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 13: The Approaching Storm Begins
As he dismantled it and showed the lines running through the crystal and they paled at that as Tolan read it out to them. "I suggest you both listen to this as this was a key point in the ways of lightsaber construction. As he decided to verify where the damage was before reporting it to us mentors and Obi-wan. But 'Lightsaber safety, important: if lightsaber still drops below 65, check the flux aperture and crystal."
"For if 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.'. Seeing as you never did that, it was clear you never wanted to get sent back to the temple or that you never went to the only padawan who was a mechanic for this."
"And only a skilled mechanic would seen this and report it immediately without letting something like the acceleration program drive them. And especially when the lives of the entire team were at stake young man, of you, the one that did the right thing. And reported it to us immediately was the new arrival, so why didn't you ask the mechanic to be the one to fix it?" he asked and the duo swallowed hard and the quartet nodded.
"It's because of me isn't it, you ask either of them, Darra or Anakin, to fix it and in turn they tell your mentoring quartet, that's including me as well, Tru. As Anakin's mentor, he knows everything regarding my past, after a situation regarding my own rival. I became far more careful, and although I bend rules, I follow the ones needed for survival. Like reporting a damaged lightsaber to the mentors that deserved to know this right now."
"I taught this to my teenage version and to him, it's you want to be mad him, then fine, and so what. It doesn't matter, but he's reporting you for hiding this from us, he's not losing " Obi-wan said sternly as he looked at the duo. "You out of your blasted minds right now, what is the matter with you boys, are you trying to kill your entire team?!" Adi snapped sternly at him to that news as Darra and Anakin exchanged exhausted looks at that and relaxed.
Dropping his lightsaber, Anakin fell to floor shaking in relief it was over as he buried his head. "Annie?" she asked and he shook his head. "Too close, that was too close, what if it went now, he couldn't have been the one to kill you. Or worse, one of us got hurt in the fight, ever since Krayne and the carver, I never hurt anyone and instead was always fighting battle droids, but this, this is too much." he said to her and she nodded as she hugged him tightly at that.
Burying his head into her shoulder at that, he relaxed finally as he looked at the duo shaking. "You realize what you almost did to me here, I can't take being the one..., the one to hurt someone I care about here. The girls and your mentor are my family, my family, I'm not a murderer, I would never hurt anyone. Krayne was in self defense, as was the carver, but this too, no I can't take this right now." He said as the tears started pouring down his face at that
"Both of them were self defense, not murder, to protect me or someone with me, had no choice, no not now, please." he said closing his eyes as he saw Darth Maul in his mind, and seeing the sneer on his face then as he remembered the confrontation in the cave then. "I never got around to telling you this right now, Master, but when creating that lightsaber the first one, I saw 'him'." he said and Obi-wan nodded as he crouched him in front of him.
"Before I killed him padawan?" Obi-wan asked and he nodded. "My alter ego wants him as a mentor, me, I want you, you're my brother, my mentor. But losing father was bad enough, you no, I can't take that too, father risked so much for me, I owe him everything. And you even more, you raised me most of all, why should I let him poison my mind where your concerned." he said as the tears started pouring down his face.
"If he got to me before you met me, it's over, but no, I'm not letting him, them, get between us, him most of all. This is what I was too afraid to tell you before dealing with Krayne, it's this, I saw the first one in red. The laser, that's what's scaring me, when one second in the vision I saw it in red. I turn it on in reality and it's blue, but first you are in my vision and then he is, what is this?" he asked him and he sighed as the duo nodded.
"Him, him who, padawan?" Mace asked him gently as he blurted it out to him then as he answered him quickly. "I saw the Zabrak that killed father, before Master killed him, he entered my vision. I'm been scared out of my mind ever since, afraid of what my title meant, what the prophecy truly means, bring balance, what does that mean. That's why I came to you after Master died now, I needed a way to end that fear."
"But now, it started again, Master, that's what scared me, my power now, is scaring me to no end. As I said I hate my powers and my sensitivity to the force, but now it's this, that's the real problem, every time. My nightmares, show my blade in blue one time and red at another, what the force is this trying to tell me exactly right now." he said, closing his eyes as he tried to control his shaking then as finished saying that.
Looking at his lightsaber laying on the floor they watched him as he was seeing it change from blue to red then. And he swallowed back to bile that was trying climb up his throat at that. "No, no I'm a Jedi, get out of my head, blast it." he said shaking and hearing that, Obi-wan crouched in front of him. "What are you seeing exactly, if you said that?" Siri asked and he swallowed hard as he told them the truth as he looked at her then.
"My vision in the cave on Ilum, my original lightsaber the one I created before I destroyed Krayne, I saw the laser in red. The Sith you destroyed entered my vision, I just saw this change color from blue to red, I mean what if, instead of a bunch of droids. Or a Dark Jedi it struck down, that it was one of you, you get hit as my vision becomes reality, I can't take this, Siri." he said and she nodded as Soara pressed his forehead to his.
Pulling him into a hug, they saw his face streaked with tears of grief at how close it was then. Also crouching down, Obi-wan and Siri did the same as he looked between them and Ry' as he said it out loud then. "Shh, calm down, it's okay you never hurt anyone this time, but those fools pressed the wrong buttons. You're a Jedi, you did your duty then and you did it now by turning them in." Mace said, crouching in front of him at that.
"Master, my nightmares during the Carver, they came back, and combined with them are the visions I saw when I made my lightsaber. I saw the Sith, the one that killed father, when I was building my lightsaber, before you sent us after Krayne now. But those two and finally Zan Arbor now, the fear in my heart at what these situations are showing me. It's scaring me to no end, and has been ever since Master Yaddle at the time."
"But I never understood what they meant, why is it happening, what do these images really mean, because they're scaring me to do death. Honestly every time I square off against a red, I see purple shining in the blade, but the purple is coming from my blade. Directly against the red it shifts to your color, Master, every time. What is this saying exactly what's happening to me?" he asked and the duo nodded gently to him.
"Why didn't you tell us this sooner in why you hated being this sensitive to the force?" Adi asked gently and he sighed and nodded to Ferus. "He was just waiting to hear it and twist the conversation to Tru, what's it mean exactly. Good or evil, aside from that Zabrak the only time I face off against a red is when we were dealing with Omega. I think that Omega has Xanatos's lightsaber?" he asked and Mace explained it to him gently.
"The Zabrak ending up in your vision, it was sign, showing you the evil in your heart and activating your lightsaber and it showing blue. There's two sides of you, but that Zabrak is really the alter ego to Obi-wan, you're fighting the evil in your heart. You're a guardian, it has to be in complete balance, so these nightmares you're having. It's saying more than you realize, you are a master guardian." Mace told him and he nodded in shock.
"Listen to me, when red is mixed with another color, pink, blue, even yellow, it creates a way to say you're stronger than a guardian, sentinel or even a consular. It says that though you control the evil in your heart, you can shine with the light of the sun. Just give enough strength to help your purple counterpart have the strength to keep fighting. Or that you are a protector, so what you see every time is that though you control that."
"That darkness, that evil in your heart, you are protector, a guardian, once you met Siri, she was giving you the strength to keep fighting now. Fight the evil threatening to over take you now, Adi was giving you enough light to light your way through the tunnel. As for me, I was protecting you all this time, giving you a way to fight that evil. And at the same time protecting you from it." he explained and Anakin nodded as he answered him.
"This was why I was testing you so much son, I had to make sure, though your emotions are already developed you have the type of personality we see in us. You are like Siri, Adi and me, a master guardian, given time and a chance we can train you to control this. It's going to be okay, but starting now, it's time we limit your time around Palpatine, you need to focus on training as we help you get stronger now." Mace added and he nodded as he answered him then.
"Is that what you are master, why your lightsaber is purple, you are this title you just gave me?" he asked and Mace and Adi nodded. "The added colors you see me, and Siri carry are based on this title, Siri was giving you the strength to keep fighting it. After you met her and ended Krayne for good at the time, but with it now. Is we control the evil in our hearts and by shining with the light of the sun or the power of goodness."
"Before I lost my lightsaber, my blade was in orange, the same colored orange of a rising sun, Siri chose a pinkish, near violet color and Mace is purple. Each color showed a specific function and position in being a Jedi, but they all maintained. Now, that we control the evil in our hearts, but were a guardian, showed with the light of the sun. Just to keep the darkness at bay and showed with the strength of goodness and light."
"And heart, Siri was giving you the strength to keep fighting at the time, she made you happy by being the big sister you always wanted, for me. I was showing you the light at the end of the tunnel, so the breaking dawn just hit, you are no normal Jedi. You are a master guardian, we just have to balance both sides of you and you have to change color frequencies in that lightsaber, you're purple." Adi told him and he nodded to her in relief.
"That's what my nightmares are really telling me, I'm not a normal Jedi, it's not that the evil is something I'm afraid of, and honestly it's I'm afraid of turning into a Sith. That evil in me will destroy everything I care about, but don't be afraid of it. Just balance them out, Obi-wan is blue, that Zabrak is red and they are two sides of me. Stop trying to fight it, or try to push one ahead of the other, equal them out and I become purple now."
"Okay, I understand now, but this could have been the tipping point had you not stopped the mission, I'm still me, I just have to face that fear, that evil." he said and Mace nodded to him. "I understand, but remember the key lesson we gave you when we met, you let that fear control you it could very well destroy you, don't be afraid. Of the evil in your heart, just balance the evil in you with the good." he said with a soothing tone to him.
"Master, for the last few months to a year and half, I felt like there was some of storm bearing down on us, like it was just waiting for the right moment to strike. The darkness was pressing down on me so hard I could barely breathe at the time. Until you said that I never knew what it was or what my nightmares really meant, like this vision. Of Master Yaddle was just the beginning, but the fear, the darkness, it's bearing down on me."
"The dreams are back, it's bad enough I have to live with being the one to take a life in self defense three times. But this too, I love the girls, the duo are my sisters, Darra even more, the thought of hurting them, you, Ben or anyone of my friends in the Jedi. I could never live with myself if I did, I couldn't, I wouldn't do it, I would never hurt anyone." he told him and closed his eyes, before he took a deep breath as he looked at the quartet.
"Too close, that was too close, but what if it wasn't me or Tru that was killed in the fight, but you guys or Darra. What if it went now and I accidentally struck one of you or the sextet, even Master Yoda, because it went now. If that was a set up, it was attempted murder and my being implicated for knowing that blasted thing is broken. We had problems at one point before, but I could never hurt any of you, you're my mentors."
"Why exactly, I can't live with the guilt if one you got hit or worse, but lying to you, just to keep their secret, no, it's not going to happen." he said, shaking in pain and grief as Soara pulled him into a hug and he buried his head into her shoulder as Damon, Adi and Tiana all looked at the duo as Obi-wan stroked his hand through his hair gently. "My family, my Jedi family, I couldn't live with the guilt I hurt you or lie to you, ever."
"But not me, it was never me, Master, when I reported in to you over this that he was hiding this, I made my choice now. I was trying to protect you, the girls, Ry and Obi-wan by reporting in, before going back into battle, you had to know this. My friends, my family, I decided never mind duty to your friends, I chose you, the quintet. And my mother, but I never lied to you before, so why start now exactly Master."
"They can consider me a traitor all they want right now, but so long as I never lost your trust or my mother's, I accept the consequences. You matter more to me, you always did at the time now." he said looking between the duo and Yoda and the council nodded to him gently. "You did the right thing Anakin, and I am very proud of you right now." Adi and Mace said together as they both turned Ferus sternly at that remark.
As Yoda rested his hand on Anakin knee, he looked into his eyes. "I spent 10 years earning your trust, I am not jeopardizing that for their sake. Your trust and respect, your guidance, that matters more to me than anything, why lie about this, I can't. I never could before, not to you, my mother or even myself, so why should I do it for them." he asked, shaking and Yoda nodded softly as he answered him gently so that remark.
"Understand I do Anakin, and never lost our trust you did, you passed, final test to get into your trials now, you have. Very proud of you I am, never let me down, you have, to try to coerce you into lying to us, also against the code that is. But come a time where we may have to ask you to go against the code, will you?" he asked and Anakin nodded. "If it means the fate of the entire order and the republic, yes Master I would."
"And in a heart beat too, but I think everything switched courses now, everything reversed itself, I can come to you starting now. But something doesn't feel right at the moment, whatever master mentioned, regarding that elusive feeling of danger. It's getting stronger by the minute, like the darkside turned it's sights on me now." he told him and they nodded firmly as they sighed in relief at the news then.
"What's the sense you're getting from the force, anything serious right now?" Damon asked as he crouched in front of him and he nodded to him. "Yes, but..., agh!" he said through a pained shout then and Damon pressed his forehead to his. Before he relaxed as he said it at that. "What the force was that exactly?" Tru said in shock and he said it with a firm growl as he looked at Yoda then as he reported what he just felt.
"I just felt the power blast from Palpatine's anger, he's furious, like all his plans depended on me, and they just got short circuited. Everything he was hoping for depended on me, but Sith and Jedi are natural enemies as a result, so with that in mind. If the prophecy was true now, bring balance to force was by having the last days of the republic. They come to an end and the Sith and Jedi in equal numbers, there's two right now."
"Destroy the Sith, bring balance to the force, equal numbers, the only way that could happen is if..." he trailed off and Mace nodded as he read it out. "Is if he got his hands on you and used you to make the both sides completely equal now. While bringing about the last days of the republic, the force has been out of balance so long. That several years of war would do it as the peace comes to an end and the strife gets started now."
"And all that depends on you as he tries to use you to wipe us out and reorganize the republic into a dictatorship right now. Not going to happen, we just stopped it from happening by ending this mission that would start whatever obsession there was. But you had three blows to the heart already and we prevented a fourth from happening." he said and Anakin nodded as he looked between each council member in turn at that.
"Too late, our bonds are deepening every minute right now, whatever your form was can you teach me?" he asked and Mace nodded. "Yes, but your's does the same thing, but you've been acting like a master guardian. And from the second we started spending more time together at the moment here now. But honestly it's controlling your premonitions and this fear, so we got some work to do." he said and Anakin nodded as he looked between them at that gently.
"Master what do you call a Jedi that wants to live in the moment, just stick to the here and now, never mind the future, but staying right in the here and now. For seven years since we met I never wanted things to change and after Master Yaddle was killed. They did, but what changed was a deeper connection between Obi-wan and me. With it is my growing closer to Darra, Siri and Soara while things changed between me and Tru."
"Something changed here and whatever it was just shifted directions, if I'm feeling our Sithlord's anger at the fact you deflected his plans from happening?" he asked and Yoda explained that to him. "Living force Jedi, you are, but sense of emotions more easily than Unifying force Jedi do, you do, can sense deception easier than unifying force. But if felt that you did, sense the immense anger in our Sithmaster, you are now, he's closer, then think, we do."
"What do you sense regarding the anger in that jolt, felt you do, Anakin, because if Sithmaster was hoping for this to result in a loss of a friend or mentor. Then failed miserably they have right now, with fact that forestalling it, we are." Yoda said and Anakin nodded to him. "The sense is beyond furious, like the Sithmaster was hoping for this at the moment, but by forestalling the mission, you just made him furious."
"Said furious, he was hoping someone would get hurt, before the next stage of his plan kicked in. Oh boy, I think I know why exactly, since the day the chancellor met me, he said that he would be watching my carer with great interest. What if it wasn't just him watching my career, but it was our Sithmaster all this time. If he was waiting for someone to get hurt or worse, he had designs on me, and from day one at the time."
"We will watch your career with great interest, subtext, I look forward to using your powers for my own gain. You will make a perfect apprentice one day, and one day you will learn who I am as I reveal who this Sithmaster was all this time. That's like whatever message Xanatos gave to father, before he chose Ben as a padawan. I think we stopped his plans regarding me, before they even could start." he said and they nodded firmly to that.
"We just prevented whatever was coming from happening at all, but..., oh no, it's happening again Master, the formula that Xanatos used, is the one our Sith is using it now. And by stopping this mission, before that lightsaber broke down completely, we just stopped it. If the Sithmaster was waiting for you to suffer a broken heart, and brush the darkside, then he just failed miserably." Obi-wan told him as Adi read it out firmly then.
At that news sternly as they exchanged looks. "Saving you from a broken heart was the key now right now, if you and my daughter were growing that close. But either by love or the love of a best friend/adopted sibling, maybe imprint now. We just stopped his plans from coming to the fore by stopping this mission, before you got into it. With Omega and Zan Arbor, we just saved you, ourselves." Damon said and Tiana and Adi nodded to him.
"Whoever was killed on this mission was to be combined with what coming next in a few months now. And both together were the catalyst to cause him to brush the darkside as a result here, as the grief of the fact he lost another loved one combines with the loss. And of who in the quintet were hurt or killed in the fight, as it gets channeled, now. Into a secondary trauma like say, during the black out, destroying a village of innocents now."
"But whoever was supposed to die was to be combined with the lost of someone else he loves, possibly Shmi." she said firmly to Damon and Tiana, Mace and Yoda nodded to that in agreement. "If they get the occasional attack by Tuskins and he was delayed just long enough that would do it, as he learns what we tried to tell him." Kit said and he nodded to him at that as the sextet all turned to look at Ferus, who paled at that.
"As he's traumatized for life, as instead of one death on his conscious, it's however many were part of the tribe that kidnapped her and this time the agony and pain. It's so strong it hits us in the second that he loses it in the blackout, but that was the lesson. That Master taught him 9 years ago at the time, before we agreed to let him train." Ki Adi Mundi said firmly and Yoda, Mace and Adi nodded in agreement to his remark
"Shh, it's okay, it's okay, you didn't lose us, it's going to be okay, we just have to head off the rest of his plans if they center around you now. We can finish this, we just have to be patient and wait it out, but if your mandate is combined with anything else. We're going to check on your mother, we promise." Mace said softly and he nodded to him. "I love you master." he said softly and Mace smiled as he pulled him into a hug then.
Burying his head into his shoulder, Mace responded to his remark softly at that. "Love you too padawan, I'm not losing you, it's going to be okay." he said softly, rubbing his back at that and the rest of the council crossed their arms. "Do you see just how close you came to destroying him right now, if our Sithmaster's plans centered around him. You could have turned him into a Sithlord." Adi said, trying to control her temper at this.
And Ferus flinched at that as he tried to answer her, but she held her hand up. "No young man, this crossed a line you can not take back right now, he's suffered three traumas. And in 9 years right now, and my other partner in his therapy is retired from the Jedi, I'm all he has left right now, but my padawan and Qui-Gon's are the only Jedi Knights. That knew this was extremely risky to push a padawan already this powerful now."
"That your attempt to try this could have backfired so drastically you could have made him a prime candidate for our Sithlord, who lost his last apprentice. He's already so far ahead of you, that's it's very clear in why exactly, he's a master guardian. Part of my branch and with that, if the red and the blue are not equaled out. That could destroy him." Adi said with a stern growl and Mace gently let Anakin go and stood up at that.
Looking between the duo with a beyond stern look, he said it then. "And this is beyond idiotic at not telling us until the secondary scrimmage. Just what were you attempting to do in not telling us this, hmm, did you know, young man. Did you know that he was listening to the conversation, were you trying to set him up?" Mace said sternly and he swallowed hard as Tru also swallowed and they nodded as Kit repeated that sternly.
"Why did you not tell us sooner, Padawan Olin, you know the rules, why, was it so you could insure he be the one charged for not coming forward, Anakin drop the act." Kit said and Anakin stood up, picked up his lightsaber and hooked it on his belt. "Test runs, and the Jedi that was meant to be the best on two occasions won against the cocky one. Truthfully you two, I'm a spy working for the council and our mentoring quartet."
"I told them the truth already Ferus, you see how close it is, that you think everything is going fine, I warned you, there is very thin line between self assurance and pride. Cross the line and it turns to arrogance, but pride is a sin and if not checked at the blastdoor. That it can destroy lives or destroy your own, as we sparred, until you see the laser start spurting out, what if it gave now and I took your wrist off here, think about that."
"That's the reason they called us back, they were waiting for you to blow the whistle on yourselves now. But this decision, it cost you everything and when you're this close to graduation, the acceleration ceremonies are not worth the life of our entire team, nor early graduation. Or even a shot at making the council and saving someone you love from dying and turning into a slave of evil, it's not worth it." he said sternly as he looked between them sternly.
"This is what I meant, you lost focus in the real picture now, the Jedi are not meant to serve the republic as soldiers or as it's policing body, we serve the force and to a lesser extent the republic. But you all lost that touch with the living force that had Qui-Gon not contacted me now and we'd have destroyed the republic, but it's because of you." he said looking at Ferus and Tru and they swallowed hard at the revelations as the council crossed their arms then.
"Well now it makes in why Qui-Gon got you those books, we lost our way, and had been focusing on the wrong things, had you not ended the mission. And we'd be extinct, because of this, that your downfall is because we never saw this coming till it was too late, and even then. We did nothing to stop it at the time, but now that Qui-Gon got you the books you cracked the code for me." Adi said and Mace, Ki Adi Mundi and Kit nodded in agreement to that remark.
"But what if Darra was the one holding it and it shorted then and you sliced her arm off, this is what it means to tell the truth. And to not get cocky, or someone could get hurt, you think she would forgive you, if I was with you, and I jumped in the path and I got shot. But again, nothing is worth proving your right or getting a shot at making master, or the council, nothing." he said at that as Darra moved to him then and pulled him into hug at that remark.
As he closed his eyes and tightened his arms around her as he ran his hand through her hair then gently as he hold her, pressing her forehead to his then and hugged Anakin tightly at that and she closed her eyes in relief as he buried his head into her shoulder and in relief the testing was done. "I'm okay, I'm okay honey, shh, it's okay." he whispered into her ear at that gently. "I'm not losing you." she said and Ferus felt his heart shatter at this image then.
Seeing the tears of anger and near loss in her eyes at the fact her best friend was nearly killed, Mace nodded sternly as he watched Anakin holding her, her head on his shoulder. "Well I think that says all that is need to be said right now, the heart broken look in Olin's eyes is made clear right now to me. But its like Anakin said, that if Olin couldn't have her then no one could right now." Thracia said sharply and Mace nodded in agreement to that sternly as Kit said it.
"Indeed nothing is worth destroying your life over, just to prove you're right and someone else is wrong young man, nothing. But the one that deserved those commendations in their record was Anakin all this shows us is your jealousy knows no bounds and secondly. You are willing to destroy the entire order just to prove it, and instead of you wrecking his life, you destroy yours." Kit said sternly and he swallowed hard at that as Tru paled at the remark as Darra said it.
"Hold it baby, and for the record, the team that stayed intact all this time right now, though one of them is in the force. Is the Jinn/Kenobi/Skywalker team, I've never been more disappointed in you young man, you shame your weapon, you shame me and you shame your master. We taught you better then this, but like before all I see is that even after everything you learned, you never learned anything at all here." Adi said to him sternly and Darra nodded firmly.
"If you deserved to learn anything from 10 years as a Jedi padawan, you should have learned the clear rule of honesty. And Anakin shows that in spades right now, but this is what it means to work honestly and I saw the fight, near altercation. When in his memories of the fight between the podracers, we're supposed to be peace keepers and instead you bring your weapon out as well, Anakin had the right idea." Mace said to him sharply and he swallowed at that.
"Yes, I saw Qui-Gon, in the middle of a fierce debate between two mining companies and one of them was a Hutt, but no violence. It was just a brief talking down, but that taught me one thing now, that at times that violence and weapon is not needed. And when words work just as well, but as a living force Jedi there are matters that can be done without the need for violence, and Anakin exercised that too." Obi-wan said and Ferus swallowed hard at that remark.
"What Anakin told you was the truth, this was another test in the ways of the living force, but in Qui-Gon's words right now. But your sensitivity to the living force is not your strength, but time passes and it teaches, you were going on 16. But you have much to see and much to experience, but do not hurry the knowledge that you seek for that knowledge takes it's own time. Only a padawan fully in tune with the living force can understand what we mean by that."
"But then, Anakin knows my and Qui-Gon's teaching strategies very well, and it's because he was teaching him briefly for a bit. But every bit of our teaching strategies are in these books to Obi-wan and Siri, and he knows it, so he's teaching by example and let me tell you. He's going to make a very good teacher, once he's a mentoring his own student. For him this was a matter only he understands, but different personalities and at times you clash."
"But in your case, the clashing never stops because there are other ways to bring about order, but did you think he'd never tell me?" Adi asked and he swallowed hard at that. "Master, with the duo and the senator I'll go, they, his family and friends, need to know, that though Qui-Gon is gone. He's got another mentor that was connected to him now, and our teams were partners for years." she added and Yoda nodded to her decision gently at that.
"Indeed, but time it is for you to return to who you were before, Adi, time to return to your true color once again." he said and Adi nodded as Anakin hid a smile at the news. "There a reason you never switched colors back?" he asked and she nodded. "I've been denying who I truly was ever since my best friend was killed 10 years ago. But it's time now, I am not a guardian at all, but a master guardian, I control the evil in my heart and yet I shine."
"Like the light of a rising sun, I control the evil in my heart, but I shine with the light of the sun, I am orange." she said and she dismantled her lightsaber, as she hold the crystals in her hand and they changed color to orangish yellow and then put them back in as she reassembled it. Turning it on, the effect was instantaneous as the color was a orangish yellow, as Siri and Obi-wan turned theirs on and and added to it as Anakin smiled then gently.
Closing his eyes he looked at both sides of himself as he saw Vader and Darth Maul and then saw Obi-wan and thought it gently. "I control the evil in my heart, but I am a guardian, protector of peace, warrior against evil, I am a master guardian, I am purple, I am a master guardian." Anakin said and that did it, as the lightsaber started glowing dark purple and she smiled proudly at that response as she rested her hand on his shoulder gently.
"Master, I'll go too, but as we're his new branch, his family deserves to know that we're finishing his training as he becomes who he is supposed to be. The master guardians were lone wolves in the Jedi as we're stronger then the others, in all three colors, but this is a matter they need to know. That though he was chosen passed the correct age for starting, it's part of our new policies now." Mace said and Yoda nodded to the remark then gently at that.
"At the moment your version of the real Jedi very young, they are, while the others were around for centuries. New branch created as of today: the master guardians, the true strength of the Jedi, are not guardians, sentinels or consulars, but the ones that control it. The redness of evil in their hearts as mixed with another color to make a strong warrior. That show though carry both light and dark in us, the color mixed with it, is the source of true power in us all."
"But yes, all carry darkness in us, but must balance out the good and the bad, once done and only then can your training truly begin. Just got the point to that lesson Anakin has and his training truly begins now." he said and Mace and Adi nodded in agreement to that. "I'd consider this exact profiling that someone is scared of where that power is going to lead me, but though it's in training, nothing changes the truth now finally here at the moment."
"That for years you were scared of my powers, but it's not me they're afraid they're afraid of my high count, the fact I was chosen. And passed the correct date and finally the fact I keep getting singled out, am I dangerous, no, but before you judge someone, get to know them first. Or you fail to learn anything in training at the moment, and this is a test most people keep failing, first impressions." he said and the trio nodded in agreement as she said it for them.
"Anakin aced the test and saw everything we wanted him to see and took charge, without needing to think twice. But several clues to tell this was not a riot, did you see them drawing out their weapons, were the guards getting ready to stun them. Did you see the racers next to them, did you understand anything they were saying, force sensory perception, it's very clear to him, but you failed my test when you did that." Adi said firmly and he swallowed hard at that.
"But Master, I thought..." he started to say and Mace shook his head. "At times there are other ways to get through to a couple people, but a podracer pilot knows another the second they see one. Did you see the racers they were standing next to in the middle of the fight, like you were supposed to at the time. That was part of the test, sensory test, pay attention to your surroundings and not focused on a single thing when in this situation."
"Were you watching for what this was or were you too busy trying to show off to us and Obi-wan at the time?" he asked and they both shook their heads, as they felt their hearts sinking at that. "Answer me, were you trying just trying to show off to him that you were better then he was, and trying to show boat to the real judges in this situation?" Mace asked and he swallowed hard and then nodded as he admitted it then to him, Adi and Yoda and they nodded sternly.
"So Anakin was right all along, you want to prove you are better then he is as padawan and continue to show off to me. Because you want to be my padawan, but it was already too late for that, we spent two years getting to know each other now. And he knows me better then you do, all you know is I was an apprentice to Qui-Gon and held in very high esteem by the council, as well I'm very strong in the unifying force, but do you know anything about me at all."
"My past with your team my missions, Senia dragged up a piece of that past by mentioning Melida/Daan." Obi-wan said and Thracia nodded to that. "You want to be his padawan so much that you're not paying attention to your surroundings or opening up to the living force. I saw this before in Obi-wan he wanted to be Qui-Gon's apprentice so much at the time. That he wasn't paying attention to his surroundings at the time, but this is part of the training."
"A Jedi pays attention to their surroundings, a Jedi does not show pride, or try to show off, so tell me young man. Are you a Jedi if you act like this, or that you try to set up your rival in ways that are considered being a coward. And when you know that you are close to graduation, you want to graduate first and yet the one that gets the prize is your rival?" Thracia said sharply and he swallowed hard at that remark as Darra said it to Tru at that remark.
"This choice, it destroyed our trio forever Tru, you're not our friend and you never were, by saying that to him, you said it to me." she said and Tru swallowed hard at that. "Guys please, don't do this, give me another chance." he said and Anakin shook his head. " You remember what you said, it's too late you made your bed and now you have to sleep in it." he said as Corran, Dane, Tahiri, Sari and Wedon all moved to him at that as Tahiri rubbed his back gently.
Before seeing a young Togruta girl walk in as well with her clan at that. "Hey nice work Skyguy." the girl said and he hid a chuckle. "I take it the word spread among the Jedi clans they tried to sabotage me?" he asked and they all nodded. "Yeah it did, Master." she said and he nodded. "So future padawan, Master Yoda?" he asked and Yoda nodded to him. "Well given a little time and patience, she's going to be just fine with me." he told him and she smiled in delight.
"Hey come here." he said and she moved to him and pressed her forehead to his as they checked and a jolt shot through him as he saw them from that point to the years ahead after purge. Watching her, they knew she was seeing the same thing as they opened up their eyes. "The partnership is correct, she's my future student now." he said and Yoda nodded. "Obi-wan go to Tatooine with him, you will to report to his family." he said and Obi-wan nodded to the orders.
"Best we tell his friends parents and his own what has transpired here on this mission, they need to know everything. As like us, he gets what needs to be said out of him, Siri you as well, go with them, as you tell them the truth. Not a true raider you were a Jedi masquerading as a pirate, and slave radier, till we shut down Krayne. And freed every slave all over the galaxy, you leave in three days." Mace said and she nodded to the orders then as Anakin's clan nodded.
"You honestly think we'd never find out you two, because we did at the moment, the word spread all over the padawans from our clan to her's." Sari said to them with a firm growl to that. "Anyone want to chance ticking you off right now Sari, because its not wise to upset a wookie?" Anakin told her and she hid a chuckle. "Yes, and at the moment, I'm keeping my temper at this stunt they pulled." she said and he nodded as he leaned into her and she smiled.
"You guys okay?" Dane asked and he nodded smiling at him. "Yeah we're fine brother, but one expulsion from the order is the pride to pay for attempted implication of fellow student. And lying, let alone reckless endangerment, along with training interference is what he's in trouble for. The test of honesty is a key that was meant to get into acceleration program. And I'm the first to make it with Darra at my side now." Anakin said and Mace nodded in agreement.
"Indeed, the final prize is acceptance to training for the council and training to make master there in. As being a Jedi master and a council member gives access to the restricted section of the archives, of you three only you show the qualifications. In acceptance according to Jedi code and Jedi order. You have shown an aptitude worthy of acceptance into training for the council." he said and the duo paled at that remark as they realized they got tricked then.
"The Council, this was a test in order to make it to the council?" Tru repeated and they all nodded. "Prize acceptance into council, early graduation and most of all, make Jedi master, before reaching your brother and sister's age." Adi said and they paled and Anakin nodded. "Anakin and I made it to Jedi trials and through the acceleration ceremonies, we did it, by being honest, this program was the bait." Darra told them and they swallowed hard at the news then.