Chapter 97

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Note: This version of Anakin is the Anakin 2 that we saw in earlier chapters. Ruwee is an original character of mine, but from the same universe of the prime Anakin.

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Judge Dent was dealing with yet another incident of violence. People who could not, or would not, live alongside their enemies. A pilot named Ruwee had attacked Anakin Skywalker. Dent was well aware that a lot of beings had reason to hate Anakin Skywalker, but the irony is he attacked the wrong one. Ruwee seemed genuinly sorry about attacking the wrong one, but judge Dent feared he would attack the right one. Ruwee was given the chance to explain his side of the story.

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Ruwee: I'm from Naboo originally. When I was 15 the Trade Federation invaded, forced us all into concentration camps. I escaped with my friends, joined the resistance, the irony is I fought alongside a young Anakin in this battle. But then, a lot of us felt that the Republic was too corrupt. They were exploiting too many worlds for their resources and treating it's peoples like second class citizens. Although Naboo was pro-republic, I sympathized with the seperatists. I proudly served in this army, and I did things I now regret. War is hell no matter what galaxy you live in. Then, we learned that it was all for nothing. Dooku and Palpatine started this war, killed countless lives, all so that they could gain more power for themselves. And they were plotting to murder every jedi in the galaxy, down to the last youngling. I had done some bad thing sin the war, but genocide and killing younglings, that I could not abide. I went to the Jedi Temple, but by this point they were already beginning the massacre. I saved the younglings that I could, and I heard that some were hiding in the Council Room. I fought my way to it, but there were so many stormtroopers. I saw Anakin going there, we had been enemies but I thought he was still a jedi, thought he would protect them. I didn't know he had gone to the darkside, didn't know he would slaughter younglings. Anyway, that's why I punched this Anakin. I'm truley sorry that I hurt the wrong one.

Dent: But you're not sorry about your overall actions?

Ruwee: He deserved far worse than what he got.

Dent: That is a matter of debate. Tell me what you did after Order 66.

Ruwee: I put these younglings into hiding, then I became a smuggler, eventually joined the Rebel Alliance.

Dent: So you have skills with flight and stealth?

Ruwee: Yes, and I have no problems using my skills to help save refugees.

Dent: We need all the help we can get, including from former enemies. None of us earned Heaven before the rapture, only by doing better, by showing mercy...

Ruwee: To the people who slaughter children?

Dent: Yes.

Ruwee: I don't know if I can do that.

Dent: I'll put you in a cell for awhile, let you cool down. I can only hope you take this opportunity to contemplate what you want to do with whatever time you might have left.