The Jedi and horses all split up to look for Anakin, Gabby, and/or Padme.
Crescent and Lamenta's family went to Padme's apartment on Coruscant, since they knew the place best. They searched all around the apartment, but didn't find any sign of Padme anywhere. But... there was a broken vase on the floor, and some other trinkets were knocked over, indicating there was a struggle.
"What do you think happened?" Carmine said.
"Judging by the mess here, it looks like Padme was forced out." Caroline said. "And I don't need to be a Jedi to have the sense that Clovis may have had something to do with it."
"If Clovis did take her, how do we find out where?"
It was then Lamenta remembered something! Before Gabby even met her relatives, Padme kept nanny cams around the apartment, and Lamenta remembered one of those cameras was in a picture Padme had of herself as a child with her family. She looked around, and she saw it right in the place the attack happened.
"Aunt Padme's nanny cams!" Lamenta said. "If that picture here still has one, maybe it'll show us what happened."
"Good thinking, Sweetie." Caroline said, grabbing the picture.
Quickly, the Jinns opened the picture and found the hard drive, which they checked on Caroline's phone. Sure enough, the video showed them Clovis kidnapping Padme and restraining her and then taking her to a speeder, and disappearing.
"Where did he take her?" Lamenta asked.
"There's gotta be a clue we missed in here." Carmine said.
Carmine rewound the video as Clovis spoke at some point, and turned up the volume some.
"Stop struggling, Padme!" Clovis demanded in the video. "You are going to forget all about that Jedi very soon. Here's what's going to happen. You are staying on Scippio, while I take care of my child. She'll have forgotten everything very soon, and so will you. Then we'll all be a happy family again."
"I'm not a psychiatrist, but that man has serious issues." Carmine said.
"At least we know where he took Padme." Caroline said. "I think I remember Padme saying Clovis has a private residence there. The only problem is I don't know its exact location."
"But we know who can help us." Lamenta said. "We have to take this video to the police."
Meanwhile, the Jedi, their horses, the Batch, and the Heartwoods all rushed to Escuela to search for Anakin and/or Gabby.
While his wife and daughter helped the others search, Garrett rushed to the office of the High Commission, where he was sure they would help since he was a teacher on the education board. Except, when he got there... they instead arrested him.
"What's the meaning of this?!" Garrett said. "Let me go!"
Garrett was chained and brought before three members of the commission in charge of enforcing the laws of all Enchantra. Each kingdom had its own laws and customs, but the Commission had laws that all the kingdoms were required to follow.
"Garrett Heartwood, it has come to our attention that you have been married to a doresho gypsy for the last fifteen years." said one of the board members. "And to make matters worse, you bore a child with her, thus endangering all of Enchantra and committing a high act of treason towards all the kingdoms."
"But that's absurd! Who told you all that?"
"We got an anonymous tip, and because of your misdeeds you are to face trial and potentially punishment by execution... after we deal with another matter."
Garrett was taken to be locked up.
"Wait! You're making a mistake! My wife isn't dangerous! Mariverde is! This whole galaxy is in danger!"
But the board didn't listen to Garrett, and instead went on to another matter.
Mariverde was already executing her plans for Solaris. Knowing the Commission was prejudice toward her species, she found excellent ammunition in the fact that Solaris was without leaders, and if Anakin was the only heir, he would have to have a queen to give him more heirs. This, she argued in her case, as well as claiming that she and Anakin were madly in love (and she threatened to murder Gabby in front of Anakin if he said anything otherwise). And she used her birth name, claiming her sister was Mariverde, and the one that Garrett had wed.
Clovis also stood by as a representative of the Republic, saying how Mariverde was a descendant of one of the lost doresho tribes' leaders, and how they once lived in Solaris, until the feud began. Thus, by marriage between a royal doresho and an heir to the Solaran throne, the feud could officially come to an end and Solaris would once again have its leaders.
"So, you see, Members of the High Commission." Mariverde said. "Though a doresho gypsy I may be, can you really deny the future of Solaris if Prince Anakin has fallen for me?"
The board thought this seemed nonsensical. They just arrested one of their best education members for being married to a doresho gypsy, and now they were meeting a prince of Solaris saying he and a doresho gypsy wanted to get married.
Anakin didn't say anything this whole meeting; he just held Gabby tightly, not wanting to risk Mariverde doing anything to her again. He didn't know where the others were, but if something wasn't done soon, he would be stuck married to a monster, and who knows what she would do to the Galaxy! There had to be a way to get the others to come and rescue him and Gabby.
"And you are certain you wish to do this, Prince Anakin." said the chairwoman.
"Absolutely," said Anakin as convincingly as he could muster. "To end the feud between us and the doreshos, I shall marry Mariana and make her my queen. And we wish to marry as soon as possible."
"Very well. If you wish to marry quickly, then we shall arrange for the wedding to occur at sundown tonight at Corazon de Sol Church."
"And until then, I will take my daughter..." Clovis said, taking Gabby from Anakin's arms, or trying to.
"Get your hands off her!" Anakin said angrily. "She isn't your daughter!"
"Give her to me!"
"Not until a paternity test is done!"
The two men continued to fight until the chairwoman spoke up.
"That's enough! Both of you. Until after the wedding, Gabriella will remain in our custody." The chairwoman snapped her fingers and had one of the guards take Gabby so she would be in the commission's custody for now. "For now, the couple shall be taken to be fitted for their outfits, and we shall round up witnesses to this occasion."
All day, everyone searched and searched for the Skywalkers, but found no clue. Except, when Mariposa and Goldie were asking around and showing everyone pictures, they were both tackled and chained at the wrists and around her waist and wings. One of the guards even ripped off Mariposa's cloak, exposing her wings to confirm she was indeed a doresho gypsy.
"Finally, we have you in our custody, Mariverde." said the officer.
"What?! I'm not Mariverde!" Mariposa said.
"Nice try, but you're coming with us. And lucky for us, looks like your kid hasn't gotten wings yet. That'll make executing both of you that much easier."
"Execution?!" Goldie gasped.
Mariposa and Goldie both struggled as they were forced into a carriage made for carrying criminals, but they weren't without witnesses. Carousella immediately rushed over to help her friends.
"Wait!" Carousella exclaimed. "You're arresting the wrong woman!"
"This is none of your concern, Miss. I know she looks pretty, but doresho gypsies are extremely dangerous creatures who by law, are to be executed, especially Mariverde. Unfortunately, the execution of these two will have to wait until another matter is resolved."
"Don't worry, girls. We're going to handle this." Carousella said, and she rushed to contact the others. "Guys, we have a problem. Mariposa and Goldie just got arrested, and for some reason the guard think Mariposa is Mariverde."
The others were both shocked and confused. Why would the commission think Mariposa was Mariverde? And how did they even know she was a Doresho Gypsy to begin with? She was wearing a cloak to hide her wings the whole time. But, the group didn't have enough time to argue a case for the Heartwoods. If they wanted any chance of breaking this spell, they had to find Anakin, Gabby, and Padme.
Padme continued to struggle in her restraints. The ropes on her legs and chains on her arms didn't seem to loosen at all. She did manage to spit the scarf off her mouth, and started to scream for help.
"Someone! Anyone! Help me, please!" Padme screamed as loudly as she could. But no one could hear her. It seemed totally hopeless in that moment. But, Padme kept trying to free herself. Her daughter's entire life and future was at stake, and being the mother she was, she refused to go down without a fight.
Suddenly, Padme could hear the sounds of police sirens outside, and someone busting down the front door. So, she started to scream for help again, and that led the police to break the locked door down, and in came the police to get Padme out from her restraints.
"Padme!" exclaimed a voice that sounded familiar.
"Ani?" Padme said hopefully.
"Not quite." Carmine shrugged, coming in. "You probably don't remember, but I'm Carmine, Anakin's twin brother."
Padme remembered then how Gabby said to Kara that she had half-brothers, Anakin being one of them.
"Why are you here?" Padme asked.
"We're here to help you." Caroline said.
The Jinns explained to Padme everything about the spell, how Clovis changed everything by tricking Padme into marrying him, and since they couldn't find the relic he used to change everything, they had to get Anakin and Padme together so they could kiss and break the spell. But they didn't have much time before Gabby started to forget her old world.
"Wait a minute," said Padme. "Did you say he used an hourglass to cause all this?"
"Yeah, why?"
"I think I remember Clovis having one around here. Sometime last year, we came for a weekend trip, and I saw that hourglass somewhere in the storage room."
Quickly, Padme rushed to the storage room with the others and started looking on all the shelves and in all the boxes. There were a lot of them too.
"Why does he need so much junk?" Caroline wondered out loud.
"Who cares? Just keep looking." Carmine said, looking into another box, only finding Life Day decorations inside.
"I found it!" Lamenta exclaimed, pulling out the Sand-Viator. "Maybe we can use it to turn back time."
"Normally, I would agree, Lamb." Carmine said. "Except we don't know how to work it or what exactly Clovis did to change everything. One wrong move, and it could change everything even more for the worse."
"You mean this isn't for the worse already?"
"Good point. Still. We gotta find Anakin."
Just then, Carmine's phone rang, so he answered it.
"Hello? Oh, Garrett. What's wrong? You've been arrested?!"
Carmine put his phone on speaker so the others could hear.
"Don't worry about us. Have you found Padme?"
"Yes, she's right here with us."
Garrett sat in a cell to await trial. Fortunately, he got the privilege of a single phone call, which most prisoners would probably use to call a lawyer, but instead, he used it to contact Carmine, who he knew was going to find Padme."
"Listen to me. You have to get to Solaris right now! I just overheard some of the guards saying that Mariverde and Anakin are getting married tonight at Corazon de Sol Church. And I have a feeling Anakin isn't doing this at his own will."
"But that doesn't make sense," said Caroline. "Why is she forcing Anakin to marry her? Why now?"
"This must have been her plan all along! She obviously decided if she couldn't take Solaris by force, she'd have to marry an heir to take over legally. So, she must've convinced Clovis to help her, knowing she could take advantage of his obsession with her so he could marry Padme, the only woman Anakin has ever loved, thus leaving Anakin available."
This definitely wasn't good. Padme had to get to Anakin quickly!
"What are we waiting for then? We're on it, Garrett." Carmine said. Then he hung up and contact the others. "We got a wedding to crash at Corozon de Sol, everyone. Round up the horses and move out!"
Carmine and his wife boarded Harmony while Crescent took Lamenta and Padme, while the Jedi all got their horses, and every single equine ran as fast as they could to head to Corazon de Sol and stop the wedding.
Meanwhile, Gabby was put into a pretty dress to wear for the wedding. She sat with two commission guards who were looking after her until they figured out which man was her actual father. She looked worried. She had no idea where her friends were, Mariverde took her phone and no doubt had some plan to keep her there so she could keep her as a hostage so Anakin would marry her.
Just then, Gabby got a strange headache again, like she was remembering stuff, but also forgetting things. And when Anakin stood up at the altar in his suit, Gabby looked at him and then was confused.
"Um... who's he?" Gabby wondered out loud.
Gabby was forgetting Anakin!
Soon, the church was filled with many guests, and the wedding march began to play.
Not surprisingly, Mariverde hid her face underneath the wedding veil. But no matter how beautiful the green and white dress she wore looked, Anakin was terrified as he stood at the altar. Most grooms, when they stood scared at the altar, it was just wedding jitters, but in this case, it was because his daughter was being held as a hostage by the bride-to-be, and this was the only way to protect the child.
Anakin gulped as Mariverde reached the altar.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we are gathered here today to bear witness to the union of his highness, Prince Anakin Gabriel Skywalker of Solaris and Mariana Verdina Morphina in the sacred bond of holy matrimony. If anyone here shall have a reason to object to this union, speak now or forever hold your peace."
No one said anything, but as the preacher was about to begin the vows, and big sparkling flash of light appeared as all of Anakin's friends and family arrived on their horses.
"I object!" everyone shouted.
Underneath the veil, Mariverde was appalled. How did all these people know to come here? To her knowledge, Boba was supposed to be in prison, Omega on Kamino, and the Bad Batch were not in touch with the Jedi or the royal family.
"Padme? What is the meaning of all this?" Clovis said. "Showing up uninvited-"
But Padme interrupted him.
"We object on the grounds that the bride is the real Mariverde and is forcing Anakin to marry her by using my daughter..." Padme looked at Anakin. "our daughter Gabriella, as a hostage."
Guests all gasped.
"Is this true?" the Commission chairwoman asked Anakin.
"Yes, it is." Anakin said. "This world wasn't even meant to exist. And that man, Rush Clovis helped her."
"He used a forbidden relic known as the Sand-viator." Mila said. "And turned back time, thus erasing everyone's memory of their old world. Except for Gabby's."
"Daddy?" Gabby said, walking up to Clovis. "What's going on?"
Everyone looked shocked as Gabby called Clovis 'Daddy'. Clovis, however, was thrilled Gabby was forgetting Anakin finally.
"Nothing, my dear."
"Gabby, no!" Padme said. "He's not your father. Anakin is."
Mariverde laughed and said, "She won't believe you, Padme. Her memory is gone, and soon the others' will be too."
"Guards, seize that woman!" the chairwoman ordered.
Except, Mariverde prepared for this. Quickly, the windows turned dark, as outside, Mariverde summoned her mariclavas, and they burst through the windows and attacked everyone, which gave Mariverde time to trap Anakin and the preacher in a cocoon of some green web-like stuff and carry him away, no doubt to continue the forced marriage somewhere else.
"Anakin!" Padme started to rush to the nearest horse, but Clovis grabbed her again.
"You aren't going anywhere, Padme!" Clovis said. "You're my wife!"
"Not anymore!" Padme punched Clovis in the nose, and the moment he released her wrist, she rushed over to Crescent and Lamenta, who held the Sand-viator, and got the pegasus to start running.
If a kiss was the only way to save everyone, Padme had to get to Anakin as quickly as she could.
Meanwhile, Boba grabbed Gabby and rode away with her and Mila on Carousella, trying to help her remember as they went with Padme, Omega following on Estrella too.
"Who are you people? Where are you taking me?" Gabby asked.
"Gabby, it's me. Your brother. Remember?" Boba begged Gabby to remember. "Baby sister?"
"I'm an only child."
"You were, but then I got adopted. Remember? You saved me from a dark path." Boba tried to think of things only he would know about Gabby. "Your favorite shade of pink is rose, your favorite singer is Count Crescendo, you always pant like a puppy when you hear the word chocolate."
Gabby did pant like a puppy when she heard that last word. It was pretty adorable. The moment she learned chocolate was involved, she would always beg for some like a puppy for treats. Although, Gabby was kind of embarrassed once she got older; old habits were hard to break.
"How do you know all that stuff?"
"We're siblings, Gabby. And best friends." Boba said, tears starting to appear in his eyes.
"Why doesn't she remember us anymore?" Omega asked.
"The spell must finally be taking full effect on her mind." Mila said. "We have to hurry and get your parents kissing!"