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: This Portion of the Story covers the a few bits of the Final Showdown and the re-write of the story. As he immediately tells the adult quartet and their mentors and reports them. But from here the differences between Anakin and Ferus are made clear, before it returns to his dealing with Jacen now.
The Conversations between them in my other story are going to be part of this from here on in. So first this and then The Uncertain Path as Anakin shows that to combine both sides of him together makes him ten times stronger. And even more then even they expected as to the both groups finally in their eyes.
They got to keep his powers of of Sidious's hands from that day forward just to prevent a repeat then as this starts off slowly. As Anakin also tells them the story of how he created his first lightsaber with it at the time now...
Chapter 51: Jedi Quests And Young Jedi Knights VIII: The Final Showdown III
"But he had one of us with him and the other two were the ones he reported that information to at the time, Anakin decided on a test by Obi-wan setting you up. After you said what you did, he contacted me, Adi, Damon and Tiana. Told us to get Tolan into the room and with him, Master Yoda and told us the possibility that the crystal was cracked. Hearing that we decided to run that test in the way it was when it happened."
"Just what did we have to do to get you to tell us young man, that it was more than damaged, but broken. Because choice manners are calling a 10 day sabbatical from that mission, bringing you home. As he tells us the added truth, the damn thing didn't just have the flux aperture damaged on it, the crystal was cracked as well. As we decided to go to a real test and by using it in a training in a sparring exercise between you now."
"As Anakin knew what test this would be, but you didn't as we ordered the mission on a hold and you to return to the temple. 'All of you, the mission is on delay for two weeks we got time for this, but there's going to be a training session right now. Sparring exercise, Tru, could you switch lightsabers with Ferus.' We would ask as we ran this test. As we say for you and Tru to switch lightsabers and wait as we see Tru pale at that fact."
"And wait until you two were close, before we brought Darra in and seeing the pale look on your face. As we see the lightsaber starting to give as I hear the change in the frequencies inside of it now and waiting for it to give out. As I see the sparks starting to appear from it as a result to having the lightsaber short out, before you say..." Mace added and he quickly said it, knowing he just set himself up for failure at that.
As he blurted it out. "Stop, it's damaged." he said and Tolan crossed his arms at that remark. "You knew this lightsaber was damaged, didn't you?" Tolan asked with a stern growl and he nodded as he swallowed hard at that. "Why didn't you report it that it wasn't just damaged, but the crystal was cracked exactly?" he asked looking between them and he paled at that question, knowing he couldn't admit the truth then.
"Wait, wait, we better take it from the top, a mixture of both the book and our memories of this." Anakin said and he nodded in agreement. "Alright, you are my padawan this is something we both know you need, so first the realization. If Qui paged you mentally, we end up with those books on the ship and reset it. And from whatever chapter it was until you return and the test begins." Mace said and the duo nodded to him gently at that.
"That's the re-write of the entire story on this book, son, chapter 10: Jedi Quest volume 10: The Final Showdown. We were close to arresting the duo, I get blasted into the wall, head for the cargohold and then hear this conversation now. So from here, this is the rewrite of the entire storyline now starting from this moment." he said and Padme gripped his hand as she said it to him then gently as she looked between them.
"Never mind contacting me honey you just focus on this, that I know you never changed a bit from the day I saw you, if she's a Jedi version to Amee. Well then she, Amee and I are your entire life, you would protect us and the girls with your life. I know that all to well, you never changed a bit, Darra brought the you I know back out. That I know once mom and Sola saw you, they know you're perfect." she said and Sola nodded, smiling.
As he looked at Darra smiling and she hugged him tightly then as she wrapped her arms around his neck and in response he tightened his around her gently. "I'm not losing you again, any of you, you guys are my life, I love you with everything in me. Jedi maybe, but still human, I am just a young preteen youngling, but I will protect you with my life." he said and she nodded as she pressed her forehead to his then and in response.
Anakin ran his hand through her hair and she buried her head into his neck as Soara rubbed his back and he looked up and her and gave her a hug. "One choice destroyed me if we changed that choice, this would be our family right now, guys." Anakin said as he showed them a new copy of the cover and the twins saw themselves at late teens. And with their parents standing next to them and Han with his arms around them, smiling,
"You understand, that's the catch, if things had been different, this is what would have happened Ferus, they call off the mission. Call us back and run you through a test in sparring as you switch lightsabers with Tru, in training. While I'm waiting for you to come forward I see the lightsaber give out and my padawan pulls back. Just as it barely misses your arm, or worse Darra is the one holding it." Obi-wan told him at that remark sternly.
Looking between him to Obi-wan, he said it softly. "Yes Master I remembered the outlets all that time: meditation, discussion, physical exercises, a conference with a master. So I chose two of the four and turned him into you as you explained to me. That you saw this before just in Dooku and Nod's case and instead of capture the flag. And we chose to give him enough rope to hang himself now." he said and Obi-wan nodded to him then.
"That's the showing mercy in you when it came to his provocations with you now, but you made me very proud, you released the anger and decided on a gentle warning to him. That's the true act of a model padawan, let the barb not reach you and you released the anger and channeled into it something else." Obi-wan said and Mace nodded. "Yes and instead of your response to Bruck provocations to you, he took a different one."
"And discussed a piece that Master never mentioned to me as I grew up, but Nod is across between Ferus and Tru. I see this clearly, Bruck, he is a more arrogant part of Ferus who let his anger take control too fast. But at one point Bruck's taunting was petty and by the time you came home it turned dangerous. But like your brother, you threw aside your anger and let the force flow through you." he said and Anakin nodded to him.
"Yes but why change that right now, he's my mentor, he always was Master, but had I stayed clear of Palpatine, the me you know. This me, would have turned into a teenage version of Ben, as I grew up, staying at Ben's side until he was ready to let me go, which would have been when I was 23, I had much to learn from the unifying force still. But I am capable, there is little more I could learn from him." he said and they nodded gently.
"Very wise observation and you are very correct, those are my thoughts on your brother, he is headstrong and has much to learn from the living force still. But he is very capable, there is little more he can learn from me and vice versa now, as such. You were ready for the trials by the time the situation of the attack in orbit hit, but now that we know. We can change the past finally by you training your own though you're in your trials now."
"That's the way of it, a trial period as a teacher now as you enter your trials as your padawan you chose even as you be promoted to knight." Qui-Gon said and Mace, Adi and Yoda nodded in agreement then. "And I'm not letting you go until you are 23, as you made knight at 20, you start your family and you're promoted to master. And all by your 23rd birthday, before we start from scratch again." Obi-wan said to him gently to that.
"Re-arrange the wording Ben, with your fight with Bruck, you're me and he's Ferus, if he survived, he's practically teaching Ferus how to be so arrogant. That he's bullying the padawan that had his future secured in one shot now." Anakin said and Ferus looked at him in shock. "That's not true!" he said quickly and Obi-wan crossed his arms. "Then why didn't you leave him be after that, every time I was paired off with Bruck in training."
"He started throwing insults at me, taunting me, trying to pick a fight, and he sets me up to get me thrown out of the temple, before Qui-Gon can see me in action. But my future was secured anyway, by us being on our first mission together. So tell me how is this any different exactly?" he said and Ferus swallowed hard as Anakin leaned into his chest then and Obi-wan pulled him deeper into his arms at that as Obi-wan thought it over.
Shifting position, Anakin leaned his head against Obi-wan's chest and as Obi-wan tightened his arms and pulled him deeper into his chest. And Ferus swallowed at the stern look in his eyes then. "You think I want to see him suffering that trauma again, or that he's dealing with you constantly picking a fight with him now. I saw the conversation and it only takes Darra to end that flash of temper." he said with a stern growl at him.
"Trying to provoke me into a fight by threatening me with that remark, but that doesn't work, Darra intervenes to calm me. And then I hear you discussing Tru's lightsaber with him so loudly, I realize you are trying to set me up. And I quickly turn that into Siri and Ben, so tell me, tell him, who followed the channels, but learn from the past now. To create a better future, following the outlets open to me, I decided to test you now."
"And the test results came back as lying and implicating me, your friend, in attempted murder, in Master Yoda's eyes he saw this before in another way, over a Sith holocron. To him there was no need to push it that far in the testing, I acted like the model padawan. I was and turned you into them and they promoted me to the council 4 years later, as they expelled you for breaking the code." Anakin said and Yoda crossed his arms then.
"Indeed, learned from Obi-wan's past and not make the same mistakes he did, and instead followed the channels and reported directly to us. Though not need to test you that severely between you in capture the flag, still got the point you did. And reported to the council that getting ready to lie and implicate you for murder and attempted, he was. Expelled he was, but made council you did." Yoda said and Obi-wan nodded as he got it.
"I didn't follow the outlets given to me, but in the end I still got chosen after nearly sacrificing myself to get us out of the cave. But you are right, see my past, you saw your master never did that and instead took it to Master Yoda, and told him. But counsel with a master you took the outlet that got him expelled, so you did learn something. From my example and decided not to make the same mistake." Obi-wan said gently to that news.
Thinking of the debate, he heard his conversation with Bruck, listening to his arrogance, during their fight. "I learned well, haven't I, Xanatos has taught me what true power is. The Jedi will regret ever holding me back.' he heard his voice echo as he answered him softly. "They never held you back." he whispered and then heard his voice answer him. "No one chose me as a padawan." he yelled at him then firmly.
"Then you were not ready." he answered him then, before hearing his padawan's voice call him back. "Obi-wan, Obi-wan, focus brother, you are not in that fight, you are with me, look at me, look at me." he said, shaking him gently before pressing his forehead to Obi-wan's and he closed his eyes, before re-opening them. And seeing his sky blue eyes, he pulled him into a hug and Anakin tightened his arms around him.
"The things that got broken once, can be molded into something stronger because they were once broken. We have that chance, trust broken can be fixed, may take time, but the time created out of it is more precious then ever before. Because it was once broken brother, second chance we fix what went wrong now, we are stronger then ever as a result." he said and Obi-wan nodded as he closed his eyes as he tried to hold it in then.
"You are my brother Anakin, I love you, I'm not losing you again, we take this chance and fix things, you trust me and I trust you." he said and Anakin nodded. "We fix our bond, we grow stronger and we are inseparable now, brother, we fix our bond and trust. It will be worth the time and effort, because you saved me, yourself now." he said and pressing his forehead to Obi-wan's, the masters felt their bond singing in joy then.
Hearing the words, Qui-Gon remembered Tahl telling him that and he nodded as he hid a smile as he felt the connection growing deeper every minute then. 'Indeed this second chance is going to be more than worthwhile, it's going to work for them. Just heal the damage done and start over now.' he thought to himself gently at that. "I feel like this just turned into that 8 month basis, before and after Bandomeer right now, Master."
"I remember that day, hearing your words in my voice, and Bruck's in Ferus's, I'm hearing the attempted taunting in his provoking you into a fight, Annie. You were me as a 13, near 14 year old as you grew up, hearing the words, my voice is echoing father's lessons. And to me and you are me from 12 to 20, but looking at you now, I see you as me, but you are me from 9 to 20, Anakin." he said softly and Anakin nodded to him.
"Yes you see now, you always taught me that it is not the Jedi way to lie to one's master or yourself, you also said a Jedi does not threaten. You remember what you once said to Siri, Master, Jedi do not threaten, well how does this sound any different, shift that in another way, Master. But listen to this now, reverse the words into two other voices, when they were trying to stop the darkside, or rather Dark Jedi versions of us back then."
"Bruck may not act all noble and self righteous, but he always tried to provoke you into a fight until his petty taunting shifted from cruel to downright murderous now. But what was the next thing you taught me after we saw his family?" he asked and Obi-wan nodded. "This is the moment now, the very worse time is the time you must follow the code, padawan, cast away all doubt, let the force flow through you, I understand now."
"You were hearing Sebulba's taunting when you faced off against Krayne, my words echoed through you, and you defeated him, is that what happened?" he asked and Anakin nodded. "Yes Master, it was, in truth, though, when I heard him on my case like this, I could practically hear in his voice, Bruck's sounding like he always did to you. But I controlled my temper, the anguish, rage and fear and let the force flow through me."
"But had I grown up with only you training me and you heard the double meaning in Sidious's words, you would have taken father's approach. And we would be like we are now, but look at me now, by altering the timeline and us getting our memories back. I just turned into a 9 year old you, and I am acting more like a Jedi then he is now. By following the code and doing what must be done." he said and the group nodded to him.
"I see that the you we know once the missions end takes precedence over Vader, you act like us as you demonstrate. Now that you are preparing to become a teacher and council member yourself, but that's not the tone of a rival padawan at all. But in fact it is the voice of a council member, watching and waiting for your fellow padawans. And to make a mistake and the second they do, they get turned in." Stass Allie said and they nodded.
"You hear the difference between us?" he asked and the entire group nodded. "Yes Padawan I hear it, in your voice you are watching and waiting for him. Waiting for him to break the rules, the code so he can punished in the way he deserves it. Like he did so when he went to Tru and fixed the lightsaber, but did not report it to us. You do and did the correct thing by being a model padawan, and waiting patiently for him now."
"Just to make a mistake in the code, a mistake that could put all of you at risk as you turn him into us. That was a warning to him, he breaks the code he is being turned in for a severe enough infraction it could harm or even kill all of you." Adi told him gently at that and he nodded. "Yes in my eyes and words, that was a warning to him, for him, he was watching my anger waiting for me to lose it until it becomes dangerous."
"That was a threat, and if trying to provoke me into a fight doesn't work, this time in front of you, then implication would, as they were speaking this so loudly. That I knew they knew I was standing there listening to the entire conversation. So they could set me up for implication at the time, but here read this, I was standing at the door. Listening to the entire conversation, wondering why in force's name, would they talk this loudly."
"If they were endanger of being over heard until it hit me, they wanted to make sure I heard this, so they can implicate me for murder. Saying I knew that it was broken, but I never said anything to the adult quartet or to Darra, and why not come to me. So here's a question for you, but you know me, why would I do that, Owen, why?" he asked him and Shmi crossed her arms as Owen answered that with a disgusted look on his face.
Looking at the duo that caused his brother to turn, that cost their mother and sister their lives and destroyed their family, Owen, Beru and Sola looked at the duo in disgust then. "Fair enough question, when I first met you, I saw everything that I wanted for Padme at the time now, but kind, honest, caring. For years, Padme told me and our parents what kind of person you are, you never showed that ruthless ambition in you ever."
"You would never set someone up at the cost of the lives of the entire team, and just to prove someone is not all they make themselves out to be." Sola said and Owen nodded in agreement to that. "Yes I agree with her, for years ever since mom and dad married, mom always talked about you, telling us everything as she gave us a gentle picture. And of who you are, the good person you are, the fact that you were beyond selfless."
"I saw everything in you that demonstrated the man you really are from the age we are now to our young adult selves. But seeing you that day, everything she told me was set in stone, but I saw a more set determination in you. Was it because of Darra, you lost Darra and you're not losing mom next and not this soon right now, after losing her?" Owen asked and he nodded to him and he crossed his arms as he finished his remark.
"The bond we didn't have in their timeline, it's feeling as though you are more then my adopted family, but really my brother. I know you so well that I know you would never pull a stunt like this and you trying to pull it together. Before your fears over mom hit you and complete the prophecy, but the last blow to the heart you take. Is you surpassing Ben in skills, but come on, why would you do something this cruel and bloodthirsty."
"You wouldn't, you would turn that in that information immediately, but you would never set him up to take the fall like this at the expense of the entire team." he said and Qui-Gon nodded in agreement. "Indeed, know you I do, not do something cruel just to prove not the model student, he is. Be a good padawan and turn him in for not immediately telling us, your mentors, that lightsaber broken, it is." Yoda said gently and he nodded.
"You would never do that, I know you baby, you would never do something this bloodthirsty just to prove he's not as noble as he says he is." Shmi said and Qui-Gon, Padme and and his friends from Tatooine all nodded in agreement to that. "Yeah well that's where you're going to kill them both guys, because they made that implication. That I risked the lives of the entire team just to prove he's a failure now."
"And even if that means I would want him to get in trouble, even if it meant exposing him, Tru, in the fact that his lightsaber was broken now. But that remark crossed a line they can not take back right now, I told you the truth that day. First telling the quartet, before calling the 15 of you and Master Tolan, before we decided on a couse of action even before the second half of the misson started." Anakin told them and they nodded.
"And you did turn him into us now, as we waited for him to come forward that day, you did the right thing, like you were supposed to. But his lying to us and Siri and Ry's that was their own doing they killed Darra, you tried, but it was their fault. And they admit to it after the mission was over and the damage is done and not until she's gone. Now does he do it, he broke the code, you didn't." Mace said and he nodded sadly to him at that.
"They destroyed me in that one second, I was in denial, but I just got over Master's death and then I lose Darra, I couldn't believe it now. I wanted her back, I was thinking of anyway I could to bring her back, but she was gone. Do they understand the meaning of grief or broken heart?" he asked and the council nodded gently. "You'd been in denial for seven months leading into your mandate." Adi said in realization and he nodded.
"In denial for seven months and then suddenly the anger goes into the pain of mom's loss and both together combine together as it slaughters the raiders that killed her!" Owen said in shock and he nodded to him. "Bingo, that's what happened, you know it, prior to being a Jedi I grew up one of you, you know this. My adult life after you thought I died, is crystal clear, but from this to age to Dooku's death, at my hands, now."
"It's so blurry I can't remember who it started with, who the people responsible were, or who the catalyst that fertilized that slowly growing plant until it bloomed. It's going to take time, but I have to remember where and when, who and why." he said and the council nodded. "That's our only chance to prevent him from destroying you again, you need to pin down the who, what, when and where." Adi said and he nodded to her softly.
"Yes Master, but the pieces necessary to unlock the true cause for my turning, we got the who and where, and the why, but the what, as in what reason they had to pull this. This stunt is still hard to figure out, but I am a council member, you. And Ben are my fellow council members, but my council was, during that last few days of the war. It was Mace, Kit, Plo, Saasee, Agen, Shaak Tii, Master, Ki, Eeth, Depa, Yareal and Stass."
"And in addition to Ben and me, but I missed you ever since Maul killed you the year before, but frankly this was much easier now. The stupid fool wanted to be on the council so he had access to the archives, the restricted section of them. Honestly, if I told all of you the following morning, none of that would have happened right now. And secondly, being able to train without distractions, but two side of me, one evil, the other good."
"I needed some way, anyway, to bring both sides of me together as one, I needed a way to balance both sides of me and two and more importantly. I have to unlock who it started with: did it start with mom, Halla, Master Yaddle, father, Darra, or Siri. I can't remember, I need a way to break through the fog in my memories. And secondly, I have to remember who the culprits that caused it are." he said and the council nodded to him.
"Was it the duo, Dooku, or even Sidious, that's the problem, I never forgave them, I can't remember, but this is what Luke meant, search my feelings. I have to remember who the catalyst and the culprits were, once I do that, if he wakes up at the same time. I can do what Daniel did and lock him back up, for good, before we clone him. Because I got the people that matter most to me back." he said and the two master guardians nodded.
"Anakin start from the very beginning the conversation you overheard from them and we go forward from there. And as we go forward from there now, the rewrite is from chapter whichever when you heard the conversation. As Qui-Gon says it for real and we go forward from there, so pretend you just turned 19 now." Mace said and Anakin nodded to the order then gently as he started it at that as Mace said it sternly to the duo.
"There is going to be no debate on this, either you do it or you're being expelled right now and sent home to your parents." Tiana said sternly and they swallowed and nodded As Anakin pretended he was walking into the room at that. As he heard a gentle conversation as he stood there. "I noticed it, that droid must have pulverized your power circuit." he said and Tru nodded in a worried response as he answered him.
"It slips back into half power without warning." he said and Anakin sat down at that remark in shock. 'Tru's lightsaber must have been damaged in the battle, but why didn't you tell Ry', an apprentice is oblibated to tell his or her master. If a lightsaber was damaged, why didn't you tell the quartet?' Anakin asked softly as he said this aloud for their benefit and for the 18 gently as he heard the answer.
"I knew I should have gone to Ry' Gaul, but he is so correct, he might leave me out of battle situations, or even send me back to the temple." he said and Anakin nodded. "Ry would be well within his rights to do, if your lightsaber is permanently damaged. After all, you don't want to meet a Sith without a lightsaber.' he said, before he heard that repeated and by Ferus and shook his head.
And with a bemused smile. 'Typical, Ferus always had to inform you of rules, you knew by heart, well at least we're on the same page right now.' he thought as his remark was repeated. "If your lightsaber is permanently damaged, Ry Gaul would be well within his rights to do. After all, you don't want to meet a Sith without a lightsaber." he said and then heard the next remark then gently at that statement.
"No kidding, this mission is crucial, that's why I can't be sent back, I just thought if I could fix it without having to tell Ry Gaul..., look. I know I wouldn't be the first or second candidtate to enter the acceleration program. You or Anakin would will be the first, maybe Darra would be third, but I don't want to be left behind." he told him and Anakin gently thumped his head to that news.
And against the wall at that, as he said it firmly. "Tru, your advancement is not the reason we're here." he said as Ferus repeated that to. "Tru, your advancement is not the reason we're here." he said gently and they heard the next. "That's not what I mean, I want to be with my fellow Jedi, because we all know darkness is coming, we need every Jedi, I want to be there." he said and Anakin nodded softly.
"We all do, Tru." Anakin said gently as Ferus repeated his remark for a third time at that as there was a ten minute pause before he finished. "Alright I fixed it, you shouldn't be having anymore problem, your power cell needs to be boosted." he said and Anakin straightened up at that remark sternly then. 'If Ferus had worked on the power cell, that means you have to check the flux aperture again.'
'And just to make sure, I tweaked it before, but it might need a slight adjustment, to compensate for the power boost. And anyway it would be wise to double check, I better tell him that.' he said, and just as he was getting ready to do so, he heard a question. "Why didn't you ask Anakin to fix it, he is better at this, then I am?" he asked and he heard a sigh then to that remark as he said it to him.
"He was busy with Obi-wan." Tru said and Anakin crossed his arms. 'More like you know that I do it, I would tell them anyway that the repairs may not hold up, blast it. If your advancement is the reason for that remark, I'm turning you in right now. Friendship be damned, I am not risking the team's safety to keep your secret.' Anakin thought sternly to that remark as he heard Ferus's remark then.
"I don't see any reason to tell Ry Gaul, now that it's fixed, come on we better get back." he said and Mace held up his hand and nodded sternly. "And that is exactly what I want to hear, never mind friendship, the safety of the team comes first right now. Your way to keep the team together was what would have saved the entire team. His destroyed it and in the end it destroys you." Tolan said and Yoda nodded sternly to that.
"Indeed, be my padawan and do the right thing, protect the team, you were, and by turning them into us and the rest of the council as well as your own mentors. Pass honesty test in that one second you did, understand that wanted to win. But my you won out like always and made me proud you did, Anakin, nicely done." Yoda told him and Mace nodded as the quartet crossed their arms sternly as Qui-Gon nodded to him.
"Keep going from there, as from here it's the rewrite if I commed you before this ever happened and resulted in destroying our you." he said and Anakin nodded to him. 'He's with Obi-wan why would that matter unless..., oh no, Obi-wan is held in very high esteem by the council. He comes to me, and though I fix it, I would tell the quartet the repairs might not last, as they report this to the council, oh Tru.'
'I'm going to have to tell them that anyway right now, for the safety of the team. I can't lie to them and I won't, you may have repaired the damage, but there is possibly work that still needs to be done on it, turn it on.' Anakin thought softly as he heard it and carefully focused on the frequency tones of the crystal connection to the flux aperture and the power cell ar that as he opened his mind then.
Hearing it go up and go back down, he nodded softly as they heard heard the tune go up and down. 'Yeah it still needs work done on it, if it needs a new crystal then so be it right now. But we can wait to arrest them, what matters more is the safety of the team, so we can delay the arrest right now. The arrest can wait a few weeks, what matters more is making sure we all make it back home alive now."
'Duty to the truth or duty to my friends, if I don't tell the council and the quartet immediately. I left home so I could learn to protect the people I love, use my knowledge for defense, never to attack. Mind everything I learned, it can save me, don't give into anger and hate. As that way leads to the darkside, I'm only human, I'm like everyone else, to be angry, to be human, to control the anger.'
'That is to be a Jedi now, that's the key, one side or the other, but I continue to live separate lives it's going to destroy me, I lived in both worlds equally. That's the key, I have to talk to Obi-wan and the council later on, it maybe time for the code to change. I don't have to leave the Jedi, but it's time, it's time to return to the real world again, it's also time I told the duo what he said to me.
'But not lying, I'm not lying to them ever, never ever, you want to hate me you two, go ahead. But so long as our mentors and Darra are not killed, and we all come home alive, that's all that matters right now. I will never lie to either of them ever you two, as I know that if I do right now. And they will never trust me again, and even mom would be disappointed, no, no, no, no, no.'
'No, I can't do that to them or her, them or my parents, Obi-wan and the council, I won't lie.' he thought to himself then as he closed his eyes as he saw her face more clearly then ever. At that as he saw the proud smile on her face at his winning the race then. Their talk, and every other memory from his life on Tatooine, as it starting coming even faster, as it landed on a single memory, as he saw for the first time then.
His parental mentor, Qui-Gon, as he heard his voice for the first time in years as he thought it over then gently as he heard a tone loaded with love at that. 'I understand Anakin it's hard choice, but a choice that must be made. But you grew up telling the truth, to Mace, Obi-wan, Yoda, and now they want you to lie. You remember you always told the truth even before I found you, and Darra is right.'
"That no matter how many years go by you're still the boy I remember when I found you. Remember that, you are still the young pilot I found, the young boy who raced for what was right back then. The boy that I learned was a Jedi, remember.' he heard and he closed his eyes as the tears came out then. 'I love you father, I miss you.' he thought back to him and he heard a gentle tone in his voice.
'I love you too son, I'm very proud of you, of the man you have become, so stay that way, remember." he said and Anakin nodded as he thought it gently as he thought it to himself gently at that as they heard him then. 'He's right, I can't lie, I never could before, so why should I start now, and knowing that. If I do, they can't trust me again, no, so to him, what difference does it make right now.
'And at the moment now, but I have to do the right thing, I'm a Jedi, a Jedi does not lie. You and Ferus, you want me to make a choice, well Ferus, time's up, I made my choice I'm telling Obi-wan now.' he thought to himself at that as he thought it over carefully at that. 'Well things changed thanks to Master Yaddle and Zan Arbor, but what changed exactly?' he thought and then straightened then.
'Is that it, while one friendship started getting weaker, well the other got stronger. Said stronger, Darra is my entire world, she is my life right now, my best friend. Who matters more to me, I love Darra with everything in me, she's my best friend, if I never see Padme again. I can move on with Darra now, but if not, I have two girls who matter most to me, and my family is all one kind.'
"But red and blue, what does that mean exactly, they told me the meaning of the colors. But red and blue, I'm carrying a case of instability in me, and at the same time, fighting to control that fear in my heart. And right now, it's a matter of what is showing in my heart, what is happening to me right now. That I'm afraid to lose someone I love, that I'm going to turn to the darkside."
'What if that fear is the meaning in everytime I cross swords with a red lightsaber. That I have to face my fears, let them help me control that fear. I never got around to telling them what I saw in that image when I built my first lightsaber, is that what it is? What am I, if I've been afraid of this ever since, well if there is one way to find out I got to take it to Siri, she, Adi Mace.'
'She is the sister I always wanted, and I love her and Soara, like they're my big sisters. Obi-wan my brother, and Garen and Ry' two more brothers, even Minga she is my sister. I have family in the Jedi, so one option to keep my family in one piece, I have to tell them the truth, so Tru. Or Obi-wan and the council, Obi-wan, it's Obi-wan and it always will be him, father would want this anyway.'
'That I tell them the truth, duty to the truth or duty to my friends, I have to tell the truth, for the safety of the team to protect us, it's duty to the truth.' he thought as he sat there softly at that. As he thought over what he heard from them and the frequency in the tones from inside it then. He realized it quickly and his heart skipped several beats as he realized the problem at that as he said it softly to the realization.
"Master would you see this as the acceleration programs clouded their judgement, because I heard them discussing this. But Tru also said I'm with Obi-wan as well right now, would you say this suggests, now. That they consider me the enemy, because our team is hold in very high esteem by Master and the council?" he asked in a whisper and he heard tone as he heard stern tone.
'Yes, but like any good padawan you did what needed to be done, I know everything. The planet that created your future as it is right now, created the reason you were meant to bring balance. And to the force now, but lay out the clues in what the prophecy really means, Padawan. You already mastered everything Obi-wan taught you, it's time you went to advanced training.'
'And under the council, Mace and Adi can cover that, as you invest more time in learning everything that resulted in destroying you in the end. But listen to me, the future is never certain, you must trust in the force now. Anakin, the future is not set, there is no fate, on the planet these boks came from there was a time traveling movie, that had that.' he told him and Anakin nodded as he closed his eyes.
'Master Yoda could not see my future, but he said my future was clouded, that must mean that he can't see the future, okay. The future is not set, there is no fate but what we make for ourselves now.'. I can trust in the force and let things play out and I stay myself forever and for life now as a result. Or I do something about it and it destroys me in the end that's the key point now.'
'Fear, anger, hate, how does that lead to the darkside unless..., fear to lose something leads to desperation, desperation, I get it. Okay, fear to lose something leads to desperation to prevent it. Desperation leads to anger and annyance at the obstacles preventing it, anger leads to hate that it happened. And hate that took it from you leads to, in the black out now, a trauma.'
'As you do something you can never take back, Nomi, thanks Master Vima, I needed that, you are my one chance to save myself. And from my own fears and desperation at the moment, it's been five years since I saw my friends. Time to go home, I made a promise and I stand by that promise right now. Well time to go home now, no rush to graduate, want to stay a padawan a bit longer."
'I have to trust in myself, and the force, that's the key now, my instincts were always so good, before. But I let my emotions take control that also destroys me in the end. No, no I can't let that happen, I can change things now as do something about this now. But that way is my one chance, if I take this and do this now, I can stop what the future holds for me altogether right now.
Said going to the wrong person in how to save her, my mother or Padme if I get reunited now, I have to trust in the force, I'm only human I love them: my friends and family with everything in me, that's the key, I release my fears and I truly am the moniker they called me, whatever it is.' he said to himself and he nodded to that as he turned to Qui-Gon and for guidance then gently at that.
'Father, I've been studying lightsaber lore ever since Zan Arbor came back into the picture, is this something only I can prevent. And by turning it into Obi-wan, before the lightsaber gives completely here. And one of us is killed if it shorts out, because I'm not holding this back right now. And definitely not from the trio at the moment if we're this close here at the moment here now.'
'But is ending the mission now worth saving the team and keeping our team in one piece. Make one change in my past and everything in the future changes in the process now?' he asked and he heard a gentle tone to that as he considered that change and then saw himself and a young man next to him. Standing side by side with the same smile, the same body stance and wearing the same set of robes then.
On the book as he saw Padme and a young woman that looked just like her, as he saw a young pilot, a black man that looked like a younger version of Damon. A wookie and his protocol droid and a blue astrodroid and nodded as he got it. 'I change this moment, this day in the past and that opens up my future in that book. My family, my son in law and his friends, that's in 26 years.' he thought in shock to that as he got it.
"Freeze it, so if you changed that day, this would be us now, as our family was intact, I was part of the family as the adopted brother." Lando said and he nodded,. "And that's your brother and me, after seven years of training, before I took him to Master Yoda. And for advanced training right now son, but you are a member of the family, son." Anakin said and he nodded smiling as the quartet exchanged smiles at that remark.
'Yes, but remember now, you never changed all that much you're still you, though it's been 10 years with you turning 20 soon as a result now. You never lied to me, or Obi-wan, Adi and Siri, even the council, before, so why start now, I know you. You would never hold something this serious back to prove he is not as noble as he wants to show he is.' he said and Anakin nodded in agreement.
And to that remark firmly then. 'No I wouldn't, in fact I would turn this in immediately and when my relationship. And with my parents, if mom got married, but her, Obi-wan and the council are at stake here. But I never lied before and why start now, Obi-wan knew this about me. As did you and the council, and three years together, part of the training, I was a Jedi now."
"Before I became a Jedi, but Siri said she knew Obi-wan well at the time, but how is the question now, who are you and Obi-wan to her and Master Adi. Who is Mace to you and Obi-wan, friends what,and leading into now. I couldn't keep this from him and Siri and not if my theory is confirmed, In regarding that lightsaber right now, the blow to it possibly damaged the crystal that's true.'
"And it needs more work on it anyway, you guys, are you out of your blasted minds. You may have adjusted the frequency output, but it still needs further work on it right now. I can't keep this from them I have to tell them now.' he said quickly to himself as he pulled a manual out then as he checked it, studying lightsaber lore, he got a thrill out of learning from it, as the adults hid a smile then.
Knowing as a mechanic, he could build them easily and wanted to create one set to his own specifications then. And knowing like any mechanic he was unmatched in maintenance and other areas of it. He knew if he got it right, it was his only chance to prevent that flaw from destroying their team as he read through it. Seeing what it said regarding his primary thoughts he nodded, as he pulled a pen out then firmly and did it.
And circled the words as he sat there, thinking it over carefully he circled it, before something appeared on the floor, picking it up. Seeing an image of himself with Obi-wan standing in front of him. 'Father, is this from you?' he asked and he heard a gentle tone. 'I had some help from the planet that came from, but think about it, in why would they talk about it, this loudly.' he heard and nodded to the instructions.
As a second book appeared at that with one of the chapter marked as he saw which one, before seeing the word effect, in bold letters and underlined three times. "Change that moment in time and Sidious loses everything as he is rigging the game. And with loaded chance cubes at the moment, the cause is this mission and the effect. The effect is the tribe that was killed by Vader, 8 monthe later." Lando snapped as he got it then sternly.
As Anakin opened the other book, in the end of the story and saw the word cause, in the same way. As he looked between them and thought it over. 'Cause and effect, cause and effect, why would that make me brush the darkside here.' he thought as he tried to crack the code and Luke nodded as he got it as Han did the same at that. 'Anakin though only two weeks, I know you better then you know yourself.'
'I understand you, and you understand what I taught you. Obi-wan and you patched up your relationship we're a team trio now, but remember, from start to end we were a trio, we all had our jobs. You are a Jedi apprentice it is your duty, to me as your mentor, to Obi-wan and the council, to the trio and their mentors, to tell us this: Remember, I know your personality inside and out.'
you would never do what they are trying to make it sound like here. But you would be a model padawan and turn them in for lying that it was broken, you knew it was broken.' Qui-Gon told him as Anakin checked the next to last chapter and felt his heart tear. 'They knew it was broken and as it shorted out during the fight, they knew it would, they knew.' they heard him thinking as he lifted his head then.
'Why would they be talking that loudly about it if they knew I was listening unless..., oh no, no not going to happen. Alright you just got caught in the act here, you two. You honestly think that Obi-wan would not take this seriously when I tell him this right now, well if you think that. You are both out of your blasted minds, implication for attempted murder, you're too late Ferus.'
'The games are over, I warned you and that warning is now a promise.' he thought sternly as he stood up at that as he put it away as, charging up to the cockpit, at that, as he arrived in time to find the duo also standing there and nodded sternly as he said it loudly as it got Obi-wan's attention at his stern tone to them. "Talking a bit too loudly, were we there, guys?" he asked and they looked at him in shock at that.
"Well instead of what you expect, there's going to be hell to pay when this mission ends and I mean that." he said and they swallowed as he watched as they tried to hide it. "Honestly you two, did you want me to over hear you right now, did you want me to hear you so when it breaks down you can give it. The implication to your mentors, to our parental mentors, that I knew."
"And never told them immediately, because if you did, if you intended that as I got ready to say it. You just screwed up your chance, because I'm telling the trio right now on that. And don't think I won't hold back on Adi, Damon and Tiana as well at the moment, bit you listen to me right now. I love your parental mentors like they are own my own family Ferus, Tru, my own is dead."
"And because of the Sith that just attacked me in there, but the council know this on me now. You ever lose someone you love, not a member of the council, but your own master, do you love Adi and Siri. Tiana and Ry', do you love your mentor and parental mentors, do you. I can't lie to my own and the council, I won't, ever." he said and the duo paled at that remark as Obi-wan said it then.