Title: Birth of Tyranny
Author: ewan's girl

*Author's note: I know none of you are even reading this story, but if by some chance anyone is, I hope you are enjoying it.

Chapter 11:

Obi Wan looked at She-ar-ah. "What is it?" He asked her in a concerned voice when he noticed how shaken up she was.
"I don't know how to say this Obi Wan, but somehow Anakin manipulated the force, and caused my guard to choke and pass out." She-ar-ah blurted out.
Obi Wan looked at her and frowned. "What? That's impossible, no one can do that. It would take an extreme amount of discipline for someone to be able to do that." He turned away from her. "Besides, I've never heard of something like that being done before."
"Well no offense Obi Wan, but he has been called the chosen one. Maybe he is capable of doing something like this." She-ar-ah tried to get him to believe her.
"No, I won't believe it. Anakin yes is arrogant, and doesn't listen to anything I say, but he would never do something like that." Obi Wan stated firmly. "What you described is very dark, I don't believe Anakin is capable of being so dark."
"Anyone is capable of being that dark Obi Wan." He looked at her. "Open your eyes."
Obi Wan turned away and sighed. "It's no longer my concern." He said in a defeated tone.
"What?" She looked confused. "Of course it is, he is your padawan."
Obi Wan shook his head. "Not anymore, I nominated him for the trials." He looked at her with almost a sad look on his face. "I have nothing else to offer him, he needs to learn on his own now."
"Do you honestly believe he is ready?" She-ar-ah asked.
"I don't know, I guess we'll find out." Obi Wan said and he started to walk away. "I have much to do She-ar-ah if you'll excuse me."
"Obi Wan Kenobi, you tell me right now if you actually believe Anakin is ready for the trials or are you just doing this so you can focus on being general instead of master?" She-ar-ah challenged him.
Obi Wan stopped in his tracks, he didn't answer or turn around. He stopped for a moment, then continued walking away.

**
Everyone stood while holding their breaths, as they watched thousands of battle droids land on the planet. Obi Wan stood in front of the fifty guards or so that he had. He looked behind him and saw Mace Windu, Anakin and She-ar-ah waiting for his command. He turned his attention back to the troops arriving. Mace walked up to him.
"How much longer till the clone army arrives?" Obi Wan asked.
"In about an hour...sir." Mace answered.
Obi Wan looked at him. "I don't know if I can do this master."
"The force will guide you Obi Wan, just remember to let it." Mace answered, putting a reassuring hand on Obi Wan's shoulder.
Obi Wan looked up at the buildings all around them, he then turned to his troops. "Our best bet right now would be the element of surprise." He motioned to Mace Windu to look at the tall buildings. Mace nodded in agreement.

About 10 thousand battle droids descended on the city, they were confronted by three Jedi with light sabers in hand. All the droids pointed their blasters at the Jedi. Anakin swallowed hard and looked at the other two.
"Steady." Obi Wan commanded.
"Surrender." The lead droid commanded. The three Jedi didn't respond. "I repeat. Surrender."
Obi Wan flipped up into the air, over the lead droid and chopped him in two with one flick of his wrist. The other droids aimed their blasters at Obi Wan.
"Now!" He shouted at the top of his lungs.
Suddenly blaster fire rained down on the unsuspecting battle droids from the roof tops of near by buildings. Anakin and Mace Windu joined Obi Wan in the middle of the fray, taking down droid after droid.
"Careful not to shoot the Jedi!" She-ar-ah screamed at the guards next to her.
The three Jedi worked together in almost a dance. From above almost all that could be seen of them was the colors of their light sabers. Purple, and blue worked in unison, cutting through the battle droids. Suddenly droidekas rolled into the battle right in front of the Jedi.
"Scatter!" Obi Wan yelled when he saw the destroyer droids. Mace spun to his left, fighting through the droids, Anakin ducked and rolled to his right away from the more dangerous droids, and Obi Wan jumped into the air, and flipped over the destroyers, which just turned and followed him. A few of the droids had made their way to the tops of the buildings, which caused the snipers to fight for their own lives. The guards and She-ar-ah turned and began to fire at the droids coming for them. She-ar-ah was shooting with two blasters, one in each hand. She then noticed the destroyer droids moving in on Obi Wan. She put her blasters away, and prepared herself to jump to the roof top across from her. She leapt over the battle, and almost didn't make it on the other roof. Finally she climbed on top, and took out a small round device from her belt.
"Thermal detonator!" She screamed down at Obi Wan as she armed it.
Obi Wan looked up at her, then at the droidekas coming at him. He used all of his strength and leapt onto the roof with She-ar-ah just as she threw the detonator down at the droids. Obi Wan and She-ar-ah ran to the back edge of the roof as the detonator went off, causing a shock wave over the battle, which disoriented a few of the droids, and destroyed others including the droidekas. Obi Wan pushed She-ar-ah to lay down on the roof as the shock wave went over them. When it was safe he let her up.
"Thanks." He said with a smile.
"Anytime." She answered with her own smile.
Obi Wan then ran and jumped off the roof, back down to the battle. She-ar-ah stood there and continued to snipe droids from the roof top.
Anakin was surrounded by 5 droids, he looked around at each of them. They all aimed their blasters at him at the same time. He timed it just right and leapt in the air just as they all fired, causing them to fire at each other. He landed back and looked at the pile of droids laying on the ground.
"All too easy." He smiled to himself. He then continued to cut down droids.
Mace Windu fought several driods at once, cutting them down with ease. But he didn't notice the dark figure emerging behind him. He jumped over two droids and sliced their heads off in mid flight.
Just then ships began to rain down from the skies, the clone army had arrived. The droids began to back away. Obi Wan looked up at his army. The ships landed in front of him and the troops filed out. Obi Wan began to give the troops his orders.
Mace and Anakin continued to fight the droids back, they were still unaware of the being stalking them from behind. She-ar-ah fought with the droids that had come on the roof to stop her, but out of the corner of her eye she saw Bobba Fett headed towards her father with a huge blaster pointed at him. Mace cut through another two droids when he felt the disturbance in the force behind him. He turned and looked at Bobba Fett right as he had fired his blaster. Mace didn't have a chance to defend the blast because he was still fighting a battle droid. It all seemed to go in slow motion for She-ar-ah, she ran trying to get there in time to do something. The blast hit Mace Windu, and he seemed to disappear as if he had been disintegrated.
Anakin turned and looked just as Mace disappeared. He looked at the bounty hunter with a complete look of shock on his face. Bobba Fett then fired up his jet pack and raced away.
She-ar-ah froze in her tracks when she saw this. "NO!" She screamed, and it was heard over the battle. She fired her blasters at the bounty hunter, but it was too late.
When Obi Wan heard She-ar-ah scream, he turned to look, he noticed Mace Windu's cloak crumbled on the ground, with his light saber. He turned back to the clone troopers.
"Ten of you go after that bounty hunter." He pointed to Bobba Fett flying away. "The rest of you, follow the plan as ordered."
"Yes general Kenobi." One of the higher ranking troops answered, and led the troops to battle.
Obi Wan ran to where Mace Windu had been standing; She-ar-ah was already there, clutching his cloak. Anakin stood there, bewildered. Obi Wan looked down at She-ar-ah, he knelt next to her. She wasn't crying, but had a look of horror on her face. He tried to take her in his arms, but she pushed him away. She rose to her feet, and still cradling her father's cloak she walked back to the palace. Anakin picked up Mace Windu's light saber, and handed it to Obi Wan. The two exchanged very sorrowful glances.

**

She-ar-ah Was in her quarters packing a bag full of weapons. When Obi Wan let himself in. She threw him an angry glance.
"Where do you plan on going?" Obi Wan asked lamely. She-ar-ah didn't answer just continued to pack. "I heard you resigned your post."
"That's right." She simply stated.
"She-ar-ah please don't. Your father wouldn't have wanted it this way." Obi Wan moved towards her.
"Yeah, well I'm sure my father didn't want to die this morning either." She looked at him with a stern look on her face.
"Revenge leads down a dark path She-ar-ah, nothing good can come of it." He looked at her with a pleading look on his face.
"Well I guess this is the first time in my life that I am happy I am not a Jedi, because I have the freedom to walk down a dark path anytime I need to." She began to put weapons on her belt.
"Revenge is what killed your father in the first place She-ar-ah." Obi Wan tried to make her understand.
"It's my fault Obi Wan. Had I stopped this bounty hunter in the first place my father would still be alive. I have to do this." She looked down at the ground.
"Your father is now one with the force She-ar-ah, he is in a better place." Obi Wan tried to help her.
"Yeah well that being one with the force fodder may help you Jedi cope with loss, but for those of us who don't have the force well we are left without closure." She looked at the ground and tried not to cry.
Just then they were interrupted by someone tapping a walking stick on the ground. They turned and saw none other than Yoda in the door way.
"The force you have young Windu." Yoda claimed as he walked into the room.
"Master Yoda?" The two looked at him in surprise. "When did you get here?" Obi Wan asked, very curiously.
"Been here sooner I would have master Obi Wan, but Difficult blockade they have created." Yoda answered, moving into the room. "Leave us Obi Wan for a moment you will." Yoda commanded Obi Wan who reluctantly obeyed.
She-ar-ah looked away from the tiny Jedi master, she didn't want him to see her cry.
Yoda held something in his arms, and placed it on the table next to She-ar-ah. "Have this your father wanted." She-ar-ah turned and looked at her father's light saber, she then looked at master Yoda in surprise.
"I can't have this, I'm not a Jedi. A light saber needs to stay at the temple with the Jedi." She answered with tears in her eyes.
Yoda nodded. "True, with a Jedi must a light saber stay. And with you a Jedi will it stay."
She-ar-ah looked at the little green Jedi in awe. "What?"
"Strong in the force your father was. A good friend he also was." Yoda looked down at the ground. "Carry out his legacy you will." She-ar-ah knelt in front of Yoda.
"What about the midi clorians?" She asked with tears running down her cheeks.
Yoda brushed a tear away and looked at her. "Care about that I do not. Know in my heart a Jedi you are."
She-ar-ah looked at him, then at the light saber. "Thank you master Yoda. All my life I wanted to make my father proud by being a Jedi." Yoda nodded at her to continue. "But I am not a Jedi. I am proud of who I am, and I will make my father proud of me as well." She handed him the light saber.
"Proud of you he was." Yoda said, and he began to walk away.
She-ar-ah looked down and noticed he had left the light saber.
Obi Wan waited outside, when he saw Yoda exit the room he rushed to see what happened.
"Talk to her you must, listen to you she might." Yoda said as he passed by.
"Why do you think she'd listen to me master?" Obi Wan asked, afraid his feelings for her were discovered.
Yoda stopped and sighed. "Getting too old for this game am I Obi Wan. Trained Jedi for over 800 years I have, know when a Jedi is in love I do." He looked back at Obi Wan. "Talk about it later we will." He said in a stern tone, and continued down the hall. "Much we have to do right now."
Obi Wan watched him leave, then turned to She-ar-ah's room and found her hooking her father's light saber to her belt.
"You're still leaving." He stated, not questioned.
"I don't expect you to understand." She looked at him. "You didn't sit there and watch someone kill your father before your eyes." Obi Wan looked away. "And the worst is you know it was your fault, that you could've prevented it." She began to walk past him.
"Yes I do." He said in a low tone and grabbed her arm as she walked by. "I watched the only father I've ever known get run through by a sith." She looked at him. "I held him as he died in my arms. Trust me I know what you are going through, but I'm telling you revenge isn't the answer."
She looked into his eyes, and suddenly felt really bad. "I'm sorry Obi Wan, but I have to rectify my mistake."
"She-ar-ah please." Obi Wan tried to stop her again.
"What?" She asked, a little annoyed.
"You can't go because..." Obi Wan wasn't sure how to proceed.
"Because why?" She looked at him.
"Because we need you." He answered, and she began to walk away. "Because I need you." She turned and looked at him.
Suddenly they were interrupted by a clone trooper. "General Kenobi, the troops are awaiting you command."
Obi Wan looked at the trooper. "I'll be there shortly." He looked back at She-ar-ah.
"Go." She said. "Like always we have our duties to fulfill."
"She-ar-ah, do you remember the first time we met?" He asked her.
"Yes. I was five years old, and you were ten. I couldn't even say your name right, I used to call you Ben." She smiled at the memory.
"And I had a skinned knee and you said you could fix it so you gave my knee a kiss?" She-ar-ah nodded, remembering. "You said you would always be there when I needed you. Well I need you now."
She looked at him, he held her by the shoulders. "I'm sorry." She whispered. "But you have your duty right now, and I have mine." She then kissed him on his cheek and turned to leave.