"The Null Side" (Chapter Eleven)
By Ennon
A/N-swspacecadet- I'm glad you like the twist of Darth Maul's son and hope you consider this chapter to be entertaining as the rest of the story! Your earlier constructive criticism was valid and you're cool with me!
Storyteller Person- Yeah, it's not always easy to store things up sleeves when keeping others on toes but I try! LOL
Miss Naye- Yeah, but there's MORE Whoa!'s ahead.
Raijan- Didn't say Sith weren't a danger but maybe they're not THE biggest threat to this galaxy. Hopefully, you'll get to read what I'm talking about soon and your confusion over that twist will be over.
CHAPTER BEGINS
"You're trying to make peace with me, Jedi?" Darth Maul's son (via frozen embryo) Kha-tsel Sarin boiled as he swung his lightsabre towards Anakin who used the Force to unhinge the space cruiser door then swung it over via the Force to knock it out of the Sith's hand.
"No! But if we are to have a mortal duel, it's only fair we know WHY we're fighting!" Anakin insisted while Kha-tsel used the Dark Side to bodily pick up Anakin and throw him towards the cruiser's side but Anakin clenched his teeth was able to stop his body before it impacted.
"I likely have at least twenty times your midichorian levels now,Sith!" Anakin fumed.
"And I can use ALL of them against you!" Kha-tsel taunted.
"Trying to make me give into my anger? You've only heard about Sith tactics from a droid but I lived them for over twenty years," Anakin sneered while pointing to himself.
"But all those centuries of New Jedi-do-good rot has made you forget and go soft!" Kha-tsel laughed.
"Oh, you don't want to know how tough I've become with the Light Side and I've forgotten nothing!"Anakin fumed.
"There IS no Light Side- as far as I'm concerned!" Kha-tsel boiled as he started to throw Force Lightning towards Anakin.
Immediately, Anakin put his hands above his head and created a large sphere surrounding himself and Miruba that caused the Force Lightning to bounce off..
"A Jedi Bubble?" Kha-tsel sneered.
"Actually, our Order calls it a Skywalker Sphere. My True Master first conceived it ten years after Endor to protect New Jedi while giving any future Siths a chance to reconsider," Anakin explained while Miruba was in aweas Kha-tsel's Force Lightning bounced all around it.
"HAH! You'll have to breathe new air eventually," Kha-tsel taunted
"Even Palpatine himself couldn't sustain Force Lightning for more than two minutes at a time but we can last all day inside!" Anakin declared as he folded his arms and crossed his ankles while several charges of Sith Lightning started to bounce close to Kha-tsel's own physique off the Skywalker Sphere.
"ARGHH! This is too boring!"Kha-tsel fumed.
" That's because New Jedis have more fun! I feel younger at 759 as one than I did at 23 as a Sith!" Anakin laughed then did a standing full backflip.
At once, Ruwee and several other Wookiees emerged from the forest along with Artoo and surrounded them.
"Don't think you've defeated me, Jedi! Not while I have this hostage!" Kha-tsel snarled while abruptly stopping his Sith Lightning then grabbing New Republic Senator Jorkal Dervuek by the shoulder with his right hand and putting his lightsabre next to Jorkal's neck with his left
"Help! Save me!"Jorkal pleaded.
"Tell your Wookiee and New Jedi brethren to back off or he gets it!"Kha-tsel exclaimed.
"Let the Senator go! NOW!" Anakin exclaimed-as he sent his own charge of Force Lightning towards Kha-tsel.
"OWW! That stings!" whined Jorkal.
"It was a mere spark compared what I can do!" Anakin declared.
"BAH! You can have this planet and the female! We're leaving!" Kha-tsel insisted as he did a Force choke to one Ruwee's and Anakin's non-Jedi Wookiee friends.
"Chorbrect!" Anakin and the others exclaimed as the red maned Wookiee was knocked out cold- and during those precious seconds, Kha-tsel took advantage of everyone's alarm,grabbed Jorkal , ran inside the cruiser and took off.
Anakin growled and grunted a bit.
Chorbrect took a gasp and barked back.
"What's he saying?" Miruba asked.
"He's okay but we must do all we can to find Kha-tsel before he harms anyone else," Anakin sighed as he and Ruwee hugged Chorbrect
"And Jorkal,too," Miruba gulped.
"We need to at least find his whereabouts soon but I don't think Kha-tsel will harm him anytime soon," Anakin sighed as he put his arms around Miruba.
"Are you sure?" Miruba asked as she hugged him back.
"Kha-tsel's a Sith and Siths crave power. Right now, keeping the New Republic Senator alive's the only power he has. We'll have to give chase," Anakin declared as he put his lightsabre back in its sheath.
"Chase? But how do we leave. .?" Miruba gulped.
Artoo beeped a bit.
"Great work, Old Friend! The Falcon's ready for us as soon as we reach it!" Anakin exclaimed as the four of them ran towards the cave behind Ruwee's Workshop.
"You've hidden the Millenium Falcon here? This belongs in a museum! It's centuries old. ." Miruba gulped as the garage door opened to reveal Han Solo's ship which had been kept in immaculate shape.
"That makes four of us here! But we're still good for the go!" Anakin laughed as he, Ruwee and Miruba ran inside with Artoo and got into the cockpit to fire up the engines.
"So how did you get this?"Miruba asked as she sat down in a passenger seat.
"This was my son-in-law General Han Solo's pride and joy and he left it to my daughter Leia and their children. They kept it until . ..my daughter's death," Anakin sighed as the strapped themselves in the seats.
"You miss her. Don't you," Miruba sighed as she put her arms around him.
"Yes,indeed! After my revival and I trainedLeia in the Force, not only did she accept my remorse for Alderaan, we became close. Her surviving children, though, considered the Falcon too junky for their regal fleet so they were relieved for me to take it off their hands- in spite of its historical importance!" Anakin wryly recalled as he fired the engines.
"Why aren't you with your family instead of the Wookiees? Don't you love them?" Miruba asked.
"Of course I do and I've done my best to protect them over the centuries but after the last surviving descendent of the last surviving descendent who could remember My True Master, Savior and Son Luke went to the nether world, the bonds with them have been more distant," Anakin sadly admitted while the Falcon zoomed through the open cave garage door.
"Is it because they're not strong in the Force?" Miruba asked.
"No. Although, with each new generation the number of Force wielders becomes fewer and their powers are less than even their immediate ancestral wielders. In My Angels and my first three generations of progeny, all of them were Force wielders. Now it's less than five percent but it's still a higher average than other families!"Anakin calculated as they left Kashyyyk's atmosphere.
"Where are we going?" Miruba asked.
"Yavin Four! I've already made a Force Link with the Master Grogan on Yavin Four and communicated with him about Kha-tsel Sarin but we need to alert the entire New Jedi Council immediately," Anakin gulped.
"Do you have a feel where Kha-tsel may have gone?" the 40ish female Twi'-ilek New Jedi Dame Oolong Yuoong asked in the Yavin Council- the next day.
"I can't feel him in this Galaxy anywhere but he's not dead," Anakin admitted.
"Well, we need to send you to Coruscant straight away! The Senate Hive's quite agitated with how you and Ruwee let him kidnap one of their own," the Sand Person Jedi Master Grogan insisted after they reached Yavin Four.
"It's not their fault! He and Ruwee were distracted while Kha-tsel used a Force choke on one of their Wookiee friends! They needed to make sure he was okay," Miruba pleaded.
"Well, it can't hurt for you to vouch to them for the Ageless One," New Jedi Dame Oolong Youleng (a Twi'ilek female in her 60's)sighed.
"I can speak the truth for myself, thank you. Miruba should stay here," Anakin sighed.
"Ani, I don't need special protection. I'd rather be with you!" Miruba exclaimed.
" Then it's settled," New Jedi Master Grogan insisted.
"Has Coruscant changed in 700 years?" Miruba asked as they landed the Falcon to the nearest space dock to the Senate Hive the next day.
"Buildings are different but just as congested as ever- andnot just the Hive," Anakin sighed.
"You think they'll listen to us?" Miruba asked.
"They have no choice. Only the New Jedi can keep the Sith at bay. They're insane if they think their armaments will be an impediment," Anakin insisted- as left the space dock and got onboard a city tram.
"The Sith must be stopped. If the New Jedi let this happen to one of our Senators, how safe can ANY New Republic citizen be?" asked the Corellian Senator Miles Ulcot(in mid 50's) in the Senate Hive.
"Our citizens are as safe with New Jedi as they possibly could be!" Anakin fumed- as the spotlight glared towards him and his words were translated into hundreds of languages for the Hive's benefit while a microdroid zoomed forward and clipped a hair from Anakin's head.
"The Floor recognizes the Guest Speaker as a New Jedi which his hair DNA confirms is one Anakin Skywalker aged 759 years of Tatooine also known as the Chosen One, Dark Lord, Galaxy Liberator, New Jedi Strong Arm and Ageless One," the mechanical droid intoned before many gasps and oohs were made towards this tall, athletic blond man who appeared to be no older than his early 20's.
"Of course, you'd let that Sith kidnap Senator Dervuek considering you were one of them for 23 years,"the Toydarian Senator Betto Xorek (mid 40's) sneered in Toydarian that was translated into Basic,etc.
"Know that I've been a New Jedi without pause for 714 years. Only the Old Jedi Master Yoda had a longer record of service!" Anakin boiled.
"But must we each have New Jedi bodyguards from this point on?" asked the Hutt Senator Blabba(while the Huttese was automatically translated into Basic and hundreds of other language).
"Anakin and the other New Jedi did their best on Kashyyyk but they couldn't let their friend's life be sacriced for the Senator's person," Miruba exclaimed.
"Are you saying that a Wookiee's life is more important than a Senator's?" Senator Betto sneered.
" Every sentient being is important to the Force. I suggest the Senate consult My True Master Luke's holovids on the subject as well as those of My Old Jedi Master Qui-Gonn," Anakin exclaimed.
"In that case, you should have no objections if we create another security measure against the Sith!" exclaimed Senator Jorkal Dervuek as he abruptly burst into the Senate Hive.
"Thank the Force you're intact!" Anakin sincerely exclaimed.
"Jorkal, I thought you were done for with Kha-tsel," Miruba gulped.
For the next ten minutes Jorkal told a harrowing tale of how he managed to wait until Kha-tsel used the refresher to make his escape.
"This isn't the time for reunions. I barely escaped with my life. The New Jedi proved to be no help so I propose we arm the Galaxy with Sith Detector and Detonator Probes,"Jorkal exclaimed- as he presented a large holochart complete with dimensions and costs.
"It seems rather redundant. Do you have any idea how many galactic orphans could be educated and elderly could be cared for with those monies?" Anakin gulped.
"Afraid of losing support, eh?" Jorkal sneered.
"The New Jedi have been completely self-sufficient since Our Founder re-established it in the Year 4 AY!" Anakin protested.
"Why are you really against these detectors? I thought you had no more ties to the Sith!" Hutt Senator Blabba sneered in Huttese automatically translated.
"And I thought you had no more ties to slavery but I had to free a cluster from your very home planet not ten years ago!" Anakin protested.
"How DARE you question our authority, New Jedi!" Hutt Senator Blabba boiled in automatically translated Huttese.
"This bickering is disruptive. We need to take a vote on the Sith Detectors!" Senator Miles Ulcot exclaimed.
"You must vote with the Light Side not let your fears obscure the truth!" Anakin pleaded.
"Why are you so upset over them voting for the Detectors, Anakin? " Miruba asked as she hugged him- a few hours later.
"I just can't shake that feeling that they were terribly duped the way the Old Senate was with Palpatine," Anakin boiled as he stomped his foot while theywalkedwith the rest of the crowd through Coruscant's upper terraced causeways to their destination.
" You yourself said you thought Jorkal is a moron," Miruba sighed while Anakin hugged her back.
"I still believe so but I can't help but think he may be the tool of others who could pose a threat but he's too stupidly ambitious to realize that," Anakin fumed.
"But you heard about his harrowing escape from Kha-tsel and. ." Miruba gulped.
"Out of the thousands of New Jedi he could have hired, why would he have instead hired a Sith to be a . .bodyguard?" Anakin sputtered.
"He didn't know Kha-tsel was one. It's been hundreds of years since Darth Kinder made the Siths' last appearance," Miruba reasoned.
"But Kha-tsel deliberately made himself look as scary and evil as possible the same way his father Darth Maul did. Only in the seediest Coruscant alleys and Outer Rim cantinas would either have fit in without alarm," Anakin boiled.
"I admit that Jorkal doesn't have the best sense of judgment,"Miruba pondered.
"And he's a bit flabby and out of shape! I don't see how he could have escaped a Sith alive unless. …" Anakin sighed.
"You think he staged the kidnapping?" Miruba asked aghast.
"I wouldn't put it past him. I can remember Palpatine staging his own and an entire WAR just to draw me in," Anakin boiled.
"How can you be sure?Jorkal seemed so scared and panicky!" Miruba gasped.
"Everything I sense about Jorkal tells me he's as trustworthy as a Coruscant Eel Opera Aficionado," Anakin scoffed.
"You mean like 'The Emperor's New Eel Opera'? " Miruba asked.
"That tale's still around?" Anakin asked.
"It used to be one of my favorite childhood holovids," Miruba exclaimed.
"My grandson Prince Anakin Organa-Solo of New Alderaan and Naboo whom we called Kino composed that when he was five after we saw some Mon Calamari eels swimming in their own habitat- and his older sister Princess Shmi illustrated it!" Anakin fondly recalled.
"I remember reading it and wondering why anyone would think those were entertaining or worth dressing up for," Miruba laughed.
"It was something for jaded and bored phonies in the last days of the Old Republic and the Imperial Gap to do to be seen and make connections. Everyone just clapped at intervals and pretended to 'get' it for appearances sake," Anakin recalled.
"Did you ever attend those?" Miruba asked.
"Only once-where I eagerly bought the most preposterous of lies," Anakin sighed.
"I'm sorry,"Miruba sighed
"Vader's suit's appearance was too intimidating for me to be seen publically on unofficial business . Thus, Palpatine declared I never was to attend those operas again- one of the very few benefits of looking so threatening,"Anakin said with an eye roll.
"You said your grandson composed the story. ." Miruba started to say.
" I told Kino about that time," Anakin started to say.
"You two were close, eh?" Miruba asked as they clutched each other's hands.
"From the time he learned to speak, he and I could talk about anything like his Nana and Uncle Luke did with me,too. "Anakin recalled.
"How did he react whenyou told him about those Coruscant eel operas,"Miruba concluded.
"He burst out laughing when I described it and the audience's reactions. He couldn't believe their popularity either so he created the fictional story in which the Emperor gave another tedious eel opera . However, in Kino's story, a young Jedi Padawan openly called it for the hollow bore it was and the truth of it was enough to expose the Emperor for what he was and took away all the Emperor's power!" Anakin beamed as they came to their destination.
"If only life were that simple," Miruba sighed.
"But it somewhat is- if we're not afraid to use the power of truth. Fear of the truth is what brings in and keeps the corrupt in power," Anakin exclaimed.
"So that's why you think they didn't vote against Jorkal. They didn't want to have to consider that he was duping them," Miruba sighed.
"I think that's quite likely. Did you notice that he barely reacted when you told him that your betrothal was off? I think he has something far more seductive than your charms enticing him," Anakin groaned.
"What are you going to do?" Miruba asked.
"The New Jedi Council has ruled that we cannot interfere with the probe dispersal but I'm not going to idly sit by and avoid the actual truth," Anakin declared as he hugged her
"Are you going to avoid your own feelings towards me?" Miruba asked.
"No, I love you and want to marry you if you'll have me," Anakin declared with a firm voice as he got on one knee and knelt down in front of a 30 meter tall statue of the New Jedi Founder Luke Skywalker holding his lightsabre aloft with both hands in one of the very few open spaces in the Government Center- the New Jedi Park and Greenery..
"Of course. I love you! If you can be faithful to Padmé and even her memory for over 700 years, I'm secure enough to think you can be to me,too- no matter how old I get! " Miruba proclaimed.
"I'm not going to provide for you with riches like Jorkal could have but I will make sure you and our offspring are taken care of. I want to enjoy whatever time the Force grants us with each other! That's all I want!" Anakin declared as he took Miruba's hand and kissed it while the two of them hugged.
"You think that your late son, daughter and wife would have approved of me?" Miruba half-laughed as she looked at Luke's friendly face in stone looming above her.
"They know they'll always have firm places in my heart but My Angel taught me to love and she'd love you,too, because you're a good soul!" Anakin declared as he kissed Miruba on the hand then the lips before the two hugged.
Over the next six months millions of Sith probe droids were dispatched to every inhabited system in the galaxy while Anakin took his fiancée Miruba to introduce her to all his New Jedi and Wookiee friends and his far flung family of descendents with total acceptance from the Wookiees but a somewhat mixed reaction from his many descendents whileAnakin himself met her own father and got in a few laughs as the 57-year-old kept treating him as though he was a generation younger instead of over seven centuries his senior! Despite this awkward start, Anakin and Miruba did receive her father's reluctant blessing.
"And so Ruwee will be my Best Man while Grogan performs the ceremony here next month!" Anakin declared then he did a backflip holding Miruba to him inside Yavin's Celebration Temple.
"Oh, it's so wonderful and I can't wait until we honeymoon in Naboo!"Miruba beamed as their feet touched solid ground again.
"Excuse me, Jedi Anakin.. Miss Miruba," sputtered a 6-year-old New Jedi Prodigy Dame Kaminoan named Vlenoba.
"You seem afraid, Child. What's wrong?" Anakin asked as he and Miruba knelt down to Vlenoba's level.
" I . . can't feel my parents on Kamino," Vlenoba gulped.
" I know you miss them while you train but you'll see them Independence Day on the 18th, " Anakin consoled as he patted her on the head.
"But I can usually feel them and I feel . ..nothing,"Vlenoba cried.
"I'm sure they're okay," Miruba consoled.
"My Flower, the child does have a 15 thousand midichlorian count and I don't think we should take her concerns lightly," Anakin sighed.
"I know what you say about how fear is our enemy and truth is our ally but I'm sc. .." Vlenoba sniffed.
"Don't worry, Child! As long as you're with us, we'll do our best to make sure nothing happens to you or the other Progeny!" Anakin declared while he and Miruba hugged her and patted her on the back.
"Master Grogan, Kamino is virtually our furthest spiral from the Galactic Core. I think the child might be onto a threat," Anakin sighed an hour later.
"Don't worry. I'm not taking this lightly. Have you felt Kha-tsel at all?" Grogan asked.
"No but I somehow don't consider he's dead," Anakin exhaled.
Ruwee growled a bit and Anakin barked back.
"Anakin, I think you might do well not to consider Kha-tsel the enemy," Ruwee pleaded (though Grogan and the others only heard growling).
"But he's a Sith and he cut off my left foot!" Anakin boiled (in Wookiee) while holding up his left foot.
"But you were able to grow it back in no time!"Ruwee exclaimed (in Wookiee).
"That's not the point," Anakin sputtered(in Wookiee).
"Remember how you always say you prefer Wookiees over many humans for our ability to never forget kindnesses being as strong as our ability to forgive those who are truly remorseful?" Ruwee barked (in Wookie).
"Yes, and I appreciate how Our Brethren are having a Kinship Ceremony for Miruba and I-after we wed!" Anakin declared while hugging Ruwee.
"She's so much like Our Padmé from what I've always heard. My family is grateful how Our Padmé put an end to Life Debts and supplanted it with Kinship Rites for those we favor and for all she risked to helpour peopleand provide for us during the Imperial Gap," Ruwee declared (in Wookiee).
"I still don't trust Kha-tsel," Anakin sighed.
"Nor should you now but maybe in time he will change for the better as you did! You always said so much of your oppressive rage as Vader came from having no family and how much of your revival as Anakin Skywalker came from having one again," Ruwee insisted (in Wookiee).
"Very well, Old Friend. I'll keep that in mind. Is your great-grandson Kitster climbing yet?" Anakin asked (in Wookiee).
"Yes, but I think we need to focus on whatever threat Vlenoba may perceive," Ruwee declared (in Wookiee).
"Thank you, Jedi Ruwee. Let's at least check the holovid to see how Kamino is," Grogan insisted.
"I've pressed the code for the Kamino Information Center three times but I'm not receiving anything," Anakin gulped.
"It is quite far out. Perhaps their data system has gone out. I'll send some of our New Jedi to investigate," Grogan declared.
A month later. ..
"Oh, I'm feeling terrible pain from so many but then. .nothing," Anakin gulped.
"And you're saying this is coming from Coruscant! " Jedi Dame Oolong asked in the New Jedi Training Temple .
"Yes, just like all the others. Naboo, New Alderaan, Tatooine, Bespin, Kashyyyk and countless other worlds. They haven't all left this world for the nether world but they're no longer . ..with us either," Anakin gulped.
"Ageless One, I know you want to go out to investigate but we need you here to help protect Yavin from whatever's been decimating the rest of the New Republic," Jedi Dame Oolong pleaded.
"I can't sense any of my own FAMILY," Anakin said in alarm.
"None of us can," Master Grogan groaned.
"And none of the holovids are picking up any communication from other systems," Ruwee barked(in Wookiee).
"And we've checked them many times but they're fully functional. Would it that Jorkal had insisted on the budget not be depleted on those useless Sith Detectors!" Anakin boiled.
"Calm down, Ageless One," Master Grogan pleaded.
" Ani, what do you think has happened to the other systems and all the New Jedi that have been sent out?" Miruba gulped.
" The same as everyone else outside Yavin I've known who I had a Force link to- great pain then in a few cases, death but in most cases. . nothing," Anakin shuddered.
"Artoo, what is it?" the 6-year-old Kaminoan New Jedi Prodigy Dame Vlenoba asked as Artoo came into the Temple in alarm.
"He says that an astonishing fleet of enormous sized ships of Quechu-Mong origin can be detected coming out of hyperspace just on the other side of the gas giant!" Ruwee barked (in Wookiee- for Wookiees and Artoo had all learned to understand each other over the centuries).
"What?" Vlenoba asked.
"Quechu-Mong! Our Kino!" Anakin gasped and sank to his knees.
"Pops! Please tell Dad I know he was just upset about Chewbacca and didn't mean those things and that I love him!"Anakin recalled the Force Ghost of 17-year-old Prince Anakin Organa-Solodeclared as soon as he left the mortal realm in 26AY.
"Please Kino! We need you here!" Anakin pleaded as he burst into tears.
"You, Uncle Luke, Aunt Mara and Bail can only battle them so much and you're needed here! " the Force Ghost of Kino insisted.
"Kino, I love you!" Anakin sobbed.
"I love you Nana and Mom,too! That's why I've taken the Quechu-Mong out at the cost of my own life to keep everyone else in the New Republic free of them and I'm free,too!" the Force Ghost Kino beamed as he faded away.
"KINO!" Anakin screamed as he sobbed fresh tears for his favorite grandchild that time in Yavin in 718AY.
"Please, Anakin! We need your help!" Miruba begged as she hugged him.
"You're right! As My Angel's and My Leia said after Alderaan 'We have no time for our sorrows now!' We must use this time to resist whatever those Quechu-Mong have in mind for us! " Anakin swallowed hard.
"But they're from another galaxy. The Force doesn't work on them," Master Grogan sputtered.
"Maybe not but if we are to survive. We can't surrender. To give in is a Sith Way. Resistance is the Jedi way!" Anakin declared.
Suddenly, Quechu-Mong vessels filled the entire night sky of Yavin Four.
"Inhabitants of Yavin, you will become our SLAVES With No Memories as has the REST of the Coruscant Galaxy or you will be DESTROYED!" an ear shattering loudspeaker declared as smaller vessels flew from the planet-sized mother ship.
Anakin immediate fired on them but soon they Quechu-Mong ships sent shock waves that caused the Temple Complex start crumbling.
"NO! My True Master's Statue! You can't DO that!" Anakin screamed as he witnessed the destruction of Luke's 100 meter tall statue that he himself had lobbied for for two centuries after Luke's mortal death.
"What are to do?" yelled the New Jedi Progenies, Padawans and other New Jedi as they looked to Anakin for guidance.
"We must resist! We can't let 45,000 years of galactic civilizations be wiped out! We must resist so we can rebuild!" Anakin declared as he swallowed hard.
Suddenly the Museum Temple started to crumble from the shock beams.
"No, My Angel's alabaster statue and all her gowns are in there! She embodied everything good about. .." Anakin gulped as he could see via the Force them being destroyed before he realized that's WHY her statue was targeted by the intergalactic marauders.
"Please, Ani! Calm down! We can rebuild!" Miruba pleaded.
"We may be just one planet left but we're not out!" Anakin declared as he shook his fist towards the gigantic ships.
"We can hide in the jungle!" Ruwee insisted (in Wookiee).
"We may not have buildings but we New Jedi will have each other to rebuild! We must not let fear rule us! We're strong!" Anakin declared as virtually the entire ancient Temple complex was reduced to rubble before everyone's shocked eyes as they ran into the jungle.
Suddenly another high pitched sound was heard by all from inside their heads.
"Let this wave erase your memories so you can be our slaves or this wave will DESTROY you!" the enormous loudspeakers declared.
"Resist!" Anakin pleaded.
Suddenly, Ruwee's head exploded sending his blood, skull, brains, teeth and hair in all directions.
"Ruwee!" Anakin screamed at the sight of seeing (literally) his oldest friend, Wookiee kinsman and New Jedi brethren loose his life this way.
"Ani, I'm sorry. I can't let go of the wonderful time I had with you and the memor. ." Miruba cried before HER head exploded.
"NO!" Anakin sobbed.
All around him other New Jedis quit resisting and he could see that all traces of their identities were erased while the monstrous Mongs (who looked like scarier versions of Jabba's palace guards with grey thorny skin) were rounding them up and flying them into the enormous planet-sized mother ship . Still others were resisting but losing their lives by having their heads explode from their bodies but the number of resisters grew smaller and smaller.
At once, one of the smaller vessals opened up and there appeared the Bespin New Republic Senator Jorkal Dervuek with a large transparent helmet over his head.
"Hello, Chosen One, Galaxy Liberator, New Jedi Strong Arm, Ageless One and, soon, Eternal Slave of the Quechu-Mong!" Jorkal chortled.
In spite of the agonizing pain Anakin felt around him, he ran up the ramp to try to knock Jorkal down.
"You can't do that! My friends won't like that! " Jorkal sneered as several armed Mongs drew their weapons and surrounded Jorkal by a force field.
"Friends! What do you know about friends? How could you let these creatures do that to our galaxy! Traitor! Sith-Lover!" Anakin boiled as he spat.
"Come now! You were the same to the Old Republic and you had powers! I always admired that about you but I didn't have any powers until I happened to get stranded among outer rim of the Quechu-Mong's galaxy and they told me how I could GET some," Jorkal sneered as he tapped his helmet.
"So Sith Detectors placed across the galaxy were actually Quechu-Mong probes to erase our memories to ENSLAVE us!That helmet keeps you immune to those rays!" Anakin boiled.
"You catch on fast! I only asked that they leave THIS moon for last so I could confront you myself with no one else around while I got to see you be the LAST sentient being in the galaxy with a memory intact!" Jorkal chortled.
"Miruba's dead! She had so much to give!" Anakin sobbed as he hugged her bloody headless corpse to him.
"Pity. She'd have made a good slave for me but with your fantastic strength and immortality, I think you could serve me well for a long time!" Jorkal taunted while sneering at his former betrothed's remains.
"Never! I'd rather die than do that! " Anakin boiled.
"Since the Mong are from another galaxy, it won't be that hard to do since the Force doesn't work with them but you'll die knowing that I get to reap the bounty of all those quadrillions of Coruscant Galactic slaves!"Jorkal chortaled.
Suddenly, one of the Mong guards ripped the transparent helmet from Jorkal's head.
"What! But I gave you this galaxy," Jorkal sputtered.
"We have no more need of you and you HAVE witnessed this creature be the last sentient being with a memory intact!" one of Mong guards growled in both Quechu-Mong and Coruscantic Basic.
"NO!" Jorkal screamed before his mind went blank and he was herded into the slave holding pen with no resistance whatsoever.
Anakin knew he was alone (and ALL alone in the entire galaxy) but he ran as best he could) while he was being chased and holding his head together.
"Father, you must remember your ability as a Sith to give in and surrender your memory . It's the only way you can possibly survive! We're all counting on you!" Anakin heard the Force Ghost of Luke Skywalker plead inside Anakin's head.
Anakin found Artoo and lifted a large fallen arch keystone weighing several hundred kilos.
"Artoo, forgive what I have to do, Old Friend but there's no place for you in this empty galaxy and I may need you one day!" Anakin sobbed as he dropped his blue Jedi lightsabre (he'd had constantly had 714 years) and Padmé's japor snippet that he'd constantly worn around his neck some 664 years since her mortal death inside Artoo's hidden compartment before setting the stone down.
"OK, I'll surrender! But I LOVE PADMÉ!"Anakin screamed and clutched his head before he let the numbness take over and then . . ..
His first9 years he'd been simply Anakin Skywalker the human slave on Tatooine who everyone knew had some untapped abilility. Then from age9 to 22, he was a Padawan then Jedi while proclaimed to be the Chosen One and doing good works for them. Then from ages 22 to 45, he was the Sith called Darth Vader who channeled his anger over the loss of his beloved Padmé his limbs and his free breathing on countless innocents while serving the most evil being in the Galaxy- Palpatine. Then from age 45 onwards, the New Jedi Anakin Skywalker had been reclaimed by his son Luke with the great gifts of his beloved Padmé being restored along with his limbs, youth and strength restored and had been his son's and the New Jedi's most ardent follower and ally- even after Padmé and the rest of his original family died natural deaths of old age while Anakin remained in body 22 years of age with nothing to stop that over the centuries. Now, at age 759 with this perpetually 22 year old body,he was a mere vessel with no voice or memory whatsoever of who he'd been or who'd he'd loved- as were countless others on heading towards the Quechu-Mong Galaxy as its slaves. Had any unfortunate intergalactic voyager come across the Coruscant Galaxy during this time , they would have seen nothing but piles of rubble on every planet in every formerly inhabited system with not a single sentient being to be found to explain what the rubble pieces had originally been.
Yet, there was something besides his bodily immortality that still that separated the one who had once been called Anakin Skywalker from the others who shared his fate of being a mindless slave for the Quechu-Mong.. .
P.S. Yeah, I know this chap's has a downer end but this isn't the last chapter. There IS more to come!