Chapter Five
Dac was a sphere of blue water, and ship yards. However it had underwater cities and has amazing amount's of loveliness to it. Jacen was just glad to be out of the hell hole of Myrkr's world ship. Glad to have Anakin back, and glad that he could finally each out to his twin sister in the force. But he hadn't done that yet.
He decided to use his twin bond for the first time in a while. Jaina. He thought into his twin bond. Jania, I'm home.
The bond was so quiet for a moment; he thought he had lost her. Jacen? He was reading. B-but... how?
" I hid myself from our Twin Bond, and the force, making you all think I was dead. I was captured Jaina, and I didn't want you to come after me. And Anakin is with me."
"But..." The bond was quiet again. "We have the body..."
"Its fake, it's got to be a dead clone or something."
"But..." Jaina wasn't sure. Jacen could tell.
"You'll see Jaina. Just trust me."
"I guess..."
"We'll be down there in a little bit, scramble the family and ships will you? We're damaged badly over here."
Jacen walked out from the YT-2000 ship. Without Anakin, he was way to weak to walk, and Jacen couldn't do anything to stop the bleeding. He didn't have what he needed. And the healing trance took a long time to work. A few weeks or months were needed.
He was greeted by his Uncle Luke, Leia solo (His mother), Han Solo (His father), Aunt Mara, Jaina, and a group of Medic's. Jacen faced his parenets. "Mom, Dad, um know your glad to see me and all, but Anakin is in the ship, hurt."
His too parent's looked at each other. "Oh no..." They walked towards the ship with the Medic's followed by Jaina and his aunt and Uncle.
"Jacen." Luke said. "You know that the Republic is going to want to ask question's and keep you down there. But more so Anakin."
"Why?" Jaina asked before Jacen could even open his mouth.
"Because, with the knowledge that the Vong know how to clone, we don't know if Anakin is a clone or not. After all, we all felt him die in the force." It was Mara who answered the question.
It was so quiet at that point. No one spoke a word.
They reached the Medical room, where Leia, and Han were looking now at there youngest son, who was gravely injured.
"I'm sorry I couldn't do more." Said Jacen too his parent's. "We sort of had to get away from The Yuuzhan Vong."
Leia and Han were quiet. Jacen had no doubt that they had never seen there youngest child in such a state. Jacen didn't blame them, No one ever wanted to see someone close to them hurt that bad.
Maybe it was Anakin's quixtion nature that made him defend them all from the Yuuzhan Vong on the world ship. But was it worth it? Maybe it was. After all, Anakin was alive, and the mission had been competed.
"At least he's alive..." Jacen heard Han say. "That's good."
"He..." Leia was saying quietly. "He scared the life out of me..." Jacen had a feeling his mother was almost speaking the truth. Judging from her shock.
By now the Medic's had put Anakin on a stretcher and was carrying it out of the ship, The Solo's and Skywalker's flanked the group, following them into a large building. Judging from the design it appeared to be a hotel, or apartment building, but he didn't know much about the Mon Cal's and Quarren's culture, so he could be wrong about that.
They took different turns and twists and came to a room that appeared to be a examine room. "Your really going to do this now?" Asked Leia.
The Medic looked at her and cocked a eye brow. "Yes ma'am." He said. "That's how we do it. We check it out and give him what he needs."
Luke closed his eye's, or at least that what it appears he was doing. "That won't be needed." He said to the medic. "He's in a healing trance. All he needs is rest and his body will heal, and naturally, which is much safer then sugary."
The medic frowned. "I don't think that's true." The medic said. "It's fast and sa--"
The medic was cut off by Han. "Listen hear pal," Han said sharply. Jacen could tell that Han felt bad about Anakin, that the argument Anakin and Han back at a Eclipse was what drove Anakin to go on this mission. But that is only what Han thought, and wasn't really true. "I don't know much about this 'force thing' ether. But one thing I know, is not to disregard it. And I've seen the healing trance work before and—"
They were both cut off, By a female Alien voice. "Though Bacta would be a good idea."
Han turned, but Jacen had already seen who it was.
Cilghal, A Mon Cal Jedi Master. Well more of a Jedi Healer. She had studied ways to heal with the force, but she said sometimes, that "not all wounds can be healed with the force." It wasn't really known what she meant by that. Jacen thought that it was Memories that she was talking about. But the force can drive that away. But the memories would come back at some point in time. So perhaps she was talking about both, both physical wounds, and Memories.
"You know more then I do." Said Luke.
The medic mumbled something.
"Well what are you waiting for?" asked Han in an amazingly sharp tone.
The Medic scattered then moved Anakin's body from the stretcher and onto a rolling bed. Taking off for a Bacta Tank, leaving Jacen with his Family.
But that time lasted all of about five seconds. New Republic intel men came into the room. Wearing gray uniforms, which on the front in bold blue letters had the letters NRI written on it shoulder areas. "We were told Jacen Solo, was here." One of them men said. The man had sleek Black Hair, and grey colored eyes. The NRI were supposed to be intimating. But Jacen was starting to have doubts about that.
Jacen stepped towards the group of men. He counted eight of them. "That would be me." He said.
"You lived through the Myrkr mission?" The same man asked.
"Looks like it." He replied with a hint of sarcasticism.
"When all other team members state they 'felt you die through the force'?"
"Uh, I guess they felt me hide in the force. But I never died." Jacen was annoyed with all these question's. Couldn't they just give him a minute with his Family? A minute he hadn't had for seemingly forever?
"We need the whole story kid." The man stated. "So come on and tell us."
Jacen Proceeded to tell them about killing the voxyn queen, Vergere's betrayal, Vergere giving him back his freedom and letting him know that Anakin was really alive. Rescuing Anakin from his death in a cold Yuuzhan Vong holding cell. Helping to get Anakin to a ship, and there escape.
After the story the NRI man was frowning. Jacen wasn't sure what this man was making of his story. But after a minute or two he spoke. "I'm sorry to say that we're going to need to hold you for a little while. Just so we can all talk it over and decide what to do with you."
Jacen had a funny feeling his father was about to object but Leia stopped him. Jacen nodded, and followed the NRI men out of the room.
Anakin was having a dream. A dream of what happened before he was captured by the Yuuzhan Vong.
The distorted face of Nom Anor was running towards him with some sort of Yuuzhan Vong staff. It had a snake on both ends of the staff unlike amphistaff's, which only had one snake head on them. Anakin had a thermal detonator in his hand, and threw it, Nom Anor ran away from the bomb and it flashed a huge flash of white light. He found himself covered in it, surrounded by white.
This is not your place to become one with the force. Said a older voice. It wasn't Anakin's.
His death will mean nothing. Said a other voice, that was slightly younger then the first.
His time, it is not. Said a crackly voice that seemed far older than the others.
Er kann nicht sterben. Er speichert jetzt, wenn er mit uns ist. Said an other voice speaking in a other language.
But that is the point. Said a other voice.
Aber wie geht er zurück zu dem Leben wieder? Said the voice speaking in an odd language.
We all will...
The whiteness turned into a light blue, and then a light green and Anakin was on the ground lying next to a dead body that looked exactly like him. Anakin could hear bold foot steps moving towards him. But he felt too weak to move, too weak to do anything at all. And his world went black...
Anakin awoke in a recovery room. It was grey in color, and the light blue bed, with light blue sheets and blanket only made the room seem duller. His vision was slightly burred, causing him to be unable to see for a second. After a few minutes he could see clearly. He was with Luke, Mara, Leia, Han, and Jaina. No Jacen. But why was that? It didn't make much sense.
He felt that he was no longer bleeding. He was glad for that, must have been the healing trance.
At some point, he asked a question. "Where's Jacen?"
It was Leia, who was closest to Anakin's bed side, who answered. "The NRI need to ask some questions." She said in her soft voice.
"Don't believe it." Anakin could hear Jaina. "They kept him locked up in some motel room, and don't allow anyone to see him."
Han looked quite annoyed. "And they don't even let an old General or Chief of state in there."
"But wouldn't they want me in there?" Anakin asked.
"No." Mara was the one who answered. "They ran a test on your blood. The NRI and the New Republic was fearful you were a clone."
"Was?" Anakin asked.
"Was." Mara Continued. "But they didn't know how fast the Vong's clones aged, so they ran a test, that would test how long your body has been around, they figured out it was around for the same amount of time you would be alive from that point at the test. In other words, you're fine. But Jacen could be there for a while..."
"While?" Anakin said. "I wasn't out that long then?"
"No." Said Jaina. "You were out for a few days from the bacta."
"So like three days?" Anakin asked.
"Yeah, you woke up for like a minute, then fell back to sleep again."
At that moment the Mon Cal alien Cilghal, the Jedi master and healer, walked into the recovery room. Her orange red fish like skin caused her stand out in the grayish room. Cilghal seemed to be getting a bright colored brown lines going in non-normal circles. "Bacta didn't heal the bleeding. It fixed the open wound, but not the inside wound." She explained. "So you went into a healing trance, on instinct. We didn't tell you too."
"Then," Anakin was about to ask the same question again. "How long was I asleep for?"
"Two weeks." It was Han who answered.
He sat up from the bed. "They've had Jacen locked up for two weeks?!" He exclaimed. "They've had to pump out every single bit of information he can recall from Myrkr! How can they still not be sure?"
A commlink beeped. Luke placed a hand into his robe pocket and produced a comlink. He flicked it on. "What?" He said. "Kyp? What? Now? They let him leave? They said what? Punishment? They can't do that! That is jedi business, not Republic problems. And we don't even have one. Find just tell him to come down here."
"Jacen?" Jaina asked. Anakin knew all too well that Jaina knew anyway, Jacen and Jaina had a twin bond. This kept them together through the force. They could speak to each other more clearly with the force that way.
"yep."
"About time." Grumbled Han, who was still annoyed over it no doubt.
"Just relax honey." Said Leia to her husband. "He's coming now isn't he?"
"Yeah, right."
Anakin noticed Cilghal had left, he looked around for a moment, and saw a Holo on it. It had some sort of polls on it. What was it? He noticed two names. Cal Omas, and someone named Fyor Rodan. Anakin knew only little about Fyor Rodan, other then he was from commendor, and an Anti-Jedi man, he knew nothing about Rodan.
He knew more about Omas though. He knew that he was once part of the rebel alliance, wasn't Anti-Jedi, and all-around better person.
Rodan was a supporter of the jedi being handed over to the Yuuzhan Vong, and due to that, the Jedi's only hope was for Omas to win. And judging from the poll on the edge of the Holo screen, he was winning.
"There is something you should know, I think Jacen knows already." Leia said. "The Yuuzhan Vong has Coreusant."
"They took it?"
"Ripped it is more like it." Han explained. "They killed Fey'lya, leaving the senate in charge. But that wasn't going over very well, so they're voting on a new chief of state. And it looks like Omas is going to beat Rodan."
"Which is a good thing." Mara said. "Rodan would hand the jedi over to the vong in a minute, if that offer is even valid anymore."
"We have the final vote from the senator from Dac." Said the speaker coming from the Holo Screen, each in the room turned to face it. This was it. According to what Anakin could see, the race was at a heat. Now, maybe they missed something. Jacen walked into the room, he had a green robe on, a jedi robe, or at least Anakin assumed it was. Anakin realized he had a hospital gown on.
"Cal Omas," The speaker said again. "Is our new chief of state."
Anakin could hear cheers for the rest of the night.