but a Night brother, a Zabrakian Nightbrother, from Dathomir. Who here destroyed that same Nightbrother and most of all right now who faced that same Nightbrother."
"When in a force vision when creating their lightsaber at near 13 years old, who here faced off against the darkside, knows every facet of it. And now just admitted that fear, you hate the darkside, because it cost you your Jedi parent, exactly?" he asked and they swallowed hard at that as Darra looked at Qui-Gon and Siri gave him a hug. And he tightened his arms around her in response as Tiana and Adi crossed their arms.
"So again, why am I a traitor, because I love your mentors like brothers and sisters, your Jedi parents like a mother, Damon a father. My Jedi father, a man acting like my father, do you understand, I grew up on the outside, you don't understand, you never did. How could I be expected to say what I really think without you trying to eaves drop. I am a Jedi having a family of my own, but all you know is the code, you don't understand."
"What do you really know of the darkside, you never lost your Jedi parent to evil, you never faced off against, mentally, the Sith that killed your parent. Nor are you the one who has to live with the fact your trials were connected to that same Sithlord. To save yourself, you killed him, so don't say I'm turning, I hate the darkside. It destroyed my family, taking away the first piece, my father." he said sternly and Adi nodded to that.
"There, that had to be said, check your lightsaber, your training one, you made the conversion, you are just like Mace, Siri and me." she said and he turned it on and it glowed with the same tinge that showed on Mace's lightsaber. As she checked his blue eyes as she saw a slight violet glow in his eyes and pressed her forehead to his. Smiling he buried his head into her shoulder as she hugged him tightly at that in response.
"Not reddish gold, his eyes carry a slight amethyst tinge to them finally." she said and Mace and Siri smiled at the news. "All that says is made clear, he hates evil and he hates the darkside, nothing wrong with that, you just got to know how to fight the lures. And we made him strong, you showing him the light at the end of the tunnel. Mace keeping him focused, me, I give him the strength to resist." Siri said and Mace nodded, smiling.
"Reddish gold, they turned in that second?!" Tiana said in shock and he nodded. "Yeah they did, but as a result, they decided screw ending the mission and protecting the team. Capturing them and getting into the acceleration trials was what mattered, you taught me this, but the first duty of a Jedi is a duty to the truth. But to them, duty to the truth be damned, it was now duty to your friends, and they crossed in that one second."
"But 1) was the knowing smirk, that they knew I couldn't intervene when Darra took the shot for them. And 2) and more importantly was a factor that you just saw, as these crystals reflect you on the inside now, they reflect your emotions." he said and Minga gave him Ferus's lightsaber and he summoned Tru's to his hand. Turning on Ferus's, they saw the red lining still on it and the duo paled as he turned it off and gave it to her.
As he turned on Tru's lightsaber and the blue color was now scarlet red in lining and the duo swallowed hard. "So tell me what does this say about you, young man, your color is showing you went to the darkside. During the mission to Korriban, Anakin did his job, but you wanted to turn that around and prove that he was going to darkside. Well there no luck on that, Padawans." Tiana said sternly as she, Adi and Damon crossed their arms.
"Indeed, I would call this that the duo were in denial, they too could turn." Qui-Gon said firmly to that. "Master, or rather Father, once said that he was proud of the way I do things at the time. I give without any thought or reward, but at times we have to do what we must and father, like the council, directed me not to say or do anything. As they exposed themselves in the fact that the dangerous effects of Korriban were starting."
"The remark of connected to Darra's death, which I wasn't, however their choices made it look and sound like I was in the storyline. I tested them in the remarks, 'you were thinking about the mission, we were all thinking about the mission.'. 'You never came to me.'. 'you're trying to trap me, both of you are.', but did you ever consider it. Did you ever consider that a group of Jedi masters know that you too can falter and turn here."
"You are the ones that turned, I went Master guardian, I was under orders, by Siri and the duo not to say or do anything, but with being stuck in a shield trap. I couldn't' have done anything anyway, I know what you were thinking, Obi-wan. But I was under orders, by the council not to say or do anything until they exposed themselves to you. And as I got the duo and Vima for the rest of it, you were in council with Adi, Mace and Master."
"That's the truth Obi-wan." Anakin asked and the duo paled as Obi-wan nodded as that confirmed his thoughts. "I was waiting to hear that, you were a double agent, you went Master Guardian, but I couldn't put my finger on it. But I felt that somehow you were connected to Darra's death at the time that week. But you would have told me if you were, Anakin, and you did now." he said and Adi said it firmly at that remark then.
"He said he sided with you once you heard this Obi-wan, but that was a test in confidence, he was under orders not to tell you. Not responsible for her death, but the ones that were are my cub padawan and Tiana's. And all he had to do was just show up for it." she told him and he nodded in relief he got the truth at that. "But Siri and Ry', they were in on this test, as he turned to our original Padawans at the time that day."
"Mace and I ordered him to not do anything, don't move, he told Siri and she told us, he made the transition finally. But this was a test for them, and all he had to do was show up for it at the time." she told him and they paled as he gave a nod. "He told us in confidence that the lightsaber was broken, as he went to our quartet: M.G.. Before joining you and telling you that it might be broken." Mace added and he nodded to him
"And as for Damon, Vima and Tiana, two members of our training quartet, well I went to them and suggested they watch the conversation while Ben was with Adi and the council. You should've seen the looks on their faces, they were furious, you try to put the blame on me for your choices that day now. You did this to yourselves, all I had to do was just show up for it." Anakin said and the trio nodded sternly as they looked between them.
"He's right, you did this to yourselves, all he had to do was just to show up for it, as you learn even a perfect padawan can falter and you did just that, while killing my daughter." Damon said sternly and they swallowed hard at that. "Anakin told me everything, the threats, the eavesdropping, your hounding him about not telling you. In what goes on his therapy, even talking behind his back, Anakin was never a perfect padawan, Ferus."
"But that makes him perfect, because he isn't perfect, he has attachments, they made him strong, but for a Jedi arriving at the age they are, he is now. But he is a Master Guardian, destined to be the best of us all now, he knows that perfection. It means ignorance, ignorance means arrogance and arrogance is a short leap away from pride. And pride is a sin, it makes him the perfect student, because he is humble in ways."
"That you are not, that makes him the perfect padawan." Adi added sternly and he said it to that. "No that can't be, I am a consular, I was your best student!" Ferus said as he looked at the color in his in shock and Mace nodded. "Operative word there being was, young man, you notice that he is controlling his temper. Not showing hate or anger, his aura is now amethyst purple, demonstrating his statures as a Master guardian."
"He changed, one chance to see his family and friends, before he separates from Padme, and here's the result, he knows the right answers, he knows what we want. And he's deepening an ever deepening bond with us that we never had the chance to build. Because Sidious was standing between us at the time now, he's happy and his inner crystal aura is now amethyst purple, and his future is crystal clear to me and Master."
"Anakin turn yours on, that lightsaber is the duplicate of the one you carried at 19 going on 20, show them the truth." he said and Anakin gripped his original lightsaber at that as he remembered he given Luke. "That is the duplicate of the original?!" Han repeated and he nodded and activated as they saw the crystals had switched colors. And from blue to blue with an ever deepening violet lining on the blade and nodded in stern satisfaction.
"I created it after Dooku got away, but this one lasted the entire 3 years, but my original had a leather handgrip. As I was a teenager, this was the next one up as I got out of lightsaber training, but that did it, I did it!" he said in delighted relief and Mace nodded. "Like in the way of the Sith, they try to get you to lash out in anger, and your father knew this, but he knew you were not ready to kil Sidious, you just unloaded it all."
"The real anger you felt, Sidious killed your friends, your family and now was forcing you to watch the fight between your friends and his armada. Until you couldn't take it anymore in desperation, that's what he does, forces you into a case of desperation. But your father translated the real road to the darkside, fear to desperation. Following it was desperation to anger, anger to hate, hate to suffering." Adi told him and he nodded softly.
At that news as he slumped in exhaustion at the revelation. "Listen to me, he already turned back when he forced you to fight it out. And by unloading all that anger and hate into the fight, you had two choices, turn or renounce it. And by making your choice you passed your trials to being a Jedi knight, but never throw aside your lightsaber, Luke. We knew this for years, they deflect the force lightning he shot at you honey, as such."
"In the new round, you have Vader, your father has Sidious, but just unload your anger and then just as he gets ready to fire. Your father chops his arms off, as he makes it clear, the darkside has lost once again, we're back." she said and he nodded gently then. "You learned the true power of the force, but even that power has got strings attached to it, but that was rite of passage, that was the training you needed to pass your trials."
"But to be a Jedi, bordering on Master guardian is you accept the darkness in your heart and decide to renounce as you look at who you could, shining with the light of the sun. A guardian or giving your darker purple counterpar the strength to resist the evil. The transition is complete, at this age he crossed over from a normal Guardian. To a Master Guardian, Master Guardians outrank you, there is only few in our order now."
"We master guardians control the evil in our hearts, and shine with the light of the sun, are guardians, or are giving our darker purple counterpart. Enough strength to resist the temptation of evil in a planet that carries it now. Now you see that even the best of us can turn if we let our sins drive us, which you did. Your sins were and are envy and anger, and lastly lust, they drove you not to tell us and it gets you expelled now."
"And for you young man, your lust to get into the program wrecked your life." he said to to the duo sternly. "I knew you were proud of me, that you three gave me the strength to fight the evil in my heart, showed me the light at the end of the tunnel. And Siri was helping me fight the evil threatening to take me over on that planet. Pink with amethyst, you gave me that strength to fight back against it, you made me strong, but them now."
"You and Ben made me strong enough to fight back against it." Anakin said and he nodded softly then. "Oh gods, now that the memories are back, the color shades came with it at the moment here. Showing the amount of power lust, jealousy and envy in the duo, but if we said this once, we said this 1,000 times right now. Like our non force sensitive counterparts, we are just as suspectible to the sins as they are, Masters."
"Looks to me that the duo proved they are capable of cold blooded murder to get what they want." Anakin said and the council, duo and Obi-wan nodded in agreement. "Indeed and agree with you I do right now Anakin, one change of seeing your family and friends. And this soon after leaving Tatooine and you change, your aura, crystal clear it is. That good in you, pulsing so hard that your crystal aura, gone amethyst purple it has now."
"Prize pupil of mine you are, no need to change, to save us you do, remember, not industructible or all powerful you are. Mind the gifts you possess and the one that you do not, save us, in the way you did, before change you had. The you we know was better then this, be that man again, my padawan, be that man." Yoda said and and he nodded. "Yes Master, I got the point of your first lesson after the accident on Korriban now."
"But I think we can both say this, if they just come forward, none of this in my children's timeline would ever have happened." he said and Yoda nodded sternly in agreement. "Yes indeed, remember, the broken hearted look on your face, I do that day. As told us you did that stuck in a shield trap and unable to do anything to prevent it. Not your fault it was, Padawan, everything could've done you did, your loss, to me and to Obi-wan now."
"Their fault it was, as realized what desperation was about, tell Luke, show your lightsaber to them, like you showed it to us. We saw the truth, after left the room, that knew that not anything to do with her death, you did. Followed direct orders and close to graduation ceremonies to trials you were. But honestly, worried about you ever since Darra's murder we were, that what meant, we did." he said and Anakin nodded to him.
"Look at what our version of Ben's storyline looks like, you gave me the strength and showing me the light of the tunnel. Just to fight back during the Young and Melida/Daan, look at me, in one shot you prevented a repeater, you saved me. Our bonds, I chose probation, offering my help and asking to get involved in your investigation. Here at the temple, but I understand the dangers in a why he doesn't as a padawan raised here."
"I understand now in why fear is so dangerous." he said and Mace said it. "Why not explain it, Padawan." he said and Anakin nodded. "As fear is a path to the darkside, why, because it leads to desperation, so fear to desperation. Desperation to stress and annoyance, annoyance to anger, anger to hate and hate to. If not controlled in the black out directly to suffering, and as it leaves the victim traumatized at what they did."
"Out of anger, now fear to lose something leads to anger that it happened, anger leads to hate at that which caused it. Hate if not controlled can lead to suffering once the blackout ends, as you see what you have done after it ends. I understand now, you taught me well, but I am never making the same mistakes twice, you are my mentor. You always were, I am not letting go, you win." he said and Yoda nodded gently to him then, smiling.
Moving to him, he gave him a hug and Yoda tightened his arms around him. "Not losing you again, I am, become the best, you will, just be open with us. Starting now be open with us, you should my padawan, we changed the code. So get to see your family in six months you will, and see them every three weeks you will. And promise you that, I do." he said into his ear and Anakin nodded as he pressed his forehead to his gently.
"Everything Annie told me, was because he was depressed to being suicidal by that point and while he was trying to be the rational one. I was getting a bit reckless, this was what you meant at the time Obi-wan, doing something foolish. Direct translation, committing a reckless act, bordering on being suicidal after losing Darra?" Padme asked and they nodded as that cemented the real translation to his rant to her hit him as he said it.
"The overly critical, never listens, feelings of unpredictability, you were scared, because ever since Yaddle I was making progress. And then one choice, said choice has it looking, to you, that I turned suicidely reckless?" he said and the council nodded to him gently. "Yes, that's the reason alright, since Zan Arbor, we saw you making enough progress that we felt you were ready to make the trials now, their choices now destroyed that."
"That, to us, your behavior was bordering on suicidal now, broken heart." Adi and Mace said together and he nodded. "Seeing that when I saw their lightsabers, I knew they crossed the line, let me show you mine when I was that age." he said and he turned it back on as they saw a purple glow on the lining and the twins nodded. "You went Master guardian now, they were becoming Dark Jedi now, the lures of the darkside."
"So instead of turning to the darkside like they thought, your lightsaber was now showing a purplish blue glow to it and their crystals were changing color." Leia said and he nodded to her. "I reached the stage I was supposed to be to become like the trio, my mentors as a master guardian and Siri. Siri was giving me the strength to fight off against the surges of the darkside, they caved in and turned." he said and the New Jedi Order all nodded.
"I was beyond protective of your father guys, in truth to me, the fact he was my adoptive brother now, that we just admitted our feeeling to each other. I knew he needed me to give him the strength to fight the lures of the darkside on this planet. I knew this and I was keeping him focused that entire time now, that his color changed from sky blue. And started giving off a purplish blue glow and I knew he made the transition finally."
"He'd gone Master guardian, fighting off the lures of the darkside in his body and soul, as both sides came together as one and he turned into Mace at that stage. So though he never said a word when Dooku was killed, he turned into Mace completely. Gone right into a mixture of Djem So and Vaapad, bringing him right to the edge. And without crossing it completely." Siri said and the twins and Han nodded to the news gently then.
As the said duo looked down at that. "The planet side effects were getting to them now at the time, I was fighting off the effects, the desire to get more recognition. As the planet is like being around total evil, we came to the Sith planet of origin. So there were many lures to draw you in, to tempt you into making a bad choice, make you brush it. Said it the darkside, till your eyes change color briefly." he said and that did it for them.
'How could he say that, he was the one that was committing a darkside action unless..., oh no. It can't be, he couldn't have been told to stand by and let 'my' lightsaber.' 'Tru's lightsaber' break down and till Darra jumped in front of us, resulting in 'me' 'Ferus' getting expelled. And 'me' 'Tru' getting hold back for eighteen months, it can't be, please, it can't be.' The council heard the duo thinking then as Adi and Tiana looked at them.
"You wanted to blind yourselves to the fact you turned and threw that accusation at him anyway, but too late, when I was looking at his lightsaber after the hearing. I saw his color shift from sky blue to sky blue with a violet tinge in the lining of the lightsaber. Siri, Mace and I saw that he made the transition from Guardian to Master Guardian. But seeing your's and Ferus's we saw red in the lining." Adi said and they paled at that news.
"She's right, Anakin told me everything after she got shot that day, as he was with the four of us telling us what he saw, everything he saw. That we knew you crossed the line between Jedi and Dark Jedi, he was hiding his pain from me. But I knew it, I knew he was so heartbroken at her loss that the color in the lining of his lightsaber. It shifted to dark cherry red, bordering on violet and I knew it, as I checked yours and saw it then."
"Anakin told us he saw your blades showing a red lining on them when he was stuck in that shield trap." Obi-wan said sternly and they paled at that. "He also said he saw the smirk on your faces knowing he could do nothing to prevent it from shorting out. That you knew with him trapped in the shield he could do nothing to prevent it. And he would get blamed for it, as you threw that accusation to me." Damon said sternly to the duo.
"But it was already too late, instead of you turning the story around, he told us what he heard and turned it into us and your own mentors, with Qui-Gon dead, that left me. Me, Adi and Siri, let alone Ry' and Soara at the time and Obi-wan himself that day. It was too late for you but: behavior unbecoming of a Jedi, failure to report a broken lightsaber. lying and implication of a fellow padawan, training interference, threats, eavesdropping."
"You wracked up so many charges young man that you never resigned at all, we expelled you, he did exactly as he was supposed to, you destroyed us." Mace said and Ferus paled at that as Tru swallowed hard as Anakin leaned into Mace's chest. And he hugged him to him as the duo paled at that as they got it. "You understand now you too, if not for this choice our quartet would be intact and the Jedi would still be alive in their present."
"Like I said, you're a basic knight you two, I am a member of the council and turned you into my fellow council members. You crossed the line between being Jedi and becoming dark Jedi, I turned you in for that action at the time. You were not my friends and Darra belonged to me now, she rejected you, and it's to you, if you can't have her. Then no one can, face it, you went to the darkside on us." Anakin said and they paled and he nodded.
"I'm their cub, youngest of the council now in their eyes and to them and Ben, I did my job, but thanks to you, they lost me as every memory broke down the front door. And Vader knocked me into a coma at the time, that they know I'm either dead or worse. Why do you suppose Ben went looking for you at the time, he was ready to confront you, that your choices destroyed our entire family." he said and Ferus paled at that news.
"The Skywalker/Lars/Naberrie/Solo/Calrissian clan." Damon said and Anakin nodded as the older man crossed his arms and the duo paled. "You Master?" Tru asked shaking and he nodded. "My grandson is an adopted family member to the Skywalker/Solo family as a result, I was the first member of the family to join them. When I met Anakin, but you destroyed our lives: mine, his and Obi-wan's." Damon said sternly and at that remark.
"Our family, he was supposed to be the godfather to my children, Padme's brother-in-law and most of all, adoptive member to my family: The Skywalker/Lars clan. But thanks to you, and Sidious, Dooku, he loses everything as Vader knocks me into a coma. And Sidious kill Padme, to give life to Vader, he lost everything, Master lost everything. And they and Bail are left picking up the pieces." he said and the duo swallowed at that.
And Yoda nodded sternly. "Aside from that, did you ever consider that they, or TD-18 was listening to the conversation, that was also a test for you. That though supposedly resigned you still try to act all noble by starting another fight. TD was tape recording the entire conversation between us three, and the council, Miro and your parental mentors. Well they heard everything and I mean everything." he added and Ferus paled at that.
"He's right, Anakin set you up, you consider that we knew all along you two were the ones responsible for our top Jedi knight turning on us?" Adi and Tiana asked sternly and they paled at that. "I terminated your connection to my team, because of this one action alone, but you knew damn well that what you did was highly discouraged by the code." Tiana said sternly and Mace nodded in agreement as he said it to him sternly at that
"She's right and it was too late young man, Anakin told me everything and we said for you to expose yourselves in your lies as we knew you would be tempted. Now, to lie that your lightsaber was ready for use and it wasn't, and now that he said that. You are the culprits and we meant what we said now, your choosing for being a Padawan. This is after he and Siri get back, and you're held back from graduation till the purge."
"But it was, you two, it was a test for you, we gave specific orders for him to not say anything until you exposed yourselves, you really think we didn't know?" Mace said crossing his arms and they paled at that. "With us having our memories back, Anakin has only 18 months to get his powers rebooted and then I am taking him as my padawan. When he's 11 1/2 as well." Obi-wan said and Yoda nodded sternly as they paled at that.
"I'd rather have you training him now rather then later, but he's your cub Obi-wan, like you would be mine, if I raised you from this age to your current age now. Though now that your memories are back, no use fighting this now, Anakin is your student. Your cub, so one option left to make as I got less then two weeks left to finish your training, boys." Qui-Gon said and Obi-wan nodded in agreement as he looked between the council.
"Four years sooner then normal, I want to raise my brother until we get Dex up here, so 18 months and then I take him as my padawan after that. As Daniel and the team teach us a few things in dealing with the war that are going to useful at the moment. But Anakin, Lana, Daniel and I need this time together Master, so we can be our own team. I'll take him through basic training myself, before we do your's, Master Adi, Mace."
"Until Siri's mission, regarding Krayne, but for starting now, like I said, I want this, he never had to say the words. No promises made this time, this time I accept this willingly, and he is my padawan, I get my brother back. And we change the basic training regime as we do this together at the moment, the training lightsabers on full power. We can practice as Qui-Gon sees us in action together as our forms are completely matched."
"I'll train him myself this time, he is my brother, I'll train him, but we are two sides of the same warrior now and we both know this, brothers and the best of friends." he said and the council nodded. "That's fine, before we do the real testing, we got to have it acting as though he's pretending to be Dex. Before you take him with you and start lightsaber training, again, Obi-wan." Mace said and Adi nodded in agreement as Yoda said it gently.
"Done and agree with you I do, once 18 months are completed, start younger then just turn 12 Anakin, your student he is and stay that way. And until Yaddle, clone is killed and Dex, takes his place as your padawan he does, Obi-wan. But youngest of my council you two are that losing my very youngest twice, I will not now. But the only two to blame for destruction of your padawan is Ferus and Tru." he said and he and Padme nodded firmly.
"It was them, to change him from the boy I know, to the way he was, before mom was killed by the raiders?" she repeated and they nodded and she, Mon, and Bail nodded in disgusted shock at that news. "Mon, Bail, we lead the alliance ourselves and we prepare to bury the seeds of underlying rebellion. We know now what caused my husband to turn into Vader, but not for power lust: he was searching for a way to save me at the time."
"Anakin told me that the Jedi turned on him, but the question of the who was something I never understood, Ben, Master. And until now finally, this was something we never talked about, he is my husband, but you are my acting big brother. You couldn't remember what the catalyst it was that started it, though now that we get it all back. You remember who it was and it was these two, the Padawan jealous of my husband."
"And the other is jealous that you have the part, both, that he wanted, it was them?" she said and Obi-wan nodded to her. "Blast it, so it was you, you are the duo that destroyed my husband now, so it was you now. But you committed the very same act that his alter ego did after Sidious killed Master Windu. You weighed your friendship and the safety of the team against graduating early, you did the same thing that Vader did now."
"You weighed your friendship with the duo, and the safety of the team against graduation and to you it was no contest, you killed us all and all for what. A chance to graduate early, if he told me what happened I'd have you tried and convicted. Is it any wonder that the first to die as he knew that you were still here at the temple, is he killed you first, Tru?" Padme said with a firm growl and he paled at that as the quartet nodded in shock.
"Lando." "Luke" Damon and Anakin said and the duo moved to them and Damon unlocked a mental door in his memories as he pressed his forehead to his grandson's. While Anakin opened up the memory of the conversation for Luke and he saw everything and Lando pulled back as he saw everything his grandfather remembered. "Uncle Anakin is telling us the truth Leia, Han, it's all true." he said as they nodded as he said it slowly.
"They weighed their friendship with you and Darra and the safety of the team against the chance to graduate early and arrest the trio. And to them it was no contest, that's what destroyed you, they killed your best friend and the one here at the temple. He dies by Vader's hand and you spend ten years looking for Ferus at the time so you can make him pay for it?!" Lando said in shock and the duo and their mentors nodded sternly to him.
"They never, ever considered long term consequences for their actions, whatsoever twins. But look at me, do I look dangerous right now. Adult memories in my near ten year old body, but my powers have not matched their's, not yet. And I'm surrounded by highly skilled Jedi masters and knights, and all friends in the council. My council now was the sextet, Plo, Saesee, Agen and Shaak Tii now?" he asked and she shook her head to that.
"Stass, were you offworld when the order went through?" Mon asked and she nodded. "I was, but the only ones here were Anakin, Mace, Kit, Agen, Saesee and Shaak Tii. As a half the council was in the field, the others were here, including Anakin himself now. So as a result, we made a fatal error that night, but by acting, before telling you the truth. In what the force happened here that week." she said and the trio nodded to her gently.
"I knew we should have waited for them to get back, or at the very least allowed you to head for the restricted section of the archives." Shaak Tii said to Anakin and he nodded. "Added fatal errors and we know where we screwed up, Master, but I was the youngest of the twelve of us with Ben just behind me, as the rest of you were in your 50's and 60's. And Master himself was 876." he said and she nodded in agreement to that gently.
"Well not making the same mistakes twice, we can just add the restricted section of the archives and the holocron studies to your training regime." Mace told him and he nodded. "No with you not that strong, yet, you're harmless, and even the council could best you. And even before you could raise that lightsaber dad, but come on now. So tell us the true reason they tried this, you would never do something that bloodthirsty whatsoever."
"After getting into this conversation we see you in the way, finally, that we always wanted to know you and mom now, dad. You would never, ever risk the entire team to prove he's not the perfect Jedi, not at the expense of the team. If this is the real you, then this is the you we want back, we want our family in one piece." Leia said and he squeezed her hand as he explained it to her then as Jaina, Han and Solo moved to them as well.
"A few months later, like ten months later, this resulted in me changing from the me you see now. And into slowly becoming Vader, as this was my first true brush with the darkside, and it all started with this story." he said and passed her book ten of his series then as she looked at him collapsed on the floor with Obi-wan standing in front of him. "What happened to cause you to change?" Luke asked him as he crouched next to him.
As Leia did the same and he looked between them as the duo paled, knowing they were going to get it by the twins generation then as he said it. "Like Ben told you, for over 1,000 years have the Jedi served in the old republic. But now that the Sith revealed themselves to us, the traditions became more vital in our lives now. Your godfather bent that tradition once and it made him more respectful to the code ever since now."
"But the thing of it was that the code was more guidelines then rules at the time, at times a Master could train a second apprentice which is what father is doing for me now. Though he is training Ben still at the moment, but these last two weeks and the following two weeks changed things as a result. As a Jedi there were traditions dating back centures, one was your first duty as a Jedi, which was being at your mentor's side."
"But that's when I let go of the past, releasing my emotions over my powers and my resentment at the duo for treating me like this, I was making progress. At the time, I was a promising young padawan, making my way into the world of being a Jedi, I had it all, friends. A family, and most of all, most importantly, being the one that they knew. Would do the right thing, even at the cost of my friendship with the rest of the team."
"The council and Ben knew I brought my honesty with me, but that day, after our confrontation with Omega. It was after the battle, said battle doing damage to a lightsaber as I was working on my studies of lightsaber lore. I was coming to talk to the guys to explain my orders, given to me by Ben, as he told me to stay with him. Though I wanted to go after Omega, I had a duty to Obi-wan, which is the thing on teams."
"In our present, but this is tradition that dated back centuries and every Padawan's duty, you want to insure a very strong bond, get to know whoever is looking at you. Know everything about them, their past, likes, dislikes just be open with them. And secondly and most important, once you become a team with your master. Your first duty is to them, and they to you, as the younger of the two, they have a duty to protect you."
"And you have a duty to them, but the most important thing of a good bond is absolute trust, you never lie as it's not the Jedi way. We never lie, make threats, or eavesdrop, for that is not the Jedi way, but a certain someone. He did all three in the course of six years now, but reason being is he was jealous, everything I had he wanted." he said and Ferus flinched and her eyes narrowed at that response as Luke said it for her him gently.
"Aside from your title, what did he want dad?" Luke asked crossing his arms. "He wanted your Godfather as his mentor, the attention of the Jedi council, but most of all. Most of all is he wanted Darra, but after his making that threat to me, she made her choice. And that choice was not him, it was me, as everything he wanted, I had already. But from the second that Zan Arbor got her hands in me things changed now, finally, here."
"Releasing my fears, my resentment to your godfather and the council, we came up with a new training regime for me. As I was in counseling with the council, studying lightsaber lore, and doing Jedi lore, my favorite story in Jedi lore. Or rather stories, were the ones that Tionne told your twins, baby, when before and after Zekk and Kyp got hit. Truthfully I got the most out of these stories, because I was a Jedi guardian now."
"So though your godfather was my mentor, Siri was my instructor on the powers of being a Master guardian and with her was Master Windu and Mother now. For years since I was released from slavery I decided to keep that up as a result. And as a result, my loyalty was to them, our bonds and with it my loyalty to your godfather. Though I had a job to do, my first duty was staying at your godfather's side, but he knew we had to wait."
"I just got hit hard enough, or rather Palpatine telekinetically threw me into the wall hard enough, I had a concussion and with it. And after three months of hunting these guys down, my system was close to crashing, I had to rest." he said and they nodded. "I take it after dad and Darra got hurt, you and Soara decided to end it now, Uncle Ben?" Luke asked and he nodded. "We did." Obi-wan and Soara said together and he nodded.
"Darra and I were with Annie and Obi-wan during this mission, before the council sent the quartet, after she got hurt. Annie also got thrown into the wall hard enough to get a concussion, but during that, these guys were resenting the fact he abandoned them. But he had orders by us to stay with us and Darra, as that ended it. And we checked them over, before he and I decided to pull back." Soara said and Obi-wan finished that firmly.
"Though we wanted to keep going, with your father and Darra injured the mission was cancelled as we decided to give it more time. Your father was running a fever and to me, we both knew he wasn't up to keep going. And he told me this directly, so we regrouped at our ship and to decide our next move. Before he came to me with an even bigger reason we had to call it off as he told me a truth." he said, crossing his arms then firmly.
"That our first duty, as Jedi is to our mentor and vice versa, the knight or master's first duty was to their apprentice. I just took a hit to the head hard enough I had a second degree concussion, but after getting that blow taken to the head. Obi-wan called off going after him and I followed orders as we regrouped at our ship now. Obi-wan, telling me to rest I nodded, I knew I had to rest to recover from it, but first now."
"First I had to tell the duo the truth, Obi-wan explained this to her, that he would have ordered them to stay with us. But he didn't have the time, as I confirmed that and that patched things between her and me up immediately. Just before I decided to tell this to the duo as well, I knew they were sulking in the cargobay so I headed there. As I got ready to explain just why I wasn't helping them deal with the droids there."
"But I was given orders by Obi-wan and their mentors to stay with mine, but just as I get to the door of the cargo bay. I hear a conversation that said lightsaber was possibly more then damaged, but needed to be replaced. As the only apprentice that studied Jedi lore, I carried the manual with me of how to build them. Listening carefully to the conversation, I heard the hum of said lightsaber escalating one minute and slowing down the next."
"In the second of hearing the hum speeding up and slowing down every few seconds, I knew that we had to end the mission. As the sounds enamating from it told me that it wasn't the flux aperture or the power cell. But more likely and this is the dangerous part that the crystal itself had been cracked now. Had that happened the crystal needed to be replaced immediately, before you recharge the blasted thing and with it now."
"You had to check the flux aperture just to make sure that the repairs would hold up right now as a result. Normally at the time the students came to me to repair their lightsabers as a result of this, my fellow padawans, that's my clan here. And with them the next age group down, my padawan, came to me for help as I determined what was wrong fixed it. But that particular day I was trying to figure out why they never came to me."
"But hearing this conversation, I hear several things, not the least of which is, now that to him, the shot at capturing Omega, is a chance he didn't want to give up and secondly. Is the fact he wanted a shot at the acceleration program that the council was considering, but then I hear a question. Why didn't he come to me, answer, I am with your godfather, before the true meaning to that hits me." he said and Luke crossed his arms at that.
And looking between the duo, Leia said it for both of them at that news. "What were they afraid of if he said that?" She asked and Anakin crossed his arms then as he looked at the duo who paled at the memory of that. "My mentor, your godfather, was mated to the one member of the team that was connected to the council. So I tell him, them and they tell his parental mentor who tells Tru's parental mentor and it goes right to the council."
"So though I'm good, I don't get cocky enough to say it's ready to be in use, before a secondary check here now. When as a Jedi, though I tended to get in trouble at times, and though I started later then I should have now. I was a very good and powerful Jedi and the council knew how good I was, but to them. They knew loyalty was what mattered most to me here, and my loyalty was to them, the quartet, your grandparents."
"Aunts and uncles, even your mother and my own padawan, I trusted them and they me. But to them, the senate, your mother, grandparents, aunt and uncle and most of all to your godparents now, as a result now, this was a test of loyalty at the time. My loyalty to your godfather was beyond question, I loved your godfather with everything in me. He was my brother, best friend and the closest thing to a father I could ever have now."
"But I was also closest to your godmother, and in therein, her own mentor, they both shared a bond with me. One Ferus did not understand, not at all, but that connection is because they, Siri and Adi. They, Obi-wan and Qui-Gon were their own team, I was part of that legacy now finally in my own right. Because of this book, my mission, regarding Krayne, in this one." he said passing the pilot episode of his book series to his children.
And as they saw him aging from his current age and into his young adult self and they nodded. "So this is what brought your teams together as one, not this one, but the books that involved your teams and added you to it, but instead of 4 there were 5, dad. You, and Masters Qui-Gon and Adi, as well as Uncle Ben and Aunt Siri, it was these?" Luke asked and he nodded, as he explained the truth to them as he looked between the twins.
"Wait Anakin, why don't we look at the evidence here between you, you are me, when in the real world for a few months, he's me after returning to the temple. You already proved it, you don't want to be taken back, but to given probation. Following that is you asked permission by us and the council to get involved and offered your help to us. And finally, you decided to wait for us to and then gave a very good idea that protected us."
"From an injury here where the younglings were concerned, instead of defying us you told them to give you an hour and came to talk to us. Before agreeing to the issue of destroying the deflection towers, you never wanted to leave us as this was, to you. The same as when you left your old life behind now, you knew now, to me. That to you, you know your place is at my side, like a true Jedi would be, your place is at my side."
"I never doubted your conviction to me it was always absolute at the time, my trust, our bond was always beyond question. Nothing got between us and nothing ever would, your place was by my side, you committed to our bonds as a team, I did the same. But he is demonstrating every act I did when, I after two missions, quit to join the revolution." he said and Ferus paled as he realized what he meant and his heart shattered at that.
"Obi-wan please." he said desperately and he shook his head sternly. "No, what you did is beyond cruel, what about the near riot you started at the time." he asked and Ferus paled. "Ahh yes indeed I remember that perfectly, were it not for Little Annie Skywalker and his fast thinking now. Then it could have turned into a bloodbath, cub Jedi, what in Mustafar were you thinking here?!" Loren Hawbeck said sternly at the reminder then.