Foreshadowing The Future I: The Final Showdown
Disclaimers: the characters don't belong to me, the story belongs to me, everything else belongs to the author and the creator of the movies.
Warnings: This story is taking place after he learns that the blast not only did damage to Tru's lightsaber, it possibly damaged the crystal as he makes his choice right then to tell them the truth and as he prepares to change his future into who he would have been. Had he stayed clear of Palpatine as he makes one good decision after another.
This is also borrowing some of the conversations from my other story, as instead of Darra being killed now, it's taking the alternate reality of what if the council had called them back to the temple and they decided to run the test there. Before Anakin got hit by Sidious's rage at the loss of his plan falling apart, before the mission reactivates as Ferus gets expelled and Tru gets hold back a year now.
But he's still going to be paired with Padme, and the second pairing is Darra, in friendship now, as the future gets changed, as every loss he took changes as he grows more powerful as he cuts himself off from Sidious later that year now. And before the movie begins now, but this is taking place during the weeks leading into the prologue to the Attack Of The Clones later, but this story opens with the last chapter.
And of the Jedi Quest Novels, after the first show down, and before the middle of the story, as they return to the temple. As it asks the question now, if the council, Obi-wan and Anakin had help from our galaxy in learning what only one change in his life could do for him. As not only does he have his life in complete balance, he also gets the meaning of the prophecy and as his personality changes now.
What this change in her personality causes as it causes his lightsaber crystals color to change. And as he now matches Mace in color, as they also decide to make several changes to the story. as one change, does it as it changes his future, as he gets thrown into the future. As a result of their, Obi-wan, Yoda and Mace's decision, in making that choice to bring them home, before the lightsaber breaks down then.
And this will be a what if one change in his childhood as a padawan does for his future and the future of every Jedi in the order. As the Skywalkers, continue making changes in the past, before the purge begins as one by one every Jedi that died is cloned by the Kimonoans. As he and Padme raise Luke and Leia and it enters the original trilogy as he stayed himself now and everyone who loved him knew it too.
Chapter 5: A Jedi's First Duty I: The Realization
"I wasn't sure what mode I went into until after I came out of it, but for a padawan, to just come out of lightsaber training. As the first kill, and with any weapon, is beyond traumatizing, does he understand this. All he knows is the peace of life in the temple, while I see the corruption and cruelty and all over the galaxy. So what does he know of the code, outside the temple until he's in the field." he said and Obi-wan nodded firmly.
As he answered him gently. "And that is why he was not meant to be my padawan, only a living force Jedi could see the connection between us now. You knew everything within weeks of meeting her as a result, you love her like big sister. But you were the one who figured it out firs now you knew our own secret Anakin. From the second you met her, you know the truth, past events between us, seven years before I find you."
"Why we both had a very serious wariness against politicians as a result." he said and Anakin nodded smiling to him. "Yeah I know, the first is because Sorn, you both realized she was a criminal involved in kidnapping father, as she was blackmailed by Zan Arbor. And 2) your last mission, you love her and her you, and if things had been different she would be your wife and my sister-in-law." he said and she nodded smiling at that to him.
As Obi-wan smiled at him. "And what does he know of love or friendship exactly anyway, either of them in fact, you said it yourself now Anakin. All they know is the code, life in the temple, but we share one thing they do not understand. But you're me as child when I met you, I was a lot like when as a teenaer wt thr time, no older then you. But I spent a few months in the outside world, I learn what it means to be normal."
"Now, finally, and in the worst way possible, you were meant to be my student now, because you grew up in the real world. I spent months in the real world, the partnership was correct now." he said and he nodded in agreement to that remark then. "And that is why he is not your student, we spent several years together getting to know each other. He barely knows you, I knew you better than ever, everything and I mean everything."
"We share the same pain at the loss of father, we both spent a few months in the real world, in mine, I grew up in it. And finally and most importantly now, we know how dangerous the Sith and their followers are. But come on, honestly, what key do they always use here and what the holocrons do. And to a person's psyche now, but come on, this is as dangerous as it gets, dark Jedi, Jedi want to be's, or worse, Sithlords."
"We been fighting the Sith so long, that you got to control that trio and fast, before they bring you to the brink. But there is a simple matter to this that no one, but you and me know, Omega is the son of Xanatos. And Xanatos used this to try and kill Master, it's that simple, it's the formula, we caught it just in time, but think about it now. But demoralization, disruption, we have two, disruption and demoralization."
"But that leaves the last, my demoralization is losing someone I love right now, and the destraction with it comes our mandate with Padme and both of these. And combined with disruption in you getting a chance to know me resulted in the destruction of the Jedi. And the republic, Obi-wan: Disruption, demoralization, distraction." he said and Obi-wan nodded. "All three equals devastation, Xanatos." he said and Anakin nodded to him then.
"And the last of it is the big one and Darra is part of it, as is Padme and mom, that's what I had to talk about after Zan Arbor came into the picture only you understand that fear. And with you, Masters Windu and Adi, as well as Siri, just what are my premonitions supposed to tell me. But the fact that I'm growing so powerful that I'm going to match Master Windu soon enough in powers." he said and they both nodded firmly then.
"And surpass me, but don't be afraid of that, you're not going to lose me because you're stronger then I am, or we are. You were already stronger then we are, because of that prophecy, but just because you are. Doesn't mean things are going to change between us, we're not letting you go, anymore then you want to let us go. We just got to control that fear and the Sith, they're not going to be able to touch you after this."
"But you and I are both training to join the council, if I'm part of the council in movie three years down the road from now later." Obi-wan said and he nodded as she added on to it, as she looked at him gently. "Yes and we all knew this about you, but that title you gained, was not your fault, you gained a reputation. And by infamy, to all the slaves you were a hero, to every Jedi not like me, you were a murderer, but not."
"You did what had to be done, to save us and yourself, but that is what a master guardian does. Goes deep into that darkness, but without crossing entirely now baby." Siri said and he nodded as Obi-wan finished that as he looked into his eyes at that. Looking into her eyes, he felt a jolt of love as he never heard her call him that before, as he hid a smile to that remark, as she looked into his eyes smiling gently at that.
"Issues in finding new family members, I know we considered each other brother and sister here. But that's the first time you ever called me that." he said and she smiled at him, as she pulled him into a hug and he closed his eyes as he tightened his arms around her, before she let go as he looked between them at that. You grew up a non force sensitive and we're all human, five stages of grief, you were in denial as well."
"And at the fact Yaddle was gone, as was I, but together Zan Arbor gave us stage two, and we fixed the gap between us in tightening our bonds. Stages three and four were the previous two situations and we just hit acceptance at the fact that yes we're Jedi. But we're not infallible, we're only human." Obi-wan said and Anakin nodded as he went further, looking into his eyes at that remark then gently at that remark.
"Anyone catch the memo in this at the moment, that these fears and traumas are only discussed between the patient. If we were on the planet this came from and the mental healer would say this as well at the moment. I was already wracked up mentally and emotionally from the carver and Krayne. Nobody talk about it right now and give me time blast it, I'll get over these traumas, but you had to give me time right now."
"So far I never lost anyone I loved, leading into Yaddle, but that's not true, first Halla and then Qui-Gon, the pain is still there and made worse. At the fact my premonitions cost me another loved one, I needed time, but I was stuck in that void. That's in the woods of the people these came from, a vaccuum until I was ready to start healing. But only between the patient, true friends a mentor if they have one at the time."
"Their family and the psychiatrist, said being you two, Master Adi and Master Windu and finally the entire council. As from here, I spent the last 18 months studying things that involve this situation right now. But they pulled a stunt that can get them thrown out of the order, but I let my emotions get in the way, it could get me kicked out. Not going to happen, I have to focus, my emotions serve me well, right now, but honestly."
"It's I have to bury them deep down and before our Sith tries to use them against me, but honestly these things tend to get worse every time, but right now. It's a matter of dealing with a fear that I have to control and said is always fighting a red, and I'm carrying blue, when the character is as dangerous. And as our alter ego at the moment, but that's exactly the problem guys, as to why exactly right now, truthfully."
"First the blood carver and now Krayne, do they even understand what it's like here, they never had to take a life. They never had to live with the fear of losing someone they love and they never had to live with the fear that every time they see red and blue. Now, they're scared out of their minds that one could overwhelm the other and destroy them. But still learning to equal it out, because of you." he asked looking between them softly.
And they nodded gently as Obi-wan said it for all of them sternly as he rested his hands on his shoulders. "Your therapy sessions are none of their business padawan, and frankly this fear we get right now, who did you see. When you did your lightsaber though exactly if you've been afraid ever since?" Obi-wan asked and he said it then. "I saw the Sith that killed father, first I saw you and then you morphed into him, following that."
"Is that I saw the blade laser in red, and when I activated it for real, I saw blue." he said and they all nodded firmly as she answered him. "Like I said, you're a master guardian, but you're training to control the evil in your heart. And yet you're a guardian, I'm there giving you the strength to fight and keep fighting, and Master is there. And is showing you the light, said light at the end of the tunnel, Master Windu is just like you."
"But there is no need to be afraid, just equal the red with the blue and you become purple now baby." she said and he nodded with a smile at her as Obi-wan finished that remark. "That we can understand and you are correct, privacy over something like this is valued between us when in recovery emotionally from a trauma. But until you're ready to open up, just leave you be as you tell us or the council with Thracia leaving the order."
"You grew up outside the temple, this is something they can not understand, you were in mourning. You needed time and until you were ready to open up to them, you could tell us, but leave you be, your last trauma, when Daiv captured you. I knew you needed time to recover, Krayne the very same thing, but now seeing Yaddle. As she was being killed in front of you, it comes down to one thing, these things need a release valve safely."
"Was this why you invited in the zone of self containment, to be void of feeling until you were ready to unload your anger at Yaddle's loss?" he asked and Anakin nodded to him. "Yes Master it was, but in truth I resented them for treating me like this, I can't help I'm this powerful, but once, just once wish I was like you. I hate being this powerful, this sensitive, can they understand that." he said and Obi-wan nodded to him gently.
"We understand that, but that was the meaning to what we really meant by inviting the master in, you unloading your emotions to us over the fact you hate being this powerful. This sensitive to the force, but pulling it over to the fact I told you to wait for me, I had to prevent whoever his sithlord companion was. From getting his hands on you, after one too many close calls and we're on the Sith home planet, so better safe then sorry."
"You and I both know how dangerous this is, your first encounter with the Sith was the Zabrak that killed Qui-Gon. But Sithlords are our speciality, but right now, we're meeting him on our own terms and not his, as we worked this out. But I gave orders for you to wait and stay with me, that's the truth, they want to stretch the truth. It only shows more that they don't have what it takes." he said and Soara nodded in agreement firmly.
"Master, ever since Zan Arbor, I had him prying into my personal thoughts, and even when Sebulba came back into the picture. I saw him watching, waiting for me to lose it completely, does he even understand that there are things I don't want him to know. But I can tell you, but every time I try to, I catch him eavesdropping on us to over hear it?" he said and Obi-wan nodded in understanding to that news as he crossed his arms.
"He does, but at times the arrogance reaches the point to where they think they can instruct just as well as we could. But just because he's older then you, doesn't give him the right to try and train you, I am your mentor, Anakin. You are my padawan, not his, and I'm just adding this to the censure, if one of you gets shot or worse." he said and Anakin nodded as he gave him a hug and the older man tightened his arms around him.
"I love you master." Anakin said softly and he gently nudged his head in response as he looked into his eyes. "I love you to Anakin, you're my brother, I love you, after everything we've gone through together, it's a matter of understanding things. But what this really comes down to is commitment to each other and to being a team. And with that in mind, after Zan Arbor, I was waiting for you to let go, remember this, brother."
"Remember, we had that talk, never doubt my commitment to you." he said and Anakin nodded as he pressed his forehead to Obi-wan as he answered him. "Nor mine to you, you're my teacher, my mentor, I love you, you are the closest thing I have to a father. I just feel like he's the nagging older brother that does not know when to take a hint. Darra, she means a lot to me, but I think your orders got taken the wrong way."
"She, after talking to the duo, possibly thinks I left them to investigate who the blazes it was that he was going to meet. But double agent, I had to make it seem as though I was leaving them to fend for themselves as I wait for him to make the call. But I'll be watching you, this is what I meant, and I just caught him in the act. His career is ours, if one of us gets shot because it shorts out." he said and the quartet nodded to that firmly.
"What's happening to you exactly, I have never seen you like this before?" Soara asked and he smiled. "It's time, if I never see Padme again and I'd have moved on from her, Darra and me, our relationship shifted when we were 14. We were going to tell you this sooner or later, now is as good a time as any, Masters. With my close to moving on from the way things used to be now and until we see them again, it's Darra now, Soara."
"Darra is who I love, if I grew up normal and on the planet these came from, but honestly now, had we never gotten these and truthfully. We got a year now before seeing them again, though in radio contact, nothing changes a single and said now. It's that is and was going to happen sooner or later, so that was it right now." he told them and the girls both nodded to the news in shock at that, knowing he was being honest.
"Had you never gotten that message and Darra was it even before it came?" Siri asked him and he nodded smiling. "Yes that's it exactly, that's the reason she was acting like she belonged to me, she made her choice, said choice is me. But she made it clear that his threat to me lost points with her, she doesn't want her man to be too good to be true. But have a flaw or 2, well as a result, I'm it now." he told her and she chuckled at that.
"So you're my little brother now." Soara said and he nodded. "I got the point of what she really meant when you were training me as well, key point there. If I don't release the impatience and anger, I will never learn and be who I am meant to be now. Well I did now, I'm letting go of the past and focusing on the present now." he told her and she smiled proudly and nodded to the news he just gave her then as she said it.
"Darra come here for a sec." Soara called out and she walked into the room then. "What is it, Master?" she asked and Obi-wan explained that. "I heard the hard tone in your voice earlier, it's not what you think, if I had the time, as I was in a rush. I would have ordered we split the teams in half, you and Soara with me and Anakin, Ferus and Tru together." he said and she nodded as Anakin pressed his forehead to her's to confirm his remark.
Pulling back, she smiled and pressed her forehead to his as she hugged him. 'You're forgiven, all we need now is timing and luck.' they heard and then heard a gentle smile in his voice as he answered that. 'Why need luck, as long as we're together, we'll make it out of this okay, like always.' they heard in response as the duo exchanged smiles at the way they were together as he said it out loud gently as he looked at them.
"Darra, remember we made it clear, we'd be watching and if he slips up, so severely one of us gets shot or worse, his career is ours?" he asked and she nodded. "We just reached it now, I caught him fixing Tru's lightsaber, but they broke the code. And by not telling the quartet the repairs may not hold up." he told her and she nodded. " Ideas Anakin, because we have to make it clear now." she asked and he nodded as he answered her.
"I set him up for failure, I checked something on lightsaber lore, this is what I found, guys. You knew this from the second I created mine, but as the mechanic, if there is anything dangerous than a faulty lightsaber it's our pride right now." he said passing the manual to Ry' and he read it out loud. "I'm lucky you're a mechanic, you caught this, before he tries it, this crossed a line, as even a small flaw in the crystal."
"Even that can affect us at the moment, listen to this ladies, Obi-wan, but this was the key point and he underlined this several times. '"Lightsaber safety, important: if lightsaber still drops below 65, check the flux aperture and crystal.For is there is a flaw in the crystal it can cause the power relay to drop without warning. And needs further work done on it, before use, but if lightsaber is recharged."
"Check the crystal and flux aperture to insure repairs will held up." he read out and nodded. "In other words, it's not the blasted power source or the aperture, it's the crystal has a flaw or crack in it." Soara, Siri and Darra said together and he nodded to the news. "The blast hit the lightsaber so hard that it caused the crystal to crack under the stress here at the moment, but think about it, I'm with Obi-wan, so re-arrange that."
"What is he really saying, as my mentor is the one held in such high esteem by the council?" he said and they all crossed their arms. "It says that to them, you're the council's pet you tell him, therefore you tell me, and through me, right to Adi." Siri said sternly and he nodded as he looked at Darra. "Yeah exactly, so he comes to me, I tell you the repairs may not hold up and therefore, through you right to the council.
"As you send him home, and then the truth comes out, said truth a catch in implication. I knew the blasted thing was broken and didn't tell you." he said and they nodded. "Never mind that, you told us immediately and through me, Siri and Ry'. And through us, directly to Adi, Damon and Tiana, and right to Mace. Mace and Adi and they're master guards, they're not going to like this." Soara said and he nodded as they hid a smile.
Watching them as Darra wrapped her arm around his back as he wrapped his around her shoulders and she left her head against his shoulder. The quartet exchanged gentle smiles to that response. "Darra, you remember our talk after he said that, I meant that, you are my entire world, I..., I pledge my life to you." he said and she smiled and pressed her forehead to his, as she wrapped her hand around his neck gently.
"And mine to you, my Annie." she said and he smiled. "I never thought I'd hear that again, but you want to call me that, I'm fine with that, but you and me, we made it this far now. I always knew that as long as we stuck together we would be okay, because we were stronger together." he said softly and she pressed her forehead to his then. "You were my strength, you always were, as ourselves we are strong, but together."
"And we are unstoppable but that's because we are stronger together." she said and he nodded smiling. "We stick it out together, we'll be okay, stronger together." he said and she smiled. "Always, stronger together always, I pledge myself to you Anakin Skywalker." she said and he smiled. "And I you, Darra Thel Thanis." he said and the older duo nodded as they exchanged smiles at that as they exchanged a gentle remark then.
'It's finally happened now." Soara said softly to Obi-wan and he nodded to her quietly. 'Yes it's finally happened, I think he's ready to move forward as he lets go of the past, we just have to make sure neither of them get hurt.' he said and she nodded in agreement. 'That his nickname, if she knew to use it?' she asked and he nodded. "Qui-Gon and Padme called him that when we met.' he told her and she nodded to him.
Refocusing, they both turned to their mentors, who had knowing smiles on their faces at that and he blushed. "If your thoughts are headed in that direction then yes, 6 years had to change something and they did with us meeting at almost 14." he said and Obi-wan nodded as he tried to keep the smile off his face as he answered him. "I get why, but best to refocus, over what we felt in that cave." he said and Anakin nodded to that softly.
"I just got the strongest jolt possible, when Master ordered me to check, but just as he came to check, whoever our mysterious Sith was, he threw me against the wall. I know that Sithlords are our speciality, but this character, Omega, he's the son of Xanatos. But I'm seeing a clear case repeater of what the heck happened here. When you guys were 13 now finally, but with those words in mind, we got to work as one, but his lightsaber."
"Why do I feel like this situation could result in a fatal injury if Omega is about to make contact with a Sith right now?" he asked and Soara sighed. "It's because if the lightsaber goes in the fight, whoever was holding it is exposed and could be shot. But this is why we tell you to tell us immediately if your lightsaber or damaged is broken." she said and he nodded as he looked between the quartet gently at her remark as he answered her.
"I don't know what the deal is, but what I heard was enough to tell me here at the moment at what I heard. Now that he wants to make the acceleration program, Darra, Ferus and I possibly made it, he doesn't want to get left behind, Ry'." he said and Ry nodded to the news sternly. "His performance is not the reason we're here, the safety of the team comes first, it always does." he said and Anakin nodded to him at that.
As he answered him at the remark. "Yes and you know me, why would I risk putting the team in danger just to get a chance to graduate early?" he asked and Soara answered that. "You wouldn't, that's the point, with the fact you told us this soon, that lets you off the hook. But them, if they continue to not tell us and till after it breaks and completely and one of the three of you get hit by Omega's shot if it goes, or we do."
"It's getting them both dragged before the council right now, I don't give a damn in why they waited till now to tell us, it doesn't matter, what matters is the fact they risked the safety. Of the entire team and let this cloud their judgement right now, you did the right thing, and like always. You knew to tell us as your older brothers and sisters, but seriously right now, of you, you were the one that always told the truth."
"Even before you became a Jedi and you always did it, after you became one now, always the code for you. The pieces of the code there, if you re-arranged the wording is 'No lies, only the truth, no cheating, always being honest, no hostility, always being honest and good, and no deception to family, always the truth.'. That's the way of the apprentice, Annie, we, like you, were learning our way in the world of life as a Jedi."
"And like you, our mentors taught you everything through us, Annie." she said and he nodded as he hid a smile at her use of his nickname then as he said it. "You girls want to call me that, that's fine, Padme still does, and honestly at the moment. It's nothing has changed in me very much, Darra was right, five years, even ten years. I never chaned at all rigjt now, I never lied before so why start now at the moment, I'd tell you."
"And I would do it immediately and not wait till the last blasted minute when in the fight to do so right now. But that's why he didn't tell you sooner, he wants a crack at Omega and a chance to get into the acceleration program. That's what is driving him right now guys, but Ferus said he sees no reason to tell you now that he fixed it. But lightsabers 101, if you recharged the power cell, then you got to check the flux aperture as a result."
"Just to make sure the repairs hold up, but he needs to compensate for the power cell boost or it's going to short out. You told me this time and time again, those lightsabers are our life, we have to take care of them. What am I going to do, they're going to see the fact I told you immediately as I turned on them now?" he said and Soara hugged him tight as he buried his face into her shoulder as she answered him then.
"If they have to learn the lesson, it's by the most painful way possible now, when you think everything is going fine and until your lightsaber goes on you. But either way you did the right thing by telling us immediately right now, Anakin. And I see you as a little brother, but the one to blame, if that does happen is them if it results. And if it's you or Darra getting hit and it does, and they're in trouble." she said and he nodded to her.
"I'm not losing your trust, not for them." he said and they nodded. "You made the right choice, by waiting for me after he threw you into the wall, whoever it was that did it. And this was also the right decision by telling us immediately that his lightsaber was broken. But if they continue to stall, and until one of you is hurt or worse, then we're dragging them before the council for this." Obi-wan said and he nodded to him gently at that.
"If this if the first stage to my trials it's by choosing between duty to the truth and duty to your friends. But you or them, there are no trials, it's you, my mother and the council and it will always be you, they can call me a traitor if they want. You matter more to me, you always did, but it's they come forward now and they may get off easy. But they don't and they're getting expelled if one of us gets hurt." he told him and Obi-wan nodded.
"We understand, Anakin, but that's the you I know for sure and you're right, to keep our bonds and trust the way they are. Then you had to tell us the truth, well that only makes it more clear, you're a Jedi to the end, you can't lie to us and the council. Let alone your mother anymore then yourself in something this serious." Obi-wan said and he nodded. "One direction or another, I wish there was a way to simplify this at the moment."
"If I was in the military and part of the academy, and my friends, my squadron committed an, in your eyes, daredevil stunt that is beyond reckless. And said stunt kills a member of our squadron, and while I'm the lone member now. The one that knows he has to come forward to keep your trust and they don't want to come forward. Because they don't want to be expelled for not telling you sooner, but to them here."
"They don't want to come forward, they don't have a problem with lying to you, our supervisors. But if I do, just resign my commission to the academy and walk away, but don't make them pay for my guilty conscious." he said and the quartet nodded. "Whoever between the duo says that, they just sealed their fate at the moment. Because the program was a test." Soara told him and he nodded to her as Obi-wan finished that.
"You better report into our Jedi parents, regarding that news as our's is in the force right now. You have to tell Damon, Tiana and Adi." Obi-wan told him and he nodded to him gently as he sighed at that. "I wish Father was here, he would know what to do." he told him and Obi-wan nodded in understanding. "I miss him too, Anakin, but I got an idea here, regarding this, make it sound like I called you up here to let you know."
"Regarding the fact that though they fixed it supposedly, I figured out that they're trying to keep silent about this, but make it clear. I'm giving them a chance to come forward, now they either come forward and tell us or we take it to the council. But of you, I know you, I know you better then anyone here, you'd never lie to me or the trio. And even the council, so make that clear, you can't lie to me ever, but you can't taking living with it."
"The guilt, and it's because they want to get involved in the arrest of those two, this is not the Jedi way to lie to one's master on something this serious. So tell them, either they come forward and tell us that it's broken and is the reason one of us gets hurt, or worse, or I will. Instead of getting recalled back to Coruscant, we do this first right now, just say it the way you phrased it." he said and Anakin nodded and left the room then.
Walking into the cargo hold he said it to the duo quickly, pretending he was listening in on their conversation. "Guys, did you expect me to not over hear the conversation today, because this is enough they're going to wonder about the stern tone in my voice. And they did and Obi-wan only had to look at a single fact here in why exactly. He just figured it out in why I laid into you both for that, but I'm with him at the moment."
"What is that supposed to tell him, when he knows I'm studying lightsaber lore, but that your lightsaber is broken Tru, he knows, he told me if we don't come forward and tell the council, then he will." he said and Tru quickly said it to that. "Does he have any evidence?" he asked and Anakin shook his head as he answered him. 'Alright just admit it, you want to lie your way out of this.' He thought sternly as he said it then.
"No, but he knows exactly how it happened." he said and Tru sighed in relief as he answered him then as he said it. "Obi-wan doesn't know anything, he has theory, so let him tell the council what he thinks happened. They'll ask us: is it true, we'll say no, there's no evidence so there is no case, we'll get off with a reprimand." he said and Anakin looked at him in shock then as he looked between them in disgusted disbelief.
'What, are you kidding me, after everything he's done for me, Master Qui-Gon, the council, Obi-wan, no, no forget about it, I won't do it.' he thought in shock as the entire 9 years together, before it landed on them together hit him. " I can't call Obi-wan a liar." he said and Ferus said it gently. "Anakin, we have to hang in there a little longer, then this will all be over." he said and Anakin said it slowly to that remark.
"It's wrong you two." he said and Tru said it gently. "Anakin..." he started to say and Anakin said it firmly. "I'm going to tell them what happened." he said and Tru said it firmly to that as he crossed his arms. "You, alone, you, are going to decide what happens to you, to me and to Ferus, you're going to tell them." he said and Anakin said it forcefully as he looked at him then as he felt his heart tearing at this.
"I'm not going to lie them again, Tru, I can't live with it." he said and that did it. "You can't lie to them, you can't live with this, you have to be the one to decide. Who the heck are you exactly?" Tru snapped at him and he looked at him in shock. "Guys..." he started to say and Ferus over rode him then. "You're going to turn us in." he snapped at him and Anakin said it sharply. "Wait a minute." he started to say and Ferus snapped at him.
"No you wait a minute!" he snapped and sighed as he ran his hand through his hair as he said it to him then." They got to you, didn't they, Obi-wan, he told you this big speech about duty, truths and honor, well it must have been a pretty good speech. Just to make you turn your back on us, us, your friends." he said and Anakin said it sternly to that. "We are Jedi, we have a duty to the truth." he said and Tru said it firmly to that.
"And what about your duty to your friends, I got you on this team, I gave you a chance when there were other padawans. Just waiting in line, I told Ferus, you wouldn't let us down, you're on the best team in the temple, you know what it's like. Just to trust your partners with your life, I guess I was wrong at the time now." he said and Anakin said it firmly as he looked between them at that remark as he said it then.
"Look if we all come forward and tell the council you could get get off easy." he said and they heard a pained mental tone to this. 'Just admit now, the chance to get into the program is worth too much to give up. Even if it means one of us gets hurt, you're going to lie to them.' he thought firmly to that and the boy scoffed at that. "We don't want to come forward, Ferus and me, we don't have a problem with this."
"But if you do then resign from the Jedi temple and leave, but don't make us pay for your guilty conscious." he told him and he looked at him in shock. "You'd put the entire team at risk just to save your necks?!" he said in disbelief. "To keep us together, the team, that is more important then you, and more important then me. And if I was in your place I would do so without hesitation, but that's just me." Ferus told him and Anakin nodded.
Getting up and leaving the room he went back to the quintet and they crossed their arms. Looking at the tears pouring down his face, Darra nodded to him gently as she hugged him and he buried his face into her shoulder. "You had to Annie, nothing changed between us, you and me, but now it's us and them now. They get what's coming to them and we stay together forever, it's okay, it's okay." she said, pressing her forehead to his.
"What they say?" Soara asked and he wiped the tears off his face as he answered her. "The conversation went as I thought, Soara, they said it for both of them, but if I can't lie to save the team, then resign and leave. They signed their death warrants now, they're not my friends, Darra is, as are you guys, my family. I made my choice, it's you guys and the council, it's always going to be you now." he said and she pulled him into a hug.
"It's clear they don't care anymore, you did the right thing baby, but if they switch lightsabers and one of us gets hit, because it shorted out. It's on their heads, you did everything you could, but it's their fault one of us gets hurt or is killed, baby brother." she told him as he buried his head into her shoulder. "I can't lose you guys and I won't, I made my choice, but it's clear, my bonds with them are on the rocks now."
"And practically over now, a choice, a choice of who I am and who I become in the years following this, no choice needed. It's you guys, you're my brothers and sisters, my family, I'm a Jedi, like my family before me." he said and Obi-wan smiled as he hugged him tightly as he buried his head into his shoulder. "I'm proud of you brother, very proud, you did the right thing now." he said, pressing his forehead to Anakin's gently then.