The Salvation Of The Chosen One
Warnings: This story is going several weeks back to my previous Revenge of the Sith story, taking place directly after he and Obi-wan get back. It's also going to involve having his adult memories, Obi-wan and Yoda's souls shooting back to that day. So this will be insuring Palpatine is never going to win this, as the twins arrive. And they see their parents for real as young adults, insuring their adult memories are strong…
Disclaimers: Starwars doesn't belong to me, the story belongs to me, the characters and everything else belongs to George Lucas and the movie companies.
Chapter 3: Preparations And Time Travelers II
"Master Windu, did you notice she gained 30 pounds in 7 months, or pick up a signature that felt like mine?" he asked and Mace nodded sternly. "That's why, I have only a single chance, is there a way to save people by the force, I need that power, because the purge our Sith is planning. Is what could kill her if my alter ego takes the bait." he said and Mace nodded sternly. "Indeed and thank you for telling us this." Shaak Tii said for him and Kit, Agen Kolar and Saesee Tiin nodded.
"But said premonitions mentioned to Mother and Father on Kegan could be our future, they are and we stand only one chance. By you passing me his notes if he has the way, I can study that and save her, you save me and done. But this must be wanted he wanted now, Master Yoda." he said and the council nodded in relief he said it. "I'm guessing he dragged it up, if he and Sidious are one and the same, peak my interest, as I would I have said, brother, she's my entire life."
"I can't live without her, but she dies, I die, out of heartbreak, that happens there is no coming back, until the baby does it himself. And as he gets said lesson on the trio, and what we always said here, fear to lose something causes impatience to prevent it. Impatience leads to anger and what caused the loss, that leads to hate at what took it from you. And hate, if not checked at the door, will lead to something you can never take back, case in point is mom right now here."
"I understand better then anyone what the trio causes, because I did a Nomi x100 here." he said, saying it to them finally and Mace nodded. "I never been so sick to my stomach, but do you want that to happen again here, we stand only one chance. But I'm being honest right now, but she's pregnant, the baby is mine, Obi-wan, 7.5 months pregnant. Right on schedule, my furlough 9 months ago." he said and Master Obi-wan Kenobi nodded in relief he told him that.
"So we got 6 weeks left till the baby is born, you eloped." he said and Jedi knight Anakin Skywalker nodded. "It was time I told you this, but I told her last night, I had enough hiding from you, I didn't care you knew we were married, you knew all along. You were just waiting for me to tell you, last night's premonition only emphasized I had to tell you now. Before you got your heart broken as you lost us both in one shot after losing Siri." he said and Obi-wan nodded.
"Master Yoda, I must be frank, but what was it you always you to say, I do nothing, nothing changes, I do something about it, and it could destroy everything we hold dear." Anakin said and Mace and Shaak Tii leaned back against their chairs then in amazement. "This scenario is one of those situations, but after Yaddle, I learned to ignore my premonitions. I was going to go check on my family, before we got assigned to Padme, and she is beaten to death by Raiders."
"Well it's happening again, only this one means the life and death of everything we believe in, in addition to my own death, my murder at the hands of my alter ego. Padme is the person I spoke of, she's pregnant." he said and they nodded in shock. "But Padme dies, as do I, out of heart break, we're two sides of the same whole, I die, she dies, she dies, I die. My premonitions, they say my murder is close, it happens that will kill her." he said and Mace nodded slowly then.
"To explain this in what you would have told my kids now, my alter ego, he betrayed me, he betrayed everything you ever taught me, what you trained me to be. Murdered me, by killing her by said broken heart, he kills the me you know and raised." he said and Obi-wan nodded sternly. "I take it Dooku figured you were half Sith already, when you went into your version of Vaapad, if he can't recognize Vaapad when he sees it now?" he said and Anakin nodded then.
"I'm hanging in there still, so though the girls, Mother and Ry are gone, still holding on right now, but the visions started again. That's why I had to tell you this, jump his move, and I stay me as I do my mission for you now, till we bust him." he said and they sighed in relief on the first half of it. "The you we know and raised is still in full control, alright I feel the cloud trying to bore in, but a beam of sunlight just punched a hole through that cloud, that reveal just did it."
"Issues, I managed this long, but leap of faith case of trust, remember invite the master in, and I just did that now, Master Windu." he said and he smiled gently. "And I appreciate Anakin, thank you for telling me, and yes we can grant another exception. So that remark to Master Yoda was because…" he asked and Obi-wan crossed his arms then. "Made a fatal mistake, but would you lay that line to the girls, Damon, Nejaa and Ki?" he asked and he crossed his arms.
"No I wouldn't, because then I would sound no better then a Sith Lord." he said and Yoda blanched at the utter disgust and anger at his remark. "My children are your strongest pupils Mace, in fact my bloodline is the strongest family you have in the order. But what if he got what he wants, you think that's bad, imagine my son, daughter, or both. If I have twins and turning to the darkside." he said and they nodded. "Point taken, padawan." Kit said then and he nodded.
"Then before our Sithmaster gets what he wants, we do a intervention here and you stay you now, my brother. The promotion, there's the reason, you want to be a master so you can get something from the archives." he said and Mace, Kit and Shaak Tii nodded in agreement. "It's not the promotion I wanted, it's just that as a Jedi master now, you have access here. And to the restricted section, considering what I want could be in there." Anakin said and they nodded.
"Knowing what your sister would say is, and I'm being honest right now, before we jump to conclusions, is examine every angle, before we make a mistake. And one that can not be fixed, knowing Siri, if she was still alive and Adi with her right now. They would say there was a way to prevent that fear, as you study that and alleviate your fears. And you can focus as you get your mission done, but we got 2 of the 4 of us here, but we're purple." Mace said and he nodded.
"I miss the girls." he said and Mace and Obi-wan nodded. "We do as well, but the 4 of you, I never saw a stronger bond here, Siri, Obi-wan and Garen are you in your entirety. I get why you wanted to go in after her, only you can get close enough to him to end this." he said and Anakin nodded. "I know, but now the real question, as I said she's pregnant, Master, but not just one, but 3 at once, my babies die if she dies." Anakin said and Yoda paled, realizing he was screwed.
"Without realizing it till she told me, I just hugged my unborn baby, or babies, if she's having twins, you expect to me to just stand by?" he asked and he went white. "Oh Gods, Master what you say to make him say that, this could be a trap, it's exactly what our Sith wants you to do." Obi-wan said sternly and he swallowed hard. "Freeze." he said and then closed down as he probed his child's connection, before feeling a pulse and then a second and nodded in shock.
"She's carrying twins, a boy and girl, the older they get we'll know who each is strong in, but baby needs to be protected, from 'him!" he said and Mace nodded quickly then. "He never got his hands on you, but he does on them and the galaxy will never stand a chance. And against 2 evil Skywalkers, we have to stop this now, we save you, we save them and we win!" Kit said sharply and Mace and Obi-wan nodded in stern agreement as Anakin looked at Yoda sternly.
"You realize how she's going to take this, Owen, my stepbrother, already thinks you're a crazy, eccentric old alien, but something costs him me next. He's going to blame you, as you never stopped this when you had the chance, he blames you and Obi-wan." he said sternly then and Yoda leaned back at the condemnations of disapproval in his voice. "And what about Ruwee, Jobal and Sola, who are they going to blame, if they lose us?" he asked and he swallowed hard.
"I can hear the emphasis in that, you are furious at whatever he said, you had to come to rest of us, to let us know this, well my being your boss right now as the leader of our branch. I was there for said trauma, we had our differences, but you always trusted me, but this cements it. I know we can prevent his getting his hands on you, if we act now, so with that, there is a way. We're human, we need attachments, so when Obi-wan was busy you turned to me and Nejaa."
"Or just Damon right now for our guidance, we kept you on your path." Mace said and he nodded. " And I will choose the right path, but in order to, if he drags this up, I must know, but is there a way to save someone by use of the force?" he asked and Kit slammed his hand on the chair. " There is, it's called force healing, Qui-Gon learned it when studying from the shaliman, as such that text is not in the restricted section, we kept it." he said and Anakin smiled in relief.
"Then you as the council win, I have what is needed to save her, if this power can save her, I can heal her heart and soul from said close call, if I have to cut it too close." he said and the 8 nodded gently. "Then so be it, I will get it for you." Mace said and Anakin nodded. "If Luke thought you were callous in this attitude, trying to convince Luke to kill me here. They, he and Leia, had enough and are going grey Jedi, Padme with them." he said and he swallowed hard.
"That explains the loss of temper, you wanted that promotion, there's something in the archives you need to save her." Kit said and he nodded. "You need me to watch him?" he asked and Mace nodded. "I see the fear in your eyes, putting us together, you're afraid if he is him, he's going to trick me and finish what he started, I understand that fear. That's why, before we discuss this right now, you deserved to know the real reason now, I'm suffering from stress right now."
"But his remarks on the darkside, his trying to twist everything you taught me now, just how does he know the force, or the darkside. If Palpatine drags it up, just how does he know that, after you gave it to me already, that seem strange to anyone?" he said and Kit crossed his arms. "It would if he's a non force sensitive, but why all the interest in you, Krayne, assigning you as the senator's bodyguard, yes I don't like this one bit." he said then and Mace nodded sternly.
"I figured you knew she was close by last night, if Obi-wan left you alone to meet up with us, is this an affair or are you…" he started to say and he shook his head. "No, you guessed right after I left to escort her home, Master Windu, she and I eloped, we been together for 3 years. She's my wife, but the timing is correct, the baby is mine." he said and Obi-wan sighed in relief. "Best hearing this now, then after we get that blow to the heart, we lost you now, and to 'him'."
"We knew, we figured it out, but we were waiting to hear it from you, but a month prior is better then learning this after he started said massacre." he said and Mace nodded. "Indeed, this saves a severe case of worry now, let me guess, you needed something from the archives. Said promotion, and you can get it now, if this is connected to why we heard Qui-Gon now. What you desire is not in the restricted section." he said and Anakin nodded in relief as he answered him.
"But after we make him think he's won, both sides come together, we can have a real wedding, after baby is born, as both sides know and we work side by side with the committee." he said and they nodded gently. "Fair enough, we know and then you tell her friends in the committee and tell your families, no longer a secret, but common knowledge now. Two lives destroys a Jedi that it's a wonder you waited this long, before telling us." Ki said gently and he nodded to him.
"But before all of you leave, I must be honest now, after what I have told you this morning, Master Yoda, Padme is pregnant, the child, or children, is mine." he said and Mace leaned back in his chair. "We have been married since the war started, my master, but and I stress the word, if this is connected to the said shroud, it could be the last piece to his plan. It could be Father's old's assailant's idea, so I must be the target." he said and Mace nodded sternly at the news.
"She's pregnant, you're married, why didn't you tell us this sooner?" he asked and he nodded to Yoda and Yoda felt his heart start pounding at that response. "Would you have you taken my visions seriously after not going back sooner resulted in killing mom. After she was beaten to death by the Raiders?" he asked and Mace leaned forward. "If you asked me, before you start your mandate to make a detour to Tatooine I would have said yes, as you can focus finally."
"Before we find you first on Tatooine and then Geonosis, after whatever happened here, it's happening again, first Yaddle, then your mother and now the senator?" he asked and Anakin nodded and Obi-wan covered his eyes. "It's happening again Master, first Yaddle, then mom, this could be a third time's the charm if we don't talk about this right now." Anakin said and Mace nodded. "Could be one or the other, I don't know, Brother." he added and Obi-wan nodded then.
"By that you mean the baby, or a both, if twins now runs in the family." he said and Anakin nodded. "It does, but my daughter's children are possibly beyond spoiled, our version were raised to be like us, the quick and easy can be addictive here. You saw Padme at the arena, she and I are always doing things for ourselves, our version is the same way in truth here now." he said and Obi-wan nodded as he crossed his arms, knowing he was right then as he said it.
"No kidding and Typho said I should be worried about her and more then you, and point made when you came to get me, she's more impulsive then you are. But if your daughter jumps ahead without waiting for her brother, let alone our young hotshot. Then it's you, me, Padme and Siri all over again, but if her son, generation two in twins walk right into the gundark nest. Then I know who more like they are in the family it is here, because you're beyond impatient now."
"But if this runs in the family, but you and your family we're used to this, but the cubs, they're scaring us further into a coronary with every reckless act going on. And you're a Jedi Master of 40 years by this point as well right now." he said and Anakin nodded. "Yeah and you know they don't get it from me, Padme used said loophole you gave me." he said and they nodded with a bemused smile then. "Yes and you're the one we raised." Mace said gently to that remark.
"Yeah you knew me all my life, with me you're used to this, just imagine my son wanting off Tatooine right now, till I bring him to you Master. And just so you can conclude if he's ready for advanced training or not with us wherever you're hiding. Then again, that's a good place to return to basics in being living force, and learn to control said fears. But like you said after he finally lashes out, patience, he must learn patience, but this was why I came to you first here."
"Before I do anything, to alert you she's pregnant, we're close here, but you said this a hundred times, react without thinking it through you can make a bad situation worse. Case in point here, is his trying to rescue his sister and brother in law, and then gets hit by the bombshell. You never wanted him learning too soon." he said and Obi-wan and Yoda nodded in agreement then. "Indeed and that's the you we know again, you're doing this the way you remember here now."
"Remember the future is never set, there is no fate, but what we make, instead of doing something, you decided to discuss things with us, seek our council now. That can change the future as I see the dark cloud starting to break up, the fact you told us this. And instead of turning dark, your aura is starting to go from black to going grey, that's good. It's very good, this means our you is taking back total control." Shaak Tii said and Mace sighed in relief then.
"I think we started something here, because that's the first time you ever got into casual conversation with us since the girls, Adi and Qui' were murdered in the field. The you we know and raised is taking the place of the you he created now, there's the you we know again. Alright he barely got what he wanted and by you dropping the bomb to us, with just a month. For up to 6 weeks left, we have a chance now, we just split you in two." Ki said and Mace nodded to that.
"I had to tell you this, before I make any type of decision, knowing when you heard the reason I wanted that promotion, you'd understand, only you have access to the restricted section." he said and they nodded. "And said intel is not in the restricted section, Qui-Gon left it to us, in case of emergencies, looks like this is what he was worried about. That if our Sith killed the only source, he didn't realize your father left us that Intel and yes, we do have it still, it's okay."
"We have the way, you're protected, as you do your mission, just keep coming to me as we re-stabilize you, Anakin, your colors, balance you out again." Mace added and he nodded. "And give me someone to spar with here as well, with Obi-wan off the planet, you're my equal in training. But you're form VIII, I'm form V, those are completely equal and this drains the nerves." he said and they smiled at his remark, knowing his deciding to unload for the next 6 weeks helped him.
As they unloaded his frustration and tension into sparring practice with them, as he recovered, for the reveal then as he said it. "Indeed, Nejaa's still off world he was your sparring partner when you were planetside, well I can do that for a few weeks now. But you're holding your brother's place on council till he returns now, if he gets sent out again." he said and Anakin nodded smiling gently. "Issues in my family." he said and Obi-wan looked down smiling gently.
"Indeed, family, you are my family, my only family now my brother, you and Padme." he said and Anakin smiled at him. "In all truth after feeling that blast of anger now, Master, I think Sidious wanted this, react without thinking, so he had a reason to disband you, us, now. But he missed it with me, as you possibly gave me what I need, but if my son is unifying. Like her baby, if she too has twins, it's my son all over again, if Damon's grandson comes into it next."
"Though that's true right now, they walked right into a trap, like Obi-wan did by the Geonosians now, only this last one is-is the reincarnation of the separatist movement. Wherever they went, though they leave without telling us, with me on the council here. And someone is in big trouble for this reckless stunt now." he said and Mace nodded in stern agreement. "Indeed, and control their impulses, they must, in the cub twins right now, I mean it." Yoda said bemused to that.
"And baby twins, by that I mean, but ridiculous this is, if our version are like you and the senator, then coronary by the time baby twins are teenagers, I will have, if keep up this does." he said and Mace closed his eyes as he tried to keep from laughing at that. "We really need to get into this now, we're 30 years prior, Master, I'm not ready to be a grandfather. When just learning I'm a soon to be father here." Anakin said and he nodded as Mace hid a chuckle then.
"Point made, 30 to 40 years, but this is too much right now, we need to deal with Sidious first, and before we deal with what his underlings are doing to our descendants next." Obi-wan said and Mace and Kit nodded in agreement. "It's a trap, the last two are connected to this, you just get back, she tells you she's pregnant, and now your visions start again. The last piece to our Sithmaster's plan begins now." Kit said slowly to that and Yoda swallowed hard at the news.
"But Master that earlier remark, could be seen as completely cold blooded now, I grew up normal and how many Jedi do you have that have families here?" he asked and Mace covered his eyes at the reminder. "Like Obi-wan and now you, Nejaa also knows, he told me he has a family of his own, and Thracia already told me. That she had families scattered all over the republic, seems a bit hypocritical, don't you think?" he asked and Kit covered his eyes at that.
"With Master off planet who was here for that exchange, before Sekot, aside from you, Thracia, me and Obi-wan?" he asked and Kit and Ki crossed their arms. "Us, Plo, Adi and Depa." Ki said and he nodded. "And you already explained to me that you had a family of your own, as does Nejaa, Damon and Tiana, we're the only ones with families, you understand my fears. After Ayiana was nearly killed and you weren't there." he said and Ki nodded in understanding then.
"Point taken, I just barely made it in time to save her now, but you failed with your mother, I understand that fear, having already suffered through it. A family member's life is at stake here, but this time it's not just her's, she's carrying his children. His entire family is endanger, what did you say Master to make him come clean and tell us the truth?" he said sternly and he paled, realizing it wasn't just about his wife, but his entire family now as he answered him then.
"Said I did, that death is a natural part of life Mourn them do not. Miss them do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed, that is." he said and Obi-wan slammed his hand on the chair arm. "You might as well be saying, and we're only human, that attachment, can kill you if you let it, why did Anakin latch on to me, why. Well it's I was his life line, after he got uprooted from everything he ever knew, everyone he ever knew?" he said sternly and he swallowed hard.
"All you know is your precious Jedi code, you realize if he gets what he wants, my coming to him for that key to save her, this causes 23 years of pain, suffering and hate. Who are the non force sensitives going to blame, or my and Padme's families now. Hmm, who is everyone going to blame, and it won't be Obi-wan's fault he tried to help me, as did the quartet now, it's you. You created a monster by you telling me that?" Anakin asked and Yoda swallowed hard at that news.
"Slave to my emotions, no, just growing up in the real world results in another Bruck, Balog and and the Tuskins my alter ego murdered." he said and they nodded. "Point made padawan." Mace said and he nodded. "Yeah that's another thing, I humbly withdrawal my position as knight, I want to be a padawan again." he said and Mace nodded. "We understand, may I assume that you…" he said and Anakin nodded. "Agreed, and I will." Obi-wan said smiling gently as he got it.
"Like my alter ego said in sum years, later on, when he left you, he was but the learner, now he is the Master." he said and Yoda crossed his arms as Obi-wan answered that remark. "And only a Master of evil Darth, you are not my padawan your Jedi side is, my best friend. My student, my baby brother, you are not taking him away from me." he said firmly at that. "You better lay the punchline once we cut this a little too close here." he said and Obi-wan nodded then sternly.
"Point taken and he's right Master, why should this be any different, he needs help, emotionally to relieve that fear right now." Obi-wan said sternly and he swallowed hard, realizing by saying what he did, he just, beyond cruelly, blew him off now. "You been my best friend, since Ahsoka became my padawan right now, but only you knew this that Padme and I had been together. And since the war started right now, but now with you being my mentor and my best friend."
"Things switched course, you're part of the family in our eyes, Siri with you, if she survived the encounter with that guy, Brother. But that's the reason I told you brother, you would do whatever it takes to help, she's in her third trimester. We're at the home stretch, in both our cases, if we don't change this moment now, it's over, and you lose us both in one shot." Anakin said and he nodded in understanding sternly. "Your lightsaber?" he said and he nodded to him.
"I understand, but I'm not losing you, Padme and the children, after losing the girls and Qui-Gon, you're my brother, I can not do it, I won't do it. If it means taking you alive, to lock up your alter ego, then so be it, I'm not losing anyone else I love, you're my brother. My best friend, I trained you since you were a youngling, you and Padme are my family." he said and Anakin nodded and they nodded, knowing the him as a 13 year old post padawan returned now.
"Brother, our bond, in her words, you knew already, you want to help, well now is the time to do it, relieve that fear, only one cure, before you get 'him' out of me." he said and Mace crossed his arms. "The timer just ended, your remission is over, I have to cut that tumor out of you, before he grows too strong and my remark to baby turns true. He betrayed you and then murdered you, by becoming a cancer." Obi-wan said and Yoda straightened in shock at that news then.
"Brother, in your words, you are my brother, I love you, 13 years together, we both knew when you learned she's pregnant things were going to change." he said and Obi-wan nodded. "I'm not losing you after losing the girls." he said to him gently. "We stop this, we save you, we save her and we save the order, all because we threw aside the code. And change things this months, weeks before her due date now." Mace said and Obi-wan nodded in agreement to his opinion.
"This is what Father keeps talking about, the force chose at random on planets, you had to get to me first, before Sidious does. Whatever you would have asked me to do later, you deserved to know this first." he said and Mace nodded. "I understand Anakin and now that the truth is out, you have gained our trust." he said and Anakin nodded gently. "Like you said, it's very dangerous putting him and me together right now, his hopes, if he's associated with Sidious."
"Or he is Sidious, is I think he maybe lying about said power to save her, though if you have the key already, I have no reason to turn on everything you ever trained me to be." he said and Mace nodded. "To which we do, Qui-Gon learned that skill from the Shalliman of the Whills, it's called force healing, you can save someone by using the force, healing the damage. Speeding up the healing process, by injecting love into the connection." he said and Anakin nodded gently.
"Was this why you wanted to make master, you wanted that script to study?" he asked and Anakin nodded. "Yes Master, only you have authorization to go into the restricted section, as Masters." he said and they nodded. "When your brother's not here, I normally was your commander, so with him heading for whichever planet Grievous is on. I can mentor you, as you split your time in study, looking after her and watching him." he said and Anakin nodded gently.
"So that solves that, I have what I need right now, whatever you ask me to do, I will do so, but with Obi-wan leaving after we get a tip off, I need you to restabilize me." he said and Mace nodded gently. "Balance your color again, yes and I understand, though the girls are gone, I'm still here, like I said, what seems bright in youth, tarnishes in maturity and crumbles with age. A Jedi is allowed no such weakness now, you changed so much, I see you as a young me now."
"But we have 5 Jedi with families of their own and you're a soon to be father now, between that, and these visions, you're under too much stress, now that I relieved that piece to it. You can heal, but you're grounded with you in sabbatical till your children are born." he said and Anakin nodded gently. "Whatever is going on, I think my kids adult selves never understood everything, you know me better then they do, to understand this, just why would I turn exactly here."
"I was intending, if I was still myself and not my alter ego, to gain as much as possible, and then turn him in, but my alter ego swallowed the bait. And then killed everyone here at the temple, before following them up with Dooku and the Separatists." he said and Mace nodded. "So what we told your son is true, from a certain point of view, you would never hurt us or turn on us, your ego knocked you into a coma, and then committed a genocide, here at the temple."
"After killing a retired Jedi, turned Sithlord, after possibly sacrificing me to save this scum's life, he weighed our order against Padme's life and to him, it's no contest. But this is the you we know, our you won out, now that I told you that." he said and Anakin nodded in agreement. "Well this is going to be a long 6 weeks right now, but we may have to induce it, so if Sidious is after my children, if he had his way here, they're your key to freeing me, but Master Yoda."
"Did you ever treat Lana this way, simply because she's from an out of Republic planet?" he asked and he paled at that. "Really, her people created the prophecy, on the future, and yet this never left an impression on you?" he asked and Mace covered his eyes. "So why treat me like fodder, because her planet is in range of mine, they were speaking my future." he said and Yoda jerked in pain, realizing how callous his behavior was at that remark as he laid the bomb now.
"Just think it over for once, Master Yoda, you basically kidnapped my family, they were safer with me, because I was training the twins. Instead of protecting them, you exposed them, to him, they were never exposed to me, but they talk and talk. You just never listen, driving them further away from being Jedi till, if I suffered a heart attack. Why, I lost my temper enough to have one, you killed me and turned them yourself, anything happens to me here, it's on you."
"Both you and Obi-wan, all because you never stopped this, it's on your head." he said and Yoda jerked in pain. "Always thinking you know best, always thinking you're right, but it's your fault I turned to darkside, starting with this morning. Followed by you assigning me to watch him, you ever consider leaving me alone with him was a bad idea. Did you want that to happen, I turn so you have two Sith to fight against, now that I killed Dooku?" Anakin asked and he went pale.
"When I asked you to take care of my family, I didn't mean do it this way, to save me, you decide to kill me after sum years trapped like that. That's not saving me, you're cold bloodedly doing exactly as Sidious did, punishing me by leaving me trapped like that." he said and he went white, never considering that's how he and Padme saw it then. "I thought we were Jedi, is leaving someone to die in agony being a Jedi?" he asked and he went ghostly white at that.
"Obi-wan left me for dead, because he had to save her right now, he knew what I would say, never mind me, leave me, save her, save the baby. Get out of here, he's arriving any second, go brother, go." he said and Obi-wan nodded in stern agreement. "But honestly you misunderstood the prophecy from the second you heard it, it's the Keganites. Now I don't give a damn how you consider this right now, I never did, but you need to understand as the family chosen one."
"To stop him, nothing goes exactly as you expected, there are two ways it can go, I be split in half and I kill my twin, my clone after killing Sidious with Luke at my side. Or 2) Luke finds out, joins me and we decide to till him, after I complete his training, either way. In their eyes and Padme's now, you're rogues, and dangerous, you especially right now. How do you expect me to return to duty like this, I'm trying to move on, to recovering and you're convinced you're now."
"It's basically your fault the purge happened, if you bothered to listen for once, I'm split in two and the Jedi are not extinct." he said and Obi-wan covered his eyes sternly. "As I said I am not your enemy, you just telling me this now, saved us from a very serious problem. But his attempted kidnapping of Padme and the babies, shoves them deeper into your arms. And influence here, as you take control of this dictatorship, and start destroying it from within."
"But Master this behavior, in thinking you are right is keeping him trapped on the borderline, what will it take to prove he changed, one of us surviving members on his cruiser. Watching his progress in coming back from the darkside?" he asked and Yoda jerked, realizing even the youngest of his star team was against him now. "Exactly that is just my point, so long as you hold on to your pride, nothing will ever change here, the Alliance and the Jedi are evil now."
"As everyone starts to see the dictatorship under my command and control, is doing exactly I said, safety and security, freedom, from tyranny, but honestly Master Yoda. You think the twins would accept your opinion, to stop the Sith, they have to kill me, if we never had this talk?" he asked and he swallowed hard at that and Obi-wan nodded sternly. "Maybe you should consider this, from their 5th birthday, to their 10th, even their 14th, they're true Skywalkers here."
"But you ever consider what could happen here, anything happens to me, and Obi-wan had been with them, since birth if never separated. They resent this attitude when they found me, they're bringing me back out, from you to Bail, even her own family. They are getting sick of the Jedi superiority and thinking you're right till, just to get away from you. They yank their lightsabers and escape by force." he said and Yoda flinched, never anticipating that with his students then.
"I'm preparing to put myself back together and you're trying to brainwash my family, forget it, you're just proving to her you're the corrupt one." he said and Obi-wan nodded. "Point taken Anakin, point taken, I knew this was a bad idea, so basically his arrogance killed. Now, not only us, but it destroys you, because you're exposed to his corruptness." Mace said and he nodded. "Yes exactly, but you got another problem, Kegan is in range of Tatooine in truth here now."
"But choosing in the republic is the same as only allowing rich families to become Jedi, did it ever occur to anyone a street urchin could become a Jedi. I'm a pauper, beyond selfless, and yet you're all acting as though you're better then me, I'm a true Jedi. But you're all acting like the said servant boy that Obi-wan caught killing the queen by poisoning her." he said sternly and they flinched and Obi-wan nodded, remembering his exchange with the said boy then sternly.
"Lana's planetary guides mention some sort of prophecy correct, well what if that prophecy was meant to say, if you don't change your ways right now. This brings a sum number year of darkness to the galaxy, they said that the darkside. Now comes from us, inside us and then stretches to the rest of the galaxy." he said and Obi-wan nodded sternly. "I see it alright, that pride is a darkness that envelopes the galaxy, making us Sith in a way." he said and he nodded.
"Masters Jedi, did it ever occur to you that this behavior towards me, the last 13 years, is everything Sidious wanted, you don't trust me, you treat me like an outsider. And simply because I grew up normal, I grew up normal, I grew up a slave, I grew up in the field. How is this any different then the servant that tried to kill the queen of Gala. Just to keep his job at the palace now, knowing the elections were going to cost him his job right now, how, in truth."
"Is this any different, after Obi-wan confronted him now, before he turned him into security?" he asked and they jerked in shock and Obi-wan crossed his arms. "Obi-wan is the only one that truly treated me like an equal, but to you, I'm an outsider, for being a field born?" he asked and they felt their hearts fall, realizing they all made it far to easy for the Sith to get to him. "I see what he's saying, just because we grew up in the temple….., Juno, oh gods not again right now."
"Juno now gave me that same remark, after I busted him for poisoning the queen, because he was desperate to stay at the palace. Her life be damned, he maybe a commoner, sure he's a servant, but he lives in a palace. You're all saying the very same thing, he grew up in the outside world you grew up in the temple, but does this make you better then he is!" Obi-wan said and Mace felt his heart shatter at that remark, realizing their attitudes were the cause.
"Brother you always knew this, I never felt like I belonged here, why is that, I kept to myself, before you told me we had a mission in dealing with Kad and his father again." he asked and Obi-wan nodded. "You're unique, because you grew up normal, that's no reason to treat you like an inferior, simply because we were raised in the temple and you were not. But I see why this attitude almost destroyed us, they made it too easy." he said sternly and Mace swallowed hard.
"It's not anger, it's resentment, it always, I tried to get you to trust me for ten years, and nothing I ever did ever seemed to drop the scrutiny. Simply because my emotions are that of a normal 9 year old, I was angry yes, but it's because of my life as a slave. But tell me, wouldn't you be angry at people treating you like property and not a person. But of you, only 5 have a life outside the temple, married, have families, so…..?" he asked and they swallowed hard at that.
"I know the darkside is a slavery, I know that, but I understand your lesson, on the trio better then anyone, because of mom and the raiders. But that was brushing it, but I am not being forced back into those shackles again, not without a fight. My alter ego is waking up, he's trying to force my wrists back into those shackles, you're only helping him by this attitude." he said and that did it for the 10 in shock as he looked at Yoda sternly as he went further then.
"Well that needed to be said, and I must admit, he has a good point, this distrust is exactly what our Sithmaster wants, you're basically forcing those shackles onto his wrists by this attitude." Ki said sternly as he looked at Anakin gently. "Master, are you one of the 5 that has a family?" he asked and Ki nodded gently. "Indeed I am, but you just unloading everything and we get this on the table, a month prior helps immensely right now." he said and Kit and Shaak Tii nodded then.
"Indeed, this helps severely right now." he said and then said it. "What I was afraid of 11 years ago, was I had no way to understand my color, yes I was afraid. I'm afraid of the evil in my heart and the immense power I carry, and what happens if it falls into the wrong hands. It was after my color revealed two sides of me, blue and red, and that never made sense. Till this happens, I can choose, between being everything you want, or take his offer now in truth."
"That's the catch, our Zabrak is Obi-wan, of the darkside, Sidious is father, Sidious's master could be you, Master Yoda, I can choose between either side." he said and Yoda swallowed hard, realizing he was playing right into the Sith's hands by that. "Whatever he would have offered you, to get you to listen to him, we have it already Anakin. Qui-Gon left his research on it in the archives, we'll give it to you to study until she's due, but I think his plan hinged on this now."
"Everything, his plans hinged on you taking the bait now, but you have it already, so your alter ego trusts him too much to listen to our point of view." Kit said and he nodded. "And that's just my point, you drilled into me the difference between the sides, but if they killed father. Who is the one knowledgable source of that information, till Master Windu revealed you had that intel." he said and he swallowed hard. "Rule 1) never take what they offer." he said and Mace nodded.
"Never take what they offer or you belong to them after that, yes and I just gave it to you, but it goes both ways, the truth Padawan, you revealing you're married and she's pregnant. It was time for it to start anew, before he can get what he wanted now, I trust you, I trust you now." he said and Anakin nodded in relief, feeling the first sense of hope and relief since his vision. "I've tried living a double life, living a lie, and frankly I don't care if both sides know now."
"For 3 long years we kept this hidden, afraid of your reactions, she's been trying to protect me from losing my placement here. But your remark earlier, just cemented why I should have resigned after Darra was murdered. At least then I can use my powers to save mom and her now." he said and Yoda felt his heart fall at that news. 'Oh gods, what have we forced him into now exactly.' Mace thought in shock to that news, realizing that remark was aimed at Yoda then.
"Not you, Masters, brother, but Master Yoda, this particular argument is aimed at him, you know this, I would never turn….." he said and Kit crossed his arms. "Unless there is no other choice to save who you love, but there is, and we have said key already. What happened last night to make you seek our counsel, if you look like you suffered another case of severe guilt?" he asked and Anakin sighed. "Despite disarming Dooku, literally…." he said and Mace and Kit nodded.
"This was no mercy killing, the Chancellor told you to kill him, correct?" Shaak Tii asked and he nodded. "In 13 years, I never heard his voice sound so savage, it sounded like he was ready to execute him for a younger and stronger model. If he was our Sithmaster, the one we been looking for, seems to me this was the double meaning. When you came to see us after Father was murdered by our Zabrak." he said and the original sextet all nodded sternly at the reveal.
"But mom was a total black out, my alter ego lost it completely and slaughtered the entire camp, I never got over the guilt. That's why she had to get my mind off it, take me into a real battle, where she went I had to stay at her side. Which explains why you found us there as well." he said and Mace, Kit and Ki nodded in understanding. "The senator knows everything, and even she thinks that the continued fighting a waste of time." Mace said and he nodded then.
"Waste of time, effort and most of all, it's costing us lives left and right, none more so then us, I think this was the plan, you said we're keepers of the peace, not soldiers. But what if the democracy we been upholding no longer exists right now, we're being manipulated. And by our sworn enemy, not seeing, and till it's too late, he's been standing right in front of us. That what you said Master Yoda, is exactly what he wanted in my case." he said and Mace straightened.
"But let me ask you something, would you have said that to Nejaa, after he too had visions of his wife dying in child birth?" he asked and Yoda went pale at that. "What about Thracia, Damon, Tiana, and Ki?" he asked and he swallowed hard at that, realizing his point of view made him sound like a cold blooded tyrant. "Or is this because I grew up outside the temple, out in the Outer Rim?" he asked and they all flinched, realizing this made them sound like snobs then.
"Just consider if Father left after freeing me, what happens next, I grow up normal, though a out of the temple Jedi, no massacre of Geonosis, no war. If his plans depend on my taking his offer, shouldn't you be looking at why he asked me to be his representative?" he asked and Mace crossed his arms. "Point taken and you're absolutely right at the moment, Thracia actually saying that out loud drove the point home, before Sekot." Mace said sternly and he nodded.
"Brother, I knew I was right, there's more to this then we thought, why, just as I ask for a sabbatical to check on my family, do we get chosen for protection duty?" he asked and Mace crossed his arms. "Why is it at the same time she's dealing with the army creation act the assassinations stall this." Mace said in response. "They're connected, Sidious wanted that, to me to suffer that first brush, we don't do it now, he wins." he said and the sextet nodded sternly.
"Our branch does homicide Master, to catch a Sith or Dark Jedi, we must think like one, the formula, in the conclusion of Obi-wan's return from Melida/Daan. You finding me at the same time we're assigned to Padme, they're one and the same, we've been had, he's possibly 'him'." he said and Mace nodded sternly. "Point taken and I get it, this was all a trap, just as you come back his final stage begins, you're the target, he wants you." he said and Obi-wan straightened.
"Well now I know why this looks so familiar, disruption: this blockade was interfering with us getting to know you, before I decided to be your mentor when the time comes. Demoralization: Darra's murder, followed by your mother caused you to lose your confidence. From what Padme told me at the time, she's worried sick about you, both then and now. So distraction: they distract us by separating us, it's a trap." Obi-wan said and Mace nodded sternly in agreement.
"We're Jedi yes, but we're only human, attachments make us strong, not weak, the only reason I never gave in sooner was because she and Obi-wan gave me the strength to resist. Along with the girls and Ry, you and Damon, Tiana." he said and Mace felt his heart lift at that. "Hot pink near violet shooting star to give the strength to resist, sunrise orange, showing me the light. At the end of the tunnel, purple, resisting the evil in my heart and at the same time, a fighter."
"That's why I never caved sooner, because I had you, and Obi-wan, giving me the strength to go against the odds and do things no other Jedi could have now." he said and the duo nodded in understanding as Ki smiled gently at his remark. "I have only a few weeks left, before Padme goes on maternity leave, she's due in 6 weeks. But I have reason to believe these visions are saying my remission is over, last night was the big one." he said and Mace nodded gently then.
"The timer is ticking, you think your alter ego just woke up completely?" Shaak Tii asked and he nodded to her. "I do Master in fact, this mechanical arm could be seen as a tumor, infecting the rest of my body till my remission ends and I do something I can never take back. It's happening again, only if we don't stop this now, and it's not just the Jedi. But the entire galaxy that pays the price for Master's lack of foresight, it's a trap." he said and the 11 nodded sternly then.
"Yes and I remember the insult she threw at him, he knows nothing of being a human parent for a preteen, borderline teenager. But out of 700 human Jedi, only 5 have families of their own, and one adopted in my case, with my connection to the Skywalker family. You're about to become father, and to both of us, this means we do the cub's training ourselves. A Jedi trio, before I take, if you have twins, girl cub." Obi-wan said and Anakin nodded in agreement then.
"You and the trio, Mace, practically raised me yourself right now, you understand better then anyone, but why did our team last the longest. It's because of what Father taught us, we survived this long, because we used what he and Adi taught you and Siri. Best of the best, we saw passed the code, every time I dragged up said scenario, in annoyance. It's because when you decide to follow the code, you sound like 'him'." he said and Obi-wan crossed his arms.
"From the derision in your voice, you mean Ferus." he said and Anakin nodded sternly. " I do, I caught the perfect padawan not being perfect at all right now, tried to fix Tru's lightsaber. But decided not to report it, Tru put his desire to graduate over the safety of the team. And tries to implicate me in murder to save himself and Ferus from expulsion." he said and they nodded in shocked fury at that news. "I also saw their eyes glow gold." he said and Mace nodded in fury.
"Well the perfect padawan is not being perfect at all, but that's why you were the perfect padawan, because you're not perfect, we just decided to take it slow. Because we're scared to lose you, but that fear made sense after your trauma after we found you on Tatooine. Remember what we said, the darkside is easier, faster and more seductive, it's an addiction. Give into said addiction, and your soul belongs to them after that." he said and Anakin nodded.
"Side effects of training our own race, we become parents or big brothers and sisters, to the next generation, but though you're a young adult. I got the picture of you and me in the sitting room still, when you were still a teenage youngling." Obi-wan added and Anakin nodded smiling gently. "That's what happens when you train your own species, said padawan is your adoptive cub." he said and Mace nodded in agreement to that smiling as he went further gently at that.
"There thank you, that's just my point, it was always two of one kind, and one of the other, Father, to you, to me, to Ahsoka, before she quit, and now to my children. If I have a boy and a girl, and she's like me, living force, she's your new apprentice, I can train my son." he said and Obi-wan nodded, smiling. "I get the feeling if Nejaa's grandson is part of my son's class right now, this means they're the new generation after Sidious is gone." he said and Obi-wan nodded.
"And this drives said point home, after the close call race and assassination attempt that year, but after being trapped. And between preteen and growing up right now, before we sent you on that mission. But that's the punchline, enjoy the years of being a padawan while you the chance to, because soon we won't be around for you to fall back on." Mace said and he nodded. "Point made Master, you and Thracia made your point, but hypocrisy." he said and they both nodded.
"I would call that you're being a hypocrite, you don't say things like that to them, so why are saying that to our newest member, Master Yoda. In whatever was said, and need I remind you, I nearly fell in love with my other best friend, when I was a youngling still. I've been in mourning for years, Qui-Gon lost Tahl, me I lose two women I love here. In addition to my mandate with Satine, so….?" Obi-wan said in agreement and he swallowed hard, realizing he screwed up then.
"Anakin, what was going to be the plan if we never caught this sooner?" he asked and Anakin nodded. "If I know our Sith, once he said that he had the power to save her, my alter ego decides you or her, and he chooses her, after he called treason. Sending my alter ego here to wipe out the Jedi still on the capitol and everyone in the field, including you, is sentenced to death." he said and Mace nodded. "You think Palpatine's 'him'?" he asked and Anakin nodded.
"After what he told me to do last night, I already cut off Dooku's wrists, and he tells me to kill him, so…." he said and Mace nodded. "Point taken, but you tell me, I get into it with him and before he can get to you, I tell you we had the key already to save her. But two tests of strength, after we, Master and I, lost our own fights with him, he's all your's in your prime now." he said and Anakin nodded. "My destiny, I got to cut it close." he said and Mace nodded gently.
"And there's the you we know again, but friend, brother and son, I meant what I said to cub, the best fighter pilot in the galaxy, a cunning and strong warrior, and a good friend. Good friend, code for love like a brother, and that's baby brother with the age gap." Obi-wan said and he smiled and Mace hid a chuckle at the look on his face then. "Yeah and this means you had to disable my alter ego for almost killing me." he said and the council nodded as they got it.
"But learning what I turned into from me rather then you, is going to be too much for baby to handle, that my alter ego never killed me, he replaced me. This is going to be too much for Luke, that's light in Nabooian, if he hears it from me rather then you brother, you knew this. But we're not the same person, the me you know and raised is this me, everything I am. Is this me, Vader killed the Jedi and the separatists, not me." he said and Obi-wan nodded then sternly.
"We always said this, once turned to the darkside, the good inside you is supposedly destroyed, your soul is locked up till free yourself from the darkside. So with that, he betrayed me, by turning on us, and nearly killing you Master Windu, while leading the rampage. And here at the temple, murdered me, not only was I with you, the fight nearly killed me here. Because wherever he sent Gunray, was the reason for how I was injured." he said and Obi-wan nodded.
"Oh great, he, that's your alter ego, is going after Gunray, after the assassination attempts he tried on Padme, I see the level of carnage at where they are. And I know this was never you, Vader committed 3 atrocities 2 weeks apart in each, and just as I get there now. I see your eyes glowing gold and then realize he's addicted to the power lust here. As Padme and I try to talk some sense into him, he's not you, this is the you we know, so with that in mind right now."
"I see where this is going, so betray you, your alter ego went against everything you believed in, everything we trained you to be, nearly murder you. As those injuries were not my lightsaber, he took off what's left of the limbs by killing the separatists. And Dooku, and those injuries we claimed were the cause of his blood lust, the you we know would do what I normally do. And use your telekinesis, but he crossed the line, you confronted him, me with you and it's a fight."
"To the death after he nearly kills you and your entire family, I took off the limbs he took off you, and leave him for dead, take you to Bail's medical department. We grow back your limbs and we stay hidden, training the twins in secret till the time is right. So that what we're telling the twins when they're old enough, brother?" Obi-wan asked him and he nodded. "Yeah exactly, but the prophecy stated only two, or 3, that's us and Master Yoda, him, our Sithmaster now."
"And whoever my alter ego trains as his own apprentice, but 3 on 3, we wiped them out, now it's their turn and finally, we were in a peace period for 1,000 years, time of strife. The Clone Wars and the Sith/Rebel Wars puts the force back into balance here., he wanted the Sith. In versions to that prophecy, we're going with the Jedi one, sedation of everyone in the temple. If I'm his target, I'm telling all your troops, maximum stun." he said and the quintet nodded then.
"To destroy the Sith you got to skim it close or clone yourself, your alter ego is his apprentice, you're a Jedi, and the story we told the twins becomes true now." Shaak Tii said and he nodded. "Exactly, that's the meaning exactly, I either clone myself, or become one, but the chosen one, chosen to be the first ever of Jedi dynasty, by this." he said and she smiled. "Your position is your throne now, and when time to retire, you pass it to cub." she said and he nodded gently.
"I'm Mace's next in command, so he's Master's, I'm his, when time for retirement, Master passes leadership to Mace, when it's your age group's time, he passes it to me. But there's the meaning of chosen one, I'm destined to create the first ever Jedi dynasty. And the first ever to go to, come back and live to tell about it." he said and Mace and Obi-wan nodded. "The republic is dying, about to create a dictatorship, we let him become the most hated man in the galaxy."
"With my clone the next, until the time is right, we go undercover and stay hidden, so we wait till my kids are my age of 19. And then start advanced training, it's my destiny to bring balance and my unborn children's to return us back to peace, by stopping him. When he is too old to fight back anymore, we'll return, we just get him beyond arrogant. But the Loyalist committee is preparing to rebel against him, that's what I spoke to Bail about." he said Mace nodded gently.
"But what the guides told Father and mother and the prophecy must be one and the same, whatever the separatists are building must be said planet sized weapon." he said and Mace nodded in shock. "Self fulfilling prophecy from here on out, the army in white, the clones." Mace said and he nodded in shock to that. "Oh gods, an army of one man, said is a bounty hunter, the character in black, carrying a red…, my alter ego, it starts the day my remission is over!"
"I think I know what the prophecy stated, but every piece mentioned is self-fulfilling prophecy, so the army in white. It's our troops become his army, lead by a black cloaked figured with a red lightsaber, my alter ego. A man with disfigured face, it's Palpatine himself after you deflected his force lightning back at him. And said group of freedom fighters are the loyalist committee, being lead by my kids and her husband and friends." he said and he nodded sternly to the news then.
"Qui' and Adi mentioned what the Keganites told them, and now that you say that, that confirms it, so the prophecy can go two ways: you cloning yourself. And what we tell the kids what happened after you gained that scar across your eye right now. Or 2: you turn and return as quickly as you turn here right now, but he's not getting his hands on you." he said and Anakin nodded sternly. "Like you'd tell me tonight, it's dangerous." Obi-wan said and Mace nodded.
"And to say it again, it's very dangerous putting him together with Andy, I'm scared he's going to get to him, I don't trust Palpatine around him." he said and Anakin nodded gently. "I get why Master, after you been scared out of your mind of the last reaction 3 years ago. And after you felt the power blast." he said and Mace nodded gently. "Issues with the punchline, at least instead of raising the twins on my own in training, they have you teaching them as well now."
"Siri and I, if things had been different, would be together, she and I are the possibly the twins godparents, and Padme knows I love her like a baby sister. We give him what he needs to study this and nothing changes, lines like that could lead to our self destruction right now. He is my brother, if what you're about to say is what I'm thinking, if he had taken Sidious's offer. I won't do it, but taking him alive, to lock up the bloody bastard." he said sternly and Mace nodded.
"Agreed, to save him, we have to remove what started said cancer and then lock up his alter ego, but these Sith are a wild animal in the human Sith. If Sidious killed the only source of that legend, not realizing Qui-Gon also knew and had what was needed. And in order to save Anakin, his deck of sabbac cards just came down, undoing everything he was planning. As Anakin stays himself, he's split in two, as his alter ego is running around in the flesh finally here right now."
"But are you deliberately making it too blasted easy for our Sith to get to him, we are selfless we only care about others, the Sith are power hungry. They only care about themselves, we drove that into his head for 13 years, if he needed a way to stem off what's coming. We give it to him directly, before Sidious, possibly through the Chancellor, gives him said legend?" Mace said sternly and he went white, not realizing what he said was what Sidious wanted him to do.
"I think that's why Sidious sentenced Qui-Gon to death, killing the only other source of said legend." Obi-wan said and he nodded in agreement. "And then trick him into killing the entire order, so that by the time you get back, it's already too late. We been wiped out, and you're left trying to salvage this by putting the blame on Anakin. We said this a few hundred times, that you never change all at once, it takes hundreds of traumas before the final crash here now."
"But this, you realize your words could be seen as you don't care about us at all right now Master, all you care about is your interpretation of the code. We should have changed it 13 years ago, and planned this out, before we reached this point, he's under enough stress as it is." Shaak Tii said sternly and he swallowed hard. "Not going to happen, we are not letting him get his hands on Anakin now, period." Kit said sternly and Mace nodded in agreement then sternly.
"Master with all due respect, have you lost your mind, you might as well be saying if she dies then good riddance." he said and he went pale as a ghost. "Qui-Gon always knew what was best, but he never allowed your arrogance to redirect him. Even my forbidding it never stopped him from trying to save Tahl, before we lost her, before losing him next. But Qui' had the right idea, you want a repeater of Qui-Gon after the Apsolons killed Tahl, because you don't change."
"And now, you condemned us to death by not giving him that key now and he sells his soul to get that intel" Mace asked sternly and he swallowed. "You basically nearly pulled the trigger for the thermal detonator, by saying that, but who are the free planets of the republic going to blame. If he became the apprentice of the currently strongest Sith we have in our galaxy, because you never stopped this when you had the chance." Shaak Tii said sternly to him then.
"Talk about repeaters, Obi-wan threw his anger and pain at losing Cerasi, or nearly losing her into the fight with Bruck till that pain was drained. Father nearly crossed the line himself, because of Master Dantallion, and I had a double whammy and I did. But why is my team the best in the order, it's because we follow our hearts, the force. Not the code and of us, only my team lasted the longest, Darra is gone and the Tachi/Gallia team are extinct here right now."
"Along with our partner pair up." Anakin said and Shaak Tii nodded sternly. "He's got you there Master, and the only bright spot in this war seems to be the very thing. That is giving him the light out of the tunnel and the strength to resist Palpatine manipulations. Take away that bright spot, we're plunged into a never ending dark period, so whatever the senator. Now names the heir of the throne gave a new beacon of light to shine his way." she said and Anakin nodded.
"I see why father never wanted to be on the council, but the code is just guidelines, rules, you can bend the rules and still be a perfect Jedi, case is point is Obi-wan and me. His way of the code made us who we are, he said we'd be great Jedi, if we stopped looking to the future. But focus on the present, currently this situation you nearly put us in, was one of your own making. They changed and evolved, we don't change now we're done." he said and they nodded sternly.
"As for Jabitha and I named my ship after her, her father was killed by the alien species that came to Sekot, but that mission laid Thracia and Mace's punchline perfectly." he said and Mace nodded sternly. "Point taken and he's right, you weren't around for his emotional breakdown after he had to kill in self defense, the Carver. It took me 20 minutes to get through to him now, because he nearly broke his wrist." Mace said sternly and he flinched at the reminder then.
"I maybe a Jedi, but I'm only human as well, like he is, he's my star pupil, but he's like Siri, Adi and me, carries the red in his soul, and yet a guardian. I see why he had to remind me of that, but that 2 lives catch almost destroyed him. And what if his children were our one chance to free him, after he took Sidious's offer, what then. With Padme dead now, he spent 23 years alone, because we never forestalled this when we had the chance?" Mace said and he paled at that.
"Qui-Gon is gone, leaving only me, Nejaa, and Damon as his only father figures in the Jedi, while Obi-wan is the big brother/father, like Garen is." he said and Yoda nodded. "He nearly got what he wanted, if I never decided to reveal this to you, you knew already, right?" he asked and the council nodded. "We did and we were waiting for you to say it to confirm it, but now that you did, you gained our trust." Mace said and Anakin nodded as he answered him gently at that.
"You recall my premonitions after Yaddle was killed, I chose to ignore them, but some reason, they started again, directly after Ansion?" Anakin asked and Obi-wan leaned forward, feeling his heart fill with dread at that. "You considered the reason that though acting normal, I was still in mourning of Darra, our normal team partner was the Attana/Thanis unit. But I lost my version of Siri and this had me depressed, because I grew too used to Darra and Soara at my side now."
"Barris was good I know, I just missed Darra so much that I was still in mourning, that explains my short temper with you, brother. I lost a friend, we don't check back who's next, and then you get the answer to that question: mom. As the pain shoots through me, into the three of you and you get the comm you never expected to hear, Father." he said and Mace crossed his arms at the news. "And now furious I am, going to pay, someone will." Yoda said sternly at the news.
"I know you preferred being with the girls it was safer that way, to prevent fights at the time here, you and Darra, was your friend Amee, Darra's counterpart?" Shaak Tii asked and he nodded. "She and I were close to it, but Darra's my version of the girls: Master Dantallion and Siri, but while one relationship was falling, another was deepening. That's the reason for the short tempered attitude, reminding you of our mission, before I could leave for Naboo now."
"We had to stop by the farm, if we had, I'd be able to focus." he said and Yoda nodded. "To focus and ease the sting of that memory, you deserved a few weeks off, but a double shift. That just destroyed your progress, because we never checked back on it, and it kills your mother. And now it's happening again, is that what you're telling me?" Mace asked and Anakin nodded. "Not making the same mistakes twice we are, but doing it now we are, but there it is now, Padawan."
"Key that was to bring it to full conclusion, being honest with us now, all this time, every time leave you do to be alone, her with, you always are." Yoda said and he nodded. "I see no reason to expel you, like you, Nejaa, Thracia, Damon, Tiana and I have families of our own. And with that, you been exercising both, but that concluded it now, you are ready. But though on the Council, you will receive training as a master." Ki added and he nodded as he hid a sigh of relief.
"At least you never learned this, before the moment of truth and instead a month prior." he said and they nodded in agreement. "As you know Padme is a senator, her network is preparing for outright rebellion against him." he told him and they nodded. "Then we combine together, with her committee, if he is our Sith, and if your alter ego was the target, we must spilt you in two. To save you, but we had the key already, so you're protected now." Shaak Tii said gently to him.
"Lost too much over this war already, I'm not losing you too now, all that's left of my quartet are Obi-wan, Tiana and Damon, I'm the only one left, in cubs still." he said and she nodded as her eyes gentled. "I see why you never mentioned Tru Veld, he stabbed you in the heart, after Darra was killed and tried to put the blame on you, correct?" Kit asked and he nodded. "Yes Master, but I saw his eyes glow gold, Korriban and the greed got to him." he told him and they nodded.
"It was not me, but he claimed here that to make Ferus look bad I was willing to let him take the fall, how can I do anything when trapped in a shield trap. You also gave me orders, I am a padawan, my orders were to stay with Obi-wan at the time. But my relationship with you, with their mentors and with Obi-wan was the punchline, underneath the humility now here. Said is crazed jealousy, they did it on purpose, if they let it go, Darra would still be alive right now."
"But they haven't trusted me, since Zan Arbor and my own capture after I unloaded everything to Obi-wan, but said experiment was just another way to handle my grief. And till I could cope, but a double whammy in 8 months, that is too much, but Darra was the cause. Mom was the effect and you felt the power blast as a result of my black out, but Padme. She brought me along to prevent it twice and the battlefield was the result." he said and Mace nodded gently.
"Indeed we had felt that blast, your pain and anger shot into us and we knew something was very wrong if we found you on Tatooine." Ki said and Anakin nodded. "Well you got the reason, their decision not to tell you, basically killed those raiders, mom. And who knows how many other people right now, but I'm not going through that again, once is enough. But that explains my charging ahead, I didn't want you to see that, brother." he said and Obi-wan nodded then.
"And as you said, your past can foreshadow your future, be careful here." he added and Yoda nodded in agreement. "Indeed right now, but understand better then Andy does you do, especially after explaining that remark to Ahsoka you did now." he said and Anakin nodded. "I'm getting way too old for these debates, but Andy was flirting with her, borderline seduction. But she feels safer around me, after I gave him a warning look, as for the duo in truth now."
"I'm sorry, but that's the entire rant, he's overly critical, he never listens, he just does not understand, it was all his fault, he's been jealous ever since the games. He was holding it back, said back, the lightsaber needing further work done on it right now." he said and the council nodded. "The he being Ferus, every time your alter ego sees me, you see him in my place, and he's also a Soresu?" Obi-wan said to clarify and he nodded and they both nodded sternly then.