Chapter 18

The duel continues in this chapter, to recap, Agen Kolar and Mace Windu kidnapped Padmé's family and Anakin and Adenan now have to rescue the family.

Anakin and Adenan were in a duel with one of the most skilled Traditionalists. Agen Kolar. Master Kolar disliked attachment and was a stickler to the rules and Tradition. During his time as a Sith, Anakin had learnt that Tradition wasn't always the right way.

Anakin then lifted his arms and produced green force lightning, hitting Kolar. Anakin stopped the force lightning and Adenan jumped at Kolar, punching him on the face. Kolar charged at both of them, growling with hate.

"You will pay for this, Skywalker!" Kolar exclaimed, his eyes bleeding yellow

"The Jedi have led themselves to ruin and it's no way our fault" Anakin stated

"Tell me, how would you feel if I killed the pretty Senator over there?" Kolar taunted

"You wouldn't" Anakin replied, his eyes slowly flashing yellow, then flashing to it's normal blue

"I will" Kolar whispered evilly, and everyone heard

Anakin's eyes blessed yellow as Kolar charged at the Naberrie family, who were standing, horror marring their faces. Then, Kolar floated into the air and felt his neck contract and the air coming out of his lungs, slowly. Kolar was spun towards Anakin.

"You will not hurt my family!" Anakin exclaimed

"Like I'd listen to a Balancer and ex-Sith!" Kolar sneered, Padmé gasped at Anakin being called an ex-Sith

"I've been waiting long for this!" Anakin cackled

Adenan thought about doing something to prevent his Master from turning to the Dark Side. He looked as Kolar was being tortured by Anakin's force choke. Adenan deactivated his lightsaber, deciding to let Anakin kill Kolar.

Anakin then turned his hand, which was pointed to Kolar, into a fist. Kolar died with a thunderous 'snap' in his neck. Kolar's lifeless body fell to the ground as Padmé gasped as she saw the gory scene as blood spurted out of Kolar's neck. Ruwee put his hand on Padmé's shoulder.

"Ex-Sith?" Padmé asked Anakin sharply

"I used to be the Empire's Chief Enforcer" Anakin answered, and continued with realisation that his past had caught up with him "Named Darth Vader"

"You were the Vader guy that Palpatine told me about when he put me in a cage?" Padmé asked

"Let's go in and I will explain everything" Anakin said

The Naberries', Anakin and Adenan went into the Naberrie house and Jobal set up the table. Everyone sat down.

"It all began when Palpatine was arrested, I turned to his teachings and became Darth Vader. I helped him escape from prison" Anakin started
"You helped him escape?" Padmé asked, then exclaimed "But he was dangerous!"

"I thought that it would be the best solution" Anakin solemnly said

"He was manipulated" Adenan defended Anakin

"Young man, you are no part of this conversation!" Jobal, Padmé's mother exclaimed to Adenan, who scowled, and then turned to Anakin and said "You caused many atrocities, you are not fit to be my daughter's husband!"

"Do you regret it?" Ruwee, Padmé's father asked, trying to make Jobal's opinions not get to his son-in-law

"More than ever" Anakin answered, then continued "Those were the worst moments of my life, I've matured from my actions and now know what I have done wrong"

Padmé hugged Anakin, reassuring him that his past as Darth Vader wasn't a problem, everyone else nodded at him, also showing that it was no problem, except Jobal, who was scowling at both Anakin and Adenan.

"So, what happened between the time Vader went M.I.A and the Empire's defeat?" Jobal asked Anakin, wanting the full story

"Well, it all started two days after the start of the Empire, I had a mission in Mustafar" Anakin started

Anakin continued the story, from the Duel on Mustafar against him and Yoda, to Pantora, to the trip back to Coruscant and the defeat of the Empire.

When Anakin had finished, Adenan's comlink beeped. Adenan picked the black cylinder up and pressed a button, it was Master Chi.

"Hello?" Master Chi asked

"Hi" Adenan greeted

"So, how's the battle on your end?" Master Chi asked once again

"Good, the Naberries were kidnapped, but we rescued them" Adenan answered
"Good. Because there's a dangerous battle on our end!" Master Chi exclaimed

Everyone got shocked, then they heard marching footsteps. Anakin stood up and quickly ran out to see the Traditionalists' Clones' dragging out people from their homes. Anakin activated his lightsaber and jumped to battle.

Anakin sliced three clones, and force pushed the rest with a strong force wave.

"It's him!" A clone exclaimed

"Anakin Skywalker!" Another Clone exclaimed

"Blast him!" The Commander of the troops ordered as the Clones began to shoot at Anakin

Anakin deflected all the blasts. The Clones slumped down, dead. Adenan and Padmé walked out, both of them with their weapons on their hands. Though Adenan's lightsaber was deactivated

"There's a battle!" Anakin exclaimed

"True." Adenan replied

Then, more Traditionalist Clones came towards the Jedi and Padmé, before they could scream, Anakin used his Sith instinct to cut off the Clones. Padmé nodded sideways at Anakin, telling him that it wasn't nice.

"What?" Anakin asked, and then noted "They were going to kill us"

Adenan remained silent as they all walked. Padmé then remembered about the babies. She ran into the Naberrie house and Adenan looked confusedly at Anakin. Anakin just shrugged

Padmé saw her family cleaning up after the dinner. Everyone stopped and looked at her.

"You just got out without saying goodbye!" Jobal exclaimed

"Sorry" Padmé tried to apologise, then asked "Care to take care of Luke and Leia for me?"

"Sure, why not!" Ruwee exclaimed

"But why?" Sola, Padmé's sister asked

"I need to fight this battle, and it will be more complicated with holding two babies" Padmé answered

"When will you ever leave that life?" Jobal asked

"When I decide to" Padmé answered, and left

Jobal turned to Ruwee and Sola, who were sitting on the couches in the room just beside the Dining Room. Jobal walked up to them and sat on a couch right across theirs. Sola was holding Luke and Leia.

"Why were you defending Vader?" Jobal asked Ruwee

"His name is Anakin, not Vader. And I was defending him because he seemed genuinely remorseful for his actions. I know the Empire hasn't lasted long, but…" Ruwee thought of words to say

"It had committed lots of atrocities during those two weeks!" Jobal exclaimed

"But Vader was only part of the Empire for only two days!" Ruwee exclaimed back

"And it lasted for another two weeks until Anakin defeated the Emperor" Sola supplied

"But he had much to atone for, since most of the murders on Coruscant were during those two days!" Jobal exclaimed, trying to besmirch Anakin. Ruwee sighed and wondered if Jobal will ever like Anakin

Meanwhile, Padmé was helping Anakin and Adenan with fighting the swarms of Clones that were coming at them. Padmé was shooting down Clones with her blaster.

Meanwhile, Mace Windu had escaped the battle, due to the fact that he learnt that Agen Kolar had been killed by Anakin Skywalker and that they were losing the battle.

He was now in his cruiser. Mace opened a channel to all the Traditionalists and the Clones on their side. He waited until everyone had opened the channel on their end.

"This battle's over. I order you all to retreat" Mace ordered all of the people on his side.

Every Traditionalist-supporting trooper and Jedi were retreating from the planet. Master Chi and Faro looked at all the Clones retreating from the area.

"It's not over, but we have won the battle!" Master Chi exclaimed

"I seriously wanted the war to end here!" Faro noted, he really liked peace.

Meanwhile, in front of the Naberrie house, Adenan cheered as they realised that the battle had been won. Anakin and Padmé hugged each other in the victory.

"Anyway, now we leave Naboo to hide again?" Adenan asked with a twinge of disappointment, Anakin understood that Adenan didn't want to leave the planet

"Sorry, Adenan, but I don't want to leave this planet either!" Anakin exclaimed

"I think I'll stay here, it's you two they're hunting, I was only in the way… a burden" Padmé said

"You weren't a burden, my love, but if you want to stay here, it's your choice" Anakin assured

Anakin and Adenan started to leave Naboo as Padmé waved at them and went back to her family's house. Padmé went to the couches to see her father and sister talking.

"Hello again, Padmé!" Ruwee greeted

"I decided to stay here" Padmé exclaimed

"Did you quit the Senate job?" Jobal asked

"No. I wanted to stay here for a while, but Ani and Adenan left" Padmé answered

"Why?" Sola asked

"Anakin and Adenan are still being hunted by the people that invaded this planet just a few hours ago. I was only in it to defend myself" Padmé answered

"Well, hopefully they stay alive" Ruwee said

"Yeah, me too" Padmé replied

The Naberrie family was laughing and talking as Mace Windu was in his cruiser, plotting something else. He remembered how he plotted the Tuskens kidnapping Anakin's mother and Talimer's sister Shmi along with a mysterious hooded man, the hooded man was doing the plot for something to do with Anakin. But he was in it to get revenge on Talimer Skywalker.

Thinking about Anakin's mother made him think about killing the rest of Anakin's family. He will kill them straightforward instead of trying them up like he did to the Naberrie's. Mace smirked at his plan as he went to tell his Admiral to jump to Tatooine.

I'm sure you all can guess who the 'mysterious hooded man' is. If you can't figure it out, it's Sidious. Though Mace didn't know the man was Sidious. NEXT CHAPTER: THE LARS FAMILY