Anakin collected the 501st squad of clone troopers and together they marched to the temple to execute order 66. As he led them inside, there was mass confusion as to why he, the chosen one, was there as everyone was quickly slaughtered by the troops before him. As he cut down each defenseless youngling, he told himself it was too late for them over and over.

Just as he finished off slaying every last jedi he could find, the communicator on his wrist beeped. It was Padme.

"Ani," she said anxiously, "what's going on? I have a terrible feeling all of a sudden and from my window here I can see the jedi temple is on fire. Are you alright?"

"Everything is fine," he insisted, "you're safe now. I'll be right over after I take care of some business on Mustafar."

She asked, "Why? What are you doing? What's on Mustafar?"

He said, "I'm sorry, Padme, I have to get going but I'll see you soon, I promise. I love you." He ended the transmission, leaving her completely confused by what he meant.

Later, Obi-wan rushed to her apartment. "Padme," he said, "I urgently need to speak with you. Sorry for the rush."

"What's going on?" she asked, half-panicked, "Why is the temple on fire?"

"The jedi are under attack," he explained as calmly as he could, "Anakin is missing. I need to find him and understand the situation in its entirety. Do you have any idea where he is?"

She looked him over anxiously and asked, "What? The jedi are under attack?"

He took a deep breath to prepare himself for her reaction. "I'm sorry to have to tell you this, Padme, but it's far worse than you can imagine. The chancellor is the sith lord Darth Sidious. He's the one who's been behind everything. It looks as though he's gotten inside Anakin's head. He's joined the dark side!"

"No," she said, taking a seat on her couch, "I don't believe you. Not Ani, he couldn't..."

Obi-wan brought out the security camera disk as evidence and sat beside her as gently as he could. "I'm sorry, Padme. But look at what he's done." He showed her the footage of Anakin cutting down younglings and getting the title Darth Vader.

Horrified, she said, "I don't understand how he could do that."

"It's the dark side," he explained, "he's no longer himself. Darth Sideous has taken hold of his soul. Please Padme, I need to find him."

"What are you going to do to him?" Padme asked.

He looked down, wondering how much he should tell her. He answered, "I won't hurt him if I won't have to. I'll do what I can to bring him back to the light, but I can't make any promises. Padme, I know you two are close, probably closer than you should be. Do you know where he is?"

She looked at him and removed the large black outer-robe she had on and revealed her pregnancy. Obi-wan stared at her in shock. Clearly they were more seriously involved than he realized.

"Is he the father?" he asked.

"He's my husband," Padme answered with conviction.

He put his head in his hands. "Oh no," he whispered, "no, Anakin!" He stood up and paced around the room. "This is even worse than I thought! No wonder his emotions are always so hieghtened and on edge. I figured it was his age, not this! How long have you two been married?"

"Since the clone wars first began," she said, "don't hurt him, Obi-wan, please."

"I'm sorry," he said sincerely. He made his way out of her quarters, "I'm sorry, Padme, truly. I don't know how this is going to end, but it won't go well for any one of us, that's for sure." He headed for the door. "I'm sorry."

After he left, he hoped Padme would go after Anakin herself. He was right, she did.

Obi-wan watched from a small window of the ship, careful not to be seen by Anakin or Padme. R2 slowly made his way down the ramp behind her as she walked up to Anakin, full of fear. Obi-wan was right, he wasn't himself anymore.

In Padme's eyes, he looked so wrong. He practically glared at her, and his eyes were no longer blue, but an odd angry yellow color. "Ani, what are you doing?" she asked anxiously, "What's going on?"

"Everything's alright," he insisted, "it's all under control. Why are you here?"

"Everyone is worried about you, Ani," she explained anxiously, "some think you've fallen to the dark side of the force, but I know you. I know you'd never succumb to the darkness, right?" She hugged him, but instead of the warm hugs she was used to, he was stiff and didn't reciprocate.

He said gently, "Darkness isn't always bad, Padme. The jedi knights only fear it because they consider it unnatural, when it isn't."

She couldn't believe what she was hearing. He truly was gone. She pulled away and looked at him over carefully. Every part of him seemed wrong. Even his stance had changed. "What has happened to you?" she asked anxiously, "It's like you've changed into a completely different person overnight."

"The darkside is going to help us," he insisted, "I didn't tell you this before, because I didn't want to scare you, but I've been having visions of your death every night, Padme. You're supposed to die in childbirth, but I promise you I won't let that happen! I'm not going to lose you like I lost my mother! With the powers of a sith lord I can make sure you live and then I'll be stronger than anyone ever-including the chancellor! I can overpower him and take over and then we'll be together with the baby! No one will be able to say otherwise. Isn't that what you want?" He grabbed her by the shoulders and squeezed.

Padme shook her head and tried to pry herself away, but he was too strong. "Ani, you're hurting me," she said, "let me go."

He moved his hands up toward her neck and asked, "What's the matter? What are you so scared?"

"I saw what you did at the temple," she said nervously, "the dark side is poisoning you; don't you see? Maybe this is too much for you. It's okay. Forget being a jedi or a sith. I'll leave the senate, and then we can be together! Let's leave right now!" She squeezed his arms and tried to stop him from moving toward her neck, but it wasn't working.

"Your thoughts betray you, Padme," he warned.

She finally managed to pull away from his grip and asked, "What are you talking about?"

"Are you afraid of me?" he asked, stepping closer to her, "Do you think I'm going to hurt you?"

She shook her head, terrified, and explained, "Of course not, but I don't know what's happening to you, Ani. I don't want to see you fall to the dark side! We can get away from here and live a regular life together with our baby. You won't have to worry about what the council thinks of you ever again. If you stay here and keep going down this path I won't follow you! I refuse!"

He said, "Haven't you been listening to me? As a sith I can save your life!"

"Obi-wan showed me the footage of you murdering people, Ani," she confessed, "I told him everything about us, about the baby."

"You told him?!" Anakin exclaimed, angrier than ever, "How could you?! He'll want me dead now for sure!" He slowly force choked her and watched her squirm as she struggled to breathe.

"Ani!" she pleaded, her voice breaking, "Please!"

Obi-wan bolted from his view from the window on the ship and ran down the ramp as he shouted, "Stop it, Anakin, let her go!" He ran down the ramp straight for him. "I said let her go!"

Anakin glared at him and felt Padme slowly fading away in his hands. He tossed her off to the side with the force and watched as she hit the ground with a hard "thud."

"Why are you here?" Anakin demanded.

"What have you done?" Obi-wan asked as he ran to Padme's side and kneeled down to watch her breathe, "Why are you doing this, Anakin? You're the chosen one! You're supposed to bring balance to the force by destroying the siths, not join them!"

He explained, "This is the only way I can have everything, Obi-wan."

He stood up and gestured to the devastation around them as he asked, "This is everythingto you!? You just mowed down a bunch of defenseless younglings and force choked your own pregnant wife into unconciousness!"

"She's alive," Anakin insisted.

"For now maybe," Obi-wan said, still horrified, "I can't believe I just witnessed that with my own eyes! But still, Anakin, I can feel how twisted up inside you are over doing all of this. You managed to stop yourself from killing your own wife. That's a sign the light is trying to reach you! You can still turn away from the dark side, it isn't too late! What of the people inside those buildings? What have you done to them?" He gestured to the building fighting to keep it's structure next to the lavafalls.

"They were separatists," he said, "and they've been permanetly relieved from their duties."

Horrified, Obi-wan asked, "All of them? There is no way they deserved that! What did the chancellor tell you to make you turn into this?" He gestured to him.

Anakin explained, "He helped me see through the jedi lies. Look at what they've done, Obi-wan. They constantly dragged out this war every chance they got! They let slavery reign supreme throughout the galaxy for generations. That stops under the rule of the empire!"

He said, "You didn't have to kill them all for that! I'll admit we could have made changes to how the council operates."

"How would you do that?" he demanded, "Have another meeting!? Actions speak louder than words, Obi-wan, and their actions were always inaction. They didn't care about my mom! They didn't even want me to care about her, or Padme, or let you care about Satine. You know I'm right. Admit it!"

"You think Palpatine is going to let you care about others as a sith lord?" he said, gesturing to their surroundings of lava and volcanic ash, "Look at what all your 'caring' has accomplished!"

"The council was going to kill me for being married," he hastily explained, "and you weren't going to stop them! You even wanted me dead. I saw it in a vision, and you told me we can't change a vision, well I changed it!"

Obi-wan couldn't believe what he was hearing. "You saw your own death?" he asked, "That's what you've been so freaked out about? I'm sorry...you could have told me..." he trailed off. He knew sometimes jedi saw their own demise in the form of a vision. He couldn't help but feel sorry for his student. "Anakin, let me help you turn back towards the light."

He shouted, "The light isn't going to save Padme from dying in childbirth!"

Obi-wan drew his lightsaber and pleaded, "Don't make me destroy you, because I will if I must, but I don't want to hurt you."

"Watch yourself, Obi-wan," he growled, drawing his own lightsaber, "if you get in my way now when I'm about to get everything I want, I won't mind cutting you down."

"Please," he said, "I'm a master and you're still a learner. You won't win, not against me."

They both lunged at each other at the same time. Obi-wan couldn't believe the aggression coming out of Anakin. It was almost like he were now an entirely different person. He was fast and slick. Obi-wan struggled to keep up. They moved back toward the unstable building, doing flips and throwing different objects at each other with the force but neither one of them was going to back down.

Anakin's rage was unyielding. The longer he fought, the angrier he became. He tore apart the walls of the building and threw them in pieces at Obi-wan. At first he managed to cut them down but they were hurled at him too hard, too fast, he couldn't keep up.

"Anakin, stop!" he pleaded, "This whole place is about to collapse into the lava! You'll kill us both!"

He didn't stop. The structure under their feet bent with the heat. It was too compromised and went down fast. Obi-wan used the force to tear the floor apart between them. They both began to fall towards the lava, the fumes getting to their eyes and lungs. Obi-wan brought their platforms back together as they fell and went for Anakin's neck as he coughed and coughed.

Obi-wan wrapped his arm around Anakin's neck and attempted to choke him out. Anakin twisted and got his lightsaber between them and cut the skin on his leg. Obi-wan screeched in pain but moved out of the way before amputation.

Anakin used the force to make sure he landed safely on the ground beside the raging lava flow. Obi-wan crashed down beside him. The fumes were getting to them both. Anakin could barely breathe, and his vision was going blurry. Obi-wan turned and saw him struggling. "You can still stop this, Anakin!" he pleaded, "Please!"

Instead, he used the force to grab lava from behind Obi-wan and threw it into the air, created a wall so he couldn't escape. Anakin lunged at him as Obi-wan turned and faced the heat. Anakin sliced through his back and readied to cut him down.

Obi-wan screamed in agony on his hands and knees. He knew this was it, either the lava or Anakin were going to kill him. He took one last look at his old friend and knew what had to be done. He lifted his lightsaber and cut through Anakin's legs and his left arm. He watched as his face twisted from anger to sheer terror.

Anakin cried out and dropped the lava all around them. He fell down the incline toward the lava flow and felt what was left of his limbs burn away. He watched as Obi-wan stood up in front of him on the hill.

"You were my brother, Anakin," he called out, "I loved you!"

"I hate you!"

Obi-wan could barely look as the heat overwhelmed him, and his body quickly turned into flames. He bent over, picked up Anakin's lightsaber, and turned to make his way back to the ship.

As he laid dying and burning, Anakin only had one thing on his mind. Padme. He had to live. He had to get to her. She needed him, he knew it. But he couldn't move. He desperately moved his right arm and hand and clawed at the burning hot volcanic rocks. He had to survive this. He had to. Just when he was sure his lungs and skin couldn't take any more, he saw the emperor standing before him in the same spot Obi-wan did. At last, he was saved.

"Where's Ani?" Padme asked, "Is he alright?"

"He's fine," Obi-wan lied, "you need to focus on yourself right now."

"I can't breathe."

The medical droid explained, "Her throat has been severely damaged, and she has internal hemorrhaging. Both her and the baby are in danger."

Padme pleaded in between breaths, "Save the baby!"

"I can induce labor," the medical droid said.

"Go ahead," Obi-wan said, "it looks to be the best course of action."

To their surprise, she was not simply pregnant with one baby, but twins. First Luke and then Leia.

Obi-wan put each one in her arms. The medical droid said, "She's bleeding out and is refusing stabilization, sir. It appears she's fading away. I apologize but she won't make it."

"Obi-wan," Padme said, struggling to breathe, "help my husband...please. There's still good in him...he's just so scared...right now. You can help him. There's still..." She stopped breathing. Her heart stopped. It was over. She was gone.

And just like that, Darth Vader was born, assuming he had killed his wife and child, and the empire reigned supreme.