Guess what! We meet the person that everyone has been wanting to meet for a long time!
Now, just so my readers know 'Who am I?', 'Mind Reader' and 'Force Voyager' are the only fics that I am updating until further notice. 'The Chosen One', Travels,' and 'Morphers' will be updated a little after the JC Forums are back up and running which should be any day now.
'Dark Angel' and 'Dark Angel Chronicles' will be updated when my Beta finishes looking the new chapters over and adjustments have been made.
'Heirs of Voyager' with be updated when my co-author has time to see down with me so we can add more to the story so that we can then put dialogue and other things in.
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Anakin Skywalker, better known as either little Anakin or Ani, sat on a crate in the Hangar eagerly waiting for his Mother to return. He knew that she should have been here by now but he wasn't that worried.
He banged his little feet against the side of the crate wondering when she was going to come.
Workers smiled at him and a few waved at him as them did their work. He was tempted to get off his crate and race over to them so that they could tell him stories of the galaxy beyond the Base.
Anakin had only been to Alderaan and a few other worlds that the Rebellion had used as ground bases. Well that was a lie; he had gone to Coruscant as a tiny baby but he didn't remember it.
A few minutes later he felt one of the younger children approach him. He smiled; it was little Ahsoka Tano. She could be a pest as the older ones put it but they called him a pest as well so he guessed that it didn't matter.
"Play?" she asked slowly, careful to say the word right. Anakin hesitated, he was waiting for his mother to come back but he like Ahsoka and she did need someone to play with her.
He slid off the crate then tapped her arm. "Tag! You it!" he yelled as he raced off for the main part of the Base.
He would know that his mother was getting close anyway.
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Darth Vader watched the former Alderaanian Princess as she shook with pain of phantom oain on the 'bed' in her cell.
He could feel her draw on the Force to soothe her tired body. He was impressed by how she was using it both instinctively and as if she had some training.
He found himself wondering if she had been trained but quickly dismissed the thought. She didn't feel like she had been trained. It felt more like she had trained herself and acting on instinct.
Vader was very impressed with her; very few of those that were trained could brag about her mental shields. And very few Force Sensitives could use the Force like she could without any training.
He had already sent the IT-O away when he decided that not only would she not tell them what they wanted to know but that she'd die before breaking. The drugs in her system would kill her with the hallucinations she was having under their influence.
Her heart would fail her if he continued.
Tarkin wouldn't be pleased that she hadn't talked but Tarkin could be crushed by a black star as far as he was cocerned
He knew that even if she did talk that she would be executed for her crimes against the Empire. He wished that things could be different for her but she had dug her own grave in more ways then one. If Cher Antilles hadn't killed herself like a coward he could have let young Leia escape and go back to her child.
He felt sorrow that her child would soon loose the only parent they had but he had learned the hard way that life was unfair and that the Force would let the innocent suffer for reasons that only It knew.
He remembered meeting Leia in a corridor of the Senate with her infant child in her arms. She was so young and not ready in many ways to be a mother but she knew how to love.
The child would be about four now and he wished now more than ever that he could just let her go. But that that bordered on impossible; if she where to disappear it would be suspicious.
He found himself hoping that help was coming for her in some form. He didn't wish for the child to grow up without a mother.
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Mon Mothma smiled in a sad manner as she watched little Anakin Skywalker chase little Ahsoka Tano around the play area.
If Leia was here she would be laughing at the sight of her son chasing his little friend in circles.
She turned her head to avoid having to watch the pair race around in an effort to not be 'it'. She felt horrible that soon they would learn that Leia wasn't coming back.
The older Jedi children were either reading or doing basic exercises with the Force. Mon hoped that another Jedi would come and help teach them to use it more than they could.
She noticed that Padmé along with Sheia and Riyo played in a manner that said that they were up to no good. She kept an eye on them for some time before noting that they had found a target for their mischief in the form of Rei Mystia.
The screams following the water dump echoed through the room and everyone, besides herself, turned to see what the fuss was all about.
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Luke stared in growing horror at the sight of the only home that he ever knew belching black smoke. The smell of the charred remains of organics that he smelled turned out to be his Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru.
Hot anger filled him at the sight of their blackened skeletal remains. They had been the only family that he knew that he had had.
Blinking back tears he entered his home and retrieved something to dig holes and to wrap their remains in.
He dug the holes and then quickly retrieved a few important holos from his room. He vowed to return one day and reclaim the other things that belonged to his family.
He would be a Jedi like his father. He would avenge the deaths of his family and most of all the death of that young woman from the recording for her daughter.
As he dug the holes he thought of happier times. When his aunt took him to see a Pod Race near Beggar's Canyon. It wasn't like sitting in the stands but it was still thrilling to watch the pods race across the sandy landscape. When his uncle helped him put together ships from interlocking parts and his schoolwork.
He resolved to speak with the Darklighters and have them look after the farm while he was away. They would be able to make use of it while he was away and make sure things were stored properly.
Once he was done he marked their burial area with some stones in a pile and headed back for his speeder. It was time to meet his destiny.
The Empire would rue the day that they murdered the rest of his family.
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So Luke is going to join the war against the Empire.
Oh, I am getting a new laptop! It's being costume built so it's not going to be here for 2-3 weeks. :( And it's not exactly the type of laptop I wanted (a gaming one) but at least it came with the option for a Blu-Ray Drive!