The Queen of Naboo was and still is Sola Amidala, Padmé's sister.
Chapter 2: Memories
Dream:
A little boy named Anakin Skywalker burst into his clay dwelling on the desert planet Tatooine. Recently he had sold his pod racer that he had used to win the Boonta Eve race, and now he had a lot of money and was eager to show his mother. A man flanked him, tall with long graying hair and dressed in Jedi robes. Qui-gon Jinn was his name, a Jedi master who had gotten stuck on this hellish planet accompanied by the queen of a much more distant planet called Naboo, Sola Amidala whom Anakin had met once.
"Mom we sold the pod! Look at all the money we have!" Anakin cried as he burst into the hovel. Shmi Skywalker looked up at him, took the money and smiled. She was sitting at a desk tinkering with electronic junk.
"That's so wonderful Ani!" she said. Qui-gon smiled behind them.
"Anakin has been freed." He said out of nowhere. Shmi and Anakin turned to face him both in shock.
"What!" was all Anakin could say.
"Is he going with you?" Shmi asked. "Is he to become a Jedi?"
"Yes." Qui-gon said. "But only if you allow it."
"Can I go mom? Please!" Anakin said. Shmi looked down.
"Anakin, this path has been placed before you, the choice is your's alone."
"I want to go."
"Then pack your things." Qui-gon said and Anakin ran to his room. Then froze and turned.
"What about mom?" He asked Qui-gon. "Is she free too?"
"I tried to free your mother Anakin, but Watto wouldn't have it."
Lord Vader sat straight up in bed sweating everywhere. That was the last time he had seen him mother. Being assigned to protect the queen of Naboo with Obi-wan, his mother had died. It was all the Jedi's fault. They had been right to almost not let him be trained.
Anakin, Qui-gon, and Obi-wan Kenobi stood in the center of the Jedi council chamber. They waited eagerly to her if Anakin would be trained.
"Has the council reached a decision?" Qui-gon asked. "Will he be trained?"
A bald and black Jedi named Mace Windu, leader of the council looked up at Qui-gon from his red cushioned chair.
"No, he will not be trained." Windu stated.
"No?" Qui-gon asked.
"He's too old." Windu stated simply.
"But he is the chosen one, you must see this."
"Skywalker's fate, decided later it will be." A little green Jedi said. Yoda.
"Yes, right now we have a more pressing matter. The Trade Federation his holding Naboo and the queen is returning, this will put pressure on the Federation as will Chancellor Valorum being thrown out of office." Windu said. Ki-Adi-Mundi nodded his head in agreement as well as Shaak Ti, Stass Allie, Ager Kolar, Saesee Tinn, and Kit Fisto.
"He must be trained!" Qui-gon said, ignoring them.
"No, our final answer that is." Yoda stated with determined finality.
"I will train him then." Qui-gon said putting his hands on Anakin's shoulders. "I take Anakin as my Padawan leaner."
"An apprentice you have Qui-gon, impossible to take on a second." Yoda said.
"The code forbids it." Mace agreed. .
"Nevertheless I will train him, there is little more Obi-wan can learn from me now, he is no longer my Padawan and is ready for the trials."
"Yes." Obi-wan said in his accented voice. "I am ready."
"Later will we see who is ready Obi-wan." Yoda said. "Breaking the Jedi code you are, Qui-gon, by taking Anakin Skywalker as your apprentice."
"I know master, but I will do it nonetheless."
"His future, in your hands it is. The Jedi Council will not be responsible, train him you may." Yoda said reluctantly.
"Master Yoda!" Mace said. "We cannot! It is against the code."
"States the code does, that a master cannot have two apprentices at one time. Qui-gon is dropping Obi-wan then, a dishonor that is but goes against the code it doesn't, Obi-wan will stay with him however and come to the trials when he really is ready."
Perhaps those fools should not have let Qui-gon train him. He had turned to the dark side and it was entirely their fault, master Windu after all had tried to assassinate the New Chancellor Palpatine who turned out to be Sidious just a month or so after making him Jedi knight. He would never forget that day.
Anakin rushed into the chancellor's office and all hell met his eyes. The sofas were scorched, the desk sliced, here and there flames rippled on the navy blue and blood red carpet. Golden statues had been beheaded, the holoprojector was ablaze like a torch. And at the far end of the room, the huge glass window was shattered and on the sill stood Mace Windu, blade raised as Palpatine attempted to zap him with Force lightning.
Anakin ran up to the scene. The lightning was reflecting itself back at Palpatine and his face was deforming, he looked ancient, deep furrows everywhere and it looked as though his forehead had melted and cooled. Finally Palpatine gave up and looked at Anakin.
"See, I told you it would come to this, the Jedi are taking over."
"That's a lie." Windu hissed angling his blade down at Sidious's deformed neck. "The oppression of the Sith will never return. Now you die!"
"No!" Anakin said. "He must stand trial. This is not the Jedi way."
"He has control of the senate and courts, a trail would be a joke. He is too dangerous to be kept alive."
Windu raised his violet blade for the kill. He was about to swing when a bar of ocean blue energy sliced through his wrist. His hand and saber tumbled out the window. It didn't stop him however, he extended his hand to force push Palpatine out the window but before he could tap into it Anakin kicked him in the jaw and he to tumbled down into the air with his hand and saber. Anakin fell down and looked where Windu had been standing in horror. Palpatine stood up.
"What have I done?" Anakin asked himself.
"You have stopped the Jedi's evil plot, and taken the first step the secure the Republic. Join me and complete it, you will have power beyond power."
"Yes, I will do whatever you ask."
"Good. You are now one with the order of the Sith Lords Anakin Skywalker, henceforth you shall be known as Darth Vader."
"Thank you master." Vader said standing up. "What will you have me do?"
"We must move quickly, the Jedi are relentless, if they are not destroyed it will be civil war without end. First go to the Jedi temple and slaughter them all, then go to the Mustafar system and wipe out Viceroy Gunray and the other separatist leaders."
He had done all that. Killed all the Jedi in the temple and killed the separatist leaders. But something happened that he did not expect. Obi-wan landed a ship and confronted him
Obi-wan's new blue Jedi interceptor touched down on the landing platform where Vader stood, waiting. The cockpit opened and he leaped out, activating his lightsaber in mid air.
"So," Vader said activating his own blade. "Qui-gon didn't have the guts to come and face me himself. He sent his onetime apprentice Obi-wan the negotiator instead."
"Qui-gon is busy Anakin. He and Yoda are about to kill your Sith master."
"I get it; you were not strong enough to help Yoda face him."
"No, I was not."
"Then let me end your pathetic life."
"Your move Anakin."
And their fight had gone on for a long while. Leading Obi-wan onto a ledge over a river of lava, and Vader on a floating platform.
"It's over Anakin." Obi-wan said. "I have the high ground."
"You underestimate my power!" Vader said preparing to leap.
"Don't try it."
Vader did. He leapt up and landed behind Obi-wan and stabbed him in the back. His lifeless corpse rolled right into the lava and Anakin laughed and laughed.
He went back to Sidious after that who had turned the Republic into an Empire. Sidious said that Qui-gon and Yoda fled like fools and to this day he had never found them.
XxX
The door to Vader's sleeping quarters burst open and in stepped Admiral Piett. Vader sat straight up in bed and opened his red brimmed yellow eyes.
"I said no one was to disturb me when I was sleeping!" Vader shouted angrily. "You better have a damn good reason."
"We have arrived at Coruscant Lord Vader. The Emperor requests you bring Mon Mothma to him so he can arrange the party tonight."
"Very well. And do not wake me up ever again Piett."
