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.
To translate the Jawa language with that first sentence is 1) I am A padawan, Now careful Now, Do not lie, I Want The best, and I am offering Trade. 2) is I will take these 5 droids, The hyperdrive generator, and The refrigeration system. but they better Be It good condition, I know You Are tricksters. But try To push something on Me. and I doubt my father will take It well, when my son and I Are living with my brother.
Chapter 3: The Jinn/Skywalker/Kenobi Team And Reunions
The Flight to Tatooine And Need Of Repairs- A Week Later-Anakin/Qui-Gon's POV:
"There's not enough power to get us to Coruscant, the hyperdrive is leaking.." the pilot, Ric Olie said and Qui-Gon nodded. "Master, Anakin, we have to get him, now." Obi-wan said and he nodded. "Captain, I made contact with my cub padawan Annie Skywalker, so that's we're headed, he's a mechanic and pilot, so with that. We'll have to land somewhere to refuel and repair the ship." he said and Captain Dack Quarsh Panaka nodded gently to that opinion then.
"How old is he?" Lieutenant Leia Dejanna said and he smiled. "No older then the handmaidens, he's going on 10 right now, he's my youngest." he said and they nodded. "If he's willing to help us, we can help him." a handmaiden said and Qui-Gon nodded. "Here, Master: Tatooine, it's small, out of the way, poor, and Trade Federation have no presence there." Obi-wan said and he moved to him. 'Annie, you said Tatooine, correct?' he said and heard a gentle tone to them.
'Yeah Father, Tatooine, settlement of Mos Espa, that's the capitol, my shop is run by a toydarian, just head in my direction once you get here. My uncle has been training me the last month, since I commed you guys, Father, brother. Oh, before I forget, I got a visitors pass here for you guys, the Hutt in charge, his name is Jabba. He has placed me as your personal guide while you're here, you're safe.' he said and they both nodded.
"How can you be sure?" Panaka asked him gently and he said it. "It's controlled by the Hutts." he said and he said it in shock. "You can't take Her Royal Highness there!, The Hutts are gangsters…, if they discovered her..." he started to say and he said it. "Captain, it's okay I got it rigged already, they know I'm a Jedi, so with you being our protection detail. I took care of it already, just don't cross the lowlifes." they heard and he nodded gently then
"Captain it's fine right now, Anakin got it covered already, the head Hutt covering the planet gave us a visitors pass. And Anakin is our personal guide for the duration, he's willing to help us right now, because he's my first padawan." Obi-wan said and Qui-Gon finished that. "It'd be no different than landing on a system controlled by the Federation now, except that. Now the Hutts aren't looking for her, which gives us the advantage." he said and they nodded, sighing then.
"Your padawan is a local of Tatooine, and arranged everything for us, so safe passage here and to Tatooine, well now, if he's letting us stay with them till we leave that helps. He's our personal guide, when scouting out his spaceport?" Panaka asked and he nodded to him. "He is, but he's coming back with us, but he's a Padawan in everything that counts here. The code changed he been training outside the temple for the last 3 years now, so he's ready, but I am now."
"Saying this, if Jar Jar comes along with me, keep your head down, don't draw attention to yourselves, we're trying too keep a low profile." he said and Panaka nodded sternly, as they went to a meeting with the queen. "Baby brother, we're coming to you, after we finalize it with the queen." Obi-wan said and got a jolt of acknowledgement, as Qui-Gon smiled at his title for Anakin, knowing the older boy, had grown very attached to his younger student then.
"An extremely well-put-together little droid, Your Highness, without a doubt, it saved the ship, as well as our lives." he said and she nodded. "It is to be commended, what is its number?" she asked and Artoo Detoo beeped to her gently at that. "R2-D2, Your Highness." he said and she nodded smiling. "Thank you, R2-D2." she said and she said it gently. "Padme." she said and she came forward, as the true queen stepped forward, as she pretended to be a handmaiden.
"Clean this droid up as best you can, it deserves our gratitude." she said and Padme Naberrie nodded gently to her. "Continue, Captain." she said and he sighed and looked at Qui-Gon then. "Your Highness, with your permission..., we're heading for a remote planet called Tatooine, but we are picking my youngest padawan, he's a youngling, there now. And he is coming with us, it's in a system far beyond the reach of the Trade Federation." he said and she nodded gently.
"He's a youngling padawan, no older than 10, but his powers are very strong, his family are friends of mine, are moisture farmers, in the maternal side. But he has intel necessary to find out who Gunray is in league with." he said and she nodded in understanding. 'Annie, is that really my you, you're back to being you again, my love.' Padme thought, praying he was her Annie, knowing this boy was her husband and protected her throughout the mission then.
"Has he learned to fight?" her bodyguard asked and before he could answer that, he heard his response. 'I'm very good at telekinesis currently, but I need lightsaber training, been at it 3 weeks and I just created my lightsaber. But I'm a purple, like Master Windu, we had a blow back and my twin destroyed his own lightsaber. Last week, but he's in serious trouble with mom right now, after talking to strangers.' he heard and hid a nod.
"He's learned everything else, but he's taking lightsaber training to and from the Capitol, but I made a promise to his mother, he's my responsibility." he told her and she nodded in understanding. "Fair enough, if they allow him to be trained, we can pass the time away, before we figure out a plan to deal with the federation." she said and he nodded. "I do not agree with the Jedi on this." Panaka said in resignation and Qui-Gon said it gently to that remark then.
"You must trust my judgment, Your Highness, if we are to discover the identity of who Gunray is in league, we must go pick up my student, as he makes repairs." he said and she nodded. "Then we shall go to Tatooine, and meet your student, this is finished." she said and he nodded, as that finalized it, it was 6 hours later they arrived. "That's it..., Tatooine." Ric said to Obi-wan then. "Anakin you read me, we're right above you." he said and they heard a preteen voice.
"Yeah loud and clear Obi-wan, just trace my signature, but there are 50 settlements scattered around the planet, mine is the one you're right above here. Jabba alerted the towers, you're granted approval to land, all I said was your protection duty. But not of who here." he said and Ric nodded in relief. "Great, that's the break we need, they don't know you're protection of royalty and her entourage right now." Ric said to that news then.
"Captain, once I invite them to stay with me for a few days, just park in the backlot behind my house, okay, but whatever Father said. I'm saying it again, do not, I repeat do not, draw attention to yourselves here, we got a few nasty characters. My rival, in podrace piloting, is an especially dangerous Dug called Sebulba, so tell whoever it is. Keep his head down here, before he runs afoul of him or his followers here now."
"They know you're Jedi, Father, but best not go for the aggressive approach." they heard sternly and he nodded "Agreed right now, so there's the settlements, Mos Espa, Mos Eisley, Anchorhead, Bestine Township. He said Mos Espa, we land there, but park the ship, after he invites you to stay with him outside his house. If there is big enough clearing, we can meet his friends, his life, before we came into it." Obi-wan said and Qui-Gon nodded in agreement.
"Land near the outskirts, we don't want to attract attention." he said and Ric nodded gently, as they parked on the edge of the city then, before Obi-wan investigated the damage and Qui-Gon changed clothes then. "The hyperdrive generator's gone, Master: We'll need a new one." he said and Qui-Gon nodded gently. "That'll complicate things slightly, unless Annie has an idea for that right now, but be wary: I sense a disturbance in the Force." he said and Obi-wan nodded then.
"Indeed I feel it also, Master, this is what I meant, elusive evil, he's sensing that himself right now." he said and Qui-Gon nodded in agreement. "Don't let them send any transmissions." he said and Obi-wan nodded gently as he headed for the city then. "The sun doen murder to mesa skin." Jar Jar said and he hid a smile then. "Wait! Wait." Panaka called out and he turned. "Her Highness commands you to take her handmaiden with you." he said and Qui-Gon sighed then.
"No more commands from Her Highness today, Captain, the spaceport is not going to be pleasant." he said and Panaka said it emphatically to him. "The queen wishes it, she's curious about the planet." he said and Qui-Gon sighed then gently. "This is not a good idea, young lady, stay close to me." he said to her then and she nodded. "Moisture farms, for the most part, there's a case of slavery here, that brings in most of the money right now that generate it."
"The planet's wealth, but gambling here revolves around podracing now, some indigenous tribes and scavengers. The few spaceports like this one..., said are havens for those that don't wish to be found." he explained gently and he saw several people wave and he nodded. "Excuse me, where is Watto's shop?" he asked and they pointed at one at the far left. "Mid afternoon, Annie's getting off at 1700 hours, Master Jinn." a 9 year old said and he nodded smiling gently at that.
"We're right, you are the Jedi Master?" his companion asked gently and he nodded. "I am, I'm on protection of these three people and their companions." he said and they nodded. "Watto, you got customers!" a young woman no older then his daughter, Lana Chion called into the hut and he nodded. "Thank you Claree, I will handle this, and good day to you, what do you want?" he asked and he said it gently. "I need parts for a J-type 327 Nubian." he said to him gently.
"Ah, yes! Nubian: We have lots of that, so am I to assume you are Master…?" he started to say and Qui-Gon nodded to him. "Annie, get in here now, he's here!" he called out and Qui-Gon nodded, knowing that meant the boy was getting ready to meet him, Obi-wan and his charges. "My droid has a readout of what I need." he said as a boy of going on 10, with golden brown hair and sky blue eyes came in, and bowed to Qui-Gon and he smiled gently to him at that.
"What took you so long?" Watto asked him and Anakin nodded. "Sorry Watto, I was cleaning the fan switches, hello Father, nice to see you again, missed you." he said and Qui-Gon smiled at the reveal. "Miss, I know what the problem is, but considering republics credits are no good out here, there is a way to get the supplies for your ship." he said and she nodded. "I know I'm not going to like this suggestion, but…." she asked and he nodded as Qui-Gon smiled gently at her.
"I race for it, he knows, I been training for the last month and created my lightsaber, but I found the supplies necessary to fix your ship, I can race, but nothing to worry about, my twin crashed one too many times, I'm doing the piloting now." he said and she nodded. "To phrase that is you supply the entry fee, Watto supplies me and the podracer, and the winnings are split. Minus the costs for said parts needed." he said and she nodded. "Fair deal." she said and he smiled at her.
"Before you consider this, I understand your fears, but the bigger pay off, everyone betting on Sebulba is about to get their heads handed to them, why exactly. Is because now that I'm completely open to the force, I can do this without crashing, if Sebulba tries to sabotage us." he said and she nodded gently. "Hey Angel, nice to meet you." he said and she smiled at the nickname. "You as well Annie, it's nice to meet you too." she said Qui-Gon hid a chuckle then.
"My full name is Anakin Skywalker, but everyone calls me Annie." he said and she nodded smiling. "I'm Padme Naberrie, nice to meet you Anakin." she said smiling gently, and he smiled as he looked into her eyes. "And nice try, I know who you are, but I don't mind at all, but we're the beginning in a new tradition, once we're adult ourselves no older. Now then my brother, but you with the blaster, me with the lightsaber." he said and she smiled and looked down then.
"The queen is curious about the planet, you are the…" Qui-Gon said and she nodded. "Thank you for telling me that, before further reveals." he said to her gently at that. "I knew we have a few married Jedi, but you and me make number 6 now Angel, in truth here at the moment. Once I tell the council, they won't mind, we are allowed to love, but we alert them first. But starting a family, our children are beyond powerful." he said and she nodded and Qui-Gon smiled then.
"Obi-wan are you hearing this, because I think once Master changes the code, you become the Skywalker heirs godparents." he said and they heard an amused smile. "Yes Master I did, but his telling me first, being his mentor I don't mind, but me his mentor, you his parental. I'm part of the family, the cubs have me there all their life." he said and she chuckled, knowing he was right. 'Yeah my destiny, he's my Annie.' she thought to that smiling gently then.
"Angel, that's my new nickname with Annie now, so I'm his angel." she said and he chuckled at that remark, as he looked between them smiling. 'Oh boy, Anakin is head over heels in love with her, she belongs to him now, yes okay, just listen to his feelings. They never steer him wrong, he needs a good mentor, he's my padawan right now, now and forever.' he thought smiling in affection, knowing once they were young adults it went further, as he said it gently to her then.
"Young lady stay in here, Annie's going to protect you, so stay close, and Jar Jar, don't touch anything, Annie, stay with them and keep an eye on him, before he trashes the shop." he said and Anakin nodded as they hid a laugh at that. "Obi-wan, park the ship outside his house, when he brings us there." he said and they heard his voice say it gently. "Yes Master, we are ready." he said and Anakin nodded. "It's close to head home." he said and they nodded then.
"I'm in training from 0700 to 1200, and then here from 1200 to 1700 hours, because it's close right now, but from the feel outside, we got a sandstorm coming on. That we need to have you get to my place, before it arrives all at once." he said and they both nodded. "Had another crash and we tested the engines on my back up right now, but Watto, you know I'm a Jedi. So there's your payoff, you know the engines are a Jedi handicap." he said and Padme started laughing.
"Your mother said to stop gambling in my case Annie, what are you suggesting, you're betting everyone, I normally do that with, you can free all three of you on this race. As your mother is now my employee instead of servant?" he asked and Anakin nodded. "And they think Sebulba is going to win, and instead you bet so highly on me, that there we go now. As the amount itself frees all three of us all at once, and mom is your new employee." he said and Watto nodded.
"Beep de beep." Artoo said with an amused tone. "Yeah point taken, but I get the idea, you give everyone a headstart then catch up, makes the race more fun." she said smiling and Watto nodded in agreement. "Send your twin home, because you're staying with me, while we finalize this." he said and Anakin nodded. "Andy head for home, I'm staying late." he called out as he walked out and she saw another boy. "Got it Annie." he said and he and Anakin walked out.
Before Anakin came back in. "Our visitor prior to you was dressed in black, golden yellow eyes, practically red." he said and Qui-Gon nodded sternly. "See a lightsaber, before you warned him off." he asked and Anakin nodded. "Yeah, blood red, they're back." he said and Qui-Gon nodded sternly. "I've got some selling to do, so, let me take thee out back, huh? We'll find what you need." he said and Artoo and Qui-Gon followed him outside then gently at that remark then.
"How long have you been here?" she asked and he explained that to her then. "Since I was very little, by that I mean 2 or 3, I think, but my mother, twin and I were sold to Gardulla the Hutt..., but she lost us betting on the Podraces." he explained and she nodded. "You're a slave?" she said and he nodded. "Yeah and be thankful you never said that to Andy, he's far more sensitive to this then I am right now." he said and she nodded in understanding as he explained it to her.
"Annie, is that really you, my you when we met?" she asked and he smiled in delight then. "Yes it's me my Angel, it's me, the me you remember, before the purge now, I'm back now. I take you also got shot back 31 years?" he asked and she nodded. " Yeah I did, but it's time to tell your mother, the Captain and Qui-Gon the truth, you, Obi-wan, Master Yoda and I. We got shot back to now right now, so we can do everything all over again." she said and he nodded then
"Well I'm being blunt here with this right now, but every new day for a slave, is another day to die, because we have transmitters in our bodies, any attempt to escape. And they will kill you right now, but the republic doesn't exist out here, we survive on our own." he said and she nodded in understanding, at the more understanding tone to her concern and confusion. Before she could answer, he turned and saw he activated a pit droid, and it was trashing the room.
"I got ya." Jar-Jar said to it, as he got him around the neck "Hey." he said to him and he looked at him as it kicked him in the crotch then. "Hit him in the nose." he said and he nodded as he tapped the nose and it went back to being loading position. "Annie, what is going on in there!" Watto called out in Huttese and he shouted back to him. "The Gungun activated the pit droid, and made a slight mess, I got to clean up in here!" he called back and knew he nodded gently.
"Good lord, Annie really did a number out here, if he was scavenging crystals and parts for those lightsabers, if he said he found enough for 85 lightsabers." Qui-Gon said and he nodded seeing the piles set into two parts, and then saw a mountain of power cells. Crystals and other parts for lightsabers, in case a Jedi dropped in then. "Indeed I know, I never had a better servant in seeing the value a Jedi needs now, so T-14 hyperdrive generator." Watto said and he nodded.
"Thee in luck, I'm the only one hereabouts who has one, but thee might as well buy a new ship, it would be cheaper, I think, huh. Saying of which... how's thee gonna pay for all this, huh?" he asked and he nodded. "With the fact he said my currency is not worth anything here, we go to his idea." he said and Watto nodded gently. "The prize money will more then pay for the parts you will need now, and my gambling heavily on Annie, will insure this even further now."
"That my business never goes bankrupt, so we do it this way, and you have a deal." he said and Qui-Gon nodded. "Wouldn't have lasted long anyways if I wasn't so good at building things." he said and she nodded smiling then, as they arrived in time to hear that. "You're that good in repair work and building things?" She asked him and he nodded. "Yeah, my lightsaber was built out of spare parts and home made crystals, works as well as the natural ones here right now."
"I created my podracer out of spare parts and the family protocol droid with it, but I better warn you here, Selbulba is a dangerous cheater, so the race is going to get hectic right now." he said as they heard an explosion. "What the force was that?" she asked and he nodded. "Ody's pit droid got in range of the engines again, and got sucked into it." he said and she started laughing at that. "Expect to hear that again at the race." he said and she nodded smiling gently at that.
"And that I understand right now, we're going to the deal, tonight, so we do this first thing in the morning, in us offering our entry fee." she said and he nodded as Qui-Gon walked in, with Watto right behind him then. "I heard an explosion, what was that exactly?" he asked and he smiled. "One of my fellow racers, his pit droid walked in front of the engine, and got sucked into the turbine, expect to hear that at the race." he said and Qui-Gon nodded with a chuckle.
"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 fight 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, good to see you again." he said, just as they heard a call out. "Mom, mom, I'm home." he said and they charged into the living room in relief then. "Well you know my new unit, this is our protection detail, this is Padme Naberrie, and her security captain Captain Dack Panaka now."
"Hey Master, good to see you again, I missed you big brother." he said and Obi-wan smiled and he gave him an hug then annd he tightened his arm 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.