AN: Hey all, thnxs to all who have reviewed, ur encouragement lets me know i am not writing complete and utter rubbish! lol. Just a quick note to say that Obi-Wan may be slightly out of character in this chapter and i'm sorry but it is the only way i could make this scene work! Plz be gentle obi fans! And also, i apologise for the shortness of the scene, if i had let it continue it would have gotten too long and i wouldnt have been able to add more chapters!
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"Darth Sidious. I might have guessed it wouldn't be too long after your Padawan's destruction that you showed up." Obi-Wan said in his cool, clipped, Coruscantian tone.
"The death of my Padawan? Vader was never my Padawan, just my puppet to aid in the destruction of the Jedi. Just like your friend Count Dooku."
"What do you want Sidious?"
"For you to surrender. Having finished off your Jedi Master Yoda so neatly, I assume you will of course come quietly for trial and execution."
"Sorry to disapoint you but i have no such intention."
"Oh really, so are you willing to sacrifice this beautiful young lady and her children to save your skin? Or should I say, this beautiful wife of your beloved brother?" Sidious sneered
Obi-Wan looked to Padme, and saw the tears in her eyes, pleading for forgiveness with him without any words. Obi-Wan should have guessed, he should have known. He had always suspected something, and was not surprised to discover Padme's pregnancy, and yet, he was not ready for this. She was Anakin's wife, and Anakin hadn't told him.
This burned him more than any lightsabre ever could. Anakin didn't trust him enough to tell him about his secret life. What Anakin had been saying all along was right, Obi-Wan had never been trulythere for Anakin, he ignored everything he thought that Anakin was doind with Senator Amildala,and now, as a result of this ignorance,it had all come down to this, on this horrible planet. He smiled a weak, sad smile, his lightsabre shrank away, and for the first time in his life, Obi-Wan gave up.
"Ok, I'll do whatever you want, just…..just don't hurt Padme."
"No Obi-Wan don't please. Please Obi-Wan" Padme screamed.
But Obi-Wan didn't hear her. In a trancehe climbed the mountain steadily, slowly, keeping his head bowed. He handed his lightsabre to the sith lord and stood looking into those feral yellow eyes.
"Shame. I expected so much more of a fight from you General Kenobi. You tell me my weakness is assumptions, don't you know assumptions are based on the knowledge you have gained? For you see,I found your weakness long ago. Skywalker, the chosen one." He snorted laughter down his nose. "Now Kenobi, turn and walk. Any sudden movements, and she dies."
Obi-Wan looked at Padme, and saw the tears streaming down her face. He could analyse her situation from here. He reached deep into the force and looked upon what he saw with great sadness. The baby was fine, but Padme's condition was deteriorating step by step. He gave her a sad, sympathetic smile, turned away and started to walk. Then he felt a tremor, a warning in the force, and the next ten seconds flashed in front of his eyes.
Sidious flung Padme to the ground and raised both lightsabres, igniting Obi-Wan's as he did so. Padme screams at him, yelling him a warning. Obi-Wan does not even turn. There is nothing he can do.
For the first time in his life, Obi-Wan feels what he has denied himself for so long. Love. He loved Anakin like a brother, and while destroying him broughtpain, the thought that they had parted, knowing that Anakin didn't trust him,made the pain even moreunbearable, and Obi-Wan was ready to take the punishment for his ignorance.
He felt the blades lift high above Sidious's head, and he closed his eyes and waited for death to embrace him in its hold.
"NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOO!"
A cry rang deeply in his ears. He whirled around to see two lightsabres crashing and sparking against each other. One of them blood red, the other Sky Blue. He couldn't register the face of his rescuer, nor could he see the style in which he was fighting. He stood transfixed at the sight, someone was fighting against this sith lord with tremendous power, a power that Obi-wan had never seen before in his life as a jedi, and that someone was doing a pretty good job.
Then he spotted a fallen lightsabre on the floor. He stumbled across the rock face to retrieve it. As he did so, he felt another presence beside him. He looked behind a large rock, to find Padme collapsed against it. He knelt beside her, and checked her pulse. Somehow, it was getting stronger.
He looked at her quizzically, and she smiled at him. But before she could explain her new found strength, a blaster bolt came out of no-where, only just missing the crown ofPadme's head.He rose slightlyto his feet, blade angled in the style of Soresu defense, looking for the cowards that would attack a defenceless person, and he was not surprised to find out who it was.He leapt over the rock, and started cutting down clones.
He was not angry in his attacks, any anger he had in him was kept behind the walls of his Jedi training that Anakin could never manage to hold. Instead, he focused on all the images of the fallen in the temple, and ensured that all the clones he could face made up for the loss.
However, they just seemed to keep on coming, wave after wave of white clad clones spilling over the rocky hill, all relentlessly firing heavy blaster bolts at him. However, he managed to block every single one, and he continued to to fight for all thedeparted souls that had been lost, hisclosest firends, and mentors,fighting for the honour of the Jedi.
As the clones continued their attack, Obi-Wan grew stronger as the challenge was increased. submerging himself deep into the whispers of the force, he let go of everything he was focusing on and let the waterfall of the force wash over him and control him.
Suddenly, a loud scream broke his concentration, and saw out of the corner of his eye, a black cloaked figure gliding silently up the disintigrating cliff face.. The clones however, continued their battle, ever relentless, fighting until the end. Obi-Wan sentthem plumating to the fiery pits of hell,silently cutting them down with a single flick of his blade.
Not too long after the end of the clone battle, Obi-Wan heard the roar of engine's and looked up into the blood red sky to see an imperial star ship fleeing the scene. He shook his head, knowing itwouldn't be the last time he would encounter the cowerdlysith lord.
Suddenly, he heard a great sob resound from behind him.He turned to see Padme, knelt beside the lifeless corpse of his saviour. Helet hisblade shrink away, and headed slowly over to the striken senator. But as he neared, his pace slowed as heregistered exactly what his saviour was.
It was a corpse dressed in black jedi robes, a corpse with a black gloved durasteel, mechanical hand, a corpse with a long red streak running diagonally across his chest.
"No please. Oh force,please don't let it be true!" He pleaded to no-one in particular. However, no amount of prayer could prepare Obi-Wan for this. He let out a gasp of horror as his worst fears were confirmed.
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