Note : from this point onward, there will be less and less parallelism to TPB original, since in this Darth Thulu aka Evil Fisto are busted, and Windu is alive, not to mention bearded Obi-Wan, padawan Ahsoka, Luke, and ghost! Padme following to this universe... enjoy!
Tatooine, some days from the last scene:
The three Darth Vader (well, technically one Robo-Vader, one Skyguy, and one little Ani) enter the orbit of Tatooine inside their stolen spaceship. Well, they did have plan to force lil' Vader to get some Jappor Snippet and carve something for Padme, but still...
"Mom... I miss her already..." said Skyguy who now sobbing behind the pilot chair like a whiner he is.
"Stop whining! Sith did not whine!" said Robo-Vader.
"But, excuse me my older selves from alternate dimensions, but we can't just go to my mom and said you are my older selves, it can..." said lil' Ani, but then Skyguy glares at him.
"Well, she will recognize me! I can sense her thinking about... well, technically it's you..." said Skyguy.
"Yes, I can sense her too... too bad, she won't likely recongnize me... but... may I ask how and what condition when you are separated from ou... your mother... Ani...?" said Robo-Vader with a bit wince since he didn't used to call someone else Ani, so does Skyguy.
"And what will she said if she... I have great idea!" said Skyguy while looking at lil' Ani and Robo-Vader.
"I see... we're..." said Robo-Vader but Skyguy immediately interject him.
"You're nine, right Ani? So it should make Mom thirty nine. As far as she told me, she was captured by Pirates at age six, along with her parents... our grandparents... she was separated from them, and she doesn't know at all about them... I can act as if her father escaped later, and I am her younger brother, well... kind off, I just know that she said her parent's name are Aikanar and Lila Skywalker, but having them both escaped and not trying to rescue her seems... cruel... so I'll act as if I was her younger, half brother, from her father... and we meet because somehow we have the same name, Anakin Skywalker and Anakin Skywalker..." said Skyguy.
"And what about me?" asked Robo-Vader.
"You're just Vader, hmm... well, let's say we're band of mercenaries or bounty hunters, and you're... our friend... hmm...?"
"Darn, you don't think I can... act as family too?" said Robo-Vader.
"How old are..." asked Skyguy.
"Fourty-Five, bu..." asked Robo-Vader.
"I'm twenty two and I still could act if I need as a sightly younger guy, but when she look inside your helmet, you're look old already Vader..." said Skyguy.
"Damn it, if not for Obi-Wan." said Robo-Vader.
"Yes, yes, I know, but your Obi-Wan is not my Obi-Wan... Perhaps in your dimension, the Jedi are really evil... listen, I only in for this to save Padme, so..." said Skyguy.
"I see, so let me be Vader, your boss..." said Robo-Vader.
"Did I have other choices?" asked Skyguy.
"Umm, guys, I think we'll soon land, anyway... I sense Mommy's signature from..." said lil' Ani.
"Yeah, that grocery store... wait, did the groc..." asked Robo-Vader.
"She's free, and Mister Cliegg agreed to gave her shelter..." said lil' Ani, but Skyguy and Robo-Vader exchange looks and sigh.
"So... it seems we're having stepfather already..." said they both, earning them weird look from lil' Ani.
"Stepfather... wh..." asked lil' Ani, but Skyguy then explain something to him, like their mother remarries, and to be really polite with Cliegg Lars, except when he was proven to be a douchebag and need to be killed.
"Oh... so..." said lil' Ani.
"We'll park our ship near the desert, just near the Lars homestead, and... hey, did you look for that ship as well?" said Skyguy pointing at another ship who already land in the desert as well.
"Hmm? Careful, I sense someone powerful..." said Robo-Vader.
"Let's see, ri... who's that Muun? And who stand behind him?" asked Skyguy when he see an old Muun exit from the starship, along with a kind of Black cloaked Droid... stratch, that Cyborg, without Force Signature, stand behind him, as if they're expecting them as well.
"Yslamir... The Cyborg mask his own force signature by Yslamir, we must be careful about our guess... I can recognize that Muun as Darth Plaqueis, I've seen him from the Sith holocrons..." said Robo-Vader.
"Darth Who? I think you say Palpatine is..." said Skyguy.
"He's Palpatine's master... we must really careful and gauge their intentions very carefully..." said Robo-Vader, while Skyguy prepares the landing.
"So, he's the one who ordered Maul's death!" said lil' Ani.
"Careful, if you value you, and our mother's life, you must be careful... he has power to back his claim as Sith Master, and right now, with Palpatine dead in this dimension, he could be actually more powerful than what he is in our dimensions..." said Robo-Vader.
"Remember Ani, stay silent and let the grown ups sort this matter..." said Skyguy, earning him a rolled eyes from lil' Ani.
So, after they land, Skyguy and Robo-Vader step down from their spaceship, followed by lil' Ani. Their hands ready at the lightsabers, yet they tried to look a if they have respect to the other two standing in front of them. A short time of silence pass, and Darth Plaqueis open their conversations.
"Greetings, I can sense you *look at Robo-Vader* already known about me... I am Darth Plaqueis, this is Xanatos, my Acolyte, and you are Darth..." said Darth Plaqueis politely.
"I am Darth Vader, he is Darth Vader, and the little boy behind us is Darth Vader as well..." said Robo-Vader.
"I see, so the accidental vortex is throwing you into this dimension as well... I can see that you're older versions of the boy..." said Darth Plaqueis.
"You know about the wormholes? Did you...?" asked Skyguy, but Darth Plaqueis just gesture with his hand and resume his speech.
"I won't lie to you this time, this situation is dire, it needs three Chosen Ones to solve this... problem..." said Plaqueis.
"What problem? And did you call us for..." said Skyguy.
"I did not call you, the Force himself calls both of you... as you can see, there is a bigger threat looming over us... Interdimensional entity from another dimension will engulf us soon..." said Plaqueis cryptically.
"Interdimensional entity? What?" asked Skyguy, while Robo-Vader listen with interest.
"I don't know, but invading entities will soon take a foothold in this dimension to exterminate the Force, to prevent this for happening, the Force deemed it necessary to bring you here to help and..." said Plaqueis, but this time, Robo-Vader cuts him.
"Wait a minute, are you joking? Darth Traya tried that and she failed... b... but... did you mean in this dimension, Darth Traya actually succeed?" asked Robo-Vader.
"Not this Traya, but this time is... how to say this, but... this is another you..." said Plaqueis.
"WHAT? Another of us?" said the three both.
"Well, I don't know the exact things, but he masquerades as Jedi, while his companions are... yes, alternate versions of your friends, all using the Light Side... so the Force tries to stop this madness and summon you both to help the little boy..."
"I see... so Jedi who hates the Force eh? and..." said Robo-Vader, but then Skyguy quickly said.
"Wait a minute, but I came here as a Jedi and..." said Skyguy, but Plaqueis already replies.
"This is the other you... while he may hide under the mask of a Jedi Master, he is actually something more sinister... now go... you can do your current business, but after that, meet me here... things are going dire..." said Plaqueis.
"Alright... let's go..." said Skyguy, and the three of them walk toward the Lars homestead.
After the three are out of earshots, and checking their shield:
"Master Plaqueis, but how did we fool them for long?" asked Xanatos.
"We did not need to fool the Cyborg one, and we can sure that the little boy will be cooperative with us as well, the real question is the still Jedi one..."
"But well, I just never think this could happen, but..." said Xanatos.
"If I knew that Lord Vitiate mess with the scroll over ritual of Nathema, I won't attempt to do this prematurely..." said Plaqueis.
"Speaking of which, I wonder who the other self of that Darth Vader was here..."
"I didn't really know, but he is the Chosen One at full potential, and he could easily defeat us... and worse, he is fully committed Jedi this time... we can only hope to manipulate those three for..."
"Hmm... I see..."
At the Orbit of Coruscant, inside a Nubian cruiser ship, several days ago:
"Anakin, I hate to say this, but did you think it was right to let your son pilot the..." said a old looking Obi-Wan toward a middle aged Anakin.
"Yeah, but it was so sudden, not even I could manage to evade it, and you can see that I am trying to manage the best I can do with the Force to let us not dragged into that wormhole!" said the middle aged Anakin, who look exhausted, while thirteen years old Leia Skywalker and fifteen years old Half-Human Half-Togrutan Thukul Tano still cower in fear at their seats. Thirteen years old Luke Skywalker himself is just trying himself to steer the ship, but the near disaster with the wormhole still left him in panic, so he didn't really focus on anything other than avoid being crashed into the planet under him.
"I sense massive disturbance in the Force... I hate to say this, but it seems we're somehow dragged back to Coruscant..." said old Obi-Wan.
"Whatever dragged us back to Coruscant apparently want you to meet her again! Ahsoka actually want to have some words with you over this! You know, she end up formally quit the Jedi order and work as Padme's assistant due to this... I wish we could solve this... wait a minute, why did I sense three copy signatures of my own are just passing by? It... it can't be... and the two of them seems bathed in the Dark Side!" said Anakin who then shoved Luke from the pilot seat and tries to follow the passing force signatures, but then, Obi-Wan quickly nudged him while said.
"And I sense two copy of my own force signatures down there, inside the Jedi temple... and... WHAT? MASTER QUI-GON!"
"Somehow, I hope that I did not resist the wormhole drag, we could meet them much earlier..." said the middle aged Anakin.
"Let's head to the Temple first don't we?" said old Obi-Wan.
Author's Note:
Yes, yes, the latest dimensional slip is from my other (completed) story : The Wrong Pregnancy... and this version of Anakin is clearly not a whiner, and more skilled with the Force to resist the wormhole, although this make him stranded in orbit instead of being teleported directly to Jedi Temple, make the middle-aged Anakin, old Obi-Wan, Luke, Leia, and Thukul Tano (OC) missed meeting the others for a while.
yep, this is actually the Sequel of sort for this too... I just hope this don't gave my readers too much brain-bending exercise... (or should I say mindfuck?)
Yeah, since two Vader (one little boy, one burned cyborg) just can't stand two Anakin, and one is fully skilled and commited Jedi, so if he was teleported there, it will end up as curbstomp battle with lil' Vader and Robo-Vader utterly defeated. Too bad for the light side, it seems the Skyguy Anakin is already seduced a bit to the Dark Side...