MistiWhitesun: Anakin goes through a lot of moments where he wants to be with his family (Tahiri more so!), but, as you guessed, he's coping the best he can. :)

Anakin won't sneak out. Someone else tried that and he failed miserably (and Anakin knows about it, too)!

Too many characters. /raises hand as she has the problem, has no idea how to handle it and will likely never try, too./

One of the best things about posting here is that these chapters have been edited before. Unless I rewrote it, my beta reader has looked over all of this.

Are you suggesting me not posting until I get a review here or in general? I ask because if it's in general, most Jedi Council users are put off by that tactic. Sadly.

I like active readers. I wish I had more of those. :p I write with detail because that's how I'm used to writing. I read Harry Potter and I notice whenever I write after reading one of those books, I write better. :p I'm weird!

No, don't shut up! This is fun! :D

Tim Knispel: You will so get your wish. Chapter Four is the longest ever, I think (seven pages in Word). However, it has a lot of detail and backstory I have to get out of the way so it might be boring.

This chapter has a history. It was terrible when I first wrote it. This is the first one where a good hunk of my characters appear and, since most haven't appeared before, they had to be introduced or, in some cases, have more detail added (like Rene's backstory). So I rewrote it and my beta understood a lot of it better than she did when she first edited it. I don't think she understood the first one at all (that's bad : ). Anyway…

I have to say that part one of Danger is very boring. Like I've said before, I'm trying to get to a point where I can write without going into great NJO info.

Have fun!


Chapter Four:
The First Invasion

It had been a week and it had been the best week in a long time for Anakin. He had been given a private tour of Naboo, with visits to Otoh Gunga and to a tour of Naboo's history museum where Anakin had learned all about his grandparents. Now he was walking down the hallway to Ladora's lab to be briefed on his new mission. The entire team would be there, but the meeting was more for him than anyone else. Despite the tour, he was still the most ignorant member of the group.

"Hi, Anakin!" The young Jedi turned to see an old friend galloping toward him, "How was your first week off?"

Lusa slowed to a trot as Anakin started to walk again, "It was all right, and I also learned a lot," he said, thinking of his family's past.

"You'll learn about the Vong today and trust me, it is fascinating."

Anakin nodded, but he was very interested in how Ladora could find so much on the Vong when the NRI and other information gathering services could not. "Uh, Lusa, you wouldn't happen to know Ladora's plan?"

The centauriform shook her head. "Lenny told me that after they got and replaced me with a RD, she started making up the plan. He said the first goal was the Voxyn Queen but since your team took care of that, the plan changed."

"Well then, how did she, uh, 'kidnap' all of us?"

But at that point, the pair arrived at the lab. Ladora stood in front of the lab's door. She looked at Lusa. "Aren't you supposed to be somewhere?" she asked.

Lusa wore a blank expression, but then she looked surprised. "Oh! I forgot about that!" She turned and trotted down the hall. "I'll see you soon, Anakin!"

Anakin focused on Ladora. "So what are we doing?"

Ladora did not say anything. She beckoned him into the dark lab. Anakin followed. The door behind him closed and he could no longer see her. "What are we doing?" he asked again.

"We're going to have some fun with this. Just stay where you are no matter what," said Ladora's disembodied voice.

Fun is being briefed in the dark? This was strangest briefing Anakin had ever experienced. All of a sudden, a holo turned on, filling the entire room, displaying two similar shaped galaxies. He almost stepped back, but stayed where he was told. He recognized one as the galaxy he lived in.

"As you may have noticed, one galaxy is ours. The other is the Parallel Galaxy. It resides in…I guess you would call it another dimension. You get to it via black holes, but only with special shields."

The holo changed and Anakin felt his insides turn upside down. He found himself on Sernpidal, a Sernpidal about to be destroyed. He glanced up and saw the Falcon flying away. Reluctantly, he looked down and saw Chewie, battered and wounded, fighting something he knew he could not win. No! Not this! Anakin started to back away.

A tall, blond, seemingly eighteen year old boy ran passed him. Anakin realized who it was: Ken. A Jedi Prince who had lived the first twelve years of his life with droids, journeyed with his uncle, mother, and father, and then, not long after finding out he was the grandson of the Emperor, went missing. Anakin had found out Tygeris, a Jedi from the old order, had taken him to his home planet of Tygarea. When Ken left the planet eighteen years later, he found himself looking like a thirteen-year-old due to the fact time was much slower in the Parallel Galaxy.

"Chewie!" Ken yelled. The Wookiee turned toward the Prince. He did not seem to recognize him. "It's me, Ken! You remember!"

The Wookiee roared and tried to walk over to him.

Ken grabbed Chewie's arm and slapped a red device on his bandoleer. "Come on! We have to hurry!"

Anakin looked upward as Ken and Chewie came toward him. The Falcon was far away. No one on board would be able to see the events on the ground.

Ken and Chewie passed by him and everything changed. He was no longer on Sernpidal, but on a ship. A black hole was in front of him and it slowly closed. "Ladora!" yelled Ken, "Get us out of here!" The ship moved forward and Anakin heard Chewie moan. He turned to see the Wookiee, but the scene faded away. The darkness came back.

"That's how we got Chewie. You were a lot easier to get to than he was," said Ladora's voice again. "We had to replace you with an HRD so no one would notice you were missing. We did this with some others too. That's not easy at times."

A holo appeared again. This time it was of a planet, one Anakin did not recognize. The holo zoomed toward the planet and he saw creatures with gold shields and, underneath them, some kind of meat. Something fluid-like flowed between the shields and the meat. The creatures seemed familiar, but he could not place them.

"You remember what Waru did, don't you?" asked Ladora.

Anakin then remembered what the creatures looked like. It was the same creature he had been nearly sacrificed to as a child. "Yes."

"Waru was a Gobbleter. He fell into one of the black holes and came into our galaxy. A Gobbleter's body structure enables them to pass through them unharmed. Others have to rely on Cayia's people who created technology to pass through. It's a crystal that form the black holes and can be taken with you at all times. They also created a shield to protect you from the black holes."

Anakin was standing over the planet again. A ship appeared, a Vong ship. Anakin watched in horror as the planet below him fell to the Vong in a short battle.

"The Parallel Galaxy was invaded 1,000 years ago. No one paid much attention when Gobbler fell. It was when the Armornites fell that the rest of the Parallel Galaxy, what was left, took notice."

The holo turned to a different planet and different creatures. These creatures had what looked like a white skeleton metal body. The Armornite's feet had three yellow points that looked to be two feet long. The chest had splashes of purple but it was the arms that Anakin took notice of most. The right arm was a sword that, in reality, had to be three feet long. The left arm had what looked like a small ion cannon. The arms looked somewhat normal until the wrists, where the objects took the place of the hands. On the head, the creature had purple eyes with no visible mouth or nose and a white horn coming out of its forehead.

Anakin saw, once again, a planet fall to the Vong.

"The Armornites are the second best warriors in their galaxy. Those left were not warriors. Except for the Tyrigeans."

The holo switched to a watery planet with large islands all over it. The holo zoomed downward and revealed what looked like two humans but with fur, tails and a mane for the male and hip-length hair for the female. "Tyrigeans are so skilled that they are able to sneak up on Jedi."

I have no trouble believing that, thought Anakin. Yesterday, Caiya, a blond haired Tyrigean with wings, had walked up behind him, nearly scaring Anakin to death. He almost thought a Vong had been nearby.

"They are the finest warriors (with the exception of Jedi) in both galaxies. They refuse to kill innocents, refuse to fight without a clear purpose because those are not honorable. The code of Tygarea (called Terr) has a very strict honor system; any violation of the code and the punishment will be very dire. Tyrigeans can get very angry; easily pushed into a rage, but they are also very loyal. Once a Tyrigean has sworn loyalty to you and/or anything else, nothing can deter them." The holo turned off and Anakin was surrounded by darkness again. "Before I continue, I should explain something. Anakin, you know that alternate Force you found?" asked Ladora's voice.

"Yeah. What about it?"

"What you are using is the negative Force. It is the same thing that you have been using all your life, but feels like its not there. In reality, it is there and can be used. You just need to be confident in your use of the Force. The parallel galaxy is filled with this negative Force," said another voice, this one belonging to Rene, the light brown hair and blue-eyed girl he met after leaving the med center. She looked around twenty when he first saw her, but was actually forty-four after she, her brother and some family and friends were frozen for twenty-four years.

Lenny continued, "Caiya can make a bubble and projects it so that while we can use the positive Force, there is a ring of negative Force that can hide us from the rest of the galaxy. This is why Naboo has remained undiscovered for so long. Unless they are trained to, no one can feel the negative part."

The holo came back on. There was a planet below Anakin. A ship, shaped like a flat tree with three levels and a shield covering it, floated in space, near the planet's moon. A Vong ship was close by. A battle was raging. It did not seem either side was winning. Suddenly, a Vong ship ambushed the other ship from behind the moon. Anakin felt something in his throat. It seemed that the Vong was going to win again when the Vong ships were flung out of the system.

"The Tyrigeans' first battle occurred over this planet. At first, the battle was a draw; neither side had an advantage over the other. But then Tygarea's prince went up to the Panthern (equal to an admiral) and said that a Vong world ship was behind the planet's moon. Tyrigeans females are dominant over males so when the prince told her that, she ignored him. That proved to be a mistake. The world ship ambushed the Tyrigeans and the battle turned to the Vong. The prince saw this and pushed the world ship out of the system."

Anakin smiled, realizing what he had seen. "The prince was Force-strong."

"Yes, a very unusual event," remarked Ladora's voice.

Anakin was confused. Caiya was a Tyrigean and Force-strong, "Why's that?"

"Remember what we told you about midi-chlorians?"

"Yeah, they're life-forms that connect us to the Force,"

"Well," said Ladora, sounding as if she was fighting irritation at the Jedi before her, "what would you say if I told you that neither Caiya nor the prince have midi-chlorians?"

Anakin did not say anything. He was shocked, like he had been all his time on Naboo. He had been told that without midi-chlorians, life would not exist!

This time it was Talon, Rene's younger, darker haired brother who was talking, "No one knows how it's possible. It's a mystery, but the prince had done something no one in his galaxy had done before: he used the Force, at least the negative part of it. The Queen took her son to the Jedi Council. They confirmed it; the prince, midi-chlorians or not, was Force-strong. Something else was found out: the prince said that he felt the Vong in the positive part. The head of the council went to the parallel galaxy to observe the prince in what was originally thought to be a Force-less galaxy."

The holo went back to Tygarea. It zoomed down to the planet where another raging battle was happening. There were Tyrigeans, but there were also sponge-like creatures with stump-like feet and four suction cup fingers. They had white eyes bungling out of the rounded-rectangle head. The feet, hands, and forehead were green on the yellow body. Anakin watched one of them slowly took a Vong and absorbed it into its body. The body grew a bit, but then went back to normal. There was no sign of the Vong.

Ladora, now calmed down, started again, "These creatures are called Mildeweans. They are a peaceful race. They don't know war or conflict, but they also don't have a fully developed brain. Almost no way of thinking, but they do process enough that the Tyrigeans were able to convince them to help. The Vong seemed to be incompatible to the Mildeweans' body structure. The sponge-like people absorbed the Vong into their bodies and the Vong's bodies decayed,"

The holo changed again. An orange flower bush appeared and it appeared to be flowing with an orange liquid. Anakin watch as a Vong walked into the bush. There was no sound, but Anakin could tell the Vong was screaming and watched as it ran away from the bush. "That orange liquid is Tyrigeans drink the most; deprived from the Sambar flower. The Vong will be eaten away if enough touches them. The Vong found this out on Tygarea. The Vong were defeated and chased out of the parallel galaxy."

"That doesn't sound like the Vong," Anakin called out.

"For you, yes but they were faced with a race of warriors with a weapon and ally they couldn't beat. The Vong fear the Tyrigeans because they are loosely similar to the Vong only with a different kind of honor that the Vong don't comprehend," explained Ladora.

"How?"

"Tyrigeans do not kill innocents, take over worlds, hate Jedi, worship gods, or believe that death is a reward, but we will throw everything they have into a battle because we believe being defeated by an enemy is dishonorable," answered Caiya.

"So why didn't your people finish them off?"

A growl filled the room and Anakin felt the hairs on his neck rise up. "It is not honorable to take an enemy when he is running; however, had we known that the barbarians would attack this galaxy, we would have finished them off. We are most dishonored by this event," said Caiya.

Anakin turned his attention to Lusa as her voice filled the room, "As you know, the Vong, in this galaxy, have a shadow in their minds. This shadow is the negative Force. In the parallel galaxy, it is reversed; the Vong are Force-strong. This is why we never could feel the Vong: they are covered in the negative Force." The holo turned off and the room was dark again.

"Is there anything else you want to know?" asked Ken.

Anakin thought for a moment, "Just one thing. All the citizens of the parallel galaxy are not Force-strong, right?"

"That we know of," answered Ladora.

"Well then, how did the prince become Force-strong?"

"His father was a human Jedi. His Force ability was a surprise as was his changing ability." Anakin started to ask but Ladora answered before he could, "The prince is able change into virtually any species. His father was killed before he was born."

"What happened to the prince?" he asked, noting the present tense.

Ladora sounded as if she enjoyed what was happening. "Oh, he's down the hall; arguing with my parents over how this whole matter is a bad idea."

Anakin gasped, "Tygeris? Tygeris' the prince? But he would be 1,000 years old!" He thought of Caiya. That would mean that she, Tygeris' daughter, was a princess!

"Well, he's really 1,001, just in this galaxy," said Ken, chucking somewhere.

"In the parallel galaxy, time is a lot slower. Ken is an example; one year on Tygarea was eighteen years here, but it varies. Tygeris considers himself to be 426."

Light came into the room and Anakin saw his new friends, Lusa and Chewie grinning. "You ready for your training?" asked Ladora.

Anakin nodded. "I'm ready."

Rene's smile faded. "I hope you're up to it."


I keep thinking of writing Anakin's missing week into a fan fic. The only problem is that most of it has Ladora, Anakin and the others 'time-traveling.' It's pretty funny; they never really do go back in time, but into different fan fics! :p Ladora gets mad every time because she wants to see the Battle of Endor! :

Ok, I'm done. Keep your eyes out for the next chapter. I don't call this an AU for nothing! :D