Chapter 4: Who am I?
Anakin, sitting outside the Fortune Teller's house, felt so disturbed that he didn't know what to do from now on.
What he told him about his past life was something that choked him at that moment. What could have happened to me? What was that dark shadow and those people? What should I do from now on? He said to himself confused.
Engel came out shortly after and saw Anakin without his helmet and looked upset, sat next to him and said, "Anakin, how are you feeling?" You look bad"
Anakin shook his head upset but he was calm. "No, I'm not Engel, what I heard upset me and I feel like there is something out there and I don't know what to do from now on, it's so strange to me."
"Anakin you shouldn't have to think about that anymore, now you have a new life here, there are people who care about you, that should be the most important thing for you."
Even though he knew that to be true, Anakin felt an emptiness in his being that he didn't know how to explain.
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Engel was thinking about how to help Anakin, and remembered something interesting.
"Anakin... I think there is a way to help you, I hadn't mentioned it because I didn't remember it until now."
"What do you mean Engel?"
"As you already know, this world is disconnected from the rest of the galactic community with almost no technology, but on the outskirts of this community a bounty hunter arrives who I know uses this planet as a hideout, and he is the only one who has a ship to leave the planet. planet. "I know him and he owes me several favors, I can ask him to investigate who Anakin Skywalker was."
Anakin widened his eyes in shock at such a thing. "Would you really do it Engel?
"Of course, I'm your friend Anakin," Engel replied and Anakin couldn't help but hug him.
Anakin at that moment remembered that from Chancellor Palpatine he only received a hand on the shoulder as a form of affection, but never a hug, hugging Engel felt very different "Thank you Engel, I know you are not Palpatine, the Chancellor I told you." "But you're still a good friend."
"You know he can come to me Anakin."
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Six months have passed, Anakin and Engel forged a friendship, it was as intense as never before, a feeling similar to that of Anakin and Palpatine, father and son, but still Anakin couldn't get rid of the image of Palpatine on Engel's face.
Why every time he lives with Engel, he can't help but think that Chancellor Palpatine himself is at his side.
But he couldn't tell Engel, surely when he found out that he kept confusing him with the Chancellor... That he saw the Chancellor in his place. I was sure to hurt him.
"Anakin I have good news, that bounty hunter will come today and bring us the information, but you have to be aware that there may not be what you are looking for."
"It doesn't matter Engel, any clue is essential to remember my past."
Engel and Anakin soon went to the place where they found the bounty hunter.
"Until you arrive, Engel, I've been here for a while," he told him while he drank something.
"I had work to do, did you get what I asked for from that Jedi Anakin Skywalker?"
"What I got from Engel was very little, but I think it could be useful to your friend."
Taking out a holographic memory, showing all the information he had collected on his journey.
"Anakin Skywalker was a slave on Tatooine as a child, he destroyed the Trade Federation ship in the blockade of Naboo, he was a Jedi Knight, he participated in the clone wars. When the war ended the galactic empire was declared, that same day presumably they say that the Jedi Anakin Skywalker died. Today a civil war is breaking out in the galaxy, a so-called rebel alliance that is fighting against the empire."
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"Engel I don't understand anything, now even less than before." Anakin felt frustration and annoyance. "It says there that I'm dead. What does this mean?"
Engel was equally confused and not understanding what was happening "I don't know, and I don't understand how you do either. I dont know why What does it say that you are dead?
Anakin saw his mechanical hands and prosthetics in how they moved. "Maybe... Maybe something happened to me that day, in that attack on the Jedi temple where they say I died. Maybe that's why they put all these prosthetics on me or... something else happened, I don't know Engel, but I have to solve it, I have to find a way."
"What will you do Anakin? "Are you going to leave just like that?!"
"I have no other option Engel, I have to know what all this is, your friend could get me out of here… I told you two months ago that I no longer wanted to leave here or abandon you that you were like my friend like the rest of the tribe but I have to Doing so, I have a chance to know everything and maybe even solve it."
Engel was alarmed by him and feared that something would happen to him. "Okay Anakin, but I will go with you, you will not go alone. It is too dangerous for you to make this trip alone, with me nothing will happen to you, maybe even I found something about my past and why I have these dreams."
Anakin giving him a warm hug as friends "Thank you Engel, really."
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A day had passed since they had decided to leave the planet. They were just preparing everything for their trip, leaving everything ready, especially their house, for the time they will be away.
You will leave some of the villagers you already knew as the caretakers of your home.
"Is your friend really taking us out of planet Engel?" Anakin asked as he was preparing a backpack and other things.
"Yes, although he didn't like it very much, but he owes me several favors so he will do it." Engel collected from his cabinet several credits that he had saved over the years.
"Are those Engel credits?" Anakin asked in surprise.
"Of course, I've saved them for years just in case I ever need them and this is the moment Anakin... I think we'll have to do something with your appearance, your black suit and helmet draw a lot of attention."
"What do you mean Engel?"
Engel approached Anakin and analyzed him: "You should change your way of dressing a little... Take off that long black cloak that attracts a lot of attention, like that helmet."
Anakin took off his cloak and put it in a backpack as well as his helmet. "What about Engel now? How should I dress so as not to attract attention?"
"This way, like me." Engel put on a dark brown cloak with a hood.
that covered the head and at the same time had a scarf in front to cover part of the face and only showing the eyes.
He gave the same to Anakin, who covered his entire black suit all the way down, the hood that only allowed his eyes to be seen while he hid his face with a scarf.
"This way no one will recognize us if they see us, they will only believe that we are travelers or strangers, passing from one place to another" Engel said, and both were already unrecognizable to anyone who saw them… It was time to leave.
"I wish you both luck, Anakin and Engel... truly." The Twi'lek fortune teller approached the two. "We will also take care of your house, so don't worry about anything."
Anakin and Engel bow and thank him and leave for where the bounty hunter was waiting for them.
They saw that everything was ready and the ship was almost ready. The bounty hunter approaches Engel to speak with him privately.
"Is that your friend Engel? "It doesn't inspire confidence in me," he said, looking at Anakin in the distance with some fear.
"Don't worry, he's trustworthy, he's like a son to me... no problem."
"Engel, there is something else, about the information you asked me for, something that I didn't want to tell you, because I didn't know how you were going to take it" "I know perfectly well that you haven't left this planet in a long time and you are not aware of what happens out there in the galaxy but
I will tell you something that may be impossible for you to believe."
Engel still did not understand what the bounty hunter was referring to. "I don't understand what you mean. What are you talking about? Tell me…"
"There is something I didn't tell you and that is…. When that Jedi Anakin Skywalker was presumed dead in the attack on the Jedi temple, someone called Darth Vader appeared in a black suit and helmet. "That Vader was the Emperor's right-hand man and has been missing for at least three years, and without a doubt I tell you that this friend of yours is just like him."
Engel shook his head emphatically, he couldn't believe what he was saying. "I don't think what you say is true, how is that possible?"
Engel didn't want to believe it... without anything else he returned to Anakin's side and noticed that something had happened that had upset him.
"What's up Engel? tell me".
But Engel refused, he only limited himself to saying "It's nothing Anakin, in a moment We will leave."
Through the Force, Anakin felt that he was lying to him, but he was not going to say anything, he was his friend and he trusted him, he would surely talk to him about it later.