Chapter 14: We Have to Move
Anakin approached Coruscant and engaged cloaking to the ship, he was now a ghost.
He landed his ship on one of the buildings. He exited the ship and ran to the building where Chancellor Valorum was in. Anakin scaled the wall finally reaching the window. He could see the chancellor sitting in his chair watching a pod racing event.
"Huh a chancellor watching sports instead of doing his job. God the republic has gone to utter shit", Anakin whispers. He silently breaks open the window with his lightsaber. As he enters the office he immediately force grips the chancellor and throws him to the wall.
"Arghh", the chancellor shouts. He turns around to see it's the Nightstalker. Anakin equipped his lightsaber and ignited it illuminating his bright white blade.
Fear ran into the chancellor's eyes, he felt it was over. He was going to die to a psychopathic murderer.
Anakin pinned the chancellor to the wall with his lightsaber so close to penetrating his neck.
Valorum looked intently at the bright blade.
"What do you want", he says nervously.
Anakin throws him across the room in frustration.
"Shut the fuck up with that bull crap old man. You were the one sending hitmen after me weren't you", Anakin shouts. Valorum was confused "What is he talking about."
"I don't know what you are talking about", Valorum yells back.
Anakin wasn't amused his dark mask struck terror into Valorum. All he saw was darkness, no sign of a man under there just a dark entity.
"YOUR LYING", Anakin shouts lifting Valorum into a force choke.
"Pl..e...as..e", Valorum says trying to catch his breath. Suddenly the office door swings open and Anakin drops Valorum causing him to cower in a corner trying to breath normally.
It was the jedi. Anakin's rage began to boil, he hated the jedi. They knew of the slavery, the killings, the children getting raped and they did nothing about it. They just turned a blind eye.
"Nightstalker under arrest you is. Attempting to kill the chancellor you are", Yoda says igniting his green lightsaber. Behind Yoda was Ki-Adi Mundi, Kit Fisto, Shaak Ti, Aayla Secura and Plo Koon.
"Oh you think I will let you take me", Anakin says aggressively. He would rather die than to be captured by jedi.
The rest of the jedi ignited their lightsabers preparing to arrest the vigilante.
"Please surrender Nightstalker we don't want to hurt you. We want to take you in and ask a couple of questions", Shaak Ti says politely.
Anakin wasn't buying into their tricks. He was stronger than that.
"Puny jedi you think I will trust you. You aren't going to arrest me you know that. You want to kill me, that is what you want. You don't like that I see the corruption in the order and you fear that I will expose it. The public will be resentful towards you then", Anakin says menacingly.
"Nightstalker, see the corruption you do. Take you in and help us solve it you will. Restore the order to how it was we will", Yoda says gripping his lightsaber tightly.
"Hahaha", Anakin laughs. "You really think me helping you will fix the corruption. Well then you are lost my little green friend. The jedi are too far corrupt that you can't change back. The only thing you can do is leave or kill every corrupt jedi knight", Anakin says.
Yoda and the other jedi masters walked forward a bit closing the distance between them and the vigilante.
Anakin's anger was fueling him more than before.
"Stand back weak jedi, come any closer and you will be eliminated. You don't know my true power", Anakin shouts.
"We know that you are strong and that you have to be stopped", Plo Koon yells back.
"Please Nightstalker give up we number you 6 to 1. It is an uneven match your power isn't strong enough to fight 6 jedi masters", Aayla pleas.
Anakin got into his defensive stance "You don't know me. You don't know what I've been through. I can give less of a fuck if you are a jedi master or not. To me you are just a little bitch that's trying to stop me from completing my mission", Anakin shouts.
"Enough", Yoda screams. "This is your last warning Nightstalker if you refuse our request then we will use lethal force", Yoda continues.
Anakin's eyes grew to a yellow tint. He was furious. "These jedi don't know who they are fucking with. They left me and my mom to die to slavers, while they sat here all high and mighty pretending to be peacekeepers. I am fed up with it", Anakin says to himself.
"May the force rest on your soul green bitch. You are signing an early death sentence", Anakin yells. The jedi masters gasped at the vigilante's words. Never before have they heard someone stand up to the Grand Master and disrespect him like that.
Yoda couldn't take it. He charged at Anakin.
"That is not the jedi way corrupt one", Anakin says to himself. Yoda and Anakin clash into an intense duel. The other masters watched as the vigilante fought the grand master with ease. It seemed like Anakin was playing with a doll, he was so calm and relaxed, while Yoda was sweating.
"He is extremely powerful we must stop him", Kit Fisto shouts. He runs to help Yoda and soon the other masters jump in. Valorum sat in the corner watching in disbelief. The vigilante was playing with the other masters. The speed and ferocity of Anakin's swings easily overpowered the jedi masters. Kit Fisto went for a counterattack when Anakin's white lightsaber plunged straight into his chest killing him.
Aayla watched her friend Kit fall to the ground lifeless.
She became angry and started intensifying her swings. Anakin easily force choked her into the air and threw her next to Valorum. She was knocked out unconscious.
"I told you not to attack me. Look at what happened now", Anakin yells.
Anakin felt that this couldn't go any longer because the military would be there soon and surround him. He needed to escape. Anakin purposely backed himself to the window. He sliced the window open with his lightsaber. Anakin channeled through the force and sent an insane force push throwing the masters through the wall into the hall.
With this advantage Anakin turned to the window and jumped out of the building. He began freefalling straight to the ground. Before he was going to hit the pavement Anakin clinged himself to the exterior of the building and gradually came down to the ground.
As he landed a crowd of people stared at him with fear. His dark mask and bright lightsaber caused people to be unable to move and stood there with their mouths wide open.
Anakin slowly walked passed them causing the crowd to move out of his way. No one dared to even come close to him.
The police and military showed up causing him to start running.
"Get him", an officer shouts.
"Fuck me, of course they are here", Anakin mutters. He finds a man by his speeder. Anakin force pushed the man and took his speeder flying out of the senate district. He knew they were after him so he needed somewhere to lay low for a bit. As Anakin zoomed through the city dodging incoming speeders left and right he decided to go down to the lower levels of Coruscant.
As he descended to the lower levels Anakin's speeder broke down causing it to fly around uncontrollably.
"Why does this shit always happen to me", he says gripping onto the handlebars trying to keep the speeder steady. His speeder was heading straight towards a landing dock. Anakin quickly jumped off the speeder and landed on the docking bay.
"I gotta keep moving", he says to himself with his lightsaber still ignited. As he ran through the docking bay he saw men grab their blasters and pull out a holopicture. They were bounty hunters looking to kill the Nightstalker for a reward. They began to fire at Anakin who was charging straight at them.
He deflected the blaster bolts and jumped over the bounty hunters. He used the force and dropped one of the ships on top of the bounty hunters killing them.
"You should've stayed home dumb bitches", he chuckles making his way out of the docking bay and entering level 1313.
Anakin kept running through the city. He didn't stop for a second, he just kept on moving. Suddenly he heard a girl scream "help me." Anakin's vigilante instincts kicked in and he ran to the weeping women.
"Are you okay, what happened", he says concerned. The woman looked at him with tears in her eyes.
"They took my child, he is in that building", she pouts pointing Anakin to the building.
Anakin reached his hand out and helped her up. "Let's go get your kid back", Anakin says.
They both ran across the street and soon as Anakin entered the building *boom*. He got smacked in the face knocking him out. It was the hitmen Clovis hired. The lady sent a signal to Clovis informing him that the vigilante fell into their trap.
"Too gullible", says the lady standing over the unconscious vigilante.
Obi Wan woke up next to Sabe who was playing with his scruffy beard.
"Hey baby", he says happily. Sabe smiled and kissed him.
"Last night was so fun, you satisfied my sexual desires", Sabe smiles licking her lips.
Obi Wan grew erect at the sight of her seducing him. He wanted to go for round two but he realized he needed to talk to the Nightstalker.
"Sabe I need to do something quick. I will be right back", Obi Wan spits out. He quickly throws a shirt and some pants on. He exited Sabe's room and ran through the halls looking left and right into each room hoping to find the vigilante. As he made his way to the lounge he saw Padme playing with Sophie.
Obi Wan wiped the sweat that was dripping from his face.
"Padme, where is the vigilante", he says. Padme stood up and approached Obi Wan.
"He left last night. He told me to protect Sophie and he gave me this", Padme says pulling out a blaster pistol.
Obi Wan was dazed. "Fuck", he yelled to himself. The vigilante is gone and he gave Padme a blaster. That must mean that there is going to be an attack on the palace. Plus Shaak Ti and Aayla weren't at the palace either so it proved the visions even more. Padme stared at Obi Wan's face that was filled with worry.
"What is it Obi Wan. Please tell me" she says softly. Obi Wan still couldn't speak, all that was foreshadowed to happen is true. It is coming but he doesn't know when, but Obi Wan has to be prepared. So does Bail, Padme, Sabe, and Sophie.
Obi Wan placed both of his hands on Padme and pulled her in closer to him.
"The Nightstalker warned me about an attack on the palace. He also told me to watch out for Shaak Ti and Aayla. He says I may trust them with my life, but they may not do the same", Obi Wan says worriedly. He didn't want this to happen, he didn't want to have to kill his two jedi friends. But if it came down to it, he would. To protect Sabe and the others.
Padme's face was filled in shock. "Are you serious Obi Wan", she chokes.
Obi Wan nodded "We have to tell the others, we must prepare an escape route". Padme agreed she grabbed Sophie and followed Obi Wan who was running through the halls.
"DORMÉ. Come with us", Obi Wan shouts. Dormé obeys and starts following them to Sabe's room. She didn't know why she was following them, but knew it was important.
Bail peeked his head out and saw Padme, Obi Wan, and Dormé running towards him. He walked out.
"What is going on", he says scratching the back of his neck. Obi Wan grabbed Bail "I will explain later right now we need to get to Sabe's room."
They all finally reached Sabe's room and entered. Obi Wan locked the door and Sabe stood there confused.
Obi Wan turned around and placed his back to the door. He was hyperventilating.
"Obi what is going on", Sabe asks softly.
Obi Wan took a deep breath and cleared his throat.
"There is something I didn't tell you guys about in the vision with the Nightstalker", Obi Wan said nervously.
He profusely scratched his beard. He couldn't believe that this was coming true, he tried to deny it but he can't deny it anymore it was going to happen.
"The Nightstalker told me that he sensed an attack on the palace. He said we must prepare and escape, it will not be safe here for long. He also told me...", Obi Wan started to choke up. To him this was the hardest part. He trusts those two with his life and to hear that they might turn on him, breaks Obi Wan's heart.
"I'm leaving the order I can't be a jedi anymore. The vigilante warned me that Shaak Ti and Aayla will turn on me. He said that even though I trust them with my life, they wouldn't care. The man told me to protect you all and bring you to safety", Obi Wan says sobbing. His emotions finally broke through. Sabe ran to his aid and comforted him.
"It's going to be okay Obi, we are all strong we will fight through this", Sabe says running her hands through Obi Wan's hair.
Bail stood there taking in everything Obi Wan said.
"Obi Wan if you are right and we have to leave the palace. We need to devise a plan. I think we find a secluded place and I can call my wife to send a ship to safely take us to Alderaan. When we reach there we won't be in any trouble. Alderaan is neutral no bad guys or jedi just Breha and good people", Bail states.
Obi Wan wiped his tears and stood up. "That's a good idea but we need to find a place where we can hideout for a few hours or even a full day until the ship arrives. But where."
Padme shouted "We can go to my family's old house summer house by the lake. It is secluded and no one lives there. Plus there is an open field where the ship can safely land and pick us up."
"Great, that's good", Obi Wan says. He now feels much better that they discussed a plan after they exit the palace. But the issue that remained was how to escape the palace.
"Dormé do you still have that map of the palace", Sabe shouts. Dormé nods and pulls the map out of her back pocket. She walked to the table and laid it out.
Obi Wan and the others crowded around the table.
"Okay so we are here, and the entrance to the palace is there. Roughly giving us a minute and a half to escape before they reach Sabe's room", Dormé says showing the others the path.
"Shit, that isn't that much time to make it out. We would then have to fight our way out and that will be nearly impossible", Obi Wan says.
Sabe scratched her head and remembered. She has a secret escape tunnel built in her room in case of an emergency. It leads to the hangar and there is a speeder they can take to escape.
"Dormé pull that book", Sabe orders. Dormé walks over to the bookshelf and tugs on the book. Suddenly the wall shifts opening a small entrance.
"What's that for", Padme questions. Sabe looks down at the map and back up at Padme.
"It was built for an emergency. They created a tunnel so I can safely escape to the hangar. We can take this tunnel to get to the hangar quickly and hop into one of my speeders and flee the palace", Sabe says.
Obi Wan embraced her tightly kissing her numerous times on the cheek.
"Thank fucking God, you are the queen", Obi Wan mutters. Sabe smiles and kisses him.
Obi Wan turned to Dormé who was rolling back up the map.
"Dormé we are going to need you. We trust you to be with us. You need to go to the medical room and grab as many meds as you can. Me and Bail will grab food supplies in the meantime. Everyone meet back here. No one is going to sleep anywhere else tonight. We are all going to sleep in Sabe's room. Understood", Obi Wan announces to them.
Dormé nods "I will do anything to protect you all", she says before heading off to grab the medical supplies.
Obi Wan and Bail also left to go grab food supplies. Padme laid Sophie on the bed and sat next to her.
Padme placed her hands covering her face and heaved a big sigh.
Sabe walked up to her a place a hand on her shoulder.
"I can't believe this is actually going to happen", Padme mutters. Never before has she been in this type of situation. It somewhat frightened her but she knew she had to be strong not weak. She is fed up nearly getting raped 3 times, it angered her.
"Sabe I don't think I'm going to be a senator anymore", Padme whispers.
Sabe's face lit up "What Padme you said you that was your dream to be a senator and help others."
Padme nodded "I did say that but times have changed. No matter how hard I try, I can never get anything passed to help people. The corruption in the senate is too strong. I just can't deal with it anymore, I just want to live a normal life now." Sabe embraced Padme she knew how much helping others meant to her. She always said how she hated the corrupt senators that only worried about themselves and that she tried to help the less fortunate but was always turned down by the senate.
"I understand Padme, I been thinking that I might resign as queen. I want to live a normal life as well with Obi Wan", Sabe murmurs.
"Really Sabe, I wouldn't think that you want to resign as queen", Padme says dazed.
"Well I have the same reason as you. I dedicated my time and effort to helping my people and other less fortunate people around thr world but it never worked. Everyone didn't want to help me push my efforts, no matter how hard I tried. I'm done with dealing with other people's problems," Sabe says frustrated. She runs her hands through her hair trying to calm herself down.
Sophie turned to Padme and Sabe "I'm scared, I don't want to be taken away", she sobs.
"Don't worry Sophie you won't be taken away. None of us will, we are strong", Sabe beams. Padme looked at Sabe and smiled
She gripped onto the blaster the Nightstalker gave her. Padme felt different now, she was no senator now. Padme doesn't want to be in politics anymore. She is fed up with the corruption, she can't handle it. Padme feels stronger now, like a warrior. She is ready to fight and protect Sophie at all costs. Padme isn't no nice lovely Senator Amidala, she was now just Padme.
She turned to Sophie who was about to cry again. Padme hugged her and kissed the top of her head.
"It's going to be okay Sophie", she says hugging her tightly. Sophie looked up at Padme.
"Mommy I miss daddy", she pouts. Padme felt like she was going to cry. Sophie was calling her mommy.
"I know you do. I miss him too, we all do", she whispers.
Anakin wakes up in a chair. He tried to move but his hands were cuffed to the metal chair. Anakin tried to use the force but he felt weak.
"Don't waste your time trying to use those tricks to escape. We put force restrictors on you. It weakens your connection to the force making you unable to use it", says the woman.
Anakin shouted "You dirty bitch. I trusted you, what about your fucking kid."
The lady approaches Anakin "What kid", she simply responds.
"I'm gonna fucking kill you", he screams. The lady laughed.
"Oh I know you want to, I can see it. But sorry to bring the bad news honey, you will never get to kill me. Not when we are done with you", she chuckles. She pulls out her holophone and calls Clovis.
"Hey boss, we got him", she says.
"Fucking wonderful", Clovis says sitting in his chair with his feet kicked up.
"What do you want me to do to him master", she asks.
Clovis stood up and threw a bouncy ball at the wall. "Well at first I thought of killing him off, but that would be too easy. I want you to torture him. He killed the Zygerrians and Jabba who both worked for me. So let's give this piece of shit a slow death", Clovis smiles. He hangs up and starts jumping with joy.
"Oh Nightstalker how the mighty have fallen. My friend it was good knowing you, now you will die", he says. Clovis was hungry for sex. He needed pleasure bad so he grabbed two women and brought him to his bedroom.
He closed the door and locked it.
"Let's have some fun ladies. Today is a good day", he shouts pulling his pants down.
"Okay boss told me that we are going to torture him", the lady shouts to the guards.
Anakin shouts at her "You fucking whore wait till I get my hands on you. You ugly bitch".
The lady got pissed "Shut him up will you, I hate people who try and disrespect me", she yells. Two hitmen walk up with sledge hammers and slam them onto Anakin's legs.
"F...U..C..K..Y..O..U", he shouts in pain. Anakin tried to break the cuffs but the sensors blocked him from using his force powers. His legs felt numb like they weren't even there. Anakin sensed this might be the end. Anakin was now a prisoner.
End of Chapter 14
