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Sorry people that it took so long to post this chapter. I lost track of it and my computer crashed and lost all my files. I had to rewrite it to this point. I hope you are going to like it as much as I do? Reviews are still welcome!!

Note!! This chapter isn't Beta-readed!! I did my best to see the mistakes for myself.

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Chapter 9: It begins…

Hadrian rushed after obi-Wan who dashed through the tower door and ran toward the ship. The bounty hunter's ship, the SLAVE I, rested on the landing platform at a weird angle. The boy turned around and started to panic at the incoming Jedi.

"Dad!! Look!" Hadrian heard him shouting. Jango Fett turned to see the Jedi charging out of the tower. As they run, they drew out their lightsabers from their belt. Hadrian turned it on. A silver flash lighted his wet face.

"I'll stop the boy from taking off." Hadrian shouted to his friend. Fett drew his gun and fired at the charging Jedi. Obi-Wan deflected the blast and swung at the bounty hunter who ducked.

"Boba, get on board." He shouted to his son when he saw Hadrian moving toward him. He rocked up and over the blue lightsaber wielder, landed on the top of a nearby tower. Jango fired down at the Jedi but he deflected the shots back, but Jango evaded them easily. Then he fired an explosive, sending Obi-Wan diving out of the way.

The boy ran toward the ship but stopped in his tracks when blue fire blocked his way. Boba turned around and saw the other Jedi coming to him. Hadrian lowered his lightsaber and stared at the boy with blazing eyes. The boy looked scared, being trapped between fire and the Jedi. Meanwhile the battle went on between Jango and Obi-Wan.

"Don't do this Boba." Hadrian replied calmly. "I'm not going to hurt you."

The boy narrowed his eyes and looked mean. Then he grabbed a gun from behind and started to fire at the Jedi. Hadrian pulled up his weapon and deflected the shots which came his way. Because of this, he lost control over the fire and it diminished. Boba saw his chance and ran inside the ship. Hadrian cursed and ran. The hatched closed just before him.

"Fuck!"

In the cockpit, Boba grabbed the controls of a laser gun and swung it to aim at Hadrian and fired. Hadrian just had the time to jumped aside and slightly slipped on the wet platform. More blastershots were heading his way. Hadrian jumped up and created a fire shield. The impact was enormous which threw Hadrian to the ground. His lightsaber skidded across the wet surface of the landing platform. The firing stopped. Hadrian pulled himself together, still in one piece and called back his weapon by using the Force.

You can destroy this ship, you know.

Hadrian stopped moving and looked around franticly. Who said that? Shots were heard far across the platform, Hadrian saw Obi-Wan still fighting the bounty hunter. He looked back at the ship. Who was that voice? There wasn't anything he could there anymore. If he came closer, the boy will shoot him to bits and pieces.

Use your ability and blast that ship into oblivion.

There was it again. He shook his head to clear it. He turned around and went to aide his friend, ignoring that voice. Was he going mad?

At the same time when Hadrian charged the boy, Jango dropped from the tower, landing in front of the Jedi. Obi-Wan rose and charged toward him. They grappled and fought, punching, kicking, grabbing hold and threw each other around. Obi-Wan grabbed the hunter tightly and Jango rocked up into the air and kicked the Jedi loose. Obi-Wan crashed to the deck and slid toward the edge. He grappled desperately for a handhold on the slick surface. He reached out for his lightsaber which he lost during the fall, but Jango fired a thin wire from his wrist pack. It wrapped around his wrist before he could retrieve his weapon.

The bounty hunter rocked into the air, dragging Obi-Wan behind him along the platform surface. As the Jedi slid toward some columns he managed to maneuver himself into a roll avoiding a collision by leveraging the wire against the structure and pulled himself to his feet. Obi-Wan pulled with all his weight against the momentum of the wire, causing Jango to drop and crashed into the ground. The hunter's rocket pack broke free from his back and exploded.

Still connected by the wire, Obi-Wan charged at Jango, kicking him over the platform edge.

"Oh, great…" Obi-wan muttered. Jango slid, pulling the surprised Jedi with him. Hadrian came running toward the edge, then jumped back when Jango emerged from behind. He fired at him and Hadrian deflected it with his lightsaber. The bounty hunter came on his feet and charged. Hadrian sidestepped, but Jango was faster, surprisingly. Hadrian was caught of guard when a blastershot from the ship threw Hadrian over the edge. He slid across the surface, plummeting down toward the raging ocean. At the last moment, when Hadrian was airborne, someone grabbed his wrist. Hadrian looked up and saw a grinning face of Obi-Wan who was dangling on the wire.

"Don't say it." Hadrian growled.

Obi-Wan smiled. "It's nice of you to drop by."

Hadrian scowled at the older Jedi. Together, they swung and dropped onto a small service platform just above the waves. Hadrian hauled himself to his feet. Obi-Wan and Hadrian dashed toward the entrance and rushed back to the platform. They came running out onto the landing dock. Obi-Wan spotted his lightsaber on the floor. This time, he retrieved it successfully and turned it on just as Jango ship engines roared. Hadrian heard this too and stopped. Obi-Wan realized that the ship was about to take off, he took a small tracking device from his belt and threw it onto the hull of the ship.

Hadrian saw the ship lifted off from the platform and headed up into the lowering sky. Then it disappeared. Lightning flashed. Rain kept lashing the tower and streamed across the surface of the platform where Obi-Wan and Hadrian stood, watching.

Hadrian sighed. "Now that was very stimulating… being kicked by a mere boy." Not to mention an unknown voice talking to him. It gave him a strange feeling inside. He closed his eyes for the moment and pulled himself together.

Obi-wan raised his eyebrow. "Really?" Hadrian nodded. "Come on. Lets go back to our ship and track them down."

They ran back inside and headed toward their own platform.

The Naboo Starship headed toward the desert planet of Tatooine. They took their time back on Naboo. Nobody knew anything about their rush departure. Padmé looked at the yellow planet. She didn't even took some time to say goodbye to her son… again. But he would understand. She hoped. They entered the atmosphere and the Starship landed in a large parking lot of Spaceships on the outskirts of Mos Espa. They where about to leave the cockpit until Anakin heard something.

"Did you hear that?" He asked her. Padmé looked confused and shook her head.

BUNK

Now she heard it too. Anakin went to investigate. He came to a stop near a small compartment. He used the Force to open it. The door slid open. Anakin knelt down and came eye to eye with a small boy. The boy winced.

"Oh, boy… busted." The child muttered. Padmé heard the child voice and knelt down next to Anakin. She was stunned to see her son sitting there.

"Nathaniel Ayden Phoenix. What in god's name are you doing here." She shrieked. The boy backed away in fear of his mother wrath. Padmé pulled the boy out of the compartment. Anakin closed it and grinned.

"I wanna to come with you, Mom. Please…" Nate defended himself. His eyes glassed over by unshed tears. Padmé couldn't stay angry and she hugged him close.

"Fine… But stay close to Mommy. Okay?" The boy nodded. Padmé stood up, taking the boy in her arms and looked at Anakin. "I swear, he's acting more and more like his father."

Anakin laughed. "With a father like that… nobody stays sane." Padmé laughed. Together they left the craft. Anakin and Padmé, Nathaniel sat on her lap looking in awe, rode a rickshaw. Anakin stared at sights he hasn't seen for years. Finally, they came to Watto's shop and the rickshaw stopped.

"Wait, please." He said to the driver. He and Padmé who was holding her son by the hand, got down. Sitting on a stool in front of the shop was the familiar blue alien by the name of Watto. He was using a small electronic screwdriver on a fiddly droid. Three pit droids were chattering away and were trying to help him, but they seemed only to make him madder. Nathaniel giggled and Padmé smiled, seeing her boy happy. She never took him anywhere yet because he was too small.

"No chuba da wanga, da wanga." Watto yelled. (No, not that one - that one!)

Anakin stepped forward. Padmé and Nathaniel stood behind him watching the scene. "Chut, chut, Watto." (Excuse me, Watto.)

The alien didn't looked up. "Ke booda?" (What?)

Anakin was insisting. "Di nova, 'chut, chut." (I said; excuse me.)

Watto turned to the chattering pit droids. "Go ana bopa!" (Shut down!)

"Ding mi chasa hopa." Anakin said. (Let me help you with that.) He took the fiddly piece of equipment and started to play with it. Nate looked in awe at the droids and at Anakin. He shook his mother hand. Padmé looked down.

"Why are we here?"

Padmé thought for a moment how to explain it to him. "We here to see Anakin's mother. To make sure she's feeling well."

Nate looked confused. "Is she sick?"

Padmé shook her head. "We don't know. That's why we're here, sweetheart." Nate nodded and watched Anakin repairing the piece of device. It didn't take long. Finally, Watto blinked in surprised.

"Ke booda? Yo baan pee hota. No wega mi condorta. Kin chasa du Jedi. No bata tu tu." Watto continued. (What? I don't know you... What can I do for you? You look like a Jedi. Whatever it is... I didn't do it.) Watto dropped the screwdriver and cursed loudly in Huttese. Padmé clapped her hands over her son's ears.

"Mi boska di Shmi Skywalker." Anakin continued. ( I'm looking for Shmi Skywalker.) Watto looked at him suspiciously. He stared at Padmé and the boy, then back at Anakin. The realization hit him.

"Ani? Little Ani? Naaah!!" Suddenly, the fiddly piece of equipment in Anakin's hands whirred into life. Watto blinked at it.

Watto switched over to Basic. "You are Ani! It is you! Ya sure sprouted! Weehoo! A Jedi! Waddya know? Hey, maybe you couldda help wit some deadbeats who owe me a lot of
money..."

"My mother." Anakin was seriously.

"Oh, yeah. Shmi… she's not mine no more. I sold her." Watto replied in all earnest.

"Sold her…" Anakin looked surprised.

Watto went on. "Years ago. Sorry, Annie, but you know, business is business. Sold her to a moisture farmer named Lars. Least I think it was Lars. Believe it or not, I heard he freed her
and married her. Can ya beat that?"

"Do you know where they are?" He asked him.

"Long way from here… someplace over on the other side of Mos Eisley, I think…" The blue alien scratched his head.

"I like to know." Anakin replied. He looked grim and it meant business. Watto got the hint quickly.

"Yeah… sure… absolutely. Let's go look in my records." Anakin and Watto went into the shop. Padmé and Nathaniel stayed outside. Padmé explained some things to the little boy when he pointed to various things. She smiled. Nate twirled around in circles, making his head spin. It was not long before Anakin came back.

A red planet loomed up before them which was circled by a large asteroid field that forms rings. The Jedi Starfighter, attached to the hyperspace transport ring, appeared in space. The Starfighter disengaged from the ring and followed the hunter's ship.

"Geonosis… So that's where he's going." Obi-Wan declared. Hadrian looked out of the window at the red planet.

"Great. Tatooine II." He muttered. Obi-Wan laughed.

"You don't like sand, do you?"

Hadrian shook his head. "I'm still finding some sand dust from my previous visit to Tatooine and that's almost ten years ago." He said. Obi-Wan smiled. Then they found the hunter's ship on their screen.

"Here we go."

Then suddenly Obi-Wan stopped his ship. Hadrian looked in confusion.

"What's wrong?"

"That's interesting." He looked at his co-pilot. "They seem to have discovered the tracker." He turned back to his consoles. "Arfoor, shut down… Shape scan their last coordination." The astro droid beeped. Then the Droid whistled. Hadrian saw something coming.

"Look out!" Something approached their Starfighter. Obi-Wan pulled his ship up.

"Whoa! Sonic charges… Stand by." Then Hadrian saw them entering the asteroid belt. He signaled to Obi-Wan and their ship dived into the asteroid belt after them. The Jedi maneuvered over the asteroid and Jango's ship emerged, chasing after them.

"They behind us." Hadrian said. His fingers danced around the keyboard. Then something beeped on their screens. They were locked on. Hadrian looked back and saw the laser cannons from the SLAVE I activating. Then it fired. The ship flipped, rolled and turned at incredible speed, dodging, weaving and firing. They tumbled from near misses.

"Oh, blast! This is way I hate flying." Obi-Wan remarked.

"Should I take over." Hadrian suggested. Obi-Wan grinned.

"If your flying style is any near to Anakin's, I rather fly myself. Thank you."

Hadrian laughed. Bits flew of their Starfighter as one of Jango's missiles got through. It kept firing with laser shots. One bold stroke the Jedi's ship causing a small explosion. Inside the cockpit, Hadrian viewed the screens.

"Missile incoming… fast." He told the pilot. Obi-Wan nodded. The torpedo followed closely. He threw the ship from one side to side, avoiding great rocks and the torpedo. Then a huge asteroid tumbled across their path. There seemed no way he can avoid it. Hadrian was calm.

"We need a diversion."

You don't need a diversion, child.

The voice was back. Hadrian shuddered. What was going on. Who are you?

It does not matter for the moment. Just blast the damn ship out of the sky.

Great, I have a homicidal voice in my head. Hadrian shook his head again and concentrated on the moment.

Obi-Wan thought swift. "Arfour, prepare to jettison the spare parts canisters. Release them now." Arfour beeped. Hadrian saw behind them some junk enter the space. Their was a huge explosion. Obi-Wan used for this momentum to hide themselves behind an big asteroid rock. Hadrian took a deep breath. It worked. They took some time.

"Well, I think we've waited long enough… Follow his last known trajectory." He told to droid. Arfour beeped. The fighter moved out from the back side of the asteroid and headed away from the asteroid, descending toward Geonosis. Hadrian looked toward the red planet and saw in the distance a large fleet of Trade Federation ships hidden among the asteroids. He pointed.

"Look familiar." He took Obi-Wan.

He nodded. "There's an unusual concentration of Federation ships over there." He turned to Hadrian. "We'd better stay clear."

The ship skimmed across the top of a small mesa along the edge of a rocky ridge. He, Obi-Wan, maneuvered under a rock overhang and landed. They got out of the Fighter and walked onto the mesa. The wind whipped at them. Hadrian looked around.

Geonosis was a red rock planet, featureless apart from buttes and mesas and occasional tall stalagmites that stood out dramatically on the arid plains. The night was quiet, except for an occasional weird cry. Hadrian looked around; He didn't saw anything suspicious yet. Somewhere in his guts, Hadrian didn't feel well about this planet. It looked familiar. Not because he has seen it before on the white screen… but somewhere else. He closed his eyes and searched through the Force. His eyes snapped open when he suddenly felt a burning pain in his chest.

My dream! He thought. He gazed around again. He had things feeling we will never leave this planet. He took a deep breath. And know a strange voice was speaking to him. Was this all connected? He remembered Master Yoda say something about his gift. But still, who was the owner of this voice. The pain dulled a bit. Whatever was about to happen he could not loose his concentration on this matter. Padmé's life depends on it. Obi-Wan called out. He turned. Hadrian checked his bearings and followed his friend to their next destination.

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