"The Chosen One!" exclaims Sidious. "What if the Jedi find him before we do?"
"Then we will have to get him back to the right side now, won't we?" Plagueis replies. "Now then, to perform the Ritual of the Force, we will need a living sacrifice. Through the Force I will find the right hostess for the Chosen One. While I do that, go and find a well sized animal."
"Yes, my Master." Sidious bows and leaves.
Plagueis sits down cross-legged. He closes his eyes and goes in to a sleep-like state of meditation. In the Force, faces of woman throughout the galaxy flash before him. Who will be the Chosen One's mother?
Outside, Sidious walks down the hill.
The Chosen One, he thinks. The one destined to destroy the Sith… unless we can convince him to destroy the Jedi!
The Sith apprentice looks around. There is plenty of deadly wildlife on Korriban… but then again…
Plagueis always orders Sidious around as if he is just a slave! Meanwhile, all Plagueis does is sit and meditate and all of that junk…
Grinning, Sidious turns around and walks back up to the hut.
Plagueis hears his apprentice enter.
"Do you have the sacrifice?" he asks through his meditation.
"Yes, master." Sidious lies.
"Excellent… you will now kill it, and the Force will accept its life force in exchange for the Chosen One." Explains the Sith Master. He feels that the mother will soon be selected. "Kill it now!"
Sidious puts his lightsaber hilt to his Master's back.
"Yes, Master." Sidious says, and he ignites the lighsaber.
On Tatooine, a rare lightning storm begins in the middle of the night. The last women Plagueis saw before his murder was to be the chosen mother.
And so one red lightning bolt strikes the small hut of a woman, a slave. This woman is Shmi Skywalker.
This woman is to be the Chosen One's mother.
Millions of microscopic midi-chlorians surround Shmi, and then they suddenly enter her. She wakes up. There is something wrong. She feels different, like something all-powerful is present.
She would never know just how powerful that something is.