A.N I do not own Star Wars

When Padme and Anakin returned to their apartment, Anakin went in search of any JI-9s. "Ani, how could anyone break-in here? Do you believe they would be so bold?"

"Angel, just humor me."

Padme knew there was no winning with her husband. Any of her former security team would be on Anakin's side. Ten minutes later, he found five.

"There was a plumber in here last week. I don't think there was someone within the Order placing them. I think they somehow found the plumber for the building and used their credits to place them. After all, if a Jedi says it, it must be true."

Anakin had been away on a small mission and couldn't fix the problem. Normally he could fix anything. Padme felt so violated.

"I want to move."

"Padme, we will have Sabe over for dinner tomorrow night to discuss a security plan or even bring this up with Obi-Wan and Siri."

That was when the buzzer for their apartment was going off. Anakin grabbed his blaster, the one that the Navy issued him and Padme grabbed one of hers. When Anakin got a peak and saw it was his childhood nemesis, Ferrus.

"Padme, it's someone from the Order. Let him in or ignore him?"

"Who is it? Someone on the Council?"

"It's Ferrus Olin. He is not on the Council as far as I know. He's a few years older than me."

"Let him in but his saber goes on the table by the door."

Anakin slowly opened the door with the blaster raised.

"Ferrus, the lightsaber goes on the table by the door. Do my eyes look yellow to you?"

Ferrus gulped because he knew the years he spent picking on Anakin has come back and bit him in the ass.

Padme still had her blaster pointed. Since she no longer was in the Senate and Anakin has left the Order, she no longer hid her pregnancy.

"Why are you here Knight Olin?"

Ferrus did what he was told. That was when he produced a mini holovid of a council meeting.

"...We are having Chancellor Bixby introduce legislation that would require all children born with a high enough midichlorian count over to the Jedi. Parents will no longer have a say in this…"

"Since you are no longer in the Order, I was put on tech duty. This looks like it could be from a few days ago. I came to you since you are the one who is married to a former Senator. None of the missions I have done have had too much involvement with politicians. It gets worse besides the Council labeling all that have left as Sith. There is a settlement of Sith on Korriban. There is no training facility or military base. It looks like a medical research facility. The Jedi had plans for you to bomb it since you are the Navy's go-to pilot for anything."

Padme was looking at the plans with Anakin. "Ani, you need to comm Obi-Wan. Ferrus, who ordered the placement of JI-9s?"

"Adi Gallia"

Anakin sighed. "That figures, she is the master of intel. Ferrus, Padme is right. We do need to comm Obi-Wan and you are going to have to apologize to Siri."

Ferrus gulped and Anakin could feel his fear. He has Ferrus right where he wanted, Ferrus acknowledging that he kriffed up.

Anakin pulled out his comm to call his older brother. Ferrus watched Anakin. It was so odd with the bond that he has witnessed between Anakin and Obi-Wan but he now understood why they act the way they do around each other. Hearing that they are half-brothers was a shock and he was not surprised that Obi-Wan had left with Anakin.

"Obi-Wan, you need to come to One Republica. Ferrus showed up with some intel you need to see. The Council is going to have Bixby demand that all children with high midichlorians be handed over to the Order and they want me to strike a medical research facility on Korriban."

Obi-Wan gasped. "Siri is with me. We will be right over and tell Ferrus to stay. He is going to have to face her sometime."

"I will"

When Anakin hung up on his brother, that was when Ferrus asked it. "You are doing more than just flying for the Navy?"

"You can say."

Padme decided to test it. "Ferrus, how would you feel about other options besides the argicorps for anyone not chosen by a master?"

She felt this was the most benign way to test where the young knight stood.

"It would be a good idea. The agricorps was a quick way to get rid of initiates who were deemed unworthy. Of course, I felt it was the perfect storm to create a Sith. All of those things, fear, anger, hatred, all of them directed at the Order and rightfully so. The agricorps is legalized slavery."

Anakin could feel he was telling the truth. "He's not lying and there is something that is going to be done. Some Senators, I am not going to name names are going to defund the agricorps considering all of the complaints. With help from the military academy prep schools, they are willing to take in any initiate and prepare them for the actual academy. If not, there are foster families that would be willing to take them in."

"So you are essentially attacking the Order without actually attacking them?"

"We are and it gets better. The Order is going to have to account for their spending. For all of their vow of poverty, they don't practice what they preach. Look at the ship fleet for the Council? Look at what is spent on the decorations and the room of a thousand fountains? They spend so much there that the other ships that other knights use break down easily. How often did you see me fixing those? Or even better, the medical and analysis droids in the Temple are almost as old as Yoda. Considering the stuff we encountered, shouldn't that have gotten priority?"

That was when Padme brought something else up. "How about for my own planet? Naboo is facing a recession if something isn't done. The queen would like to send more credits to the Jedi even though the credits are needed on Naboo."

Before Ferrus could respond to Padme, the buzzer for the apartment rang. Anakin reached into the Force to see who it is. "It's Obi-Wan and Siri"

Padme breathed a sigh of relief. She opened the door and saw the two former Jedi knights. Ferrus withered under the glare of Siri.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I was an idiot Siri."

"Apology accepted, my former apprentice. I just needed to see you squirm. Let this be a lesson to you that blind obedience will lead you nowhere. Now what was so important that you risked coming here?"

Ferrus replayed the clip from the Council meeting. "...We are having Chancellor Bixby introduce legislation that would require all children born with a high enough midichlorian count over to the Jedi. Parents will no longer have a say in this…"

"This was from a few days ago. It gets worse. The Council is in the process of requesting Anakin to lead a bombing raid on Korriban. It's a medical research facility. The type that that researches childhood cancers."

The former Jedi knights and Senator took in a deep breath. Obi-Wan was the first to speak. "We all know the Order wasn't the virtuous saints they claimed to be back during the Hyperspace Wars. The ones involved committing genocide should have been expelled from the Order and face prosecution by the Republic. Has the Council lost their minds? Are they trying to reignite the Hyperspace wars?"

Siri wanted to know about the JI-9s. She had her suspicions who could be involved but needed confirmation. "Ferrus, who was involved placing the JI-9s?"

"Adi Gallia ordered it. I know she would have been at the bases in official capacity because of the War. She would have used a plumber to place the devices in Anakin and Padme's apartment."

Siri knew her relationship with her former master is gone forever. She crossed the line of no return and honestly, the Jedi are acting like the Sith. It's going to take force sensitives to stop them.

"Ferrus, you need to resign. I know you haven't taken a Padawan yet. Do you want to go down with the people who want to put the Republic under a dictatorship?"

He nodded. "I don't but where would I go?"

Anakin had an idea. "The Navy has been more than willing to take in those who left the Order. The Separatists are still a threat to everyone. Pick the Navy and I know there are plenty of former knights who live on base."

Ferrus could see what his former childhood nemesis was saying. He was second in flight lessons. There was no way in space that he could beat Anakin there. Then he detected the twins.

"Two Skycrawlers? Force help us all, one of them is going to take after you, Anakin."

That was when everyone began laughing at Anakin. What Padme would have loved is to be able to talk to her late mother-in-law. She would have loved to have known what Anakin was like when he was really little. Her best guess is a holy terror and knew she was going to have her hands full.