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 58: Jedi Quests And Young Jedi Knights XV: The Final Showdown V
"You better report into our Jedi parents, regarding that news as our's is in the force right now. You have to tell Damon, Tiana and Adi." Obi-wan told him and he nodded to him gently as he sighed at that. "I wish Father was here, he would know what to do." he told him and Obi-wan nodded in understanding. "I miss him too, Anakin, but I got an idea here, regarding this, make it sound like, now."
"Now I called you up here to let you know, after your reprimanding them yourself for it after you said it front of me. Regarding the fact that though they fixed it supposedly, I figured out that they're trying to keep silent. About his lightsaber and about this, said this is why he would do this right now. But make it clear, that I'm giving them a chance, one last chance to come forward."
"Now they either come forward and tell us what took place and why they decided to lie or we take it to the council. But of you, I know you, I know you better then anyone here, you'd never lie to me or the trio. And even the council, so make that clear, you can't lie to me ever, but you can't taking living with it. The guilt, and it's because they want to get involved in the arrest of those two."
"But this is not the Jedi way to lie to one's master on something this serious, especally where others are concerned. So tell them, either they come forward and tell us that it's broken and is the reason one of us gets hurt, or worse, or I will. Instead of getting recalled back to Coruscant, we do this first right now, just say it the way you phrased it." he said and Anakin nodded and left the room.
Walking into the cargo hold he said it to the duo quickly, pretending he was listening in on their conversation. 'Alright guys, one chance to admit it and tell them the truth, the quartet and council are giving you one last chance to save your career.' he said as he said it out loud then. "Guys, did you expect me to not over hear the conversation today, because this is enough they're going to wonder."
"And about the stern tone in my voice, when I over heard the conversation right now. And they did and Obi-wan only had to look at a single fact here in why exactly. He just figured it out in why I laid into you both for that, but I'm with him at the moment. What is that supposed to tell him, when he knows I'm studying lightsaber lore, for the last 18 months, since Master was killed."
"But that your lightsaber is broken Tru, he knows, he knows what we did here, he told me if we don't come forward and tell the council the truth, then he will." he said and Tru quickly said it to that. "Does he have any evidence?" he asked and Anakin shook his head as he answered him. 'Alright just admit it, you want to lie your way out of this.' He thought sternly and they hid a nod as he said it then.
"No, but he knows exactly how it happened." he said and Tru sighed in relief as he answered hi as he said it. "Obi-wan doesn't know anything, he has theory, so let him tell the council what he thinks happened. They'll ask us: is it true, we'll say no, there's no evidence so there is no case, we'll get off with a reprimand." he said and Anakin looked at him in shock then as the twins nodded sternly in disgust.
As he looked between them in disgusted disbelief. 'What, are you kidding me, after everything he's done for me, Master Qui-Gon. Mom, Siri, Adi, the council, Obi-wan, no, no forget about it, I won't do it.' he thought in shock as the entire 9 years together, before it landed on them together hit him, as he looked between them. "I can't call Obi-wan a liar." he said firmly and Ferus said it gently to that remark then.
"Anakin, we have to hang in there a little longer, then this will all be over." he said and Anakin said it slowly to that remark. "It's wrong you two." he said and Tru said it gently. "Anakin..." he started to say and Anakin said it firmly. "I'm going to tell them what happened." he said and the council smiled proudly at his choice then, as they waited for the remark and Tru said it firmly to that as he crossed his arms.
"You, alone, you, are going to decide what happens to you, to me and to Ferus, you're going to tell them." he said and Anakin said it forcefully as he looked at him then as he felt his heart tearing at this as he said it deliberately to him at that. "I'm not going to lie them again, Tru, I can't live with it." he said and that did it finally. "You can't lie to them, you can't live with this, you have to be the one to decide."
"Who the heck are you exactly?" Tru snapped at him and he looked at him in shock. "Guys..." he started to say and Ferus over rode him then. "You're going to turn us in." he snapped at him and Anakin said it sharply. "Wait a minute." he started to say and Ferus snapped at him. "No you wait a minute!" he snapped and sighed as he ran his hand through his hair as he said it to him then in disgust at that remark.
"They got to you, didn't they, Obi-wan, he told you this big speech about duty, truths and honor, well it must have been a pretty good speech. Just to make you turn your back on us, us, your friends." he said and Anakin said it sternly to that. "You're right and it's because I have a family, parents they would want to do the right thing, like Father does, my parents, father, the council, Obi-wan, Thracia."
"They would all want me to tell the truth, no matter the fact that it destroys a so called friendship." he snapped and the duo swallowed hard at that remark. "We are Jedi Padawans, we have a duty to the truth." he said and Tru said it firmly to that as he looked at him then. "And what about your duty to your friends, I got you on this team, I gave you a chance when there were others, other padawans."
"Just waiting in line, I told Ferus, you wouldn't let us down, you're on the best team in the temple, you know what it's like. Just to trust your partners with your life, I guess I was wrong at the time now." he said and Anakin said it firmly as he looked between them at that remark as he said it then. "You're right, you are, and it's because unlike you, I committed to my 100%, since I started training now, Tru."
"I was happy and this one moment where you want me to choose between doing my duty or my friendship. What's that really say but that you have no heart as a true padawan learner, we were taught to tell the truth." he said sternly and and then launched into the warning that Obi-wan gave out, as he said the entire group's thoughts then firmly. "Do you remember when you started basic training?" he asked and swallowed then.
"The days after you began when you came out of the nursery they saw in you much potential, much talent. Everyone in the council and all over the temple, they were convinced you would be the best as a Jedi knight. And never once did they doubted that conviction, until this moment now." he said and as he looked into Ferus's eyes and he swallowed hard at that as he went further then his tone stern.
"But a Jedi's first duty is a duty to the truth, be it scientifical ethical or responsible and it is the founding principle. In which the Jedi order, on which the Jedi code is based, now we're, the council. the quartet and I, going to make this simple for you right now, Padawans. Now either you two come forward and tell them the truth that it's needing to be replaced, do you duty as Jedi."
"And until you fix what's wrong with it or you don't deserve to be a Jedi any longer, so again tell them or 'I' will." he said and Tru repeated his remark. "The 'I' is a double meaning, 'I' being 'we', the Kenobi/Skywalker team, we always been like that. From the second this started, well now it's finished, there is no we, us or their here. From now on, it's you and me and I mean that you two." Anakin snapped at the duo sternly.
"The council maybe putting the four of us back together, but it's us and you starting now and I mean that, I stay adoptive baby brother to your mentors. And son to your parental mrntors, but until we can trust each other again, it's we're peers. There is nothing between us and it will take even longer for me to trust you again. Real friends don't do to each other what you did to me." he said and they swallowed hard and Mace nodded then.
As Darra pulled him close to her and he wrapped his across her knees protectively. "I agree with him, until we can trust your students again they are stuck. Starting now, under a try and trust you two, nothing changed between us as friends and team mates. But if we were the parents of these teenagers, it would time to trust the duo that hurt them." Obi-wan and Soara said together and the quartet nodded in acceptance then.
"There's the tone of a council member." Mace said sternly to his warning tone and the duo swallowed hard as he motioned to them to go on. "And what about your duty to your friends, I got you on this team, I gave you a chance when there were others, other padawans. Just waiting in line, I told Ferus, you wouldn't let us down, you're on the best team in the temple, you know what it's like."
"Just to trust your partners with your life, I guess I was wrong at the time now." he said and Anakin said it firmly to him. 'Guys one last chance to save yourselves, you say this next remark, your career is mine right now.' he said sharply to then. "Look if we all come forward and tell the council you could get get off easy." he said and they heard a pained mental tone to this as he finished.
'Just admit now, the chance to get into the program is worth too much to give up. Even if it means one of us gets hurt, you're going to lie to them.' The council and thr group heard him thinking firmly to that and the boy scoffed at that remark as he said it. "We don't want to come forward, Ferus and me, we don't have a problem with this, but if you do then resign from the Jedi temple and leave."
"But don't make us pay for your guilty conscious." he told him and he looked at him in shock. "You'd put the entire team at risk just to save your necks?!" he said in disbelief. "To keep us together, the team, that is more important then you, and more important then me. And if I was in your place I would do so without hesitation, but that's just me." Ferus told him and Anakin nodded firmly to that.
Getting up and leaving the room he went back to the quintet and they crossed their arms. Looking at the tears pouring down his face, Darra nodded to him gently as she hugged him and he buried his face into her shoulder. "You had to Annie, nothing changed between us, you and me, but now it's us and them now. They get what's coming to them and we stay together forever, it's okay, it's okay."
"It's okay." she said, pressing her forehead to his. "What they say?" Soara asked and he wiped the tears off his face as he answered her. "The conversation went as I thought, Soara, they said it for both of them. But if I can't lie to save the team, then resign and leave the order. They signed their death warrants now, they're not my friends, Darra is, as are you guys, my family, I made my choice."
"And said is you, it's you guys and the council, it's always going to be you now." he said and she pulled him into a hug as Siri pressed her forehead to his then. "It's clear they don't care anymore, you did the right thing baby. But if they switch lightsabers in the middle of thr fight if we stay here. And one of us gets hit, because it shorted out, it's on their heads, you did everything you could."
"But it's their fault one of us gets hurt or is killed, baby brother." she told him as he buried his head into her shoulder as he hugged her tightly then as he said it. "I can't lose you guys and I won't, I made my choice, but it's clear no. But my bonds with them are on the rocks now and practically over now. So a choice, a choice of who I am and who I become in the years following this, no choice needed."
"It's you guys, you're my brothers and sisters, my family, I'm a Jedi, like my family before me." he said and Obi-wan smiled as he hugged him tightly as he buried his head into his shoulder. "I'm proud of you brother, very proud, you did the right thing now." he said, pressing his forehead to Anakin's gently then. "I love you master." he said and he smiled. "I love you too." he said as he hugged him then.
"Alright stop, freeze it there, that day was the day that sealed your fate young man, Anakin did just as he was supposed to at the time. But it was clear to us, you had no such commitment to the Jedi code, follow the rules, the outlets, he did everything." Mace said and Darra crossed her arms at that. "He did it to save me and your choices still killed me, you two, you destroyed him that day." she said and Anakin nodded sternly to that.
"My world, my everything, I loved her with all my heart, they're breaking the code tore a hole in my heart that changed me from who you know me as. And into who I became, before I turned father, that's the truth now, she was my everything. I never got over her loss, that was the reason for Ben's worry of letting me out of his sight. His subconscious was telling him I hadn't gotten over her loss, that he had to watch me all that time."
"You remember, Master, Master Windu..." he said trailing off and Mace read out his concerned remarks to them, before they both left on their missions. "I am concerned for my apprentice, he is not ready to be given this assignment on his own, yet." he said and Yoda nodded. "True reasoning, not gotten over loss of Darra yet, he has, still needs to be watched in his depression, as of yet." he said and they both nodded as Anakin said it.
"As for Vader, that explains the tirade, 'he's overly critical, he never listens, he just doesn't understand right now.'. Well, if you would just grow up, he's playing two pieces, but the older brother and an adoptive father, you idiot. I understand why he never lets up scrutiny, he's afraid of the oncoming stage two that got thrown into the massacre. And at the raider camp, you fool." he said and Obi-wan ran his hand through his hair gently.
"I've been worried out of my mind all that time, ever since you recalled us after the mission to Ansion started and with it. His nightmares over Shmi, though I said Padme, my thoughts were turning to the fact that I knew he was still heartbroken. And at Darra's loss, my inner older brother was telling me of a shadow coming now. And one that would take innocent lives, but when and where, that I didn't know now at the time, Master."
"His depression got channeled into anger and both together, it slaughtered the camp and as a result, Vader couldn't tell us. But Anakin could at the time, but Anakin decided to admit it to us as he told us everything, but the loss of Darra. Her loss finally combined with the loss of Shmi and both together destroyed innocent lives. As a result he's now been completely traumatized, by what he just did this time now, he needs me."
"Someone else could search for answers, regarding the assassination attempts on her, I had to stay with him and Padme, or I could go end his nightmares, regarding Shmi. But either way, it's putting an end to his lack of rest, so he could sleep through the night for once now." he said and the council nodded. "There that's it exactly, we were on the same page now." Anakin said to them and the council gave a 'keep going' gesture to him.
"These tuskins, may act human, but at times they're vicious, mindless monsters Mace, but trust me, we get attacks like this. And all time, but this time, we can arrange that Anakin is with his mother and me when it happens. That saves her and we put her clone in her place as we get the next attack and Anakin tells the group that attacked us. Fake it, as I have my leg regenerated back and grown back as I recover, but to Dex."
"That keeps him from returning now as Anakin moves in with me when the twins are 10 as they see the older version of the Jedi that did it. And together, we can tell them it's clear, Jedi are wizards that can do magic, either let her go or his wand will curse them. So stay away from our farms in Anchorhead." Cliegg said and they nodded firmly at the suggestion as Mace looked at Anakin and he nodded as they started again at that.
"I heard this same conversation we had in Daniel's head, regarding a holoshow space epic, my side of the conversation and your's was quoted word for word here. And on this show during the episode my double was me, and instead of the way it happened there. It was an alternate rewrite in his mental conversation here, you two. Starting back at the beginning of this conversation now in his way with his squadron leader now."
"But, 'they know, they know what we did, they called me up there and he said that if we don't come forward then he will.' 'Does he have any evidence?' 'No, but he knows exactly how it happened.' 'He doesn't know anything, he has a theory, so let him tell the enquiry what he thinks happened. They'll ask us is it true, we'll say no, there's no evidence. So there's no case, we'll get off with a reprimand.' his team leader says and from there."
"I can't call him a liar.' 'We have to hang in there just a little longer, then this will all be over.' 'It's wrong.' 'I'm going to tell them what happened.'. Do you know what the rest of this conversation sounded like from there after we both said that. Because this conversation was read out by my non force sensitive counterpart in a holoshow. On Daniel's home planet, as it came out, four years after my return from the darkside."
"But on earth they believe heavily in the natures of honesty and as Jedi like our order counterpart, they believe in duty to the truth." He asked and they felt their hearts sinking at that as they shook their heads as the council crossed their arms. And as he quoted it word for word, his blue eyes blazing in anger and pain then. "Me, alone me, I'm going to decide what happens to me, to you and to Ferus, I'm going to tell them.'
'I can't lie to him. Or the enquiry again, I can not live with this, knowing there is only one chance to fix it. It's by coming forward and telling them the truth, before the timer ends on that clock. And we all get expelled for it, I can't lie to them, I can't live with this." he said, quoting it word for word then as he said both sides of the conversation then. As he went further and Tru felt his heart plummet to the floor as he heard his words.
"I can't lie to them, I can't live with this, I have to be the one to decide here, who the heck am I. Guys..., I was going to turn you in, wait a minute, no you wait a minute, they got to me, didn't they, the council, they gave me some big speech about duty. Truths and honor, well it must have been a very good speech to make me turn my back on you." he said and the duo swallowed hard at that, now realizing this was exactly what they said.
"We are Jedi, we have a duty to the truth.' 'Yeah, well what about my duty to my friends, you got me on this team. When there were other padawans in master/padawan teams just waiting in line, but you said. That I wouldn't let you down, I'm part of the best team in the academy, I know what it's like, just to trust others with my life. You guess you were wrong at the time." he said sternly at that and they swallowed hard at that remark.
"If we all come forward now and tell them, together you may get off easy right now, and you can still make the program. As we replace your lightsaber until we get it fixed right now, but you're running out of time, how long do you have. And before they come to the conclusion, Ben's already figured it out and they gave you chance after chance. After chance to come forward, but come on, you come forward now and you get to stay guys."
"You don't want to come forward, you don't have a problem with lying, but if I did, then resign my appointment. And to the academy and walk away, but don't make you pay for my guilty conscious. You would do that, let me throw away my career to save your necks, to save the team, that's more important then me, and it's more important then you. And if you were in my place, you would do so, without hesitation, but that's just you."
"Subtext, you see what your attitudes conclude in other storylines right now, my double was part of the best ship and crew in the fleet. Under the command of the best captain in the fleet, serving on the front lines since he was our age, of 15. Four years of trust and bonds with his parents friends, he was their star pupil, but he was in my position. So forget it, I chose them." he said, pointing at Obi-wan, his parents and the council.
And they swallowed at that. "Darra's parental mentor, in time, turned into my son's best friend, why, he realized the very same thing, that Luke is me at nearly 20. Two generations with the very same personality traits, were it not for you. I would be with who is as close to him as possible, his grandson, a friend and surrogate son. But my son in law and his friends, my twins, wife, my family." he said, his tone beyond stern then.
"I spent ten years earning their trust and Ben's, but nothing, and I mean nothing, was getting between me and them, that included you. You could hate me all you want, I don't care, but so long as I never lost their trust, or my parents, even Master Yoda's. I could deal with that as Darra was still alive as were the girls Ry and Ben. But honestly, you were the ones who don't deserve to be Jedi knights if you chose choices like this."
"I made my choice, you two, my duty to my friends, what friends Tru, from the second that Zan Arbor came into the picture. You changed and started spending more time with him now, but Darra and me we stayed loyal to each other all that time here. My loyalty was to my master, but answer this who won the test of loyalty it's been ten years. But we only known each other for 6, them, 10?" he asked and the duo swallowed hard at that.
"Come on, there is no bloody contest here, I choose Obi-wan: my brother, my best friend, my mentor, it's him and it would always be him. Him and the council, an act of trust that symbolizes everything in their eyes, without complete trust. When in the master/padawan bond, and the bond shatters, I understand that. And I committed to our bond 100%." he said and the council and Obi-wan nodded in approval to that gently.
"You destroyed me, my family all for what, huh what, a chance to get into that program, a chance to graduate early, it's not worth the safety of the team or the order. My family were future applicants of the order, but you have my daughter fearing it. That the trio will fall just like I did, and because of this choice, well now I got to repair the damage. That you did to them, Luke, Lando and the alliance." Anakin said sternly and they swallowed.
"And ten years of a bond does make all the difference, look at what you turned into at 17 now after Zan Arbor. You changed and for the better, committing completely to our bonds of trust, just to hold on to it, you knew what you had to do and you do it. Of the three of you, you were the one who earned right to being admitted as a member of the council." Mace said gently to him and he nodded as they saw the humility in him as he said it.
"There's an act of trust that symbolizes everything that has to be said now, but that one sentence, you sound like a council member when you talk like that." Ki Adi Mundi told him and he nodded smiling gently at him. "Had a good teacher Master, but honestly now, I reached the limit, you give them chance after chance to come forward. But unknowing or mot, I think my idol was either, you, Master Windu or Master Damon, your age group."
"But I spent 10 years serving as a Jedi padawan, working at gaining your trust, what were you thinking at that age?" he asked and Mace smiled. "We were convinced you'd be a great Jedi knight, when you contacted us and told us that. That cemented it for us, but this, and Palpatine, you did the right thing, no matter how much it hurts." he told him and Anakin nodded and smiled as he looked at him and Mace saw the clear trust in him.
"You were the man playing his mother's best friend, Master, your trust, that was that mattered to me, you, Obi-wan and Adi, even Master. They could hate me all they want, I didn't care, you mattered more, you always did. An act of trust that symbolizes everything we are to each other, I did my duty and came forward. My mentor as a Master guardian, you 3 mattered more, you always did." he said softly, looking at him gently.
As he took the lightsaber. "You know I never said this all too often, but I still respected both of you for having that ability now. To face that fear, but my fear was not anyone one thing, after the incident with the group that got barbecued. But like you, I was afraid of my powers and where they could take me now, the 2 years leading into the change. I changed for the better when I was with you." he said and Mace and Adi smiled gently.
Thinking fast, Anakin crouched in front of Mace then as he looked from him to Adi as he said it. "I know I made a mistake or two, in training, but this lightsaber has taken so many lives that it deserves to be changed into what it is now. A Sith blade, that blade took hundreds of lives, not counting droids, but innocent lives. I'm saying this as a recovered Force Sensitive free of the darkside." he said and they nodded as he said it.
"There are only two tests I need to ensure that, you know what I'm saying, there are only two caves needed for it: the first at almost 13, the other at the end of the purge. Master, it's time, once I create that lightsaber that vision, like Zekk and Daniel, it's my turn now, face that fear and I'm free forever from it. The darkside, is only a danger if you allow yourself to feel that fear now." he said and Yoda, Adi and Mace nodded in approval.
"The first two times were a result of these guys pushed the wrong buttons and committed suicide by using me to do it. But that lightsaber and it's predecessor, the one that was used to kill the tribe are retired, there will be no more bloodshed. They are a symbol of the desperate acts to save someone I love and in time turned. And into Sith weapons, never again, given time I can recreate it with a, first Amethyst color."
"And then as I grow up into purple, but the lightsaber, like learning about Xanatos, is something I can be patient with, so like my grandchildren. Training, starter and then my lifelong lightsaber, as I earn the right to hold it. But not till you and the trio decide I'm ready now." he said looking at the council and then at Adi, Tiana and Damon. "There's the patience of a true padawan, understanding that until you ready are, in our eyes."
"That you got to wait now and you done just that, but your starter lightsaber will be your preteen lightsaber until ready to make the real one and once done. Then and only then will your life as a master guardian be complete, by facing the evil in your heart. And facing off against Vader, but until then must have patience soon you will earn that. And your chance to the trials now, just be patient." Adi said smiling and Mace nodded gently.
"Honestly I'm not ready for the trials to let go, I want another five years at the time, you helped me by carrying the burden of my title. But the older I got, and the more it's weight started getting worse, I want ten years without it sitting there on my shoulders. I can do this, just..., I need you to keep it in check, still a padawan. I need you, my mentor, until I'm ready, I stay at your side." he said with a look of humility in him then.
"Yes indeed, know what saying you are, but to insure you are ready for a copy of your teen youngling lightsaber in purple this time. Face your alter ego's adult mentor and said alter ego's paternal mentor, before to know for sure you are recovered. Take you to Dagobah I will and face Vader in a menal standoff in the cave now, my padawan. Made me very proud you have now." Yoda said and Anakin nodded as he saw it for what it was.
And as he gave Mace the lightsaber and he nodded. "It's retired starting now, I can make a copy of it at 23, but this one, this I'm using starting the day. That you give that permission." he said, showing him his preteen lightsaber. "I can wait till you say I'm ready, but with my memories, I remember and you can train me heavily in your style. Until you and Adi give the go ahead for it." he said and Mace nodded in acceptance.
"You're sure?" she asked and he nodded. "Peacekeepers, why need weapons to break something up when you can use the force now. You said it already, Father as a cub, time to make that clear now, but for him, and Siri, you and Ben. But honestly I do it the way I always done it, from my 7 year old cub phase to now, stop the fight. Not by violence, but by hearing both sides of the fight." he said and the council smiled at his remark then.
"There you go, no matter a new haircut and a lightsaber at your belt, you're still you no matter how old you get. To them, you never changed and it's the same for us, though growing into adulthood. You kept the good in your heart, the you we know never changed at all now, best pilot in the galaxy, a cunning warrior and a good friend. Too all of us, that's the you we know, now it's time to show why that is, Anakin, one choice."
"One choice changes that, but we get to fix that, you just put both lives together and you get stronger now." Obi-wan said, squeezing the back of his neck, smiling. "This is the you we know, the you I raised, we all made mistakes we can fix, me especially. But I know you better then you know yourself, when you feel you're ready to rebuild that one. Your training is complete finally." Mace said softly and he nodded as he said it to him then.
"That training as a member of the Master guardians is complete when you're ready to create this lightsabers double, just in Mace's tinge now. But this is the you we all know, the good in you is pulsing so heart you're practically glowing purple now." Adi said and he nodded. "Yes and we never really gave each other a chance in their timeline, but this time, I've been more open with you then I had in that timeline, and with in mind now."
"We fixed what went wrong, the only way to make it clear we know who he was is wait for him to expose himself to Dex. Only this time I'm on Utapaa, and your clone makes the decision to take him out. But instead of a normal guardians, Master Guardians just gained 800 to 7,000 more members as the duo are in hiding on Yavin IV. As we start evacuating the temple, the month before the purge." he said and the trio nodded to him.
"So starting the day your premonitions on Padme start, we start evacuating the temple of every real Jedi knight and fill it up with the clones. Hidden mission to which I am a part of as the adoptive parent to your daughter, the alliance creates it's name now. And we were together at preparing for a long term situation right now?" Bail asked and they nodded to confirm that as Anakin said it to his mentors as a Master Guardian.
"Mace, just let loose, act like you did during the attempted arrest of Palpatine that night and again when Dooku killed three quarters of the rescue team." he said and Mace nodded as he crossed his arms then. "Bear clan back up slightly and Lana, Anakin, move next to your mentors, The Jinn/Kenobi/Starglider/Chion/Skywalker team. Just stand down please and relax, you're not the ones this hearing is about, so you relax now."
"However Padawan Olin, Padawan Veld you are, stay next to your mentors." Adi said sternly and the duo swallowed hard as Tiana moved next to her and they started then. And as Mace started the proceedings. "I suppose you remember the way I acted during his disciplinary heaing when Thracia came back, hmm. Were you praying that I never found out and turned that attitude, that dangerously stern tone on you right now."
"Why do you suppose he kept coming to us as we talked this over now at the time, he never told you anything, but he did us. Well the reason is he could be as open as possible with adults as there is no cruelty and stigma in the adult world. Where guidance counseling was concerned in his eyes, he could talk to us and your mentors. We never did what you were doing so as a result to that after Zan Arbor he did it finally."
"He unloaded it all to us, but knew he could tell us anything on his mind now, but seriously now, you just started this obsession. Said obsession that destroyed him in the end, because you killed his best friend, and nearly Obi-wan, Siri, Ry and Soara. With her, blast it, you killed yourself, young man, by doing this." Mace said, slamming his hand on Anakin's original lightsaber and slamming it on his chair and they paled at the news.
"That lightsaber was meant to be in his hands for life and instead it went to Luke now, a choose between being a Jedi or a Sith. And it was a choice that I left him no blasted choice in, that close to crossing then to the darkside myself. Because I was so furious, so focused on saving his soul that I crossed a line now. One that I shouldn't have that night, half our team was dead, I was all he had left, I was determined to keep from losing him."
"Do you know what it's like to fall in love, have a family, everything he loves was dying one by one and and I was the last piece to it. As he realized everything he believed in was all a smoke screen, a smoke screen for a plot that was meant to destroy him. You created the cancer cell that started it, by not telling the quartet, immediately. My padawan was close to death, if I could cut out that tumor, before it exploded."
"He had a chance, but the tumor did explode and said sliced my hand off and Sidious blasted me out the window. Prior to that, before we expelled you, I was warming up to him, we had a second chance to fix things now. But I was worried out of my mind, in leaving him alone with Sidious, to me, the way his emotions were now. It was very dangerous and I wasn't sure if Sidious was in league with Palpatine or not at the time."
"Till he gives me the news and he's looking as sick as I'd ever seen him when he did, like getting bitten by a fever wasp and that incubation period was over. Time was up, he no longer had a shatterpoint, he was a shatterpoint now, that boy. The boy I helped raised was dying out of the blow he took at the realization at the time. I wasn't losing my son and I was doing whatever it took to save him now." he said sternly to the duo at that.
Hearing the revelation Anakin felt the tears pouring down his face he thought of him that way, his trust and love, that was all that mattered to him as he looked at the duo. And seeing the look on Padme's face he knew she saw it the same way. "Our trust, all that mattered to him, it was, but in truth, loved us more then wanted to admit. Acted like the Master guardian he was and ready to be promoted for graduation and near 20 now."
"Did the right thing, he did, our mistake, not taking this time in this moment now to truly warm up to him as did lessons in controlling emotions, we did. Watch." Yoda said and looked at Anakin as he gently wiped the tears off his face as he said it to him. "How feel you?" he asked and Anakin took a deep breath as he controlled his voice. "Right now, a little nervous, but I am not afraid of failure, I was thinking about my mother now."
"Yes I am afraid to lose her, but I know things will happen that I can not control, and I can't be everywhere at once. So best to just enjoy things in the present while I still got the chance to." he said and Yoda nodded in approval. "Indeed, but why afraid are you?" he asked and Anakin explained that. "We had a slave raider, by the name of Krayne come through my spaceport two years ago and he took people, several I knew quite well now."
"All parents of my friends, my own little circle, is possibly matched to several members of my possible new clan here. But the mother of my best friend, her name is Halla Farcloud, was one of them in the raid, realizing if she was gone. Then he possibly got my mother, I went to check and found her in the corner of our kitchen. That look of fear in her eyes, I never want to see that look again." he said and the council nodded in understanding.
"We know of this trader, my padawan is preparing to go undercover in his ranks, but if there was any way we could get one of us on the inside and make contact with her..." Adi asked and Anakin nodded. "Yes Master I can do that, but this would be ironic in the eyes now of the slave market and black arms deal markets now. As to why me, your new recruit, is the adoptive son of the woman in the last raid on Tatooine now, to him."
"Hearing I am a friend of the daughter of the woman he killed is enough that to him this was serious now. The slave that he grabbed was really once a slave and that slave was now a Jedi and that the Jedi that takes him down finally is a recently freed slave now. He's been terrorizing slaves for years and it is a slave that takes him in the end." he said and she nodded in approval and relief at his remark then as Yoda said it gently.
"Indeed, but when confront him, you do, remember who you are, though a Jedi, brought hope to the slaves of your planet once. That this, next step to raising that hope of freedom, but remember: control fear and anger. Fear is the path to the darkside, as fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering." he said and Anakin nodded. "I understand, but I am not afraid of failure, a little scared of my training maybe."
"But I am not afraid of failure, I won't fail you, if I was a teenager this fear of losing my mother in time would..., Okay I get it. Fear to lose something leads to desperation to prevent it, desperation leads to annoyance, annoyance to anger. Said is that something prevented you getting to the victim of that fear. And turns to hates because of who did the deed and hate, if not checked at the door, and in the black out, causes suffering."
"As you do something you can't take back." he said and Mace hid a smile. "There, point that is exactly, of mine is, not many padawans, decode that remark. But the fear to lose someone you love, dangerous that is, must control those emotions. Or use them against you, your opponents will." Yoda said and he nodded. "I understand, if I am what you call your group is there a way to unload that anger into practice, say lightsaber training."
"Working out it drains the nerves better, before unloading what's on my mind to you, you or the quartet, as you take charge?" he asked and they nodded. "Yes and for a padawan your age, we offer several outlets that can be used. And especially if there is a bit of animosity between you and another padawan. You just named two of them, the other two are a conference with a council member and meditation, for us, Master guardians."
"And we have a couple more for that right now, but if there is anything that needs to be said and you can't tell Obi-wan you can come to us or tell my padawan, Siri Tachi." Adi said and he nodded to her, as he looked at her, he hid a smile. "I will, out of curiousty who of the padawans in my age group are going to have a problem. And with me taking their position, and as possible star pupil and until Obi-wan choose me as his student."
"Because if the jealousy gets so dangerous it puts the team at risk and I'm telling you immediately." Anakin asked and she explained it. "We had a situation two weeks ago, before we sent the duo on this mission he closed himself off from his training partner. Her name is Olana Chion, but she prefers the nickname of Lana, but he closed the door. And the endings were he shifted the wrong way, and the bolt hit his lightsaber here."
"Bounced off it and hit a youngling no older then five, but no matter how many times we tell him to cooperate, he won't." she said and he crossed his arms at the news sternly. "Uh huh, okay, do you want to tell you if he starts eavesdropping on my conversation with Obi-wan, or gives a threat to me, say training interference?" he asked and they nodded as she said it for all them gently as she answered him at that.
"That would help highly right now, but I see that every sin he shows, you show the value for it, but that was a test we ran you through, before our decision. Can you guess what that test was?" she asked and Anakin nodded. "Can a Jedi live in the outside world and still be a Jedi and I just proved that yes we can. Let me guess my predecessor, was like me on his home planet as his life of solitude turned into a life of engagement."
"Well I can guess the lesson in that one, but life surprises you, so accept the gift." he said and they chuckled and nodded. "Yes that was the lesson and saying exactly, that mission had to do with how I became your team's permanent partner in missions. But it also showed us a dangerously crazed scientist and politician, so be wary. And of politicians like her." she said, passing a photo of the said politician to him then.
"She was in league with a crazed scientist, but because over the next few years our paths may cross once again with the scientist. Or my team's biggest enemy and his family, so best be prepared in case that does." he said and she nodded. "Indeed, but until then, best be patient until that does happen right now, but it's very tempting to act..." she said and he completed her sentence with a gently smile then as he finished that.
"But often wiser to wait yes, and I agree with you, but the matter or comparisions between you and my old life, before I see them. Too late, you are like my mother in personality traits, Master, if there is anything that needs to be said. Then I can come to you, Mr. Farcloud is you in personality and Jayden Starstreamer like you Master Windu." he said and they nodded with a smile then at the revelation then as they gave a nod.
"What was Farcloud's first name?" Damon asked and he smiled. "Wilhelm, but he preferred the nickname of Will. Whoever is Halla's force sensitive double, I can wait to find out, but for right now, I can see that this is the start of very close friendship. I can tell you more about them before I get settled in later on right now. But whoever in my class is matched to my friends at home, I can explain it later after this ends."
"But what I can say is that Amee had an older sister now older then Lana." he said and they nodded as Mace answered him for the entire group gently at that. "Very well, how much have you learned in your trip to run these evaluations?" he asked and Anakin explained that. "Master taught me enough I been practicing with my telekinesis and sixth sense now, I understand though that not ready for a real lightsaber, just yet now."
"I learned to sense the oncoming attack by the remote when Obi-wan was in practice now, Master. As one blast got knocked out the galley door and I ducked as it hit the window in front of me." he said and then froze and then ducked three shots aimed at him, before jumping over a fourth and they nodded at the practical demonstration as he tried to hold it in as he injected a stern tone into his voice as he said it to that firmly.
"Alright wise guy, I wasn't suggesting a practical demonstration to punctuate that sentence right now." he said as he turned to look at the remote behind him at that response and the council chuckled at his remark then. "I take they do that all the time in the sneak attacks, but if he wants to demonstrate, that fine." he said and Mace hid a smile as Kit said it for him then with a slight chuckle in his tone at that remark
"Well that's one way to give an example to what you mean by that sentence, but we understand youngling, keep going. So how has your basic training, aside from lightsaber training, been working out?" Kit asked with a smile and he explained that to him. "I reached 150 to 200 pounds in telekinetic weight lifting, I never tested my agility yet as the ship was too small to try it." he said and they nodded as Mace said it then gently.
"Well I believe it is now, that was and is exactly what we mean by use the force, you sense where the attack is coming from and then react. As it's all on instinct, but I believe that your increased level gives you the added ability of instinct in knowing what to do. And before it hits, but the tests of agility and acrobatics we can do right now, so first agility, this is part of your basic training as you join your training quartet now."
"Master Calrissian, is one of the masters leading your portion of your clan, and you know Master Adi, and Qui-Gon, the last is Master Tiana. I sense a need to control a darkness, you are, in your aura, are glowing a slight amethyst." Mace said and he nodded. "I don't understand understand, is that good or bad?" he asked and Mace smiled gently. "Like you I too show that in me, as I got older, my amethyst went from that to a dark purple."
"I sense that about you, in time I can train you to control it now, red is a sign of the evil in your heart, blue is the sign of being a protector. Completely equal in both colors you become part of my stature, I am what we call a Master guardian." he said and turned on his lightsaber and Anakin saw the color and nodded. "Are you one as well Master?" he asked and Adi nodded to him gentlu with a smile as she answered him.
"Yes I am, but mine is orange, control the red in my heart and I shine with the light of the sun, your sister, my padawan, she is a lighter version to you. Her's is a hot pink, near amethyst, the three of us are the only ones too, but if you show that yourself. Then we just added the youngest member to it, Anakin, before we do agility. We're doing a practice run in lightsaber training." he said and Anakin nodded to him gently at that
As Yoda pulled a set of goggles from the bag and then a practice lightsaber from it as he explained it to them. "These goggles, make the remote invisible, they will, test: force sensory perception and target practice, it will." he said and Anakin nodded to him, as he took both and put the goggles on. 'Concentrate on the moment, feel don't think, just use your instincts.' he thought softly as Mace made an adjustment to the setting on it.