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 52: Jedi Quests And Young Jedi Knights IX: The Final Showdown IV
"Well that crossed a line, as this is, if he was normal, a matter of a true case of duty to the truth, and never mind duty to your friends." Han said as he and Lando crossed their arms as Leia and Luke nodded in agreement in disgust then. "So to them you're a traitor is that it, why, because you never tell them your feelings. And in your words: they're overly critical, they never listen, they just don't understand."
"And if this continues in the same direction it's heading it's all: they're fault, they're jealous, they're holding you back?" Obi-wan asked and he nodded. "You just nailed it completely Master, that is it exactly." he said and his mentor nodded sternly to that remark as he looked at the duo at that with a firm, but stern look. "What does it matter you never tell them what goes on in your therapy sessions."
"And not since Thracia retired, it's none of their business anyway, it's between us and Mace. So tell me you two, why should he even tell you what's going on, when all you're going to do is twist the words right now. But the truth is between us: us mentors of your mentoring quartet, himself and the council and until he unloads it to someone outside of the temple right now anyway here."
"Tell me young man, what do you know about love and compassion, aside from the fact that attachment is forbidden in the code as it is now. And possession is forbidden as well, these two are, but compassion now. Which I would define as unconditional love, this is essential to a Jedi's life so we are encouraged to love. So you might say we are encouraged to love and for the record you two."
"I too lived a non force sensitive life on Melida/Daan and I understand this like he does, but then our teacher was Qui-Gon Jinn. He followed in my footsteps and became a wise young Jedi, one that never had to show off to me. And just to show he had something to prove here, as he kept the good in his heart. And to the point he made me more then proud of him these last three years."
"He got the point to that and he grew up with love and compassion all his life, what does it matter he loves me as more then a mentor, but a older brother." Obi-wan asked him sternly and they swallowed hard to that as Anakin smiled at him. "More like I see you as everything I ever needed: best friend/mentor/brother/ adoptive father, so what does it matter here that we bend the rules."
"It doesn't mean we're turning to the darkside all it means is we got the most out of what Father taught us, and we are very wise young men. We made him proud of us now, by showing that we stuck to our principles and we never show off to the council for special treatment." he said and Obi-wan nodded to him with a smile. "Love you Master." he added and Obi-wan answered him in kind gently then.
"Love too you my padawan." he said and they swallowed hard at that."Issues as mentors and Jedi we train the next generation and he's, my Master. But our generation, mine, had the added problems to deal with. And though you maybe trying to show off to me, to get my attention back on you. It won't work at all, I am not abandoning him for you." Obi-wan said and Ferus paled at that remark.
"I'd hate to be the idiot that actually tries that right now, because I'm the only one of us who's mentor is a member of the council. As such our teams have been partners since I was 11 now." Siri said and Anakin nodded as he answered her. "And that is why they never came to me for helping in repairs at the moment, reason being is I'd tell you my repairs to his lightsaber may not hold up."
"Reason being the crystal itself was damaged and it needs more work done on it, and I'm trying to protect the team." he said and she nodded as Tru said it in shock to that. "And that is exactly what I want to hear from you, the true honesty and dedication to protecting the team, as one damaged lightsaber. It can effect us all and enough that we need to pull and so it can get more work done on it,
"But showing the compassion and honesty, and you and Qui-Gon taught me this. That is the very essence of what it means to be a Jedi and a Jedi apprentice, the way of the apprentice." Obi-wan said smiling and they swallowed hard as he answered him gently as he said it then. "So telling you immediately keeps your trust and with you the entire council right now, I get off light by telling you immediately."
"But they continue holding back and it's getting them called before the council and in front of their own mentors: parental mentors. And whatever is involved in this test, if this is the last piece to make it to the trials acceleration program." he said and the quartet nodded and the duo swallowed hard to that remark as Obi-wan answered him, as he looked at the relaxed demeanor in Anakin and nodded gently.
"Yes, that's the last piece to make it to the acceleration ceremonies, but your advancement is not the reason we're here. And you got the point to that from the second you decided to give up your shot to arrest them. And taking in the fact you and Darra are hurt, you with a concussion. And her with several lacerations across her arm, you followed orders and pulled out immediately."
"You passed our test and Adi's, we did this before, so what is that in your pocket?" he asked and Anakin pulled out the blaster. "I grabbed this in the cave Master, but there are two initials on this cartridge pack: A and I." he said and Siri took it and opened it. "A and I, Arbor Industries, well Obi-wan, I believe we both know what this cartridge contains." she said and he nodded as he hugged him.
"The poison she used to arrest Noor and Qui-Gon, if we hadn't ended it and you would be next, if our Sith was also here. Nice work Anakin, that was the break we needed to call off this mission, this mission ends on our time. And not on their's, I'm very proud of you, you showed the exact mind of a Jedi. Just by showing that to us, you made me proud." he said and Anakin smiled at him gently.
"So with those words in mind Padawan, so why call you a traitor for that, in being a model padawan?" he asked and they paled at that. "Well you read my thoughts out loud, their advancement is not the reason we're here. But we're all exhausted and injured, we pull out, we get another chance later. But right now we need to go home, and I got to report into the others at the current moment."
"But the masters need to know that the Sith is here, and we need to recuperate from our injuries right now." he said and their mentors nodded in approval to his way of thinking then gently at that as Obi-wan said it. "Following orders, you exercising the fact that you get a second chance, but we need to regroup. And until you're fully recovered: the four of you now, are completely recovered from this."
"The duo and their Sith comrade can wait a few weeks to a month, making sure we recover from this situation matters more. And even more important now is this question: Is that turning to the darkside. Honestly, no, but all it shows is that you're showing patience and patience is essential. And to being a true Jedi knigh, you're showing the true Jedi you are by having patience in waiting."
"For the right moment to strike, and reporting a problem with a fellow student's lightsaber is there is one and most of all. Is being honest right now to us as your mentors, is with us the council and their parental mentors. That is the true essence of being a padawan and Jedi right now, you're ready now, Anakin." he said and they swallowed hard at that as he answered him as he looked at the duo.
"So is showing compassion at the fact we can wait about arresting them against the code, when a Jedi's first rule in life is to survive, Darra got a hit and has two lacerations to the arm, Tru is also hurt, I have a concussion. Isn't it part of the code that the team comes first, we need time to recover. And from our injuries, is that against the code, to have patience?" he asked and they shook their heads.
"No it's not, in fact that's showing the true wisdom of being a real master and Jedi, we have to have patience and wait. But showing compassion is essential in a situation like this, Master knew he had to get me medical attention when he wanted to go after Tahl. But he knew I needed time, before we kept going, just like I know you and Darra need time, though I want to go after him."
"And you do to, we have to think about the team first, so we have patience and wait, as we leave the planet and go home as we report in. But that's the true essence of being a Jedi knight, patience is a virtue, and we have to regroup. So with that, you passed another test: just to stop and work through these things. Most of all, and you need to rest." he said and Anakin nodded as he said it to that.
"Thank you, that is exactly the point to what you and father taught me from the time we met now compassion is essential to a Jedi. But we both had an attachment and it made us strong from the time we connected to father." he said and Obi-wan nodded to that and the new title. "I take it you mean Qui-Gon by that new title Anakin?" he asked and Anakin nodded and he nodded with a gentle smile.
At the news as he looked into his eyes as he answered him gently at that question. "Yes our trios are our family, Qui-Gon is a Jedi parent, you the oldest. And me the youngest, he is our father, so if father was here now and with him, mother. They would say stop and wait, and I will, patience is a virtue so we stop, rest and recover and then keep going." he said and Siri chuckled as she answered him.
"Jedi Mother and Father: Qui-Gon and Adi, that makes us your brother and sister." she said and he nodded to her. "Yeah and I loved you like a sister from the second you told me the truth, big sister, I have three: you, Soara and Minga. You and the girls, the same: Garen, Ry' brothers my clan group is family, but parents, brothers and sisters and we protect our family, by having patience."
"And ending this mission now, before someone gets hurt, so duty to the truth, I tell the truth, get to stay and continue to train, lie you can never trust me again. So choice is made, I choose and chose you all along, it's you and the council, mom and it will always be you." he said and they nodded smiling. "So you're a traitor now, is that it?" Tru asked in shock to that and he crossed his arms at that.
"Traitor, that's how you see me, why, because I love our mentors like they are my family. The Jedi are family, I see our mentors as family, I love them like a brother and son to his parents, big brothers wnd sisters. And to you I am a traitor, why, because I never lied to them before and I will not start now. Is that why I'm a traitor in your eyes you two, duty to the truth, the first duty."
"I am a model Jedi, why, because I never lied to them, not once and I never show off to them, ever. Sure I get in trouble every once in while, but that doesn't change anything, at all. But the council loves me like a son, Obi-wan and Siri, like a brother and son rolled into one since Krayne now. Who's the traitor here exactly Tru, if you think like this now, my loyalty is to my mentor."
"And the trio, Darra and to the council and my parents, my parents, my mother remarried, I have Jedi parents though my father is gone. If you said that about me, you made it, your feelings, clear, if I'm with them and I'm the enemy." he said and they paled at that remark. "That's not what I meant, Anakin." he said in shock and Ry' crossed his arms at that as Obi-wan answered that as he crossed his own.
"Love you too, padawan." he said and Anakin smiled at that and the duo paled at that. "Yeowch, if I was him I would just tell you the truth, before you busted them in front of the quartet right now dad." Han said and Lando nodded as he sat next to his grandfather at that. "Love compassion, virtue and honesty are the powers of the chosen one, my powers come from love and trust, so tell me, how can you be a Jedi."
"And when you show such bloodthirsty thoughts of possession, lust, crazy jealousy and hate. Where I come from that is a need for a trip to a mental institution as you flipped out finally. Because you want everything I have, the mentor, the trust and attention of the council, and most of all Darra, Ferus? I don't care about the commendations, all I care is about keeping their trust."
"You lost it finally out of jealousy and crossed the line between now here so tell me, tell them how is it that I'm a traitor. Just because I show who I was to my mentor, your mentors and the council, doesn't mean I'm better then you. I never was, my power, my redemption comes from within, I am not a traitor, you are." he said softly and they swallowed hard at that as that got the quartet's attention .
"He said what exactly Padawan, as I know you?" Obi-wan asked slowly and they paled at that. "He said and I quote 'I'm with Obi-wan', hearing that I knew what he was really saying. Is I've been beyond loyal to you since we met at the time now, but at the time. And since the test activated, I chose to stay with you as you gave me an order right now as I got a concussion here and you know it."
"That's the problem, he thinks I deserted them, when I was with you at the time." he said and his mentor nodded sternly to that news at the remark as he answered him. "You're with me, I gave you an order to stay with me, and though I knew you wanted to keep going, you followed orders Anakin. You okay, my brother, how's that head, is it still hurting right now?" he asked and Anakin nodded to him.
"The headache hasn't stopped, since we regrouped Master, in fact it's only getting worse, not like the force lightning. I feel like someone hit me with a rock, but considering I got thrown into one. I think he gave me a second degree concussion, but between that, Darra's arm and the laceration on his. That is enough in my eyes to call it quits." he said and his mentor nodded to him gently.
"And you already had a concussion to begin with you needed a chance to recover in case that blow to the head lead to something worse. But that attitude that you chose to stay with me, that is not tolerated, and I will not tolerate that attitude right now." he said and turned to the duo who were both looking at him in a panic at that remark as he said it in a warning tone at that remark then firmly.
"So if he's with me, then he's the enemy, is that it, why, tell me why is he the enemy, because he can not follow in a little white lie. That he grew up with honesty, before he met me at the time or is it. You were hoping that he gets called out and kicked out of the order for lying?" he said with a low, but stern growl at him then they swallowed hard at that as he went further at that remark sternly.
"I don't give a damn why you said that it doesn't matter young man, but what does is he followed my direct orders. Because if he hadn't and he'd have been captured by our Sith and learn who he is. And sooner then we needed to right now, Master said so." he said and Tru quickly said it. "Master I swear it's not what I meant." he said and Anakin said it sternly then as he looked at him then sternly.
"Oh no, well can you give us another reason right now to why you'd say this, if I'm not this close to the council or to Obi-wan. My team is the reason everyone lost focus, Master inspired us to show compassion. He also made me remember who I was and I got another reminder of that. And by running into my friends there at the games, that helps, and he's the reason the quartet are like this."
"Our parental mentors are the generation training us from the time we left the nursery, so tell me. In fact tell him, and them, your mentors, but tell them, in how is that I'm a traitor, because I act more like him right now. He, who is under such high esteem by the council, but loyalty. That is the big one for me, as loyalty is everything, and how do you suppose Padme is going to take it."
"She's a Jedi loyalist, as is Bail Organa, Mon Mothma, Crix Madine, Carlist Reeikan, and Admiral Ackbar. All Jedi loyalists, this situation that we're in right now, about to be in now. It presents a failure to listen, we should be talking and not going to war, but to us. And in ten months we're at war you two, and we're going to be at war and with our Sithmaster later on and I don't need this."
"But you just sided with the enemy by saying that, right now, on the planet our doubles come from, this is considered temptation?" Anakin told them and they paled at that remark in shock. "Bit simple don't you think, I'm a Jedi, my loyalty is to the rebellion, to democracy. And I'm trying to end a dictatorship in the future and you sided with the dictatorship." he said and they swallowed hard at that news.
"This dictatorship is allied with a Sith and one that we've been hunting down ever since the Zabrk murdered my own parental mentor. But no, our Sithmaster slaughtered the Jedi to start a dictatorship now at this moment. That book says it all, future generations the aliens in the separatists. They were destroyed by their own lust for power, and you know what the true cause to this really is."
"You turned me into a Sithlord, because you started a worry that I carried to turn into an obsession and one that starts taking countless lives." he said and they paled at that remark as he went further at that. "I'm a traitor, don't think so, you are the traitors, part of the dark Jedi, the Sith Empire. If you think that, and what your plans are for me." he said and they backed into the wall at that remark.
"Sith, you think we're Sith now?" Ferus said in shock and he nodded. "Yeah I do, my loyalty is to the Jedi, to the rebellion against the Sith Empire, to my parents, the girls I love. As well as our mentors, and most of all to my own." he said and their mentors crossed their arms. "I'm a Jedi, my loyalty is to the Jedi, my parents, the girls I love, and the rebellion that my wife, Senator Padme Amidala."
"She is a Jedi loyalist and helps in creating with the other senators right now. All of which know my babies, my twins all their lives, the only safe place to hide my baby boy is my home planet. With my brother, sister-in-law and my father, and Obi-wan knows this, that Tatooine holds many bad memories and he's safe till the loyalist committee calls him back." he said and the older man nodded softly.
"What's happening to you, I never heard you sound like this before?" he asked and Anakin nodded as he said it with a sigh. "It's because father talked some sense into me, before the point of no return now. But I'm back, the me you know is in full control now, but Padme is creating, or is about to create. A group known as the Rebel Alliance, that alliance is dedicated to stopping our Sithmaster."
"And his dictatorship." he said and the trio nodded in shock to the news. "The upcoming debate in the senate between now and when we see Padme again is the smoke screen as is the war. That follows it, is really a Jedi trap, by just fighting it, we're being destroyed one by one, the darkside is pulsing so hard. It's clouding everything, that we don't realize what the heck is going on here."
"And till I get the truth and by then all of you but Garen, Bant and Reeft are dead." he said and they nodded in shock as his mentor pulled him into a hug. "You never lost me, but by then he gets me off the planet and out of the way, before he reveals himself to you. And by then it's already too late as we never saw this coming, is that it?" Obi-wan asked and Anakin nodded as he admitted it then to him.
And as the tears started pouring down his face. "And that's when you lose me, he finally got me in the end, for years everything. That I believed was a lie, his non force sensitive name is someone I knew, though his clue to us is the decoder." he said and Obi-wan nodded as looked into his eyes. "It's okay, I'm never letting him get to you, he wants you, and he's getting to you over my dead body now."
"Well that explains why he slammed you into the wall he didn't want you knowing who he was too soon right now. It's not just me, but the only members of the council left are me and Master, that it?" he asked and Anakin nodded gently. "Yeah and you and Master decide to train my son yourselves, to get me back and kill him: Our Sithmaster, whoever the Sith is, but we both know this,
"I could never turn whatsoever, we only lost two people in 10 years and I never lost everyone. But again the only way that could happen, if I turned finally, it wouldn't happen, unless..." he said and the older man nodded sternly. "Unless it meant saving us from whatever at the current moment here. But you want to save us, then stay yourself, if Master spoke to you through the void."
"Then that is the power that this Sith is offering you, we can learn it, in the way Master learned it, and you stay yourself. As the you we all know, but don't change to save us, us, your mother or the girls, Anakin, listen to me. The force is strong in your family we knew this already, but one member. One member of your family is clear, one twin turned one didn't we had a chance here."
"Only one who turned is enough, but the galaxy, from one end of it to the other. It would never stand a chance if your children turned as well, blast it, whoever the hell this is that this Sith is. He's never getting near you or the twins, I would give my life to protect them and Padme if you got married, that promise, I'm keeping it Anakin." he said and Anakin nodded as he hugged him tightly at that.
"I love you brother, you are my brother, I love you, that is my fear, to lose soneone I love and I'm not there to prevent it, or I get there too late." he said and Obi-wan nodded as he said it then. "I understand, believe me, I felt like a failure, as I was trapped in a shield and that prevented me from saving Qui-Gon. We share the same fears, but my brother, my son, I love you too, brother."
"I love you too Anakin, I'm not losing you to this Sith, you want to save us and keep our family together, both the real and the extended. Then stay yourself, there are better ways to keep us alive, then doing a deal with the devil, literally." he said and Anakin nodded to his thoughts as Obi-wan hugged him and he tightened his arms around him then as he buried his head into his shoulder at that.
"So tell me, why is he a traitor young man?" Obi-wan asked and they swallowed hard at that. "And while I'm on the subject, what is this secret you're holding back if you didn't ask Anakin. to fix your lightsaber and Ferus did it in secret, I know it was damaged. But how far if you never went to Anakin and Ferus tried to fix it in secret?" Siri asked sternly and they swallowed hard at that question.
As Anakin read it out to them as he said it in 15 words then. "I'm busy with Obi-wan, or to rephrase that remark, I'm with Obi-wan, isn't that what you said Tru, I'm with Obi-wan, and in essence..." he said and their mentors crossed their arms at that as shr read it out then to them. "The council, so if he's not with you in keeping whatever secret you had to hide from us, then he's with us and the council."
"And in essence a traitor to every padawan in the temple is that it?" Ferus's mentor asked sternly and they paled at that remark, knowing they just got caught red handed in their conversation. "My loyalty is to my mentor, your's and the council, once reunited with my family and the senator it's over as we do this. I know what this is and it's a Sith trap, as us Jedi fight this war and one by one."
"And we're being exterminated now, as the Sith divides the council and then I get hit. And with the worst possible news ever, that everything I ever believed in is a lie now, in this war, and all because of you." he said and they swallowed hard at that remark as he said it. "What's going on if you said that Anakin?" Obi-wan asked and he crossed his arms as he looked at Ferus sternly, who paled then.
"Whatever he, Ferus, said to you last year during the Slams, just came back to haunt him right now, Master. As to why I'm saying this, if you saw the look of shock on his face that Darra took care of things during Radnor. And you did it during Sebulba, he wanted me to lose my temper that much, but that's part of it." he said and they all nodded as the duo crossed their arms at that remark.
"I once said, that to be a Jedi is clear point of loyalty, and not once, not once have I ever lied to you, so why would I do it now?" he asked and they nodded to him. "You wouldn't that's the point, so what is this all about if you came to report this to us and they're now classing you. As a traitor to every padawan in the temple when our team is held in such high esteem by Master Yoda."
"But we turned in the fact he blew the force sensory perception test on the games that day?" Obi-wan asked and he crossed his arms at that remark as he answered him gently. "Twice now since we started missions in training, did he try to get me to lose my temper completely, but I never did. But the first was done by Darra and my friend Amee did that all the time, when around Sebulba."
"And when he tried to provoke me, it never worked, she kept me calm, and I grew stronger as a result now. You did the second case, after he humiliated himself in front of thirty people from my home planet. And you met Selbulba on that mission and now he's talking about me behind my back to you. And I don't have to hear the words, while I was with Siri talking things over,
"And he's with you and talking about how I'm a failure as an apprentice, but I just realized why he's trying to sew that doubt into your thoughts." he said and Ferus paled as his mentor answered him. "Why exactly?" he asked and Anakin looked at him as he said it in 15 words. "He's jealous and he's envious to everything I have, starting with you, brother, she's right." he said and Obi-wan nodded sternly.
"Me, he's jealous you have me as a mentor, why exactly, he barely knows anything about me, and you learned bit, by bit. About my life as it brought pieces of it back into it now. So you have me for a mentor, you have our attention as we're more focused on you since Zan Arbor came back into the picture. Okay so what's the last piece of it?" he asked and Anakin crossed his arms.
"Darra, he wants Darra." he said and they nodded in shocked outrage at that remark. "Darra chose you from the second he said whatever caused him to lose points with her, correct?" Soara asked and he nodded to her. "Yeah she made it clear, five years and I never changed a bit, to her, it could be 5 years, 10 even 15. And to her nothing would ever change, so long as we had each other, we'd be okay."
"Just after breaking it down for you that day at the time now here, Soara and we started spending this much time together now. One bond was falling apart, the other getting stronger, but by then. I became who you wanted me to become, and as a result everything she ever wanted, I showed it all. But to her, it was she doesn't want a man that is too good to be true, she wants her mate."
"By that I mean her soulmate, to have a few flaws, I'm not perfect, but I am to her." he said and she nodded to him. "And he's crazy jealousy correct, he wants her, but you have her, in that way Anakin?" she asked and he nodded as Siri shook her head to that as she answered him gently at that. "You'd been a real Jedi, but you two, you remind me of Siri and Obi-wan when we were cubs no older."
"Then you were when we went to Radnor now, but seriously if you had that connection and I think it went from friends, to possibly..." she started to say and he nodded. "Yeah it did, so as result now, it's he's beyond jealous and that jealousy could turn possessive, dangerously possessive." he said and Ferus paled at that remark as his mentor answered him then as she looked at him sternly.
"Didn't we already have that conversation young man, attachment is forbidden, possession is forbidden. Compassion, which we would define as unconditional love, this is central to a Jedi's life. So we're encouraged to love, but where's the comparison, exactly, if it's you this and you that in his eyes?" Siri asked and he nodded as a book appeared on the floor and she picked it up as she got a very good look.
At it as she said it to him then. "And speaking of which, I let go in two things, but that rivalry and my friendship, duty to the truth. That truth is telling the truth to you now, before we take it to thr council or duty to my friends. But no choice necessary, it's duty to the truth, I will not lie to you and nothing they say. Now is going to change my mind, they want to call me a traitor here, go ahead."
"So long as I never lose your trust, I can take what's coming right now Master." he said and she nodded proudly to that remark as he looked at the episode in question at that and nodded. "Looks like a teenage prodigy is a pain in the behind to guys like this, but I'm the chosen one, and he's jealous. That I got your attention and with you and it's the entire council, you took me into training here."
"Even though I'm ten years passed the correct date, this kid got into training on the ship that belongs to his parents best friend. And said, if anything, the man is just like Mace, who is also his father's original commander." he said and the adult quartet nodded in agreement as Obi-wan answered him gently at that. "Jealousy and envy are very dark thoughts in this case, and if not checked at the door."
"Then could lead to the darkside." he said and Anakin nodded to that. "Too late, it did already, and with what I had to read and learn from Master. And father, it's only going to get worse if this keeps up." he said and his mentor nodded firmly. "Yes and you never showed any of this in the ten years since we met and I started training you." he said and Anakin nodded as he answered him then.
"Truthfully it's this, but ever since I started, your focus, and Master's focus, the council's was on me, you took a special interest in me. Since I came in late, but though I excelled in everything you had to teach me. I still had plenty to learn and I have, as you and Siri, whether knowing or not. Backtracked to the lessons you learned from Adi and Qui-Gon now, teaching me by example now."
"And I learned so much that I was ready for this last and final test now finally. Which is the honesty test and I'm taking that right now, if there was anyway to make it clear that I was a Jedi ready for my trials. Then it was telling the truth in a situation like this and where all our lives are at stake. The talking behind my back doesn't get rid of me, pushing my temper to exploding backfires."
"And he's running out of time right now, as the darkside clouds everything." he said and Soara answered that as she crossed her arms at that information sternly. "And instead of his provoking you, you absorbed these acts and let go?" his mentor team mate asked and he nodded to her. "Public humiliation in front of my friends, he sees this as though I humiliated him, I act more Jedi then he does.
"And I'm not the one showing off to you, and every chance he gets, his trying to show off is his own flaw right now. But you told me this time and time again, there is a very thin line between self assurance and pride. But cross that line and it turns into arrogance, you knew from the second you met me. But it was, that I never showed arrogance, I was beyond humble at the time now.
"And it was by blind luck that my shot hit where it was supposed to right now during the blockade Master, I was humble at my first race. And most of all I was showing mercy, and I regret ever taking a life right now." he said and they all nodded in understanding as his rival looked between the adults in a panic at that remark. As Obi-wan answered him gentle at the remark as he remarked on that firmly then.
"So if provocations don't work someone is now trying to sabotage you right now?" he asked him and he nodded to him. "Yeah that is exactly what I do mean, but guess what." he said and Obi-wan decided on the trick question as he hid a smile. "What is it exactly?" he asked and he smiled. as he said it "The me that you remember meeting as cub is back in place, so I think you know now."
"In what that means, not long after we pulled it together." he said and Obi-wan smiled in relief at that as he answered him as he crossed his arms. "You would never lie to me, and to me you're like my son, I raised you. And since you were a boy, and trained you from that time, you could never do anything to disappoint me. And why would you, to do something that cruel, is not in your nature."
"And you would turn that into me immediately right now, the it, whatever it might be, padawan." he said and Anakin nodded. "Yeah I'm back, my brother, I'm back, the cub me you remember is back once again, you win." he said and Obi-wan nodded as he hugged him and he tightened his arms then. As he pressed his forehead to Anakin's and this time they felt their connection slam into place and smiled.
"Things changed, but what didn't is how we are together, but we change it now, and things are staying the way they are forever. But what I will say is that for you, it's in your nature to be overly critical after a trauma, as my big brother and mentor. But that's part of the problem I don't know what the heck is going on at home, we need to make a few changes later on in the code now."
And father said this already, it's passed time for me to go back as they know what's going on. And to mom, she knows I never changed and as do my friends, then again we both know this, as you met my fellow racers." he said and his mentor and the other members of that mission nodded in agreement to that as Ferus paled at that remark. "Now what's that look for?" Soara asked and Siri sighed at that.
"He publicly humiliated himself by nearly starting a riot." she said to her and she nodded to the news Ry said it firmly. "Where's Qui-Gon when you need him right now?" he said in annoyance at his tone and a second later they heard the answer to that as Qui-Gon said it gently. "Padawans, though not visible, I am right here, he got into a full conversation with me after hearing what he's about to tell you."
"But I reminded him of the person he was when we found him and he's back completely the him we know is in total control Obi-wan. But you remember your attachment with me, I understand and I shared that with you. You are my son, I love you, I love you boys, you are my sons and you made me proud. So though he completed one on one, he needs advanced training, starting now."
"Siri, he needs you and Mace and Adi to complete his training, he made the conversion and once he says the words, then it's over and we win. The reason he never made the conversion completely is, in truth, he is still in mourning. Because of me, it's time now, but he hates the darkside, there is nothing wrong with that, as it took me and Yaddle." they heard and the adult quartet nodded firmly.
"Master, though in there somewhere, can you maintain that the five of us are linked together?" Obi-wan asked and Siri nodded in agreement. "Yeah I agree with him Master, can we use this as a way to fuse the five of us together, we've been partners for 22 years since Kegan?" she asked and they heard a gentle and paternal tone enter the voice as he answered them as they looked at each other at that remark.
As Anakin moved to them. "We can padawans, I know you three miss me, and as does Adi, I know this, but she's been in mourning long enough. It's time, you have me in some form and when I gain enough power. You can see me as well now, promise, I love all of you like my own children. I never stopped, you made me so proud, boys, honey." he said and they nodded to the news in relief then gently.
As they wiped the tears of their faces at the revelation as they hugged each other. "I miss him so much." she said and he nodded as Anakin tried to control his voice as he answered her as she wrapped her arm across his shoulder then. "He had an effect on us from the second we started spending so much time together. I never had to hear the words, these lessons you taught me, and I mean both of you."
"But they are the lessons they taught you, and through you to me at the time, during one of the days I went to talk to Adi, I found a list of lesson plans. Said were sitting on her desk, but they had the initials of every book. That was in this first collection that he gave me, look at this." he said as he put each book in order as Obi-wan saw himself as a young teenager with Siri at his side in two of them.
"T.R.F: The Rising Force, T.D.A., The Dark Apprentice, I get it, several of these are before he started training me, these four are when I was on Melida/Daan. But these first eight are focused on my activation mission with him, like your's was with me. Naboo and Bandomeer, that was a training mission Master Yoda assgned us at the time." Obi-wan told him and he nodded gently as he said it then.
"But family, we're family, you're my brother and sister, I love you both." he said and she nodded in agreement to that. "You changed back, you mean the you I met on Tatooine, is back in place?" Obi-wan asked and he nodded as he answered him gently at that remark as he looked between them. "He reminded me of who I was when we met, I'm back, the me you know is in total control now finally."
"But that's the piece that is really going to tick you off, you knew me from the time I was going on 10. And you know me better then anyone, would I do a thing like what he's about to try to imply, but that's the catch right now. I caught him with the quartet and made it clear right now, but what's going to happen when I tell the trio this?" he asked and they heard a firm tone at that news.
"Trio, our own mentors, with Qui-Gon in the force?" Ry asked and he nodded. "Once they hear what this is leading into, they're going to be furious here. That anyone would even consider this implication when we all know you better then this." they heard sternly and the adult quartet nodded. "He's right we would be, how could anyone consider that is beond me." Kit said in shocked disgust at that remark.
"Excuse me, implication, implication of what, because I knew you longer then they do and you'd never do it. Whatever this implication is whatsoever, as you would turn that into me and Siri, let alone Ry, immediately?" Obi-wan said and they paled at that as Anakin gave a nod to that firmly. "Yeah there you see, he knows, he knows I would never do what you're trying to imply here Ferus."
"If you were talking about it, that loudly." he said and the older quartet nodded sternly as Obi-wan crossed his arms."What you learn if you're saying that padawan?" Obi-wan asked him and he crossed his arms. "Would you take their word over mine, if they made an implication?" he asked and Obi-wan shook his head. "No I wouldn't, the fact you never lied to me is party to that, at the moment."
"And with in mind, so what is this implication they think I would take?" he asked and Anakin said it firmly. "That a lightsaber was broken and I would never tell you." he said and they nodded in shock to that as they exchanged stern looks. "Is what just happened out there, before we regrouped, connected to that implication. Anakin, as I know you?" Soara asked as she crossed her arms and he nodded.
"Yeah, the blast shot the lightsaber right out of his hand, and chipped a piece of the hilt off." he said and they nodded. "Anything else happened that needs to be checked, and by Tolan?" Ry asked, meaning the lightsaber lore and training master at the temple then and he nodded as he answered him at that remark. "The crystal itself, it needs to get double checked, now you told me this time and time again."
"That these lightsabers are our life, we have to take care of them, but with that in mind. So who would you listen to more right now, you knew from the second you met me. I could never lie, it's not my way nor is it the Jedi way to lie to one's master, let alone eaves dropping on a personal conversation, on therapy and training?" he said and they nodded as Obi-wan said it sternly to that question.
"At times, your clan group and the ones just behind you, and by 5 to 6 years at the moment, kept coming to you. For help if they need you to fix whatever was wrong with their lightsaber. And of the four of you, only you built more the one, and of you, you're the only mechanic in the team." he said and Anakin nodded. "So what's that say to you, for years, at the time, you knew this about me."
"As you and the council left fixing the fighter engines to me all that time?" he asked and they nodded. "It says that if anyone can see the damage and where it could lead to, if not disassembled completely it's going to be you." Soara said as she and Siri both stood up at that as Ry did the same at the question. "We also taught you to look at this and carefully analyze, and if something was wrong."
"Then bring it up immediately." Obi-wan said and he nodded. "The padawan growing up outside the temple had galaxy smarts to know. If something was wrong and was a trained mechanic and most of all right now. That to us, brought their honesty and dedication to doing the right thing with them no matter the cost." Siri said, resting a hand on his shoulder and Obi-wan said it then.
And for all of them. "It's you, and it's always going to be you, if Qui-Gon was still alive, then he would to. Then listen to a padawan showboating to us at every chance he gets. You already figured this out, want to find a correct match, then we get to know each other right now." he said and Ferus looked at him in shock. "There that is it, we never did the bonding link to check it now, Obi-wan."
"Two ways to find a correct match in a master/padawan team: get to know each other and test the future connection fusion link. We have to now to make sure it's corect, and I have to clear the air with the council. No more secrets, total truth, four years to insure you got me and our Sith loses this game." he said and Siri nodded in agreement to that as she answered him gently, as he said ur to him..
"Speaking of which, time to test it now, you took me as your student, and I invited you in by telling you my doubts, fears. What's in my very heart, so with that, it's time right now, the me you know is still intact, so..." he said and Obi-wan nodded as they pressed their foreheads to together, as they saw their added future missions. Obi-wan and him training and raising his unborn children and the years ahead
And as a team and they opened their eyes. "We were right, the connection is sure, you are my padawan, and I am your mentor, I know you so well, that I know you'd never do that. But how could anyone even consider that is beyond me right now, but you would never do something this cold blooded. And just to prove he is not as noble as he says he is." he said and Anakin nodded smiling then.
"I know and he made that implication, as did Tru." he said and they both paled at that as the quartet nodded in shock to that. "You got to be kidding me, you would never do something that cold blooded to prove he's not as noble as he says he is!" Obi-wan said in shock to that remark as the duo swallowed hard at the response and Siri, Soara and Ry' Gaul all nodded in agreement as Soara answered that remark.
"Yes, you never lied to us as your mentoring quartet before and why start now?" Soara said and he nodded as he hugged her and she tightened her arms around him before he did it with Obi-wan. Who did the same and the duo tried to keep from paling that he jumped their move then. "My brother, my best friend, mentor, how could I ever lie to you, I never did before, so why start now exactly."
"Honestly, just why start now?" he asked as he felt a knife go through his heart, that they could even think that. "I know, and with that, they want to mess with your career, I will destroy their's for even attempting to sabotage you right now." Obi-wan said sternly and they swallowed hard to that remark and news. "You ever play dejarik, because this is what, in the galaxy the books I have here.
"And the planet, as a game called chess, and though you tried to do a surgical strike, I went to pre-emptive to prevent you from attempting this. So tell me who is the council going to believe when I tell them that you nearly started a riot, the games. Dejarik's a Jedi game, played the same way and trust me, Mace is not going to take it?" Anakin asked and Ferus swallowed hard at that remark.
"Uh oh, that's the first time I ever heard you use Master's first name rather than his rank." Siri said and he nodded. "Yeah and reason is, because if he and Adi are the only masters with a color that is not green, blue or yellow. That's including you and you showed me your lightsaber color, I think this unlocked the door finally, I'm one of us you and it's time, I reached the pique here now."
"And of what I had to learn in basic training." he said and she nodded as she got it then gently. "Mace, Adi and I have to complete your training?" she asked and he nodded. "And I'm not surprised that I'm included in that as I've been acting like your big sister from the second we met. And things just keep getting better and better since, our family is intact, and it's a family of five now, but honestly."
"The fact you gave that to me made that clear, Winna is still the temple healer, you met the Oddos and you know who she is now. But from Zan Arbor and Didi to now and thanks to a repeater of Xanatos, it's started up again." she said and he nodded as he crossed his arms as he looked at Ferus at that remark. "Nice touch there, even if he lied, which he never could before he met us at the time."
"There is the fact he was holding on to the last piece of his old life that piece laid with his mother, Will, Halla and his friends parents now. That saves his career in duty to the truth, you tell the truth and you get to stay, lie and you get expelled at the moment." Adi said firmly and Yoda nodded. "A and I, Arbor industries and I hear those words and these two are going to get it now." Winna said and Mace nodded in agreement to her thoughts.