Chapter 24
Adenan Kornen woke up from the bed, remembering last night with clarity, he saw Bethrona next to him. He remembered that, the last night, they made love.
They got a bit over with the feeling of love, and here they were. Adenan wrenched himself out of Bethrona's arms and found his Jedi robes on the floor.
He used the force to lift the pants of the robes towards him and then he stood up from the bed, preparing to go bathe, but then Bethrona's moans distracted him.
"Noo… Don't leave" Bethrona mumbled sleepily
"It's 9:30." Adenan chuckled a bit as he said that, putting two fingers on his bottom lip
"9:30?!" Bethrona exclaimed, then quickly woke up, sitting up on the bed. Adenan laughed, Bethrona then smacked Adenan's arms and told him sharply "Don't laugh, it's not funny"
"What? We made love, so it's natural we're so comfortable" Adenan told his new girlfriend
"Yeah… true, though, is it okay if we… bathe together?" Bethrona shyly asked, failing not to blush while saying that
"Sure, why not?" Adenan asked, chuckling at Bethrona's blushing
Anakin Skywalker was preparing the last things of the ship, it was 6:00 pm by the time Talimer woke up, so Kyra decided that they should start packing when her husband returned, and when he did return, Anakin was already asleep, so Talimer went to sleep and Kyra did too. So now, it was morning, 9:31 am to be exact.
He sensed that Adenan was in Chameta, and Anakin wouldn't be surprised if Adenan was already wating for him, while trying to hide that. He sensed the romantic feelings come from Adenan, and Anakin recognised those feelings as the same when Padmé and himself went to bed. He was proud.
"How's my favourite nephew?" Talimer asked happily, walking towards Anakin
"Honestly, I'm proud of Adenan, went to bed before his first date" Anakin answered, in a 'proud father' tone
"Don't talk about it too much, but those two have been friends for years, it makes sense" Talimer noted, becoming serious
"True. Wait… how'dya know that?" Anakin asked, curious
"It just makes sense, love in first sight happens" Talimer answered, shrugging
Mace Windu was seething, from the Balancer's light that was in the force. He was sure that Skywalker would be laughing at him if he knew this. But he was smiling anyway, since he knew that the Balancers would be crushed with the Jedi he was reviving.
"Master." Obi-Wan came into the room and knelt at Mace, who stood up in front of Obi-Wan
"You will go to the Chameta system, and assassinate the Royal family of Chameta. Kornen will be powerless once his love dies" Mace told Obi-Wan, in a stoic and serious tone
"Your wish is my command, Master" Obi-Wan obediently replied, and then stood up and left.
The Temple's corridors were very empty, due to the battles between the Traditionalists and the Balancers. Obi-Wan smiled at the emptiness as the sun was high in the sky.
"Obi-Wan, don't do this" Obi-Wan heard a pained voice which he swore was his old Master, Obi-Wan realised his Master was dead, so he tried to ignore the voice, then the voice said "Adenan is important to the Galaxy, and important to me"
"Master Qui-Gon?" Obi-Wan asked, thinking he was crazy to even consider the voice was there
"I am here. I am your Master" Qui-Gon appeared in front of Obi-Wan, though he looked more ghostly. He serenely folded his arms
"This is a trick, formed from my memories, like Mortis" Obi-Wan tried to convince himself, frowning even more and lips curling to a half smile
"I was here on Mortis, and I am here now. Obi-Wan, don't listen to Mace Windu" Qui-Gon requested, reaching his ghostly arm to Obi-Wan's shoulder
"Mace Windu is my Master, unlike you, he hasn't tried to replace me!" Obi-Wan snapped, obviously jealous. Obi-Wan tried to shake Qui-Gon's hand off his shoulder
"I never tried to replace you with Anakin, you had learnt enough to be Knighted. Anakin is the Chosen One" Qui-Gon tried to tell Obi-Wan
"Anakin is not the Chosen One, Master Windu said so!" Obi-Wan snapped again, becoming angry
"You're letting Mace Windu influence your beliefs, don't murder Adenan's loved ones, you'll murder me too" Qui-Gon started, stating that he loved Adenan and anyone Adenan loved.
"You've been speaking to Anakin and Adenan, haven't you?" Obi-Wan guessed and asked coldly, as his eyes started bleeding yellow, they glowed red for a few seconds, the the glow disappeared
"I'm not denying it" Was the dead Jedi Master's reply
"You spoke to the two scum-sucking Balancers, but not me? Get Out! I hate you!" Obi-Wan's normally calm temper reached the top, as angrily lifted his arms at Qui-Gon, and blue lightning came out of those hands. Qui-Gon quickly disappeared
"You are truly lost, my son" Qui-Gon echoed with sorrow, after he disappeared
"Mace Windu is my true Master, not that pathetic life-form of a Jedi" Obi-Wan growled angrily, fully reaching the Dark Side, and using the insult which he used for any life-form Qui-Gon picked up, now, he really thought that Anakin Skywalker was, as he stated when he first sensed Anakin, a pathetic life-form
Padmé Naberrie Skywalker jumped out of hyperspace, something she was doing for the last few hours. She saw the green and blue planet in front of her Nubian ship.
She learned that Master Chi picked up the droids R2-D2 and C-3PO from Coruscant a few days before, when they had been in Tatooine.
"Miss Padmé, might I ask, where are we?" C-3PO asked in his robotic voice, confused
"Chameta. A beautiful planet, I have two friends there, one who travelled there and one who lives there" Padmé answered, calmly, as there was a crackle on her comm.
"Unidentified Nubian ship, please identify yourself" A guard seriously stated
"This is former Chancellor Amidala, friend and political mentor of Princess Bethrona Da'atarka" Padmé stated, expecting to wait
As expected, the guard replied with "Wait here, Ms."
The guard went from the guard house to Bethrona's room, which was pretty close, and luckily, just then Adenan and Bethrona went out of said room, linking hands.
"We were pretty late" Adenan noted, looking around
"Yeah" Bethrona happily replied, then the guard came running to them, he was a bit overweight and had fair skin. He was wearing the normal Chametan guard uniform, he was a young guard that recently joined the guards.
"Guard Haveen. What's the situation?" Adenan asked, concerned
"No situation, it's just that one ex-Chancellor Amidala requests to land" Haveen told Adenan, Adenan smiled at that
"She's my Master's wife, let her in" Adenan smiled, as Haveen activated his comm. link again
"You are secure to land, land on the palace's back landing pad, the Princess and Chameta's hero will be waiting there" Haveen told Padmé, again serious, then he noticed Adenan's and Bethrona's hands entwined
"Are you…?" Haveen asked, lips forming a smile
"Yes, we are" Bethrona answered, laughing
"You're a good pair… I think" Haveen uncertainly stated
"We are" Bethrona replied, as the couple began to leave for the palace's back pad, but then Bethrona's mother, Sharen, came along
"Bethrona, Adenan, you two need to come to breakfast" Sharen reminded the two in a motherly tone
"Sorry ma, but Padmé is landing here" Bethrona told her mother, in an apologetic tone
"ex-Senator Amidala? This is a shock!" Sharen replied, putting her hands on her cheeks
"Not with me around" Adenan replied, smiling a bit
"Still a shock anyway" Sharon gushed, Adenan rolled his eyes, as the three began to go to the back landing pad, where Padmé opened the ramp, and gone down with C-3PO
"Padmé!" Adenan and Bethrona both exclaimed, and both ran to hug the ex-Chancellor, C-3PO came out holding the babies Luke and Leia, who were both babbling in baby-speak
"Adenan! Bethrona!" Padmé excitedly greeted, as she wrapped each of her arms around Adenan and Bethrona
They hugged for a while, until Padmé released them. She smiled lightly at them.
"Oh yeah… Padmé?" Adenan softly asked
"Yes Adenan?" Padmé softly asked back
"Me and Bethrona, are… together" Adenan confessed shyly, as he held Bethrona's hand. Sharen and Padmé both gasped
"Congratulations, I know Anakin would be proud" Padmé told them, then she looked at Adenan
"What?" Adenan asked, somewhat defensively
"Me and Anakin always thought of you… like our son, Adenan, I love you like a mother should" Padmé confessed, and Bethrona widened her eyes at that
"Well, I actually liked you, and I wouldn't mind… mom" Adenan told Padmé.
Padmé's eyes glinted in happiness, as she tried to keep her tears. Sharen smiled at the touching scene, as Adenan hugged Padmé again. This helped with the love in the force, and Padmé sensed it again, realising that this feeling she got… was caused by love… pure love.
Anakin Skywalker sensed his bonds with Padmé and Adenan displaying love, and realised that Adenan would call Anakin his 'dad', now.
Obi-Wan was beyond frustrated, he was livid beyond belief, his unruly former Padawan had took another unruly apprentice who was corrupting the Force with the disgusting thing they called 'love'. And to think that the Council wanted to give Adenan to him after Mortis.
He realised the full extent of the mistakes Qui-Gon Jinn had done and what justice Maul… the Sith he was enemies with, brought.
His true Master, was Mace Windu. Now, he obeyed Mace Windu's every command, like he was now… and this was one mission he happily did.
He went to his Jedi Starfighter and jumped in, not caring about his current astromech, he activated the engines, and flew into space, where he saw multiple hyperspace rings. He flew to the red hyperspace ring. He set the hyperspace coordinates for Chameta, which was fairly near Naboo, on his starfighter once said starfighter checked the hyperspace ring as connected to the starfighter.
Mace Windu smiled, as he saw his datapad. The Senate was full of conflict after Master Luminara Unduli was killed, burned more precisely by Anakin Skywalker.
Mace didn't know, nor care how Skywalker had killed Master Unduli, but it was an important event, because the Senate became full of conflict, the Delegation of the 2000 even proposed that the Balancers were maybe trying to do good. 'Imbeciles! All of them!', Mace Windu thought.
But the only reason he was happy now was because the Republic had gotten a New Chancellor, something Mace had been secretly manipulating, now, by a landslide, the former Captain Tarkin had become Chancellor, Mace smiled at that, since it was Tarkin and him that formed an alliance after the Balancers were thrown out of the Temple.
He would use Tarkin for now, to manipulate the Senate to his own ends, then, he would usurp the Republic and make it into the Galactic Empire once again, but this time, his Empire would last longer than Sidious's Empire had faired.
That's when now Chancellor Tarkin came into his room, which was, as always, similar to Yoda's.
"I must congratulate you for your position" Mace politely told Tarkin
"Yes. Thank you, are you sure you'd be able to take Palpatine's place?" Tarkin asked, uncertain
"I will, just continue to let the Senate run, then, I shall take over the Republic and kill all the Balancers. The Traditionalists shall rule." Mace instructed stoically
"Yes Milord" Tarkin bowed, because he was to obey Mace, and then left.
"Soon, Skywalker, you will die" Mace muttered, as he hoped that Obi-Wan will not fail
Obi-Wan Kenobi gone to Chameta fairly quick, and frowned at how much Chameta's story was much like Naboo's. A princess met a Padawan in an invasion, the Padawan became a hero in the planet, and the princess and the padawan married. That was Chameta's basic story throughout the Clone Wars.
"Jedi Starfighter 112345, state your name and business" A guard seriously said through the Starfighter's comm.
"This is General Obi-Wan Kenobi, friend of Commander Adenan Kornen" Obi-Wan lied, in a tone to make sure it sounded truthful
"If you are really a friend of Adenan's, he'd be delighted to see you… I guess… you can land on the Palace's front landing pad" The guard hesitantly told Obi-Wan, who resisted sighing in relief
Obi-Wan closed the call and flew into atmosphere, people looked up at his starfighter, they won't after Obi-Wan had taken care of the Royal family of this planet.
Landing was fairly quick as Obi-Wan wore his cloak, a fat guard came, who's skin was fair and was wearing the red Chametan guard uniform.
"General Kenobi, the royal family and Commander Kornen are having breakfast. I'll escort you there" The guard stood straight
"Fine then" Obi-Wan muttered, as he followed the guard, smiling
Adenan was happily enjoying breakfast, as he saw Guard Haveen entering with a cloaked figure, he frowned, as he couldn't get even a thought from the guy.
"This is General Obi-Wan Kenobi, and he claims to be a friend of Kornen" Haveen announced, and Padmé gasped immediately
"No!" Padmé quickly stood up and pulled her blaster out, Obi-Wan quickly beheaded the guard with his lightsaber and Adenan was taken aback by the move. Bethrona gasped softly.
"Yes. It is me, my sweet rose" Obi-Wan told that in a voice that made him sound creepy
"No… You'll never take me!" Padmé shouted, with sudden hostility, Adenan realised who was 'Obi-Wan Kenobi', now
"You're a Traditionalist!" Adenan exclaimed with fear, as he activated his lightsaber, which glowed a metallic yellow, and his rainbow shoto, which, of course, glowed all colours of the rainbow. He held his shoto in a reverse grip
"Yellow? I thought you had an orange lightsaber, but well, I hadn't seen you in two years" Obi-Wan taunted, smiling
"Since I hoped you'd take me as your apprentice, I remember that time" Adenan growled, putting one foot in front of the other
"And you can be, join me, and leave all your filthy attachments" Obi-Wan breathed, in an evil tone
"I won't. Anakin trains me now. Speaking of him, what would he think of this? What would he think if he found out that his old Master turned evil?" Adenan asked, in a light tone
"He won't because my Master will kill him" Obi-Wan said, Adenan closed his eyes, to calm himself, then he opened his eyes as he took a stance.
Both Jedi charged at each other, and both started using fast, aggressive moves. The three women that were watching the duel couldn't keep up with what was happening.
Adenan wondered what difference could have caused, from other dimensions, that he and Obi-Wan were now enemies, instead of friends, or master and apprentice like other dimensions.
Adenan began using Jar'Kai as Obi-Wan used what he knew about Vaapad mixed with Ataru. The battle was swirling, as an electric field was created.
Adenan turned 360 degrees then kicked Obi-Wan on the ankle, very hard. Obi-Wan took a few steps back, as Adenan raised his hand, aiming it at Obi-Wan
"Avera Kantana!" Adenan chanted, it was the Dathomirian light side freezing spell, a blue ball of energy flew out of his hand, Obi-Wan decided to dodge the mysterious attack
The ball disappeared as Adenan decided to let go of that style of attack, and decided to use normal Jedi-style attacks instead of Dathomirian magicks. The two fighters charged at each other once again as the duel continued.
Adenan vs. Obi-Wan. I wonder how their Resurrection of the Father counterparts would react to this fight. Not goodly I suppose. The Chancellor Tarkin thing came to mind when I was thinking about how much I hate Tarkin… yes, I hate Tarkin. I even hate Mace Windu, for being so dark, though there are more reasons for me to hate Tarkin.
Tarkin supported Sidious, one of the evillest Dark Side users, didn't like the Jedi Code (The only thing that I can compare myself to Tarkin with… I don't like the Jedi Code either), prosecuted Ahsoka in the court, and didn't give a single damn about her even when she left the Order, ordered to destroy Alderaan single-handedly and finally and finally, order the murders of millions if not billions of people during the Empire's reign.
Mace Windu was very dark, supported the Jedi Code like it was law, even to a point where he was blind because of it and didn't like Anakin, or any maverick Jedi for that matter. NEXT CHAPTER: IMBALANCE