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And now that that's done and taken care of, here is the next chapter and I hope that you enjoy it. Reviews, as always, are much appreciated

Chapter 5

Siri guided the landspeeder toward the location of the Lars homestead before glancing at her apprentice as Ferus examined the sandy landscape with narrowed eyes. "Who would want to live here?" he asked glancing at Siri.

Siri shrugged. "I don't know," she replied before she returned her gaze to the land in front of her. "From what Obi-Wan told me, Anakin didn't have a choice. He was forced to live here because he was a slave."

Ferus grimaced; Siri knew that her apprentice didn't like Anakin but it was obvious by the look in his eyes that he pitied the fact that Anakin had to live the life of a slave. "That explains some things," he murmured. "I never knew he was a slave before Master Qui-Gon brought him to the temple."

"Few did," Siri said. "I didn't even know until Obi-Wan told me when he told me about Shmi." She angled the landspeeder off the road and toward the homestead when a sense of danger flashed through her causing her to pull the speeder to a sudden halt.

"Did you…?" she began.

"I felt it. Someone's in danger," Ferus said.

"Where, Padawan?"

Ferus's eyes immediately scanned the land as he reached out with the Force to find the source of the danger. "That way," he said. "There are a lot of life forms there. Master, isn't that the direction of the Lars homestead?"

"If Watto's coordinates and directions were correct, yes," Siri replied before she began flying again. This time, she put as much juice into the main engine as she possibly could in the hope she will reach the source of the danger sense in time.

"Have they moved at all, Padawan?" she asked turning blue eyes to Ferus.

"No. I can sense great pain though. Someone's injured. Wait, they're starting to move. We're real close now."

Siri's lips thinned because she knew her apprentice was right; she could see the outlines of people in the distance with the animals she knew were known as banthas standing a few meters from the group. She brought the landspeeder to a halt less than three meters from the gathered group before she leapt out of the speeder, her lightsaber in her hand, and hit the ground running. Ferus was only a few meters behind her.

The people, she now recognized them as Tusken Raiders who were native to Tatooine as she had read about when she looked up information on the planet, whirled around. Guttural yells sounded from the raiders before they tossed a bleeding dark haired woman to the ground and ran at the two Jedi.

"Ferus, go check on her," Siri ordered slicing through one of the raider's weapons before Force pushing another away.

"What about you, master?"

"Just go, Ferus. I'll be fine."

Ferus hesitated before nodding and, taking a flying leap that brought him over the group of raiders, landed on the ground next to the woman. However, a few Tusken Raiders obviously did not want to lose their prize and attacked Ferus. That was the last thing Siri could see before she had to focus on the raiders that were attacking her.

"Master, there are too many of them," Ferus called attempting to fend off the blows from the raiders and Force pushing as many of them as he possibly could away.

"I know, Ferus, but we won't be able to get the woman to safety if we can't get away from them," Siri called back slicing through another weapon before pivoting in a roundhouse kick that knocked another raider down.

Ferus swung his blade before lashing out with the Force and the Tusken Raider, who had leapt back to avoid the blade, was sent head over heels into the raiders behind him knocking them down.

"Try not to kill them, Ferus," Siri added for good measure even though she knew her Padawan, who seemed to work too hard sometimes to become the perfect Padawan, knew that already.

"Yes master," Ferus replied.

However, the Tusken Raiders seemed to have had enough of the two Jedi. With guttural yowls of fury, they turned around and ran. Ferus deactivated his lightsaber before clipping it to his belt and kneeling down beside the unconscious woman. Siri joined her Padawan, her lightsaber also clipped to her belt, before stretching out a hand and gently touching the woman's shoulder.

The woman stirred before blinking open brown eyes. "Wh…What happened. Where am I?" she asked.

"You're all right. We're in the desert. You were just attacked by Tusken Raiders," Siri said. "Can you sit up?"

"I…I think so," replied the woman and, with Siri's help, slowly sat up before gazing around. Blood welled up on the long gash on her arm but she otherwise looked unharmed.

The woman glanced at Siri and Ferus or, more importantly, at the lightsabers that hung on their belt. "You're Jedi," she said.

Siri nodded before her brow furrowed. "How did you know that?" she asked.

"Your lightsaber," the woman said nodding at the weapon. "I saw it once before, ten years ago. My son joined the Jedi you know."

In an instant, Siri knew who she had before her. "Shmi?" she asked.

Ferus's eyes were wide. Skywalker's vision was correct, master, he sent through their master/apprentice bond.

It would appear so, Siri sent back.

"Yes," the woman said softly.

Siri stood up before helping Shmi to her feet. "I believe introductions should be saved until we're in a relatively safe place. Those Tuskens might attack again," she said.

"I think that might be best," Shmi said. "I…We're not far from my home."

Siri guided Shmi toward their landspeeder and, with Ferus's help, got her into the backseat. Ferus climbed into the driver's seat before starting the engines up and guiding the landspeeder across the sand.

It took them only about ten minutes to reach the homestead; during that time, Siri had wrapped Shmi's wound with a clean bandage she found in the landspeeder. When they reached the homestead, Ferus cut power to the engine and the landspeeder coasted to a stop just in front of it. He leapt out of the speeder while Siri turned around and helped Shmi out.

"Shmi!"

Siri glanced over her shoulder as an older man with graying brown hair and beard hurry out of the homestead. It looked as though he had been standing in the doorway. There were a couple of other people just behind them. Among those people was a brown haired young man and a blonde young woman.

"What happened?" the man asked.

"Tusken Raiders attacked when I was on my way back after picking some mushrooms. They knocked me out. I don't remember much of what happened next but these two Jedi saved me," Shmi said nodding at Siri and Ferus.

"I'm so glad you're all right, Shmi," the man said drawing Shmi into his arms before gently kissing her on the cheek.

Shmi leaned into the man's embrace before stepping back and glancing at the Jedi. "We should be safe now," she said.

"I believe that's time for introductions then," Siri said. "I am Jedi Knight Siri Tachi and this is my apprentice Ferus Olin."

"I'm Shmi Skywalker Lars, this is my husband Cliegg Lars," Shmi said gesturing to the man who would not remove his arm from around her waist. The brown haired young man and the blonde young woman joined them and Shmi gestured to them before adding, "That's Owen, my stepson, and his girlfriend Beru."

"It is very nice to meet all of you," Siri said.

"If I may be so bold as to ask," Cliegg said, "but what are Jedi doing all the way out here?"

Siri sighed; how did she know he was going to ask that? "Your son began having nightmares about you, Shmi," she replied. "They began to reoccur so often that my friend, his master, Obi-Wan, asked the Jedi Council to send someone to check up on you to make sure you were all right and see if the nightmare was a vision of the future. Turns out it was."

Shmi's brow furrowed. "Ani saw me in danger?" she asked.

"Yes."

"Wait, I thought his master was Qui-Gon."

Siri sighed. "Qui-Gon died ten years ago, Shmi," she said. "Obi-Wan, Qui-Gon's apprentice, took Anakin as his apprentice soon afterwards."

Shmi swallowed. "I'm sorry to hear that. Qui-Gon was so nice and he was the one who freed my son from slavery," she said. "Will you please tell me? How is Anakin?"

"He was fine when I last saw him, Shmi," Siri replied, "and on his way to becoming a Jedi Knight."

Shmi smiled. "That's good. I always knew his destiny was not to remain a slave on Tatooine," she said.

"We have to get going now, Shmi," Siri said.

"Can you…can you give my son a message for me please?" Shmi asked.

Siri hesitated but decided that it wouldn't hurt if she gave Anakin a message from his mother. "All right," she said.

Master… Ferus began through the Force.

It won't hurt, Ferus, Siri sent back.

"Tell Ani that I love him, I wish him the best and I hope he becomes the greatest Jedi Knight he can possibly be," Shmi said.

"I will give him the message, Shmi," Siri replied inclining her head before she looked at Ferus. "Let's go Ferus."

"Yes Master," Ferus said before he turned around and made his way back to the landspeeder. Siri said goodbye to the family before she followed her apprentice.

Obi-Wan mediated for the majority of the journey to Kamino. He wasn't looking forward to meeting Jango Fett again and he wondered if he could finally catch Jango unlike last time when Jango got the best of him. At least, this time Obi-Wan had the advantage of knowing what is going to happen. However, that did not mean he should go into it unprepared but then he was never unprepared.

His console beeped and Obi-Wan glanced at the display before instructing his R4 unit to guide them out of hyperspace as he brought himself out of his meditative trance. R4 beeped in response and the flashes of hyperspace faded into regular stars. The ocean world of Kamino appeared before them and Obi-Wan examined it.

"Hasn't changed much since I visited it last time," Obi-Wan mused.

Arfour beeped in confusion and Obi-Wan glanced at the translation.

"Nothing, Arfour. Let's go speak with the Kaminoens," Obi-Wan replied before he guided the Delta Seven starfighter through the atmosphere and toward the designated landing pad outside of Tipoca City. He landed the starfighter before climbing out of the starfighter after he shut down the main engines.

Like last time, Tipoca City was all gleaming domes and angled, gracefully curving walls, built on gigantic stilts rising out of the lashing sea. Obi-Wan examined it only briefly due to the brutal rain that was slamming into him. He, after pulling the hood of his cloak over his head, and Arfour immediately dashed across the permacrate toward the door.

The doors slide open spilling brilliant light out and Obi-Wan dashed into the building. The door slide closed and the tall, slender, pasty white-skinned form of the Kaminoen Taun We appeared at his side.

"Master Jedi, so good to see you," she said in a melodious voice.

"Hello," Obi-Wan greeted the Kaminoen calmly avoiding mentioning her name since she wasn't supposed to know it.

"The Prime Minister expects you."

Obi-Wan inclined his head. "Well, we mustn't keep the Prime Minister waiting," he said.

"Of course. We have been waiting for a long time. We were beginning to think you weren't coming. This way."

Obi-Wan followed Taun We down the brightly lit corridor toward another door that Taun We opened with a wave of her hand. She motioned for Obi-Wan to enter first and he stepped into the brightly lit room. In it was Prime Minister Lama Su who stood up and greeted Taun We before smiling warmly at Obi-Wan. With a wave of his hand, an egg-shaped chair gracefully spiraled down from the ceiling.

"May I present Lama Su, Prime Minister of Kamino," Taun We said before adding, to Lama Su, "This is Master Jedi…"

"Obi-Wan Kenobi," Obi-Wan replied calmly.

"I trust you are going to enjoy your stay," the Prime Minister said. "We are most happy you have arrived at the best part of the season."

Like last time, Obi-Wan decided that he would hate to see the worst part of the season.

"Please…" Lama Su gestured to the egg-shaped chair and Obi-Wan sat down. "And now to business. You will be delighted to hear we are on schedule. Two hundred thousand units are ready, with another million well on the way."

"That is good news," Obi-Wan said. Considering the Battle of Geonosis is likely going to happen no matter what I try to do to stop it, it really is good news. I can only hope we don't lose as many Jedi as we did last time, he thought.

"We thought you would be pleased," said Lama Su.

Obi-Wan inclined his head once in reply.

"Please tell your Master Sifo-Dyas that we have every confidence his order will be met, on time and in full. He is well, I hope."

"I am terribly sorry, Prime Minister," Obi-Wan said politely, "but Master Sifo-Dyas was killed almost ten years ago."

Lama Su blinked his huge almond shaped eyes; it was obvious Obi-Wan's words took him by surprise. "Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that. But I'm sure he would have been proud of the army we've built for him."

The army of clones, Obi-Wan thought. "Perhaps," he said. "And the army is for the Republic, yes?"

"Why yes it is," Lama Su replied calmly.

At least that didn't change. Obi-Wan really didn't think it would but one could never be too certain. He quickly thought about how to proceed and decided to say what he had said the last time; this time without the confusion in his voice. "You understand the responsibility you incur in creating such an army for the Republic?" he asked. "We expect, and must have, the very best."

"Of course, Master Kenobi," Lama Su said confidently. "You must be anxious to inspect the units for yourself."

"That's why I'm here." Technically, Obi-Wan was there to find Jango Fett but he may as well inspect the units and see if everything was the same as it was last time. He doubted anything had changed but one can't be too careful, especially with the fact that never in the history of the Jedi has a Jedi actually been sent back to the past. That, in itself, could have repercussion in the very timeline Obi-Wan was sent to.

He stood up before following Lama Su and Taun We as the two of them led the way out of the room his thoughts drifting to the army he was going to inspect.

Anakin slept peacefully for the first time since he left Ansion. No nightmares intruded upon his mind and he woke up feeling more refreshed than ever before. Sighing, he rolled onto his side before closing his eyes but he couldn't get back to sleep. Sitting up and rubbing the sleep out of his eyes, Anakin couldn't help but wonder why it was that his nightmares, which have been reoccurring since he and Obi-Wan left Ansion, would suddenly stop.

Briefly, he recalled Obi-Wan's request of the Jedi Council as well as their decision to send someone to Tatooine to check on his mother. Could that be why my nightmares stopped? It seems likely, Anakin thought. He really wished he could contact the Jedi Council and see if they really sent someone to Tatooine as they said they were going to but he couldn't risk anyone discovering that he and Padmé were on Naboo.

Getting to his feet, showering and changing, Anakin walked out of his room before gazing around. He looked around for Padmé, knowing the Senator was likely already awake, but he couldn't see her. He figured she was either getting dressed or already getting something to eat so he decided to go to the kitchen and get something to eat.

Sure enough, Padmé was in the kitchen sipping at a cup of tea. "Good morning, Ani," she said.

Anakin sighed but decided to let it pass. "Good morning," he replied getting something to drink before sitting at the table.

"You look more rested than when we left Coruscant, Ani," Padmé said examining him.

Anakin sighed placing the cup on the table. "My nightmares are gone," he replied.

"Nightmares?"

"Yes. I've been having nightmares about my mother; well, it was more the same nightmare but it kept occurring every single night. But, last night it was gone," Anakin said.

"That's good, isn't it?"

"I think so. It means that it's likely the Jedi Council actually granted Master Obi-Wan's request."

That piqued Padmé's curiosity. "Request?" she asked.

Anakin hesitated unsure of how much he wanted to tell the beautiful senator who sat across from him. "Yes," he said finally deciding to give her part of the story since he already told her about the nightmares. "Master Obi-Wan asked the Jedi Council to send someone to Tatooine to check on my mother just in case my nightmare was a vision of the future."

"And you think they did send someone?"

"That's the only thing I can think of to explain why my reoccurring nightmares are suddenly gone," said Anakin.

Padmé nodded. "You could be right," she said before she finished her tea. "I think I'd like to have a picnic outside for lunch today."

"All right, milady," Anakin replied.

A/n what do you think?

Blaze: and that was chapter 5

Darth: I rather liked it, especially Shmi getting rescued

Blaze: yup

Anakin: so what's gonna happen in the next chapter?

Blaze: inspecting the clones, meeting Jango Fett, Siri returns to the Jedi Temple and a little more Ani/Padmé

Darth: that's cool so there is going to be Siriwan in this story?

Blaze: yup.

Darth: that's cool

Blaze: a huge thank you to the thirteen people who reviewed the last chapter and please review. I will post the next chapter as soon as I possibly can but I doubt it'll be anytime soon