Anikan looked up and saw the mask being lowered to his face. What had happened? The last thing he remembered was Barris Offee killing Master yoda.
"It is good that you are awake." A heavily accented voice said. "I was afraid that you would die."
"Who are you?" Anikan asked.
"A better question is who are you?" The voice said.
"I am Anikan skywalker. I was traveling with my pregnant wife, adopted daughter, uncle, and two battalions of clone troopers." Anikan said. "Now tell me what happened."
"I'm afraid that the Jedi attempted to kill you, your uncle, and the two companions you were with." The hooded figure said. They thought that you killed Master yoda and decided to bring the Jedi temple on Tython down on top of you."
"Why?" Anikan asked. "I'm no one special. Or at least I don't think I'm special."
"Oh but you are?" The voice said. "You are very special."
"What makes me so special?" Anikan asked.
"Why, your past of course." The voice said. You were raised a slave on Tatooine, taken from your home at the age of nine, and taken to the Jedi to fulfill a prophecy."
"What prophecy?" Anikan asked.
"The prophecy says that an individual who has suffered greatly will be able to find out the truth and destroy the faction that he is against." The voice said.
"And which faction am I against?" Anikan asked.
"Anyone Who stands between you and your family." The voice said. "Join me and together we will find and save your family from the oppressors who would kill them for siding with you."
"On one condition." Anikan said.
"Anything." The voice said.
"If I'm going up against Jedi, then I will need armor." Anikan said. "And not low grade armor, but the best beskar armor you can find."
"Of course." The voice said. "Anything else?"
"Yes." Anikan said, Realizing that his voice had changed, it was deeper and more intimidating. "What is with the mask, and why is my voice different?"
"I'm afraid that there was to much damage." The voice said. "You need this suit to live... lord Vader."
The Jedi temple on coruscant.
"You did what!" Plo koon demanded. "Did you really just say that you dropped the Jedi temple on Tython on our friends?"
"Yes!" Mace said defiantly. "They chose to abandon us and they had to pay the consequences."
"Killing them by dropping a temple on them is not. I repeat not a consequence. It's murder!"
"No it's martyr." Mace said. "We tell the council that skywalker lost it and killed yoda and the others."
"That is madness." Plo said. "Qui gon was right. You are power hungry."
Mace ignited his lightsaber and cut Plo's head off. "That's for attempted murder on the new Jedi grand master."
Mandalor
Ahsoka was hyperventilating. "No!" She said when she found a bit of breath. "No... sky guy can't be... he's the most powerful Jedi... why would Master Windu drop the temple on him... it makes no sense."
"Windu did it because he was afraid of and furious at skywalker." Ventress said. She was actually pitying Ahsoka.
"All we know is that barris offee killed yoda and Windu lost it." Quinlan said.
"Wait!" Ahsoka said in surprise. "Barris killed yoda? Why?"
"She's a Sith." Obi was said. "Unless she just happened to lose her lightsaber and simultaneously find a red Sith lightsaber."
"But she was my friend." Ahsoka said. "Why would she do something like that?"
Obi wan found the physician in charge of padmé's care. "Doctor." Obi wan said. "Can you preform the needed surgery on padmé right now?"
"It would be difficult with the children, but I could work around them at a slow pace." The doctor said. "Is there a reason why?"
"We don't know that Anikan is actually dead." Obi wan said. "If anyone could survive a building being dropped on them, it would be Anikan. But in the case that he is gone. I don't want padmé dying over it."
"It will take many operations and many surgeons." The doctor said. "She will be out for a while and it could harm the children... but not doing anything but giving her force healing trances is not much better. I will do the first one tomorrow morning after you give her a force healing trance."
"Thank you." Obi wan said before leaving.
Anikan.
Anikan didn't know what day it was, but the mysterious hooded figure had kept good on his promise. He had the armor that was on him currently, replaced with beskar armor. His entire body was broken, his legs were crushed, his ribs were shattered, he had taken a sharp rock to the stomach, every breath was painful, he had a respirator that kept him awake. But he was alive, he would be back with his family soon.
But first he had to kill the Jedi, free the younglings they kept enslaved in their retched temple on coruscant, only then could he live freely with his family.
The Jedi temple on coruscant.
Mace was seated in the council chamber, around him were the dead bodies of the council members who defied him. Why wouldn't they listen to him, why did they insist that Anikan wasn't capable of killing yoda.
Granted it was a lie, the offee girl had killed yoda and skywalker killed her by crushing her with the force, he could still hear her screaming to the hooded figure Mace was fighting for help. But why couldn't the others just see that it was possible for Anikan to kill yoda?
Shaak ti came in and saw Mace. "They didn't believe you?" She asked.
"No." Mace said. "Why won't they believe me?"
"The younglings couldn't believe that Anikan was a Sith, I told them that we would bring him to justice." Shaak ti said.
"They all need special training for this." Mace said. "The Jedi were never meant to be warriors, just defenders."
"Now we need to become the warriors we know we can become." Shaak ti said.
"We start training tomorrow." Mace responded.
Mandalor.
The next morning the Jedi gave padmé a force healing trance and let her go into surgery.
"Is it wrong doing this without her knowledge?" Quinlan asked.
"I won't pretend that it isn't." Obi wan said. "But we are talking about four lives on the line here. What should we do? Should we just let padmé and her kids die in essence killing Anikan as well."
Just then Qui gon appeared and he looked troubled.