Chapter 10: Their Time is Coming

Anakin wakes up to the sound of clatter outside his makeshift dumpster.

He peeks through the hole and sees multiple men carrying weapons.

"Great just fucking great", Anakin mutters.

"Boss is paying us to find this vigilante", says one hitman. Anakin slowly opened his compartment and grabbed his lightsaber and mask. He puts his mask on and grips his lightsaber. Two hitmen approached the dumpster. They opened it and Anakin gracefully jumped out and sliced the two men's heads off with ease.

"There he is", one shouts. Anakin pivots around and begins deflecting multiple blaster shots being fired at him.

"These guys really want me dead", Anakin smirks. He slowly made his way closer to the men firing at him however 3 hitmen flanked Anakin and sneaked up behind him.

Anakin easily sensed their presence and without turning around he lifts them up with the force and chokes them to death.

The rest of the hitmen ran into a nearby building.

"Clovis never told us he was this strong. He is literally unstoppable", one yells.

They cowered in the dark room with blasters pointing in every direction.

"Just shut the fuck up okay. Stay focused on the mission. There is no way he will attack us, we are aiming at every possible entry point", says the leader of Death Squadron.

The men nodded and calmed themselves down. However little did they know Anakin was already waiting for them.

It was silent, dark and the men were terrified. They never experienced a man so powerful and so scary. Many wished they didn't take part in this operation and contemplated the idea of going after this vigilante.

One of the men felt a presence behind him and he started hyperventilating.

"G...u...y...s", he speaks. The hitmen turned to the man and whispered to him.

"Are you okay what the fuck is going on", one of the men shouts.

"He's... h...e...r...e", the man stutters.

Suddenly behind the man a bright white glow illuminated and blaster fire erupted inside the building. Lights began flashing, the room was completely dark but would light up for a second. The men shot at anything that moved. Anakin used this advantage and quickly sliced the men vanishing into the darkness then reappearing seconds later.

In less than a minute all the men were killed except for one who was bleeding out. Anakin approached the dying man and started strangling him.

"WHO SENT YOU", he shouts. The man refuses and spits blood all over Anakin's mask. The vigilante started choking the man harder and asked one more time "WHO SENT YOU".

"F...U...C..K...Y...O...U...P...U...S...S..Y", says the man before flopping to the ground dead. Anakin swung his lightsaber around in complete anger. "Whoever is doing this will meet their fate", he mutters. He searches one of the corpses and finds a holophone.

Anakin pocketed it for later. Hopefully he can use it to identify the culprit behind this failed assasination attempt.

As Anakin exited the building the military and several jedi knights surrounded him.

"Get down on your knees", says the sergeant.

Anakin obeys but a smirk ran across his face. "These guys don't know who they are fucking with."

"Give me the lightsaber, you murderer", shouts the jedi knight.

Anakin simply responds "no."

The jedi ignited his lightsaber and approached the Nightstalker putting his blade extremely close to Anakin's neck.

"That isn't the jedi way" Anakin says.

"I won't ask you again give me the lightsaber", the jedi scowls. He attempts to steal the lightsaber when Anakin ignites it and impales the jedi knight. He fell to the ground and gasped in shock, he was slowly dying.

"I told you no", Anakin whispers. He then sends a strong force repulse throwing soldiers and jedi knights everywhere. Some fragile structures from buildings collapsed and fell on the attackers. Anakin used the force to jump on the roof and starts running to his ship.

The jedi knights quickly got up and chased after the perpetrator. One knight quickly contacted the council. "We are currently chasing after the Nightstalker", the jedi yells to the council.

"Capture him you must, his resourcefulness could be put to good use", says Yoda.

"Understood", says the jedi knight. Anakin ran out of Theed deflecting multiple blaster bolts from snipers that were placed all around the city. He then runs into the Naboo forest however he tripped on a exposed tree root which caused him to lose momentum and tumble onto the ground. The jedi knights surrounded Anakin and slowly inched closer.

Anakin called his lightsaber to him and yelled "Get back puny jedi, you will only meet your death."

The jedi knights refuse and rush Anakin from all sides. Feeling confident the jedi knights send multiple strikes at the vigilante, without taking the chance to defend themselves.

It was an intense fight the clashing of lightsabers created an aura glow that shined through the forest. Trees were being sliced down everywhere. However Anakin found his foothold and realized the jedi weren't being defensive at all. He used this flaw in their plan and began taking them out one by one till there were none left.

"I told you to run, but look what happened. YOU ARE ALL DEAD NOW. What peacekeepers you are, running around raping and killing people. You all deserved to die", Anakin screams. He then runs to his starfighter and takes off. He looked out of his cockpit and gave one last look at Naboo. It was going to be a while till he returns.

Anakin exited Naboo's atmosphere and entered space. "Finally got away from those pesky termites", he smirks. Honestly Anakin felt quite honored to be so high on everyone's kill list. The jedi, the military, numerous hitmen and bounty hunters are trying to take this vigilante down but it proves to be more difficult than it seems. Anakin doesn't fear death. Death fears Anakin. "How can you fight someone so strong that doesn't fear death. You can't", Anakin laughs to himself.

He leaned back in his seat and looked out at the emptiness of space. It was a calming sight, no blaster fire, no screaming, just pure silence.

As Anakin put his ship into autopilot, his sensors picked up a hostile ship approaching him.

"Can I get a fucking break for once in my life", he says furiously. Anakin disengages autopilot and slams the throttle down.

The enemy ship began firing his primary blasters at Anakin. Anakin did his best to dodge the incoming fire however his left wing got hit and was in bad shape.

"Fuck me", he says sweating. He has never been in a dogfight before so it was pretty hard for Anakin to understand what to do.

He tried shaking off the purserer by swinging his ship left, then right, and performed a few loops to hopefully trick the hostile but it failed.

Anakin started thinking how he can get behind this guy. Luckily he thought of an idea, it was a move he saw in a movie but never attempted it before.

"Well you always gotta try new things", Anakin laughs as he heads straight for an asteroid field. The purserer stayed on his tail. Anakin decided that he has to risk it and full sends his ship straight into an asteroid. As Anakin is about to make contact with the asteroid, he fires his blaster blowing up the asteroid. The debris caused the enemy to lose sight of Anakin. With this chance Anakin lifts his ship straight up and slows down his speed, as he sees the ship pass beneath him Anakin aims straight down and pulls up behind the attacker.

The man looked behind and saw that the vigilante was behind him.

"Fuck", he whispers before being obliterated by Anakin's proton torpedo.

Anakin sighs a relief "God that was close". However his shipped beeped causing Anakin to groan.

"What now", he says. He looks at the ship's diagonsotics and notices that his engine is heavily damaged. "It must've been that trick I pulled", Anakin says. He knew that he won't be in the air for long so he needed a place to land. Anakin pulls up his navi-computer and punches in the nearest planet.

"I guess we are going to Alderaan", Anakin mutters as he turns a few knobs and hits the throttle to enter hyperspace. Anakin somehow exited hyperspace with no issues and approached Alderaan's atmosphere. But at this point his engine finally gives out and combusts causing a fire to the hull of the ship.

"This isn't good", he claims. Anakin grabs his mask and lightsaber and tucks it tightly into his robe. He quickly began descending through the atmosphere. Parts of his ship burned at the speed he was going at.

"Oh fuck", Anakin shouts. His ship is closing in fast towards Aldera's royal palace. "I gotta do something fast before I crash straight into that building", Anakin says. He grabs the throttle and slams it to the right slowly pulling away from the tower he was about to crash into.

Citizens in the city watched in fear as they saw the burning ship head straight towards the palace.


"Hey Breha how was your day", Antilles beams. Before Breha could say anything her eyes caught on something that she thought was only a speck of dust but was gradually getting larger.

She stands up and approaches the window. "What is that", Breha points to Bail Antilles. He turns around and watches in fear. He quickly runs to Breha and throws her to the side.

"Get down", Antilles screamed.


"Cmon you piece of shit", Anakin shouts sweating like crazy. His hair dangled over his eyes, but Anakin didn't touch it because of how focused he was of not crashing. At the last second Anakin luckily pulled his now wingless ship away from the palace. He ejects from the fighter and the body of the aircraft crashes into the garden creating a massive crater.

Breha and Bail Antilles both got up and spotted the massive crater with the burning ship at the end of it.

Suddenly palace guards entered the dining room and ran to Breha.

"Are you okay Milady", the guard asks. Breha nodded.

"We should go check on that man down there, he seems in bad shape", she says. The guards nod and lead Breha and Antilles to the burning ship. Anakin quickly ran to a nearby rose bush and he puts his mask on. He waited for them to approach the ship.

Seconds later Breha approaches the ship with the others.

"Where is the pilot", Antilles asks. No one knew they only saw the ship crash-land.

Anakin then jumped out from behind the rose bush and grabbed Queen Organa. He stood behind her with a lightsaber to her neck.

"It's the Nightstalker", a royal guard shouts aiming his blaster.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you", Anakin mutters. He then pulled the queen backwards towards the rose bush.

"Let the queen go", says Bail Antilles. He never seen the queen ever get this close to death before. Antilles didn't want to be the first to witness it either.

"If you let me go, then she will live", Anakin says menacingly under his mask. The guards looked at the vigilante with blasters still pointing at him.

"How can we trust you", Breha argues. Anakin turns her around and she stares into his deep dark mandalorian mask. The guards lower their blasters and watch the queen talk to the masked figure.

"Ask your husband", he says simply. Breha's face dropped in terror. "No did he kill Bail", she says to herself.

"What did you do to him", she yells. Anakin slightly chuckles at her anger.

"Nothing he is fine. Didn't he tell you what happened", Anakin questioned.

Breha stood there in confusion. "What is he talking about, Bail always tells me everything. There is no way he would hide something from me, I'm his wife", she whispers to herself.

"What happened", she asked curiously. Anakin turned his lightsaber off and begins walking away from the queen and her guards.

"WHERE ARE YOU GOING", she shouts. Anakin turns around and faces the queen.

"I let you go, so you let me go. Ask your husband what happened, I don't want to be caught between your conversation with him", Anakin says before leaving the garden and making his way into the capital city of Aldera.

When Anakin was out of the palace's sight he hid behind a wall and he took his mask off. He put his hood on covering his whole face except for his mouth. He didn't want to scare everyone by his appearance as the Nightstalker.

The last thing he wants is to have more motherfuckers after him. Anakin quietly strolled throughout the city watching hundreds of people laughing and enjoying each other's company.

Anakin felt lonely watching those people have fun. He had no one to really talk to, he was always alone. As he passed an alley he saw a man on the ground crying.

Anakin's instincts kicked in and he walked to the emotionally broken man.

"Are you okay sir, what happened", Anakin says politely. He fixes his hood so that the man can't see his face. The man turned to face the hooded stranger and had tears flowing down his face.

"My beloved wife was taken from me", he says bursting into tears. Anakin sensed a sudden change of heart inside him, he felt immense sorrow for the man. The only person in his life was gone, just like how Anakin felt when he lost the only person in his life which was his mother.

"Who took her", Anakin says softly. He remained soft and caring on the outside but on the inside he felt immense anger. He wanted to find those people who took this man's wife and slaughter them like animals.

"The Zygerrians", the man chokes. He couldn't believe his wife, his everything was gone forever.

"Who are they", Anakin questions. The man slowly stood up and placed a hand on Anakin.

"Why do you ask so many questions, my wife is gone. I will never get her back", he sobs. The Zygerrians were ruthless and by the time he would make it to her, she would probably be dead.

"Because I'm going to save her", Anakin says coldly.

The man chuckled a bit "Thanks for trying to help but it's impossible. Once someone is taken to Zygerria they will never come back. No one dares to go and fight the Zygerrians."

"Well I'm the exception", Anakin says clenching his fist.

"Listen, you may not know who I am but trust me when I say this. Whoever took your wife won't be alive for long, so if you want your wife back you have to help me", Anakin says frustrated. The man noticed that the stranger was persistent. He finally agreed to help Anakin because he really needed his wife back.

"Here let me take you to my house, we can eat and discuss about this there", the man beams.

Anakin nods and follows the man to his house which was 3 blocks away.

The man opens the door and welcomes Anakin in. It was a nice small home, it felt very cozy to Anakin.

"Nice house", Anakin says.

"Thanks, please make yourself comfortable food will be out shortly", says the man wiping the last few tears that dried on his face.

Anakin sat on the couch and began looking at the man's picture frames. He lifted one up and stared at the image. He saw it was a picture of the man with his wife and 2 children.

"This man has children", Anakin says to himself. The man goes to the living room to tell Anakin food is ready when he spots the stranger staring at one of his photos.

"Food is ready", says the man. Anakin lightly puts the frame down and walks towards the man.

"You have children", Anakin says calmly. The man nodded "Yes I have 2 beautiful girls they both look like their mother".

He leads Anakin to the dining room. Anakin sat across from the man, and sat there looking at his food that was placed in front of him.

"Not hungry huh", says the man smirking.

"Yeah sorry, I just lost my appetite prior to entering your home", Anakin says wholeheartedly.

"It's okay", the man reassures him. It became silent for a few moments. The man was enjoying his meal while Anakin sat there pondering about the situation.

The man sighed "I don't know how I'm going to tell my girls that their mom was taken." Anakin placed a hand on the man's shoulder "Lie to them for now, your wife will return to you. Then you can live life as a family again."

"You are really confident in your abilities", the man points out.

Anakin nodded "Yes I am." However he turned more serious and leaned in towards the man.

"Tell me, who are the Zygerrians", Anakin says. The man grabs a napkin and wipes his mouth.

He takes a deep breath "They are the ones behind the whole slave operation. They have a huge slave empire and most of their profits come from the slave trade."

Anakin was dazed "I was a slave, how is it that I never heard of them. I only knew of Jabba the Hutt."

The man stood up and placed his empty plate in the sink. He returned to Anakin.

"Jabba works for the Zygerrians, if you were a slave then you were in Zygerria. During the trade you must've been bought by Jabba and placed in his own slave trade on Tatooine", says the man staring at the stranger. Anakin began boiling with anger he started pulling the edge of the table so hard.

"They were the ones behind everything. They made me and my mother's life a living hell", Anakin mutters to himself. All along he believed Jabba was behind everything but now realizes he was only a pawn. The Zygerrians were the heads, they were the serpants of the slave trade. Anakin is the sword that will slice the heads of these snakes.

"Are you okay", says the man. Anakin nodded "Yes I'm just going to need some rest that's all."

"Not a problem you can sleep on the couch, I will bring a pillow and a blanket for you to sleep with", says the man standing up.

Anakin gets up as well and makes his way back to the living room. He stared out the window and noticed all the pretty lights that brought life to Aldera during night. It was way different than Naboo, there were actually people walking around in the night.

The man soon returned and handed Anakin the pillow and blanket. Anakin smirked "Thank you for being so hospitable, I appreciate it."

The man smiled "Don't thank me that's my job. You are my guest I have to treat you with complete kindess."

As the man began to walk upstairs Anakin whistled to the man. He turned around "Is there something you need."

"Do you have a ship, mine crashed. I will need something to make it to Zygerria", Anakin says.

The man places his hand on the railing and looks down at Anakin.

"Yes I do, but now you should get some rest. Tomorrow I will take you early in the morning to my ship, goodnight", says the man.

"Goodnight", Anakin responds.

The man heads upstairs while Anakin lays on the couch and closes his eyes.


"Hey Padme wanna talk to Breha with me", Bail says peeking through her room. Padme sits up and pats the bed to signal for Bail to come.

"Yes I would love to talk with Breha, I never seen her in a while", Padme smiles. Breha was always so nice to Padme, they became really close but ever since she became more involved in the senate she got to see Breha less and less.

Bail enters her room and sits next to Padme. He lifts up the tablet and answers the call.

"Hey baby", says Bail.

"Hey Breha long time no see", Padme waves.

Breha smiled "Good to see both of you." But the reason she called wasn't to talk normally with Bail. She wanted to talk about what the vigilante told her.

"Bail you have some explaining to do, I see you are hiding something from me", Breha says raising an eyebrow.

Bail looked at her with confusion. He turned to Padme who shrugged her shoulders, she didn't know either.

"Honey what are you talking about, I always tell you everything", Bail says calmly.

Breha was frustrated "That isn't what I heard. A man crashed landed his ship into the royal garden."

Padme cuts in "is he okay."

Breha nods "Yes but as we approached the ship he grabbed me and held me in front of my guards. The man was the Nightstalker, he said he wouldn't hurt us and thank God he kept his word. But he told me that he wasn't going to hurt me because he helped you. Care to explain."

Breha crosses her arms and gives Bail the death stare. Bail clears his throat.

"Yes something did happen. Me and Padme were walking through the streets of Theed when two jedi cornered us with lightsabers ignited. One threatened to kill me, while the other attempted to rape Padme", Bail says.

Breha gasped "Oh my God are you two okay."

They both nodded "Yes if it weren't for the Nightstalker we wouldn't be alive. We talked to him for a little bit, then he escorted us back to the palace. After we reached the palace we said goodbye and he vanished", Bail softly says.

Breha was unable to speak. Her husband and her friend were almost killed by two jedi. They are supposed to be peacekeepers not murderers.

"Why is he in Aldera", Padme questions.

"I have no idea, he didn't talk much", Breha replied.

Bail leaned closer to the tablet "Where is he now".

"I don't know that either, after he let me go, he walked away from the palace and disappeared into the city", Breha responded.

Bail put his head down in defeat. He felt utterly sorry for not telling his wife what happened. He was too caught up helping others than worrying about his own life.

"I'm sorry honey for not telling you about this, I forgot about my own life for a second. I was caught up helping others that I didn't notice to tell you", Bail sighs.

"It's okay baby, but when you return you are going to have to pay me big time for not lashing out on you", Breha says forcefully.

Bail slightly smiles "Yes mam."

"Good, well have a goodnight you two", Breha says blowing a kiss before ending the call.

Bail closes the tablet and turns towards Padme.

"So the Nightstalker left Naboo it seems", Bail says. Padme sat there "Yeah well he has a mission to fulfill."

"Yeah your right", Bail says. He stands up and heads to the door.

"Well Padme I'm going to go talk with Obi Wan, goodnight", he says standing at the door. Padme waves "Goodnight Bail." When he leaves Padme snuggles in her blanket. She then has a vision.

Padme's Vision

"Hey baby, it's so good to see you", says Clovis approaching her and grabbing her ass.

Padme chuckles "Yeah it's good to see you two". She had a blaster ready in her back pocket.

"So you wanna have some fun", Clovis smiles.

Padme nods "Yes Clovis I want you all over me."

Suddenly the closet door swings open and a corpse flys out of it.

Padme gasps and when she looks closer it was...

"Anakin", she screams.

His handsome face was all ripped apart and his eyes were torn open.

She turns to Clovis who is laughing hysterically."What Padme you like this piece of shit. He is a nobody, now come here and let's have some fun", Clovis orders her.

Padme quickly pulls her blaster out and shoots at Clovis. However she misses and Clovis shoots her.

Padme falls to the ground and stared at Anakin's dead corpse. She screamed in pain, and Clovis picked her up and carried her towards the trash chute.

"Goodbye Padme. I thought we had something but I guess not", Clovis says throwing her down the chute and into the incinerator.

End of Vision

Padme jumps out of her bed shaking in fear.

"Anakin", she whispers.


It is early morning the next day

Anakin wakes up to the slight tugging of his robe. He looks up and sees two little girls staring at him confused.

"Daddy who is this man", the one girl says sitting on Anakin's chest.

The man comes and quickly grabs the girls off the stranger.

"What did I tell you about personal space", he says shoving his finger in the girls faces. They both put their heads down "sorry daddy."

He drops down to his knees and hugs them both "It's okay daddy loves you."

The three of them all started crying, while Anakin sat there and witnessed a wholehearted father and daughter relationship. Anakin began to tear up because he never had a father and seeing this interaction made Anakin wish that he had one.

The man gets up and tells the girls to go upstairs and play with their toys.

"Go play with your toys then afterwards, we can go get ice cream how does that sound", says the man. The two girls hugged their father jumping with joy. They both ran up the stairs yelling "Yeah ice cream, ice cream."

This left Anakin with a huge smile on his face.

The man approached Anakin "I'm sorry about that, it's just we never had a stranger in our home for a while."

Anakin patted the man on the back "It's okay they are just kids. They are glad to have a father like you."

The man started shedding tears "Thanks".

"We should get going", Anakin says. He gets up and folds the blanket nicely then leaves it on the couch.

8 minutes later Anakin and the man reach the hangar.

"This is your ship, it looks good", Anakin says. It was a modified Naboo starfighter.

The man runs his hand on the ship "Yeah I been working on it for a while now. I saw it in a junkyard and decided to refurbish it."

Anakin smiles and hops into the cockpit. The man stands on the ladder next to Anakin and hands him a few credits.

"Goodluck", says the man. Anakin politely hands the credits back to the man.

"What, I can't let you do this for free", says the man trying to hand the credits to Anakin.

"No keep your money. It's my choice to do it for free. I was a slave I know how it feels. I don't want your wife to live through that and I don't want to see your two beautiful girls live without their mother", Anakin says passionately. The man hopped off the ladder and watched Anakin take off.

Anakin saluted to him and flew out of the hangar and into Alderaan's atmosphere.

End of Chapter 10