Warning: Anakin calls Palpatine not a nice word

POV Anakin

I got up the next morning at 0500 with my comlink going off. I strained to push myself up, and saw that it was Obi-Wan's number. I answered it.

"Someone better be dying," I gritted through my teeth.

"Turn on your HoloNet to the News," he said frantically.

Now I was confused, nothing scared Obi-Wan. Maybe someone legitimately was dying, even though that was impossible in the force. I flipped the HoloNet on, and just stared at it. The speakers came in loud, but I placed it on mute so it did not wake Padme up. I muted the reporters but still got the knot in my stomach, because at the bottom banner read, "SHEEV PALPATINE ESCAPE FROM PRISON, ASSISTED BY SITH LORD MAUL OF DATHOMIR!"

"Oh my God," I said.

"Apparently he was not after your children at all, this was his plan the whole time," said Obi-Wan.

"Yeah," I said, "That's not comforting."

Padme mumbled in her sleep, then said "Ani, go back to sleep, it's too early."

"Okay, go back to sleep," I said to her.

She turned over and looked at me. "Ugh, where are they having a podrace at 0500 hours?"

I shook my head. "It's not a podrace. Obi-Wan called and said something was on the news."

"What?" she said sleepily, as she got up. "Why are you watching the news?" Then she gasped. "He's out?!"

"Yes," I said. Dread crept into my chest. Somehow it was like I had been burned on Mustafar, put on life support, then Palpatine electrocuted me, could not breathe. I wanted to grab Jinn and Ashla and lock us all in a bunker on Hoth so Palpatine could not find us.

She grabbed her commlink of her nightstand and started punching buttons, "Hi, Bail. It's Padme. I know it's early, but turn on the news to channel 9."

"What are we going to do?" I asked Obi-Wan. "It took us so long to find that prick, and now he is out. He is going to come after all of us and then we are going to suffer and -" I couldn't talk anymore, my air cut off somehow. It hurt to breathe. I was having some kind of panic attack.

"Anakin, calm down," said Obi-Wan.

"He- He is going to come after me," I choked out. "Everything I love."

"Anakin! Listen to me," said Obi-Wan in a far away voice, "I am not going to let him anywhere near you. Do you remember a week after your hearing, and we went to the Council, and Depa said that we were all idiots for letting a twenty year old around a Sith Lord. She was speaking for all of us. Alright, we know that Sidious wants you, and we will do everything to stop him. I spent eighteen years in a desert protecting Luke because I love you. Will you please trust me?"

"He is so powerful," I said, unconvinced.

"He is not more powerful than the entire Jedi Order!"

"Why would the entire Jedi Order help me?"

"Anakin, you have us all convinced that you without Padme is not a great situation. If you will humble yourself and ask for help, like you been doing, there is nothing Ahsoka, Yoda, Windu, Depa, me or any of the council will not do for you. Now get up and get dressed, and I will meet you and Ahsoka at the Temple to report to the Council at 0700."

"Okay. See ya there."

"Its very troubling that Sidious is on the move again," said Yadel Poof.

"It is possible that the Sith could be organized into starting an intergalactic war, like during the Jedi-Sith War that collapsed the Old Republic," said Adi Gallia.

"Or the Clone War that destroyed the New Republic and ended us," said Obi-Wan.

"I was wrong," I said. "I did not think that they were organized, but clearly that assassin was sent by Sidious to bust him out. If he has followers, that means that they could for some sort of army against the Jedi. Most Sith are only a Master and an apprentice, if that, but these clearly got the drop on me."

Depa laughed. "They 'got the drop' on all of us Anakin. Just because you were a Sith does not mean Sidious told you every secret he knows. We certainly are expecting you to save all of us. This is not your fault."

"Agree with you, I do, Skywalker," said Yoda. "Organized, the Sith have become. Send Master Kenobi, Commander Tano, and you to search for them and bring him back to us, we will."

"Master," I said, hesitantly. "This is a very dangerous mission. I request that Ahsoka Tano be excused from this mission since she is carrying a child."

They looked at each other. The Jedi did not typically deal with this when we were alive, but now that we are in the Force, she is allowed to be married and pregnant. They all looked to Yoda to make the final decision.

"Agree with you the Council does," said Yoda.

"Wait a minute," said Ahsoka. "Don't I have a say in this? I am a Jedi Knight. I have been trained to do things that other people can only dream of, and your telling me that all of that changed because I am pregnant?! The Force has not left me because I am with child. Look, this is Sidious. This is the guy who killed Jedi Knights, took down the Order, corrupted Anakin, my best friend, and destroyed everything I love. This is personal. Let me do this. I was born to do this."

"Snips," said Anakin, "I can't protect you and arrest a Sith Lord at the same time. If you are hurt,-"

"You trained me to protect myself. I won't get hurt."

"Very well. Tano, Kenobi, and Skywalker will take down Sidious, again," said Mace Windu. "May the Force be with you."