The Skywalkers Reborn: 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 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 8: Training In Jedi Lore And Lightsaber Truths
"How so exactly son?" he asked and he sighed. "Would I hold back on the fact that a team mate's lightsaber was busted and never told our mentors or the council. You knew from the time I was a kid, before and after the raid what I was like, I never lied to you and Halla before, let alone mom. And the other parents of our little group of friends. Would I do this at all just to prove said rival is a liar or anything?" he asked and they looked at him in shock at that.
"What the heck brought that thought on, Annie?" Seek asked him gently and he sighed as he closed his eyes. "Eighteen months ago I was captured by a crazed scientist studying the force, but the fact that after I was recovered from a zone that acted like I was in denial. Just after my mentor died, I finally let loose everything I felt." Anakin told him and they nodded as Amee leaned forward towards the screen as she answered him then gently.
"Which was what exactly?" she asked and the duo looked at him in shock he could be this open with them, but never with them. "What are you jealous he could do this with them, but not with you, but he tells me everything?" Darra said sternly and they swallowed hard at that. "That I hate my title, I hate my sensitivity to the force and most of all, I never wanted to be this powerful, I hate my powers." he told her and she nodded to him gently at that.
"That I understand, we always knew you were special, but we preferred to treat you normal and we knew you never wanted to be singled out." she said and he nodded as Obi-wan and Siri smiled at her opinion and he nodded. "Had that same talk with the council they decided on the same right now, but certain people are jealous. That with me arriving, I needed extended training as a result of my arriving late." he said to her and she nodded softly.
"And the add on?" Farcloud asked and he wiped the tears off his face as he answered him. "That I'm scared out of my mind where this power could take me right now, I just learned I'm what the council call a master guardian. I control the evil in my heart, but I'm a protector, I can't control this fear, I need help, but ever since I built my original lightsaber I've been carrying that fear ever since." he said and they all nodded to him as he answered him gently.
"Shh, it's alright son we understand that easily, but that doesn't mean that you're dangerous you have a lot of doubt in what direction in where that power could take you. But don't hold it in, take it to the council unload it all to them, if you told this to Obi-wan, you need to talk to us. As much as you need to talk to Shmi, she and Cliegg are going to understand this like I do." he said and Anakin nodded as he said it to him.
"You have no clue how much I miss you guys right now, as a result of my being this powerful I've been singled out ever since. I never wanted to be the chosen one, all I want is to come home, I'd rather be normal or just like everyone else in the temple. But the added add on here, is that I was now singled out by the sithmaster that we'd been hunting down. Turns out he's the new supreme chancellor, but his powers, they're as strong as the head of my order."
"He's been the grandmaster of my order for close to 800 years and as result every generation before me was trained by him. To him after hearing what I had to tell him today in knowing we found him finally he's taking charge and he's ready to kill, but like you. He knows this for a fact, but I would never have turned to the darkside ever, if if meant protecting all of you." he said and she quickly answered him at that remark as she looked into his eyes at that news.
"Anakin you want to keep us alive stay yourself, like the girls the only thing that would kill me, Melee or your mother. Is losing you to this Sith scum you just told us about, don't change, I'm not losing you anymore then Darra or Padme want to, you want to save and protect us. Just stay yourself honey, you did that already, before you became a Jedi do it the way you did then, by coming to head it off that day."
"And by taking us somewhere else here now, you remember the raider, you decided to take me to the oasis, you're here and you can prevent your mother from getting taken by the raiders. By using their superstitious nature against them it's that simple right now, no need to change, just be who you were before we found you were force sensitive honey." she said and he nodded as Obi-wan squeezed his shoulder at that remark.
"Well that's the problem for these two right now, you knew this long before I ever met them, but would I ever do something like what they're attempting to imply. Even though my mentor called off this mission now, they're arguing over staying here at the moment, but someone's lightsaber got hit so hard. That it possibly did internal damage to it, and repeated use could cause it to blow." he said and Seek, Melee and Kitser crossed their arms as Farcloud nodded.
"So what's the implication, when your honesty you brought with you as a padawan since you started 10 years ago. You know the point of honesty, you never lied to Halla, your mother or me once since you were a cub, so why start now. But while they grew up sheltered in the temple you see the corruption all over the galaxy and to them. You're dangerous, because you think about the values that we taught you."
"You were raised in love, trust and family, you knew the ways of the galaxy since you were still a child and live on our planet. That made you more prone to understanding that all things are not as they seem, but our lives are not all fountains, peace and luxury. We don't have much to live on and we have to survive on our own, but we offer what we have to those in need, but most of all us humans are not perfect.'
"No human is perfect and as Jedi they certainly aren't, if they're human, and as humans we are not perfect, we have sins, and values. But we let the values control us and we stay good, clean of corruption, and we live a long life. We let sin dictate our actions and it will be the self destruct sequence it's that simple right now. But lying is a sin in our eyes, as is pride and envy, even jealousy, so what is this, jealousy."
"That this character is trying to frame you for something you would never do, because he wants everything you have. Your title, the council's attention and most of all your friend there behind you, she chose you and he's in shock. That she picked you over him, like my daughter would over Owen Starkiller would right now. And to him and his friend, if he can't have her then no one can is that it, Annie?"
"They're trying to implicate you in something you would never do, you never lied to us: that is her mother, your mother and me before. So to us it's why start now, that's not changed and I know it hasn't." he said and Anakin nodded as Obi-wan crossed his arms at that. "Yes and not since I took him as my student, did he ever lie to me either, let alone Siri or the council, so why risk our trust?" he asked and he nodded sternly as he said it to him.
"No of course not, and why would you, you would never do such a thing just to prove that the person who is trying to show you up. At the current moment is not as noble as he thinks he is, you're not that cruel or cold blooded, we knew you better then that. Young man, just what makes you think he would ever do this, I know he never changed from the boy I know." Farcloud said sternly and they swallow hard at that.
"If you idiots really think that, then you don't know him at all, you never took the time to get to know him. But don't judge someone before you get to know them, my Jedi double knows this all too well, and so does Melee's double." Amee said sharply at that remark. "Just how cold blooded can you be to even consider that at the moment right now, but I could say the same about you guys right now."
"Are you so determined to hold on to the fact he's turning to the darkside, that you're willing to kill the entire temple. And have our opponent create a dictatorship here?" Kitser Banai asked them sternly at that remark. "He's been separated from you for ten years, you don't know him now." Ferus snapped back at him and they crossed their arms as Kitser answered him as he leaned into the camera at that his blue eyes blazing in anger at that.
"Hold it Kit, Just who the force do you think you are right now, Veld, Olin, because what's the deal, did he sound sincere during a question by Obi-wan. Obi-wan asked him something on the training exam you all went on five years ago, and though he passed it. You didn't and now you're giving to him what is a matter of training threats?" Melee said sternly and Kitser finished that with a stern growl at that news as he said it.
"We just had that question asked and answered for a second time and he passed it right now in this case. But getting a good look at his rival's face, I could see he never got the meaning to what the true lesson was, the real Jedi goal. And you guys, if you met Qui-Gon, why don't you explain that to him, he taught this to when I was younger then you." Obi-wan said and the sextet nodded as Wald closed his eyes as he carefully thought through what they learned at that.
"And for the record, he never lied before to our parents, his mentor or the council, and to us, all of us it's why start now. But why lie about it, if anything the test is trust in your partner and trust in the force, competitiveness and rivalries have no part in this exercise. But you both have your own strengths and weaknesses and that was for either of you to understand and I don't have to hear the words."
"But you merge with the strength and cover the weakness, and together you are stronger together. But only if you set aside your differences and work as one and while he passes the test you don't and you lie to your mentor that you learned the value of this lesson. Before giving him a threat, you honestly think that the quartet are not going to notice her trying to calm him down?" Wald asked him sternly and he swallowed.
"There, that's it exactly Wald you just proved you got the point as well." Obi-wan said and the quartet nodded in agreement to his thoughts at that. "Yes you got the point of the test just like Anakin did and that just proves to us, that if you were like us that you would ace every test that the council. Adi, and Qui-Gon would give you, you certainly are Jedi, though you don't have our powers, you're still Jedi." Siri said and they nodded in acceptance as Melee said it.
"What's the problem, you think that just because we're not like you we don't understand the meaning of Qui-Gon's training lessons. As we all got something, during his three day stay with the Skywalkers at the time. And we got the point of his teaching Annie at the time and to us, if we were like you. And we would buddy up in training and go back to back in training, as we reorganized." Melee asked and he paled at that.
"If we know anything it's this, but this lesson they were taking you through is the one his mentor and your's went on. And when they were still younglings themselves, but they got the point of that lesson and decided to run it a second time. Anakin, the adult duo know he could fight, he made that clear, but now you had to learn to work with him, and you failed the test, lied about it to your master."
"And then gave a training threat, if your parental mentors were on this mission and heard the conversation you'd be dead right now. Especially if Qui-Gon was along for the ride and with him her mentor as well, but seriously right now, you may think that. That we don't know him now, but the fact is we do, and it's clear you're jealous." Amee said to him sternly as Kitser finished that remark firmly to him at that.
"And I could say the same about you, you had him with you how long and you don't know the first thing about his personality at the moment. If I was there all I had to look into his eyes to know he never changed at all." he said and Seek finished that. "I see this as you're turning into your alter egos right now." Seek added sternly at that. "Alright that's enough, both of you calm down." Siri snapped and they nodded as Farcloud nodded.
"Alright we can discuss this in person if you and his mentor are coming with him to see us, Master Tachi." he said and she nodded. "We will indeed, I'm the only one in the Jedi next to Obi-wan that knows about your wife, and everything else in his past. We can give you a more thorough outlook, on what we're preparing to train him in now, as I'm taking him through advanced training now." she said and he nodded to the new information smiling.
"Thank you for your help Master Tachi, you have no idea how much of a relief that is now, us slaves as he told him. To us another day is another day to die, because our owners have the power of life and death over us. So his racing and winning gave all of us hope, before we got word in that he was dead finally now. We were living in fear he would come raid us, and my wife was one of the victims 13 years ago."
"I understand why he never told you this, but you had the right to know this, before you saw what things were really like." Farcloud said and she nodded to him in understanding at the news. "It was no worry, the mission was what brought us together, but I love Anakin like he was my own baby brother. I'd do it again in heartbeat right now, but my team and his team were a family, but this situation was just another piece to the history between us."
"We had intentions of shutting him down for years, but we didn't know any other way in until Anakin got himself captured and that did it. So the only Jedi that was a slave was the only way we had that could take him out, as the Jedi who was once a slave. He was only our chance, but the ending results now, resulted in changing things forever between us." she said and he nodded in understanding to the news as Anakin went further at that remark then.
"As you know, I left with Qui-Gon Jinn, but what wasn't told to all of you, is that he's really Jedi master. This is his apprentice, Obi-wan Kenobi." he told them as Obi-wan moved into view behind him and they nodded gently smiling at that. "Nice to meet you Master Kenobi." he said and Obi-wan smiled at him. "You too, Mr. Farcloud, nice to meet you as well, if you're wondering how his training is going he reached the pinnacle of it in my case."
"Siri, and her mentor, as well as the second in command of the council are taking over from here on in right now." he said and they nodded. "So is that what they are, this title you just told us, they're like you?" she asked and he nodded to her. "Yeah it is, but it turns us into lone wolves, making us even more powerful then our counterparts here. Qui-Gon realized this when he found me and he had to get me off the planet, before the Sith found me now."
"That dream I mentioned to my mother, that was really a premonition, saying we had a couple Jedi coming to visit, but the day Jar-Jar crossed Sebulba, that was the day, that Qui-Gon saw I was like him, I'm a force sensitive." he told her and she nodded in shock to the news. "Everyone one of us on the planet were wondering how you could come out of these races unscathed, but there is only one type of racer that could."
"And the said happens to be a member of the group everyone never wants to mess with right now." Farcloud said and he nodded to that gently. "No kidding, well after learning who it was I invited in to spend a couple days in bunking at my apartment now. Qui-Gon tricked Watto into betting against him and the results were with him giving me that faint nudge, I unlocked my powers, but the trio that were with him now, they were from Naboo."
"I was really aiding the Queen of Naboo as I got them the parts needed to get off the planet and later on destroyed the blockade. That was surrounding their planet, a few months later after a mission to Zonoma Sekot now, I was working on my lightsaber. And ended up getting a premonition, and of Krayne telling me it was time to face my past as I was the only member. And of the order that knew the network, the council chose us to be the ones to do it now."
"While Siri was undercover, but I decided to make it clear to Krayne he was never harming another soul for as long as I live now. As a result in the Jedi, the ones not like me, and to explain that, there are two types of Jedi and two different versions of the force. One is the living force and the other is the unifying force, the living force focus on the here and now, never thinking about the future, but wanting to live in the moment, as a result here in that."
"We don't want things to change, and we can sense deception and the other is unifying force, and they focus more on the bigger picture. And on the past or future but never think about the present, well that just came back to haunt two members of my team as it is now. Because one death could spell the total destruction of the order and the democracy I have represented since I became a Jedi." he said and they nodded firmly as she answered him then gently.
"As said loss of your Jedi family could destroy you if it's coupled with a back to back death and following that is a trauma you can never heal emotionally from, and are stuck with the guilt of what you did in the blackout." Kitser said and he nodded and the duo paled at that. "Yes, and would you hold the duo that caused it responsible for the fact that their actions are the reason I came close to turning or did?" he asked and they nodded sternly.
"Yes we would the duo are the reason millions of families are torn apart, the amount of pain we, as your friends and loved ones. But we are in at your loss, it's because of the said duo we lost you to the darkside, because you only became a Jedi to protect the ones you love. But that's not turning to the darkside, that's being human, you were normal before you became a Jedi it's only natural now as a Jedi."
"That the first thing that appears in your records is you're thinking about the amount of pain we went through during the raid." Farcloud said to him firmly and he nodded. "And this resulted in my reputation being turned into a case of infamy now." he said and they nodded. "You did what you had to do, if he didn't come quietly he had to be put down, aside from that. He was to dangerous to be left alive and anyway."
"And you gave us hope by taking him out, Annie, but in truth, though a Jedi, you are still you on the inside. In truth you can take the Jedi out of a normal person, but you can't take the normal person out of a Jedi. No matter whether you're a force sensitive or not, you're still human, you have to think about the lives you're saving by taking the one life that is a threat to all the other lives, and with it now."
"Honestly it was the only way honey, you did what needed to be done now." he heard a new voice say and his heart lifted as he answered the voice in delight. "Mom is that you?" he asked and a minute later she came into view and he smiled in delight. "Yes Annie it's me, and Will is right, you did what you had to do here." she said and he nodded as he answered her smiling as he looked into her eyes then softly.
"I missed you mom, you have no idea, how much." he said and she nodded. "Missed you too baby, what's going on if you decided to comm us exactly?" she asked and he smiled at her. "The council changed the code, and they're letting me see and call you guys as much as I want now. And with you Padme, but that's the good news, they changed the code, we're engaged." he said and she smiled in delight at the news as she answered him gently at that.
"Are you coming home?" she asked and he nodded. "Yeah I am, I have a few things to do, but I'll be home in a week and I'm bringing her with me, but it's time. It's time you met my mentor and his fiance." he said and she looked at the duo standing behind him. "I heard Qui-Gon is gone, I take it that young man behind you is his student when they crash-landed here?" she asked and he nodded to her as he explained it to her gently at that.
"Yeah he is, he's my adopted big brother in honest truth now, but at the moment I reached the pinnacle of what I had to learn from him. His fiance and her mentor and the second in command of the council are advancing my training now." he said and she nodded. "What they told you was true honey, I was free when you were 14 and I married 4 years years ago with you turning 19, 3 months ago, your stepfather is a moisture farmer."
"Named Cliegg Lars, you got a way to transmit the coordinates, so you and your brother, sister and Padme can find us?" she asked and he nodded as Obi-wan turned to the navigation-computer at that. "I know it's somewhere in Bestine Township, but where in Anchorhead?" he asked and she explained that to him. "Coordinates are 22,25,45,32." she said and he nodded as Siri inputted that in the computer and it appeared and they smiled.
"22, 25, 45, 32, yes I know that is, it's southwest of the dune sea and the Jundland wastes, and east of Mos Eisley in a direct line of sight from Anchorhead, yeah okay, well if the trio know I'm coming tell I'm look forward to meeting them right now. And I couldn't ask for a better choice then him to be for a father for me and husband in your case mom." he said and she smiled at the remark. "See you in a couple weeks honey." she said and he nodded to her gently.
"You too mom, guys, see you in two weeks." he said and they smiled. "You too see you in two week Annie." they all said together and they ended it at that remark. "Will that just makes it clear right now, they know nothing changed, and they're right at the moment now, nothing changed at all. I'm still me right now, so there you see, what I had to do was a murder/suicide job here, he wasn't being taken alive and to save my life it was killing him now."
"The lunatic had a blaster on him, and I was waiting for him to yank it on me, just as Obi-wan arrived and with him your mentor. He yanked it on me and I cut his hand off, before slashing him Ferus." he said sternly and they swallowed hard at the revelation and Darra hugged him from behind. "Unless you been in that type of position I suggest you keep your opinions to yourself young man, it's not easy, and for the record we had to do it ourselves as well."
"Zan Arbor did the very same thing, for her it was freedom or nothing, but Qui-Gon was too quick for her and took her wrist. And as he took the datapad with the formula needed to cure the contamination in the water supply." Siri said sternly and they both paled at that news. "Two generations and the very same outcome, he shares this with us, but he was just activated with his lightsaber and he needed me." Obi-wan said sternly and Soara ended it at that remark.
"Alright time to wrap it up, we're going home now, Anakin you can change the crystals, by focusing carefully on the color in your heart." she said and he nodded as he dismantled his lightsaber and pulled the crystals out of it. Looking at them carefully, he said it softly to himself at that. "No longer one or the other, I am purple now, I am a Master guardian.' he thought and in response, they changed from blue to a deep violet color at that and they smiled.
As the radio went off at that as they saw a young man no older then Obi-wan appeared. "Anakin, the council ordered that Nejaa and I were to act as your forward partners in this situation. We ran a fast scan, that next to me and Nejaa, it looks like we're the strongest families in the order, us three." he said and Anakin nodded to the news as he covered his eyes at that remark as he answered him then gently at that.
"Great that's just great, well if we needed another reason to check family back history Darian we got serious problems here. But your son could be the next generation case and mine is the same way, how's Master Da Boda doing?" he asked and the man smiled as he answered him. "She's a little worn out at the moment, though that's expected right now from repeated missions, what the heck is going on?" he asked and Anakin sighed as he said it.
"I found out who our Sithmaster is, and trust me you're not going to like it either." he said and before the young man could say it, the Jedi master walked into the room in time to hear that remark. "Who is it Anakin?" she asked and he said it firmly. "It's the chancellor himself, our new commander in chief is the Sithlord we been hunting down since they killed Master Qui-Gon." he told her and she nodded sternly as she answered him as she said it to him.
"It gets even better Anakin, I had a premonition of who your son in law is, but if anything if he and his best friend grew up hearing your names in the war. They're going to know you on sight, the second you give your pseudonym, because to them they gave up trusting in the force. Ever since we were either wiped out or went underground now." she said and he nodded sternly to the news.
"The war was a Jedi trap, by just fighting it, we start being killed off one by one, and so far we lost seven in 13 years,. While two more turned into dark Jedi and the last one went rogue, so we got serious problems here." he said and she nodded as she answered him gently at the remark. "Well if it's time to change to the code, then we change the code then and there is no going back, we have four years before the said purge."
"Honestly I think I know why Yoda chose me, if Darian's son is next on the list of most powerful students following you and your children. It's because I was meant to train him in the basics, and before telling him, that is your son, what the future holds after we destroy this dictatorship at the moment." she said and he smiled at her gently as he answered her remark as another book appeared on the dash board.
"Yes and I know your grandmother is Nomi, I know that, but that was a very good first lesson in the ways of the darkside and the lightsaber. And in what not to do here, but you taught me that, and like you, if this keeps up and that's going to happen again. You know I grew up normal before Qui-Gon recruited me as a Jedi, so would you see that to prevent that is sending me back, like a couple weeks, before she gets captured?" he asked and she nodded to him gently.
"Yes I do, and like grandma, it's a matter of knowing how traumatizing at the fact that not only did you just do something. Something you can't ever take back, but that in the process you got a taste of the darkside, and though it feels good. You start feeling sick at the fact you did it like that, like an addiction once you use it you start wanting more of it." she said and he nodded in agreement to that remark.
"I can't believe she did that, I know she was grieving and she was angry at the fact they killed your grandfather. But killing in cold blood is wrong no matter what way you cut it here." he told her and she nodded gently. "Believe me I understand that Anakin, but if we don't send you home and you prevent it yourself and that could happen again. So we have only one chance now, by stopping this mission and you heading home, before it does."
"But whatever Siri told you was true at the moment, trying to be one or the other, or trying to put one ahead of the other. That's not working anymore, you have to equalize it and we have to change to code, we have only nine months. Nine months left, before the mission that decides your fate, and that's your mandate now, so time to pick it up now." she said and he nodded, just as he was answering, he saw the book then.
"Uh oh, alright hold on Master." he said and checked the story as he got a close up look of a teenager and two more children as he read the book and closed his eyes then. "Well your family backhistory comes into the picture here, Master, it's the same for my son's students, and your son, Darian. But like right now in our current problem, she let her pride get in the way and it costs her-her arm." he said and they nodded to the news in shock at that remark.
"Going by what this says at the moment, she decided not to check the crystals she chose, and decided her skills were more important. And powerful than the power of the force or the capability of the lightsaber, and this choice as a result just as the lightsaber shorted out. And my grandson's lightsaber sliced through her arm, and the lightsaber exploded." he said and they nodded in shocked disbelief and the duo paled at the revelation he just gave them.