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: With this chapter it's going to jump over the race and go straight to their leaving here, while Anakin is going to be meeting personally with Yoda on arrival. But Andy is going to be staying with Padme, as the choice is made early here now. As Anakin is accepted immediately for training, as that night he reveals the truth. And to the council, though Obi-wan and Yoda have their memories back now finally of it.
The story is going to be jumping over the Sith till he gets to Coruscant, and then once back together with Yoda, who is going to be counseling him now. They're going to be testing Mace and the 10 carefully, before dropping the bomb. That Anakin and Vader are 2 separate people and Anakin just returned from the darkside. So this gives them a bigger chance at stopping him now, as Mace realizes he made a big mistake now.
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 3: The Jinn/Skywalker/Kenobi Team And Reunions II
Ending the conversation at that, Qui-Gon, his skilled eye could see that the younger of the twins could be more powerful then. "Before we head for the shop tomorrow, I need to see your skills, because I'm taking over your training, before Master Yoda cleanses the rest of it." he said and he nodded in understanding gently. "Can you recreate this in a smaller fit to your current hand size?" he asked and Anakin nodded, as he closed his eyes then and disassembled it then.
As it changed sizes, and was put back together, as he stood up and backed up from the table and turned it on and it came on immediately and Obi-wan nodded smiling in relief then. "Yes there we go, back to being you again brother, we just deal with the traumas one at a time." he said and Anakin nodded in agreement to that opinion. "First training then at 1000 we head for the shop to finalize the agreement with Watto." he said and she and Qui-Gon nodded then.
"As I said you were killed on this mission, I raised and trained him, we been together 13 years, what you felt about me for the entire 13 years, I felt that about him. He's the son I never had, I love him with the strength of a brother and a father all rolled into one now. So Palpatine gives that remark about his watching his career with great interest, is immediate refusal. He's never getting near Anakin ever again, but as we cloned him, he gets Andy." he said and they nodded.
As Obi-wan looked into his eyes and he pressed his forehead to his and Anakin closed his eyes, and Obi-wan pushed the love he felt for him into their connection. And Qui-Gon smiled tenderly at that. 'My brother, I love you.' he heard gently and then heard Anakin's response. 'Love you too brother, my brother, you are my brother, I love you too.' he thought back to him. 'Yeah they'll be just fine together.' he thought gently to that, knowing the duo were close.
As they relaxed. "Issues in the elevator antics, but come on, first you and me and then we get the twins, Han and Chewie resorting to distraction and diversion." Anakin said and she started laughing. "And like I said, though I never taught this to Luke yet at the time, but if whatever you're walking into is a trap, then spring it, and create a distraction. But gravity shear, this just keeps getting better and better right now." he said and Panaka started laughing at that remark.
"Good point, but what 13 years does to you right now, Father, using what you taught us, I used that catch of doing something to get you arrested to get into the stronghold. Just to make contact with Siri, she's pretending to be Zora, Krayne's right hand." Anakin told him and he nodded gently. "And by setting off the security alarm by the launchpad exhaust port, to have the security, turned slaves coming to investigate before she did." Obi-wan said to that bemused.
"You better fix that com-link, after you said the translation was busted after I gave mine to Artoo." he added to that remark and he nodded and she smiled. "And again I'm not a protocol droid, but the beeps could point up or down, and then we get company arriving. Before the jokes get started after destroying the ambush in the elevator." he said and they started laughing at that remark. "Alright guys, the last 3 weeks before it is plenty." Padme said smiling at that.
"Ambush?" Shmi repeated and he nodded gently. "We were trying to get up to observation deck at the top of the tower, halfway to the closest elevator, we realized his com-link. After he crashed his fighter in a launch bay now, had broken the translation circuit. So we couldn't make heads or tails of what Artoo was trying to tell us, just as we decided it was up. We had a trio of destroyer droids arrive, and backed into it, only to realize there were 12 battle droids in it."
"But though it was crowded in there, we managed to destroy all of them pretty quickly, but as I said 13 years, growing from a boy of going on 10 to a young adult of 23. He may have graduated early, but that didn't matter to either of us, because to me he was still my padawan. Me his mentor and Jedi master, he's my star pupil, as my first student." he said and she nodded. "Well I see that the pictures he sends me have you and Qui-Gon." she said to him then.
"Yeah exactly, but the pictures taken are us, our partner trio: the Gallia/Tachi/Olin unit, and the Calrissian/Merrin units combined with us. And at times is the Rhara/Muln unit, that's my best friend now in truth, his name is Garen Muln. He's a skilled pilot and the padawan of one of Qui-Gon's clan and best friends, the others. Now, were the second in command of the Jedi council and Qui-Gon's soulmate Jedi Master Tahl Dantallion." he said and she nodded in understanding.
"What am I expecting here, because though mentally 46, he's trapped in his going on 10 year old body here." Qui-Gon asked and he explained that. "While we're dealing with the Zabrak, Anakin is infiltrating the droid control ship, which Artoo is pretending to have it on Auto-pilot. But Ric was teaching him Nabooian flight controls enroute back to Naboo now, this is easy and Luke did this, it's not impossible if you use the inner eye." he said and Qui-Gon nodded then.
"Three step plan, we create a distraction for him, so we can get him on board the damn thing, so he can blow the reactor from the inside." Padme said and he nodded gently. "So while Obi-wan and I have our attacker, you have the distraction of getting up to the throne room. And Jar-jar has the droid army just outside the city, because nobody can see him unless he stands up." Qui-Gon said and they both nodded and Jar-Jar nodded to the idea then gently at the news.
"You know where I am, because of my force signature, but just alerting you to the fact that I'm getting involved in the dogfight, but skilled fighter pilot now. I got the shot dead on, not realizing that Ric and his fleet are creating the distraction for me. I destroyed the reactor on the first shot now." he said and Qui-Gon nodded gently to the news. "Artoo on me here, because you're astro droid, but you to a Jedi pilot, Threepio to a senator." he said and Artoo beeped.
"Indeed, I stayed with Mistress Padme and Mistress Leia, you were with Master Annie and Master Luke, as it should be." Threepio said and he gave a gentle beep to that. "The following 13 years from now to his turning are critical, once we reach the purge things change course. And the prophecy, as the Keganites gave you and Adi is created now, as it focuses on the twins and their war with the Sith Empire, the dictatorship." Obi-wan said and he nodded gently then.
"So basically you, if I been alive, helped me raise and train him, but he only got the unifying force side of it, he needs the living force?" he said and Obi-wan nodded. "He's also a Master Guardian, he's a Guardian with Master Guardian like tendencies here. But seems that Dooku has been gone so long in 13 years, he doesn't recognize Vaapad when he sees it now. Thinking Anakin is half Sith already." he explained to him and Qui-Gon nodded sternly at the news then.
"You knew the outcome of this mission already, if I don't survive our last mission together, but we're not ending this on a sour note, though he's the new addition to the team. You are my son, he's your baby brother, in training, the future I leave behind here." he said and Obi-wan nodded. "Well do you remember after I enhanced your strength after Zan Arbor nearly killed you, he and I can give you enough energy to hold you, till we get Winna there, so there now."
"As we healed the damage done, but not too late, I thought I was too late, because I never saw you that weak ever, and instead, you had enough energy to arrest her." he said and he nodded gently to him. "And to say this again, that if you can get that weak from just blood loss, then any of us are vulnerable to attack." Anakin said and Qui-Gon nodded in understanding. "He has my training, but he needs to color coordinate here, so Adi." he said and Qui-Gon nodded then.
"I knew Anakin all his life here that to me, this is easy for us, we can relive our next 13 years together now." Obi-wan said and he nodded. "Only with me added to it now, I get it, as I see here what you saw, so to keep that Sith scum away from him. We clone him and then pretend Andy is the chosen one, I get the plan you and Master have in mind here now." he said and the duo nodded to him gently at that. "That's the plan exactly." Padme said and he nodded then.
"Alright we better plan our next move, because the next week is going to be a long one, but every time we had a fixed plan it went pear shaped, so create a back up plan." she said and the duo nodded in agreement to that as they talked over strategy, as the trio. Then enjoyed the first togetherness they had-had, since his fall, and back to being a family again then. Watching Anakin from the door that night, Obi-wan saw the boy he knew and remembered then.
As he watched him gently and in a deep sleep, as he left his arm on the door frame then. 'Yeah uncertain future, I'd rather freeze time here, then seeing what 13 years here. Of traumatizing memories does to him, my baby brother, going to be okay baby, we'll fix this. You stay you now, she'll be fine, you save Yaddle, her, Darra and Shmi.' he thought, knowing fixing the mistakes he made back then was critical now, before he relapsed and suffered a secondary crash then.
The next morning Obi-wan was with him, as he and Anakin ran their calisthenics and he took him through their Jedi training in martial arts. Before adding the lightsaber to it then, watching from behind, Qui-Gon saw the true mastery. And of how Obi-wan had worked with Anakin and nodded smiling in approval then, as he did lightsaber training. And Obi-wan nodded smiling then with brotherly pride then, as he relaxed, the him, before Palpatine got between them showing.
In him was clear, as they started the first phase of their plan. "Well I see it, you did a better job then I ever could have here to see what you missed and corrected it." Qui-Gon said and he nodded gently in agreement. "Yes but issues in meditation, once he reaches a certain point, something switches over and explodes. Although I think that was Andy that told me that, then again, most going on 13 years old can't hold still in meditating." he said and Qui-Gon nodded.
"Well hopefully, we never go back." he said and he nodded as Panaka headed back for the ship, but left the hatch open, so he could see the damage and nodded. "Jeesh, they really made a mess of this thing, yeah I fix this alright, I just have to get you the parts first." he said and she nodded in relief gently. "Lord Nute, you really made a mess of things, haven't you, but you and Palpatine are facing a very strict Jedi Order here next." Obi-wan said at the memory of this.
"Honey, I need to get the deal finalized, because Andy is going to be arguing for a chance to do the pit stop to the 3rd lap here, but do that, it could kill the Pod, again." Anakin told her and she nodded to the news. "Today and tomorrow's going to be a long day now, but you I can trust right now, but your twin, Master Jinn, are you sure about this. Trusting our fate to a boy we hardly know, the queen will not approve." she said, reverting to her handmaiden stage again.
"The queen doesn't need to know." he said and she sighed. "Well, I don't approve." she said as she followed him in. "Oh boy, that argument had to have gotten heated right now." Anakin said, seeing the mess in the corner of the pile Jar-Jar barely knocked over and he nodded. "What happened exactly here, if we had a power burst, Watto, hmm?!" Anakin said and he sighed as he said it. "Temper tantrum." he said and he nodded sternly to the news as he answered him.
"And that's not appropriate, a Jedi doesn't throw temper tantrums." he said sternly and Qui-Gon nodded in agreement. "The boy tells me you want to sponsor him in the race, how can you do this, not on the Republic credits, I think." he said to him then gently. "My ship will be the entry fee." he said as Anakin saw his wife's personal transport then. "Not bad! not bad, huh, Nubian, huh?" he said and and Qui-Gon nodded gently as he answered him then at the remark then.
"It's in good order, except for the parts I need." he said and Watto nodded. "What would the boy ride, he smashed up my pod in the last race, it would take some long time to fix it." he said and Anakin nodded. "I win this and I can fix the pod, once back on the capitol, Watto." he said and he nodded. "It wasn't my fault, really: Sebulba flashed me with his vents, I actually saved the pod, mostly." Andy said and he nodded as Watto said it with a bemused smile.
"That you did, the boy's good, no doubts there, huh?" he said and Qui-Gon nodded. "I have acquired a pod, by a friend of mine, the Stargliders, the pod, based on what Dave told me. Said is the fastest ever built." he said and he nodded gently. "Very well then, you supply the pod and the entry fee... and I supply the boy, we split the winnings 50-50, I think, huh?" he said and Qui-Gon nodded, as he considered that thought as he answered him then gently at that.
"If it's going to be 50-50..., then I suggest you front the cash for the entry, if we win... you keep all the winnings, minus the cost of the parts I need. And if we lose, you keep my ship, that either way, you win." he said and he nodded gently. "Deal." he said slapping his palm then gently. "Annie, head home, I will be there soon, I want to see this podracer, because if it's like everything else you upgraded, it's camouflaged." he said and Anakin nodded to the request.
"You know me, Watto, to protect the value of whatever…" he said and Watto nodded with a chuckle. "Yes, you purposely make it look like a piece of scrap metal, best finish the engines, so we can run a test flight, before you push it to full tomorrow." he said and Anakin nodded as he headed for home then gently at that. "What's the verdict, Anakin?" Obi-wan asked and he smiled. "He agreed, we're good to go." he said then and Obi-wan nodded smiling in relief then.
"Alright let's get to it." he said and he nodded as he said it then. "Come on, you never had the chance to see this for real, because you had to deal with the security. So second chance here, and I want you to meet my friends." he said and he nodded gently. "Now Jar-Jar, I mean it, keep away from the energy binders, if your hand gets caught in the beam. It'll go numb for hours, Artoo, check the power level please." he added and he beeped gently to the orders then.
As he heard the exchange, knowing his mother then proud of him, as he and Obi-wan worked on it then. "You should be very proud of your son, he gives without any thought of reward." he heard from his mentor and heard a smile in his mother's voice. "He knows nothing of greed he has..." she started to say and he finished the sentence. "He has special powers." he said and she nodded. "Yes, in truth my sister is also a Jedi, my father." she said, and he nodded then.
"He can see things before they happen, that's why he appears to have such quick reflexes, it's a Jedi trait." he said and she nodded. "He deserves better than a slave's life, I was waiting for you to be in range, before he mentally commed you now. But Dave has been training him since he was 4, so half normal Jedi training, the other working the shop. Although Andy, very good now, Leia said he's just not ready for this, considered him too old." she said and he nodded gently.
"Had he been born in the Republic, we would have identified him early, the Force is unusually strong with him, that much is clear: Who was his father, if it runs in both sides of the family?" he asked and she sighed and told him the truth. "There was no father: I carried them, I gave birth, I raised them, I can't explain what happened…., Can you help him. Your padawan took my older son, from the looks of it?" she asked and he said it gently to her at the question then
"I don't know, I didn't actually come here to free slaves." he said and she nodded as her son's gang of friends arrived. "Hey guys, Obi-wan, Padme, this Kitser Banai, Amee Farcloud, Melie Sunglider, Wald Djoni and Seek Starstreamer." He said and they nodded. "Not test it yet?" Amee asked and he nodded, before they saw Artoo. "Wow, a real astro droid, how do you get so lucky." Kitser said and he smiled then as he looked between them gently at that remark then.
"That isn't the half of it: I'm in the Boonta race tomorrow." Andy said and Amee crossed her arms. "You're lying to us Andy, Watto and your mother said no more racing, Annie, you gained your shot, and you been training for weeks here, you can think you can pull it off." Kitser asked and he nodded. "I don't think so, I know so, Obi-wan is just like Master Jinn, a great mentor, but big brother now." he said and the sextet nodded smiling as they looked at him then.
"Yes big brother, but again you be careful, Padawan." Obi-wan said to him and he nodded gently, before looking up at then. "Jar-Jar, I'm serious, keep away from those energy binders, if your hand gets caught in the beam, it's gonna go numb for hours." he said and he backed away from it then. "Okay." he said to him and he nodded then. "You don't even know if this thing's gonna run, once you souped it up." Kitser said to him and he nodded smiling then gently.
"It will." he said and Obi-wan nodded. "I think it's time we found out, because between us both, Master and me, you got the encouragement needed to do this. But just concentrate on the moment, feel don't think, just stretch out with your feelings." he said and Qui-Gon finished that. "Here, use this power charge." he said and Anakin nodded. "Yes, sir!" he said and Qui-Gon caught Kitser by the arm. "Come on, Kitster, let's move away." he said and pulled him back.
As he turned on the engine, and it booted up immediately and Padme smiled, as he called out to them and Panaka. "It's working, it's working!" he said and they nodded in relief then, as he tested it quickly and it shot out of the backyard and he took it for a test flight. As Obi-wan monitored his force signature and nodded smiling, before he came back and they nodded. "I think the souped up engine, is a little too fast, you be careful." he said and Anakin nodded.
"You think the test drive is dangerous, just wait till you see how dirty Sebulba really is when racing." Seek said and he nodded. "That bad, because if he's racing at the games, my girlfriend and I are not letting a fight break out here." he said and they nodded. "Worse: the remark on vents was just the beginning, he nearly took the saw to the cables. But only by pulling away he managed to keep from getting cut in the primary coupling." Amee said to him and he nodded.
"Well if we thought that he's this good piloting a simple speeder in racing, how good is he behind the cockpit controls." Panaka said to that. "Issues in my family, whoever it is maybe good, but at these speeds, whoever it is in our family doing the driving is the better pilot now." Padme said and Amee chuckled and nodded. "You're the future wife, we're 4 years younger." she said and Kitser smiled and she nodded. "I can't believe he did that." he said to her gently.
"Who exactly, him in leap-frogging over Sebulba, or Sebulba latching onto Anakin in the home-stretch of the race?" she asked and he smiled. "Hey Sis, welcome back." he said and she looked down smiling, realizing their minds got shot back to that day. "Kit, Melie, Seek, Wald, Amee great to see you guys again." she said and they gave her a hug. "Obi-wan take care of him, and keep him away from Palpatine." Amee said and he nodded sternly to that as he answered her.
"I will, in fact my 62 year old mind also got shot back to now, whatever you were ready to tell Leia, we don't see him, him and Vader. As one person here at the time, but 2 separate people, he's Anakin Skywalker without an ounce of evil in him here. And carrying the lightsaber that signals his return from the darkside, but he passed the test, he's himself again." he said and they smiled in relief, that their best friend was back completely finally again now then.
"But 2 separate people, but you were right in what you and his racing counterpart, Wald, would tell her, if she was apprehensive in visiting. And at having children at the time, these things never happen all at once, it takes years of traumas. And before the final crash, but unlike the twins, Han, Landon and Chewbacca, we knew him all his life. We understand this better than anyone." he said and she nodded in relief. "That's an understatement." Seek said to that then.
"We're 46 to 50 here, but are you trying to scare us and our parents into a heart attack, they're in their 80's, Annie, in our mental present." Wald said to him and he nodded gently. "No, but before the detour to Naboo, I'm coming to investigate what my premonitions. Now, are telling me this time at the moment, but if they forgot me in the case of the tribe. Of the one I helped, he's getting a reminder, cub Jedi grew up to be me at 20 year old Jedi." he said and he nodded.
"Annie that was excellent, I can see that the podracer will win us, but everyone not considering that Sebulba wins tomorrow. Is facing a severe embarrassment now, I made a mistake in betting against you, not doing that again. So for you, I'm betting heavily on you to win now, and that just gets me out of the hole, because 50% of the winnings. And after Master Jinn pays for the parts, is going to be your mother's paycheck." Watto said and Anakin nodded gently to him.
"Yeah, but remember: 30 second delay, giving everyone else a 30 second headstart then I catch up, not a big deal, I can catch up." he said and they nodded smiling in relief at the news gently. "So that's what it was, you're not having an engine stall, you created a Jedi handi-cap in the engines here right now, Annie!" they heard and he looked up. "Yeah Senia, Jedi handi-cap, makes the race more fun here between us." he said and she nodded with a smile on her face.
"Jedi training is a severe disadvantage to you as non force sensitives, so to make this fair, I let you get a headstart, so to make the race more fun between us now!" he called out to her and Ody Mandrell's counterpart, Loren Sawbeck, nodded smiling at the reveal then. "Thank you for the reveal, but everyone not realizing this will never realize you did that on purpose. Till after they realize 2 days of training with a real Master pushed it further." he called back to him then.
"Tomorrow's going to be a long day, but we better paint it, blue living sunrise now, that's our symbol, the Jedi on the podracer." Qui-Gon said and he nodded in agreement then. "The symbol of the republic matches the symbol of the Jedi order here." he said and they nodded. "Idea here now, I got an idea now, but we're going to do that reversal betting, but Sebulba. I have to get him to think I'm betting on him, so when the results come back, he's going to realize it."
"That I was betting heavily on Annie to win, as I said Master Jinn: 50/50." Watto said and he nodded. "Then we make the argument loud enough to have him hear this right now," he said and she nodded then, as they finished up, as Anakin, once again, dreamt about the war. And on Naboo that was coming only with him, now 14 years old and carrying a lightsaber. As she woke him up. "Had it again honey?" Padme and he nodded as he stretched then quickly at that.
Before realizing she had been curled up on the bed next to him and hid a smile then. "Well I better pack up the bedroom, we're leaving after the race is over." he said and she nodded as he grabbed up 5 sets of clothes matching his Jedi clothing, his tool kit, and the equipment. That was needed to fix his lightsaber and create 20 more then, and stuffed them into his pack. And before putting a picture of himself and his mother in the bag then, before seeing Kitser.
"Gear up, we're leaving in 20 minutes, Kit!" he called out and he nodded as they got the engines hooked to the harness of two eopies then to drag to the arena….
The Race Preparations
Meanwhile at the hanger, Qui-Gon and Watto, were discussing loudly in their discussion on the race, knowing Sebulba was thinking he would win. "I wanna see your spaceship the moment the race is over." Watto said and he hid a nod as he went over the bait to catch Sebulba. "Patience, my blue friend, you'll have your winnings before the suns set, and we'll be far away from here." he said to him and Watto pretended to throw a smirk into his tone then as he answered him.
"Not if your ship belongs to me, I think, huh, I warn you, no funny business." he said and Qui-Gon crossed his arms then. "You don't think Anakin can win?" he asked and he said it. "Don't get me wrongo, I have great faith in the boy, he's a credit to your race, but Sebulba there. Is going to win, I think." he said and Jar-Jar took a look a froze. "Oh, no!" he said in fear as he saw him being attended to by two Twileks then, and Qui-Gon thought it over carefully then.
"Why do you think that?" he said and he said it. "He always wins!" he said and pushed Jar-Jar back as he flew passed him. "I am betting heavily on Sebulba." he said, and knowing that was code for he was betting on Anakin to win. "I'll take that bet." he said and he looked at him in shock then. "What?" he said and he went further. "I'll wager my new racing pod against, say... the boy and his mother." he said and he said it sternly at the remark then as he answered him.
"No pod is worth two slaves, not by a long shot." he said angrily and he said it it firmly. "The boy, then, we got company here, and I got to get them out of here right now." he said and he thought it over. "We'll let fate decide, huh? I just happen to have a chance cube here: Blue, it's the boy, Red.., his mother." he said and Qui-Gon nodded, as he tossed the cube, and using the force, he got it to land on blue and he looked at him in suspicion as he shrugged then gently.
"You won this small toss, outlander... but you won't win the race, so it makes little difference!" he said to him then. "We'll see." he said patiently as he flew passed him, just as the Skywalkers arrived then, as Padme was holding him around the waist. "Better stop your friend's betting or I'll end up owning him too." he said with a smirk and Anakin looked at him. "What'd he mean by that?" he asked and Obi-wan nodded. "You did it again?" he asked and Qui-Gon nodded to him.
"I'll tell you later." he said to both of them, and then helped Shmi down. "Good morning." he said to her smiling then gently. "Oh my, space travel sounds rather perilous, from that side of it, I can assure you, they will never get me onto one of those dreadful starships." he said and he nodded. "That's me exactly Threepio, the constant firefights, this is why I hate flying." Obi-wan said and Anakin started laughing at the remark as she looked at him with a bemused smile.
"This is so wizard, Ani, I'm sure you'll do it this time." Kitser said to him and she looked between them, remembering the exchange, and knowing if this was Andy. That he was getting nervous, but Anakin been crashing on purpose to protect himself now from Sidious. Or just their Dark Jedi counterparts. 'But Jedi padawan in training, my husband is quite the pilot." she thought as she answered him. "Do what?" she asked and he said it gently to her then at that remark then.
"Finish the race, of course." he said and she nodded. "You've never won a race?" she asked and he said it. "Been crashing on purpose, after we had the black cloak show up here." he said and she nodded gently. "Not even finished?" she asked and he smiled then. "Kitster's right though, I will this time, 2 months of training, force sensitive pilot, I will this time." he said and Qui-Gon smiled then. "Of course you will." he said leaving his hands on his shoulders and she nodded…
The Race Results-Anakin's POV:
After a very close call in the race then, after seeing the dug latch onto his padawan's pod, Obi-wan nodded in shock then. 'Jeez, I see why the kids alerted me to that, this Dug is dangerous, alright twice more then retirement now." he thought, as he arrived at the line and everyone surrounded him then in delight, that was a slave then. 'Yeah, you gave them hope of freedom and just pulled it off now, nicely done Padawan.' he thought gently, knowing this now, in truth.
Was just the beginning, as they were all in the hanger together. "Good going, Ani!" Jar-Jar said giving him a hug as he lifted him up, before putting him down and Padme moved forward. As she hugged him as well, and he pressed his forehead to her's. "We owe you everything, Ani." she said, smiling at him then. "You're welcome my love." he said smiling at her gently. "It's so wonderful, Ani: you have brought hope to those who have none." Shmi said smiling to him.
"I'm so very proud of you." she said and he smiled. "Nicely done Padawan, that was great." Obi-wan said gently and Anakin smiled then. "Well Annie, you did it, and here is your pay for the years of hard work you have done for me." Watto said smiling gently, as he passed a pouch to him then and he nodded smiling. "Next race is the Harvester's, Watto, I'm doing it one more time for you, then I see everyone at the games." he said and Watto nodded smiling gently.
"Take him, Master Kenobi, he is free to go now." he said and Obi-wan nodded gently to him then. "I've got to talk to Jabba, arrange the Harvester's, as this one is for everyone right now, and I can repair the racer while I'm at it right now." he said and Obi-wan and Qui-Gon nodded as he headed up to the royal booth. "Chut chut, I'd like an audience with Lord Jabba please." he said and his major domo Bib Fortuna nodded as he let him pass gently at that request then.
"Greetings Exalted Jabba, regarding the next race, I wish to free everyone now, because with frequent raids by the trader, it's best for everyone concerned." He said and Jabba nodded gently at that. "Agreed, so when can I expect the arrangements to be met for that now?" he asked and Anakin said it. "Seven months, the Harvesters." he said and Jabba nodded gently. "If you ever have need of help, just contact me with the Jedi council." he said and Jabba nodded.
"Thank you for the advice and I will, who are the Jedi team that arrived." he asked and Anakin smiled. "The Jinn/Kenobi team." he said and Jabba nodded. "Jinn/Kenobi team, as in Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-wan Kenobi?" he asked and Anakin nodded. "Padawan Skywalker, your team is the team that killed Offworld corporation members. The employees now during a violent dispute were Jemba and Grelb, both hutts." he said and Anakin nodded.
And in shock to that reveal then. "Obi-wan, why you never tell me that.' he thought gently to that. "Issues, I end up getting chosen by the most famous Jedi team possible." he said and Jabba nodded. "Alright again, if you ever have need of Jedi assistance, ask for me and through the Jedi council, I'll handle this in the years ahead." he said and he nodded. "Good luck Padawan Skywalker and may the force be with you." he said and Anakin bowed as he left.
"Well he agreed, first after 7 months we return for the secondary race, I also told him if ever needed us to send word to me through the council." he said and Obi-wan nodded. "Nice thinking and that mission has Ahsoka getting involved in it." he said and Padme smiled. "We got one threat taken care of, in my case, but the other, the Raiders, is still up for debate here. Being as, Annie, that you deactivated every transmitter on the planet." Shmi said and he nodded then.
"And like I said here is that every new day for a slave means another day to die, and killing Krayne is the only freedom they get here. Being as, like mom said, that things could be far worse for us then you think, Siri is about to walk right into it. The spice mines of Nar Shadaa is the said worse here right now brother, that's why I was looking for her now." he said and Obi-wan nodded sternly to him as they headed back for the ship then, as Jar-Jar greeted them.
"Hidoe!" he said and they nodded. "Well, we have all the essential parts we need, I'm going back, some unfinished business, I won't be long." he said and Obi-wan nodded. "You freed Andy as well too huh, alright I understand, we bring them both back with us." he said and Qui-Gon nodded gently. "But get this hyperdrive generator installed, we leave in 90 minutes once I do this." he said and Anakin nodded said it for both of them, as he wrapped his arm around him.
"Yes, Father, that shouldn't take long." he said and he nodded then. "Come on, Hup!" he said to his mount and rode him back as Anakin did the repairs then. "He freed Andy as well, but mom's next, but 7 months updated training, I got to go counseling with Mace and Master right now." he said and she nodded as Artoo checked frequencies and beeped and he smiled and nodded. "Yeah alright, check it Captain Olie!" he called out to him then and the engine revved up at that then.
And he smiled then. "Yeah that did it, we're good to go!" Ric called out and he nodded, before they heard a loud commotion. "Yeah that's what I was afraid of here, someone commented, as a Jedi I could be cheating and one of my friends took an offense to that remark." he said and Obi-wan nodded. "Better go check on it, then get your stuff, we leave in 90 minutes." he said and Anakin nodded to the orders, as he used the force to put the speed on then quickly then.
"Hey alright break it up, what happened this time exactly?" he said, pulling Wald back and Amee answered that with a sigh. "Greedo commented that with that fact you got one of this one unscathed, you could be cheating." he said and Anakin nodded. "I suppose to a normal being a Jedi is cheating, being as we have the force, but the opinions of others. Though negative are something you have to learn to accept, but I appreciate your defending me, my friend, guys."
"But Greedo, that attitude is a good possibility for a life of crime if you're not careful." he said and he flinched then at the recriminations then. "Indeed, and that was nicely done, shall we padawan." they heard and he nodded. "Yes Father, guys see you in 7 months." he said and they nodded. "So rather than good bye is see you soon, alright see you in 7 months, buddy." Kitser said as he exchanged hugs with the quintet gently, as he walked back to his house with him.
Walking back to his house Qui-Gon passed him a pouch loaded with credits. "Hey, these are yours." he said and Andy, seeing the amount said it in delight. "Yes!" he said as he headed into the apartment to show her. "Mom, we sold the pod! Look at all the money we have!" he said showing her the amount and she smiled. "Oh my goodness, that's so wonderful Andy." she said and Anakin nodded. "I'm going to Coruscant with them." he said and she nodded then.
"Reporting into Master Yoda?" she asked and he nodded to her. "And Andy has been freed." Qui-Gon said and he looked at him. "What?" he said and he said it smiling. "You're no longer a slave." he said and he looked at her. "Did you hear that?" he asked and she nodded. "Now you can make your dreams come true, Ani, you are free." she said and looked at Qui-Gon. "Will you take him with you, is he to become a Jedi?" she asked and he said it gently then to her.
"Yes: Our meeting was not a coincidence, nothing happens by accident." he said and Andy said it quickly. "You mean I get to come with you in your starship?" he said and Anakin sighed. "There's one downside to this, it means though free, we still listen to the adults, Andy, in truth, I knew what I was getting into, when I started training. But the counsel gives us orders, like our Master, our teacher, does, we have to obey our mentor." he said to him then gently at that.
Knowing his twin did not understand the changes that would come with leaving, as he was mentally, no older then Obi-wan now, trapped in his going on 10 year old body. And as Qui-Gon nodded gently in agreement. "Indeed, Andrus..., training to become a Jedi is not an easy challenge and even if you succeed, this is a hard life." he said and he said it then. "But I wanna go, it's what I've always dreamed of doing." he said and he looked at Shmi then quickly
"Can I go, Mom?" he asked and she crouched in front of him. "Andrus, this path has been placed before you, the choice is yours alone." she said to him then. "I wanna do it." he said and she nodded as he said it. "Best pack up, we leave in 90 minutes." Anakin said and Qui-Gon nodded as he said it. "Then pack your things, we haven't much time." he said and he turned and then froze. "What about Mom, is she free too?" he asked and he sighed then gently.
"I tried to free your mother, Ani, but Watto wouldn't have it." he said and he looked at her desperately. "You're coming with us, aren't you, Mom?" he said and she said it. "Son, my place is here, my future is here, it is time for you to let go." she said and he said it sadly. "I don't want things to change." he said and she said it. "But you can't stop the change, any more than you can stop the suns from setting, I love you." she said hugging him tightly then.
"Now hurry." she said and Anakin walked into his room to create a second back four his alter ego then as he heard it. "Thank you." she said and he nodded. "I'll watch after him, you have my word, will you be all right, with what he told us, as he's mentally 46 in this body?" he said and she nodded gently then. "Yeah, yeah knowing in truth my baby returned to me, from an alternate future, he's himself again, I am and I will be." she said and Anakin sighed in relief.
As he put together a second pack carrying a second batch of stuff meant for his alter ego, as he activated Threepio who came to then. "Hello, Master Anakin." Threepio said, remembering this moment and remembering to keep it as canon as possible with the original time-line he said it. "Well, Threepio, I've been freed…, and I'm going away in a starship." Anakin said gently to him. "Master Anakin, you are my maker and I wish you well." he said and then said it gently
"However, I should prefer it if I were a little more completed." he said and Anakin smiled to him. "I'm sorry I wasn't able to finish you, Threepio, not right now, because I will when we come back in a few months now, in giving you coverings and all. I'm gonna miss working on you, you been a great friend to me all these months, don't worry. I'll make sure Mom doesn't sell you or anything." Anakin said and he said it gently. "See you soon Master Annie." he said to him then.
As Anakin walked out there, he hugged his mother one more, before Andy froze and immediately ran back to her. "I can't do it, Mom, I just can't do it." he said, trying to keep from crying, before saying it. "Will I ever see you again?" he asked her and she said it then. What does your heart tell you?" she asked and he said it. "I hope so…., Yes…, I guess." he said and she nodded as she answered him then smiling, knowing he would come back to her
"Then we will see each other again." she said and he said it determinedly then. "I will come back and free you, Mom, I promise." he said and she nodded gently. "Now, be brave and don't look back…. Don't look back." she said and he nodded as he decided to say nothing, knowing he did, he was about start crying then, as Anakin looked into her eyes as he said it gently. "I will come back, mom, I promise, I will, be careful, I love you." he said and she smiled at him.
"I will Annie, you be a good boy, do everything he, Obi-wan the council tell you to do." she said and he nodded to her as he hugged her one more time then and then walked to Qui-Gon, who hid a smile, knowing the ruse was working then perfectly, to protect them..
Getting Off Tatooine And Arrival Coruscant-Anakin's POV:
Walking back to the ship, Anakin froze and signaled Qui-Gon and he swung his lightsaber as they heard it cut through something. "Tracking droid, that belongs to our Zabrak, we got to get back, now." he said and Qui-Gon nodded, as they started picking up the pace then, during a rush to get back, Anakin put the speed on, and before he heard Andy shout it out. "Annie, Qui-Gon, sir, wait!" he said and Qui-Gon, and saw a speeder boke bearing down on the them
- Anakin drop!" he said quickly and Anakin quickly back flipped over whoever tried to run him down and landed then as he yanked his lightsaber. "Anakin no, he's too strong for you, go, tell them to take off!" he said and he nodded and charged up the ramp as and dumped his stuff. "Guys we got to go, take off!" he shouted and Obi-wan focused on where the fight was. "Qui-Gon's in trouble." Panaka said to Olie and he nodded as Obi-wan pointed them out then.
"Take off, over there and fly low." he said and he nodded. "Let me do that, I got better control." Anakin said and he nodded as he switched positions with him, and he carefully got above them and Qui-Gon jumped on board then, as he lifted off and went to hyperspace. "Here take the controls, direct shot straight to Coruscant." Anakin said and he nodded as he and Obi-wan charged to the cargo bay to check on Qui-Gon then, as he switched voices again then quickly.
"Are you all right?" he asked and Qui-Gon nodded, knowing he switched to his alter ego in personality traits then. "I think so." he said and Obi-wan nodded. "What was it or what was he exactly." he asked and he sighed. "I'm not sure, but it was well-trained in the Jedi arts, that my guess is it was after the queen." he said and Andy said it. "What are we gonna do about it?" he said and Anakin looked at him. "Be patient, for now we have to rest." he said to him then.
"We're safe, that's all that matters, we can rest and recuperate." Anakin said firmly to this. "Indeed, we shall be patient." He said and Anakin looked down in exhaustion. "First the race and now we see that guy up close and personal, at this hour, my reserves are drained. As a result with the temperatures, I need a temperate climate to train in." Anakin said and he nodded. "That makes two of us right now." he said and Obi-wan nodded in agreement to that gently.
"Well a good night's sleep then we get to work in the morning, temperature in here is perfect for you to train, but, Dack said if you want Ric can you piloting lessons." he said and Anakin nodded smiling then, it was a few days later, they arrived and Olie, remembering what Panaka told him, described the planet to Anakin's alter ego. "Coruscant: The entire planet is one big city." he said as he flew them to spot he'd be parking the ship on as he pointed out the sights to him thenl
"There's Chancellor Valorum's shuttle, and look over there, Senator Palpatine is waiting for us." he said and Anakin crossed his arms then. "Andy's going with the queen's entourage, I stay with your Father, Obi-wan, I got work to do here." he said and Qui-Gon and Panaka nodded sternly, as they landed the ship, and he followed the queen out of the ship. "It is a great gift to see you alive, Your Majesty." Senator Sheev Palpatine, AKA Darth Sidious said pleasantly to her then.
"With the communications breakdown, we've been very concerned, oh I see you brought a guest with you." he said and Anakin simply looked into his eyes. "Actually no, I am a padawan, Senator, my name is Anakin Skywalker now, I am the apprentice of Master Jinn. And Padawan Kenobi, they were simply picking me up in route from Tatooine now. Because I have an audience with the Jedi council to continue training." Anakin said sternly and he nodded then.
As he looked at Padme then, and she only looked at him warily. "I'm anxious to hear your report on the situation, may I present Supreme Chancellor Valorum." he said and she turned to the Chancellor. "Welcome, Your Highness, it's an honour to finally meet you in person." he said to her gently and she nodded. "Thank you, Supreme Chancellor." she said and he nodded. "I must relay to you how distressed everyone is over the current situation." she said and he said it then.
"I've called for a special session of the senate to hear your position." Valorum said to her gently and she nodded. "I'm grateful for your concern, Chancellor." he said and he nodded, and Obi-wan nudged Qui-Gon in the back, and he listened more closely to Palpatine's next remark carefully. "There is a question of procedure..., but I'm confident we can overcome it." he said and Padme turned to look at Anakin. "Andy come on." she said and Qui-Gon nodded to him.
"Chancellor, we got a bigger problem, from now till my children's birth, we got a snake in the senate that needs to be neutralized. But they're back, the black cloaks are back, they destroyed the ship, after you sent them to handle the trade." Anakin said and he nodded. "I see, well now, if we have to trick your alter ego, we do it as carefully as possible now." he said sternly "I must speak with the Grandmaster immediately, it matches Xanatos." he said and Qui-Gon nodded
"Indeed, I must speak with my mentor and immediately, the situation has become much more complicated." he said and Valorum nodded sternly. "Andy, you go with the queen, Annie, you come with me, best time to meet with the grandmaster now." he said and Anakin, as Andy, nodded to him and Anakin nodded to the orders sternly then. And as he strapped his lightsaber onto his belt then, as they headed for the temple…
Jedi Council Meeting-Obi-wan's POV:
Arriving at the temple then, they headed for the Grandmaster's quarters, as Anakin bowed to the Yoda. "Master, it is good to see you." he said and Yoda nodded smiling gently. "Andy, or rather Vader, just realized that becoming a Jedi meant leaving home now. Same conversation with mom I had, as Father would say, we give up many things when we choose this life. We're destined to have no family or home, our duty is one of service to the entire galaxy here now."
"But the code itself, was a pipe dream, either you make it or you don't, but from 7 to 13, you can study any one of 5 careers rather than farming. Padme's memories just returned, we're married, afraid to tell you, because she was scared you'd expel me." he said and he nodded. "If told us engaged you were and connected this possibly did to what Lana's people told Adi. Then immediate approval I would give as turn the lie true, we do that given Luke, we had now."
"As would telling me, your premonitions on her, they were this time after your mother." he said and Anakin nodded to him as he answered him. "Well I'm not making that mistake, Sidious was on the platform, he never considered there were 2 here, but my lightsaber. I told him, though they met my alter ego first, I belong to you and Obi-wan." he said and he nodded. "See that, I do and good thinking that is, that why trust him, after realizing deceived you, he has now."
"Made a mistake I did in not changing the code sooner when we found, you, but your father, correct he was that the Order has to change. But Mace's arrogance, getting dangerous it is now, but the code, has to change it does now, but correct you are. Five Jedi in the order we have that are married and have children, that why wrong is it exactly. But the Order is spending 36 years changing itself, that when during Luke's training, we return." he said and Anakin nodded then.
"We can fix this, but there are two ways the prophecy can be accomplished, we can get the second if we clone my alter ego tonight, he gets 1/5th my knowledge. But he's carrying my bad traits, this is me as your padawan now." he said and he nodded gently then. "With us back together, Obi-wan took me through training for the last 3 days, since they arrived. Lightsaber training, meditation and everything else." he said and Yoda nodded smiling in approval then.
"Never been happier to have you back padawan, missed you so I have." he said and he smiled as he hugged him and he pressed his forehead to his. "I see the traitor he truly is here, but I only joined him to save her, but he said something that never penetrated back then. But hearing it now, I realized he never had the power at all, he just used me to kill everyone." he said and Yoda nodded sternly. "Then let Andy realize that, and you Jedi Master." he said and he nodded.
"I'm following through, the entire 17 years now, but I'd rather stay padawan, till I'm 27 as by then the twins know here, than their father makes master at exactly 33. But we're having you be their creche from 4 to 12, then from 13 to 23 they start training and enter trials. To Knight, just as my daughter marries Han." he said and he nodded. "Indeed, alright finish trials at 27, become knight at 28 and make master at 33 years of age you will now." he said to him then.
"Luke, gets training he never had the time too, but you did, grow up with this you did, so shall follow through till the final crash now. Only this becomes exactly as what told Luke, Obi-wan did, exactly as said." he said and Anakin nodded to him gently. "Yeah that's exactly it, betrayed me, he betrayed everything you and Obi-wan trained us to be. And nearly killed Mace, while Saesee, Kit and Agen's clones were murdered by Sidious along with Shaak Tii, Cin and the others."
"Followed by Gunray and his co-harts now, after I went to investigate, I tried to dissuade him back from the darkside, and we got into a heated match. And after taking my arms and legs off, he blasted me into the wall now, knocking me unconscious. You sent Obi-wan in after me, the exchange happened again, only he landed too close to the fiery pool. And when he clawed his way back up, the change had been burned into him completely, my brother, Andy, was gone."
"He was Darth Vader now, without an ounce of Andrus Skywalker left in him, you grew back my arms and legs, but I was unconscious for 2 weeks. In recovery for 3 months, after we went into hiding, we stuck to places that had a darkside cloak now." he said and Yoda and Obi-wan nodded in agreement. "Then mimic Obi-wan's childhood on you we should, just like Obi-wan you are, but Vader is you in the previous round, Anakin." he said and Qui-Gon nodded gently then.
