The Chosen One's Jedi Quest I: The Phantom Menace
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 going to use the theoretical from my other story, as the Jedi Quest novels. So the remarks in bold print and italic are Vader himself, Anakin is in basic not bold and italicized. So this are and will be as though Anakin and Vader are two separate beings now. As the Jedi, the Naboo and everyone in the galaxy, once he clones himself, know that Vader is a separate entity to Anakin's personality entirely.
And see him as the Chosen One, but are training Anakin in secret here, as the lightsaber implication. Is Vader, and everything that involved the darkside was Vader, Anakin himself grows up to be the perfect Jedi padawan, as they all graduate 27 to 29. This chapter is going to leave out Anakin exchange with his mother, as those thoughts are Vader's, Anakin shows the maturity of a 25 year old from here as the weeks go by.
Chapter 2: The Jinn/Skywalker/Kenobi Team And Reunions
"Obi-wan, Captain, Annie just busted her, she's with me." he said into his com-link then and knew Obi-wan lowered his head with a smile on his face then. "You got a bigger problem, the link was just fused shut between us, he's becoming my best friend, Master Jedi." she said and he nodded. "Best friend and in sum years more then that, if you tell the council immediately we'll grant another exception, we got 5 married Jedi." he said and they both nodded smiling.
"I understand, but she's everything to me, Father, everything." he said and Qui-Gon nodded in understanding. "Yes alright how about we finalize the deal right now, and then we get our own entry tomorrow, and you finish testing our podracer, I want to see it." Qui-Gon said and he nodded. "I can show you to my house." Anakin said and they nodded. "Noah gain, Noah gain: Da beings hereabouts, cawazy! Wesa be wobbed un crunched." Jar-Jar said quickly to him.
"Not likely, you, aside from the ship, have nothing of value, that's your problem, but I can fix that." he said and Qui-Gon nodded in agreement. "Agreed that's very unlikely, we have nothing of value, that's our problem." he said and they nodded. "The total amount of the price money is 1.5 million wupiupi, and the total amount for the equipment needed is 12,000 to 15,000. So we win and you keep the entire amount, minus the costs of the parts the ship needs now here."
"As this keeps you afloat now, Watto, heavily afloat and mom is working as an employee now." Anakin said and Watto nodded gently. "Done deal Annie, Master Jedi, Highness, you supply the entry fee, I supply the podracer and Annie, and we split the winnings 50/50." he said and she and Qui-Gon nodded smiling then gently. "Deal, we just need enough and this can be added so we come back, and we pay out the entire circuit." Padme said and Anakin smiled gently at that.
"Then I better tell you this now, but we get raids by slave traders here, one of the most well known is Krayne, so Master Yoda gives that mission to us. And I'm going in after big sister, as Andy can't handle this right now, but I can, I took your training too seriously." he said and Qui-Gon nodded with a chuckle. "Nar Shadaa is home to spice factories, but here we get somewhat freedom, there, they're programmed to be very vicious." he said and they both nodded sternly.
"So basically to you, the darkside is another slavery, and you are not being thrown back into the shackles?" he said and Anakin nodded. "Exactly, the darkside is a slavery, I have freedom once I race for it, I get more then enough with you, but still a cub. Youngling Jedi, you are my guardian Obi-wan my warden, when I go to the capitol with you. But anger, hate, is a one way ticket back into them, so control the last two." he said to him and Qui-Gon nodded in approval then gently.
"Indeed, to be angry, to hate, is to be human to control that, that is to be a Jedi, but you are more than ready after 6 weeks training." he said in approval gently then. "Shall we." he said and he nodded as he lead them to his place then as Jar-Jar saw something hanging from a wire and snagged it, before the vendor came out. "Are you going to pay for that?" he said and he looked at him. "It costs seven wupiupi." he told him and he quickly spat it out as it went flying then.
And landed in a Dug's soup, and he splashed him with it. "Oops." he said whistling moving away from the spot and the Dug bounded over to him, as he knocked him over. "Sa this do's ?" he asked and he quickly said it "Who, mesa..." he said and he caught him by the throat then at that. "Chess ko sebulba, this Coo wolpa tooney rana. Oh da Hutt…cha porko ootman geesa…me teesa rodda co pana pee choppa chawa." he said with a cocky smirk, knowing this time now.
He was going to humiliate him finally, as he loses his winning streak now. "Neek me chawa, wermo, mo killee ma klounkee, Una notu wo shag, me wompity du pom pom." He said in annoyance to him, as he smacked Jar-Jar one last time, as Anakin through the parting shot to him. "Eh, chee bana do mullee ra." he said gently, no longer feeling the painful sting at the remark, all calm clarity finally to him. "Like I said be careful." he said gently at this then.
As Qui-Gon arrived with Padme and he shook his head then. "He picked a fght with a Dug... an especially dangerous Dug called Sebulba. That's my racing rival, Sebulba, he's an incredibly dangerous one, as twisted on the inside as he is on the outside." he said and Qui-Gon nodded. "Mesa haten crunchen, Das da las ting mesa want." he said and Qui-Gon said it sternly to him. "Nevertheless, my padawan is right, you were heading into trouble." he said to him sternly then.
"Thanks, my young friend, that was well done, once again showing non violence, you show the way of the apprentice." he said and Anakin smiled at the compliment then. "I got to pick up some extra fruit, for dinner, with you three staying over tonight." he said and she and Qui-Gon nodded smiling as they headed for the fruit vendor. "But mesa doen nutten!" he said as they headed for the produce section of the marketplace then, as they waited for it then quickly.
Meanwhile, waiting for the the trio to come back, the wind started picking up. "This storm will slow them down." Obi-wan said and Panaka nodded gently. "Looks pretty bad." he said and the radio went off then. "Panaka." he said and Ric said it gently. "Receiving a message from home." he said and they nodded. "We'll be right there." he said and then it went off a second time. "Guys the weather is picking up, so wherever you parked: get out of there."
"Guys, get to my house and fast, we'll be there in a few minutes." Anakin said over Obi-wan's communicator and they nodded. "Ric, we're switching locations, to the slave barracks, on the far side of the city, outside Padawan Skywalker's house." he said quickly and knew he nodded as they powered up, and flew there as they saw Shmi waving her arm to signal and they nodded, and parked there. "Yeah nice fit, we're safe here now." Panaka said smiling at that.
"Captain stay here, I'm going to meet her." he said and they nodded as he climbed out and moved to her. "Padawan Kenobi?" she asked and Obi-wan nodded smiling. "I am Ms Skywalker, nice to meet you." he said, just as they heard a call out. "Mom, mom, I'm home." he said and they charged into the living room then. "You know Padawan Kenobi, this is Master Jinn and their protection detail." he said and she nodded smiling as she looked between the Jedi team then.
"Hey Master, nice to meet you big brother." the boy told him and he smiled gently. "You too Annie, my name is Obi-wan Kenobi." he said and Anakin nodded gently. "Anakin Skywalker, it's pleasure to meet you right now, with the weather getting worse. I can meet your protection detail, after this, but that message is a tracer, they're trying to find her. It's the black robes, they're looking for her." he said and they nodded sternly at the news, as he answered him.
"Captain, I got protection by the Jedi here, you deal with the girls right now." Padme said and he nodded gently, as Anakin pressed the locking switch out the front door. "That trace is meant to find you, but they're back, Obi-wan's consideration of an elusive evil. They're the owners, of these crystals, in lightsaber form." he said, pulling out a pouch of cherry red crystals. "Force talk about a message, the Sith are back on the loose." Obi-wan said sternly and he nodded then.
"Thank you for clarifying that for me right now." Panaka said sternly and he nodded. "I know it's tempting to try and answer it, but don't, it's not just any evil, our supposed dead alter ego. They just returned right now, his apprentice, the youngest, is looking for us." he said and they all nodded sternly. "So protecting us by having you being our guide, offering us shelter, and now telling us who Gunray is in league with, thank you for the help." Padme said gently to him.
"Trust me this is going to be a long 3 days, before we get it off the planet, but I can help your pilot by joining his fleet, and destroy the ship from within, get under the radar." he said and she nodded smiling at his idea. "So distraction and diversion, yes that beats them at their own game right now, they have no idea how powerful you really are right now." she said smiling and he nodded. "Whatever my numbers are, that I don't know, yet." he said and Obi-wan nodded then.
"We can check on that, but I count…., don't tell me, Andy tried to copy you in creating a lightsaber and it exploded?" he asked and Anakin nodded. "Yes and he's in enough trouble already, but first he decided to play hooky in talking to complete strangers. And then attempted lightsaber construction, crossed a circuit and the bloody thing exploded." Shmi said and he nodded. "If it's this bad now, it will be worse, in sum years." Obi-wan said to that bemused.
"I'm going on a guess of why we got a Sith looking for her, but he, his master and the Viceroy are in this together, but my powers get completely unlocked. The Sith's attention turns on me Brother, I'm the real target after we save their people." he said and Obi-wan nodded sternly. "Then I'm saying this now, that though we know you're very good, you don't need your skills, sensitivity or your title thrown at you everytime you turn around right now, your training."
"That's family business and as these characters, whoever the non sith alias is, in non force sensitive mode, is not family, so none of his concern. But from now on, whoever it is, they are stay to away from you, you are off limits." he said and Anakin nodded. "We're going to need a clearing, after the weather dies down, but I want to test your lightsaber skills here. Before we have you get into battle." he said and Anakin nodded, knowing his mentor took it seriously.
"I should tell you my alter ego, who is my twin brother, he's everything I'm not, after he attempted this, and the wires got crossed. But I have to clone him, turning him real, but that's the story you tell my, or rather our, son, my loyalty is only to you, Mace and Master Yoda. Andy is beyond question to Sidious, our Sithmaster: Darth Sidious now." He said, dropping a pouch on the dinner table and Obi-wan opened it then, as he showed him his own and he nodded then.
"Sidious tried to have you killed on the ship, when he heard you were sent by Valorum now, he's masterminding this entire future war to wipe us out in the current Jedi Order. As the code is wrong, we have 5 married Jedi and that just why is attachment wrong exactly. As you been in love with Siri since you were 18, that code has to be changed." he said and Obi-wan nodded. "I see, alright now, then who is he exactly?" he asked and Anakin sighed as he answered him.
"Palpatine, if you listen more closely to his words now, you're going to hear a more sinister tone to them now, he's been cloaking his eyes and his signature from you." he said and Padme nodded sternly. "He masterminded the plot to destroy the Jedi and turn the Republic into a dictatorship?" Panaka asked and he nodded. "We make him think he's won, and everyone goes grey Jedi, aside from you, Master Yoda and me." he said and Obi-wan nodded sternly then.
"The old Jedi Order died in the purge and was reborn with my children, following sum years into the future, but it was never you, the council made the mistake. But Dooku, though correct in his ideals, was a distraction, he killed my mother by keeping me away from Tatooine. But Andy had a breakdown and slaughtered the entire village, belonging to the Raider I tried to help." he said and Obi-wan nodded sternly. "Your brother is dangerous." he said and Anakin nodded to him.
As he looked between the two and they saw the blackened power cell and the red crystals then. "Young man, those lightsabers are dangerous in the construction if you get them wrong, you have to be careful." Panaka said in shock and Shmi nodded sternly. "Name?" Obi-wan asked and he nodded then. "Andrus Darian Vandel, if he falls take the last two, what do you get exactly?" he asked and Qui-Gon crossed his arms. "Darth Vader." Obi-wan said sternly and he nodded.
"My soul got shot back from 36 years into the future, remember that theoretical that you got from Lana's planetary leaders?" he asked and Qui-Gon nodded. "It's all true, that's the future, there are two ways we can go about it, and the second is by cloning me." he said and they nodded. "So Obi-wan and I never lose you Annie." Padme said and he nodded. "You are my wife Padme, the mother of my twin children." he said and she nodded in amazement then gently.
"Everyone knew the surname Skywalker, so when Luke got into the resistance, your resistance, they knew only one other man by that name, it was me. But to everyone now, everyone thought my alter ego killed me, so it was easy to differentiate. Between me and my alter ego now, because my alter ego was loaded with anger, and confident to the point of arrogant. His thinking he could outwit Obi-wan, that put him in the suit, after the repeated atrocities he did now."
"Andy betrayed me, by cutting Mace's wrist off, so Sidious can blast him out the window, before leading a siege on the temple, murdered me, by knocking me so far into a coma. I might as well be dead, you tried to talk some sense into him, but you got into the most heated fight. With him that you ever had, once you saw his eyes, you knew he was gone now here. But this round I survived and the punishment is the bodysuit." he said and Obi-wan nodded sternly to him.
"What you told Luke is exactly that now, but I wanted him to have this when he was old enough, but Owen would not allow it, he was afraid. In truth that Luke would go off on some idealistic crusade like I did, and fall into Sidious's clutches next." he said, tapping his lightsaber and he nodded. "So that's how we lost you, Sidious sensed your power, seduced and lead you to the darkside, I tried to pull you back, but the fight proved deadly." he said and Anakin nodded.
"May I ask what caused the need for that suit?" Panaka asked him and he nodded. "Well in our version of religion is we go by colors, red is where exactly, because this planet in truth. Is considered what I will not say with me physically in the body of youngling again." he said and Obi-wan nodded with a bemused look. "Mustafar is considered heck, Hoth is considered heaven, though freezing cold on that planet, you got too close to the river and his clothes caught fire."
"After I disabled him, okay I understand this is the you I know, but as you have the clothes of a moisture farmer get changed, because they look like the way I'm dressed right now." he said and Anakin nodded and went into his room and changed clothes as they saw him. "Yeah padawan in training, that's the exact outfit for training in the temple now. But since you never got your agility enhanced, we can do that at the temple." he said and Anakin nodded gently.
"So 36 years, this means, mentally, you're 46 in you're near 10 year old body, making me 62, and our parents, if they were still alive 80 to 85 years old." he said and Anakin nodded. "Yeah, but if you also get shot back to now, both of you, you remember what happened to me. And how it did now, but you, Master Yoda and I meant the most to Luke, so we were the ones he saw." he said and Obi-wan nodded. "Luke, that's light in Nabooian." Padme said and he nodded.
Before he could answer the two got blasted into the chairs hard, before refocusing and looking at him and smiled in delight. "Anakin!" they said together and he smiled in delight then. "Angel, brother!" he said happily and they nodded as Obi-wan pulled him into a hug and he closed his eyes happily and he tightened his arms around him, before pressing his forehead to his. "My brother, I'm back now, I'm me once again now." he said and he smiled as he looked at him.
As she looked into his eyes and she pressed her forehead to his. "My angel, my love, is that really you, before Vader did that." he asked and she nodded, looking into his eyes then. "Yes, yes I remember everything and yes, I can see here we should have done something. And sooner right now, my love we change this moment, the next 10 years in time now finally. We stand a better chance now, but we play along till your double shift." she said and he nodded then.
"Agreed, Master, we have until the double shift, we make it to then, Adi has protection duty, we're her personal bodyguards, but in the middle of it. She and Anakin fell in love, they eloped and got married, Mace, Master Yoda and I knew all the time. But we had a mission to Ansion then got called out for a double shift and he barely crashed a speeder. So we got the search, I'm hunting Dooku, to where he's hiding, he quit the Order after you were killed on this mission."
"Because he could see that we been serving the republic so long, that Mace's words were being a hypocrite here, just before Yoda and I realized we been tricked. Directly after Vader, not Anakin, lead the siege at the temple and killed who was left of the Jedi now. Still left over from the war, it was after getting back, I realized we been tricked here now. That Palpatine was hiding in plain sight of us all this time, he got to Anakin's alter ego, called Darth Vader now."
"And 13 years ago, now, because they were afraid of the massive power he carries and with it, now, is the fact we never took his concerns on his premonitions seriously. And twice now, that third time's the charm and it killed the Order, being the last of the Jedi council. Is that Master and I, we tried to take Anakin alive and lock the bloody door, but I lost him. Before losing her next, and Siri and Adi were dead by then." he told him and Qui-Gon nodded sternly to the news.
"So that was really you I saw in that vision, age 58, you're 25, going on 26." he said slowly and Obi-wan nodded as he ran his hand through Anakin's hair then in a brotherly way then. "Yes it was me, I'd been living here for 19 years at the time, watching over their son now. Same beginning as Anakin, just without the slavery here, only he was living with Shmi's husband. And his son and daughter-in-law Luke, or Light as Anakin translated, was 19, Anakin himself now."
"He was 42 years old, Padme, through Bail Organa, but he adopted Courage, their daughter now, contacted me here on Tatooine, I decided to train Light. But we lost the rest of his family, Shmi's husband and Anakin's stepbrother and sister-in-law. I got Luke off the planet, after I realized they were after the boys, and we chartered a flight for Alderaan. And then rescued his sister, only not realizing she was his sister, he never knew the truth, till he got it here now."
"And from Anakin, that Vader barely killed Anakin and by said fight, he just told you and Dack about now, I sent Luke to Master Yoda, he was on Dagobah. Before Luke also started having visions, Luke is like me, a unifying force, Leia is a living now. Trying to prevent Luke from leaving, he got the truth, like Anakin did, in the worst way possible. And lost his wrist in the fight, after losing Han, before rescuing him a year later now." he said and Qui-Gon nodded.
"At the time, I really thought there was no chance of getting Anakin back, till Luke left the door open, and Anakin realized Leia was his daughter, stabbed Vader in the back. Killed Sidious and then became one with the force now, as he returned to me and Master Yoda. But we just got blasted back from destroying the second weapon now, watching the twins. With her boyfriend and his friends, Luke's squadron, Damon's grandson, Landon." he said and Qui-Gon nodded.
"I never been more thankful to get my brother back, but I lost everything, because we were deceived by a lie now, Anakin's more then my padawan, he's my best friend. My baby brother, but I'm 62 trapped in my going on 26 year old body, him in his going on 10 year old body. I can fix this, but I'm never letting Palpatine near him again, Yoda's going to say the same. If he gets blasted back to now, but she and I love him with everything in us." He said and they nodded.
"Guys how are we going to explain this to Master Yoda." she asked and he said it. "We won't have to right now, because if Master also got it back, he realized he made a mistake. In not updating the code when we found Anakin now, but that lightsaber now. But force, young man are you trying to kill yourself, your mechanical projects are a dangerous weapon. Just use the force, think, patience." Obi-wan said, looking at the lightsaber with a stern look then at this.
"Com-link." Anakin said and they nodded, as he passed him the communicator then. "Master, do you read me, this is Anakin." he said and a picture of him appeared. "Read you I do, and your speculation is correct, Anakin, also got shoved back from my passing. And to when found you we did, I did." he said and Anakin smiled in relief. "I think that the interpretation, got lost in the translation here, but we stand a chance if we clone me." he said and he nodded.
"But the bring balance to the force, was we been in peace so long there had to be a time for strife, but there were two ways that the destroy the Sith could be accomplished. One is by Andy, my alter ego becoming one, or 2) I get cloned, he got it in the first round here. This time, we will, so on arrival have Sifo Dyas take a sample of my blood and clone me." he said and Yoda nodded. "Along with the requisition order for the troops?" he asked and Anakin nodded.
"Yeah, but I think we should test the rest of the council, the vergence is my alter ego, rather then me, Padme and her entourage are safely at my house right now. But we're going through with the plan, but Sidious hasn't sent the Zabrak here yet. But if you felt the power blast, I just completed work on my lightsaber, and I'm okay now. But your guess, or Mace's guess, was dead on, I just returned from the darkside, and through the door, my lightsaber changed colors."
"But instead of normal crystals already forged, I created my own, they work just fine, but the lightsaber was set to my adult hand. I have to create one, sized to my going on 10 year old hand grip now." he said and Master Yoda nodded. "Yes and Understand I do and good idea that is too, must be careful now, and see you when arrive, you do. So what color are you now exactly, if your color changed from your sky blue." he asked and Anakin smiled.
"The lightsaber, directly after Maul ended up in my vision and I refused his offering of power, it, rather then staying blue with the purplish tinge to it, immediately went amethyst, I did it. I'm okay, nothing anyone says on slavery or whatever triggers anger or hate in me." he said and he smiled in pride and relief. "Then indeed worst is over now, conquered your fear and anger, and okay you will be now, my padawan, stay safe, and see you soon, I will."
"Qui-Gon, report to me immediately before calling full council meeting on return to the Capitol, you will, Anakin to stay with her. Till spring the trap we do, but follow along till his 20th birthday we do. Only no one, aside from Jedi order know change the code we have, what Obi-wan told you. All true it is, 900 years old and just returned from the force I am, back in my 864 year old body again." he said and Qui-Gon nodded then.
And in understanding."Yes Master, Anakin just told me that Sidious was the one that ordered the federation to destroy my ship?" he said and Yoda nodded sternly. "Indeed true it is, but will stop at nothing to destroy us, only after Mace confronted him, did he reveal himself. Anakin, only speculation had he did, but after went to arrest him, Mace did, did the lightsaber come out, killed Kit, Saesee and Agen he did, before Vader betrayed us."
"And cut off Mace's hand and Sidious blasted him out the window and killed him, lost Anakin, because 1) never took his premonitions seriously. And too set in our ways to see the council had to change, like you thought, serve the force we do. Not the republic, the republic dying, it is, as the Sith infiltrated it, my apprentice. But trained Anakin will be, his team you will be, return Anakin to your unit I will, needs you."
"The Council maybe considering it, but the final decision lies with me as always, cleanse his training, I have to from the corruption that Sidious filled it with. My most prized pupil, but as I said to Light, powerful Jedi he is, very powerful Jedi. But as Padme has said, his loyalty only to you 3, me, Mace and Bail Organa now. That can explain further when get back you do, unless the entire Order gets it back next here."
"Along with Bail, they do now, but 2 days, then return immediately to the temple you will, my apprentice, not like Tahl this is. One chance we have to make sure alive you stay, but teach him force healing, we must." he said and Qui-Gon nodded. "Yes Master, I understand report back, after we get the ship fixed, we will be careful." he said and Yoda nodded. "See you soon I will, may the force be with you." he said and he turned it off.
"Well you know if I can create a podracer out of scraps, Threepio also from scraps…" he said and they nodded smiling. "Then building a lightsaber is easy for you, but better build more then one brother, you broke or lost them more then once, we were up to 8 by the time we hit Geonosis." he said and Panaka started laughing and nodded. "Yeah, I'm building 60, knowing my alter ego, he also builds 60, I study Djem So, as does he." he said and they nodded gently smiling then.
"You're totally equal, but you're the one that mattered most to us, you were our golden child, could do no wrong in our eyes now." Obi-wan said smiling gently at that. "Yeah, but baby brother, you're 16 years older than me, but my birthday…" he said and Obi-wan nodded. "Yeah you're turning 10 in a month now, but Master survives the fight, we're a family trio in training. And I take you on immediately, as for that race, be careful." he said and Anakin nodded smiling.
"You remember the race my love, but adult me in my going on 10 year old body, the race." he said and she nodded. "You have the force, that's helpful now, but with the podracer a Jedi handicap and we all know this right now at the current moment. It's not the plan we have to worry about, but Sebulba, he's a dirty cheater we all knew that. But you have 36 years worth of memories trapped in your going on 10 year old head." Obi-wan said and she nodded to that.
"And like I said, though I don't agree with this, and this is a little reckless, it's the only option we have here now. You been crashing repeatedly on purpose to protect yourself from Sidious's mentor from showing up right now. But I named the twins directly after they were born, but I either lost the will to live, or, worse, Palpatine was sucking the life out of me. To bring Andy to life as Darth Vader, but you're my husband." she said and he nodded as he answered her.
"Captain, stay with the girls both tomorrow and during the race, but once the race is over, get the ship back out of town to the outskirts. Our attacker, my stalker is a Nightbrother, a Zabrak, he's a Nightbrother turned Sith and the apprentice. And to Palpatine as his Sith alias, I have Obi-wan and Master Jinn with me, they can protect me, Obi-wan's my adopted brother in law. But I married into the Skywalker/Lars clan, Cliegg Lars is my father-in-law here on Tatooine."
"So I'm perfectly safe with the them, during a return/detour trip enroute home in 10 years." she added and he nodded to the orders gently in relief. "My daughter-in-law, you're my daughter-in-law, yes alright this I can take as well now. Now that you revealed yourself Annie, so the Jedi team that came to visit, is really the adopted family now in our case. And your team quartet are the rest of the adopted family now, I can take this." Shmi said and the trio nodded smiling.
"Courageous Light, you both get shot back to now, in the case of your souls, we got him on the run and with you is Master Yoda. But if the entire Alliance gets it back, hopefully we don't have the kids getting sent here next, by that I mean the twins. Her husband Han Solo, Damon's grandson and their wookie co-pilot." Anakin said and she smiled. "The Jedi Order is combining with the Rebellion Alliance, so you need Jedi, and we're traveling together here right now."
"But before we leave Tatooine, I have to pay off Jabba first, this way Han is free to go, though Andy decides now to use Boba, we got a big problem." he said and Obi-wan nodded. "Good point, alright for 12 years after the twins are born, they're raised together. Then at 13, we separate them for individualized training." he said and they nodded. "Luke and Leia, okay I, we, named the twins that, so everything the Keganites named off to Master, is what our future is."
"Though as I also get shot back to now and Master Yoda with us after you just returned from the darkside, we get a second a chance at this and fix what went wrong. But your loyalty is only to me, Obi-wan, Qui-Gon, Mace, Master, and Bail, and only us, we're your family." Padme said and Anakin nodded. "Our team quartet is Adi, Damon and Tiana." he said and Obi-wan smiled then. "We're still partnered with Siri and Adi here now." he said and Anakin nodded smiling then.
"You remember our team was us, Lana and Dane, so your friends are involved, Minga took the position of being my healer here. But I'm closest to 80% of your class, including our team quartet, Bant, Garen, Reeft and Minga." he said and Obi-wan nodded as he crouched to get eye level with him and he pressed his forehead to his, and he closed his eyes then. Before pulling him into a hug and he buried his head into his shoulder. "My brother." he said into his ear then.
"I love you Obi-wan, but you never failed me, I failed you, but new generation in the team, new problems, but I'm not you, you're not father we have to find our own path together. But team trios you're my tutor first, before becoming your padawan, Father is training us both." he said and Obi-wan nodded gently. "Well Sidious wants you, he's getting you over my dead body now and I mean every word, as I just got you back." he said and Padme nodded in agreement then.
"I can't just let go, you're everything to me as my padawan, everything, the current code is wrong, I can't do this again." he said and Anakin nodded. "Back with you again, I am your padawan, I made a mistake, I learn from it and I'm moving on brother. Set aside the past to remake the future, is she still alive, Cerasi." he asked and he and Qui-Gon nodded. "And I'm praying we never get recalled back up there, once is enough now." he said and Anakin nodded.
"This is actually what I would suggest to Master Yoda now, give it till my age group are mid to late teens, then the parent steps back and your's do the rest for the following 10 years." he said and Obi-wan nodded smiling at the idea. "Eighteen years and you're turning 10 pretty soon, yes that works, as till you're a young adult to us, so still just child. I get severely overly protective with you, and my class are going to say the same." he said and Shmi smiled, realizing it then.
"Without needing to think twice Obi-wan, you chose him?" Qui-Gon asked and he nodded smiling. "Yeah he's my padawan, I choose him, so for now tutor, then in 3 years, mentor after that, he's mine, I don't want another padawan, he is my padawan." he said and Qui-Gon chuckled at that and nodded, smiling. "He'll be fine with us Shmi, I promise, I'll take care of him." he said and she nodded smiling then and Anakin knew he was right at that, he would.
"Dis is cozy." Jar-Jar said smiling and Shmi chuckled gently. "These are my friends, Mom, that's Master Jinn, this is the Queen, real name of Padme Naberrie. Her astro droid Artoo Detoo and their counterpart Jar-Jar Binks." Anakin said and she nodded. "I'm very pleased to meet all of you." she said and they nodded. "I'm Captain Dack Panaka, head of the queen's security." Panaka said and she nodded. "Nice to meet you, Captain." she said and Jar-Jar nodded.
"Hello." he said and she nodded gently. "I'm Jedi Master, Qui-Gon Jinn, your son was kind enough to offer us shelter for a few days as we get our ship repaired." he said and she nodded. "Remember how I said I could build things?" he asked and she nodded. "Come on, I'll show you 3PO." he said and the trio followed him into the bedroom. "I know this was unexpected, but take these, there is enough for a full meal, for 8 people." he said and she nodded as she took it then.
"Thank you, and I appreciate that, Annie's surprises I can take, it's Andy I'm getting worried about." she said and he smiled as she looked at her son's future father figure then. "Whoa, you, kiddo, are quite the mechanic." Panaka said as he looked around the bedroom, as he pulled the covering off of the protocol droid. "You built Threepio and from spare parts, I don't know half the preteens there are this good at mechanics!" Obi-wan said and he started laughing at that.
"Well I plan to cover him in gold plating, but Threepio is short for See Threepio." he said and the trio nodded gently. "He's wonderful." she said smiling, remembering her future husband was quite the mechanic. "You like him, huh, he's a protocol droid to help Mom, here take a look at this." he said as he plugged the second optical sensor on and turned him on. "Oh, hello, I am C-3PO, human cyborg relations, how might I serve you?" he asked gently and she smiled at that.
"He's perfect." she said gently and he said it smiling. "Oh, perfect." he said at that, Anakin hid a chuckle as he said it then. "When the storm is over, I'll show you my racer, the one we're using for the race, but rather swoopbikes, I'm building a Podracer." he said and she nodded. "I'm not sure this floor is entirely stable." they heard and Panaka hid a laugh then. "Are you normally propped up because for a human, your legs are unsteady." he said and the droid nodded.
"If I was human, I just got over an illness and I'm back on minor duty, till my doctor lets me back fully, Captain." he said and she started laughing at that. "Stand by." he said and Anakin carefully modified his memory and he looked at him then. "Master Annie, I understand you had to fix my memory, but did you had to choose now to update it." he said and she chuckled, as he looked at Artoo gently. "Hello Artoo, good to see you." he said and Artoo beeped gently then.
"What was it you said about slavery again." she said and he nodded. "That everyday for a slave, that's a fresh one, is a new day to die, those transmitters are on a timer. So attempted escape here and they explode, I found mine, it's in my shoulder, directly below the artery. So you do it wrong it could kill, Minga has to." he said and she nodded gently. "Maul ended up in my vision as I was building the darn thing again, Obi-wan, trying to trick me into using violence here."
"I refused now, as after finishing it, the crystals I created, instead of staying blue, they went amethyst now." he said and Obi-wan nodded smiling in relief then. "Neither good nor evil, but both at once, you just finished the transition now, you're a Master Guardian." he said and she nodded in shock. "Well I know that his, that's Palpatine's choosing us is rather then Siri knocking me back into the ship, it's you knock Andy into me and get us out, through the exhaust now."
"Before you jump to her side, and do this, but as you completed the first test and gone purple right now, this means the worst is over now." Obi-wan said and she smiled in relief then. "In rather than looking like someone beat the mustafar out of me, and the strain alone now. From fighting the addictive pull of the darkside, can kill you, I just got shoved back now. And into my youngling body now here, I passed through the wall of flames and came out stronger now."
"I am the first to go to, come back and live to tell about it now, my knowledge can help many Master Guardians in training, the knowledge of the ages." Anakin said and she nodded gently. "So rather then his having to live with what he did, he can redo everything now and stay good?" she asked and Obi-wan nodded. "That's exactly what we mean my sister, I'm staying with you and protecting you both and the twins now, mine to protect." he said and she smiled gently.
"This is going to be a long 13 years, but if we have to have some of your early missions creating a new variation for me, Darra and the guys, then we got a problem." Anakin said and he nodded. "Well after seeing the trio at the Games, Siri's not going to like this after seeing Astri and Didi there." he said and she started laughing at that. "Don't bother with the radio, it's trap, send no reply, send no transmission of any kind, Captain." Anakin said and he nodded sternly.
"Maul, the Zabrak looking for you is using it as a tracer, but rather then his trap, we just reversed it and spring the trap, just as we're leaving. Obi-wan and I did this all the time, the ending results here of us realizing that Sidious was on the observation deck. Along with Dooku, we both realized this was a trap, and sprung it, before having to do it again. After my twins were 19, and Luke just started training." he said and Panaka nodded in understanding then.
"You're 46 in your near 10 year old body, so rather then you, by that I mean Obi-wan and Qui-Gon, it's you and Obi-wan, we're going to your way rather then his and Qui-Gon's?" he said to clarify and the trio nodded sternly. "We stuck to what Father taught us, but his training was good to us, and we, before I crashed, became better men because of it." he said and he nodded. "Anakin, what's going on in there?" Shmi called out and he smiled as he answered that then.
"I just updated Threepio's memory, so he's 36 in his 9 month old body, mom." he called out and knew she nodded gently then. "This is going to be a long three days, but I know that all of this is a facade, only now my emotions are not all over the place and I can focus. Yes alright, like I said after you got promoted to the council, but we're fighting for the wrong side. And now the republic is the very evil we swore to destroy." she said and he nodded in agreement to that.
"No kidding, but at the moment, you may have become senator, but everyone still adores you as their current queen after we do this. But like Sola said, you give and give, but just once should you be allowed to take, we just have to tell Master the truth. That we got engaged when we were on sabbatical, and he, Obi-wan, Mace, and Ki, will give another exception here." he said and she nodded smiling at the news. "Indeed I will." Obi-wan said to that remark gently then.
"This is going to be a long night, but I remember the exchange, so one side of the conversation is you, the other is Andy, yes alright." she said and he nodded gently. "Andy has the original dialog, I have the more experienced Jedi padawan approach here. But I spent 6 weeks training, and those 6 weeks turned me so good I can pilot without crashing into anything. But what you remember with Sebulba only got worse here right now, but this is my next to last race now."
"On Tatooine now and mom already agreed, I do the driving and rather than betting against me, Watto is for me, but Sebulba is never going to win this race this time." he said and she nodded smiling at the news. "Well if Didi was betting on you to win, he's betting too high after I see what a dirty cheater this Dug really is now." Obi-wan said to that remark gently, it was 45 minutes later that they were in discussion at the dinner table as Anakin explained thing to her.
"Like Father said, the planet gets most of it's wealth from slavery, because we had a case of trying to grow plants and not easy I might add, but as slaves once you get turned into one." he said and Shmi nodded. "Father?" Panaka said smiling and Anakin nodded. "Expect that title to become permanent, I'm 55 years old Captain, but my youngest padawan." Qui-Gon said with a smile of affection at the new title Anakin gave him and Obi-wan chuckled at the remark then.
"So 13 years between padawans and Obi-wan is turning 26, Xanatos?" he asked and Qui-Gon nodded gently. "His counterpart is named Feemor, but in 35 years I had 3, you make number 4 now in truth here, but you need the most attention. Although I'm not letting your brother go straight away right now, is this in anyway connected to the mining station on Bandomeer. Same thing Annie?" he asked and he and Shmi both nodded as she explained that to him then gently.
"All slaves have a transmitter placed inside their bodies somewhere." She said and Andy nodded. "I've been working on a scanner to try and locate mine, because I think mine is marked in the same place Annie's is." he said and she finished gently. "Any attempt to escape..." she said and Andy nodded. "And they blow you up!" he said and Jar-jar said it to that. "How wude!" he said and Padme nodded in agreement as they stuck to the original dialog.
"I can't believe there's still slavery in the galaxy, the Republic's antislavery laws..." she started to say and she said it gently, but with a stern tone. "The Republic doesn't exist out here, honey, you have to understand, the Outer Rim is not under the Republic domain now. We must survive on our own." she said and Anakin said it gently to ease the sting. "So has anybody ever seen a Podrace?" he asked and she shook her head and Qui-Gon nodded gently to him then at that.
"They have Podracing on Malastare: very fast, very dangerous." he said and Anakin nodded. "I know and I just realized this, but there is only one type of person, human, that can do this. Race and come out unscathed here by the race, but my brother and I, I'm the only human, on the planet who can do it." he said and Qui-Gon nodded. "You must have Jedi reflexes if you race pods." Obi-wan said, just as Jar-Jar went to snag another piece of fruit, as Qui-Gon caught him.
"Don't do that again." he said sternly and let go, and Anakin said it carefully then. "You're a Jedi knight, aren't you, both of you are now?" he said, as Andy, and she looked at Qui-Gon then. "What makes you think that?" he said and Anakin shook his head. "Andy, this not a good time, after you walked right into the Sithlord that is the Master here. And of the one that attacked them on her planet." he said sternly and he said it then as he looked between them.
"I saw your laser sword, only Jedi's carry that kind of weapon." he said and Anakin nodded. "I have one, and I'm not a Jedi, yet, and you destroyed your's by accident, but even normals, in truth, can create one if necessary here Andy, far more powerful than a vibro-blade. That another attack by Krayne, he loses a limb or worse, and everyone here is free now, you can carry or use one now, without being a Jedi." he said in response to that sternly then.
And Qui-Gon nodded in agreement to that. "Perhaps I killed a Jedi and took it from him." he said and he said it bluntly. "I don't think so: No one can kill a Jedi." he said and Anakin flinched, as he saw the pain in his eyes. "Not quite, from the pain in his and Obi-wan's eyes, I would say they lost someone dear to them, who was a Jedi." he said and Obi-wan nodded gently. "Indeed, your guess is correct brother, one of Master's clan had been killed." he said and Anakin nodded.
"Your mate Father?" he asked gently and Qui-Gon nodded to him. "Yes, but as for that consideration, I wish that were so, we are human, or humanoid now. But we're not all powerful, we can be hurt, we can be killed, and a friend, who is an adult version of you. Was barely killed by blood loss, that same person that did him weakened me severely." he said and Anakin nodded. "I understand perfectly, Father." he said and Shmi nodded sternly to the news then.
"If I am to join the team, I need to know why we got your old missions suddenly coming back into the fold, before it has the team wondering in what is going on around here." he said and they both nodded. "That's the understatement of the century, just you telling Adi and Clee who got their hands on you. Said was enough to completely irritate her, Tiana and Clee, let alone Damon." Obi-wan said and Anakin nodded as he switched tones again gently as he said it then.
"Damon and Tiana, you mean we're joined with their partner pair up, us and the Gallia/Tachi team?" Qui-Gon said and he nodded to him. "Yeah Mace and Master decided, after my escapade, after Siri and I grew close, to have the units in pair ups of 3 to 5 trios each. So on occasion, we're working with Clee or Kit, he's training Bant right now, so the teams are 4 to 5 each. So Anakin's own team are the trio and Dane Van Perril." he said and Qui-Gon nodded gently.
"And watch it, before you scare me out of my wits, you're still recovering emotionally from Cerasi's close call, after you decided to stay there." he said and he nodded gently. "We're not doing that again, but, and I'm praying I'm wrong right now, Sidious decides to use this. To get him brush the darkside after he took out the trader at the time, there is no way. That I am just leaving him there, if Adi gets stuck there next, he chose us." he said and Qui-Gon nodded then.
"I had a dream I was a Jedi, I came back here and freed all the slaves: Have you come to free us?" Andy asked and Anakin said it sternly. "Andy, really right now, the only way we can be free is by patience, but I carry the key, now. In order to be free, is by killing Krayne, he's a menace and once that needs to neutralized, but I think. No, I know, that the Council intend to infiltrate his operations on Nar Shadaa." he said and Obi-wan nodded to confirm that gently.
"Indeed, my girlfriend was the Jedi chosen to do so, she hasn't left yet either, but she meets you, she's going to decide on protection duty if you go undercover with her." he said and Anakin nodded gently. "Not a problem, but it's by irony that the Jedi chosen to do so, just happens to the surrogate son of his previous human raid here." he said and Qui-Gon nodded. "And to answer the question: no, I'm afraid not." he said to him then and he said it determinedly.
"I think you have, why else would you be here?" he asked and Anakin sighed. "Want to say it or should I Father, I guessed correctly, that you took a detour. Before flying here now, and with it, ended up with a tag along while doing it." he said and he nodded. "Yes and I can see there's no fooling you, Anakin, you took the correct answer, we're on our way to Coruscant. The central system in the Republic... on a very important mission." he said to him and he nodded.
"What happened exactly, if Artoo looks like he ended up with more carbon scoring exactly?" he asked and Andy nodded to that in shock. "How did you end up out here in the outer rim?" he asked and Padme explained that to him. "Our ship was damaged, and we're stranded here until we can repair it." she said and he smiled. "I can help, I can fix anything." he said and Qui-Gon smiled. "I believe you can." he said and Anakin nodded as he answered that gently.
"But first, before we can repair it, we have to win the race, but mom, if you don't mind here, after he crashed the last time, this is to be my next to last race on Tatooine." he said and she nodded. "For the last time, Annie, this and the Harvesters, and whatever else, if the sextet are at the games, and then time to focus on your training fully." she said and Qui-Gon nodded in agreement. "Yes, but first we must acquire the parts we need." he said and Jar-Jar sighed then.
"Wit no-nutten mula to trade." he said and Padme nodded. "These junk dealers must have a weakness of some kind." he said and Shmi nodded gently as she answered her. "Gambling: Everything here revolves around betting on those awful races." she said and Qui-Gon nodded gently. "Podracing: Greed can be a powerful ally, if used correctly now, Anakin, you're the more skilled of the two of you, could you…" he asked and Anakin nodded as he answered him then.
"His podracer was severely damaged in the last race, but mine now, it just needs a paint job and I got to tune the engines, but we're good to go." he said and they nodded gently. "I saw what looks like two under a tarp outside, is that it?" Panaka asked and he nodded gently to him. "I built a racer it's the fastest ever, there's a big race tomorrow on Boonta Eve. You could enter my pod." Andy said and she said it sternly then to that opinion then as she said it.
"Andrus, Watto won't let you." she said and he said it then. "Watto doesn't know I've built it, you could make him think it was yours... and get him to let me pilot it for you." he said and she said it firmly then. "I don't want you to race, it's awful, I die every time Watto makes you do it." she said and Anakin said it. "Andy, without the force, the next crash could prove fatal this time, I have more skill to get through it unscathed." he said and he said it.
"But, Mom, I love it, the prize money would more than pay for the parts they need." he said and Anakin said it."But if you crash one more time, they can't leave at all, I have to do this, I had more training in trusting my instincts here, as they both would tell me. Feel, don't think, just trust my instincts, stretch out with my feelings." he said and Qui-Gon nodded. "Indeed, 6 weeks training, I feel the power in you, you can do this." Obi-wan said and he nodded gently.
"Anakin, you be the pilot, just you be careful." Shmi said and Padme nodded gently then. "Your mother's right, I choose you Anakin, to be my pilot, but if this doesn't pan out. Is there anyone friendly to the Republic who can help us?" he asked and she sighed. "No." she said and he nodded. "Mom, you say the biggest problem in this universe is nobody helps each other, my good deed, no thought of reward." he said to her and she nodded gently at that remark then.
"Yes indeed, but your brother, I'm scared to death of another crash, he hasn't your skill to trust the force and do this." she said and he nodded and Padme nodded in understanding. "I'm sure Qui-Gon doesn't want to put your son in danger, we'll find some other way." she said and Shmi shook her head. "There is no other way, Master Jinn, I may not like it, but he can help you, he was meant to help you." she said and he nodded, as that finalized things then gently at that.
