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Chapter 8: Troubles from Kidnapping
In the remains of the living room of Amelia's house, Anakin is pacing back and forth. Mark was startled at the fact that not only Maxus attacked his mother's house but he is also working for a Sith Lord that Mark had taken to be dead for the past 4 years. "Darth Vader is close to this planet. He must have drop out of Hyperspace a few light years from the planet so that the planetary radar did not pick up on a ship drop out of hyperspace. He used the Force to manipulate one of the Star Destroyer that was guarding the planet to attack the house." say Mark.
"Would you shut up, that idiot father of yours got my children and you are worrying about some Sith Lord that is made out of your DNA!" snap Anakin. "Listen to me, only reason why Maxus took your kids is that Vader wants them. They are strong in the Force. I can see bunch of reasons why he would do that. He will train them and he knows that the strongest Jedi would not strike. It common sense that the galaxy thinks you and I are the strongest Jedi. He knows I would not take down your kids and you would not even dream of doing it. So in a way to make his Empire lives. Your kids are still young. If they are in his clutches for even 5 years, they might not remember who they are and where they come from. They can be turn completely against you and Padme. While you do not want to attack them, they will use that weakness and kill you." say Mark thinking of all he possible reasons why Darth Vader wants the Skywalker twins besides them being powerful in the Force.
"Then let go after Vader and stop him." demand Anakin. "First of all we do not know where he is. Second of all, you are not going after him. You may fall to the Dark Side. Even if you do not, he might be too powerful for you. There is another child that Vader is looking for, and I bet you he was the one in that golden helmet. I remember how his eyes never left my face when he was talking to the Council before that station exploded.
"Do you even have a plan?" ask Padme. Mark smiles at this. "Yeah I got one. We know there is another Force Sensitive child on this planet. If I am right about who Vader is than he will go after him. I figure once Vader get on the planet Maxus would use that shuttle to take the twins aboard the ship. That is where Anakin could stop him while I stop Vader from taking that child." say Mark.
"What happen if you are wrong about Vader? What happen if he brings the ship down?" ask Anakin. "He would not do that. It would be stupid. Remember he might have intelligence like me. He would like to be able to jump in Hyperspace right away after he is done. Having his ship down on the planet means it in danger of being attack by ground forces and ships station on the planet could attack and destroy it, which means it will leave him stranded on the planet." say Mark.
Padme look at Mark with a worry look on her face. Mark swears he never feel that she was ever this worry. She is more worry than the look on her face shows. Mark can sense that she is shaken with worry and fear.
"So why weren't you here to protect the kids Anakin?" ask Mark. "The Prime Minister said that they were in trouble. So, I went to save them. Turn out they were perfectly fine. They were completely unaware of anything that was going on." say Anakin.
Padme gasps when she hears this. So this was a plan just to get her children. Right as she did this she begins to see very bad images of her children suffering. Then she begins to see them as being a part of Darth Vader's army. She also sees that they both stab her in the chest with red bladed Lightsabers. She can see them both take down Anakin and Mark without a second thought. Then she sees them overthrow the Republic and than kills Darth Vader to gain control over the Empire which they rule much worst than Darth Vader and killing all those that oppose them.
Anakin looks away from Mark and notices that Padme is shaking as she put her hand on her chest. Right away, they know it is not the wound that is making her suffer. Anakin had used the Force to heal the wound as much as he can. "Come on Padme it is time for you to get some rest. This stress is not good." say Anakin as he helps Padme up.
Mark Comlink beep. "Zane here." say Mark. "General, we are tracking Maxus Zane. Should we try to get the children?" ask Captain Kia. "No, it is too dangerous. Follow them and keep me posted. When they get to a spot that they are meeting a shuttle let me know so Anakin could be on his way. Stay out of sight. Maxus had taken down 30 Clone Troopers that you have station around the house." say Mark. Captain Kia ends the transmission.
"Oh Padme might hate you for that. She would want the twins be saved as soon as possible." say Amelia as she looks at Mark. "It is too dangerous for them to risk their lives. If they try to save them and failed then they will change location or they might find another way of getting the twins off the planet." say Mark.
Amelia looks up at Mark. "It seems like you want to challenge Darth Vader with how you think. I thought Jedi does not go looking for trouble." say Amelia looking up at Mark. Mark raises his eyebrows at this and looks at his mother. Is she insane to suggest such a thing? "No, that is not why. I figure during that transaction it will be the easier." say Mark crossing his arms behind his back.
Amelia shakes her head. "It is okay to want to fight someone like Vader. You want to take him down before he could do any more damage. It does not take someone who is tuned to the Force to know that if he is not stop now it could cause a lot of trouble in the future." say Amelia looking up at her son.
Mark looks away from his mother and walks toward the door. Mark took the Comlink from his wrist off and hands it to his mother. "When Captain Kia calls tell him to contact Anakin. I am going to find someone." say Mark. "Who are you going find? Darth Vader is not even near the planet." say Amelia.
"Who says I am looking for Darth Vader. He will find me if he truly wants to fight. There is a little girl out here that is going to be hunted by Darth Vader. She is strong in the Force. I must not let the Dark Side get her." say Mark.
"I am going with you Master." say Rachelle. Mark turns around. "No, you will stay here to protect Amelia and Padme. I mean it; this is no longer a test. You are not a Knight yet. You are still my Padawan, until you become a Knight you can decide to what to do. Until then you stay here and protect the Senator and Chancellor. You follow me, it will be the end of your career as a Jedi." say Mark as he walks out of the door.
As he walks out the door, he senses Darth Vader coming closer and closer to the planet. He opens himself up to the Force to try to locate the little girl. Mark senses that she was on the other side of the planet. Mark know by Speeder it will take awhile, but if he uses his Starfighter he could get there much quicker.
As he walks down the stairs open the garage and got out a Speeder that his family built. He knows it is faster than most because he drove it before. He needs to get to the Bakuran Military Spaceport quickly so he can get his Star Fighter.
Anakin has Mark Comlink on his arm as he lays down on the bed with his wife. He still sense she is very worry. He even tries to use the Force to help her relax and it does not work so well.
"Padme it will be okay. There is hardly any plan of Mark's that fails 100 percent of the time. I can see why he plans to not let Captain Kia attack. It would be pointless." say Anakin. "Don't you think the only reason Mark made this plan was so he can fight Darth Vader? Come on he told you not to attack him." say Padme as she sits up with a bit struggle as she feel pain in her side.
"Mark is a Jedi. He might be a little strange and different from most Jedi, but he is a Jedi to the core. Look at all the times he battle. Take Darth Vader for instant, he knows that he could be trouble but he did not kill Darth Vader when he was down. He let him die from his wounds. He killed Palpatine during the fight when they both were armed. Any other Jedi who knows of the threat someone would cause would most likely end the lives. You saw him battle couple of times. The only time he kills someone that was down or unarmed was a Droid." say Anakin. "Why doesn't he just finish them off?" ask Padme. "It is against the Jedi Code. A Jedi must not kill an unarmed opponent." say Mark. "There was times Mark seem to try to kill Palpatine when he was unarmed." say Padme remember the battle. "Mark was tricking him to get armed. Either to use the Force against Mark or to attack." say Anakin looking at Padme.
He was hoping that talk got Padme thinking about something else, but it only lasted a few seconds before she begin to worry again. Padme look out the window to the scene of the beach she remember that she and the kid enjoy being down there. She then pictures the water being on fire as she sees her teenage twins with Sith yellow eyes.
Padme gasps and pushes herself backwards. This moment made her back into Anakin as she put her fist near her lips. She is mumbling words. Anakin leans closer to make sure she was okay. What he hears is Padme praying. It kills him seeing the love of his life like this.
He wraps his arms around her but stops when she hisses in pain. He could not use the Force to help her out and he cannot hold her without causing some physical pain. He feels so hopeless with her suffering. "You want some tea or something." ask Anakin remember the tea that Jobal, Padme's mother, have made to help calm the family down after the horrid events in 19 BBY. He figures it was something he should learn so he asked her to teach him how to make it. It literary have some kind of calming effect on people. He likes to call it a liquid version of the Force since how it can calm people down as if a Jedi using the Force to calm the nerves.
"No, I do not want anything but to hold my children in my arms. I wish I could be out there looking for them, but I cannot do much in my state." say Padme turning around to look at Anakin. "Even if you are in perfect condition, I think it would be unwise to let you go after someone like Maxus Zane. I am not saying you are weak at fighting because I saw you during the war and when the Trade Federation invaded Naboo. You are one of the strongest Queen, Senator and Chancellor I have ever met, but Maxus Zane is a monster. He does not care who he hurt. He is more than willing to kill younglings." say Anakin.
When he says that memories of what Mark showed him that he did in the other universe came to his mind. He became a monster in Mark's universe. Well not him, but the him in that universe. It was something that he could have become if it was not for Mark knocking some sense into him. No, he must not let that get to him when his wife needs his support.
Padme begins to cry when she heard the last part. What if Maxus just took the twins away to scare her and then kill them just to make sure she is worry at the unknown of what had happen to them? Then she sees a picture in her mind that Anakin finding the dead remains of the twins laying in a forest area of Bakura. They made her cry harder. She begs herself to not let that be true. She really hopes that is not going to be true.
Darth Vader is approaching Bakura in his shuttle. His shuttle is plan on landing in some forest near to where he had sense the presence of a young force user. As he pilot the ship down a small hologram of Maxus Zane appear above the control panel of his shuttle.
"Sir, I have found the Skywalker Twins and waiting for your arrival to the spot you ask me to be. Our plan had worked well." say Maxus. "What about the mother?" ask Darth Vader. "She is alive, but seriously hurt, I figure instead of ending her, wouldn't it be better to have her suffer at the unknown fate that awaits her twins." say Maxus as he looks at Darth Vader.
"Perfect, they can be trained in the Dark Side of the Force, in time if I need a new apprentice they will fight it out to see who will become my apprentice. So one of them will die anyways, but later in life. Plus, it will make Chancellor Skywalker appears weak to the Republic. If her own guards and herself cannot protect her and the children, then how in the world will she be able to run the government." say Darth Vader as smile graces the lips of his ruin face behind the faceplate of the golden helmet he is wearing.
The Hologram phases out and Darth Vader has a vision of himself finding the little red hair girl and her mother. He wants to kill the mother so that he is the only role model in her life. As he was getting ready to kill the mother, Master Zane appears to stop him and a big fight erupted between them.
That vision made Darth Vader smiles. Who knows today might be the day when he bested Master Zane when he is on top of his game. It would be so good to see him fall before the true war even begin. He has a whole army back on Korriban waiting.
People would say his relationship with Master Zane would be strange, he wants nothing but to kill him, but only will kill him when he is at his best. People might say he could be acting similar to a Jedi how they do not kill an unarmed foe, but that is not the reason behind it. There is no code holding him back like it hold Mark back as of the time of their first and last duel on the lava planet of Mustafar. The duel that has put Darth Vader into the suit he is currently wearing. The only reason why he wants to kill Master Zane at his best instead of at his weakest is so he can prove to himself and the galaxy he is stronger than Master Zane is. For him it is to prove himself that he is not a mere Clone of Master Zane template.