The Jedi and the Clones were still stunned and fixated on what had just happened, the child, the baby was metamorphosed into a young girl of about ten, she was barefoot, wearing a short sleeveless white dress, she had blue eyes and long curly sandy blonde hair reaching down to her lower back,
"What just happened ?" asks Fives, still in shock.
"I think she just grew up." Obi-Wan answers.
"What, without birthdays ? It sucks." Jesse muttered.
"It's too late." the Metalkind said, realizing that the weapon could destroy him and all of his people.
"Face your destruction, Metalkind. The child is your destiny." said Miss Myers proudly.
An orange aura spreads around the young girl, under the stunned eyes of the Jedi and the Clones, frightened, a spark forms between her hands. "What's happening to me ?" she asks.
"Destroy your enemy !" she orders the frightened child.
Without any control, the child lets escape a flash of energy, being in her hands which comes crashing into the Metalkind which is thrown back against a wall, before the stunned eyes of the others.
"Again, my child !" she said proudly seeing her powers.
"No." Anakin said quietly as he deactivated his lightsaber to attach it to his belt.
"What am I ?" asks the frightened girl.
"Oh, Snips, don't be frightened !" Anakin told her.
"You are the hammer to crush the Metalkind. You are the weapon and the salvation of our species. Destroy your enemy !" Myers orders her, pointing to her enemy.
"No, Snips, you don't have to destroy anything." Anakin said slowly approaching the frightened and confused child as the others stood back as he tried to calm her down. "You have no enemies. Just be calm, and trust me. It's all alright."
"Anakin ?" she asks softly.
He nodded and smiled tenderly at her. "Everything is going to be alright, I promise." he said.
"Mind your own business ! Human !" she said dryly, - Anakin at her words gave her a dark look, Obi-Wan understood that he was pissed off and wanted to attack her, but he silently motioned to him to stay calm, he saw this woman turn to the child holding out her hand. "Come with me. Return home and fulfill your purpose."
The young girl bit her lip, thinking for a moment before an energy - an aura - orange emanated around her, frightened, she stepped back to hit someone behind her, not looking back, she felt a hand twitch pose behind her back to reassure her.
"I don't think she wants to go with you." said Anakin.
"I am the child's mother." she replied proudly with her head held high.
"Introducing Miss Myers. From another galaxy." said Fives.
"Well, my name is Anakin Skywalker, and I don't think you are a fit parent."
"She's a weapon," she said, pointing at it, in front of the Jedi Master's disgusted eyes and those of their men, "Grown in a laboratory to destroy the enemies of my species. I grew her."
"What does she mean ?" she asks confused, looking up at the Clone beside her, scared.
"Oh, don't listen to her, Kid." Rex said, pulling her protectively closer to him, while Cody and his brothers exchanged glances as they listened to this woman's explanation.
"Well, none of us can really help the way we come into this universe, but we have a say in what we become." Anakin said before pointing to the child Rex tries to calm down by stroking her hair. "And whatever you have planned for her, this is an innocent child, not a weapon, and I will protect her from the Metalkind and I will protect her from you."
Anakin raises his hands and pushes them away with the Force, sending them against the wall as a diversion. "Run !" he said grabbing the child's hand to run away with her followed by Rex, Obi-Wan and the others as Miss Myers watched helplessly as she saw her weapon slip away, yet she had another idea in-head.
"Shall I stop them ?" asks the person she hypnotized to help her.
"I have a much better idea." she said as she walked over to her enemy, immobilizing him and stepping on him to take his weapon.
"Did you come to finish the job, Fleshkind ?" he said. "Maybe your weapon is not as powerful as you thought it was."
"Oh, the weapon will do its job. And you will help me." she said as she walked away to hand the weapon to the spellbound technician. "Tie it up".
Outside the power station, on Anaxes, Anakin, the child, Obi-Wan, Rex, Kix, Cody, Fives and Jesse continue to run to escape this woman and all her stories with one single goal: to protect the child.
"I have to get you as far away from this woman as possible." Anakin said continuing to run with her, holding her hand closed.
"Is she really my mother ?" she asks, looking back before continuing to run.
Anakin was silent for a moment, looking for the right words to reassure her. "All I know for sure is that someone brought you to me to protect you." he said, taking her hand in his mechanical hand, so that he could put his fleshy other around her shoulders. "And that's what I'm going to do." he assured her while continuing to run.
"Where are we going ?" she asks.
"Coruscant, my dear." Obi-Wan answers.
"What's Coruscant ?" she asks.
"You'll see, Sparky." Fives replies.
On board the ship, the Twilight, the child sat in the backseat with her knees tucked against her chest, doing her best to control her powers and keep herself from blew up the ship's electricity back to them on Coruscant,
"Are you okay, Sparky ?" a voice asks, she looks up to see a clone, she remembered him, Anakin called him 'Fives'. She nods softly, and he comes to sit next to her, not saying anything for a moment, not knowing what to say.
"Fives," she said. "What's a weapon ?" she asked.
Fives stared at her with wide eyes, open mouth, stunned by her question. Not knowing what to answer her ! How could he explain to her what a weapon was ? Just an hour ago, she was a baby and now a young girl, he thought back to Miss Myers's words. "She is our Savior !" she had told him, his thoughts interrupted by familiar footsteps, he looked up and in front of him were his brothers Rex, Jesse and Kix who had sat down beside them, examining her and making sure she is fine.
"How are you feeling, Ad'ika ?" Kix asks.
"A bit tired." she says.
Kix nodded. "It's okay, you need to get some rest, we have a few hours before we reach Coruscant, try to sleep, okay."
She nodded softly, and they stood up, before leaving Rex noticed that she was shaking and took a blanket which he put on her to warm her, the space is cold and given the light little dress she was wearing, it was not surprising.
Anakin, smiled watching the child fall asleep, but he was more and more worried, she was so small, so innocent, and the words of this woman, she was grown in a laboratory to destroy her enemies ! It's monstrous no worse than that, it's despicable. She didn't ask for anything, no matter what, her words, she's an innocent child, and not a weapon, and he will protect her from her and from them, her enemies, no harm will happen to this kid.
Three hours later, the Twilight exited hyperspace and landed on Coruscant, in a shed near Padmé's apartment, the child was still sleeping, Anakin watched her sleep, she was so beautiful, so adorable, a few streaks sandy blonde hair fell from her forehead hiding her eyes a little which he freed, he didn't want to, but he had to wake her up, he knelt down, and he stroked her cheek. "Snips …" he whispered softly she stirred a little, and she slowly opened her eyes, and he smiled tenderly at her. "We have arrived !" he said, taking off his blanket, to help her up. "You come ?"
She nodded and got out of the 'bed' she was lying on and followed Anakin out of the Twilight who had one arm wrapped around her shoulders,
"This is where you live, I remember." she said looking around her.
"What, do you remember when you were a baby ?" asks Fives.
"It was only about half an hour ago." Jesse added.
"Why do you call a man wearing paper trouser Russell ?" she asks, spinning in the windy sky as her hair flies.
"No idea," Fives replied.
"I beg your pardon, hmm ?" Anakin asks.
"It was a joke." replied Fives. "It was supposed to be funny. You know, that was supposed to make her laugh."
"You telling her jokes ?" Anakin asked, looking at the child who was touching the few flowers on the flower bed, as her feet touched the grass,
"From the holonet, I was trying to stop her from crying." replied Fives.
"By making her laugh ? Do you know what she does when she laughs ?" Obi-Wan asked.
"We told you that taking care of a baby was not part of our skills ! We didn't know how to stop her from crying, so the holonet helped us a lot with what babies more or less liked !" Jesse explained.
"I like Sid, the sleeve." she said, happily hopping her arms at her sides.
The Clones smiled at her carelessness and lightness in particular Fives, Kix and Jesse who had been tasked with looking after her while the others searched for answers.
"Everything is so beautiful and so noisy." she said, spreading her arms to lift them to the sky.
"Well, it's Coruscant. It rains most of the time." Obi-Wan replied.
"Snips, do you remember being brought here ?" Anakin asks, bending his back slightly to be at eye level. "Do you remember by whom ?"
"You are the first thing I remember." she replied.
Her words brought a smile to Anakin's face. "Oh, I see. Well, now that you've grown up, can you control your powers ?" he asks her.
She looked away for a moment, biting her lower lip to consider her question, before raising her head to meet his gaze with a nod. "I think so."
"You have to promise me that you will, because I need you to meet a friend of our." Anakin replied, putting an arm around her shoulders to lead her inside followed by the others.
Padmé had just returned from her Senate meeting, and had been worried that she had not seen her husband, Obi-Wan, the Clones and the baby, her endless questions and torments ended upon hearing the apartment door open with the voice of her husband.
She rushed over to see him but didn't see the baby. "Ani … where's the baby ?"
"That was me, Hello !" she replied with a shrug.
Padmé confused, wide-eyed, at her answer, looking at the young girl, looked up at her husband in anticipation of an answer. "It's a long story, Padmé, but she's right." he said, putting his hands on the child's shoulders. "It's her."
"R2 ? R2, I know you're here !" Anakin said walking into the room, "It's all right, you can go out ! … Don't be afraid ! She won't hurt you !"
Beeps of excitement and joy rang out in the room at the idea that his friend and Master had come home, R2-D2 a blue and white Astromecano appeared in the room, however he remains cautious not having forgot the baby and what she can do.
"Wow !" exclaimed the child behind Anakin when she saw it.
Anakin turned on hearing it and smiled before turning to confused R2, "Is the child's under control ?"
"It's all right, R2, I promise."
"What are you ?" she asks, approaching slightly.
"I am an Astromecano, a Droid, with very sensitive electrical circuits. I would be grateful if you remain distance."
"But can we still be friends ?" ask such.
"Only if my circuits remain intact."
"R2, she's had a metamorphosis. I need you to make sure she's unharmed." he says before turning to the child that he's leading in front of him, grabbing her hand before wrapping his arms around her waist. "Now, don't worry, it won't hurt."
"Scanning." R2 announced, scanning her with a blue light.
"It tickles." she chuckled as she squirmed at the sensation going through her.
"Please try not to laugh and be quiet !"
"R2, analysis, the scan." tells Anakin.
"Biologically, she appears to be a healthy twelve-year-old child."
"Twelve ? Is this a good age ?" she asks curious.
"Padmé," Anakin said turning to her, pointing to the child, "take her with you see if you can find something else for her to wear."
"Sure. Come on, follow me, Honey." Padmé said, offering her a hand which she took before walking with her out of the room.
"R2, how did she transform into a teenager ?" Anakin asks.
"Its synthetic DNA has been programmed for this level of maturity to maximize its effectiveness."
"As a weapon ?" Obi-Wan asks.
"As a bomb" at his statement they were all shocked and speechless, "A full activation would not only destroy Miss Myers's enemies across the universe, but also kill her." R2 explained.
"Anakin, we must contact the Council !" Obi-Wan said.
The Chosen One shook his head. "They won't do anything, Obi-Wan you know that as well as I do !"