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 to young adult self 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 14: A Jedi's First Duty III: The Council's Decision
"And again, just what makes you think that we're ever going to believe that Anakin would attempt something like what you just pulled?" Mace said crossing his arms at that. "We may have raised you two from the second you left the nursery. But he made a promise to us, that promise is he would never lie to us, ever, and so far he kept that promise. But the one thing, or rather two things that he brought with him in training."
"That bag he brought with him, was loaded with a few trinkets from his old life, but the piece that was more valuable to us. But to us, his parents, Obi-wan and him, it was his honesty and his dedication, dedication. To do the right thing no matter the cost, us or you, you Tru, he made his choice. Because our trust, Obi-wan's, even Shmi's, mattered more to him then anything." Damon said, firmly with a stern look at the duo then.
"That honesty, that dedication was the key into training for advanced training, seeing if you have the honesty for this training, to make decisions that affect generations. For years to come, as we: the council, trained you ourselves." Ki Adi Mundi said and they swallowed. "What training would be worth getting into if you agree that honesty was a piece of it?" Tru asked and they crossed their arms as Mace answered that one sternly.
"Training, to make council, and promotion to Jedi master, and you both failed that test." he said and they paled at that as Anakin straightened up and moved to him and Adi and Adi rested her hand on his shoulder. And they swallowed hard at that as Anakin crossed his arms. "The council made their decision, by passing their test today when I reported you for this, Master chose me as the applicant, this is not me, you two."
"The me you are trying to turn into a bad guy, that is not me and it never was me, I can see my parents and my friends, even Padme again. And both sides of me turn into the man I should have been, the man she knows. Instead what your choices turned me into, but you blew your shot, because of this psychosis you have of me right now." he said, holding up book 10 sternly and they swallowed hard at that remark as Ferus said it.
"The..., the prize is acceptance of training into the council?" Ferus said in shock, while swallowing hard at that remark. "Yes it is, but do you know how you get chosen for that position, and like getting the best placement, the starship. Even the best commander of the entire federation?" she asked and he saw the truth to where they were going with that remark as she explained that to them as he crossed his arms at that.
"Following the rules, keep yourself on a clean regime, honesty, and never showing off to us and of you, the one that earned it. The one that most deserving is Anakin right now, but your attitude is unbecoming of Jedi, everything you did. That is unbecoming of a Jedi, so what else happened if he laid into both of you again. Before they spoke to the senator or during that radio call?" Adi asked him sternly and they paled at that remark at that.
And she nodded sternly as Tiana said it sharply in a angered and stern tone. "You called them outsiders, didn't you?" she asked sternly and they nodded swallowing hard to that. "The ones that are the outsiders are you, boys, Anakin and Obi-wan had a connection to her and her crew since they met. That was the last mission that Obi-wan and Qui-Gon had together, even before he heard the decision, he decided to tell her first."
"Now that she was his charge now, in protecting her, but that's what we're deciding in now. But we're doing extended protection duty to the senator, she's always going to be our mandate, no matter how much time goes by. But she's his fiance now, and now with that she's got a lock into us as the Jedi council and extended council. But you, young man are to her the enemy now as a result." Stass said sternly and they swallowed hard.
"You understand what that means as their children are a product of two different planets, her's and Tatooine, that means now, finally that he's a Jedi master, she's a senator. But his children are a product of two different careers right now. I don't have to hear it, Leia is taking Padme's and Luke is taking Anakin, and possibly their youngest is." he said and they swallowed hard at that remark, before they could answer the radio went off at that.
And Mace quickly turned it on at that remark then. "Yes, this is Master Windu go ahead?" he said and a image of a man no older then himself and Adi answered him then. "This is the Loyalist Committee, Master Windu, is it true?" he asked and Anakin nodded as he answered him gently to that. "If you mean about the Chancellor yes it's true, he's the Sith Master we been hunting down." he said and they nodded in shock to the news.
"My parental mentor got a ton of books from a galaxy and planet two galaxies over and got me the information needed. But the day that he met me, he made it clear that with his current apprentice dead, I could be the perfect apprentice to him in later years." he said and the loyalist committee nodded firmly as Mon Mothma said it to that gently. "Not going to happen, Padme told me how powerful you are, Anakin."
"But your powers now could do a lot of damage in the long run if in the wrong hands. And making us fear every Jedi just as powerful as you are." she said and he nodded as he answered her gently at that remark then. "I know, and if you want someone to blame for that power winding up in the wrong hands. Or just nearly did, you can blame these two now, Senator." he said and moved out of the way at that.
As the entire group looked at the duo with panicked looks on their faces. "They're the reason we nearly had you turn on us?" Carlist Reeikan asked and he nodded to him. "Padme told us that you changed the code, what's this mean for us and you now?" Jan Dodonna asked him and he smiled as Mace rested his hand on his shoulder. "We realized we lost sight of the smaller picture at the moment here, Colonel."
"We changed the code, and he told her the truth, we gave our blessing, it's not against the law, but everything she would have said. Is now obselete at the current moment right now, but right now it's best if we set the trap for Sidious. That's the chancellor's Sith alias, if you know what our alter ego is, well, they're dangerous. But as a result right now, you know what's coming, but we can fix it, but this entire thing right now."
"This is a smoke screen, but we're doing a case of cross and double cross and we trust each other with our lives now. And we become your Jedi generals of this resistance you create." he told him and they nodded as Carlist Reeikan answered him gently at that. "We understand, as for the intention, what is it?" he asked and Anakin explained that to them as he relaxed as he looked at him as he said it then to him.
"With the rules changed, you got a lock into us, through Padme now, she and I are engaged, but at the current moment. But I need you to understand, that though my daughter is like her mother, she doesn't have a duty to marry royalty, though she was born into royalty and is a senator herself. My son is going to be like me at the moment, but everyone in our family, in the female side, married under it, their position."
"Starting with Padme right now in this case." Anakin told them and they all nodded to the news in acceptance to his decision at that remark. "So this means we know your children and grandchildren all their lives now, as you're a Jedi master?" she asked and he nodded to her. "Yeah I know Padme is your best friend Mon, as such right now, you and Bail are friends of the family so are the other rebel leaders."
"But fast case touch, she may have her duty, but she'd rather marry for love then lose her self respect, I can take care of her and my baby girl." he said and she nodded smiling. "That's how Padme sees it, she wants your daughter to marry a man like you or a reformed smuggler we saved his taking our charter?" she asked and he nodded to her. "Yes it is right now." he said and she nodded to him gently at that
"We both know that the twins are our one chance to stop him, but to do that, they need to learn as much as possible. But the first thing we have to do is for me and my family to go into hiding right now, but no secrets, I promise. No secrets the code changed, you knew from the very beginning, but we have to hide the twins. And from the second they're born now." he said and the leaders nodded to him gently at the news.
"But that's the idea, Naboo is out, but we need a way to get her family and mine to where we're hiding, and till they're old enough to learn to control their powers. So with that, every rebel base planet any planet that has bad memories for my alter ego. Now is fair game, you know I never changed, but he could clone my alter ego. And he does, and it could get dangerous right now." he said and the sextet nodded to the news at that.
As he went further at that remark then. "Year 2 1/2 of the way is the twins conception date and Bail, you're up." Anakin told him and he got it immediately to his remark. "I'm the only one that knows you're alive and where you're hiding the family, is that it, and with it. That I know that you had twins, not one child or another, but twins?" he asked and Anakin nodded to him as the rebel leaders gave a nod.
"Yeah that's it exactly, but the twins destiny is to join the alliance." he said and they nodded to the news firmly. "So as a result of their framing you they're playing with fire and the ones that get burned are us and the future generations. Had that lightsaber went and it shorted out and your friend there got shot. They triggered the you that would later turn into Vader, with this choice."
"Had you not over heard their conversation, is that it?" Bail snapped and he nodded to him. "Young men, in light of this decision you are both under arrest." Mon snapped and they swallowed hard to that as they exchanged panicled looks. "You can't do that, I was trying to prevent the order from being destroyed." Ferus snapped at her and Anakin smacked him across the head at that remark.
"Didn't we already have that conversation Ferus, I told you, she, like Padme, is a lady and as a lady, she deserves respect. And where I come from we do treat ladies with respect." he said sternly and they both paled at that as Mon looked at him gently as she answered him gently at that. "Thank you Anakin, but there is no need to defend me, and as for you two, you little fools, if you were thinking on all cylinders."
"Then you would know you're playing with fire, and the people that get burned are all people that are part of the alliance that is fighting this dictatorship. Said that Padme told us about and the lives that get ripped apart are their family: her's, his family, even their own grandchildren now. And we, that is us: their friends, families and mentors, we are left in mourning for life."
"And they are left wondering if there is more to this, because you never thought this. And all the way through, young man, you never considered this, she's dead, he might as well be, and his family is destroyed. And piece by piece, generation after generation after generation you destroyed the lives of because this psychosis of your's." she snapped at him over the radio at that remark sternly.
"I don't give a damn whether you agree with this, but you are being tried for a near genocide of your entire order and attempted murder of your classmate." Dodonna said and Mace nodded in agreement as a book ended up on the floor and they saw a title on it. "It's a bad, bad, bad world, that's the title of the story episode, I think this is considered under the very same thing, that the future goes to hell.
"And it's because he, the boy, was either traumatized, as a result now, but that child had been traumatized or something happened to his mother. And as a result he brushed the darkside, as his mind was warped." Siri said and the council nodded in agreement to her thoughts. "One trauma is the reason he's left dealing in it, and the older version to his baby brother has been trying to crack it, till the double of the demon."
"And in their reality tells them the truth." Adi said sternly and she nodded as she, Mace, and Obi-wan looked at it then as Obi-wan grabbed it, and he and the council nodded. They and Siri exchanged looks as they read the story and nodded as Anakin pressed his head into Obi-wan's shoulder. And in shock at what they saw then as he realized he was the youngling they were protecting and from being destroyed at that.
"That's me, I'm that baby, if father hadn't contacted us, and this kept up, and that me, this me, would be destroyed right now." he said and they nodded as Mace said it with a firm growl at that as he looked at Ferus, "A near murder, or the fact this character killed his brother when he was a toddler. He was traumatized and they were trying to find out who the hell caused it, till the alternate reality showed things in complete reverse."
"And to their's, their reality is evil is good and good is evil, Sith are Jedi and Jedi are Sith, as they get the truth as the alter ego, of the demon. The good version of the Sith that the boy's father went to told him the truth." Mace said and she nodded in agreement to that. "And if you hadn't forestalled this mission that would be you, this is the you we know." Bail said over the radio and they nodded in agreement to that.
"Yes and as a result we did forestall the mission it can wait a few weeks till after he goes to see his mother. And takes Padme with him right now, as his parents gets to see her again as he gets to see his family. Well that's where you're wrong, if Obi-wan said this to you already he wasn't kidding, but Anakin's first mission started with them that year. At the time that year, he made his choice as he helped them on that mission."
"He chose that though not a Jedi, he was doing what it took to protect her and got involved, but that is not only rude, but also inappropriate behavior as she is a senator." she said sternly to that and Mace crossed his arms at that as he looked at the duo. "Did Anakin demonstrate the proper way to speak to speak to her, or the queen, the captain or the governor?" he asked sternly and they paled at that as they exchanged looks.
"Yes Master, but..., but we didn't understand why he was dragging up his traumas with everything to them." Tru said quickly and they nodded to firmly. "He grew up a non force sensitive to them this was only natural as I know he did the same. And to his friends and mother, he could be as open as he could be as open to them. As he grew up, as he could be, before we took over us: the council." Thracia said sternly and they paled to that.
"To him, you were no longer his friends, but Darra is, as are the quartet so tell me, what right do you have to demand he keeps his mouth shut. When he used to pour his heart out to his friends and family first, to Dack, to the senator. This was normal for them: even to their squadron leader and his second?" she asked and they swallowed hard. "Unbecoming of a Jedi that is in behavior." Yoda said with a stern growl to the duo.
And Mace said it firmly to them at that remark firmly as he finished it then sternly. "In light of what has transpired in the last three days, we vote you be expelled from the Jedi order for lying and attempting to implicate a fellow padawan for murder." Mace said crossing his arms and Ferus paled at that as he watched the young couple. As they were holding each other and shaking in relief, they didn't lose each other then during the fight.
"Too close, it was too close." Darra said as the tears started pouring down her face at that remark. "Pretend, it's stage acting we make it sound it real, but once we're on Naboo and Tatooine, we pretend that she was gone. We just got to make this look real, that, she was gone, but everything, we keep our mental shields up. And pretend he did get his shot in winning this, but we fake it a while." Anakin said and they nodded firmly.
As Anakin ran his hand through her hair and she buried her head into his neck as Soara rubbed his back and he looked up and her and gave her a hug. "This was them as they admitted to each other, they made it clear when he reported this to us. So in truth, he's moved on from Padme, Master Windu, she's everything to him. After he told us this, they made the pledge, Masters Qui-Gon and Tahl made." Soara told him and he nodded firmly.
"If we had need to protect her, he's not getting side tracked at the moment, because she's just a friend, old friends, his heart belongs to Darra now, as she is his age." Obi-wan added and the council nodded to the news. "Although something happens between now and that mandate, mom hurt, I could relax finally. In knowing you checking in on my mother so I can focus completely on my mandate." Anakin finished and they nodded.
"If those premonitions start getting worse, just tell us and we are going to go investigate, who was your owner before we freed you exactly?" Mace asked and he explained that to him. "A toydarian named Watto, my spaceport is Mos Espa, though that's not if whoever freed her also switched ports, but if I have to guess. If she married a farmer, try Bestine Township, there's a bunch of moisture farms there." he said and Mace nodded to him.
"Thank you for telling us that, but this is clear right now, that the animosity is not just jealousy, it's he wants to be chosen one. Anakin stayed himself, and she's alive because we ended the mission, and again, in light of what has transpired. And since Jenna Zan Arbor now, the decision is rendered now: Ferus Olin is being expelled from the order. And Tru Veld is being hold back from his trials for a year." Tiana said sternly to that news.
As they looked down at that. "Just doing my job, they got no reason to be angry at me when I know they lied to you, but never mind trying to trap me. And just to prove he's more noble then I am, or they're looking at this in one way. Through this book, I gained a scene of the future, before my premonition hit me as I stood there frozen. When in a shield trap, seeing you exchange looks and throw your lightsabers up in an exchange."
"My reputation among the Jedi, like you, was based on infamy, the infamous Anakin Skywalker, the Jedi born and raised a slave, who came into training. Even though he was too old, his emotions already advanced, the prophecied chosen one. The Jedi that killed a man who hurt and enslaved innocent people, who gave the slaves hope. And by winning his own freedom, who supposedly allowed a Jedi master to die, but the implication."
"The implication is beyond cruel in my eyes, why would I never tell you to adjust it, before the fight started, huh. Why would I do that when I knew it was broken, the man you keep seeing is my alter ego when you look at me. The legacy of this situation is pain, it doesn't matter that the opponent was never captured. He did his job, we didn't lose the entire team, but we lost something even more." he said and Tru looked down at that.
"In that book he made it clear, I'm not who he thought it was, I'm not sure what made me freeze up or forget to tell him to check it again. Maybe it was the fact that I was allong your side of me wait till he realizes that it's time come forward. Maybe it was Vader, I don't know, but they wanted me to be blamed for her death. Because I knew it was broken and never told you." he said and they nodded to him gently at that.
"Know why we do in why you did freeze up, reason being it's your inner council member, not turning to the darkside, you were. Your inner council member was acting as a plant for us and was waiting for them to expose themselves, it was." Yoda said and he nodded. "Though you never confronted them in this book over this and gave that warning for us to come forward, they think you froze up on purpose, that you took side."
"That you wanted him to prove he's not as we think, even if it means getting him in trouble. That it, is that their implication at the moment right now, but instead you turn the tables, my daughter is alive and he lost you both. By you turning them into us at the moment right after?" Damon asked and Anakin nodded to him. "Yes, but as I said the legacy of this is pain and betrayal, he lost more then your trust or your respect now."
"But not only did you disown him as your cub apprentice, Master Tiana, but even more then that, he lost something mattered even more. We all love Darra, but this choice cost them the girl they love and with her, is his friendship with me. Our friendship was already on the rocks, before I contacted you four, well this seals that door shut, forever." Anakin said as the council nodded in understanding as Mace said it for all of them.
"You're saying he lost you both in this one decision, your friendship is over, he lost his trio forever?" Mace asked and he nodded. "Yes he did, but I can forgive this, but I can never forget what I saw in that premonition. I've been playing it and replaying inside my head ever since we got back, you knew I overheard the conversation. Every word you exchanged between you, so you could insure I knew it was broken and needed repairs."
"But I have to wonder Tru, since we got back, I have to wonder now." he said and Adi exchanged looks with Tiana. "What, what do you wonder Anakin?" she asked, as Obi-wan flashed the implication in reverse into their heads at that and they hid a nod. "I saw how you traded knowing looks as you exchanged lightsabers in the cave. That there was a chance it could go during the fight, that you knew I knew and I was stuck in a trap."
"And that I couldn't get in front of her in time to save either of you, you or her, Ferus, that there it was, there was a chance it could go then. Not my friend, I said to myself, my friend wouldn't do that, but then I thought of how wary you were of me after Zan Arbor. You knew how I felt about Ferus, I was upset, you would want me to look like the failure. The failure of a Jedi I was, that you claimed me to be, ever since Yaddle was killed."
"Even if it meant not saying anything until it shorts out and one, or all of us, are killed by both Omega and Sidious. You would want me to get blamed for it shorting out or exploding, even if it meant putting the entire team at risk till one of us is killed." he said and Tru swallowed hard as he said it quickly to that remark quickly at that. "That's not fair!" he said in denial to that and Anakin sighed as he looked at him sadly at that.
Sadly and with disappointed resignation as he said it to him. "And suddenly I realized-yes, Tru could have done that." he said and the council crossed their arms. "You're looking at this all wrong." Tru said quickly and Anakin and Darra shook their heads to that. "I don't think so, I think I truly am seeing you for the first time." he said sadly, as he turned away from him and Darra pressed her forehead to Anakin's.
"I gave up everything I had from that side of me, I begin anew, the me that died a slowly turning dark Jedi. That person is gone and in place, is the me I was when Padme met me that day. And Obi-wan and father found me, I can't fix the damage they made to their careers now, nor can we fix the damage this has done to our friendship. I can forgive them, but in my eyes, they lost more then their chance at early graduation."
"But I can offer a way so they can learn from this experience as they see me change from the person they thought I was changing into. And they see me become a Guardian as powerful as the two best masters that understand that. We all have light and darkness in us, but the part we chose to act on is most important, that is who we really are." he said and she nodded. "Be that person then, Annie." she said and he nodded to her softly.
"I'll see you outside." she said and he nodded in agreement to that. "Alright, give me 15 minutes and then I'll join you on the landing." he said and she nodded as she left the room, as she looked at the duo sadly and in disappointment then. As he hugged her tightly at that as she pressed her forehead to his in response then. And as Ferus felt his heart break and Tru felt his heart fall to the floor, knowing it was over then.
Knowing he lost the most important people of his life then as the council nodded, nothing he did could erase the damage that his choices had caused. "I see this as your choices cost you everything now, young man." Tiana said to his sternly. "You see what you have done?" Ferus asked him angrily and Anakin nodded to him sadly. "Yes I do, but do you?" he asked and then sighed as he looked between them sadly as he said it then.
"Honestly, I'm afraid for you, you think admitting you are wrong makes you weak and leaves you open to attack." he said and Ferus shook his head. "That's not true, I think you should save your fears for yourself." he said and Anakin looked into his eyes. "If the Jedi need me I will be there, that includes you and Tru, Ferus." he said and came to a decision, knowing he was in council training as he looked at the head of the council.
"Master wait, I got a better idea, but push their graduation of the trials back four years, Darra and I did what we were supposed to do, so we get to go into the program now. They got to wait four to five years." Anakin said and they nodded to him. "Indeed, consider that idea very highly Anakin, works better then sudden exile." Yoda told him and he nodded as Thracia nodded sternly to the remark as he looked at the duo.
"Even after all they tried to do, and all they have done to you that would have destroyed us in the end, you're still giving them a chance, why?" she asked and he crossed his arms then. "Indeed Anakin tell us, why are you offering them a second chance at redemption, after the way they treated you, since Zan Arbor, the fact they tried to implicate you. Why offer them a second chance and an alternative?" Nejaa asked him gently to that.
"They tried to sabotage me and nearly get her killed, I can forgive their fear of me, but that to hold on to my anger is not the Jedi way. I am better then they are, because I felt the anger, the fear, the hate, I felt it and let it go." he said and she smiled at that gently as she, Mace, Nejaa and Vima exchanged proud smiles at that response. "Very good that is the very point." Mace said resting his hand on his shoulder gently and he nodded.
"There's the true nobility of the Jedi council I was waiting for, you let the anger go through you and let it go, it only proves even more. That you are ready for training to join the council, you and Obi-wan both are, as of today. your team is in training to join the council." Adi said and he bowed to her in respect. "Thank you master, but everything you ever taught me comes to mind, I maybe ready, but not completely."
"Still so much to learn, like winning the race, no pride, just humility, the fact I earned this position, until I'm ready, I need time." he said and Ferus looked at him in horror as he realized he sounded like him. "And that humility only shows how much you have learned, since you met us, since you had the chance to see your mother. You have made us all beyond proud of you." Mace said to him as he bowed in acceptance to his thoughts.
"You may say he is not a Jedi, but only a true Jedi can forgive something as cruel as what you pulled and still give you a second chance at redemption." Obi-wan said sternly and they swallowed hard at that. "And accept his suggestion we do, but not expulsion, you are hereby on probation for five years till after the Jedi purge. And studying the nature of the darkside and the consequences." Mace and Yoda said and the duo nodded sadly.
"And we are hereby stripping you of your padawan status under our team names, as of now." Tiana and and Adi said sternly and they nodded sadly to the remark. "Our teams are just Siri and me, or Ry and Tiana, but you both lost your connection to us. We never been more disappointed in either of you for this decision." Adi said said to them sternly as she looked between the duo with a stern look as Yoda nodded in agreement.
"Forget you did where my wisdom and guidance is concerned, trained you all your lives, I have, but never more disappointed in you then I am now. And for your behavior in attempting to sabotage your classmate then now, I am. Of you, only he learned the benefit to what I had to teach him and passed with flying colors he did. My prize pupil he is, and much to learn you have, about his new branch starting now, Tru, Ferus."
"But, as of now, on in academy suspension from fieldwork." he said sternly to that remark. "You both are deactivated until you see the consequences for your actions and learn the truth, but as of this moment. You are both on confined to the temple, for advanced training in the ways of the new branch of the order as of now." Mace said to them sternly at that as Anakin relaxed at that remark as he looked at Ahsoka.
"Ahsoka, test run, I want to test your lightsaber skills." Anakin said and she nodded smiling as she and he moved into the center of the room and Mace hid a smile as he called it out. "Fighters face off." he called out and they activated their lightsabers, and Yoda called it out. "Begin." he said and they started sparring as they worked out, Anakin suddenly smiled and mentally through a cushion at her and she ducked it.
Just before she threw a shock ball back at him then as he quickly knocked it to the side mentally, as Garen ducked it and the council chuckled at that. "Who does this remind you of right now Mace?" Adi asked and he started laughing. "It's us and Qui all over again right now, so Padawans get ready to duck before the one next is aimed directly at you." he said and Obi-wan clan group nodded with a chuckle to that remark gently.
Watching the young duo sparring as they saw a smile of happines on her face and a smile of happiness that had a hint of pride in it and they smiled. "There it is now, the him we know, is enjoying training his own student. Even before they make it to the choosing ceremonies or the trials." Adi said smiling gently and the council nodd in agreement. "There's the him we know now, he's going to be the best of the best as he grows now."
"Well it's clear, he sees another chance at happiness, by being a tutor himself for his own apprentice, before he finishes his own trials." Mace said to Yoda and he nodded in agreement. "He's ready finally, master the act of being a mentor finally now, the perfect young Jedi master in training, he is." he said as the council exchanged approving smiles at the way he worked with his future student, as the young duo stopped and relaxed.
"Between missions, I can help train her right now Master, she's my padawan now, if there is a war on the horizon, she's safe with me and Obi-wan." Anakin told them gently and they nodded gently to him. "Understand I do Anakin when the time comes for training to become Master and council member starts. In year two before twins conception date, begins it does." Yoda told him and he nodded to his decision as he answered him.
"Yes Master, I understand, but not ready to let go, I want another year or so, things changed, looking at this from your and Obi-wan's point of view. I see where this would have led as he was not ready to let me go, give it another year or two. But training to be a master, I want to stay under his apprenticeship a little longer. So though Siri and Masters Windu and Adi are teaching me to be a master guardian now."
"I want to stay Obi-wan's student, graduation can wait a little longer, till I'm ready to let go, but for now. I want more time, I want to stay his student for a while longer right now Master, 7 years changes. But what I come to realize that though ready mentally, I'm not ready to let go emotionally. I want another year or two, before I'm ready to let go now, so these next four finish it off." he said and Yoda nodded in acceptance to his decision.
"Stay his apprentice, you will be, and very, very proud of you I am, my padawan." he said and Anakin bowed to him in acceptance and respect as they ended the hearing and censure at that. "The last lesson they gave me just came back right now, but just because I'm a fast learner doesn't mean I should rush growing up or training. That makes you arrogant, so until I'm ready to let go things stay as they are."
"I know I can't stop the change, but until that day comes now, but I can insure no one I care about is hurt, and by being there for it, before it happens. But this was the first test needed to see where these images could lead, if the next one shows what happens. I can head it off by being on the farm, at the ridge where she was taken." he said and they nodded. "Indeed, but remember future not set." Yoda told him and he nodded to him.
"The future is not set, there is no fate, but what we make for ourselves, I understand, but with Padme I have to let the image play out. But for mom, it's being on the farm at the same time the attack happens now, Master died. And because I couldn't interpret the premonition very well, living force, I live in the moment. Until now I never had to worry about the past or future as I live in the moment." he said and Yoda nodded to him.
"Indeed, but though mindful of the future, not let it distract at expense of the moment, my padawan, remember my first lesson." he said and Anakin crouched in front of him. "You think I should follow Father's guidance and opinion on that right now, not to let this drive me right now?" he asked and Yoda nodded. "Indeed I do, and done very well you have, so keep it up you should now." he said and Anakin nodded in acceptance to that.
Looking at him, Obi-wan pulled him into a hug and he tightened his arms around him. "You are my brother Anakin, I love you." he said and Anakin smiled at him. "Love you too Obi-wan, no matter how much time goes by, you're part of my family. Padme and I discussed that when you were behind me, but I'm making it official now. Obi-wan, I'm just saying this now, and long before we hit the conception date, or our wedding."
"But I'm naming you and Siri as my children's godparents, and Darra, you're their aunt." he said and they nodded in shocked delight to that. "Adopted family in our case, but it's best right now, as with you being a member of the council. She's locked into the order and the council, but four years is a long time and you're three months. Now, past your 19th birthday right now, so we just make these changes now in training."
"And our bonds for these next four years now he's never going to get to you." Mace said and he nodded to that. "Like you keep saying, time passes and it teaches, we 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." he said and they nodded as they smiled proudly to that remark as Siri hugged him and he pressed his forehead to her smiling softly.
"Annie, I think you better take it easy and rest for a couple days that one blow to the head is enough you could suffer a relapse. If you don't take it easy for few weeks, but your body has been put through enough abuse right now." Bant said and he nodded to her. "Old nickname, if you guys want to start using it, I'm fine with that right now." he said and Obi-wan's clan and his own nodded to that gently as he hid a smile to that.
"I take it that's what they called you in Mos Espa?" Adi asked and he nodded to her gently at that. "Yes, but father started using it as well, as did Padme right now, but though three traumas, a new haircut and a lightsaber, the me that they know. I never changed at all thanks to us ending this mission now right now, though what I will say. Here, is if they want a reason I did start changing it's the near loss of my best friend."
"And a very close call in the quartet's cases, so with that in mind right now at the moment. Anyone want to take a guess that if we never caught them, then the me that you know would have been destroyed. As Vader started getting stronger, until the weeks before the purge, before he killed the me that you know?" he asked and they all nodded. "Indeed, and the twins and everyone in the loyalist committee want reason for this."
"Said reason lies with a couple padawans that not understand the consequences for their actions where lead they could have. As one loss causes concern you continually tell us to grow into obsession and said is what destroys you in the end. But no anger and patience regained, this you is the you that we know." Yoda said and the rest of the council and Thracia nodded in agreement as they looked at the duo sternly at that.
"Ferus, you and Tru are to return to your quarters and you are to study the dangers of the darkside as of now. You're studying lightsaber lore to understand how dangerous this is, and you are using training lightsabers till further notice." Mace said and they nodded as Anakin took Tru's lightsaber and Ferus's as he dismantled them. And yanked the crystals as he reassembled it and gave them to him at that remark.