POV: Anakin Skywalker

The doors burst open. I heard gunfire. As soon as it began, it ended. Several of the Senators were on the floor, lifeless. The Chancellor... or rather, the Sith Lord, was standing at the head of the room with Clone Troopers surrounding the room. Yoda and I could easily take out all of the troopers, but we didn't want to hurt the remaining survivors.

I looked around the room and then internally sighed. Padme was still alive. She was near the center of the room, ducking down. "Ah, there are Jedi left. What brings you here?"

I began formulating the number of seconds that I would have to take out the blasters before they had a chance to shoot the Senators. There were five troopers... five guns. Five different angles that could kill any one of us in this room. "Master, glad to see you could make it."

I looked down at the boy that had only been my Padawan for a short time. "Jaele."

"Ready, Skywalker?" Yoda whispered.

I nodded and jumped into the air, landing beside two of the troopers, taking them out in seconds. I lurched backwards and killed two more. That left one. I spun around and he was gone. Where was he? "Anakin –"

My eyes widened as I saw the trooper holding Padme at gunpoint.

"If he makes any sudden movements, kill her," Palpatine ordered.

Yoda was going to attack Palpatine, but he hadn't had the chance, possibly foreseeing that he would be unsuccessful. He would need my focus to help him destroy the Sith Lord. I wondered if this was my destiny. I was to destroy the Sith Lord, but at what costs? Was I to die, was Padme? My children? Ahsoka? I couldn't answer any of those questions right now. Palpatine looked at Yoda and smiled. "Was this as you planned, Master Jedi?"

I closed my eyes and raised my hand, beginning to Force-choke the last trooper. He dropped his gun and began to claw at his neck. I ran my lightsaber through him, killing the last of the troopers. Padme ran to me and hugged me. I was surprised that I had instinctively returned that hug with one arm, since the other was holding my lightsaber.

"Skywalker." I turned back to Yoda, who had begun fighting the Sith Lord. I released Padme and ran to join the fight. Palpatine sent a wave of Force lightning at me, sending me to the ground, pain wracking all over my body. I had thrown my lightsaber upon being hit, so I focused on bringing it back to me. It came and I began to block the lightning.

Yoda was jumping around the room, finding the perfect angle to attack from since Palpatine's attention was locked on me for the moment. "You were meant to be my apprentice," he yelled. "You became a failed cause once you changed the prophecy. You weren't meant to be with your Padawan or have a child with her. You were meant to be with the Senator, have twins, and then become a monstrous machine."

"I'm known for being a failure," I said through clenched teeth. His Force powers were beginning to overwhelm me. I hoped that Yoda would attack in the next few seconds.

"You were meant to become Darth Vader, not remain Anakin Skywalker. Padme was to die in order for you to join me."

I took a chance at glancing in Padme's direction. She was being overwhelmed by Clones that had just arrived. "Yoda!" I yelled, pain stinging my arm.

He looked up from his position on a wall and jumped toward Padme. He instantly killed a few, but there were more. Padme picked up a blaster and began to help Yoda. I felt my arm shaking. I couldn't hold the lightning off much longer. The position on the floor wasn't going to do me any good in the long run. I groaned in pain as my arm was beginning to give out. Then the Force stopped. My arm fell to the floor, my lightsaber deactivated beside it.

I looked up and saw Padme at my side in her shooting position. She had just shot the Sith Lord. She was waiting for him to move, so she could shoot again. I couldn't feel any life coming from the Sith a small distance away from me. My head began to ache as several images entered my mind.

I clutched my head in agony as the images began to flash rapidly. This looked like what Palpatine had been talking about. I was to become a Sith, kill younglings, kill Padme... I would have killed so many people. The faces of my would-have-been children appeared... a boy and a girl. Neither of them would come into existence because I hadn't done as I was destined to.

"Anakin," Padme sighed, frantic. "Talk to me."

I tried to push the images away, but more kept coming into view. Obi-Wan and I were fighting on a planet of lava – Mustafar. I had lost, burning as Obi-Wan walked away. I saw myself as a towering, black droid. I saw myself die to save my son. The images disappeared and I gasped. "Palpatine... put the images of the prophecy I was supposed to fulfill in my mind."

She hugged me tightly. "I'm glad you came to save me. Thank you."

"Are you upset about –?"

"If we had stayed as we were, I wouldn't be here right now. You wouldn't be here, Ahsoka wouldn't be here..."

"Kaimi wouldn't be here," I replied sadly.

"Kaimi?"

"My daughter with Ahsoka."

She smiled. "I'm glad that she's all right. Is Shmi okay?"

"Everyone is on the ship waiting for us." I spun around the room for a moment, searching for Jaele. He was nowhere to be found. Padme picked Yoda up and we ran outside. I heard blaster fire and panicked. I put every bit of the Force into my sprint and made it out there in time to see Obi-Wan drop to his knees.

"No!" I yelled, fury building. I ran into a jump and sliced the clone's head off. "Obi-Wan," I gasped, pulling him close to my chest.

"I'm fine, just a..." he flinched in pain. "Slight injury."

I dragged him up the ramp without hurting him and began to bandage his side where he had been shot.

I looked around and saw no one else here after I had finished bandaging him. "Ahsoka! Satine!"

After a few seconds, Ahsoka's head poked out of a room. "Anakin!" She ran out to me with Kaimi in her arms, Shmi and Satine trailing behind her. All three children were alive and well, as were their mothers. Padme and Yoda came up the ramp and joined us. Shmi ran to her mother and they embraced. I sat down and held my head in my hands for a few moments. I needed that much time to relax and clear my mind. I felt Ahsoka sit beside me and rest her head on my shoulder, placing her hand on my knee. I pulled my head back and looked at her. She was smiling at me. "You're such a good man and father, Anakin. You saved all of us today."

I smiled. "But Padme took the glory in killing the Sith Lord."

Ahsoka and I looked up at Padme and laughed. She was smiling at us, holding Shmi in her arms. "You distracted him. I just shot him. You deserve the credit."

"No, you do, Padme."

"Okay! You both deserve the credit," Obi-Wan gasped. "You distracted, she shot. You both killed him."

All of the women and I laughed. "Oh, go rest, old man."

He smirked at me, causing me to laugh yet again. "I'm only a few years older than you, young man."

I went up to the cockpit and put autopilot on, setting a course for the atmosphere of Coruscant. I had no idea as to where we would go just yet. I came into the back with the rest of my friends. "Where do we go from here?"

"I... would like to go to Naboo, to be with my family," Padme said.

"I don't mind Naboo," Ahsoka and Satine said simultaneously.

Obi-Wan and I exchanged a look. It looks as though all of us would be heading to Naboo. "Master Yoda?" I asked, looking at him.

"To Naboo, I will go. A different place, I will stay in."

I nodded and went to set a course in for Naboo. Obi-Wan joined me in his seat. "You did a great job today, Anakin. You saved us and helped kill the Sith Lord."

"Palpatine showed me what my prophecy was. It was all that would have happened if I hadn't fallen in love with Ahsoka."

"What would have happened?"

"I would have become a Sith myself, had twins with Padme, killed her and younglings... dueled you on Mustafar. That duel would have turned me into a droid by the name of Darth Vader," I whispered, not wanting anyone in the back to hear it just yet.

"I would have turned you into a droid?"

"Not intentionally. You meant to kill me. You sliced my legs off, causing me to fall down the rocky hill and catch on fire. I wouldn't be able to breathe and live like that, so I was placed in a suit to regulate my body... keep me alive. I would be a droid." I looked down at my gloved, mechanical hand. "It's bad enough that I have this to live with..."

Obi-Wan looked and felt saddened. "I would have sent you to your death. Anakin, I'm so sorry –"

"Don't be," I laughed. "I'm still here, aren't I? We're all alive."

"If I killed you... I would never be able to live with myself."

"Then don't kill me," I teased. "Hey, at least you don't have to worry about resigning now."

"I won't. The four of us and our children are all that's left of the Jedi. We must preserve this, create more Jedi."

"I don't think Master Yoda agrees with that..."

"He'll change his mind once I tell him that I have a daughter of my own and that you have two."

We arrived on Naboo several hours later. All of us went to Padme's lakeside home, resting for a while. I remembered marrying Padme here. As soon as she and I entered the area where it happened, we both looked at each other. We shared a look of mutual discomfort being in this area, but she smiled. "This is where you and Ahsoka will get married."

"I like it. It's a beautiful spot," I said, returning her smile. "Wait, how did you know that we're getting married?"

"The three of us talked while you flew us here."

"I'm sure that drove Yoda insane."

She punched my arm lightly. "No, it didn't."

Master Yoda called Obi-Wan and I to him. The women took the children into different rooms to put them to bed while the three of us talked. "Now, the time is, for explanations."

Obi-Wan motioned for me to begin and I sighed. "Padme and I were married five years ago and then we divorced. She had my child, Shmi, a few months after I left her. I didn't find out that I had a daughter until a few months ago. Ahsoka and I had another daughter, Kaimi, a few weeks ago on Mandalore."

I turned to Obi-Wan and mimicked his motion. "Duchess Satine and I are married; we have been for a few months. She and I had a daughter, Airi, who is now a little over three months old."

Yoda sighed. "Made to be broken, rules are. Made to be rethought, they are."

"You're going to rethink the Jedi rules?" Obi-Wan asked, intrigued.

"Yes. Allowed to love, a Jedi will be. Allowed this is, by seeing you two."

I felt a smile creep onto my face, Obi-Wan's probably the same. "Thank you, Master Yoda," we said, bowing.

He smiled. "A new mission, we have."

"A mission already?" I complained.

"Find Jaele Kide, we must. A threat, he may become."

Obi-Wan and I glanced at each other. He nodded at me and I looked back at Yoda. "We'll do whatever it takes to keep everyone safe. I will personally hunt him down for what he's done."

Yoda sighed and nodded. Obi-Wan looked at me concerned. I shrugged after the conversation was finished and went to find Ahsoka. She and I needed to spend some time together after all that had happened today.

Order Sixty-Six had taken place, but had not gone as it should have. I was glad that everything had changed.