Second Chance Chapter 3
"It's hard to explain Master Yoda and I don't know how it happened, but I was sent back in time. I was fighting with Vader inside of a Sith temple that you had told us to go to and Vader showed up. Ezra took a holocron and I attacked Vader allowing them to escape to safety and the temple collapsed around us and I found myself back here" Ahsoka said.
"Troubling news this is, but did you find out who the Sith lord is?" Yoda asked. "Well after I left the temple it I kept tabs on the republic and the senate, after my trail and what not I became interested in politics and procedures. When the Jedi purge happened the Chancellor…." Ahsoka trailed off as the realization hit her. "It-it's the Chancellor…it's Palpatine, he is the Sith. After the purge of the Jedi he reformed the Republic and turned it into a dictatorship, it only makes sense but the question is why? And how could we not sense this?" Ahsoka said bewildered.
"Yes a darkness does surround the Chancellor, seen this we should have. Act we must if we are to save the Republic and your master" Yoda said getting up quicker than he usually did "Come, speak to the council we must, tell them we must, tell Skywalker we must" Yoda said. Ahsoka stood up quickly and followed the elder Jedi to the council chambers.
"Master you are needed in the council chambers immediately, this is important" Ahsoka said in to her comm. "What do they need?" Anakin said from the other end, "Just come here now" Ahsoka replied sharply. "…on my way" Anakin said and headed toward the Jedi temple from his wife's apartment.
With in twenty minutes all the Council members were sitting in their chairs with a confused and baffled expression on their faces as Ahsoka told them of what she knew. "The Chancellor? How had we not seen this?" Mace Windu said, "This is a surprise to all of us" Master Plo said.
The door to the council chambers opened up and Anakin walked inside "what was so urgent?" Anakin asked looking at all the concerned faces of the Jedi masters then saw Ahsoka standing in the center of the room.
"Padawan Tano knows who the Sith lord is, its Chancellor Palpatine, he is Darth Sidious" Mace stated. "No…that's not possible, we would have felt it; he is helping us bring an end to the Clone Wars" Anakin said in disbelief at the accusation that was pointed toward his friend the Chancellor but a part of him told him that it was the truth; that the Chancellor was a Sith.
"Its true Anakin…and you, you became his apprentice" Ahsoka said turning to look at Anakin. Ahsoka's face filled with sorrow "the clones turn on the Jedi, and you storm the temple killing the Jedi even the younglings" she continued.
Anakin stepped back, his mind was racing franticly trying to make sense of this "I would never do that, the Jedi are my life" Anakin said. "But you did Anakin, you whipped out most of the Jedi in the galaxy and…you even fought me and almost killed me" Ahsoka said as tears came to her eyes.
"I wouldn't dare hurt you Ahsoka…never" Anakin said softly still in disbelief. "Let me show you then Anakin" Ahsoka said walking up to him and dropping her mental shields. Anakin did the same and the two connected through their bond, with in moments images started to appear in Anakin's head.
Anakin's mouth slowly fell open as his mind filled with the horrors of the destruction of the Jedi temple and of him fighting Ahsoka, his eyes filled with tears as he sensed the darkness coming from Darth Vader…coming from him and what he was going to become if he fell to the darkside.
"Ahsoka…I'm so sorry…" Anakin chocked out looking down at her. "The Chancellor has been manipulating you for a long time Anakin, he wants you as an apprentice, he has been orchestrating this war from the very beginning. The Chancellor has been controlling the Separatists and the Republic to wage war so the Jedi would be stretched thin and when he is ready he will attack" Ahsoka said.
"How do you know all of this Ahsoka?" Anakin asked. Ahsoka sighed "This is going to sound strange Anakin, but I am from the future and I was sent back in time during my battle with you at the Sith temple. I don't know how it happened but it did and I am here now" Ahsoka said.
"What should we do masters?" Anakin asked turning to look at the master Jedi in the room. "We should strike now all of us, I have no doubt that Sidious is very powerful thou he may look old" Ahsoka said before the masters could say anything. "Agree I do, destroy the Sith we must" Yoda said.