Chapter 5: Temporal Hot War

Captain Picard looked across his ready room with intensity and will, he had just begun his meeting with Master Windu but already felt as if convincing him of their mission and good intentions would be even more difficult than he imagined, but he was Captain Jean-Luc Picard, he was up for the task. Picard passed a pad across his desk and into the hands of Mace Windu, "That man right there, your chancellor is a sith lord and an extremely powerful one. And I have the proof to give to you but first you must promise me that you will not act too quickly as it could give us and you away."

"If I deem you trustworthy I am not the one who decides how the council proceeds, but I will put forward your recommendation before we voted on the matter." Mace said as he stood up, "You said you wanted me here to show me evidence?"

Picard nodded, "Indeed, follow me Master Windu. We'll need to be in sick bay for this." The Jedi master and Picard left the ready room and into the turbo lift. After what seemed like forever to Picard the lift opened and the two walked into the hall and finally entered the sick bay. In sick bay waiting was doctor Crusher, Luke and their Master Yoda.

An obviously surprised Windu looked down at his friend, "Master Yoda, what are you doing aboard this ship?"

Yoda gave his old friend a small smile, "Good to see you it is, missed you I have." Yoda limped closer to his friend and looked up at him, "Your Master Yoda I am not, from the future I am. Palpatine, not to be trusted is he, a sith he is."

Mace looked back towards Picard, "Alright, why are we in sick bay if your proof is an older Master Yoda?"

Picard sighed, "Alright, that young man sitting on this table is here for a reason to. Scan him with your device and compare his DNA to those who work with the council or in the council."

Windu scanned Luke and began to process the DNA, "Those who work with us might be related but it is against the Jedi code to..." before Windu could finish his sentence his DNA scanner had finished its search, according to his instrument this man was the biological son of Padme and Anakin Skywalker.

Picard walked closer to the obviously surprised Jedi, "I am very aware that him being around means that your code has been violated but you cannot punish him (Anakin) until after Palpatine has been dealt with."

Windu shook his head, "We have to, this is against the code. We warn against this as it could very well lead one to stray to the dark side of the force."

Picard shook his head, "That is precisely why I'm telling you not to, in our timeline he does turn to the dark side because he had visions of her dying in child birth thinking it could save her. In turn he helped the Emperor kill all of the Jedi except Master Yoda and another named Obi-Wan, but he died before we were in contact with your galaxy." An obviously uncomfortable Master Windu looked at Picard and shook his head, "I know this is a lot for a even a Jedi to take in, but please do not speak of this to anyone until this entire situation has been put to rest."

Luke looked up at Master Windu from the exam table he was sitting on, "Sir, Master, if you do tell the others of my father and he is indeed punished the Emperor will begin to suspect something as he can foresee the future in almost perfect detail, he knows that is not what's supposed to happen. We need to be as quiet about this as possible and take him out as soon as possible."

Mace Windu sighed, "Alright, I'll be breaking the code by keeping my silence as well but for the sake of the Republic and the Jedi I will stay quiet about your father until this situation is in the past."

Before Picard could respond his badge chirped, He pressed his badge, "Picard" and Datas voice came out of the badge.

"Sir, we are getting a starfleet signal and it's hailing us, should I patch it through to you sir?"

"Yes Data, put it through Picard out."

The screen in front of them blinked to life and revealed a tall man in a black cape with an all too familiar mask. Picards jaw dropped and Luke gritted his teeth, Daniels was right. The temporal cold war was about to take a deadly turn.

Vader turned his head and stared at the screen, "Ah Master Windu, it has been years since I ended your life."

Windu stepped closer to the screen unintimidated, "And who am I speaking to?"

"I am Darth Vader, or as you would know me, Anakin Skywalker. I am commanding a fleet of seven Star Destroyers equipped with the same weapons that the ship you're on has, surrender peacefully and each Jedis death will be a painless one."

Picard cut the signal and looked at Master Windu, "Never mind being quiet about it, take out the Emperor and alert your fleet about the incoming attack, we're going to need all the help we can get fighting them off."

Windu nodded as he head out the doors, "I'll do what I can."

The Enterprise NX-01 was getting hit left and right with phaser fire from the Imperial destroyers and Suliban cell ships, Picard had sent him and seventy Republic cruisers out to meet the Imperial fleet and stall for time, but it wasn't working very well. Fifteen of the seventy Republic ships were already crippled or destroyed and the Enterprise was going that route as well, and fast. Archer gritted his teeth as he got up from the ground and sat back down in his chair, "Malcolm, did you steal any of the transphasic torpedoes from the Voyager when she was under repair?"

Malcolm shook his head, "No sir, I'd never steal!" the ship rocked violently again after being hit near the bridge. "Shields at twenty percent sir!"

Archer scowled as he got back in his seat yet again, "God dammit Malcolm did you borrow any torpedoes from them?"

"Oh, well... that sir I did." Malcolm said as he clung on to his station.

Archer turned around and shot his armory officer a dirty look, "Next time I ask you a question tell me the truth, now fire every damn one of them at their fleet of destroyers!"