CHAPTER 6

Luke looked up into the rafters, "Thanks for the help, whoever you are up there."

"I sense we have a new ally, one who I cannot place." Obi-Wan said.

"So you're the ones who have been taking care of Taicho? I must say, I'm impressed! Not a lot of people are lucky enough to earn his respect and get him to open up this quickly!" The female said as she jumped nimbly down and the mist formed a blade on a hilt she was carrying. "Rangiku Matsumoto. A pleasure gentlemen!" She said, bowing, then looking over at Olivia and frowning. "Oh gods… I'm not THAT drunk am I?"

Toshiro sighed. "No. She isn't the enemy. apparently not all Arrancar are as we perceived them."

Rangiku sighed in turn and said in a suddenly bubbly fashion, "I'm parched. Does anyone have any Sake?"

A couple padawans murmured around Rangiku, "What's a socky? Sounds like something you wear on your foot."

A couple younger padawans had blood running from their nostrils as they stared at Rangiku's bust. An older Knight smacked two of the padawans on the back of the head, "Idiots! You know you can't have any!"

Luke blinked, "Why would you be drunk when you just did...whatever that was?"

Rangiku sighed. "No reason. So… Whatcha been doin with Taicho~?" she asked in a singsong voice as they all began walking back into the temple's inter-workings.

Anakin's spirit stood before Olivia, Rangiku, Rukia, Toshiro and Ichigo. "I suppose I should be the one to bring you up to speed on things."

Anakin lifted his hand and waved it slightly, "Don't worry, it won't hurt I promise."

They saw a young Obi-Wan watch his master Qui-Gon be struck down by Maul, and in turn slice the Sith in two. Qui-Gon made Obi-Wan promise to train Anakin who was eight years old at the time, and was said to be the prophesied 'chosen one' as Obi-Wan saw his master die.
Anakin was shown to be a heroic..but brash and sometimes reckless young Padawan. He was shown falling in love with Padme Amidala, but love was forbidden for a Jedi...it formed unnecessary attachments when you were meant to do a duty. Anakin was shown going to rescue his mother while Obi-Wan investigated a suspicious army of clones that were commissioned for the Republic. Anakin watched his mother die in his arms and was filled with rage as he struck down the tusken raider camp.

Anakin was shown losing his arm to Count Dooku in a duel, after they had escaped an arena on Geonosis where the clones first came into battle. The Clone Wars were depicted as a massive galaxy wide conflict between the Republic's clone army and the Separatist droid army...led by Jedi acting as generals.

Obi-Wan was shown going to confront General Grievous, a cyborg who wielded four lightsabers at once and hunted Jedi. Anakin was shown being tormented by visions of Padme dying and telling his friend Chancellor Palpatine about it. "The dark side is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be..unnatural." Palpatine told Anakin of a story of a Sith lord who mastered death named Darth Plagueis.

Anakin was shown betraying the Jedi order after Palpatine goaded him with promises of saving Padme. Palpatine contacted the clones to "Execute Order 66" and the clones began to turn on their Jedi throughout the galaxy, shooting them down. Palpatine was shown telling the Senate that the Jedi betrayed the Republic, and the First Galactic Empire was to be formed.

"Well that's… unsettling!" Rangiku commented, to which Toshiro replied "What did you expect to happen in a war? butterflies and rainbows?"

Rangiku pouted. "You're no fun!" she said before turning her attention back to the vision

In the end Obi-Wan defeated Anakin on a lava planet, and Yoda lost to Darth Sidious. Anakin was shown being put in a massive black armored respirator suit and asking his master. "Where is Padme, is she safe...is she alright?" Palpatine lied to Anakin and said "It seems in your anger...you killed her."

Vader's voice shouted out, "But...I….I couldn't have! SHE WAS ALIVE! I FELT IT!"

"Poor thing..." Rangiku whimpered almost at a volume that was unheard by all but the force sensitives in the room.

"Bastard! whatever he got was too good for him!" Ichigo said, not knowing of the emperor's death yet.

Padme was shown dying in childbirth after naming her children: "Luke, Leia."

Vader was shown in combat against a half cybernetic Darth Maul, who leapt upon his back and attempted to decapitate him: "What could you POSSIBLY hate enough to destroy ME!?"

To their surprise, Vader stabbed himself through the stomach and through Maul's back and spoke in his modulated voice one word: "...Myself."

The now quintet of onlookers were all shocked beyond words. "How could you hate yourself that much?" Rukia asked Anakin while still seeing the images flow in her head.

Anakin was shown fighting Luke on the Death Star II, and Luke refused to deliver his father a killing blow. "You have failed your highness, I am a Jedi..like my father before me." Luke announced his resolve to Palpatine. Who began to electrocute him with force lightning in front of Vader. Vader to their surprise looked conflicted, before grabbing Palpatine and throwing him down a reactor shaft where his body exploded in dark side energy.

Ichigo gulped. "Ok… so he deserved what he got then." He reprimanded his original statement.

Luke removed the dying Vader's mask upon the former Sith's request: "Go..my son...leave me." He spoke weakly.

"No, I have to save you! I can't leave you!" Luke said tearfully.

"You...already have...Luke...you were right….you were right about me...t-tell your sister...you were right."

Toshiro looked to Anakin and bowed in the Japanese style. "That must have been hard on you. You have my respect… and I am grateful to have your son's tutelage."

"Wait… you're training under someone?" Rangiku asked.

Rukia bowed and said, "They have agreed to show us these things for our own safety and benefit… But I had no idea of all that you'd been through!"

Ichigo looked at Anakin for a long moment, then said, "This reminds me of my family… Will you excuse me a moment?" To which Rukia put a hand on his shoulder and said. "I'm sure they're fine. Let it go. who knows, maybe we'll see them later on!"

Olivia looked at Anakin with a conflicted expression. "So… a Sith… Saved the universe?" she asked finally.

"Well….I believe Anakin was a special case. Most of them cannot even recall their lives before the dark side." Obi-Wan said, looking at his former pupil.

Olivia raised a hand timidly. "Um… I know it isn't my style to well… seek out help or anything… but-"

Luke spoke, interrupting her. "No problem, go ahead and consider yourself our student as much as they are. Master Yoda will take over for the rest of today and some of tomorrow. Go ahead, Master." Luke said going over to lean against the wall. Master Yoda smiled and waved them over, "Follow me!" The small hermit led them outside into the area where the younglings had previously been seen training. It was an area next to a small lake and seemed rather peaceful after all that had recently happened.

Olivia blushed and nodded muttering a small "Thank you." to the dirty blonde haired Jedi Master.