The Salvation Of The Chosen One
Characters: Anakin Skywalker, Obi-wan Kenobi, Padme Amidala, Mace Windu, Master Yoda, Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, Han Solo, Lando Calrissian, Chewbacca, R2-D2, C-3PO, Lord Sidious
Time-line: After returning to the capitol and Anakin's dream of Padme's dying in childbirth and his appointment to the council.
Synopsis: Directly after his appointment to the council, Anakin Skywalker comes clean, surprised by the news, but deciding to help. Obi-wan and the council offers him what he needs to save Padme, which prevents their own biggest fear. Now, from coming to pass, before the arrival of his unborn family as he realizes he can show the truth. And to who he really is to his children, paving a new future for his family and the galaxy.
But first must overcome the piece that lead to his downfall, by confronting the evil in his own soul and the supreme lord of the Sith, Darth Sidious.
Warnings: This story is going several weeks back to my previous Revenge of the Sith story, taking place directly after he and Obi-wan get back. It's also going to involve having his adult memories, Obi-wan and Yoda's souls shooting back to that day. So this will be insuring Palpatine is never going to win this, as the twins arrive. And they see their parents for real as young adults, insuring their adult memories are strong…
Disclaimers: Starwars doesn't belong to me, the story belongs to me, the characters and everything else belongs to George Lucas and the movie companies.
Chapter 1: Truths Of The Chosen One
"I know what's coming here in what Obi-wan is telling me after council ends, but honestly I must be frank right now Master Windu, we do this, if we decide. Now, to rebel against him inside the capitol, he's got just cause to call treason and that can and could destroy us." he said and Master Kit Fisto nodded gently in agreement. "But last night's premonition suggested what happened yesterday when I failed to recover Dooku, alive, as it's only the beginning right now."
"I'm saying this is Sidious's master plan, make me question everything you trained me to be, offer me my way to save said person, and the finisher is he destroys us. By using my alter ego to do so, after you committed that fatal mistake." he said and his mentor nodded in shock, before he could answer, he felt a massive jolt of fury. "And by you, mean Kit, Mace, Saesee and Agen, you do?" Master Yoda asked him and he nodded gently as he answered him then at that.
"Whoa, yeah I was right, I caught his planning, but I don't recognize the signature." he said and the council nodded in relief he said it. "To answer your question yes Master, he's furious I broke through his attempted manipulation, he's been orchestrating this entire thing and.., oh force. That's it, Palpatine's remark to me the day you made your choice, we will be watching your career with great interest, not I, but we, he's in league, with him!" he said and they nodded.
"He's either in league with 'him' or he is 'him', I don't know, but we have one chance to get this right, right now." he said and the council nodded, as they saw him acting like himself again, in relief then. "Excuse my attitude a bit ago, I had a very bad night rest last night." he added and they nodded. "They started a second time Anakin, like your mother?" his mentor asked and he nodded. "Yeah they did brother, but back to situations this morning." he said and they nodded.
"And there's the title we started calling each other by all our lives: brothers, we are brothers, I could never more kill you then I could myself, but to get this right. You're going to have cut my alter ego out by the roots and then lock the door." he said and his mentor nodded. "I already lost Siri and Adi, not to mention Qui-Gon, I'm not losing you and Padme as well. So as I said, been trying to act like Qui-Gon, well I'm not failing you." he said and the young knight nodded.
"If it went that way, you never failed me, I failed you, but Vader, that's possibly my alter ego's Sith name now, allowed Sidious to twist his mind. And till now, now he becomes the very thing I swore to destroy here, I have to turn my alter ego real. Only then will the prophecy become complete, destroy them and bring balance back to the force." he said and the council nodded. "Leaving him a way to clone you, we have you and you're split in two." Kit said and he nodded.
"Looks like the old fool never expected you to be this open with us, and tell us what's on your mind, before the final piece of his planning comes into play. As we give you what he intended to seduce your alter ego with and you stay you now." Shaak Tii said sternly and Yoda nodded in agreement. "The me you know, to be precise, but everything you would have told my kids in what happened to me is all true, from our viewpoint." he said and Yoda nodded in agreement.
"Indeed, but there it is, children you have, married you are, so how soon?" he asked and he smiled. "That's 6 to 8 weeks left Master, but my family are your strongest students now." he said and Yoda nodded gently. "Bad side effect that is at times, because restless they get like you till something like Carver happens, they do. And lay the next lesson down, before reckless they get, but indeed, your son, anything like you he is, and trouble ahead I see." he said and he chuckled.
"You always said my son is too much like me as it is, but being a possible unifying, if even I can't stop him from leaving, it's driving the point home, but the story is my alter ego. He's my twin brother, so you were training both of us, my alter ego is Bruck, I'm Obi-wan." he said and Yoda nodded gently in understanding. "But you this, you that, my pride you are, that to me, training your twin, dangerous it is." he said and his mentor shook his head smiling then gently.
"To give my alter ego, my twin, a name now, his name is Andrus, nickname of Andy, I made Knight right on time, but Andy is still a padawan." he said and they nodded. "Not ready he is, until control his impatience and temper, stay a padawan, he will." Yoda said sternly and they nodded in agreement. "So Andrus Darian Vander Skywalker, take the middle initials, and we have Darth Vader, there we go." Kit said and Yoda nodded in agreement to his opinion then.
"Andy is being trained by your brother still right now, so said fight on whatever planet caused him to end up in said bodysuit, is the result, I, through Obi-wan, tried to dissuade him. From the darkside, through Obi-wan, we got into the most heated death match we ever had. He lost, landed too close to whatever caused it, and I took his lightsaber, grabbed you. After he nearly killed you and left him for dead as we healed your injuries." his counterpart said gently to that.
"You're our pride, you're like Obi-wan, but to be perfectly honest, your twin is too full of anger and hate, to be ready for full mastery or even knighthood, you're ready. But learning from me, you channeled those emotions into the blade and became your own master. By creating your own variant of Djem So now." he said and the young knight nodded, smiling. "Well, I got an idea, Sidious never considered my clothes now could be said signal, I can change outfits."
"And dress in a variant to Obi-wan's, just in my padawan style clothing and milk chocolate robes and there's my Jedi self, Andy is dressed as me currently." he said and they nodded. "Nice thinking, we know who's who, Andy has said mission, you followed orders and stay here. Or we sent you with your brother, and you go to wherever Grievous is hiding right now." he said and the knight nodded gently. "This is going to be a long 6 weeks." his mentor said to that remark.
"But that's why I wasn't in the mood to go to him, he ordered me to do something you always told me was wrong, but this feels like a trap." he said and he and Yoda nodded gently to him then. "No mercy killing this was or self defense, ordered you to…." Yoda said gently and he looked down and they nodded in understanding. "Okay it is, tried to resist him you did, fix this we can, and come to terms with it in time, you will." he said gently and he nodded as he said it.
"The others were all self defense, mom, I blacked out and he, Andy, went crazy and killed them." he said, trying to control his voice and his mentor nodded. 'Force, what the hell has been going on when we're not together, alright that's enough of this already, it's okay son.' his second in command thought sternly. "I know you felt that, both of you did, but my mother passed right then, I was too late, and she died in my arms." he said and they nodded gently at the news.
"Looks like…" his mentor started to say and closed his eyes as Kit started shaking in laughter and he nodded. "Yeah the loophole, you told me to protect her, in order to do that, I go where she goes, and she went to help him." he said bemused and they nodded smiling. "If you have twins, the girl is too much like her mother, that her brother is coming along. And before her husband calls out to them to wait." Shaak Tii said laughing and he nodded with sigh then.
"If this is what had you and Obi-wan worried sick about Father, I get the point, but you may have only one chance. To prevent this now, I can save my family by that key, whatever Father was studying. But I know what you're about to ask me, but before you do so, Master, there is one thing I wish, one that can prevent his attempted seduction to the darkside. I can study that, and then split myself in two, and me, your me, stays a Jedi, like you would say to my son now."
"Very powerful Jedi, cunning warrior, the best pilot and a very close friend to you all, I have family with you, you mentor my children. But you know me better then anyone, you know and knew what happened to me, leading into their birthday. To keep the story like you told them, I need that information and then I can do my mission now. Before he tries a coup, and we live on, as we go into hiding now." he said and the council nodded as Yoda sighed in relief he said it.
"Did Palpatine act strange when he ordered you to kill him, if that's what happened?" Jedi Master Mace Windu asked and Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker nodded. "Yeah he sounded savage, after he condemned him to death." he said and Kit nodded. "Savage like an animal?" he said and Anakin nodded. "What are you thinking?" Jedi Master Shaak Tii asked and he said it. "We're saying this is following a pattern the trio all remember." Anakin said and he said it sternly then.
"Oh my gods, it's Xanatos all over again, we just made it, so said power now we just give it to you and we win, Anakin what do you need, what is this really about!" his mentor said gently and the council straightened at that. "After two instances of these things, it's happening a third time, but in his eyes third time is the charm, disruption, demoralization, distraction, time is up. But I know, and I stand only one chance, Brother, but was father studying a way by saving someone."
"By use of the force, that maybe the only way so you never lose me now, Obi-wan, losing me to him, so your remark to my son never happens here, only you can save me now. I need that information, only then, can we split the difference, I stay a Jedi, Sidious gets my alter ego. And as his new apprentice, but you never lost me to him, doesn't that matter more. Then fighting a war that destroys the republic, turning it into a dictatorship." he said and Yoda froze up at that.
Realizing their conversation hit the table. "Master I must be honest, but did you say that to Nejaa, after he said the same thing?" he asked and he froze up at that. "Thracia?" he asked and he started shaking at that, realizing the implication then. "What about Ki, Damon, Tiana?" he asked and Mace nodded sternly, realizing what he was implying. "She's pregnant, the baby is mine, you know who I mean Master Yoda: Padme." he said and he went pale at that in shock.
"Padme's pregnant, the baby is mine." he said and they nodded in shock then. "This entire war was a Jedi trap, he's destroying us one by one, till the next month. But you have only one chance to get it right, I just need said key to save her and you win. Is there a way to save someone by the force, that is my only chance, save her, you save my baby. And you save me and we live on in a new version of the code." he said and Mace sighed in relief as Yoda said it.
"So premonitions, on her, they focus?" he said and Anakin nodded. "Last night, when Obi-wan left you alone, he knew the Senator was close by, so you could spend some alone time together." Mace said and he nodded. "Yes Master, he knew, I know you were waiting to hear it from me and aloud well, I'm saying it now, she is pregnant. The baby is mine, last night I gained a premonition of her dying in child birth." Anakin said and he nodded gently to him at the news.
"Alright then, we will waive the violation with the fact you told us now, so that's off the table, with the fact your family is now the strongest we have in the order." Mace said and he nodded as he hid a sigh of relief. "Well that's what has me annoyed, you as human Jedi masters all share one thing, said are we are what once we become your padawans. And Nejaa and Damon keep calling me the said title right now, and to you I am said?" he said and Mace crossed his arms.
"You become our children, son or daughter, we would do whatever it takes to help you, and this is one of those times, if you need my help, I will do it, before he gets what he wants." Mace said and Anakin nodded. "And that's just the problem, but during the exchange, I swore not to let this last one turn true, not only is she pregnant, but my entire new family is her. And my unborn baby, or babies, if she is carrying twins." Anakin said and he nodded sternly at the news then.
"Easy fix Anakin, we got the study guide." Kit said to him gently then. "Third times the charm, Master, I acted on Yaddle it gets her killed, I didn't act sooner on mom and she dies. But my one chance is by that power, if said is why Sidious had father killed, I get that, she survives. I stay myself, and you win right now, the Jedi beat him, before he gets what he wants here. But I think that was bait, offer me said carrot, and then use that to trigger our downfall now in truth."
"My alter ego is going to think that going to the darkside is the only way to save her, but do that it could kill her anyway. But I am a Jedi, my alter ego took him at his word, you are my family, I'm a padawan." he said and Mace nodded sternly then. "I lost the girls, I am not losing you as well, don't listen to him, Anakin, I have that power, we always did. Qui-Gon did that study, we'll save her, but we're not losing you next." he said and Anakin nodded in relief then he said that.
"Thracia was serious when she said that about you, you never understood what it means to fall in love, or have children, I'm about to become a father. My premonitions could point to my own self destruction, and could kill her if they do." he said and Obi-wan covered his eyes, in relief he admitted it then. "Then prevention over cure is the only way to go Padawan." Mace said and he nodded. "I'm returning to that title as well Master." he added and the council nodded gently.
"I withdrawal from my current status, my mentor is a member of the council, me in training." he said and Mace nodded. "Very well, Padawan Skywalker, you are a padawan once again." he said and he nodded. "And there's something we normally never see, most padawans never just want to withdrawal from being a knight after just making one." he said and he nodded. "I know, but remember your and Thracia's lecture after the carver." he said and Mace nodded gently smiling.
"Enjoy these years while they last, as soon we're not there for you to fall back on." he said and Anakin nodded as Obi-wan smiled at the new maturity in him, now that he told them the truth. "I been listening to you way too much lately, but at that rate, before I complete Ahsoka's training, I need to get through this last hurdle next right now. But you just saved me now my brother, but my alter ego, said battle will get heated." he said and he and Mace nodded gently.
"Master Windu, did you notice she gained 30 pounds in 7 months, or pick up a signature that felt like mine?" he asked and Mace nodded sternly. "That's why, I have only a single chance, is there a way to save people by the force, I need that power, because the purge our Sith is planning. Is what could kill her if my alter ego takes the bait." he said and Mace nodded sternly. "Indeed and thank you for telling us this." Shaak Tii said for him and Kit, Agen Kolar and Saesee Tiin nodded.
"But said premonitions mentioned to Mother and Father on Kegan could be our future, they are and we stand only one chance. By you passing me his notes if he has the way, I can study that and save her, you save me and done. But this must be wanted he wanted now, Master Yoda." he said and the council nodded in relief he said it. "I'm guessing he dragged it up, if he and Sidious are one and the same, peak my interest, as I would I have said, brother, she's my entire life."
"I can't live without her, but she dies, I die, out of heartbreak, that happens there is no coming back, until the baby does it himself. And as he gets said lesson on the trio, and what we always said here, fear to lose something causes impatience to prevent it. Impatience leads to anger and what caused the loss, that leads to hate at what took it from you. And hate, if not checked at the door, will lead to something you can never take back, case in point is mom right now here."
"I understand better then anyone what the trio causes, because I did a Nomi x100 here." he said, saying it to them finally and Mace nodded. "I never been so sick to my stomach, but do you want that to happen again here, we stand only one chance. But I'm being honest right now, but she's pregnant, the baby is mine, Obi-wan, 7.5 months pregnant. Right on schedule, my furlough 9 months ago." he said and Master Obi-wan Kenobi nodded in relief he told him that.
"So we got 6 weeks left till the baby is born, you eloped." he said and Jedi knight Anakin Skywalker nodded. "It was time I told you this, but I told her last night, I had enough hiding from you, I didn't care you knew we were married, you knew all along. You were just waiting for me to tell you, last night's premonition only emphasized I had to tell you now. Before you got your heart broken as you lost us both in one shot after losing Siri." he said and Obi-wan nodded.
"Master Yoda, I must be frank, but what was it you always you to say, I do nothing, nothing changes, I do something about it, and it could destroy everything we hold dear." Anakin said and Jedi Master Mace Windu leaned back against his chair then in amazement. "This scenario is one of those situations, but after Yaddle, I learned to ignore my premonitions. I was going to go check on my family, before we got assigned to Padme, and she is beaten to death by Raiders."
"Well it's happening again, only this one means the life and death of everything we believe in, in addition to my own death, my murder at the hands of my alter ego. Padme is the person I spoke of, she's pregnant." he said and they nodded in shock. "But Padme dies, as do I, out of heart break, we're two sides of the same whole, I die, she dies, she dies, I die. My premonitions, they say my murder is close, it happens that will kill her." he said and Mace nodded slowly then.
"To explain this in what you would have told my kids now, my alter ego, he betrayed me, he betrayed everything you ever taught me, what you trained me to be. Murdered me, by killing her by said broken heart, he kills the me you know and raised." he said and Obi-wan nodded sternly. "I take it Dooku figured you were half Sith already, when you went into your version of Vaapad, if he can't recognize Vaapad when he sees it now?" he said and Anakin nodded then.
"I'm hanging in there still, so though the girls, Mother and Ry are gone, still holding on right now, but the visions started again. That's why I had to tell you this, jump his move, and I stay me as I do my mission for you now, till we bust him." he said and they sighed in relief on the first half of it. "The you we know and raised is still in full control, alright I feel the cloud trying to bore in, but a beam of sunlight just punched a hole through that cloud, that reveal just did it."
"Issues, I managed this long, but leap of faith case of trust, remember invite the master in, and I just did that now, Master Windu." he said and he smiled gently. "And I appreciate Anakin, thank you for telling me, and yes we can grant another exception. So that remark to Master Yoda was because…" he asked and Obi-wan crossed his arms then. "Made a fatal mistake, but would you lay that line to the girls, Damon, Nejaa and Ki?" he asked and he crossed his arms.
"No I wouldn't, because then I would sound no better then a Sith Lord." he said and Yoda blanched at the utter disgust and anger at his remark. "My children are your strongest pupils Mace, in fact my bloodline is the strongest family you have in the order. But what if he got what he wants, you think that's bad, imagine my son, daughter, or both. If I have twins and turning to the darkside." he said and they nodded. "Point taken, padawan." Kit said then and he nodded.
"Then before our Sithmaster gets what he wants, we do a intervention here and you stay you now, my brother. The promotion, there's the reason, you want to be a master so you can get something from the archives." he said and Mace, Kit and Shaak Tii nodded in agreement. "It's not the promotion I wanted, it's just that as a Jedi master now, you have access here. And to the restricted section, considering what I want could be in there." Anakin said and they nodded.
"Knowing what your sister would say is, and I'm being honest right now, before we jump to conclusions, is examine every angle, before we make a mistake. And one that can not be fixed, knowing Siri, if she was still alive and Adi with her right now. They would say there was a way to prevent that fear, as you study that and alleviate your fears. And you can focus as you get your mission done, but we got 2 of the 4 of us here, but we're purple." Mace said and he nodded.
"I miss the girls." he said and Mace and Obi-wan nodded. "We do as well, but the 4 of you, I never saw a stronger bond here, Siri, Obi-wan and Garen are you in your entirety. I get why you wanted to go in after her, only you can get close enough to him to end this." he said and Anakin nodded. "I know, but now the real question, as I said she's pregnant, Master, but not just one, but 3 at once, my babies die if she dies." Anakin said and Yoda paled, realizing he was screwed.
"Without realizing it till she told me, I just hugged my unborn baby, or babies, if she's having twins, you expect to me to just stand by?" he asked and he went white. "Oh Gods, Master what you say to make him say that, this could be a trap, it's exactly what our Sith wants you to do." Obi-wan said sternly and he swallowed hard. "Freeze." he said and then closed down as he probed his child's connection, before feeling a pulse and then a second and nodded in shock.
"She's carrying twins, a boy and girl, the older they get we'll know who each is strong in, but baby needs to be protected, from 'him!" he said and Mace nodded quickly then. "He never got his hands on you, but he does on them and the galaxy will never stand a chance. And against 2 evil Skywalkers, we have to stop this now, we save you, we save them and we win!" Kit said sharply and Mace and Obi-wan nodded in stern agreement as Anakin looked at you sternly.
"You realize how she's going to take this, Owen, my stepbrother, already thinks you're a crazy, eccentric old alien, but something costs him me next. He's going to blame you, as you never stopped this when you had the chance, he blames you and Obi-wan." he said sternly then and Yoda leaned back at the condemnations of disapproval in his voice. "And what about Ruwee, Jobal and Sola, who are they going to blame, if they lose us?" he asked and he swallowed hard.
"I can hear the emphasis in that, you are furious at whatever he said, you had to come to rest of us, to let us know this, well my being your boss right now as the leader of our branch. I was there for said trauma, we had our differences, but you always trusted me, but this cements it. I know we can prevent his getting his hands on you, if we act now, so with that, there is a way. We're human, we need attachments, so when Obi-wan was busy you turned to me and Nejaa."
"Or just Damon right now for our guidance, we kept you on your path." Mace said and he nodded. " And I will choose the right path, but in order to, if he drags this up, I must know, but is there a way to save someone by use of the force?" he asked and Kit slammed his hand on the chair. " There is, it's called force healing, Qui-Gon learned it when studying from the shaliman, as such that text is not in the restricted section, we kept it." he said and Anakin smiled in relief.
"Then you as the council win, I have what is needed to save her, if this power can save her, I can heal her heart and soul from said close call, if I have to cut it too close." he said and the 8 nodded gently. "Then so be it, I will get it for you." Mace said and Anakin nodded. "If Luke thought you were callous in this attitude, trying to convince Luke to kill me here. They, he and Leia, had enough and are going grey Jedi, Padme with them." he said and he swallowed hard.
"That explains the loss of temper, you wanted that promotion, there's something in the archives you need to save her." Kit said and he nodded. "You need me to watch him?" he asked and Mace nodded. "I see the fear in your eyes, putting us together, you're afraid if he is him, he's going to trick me and finish what he started, I understand that fear. That's why, before we discuss this right now, you deserved to know the real reason now, I'm suffering from stress right now."
"But his remarks on the darkside, his trying to twist everything you taught me now, just how does he know the force, or the darkside. If Palpatine drags it up, just how does he know that, after you gave it to me already, that seem strange to anyone?" he said and Kit crossed his arms. "It would if he's a non force sensitive, but why all the interest in you, Krayne, assigning you as the senator's bodyguard, yes I don't like this one bit." he said then and Mace nodded sternly.
"I figured you knew she was close by last night, if Obi-wan left you alone to meet up with us, is this an affair or are you…" he started to say and he shook his head. "No, you guessed right after I left to escort her home, Master Windu, she and I eloped, we been together for 3 years. She's my wife, but the timing is correct, the baby is mine." he said and Obi-wan sighed in relief. "Best hearing this now, then after we get that blow to the heart, we lost you now, and to 'him'."
"We knew, we figured it out, but we were waiting to hear it from you, but a month prior is better then learning this after he started said massacre." he said and Mace nodded. "Indeed, this saves a severe case of worry now, let me guess, you needed something from the archives. Said promotion, and you can get it now, if this is connected to why we heard Qui-Gon now. What you desire is not in the restricted section." he said and Anakin nodded in relief as he answered him.
"But after we make him think he's won, both sides come together, we can have a real wedding, after baby is born, as both sides know and we work side by side with the committee." he said and they nodded gently. "Fair enough, we know and then you tell her friends in the committee and tell your families, no longer a secret, but common knowledge now. Two lives destroys a Jedi that it's a wonder you waited this long, before telling us." Ki said gently and he nodded to him.
"But before all of you leave, I must be honest now, after what I have told you this morning, Master Yoda, Padme is pregnant, the child, or children, is mine." he said and Mace leaned back in his chair. "We have been married since the war started, my master, but and I stress the word, if this is connected to the said shroud, it could be the last piece to his plan. It could be Father's old's assailant's idea, so I must be the target." he said and Mace nodded sternly at the news.
"She's pregnant, you're married, why didn't you tell us this sooner?" he asked and he nodded to Yoda and Yoda felt his heart start pounding at that response. "Would you have you taken my visions seriously after not going back sooner resulted in killing mom. After she was beaten to death by the Raiders?" he asked and Mace leaned forward. "If you asked me, before you start your mandate to make a detour to Tatooine I would have said yes, as you can focus finally."
"Before we find you first on Tatooine and then Geonosis, after whatever happened here, it's happening again, first Yaddle, then your mother and now the senator?" he asked and Anakin nodded and Obi-wan covered his eyes. "It's happening again Master, first Yaddle, then mom, this could be a third time's the charm if we don't talk about this right now." Anakin said and Mace nodded. "Could be one or the other, I don't know, Brother." he added and Obi-wan nodded then.
"By that you mean the baby, or a both, if twins now runs in the family." he said and Anakin nodded. "It does, but my daughter's children are possibly beyond spoiled, our version were raised to be like us, the quick and easy can be addictive here. You saw Padme at the arena, she and I are always doing things for ourselves, our version is the same way in truth here now." he said and Obi-wan nodded as he crossed his arms, knowing he was right then as he said it.
"No kidding and Typho said I should be worried about her and more then you, and point made when you came to get me, she's more impulsive then you are. But if your daughter jumps ahead without waiting for her brother, let alone our young hotshot. Then it's you, me, Padme and Siri all over again, but if her son, generation two in twins walk right into the gundark nest. Then I know who more like they are in the family it is here, because you're beyond impatient now."
"But if this runs in the family, but you and your family we're used to this, but the cubs, they're scaring us further into a coronary with every reckless act going on. And you're a Jedi Master of 40 years by this point as well right now." he said and Anakin nodded. "Yeah and you know they don't get it from me, Padme used said loophole you gave me." he said and they nodded with a bemused smile then. "Yes and you're the one we raised." Mace said gently to that remark.
"Yeah you knew me all my life, with me you're used to this, just imagine my son wanting off Tatooine right now, till I bring him to you Master. And just so you can conclude if he's ready for advanced training or not with us wherever you're hiding. Then again, that's a good place to return to basics in being living force, and learn to control said fears. But like you said after he finally lashes out, patience, he must learn patience, but this was why I came to you first here."
"Before I do anything, to alert you she's pregnant, we're close here, but you said this a hundred time, react without thinking it through you can make a bad situation worse. Case in point here, is his trying to rescue his sister and brother in law, and then gets hit by the bombshell. You never wanted him learning too soon." he said and Obi-wan and Yoda nodded in agreement then. "Indeed and that's the you we know again, you're doing this the way you remember here now."
"Remember the future is never set, there is no fate, but what we make, instead of doing something, you decided to discuss things with us, seek our council now. That can change the future as I see the dark cloud starting to break up, the fact you told us this. And instead of turning dark, your aura is starting to go from black to going grey, that's good. It's very good, this means our you is taking back total control." Shaak Tii said and Mace sighed in relief then.
"I think we started something here, because that's the first time you ever got into casual conversation with us since the girls, Adi and Ry were murdered in the field. The you we know and raised is taking the place of the you he created now, there's the you we know again. Alright he barely got what he wanted and by you dropping the bomb to us, with just a month. For up to 6 weeks left, we have a chance now, we just split you in two." Ki said and Mace nodded to that.
"I had to tell you this, before I make any type of decision, knowing when you heard the reason I wanted that promotion, you'd understand, only you have access to the restricted section." he said and they nodded. "And said intel is not in the restricted section, Qui-Gon left it to us, in case of emergencies, looks like this is what he was worried about. That if our Sith killed the only source, he didn't realize your father left us that Intel and yes, we do have it still, it's okay."
"We have the way, you're protected, as you do your mission, just keep coming to me as we re-stabilize you, Anakin, your colors, balance you out again." Mace added and he nodded. "I think Sidious wanted this, react without thinking, so he had a reason to disband you, us, now. But he missed it with me, as you possibly gave me what I need, but if my son is unifying. Like her baby, if she too has twins, it's my son all over again, if Damon's grandson comes into it next."
"Though that's true right now, they walked right into a trap, like Obi-wan did by the Geonosians now, only this last one is-is the reincarnation of the separatist movement. Wherever they went, though they leave without telling us, with me on the council here. And someone is in big trouble for this reckless stunt now." he said and Mace nodded in stern agreement. "Indeed, and control their impulses, they must, in the cub twins right now, I mean it." Yoda said bemused to that.
"And baby twins, by that I mean, but ridiculous this is, if our version are like you and the senator, then coronary by the time baby twins are teenagers, I will have, if keep up this does." he said and Mace closed his eyes as he tried to keep from laughing at that. "We really need to get into this now, we're 30 years prior, Master, I'm not ready to be a grandfather. When just learning I'm a soon to be father here." Anakin said and he nodded as Mace hid a chuckle then.
"Point made, 30 to 40 years, but this is too much right now, we need to deal with Sidious first, and before we deal with what his underlings are doing to our descendants next." Obi-wan said and Mace and Kit nodded in agreement. "It's a trap, the last two are connected to this, you just get back, she tells you she's pregnant, and now your visions start again. The last piece to our Sithmaster's plan begins now." Kit said slowly to that and Yoda swallowed hard at the news.
"But Master that earlier remark, could be seen as completely cold blooded now, I grew up normal and how many Jedi do you have that have families here?" he asked and Mace covered his eyes at the reminder. "Like Obi-wan and now you, Nejaa also knows, he told me he has a family of his own, and Thracia already told me. That she had families scattered all over the republic, seems a bit hypocritical, don't you think?" he asked and Kit covered his eyes at that.
"With Master off planet who was here for that exchange, before Sekot, aside from you, Thracia, me and Obi-wan?" he asked and Kit and Ki crossed their arms. "Us, Plo, Adi and Depa." Ki said and he nodded. "And you already explained to me that you had a family of your own, as does Nejaa, Damon and Tiana, we're the only ones with families, you understand my fears. After Ayiana was nearly killed and you weren't there." he said and Ki nodded in understanding then.
"Point taken, I just barely made it in time to save her now, but you failed with your mother, I understand that fear, having already suffered through it. A family member's life is at stake here, but this time it's not just her's, she's carrying his children. His entire family is endanger, what did you say Master to make him come clean and tell us the truth?" he said sternly and he paled, realizing it wasn't just about his wife, but his entire family now as he answered him then.
"Said I did, that death is a natural part of life Mourn them do not. Miss them do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed, that is." he said and Obi-wan slammed his hand on the chair arm. "You might as well be saying, and we're only human, that attachment, can kill you if you let it, why did Anakin latch on to me, why. Well it's I was his life line, after he got uprooted from everything he ever knew, everyone he ever knew?" he said sternly and he swallowed hard.
"All you know is your precious Jedi code, you realize if he gets what he wants, my coming to him for that key to save her, this causes 23 years of pain, suffering and hate. Who are the non force sensitives going to blame, or my and Padme's families now. Hmm, who is everyone going to blame, and it won't be Obi-wan's fault he tried to help me, as did the quartet now, it's you. You created a monster by you telling me that?" Anakin asked and Yoda swallowed hard at that news.
"Slave to my emotions, no, just growing up in the real world results in another Bruck, Balog and and the Tuskins my alter ego murdered." he said and they nodded. "Point made padawan." Mace said and he nodded. "Yeah that's another thing, I humbly withdrawal my position as knight, I want to be a padawan again." he said and Mace nodded. "We understand, may I assume that you…" he said and Anakin nodded. "Agreed, and I will." Obi-wan said smiling gently as he got it.
"Like my alter ego said in sum years, later on, when he left you, he was but the learner, now he is the Master." he said and Yoda crossed his arms as Obi-wan answered that remark. "And only a Master of evil Darth, you are not my padawan your Jedi side is, my best friend. My student, my baby brother, you are not taking him away from me." he said firmly at that. "You better lay the punchline once we cut this a little too close here." he said and Obi-wan nodded then sternly.
"Point taken and he's right Master, why should this be any different, he needs help, emotionally to relieve that fear right now." Obi-wan said sternly and he swallowed hard, realizing by saying what he did, he just, beyond cruelly, blew him off now. "You been my best friend, since Ahsoka became my padawan right now, but only you knew this that Padme and I had been together. And since the war started right now, but now with you being my mentor and my best friend."
"Things switched course, you're part of the family in our eyes, Siri with you, if she survived the encounter with that guy, Brother. But that's the reason I told you brother, you would do whatever it takes to help, she's in her third trimester. We're at the home stretch, in both our cases, if we don't change this moment now, it's over, and you lose us both in one shot." Anakin said and he nodded in understanding sternly. "Your lightsaber?" he said and he nodded to him.
"I understand, but I'm not losing you, Padme and the children, after losing the girls and Qui-Gon, you're my brother, I can not do it, I won't do it. If it means taking you alive, to lock up your alter ego, then so be it, I'm not losing anyone else I love, you're my brother. My best friend, I trained you since you were a youngling, you and Padme are my family." he said and Anakin nodded and they nodded, knowing the him as a 13 year old post padawan returned now.
"Brother, our bond, in her words, you knew already, you want to help, well now is the time to do it, relieve that fear, only one cure, before you get 'him' out of me." he said and Mace crossed his arms. "The timer just ended, your remission is over, I have to cut that tumor out of you, before he grows too strong and my remark to baby turns true. He betrayed you and then murdered you, by becoming a cancer." Obi-wan said and Yoda straightened in shock at that news then.
"Brother, in your words, you are my brother, I love you, 13 years together, we both knew when you learned she's pregnant things were going to change." he said and Obi-wan nodded. "I'm not losing you after losing the girls." he said to him gently. "We stop this, we save you, we save her and we save the order, all because we threw aside the code. And change things this months, weeks before her due date now." Mace said and Obi-wan nodded in agreement to his opinion.
"This is what Father keeps talking about, the force chose at random on planets, you had to get to me first, before Sidious does. Whatever you would have asked me to do later, you deserved to know this first." he said and Mace nodded. "I understand Anakin and now that the truth is out, you have gained our trust." he said and Anakin nodded gently. "Like you said, it's very dangerous putting him and me together right now, his hopes, if he's associated with Sidious."
"Or he is Sidious, is I think he maybe lying about said power to save her, though if you have the key already, I have no reason to turn on everything you ever trained me to be." he said and Mace nodded. "To which we do, Qui-Gon learned that skill from the Shalliman of the Whills, it's called force healing, you can save someone by using the force, healing the damage. Speeding up the healing process, by injecting love into the connection." he said and Anakin nodded gently.
"Was this why you wanted to make master, you wanted that script to study?" he asked and Anakin nodded. "Yes Master, only you have authorization to go into the restricted section, as Masters." he said and they nodded. "When your brother's not here, I normally was your commander, so with him heading for whichever planet Grievous is on. I can mentor you, as you split your time in study, looking after her and watching him." he said and Anakin nodded gently.
"So that solves that, I have what I need right now, whatever you ask me to do, I will do so, but with Obi-wan leaving after we get a tip off, I need you to restabilize me." he said and Mace nodded gently. "Balance your color again, yes and I understand, though the girls are gone, I'm still here, like I said, what seems bright in youth, tarnishes in maturity and crumbles with age. A Jedi is allowed no such weakness now, you changed so much, I see you as a young me now."
"But we have 5 Jedi with families of their own and you're a soon to be father now, between that, and these visions, you're under too much stress, now that I relieved that piece to it. You can heal, but you're grounded with you in sabbatical till your children are born." he said and Anakin nodded gently. "Whatever is going on, I think my kids adult selves never understood everything, you know me better then they do, to understand this, just why would I turn exactly here."
"I was intending, if I was still myself and not my alter ego, to gain as much as possible, and then turn him in, but my alter ego swallowed the bait. And then killed everyone here at the temple, before following them up with Dooku and the Separatists." he said and Mace nodded. "So what we told your son is true, from a certain point of view, you would never hurt us or turn on us, your ego knocked you into a coma, and then committed a genocide, here at the temple."
"After killing a retired Jedi, turned Sithlord, after possibly sacrificing me to save this scum's life, he weighed our order against Padme's life and to him, it's no contest. But this is the you we know, our you won out, now that I told you that." he said and Anakin nodded in agreement. "Well this is going to be a long 6 weeks right now, but we may have to induce it, so if Sidious is after my children, if he had his way here, they're your key to freeing me, but Master Yoda."
"Did you ever treat Lana this way, simply because she's from an out of Republic planet?" he asked and he paled at that. "Lana's planetary guides mention some sort of prophecy correct, well what if that prophecy was meant to say, if you don't change your ways right now. This brings a sum number year of darkness to the galaxy, they said that the darkside. Now comes from us, inside us and then stretches to the rest of the galaxy." he said and Obi-wan nodded.
"Masters Jedi, did it ever occur to you that this behavior towards me, the last 13 years, is everything Sidious wanted, you don't trust me, you treat me like an outsider. And simply because I grew up normal, I grew up normal, I grew up a slave, I grew up in the field. How is this any different then the servant that tried to kill the queen of Gala. Just to keep his job at the palace now, knowing the elections were going to cost him his job right now, how, in truth."
"Is this any different, after Obi-wan confronted him now, before he turned him into security?" he asked and they jerked in shock and Obi-wan crossed his arms. "Obi-wan is the only one that truly treated me like an equal, but to you, I'm an outsider, for being a field born?" he asked and they felt their hearts fall, realizing they all made it far to easy for the Sith to get to him. "I see what he's saying, just because we grew up in the temple….., Juno, oh gods not again right now."
"Juno now gave me that same remark, after I busted him for poisoning the queen, because he was desperate to stay at the palace. Her life be damned, he maybe a commoner, sure he's a servant, but he lives in a palace. You're all saying the very same thing, he grew up in the outside world you grew up in the temple, but does this make you better then he is!" Obi-wan said and Mace felt his heart shatter at that remark, realizing their attitudes were the cause.
"Brother you always knew this, I never felt like I belonged here, why is that, I kept to myself, before you told me we had a mission in dealing with Kad and his father again." he asked and Obi-wan nodded. "You're unique, because you grew up normal, that's no reason to treat you like an inferior, simply because we were raised in the temple and you were not. But I see why this attitude almost destroyed us, they made it too easy." he said sternly and Mace swallowed hard.
"It's not anger, it's resentment, it always, I tried to get you to trust me for ten years, and nothing I ever did ever seemed to drop the scrutiny. Simply because my emotions are that of a normal 9 year old, I was angry yes, but it's because of my life as a slave. But tell me, wouldn't you be angry at people treating you like property and not a person. But of you, only 5 have a life outside the temple, married, have families, so…..?" he asked and they swallowed hard at that.
"I know the darkside is a slavery, I know that, but I understand your lesson, on the trio better then anyone, because of mom and the raiders. But that was brushing it, but I am not being forced back into those shackles again, not without a fight. My alter ego is waking up, he's trying to force my wrists back into those shackles, you're only helping him by this attitude." he said and that did it for the 10 in shock as he looked at Yoda sternly as he went further then.
"Well that needed to be said, and I must admit, he has a good point, this distrust is exactly what our Sithmaster wants, you're basically forcing those shackles onto his wrists by this attitude." Ki said sternly as he looked at Anakin gently. "Master, are you one of the 5 that has a family?" he asked and Ki nodded gently. "Indeed I am, but you just unloading everything and we get this on the table, a month prior helps immensely right now." he said and Kit and Shaak Tii nodded then.
"Indeed, this helps severely right now." he said and then said it. "What I was afraid of 11 years ago, was I had no way to understand my color, yes I was afraid. I'm afraid of the evil in my heart and the immense power I carry, and what happens if it falls into the wrong hands. It was after my color revealed two sides of me, blue and red, and that never made sense. Till this happens, I can choose, between being everything you want, or take his offer now in truth."
"That's the catch, our Zabrak is Obi-wan, of the darkside, Sidious is father, Sidious's master could be you, Master Yoda, I can choose between either side." he said and Yoda swallowed hard, realizing he was playing right into the Sith's hands by that. "Whatever he would have offered you, to get you to listen to him, we have it already Anakin. Qui-Gon left his research on it in the archives, we'll give it to you to study until she's due, but I think his plan hinged on this now."
"Everything, his plans hinged on you taking the bait now, but you have it already, so your alter ego trusts him too much to listen to our point of view." Kit said and he nodded. "And that's just my point, you drilled into me the difference between the sides, but if they killed father. Who is the one knowledgable source of that information, till Master Windu revealed you had that intel." he said and he swallowed hard. "Rule 1) never take what they offer." he said and Mace nodded.
"Never take what they offer or you belong to them after that, yes and I just gave it to you, but it goes both ways, the truth Padawan, you revealing you're married and she's pregnant. It was time for it to start anew, before he can get what he wanted now, I trust you, I trust you now." he said and Anakin nodded in relief, feeling the first sense of hope and relief since his vision. "I've tried living a double life, living a lie, and frankly I don't care if both sides know now."
"For 3 long years we kept this hidden, afraid of your reactions, she's been trying to protect me from losing my placement here. But your remark earlier, just cemented why I should have resigned after Darra was murdered. At least then I can use my powers to save mom and her now." he said and Yoda felt his heart fall at that news. 'Oh gods, what have we forced him into now exactly.' Mace thought in shock to that news, realizing that remark was aimed at Yoda then.
"Not you, Masters, brother, but Master Yoda, this particular argument is aimed at him, you know this, I would never turn….." he said and Kit crossed his arms. "Unless there is no other choice to save who you love, but there is, and we have said key already. What happened last night to make you seek our counsel, if you look like you suffered another case of severe guilt?" he asked and Anakin sighed. "Despite disarming Dooku, literally…." he said and Mace and Kit nodded.
"This was no mercy killing, the Chancellor told you to kill him, correct?" Shaak Tii asked and he nodded. "In 13 years, I never heard his voice sound so savage, it sounded like he was ready to execute him for a younger and stronger model. If he was our Sithmaster, the one we been looking for, seems to me this was the double meaning. When you came to see us after Father was murdered by our Zabrak." he said and the original sextet all nodded sternly at the reveal.
"But mom was a total black out, my alter ego lost it completely and slaughtered the entire camp, I never got over the guilt. That's why she had to get my mind off it, take me into a real battle, where she went I had to stay at her side. Which explains why you found us there as well." he said and Mace, Kit and Ki nodded in understanding. "The senator knows everything, and even she thinks that the continued fighting a waste of time." Mace said and he nodded then.
"Waste of time, effort and most of all, it's costing us lives left and right, none more so then us, I think this was the plan, you said we're keepers of the peace, not soldiers. But what if the democracy we been upholding no longer exists right now, we're being manipulated. And by our sworn enemy, not seeing, and till it's too late, he's been standing right in front of us. That what you said Master Yoda, is exactly what he wanted in my case." he said and Mace straightened.
"But let me ask you something, would you have said that to Nejaa, after he too had visions of his wife dying in child birth?" he asked and Yoda went pale at that. "What about Thracia, Damon, Tiana, and Ki?" he asked and he swallowed hard at that, realizing his point of view made him sound like a cold blooded tyrant. "Or is this because I grew up outside the temple, out in the Outer Rim?" he asked and they all flinched, realizing this made them sound like snobs then.
"Just consider if Father left after freeing me, what happens next, I grow up normal, though a out of the temple Jedi, no massacre of Geonosis, no war. If his plans depend on my taking his offer, shouldn't you be looking at why he asked me to be his representative?" he asked and Mace crossed his arms. "Point taken and you're absolutely right at the moment, Thracia actually saying that out loud drove the point home, before Sekot." Mace said sternly and he nodded.
"Brother, I knew I was right, there's more to this then we thought, why, just as I ask for a sabbatical to check on my family, do we get chosen for protection duty?" he asked and Mace crossed his arms. "Why is it at the same time she's dealing with the army creation act the assassinations stall this." Mace said in response. "They're connected, Sidious wanted that, to me to suffer that first brush, we don't do it now, he wins." he said and the sextet nodded sternly.
"Our branch does homicide Master, to catch a Sith or Dark Jedi, we must think like one, the formula, in the conclusion of Obi-wan's return from Melida/Daan. You finding me at the same time we're assigned to Padme, they're one and the same, we've been had, he's possibly 'him'." he said and Mace nodded sternly. "Point taken and I get it, this was all a trap, just as you come back his final stage begins, you're the target, he wants you." he said and Obi-wan straightened.
"Well now I know why this looks so familiar, disruption: this blockade was interfering with us getting to know you, before I decided to be your mentor when the time comes. Demoralization: Darra's murder, followed by your mother caused you to lose your confidence. From what Padme told me at the time, she's worried sick about you, both then and now. So distraction: they distract us by separating us, it's a trap." Obi-wan said and Mace nodded sternly in agreement.