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
"Allow this appointment lightly the council does not, disturbing is this move by Chancellor Palpatine." he said and he said it gently. "I understand." he said and his counterpart said it to him. "You are on this council, but we do not grant you the rank of master." he said and the young knight, looked at him shocked as he answered him. "What?" he asked and they looked at him. "How can you do this? This is outrageous, it's unfair, how can you be on the council."
"And not be a master?" he asked and Anakin said as his mentor shook his head sternly. "Take a seat, young Skywalker." he said and the young Knight froze and relaxed and calmed down then. "Forgive me, Master." he said and he took the seat next to his mentor as he looked at him with a sigh, as he zoned out as he thought over what this was. "Anakin, Anakin." he heard and refocused at that. "Forgive me, I was thinking over your concerns." he said and they nodded.
"Indeed now I'm worried, what are you thinking if this is connected to why you look like you were up all night, as the last time I saw you looking like this. Said after the Carver, alright what happened now exactly." he said and he sighed. "Nice choice in personal memories the last time we had this heart to heart talk was after my alter ego was pitracing. And got caught by first you and then Obi-wan." he said and his counterpart nodded with a bemused smile at the memory.
"Master, I don't suppose Master Yoda told you about my latest premonition, has he?" he asked and the dark skinned man leaned forward then. "He said it was about someone's life endanger, why do you ask?" he asked and the young knight leaned forward as he explained. "Today's request to have me join the council is part of Sidious's master plan, you denying mastery. As he throws a carrot necessary for my training, one that Father would have taught me in in truth."
"The heaviness of the darkside surrounds a single decision, a choice between what I told you both to my alter ego turning to him for that intel. He wants the power to save who he loves, if that power is with you, I need that, before he makes his move on us." he said and the second straightened at that news, "But follow through on it now, acting on his offer and it destroys everything we hold dear, or 2) ignore it and it happens." he said and the council nodded then.
"As Jedi masters you have access to the restricted section of the archives, there is something there that finishes my training. Training that Father would have taught me if he was still alive I have need of, but that choice, it means the difference. Between victory and defeat, I get that information, and our Sithmaster lost his only way to seduce me. And to the darkside, following said remember brother, want to return to the Jedi, well then be a Jedi, this is the moment now."
"Well I reached it now, I have only one chance, to outwit them, the Sith and the Dark Jedi, I act on that vision, and we're done for. Father's training, whatever he been studying, is my one chance, as you destroy his chance to get to me." he said and they nodded sternly, realizing this was a trap. "My trial by lava is by that confrontation in the arena, red and blue going at me at once, forcing me to make a choice, I choose you and we finish it together, I choose him now."
"And we're done for, so pre-emptive strike, if Father had the knowledge, that the scales land in your favor and I stay a Jedi. My allegiance is to you, and the republic, to democracy, after last night, I lost my faith in the Chancellor's decisions." he said and the council nodded sternly. "To save your soul, save us, this intel is the only way to prevent a hostile takeover. Yes, it's starting again, Xanatos's formula, no, not you too now, Anakin!" the master said sternly to that then.
"So to base this the way you said now, Andy, I, after turning him into, you went to confront him, and a fight ensues, I arrive and the trial by lava starts. We have to make a choice, and ahead of time, I chose you, but he throws it in that he has said power. Andy then, in swallowing the bloody hook, crossed the point of no return as he crosses the line. And takes your wrist off, before he blows you out the window." he said and the second nodded sternly in the reveal then.
"Andy, that's your alter ego, new name as we call you at times by your nickname." he said and the young knight nodded gently. "Yeah short for Andrus, me, as Jedi me, is deciding to go it this way, after last night's premonition. I tell you, and open up fully, it was time for the truth to come out, and as I told her now in truth. I'm tired of hiding, I don't care you know we're married or expecting right now, that's what brought this forward, she's pregnant, 6 to 8 weeks left now."
"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, I just need that information. If father was the one to study it, I get that I stay me, if this skill had my son seeing our souls together. As one, if we been killed, and I'm being honest, she's pregnant, I'm an expecting father. We got another month, 2 at most and baby is born, I'm also married, but that woman I spoke of is my wife." he said and the council nodded.
"I know you three were the most concerned about me, leaving me alone with her, well we decided to rather then a public marriage to elope. But we're waiting till the war comes to end, to reveal it, and I chose to now, with her pregnant, but we been together for 3 years." he said and he and Yoda nodded at the news. "I knew leaving you alone resulted in you choosing the right path, you chose to rather then letting it control you, to tell us." he said and he nodded gently
"If your thoughts are headed in that direction then yes, we eloped, when I brought her home." he said and the duo and his mentor nodded. "I was waiting to hear that, like before, invite the master in, and you furthered that by trusting us with your personal life. And after Zan Arbor and Darra was killed now." The second in command said and he sighed in relief then. "I'm withdrawing my current rank, I wish to be a padawan, again now, I know I got orders to stay."
"But quite frankly, I need your guidance Master Windu, after the Carver, and our talk, I remember what you and Thracia once told me. I'm not ready for full mastery just yet, I'm also not ready to let go of my partnership with Obi-wan, I want to be a padawan again." he said and Jedi Master Mace Windu nodded as his eyes gentled. "Quite frankly that's the beginning of the catalyst for my attempted downward spiral now, after Ferus resigned." he said and he nodded.
"But who of the four of us lasted the longest, if we stuck to tradition, when the training was the most pure in the code. Like you had it, only we added a new one, team trios I was the youngest of mine, and Father left Obi-wan in charge of taking care of me. But while they had to wait, my future was secured in Obi-wan, keeping us together now." he asked and Yoda nodded gently. "You and Obi-wan, that would be now, of your quartet, only you and Obi-wan in truth now."
"The tradition of staying together up till 26, you have kept now here, along with true loyalty to your team, like said I did, deepest commitment, the most serious mind. Proved that you did, your loyalty, to me, to Mace and your brother, beyond question, it is. And chosen the right path you did, by telling us the truth, a soon to be father you are and married you are. So point proven, greatest young knight you are." he said and Mace nodded in agreement gently then.
"And you're starting to sound like Qui' now, so return to the code, who we were, before the war turned us into soldiers?" he said and his mentor nodded. "Exactly, some of us Jedi have families, so we return to who we were, before Palpatine took office again. But a few updates on the code, return to the 13 to 27 year age line, before full mastery at 35 years old. Us members with a family, we train our children, and you continue with the creche training, I think the reason here."
"That he beat us was while they changed and evolved, we never changed at all now, so we fix that and when he is too old to use anything, but force lightning. Then we make our move, as we find young applicants all over the galaxy, and train the next generation." he said and they nodded. "And 2) was I had to tell you this now, because if he reveals himself to me and we act immediately, and instead you confront him in my idea here, we're done for, but we have resist."
"But I need you more then ever now, because this whole thing in why Grievous escaped, again, could be the last piece to his plan." he said and his mentor nodded. "Are you saying he's using a pattern only Master, Obi-wan and I know?" Mace said and the young knight nodded. "They all are, distraction and diversion, so separate us and then reveal himself." he said and Yoda nodded sternly. "Disruption, demoralization and distraction: Xanatos." Mace said and Yoda nodded then.
"Disrupt in asking us for the real help, need you do, demoralize by having us deny you by your rights to be a master, and then distraction by separation that by time get back, your brother and I do, make his move and lose you we do, that it you think." he asked and he nodded. "I do, and only one chance, but 'he's' dead, as is Dooku, leaving only one person left, our Sithmaster. But the diversion could, this time, kill the entire order, if we don't do this." he said and he nodded.
"The crystals are a danger Master, put into the reactor it could cause a thermonuclear meltdown, and my apartment is in eyesight of the temple." he said and Mace nodded quickly. "She sees that and she'll think you were killed in the raid!" Shaak Tii said quickly and he nodded. "He's not killing my babies out of a miscarriage here, we have 6 weeks and we're both. Before the purge going on sabbatical." he said and Mace nodded sternly. "Done." he said and Yoda nodded then.
"Agreed we never fell for it then, so why would we now after Qui-Gon read out the formula to me, before we checked the reactor, so leave one crystal in there and we take the others. And go into hiding, and bag up our texts, as we hide and train the younglings." Kit said and Mace nodded sternly in agreement. "Well first we got to make him think he's won, and then with these being clones, our mind tricks." he said and Yoda nodded in agreement to his opinion smiling.
"We also have all of you change colors, true Jedi to him are blue, green and yellow, so everyone go Grey Jedi, leave it to Obi-wan, Master and me, 3 on 3. If my alter ego is his intended target, his original apprentice is being hunted down by Ahsoka, I'm watching the Chancellor. So if he and Sidious are one and the same, he's never going to win this, because my alter ego. Turned twin brother is now his apprentice, his original dead, and there we go." he said and Yoda smiled.
"This Zabrak must be his version of me, your alter ego is you, and he's Qui-Gon." his mentor said and he nodded. "And his own mentor is Master Yoda, but our team lasted the longest, we're his biggest enemies and the one thing standing between him. And galactic domination, so I can play 2 brothers, me being your padawan I'm with you, my twin is here. And when the cameras are off, it's just us as you ease the stress, by sparring when me." he said and he nodded then.
"Hold on." he said and pulled out a hair tie and tied his hair back, before creating a braid. "Obi-wan." he said smiling and he smiled as he gave him a clipping of his hair, and he tied it into his braid again and tying it closed. "There we go, back to padawan again, only you look like a 23 year old padawan." Shaak Tii said smiling and he nodded as he sat there. "Yeah if things stayed on path, I'm now a 23 year old padawan, and only a few years left and on the home stretch."
"But not ready to let, not yet, he understands my attachment and shares it." he said and Kit chuckled at that. "Force, you look like your 19 year old self again." Mace said smiling and he nodded gently. "Yeah once I change clothes, I'm looking like I did 9 years ago, but never mind staying a knight, I'm back at your side, brother. Deepest commitment, most serious mind, being on my own is lonely, without someone to travel with, so back to being a team again now here."
"After Ahsoka quit, it's lonely right now, with us this close to the end, it's time I withdrew from my current rank, and return to who I am now, your padawan my brother. I'm returning to your side for another 3 to 4 years now here, but another 4 years padawan. Then make knight at 32 and master at 35, just like you, as the twins are 10, and know their father is a true Jedi Master, of the old." he said and his mentor smiled then and Yoda shook his head smiling at that news.
"And that proves it even more, you're our pride and joy, you're everything that envelopes a true Jedi, once the war is coming to an end, you decide no more. Return to being a padawan, and retake your place at his side, as you finish out your 13 to 14 years together now." Mace said smiling gently then. "I don't doubt Darra would choose the same with Soara if she was still alive, but if those two ever cared at all about Siri and Ry', it's now that the war is over here."
"Or coming to an end here, it's time to withdrawal from being knights and back to being padawans again, because that choice read it out now, you're more Jedi then either of them. If you decided to immediately give up your rank and return to my side." his mentor said and Yoda nodded in agreement. "And the you I know again, that is, changing appearance, return to your training, you do, and return to Jedi way, before gets what he wants now, he does indeed now."
"Sound like Qui-Gon you do indeed, but the you I know again Anakin, that is now, and Qui-Gon, indeed would go with wait and see if he attempts something, while in the meantime. Suggests that prepare accordingly, and if what about to say you do is my thinking. Creating a very strong sedative and in suspended animation put themselves in the Jedi still here at the temple, they do. Because Jedi are not gone, if anything about to say it, I have." Yoda said sternly and he nodded.
"I been listening to him way too much when you came into my life, but the expedited trials was the darkside, and Ferus and Tru brushed it on Korriban, Sidious was on the planet with us." he said and they straightened at that news in shock. "Yes now I'm really worried, as they let their lust to graduate to knight cloud their judgement and it kills Darra. And you're still grieving at losing her, before the back to back mission, but not again." his mentor said and Mace nodded
"Masters, honestly every time I disappeared on you when we were here, is I'm spending much needed time with my wife right now, our last furlough, 9 months ago. Resulted in my babies, she's pregnant, we don't do something about this, as I study the Jedi version. To what our Sith offered me, my alter ego is going to him and that could kill us, as he first betrays me. By siding with him and the killing me, is by said fight to the death between us." he said and they nodded.
"Indeed, prevent that we will by erasing his bargaining card for you, we shall." the grandmaster said and he nodded. "Like you both said, you don't want to lose my son, the way you lost my alter ego, to him." he said and they nodded. "Indeed, you, like your baby, we don't want to lose to that Sith scum the way we lost your alter ego or…." Kit started to say at that gently then. "My twin brother is my alter ego, so lose us, the way you did him." he said and they nodded then.
"The you we know that is again, see it I do, alright so remove the bottom card of his house of sabbacc cards we will, and start rebuilding, he will have to. But once attempted mutiny is complete, disappear we will and train baby to be as skilled a Jedi as you. As baby learns the truth in his trials of our history with this Darth Sidious." Yoda said and he nodded gently. "He's not getting to me, I'm staying a Jedi, I just have to get through this." he said and they nodded.
And as they saw him acting like himself again, in relief. "So the truth is out now, thank you for telling us and we can grant another exception, am I to assume the mother is.." his mentor said gently then. "Yeah brother it is, you knew all along, true, and were waiting for me to say it, but I'm saying it now, it's Padme." he said and they nodded gently. "We understand and thank you for telling us this, I understand your visions are getting worse." Mace said gently and he nodded.
"Excuse my attitude a bit ago, I had a very bad night rest last night, but that vision was like the ones on mom and Master, before they both died at the time." 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. "You're under enough stress as it is, but this is too much, I'm getting worried, brother." he said and Anakin 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, before resigning that title and went back to padawan. While coming with you to wherever he is right now, so as you said, it's very dangerous putting him. And Palpatine, together, I don't think he can handle this, this mission, I don't trust the chancellor with him." he said and Mace nodded sternly. "Agreed, I don't trust him." he said and they felt a flinch at that.
Through Anakin. "Andy heard that." Shaak Tii said and he nodded. "Yeah, but Andy is still a padawan, he's entering his trials now, not done yet." he said and they nodded. "More like 3 years too early after Ferus tried to put the blame on you, and Andy wanted to be a knight. And at 19, but I decided he wasn't ready, you spent the last 4 years under me and graduated. At the time last year, before Ahsoka was in testing to be your apprentice." his mentor said to that then.
"And truth we can tell babies now, you, their father, graduated on time you did, and are now undergoing advanced training for color definition with Mace, but Andrus. Not ready he is, until control his impatience and temper, stay a padawan, he will." Yoda said sternly and they nodded in agreement sternly then. "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, but you just completed your training in one on one, and now I do your color coding as you're a lighter tinge in my color. He never understood what the 3 piece warning meant, blacked out and we felt the blast." Jedi Master Mace Windu said and he nodded. "And you thought I was bad, that wasn't me at the pits, I was at the junk pile, he did the racing and exposes us to another one." he said and he nodded then.
"Younglings, but at that age, your interests in mechanics were slightly aggravating, but at least your droid projects were not breaking anything here. And again why would you want to grow up that fast as soon you don't have us to fall back on. So enjoy our partnership while it lasts, the only reason we take it slow, is because pushing too hard. And too fast, could do more harm then good, my star pupil, but that exchange, we're asking for trouble." Shaak Tii said with a smile.
"And said another one, is another threat like Ona Nobis, 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." Mace said to him gently at 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.' Mace thought sternly to the news. "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 Saesee Tiin 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 Agen Kolar said 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 Mace and Shaak Tii leaned back against their chairs 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 Yoda 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 times, 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. "And give me someone to spar with here as well, with Obi-wan off the planet, you're my equal in training. But you're form VIII, I'm form V, those are completely equal and this drains the nerves." he said and they smiled at his remark, knowing his deciding to unload for the next 6 weeks helped him.
As they unloaded his frustration and tension into sparring practice with them, as he recovered, for the reveal then as he said it. "Indeed, Nejaa's still off world he was your sparring partner when you were planetside, well I can do that for a few weeks now. But you're holding your brother's place on council till he returns now, if he gets sent out again." he said and Anakin nodded smiling gently. "Issues in my family." he said and Obi-wan looked down smiling gently.
"Indeed, family, you are my family, my only family now my brother, you and Padme." he said and Anakin smiled at him. "In all truth after feeling that blast of anger now, Master, 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.