The Chosen One's Jedi Quest I: The Phantom Menace
Warnings: With this chapter there js going to be a repeater of the exchange he had with Palpatine, only Qui-Gon lays the boom with these two chapters. As Clee just arrived as the quintet are now one and are set to their team now.
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.
Chapter 22: Returning Missions, Truths, And Back To Naboo VIII
"And to answer said remark on the power to heal by use of the force, Qui-Gon did learn that skill, Padawan." Mace said and he nodded. "So whatever leverage our Sithmaster had to get to my alter ego is now null and void, I can learn it from Father and I stay me now." he said and the council nodded. "Well we get the occasional raid from Krayne, but it's either him or the Raiders, that's the Tuskin raiders that could cause what you felt in me, after losing Halla in truth."
"But that theory on what I told him, he doesn't realize just how right you really are, what if I joined him so I could finish what you started now in truth. Did that ever occur to him I'm biding my time, till my son combines his powers with mine. And we finish what you and Master Windu started, Master?" he said and they nodded. "Indeed and like said I did, faith in you never turning on him misplaced it could be, and as misplaced is his faith in the darkside of the force now."
"Wait to find out we can, but proven you have, that ready to be Jedi you are, but meant I did that when chosen by master for one on one training now. That must have the deepest commitment and the most serious mind." he said and Anakin nodded. "I pledge myself to your teachings Master, if I start my life over if that was real, I am freeing myself. From the poisons he polluted my training with, I will not fail you again, yes I am afraid, but of failure in truth."
"Don't make it back in time, I'm afraid of my powers and where they're going to take me at this rate." he said and Yoda nodded. "Understand I do, and in time, not worry much about it." he said and Anakin nodded softly then. "Was that really necessary that you both practically told him, you know what he is?" he asked and they and Obi-wan chuckled and nodded. "Warn him off, and you're a twin, you been in training 3 years, but we adore you." Adi said smiling to him.
"Like Watto said, you're good, no doubts there, but what you don't need is your powers, title and sensitivity thrown at you every time you turn around." Mace added and he nodded. "Yeah and I earned the right to my lightsaber, but the act of starting 4 years ago here. Suddenly worked a little too well, as I never felt this super charged." he said and they nodded. "We know and we understand why, but I felt the power blast, the Zabrak?" he asked and he nodded then.
" He jumped into my vision as I created it, but I refused his offer, after remembering, red or blue, I took the middle ground. And before coming to, and found it fully assembled, and turned it on, it gone purple." he said and he nodded. "Fell into the flames, came back stronger, you're like me, control the evil in me, but I'm a guardian, but we're our own brand of Jedi. Not good or evil, but somewhere in between, only human, for those of us who are." he said and he nodded.
"I'm not making that mistake twice, I chose you, but Vader chose her over the Jedi, and then lost it completely." he said and he nodded. "And Andy is Vader, she belongs to you, but we're your mentors, our trust is all that matters to you. But you test him, again and again, and he keeps failing, so while I send you to check on Shmi, rescue if needed. He's on the investigation, with Ferus on sabbatical for a while, Siri." he said and she nodded smiling gently to him then.
"We have protection duty, Qui' had the search, so contact me, once you get word back, from the clinic in Bestine." Adi said and he nodded. "Yes Mother, you're starting on unifying after 10 years living, this was 18 months." he said to her then. "Well if they needed some help, like normal they just got it." Siri said smiling and he nodded. "So your color?" he asked and she turned on her's and he smiled. "Lighter tinge, okay lighter purple." he said and she smiled gently at him.
"Yeah, Mother is a sunrise orange." she said and he smiled. "Makes perfect sense, but let me take a wild guess, but you and Obi-wan were your basic 12 to 14 year old padawans dealing in working out the kinks, before said mission on Noor?" he asked and she nodded as Obi-wan chuckled and nodded to him. "Yes, and I think our mission prior was connected to said prophecy you heard from your father." Adi said to him and he nodded. "Me too." he said to her gently.
"Now that you know I just came back from that you know what they told you to be true, every word, his army is the said army in white armor, Andy the man in black with a red lightsaber. But I'm just praying the kids never get shot her next, us we can make changes accordingly, them it could kill them." he said to her and she nodded. "Understand we do and use this to our advantage we will to right what he set wrong in you padawan." Yaddle said and he nodded then.
"And the ones that remember what happened to you and why are Obi-wan and myself." Yoda said to complete her sentence and he nodded. "And your boast, goes from a boast and right to stone cold certainty, as soon as they woke me up. And I bided my time till my son passes said test where I failed it." he said and Yoda nodded. "Me too, padawan mine." he said and Anakin smiled, as Yoda came to a final decision then as he made his choice then finally in his future.
Knowing that this choice was going to change their lives forever now, as his new star pupil showed the true power and spirit, the will that the council and all other Jedi aspired too then, as they prepared for what was going to be a long and dangerously abusive future in training in his youngest council's emotional well-being...
4ABY-Bakura- Leia's POV:
Feeling a change in his memories, Luke Skywalker straightened. "Luke you feel that, I feel like I suddenly got the very same training you did, only we're the same level." his twin sister Leia asked and he nodded. "Yoda definitely rearranged things, we knew more on the force then anyone gave credit for, that you hid your powers well. Although you're a politician, like mom is, and you do the same tactic, aggressive negotiations." he said and she smiled in delighted relief.
"Anyone else feeling that, it's like I always knew here, you're my adopted cousins, that's why you came to me." General Lando Calrissian said and they nodded. "Yeah after 3 years, dad sent us to get you, instead of rendezvousing with the fleet here now. Mom decided we were coming to get you, dad took Luke to check on Jedi trials and training progress. And Han's debt was paid off, and all of that was a trap!" she said and they and her boyfriend, General Han Solo, nodded.
"Issues in your family, we knew what being a padawan entailed here now, but while you're practicing, I was checking things out, as I learned more on your uncle's background. Then I ever wanted to know with your father teaching me everything I needed here. As I learned how he got that scar, why he always wore that glove, as that ends up being he lost his hand in the war. And then with it, the entire story, Vader betrayed your family and nearly killed him at the time."
"He entirely deserved every injury he got from Ben, after he nearly killed your father, so after losing the rest of his limbs. Vader nearly killed your mother and you. Ben tried to talk him down, and now he gone savage and then came the most heated fight he and Ben ever had. High ground was a Jedi tactic, but trying to jump over him, he took the limbs. He took off your father, and said plunge and bam, it's over now." he said sternly and they and Lando nodded gently.
"Luke, Leia, our mission here is concluded, we're going to Yavin IV, to meet up with your father." they heard from their commander, Supreme Fleet Commander Mon Mothma and they nodded gently. "Commander, I sensed something has changed, what's happened to us exactly?" she asked and the Rebel leaders smiled. "That's because everyone against the Sith got our memories shoved back into our younger bodies." General Carlist Reeikan said and she nodded.
"Where's dad, why he not join us for the emergency mission to Bakura?" she asked and he explained that. "Because the Jedi Order opened up a new training program, meant for children no older than preschoolers, your father had the Junior Apprentice program. Which was for padawans like him, started at pre-preteen. They taught you well and you defeated Sidious, but you got another 4 years left, and Anakin approved you getting married." he said and she smiled.
"Yeah I'm engaged to Han after 4 years together, he drives me crazy, but I wouldn't have it any other way, I take it mom said this, I give and give. But just once, I should be allowed to take right now, and I did with Han." she said and the human members of the rebel leaders nodded then. "Your father's on the Jedi council, and made II as a Jedi Master now, everything's fine, but we had to do some fast work, after your father cloned himself." she said and they nodded then.
"Yoda cloned himself, that gives him another 100 years within your family training future generations, but your children never got your training. But your mother is the next supreme Chancellor after Bail." Reeikan said and she nodded. "So basically, we're not choosing out of money or influence, but force abilities, and my daughter's clan group. They are basically being taught things, they consider too hard, when we got it at the most pure." she said sternly to that.
"Yep, but our war with the darkside, the Separatists and Black Sun is never over, but your twins have got a lot to learn, when we grew up in the time of the Jedi. But you're a Master Guardian, just like your father and godmother, Princess." General Jan Dodonna said and she nodded, as she waited to see what further changes her parents would upload into her memories….
The Throne Room Late Afternoon- Obi-Wan's POV:
"You wanted to see us Master?" Qui-Gon asked and he nodded as they crouched in front of him to get eye level. "Qui-Gon after my own fatal mistake, confer I do, the one to train Anakin, you should be now, your team pair up, stay the same it will now. But adding Clee, Damon and Tiana to you and Adi, I will, but think I do, for the safety of the order. That be wary of Palpatine we should be, though knowing his identity, without saying, it goes." he said and they both nodded.
Sitting there as he watched Yoda pacing as he decided how to say this, he said it gently. "Confer on you, the level of Jedi Knight the Council does, Obi-wan, but agree on you taking this boy. As your Padawan learner, I do not." he said and Obi-wan nodded as he remembered this exchange. "Qui-Gon believed in him." he said and he sighed gently. "The Chosen One the boy may be: nevertheless, grave danger I fear in his training." he said and Obi-wan nodded gently then
As he answered him then, knowing Anakin was his, but Andy, as he come to see his alter ego was the dangerous one that needed extra care, while they prepared for the final 4 years then. "Master Yoda, I gave Qui-Gon my word: I will train Andy." he said and Yoda sighed exasperated at that. "And without the approval of the Council if I must." he said to him and Yoda said it sternly then as he paced back and forth sternly as he answered him then at that.
"He's become me at 26, Master." Qui-Gon said with a bemused smile and he nodded. "Indeed and realize that I do right now boys, but your team my best unit, you are. That unorthodox methods the norm in your team, but not turn into you completely, Obi-wan will." he said and Obi-wan looked down as he trued to keep the smile off his face, as he never been happier. To have his mentor back, and they had years together, as he got his brother back as well.
"Qui-Gon's defiance I sense in you, need that, you do not." he said and then sighed then, as he told him the truth. "Agree with you, the council does, your apprentice, Skywalker will be." he said and he said it carefully then to him, knowing preventing loss of their version was critical then he said it gently. "I will take this this boy as my padawan, Master, I will train him in the best way I can, but I will bear in mind what you have told me here, I will go carefully,
I will heed your warnings. I will keep close watch over his progress." he said and Yoda nodded gently. "Your promise then, remember well young Jedi, sufficient it will be." he said and Obi-wan nodded. "I will remember, Annie has been in training longer, but Andy is just starting right now, and he's in creche training, Annie is starting one on one early." he said and Yoda nodded gently ad they walked out to check on Qui-Gon then, knowing what the future held….
Eight Days Later-The Day Before The Celebration Ceremony-Anakin's POV:
It was a week later he changed into the clean clothes he brought with him then, before seeing the padawan uniform then gently at that and nodded. 'Okay under shirt, tunic, trousers, belt over that and finally a new haircut, and..., whoa. Okay lightsaber on the bed hooked to my belt, yeah okay, that's on my belt. And I look like a true padawan now, as soon I get my haircut and Obi-wan's hair inputted into my braid now.' he thought smiling gently at that as he got dressed.
Before he heard a knock on the door and he said it. "Come in, I'm ready." he said and the quartet walked in then. "Well I definitely see it now just one last thing to do and you're ready, padawan." Obi-wan said smiling and he smiled at him then. "With you being trained by both of us, that's going into your padawan braid now, but whatever reason he has to get jealous, there is no reason right now, you spent enough time around us."
"You know things on us they and every other padawan doesn't know." Siri said gently to him then and Anakin nodded. "Case in point is the fact Master Windu hates going downtown and into the lower level with a passion here and I get why. But Mos Eisley is the same way and to take a leaf out of your book on what you told Luke, it's a wretched hive of scum and villainy here." he said and Obi-wan nodded with a chuckle at the remark as Qui-Gon smiled.
"And I get why you never trusted politicians ever since, so let me guess, it's because of Belasco, S'orn and Arbor?" he asked and they nodded. "Yep, your father was taken by a bounty hunter, a Sorrusian one no less and abducted by a mad scientist who was obsessed with the force. I think she realized, if she escaped or was let loose, that attempted murder this way is going to get our attention a second time and try something else here."
"So she abducts you next and..." Adi said and he nodded as he answered her. "I'm telling you immediately, then again, she just ticked off the mother, father and big brother and sister bear in your cases where I'm concerned." he said and she nodded. "That's an understatement, sure you're good, but what you don't need is having this hanging over your head. As to that, so what needs to be said, just tell me here in that." Qui-Gon said to him and he nodded gently to him.
"Incoming, now that he knows Father is fine." Obi-wan said and he nodded. "Annie let him have it, you will, belong to me now, you do and high esteem you are in my eyes." Yoda said and he nodded gently to him to the orders then. "And that's the difference right now in truth, I have my father back, I learn for 10 years living force then 7 to 8 unifying as I control my premonitions." he said and Yoda nodded. "Just be mindful, not at the expense of now." he said and he smiled
In smiling then as he said it then. "I will, but this is going to be a long 10 years till we see her again for real, though we're keeping in touch, but at least you know, she and I still connected. And secondly you deserve to know anyway, I think that's what killed my double, we hid this from you. And in the end it destroyed us both." he said and the quartet nodded in agreement to that news and remark as he said to that remark.
"But I'm never holding back on you, my personal secrets are now your's like this, there are things I can't tell them, but I can you now, but both sides." he said and they nodded, as they completed his new look then as he strapped his lightsaber on then. "Father, if mom already dragged this up, before I left the room, just tell him the truth, what she thinks, before it causes a repeater." he said and Qui-Gon nodded to him gently at the remark then.
"You're very good, that's very apparent to us, but what you don't is having your title, powers and sensitivity to the force thrown at you every time. Now, that you turn around and your training is up to us: your mother, your brothers and sisters, the four of us, and the council, it's family business. And as he's not family, I suggest he stays out of this, so from now on stay away from you, you're off limits starting now." Adi said to that sternly and he nodded.
"So we isolate you from him, you learn to control your colors to make you your true color, your balance with it now, and with it. You bond to us and Master, and by the time you're adult, you're beyond good now, that nothing, absolutely nothing. Now, could ever get between us after this, you be who were meant to be now, my padawan." Qui-Gon said to him gently as she finished that as the quartet looked at him gently with love in their eyes.
"We know you're good, that's very apparent to us, but what you don't need is your title, powers and abilities thrown at you every time you turn around. It's family business and he's not family, it's between us, your mother and the council, so family business, and as he's not family. I suggest he stays out of this, so as of now, stay clear of you, he's off limits." Adi said to that and he nodded to her as they felt a jolt from Mace and the quartet at that.
"Well Master Qui-Gon, I'm glad to see you're alive and well right now." Palpatine said and Qui-Gon crossed his arms. "Indeed, and that story that the Sithmaster would give my son, he's getting it from me with no strings attached. But if of the utmost urgency, Anakin is forbidden from talking with or even consorting with you after this. Once we return to the Capitol, so you just stay away from my padawan, my lord, you are off limits." He said and Anakin said it then.
"Again my lord, I'm afraid not, outsiders are not allowed to know personal business in training, I have 1 maybe 2 counterparts in other holo media here now in it. As one is likely a wizard, and the other like me, who has the same powers I do, but one of them, one of them got sick to death of the pressures here now. That came with the title and took a near permanent sabbatical from his own academy, but the other, decided to make the title and the prophecy his own."
"Wears the prophecy like a mask, well he wears the mask, it does not wear him, I'm saying the same thing here, I wear the prophecy it does not wear me. I will do this my own way now, without my title hanging over my head. And like cloud of doom here, as such right now, this is a case of special treatment now. Well no thank you, I don't want to be singled out, I don't want the responsibility that comes with that title, and I do not want it thrown at me now here."
"And every time I turn around I want to enjoy my cubhood while I got the chance still here, now I maybe the most powerful of the Jedi padawans here now. I know this, my powers will one day dwarf both sides, but until then I want to be a child, time enough for wisdom as I wear more holes into my boots now. But why grow up at all as all that does is throw more pain and anguish at you, but I want to be a padawan as long as possible, stay with my parents now."
"Why rush my training at all right now, the time is short, I want to enjoy every minute of my time in pre-one on one training, before I join with my mentor. As that is only 12 to 13 years, that time is also short, and I want to enjoy that time while I can, I want to stay with my mentor as long as possible." he said and Mace saw a smile on Obi-wan's face and knew it mirrored his own, as he realized he got the other message he and Thracia would have taught him then.
"But when you push harder, it goes faster, but why rush growing up at all, when all it brings is more pain and hardship, just enjoy this time while it lasts. As soon, as padawans, we're not going to have our mentor around forever and be on our own till we train our own, I understand what Master says all too easily. As I just got a taste of that by this Nightbrother almost killing my family, so no, I'm not letting go, till I'm ready to let go." he said and they watched him pale.
"Yeah, you heard me right family, Obi-wan and Father are my family, I am not letting go, till I'm ready to let go." he said sternly and Obi-wan crossed his arms at that remark. "I get the point, brother, but ease back, I don't trust him either." Siri said in response as she and Obi-wan exchanged looks at that. 'Yes I think he's been listening to both of us way too much, Siri.' Mace and Adi saw in his eyes and they both nodded in agreement to that thought gently.
'That's the understatement of the century, just getting started and already he sounds like Siri did when she and I started out.' Adi said to herself as she hid a chuckle at his remark. "Issues with the attachment, you're the only parent we have when training us, that it's hard to let go." Soara said to Damon and he nodded. "Especially, when said happens to be a man to teenage girl and I love you like a daughter, so father/daughter bond." he said in response to that.
"Or mother/son bond, and we got several of those in the Jedi, Tiana and me, and Clee and Garen." Ry said to that and he and Mace nodded. "And possibly Anakin and me next, this is going to be a long 13 years." Adi said and Mace hid a chuckle at that remark. "We just got to get his more useful skills under control, before that scares someone into a coronary. Or starts cluttering the temple halls with his droid projects." Mace said, hiding a smile and she nodded.
"My brothers and sisters, my mentor and parental, I want to stay a padawan and preteen to teenager as long as possible here, time will tell, but until then. I want to live in the moment, without worrying where that power, that future of carrying this title, these powers will take me, be a child enjoy it. My wizard double thanks to a single prophecy had his life destroyed by said, he lost his chance to have a childhood, well not me, I want to be a padawan now."
"And for as long as possible here right now, I can't go on alone, I don't know how to, without my mentor to bear that weight with me, without them now. The weight of said is going to crush me, I need my own mentor to help bear that weight now, I want to be a preteen to teenager as long as possible. What's the rush of growing up, I can spend 10 years without bearing that weight and when I'm old enough then I can bare and lift it on my own now."
"But until then, time enough for the wisdom of where those powers and this prophecy will lead when I've worn more holes into my boots." he said and Mace smiled at that. "Yes there we go, enjoy your childhood while you got the chance to." he said and Yoda smiled gently at that as he went on. "Got the point you and Thracia always talk about he has now, Mace, he's only a youngling, enjoy his cubhood while he has the time to right now here, understand I do."
"Don't want that weight this soon, know we do you're very gifted, know this we do, but what don't you need is baring this weight, not till you're ready now. And for the burden that comes with these powers and title, my padawan." Yoda said softly at that and Mace nodded in agreement. "One change made a difference, but you're already too late my lord, but I've connected to the Jedi council now, their guidance and friendship that matters more then you think."
"I love my friends and brothers and sisters, my mentor and fellow mentors, and I want to stay a cub for as long as possible, but you know in this now. As where I come from, I'm going on 10, but I grew up with friends, and in love, peace and happiness, without having anything hanging over my head. My parental mentors all would say this anyway, I have much to learn and much to experience, but don't rush that knowledge or growing up now."
"For that knowledge and wisdom takes it own time, and you know what, they're right, I'm only a youngling, I want to enjoy my training, my childhood. And while I got the chance to here right now, even my brother, I admire him so much, as powerful as the the trio, and as wise as Master Yoda. I truly am thankful to be his apprentice, I'm just not ready to let go, not yet, I'm only a child, I have 17 years training with them I want to enjoy it all now here in truth."
"I only have 13 to 16 years with my mentor and parental and it goes fast, I want to enjoy that time, while I got the chance to here at the moment here. But I'd rather not have that, my title on my head, as where I come from, they know I'm special, but they treat me normal, I asked the same of the council now. And they accept that now, so with that, my progress is told to the family, what happens in my training is between me, my mentor, the council and my parents."
"And only us, it's family business, and as you're not family, I suggest you stay out of this, but from now on, stay away from me, I'm off limits." he said and he looked at him in shock at that. "Just saying what mom would say, she gave orders to Master Jinn, and he forwarded them to the council, and they, Obi-wan, and my training quartet. They all agree with this, they know I'm special, but what I don't need is my powers, title and sensitivity to the force now."
"Thrown at me every-time I turn around, what is discussed in my training is personal business and none of your's." he said and Mace smiled at that. "Look at Obi-wan." Tiana said and they smiled at the look on his face. "Yeah that did it, he wants to be the big brother he needs now." Mace said and Adi smiled. "The love in his eyes when he looks at us, that says it all in one week things change and here's the result, he'd rather stay our student, our cub here now."
"Then just letting go, but he got the point now." Damon said and Mace and Adi nodded in agreement to that as Tiana crossed her arms smiling. "There's the lecture I would have given him, if one of his stunts resulted in a near close call." Mace said and Yoda nodded with a gentle smile. "You and Thracia." Adi said and he nodded. "And he knows what we would say to this, enjoy being a youngling and padawan while it lasts." Mace said and Yoda and Adi nodded.
"Well temple training goes fast, so enjoy it while you got the time to here, and enjoy being a padawan as well while you got the time to right now here. And as-as soon as you make knight, you're on your own, till you train your own student, and growing up in a pair up, either padawan to knight/mentor. Or knight to padawan, at times it's beyond lonely without someone to talk to, and Qui-Gon realized that, and he and Obi-wan are now father and son as a team."
"He knows that, but then why not, he's spent all of his life with a companion, that to him, instead of letting go, he's staying with whoever of us trains him. And still calls us by that title, doesn't want to let go, well he doesn't have to, our teams now are growing in size every time we take on a new member here. And as the years go by, for all I know the next pair up is the big one we need to fix, before it does damage." Adi said to him and he nodded in agreement to that.
"I know I'm good, but being singled out, leads to devastation, but how dangerous, I do not want to consider, I want to be normal, grow up, have a family. Find love, and have a life, but separate lives destroys a Jedi and once combine both lives together, the said Jedi will flourish, will I am number whatever now. And in them, but once considered that a Jedi can never know love, but you know what, love is a strength rather then a weakness now in this case."
"Just how stupid do you think I am, you really think I don't know what that's supposed to mean, when we all know this, for all I know here now. Is this, but you could be my adult ex double's mentor as a Dark Jedi or worse, you're the mentor to the one that just tried to kill my father this week and twice. So let me clarify this for you now, but I would never turn on my brother or sister, parental mentors, or my mentor, who raised me from my current age to adulthood."
"Your excellency, there is a matter of being strangers here, and though I connected to them, I don't even know you, so you're a stranger to me here. And with that, they're familiar, and you're a stranger so what whatever my mom would say on this. Well I'm saying it for her, but I'm off limits here starting now, so stay away from me. I don't need my powers and title thrown at me every time I turn around here." he said sternly and the council nodded in agreement.
"I do not need my powers, sensitivity and my title thrown at me every time I turn around, we all know this, but they know I'm special, my mother does. And even worse I do, but that singling out leads to ignorance, which leads to arrogance. And arrogance is pride and if not checked at the door leads to, now, said self destruction. But my training is up to them and my mother, my team trio, it's family business, you're not family, so stay out of it, your excellency."
"Consider me a pawn of the council, well I consider that a compliment rather then an insult, I'm too close to Masters Yoda and Windu to even think of it. Said it turning to the darkside and helping your friend, if said friend is the Sith who's apprentice just tried to kill my father, so forget it in trying to call me up. Won't do it, I'm a padawan, have orders, my orders are to stay clear of you, said by both my mother and the council, my father, and my adoptive uncles now."
"But parents, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, all Jedi, I have a family in the Jedi, this is where I belong, time to go home now with them here. But thing of it is, they all know I'm good, they know, but what they also know is I hate being singled out, and know I'm too close to them, now to even think it. Said it, think of turning to the darkside, you never gave me a reason to not trust them, but they did in your case, as most politicians are corrupt here now."
"So corrupt in fact, the Jedi council is half expecting one of you to actually do a hostile take over to destroy the republic, and thing of it now is this now. I know that too, and frankly, our allegiance is to the republic, to democracy, but liberty is never going to die, not so long as we're around and we give hope. And to those who have none, as we're peace keepers, not soldiers, and I'm too close to the council to even think of turning." he said and the council smiled at that.
"To say that again, I am too close to the council itself to turn on them, my big brothers and sisters, my parental mentor quartet, no I'm never leaving them. I have a life and family, I know I'm special, I know that, but I hate being singled out, I want to be normal, but thing of it is, I can't be, I'm different. And at times different can be deadly, and I'm not waiting to find out just how deadly, so I'm a Jedi, I know my place, and that place is with them, so stay clear."
"But you don't seem to understand that this is the capitol, but thing of it is now, is I come from outside of the republic, but my female counterpart now. As whoever it was is also outside of the republic, but we're good, but we don't need that thrown at us every-time we turn around, but the Outer Rim. Said is run by the Hutts, specifically is Jabba the Hutt, he's the ruler of my planet, so try it, and he can over ride it." he said and they watched him pale at that news.
"Issues in this, that you, as the republic, never do business with a loan shark, he maybe a gangster, but even he knows when to trust someone now. I am one of his former subjects, won my freedom and I am free once I get that transmitter out of my arm right now, but once done, I plan to go see them. And tell him this, and even try to attack my planet to kidnap one of the hutt's children, you're asking for trouble as he contacts me." he said and he swallowed hard.
"But I made this clear to my racing rival, after the queen crashed on my planet, if the outsiders are not careful you're going to get diced here, I meant it. The republic doesn't get recognized out in the Outer Rim, we must survive on our own, so to us, you're an outsider, and your planet, is barely a day's flight. To us, as such now, my lord, is this, but the Hutts are gangsters, they do not take kindly to threats to themselves or their families, Jabba especially here."
"Being the only Jedi in the order who was one of his subjects, before I left I told him if he ever needed help now, to contact me, through the council now. But I learn your Sith compatriot is deliberately trying to start a war between us and him, I will take action on that now, and trust me, you're only making it worse. For yourself, and only giving me more ammunition to use against you, if the dark times results in a war later." he said sternly and they watched him pale.
"Whoa, his words are carrying a double meaning and..., I get what he's trying to say, everything he's telling him is he's really explaining everything now. We need to know here, in order to manage his training as he gets older here." Mace said and Damon and Adi both nodded. "Nice thinking son, that's a really good idea, as someone tries to start something with a hutt and you're going to get diced." Tiana said to that and Mace and Adi nodded in agreement to that.
"Never saw that coming, Jabba is the owner of his planet." Adi said to Mace and he nodded. "Well that helps, if he ever needs a bit of Jedi help, we can offer, but just Jabba, I don't trust the others, after the last few times we went below the sun barrier at home." he said to her and she nodded. "Your excellency, I'm about to be trained in all 7 forms, but my training is to control both sides and put them together, I don't need to be side tracked right now here."
"But, and honestly, there is a matter of what if I'm not who you think I am, but the force threw my adult self of possibly close to 32 years into the future. Back into this body, that I am a just returned Sith returned Jedi, that rather then vengeance against you, for taking everything I had away from me here now. That I am ready to exact justice, by making sure you get what's coming to you?" he said and they watched him swallow hard at that remark as he went further.
"And mom would only say this is family business and as you're not family then stay out of this, I'm being trained by Father's team partner here now in it. And her purple counterpart, and with them my possible new mentor, so normal and whatever they call this to control both sides of me, is a key skill I need. In truth here now, if the second in command is said, I belong to him as his own cub version to his color as his apprentice." he said and the trio hid a chuckle to that.
"There's my cub, nice work son." Mace said and Adi chuckled at that remark. "Well that says it all, he's too close to us to even think of turning here now, and even if he asked to see him. We just countermand the order, by telling him we'll go in his place right now." Ki said to him and he nodded to that. "Yeah, model padawan, he knows, as a padawan, has to follow orders, we say stay and he stays." Adi said to that and Mace, Damon and Tiana nodded gently to that.
"And especially if we're his team after the last time we had to do this, Tahl told Obi-wan to stay and that gave a fast countermand, before it started here. Then again it doesn't surprise me he's even dragging it up right now, he's so much like me it's ridiculous right now." Siri said to her and she nodded smiling. "Yes and 9 to 12 years give or take, and he's turned into a boy version of you as a result, you're beyond devoted to me." she said and Siri nodded to her smiling.
"No kidding and that's an understatement, I don't want you near him, we know he's special, that's very apparent to us, but what he doesn't need here. Is his powers, sensitivity and his title thrown at him every time he turns around, and it's family business, but what is discussed between us and Shmi. And over him is family business and as you're not family, stay out of this, and stay away from him, you're off limits." Damon said sternly and the trio nodded sternly.
"Whoa, Anakin, are you...?" Soara started to say and Damon smiled. "Fast warning and reprimand, he made his choice and we're it, padawan." he said and the trio nodded in shock to that. "That remark he just gave him, could be seen as a threat in our eyes, and he doesn't need this, he doesn't need his powers, sensitivity. Let alone that prophecy and his title thrown at him every time he turns around his training is up to us, his parents and his team trio, you."
"So it's family business and as the chancellor is not family, stay clear of him starting now, you're off limits, my lord." Mace said to finish that and the council nodded to that remark sternly. "What goes on between me and the council, my team trio, is between me, my parents, my team trio and the council here. It's family business and as you're not family, I suggest you stay out of this right now, it's none of your business, my lord, but this now, this now."
"Could be seen as training interference and a threat in the eyes of the Jedi, sure I grew up normal, but I'm a padawan that grew up in the field now. My life of solitude turned into a life of engagement, sure I grew up normal, but I'm like my adult counterpart, who after retiring also became an asset to his planet. And their ways, so sure life surprises you, but I can accept my way of life as a Jedi, but until my 13th birthday, I got 4 years till then here now."
"My great grandfather Jedi, if he's still alive, was dealing in a life of solitude that turned to a life of engagement, I follow his way of life and with him. My father Jedi, Master Jinn, but whatever side of the force I am, I'm making my choice now, there is no need to think twice, my father is alive, so there it is. I chose the Jedi, the light-side, but red or blue, bring them together, and they make purple, I am like Master Windu and his own fellow council member."
"But I can do everything they offer in careers and still be a padawan, but my mother mentor is Master Gallia, and my father is Master Jinn here now. Just who are you trying to kid, my lord, you realize how this sounds, to me, to Obi-wan, and to our team quartet and the council, you're a civilian. Though you're supreme chancellor, but that could be seen as training interference, and secondly, this is now an intervention, I've got a paternal figure already."
"I don't even know you, and that tone could be seen as a threat in the eyes of my guardians right now, said are them." he said, pointing at the council at that. "Noor, he knows, but we never told him that." Mace said and they nodded in agreement. "Looks like we never needed to, he took a guess over what caused on the puncture marks on Qui-Gon's neck and shoulders and guessed right at the moment, but I told Qui-Gon Noor's background here now."
"Oh boy, the mind to mind link between us just activated right now, he can read us so easily, he never had to hear the words now, he knows everything Mace." she said and he nodded to her. "You don't seem to understand, but matching the team quartet to my friends and adopted family on my planet, Master Gallia is my mother, my new friend in the girls is my friend Amee, her master/sister is Amee's big sister, Master Windu is like Kit's father now."
"Amee's father is Master Jinn, Master Tiana is Halla, I've got Jedi versions to my friends on my planet, so either way, I've got a way to manage now. But my point is, I'm only training to be a Jedi so I can enhance my skills, piloting and mechanics, and learn to protect who I care about here, but though I learn. I must be wary and ignorant of how I gain some of that knowledge as at times it could get dangerous, but my life of solitude turned into a life of engagement."
"Then again, life surprises you, so accept the gift, whoever my adult counterpart is, if I have a run in with whoever it is right now, I'm just saying this. But I hate my powers, my sensitivity and my title, and what good are my powers if I can't use it to save who I love, but I'm taking every added career. In the Jedi, so prize padawan, but I don't want attention, I want to be normal, and I was, till now, life of solitude, life of engagement." he said and he swallowed hard.
"Yes Anakin is him and Qui-Gon as a youngling, he's got a knack for making friends and making alot of them here right now." Tiana said to him and Mace nodded. "Well he's right, he's like a youngling version to Noor, and even he knows we see the chancellor's interference as dangerous." Adi said to him and he nodded. "He also never needed to see my lightsaber if he said that, he knows what I am, what we are." he said to her and she nodded in agreement to that.
"Lone wolf cub, and he's going to make one heck of successor if we keep him on his path Adi." he said to her and she nodded. "You're the leader of the four of us, Mace, so your color is more powerful then mine is, but you're a guardian, I'm a sentinel." she said and he nodded. "And Siri is fighting the evil in her own heart and she's a free spirit, so both of those together, she's like this, as her color changed as she grew up now, but there it is now, Sister."
"He's a cub me, fighting the evil in his heart and he's a guardian, but what is said next is true, we only need to feel the signature of his children now. In order to know who their father is, as we raised him from his current age to adult-hood." he said and she nodded in agreement to his thoughts. "And for the record, we're not as stupid as we look, as if I have children or get married myself here now, there is only one signature that matches my babies here."
"And said is the Jedi they raised from my current age to adulthood here, your excellency." he said and the chancellor tried to keep from paling at that. "But stuck in whatever way that I was an adult, like that you, if you're the Sithmaster of the one that tried to kill my father, you have a power advantage on me. Fully human, I got one on you, and my family added to it, you'd never survive the fight with my entire family here now, as to that right now."
"So again, like this right, with me just learning my powers you got one on me, but as I grow, my powers will dwarf yours, but if I get hurt here now in it. And lose 50% of that connection to the force, you got a power advantage on me, fully human and they're age of near 47, I got one on you, and with it. Add my kids, if I have twins, and you're never going to survive this fight with me and my children, as the council is too old for this and you with them now."
"However many years it takes, before we take you on, as the first is considered a testing in your strength as a Sith, right now." he said and he swallowed hard at that. "Never see it coming, as we did that, so you could think you won, and instead we tested your strength and exposed you to everyone as what you are. The Sithmaster that masterminded the entire plot, turning me into your weapon, well how about turn about is fair play?" he asked and Mace smiled then.
"That's right, turn-about is fair play, but if this never crossed your mind it will now, but did this ever occur to you, my powers in their hands can destroy your order. In Master Yoda's hands, my powers can save billions, as I take Master Windu's place as next in command. Master Windu himself becomes grandmaster and group by group, all areas of your dictatorship. They start being destroyed as the years go by." he said and Mace watched him pale at that remark then.
"This is simple right now, but to the entire galaxy, any child of mine, beyond powerful, staying good could become their secret of their success in destroying your dictatorship. While to them, if my children ever turned as well this galaxy would never stand a chance right now. But Evil thrives on the sins, the good sticks to the straight and narrow, and yes, yes right now. We're Jedi, but we're only human, for those of us who are human." he said and Mace nodded sternly.
"I know what you're thinking after you felt the power blast, all that power, your's for the taking, if you can condition me to question everything. Everything the council has to teach me, don't be a pawn of the Jedi Council, well I consider that a compliment. A compliment rather then an insult, never figured out the gentle look of love in Master's eyes towards me. The trust between us, well your window of opportunity just slammed shut, the window of opportunity is closed."
"Because 1) my father is still alive, don't try anything, the door is guarded by some of Dack's security teams, 2) I explained certain things on my past to the council. And 3) they told me I already had what I needed without need to go against everything I believe in. Reason being is Father studied the power already, so he teaches it to me, I teach it to my kids. And we got a way to do this with breaking our morality to do it." he said and they watched him go white.
"But you consider the bond of connection of a padawan to his mentor, there is mental/emotional link, between a Jedi and his apprentice. One that enables you to see and feel everything whoever on the other side of that link is seeing and feeling. Ergo, the anger at our father getting stabbed shot into me, I helped kill that Zabrak that stabbed our father. Before he felt my careful calculation of getting it right on the first shot, by shooting blind." he said and he swallowed.
"Whoa, the connection was correct, Obi-wan's meant to be his mentor of the normal training, I got him for Master Guardian." Siri said and Yoda nodded. "Like Qui-Gon and Obi-wan, connection, snapped into place between them, it did. That meant to be it his padawan, Anakin is now, never stood a chance, Ferus does and not when spent days and hours together. The trio have, but jealousy of connection, not tolerating it, I am." he said and the council nodded then.
"If you are 'him', then I should tell you your mentor dropped into my spaceport 3 weeks ago, but I knew something was severely wrong, when he was questioning me. Meeting my father, I felt safe, like he was the one I was meant to become now in all truth here. Before hearing I am force sensitive, a chance to choose, before I was even given a choice. But that fatherly to grandfatherly attitude, you're not fooling me, I see the calculation of lust for power here."
"In your eyes right now." he said and Mace shifted his gaze to Palpatine's eyes then and saw a look that disturbed him greatly. "Yikes, that look on his face, it says he wants him for his power right now." Siri said, crossing her arms and Yoda nodded sternly. "Well I am saying it now, but no, I want nothing to do with you, my mentors as the grandmaster. And the council themselves just arrived, I am to report into them on what happened here, but I see it oh so clearly."
"But my family's source of destruction, seems to be stemmed from you or your colleague, if you are associated with 'him' or you are 'him'. But I am making this highly clear right now, but I will never turn to the darkside, you failed my lord, I am a Jedi, like my father before me." he said and turned his back to him. "You want to kill me?" he asked him and he froze up. "I…." he said shaking and Mace nodded. "Got it, if he is one, pull it, he's finished." Adi said and he nodded.
"If this was me, I would do the same thing and…., oh for force's sake, he's a near 10 year old me, but the kindness and caring of Obi-wan, and the sharp edge, loyalty. And devotion of me when I was his age, 18 months, then we activate him at 11 years old old. And we just put his copy of his new lightsaber on a time delay, as you and Father train him till I come home." Siri said and Adi and Yoda nodded as he and Yaddle exchanged bemused smiles at his attempt.
"Not necessary that was Anakin, but nice mental trap, attacks you either way, if he is one, and take him down, we do." Yoda said with a bemused smile then and Adi tried to keep from laughing. "Push him into attacking him with his back turned, and us waiting for the attack, try it, and we got our evidence he is one, as that could be taken as he is in league with the Master. Or he is the Master, talk about a role reversal." Tiana said with a chuckle and he nodded smiling.
"Oh nice bait and switch son, pull it, we take him down." Damon said smiling at that. "I know you do, I can feel your anger, it's making you weaker, you're losing focus now. But if you're not paying attention, look around us." Anakin said and Palpatine froze up, realizing he forgot his surroundings and they were not alone at that. And as he saw the members of the council that came to Naboo, watching him carefully, as he realized they were waiting for a response.
"But how stupid can you be to not realize you been outplayed by a near 10 year old Jedi padawan exactly?" Siri said, hiding her laughter and Mace nodded smiling sternly. "The Jedi already decided this: unless it's of the utmost importance, you are allowed no where. Now, near me, from this moment on, your success depends on getting a Skywalker to take here. In what you have to offer, a deal with the devil, take what you characters offer, our souls belong to you."
"After that, but I get that same power from my father, and it's no strings attached, I get it from you, I just sold myself back into slavery, not going to happen." he said and Mace crossed his arms as he nodded in agreement then as he leaned his head against Obi-wan's side and Mace hid a smile at that response, the young preteen was showing who he belonged to already. As he saw the amused and caring smile of his apprentice then in Obi-wan's eyes gently at that.
"Cub, we brought said text you need to learn this from an early age, but you have everything you need with us, but said bad side effect. With us, we gave you something solid to stand on, them: they let you run wild, your mother gave you rules, as did we. With those rules you knew to stay out of trouble, adoptive family, we're your extended family padawan." Damon said and he nodded gently and the Council hid a smile as he looked at Palpatine sternly as he said it then.
" But if your master is a master of that ability, I take it, I return to those shackles, knowing the Jedi have that text, the one I need, I turn to them and I stay free." he said and Adi force passed the said text to him and he nodded as he read it and put it in his pack. "This is what you would have offered me, in exchange for my soul, to save who I love. No, not going to happen, I learn as a padawan, I stay free, a Sith, I'm a slave, I choose freedom." he said and the council smiled.
"This, this is information as everything you would have offered me, the information to save who I love, like my adult self would have said, one day I will find that key. And instead, the Jedi council give it to me no strings attached, but is that fear I see in your eyes. You know that with Masters Yoda, Windu, Mundi, Fisto and Gallia giving me it there is no chance. None at all of you luring me to the darkside." he said and the quintet smiled at that as he went further sternly.
"Check his eyes Father, Master, Master Yoda, it's a definite 'No, how do I get to him now, all my careful planning destroyed by Yoda's meddling!'." Soara said and Mace and Adi looked at the furious look in Palpatine eyes, behind the careful control of chancellor and nodded sternly. "Yes we just destroyed his house of sabbacc cards, and now he has to go to stacking them. And in a new way now, nice try, my lord." Mace said sternly and Anakin nodded with a stern look then.
"There's no question in my eyes who I should side with, but Padme, if we get married is going to be broken hearted if the first of several atrocities. Said is you telling me to kill my friends, my mentors, my baby brothers and sisters, the only way she and my mother could die. Said is I turn, will I won't, I will save her and my wife, my sisters, how stupid do you think I am. But one side effect of being cub of the council, I got permission by my other color mentor for archives."
"Being cub padawan to a council member comes in handy, doesn't it my lord, mother mentor was the Jedi that gave me this, her current padawan is my big sister. I am a member of 2 teams, the Jinn/Kenobi and the Gallia/Tachi, but I am never leaving my mother mentor. And when not with my parents she and Father take care of me, why should I believe you. Everything you would've told me is a lie, going to the darkside is a slavery." he said and Adi nodded gently.
"What you would claim as to get my trust was just forestalled, but you ever consider the me talking to you ran this version of our lives over again. Father is alive, I am part of two teams, I belong to Master Yoda as his youngest council member. Father talked some sense into me, before we tricked you, and you show your true colors here now. But why should I believe you, everything you ever told me was a lie." he said sternly as he looked at him and he swallowed.
As a movie box appeared and they saw a golden lion with a red mane, and then a dark skinned lion with green eyes and a scar. "Oh kriff, that's what this animal said to his counterpart, 'Why should I believe you, everything you ever told me was a lie.'." Mace said, looking at the way the older lion was panicked, at the way the younger was ready to kill then. "The younger cat Anakin is, the Chancellor is the older cat." Yaddle said sternly and Yoda nodded in stern agreement.
"Indeed, Darkside, another slavery it is, but freedom at the cost of a traumatizing pre-adulthood now, understand I do padawan. But need me, always be there for you, promise I do." Yoda said softly and the council nodded in agreement gently. "Something weird was going on, there was no logic to the trade federation's moves here, it's not Padme they were after. It's a pattern, a formula, one we should know on the second we see it, and funnily enough I do right now."
"As to how and why, it happened 13 years ago after a mission to a planet in constant turmoil right now, the last piece is distraction. You get my mentor and the grandmaster out of the way and then reveal yourself to me. This is all made by the very same pattern, it's a mystery wrapped in an enigma, one that I don't figure out and soon can and could destroy us. Till they came to get me and now we realize it, the Sith are back." he said and he swallowed hard then.
"Oh my gods, not again, it's Xanatos all over again!" Adi said and Yoda jerked at the news in shock. "Disruption, demoralization, distraction all together equals devastation, thank you padawan for showing us that, we see it and you're right. That's the key, if he's in league with our Sith or he is one, the last piece means getting half of us off the capitol. And till he reveals himself forcing you into that choice, no not going to happen." Mace said and Yoda nodded then.
"What makes you think I can trust you, because that legend is inside the archives, but I have no need for it, as Father is alive right now. I get it from him, nothing changes at all. I grow up to be the most powerful human Jedi in history, siring several more, my family stands in your way. And from now till the day comes to when my grandchildren are in their mid 30's and I am retired. As my son takes over, but a single skim I become like my status mentor, but the secret to this."
"I know the secret here, to being free of the poisons of the darkside, and only by the love, the love, trust and bonds, of friends and family can you be free of said shackles." he said and Adi smiled. "But why was Master Windu considered a legend, as the three main colors of the Jedi are blue, green and yellow, but for some reason, the only members with a different color. Then these are the Gallia/Tachi team and Master Windu hmm, what do these colors mean exactly."
"Well hot pink near violet is, if you're a girl, you're a Free Spirit, the Sentinels, if they try to control the red, they shine with the light of the sun. That's rising sun, to keep said darkness at bay, as for the purple, carry the red your heart, but you're a guardian. So which do you think I am, when I met my sister and her mentor this young and connected to them and Master Windu. Because, there were several changes that mean life and death here in the eyes of the council."
"But to him I never have to fear my powers or that evil in my heart, because they are just like me so again. Just which one do you think I am here, Free Spirits, Sunlight orange, of the morning sun. Or just Violet as the blues, with said red, are a stronger Guardian, which do you think here." he said as he swung his hand out and the training lightsaber on Siri's belt shot off it and flew into his hand as he turned it on and it went light purple at that and Mace smiled then.
"There we go baby, no need to be afraid, you're not alone, things change, we get you're afraid of those powers and where they lead, but you're not alone now. We're just like you, so you don't have to be afraid, you're not evil, you're like everyone else here." Siri said softly then and he looked passed Palpatine directly at her with a smile and she smiled then gently at him. "But I know I got evil, the red in my soul, but I'm only human, we all got good or evil in us here."
"But the part we choose to act on is most important, that's who we are really, I'm not afraid anymore of my powers, or that evil. And not when I know I'm not alone, my branch are known as the Master Guardians. But we're Jedi that control the evil in our hearts, but are free spirits, Sentinels or Guardians. But word of warning, my daughter is like me and I'm like the leader of my branch, as a Master, carry the red in my heart, but I'm a guardian, and here I am now."
"You're red, the Zabrak is red, Obi-wan is blue, good or evil there is no black or white, but shades of grey in all areas here. But where's the line between both sides, where, well the answer to that is by the Grey Jedi. Or in this case right now, what is a Master guardian, well they carry the red, but are sentinels or guardians, guys now!" he called out and the trio all switched their lightsabers on all at once as Palpatine saw Orange, Pinkish violet and Purple then.
"That's what I am, I am a Guardian, youngest of the Master Guardians, to be exact, my team as a Master Guardian, is the Gallia/Tachi team. My counselor, is Master Windu himself, they decided on a test of force skills and anger control and I aced all of them. The council just made their choice, I am to be placed on Master Gallia's team as her youngest padawan. While Father trains me in normal one on one, she has me for said color definition." he said and Palpatine swallowed.
"You're too late my lord, but my Master, why don't you come join us." Anakin said and Mace nodded and moved to him and Obi-wan at that in response. "I believe you already know Master Windu, well they decided on a trial learning basis, and in just short of a week. I revealed I did learn something from them, I have learned so much, but the me that would be. By being around you is no more, I am their me now, I am a Padawan, a Jedi Youngling, I love my mentors."
"Just met yes, but I love my mentors, they, Master Gallia, Father, Masters Rhara, Merrin, D'Uni and Calrissian, my Jedi family." he said and the council smiled gently then. "Yeah cub made his choice, we're it." Tiana said softly and Damon and Yoda nodded gently. "But love and strength of heart is the key to being free of the darkside, you know it, I know it and they know it. But look at me, a gentle nudge with my powers, I become this strong in only a week, but key factor."
"But I know, if you're that interested in me, then you felt the power blast, at the same time the Grandmaster felt it, felt it, understood it and knows, stay a Jedi. That power can be used to save billions and I use my powers for good, but if you're him, the Sithmaster. The mentor of our Zabrak, then you get your hands on my powers it's a supernova or black-hole. Now waiting to happen, but you're both very powerful, my powers are the goal, but here it is now in truth."
"There's a key factor they deserved to know here, one you were praying they never figure out now, one that we know, if you and our Sithmaster, the mentor of our Zabrak. Are one and the same now, and you are, you're mine, if my destiny to bring balance to the force. And destroy the Sith, but there are two ways that can be accomplished here now. But 1) I become a Sith and make the sides even, or 2) I stay myself and my brother, my twin or my baby brother."
"Whichever, becomes your apprentice and I stay a Jedi, but this war between our orders begins when I am in my final stages, but it's no secret. It's no secret that the Queen turned Senator Amidala and I are married, but she's also pregnant. But how stupid do you think we are, if you can't get to me, then you target my children next here. But do you honestly think the council or the Alliance, my wife's organization, will ever let you near them?" he said and Yoda nodded.
"Then choose the second option we do, if there is a war a-rising between us and the Sith, not losing you, if need be, disable you, to take you alive we do and lock him back up, we do. But if that's penitence for what happened that night, understand we do, Padawan, understand I do. That take time and patience, but make a full recovery, you will." Yoda thought out loud gently as he watched the Chancellor carefully at the remark as he repeated the remark then, shaking.
