The Salvation Of The Chosen One
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 3: Final Showdown Truths, Preparations And Counter Strikes
"Indeed, by bending the code, it nearly became our destruction, so back at it." Mace said sternly and Anakin nodded. "After only 6 years, normally padawans stay with their mentors till they're Lana's age." he said and he paled. "So they sped up the trials, that's not a bad thing, Anakin." Tru said shaking, realizing Anakin gave it up and wanted to remain with Obi-wan. "It is, actually Tru, it is, when it's part of the darkside, expedited, translation, fast road to the trials."
"And especially when it makes you forget a dangerously critical thing, we were not there for your career." he said and he started shaking in fear at that, realizing it. "I told them the truth to what really happened, and Obi-wan's furious right now, as is Master Windu and Master Yoda." he said sternly and he went pale at that news. "Just what the heck were you thinking of here, the Sith can wait, our safety matters more here." Obi-wan said sternly and he swallowed hard then.
"Obi-wan, Master Tiana, Master Damon, please, please, I just didn't want to get sent home." he said and they shook their heads. "No there is no excuse for this right now, Anakin got off lightly, because he did exactly as he was supposed to, come forward and tell us the truth. He was a model padawan, we never cared he was out of temple born that was okay. And it's because he dragged along his honesty with him when he was cub outside the temple, he knew better now."
"She's gone, because of you, your reckless behavior killed her." Obi-wan said sternly at that to him. "Well I see pulling back too soon was a very bad idea, seems we have to give till you're 21, before your brother or sister have to take over here right now. Because this was reckless, if we been with you, Tiana, Adi and I decide we're leaving right now. And after my baby girl and Annie were injured, before you held this back from us." Damon said sternly and he went pale then.
"Yes you heard me right, my baby girl, my daughter, Darra and Soara are my daughters, I missed them so much, it's hard, I always did fine with the opposite gender. Tiana with boys, until you and Ferus pull this stunt, but as Qui' would say your focus determines your reality. We're not just giving up, but the future younglings of our order leave us a second chance, but our first born, the pain still hurts, we miss our babies, me, my girls, Tiana your brother now."
"But Anakin was right to turn this in right now." he said sternly at that remark. "Our careers, Tru, were not the reason we were there, but after said head injury and her getting hit. And by that shrapnel blast, we should have left, we can have a crack at them later right now. We're Jedi we have a duty to the truth, our first rule is to survive, but we need to regroup. And just so she and I can recover." he said and Mace crossed his arms then, now hearing it for what it was then.
"But just say that blow to the head was worse, what's Obi-wan's consideration here?" he asked and Damon nodded. "After Siri told us you, you in particularly Anakin, got hit hard enough to need Winna checking you, we decide you're coming home right now. Especially if the blast broke it enough it's sounding like the crystal malfunctioned." Tiana said sternly and Tru went pale. "And technically, if we gave it till you're 20, the four of us decided never mind staying now."
"We're leaving right now and going home, so we can check that lightsaber, you and Darra are in recovery from the blast." Damon added sternly and Obi-wan nodded in agreement. "We can't reverse time, but we can return to the code at the most pure, and with that. Now that I'm an adult, and you wanted to stay with me till you're 27, we can stick to that now, brother. But our younglings got parent bear getting overly protective here." he said and Mace nodded to that.
"Who wouldn't be after you barely blew your knee out, before Tahl passed, when you were a teenager." Kit said in response and Mace nodded in agreement. "That's why I was trying to figure out a way to prevent this, knowing you would, if you came along, after I got hit that hard. Decide never mind staying out there, time to come home, no one is at risk we need to rest and regroup, we may have to use this technique with my kids and their cubs, so parental, normal."
"And padawan: team trio." he said and they nodded in agreement. "Having already gotten a taste of that with you, after finding you, yes I agree with you." Obi-wan said and Yoda nodded in agreement. "Only the parental bear is you big brother, but you, me and Light now, and Light just turned 19 by that point." he said and Obi-wan nodded and Mace hid a smile at that. "Point made Anakin, I'm acting like Qui-Gon and Luke is getting restless." he said and he nodded gently then.
"Well we're fixing that right now, but the code dictated, that in moments of extreme urgency, like now, to consider the safety of the team. I did, but you didn't, you chose early graduation over our safety now, but you made the mistake and it kills Darra. Why didn't you come to me, I would have checked the crystal." he said and he went white at that. "Personal gain consequences turns around does you in the process, Ferus was expelled, you're in disgrace."
"Darra is dead, as for me I was a plant here." he said and he swallowed hard at that. "But this is what I heard between you." he said sternly as he pulled out a recorder. "I noticed it, that droid must have pulverized your power circuit." he said and then they heard Tru. "It keeps slipping back into half power." he said in response and sighed. "I know I should have told Ry Gaul, but he's so correct, he might leave me out of battle situations."
"Or even send me back to Coruscant." they heard and then heard a soft tone. "Ry' would be within his rights to do that, without a functioning lightsaber. You're at risk right now Tru, your being here is a hindrance rather then a help. But quite honestly, they can wait, we need to go home right now, the Sith, Zan Arbor and Omega can wait. We need to regroup right now." they heard in response to that his remark and Mace nodded.
"If your lightsaber is permanently damaged, Ry Gaul would be right to do so." they heard in response to that remark. "After all, you don't want to go up against a Sith without a lightsaber." he said and they heard a firm tone. "No kidding, this mission is crucial, that's why I can't be send back, not yet, I just thought if I could fix it without Ry Gaul knowing it…." they heard and Anakin completed the sentence then at that remark.
"I could help with the arrest right now." they heard sighing and Mace nodded sternly as they heard more. "Look I know I wouldn't be the first candidate or the second, to enter the acceleration program. You and Anakin would be the first, maybe Darra would be the third, but I don't want to be left behind." they heard and he nodded. "You want to keep the team together and are ignoring the code?!" they heard in shocked disbelief then.
"Tru, you're advancement is not the reason we're here." he said sternly at that remark and they heard it quickly. "That's not what I meant, I want to be with my fellow padawans, my fellow Jedi. Because we all know that the darkness is growing, we need every Jedi right now, I want to be out there." he said and they heard a gentle tone. "We all do Tru, but in order to be do so, we all have to be ship shape, but currently."
"We're still very young, not ready yet so much to learn still, but first rule is to survive, in order to do that, we must go home." they heard gently and Mace looked at Anakin and he nodded to him and the council nodded. "We all do…., alright, I fixed it, but why didn't you go to Anakin, he's better at this then I am." he said and they heard it. "He's busy with Obi-wan." he said and they heard a firm tone at that and Damon crossed his arms sternly.
"Busy with Obi-wan, or with Obi-wan and in extension, your parental mentor, is that what you're afraid of, you come to me and though I fixed it I tell Tiana and Ry' the repairs may not hold up and needs more work done on it. Well I see I have no choice, but that breaks down twice, you're being expelled for implication. As well as lying and murder, because you decided not to report it." they heard and Tru went white at that.
"I don't see any reason to tell Ry Gaul, now that it's fixed, we better get back." they heard from Ferus Olin and he switched it off. "So that's it hmm, that's what happened that day, you heard the entire exchange and instead of telling me right now. Me and Ry' the lightsaber needed more work done on it, they decided not to come to you. Knowing you do, you tell us and Siri the repairs may not hold up." Obi-wan said sternly and Anakin nodded to him gently then.
"Yes Master." he said humbly and Tiana and Damon nodded sternly, but gently. "You realize if I busted you right then the exchange goes, 'Guys, did you expect me to not over hear that. The conversation today, because this is enough they're going to wonder, about the stern tone. In my voice and they did and Obi-wan only had to look at a single fact here in why exactly. He just figured it out in why I laid into you and both of you for that, but I'm with him at the moment."
"What is that supposed to tell him, when he knows I'm studying lightsaber lore, but that your lightsaber is broken Tru, he knows, he told me if we don't come forward and tell the council, then he will." he said and Tru quickly said it to that. "Does he have any evidence?" he asked and Anakin shook his head as he answered him. 'Alright just admit it, you want to lie your way out of this.' they heard sternly from his thoughts in response to that as he said it then sternly.
"No, but he knows exactly how it happened here right now." he said and Tru sighed in relief as he answered him as he said it. "Obi-wan doesn't know anything, he has theory, so let him tell the council what he thinks happened. They'll ask us: is it true, we'll say no, there's no evidence so there is no case, we'll get off with a reprimand." he said and Anakin looked at him in shock as he looked between them in disgusted disbelief. 'I get it baby.' Shaak Tii said gently to that then.
'What, are you kidding me, after everything he's done for me, Master Qui-Gon, the council, Obi-wan, no, no forget about it, I won't do it.' he thought in shock as the entire 9 years together, before it landed on them together hit him. " I can't call Obi-wan a liar, Tru." he said and Ferus said it gently. "Anakin, we have to hang in there a little longer, then this will all be over." he said and Anakin said it slowly to that remark and Mace nodded sternly.
"It's wrong you two." he said and Tru said it gently. "Anakin..." he started to say and Anakin said it firmly as Mace waited for it. "No, I won't, I'm going to tell them what happened." he said and Tru said it firmly to that as he crossed his arms. "You, alone, you, are going to decide what happens to you, to me and to Ferus, you're going to tell them." he said and Anakin said it forcefully as Damon crossed his armd as he looked at him as he felt his heart tearing at this.
"I'm not going to lie them again, I covered for you once, I'm not doing it again, that lightsaber needs more work done on it. If it means ending the mission now, to protect ourselves it's well worth it now, 'he who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day.'. We let them win this one time, and try again later, but Darra and I are hurt, so I'm not lying to them. I'm sorry Tru, but I'm not lying to Ry' or Obi-wan, I can't live with it." he said and that did it as Mace nodded then.
'Yes there we go, like we said: fight then pull back, can try again, baby.' Tiana thought gently to that. "You can't lie to them, you can't live with this, you have to be the one to decide. Who the heck are you exactly?" Tru snapped at him and he looked at him in shock. "Guys..." he started to say and Ferus over rode him then. "You're going to turn us in." he snapped at him and Anakin said it sharply. "Wait a minute." he started to say and Ferus snapped at him then.
"No you wait a minute!" he snapped and sighed as he ran his hand through his hair as he said it to him then." They got to you, didn't they, Obi-wan, he told you this big speech about duty, truths and honor, well it must have been a pretty good speech. Just to make you turn your back on us, us, your friends." he said and Anakin said it sternly to that. "We are Jedi padawans, we have a duty to the truth." he said and Tru said it firmly to that.
"And what about your duty to your friends, I got you on this team, I gave you a chance when there were other padawans. Just waiting in line, I told Ferus, you wouldn't let us down, you're on the best team in the temple, you know what it's like. Just to trust your partners with your life, I guess I was wrong at the time now." he said and Anakin said it firmly as he looked between them at that remark. 'And you were, always.' they heard sternly as he said it then.
"Look if we all come forward and tell the council you could get get off easy." he said and they heard a pained mental tone to this. 'Just admit now, the chance to get into the program is worth too much to give up. Even if it means one of us gets hurt, you're going to lie to them right now.' he thought firmly to that and Mace nodded and the boy scoffed at that. "We don't want to come forward, Ferus and me, we don't have a problem with this right now."
"But if you do then resign from the Jedi temple and leave, but don't make us pay for your guilty conscious." he told him and he looked at him in shock. "You'd put the entire team at risk just to save your necks?!" he said in disbelief. "To keep us together, the team, that is more important then you, and more important then me. And if I was in your place I would do so without hesitation, but that's just me." Ferus told him and Anakin nodded sternly.
"So that's the exchange, if you busted them in front of the girls, Ry' and me hmm, well I must say I agree with you on that. And you're right, we're Jedi, padawans or knights, we have a duty to the truth, even telling the truth up to a point is considered a lie. Even a lie of omission is still a lie, you never lied to me before, you're not starting now, so why protect them. After he said that exactly, because that cemented it, you're loyal to me and the council and with that now."
"Anakin had the correct idea here, with him and Darra injured, we can wait, we need to come home now, you get that lightsaber fixed and we try again later." Obi-wan said slowly and he swallowed hard, realizing he was screwed now at that remark. "Just what the blazes is wrong with you young man huh, you're on the Sith planet of origin, the Darkside clouds everything. Impatience is the quickest route to failure, he knew that, and knew best to pull back, retreat."
"So basically because of you, Darra is gone." Damon said sternly and he swallowed hard. "I was playing back that exchange in my head, hearing what the confrontation would be. If I busted them in front of the quartet, before telling them that the bloody thing is broken. Needs a new crystal, and I heard this exchange, you always told us the first rule is to survive. So he who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day." Anakin said and he and Mace nodded sternly.
"Point made young man, point made, if you're allowing your eagerness to graduate early cloud your judgement in never telling us thst one critical thing. You are not a real Jedi, but the fact that Anakin turned this in, just say directly after he had that exchange with you. We forcefully yank you back to the temple and test that lightsaber, before you both admit it. You realize what you almost did to him here!" Mace said sternly and he swallowed hard at that remark, shaking.
"As I said you made the mistake and it kills Darra, try to put the blame on me, nice try it didn't work and now you're in disgrace, Ferus was expelled. And I get off lightly, for turning you in, but thing of it is, I wasn't ready to just let go of my partnership. With Obi-wan, with Father if he was still alive, but the fact you did and never told them immediately now. It has them, in truth, questioning your commitment to the order, to Ry' and Tiana." Anakin said and he swallowed.
"I finally realized it here, but I came in late, and to keep me caught up, they had to further intensify every few weeks, so I never get bored here. I get my lightsaber at 12, and I'm beyond good, so by this time, I'm, if my father was still alive, close to being picked. As he and Obi-wan chose me, then at 19, the Parentals stepped back and the quartet took over. By that age, we're close, but not there yet, 7 to 8 years left, the time is going fast, so enjoy it while it lasts here."
"Because we only get 13 to 14 years with our mentors, so why rush it exactly?" he asked and he went pale at the revelation. "That's the code at the most pure here, and someone in league with Sidious just sped things up, making it so we're graduating years sooner. Then we're supposed to right now, well not me, I see this for what it is and I'm returning to Obi-wan's side. Lana and I, I know, if she heard this, she's deciding 2 years to 3." he said and he swallowed hard at that.
"Realizing this now, why is it whenever something happens, the Chancellor always chooses my team for the mission. Before the war started, first was Krayne and I had to kill in self defense, before, following that. Is he chose Obi-wan and me for said mandate with the senator, and I get back too late and my mother dies in my arms. And immediately following this, comes Ahsoka and my going to get Rotta?" he asked sternly and he froze up, realizing he didn't consider that.
"The reason is because he's trying to get me to brush the darkside, altering things in the senate, make us change policy now, we're supposed to graduate at 26 to 27. And for some odd reason, everyone, but us, Ferus and Lana are dead in our age group, so why is that?" he asked and he swallowed hard. "You are not serious, you think he and the Sithmaster are one and the same?" he asked and Anakin nodded. "I know he is, I just got to prove it." he said and he swallowed.
"So easy solution, withdrawal my position as knight, return to things before he made office, and we make a change or two to the code. But otherwise we're returning to when the code was the most pure, and I'm teaching this to my babies now. As they grew up with the code at the most pure, before my grandchildren do, for over 1,000 years have we been the keepers of peace. And justice, and we will return to our code, to the force." he said and the council nodded sternly.
"Agreed, for over 1,000 years have we been the keepers of peace and justice in the old Republic and we will the new one when the time comes, but the Old Republic's time is over. And we start anew with the New Republic and we return to who we are now." Mace said and Yoda nodded smiling in agreement. "And council material you are, clearly Anakin, you understand our considerations here in why take it slow we always do now, but agree with you the council does."
"Once gone Palpatine is, return we will and come home and be the council and Jedi Order Of the New Republic." he said and the council nodded in agreement to his thoughts. "But we got promoted too soon, and unaware you are that the darkside has clouded your judgement here. And enough you don't see that you swallowed the fish-hook and are floundering in the darkside, this is what a Sith does, give you want you want, take it, you belong to them, resist them."
"Before he could even get my attention with that Sith legend, I came to the council for information, turns out Father did that study. So I go to them, get Father's manual on force healing and study it and problem solved right now. But frankly I'm returning to the Jedi code when we were peace keepers first over soldiers. When our missions were to help keep peace, my son's like me, but my daughter is a consular, runs in the family." he said firmly to him then.
"Had my alter ego turned twin brother killed me, the story goes that while I was on Utapau with Obi-wan, Andy was seduced by the darkside of the force. He helped the Chancellor hunt down and destroy the Jedi, he betrayed me, and murdered me. And the Jedi, became all but extinct, Andy was seduced by the darkside of the force, that's the story. That Obi-wan is giving my son, my son idolizes me, everything I am, he wants to be." he said and Tru swallowed hard at that.
"Indeed, everything you are, now, is everything cub wants to become, top rate fighter pilot, a very cunning warrior, and a good man and friend. We all love you, that losing you, and because your brother killed you, we all had a reason to hate Sidious. And avenge you, you're just like Qui-Gon." Damon said and Obi-wan and Yoda nodded in agreement. "I changed and returned to being my 17 year old self again, star pupil." he said and Yoda and Mace smiled proudly them.
"There, point to this that is exactly Anakin, you see this immediately and request to being returned to padawan, true Jedi you are, by not allowing evil to corrupt you." Yoda said smiling in approval and Mace, Kit, Ki and Plo Koon nodded in gentle approval. "Yes and as I said, love is not a bad thing here, it makes you strong, but desperation is dangerous. I got 6 to 8 weeks, and you gave me the pamphlet that Father had on force healing, problem solved right now here."
"But Master, we have work to do to insure your remark becomes a reality, we only got 6 to 8 weeks left, so we must work carefully, you leave tomorrow night. So Obi-wan, Shaak Tii, Kit, Mace, Agen, Saesee and I can do this in your absence, before Obi-wan leaves as well. And then just us, Damon, Tiana and Winna can manage in your absence." he said and Yoda nodded. "Indeed, bag up our texts and training lightsabers we will, single crystal in the reactor now."
"High level yield sedative and suspended animation all Jedi still at the temple will put themselves into, for fake raid, by your alter ego." he said and Anakin and the rest of the council nodded. "Wait, that's it, that's it, the healing crystals of fire, mixed in with force healing!" he said and he smiled in relief then. "Oh I never would have thought to consider that option, Minga and I can use the crystals to heal Padme's injuries if Andy crosses the line!" the healer said smiling then.
"So it's the senator, you're married to the senator, she's the mother of your twins, Light?" Tiana asked him and he nodded. "Yeah Nabooian names, but Light and Courage, so courageous light, a new Hope for the future New Republic." he said and the trio smiled gently. "Luke and Leia, my babies, my pride and joy, my daughter I don't doubt will be like Padme. Luke is like me, and all it entails now, Jedi fighter pilot, and the next generation of my team." he said and they smiled.
"Paternal pride I see in you right now, cubs are going to be our pride and joy, as they grow up, just like you are baby." Tiana said smiling and he nodded as Obi-wan chuckled at that remark then. "Can't wait to be a father I see, that I understand, but once Padme learns that you told me, she's going with your decision of naming me their godfather. And if Siri was still alive their godmother, as Adi becomes their Jedi grandmother, as for your idea with the crystals now."
"There we go, head off what he wants, if not you healing her with you in recovery, we got a second option and we never lost both of you." Obi-wan said smiling gently and he nodded. "To answer that is Andy is the name of my alter ego turned twin brother, Andrus. So Andrus Darian Vandel Skywalker, so take the middle initials what do you get in Sith?" he asked and she nodded. "Darth Vader, your alter ego is Darth Vader." Damon said and he nodded gently to him.
"And when the time is right, we will come back, Return of the Jedi." he said and Yoda smiled proudly at that. "The first to go and come back and lived to tell about it now." he added and Yoda nodded. "Just relieved never lost you I did padawan, not letting you go, love you I do." he said and Anakin nodded smiling. "Love you too Master, but this can work, we just fill out every area this plan goes wrong, and we got him, long before he makes it." he said and Yoda nodded.
"Father's age group is getting too old for this by the time the twins are 23, as is Obi-wan's, so me and my twins's class now, we're finishing what you started, but best. And before your last days, to clone you, giving you another 300 years left." he said and Yoda nodded. "Don't want to let go too soon, I understand Anakin, but twilight will come and when does, my time it is. But my legacy is you and your twins's class, their baby siblings." he said and Anakin nodded to him.
"Thank the force we discussed this, before you and I left, Master." Obi-wan said and he nodded in agreement. "Agreed right now, because lose him, just us as last of the council, we are, but must take him alive and lock up Vader in his head for life, we have to. Just 6 to 7 weeks, induce a week early and clone Padme and appear pregnant, but before reach that part. We do, must tell your families and they know the code, changed again it did." he said and Anakin nodded gently.
"And to quote this now, your patience has paid off by doing it this way." Mace said and Anakin smiled. "Your guidance, more then my patience, Master." he said in response and Shaak Tii chuckled. "Sidious never saw this coming and neither did Palpatine, or if he and Sidious are the same man, once you learned to trust your instincts. As your nickname became a reality, the Hero With No Fear, you released that fear, we're your strength." he said and Anakin nodded.
"Like I said, back to being a padawan again, we're returning to when the code was at the most pure, which is why Obi-wan kept defeating Sithlords. And while he took out the Zabrak, I got Dooku, impatience is a very dangerous trait right now. But don't start here, things were fine till the bloody situation over the academy that said politicians son was at. And before Yaddle was killed while saving me, as I started further training, but we're back to their age groups again."
"Back to the code in the purest way possible, but me-me, I'm with big brother on wherever Grievous is this time, Andy-me, is here on the capitol. Keeping an eye on him, studying the manual, and working out with the council, and Masters Damon and Tiana." he said and Yoda nodded smiling at that, and his plan. "Wise thinking Anakin, that works quite well, as finish this out we do, so sparring practice, alleviate stress that it, it is?" he asked and he nodded gently.
"Extensive P.T. and sparring to take the edge of the stress off now, I need someone to spar with, but remember, while Obi-wan was busy. It's he left me with Soara and she was helping my training?" he asked and Tru went white, realizing he forgot that memory when they were 14. "As I work out, but we're not debating this all day right now, my wife is pregnant in truth here. But you're basically what Darian really is, before becoming Vader." he said and Tru went white then.
"Master, better get Lana in here, she and Master Daytana just got back." he said and he nodded. "Lana Chion, could you come to the council chambers please." he said and they heard a female voice then. "Yes Obi-wan, I'm on my way right now." she said and he nodded. "Lana and I are both from the Outer Rim territories, but we understand this, that returning to training. When it was at the most pure, with the shroud fallen is the best way to go here, you got suckered."
"But the darkside is faster, easier, more seductive, we were on Korriban remember, the Sith home planet, it was positively glowing with evil. In claims of fame and focus, all by selling your soul to the devil, by deciding not to turn it in. You succumbed to the temptations, your eyes went gold, you sacrificed your team and us. Your quartet for early graduation, if Darra was still alive, like me, she would withdrawal knighthood at this hour." he said and he started shaking.
"So you're saying your relationship with Tiana means nothing?" he asked and he went white then at that. "Not me, as Obi-wan, Father, they mean the world to me, my family trio, my loyalty is to them, I'm happy with being a padawan again. In fact I don't want to let go, I can finish out with Obi-wan, he's my mentor, my brother I love him. If Father was still alive, he's my father mentor, happy I decided to finish our last years together." he said and he swallowed hard.
"My mother is dead, and though I have a stepfamily, my real family is Obi-wan, Qui-Gon, Padme, that's my family, why give it up and throw it away. Said the most important people in your life, just say Sidious got what he wants, I gave up my family. My friends and my marriage, to be all powerful, for graduation, so yell me is, is it worth it. You're all alone, everyone sees you and thinks, what happened to you, I don't know you anymore." he said and Tru started shaking.
"So you're returning to being your brother's padawan, Qui's padawan, if your father was still alive, he would be thrilled to get you back. I never seen anyone from your age group decide to withdrawal their position to knight and want to be a padawan again." the healer said and the 2 masters nodded. "If none of them did, they're not a true Jedi, just because we're adults, doesn't mean we don't still need you, our mentors, now, you're our parent mentor, their group, mentor."
"Just because I'm 23, it doesn't mean I don't still need you right now for support, take this scenario for instance, instead of bothering to listen to the Chancellor. I come right to your age groups and you oblige immediately, my family, you're my family, my Jedi family is you." he said and they looked down smiling at that. "Love you too baby." she said and Mace chuckled at that. "That's too late for that baby brother, Master, I resign as well." they heard and he nodded then.
"That's fine Lana." he said smiling as a 26 year old human girl padawan appeared as she moved behind him. "Indeed fine it is Lana, rejoin your brothers." Yoda said and she moved to Anakin and Obi-wan. "Lana, the guides of your planet and their intel passed to mother and father, it's all self fulfilling prophecy from here, we created 2/5's of it by the clones. And the ships, followed by my alter ego and Sidious, that moonsized weapon is next." Anakin said and she nodded gently.
"Oh lovely right now, alright so if you never caught that Annie, he wins and we're done." he said and he nodded. "Decided to return to being a padawan now, the war sped up graduation to the trials, but the shroud of the darkside fell when the war started. We're at the home stretch, but as of this moment I resign my position of knight, and humbly ask to return to being a padawan. And stay at your side, my master." he said and the council smiled at the gentle maturity in him.
"Granted, you are a padawan once again, Anakin." Mace said gently and she smiled. "I also humbly request to return to my master's side, I want another 2 years, Master." she said and he nodded. "Very well Lana, you are a padawan once again as well." he said and she bowed to him and Yoda and moved to Anakin and he gripped her hand smiling. "The point to this is we're returning to when the code was at the most pure now, where we graduate at mid to late 20's."
"Though we created a new tradition, team trios, my future was secured when my trio came right to me when we were younglings still. But we lost the girls, Dane, Corran, Sari, Wedon and Jacen in the battle of Geonosis, we were supposed to be mid level padawans. And at 7 years training with another 7 years left, and instead here, our trials got shoved forward way too fast. Causing an wide variety of problems and leaving the shroud open access to attacking us when we least."
"Now expect it, so the war's coming to an end, back to padawan for another 4 to 5 years." he said and she nodded in agreement and the council the trio nodded in approval. "And that's just what we want to hear, why would you want to leave us that fast, as the war ends now. We can put ours back in one piece, and instead our units are in shambles, because of the darkside." Jedi Master Damon Calrissian said sternly and he nodded as he looked at his ex friend then sternly.
"At least we never lost what mattered most, I'm the only true in our quartet." Anakin said gently and he nodded. "The only true Jedi, with your age group killed in the battle of Geonosis, so young man, want to explain yourself. As your former friend proved his loyalty to us, but the only ones left of your class are you 3 and Ferus Olin. As he left and leaving only you three now, and they proved it here, they are loyal to us and their mentors." Mace said and he swallowed hard.
"Returning to when the code was the most pure, he is, expedited trials test of the darkside, they are and swallowed the fishook, you and Ferus did." Yoda said and he swallowed hard at that and Mace nodded. "Yes and it seemed Anakin revealed some new light, regarding the lightsaber and Darra's murder at Xanatos's heir hands now." he said and Jedi Knight Tru Veld went pale, realizing he ratted him out to the council and Obi-wan nodded as he answered that response.
"I guess this never occurred to you, I reported you right to Adi?" Anakin asked and he paled further at that. "Adi turned this into Master, and they and Tolan decided on a test, you did exactly as they knew you would do. That instead of reporting it immediately, you withhold that information, and just as Omega fires, the lightsaber shorts out. When we could have done this in the safety of the temple, you killed Darra by not turning it in." he said and Tru went white then.
"Just so you know, I was in on Master's, the council's, testing you in the truth test, after I over heard your exchange with Ferus. With Obi-wan huh, so there be the punchline, and Siri's the padawan of a council member. So I'm with Obi-wan hmm, I'm with him, with the council and a traitor to all padawans. In waiting for you to speak up, that's why I never said it, I'm a Council mole." Anakin said and True went white in fear, realizing he sold them out already to Obi-wan.
At the time 4 years prior, as Yoda and Mace hid a smile at that and Obi-wan crossed his arms. "I withdrew my position current rank, I'm a padawan once again, the last of the 4 of us. In proving my loyalty to Obi-wan, and the council, but the deepest commitment, to your team. The most serious mind, about that commitment, how can you be a padawan if you were ready to leave. And 6 years after getting picked by Ry', hmm?" he asked and Damon Calrissian nodded sternly.
"Obi-wan knows my loyalty to him is beyond question, but my twin brother is the man you tried to frame here, in your words now. But were you aware Sidious was on Korriban with us right now, you played right into his hands." he said and Tru paled at that remark shaking. "But I saw how you traded knowing looks that day as you exchanged lightsabers in the cave. That there was a chance it could go during the fight, that you knew I knew and I was stuck in a trap."
"And that I couldn't get in front of her in time to save either of you, you or her, Ferus, that there it was, there was a chance it could go then. Not my friend, no not my friend now, I said to myself then, my friend wouldn't do that. But then I thought of how wary you were of me after Zan Arbor, you knew how I felt about Ferus. I was upset, you would want me to look like the failure, the failure of a Jedi I was, that you claimed me to be, ever since Yaddle was killed."
"Even if it meant not saying anything until it shorts out and one, or all of us, are killed by both Omega and Sidious. You would want me to get blamed for it shorting out or exploding, even if it meant putting the entire team at risk till one of us is killed." he said and Tru swallowed hard as he said it quickly to that remark quickly at that. "That's not fair!" he said in denial to that and Anakin sighed as he looked at him sadly at that and Obi-wan crossed his arms at that reveal.
Sadly and with disappointed resignation as he said it to him, as he felt his heart breaking at what they did now. "And suddenly I realized-yes, Tru could have done that." he said and the council crossed their arms. "You're looking at this all wrong." Tru said quickly and Anakin and Lana shook their heads to that. "I don't think so, I think I truly am seeing you for the first time." he said sadly, as he turned away from him and Lana pressed her forehead to Anakin's gently.
Realizing that was his remark when they were 19. "You're looking at this all wrong." he said again in fear and he shook his head. "I don't think so, I think I truly am seeing you got the first time ever, call me a failure as a Jedi. Well you're one to talk, your master is dead, Siri is dead, Soara and Darra, the one lasting longest is Obi-wan and me. Strength of our bond, my loyalty is to him, he's my brother, total commitment." he said a second time and Tru swallowed hard then.
At that remark then. "I decided with my this close to the brink, I resign my knighthood for another 4 years. I'm staying with Obi-wan till I'm 27, make level I master at 32, so by the time my babies are 8. Obi-wan and Master don't mind, my loyalty to them is beyond question, I love them and if Father was alive. He would agree, I don't have to leave him, he can keep me for another 4 years like big brother does and did, and then knighthood." he told him and he paled.
"Indeed, if your father was still alive, your loyalty to him is beyond question after your brother left us questioning the commitment to the girls and Ry'." Damon said and he nodded. "Well I'm withdrawing my position, I want to be a padawan again, I need you guys. To make through the next 2 months." he said and he nodded gently smiling. "We understand, if your father was still alive, he would take you back immediately." she said and he smiled as she hugged him tightly,
As he pressed his forehead to her's and she closed her eyes smiling then. 'Yeah there's my baby boy, gods he's grown so mature, yeah he's ready, but if another 3 years as a padawan. Then he gets it, as we deal with his emotional state the next year now.' she thought smiling gently at that. "There's the true loyalty we expected, rather then staying a knight once the war ends, you decided to resign knighthood and become our padawan again." she said and he smiled then.
"You 3 and Thracia were my maternal figures with my being a padawan, but currently this current scenario is urgent, because Sidious's target was me all this time. After Obi-wan killed the Zabrak, supposedly, remember, ' we will watch your career, with great interest.'. We is 'he', he and our Sith are one and the same, I think, he is Sidious, he wants me." he told her and she nodded. "He wants you, he's getting to you over our dead bodies." she said sternly to that news.
And Damon and Winna D' Uni nodded in stern agreement to that. "Gods where is Qui-Gon when we need him, if he was the only thing Sidious was afraid here. It's got to be his study on force healing, that's why he told him to kill come after the Senator. He had to erase the only source of that knowledge now, but claim he knew this power, he's lying. We had the power, we always did, going to be okay baby, you'll get that power." her padawan said and he pressed his forehead.
And to her's gently. "Well you, Soara and Siri were always there when I needed you, you and Obi-wan, you're all I got left of your age group, along with Bant and the guys." he told her and she nodded. "We know, and we're not losing you without a fight, but you said padawan in everyway you can say it to us, loyalty is beyond question. Once this war is over, padawan again and we move on, and we help with raising baby." she said and Obi-wan nodded in agreement.
"My father is dead, as is Adi, who is left of the parental mentors?" Anakin asked and Tru looked at Damon and Tiana and he swallowed hard, realizing this was an insult to their memory. "But from them to the quartet to us, my baby boy, his commitment to me, his sister to Obi-wan. That's beyond question, if the girls were still alive, my baby girl goes to the girls, my son to us. A new generation in our team families portraying the true loyalty." he said and Yoda nodded.
"There's my baby, you proved it alright Anakin, that's what we mean exactly." Tiana Merrin said gently and he looked at her with love in his eyes. " Mother maybe gone, but I have you and Winna still." he said and she nodded. "And you always will, whatever is going on after losing Shmi, can be easily fixed if you had to see us, before Mace decided on whatever." she said and he nodded. "Padme's pregnant, the baby's mine." he said and she and Damon nodded gently.
"I'm also married, but time for the truth, we eloped after Geonosis, been married 3 years and my last furlough resulted in my twins, my babies. But Father's record of said visions after Kegan, and the prophecy are one and the same. I have to cut it close, and once done, slam, lock and bolt my mental door, my alter ego is my twin brother. The one they, the duo, blame for Darra's murder at Omega's hands." he said and the quartet nodded smiling gently at his reveal then.
"There we go, invite the master in, and bond made stronger, you're our pride, we never been more proud of you, son." Damon said and he smiled softly as Tru swallowed hard at the reveal then. "This is how the council deals with rivalries and further problems between 2 friends, seems you were never a friend. If you decided to implicate your fellow padawan over your lightsaber at your current age, boy." Mace said and he started shaking then, realizing he was done for now.
"That's right young man, he told me everything, but seems that he reveals his emotions to his wife as well, but overly critical, you guys don't know what it means to be this powerful. Never listen, you never listen to a born in the field padawan, you just do not understand. But Ferus was jealous at Anakin's credibility to us and being that good, it was your fault Darra's gone. Ferus was holding it back about the lightsaber needing more work." he said and Anakin nodded.
"Putting his desire to graduate over the safety of the team, was what killed Darra, and along with Ferus never checking the crystal. Their desire to point me out as everything they been saying since Zan Arbor, that ultimately wrecked their lives. But Darra was the cause, mom was the effect, if you felt the power blast, I blacked out and my alter ego lost it completely." he said and Mace nodded. "It's the Carver all over again, Anakin?" he asked and he looked down then.
"Baby what's going on exactly?" Jedi Master Winna D' Uni asked him gently. "Padme's pregnant, a month left, but my premonitions are on her this time, they're spelling out my murder. And at the hands of my alter ego, I have less then a month left, my remission is over." he said and they nodded quickly and Tru went white, realizing he just murdered him by Darra's loss. "That's right Tru, you just helped my downward spiral along here, you know if you just let it go right now."
"You wouldn't be disgraced and Ferus expelled, I grew up in the outside world, when are you going to get that, but double whammy, followed by losing our entire clan, aside from Lana and Ferus. And then comes losing my arm, this thing is a cancer, digging into my soul, I don't get rid of it, I become like Grievous, blast it." he said and Tru swallowed hard shaking at that news. "No not again, we're not losing you too!" Minga Denjer snapped in anger at the news then quickly.
"First Darra, then Shmi, your friends in your clan, the girls and Ry', and finally Adi, we're all that's left of our quartet, we're not losing anyone else in our quartet or the Jedi now." Damon said sternly and he nodded. "Well my only friends left are your age group Master, you, Obi-wan's clan and Lana, Lana is all I have left of our clan." he told him and he nodded, as she ran her hand through the hair at the back of his head gently, as the council exchanged stern looks.
And they nodded. "I should have sent Siri to check on it." Ki said sternly and he nodded. "Not your fault, you didn't know right now, but the last one got shoved into my head. Before I headed for Tatooine to double check, but I was on a double shift that week right now. You know this, growing up normal, I'm also a living force, I can't control those visions." he said and the council nodded sternly. "That must be why Palpatine recommended you." Mace said slowly that news.
"If it is, the Sith wanted him delayed that by the time we did look into it, she's close to death. Well that…., Sidious was shoving these visions into your head, till when you decide to check on it. It's already too late, he wanted this." Obi-wan growled and Mace nodded sternly. "He's doing it again, let's check back tomorrow, after you read a few chapters of that book." Shaak Tii said and Yoda nodded. "Leave tomorrow at Dusk, I do." he said and Mace and Obi-wan nodded then.
"You got a few days to study and start practicing that skill, during your mission, as we see your aura turning brighter and brighter, as our you takes back total control." Mace said and he nodded. "Yeah that and I think the final phase of his plan kicked in right now, but we can make it in time right now, I think he was praying you never had that text. And then throws the line he knows this power, when he killed the only source, if he is 'him'." he said and Yoda nodded then.
"So we got one night on this, and check back tomorrow, before you leave Master." Mace said and he nodded. "Agreed, Mace, Shaak Tii, Obi-wan, agree with you I do, will stay tonight and leave tomorrow night, Anakin And before whoever sent the news where Greivious to Palpatine and he reveals that location, just pretend you will. If he mentions anything worth of value, as given you the power offered, we already did." he said and Anakin nodded to the orders gently smiling.
