Chapter 22
Anyway, I know C-3PO isn't kidnapped in the original timeline, but this is an AU! There are many other reasons for this chapter which doesn't exist in the Canon even remotely, I even made up the planet Operiton, I even made up a few characters for this chapter, and this chapter was caused by me thinking of sending Vader to a battle in the Clone Wars. The time this chapter occurs is the Clone Wars Episode "Deception". I hope you enjoy! I also had a time-travelly mood when writing the beginning of this.
Padmè was in despair. She was headed for Dragitor, which she knew the coordinates of, so she could see Anakin, but this was serious, C-3PO has been kidnapped and Anakin was the only one who could help her. She landed in front of the monastery, and saw Anakin where he mostly is, sitting on a big rock in front of the monastery, looking at the dark, but beautiful landscape
"Padmè!" Anakin saw Padmè and hugged her
"Ani! I need your help!" She exclaimed
Anakin instantly became alert, like any good husband would. Padmè told how C-3PO was kidnapped by Grevious on a mystery of the death of a Jedi on the planet Operiton, the truth was, that the late Jedi Master Panto Chi, was killed by Darth Vader, a task that no Sith was supposed to be in, though unaware of it, this changed future timeline. This made a future figure erase from existence.
Now, the Separatists took C-3PO to a space base on Tatooine. Anakin gone too Coruscant to pick up his troops, the 501st. Obi-Wan and Adenan were walking there, and a blaster shot
"It's a sniper, over there!" Adenan exclaimed, pointing to the sniper
"I'll follow the bounty hunter and you take the right building! Hey, Anakin! Take the ground!" Obi-Wan ordered
"Yes Master!" Adenan exclaimed as he jumped to follow the bounty hunter on the right building
They did what they were ordered to do, and Adenan jumped to the left building, running, waiting to deflect bullets if the super shot, then, Obi-Wan jumped in front of the sniper, who shot him in the chest and escaped, Adenan jumped down to check on Obi-Wan
"Adenan! How's your Master?" Anakin asked
"Let's see" Adenan answered
They both checked for any heartbeats, Obi-Wan used the force to stop them from feeling the heartbeats, making them think he's dead, which was part of a plot made by Mace Windu and Yoda. Adenan felt tears threatening to drop, he wanted to cry, his master, the one he looked up to the most, was lost. Anakin then screamed Obi-Wan's name, trying to wake him up, and failed, so they took his body and went to the Jedi Temple, they met with Master Yoda
"Anakin? Nice to see you it is, unease I sense?" Yoda asked
"Yes, well… Adenan, bring him in" Anakin answered, sadly
Adenan bought Obi-Wan in, Adenan was distraught, he wished Anakin could become his master, but he was training Ahsoka
"A sad loss this is, summon all of the Jedi to the Funeral room I will, put the corpse in the Funeral Cart" Yoda instructed the Padawan and the Jedi Master
Which they did, during the funeral, even Padmè and Ahsoka came. Anakin would be mad right now, but most of his anger fled from him. He looked sadly at the look of Obi-Wan getting put into the floor, his cart closed and put to the floor, a white laser came out of the top, going to the ceiling. When they left, Ahsoka popped the question
"Adenan, who will be your master now?" She asked
"I wish it was Anakin, but you are his padawan" Adenan answered
"Adenan, you and I are supposed to go to the council chambers, I'll escort you there" Anakin told Adenan, who went close to Anakin, since new insecurities have risen in him, and Anakin was the only one who he could trust enough.
"Sad, the loss of Obi-Wan was, less than a year of training you have got?" Yoda asked
"Yes" Adenan answered
"Anakin, how many years did you train Ahsoka?" Mace asked
"Two and a quarter" Anakin answered
Yoda, hearing the questions and answers, he remembered that Adenan wished for Anakin to be his new master, and there was an untold Jedi rule that said 'A Jedi Padawan with a lost master can go to Jedi Master who already has a Padawan, albeit temporarily, and the permanent Padawan must refrain from taking missions with his/her master until the Temporary Padawan's master is returned/ a new master without a Padawan has been found, unless the permanent is taking the mission without being on the master's side like a padawan would do'. Yoda will use that rule until Obi-Wan is fit to be his old self again and take off the newly-worn disguise.
"Adenan, a untold rule there is, Anakin, your temporary master he will be, until then, taking missions with Anakin, Ahsoka will refrain and take Ahsoka's place you will, for now" Yoda explained
Adenan was lucky and happy, he now had the master he wished for, except Obi-Wan, but he was not sure how Ahsoka would take it.
"Hi Snips!" Anakin greeted
"What are you doing here?" Adenan asked
"Oh, nothing, I heard what is going on, Master, are you… abandoning me?" Ahsoka asked, queasy
"No! Of course not Snips! Adenan will just be my temporary apprentice and a temporary member of Qui-Gon's order, Adenan will get a new master and you will return to be my apprentice!" Anakin exclaimed
"Good, but I am coming to your latest mission!" Ahsoka exclaimed back
"Latest mission?" Adenan asked, confused
"This is a mission I am taking myself, a mysterious assassin has kidnapped C-3PO" Anakin answered
"Oh No! C-3PO is Padmè's droid! We must take him back!" Adenan exclaimed
"I have found out that C-3PO has been taken to a special Separatist ship, none like what I have seen before." Anakin told both of his padawans as they walked out
Meanwhile on that Separatist ship, Darth Vader was interrogating C-3PO
"What do you know about the Chancellor?" Vader demanded
"I know nothing sir, wait, Master Ani?" C-3PO asked, recognising the face that was in that hood
"NO! I am a clone of him!" Vader answered
"Please sir! I know nothing!" C-3PO exclaimed
"Droids! Pull everything from this protocol droid, but don't move the files he has, just copy and paste! Paste them into our computer and I will personally scan through the files!" Vader ordered two commando droids behind him
"Roger Roger" One commando replied
Vader left for the command room, where Grevious was sitting in the second big chair, Vader sat on the first one, he felt a shake under him and heard a battle droid exclaim
"Sir! I our sensors dictate that we have been attacked!"
"Then Attack them!" Grevious ordered
"Jedi!" Vader mumbled
"What?" Grevious asked, obviously not hearing what Vader said
"I want the Jedi alive!" Vader ordered to the battle droids
"What Jedi?" One courageous battle droid managed to ask
"The Jedi I sense!" Vader exclaimed
"Yes sir!" Another battle droid exclaimed as they got out
Anakin and Adenan then went to the ship with R2-D2, and Ahsoka was leading the air forces to go through their defences. Adenan actually had no trouble calling Anakin 'Master'
"Master, what are we going to do?" Adenan asked
"You go fight off the droids in the right hall and help our forces penetrate the defences through internal damage, while I go save C-3PO!" Anakin answered
"Yes master!" Adenan exclaimed as he went to do that, he activated his orange lightsaber, and Anakin gallantly activated his white and ran with R2 to save C-3PO
Ahsoka was having trouble leading the forces into the ship, since General Grevious, the ruthless leader was leading the attack on Ahsoka, and she was failing. Adenan could sense Ahsoka's distress, it was up to him to help Ahsoka, it was weird really, taking such a burden when you only had two and a half months of being a Padawan. Anakin on the other hand, wasn't doing so great either, he had to get past millions of battle droids, all of them being pulled, pushed, cut, burned and dropped, all on Vader's command to neutralise Skywalker. Anakin kept running. The battle was going everywhere, the citizens of Tatooine were confused when they saw the battle going in space. Anakin's stepbrother, Owen, saw the battle, he hoped that his brother was okay. Debris was flying everywhere, but everyone was lucky that the debris wasn't falling in Mos Eisley, Tatooine's capital.
"Master! I got two living guards! What should I do?" Adenine asked through com link
"Adenan, kill them" Anakin ordered calmly and hooked off.
So, Adenan activated his orange lightsaber and proceeded to cut off the guards and went in and saw Grevious
"The same padawan who cut of Ventress's hand, prepare to die!" Grevious exclaimed to Adenan as he activated four lightsabers that he newly added to his collection from the battle of Mimban, Adenan recognised one of them, it was of his now-presumed-late friend, Faro Sheekano
"Great Scott! The third one is my friend's lightsaber!" Adenan mumbled as he held his lightsaber in the fear of his friend being dead
Grevious chuckled in his scary robotic voice as the tall figure looked down at the medium-sized Adenan, they both held their stances as Grevious ran to him, Adenan tried to use a force push, he moved Grevious back a few meters.
"Ha ha! Your wimpy force powers wont work on me!" Grevious teased Adenan and tried to attack again
Adenan, this time, used a defensive move, they both went into a duel, Adenan took it slowly, but steadily, hoping that he does not make a mistake. Grevious then used a uppercut, but Adenan then used a defensive, spectacularly blocking all four lightsabers, and saw an advantage, He tried to hold his stance so he could get one of Grevious's other lightsabers using the force. Grevious then, moved again since he learnt his lesson in a lesson with one Darth Vader. Adenan then tried again, Grevious made him fail again, Adenan slowly became faster because of this, learning lightsaber skills along the way, Adenan tried to keep his cool. This was a duel which no-one would know the consequences of until the end of it.
Meanwhile, Anakin and R2-D2 were just in the detention cell where Vader was personally reading the data inside C-3PO, keeping his hood on, as Palpatine said, if he didn't keep his hood on, he might reveal his identity. Anakin then hid outside the door along with R2-D2
"R2! You go rescue 3PO and I duel the assassin!" Anakin instructed R2-D2, who beeped in response, they two hid for a while as Adenan kept duelling
Grevious used a side slash and Adenan jumped at the right time to land when Grevious's slash was finished, Grevious then did separate moves with all his lightsabers, which disarmed Adenan, and then Adenan fell, and felt his back hit a corner.
"Uh… Oh!" Adenan exclaimed
"Prepare to die Padawan!" Grevious heavily screamed as he bent over to kill Adenan, that's when Adenan found his advantage he has been looking for the entire fight, he force pulled his friend's lightsaber, rolled right and force pulled his own. He was in a crouching stance, Adenan looked up, lips curled in a angry motion, his robes were flapping in a strong artificial wind that somehow got made in the ship, he activated both of the lightsabers, which shone in a valiant green and a light orange tint, he spun them and attacked Grevious with a strong hit, Grevious somehow knew that the duel was going to become fast, which happened, both of the duelists were spinning their lightsabers furiously, Adenan got newfound skill, a trait that would contribute to a Padawan getting knighted earlier than normal. Both of them were jumping everywhere, now, Adenan had an advantage over Grevious because of his young physique and light weight, so Adenan could jump easier, which helped him cut off Grevious's bottom two hands, now, they had an easier number of lightsabers. Adenan quickly forwarded the fight to a room with numerous floating platforms, both of the fighters were forced to jump everywhere, which proved the General's losing, Adenan jumped here and there, and he cut off the rest of the General's arms, and kicked Grevious to the bottom of the seemingly-bottomless pit. Adenan himself almost fell to the bottom, but he held onto the steering wheel, which was a bad idea, the steering wheel quickly pushed him into the door to the Operations room, the room he was trying to find, he fell but held the little entrance platform to the door.
Adenan had to rely on himself, since he now had no master to help him. Adenan tried to recount on the events that happened on this ship and how he learned a lot, thanks to Jedi Master Anakin Skywalker, who meanwhile, figured that now was the right time
"Skywalker! You don't know how I was waiting for this moment!" Vader sneered
"Well, prepare to die assassin!" Anakin exclaimed as he gone with his own duel with Vader
Vader used Form IV and Form V, while Anakin used his own Form VIII, which was more developed by now, by mixing Form II, Form III and Form VI. Anakin and Vader went out of the room while duelling. R2-D2 went in unseen or unheard when Vader and Anakin were out of hearing distance. R2 beeped a bit
"Oh! R2-D2 it is you! It is you!" C-3PO affectionately exclaimed as R2 got C-3PO Out of the chains
R2 beeped something that meant 'Lets's get out of here'. C-3PO agreed and they ran. Meanwhile, Adenan wasn't doing that good, he was overhanging next to the door he wants to go through over a pit that might kill him 'If someone opens the door!' he thought. Luckily, he thought that at the right time, two super battle droids opened the door and saw the Padawan
"Hands up Jedi!" One of them exclaimed
That was the line Adenan needed, he jumped up and sliced the two Super Battle droids, who were apparently the only ones in the operations room, he clicked some buttons, programming the Space Base to shoot a dangerous forcefield that will stop when all the Separatist ships have been destroyed.
That gave Ahsoka the clear moment, the laser worked successfully, some Republic ships were destroyed, but it was a relief to hear that no high ranking officers perished. Ahsoka then called Adenan, who just saw some camera footage
"Ahsoka! So good to hear you!" Adenan tiredly exclaimed
"So good to see you, you must've fought quite a battle!" Ahsoka replied "How's Anakin?"
"You mean he hasn't come back?" Adenan asked back
"What?"
"Anakin, I mean that, I saw some security cameras that had recordings of 3PO and R2 walking to the escape pods!"
"Master might be in danger! Adenan! Go to him! Please!" Ahsoka exclaimed
"Ok Ahsoka!" Adenan exclaimed as he tried to track down Anakin's force presence, who was fighting Vader
Anakin used a down slash, Vader defended it, that's when Adenan came, who used a custom spin move that he himself made during the duel with Grevious. Fiery waves were coming out of the lightsabers. The base shook very strongly, Vader knew what that meant, the defences have been penetrated, and the only possibility of the base being shaken that hard meant that he lost the war, Grevious already took an escape pod, so did R2 and 3PO. Vader ran, with Adenan and Anakin chased him, Vader took an escape pod
"Seriously! Why do these Separatists always escape!" Anakin screamed
"Master! The whole ship is going to blow up! Let's get out of here ourselves!" Adenan exclaimed
"Your'e right, let's go!" Anakin told Adenan as they both left
They both left in their ship just in time for the ship to explode, they went into the cruisers just in the right time, and then, the cruisers jumped for hyperspace.
"Master! Adenan! How was your first mission together?" Ahsoka asked
"Awesome! Being with Anakin helps you learn a lot of stuff!" Adenan answered
"Let's leave!"
By then, it was night, Anakin, Ahsoka and Adenan heard that three fugitives escaped from Republic prisons and a public event was happening in Naboo, Padmè's home planet, and the three of the Jedi were invited to. Padmè kissed Anakin and left
Yup, that was the chapter! I asked what do you think of Adenan in the apology letter last chapter because of this, by the way, Adenan will be knighted one year after Ahsoka if you're asking. NEXT CHAPTER: CRISIS ON NABOO