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 20% of the return to Naboo, and go right to saving Qui-Gon, after Anakin lands back in the hanger. So from here, the story-line had Qui-Gon involved fully in Anakin's life with Obi-wan. And as he spends his entire 13 years a Jedi, as his alter ego becomes Darth Vader. So Anakin becomes the true Chosen One, Andy, Darth Vader becomes a Sith and it becomes his version.
To his heirs' war against each other, in the last chapter of the Skywalker family 60 years from then. This story is going to use the theoretical from my other story, as the Jedi Quest novels. And are as though Anakin and Vader are two separate beings. As the Jedi know that Vader is a separate entity to Anakin's personality. 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.
Chapter 10: The Mission Begins And Alliances III
"I wanted to say good bye now, we'll be leaving early in the morning, I'm sorry I can't stay to help you, I want to." he said and they nodded to him. "We understand, you must obey your elder." he said and he sighed then. "It's not obedience as much as respect." he said and they heard a sigh. 'Even in my ears that's a lame excuse.' they heard to his remark to them as she answered his statement to that.
As she said her opinion on that firmly. "Ah my trouble is that I never understood this respect thing, my grandfather told me what was right. And he was always wrong, what does it matter, he'd say whether thousands die or millions die. The sky is still blue over head and our world remains, the cause is what's important. And so your Jedi boss tells you what you must do and you do it."
"Even though you know he's wrong, and that is called respect." she said and sighed as she finished saying it then. "Maybe I've been living in the dark too long, but I don't see it." she said and he sighed. 'Great she's forcing me to question my own beliefs right now now, life as a Jedi was like a shimmering pool of clean water, but now she's muddied it, and clouding my beliefs with doubt.'
'There must be something I can do here right now.' he thought and the council crossed his arms at that. "I would help if I could, if there was something I knew I could do that could make a difference." he said and Roenni and Nield exchanged looks. 'Uh oh, this better not mean what I think, my job is getting her out, all else comes second.' they heard and Mace nodded gently at that remark.
"What is it." he said and she nodded. "We do have a plan." she said and he nodded as he leaned his head closer to them so they could discuss this. "Tell me." he said and she explained that to him then gently then. "You know that there are deflection towers ringing the perimeter of the city, there are also towers around the Melida center, these towers control the particle shields, preventing entry."
"And separating the Melida and the Daan sides?" she said and he nodded to her. "Yes I've seen them." he said and Nield put his head close to his as he answered him then as they put their heads together then. "We've been in contact with the Young Second outside the city, I've sent a message to them telling them. That we have succeeded in capturing the weapons of both Melida and Daan."
"But there are several destroyed villages ringing the city, many of the children live there, or the countryside, hundreds, thousands now. If we take a wider area, they are all connected by a network, if we destroy the particle shields they will march into Zehava." he said and Ferus nodded as he answered him gently at the remark then at this news then, before he could though Roenni finished that.
"And they have the weapons." she added and he nodded as she went further then gently. "We would have an army now, so not only would the Elders be outnumbered,they would have nothing to fight with We could win a war and without one death. If we are careful and the elders are smart enough to surrender." she said and Ferus nodded as he answered her at the remark as he looked between them gently.
"It sounds like a good plan, but how are you going to knock out the deflection towers here?" he asked and she sighed. "That's our problem, they can only destroyed by air, all we need air transport." he said and she finished that remark gently at that remark then. "We can't use the floaters, the deflection towers have defensive systems, floaters are not fast enough or agile enough."
"We need a starfighter." she said and Anakin straightened."We know you flew some sort of fast transport to Melida/Daan, could you fly us on the mission." she said and he inhaled at that as they heard the next remark then at this news then firmly at that remark then. 'First the Outer Rim planets are asking me to stay here and now they ask this of me as well, how much more can they take from me.'
'She and Nield are asking a great deal of me right now, but this would go beyond a padawan's disobedience for breaking rules. It would defy Master Yoda himself right now, Obi-wan and Qui-Gon would be well within their sights to send me back to the temple. I would probably have to appear before the council, and they have the right to dismiss me as their padawan.' they heard as Nield said it to him then.
"We can leave at dawn, the mission would only take an hour, maybe a little more, then you can take Adi to Coruscant." he said and she finished that."The destruction of the particle shield will actually make it easier for you to smuggle Adi out of Zehava." she added and he sighed as he said it to them as he looked between them as he said it to them at this remark then firmly at her remark then.
"But if the starfighter is damaged it would mean we can't leave at all, and doom our mission to failure, and perhaps make me responsible for Adi's death." he said and she sighed as she answered him then as she said it then gently. "It was wrong for me to mock you before, I know the Jedi code guides the way you live, and we know we're asking too much from you right now."
"If we weren't this desperate, we wouldn't do it, you have already done so much for us." she said and Ferus nodded to her. "As you have done for us, we would never have rescued Adi if not for you." he said and she nodded to him gently at that remark. "It is our only chance for peace, once the Elders see our numbers they will have no choice, but to surrender." he said and Ferus sighed as he looked at the trio then.
'I owe them so much right now, they fought alongside me, even saved my life, we have a bond.' they heard, before they heard a sigh. 'But I have a bond with Roenni and Nield as well now, the shortness of the time doesn't matter, the current of connection is nothing I ever experienced. And even though Roenni apologized for mocking me, isn't there a small gram of truth in there?'
'Is it right to obey when my heart is telling me it's wrong right now.' he thought as he looked into her eyes then gently as he saw the compassion in them, as he saw the same look on Nield and then took a deep breath. 'I make this choice there is no going back, but maybe, I won't have to, I can ask and I know the quartet and the council would say yes, I can do it, for them, their cause, as they can ask this.'
'Because they know it's right, and I know they're right, I can't let them down, I can't make this choice as a Jedi I have to do it as a friend.' they heard as he answered her as he took a deep breath. "I'll do it." he said and they nodded. "But first I got to run it by the quartet, my first mission is to get her out, and take it up with the council." he said and she nodded to him gently at that as he sighed then gently.
Walking to Adi, he crouched in front of her as he felt his inner cub start growing. 'My mother, I love her as much as I love mom, my mentor as a Master guardian, my sister, my mother. I'm a member of two teams, but I'm a master guardian, I'm not leaving her, I'm not leaving the trio. Them or Mace, I'm going home after this.' he thought softly as he said it then to her gently at that as he said it to her then gently at that response.
"Mother." he said and she opened her eyes gently. "Annie you okay?" she asked and he said it then. "Whatever happened to Obi-wan, the last time they were here, it's happening to me now." he asked shaking and she said it softly then. "Shh, it's okay, your non force sensitive side is trying to take control right now, it's okay, just focus on what matters more." she said and he closed his eyes then as he did that.
Seeing his friends, the trio, and his life at the temple, he started feeling his Jedi side start taking total hold, as he also pulled out his crystals that had the colors of his friends and team quartet and smiled as his scales leveled out and she smiled. "There you go, not so hard when you remember you got a life already in two ways, everything you think you found here you have already." she said and he nodded as he sighed as he said it.
"It got worse, Mother, they asked of me the same one that Cerasi and Nield asked of Ben, same request, I can't do this, what happens. And if the fighter gets damaged, that could kill you if the injuries are even then we thought right to what they did to you now. And without it destroying our bonds, I'm not leaving you, my place is at your sides." he said and she nodded as she answered him gently.
"One last mission to help is fine, but we're leaving directly afterwards." she said and he nodded as he closed his eyes as the tears came forward and she felt her heart fall at that response. 'Oh gods, what happened if he's close to breaking on me right now, what did you people do for him to start crying, shh, it's okay baby?!' she thought as he said it to her as he opened his eyes as he said it to her gently at that remark.
"That's the problem, before I spoke to Roenni, I got a call from every planet in range of Melida/Daan, they asked for a Jedi. One with experience in the outside world and the Chancellor chose me, but what's worse. Now, is this dragged up the same choice that Obi-wan went through right now." he said and she nodded as she sat up and he hugged her, as he pulled her into a sitting position as he buried his head into her shoulder.
'No, oh gods no, it can't be, please tell me they didn't just ask what I think they did, and who was that radio call coming in from, he's right. He just made up his mind and they ask him to stay here, it's not going to happen. I'm not leaving my brother here, not alone, got to take it up with the council. They need to know this right now, us four and Mace are his family, he's not letting go.' Obi-wan thought as he looked at Siri then.
'Oh force what now, damn it, what the hell did they ask from him if he's clinging to her not wanting to let go right now?!' Qui-Gon thought to that as he, Obi-wan and Siri quickly moved to them at that as he said it quickly at that. "What's wrong exactly, I heard most of what you were thinking, so what's wrong padawan?" he asked gently as he crouched down in front of him as Siri sat Adi up against the wall at that.
"Right after our fight, I was trying to work through it, just as I hit the level you wanted me to, I got a call from the planets in range of Melida/Daan. Asking for Jedi assistance to end the fights for good, and they chose me."he said and the trio nodded as he looked at the tears running down his face. "With it, is I got asked the same request that Nield and Cerasi asked of you Obi-wan." he said and they all nodded gently.
"I don't want to stay here, I want to go home." he said and Obi-wan hugged him and he buried his head into his shoulder as Qui-Gon and Adi exchanged furious looks at the news. 'Just what right do you have to ask this of him, he's a youngling, not an adult, he's just a child, I'm not leaving my son here, not without parental supervision.' Qui-Gon thought angrily at the news as Adi said it for him at that gently at that.
"You had to tell us this as we're part of the council that the Chancellor is trying to under mind in Master's orders for us to withdrawal?" Adi said as Siri helped her get into a sitting position against the wall at that and he nodded to answer her. As he couldn't answer directly and not without feeling like he was about to start crying then. "Shh, it's okay, we understand, but before we do anything, Anakin one choice."
"But we have to tell the others right now, Siri stay with her, Obi-wan, Anakin and I are going back to the ship." Qui-Gon said and she nodded to him and stood up as they pretended they headed for the ship. Once reaching it, Anakin turned on the radio. "Jinn/Kenobi/Skyalker team to Jedi council, repeat this is the Jinn/Kenobi/ Skywalker team to Jedi council, do you read me?" Qui-Gon said into the radio then.
"Yes we read you Qui-Gon, what is wrong exactly?" Mace asked and Anakin swallowed as he answered him. "It seems that right after Master contacted Master Yoda, every system in the Outer Rim surrounding Melida/Daan. Has ordered me to stay and help with clean up, as if that's not enough Master. I was just asked the same favor that Cerasi and Nield asked Obi-wan, last time they were here."
"But, and here's the bad news right now, but every planet closest to the Melida/Daan contacted the chancellor, he's demanding to end this. That the Jedi stay on the planet to help clean up the mess here." he said and the council nodded. "You think he's trying to drive a wedge between us by demanding that, that he is trying to use your non force sensitive side against you right now."
"Just to get you to brush the darkside right now Anakin?" Mace asked sternly to that news and he nodded to him gently. "Honestly Master, yes I do, the Chancellor is trying to stabilize the planet portion of this mission. Just to drive a wedge between us at the moment, I've already discussed this with Master Adi. But you're the one I needed that true counsel from, as the balance within."
"That includes this right now, a guardian growing up in the temple has a hard time controlling that balance within. But I am trying to control that balance in the same way, you're training me to equalize the blue and red. But these guys and the Chancellor are trying to undermine that balance at the moment. I have a people, a family and cause already: but here's the reason for this."
"The Chancellor has under-minded your orders by them contacting him and he chose me to be the one to get involved." he said and the 11 nodded slowly. "He's demanding we leave you there to finish with ending another war?!" Kit snapped in shock and he nodded to him. "They see this as a good idea, you can't get involved without things getting worse, but they see that I can, Master Yoda."
"But I do, and I know what's coming in your cases, I could never openly defy you in this case Master, what am I supposed to do." he asked, shaking and Yoda nodded, sighing at the news. "What options considered have you, Anakin, because maybe the only way to prevent a repeat to Obi-wan's situation it is now?" he asked and Anakin sighed and told him the truth as he looked between the council then.
"Take a sabbatical as a Jedi and for a few weeks, once my mission here is complete, you come pick me up and I go on probation immediately. As you once said: to return to the Jedi well then you have to be a Jedi. But if there is an emergency when I get back, then the very worst time. Is the time I must follow our code and I will, if this is turning into a repeater of Xanatos and the thefts."
"That just barely got Bant killed and did kill Bruck, that is not happening twice, but I can delay a few weeks in visits home. As they are delayed as I start my training with you starts again as we get our bonds back into place. And I just spend that 12 weeks in re-training as I do lightsaber training with you." he said and the council nodded to his decision, before Mace smiled as he answered him gently.
"That's best anyway and we see why you have to get our council, before your non force sensitive side got too strong right now. This is interfering with your balance, the colors of balance in you are shifting between red and blue. Did you already talk to Adi, if you came to me next, Annie, I'm your color. You needed to talk to me most, is that it Anakin?" he asked and Anakin nodded to him gently.
"Yes Master, but I think this was the Sith's attempt to have me suffer Obi-wan's reaction. So if there is trouble, while I'm gone and before you bring me home right now. But Cerasi and Nield's children asked me the very same favor that they, the duo themselves. That they asked Obi-wan, regarding our ship right now at the time here 15 years ago, it's happening again right now over here."
"But I'm not disobeying a direct order, you made that clear, total commitment and loyalty Master, I swore to it. But there is one option left to get Adi out and Cerasi's friends from the country Young first in. But I need permission to do it, once done, as I am not breaking your orders directly at the moment. But I learned from Ben's situation and instead of doing it without authorization."
"I had to talk to you, before taking her only way off the planet." he said and they nodded. "The wars started up again, Obi-wan?" Ki asked him and they all nodded. "They did, but it's not the Young when I was apart of it, my generation is the middle generation now, but 20% of Wehutti's age group never let it go. And their grandchildren are in the same war with their grandparents here."
"That we were with their parents, before Cerasi got them to stop and listen and Anakin is now caught in the middle of this right now and as are we." Obi-wan said and they nodded. "The only thing I can do is do their mission, but it's that and only that, but I am not and will not be violating your orders. And any further then that, but my back up skills can come in handy for your age group."
"And Obi-wan's, Father and before we have a repeater of this situation that put her into a coma that year, but still your Padawan." Anakin said and Qui-Gon nodded gently to that. "So while Qui-Gon and you distract the renegade Elders in Wehutti's generation, Anakin and their twins blow the shields. Alright do it, but be careful, once done, get the girls out of there, Anakin, if you're staying."
"Though you gave your primary to the duo, use your spare and continue training, that's your only way to stay who you are. Without you in the same uncertain path principle that your brother got stuck in. You got your link to us by your spare, once ready to come home, just send the word." Mace said and he nodded to the order as he relaxed in relief then, that he wasn't disappointing them.
"Master, just this once and only once, but I was ordered to stay here right now, by the senate, the Outer Rim planets contacted the senate." he said and Mace nodded to the news. "We'll handle this, though a padawan in theory, you're still a youngling, you're still too young to be left alone on a mission this dangerous right now, it's going to be okay son, we're going to deal with this."
"But if there is one thing more dangerous then a fully trained adult Jedi, it's one that treats their students like their own children. And when they know that what they are asking is something we'd never agree to right now." Mace said and he nodded to that. "Yes and I'm the Jedi connected to the Jedi that this started with right now, but I kept several things you left to me to stay focused."
"One good thing is ever since you started training me in lightsaber combat, I took another approach to this and was using the info-red goggles. Just to black out the laser, as I also kept my spare crystal to change colors from blue to amethyst in my spare." he said and they nodded. "We're going to talk to the senate and Chancellor, you do your mission." Mace said and he nodded gently.
"I'll see you in a few weeks Master, I promise." he said and Mace nodded to him. "Us too Anakin keep up your training, and be careful, boys, we expect you back in a week. May the force be with you." he said and they all nodded gently as they ended the call at that. "Well next step now, Obi-wan go to Cerasi and Nield, I'll go to Wehutti and his group of elders that called off the fight, we distract them."
"And you and his granchildren, the twins, blow the shield towers and particle shields." Qui-Gon said and they both nodded as they returned to the tunnels and moved back to the girls. "What the council say?" Siri asked and he explained that. "The council gave the go ahead, but on distraction and division, Siri. You stay here with her, so we get the trio and go to war council with the renegade elders."
"Distracting them long enough for Anakin and the twins to blow the particle shields and the towers. Once done we got to leave now, he's a pilot and mechanic, he can use his back up skills to do this. But we all agreed to his only way to prevent a repeater right now." he said and they nodded. "Wait, before you go to the Elders, we get her and Siri in the ship, so a fast get away now."
"But I blow the towers and the shield, once done you're waiting for us at where we hid the ship and we get the girls aboard it. So the second that the renegade elders go back on their word of peace talks. And with the Middle generation and the Young second, you get the ship ready to go. And I tell you to leave, before they fix the shields." he said and Qui-Gon nodded to his suggestion gently smiling.
"Indeed, but as we decided on that policy, we spring the trap the second they think they got us right now. At this rate right now things switched course, it doesn't matter anymore. So long as I never lost you as my youngest cub this is better then what would have happened. Twins could you come here, please, we need to talk cubs." he said, staring at the twins and they moved to him at that gently.
"Is this going to be the only time you ask for use of our ship, because Anakin is taking a big risk at doing this for you. We can agree to this, but it's just this once right now, we'll: that is your parents. Your grandfather, Obi-wan and I distract the renegade elders and you destroy the towers and particle shields?" he asked and the twins nodded in amazement and relief, they got it worked out so fast.
"Nield get your father." Siri said and he nodded as a few minutes later their parents and Wehutti arrived. "Guys we're doing it again to give you a fighting chance, but once done we got to leave right after, as we wait to see their response." Obi-wan said and they nodded to the decision. "Done, if he gets ordered to stay here, he's staying with us, I promise we'll take care of him, I promise Obi-wan."
"Like you, he is taking a very big risk for us, but we are not asking either of you to violate your bonds or go against Qui-Gon twice." Cerasi said and her daughter nodded. "Just this once, if it gets worse, and he gets orders to stay, blow the blasted reason, we can figure a new way. To protect your parents and ancestors past, but the halls have got to go, they did enough damage, to us and you."
"But we better plan it out right now, but you're our closest allies with Deanna, Gueni, Rica, Deila and Joli." Qui-Gon said and she nodded. "Always my friend, you sacrificed so much for us and we're paying it forward. And by insuring your relationship stays strong, but we had enough of the fighting here now. But we end it in one shot, but last time I swear." Nield said and Cerasi nodded to that
"We can Master Jinn, Obi-wan, and thank you, the mission begins at dawn."Roenni said to them and they nodded. "Very well, best get some sleep now." Obi-wan said and they nodded as Anakin grabbed his sleeping pad and blanket, moved to them. And curled up next to the quartet, Qui-Gon, watching him sleep, hid a smile as he ran his hand through the boy's hair and smiled as he turned his head to him in response.
As he watched him burrow into Obi-wan's chest and Obi-wan wrapped his arm around him to keep him warm then. He hid a smile then at the fact that one change kept their bonds strong now. Before things started the next morning then, as Obi-wan gently shook him awake then and he nodded as he stood up then. "Remember be careful and try to go on stealth mode for most of this."Qui-Gon said for him and he nodded to him.
"I will father, we'll meet you back at where we hid the ship, before you guys, Wehutti, Cerasi and Nield join with the other Young first and Elders. And to go to bat with the renegade Elders, but we'll be waiting for the call."he said and Qui-Gon nodded to the directions. "We'll see you in an hour then." Obi-wan said to him gently at that as he nodded as the twins moved to them gently at that.
As he and the twins grabbed their weapons then, and they headed for the Outer Circle through the tunnels as the trio arrived at the ship and the twins smiled then. "Well let's get going, I'm a really good pilot, so don't worry." Anakin said and they nodded as he took the pilot chair. "We should hit the perimeter towers first, then the central towers, we're going to have to do everything by sight here."
"I don't have any coordinates for the nav computer." Roenni said and he nodded to her gently at that as he kept the engines at low then to avoid detection. "It won't be a problem, I'm going to have to do some defensive flying. So it's better if you two do the aiming, the station for the laser cannon is right in front of you, Roenni. I'll open up the emergency weapon sighting plate as we get closer."
"Remember to keep your eyes out for speeders, we're going to have to come in low to blast the deflection controls." he said and she and her brother nodded to him as he flew to where they were starting from. "Here we go." he said and she nodded. "Floater on the right approaching, we must have turned up on the scanners." she said and he nodded to her gently at that as he answered her then gently at that.
"They won't do that very often." she said as she watched them come into view, as a missile shot at them and Anakin pointed the wing down slightly and it shot passed them and hit the wall causing an explosion. "They could level a building, once we get over the city." she said and her brother, Nield Wehutti, answered that gently. "They'll probably use smaller fire power." he said and she nodded to that as she said it.
"We have to do this without blasting them out of the sky, we have to show them our ultimate goal is peace." she said and Anakin nodded to that. "That's my job, the tower is ahead, let's blast it." he said and they nodded, watching the floaters carefully he knew he had to stay level, as he realized he had just enough time, as he opened up the firing panel for them, bracing himself against the wall Nield aimed his cannon.
"Now!" Anakin called out to them as they fired the cannons, before he saw several floater then. "Seven floaters, can we do this Anakin?" she asked and he nodded. "If we do it fast, can you aim upside down?" he asked and she smiled and nodded. "No problem!" she said and he nodded as he flew into position. "Ready." he called out as he timed it right and then flipped the ship over and dived below it at that firmly.
As he maneuvered the ship so that they had a clear shot at the tower. "Everybody okay?" he asked and they nodded. "Dizzy, but okay, that was incredible flying, Annie." Roenni said to him and he nodded. "Okay, follow the wall, we'll hit the towers one by one." Nield said and Anakin nodded as he flew them close to the, as they saw more floaters coming to intercept them, but not being able to fly fast enough.
And as more joined in, but they couldn't keep up with Anakin, as he flew and one by one they destroyed each tower. In relief, Roenni leaned over and hugged him and Nield pounded him on the back at that. "I knew we could count on you, we have plenty of fire power left. What do you say to we blow the halls of evidence into nanospecs?" he asked and Anakin closed his eyes as Roenni answered that gently.
"Now?, but Nield, we promised our parents, grandpa and the quartet, once done we return to where they hid the ship. We need to get back, we have to hit both the Melida and Daan for peace negotiations, while they're weak." she said and Anakin finished that. "Besides there could be people inside." he said and she nodded as she finished that as she answered his remark gently at that news.
"We said we would do this without taking of life." she said and he nodded, sighing. "The sooner what's left of those halls of hate are blown up. And the sooner everyone can breathe again, I despise everything they stand for." he said and they nodded. "I know, so do I, remember if not for them, we may not have been born, but lets take this one step at a time." she said and he nodded gently to her.
"Alright, let's do one last thing, before we land, let's do a quick loop around the countryside. Aunt Deila was waiting to pass the message that the perimeter shields have been blown. The Scavenger Young first and second should be mobilizing right now." he said and they nodded as Anakin flew in widening circles, everywhere they looked, they saw both generations then as they were streaming out.
From farms, villages and woods, they were already beginning to clog the roads of Zehava, as several from their parents generation waved at them. And Anakin dipped his wings in a salute to answer them as a man lifted a com-link to his lips. "Hey son, if you're the apprentice to the Jedi that were here last time. Tell them we send our thanks and welcome back." he heard and Anakin nodded to the order gently.
"What's your name, Sir?" he asked and the man answered with a smile in his voice. "My name is Joli, I was a friend of his and Nield's, after they won the war. And we prevented another from getting started that day after Cerasi was knocked into a coma at the time." he told him and Anakin nodded. "Sure thing I'll tell them." he said and he waved his blaster and Anakin dipped his wing a second time.
As Roenni smiled at him with tears in her eyes. "I will never forget this day and I will never forget what you did for us Anakin Skywalker." she said and he smiled at her as they flew back to their hiding place as he saw the quartet waiting for them. "Everything went fine Master, a man no older then you Obi-wan said hi and welcome back, he's also sending their thanks from your last trip here."
"His name is Joli." he said and the duo nodded. "Deila's on the scavenger track, we'll tell her to intercept him." Cerasi said and he nodded. "Our job is done now, you're up, we'll wait for you at HQ, guys." Roenni said and they nodded. "Be ready to make a fast get away though, because you're warming up the ship. So we can get the girls out of here, boys, honey." Nield said and the trio nodded to him softly.
Three Hours Later-Anakin's Version:
Getting back from the meeting, the fight between them started up again. "I'm not liking this one bit right now, Father, it's like you mentioned, they agreed far too quickly for this to be a coincidence, you said they did this before. It was a distraction, to catch them unprepared right now, I get the feeling they're going to try it again, but they do I'm leaving either way." Anakin said and he nodded to him gently.
"Us too, your thoughts match our's, I'm not liking this one bit, it's like the last time they trued this after I blew the shields, they agreed far too quickly to have a meeting right now." Obi-wan said and Nield nodded to that. "We will not meet with them, I know what their promises are worth, they will agree to meet as a diversion, they will tell us to disarm."
"And then the fighting will begin again, this surrender is too soon, if we relent, they will think we are weak." he said and Qui-Gon nodded to him. "Like before, they know you, both Generations of the Young, have backed them into a corner. They're willing to talk, you succeeded, Nield, now take your victory." he said and then Anakin stood up at that remark as he answered him then gently as he got ready.
"We did not succeed by acting as fools." Roenni said and Anakin thought it over at that. "They agreed far too quickly, that's not normal, but why exactly, Wehutti is here with us, what's left of the middle generation. They combined with yours at the moment today, they know that my generation will be determined to. And like before, in finish destroying the halls at the moment now, guys."
"Unless..." he started to say and at that they heard a loud blast and roar at that and Nield quickly turned to them. "The offer for negotiation is once again a trick, the Elders are attacking." he snapped and Anakin nodded. "Father, guys, get Mother, I'll get the ship up and running, come on!" he said over the noise and they nodded. As he took off with the twins and they went running to the area they hid the ship.
Turning on the ship, he activated everything, as he heard the quartet arrive. "We're here, Annie?!" Qui-Gon said and he nodded as he finished. "Yeah alright, I got her on the fastest course right back to Coruscant, Father." he said and they nodded as he stayed put. 'This is it, my one chance to go home, but I can't.' they heard through suppressed sobs then, as, seeing him sitting there shaking then.
As he felt a jolt of pained resignation through his link to Luke, Daniel, Kit, Ki, Agen, Saesee, Stass, Mace, Nejaa and Yoda and closed his eyes tightly. 'They spent all last night trying to change their minds and it never worked, I'm stuck here. And until the final war on this planet is done and until the clean up is over.' he thought in pained recognition as he realized what that meant as he tried to hold it in.
As the duo exchanged looks. 'Oh force no, please, this can't mean what I think right now, tell me that is not what this is right now.' Qui-Gon thought to himself as he saw him shaking in agonized pain as Obi-wan crouched in front of him, as he said it gently. "Annie?" Obi-wan asked and he closed his eyes then. "Annie, what is it, what's wrong, brother?" he added gently to him and he looked at him in pain then.
As the tears came forward. "My orders from the committee and the senate, Obi-wan, I have to stay and help. After my report to the council, they spent all last night and this morning arguing with the senate and the Chancellor. They're not changing their minds, I have my orders, I have to stay here." he said to him and the duo nodded sadly as Siri, arriving in time to hear that, leaned into the cockpit wall.
"No." Siri said quickly and he nodded. "The order was explicit, and nothing the council said made any difference, I have my orders Siri." he said sadly and she shook her head as she answered him. "No, we're not just leaving you here, you chose us last night, Annie. We're not leaving without you right now baby brother." she snapped firmly as she pulled him into a hug and he broke at that finally.
Burying his head into her shoulder, she hold him as he clung to her, not wanting to let go then, as they heard a furious growl. 'No, you are not taking my brother away from me you Sith scum, he is not suffering that trauma by separation from us. You want him and you're going through me to get to him, you hear me, you lunatic.' she snapped mentally as he relaxed finally as he wiped the tears of his face then.
As he leaned forward, shaking as he answered her. "I don't want to stay here, I want to go home, that's where I belong. I did my mission to give them a fighting chance to end this, but I am not leaving you, my family." he said as he tried to control it, just as he was saying it the radio went off and he turned it on. "This is Skywalker, go ahead." he said and Mace appeared with a solemn look on his face.
"We tried for seven hours to get them to change their minds since you called us last night, nothing we say makes a difference. You have your orders, Padawan, I'm sorry Anakin, I know you want to come home. And I know how hard it is for you to make this choice." he said and Anakin nodded. "I'm a master guardian, it was all about balance since you started training me, but now this order."
"Someone is trying to screw with the balance within, Master I did my reflection, I don't belong on this planet, I have a people, family and cause. I want to go home, my place is with you, I belong at the temple right now. Can't I just refuse that order, I took it up with you and Adi last night, before I made my decision. But yesterday was enough to fix this, what was going to be a problem here."
"But this, being ordered to stay behind while my entire family leaves, I can't do that, Master, 1/4 of my entire family are on this ship, the rest is on Coruscant. Tatooine and Naboo, I have friends, a family, cause, I did enough to change things. But now the system leaders and the chancellor want me to stay, no, not happening, I want to go home." he said, shaking and Mace nodded to him gently.
And at that as they saw the same pain in his eyes as they were feeling themselves at that remark. "I know, believe me I understand, but the sooner we stop this war on the planet and the sooner you can come home. But this is not meaning you're cut off from us completely, don't you remember. Check your pocket, we did this in case you suffered the same reaction your brother did, remember now."
"We go to your back up decision, temporary sabbatical and then when ready we come get you and you are on probation until our bonds are back in place." he said and Anakin nodded as he reached into his tunic pocket and pulled out 7 crystals. As Anakin pulled a small case out and they saw thirty more in his friends shades and closed his eyes. And as the tears started running down his face as Mace said it gently as he looked at him then gently.
'Sidious, you just drove another nail into that coffin of your's I swear here, my baby brother is not going to change, stay away from him.' Obi-wan thought, exchanging looks with Siri sadly and she nodded. "Hang in there Annie, we're not letting you go that fast." he said and Anakin nodded. "I'll report to you in a week to keep in touch and keep you updated. I promise Master, not letting you go now." he said and Mace nodded gently to that remark.
"I understand son, but remember you can change colors this way by dismantling it repeatedly so you can have your link back to us. Continue training as though we're there with you until it's time to come home. As you had all our spare equipment on the ship, still in lightsaber training. Just take that with you, it won't be long, before you're home again." he said and Anakin nodded gently.
"I'll call you when they get back to the temple then, so we can keep you updated on our progress here. But weekly updates, so you can hear from me now starting now. So though not entirely cut off you can still train me this way now, Master." he said and Mace nodded gently. "I know this was difficult for you, but a few weeks, we will leave the link open as this way so you can talk to us."
"Just remember you will always be a Jedi, may the force be with you." he said and Anakin nodded as they ended it at that as he leaned forward shaking then. "I don't want to, I did all I could, but a choice: said choice is 'go with you now or stay. But I go with you and I stay a Jedi, but I stay and I am just a force sensitive fighter pilot after that now." he said and they nodded, sadly to that news gently.
"You will always be a Jedi, remember everything we taught you, Annie." Obi-wan said, pressing his forehead to Anakin's, before Qui-Gon did the same. As Anakin removed his belt with his primary lightsaber attached to it then and gave it to him. As he took his back up pack from their supplies in the corner, and checked it to see his spare. Before Qui-Gon stuck two pictures into it, one of the five of them and the second of the trio.
Inside the bag there was his miniature tool kit, 5 spare sets of clothes, his Jedi clothes, his datapad that had all the pictures. That he created of his life on Coruscant, Tatooine and Naboo when he went to go see Padme and her family in visits then. As he stashed the box of lightsaber crystals in the bag as he pulled out a copy of the snippet. That he made for Padme then and closed his eyes as he put it around his neck then gently.
'Just like when leaving Tatooine, I freed mom, and my friends from slavery, don't look back, don't look back. I turn back now and I'm going to break like I did last time, my parents, brother and sister. I don't want to stay here, I want to go home, home is the temple, the farm and Naboo. That is home, I have a family, a people and cause, I am a Jedi, I am a Jedi, to return to the Jedi."
'I have to be a Jedi, the very worst time is the time you must follow the code, I know this planet is not my home planet. I am a Tatooine native, engaged to the queen of Naboo, my Jedi family are the quartet. My master as a master guardian is Master Windu, I am not from Melida/Daan. I am a Tatooine local, a pilot, and most of all I am a Jedi padawan, always.' they heard him thinking softly to that.
Looking at the datapad he saw every photo of his life at the temple, of him and his clan group, his visits home to his friends and family. And as he pulled out his small box of crystals in every color that his fellow Jedi carried as he removed seven. From the box and put them in his pocket then and they nodded, knowing who's colors they were. As they saw the trio in pink, near violet, violet and orange at that and the trio nodded, sighing.
As he grabbed a second bag that was loaded with their emergency supplies and they stuck his stealth goggles in it, his training remote and four or five other things in it. And so he could train himself till it was time to return home then gently. And as Siri also added several pieces of his life as a Master guardian into it. 'All that says is he determined to remember who he is right now, but we have to remind him.'
'At the moment he needs to keep in constant contact with us to remember who he is, if this is what he felt the last time I don't blame him. He needs his a link back to us, but we don't do something now, he's going to break right now.' She and Obi-wan thought together. 'He's thinking about the last conversation he had with Shmi you two, this is even worse than that, stay strong right now.'
'We have to give him the strength right now, but this is killing him right now that he has to leave us behind and stay here.' Qui-Gon said in answer to that and she quickly thought it to him. "That was the last time you saw him like this, before we changed the code, you had to see him like this with Shmi?!' Siri said, trying to keep from turning her head to look at him or saying it out loud and he hid a nod.
'Yes it is and right now, whoever it is that decided this is in deep trouble right now for it.' he said with a firm growl in his mental voice as he felt his heart tear of having to see his youngest once against suffering the pain. And of leaving everything he knew behind once again. 'Both of you keep it together right now, focus.' Adi snapped from her position then and they hid a nod to the orders then.
"I think we and Jocasta decided on uploading the Jedi texts and our lessons to him into his datapad, as a way we could train him. Though not there physically, we can still train him as he trains himself in lightsaber training right now. Though that's true and the ones doing the training are you and me, Qui', while Mace, Siri and I keep the balance in him under control." Adi said and Qui-Gon nodded to her opinion as they kept it going.
And Obi-wan stashed his spare comlink in the bag then. "There, you got your link back to us now, when ready, just send the word and we'll come get you." he said and Anakin hugged him tightly, wrapping both arms around him. As he felt Anakin burrow into his arms and he closed his eyes in anger and pain. Before pressing his forehead to his and they closed their eyes to keep their link fused tightly shut then.
Before he turned to Qui-Gon and did the same with him before Qui-Gon did it, pressing his forehead to his, he leaned his forehead against his. Before he let go and hugged Siri and Siri tightened her arms around him as she pressed her forehead to his. Before he moved to Adi and crouched in front of her. "It's okay baby, you're not cut off from us." she said to him and he nodded to her as he pressed his forehead to her's gently.
"I love you mother." he said, trying to control his voice and she smiled. "I love you too Annie, be careful and when ready send the message. And the four of us will come get you." she said and he nodded as he gave her one last hug and she tightened her arms around him, before he stood up and left the ship. Turning around, he watched them leave and he quickly thought it to them as he watched them get higher then.
'I love you guys, may the force be with you!' he called out mentally and he heard a responding answer from them as they said it together at that. 'We love you too, Annie, be careful and may the force be with you.' he heard in response as he watched them enter orbit and then disappear at that and nodded. Before he turned and he and the twins headed back to Zehava together as he began his temporary new life then.
"There we go, there's the you we know, but while he never considered we got a repeat of that exchange, we got this turning extremely painful now. But you're a Master Guardian, you need balance." Adi said and he nodded gently. "Yeah, but I never been more thankful that Master Dantallion sent you from my fall back to now, we get to do everything all over again. And this time, I'm just another face in the crowd of the clans." he said and Mace smiled gently then.
"You better use that one on Andy, I know my error, but then I never took up pit racing here on this planet under the sun barrier, and was resupplying the lab repeatedly." he said and Mace nodded with a chuckle gently. "Good point, and you're taking your restlessness out on the ship race track, but he's throwing his fear and anger. Now, into races and machinery and the second is clogging the hallways here at the temple, son." He said and Adi nodded in exasperation then.
"And we forbid racing anyway, as this next to last one, is the last time, so this next race and the galactic games, and then that's it now." She said and he nodded. "Yes Mother, I understand." he said and she smiled gently at the title. 'Yeah little baby is the one we adore, he's the one we doted upon, always him this and him that, our golden child. In our eyes, he and Ferus can do no wrong now, a friendly rivalry, but nothing serious.' she thought to that, smiling gently then.
"Big brother, but I'm you at 9, but as I said here, while Kad couldn't believe that Bruck could be a murderer, but then he never knew him. You, I don't see as anymore then the legend we were together for our next 13 years, you taught me well. But you say this, you say that, you think, you believe, you're my mentor, my role model, I love you. I can't see you as anything but the you I built up in my mind, from now to when we're young adult kids." he said and he nodded.
"I know, but though Andy loved me, loved Padme, his anger and lust for power became his undoing, you, you are far more patient, and there's the you I know again. But I'm not indestructible, remember that, Luke saw me the way you do at the time. But my life, before we met, well there are things in my past that are the reason, I became the legend I am. But you know me for me, not my legend, being your big brother/mentor." he said and Anakin nodded.
"Talk about trouble, dad, we got a problem, if that's him with Obi-wan what are our own, going to be like with us here right now." Soara asked and Damon nodded. "With you, I see this as a case of what you do, they want to imitate, but whatever you do, don't start drinking. Or they're going to want to try that, but after 2 glasses, lose control of their powers. You're the role model, but while we're the parent, you're the warden, big brother or sister." he said and they nodded.
"And get involved fully in their lives we must, yes an area of privacy there must be, but at the same time there is an act here of making sure. That never try anything too dangerous, they do, the younglings need a babysitter till 12 they are, after that, mentor you are. And your own, are their parents, as Shmi left us in charge of making the decisions, but Jedi academy this is. In his eyes now, your own, raised, and now be normal children, they do." Yoda said and they nodded.
As Obi-wan ran his hand through his Anakin's hair and he leaned against him. "And then the last, and I would never betray your trust now, but one violation and that's it. I have to come to you, before I have another volunteer job, before I agree, but trust once broken takes time. Now, to heal and even then it will never be the same again, I will not break your trust, I choose you. I choose my team, I'm a Jedi, I stay a Jedi." he said and they smiled, knowing that did it now.
"This is 4 years from now the boys and that redhead are all teenagers, but the older we get and don't recognize these guys." Soara said to him then. "We don't have to, we know our padawan when we see them and the code got updated. So the quartet grab our own early and they start now, so we can be their tutors." he said and Anakin smiled at his idea gently then. "Andy and Ferus had this intense rivalry, but Ferus is my best friend now." he said and she nodded then.
"Then after driving that ATT through a wall, after Darra got shot 3 books later, we decided we're on temple rest and we're running you through physical and lightsaber training." Soara said as Minga started laughing. "Young man that wasn't necessary, watch where you're driving that thing!" Qui-Gon said in exasperation to that. "Well that look on my face is my hiding a smile, we're in sparring practice and Ferus is my best friend." Anakin said and she chuckled then.
"And show you do, the heart of true padawan you do, even if we did not make you a Jedi, as of yet, show you the heart of one now." Yoda said in approval, seeing the boy showed no ill feelings, as he made his choice. "Start now we do for you, as your team quartet get to know each other you do, as friends instantly in arriving, you do." he said and Mace nodded. "Get the boys and Darra in here." he said and they locked into the quartet and felt a gentle compliance.