The Chosen Ones Ones And The Path To Truth
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Chapter 50: Jedi Quests And Young Jedi Knights VII: The Final Showdown II
"Brothers, always now, I don't care what these idiots say, you did the right thing, but like you, I am the very same way. But I never lied to our parents before and to me it was why start now, we lived a simple life. Of peace, happiness and love, until they destroy that by getting her killed that year now, I know you so well right now. But this is the you I know, you didn't do it, you'd never do it." Owen said and Anakin nodded softly to him.
Pulling him into a hug, they went into a three way hug as their parents nodded softly at that. "You see what you have done here you two, if you had just told the truth, told Ry and Siri. The Order would still be alive, and we'd be training his grandchildren ourselves right now." Dane said with a furious growl of disgusted shock at that. "Dane, I think you know what this has done now, between us, brother?" he asked and Dane nodded to that.
As Dane clapped his hand on top of his. "So what if you turned them in, it was to keep the team alive, anyone of us would do the same. Yes we have a duty to each other, our friends, but we have an even bigger duty to the truth. To stay we have to come forward, one of us goes down and we all go down, we shouldn't have lost you this way. But it was their choice that one by one we die, as we lose you." Dane said and Sari nodded to that.
As Corran and Wedon did the same. "Yeah, we are more like your versions of us, from Tatooine now, but these two don't deserve to be friends with you, Annie. This is beyond cold blooded and I never been more disgusted right now, had it not been for them. The Order would still be alive and you would be a Jedi Master, instead of a Sith. I don't give a damn why they did it, it doesn't matter." Tahiri said in total disgust at this news firmly.
And he said it firmly to that remark then. "Yeah I agree with her right now, if it hadn't been for them, you wouldn't have us turned on us at all. So care to tell us what the blazes you were thinking here you two, did you not get the blasted point. He was raised a non force sensitive, he had attachments, he grew up normal. He knows what it's like to love, have attachments, family and true friends, but he hates his powers you two."
"You don't know what love is and I don't think you ever did, at the time, we all did. Because this is beyond cruel and cold blooded you two, we should have expelled you both." Garen snapped and they paled at that remark. "Do you not get the point here, I was raised in love, care and had attachments, they made me strong until your decisions. They started a chain reaction as our training mentor quartet were dying one by one."
"As was our training clan as cubs, I was losing everyone I loved: out of love or friendship, including my padawan now. And by the time Sidious got to me, all I had left was Ben's quartet of friends and 1/3 of the council that raised me at the time now here. Mom was dead, and I was sick of hiding secrets from my mentors, they knew. But my heart was being beaten black and blue, you understand any of this right now, you remember."
"You two, you remember what I was like from 17 to 20 well from 20 to 23, I was battle hardened by that point. And holding a ton of pain in my heart at the loss of who were, in my eyes, my family. My family was dying in the war, one by one, my mother was dead, and I was still suffering the pain from trauma. One I can never get over, Garen, Bant and Reeft, even Minga, they were all I had left of his clan, my older siblings, all of mine."
"That's aside from you two and Lana, were all dead now, by the fight in the arena, I had nothing left now, and even my own padawan. And she had resigned after being framed for something she never did. I had to kill in cold blood for real for the first time, and then I get the news finally. I'm a expecting father, and that is the start of the plans of his final plans for me, I had only days left." Anakin said and Tru swallowed hard at the news.
"Dying?" Tru and Ferus repeated and Anakin nodded. "Let me showing you what I looked like before I ended up in that suit." he said as an image of him appeared, as they saw him close to collapse in the launchpad as the quartet were getting ready to leave. "Anakin?" Kolar started to say as they moved towards him. "No, power drainage, he looks like he's..." Agen started to say as he collapsed and they ran to him at that.
"Anakin!" Mace shouted out as he crouched in front of him at that. "Master, something's happening to me." he said weakly and they nodded. "Blast it, they been on the go for seven months, repeated missions, exhaustion. He looks like he hasn't slept, and in months and now..." Mace started to say and the trio nodded in agreement. "His system crashed finally." Saesee snapped and he nodded to that.
Shaking uncontrollably, Agen pulled him up and leaned him against the wall. "Oh force, Anakin what's wrong?!" Mace said trying to control his voice. "Master, I found him, he and Sidious are one." he said, trying to control his voice. "One?!" Agen repeated and he nodded. "He's been standing in front of us all this time, Palpatine is our Sithmaster." he told him shaking and Agen squeezed the back of his neck to check.
"Our cluebreaker was the day he met me, 'watch my career with great interest.'." he said and their eyes narrowed in fury at the news. "Our dead Zabrak was his apprentice, he was the master, 13 years trying to get the answer. And to that blasted question and we get it now finally, listen to me. If he told that to you, then he wanted you all this time, whatever he said fight it, Anakin."
"Look at me." Kit said quickly and they looked at his bloodshot eyes and nodded as Mace read it out then. As he pressed both hands to both his forehead and the back of his neck and Agen nodded. "If he was stung I could consider that's what this is, but no, the balance in him is disrupted. Check his lightsaber, we got to re-balance it and fast, or that could..." Mace snapped and the trio nodded in agreement to that.
As Agen took it and turned it on, as they saw the blue flickering in purple and red flashes and Mace nodded sternly. "Our Sith just got to his alter ego, the truth is our him is fighting it out with his alter ego, and to make matters worse. Whatever happened up there is connected to this and with it what happened next. Anakin it's okay, we can put you back into balance, fight it." he said softly to him at that.
"Exhaustion, shock, you're burning up." Agen said and they nodded. "I could consider the reason here, and I'm his exact equal is that the outburst the day. When the chancellor appointed him to the council, whatever he told Master. And we did it, was the day that our supposed sting was incubated. But close to two weeks later and those wasps hatched, or second his arm became a tumor."
"It's okay this is over." Mace said as they ended it then."It all started the day we got contacted to rescue the Chancellor after he knocked Obi-wan unconscious. The he being Dooku, I, unknowingly, went into Vaapad and finally disarmed him, literally here. I had him as I slowly went out of it and I was already to arrest him and bring him in. Sidious told me to kill him, as Dooku became the first cold blooded kill for Vader as that did it."
"Vader's taste for blood activated with this and their me, as a council member was beyond guilt ridden, this was neither justified or the Jedi way. After getting us to the ground and I told Bail that until Grievous was arrested this was was never over. Before I went to my wife and she told me she was pregnant, but that night, after we settled in. My premonitions of my supposed death and her dying in child birth started it now."
"I had only days, no more then two weeks left, before he got to me finally, as my premonitions this time. They spelled out my pending turn to the darkside, as Vader was getting stronger every day, before I found Sidious and turned him into the council. But that night spelled out my death at the hands of my alter ego by that point. And the council, they all knew this too, the premonitions, I was dying and they all knew it."
"And just before he gave me the death blow." he said and Obi-wan, Mace and Yoda nodded firmly then. "He was trying to stay strong for us, but in truth, we knew it now, he was close to death as Vader was getting stronger. And every day, until he told me he found Sidious, and it was that Sidious and Palpatine are the same man. But that did it for me, I was ready to kill now, and for everything, every trauma my padawan suffered."
"It was because of Palpatine, and I had to save him, before Sidious destroyed him completely." Mace said and they paled at that remark as the council nodded. "Vader was like a damn cancer destroying the strength of my prize pupil and we all knew this. We were doing everything we could to slow that cancer down, until it hit his mind. The night he turned he was soaked in sweat, he eyes were turning red, it was clear to me."
"If we didn't kill the reason for the cancer, we were going to lose him now, by that point. But Vader took me by surprise and then killed him, as Sidious blasted me out the window." he added and Anakin nodded firmly. "Do you understand just what the blazes you have done here, you two, you started the reason. That Sidious got to him so easily, had it not been for you, he would have stayed strong as we gave him the strength."
"Now to just keep fighting that slowly growing cancer, until we cut that tumor, and out by the roots here, but the one cell that turned into that cancer happens to be Darra!" Shaak Tii snapped at them both as they looked between them in a panic at the remark then. "So that's the truth, in the days leading into our birthday, Vader was this slowly growing cancer." Leia said and they nodded as Han clarified what he, Luke and Leia just heard.
"Even though you were cutting it back, it wasn't working until the added piece that did it, so it was his finding out that Sidious and the Emperor were the same man. As that did it as you saw him close to death, and then the cancer hit his heart and killed him. Just as Vader took your wrist off and Palpatine blasted you out the window." Han said with a furious growl at the news as Obi-wan wiped the tears off his face at the memory.
And nodded as he pulled Padme into his arms and she hugged him tightly. "Not again, I can't lose you guys again, or I'll never survive the heartache, first Father. And then mother, Siri and then both of you, my family destroyed by one decision." he said shaking in grief at the lost of his student and adoptive baby brother. "You are not losing us twice, we swear it Ben." she said pressing her forehead to his and he closed his eyes then.
"Do you even get the point, you caused him to go down a path we can't follow, my husband is my soulmate you fools." Padme said with a furious tone at them. "That's the truth dad, the reason we lost you, it's because of these two, they got Darra killed. If not for them, Omega and Palpatine, you never would have turned. That's the entire truth, in why, if we'd known, it would be us?!" Han asked quickly as the trio looked at him.
"They wrecked our family, so if you survived the electrocution, you could alleviate our fears once our children were born now. You tell us the truth to who it started with and when, and the why." Leia said as the tears started pouring down her face in grief and in anger as she stood up and turned to the duo. "Mom is dead and then we lose Ben and now you, the Darkside destroyed our family and for what exactly, what, jealousy."
"And she's right, you two, she's absolutely right, just what made you think that once we got the truth we'd let it go. You idiots, you destroyed my family, you deserve to get expelled from the temple, now rather then later. Or just go right to jail, I don't care which you're the ones responsible, you destroyed my family. And left us all in fear of a Jedi equally as powerful as my father, you idiots." Leia snapped and Ferus swallowed hard.
"You see what you two have done, you're playing with fire when as young adults and the ones that get burned by that fire, that inferno are us: Han, Leia, Chewie, Lando and me. As well as the alliance, the new Republic, and the new Jedi order, we have to live with the fear of another just as powerful Jedi as we are turning. Or even worse now, my nephews, son or niece!" Luke said with a firm growl at them and they swallowed hard at that.
And as Obi-wan exchanged pained looks of heartbreak with Padme at the remark sadly. "I don't care why they did this, it doesn't matter, if it hadn't been for them we wouldn't have lost either of you. You or Padme, but having to be the one to fight you and give the death blow, it was like I was killing myself as well. But, more then friends or blood brothers, we were two sides of the very same warrior now and kill you, I kill myself."
"But trying to back track the memories to why and when that's something I couldn't remember. But I do now, it started with Darra and one by one, you lost everyone you love, until that concern destroys you. As he buries the seed and it starts growing that month we lose you finally. I shouldn't have left you, we should have expelled them or came back to the temple or..." he started to say and Mace quickly said it to him
And at that remark as he looked at him gently. "Stop, stop, we can't dwell on the should haves or what ifs or it's going to drive us mad, we have to focus. Look we all made mistakes in their timeline, but we have to learn from them and move forward. We did several of those mistakes and corrected them all at so far right now. We just have to get through the next 4 years Obi-wan." he said and Obi-wan nodded as he went further
"I understand son, but this time, we're not losing him again, we have to clone everyone of us, but you're not losing us or we you. Not again and never again, I swear it padawan." Mace said, as he pulled him into a hug as he tightened his arms around him, pressing his forehead to his, they tightened the link between them as he did it with Obi-wan, Adi, Damon, Tiana and Yoda next, before looking at the duo angrily then.
"Why, why did you do that, do you understand what you did to me that day you two, you destroyed me, it's like you tore my heart out when she got shot. I never forgave you and that's why I would have, if you hadn't done it first, Tru. I would have terminated our friendship and reported both of you to Master, immediately." he said, wiping the tears off his face and she nodded as she said it with a growl at the memory as she looked at him.
"That's the reason daddy, they turned on you and got her killed?" Leia asked gently and he nodded. "More than just a friend, she held two places in the imprint, your mother had all three, but I decided if I never got the chance to see your mother again. I could be happy with Darra, she was my best friend, she knew me better than anyone. With her the title, my title, was less overwhelming, the stress, I could be myself finally."
"I wasn't Anakin Skywalker, the chosen one, champion of the force when I was around her, I was simply Anakin Skywalker, best friend, her equal, practically her boyfriend. We told each other everything, with her, we could be like Ben and Siri. We were happy, but in the second that they pulled this stunt, that me was destroyed. And in place of that me was the me that, 4 years later, turned into Vader." he told her softly and they nodded.
"Alright now you done it guys, not only are his memories back, he's remembering the day I was killed at the time, you fools, we both said this. But you wanted to keep your career, you should have tried for humility, or it could be your self destruction. And you know what it did." Darra said sharply to that response and Ferus paled at that remark. "She's right, that's what I'm remembering right now, but what about you now."
"You remember that day, why did you not come forward and tell them it was broken and needed to be replaced exactly?" he asked and Obi-wan heard the tone he used with Zam Wessell in his voice. "Darra?" he added and she moved to him as that separated their training quartet and their mentors nodded sternly. As Soara and Damon also moved to stand next to the Jinn/Kenobi/Skywalker team and Adi and Tiana gave a stern nod.
Pulling Darra into a hug, he pressed his forehead to hers, as she wrapped her hand around the back of his neck to keep them like that. "What happened between them back then, were you paying attention. And to that Dame, because this behavior suggest a more then a close friends bond. But the bond of soulmates and the fact that the look in Anakin's eyes says he is recovering from a broken heart and he's furious at the duo."
"Though why, it maybe the key to all of this." Qui-Gon asked and his eyes narrowed. "The memory just came back, he's rescinded that friendship with your cubs, ladies. And as to why exactly, I think he's about to tell us finally in why he crashed now. But if it's as serious as I think, this is why in a heart beat he chose the darkside. Just to keep from losing someone else he loves now." Damon said and Qui-Gon nodded in agreement.
"I think that says everything that needs to be said right now Adi, whatever stunt they pulled is enough to yank back the offer of friendship." Qui-Gon said and she and Tiana nodded. "Oh not good, I know that tone, Anakin what are you remembering now exactly?" Obi-wan asked and Anakin crossed his arms then. "Remember when I said that although I capitulated to him repeatedly and the duo he never learned the lesson."
"In fact he had learned nothing, and he was like Galen in the mental conference call?" he asked and they nodded as Adi looked at Ferus who swallowed. "A Jedi does not lie, a Jedi does not cheat, a Jedi does not threaten and most of all. It's a Jedi does not eavesdrop on a conversation between another student and their master. Well how does that fit in with your act of nobility, Ferus, sure you demonstrate yourself a model student to them."
"But to me, me and Darra, you were two steps away from being a bully, just without the taunting and cruel names." he said and he paled at that. "You are a bully Ferus, no use fighting this, because only a bully would continue to pick on someone. Try to provoke them and even try to sabotage the victim to get them thrown out of school." Darra said sternly and he swallowed as he thought over his actions that entire 6.5 years then.
"Everything you do resembles one time and place and unlike our predecessors, I outsmarted you by turning you in, before the mission switched directions at the time. But you know what, that's why I'm reading Ben's back history right now, so I can learn from the past. To change my future right now, but I'm a heck of a lot wiser then I was after Darra was killed, I knew the rules, but as a cub, I had a knack for making friends easily."
"You heard your mentor's remark, I am a cub version of my own mentors, I had a knack of making friends and I made them easily. I'm well liked, my personality shows everything they remember in my big brother, but one change turns me into him as a cub. But do you know who your personality shows everytime they put us together, for training?" he asked and Ferus shook his head shaking at the stern tone in his voice.
"Master's apprentice was just like you, as was my big brother's rival, he wanted to be the best, out of desperation he can not control his temper. But every time around my big brother he and his clan mate, a Jedi padawan called Aalto. They were constantly bullying him and and his friends at the time, leading into his chosen selection process. As my parental mentor returns for the choosing ceremony, it's not till the day before."
"That they try to set him up by provoking him into an altercation, but Masters Windu and Yoda check the cameras and learn who said what at the time. And where it lead to, but the activation mission was a trip to Bandomeer, as my brother meets his predecessor. Said predecessor is the father of the man we spent five years hunting down now." he said and the duo paled at that, as Tru got ready to say it and Darra hold her hand up.
"You may not be acting like this, but your cautionary behavior ever since Radnor and Zan Arbor shows it to us you two, but the attitude you show. It demonstrates the same thing, Anakin is Ben, and I am playing his own best friend, Bant. That I have to keep him from losing his temper entirely and in front of our own mentors. And so far I had done just that, he was doing fine, but the attitude you show is showing that same behavior."
"And you guys are playing the duo that nearly wrecked Ben's career, you honestly expected to get away with it?" she asked and he nodded at the duo. "Aalto, Bruck, and Ben, while I'm playing the part of Bant right now, but 22 years between scenarios. But still the very same outcome: Bruck, self destruction and death. Aalto: a censure and is placed on probation for 18 months and chosen by Master Anton Genroe at age 14."
"Ben: gets chosen by Master Qui-Gon and is now 25 and ready to begin facing his trials, Bant: also a padawan on the edge of facing her trials though she is a healer. So tell me who was it who crashed and burned and who was it who got to go to their trials. And at the same time, has to live with the guilt he failed me, where Ben didn't Bant." she said the duo swallowed at that remark and Anakin turned to the council at that.
As he looked between the 12, Tolan, his parental mentor and hers as he said it to the remark she just made at that. "Same scenario, but you have it right Father, what they did triggered a chain reaction of events that resulted in the destruction. And of our order, starting with the day that they too were sent on the same mission. Darra was sent on mission with me, as a result, Darra and I were working together, like Ben and Soara."
"That was the day Darra was killed and the duo broke the code entirely and in a split second turned on us. The us being her and me, but she and I made our choice, we chose following the code, ignored the temptation. And did as we were supposed to, like you told me, what would Padme do if she was in my position, answer: she would do her duty. Well we did do our duty, but they didn't, and in the instant of not telling the adult quartet."
"Regarding the fact it was broken, as they shirked their responsibilities for the chance to graduate early." Anakin said and the duo paled at that. "Don't!" Ferus said quickly and Mace hold up his hand. "Whatever reason for that remark, I'm hearing the truth from him young man. He is my padawan in the art of being a master guardian, padawan." he said to him sternly at that and Ferus swallowed hard, knowing he was screwed.
"All those times during each test Master put us through, I was never looking for a fight, but a place I could belong. Darra gave me that place, as did Siri and Soara, Ben, after we had spent 5 years together, he was acting like my brother. I had a family, and for the first time ever I was being a padawan, once I got to know them. Your masters you two, but here's the truth Master Windu, Master Adi." Anakin said and they both nodded firmly.
As Darra motioned to Lana, Sari, Tahiri, Corran, Wedon, and Dane, they nodded and moved to sit next to the young couple gently as Anakin explained the truth to the council then as he looked from them, to their parental mentors and said it gently. "What I'm about to explain now has to do with the way this was written out now. But it involved a violation to the code, said violation reporting a faulty lightsaber to the Jedi team leader."
"And with them, the said padawan's mentor now, as we all know, it is a padawan's duty to report if their weapon was damaged in battle to their master. But said padawan that fixed it, never told the adult quartet this, because acting like a friend. He was trying to keep his secret, but with it, is a darker revelation, would an apprentice. In trying to keep secrets, be talking loudly enough to be overheard?" he asked and Siri crossed her arms.
"Said over heard, by his rival, who's own mentor is the Jedi that left the order 22 years prior to this and returned with a deeper respect of the code and the rules. And is also the Jedi that defeated the first Sithlord ever since they came back into the picture. And is the partner to the mentor who happens to be the former apprentice to a council member." he asked and Mace crossed his arms as Ferus and Tru swallowed hard at that remark.
"No they wouldn't, but it's clear here, that they wanted you to hear this and then tell us that you knew it was broken and never told us. But too late on that you reported that to us and we go to a different plan, but he never resigned, we expelled him for this." Adi said and Ferus paled in shock at the news then. "My time when I was dealing with Dooku when no older then you, he was, is reminiscent and of this situation between you."
"But proud I was of you, that followed the doors open and followed outlets open to you, proud of that in you, I was. And knew I did, that never do something this cold blooded, but be a good padawan. And followed the outlets as first turn him in, you did, but with it, knew you wanted to say it, but had to follow orders. But earned right to your appointment to the council you did, even at the cost of your friendship, Anakin."
"Did what had to be done, very well done, my padawan, made me proud, you did, very proud, but earned your way to acceleration program." Yoda added and he nodded to him softly then. "I don't know about you, but how many times did we have that conversation exactly growing up at the time. I grew up in the real world. I had attachments, I knew right from wrong, and I was taught to be honest, I brought those values with me."
"And into my life as a Jedi now, but your trust and I mean all of you in that, that matters more to me. And more then any chance at fast graduation or promotion for that matter." he asked and Mace nodded with a bemused smile. "We know, but though we allow you to do your salvaging, we don't need so many droids that they start cluttering the hallway. Or your taste for sports scaring us into a heart attack when we go looking for you."
"But once too often this happens here, but honestly your taste in sports in this galaxy is enough to aggravate us or scare the life out of us. The droids and your skills as a mechanic we can take, but the racing right now. Just take it easy on us before you scare us into a heart attack, padawan." he said, gently ruffling his hair smiling. "Well you're seeing me at it for real, but get ready in case he tries to sabotage me, again."
"And for a second time." he said and the seven members of the council nodded bemused then. "Oh force, seeing it once is enough as a teenager, but seeing you do it again, and I'm going to have a heart attack if you keep this up Anakin. Especially at the age you are right now, so be careful please." Ry and Siri said together and he nodded. "When did you see him do it exactly if you're saying that?" Leia asked and they shook their heads.
"It was when he was 13 1/2, after our teams came together, but trust me we know how dangerous this sport is. But knowing your father is a hotshot racer, and seeing how dirty his rival is in racing now. The four of us now had an understanding of this lunatic after meeting him face to face a bit ago, but seeing them on the track. And he's trying to kill your father or the other racers, we decided there is only going to be two more races."
"And only two more now." Siri told her and she nodded to her gently. "Your godmother is going undercover into the ranks of a slave trader. But all of this together is the reason they were concerned at the time. Like Ben was worried about you, and the burden you were not ready for, I wasn't ready to face my past, build my lightsaber or even know. Now the truths focused on Omega's background with us, at the current moment."
"Well that background is focused on father's original padawn, just before he took your godfather now, that formula we told you was a piece to this, as was Bruck now." Anakin told them and they nodded as Anakin looked at the council members as they saw love in his eyes. And for them and they hid a smile to that, knowing he was back completely now at that as he went further at that remark as he explained that to them gently.
"They all know that as a Jedi growing up in the real world and emotions already developed, it meant taking more time, as I came in a bit late. So they get overly protective, though now that our memories are back, the parental approach. And over protectiveness with our memories back is about to take on a whole new meaning here now." he said and they nodded as Damon smiled at him and he smiled then.
"I'd consider the fact that now that we all have our memories back finally, we can fix what went wrong in our meeting over the next 10 to 13 years. And leading into the war, and we can treat this like a training academy like that academy, he's a fighter pilot,. A mechanic and a Jedi, so that helps, but all in all, he gets to see his parents. And we add on to his training and give him more to do, but the more work right now."
"And that forestalls the nightmares as he recovers from the traumas in things that he needed to learn for his admittance to the council as we train him. But at the moment is digging through every memory at the moment and fix what went wrong here. And at the moment, it's a matter of lookung at this as though we're normal right now. And we see where we screwed up at the moment right now in this case as a result now."
"But what I see is from the second that we put these two together, the rival was going to get dangerous at the time now." Soara said and Mace nodded. "Agreed, but I never expected it to get so dangerous that it results in wiping us out right now." he said and she nodded as Siri answered that remark as she crossed her arms as she answered her. "Well all I see is the fact that until Darra was killed, he had been doing fine."
"But in all honesty here first to go was Master Qui-Gon, then Halla, Darra, his mother, you, me, Ahsoka gets expelled for something she didn't do. Master Adi is murdered next and then comes the fact he has to take a life in cold blood. And following that is the fact he gets the truth and in the worst way possible as we're gone and he's all alone now." Siri said to her and they both nodded to her as she said it firmly then to that.
"Giving him the strength to fight back and then showing him the light at the end of the tunnel, with only Master Windu here, and you and Master Adi dead. That was the key now, you and Master Adi were his own kind along with Master Windu, Master guardians. Without you guys giving him the strength to fight against Sidious's manipulations. Like the re-enactment of the accident leading into Darra's murder now at the time."
"You were giving him the strength to fight against the darkness bearing down on him while she was showing him the light at the end of the tunnel. We lost him, because he didn't have you guys, Darra and I are also dead, as is half of his clan and Ry'. Ahsoka was expelled from the order and most of all, Ben and Master Yoda are on mission. He's all alone right now, so that sums it up, he needed us." she said and looked at him then.
"Like Siri, you considered me a big sister, Annie?" she asked and he nodded to her. "Yeah I did, at first I didn't completely understand what you meant until after Zan Arbor. What was holding me back from my true potential was the anger and resentment. Till I finally let go and I started growing closer to you at the time, I considered you family. But I thought of you a big sister/mother ever since and when we hit that day I told you."
"But I had to give out that warning, just to prevent one of you, or the trio, even me from getting shot if that blasted thing broke down, I was protecting you guys. And no matter what, but you girls were my life that entire time, if it meant turning the duo in. Just to protect you then so be it, I was following the code and doing my duty. But he turned in that split second into a dark Jedi, as did Tru." he told her and the council nodded sternly.
"I'm starting to see that he's a child version to Dooku and you are very correct at the moment Anakin, I never caught that before. He is blinded to his own faults and flaws, his powers are great, but there is very small step between self assurance and pride. You cross that line and it turns into arrogance, thank you for showing us that." Sifo Dyas said and Yoda nodded in agreement as he looked at the maturity in Anakin at that remark.
"There, that's exactly what wanted you to understand, I did, failure to see your own flaws is a flaw itself and sometimes foreshadow your future, your past can, if you let it. Got the point of my lesson as an adult, just like understand what meant, I did. And by letting your fear control you, you understand now and you are ready, my padawan. Ready to be a true padawan in training, but let pride go and throw aside flaws and left yourself go."
"Made me proud you did, and by demonstrating in a very short demonstration, how much you have learned by Qui-Gon and Obi-wan enroute here." Yoda said to him and he leaned forward and ran his hands through his hair as he looked into his eyes as he said it. "The stupid idiot never went to you for help, the reason I didn't tell you about mom sooner. It was because he wanted to see Sidious for guidance." he told him and Yoda nodded softly.
"Not your fault it was, too hard on you, or more accurately, your alter ego we were, change that and save you, we can, just tell us these nightmares you have." he said softly and he smiled. "Like I said we all need help, me more than most, and just to control those premonitions, I'm living force, I have no control over the premonitions I get." he said and Yoda pressed his forehead to his as he soothed his inner uneasiness then gently.
Closing his eyes he felt his mentor's calming influence shoot through and he relaxed as he said it as he opened his eyes. "I never accepted things before, I never wanted to understand what I was giving up when I became a Jedi. In their time-line, I gave up everything for the greater good, including my soul, I can't do it twice. Not one or the other, I'm the best of both, to make it, it's total balance, family, good and evil."
"Released the burden of the chosen one and came into my own, but your words as a Master, I heard at one time or another by my mother. But with my memories back, I am never making the same mistakes twice. You were the one I could trust to help me with that, we did it now, you got to me first our bonds are back in place. And everything that his was planning was hoping for died right now." he said and Yoda nodded to him softly.
"Or more accurately, you did it, you and Ben, you just saved me yourselves, because you got to me before he could, so we could understand each other this easily. But with my memories back the connection snapped itself back into place and so hard. My bond of relationship with you two, it was the key to protecting me from Sidious's manipulations. I sound like you, Ben and Masters Windu, Nejaa and Adi now in trying to instruct him."
"My activation as a padawan started with this mission, but in their timeline, I failed your tests of patience and controlling my temper. Bad first impression between us, but this time, I'm sounding like a padawan who was taught to be more understanding. And as a result of making friends this soon, I just turned into a 9 year old version. And of your current star pupil, under the mentorship of your own previous star pupil now."
"You see the changes in me, just having my adult self end up in my body, I see things so clearly now at the moment. That I realize I was a total fool to believe anything he said at the time now, I just turned into your most promising pupil. By letting that pride go and I'm back to being my 9 year old self again when you met me now. You and Ben saved me yourselves, and by us having this talk." he said and Yoda nodded to him, smiling then
"Indeed, see we do that now that you got your memories back, and are showing us the truth behind past actions. And saved you ourselves we did at the time now, but reason why is getting everything on the table, and before mission starts we do. Act like my prize pupil you are and it's because more than your peers, you do, you understand. In the dangers, of controlling the evil in your own soul and throwing into your lightsaber."
"Showing the true career of master guardian you are and by demonstrating your powers and knowledge as one. See that you were always Obi-wan up to now, we do, but very proud of the way you deflected his attempts to get you into a fight. Know the outlets available to you and chose to use them, you do and did. Proven that model padawan you are, by simply not rising to the bait now." Yoda said and Anakin nodded to him smiling.
"We had this situation similar to your's when Dooku and I were no older then you, youngling, but to explain this now, in a situation similar to this, but when we were 13. Dooku and his friend Lorian Nod had a falling out as a result of Lorion's lying and implicating his friend, but instead of Dooku immediately telling this to Master. The council of my generation pitted them against each other in a capture the flag test."
"But these lightsabers are not meant to injure someone, but injure him he did, out of loss of anger at the time, now tell me, how is what you did to him any different?" Sifo Dyas said sternly and Ferus flinched at that remark as he watched him as he reached out and ran a hand through the hair at the back of Anakin's head. "Never had to test him in that way when instead had a conference between himself and your, Tru and Darra's masters."
"Regarding this, before contacting me and your parental masters as a result as decided to test you by use of this choice and like he said. Wanted to destroy him and instead destroyed yourself, you did and by switching lightsabers at the wrong moment. Tricked Anakin was not, offered the opportunity to come forward and took it he did. For a padawan, we offered several outlets to check animosity, but many outlets to you."
"Meditation, discussion, physical exercises, conference with a master or your mentor, know the outlets Anakin did, after over hearing your conversation with Tru. Realizing intending to implicate him for attempted murder that turned into real murder. Because knew lightsaber was broken and not turn in that fact to us as your council. Decided to report past transgressions and current situation to Obi-wan, your master and myself."
"And was a model padawan as instead of allowing anger to take control, instead decided to report that about to lie about something this serious to us. And with it the threat of training interference you gave him 6.5 years prior and hearing this. Never more disappointed I was in you then the fact that you were willing to risk your masters safety. And Darra's, to prove that dangerous he is." Yoda said sternly and he swallowed hard.
"I'm starting to wish we had done it in this way, you calling a halt on the mission, and we can delay for a week or two. What matters more is dealing with a faulty weapon, and before one of us is killed at the time Master. But why would I lie about this to you, why exactly, I never lied, before, so why start now?" he asked and Mace nodded sternly. "True enough, but the fact that the padawan that gained the commendations you deserved."
"Was now showing his true colors by attempting to set you up at the time, and for implication in attempted murder, that turned into a real one. This crossed the line and broke the code, in more ways then one at the time now. In truth we've never been more disappointed that not only he had the audacity to do this, my padawan followed his lead. And he never told me or my son it was broken, till the act was over finally here."
"But though Qui wasn't around he decided to report this to not just the council, but the parental mentors as well." Tiana said sternly and Adi finished that. "That what you call yourselves, as full adult Jedi masters, grandpa?" Lando asked and Damon nodded. "Yes it is, your adopted father-in-law saw me as father figure so as a result. What could not be said to Mace or Adi was told to me at the time." he said and the quintet nodded to that.
"The final test, if we did the one that we did for Obi-wan and Bruck, Anakin would've beat you as he controlled that temper. And we would make you fight with Tru's lightsaber as it revealed one thing and only one thing to us. You wanted to set him up for implication and instead you get it turned around and have to live with the guilt. Darra was killed by you, for not telling us until it was too late." Adi said sternly and he paled at that remark.
"Mace again, with my being gone, I'm leaving my youngest in your care, you, Adi, Damon and Nejaa, adopted Jedi family now." Qui-Gon said and he nodded firmly. "Got it, but he's a Master guardian and the rest of the adopted Jedi family are also master guardians. But what I will say is that was inexcusable at the time right now Qui-Gon. His resentment and his powers, he finally said it that he hated his title and sensitivity to the force."
"With Thracia gone, she retired from the Jedi after Zonona Sekot now, the ones left were me, Adi and Master Yoda, we were counseling him after Zan Arbor got her hands on him. Showing him that he wasn't alone in the fear we told him there was more to it now as a result of colors now in this case, as I created mine with a purple blade. As Adi had one and was showing him the light at the end of the tunnel and the second now."
"She's, that Siri, was the one giving enough him energy to keep going while I'm helping him balance the evil, together he was happy. And for the first time since Master was killed by Omega at the time, throwing aside the past and future. To focus on the present, he threw himself into his training and our council was enough to alleviate the fear. That his powers were too much to handle now, he let go and went into counsel with us."
"And from Vima and Tolan, for lightsaber and Jedi lore, to counsel with Adi, Siri and me in equalizing the red and blue. That was in his heart, at the time this happened that year, he had made a good amount of progress now at the time. But he caught the duo red handed in the act of preparing to lie to us over Tru's lightsaber. And he decided to test them, in regarding that acceleration program, and Anakin turned them in immediately."
"But they exchanged knowing glances in the trade off that day, to set him up now." he said and Qui-Gon nodded as he crossed his arms. "Anakin never lied to us before so why start now and definitely not on something this serious. Since you allowed me to train him before you took over Mace, the fact remains that even though separated. And from his parents and his friends, it's enough the pieces of him I saw still remained."
"Said was his honesty was the key factor, he never lied, not once to us and it stayed that way even though I was gone and you, the council. You took over and encouraged his honesty to us and everyone else at the time right now. He knew the rules, it's a padawan's first duty to report that there was problem with their lightsaber. But it was clear that a Jedi with a family helps to their mentor and the mentors with their mentor."
"So what's the catalyst into why they would hold this back until one of the sextet was shot or killed, Dame and we discourage it?" he asked and Damon crossed his arms. "It's the acceleration program, he wanted a chance to make it himself, just to keep them together." he told him and Qui-Gon nodded to the news as he crossed his arms. "I see it, so to you the fact that you are willing to risk the safety of the entire team is enough."
"Just so long as you can join the trio in the acceleration program at the time now, is reason enough for you. Just to keep quiet over the fact your lightsaber wasn't just damaged, it was broken?" he said sternly and the duo swallowed hard at that. "Father, in all honesty here, I was listening in on their conversation at the time. But this was critical now, as I was studying lightsaber lore now, that, without bothering to disassemble it."
"That I realized that the reason for the power failure was because the crystal was cracked." he said and Qui-Gon nodded in shocked disgust. "The crystal was cracked and they never disassembled it completely to check it?!" he said repeated with a furious growl. "Yes father, it was, I knew without needing to see it the damage that it was the crystal, so I had to report this immediately, before it gave out now at the time."
"But if the crystal is cracked it cause a disruption between the flux aperture and power cell and starts draining without warning. Without needing to think twice about this, and these books are focused on the version that turned into Vader at the time. But honestly I would never lie on something this serious and turned that information into Ben, Siri and Ry." Anakin said and the quartet nodded sternly as Mace looked at the duo firmly.
"I meant it too, I never lied to you and why start now, you knew from the time you met me, the 20 of you, from the today when we met to when I started training now. That I could never lie to you whatsoever, I mean how can I lie on this, when knowing that if I did, you could ever trust me again. You or them, no choice needed, it's you and it will always will be, you're the leader of my branch, I had to tell you and immediately."
"Siri was with me, you guys were here, I am a master guardian, I reported it to you, but one member of our branch with me, you both on the council, no choice needed, you." he said and Mace nodded gently to him. "That's exactly what I wanted to hear son, that as your leader, there is no reason to lie right now. You told us and this soon, and as your brother and sister are with you, and us here, I took Qui-Gon's place in your eyes now."
"And as your parental mentor, in both your cases, so it's simple with Adi with me, to you the choice was simple. The choice was simple in your eyes, when in the case of coming forward early, it always was, as you told us and we knew your parents. Though we didn't realize she was married, she would be as proud as we are. And of you, you did the right thing, your friendship with them had to be sacrificed to protect the team now."
"It's that simple, if they see this as you're a traitor, that's their problem, what matters more is keeping the team alive and all of you coming home together. But I don't care what they think, you did what you had to do Anakin, you always did now at the time. They made the choices, they're the reason Darra was murdered, but they knew it was broken, they knew all along now." he said to him and Anakin nodded to him softly.
"He's with Obi-wan, young man just answer this, but tell me hmm, just what is that supposed to tell me, tell us, the council. That to you, he's held in such high esteem by us that to you, he's the enemy now?" Mace asked and they paled at that. "I'd say that the one who's the enemy now is you, if you let that, the acceleration trials. Now control you, and he was doing as he was supposed to do, but he never lied to me before, ever."
"And to him it's why start now, he was telling me immediately on your decision, young man, you were out of range, he told us. You ever understood in why we took so much time on him at the time. It's because he grew up in the outside world right now, he had attachments, he needed us to be the parents he needed us to be. With him cut off from his mother and his father figure, Qui-Gon dead now, he was among strangers now."
"So one option in our eyes, we played the parts of a family, and he needed us, Qui was dead, but he had us." he said sternly as Shaak Tii finished that sternly to them as Ferus swallowed hard. "Anakin deserved all those commendations more then you did Ferus, he followed the code. And so exactly that he made council by the end of the war, but you know what. He deserved that position and had it not been for the fact Darra was dead."
"Vader never would have turned into a sexual offender, lust for power, anger, you turned him into a ticking time bomb. That was waiting to go off, you fools, you did this." Shaak Tii snapped and they swallowed hard at that. "And that's the real truth now, Vader was trying to control his hormones, but those books, are written. And as though he was the one in control, Ferus, everything, after they came to an end is me, it was always me."
"But I at least had the time to realize that I was more gentlemen then you were at the moment. But this is me, and before, I ever met you guys, I never lied to Ben, Siri, or the council, before and why start now. I don't care if you think I'm a traitor, you are not my friends, Tru." Anakin snapped at him sternly at that as Mace crossed his arms. "The explosion during the first scrimmage knocked his lightsaber out of his hand at the time."
"After over hearing that the cell got hit, that was enough to tell me that blast screwed with the connector. Before I realized it was one thing and one thing only, said is that it did enough damage to the crystal. That the crystal cracked from the stress and the flux aperture and power cell were affected by that. But that was enough I knew I had to turn them in, immediately." he said and Mace and Tolan both nodded to the news sternly.
"That's the truth I want to hear that there was more than a simple damage to the flux aperture, but that the explosion hit the lightsaber so hard. That it damaged the crystal meaning it needed to be disassembled to insure your theory panned out. But honestly right now, you never lied to us before on that after losing 9 lightsabers in six years. And at the time, you know better than anyone what kind of damage this could do."
"And turned it into us at the first chance you got, but by passing that test, the honesty test, your trials had begun whether you knew it or not, Anakin." Mace said to him gently and he nodded. "Was the reason you were a bit more stern as I got older, you were trying to see if I had what it takes to make council by year 3 as a knight, Master?" he asked and the Clone wars Jedi council members all nodded to him gently at that.
"The situation over Sidious was really a test, but that test was meant to train you and we were going to promote you when the twins were 1." he said and Anakin nodded as he got it. "At the moment the less stress and the better, but now that we know where we messed up at the time, it's not happening again. He drags it up and we're saying what we should have said from the very beginning." Kit said firmly and the council nodded sternly.
"That and you make master by your 24th birthday, we were going to give it another year before we promoted you to master. But your trial by lava was the mission we gave you, before the purge, Anakin." Stass said and he nodded to the news gently. "So I pass this test and turned him into you I would make master, after also telling you the truth. My premonitions this time were focused on Padme." he said and the council nodded gently.
"Yes and we knew all along you and Padme were together, we were just waiting for you to tell us this right now. But you were meant to join the Jedi council, had things been different once Greivous was taken out, and you told us this. We would have delayed the arrest until the time was right, but with it, we promoted you to master now. And the twins were admitted into training in being trained by us, but clearly that day."
"Vader had other ideas and wiped us out, we knew you were close to it, but that realization was the blow we knew, Master and me, that you didn't need right now. Our you was ready to graduate to level 1, but it never ocurred to us now. That the prophecy was just beginning that day, if you told us the truth and we ignored Palpatine. And with it the prophecy, none of that in their timeline would have happened at the time now."
"The problem was the stress of you trying to make us happy, but what would make you happy was the question, that was it, Padawan. Right, it was after you told me this, we knew this was the blow to the heart that finally undid everything that Adi and I tried to teach you. And as the red overwhelmed the blue, and destroyed you as the girls and Ry were all dead by then." Mace told him and he nodded firmly to that sighing gently.
"Well no need now, I'm in training to make council by acting like the true padawan I am now and secondly is that everyone of my friends, my age group to your's. That they are all clones now, but I knew that to hold this back and lie was to break your trust in me. Not going to happen, your trust and my mother's that matters more to me than some chance at the acceleration program." he said and they nodded proudly to that remark.
"But there is only one chance now for me, but until we get things on the table now and right now. It's no longer friends in either of their cases, just peers, Master." he said and they both nodded in understanding to that. "We understand, nothing changed between us and I know it didn't for you baby?" Adi asked and he smiled at her. "No master it didn't, our bond is and will always stay the same, now that I got both of you back now."
"And finally, though separated from my family, I considered you just as good as being around my mother in talking things over. If not her and Thracia, then you, that dealing, once again with the night brothers. In all honesty, what changed me completely was you: first Darra, then mom, Soara, Siri and then I lose you next. And I hated Maul even more for taking you away from me as a result." he said and Obi-wan hid a smile to that.
"I understand, but you got me back now baby." she said and he smiled as he gave her a hug and she tightened her arms around him at that. "I wish I kept in touch with you as you are my Jedi counterpart." Shmi said smiling to that remark. "If she is you then who do I remind him of exactly?" Thracia asked and Farcloud hid a chuckle. "Halla is your exact counterpart, he loved her like another aunt." he said and she nodded smiling then.
"And only a true Jedi padawan would ignore this temptation and immediately do the right right thing in turning in that information to their mentor. What did it matter, regarding the fact the arrest was delayed a couple weeks, so long as the entire team survived the fight. That's all they care about, protecting our fellow Jedi, a Jedi would never let temptation get in the way of doing their duty at the time now in this situation."
"But that's what a true Jedi padawan on the edge of making the council would do now, aside from that though he wanted to go after Omega. He chose to stay at my side as we did this together now, but our relationship our trust. That mattered more to him then allowing this temptation at the acceleration program cloud his judgement, young man." Obi-wan said sternly and Mace and Yoda nodded in agreement to that remark.