In her room, Padmé had taken the child to find her clothes other than the light little dress she was wearing, while she searched in her things, the young girl looked at just about everything that was around of her, everything being so amazing, so strange and so new to her.
"Is this your room ?" she asks.
"Yes," Padmé answered without turning back, continuing to search her closet, the problem being that she had no children or clothes to fit her.
"That's wonderful." she says.
"Thank you. Everything must be so strange to you ?"
"It's so exciting, I have lots of questions !" she exclaimed, turning on herself. "Lots of stuff, I don't understand !"
"What don't you understand ?"
"Miss Myers said I was a weapon, grown in a laboratory to destroy the enemies of her species !" she paused and bit her lower lip, uncertain and confused, frowning. "But what's a weapon ?" she asks.
Padmé had stopped her research for a moment, stunned and in shock by her question, was this child a weapon ? How can she use such an innocent being like this ? What kind of monster this woman was ?, Before keep searching for clothes, she found nothing except a khaki shirt, which she had not worn for a few years, with long sleeves, small that who could fit her by rolling up the sleeves and tie it with a belt or a cord around the waist.
She turned to her with the outfit on and laid her on the bed, "I'm sorry, I don't have any children, so I don't have clothes to fit you, but you should be fine." she said helping her take off her dress, so that she put on the shirt that came to her feet, she folded up the sleeves and tied a black faux leather cord around her waist to pull her up, and she was now standing at the waist knee level, that would do, however, she still didn't have any shoes for her, so she asked Sabé and Dormé to go buy her some, and a quarter of an hour later, they came back with them a little black lace-up sneakers to complete her outfit.
A heavy silence reigned in the room, following the revelations of R2's results, "Why did they do this ?" asks Fives in shock.
"To create a child who is a bomb ?" Kix asks both angry and scandalized.
"It's monstrous !" Jesse commented and Rex and Cody nodded in agreement with his words.
Obi-Wan stroked his beard, in a moment of thought but said nothing, "R2, What kind of sick species does Miss Myers belong to ?" Anakin asks, out of his mind, clenching his fist.
"According to the scanned data, a binary planetary system exists at the eye of the tornado nebula, Messaline. There are carbon-based life forms similar to our Galaxy."
"Another world then." remarked Fives in agreement with his brothers.
"And the other ?" Obi-Wan asks.
"The other evolved as life based on boron which is a metallic element."answer R2.
"On a planet, people have evolved like us. Blood, bones, flesh. On the other, metal. It's great". Anakin replied sarcastically.
"So this planet Messaline, is that where the child comes from ?" Obi-Wan asks.
"Yes. The Metalkind and the Fleshkind have been at war for centuries. I believe she was created as an apocalyptic weapon to destroy the Metalkind."
"And her with them." Obi-Wan concludes.
"Of all the terrible things I have seen, I have never known anything so hideous and vile as using a child as a bomb." Anakin said irritably, running his hand through his hair.
"What's a bomb ?" the child asks, bursting into the room.
"Oh, Snips." Anakin exclaimed, turning to see that she was there, shod and dressed.
"Miss Myers said I was a weapon." she said as everyone in the room exchanged looks. "It's bad, isn't it ? Am I bad ?"
"No. Not at all. Miss Myers, she's the bad one, not you, Kid." Rex reassured her.
"What am I then ?" she asks.
Anakin not knowing what to say to her, how could he explain to her that she was in danger of dying because a cruel and mad woman made her like that, turned to Obi-Wan who walked towards her.
"The thing that's in you, my child." Obi-Wan explained quietly, bending down a bit to be on her level. "Miss Myers created you like this to kill her enemies, Metalkind."
At his words, the confused child frowned. "Kill ? What's kill ?" she asks.
"You are taking someone's life away. He dies. It no longer exists. And it is wrong. It's always wrong, Honey !" Padmé explained to her.
"But if that's what I was created to do, it makes me bad." she says.
"No, because it's not your fault, Sparky." replied Fives.
"R2, there has to be a way to reverse what Miss Myers did to her ?" Anakin asks.
"At the molecular level, it is a weapon programmed to destroy itself in contact with the energies of Metalkind. I'm sorry, that can't be undone."
"Okay, but if it's a bomb ?" asked Fives.
"Can't we …" continued Jesse.
"Just …" Kix said.
"Defuse it ?" Rex asked.
"Oh, boys. It's brilliant. Turn off the genetic trigger. Prevent it from exploding." Obi-Wan said.
"R2, is that possible ? So, genetically, it would be a weapon, but unarmed ?" Anakin asks.
"Only its creator can do it."
"So, let's go ask her." she said turning to the door until Anakin gently grabbed her arm.
"Snips, it's not going to be that easy. Getting you back to the power station on Anaxes could be very dangerous." said Anakin.
"What's dangerous ?" she asks.
Anakin and Obi-Wan exchanged glances with each other as the Clones did the same,"You could die." Padmé explained, taking her hand.
"Mister R2 said I could die anyway. I don't want to be a bomb. Anakin, will you help me ?" she asks.
The Twilight was in hyperspace, en route to Anaxes, The kid was in the back with the Clones and the two Jedi and the Senator were in the cockpit.
"I can't help, but think, this is a really bad idea." said Padmé.
Anakin sighed, turning to his wife. "I know, The last thing, I want is for this woman to come near her, but Miss Myers is the only one who can deprogram her DNA, therefore, we have no choice this is why she comes with us."
"Ani, earlier she told me Miss Myers said she was a weapon, how could you use an innocent child to kill ?"
"I keep asking myself." Anakin replied.
Anakin watched in silence, the child laughing out loud at the Clones jokes, it was nice to see her laugh and have fun like a child her age. He was going to do everything, so that this woman deprogrammed her, this child deserved to live a happy and fulfilled life, to have a normal childhood.
The Twilight comes out of hyperspace and comes to land on Anaxes, Anakin didn't want this woman to approach her, he would go with Padmé and Obi-Wan while Rex, Cody, Fives, Kix and Jesse would stay with her .
"Okay now, Snips !" Anakin said, bending his back to be on his level. "I need you to stay here with Rex and his brothers."
"To do what ?" she asks.
"Yeah, with all due respect, General ! For what reasons ?" Cody asked.
"We have to make sure she's safe until it's all worked out !" Obi-Wan replied.
"Oh, great, so we have babysitting duty ?" Jesse muttered.
"Who called you a baby ?" she asks, looking up at him.
"I'm sorry, gentlemen ! But you have to protect her !" Anakin said before turning to the child, bending down to his level.
"We do this by my rules, Snips. Until with Obi-Wan and Padmé we convince Miss Myers that there is another way to end this war, in a peaceful way, you are still in danger, and I need you stay here with Rex and his brothers. Now you promise me ?"
"I suppose." she replied annoyed.
"Right." Anakin answered before walking away with Padmé and Obi-Wan to enter the central.
They pass in front of several sleeping technicians, and hypnotized then the one she has bewitched to help her who falls on them.
"Where is the child ?" he asks.
"Safe." Anakin replied simply. "Oh. Well. Now lead us to your leader."
The technician leads them to the Control Room where Miss Myers is, fine-tuning the final preparations to recover their weapon and bring it back to Messaline for the survival of her species.
"Skywalker ! Welcome back. Finish your job, Caleb. Hope you are taking good care of my child ?" she asks.
"Yes. You won't get your hands back on her." Anakin replied on the defensive protectively, there was no way he would let her get near her.
"Give me back my child and we'll go !" she says.
"Your child ? How could a mother do this to her child ? You are a monster !" Padmé spat angrily at this woman's words.
"Don't judge me, you yourself are at war, you should understand ? Do you think, I like what this war forced me to do ? To become ?"
"We may be at war, but use a child as a bomb ! It is despicable ! That's why, I ask you to deactivate what you did to her !" said Anakin.
"Disable it ? She is our savior. Its power carries the power and fury of an exploding sun. Once her power is fully released, he will destroy all existing Metalkind."
"And the child will be destroyed with them !" Anakin replied, clenching his fist angrily.
"A small sacrifice for the survival of my species." she says.
"It's not a sacrifice, it's a massacre." Anakin growls threateningly, trying to control his emotions in front of this wife and refrains from strangling her with the force.
"Listen to me, please. There are other ways to end a war. You just have to want peace more than death." Obi-Wan said.
"You know nothing. For centuries the Metalkind slaughtered my people. They have sworn to destroy all flesh, and what chance does the flesh have against the jaws and blades of iron and steel ? But maybe you will learn." she said, calling up a CCTV image on a screen. Caleb connects the Metalkind to the power station.
"What is that ?" Padmé asks.
"The child damaged the Metalkind just enough that I could use it. As a reference device." she replied.
"A benchmark device ? Why ?" Anakin asked.
"It is connected to the nuclear nucleus. At the push of a switch, he'll summon his kind and they'll all land here !"
"You'll bringing your war to our World ?" Padmé replied in anger and shock.
"Once your people experience the savagery of Metalkind, you will realize that the child will save us all. Caleb, make the final connection." she says.
"Metalkind, stop this. Our world has done nothing to hurt your people." Padmé pleaded.
"Fleshkind annihilated our planet to make it slaves. They stole our children. We have sworn revenge on all flesh, on any world. This one will burn !"he replied.
"I messed up his brain. He thinks he is calling all his people to a glorious battle against us, not to its destruction." explained such with amusement.
"You're wasting your time. I will never give you the child !" Anakin swore.
"It does not matter. The child is ready to be activated when exposed to the massive energy of the Metalkind. When they come, they will be destroyed. She can't stop it, and neither can you." she assures at the push of a button and the energy passes through the Metalkind.
"Come to me, my brothers. Join me and slaughter our enemies." he said.
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