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 5: Preparations And Counter Strikes II
"Look if we all come forward and tell the council you could get get off easy." he said and they heard a pained mental tone to this. 'Just admit now, the chance to get into the program is worth too much to give up. Even if it means one of us gets hurt, you're going to lie to them right now.' he thought firmly to that and Mace nodded and the boy scoffed at that. "We don't want to come forward, Ferus and me, we don't have a problem with this right now."
"But if you do then resign from the Jedi temple and leave, but don't make us pay for your guilty conscious." he told him and he looked at him in shock. "You'd put the entire team at risk just to save your necks?!" he said in disbelief. "To keep us together, the team, that is more important then you, and more important then me. And if I was in your place I would do so without hesitation, but that's just me." Ferus told him and Anakin nodded sternly.
"So that's the exchange, if you busted them in front of the girls, Ry' and me hmm, well I must say I agree with you on that. And you're right, we're Jedi, padawans or knights, we have a duty to the truth, even telling the truth up to a point is considered a lie. Even a lie of omission is still a lie, you never lied to me before, you're not starting now, so why protect them. After he said that exactly, because that cemented it, you're loyal to me and the council and with that now."
"Anakin had the correct idea here, with him and Darra injured, we can wait, we need to come home now, you get that lightsaber fixed and we try again later." Obi-wan said slowly and he swallowed hard, realizing he was screwed now at that remark. "Just what the blazes is wrong with you young man huh, you're on the Sith planet of origin, the Darkside clouds everything. Impatience is the quickest route to failure, he knew that, and knew best to pull back, retreat."
"So basically because of you, Darra is gone." Damon said sternly and he swallowed hard. "I was playing back that exchange in my head, hearing what the confrontation would be. If I busted them in front of the quartet, before telling them that the bloody thing is broken. Needs a new crystal, and I heard this exchange, you always told us the first rule is to survive. So he who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day." Anakin said and he and Mace nodded sternly.
"Point made young man, point made, if you're allowing your eagerness to graduate early cloud your judgement in never telling us thst one critical thing. You are not a real Jedi, but the fact that Anakin turned this in, just says directly after he had that exchange with you. We forcefully yank you back to the temple and test that lightsaber, before you both admit it. You realize what you almost did to him here!" Mace said sternly and he swallowed hard at that remark, shaking.
"As I said you made the mistake and it kills Darra, try to put the blame on me, nice try it didn't work and now you're in disgrace, Ferus was expelled. And I get off lightly, for turning you in, but thing of it is, I wasn't ready to just let go of my partnership. With Obi-wan, with Father if he was still alive, but the fact you did and never told them immediately now. It has them, in truth, questioning your commitment to the order, to Ry' and Tiana." Anakin said and he swallowed.
"I finally realized it here, but I came in late, and to keep me caught up, they had to further intensify every few weeks, so I never get bored here. I get my lightsaber at 12, and I'm beyond good, so by this time, I'm, if my father was still alive, close to being picked. As he and Obi-wan chose me, then at 19, the Parentals stepped back and the quartet took over. By that age, we're close, but not there yet, 7 to 8 years left, the time is going fast, so enjoy it while it lasts here."
"Because we only get 13 to 14 years with our mentors, so why rush it exactly?" he asked and he went pale at the revelation. "That's the code at the most pure here, and someone in league with Sidious just sped things up, making it so we're graduating years sooner. Then we're supposed to right now, well not me, I see this for what it is and I'm returning to Obi-wan's side. Lana and I, I know, if she heard this, she's deciding 2 years to 3." he said and he swallowed hard at that.
"Realizing this now, why is it whenever something happens, the Chancellor always chooses my team for the mission. Before the war started, first was Krayne and I had to kill in self defense, before, following that. Is he chose Obi-wan and me for said mandate with the senator, and I get back too late and my mother dies in my arms. And immediately following this, comes Ahsoka and my going to get Rotta?" he asked sternly and he froze up, realizing he didn't consider that.
"The reason is because he's trying to get me to brush the darkside, altering things in the senate, make us change policy now, we're supposed to graduate at 26 to 27. And for some odd reason, everyone, but us, Ferus and Lana are dead in our age group, so why is that?" he asked and he swallowed hard. "You are not serious, you think he and the Sithmaster are one and the same?" he asked and Anakin nodded. "I know he is, I just got to prove it." he said and he swallowed.
"So easy solution, withdrawal my position as knight, return to things before he made office, and we make a change or two to the code. But otherwise we're returning to when the code was the most pure, and I'm teaching this to my babies now. As they grew up with the code at the most pure, before my grandchildren do, for over 1,000 years have we been the keepers of peace. And justice, and we will return to our code, to the force." he said and the council nodded sternly.
"Agreed, for over 1,000 years have we been the keepers of peace and justice in the old Republic and we will the new one when the time comes, but the Old Republic's time is over. And we start anew with the New Republic and we return to who we are now." Mace said and Yoda nodded smiling in agreement. "And council material you are, clearly Anakin, you understand our considerations here in why take it slow we always do now, but agree with you the council does."
"Once gone Palpatine is, return we will and come home and be the council and Jedi Order Of the New Republic." he said and the council nodded in agreement to his thoughts. "But we got promoted too soon, and unaware you are that the darkside has clouded your judgement here. And enough you don't see that you swallowed the fish-hook and are floundering in the darkside, this is what a Sith does, give you want you want, take it, you belong to them, resist them."
"Before he could even get my attention with that Sith legend, I came to the council for information, turns out Father did that study. So I go to them, get Father's manual on force healing and study it and problem solved right now. But frankly I'm returning to the Jedi code when we were peace keepers first over soldiers. When our missions were to help keep peace, my son's like me, but my daughter is a consular, runs in the family." he said firmly to him then.
"Had my alter ego turned twin brother killed me, the story goes that while I was on Utapau with Obi-wan, Andy was seduced by the darkside of the force. He helped the Chancellor hunt down and destroy the Jedi, he betrayed me, and murdered me. And the Jedi, became all but extinct, Andy was seduced by the darkside of the force, that's the story. That Obi-wan is giving my son, my son idolizes me, everything I am, he wants to be." he said and Tru swallowed hard at that.
"My appearance right now is Andy, once I get changed, I'm Anakin." he said sternly and the group nodded sternly. "Currently Jedi Padawan Anakin Skywalker and soon to be Jedi Master Anakin Skywalker, son, as such right now. You earned your position to the council the situation over Palpatine was the final test." Mace said and he nodded. "And I will do my job, I will not let you down, I have everything I need, right here." he said and Mace and Obi-wan smiled proudly.
"All this time the old fool never considered I was the wrong padawan, Andy is this me, my appearance, but me as Anakin is dressed in the clothes. And of a senior padawan, on the edge of knighthood now, but my loyalty to you, my mentors, is beyond question. I will do ask you ask, and trust your judgement, but Light is learning that soon himself, trust you. Trust you know what you're doing, and I do, I was raised by you, as he becomes me." he said and they smiled.
"Indeed, everything you are, now, is everything cub wants to become, top rate fighter pilot, a very cunning warrior, and a good man and friend. We all love you, that losing you, and because your brother killed you, we all had a reason to hate Sidious. And avenge you, you're just like Qui-Gon." Damon said and Obi-wan and Yoda nodded in agreement. "I changed and returned to being my 17 year old self again, star pupil." he said and Yoda and Mace smiled proudly them.
"There, point to this that is exactly Anakin, you see this immediately and request to being returned to padawan, true Jedi you are, by not allowing evil to corrupt you." Yoda said smiling in approval and Mace, Kit, Ki and Plo Koon nodded in gentle approval. "Yes and as I said, love is not a bad thing here, it makes you strong, but desperation is dangerous. I got 6 to 8 weeks, and you gave me the pamphlet that Father had on force healing, problem solved right now here."
"But Master, we have work to do to insure your remark becomes a reality, we only got 6 to 8 weeks left, so we must work carefully, you leave tomorrow night. So Obi-wan, Shaak Tii, Kit, Mace, Agen, Saesee and I can do this in your absence, before Obi-wan leaves as well. And then just us, Damon, Tiana and Winna can manage in your absence." he said and Yoda nodded. "Indeed, bag up our texts and training lightsabers we will, single crystal in the reactor now."
"High level yield sedative and suspended animation all Jedi still at the temple will put themselves into, for fake raid, by your alter ego." he said and Anakin and the rest of the council nodded. "Wait, that's it, that's it, the healing crystals of fire, mixed in with force healing!" he said and he smiled in relief then. "Oh I never would have thought to consider that option, Minga and I can use the crystals to heal Padme's injuries if Andy crosses the line!" the healer said smiling then.
"So it's the senator, you're married to the senator, she's the mother of your twins, Light?" Tiana asked him and he nodded. "Yeah Nabooian names, but Light and Courage, so courageous light, a new Hope for the future New Republic." he said and the trio smiled gently. "Luke and Leia, my babies, my pride and joy, my daughter I don't doubt will be like Padme. Luke is like me, and all it entails now, Jedi fighter pilot, and the next generation of my team." he said and they smiled.
"Paternal pride I see in you right now, cubs are going to be our pride and joy, as they grow up, just like you are baby." Tiana said smiling and he nodded as Obi-wan chuckled at that remark then. "Can't wait to be a father I see, that I understand, but once Padme learns that you told me, she's going with your decision of naming me their godfather. And if Siri was still alive their godmother, as Adi becomes their Jedi grandmother, as for your idea with the crystals now."
"There we go, head off what he wants, if not you healing her with you in recovery, we got a second option and we never lost both of you." Obi-wan said smiling gently and he nodded. "To answer that is Andy is the name of my alter ego turned twin brother, Andrus. So Andrus Darian Vandel Skywalker, so take the middle initials what do you get in Sith?" he asked and she nodded. "Darth Vader, your alter ego is Darth Vader." Damon said and he nodded gently to him.
"And when the time is right, we will come back, Return of the Jedi." he said and Yoda smiled proudly at that. "The first to go and come back and lived to tell about it now." he added and Yoda nodded. "Just relieved never lost you I did padawan, not letting you go, love you I do." he said and Anakin nodded smiling. "Love you too Master, but this can work, we just fill out every area this plan goes wrong, and we got him, long before he makes it." he said and Yoda nodded.
"Father's age group is getting too old for this by the time the twins are 23, as is Obi-wan's, so me and my twins's class now, we're finishing what you started, but best. And before your last days, to clone you, giving you another 300 years left." he said and Yoda nodded. "Don't want to let go too soon, I understand Anakin, but twilight will come and when does, my time it is. But my legacy is you and your twins's class, their baby siblings." he said and Anakin nodded to him.
"Thank the force we discussed this, before you and I left, Master." Obi-wan said and he nodded in agreement. "Agreed right now, because lose him, just us as last of the council, we are, but must take him alive and lock up Vader in his head for life, we have to. Just 6 to 7 weeks, induce a week early and clone Padme and appear pregnant, but before reach that part. We do, must tell your families and they know the code, changed again it did." he said and Anakin nodded gently.
"And to quote this now, your patience has paid off by doing it this way." Mace said and Anakin smiled. "Your guidance, more then my patience, Master." he said in response and Shaak Tii chuckled. "Sidious never saw this coming and neither did Palpatine, or if he and Sidious are the same man, once you learned to trust your instincts. As your nickname became a reality, the Hero With No Fear, you released that fear, we're your strength." he said and Anakin nodded.
"Like I said, back to being a padawan again, we're returning to when the code was at the most pure, which is why Obi-wan kept defeating Sithlords. And while he took out the Zabrak, I got Dooku, impatience is a very dangerous trait right now. But don't start here, things were fine till the bloody situation over the academy that said politicians son was at. And before Yaddle was killed while saving me, as I started further training, but we're back to their age groups again."
"Back to the code in the purest way possible, but me-me, I'm with big brother on wherever Grievous is this time, Andy-me, is here on the capitol. Keeping an eye on him, studying the manual, and working out with the council, and Masters Damon and Tiana." he said and Yoda nodded smiling at that, and his plan. "Wise thinking Anakin, that works quite well, as finish this out we do, so sparring practice, alleviate stress that it, it is?" he asked and he nodded gently.
"Extensive P.T. and sparring to take the edge of the stress off now, I need someone to spar with, but remember, while Obi-wan was busy. It's he left me with Soara and she was helping my training?" he asked and Tru went white, realizing he forgot that memory when they were 14. "As I work out, but we're not debating this all day right now, my wife is pregnant in truth here. But you're basically what Darian really is, before becoming Vader." he said and Tru went white then.
"Master, better get Lana in here, she and Master Daytana just got back." he said and he nodded. "Lana Chion, could you come to the council chambers please." he said and they heard a female voice then. "Yes Obi-wan, I'm on my way right now." she said and he nodded. "Lana and I are both from the Outer Rim territories, but we understand this, that returning to training. When it was at the most pure, with the shroud fallen is the best way to go here, you got suckered."
"But the darkside is faster, easier, more seductive, we were on Korriban remember, the Sith home planet, it was positively glowing with evil. In claims of fame and focus, all by selling your soul to the devil, by deciding not to turn it in. You succumbed to the temptations, your eyes went gold, you sacrificed your team and us. Your quartet for early graduation, if Darra was still alive, like me, she would withdrawal knighthood at this hour." he said and he started shaking.
"So you're saying your relationship with Tiana means nothing?" he asked and he went white then at that. "Not me, as Obi-wan, Father, they mean the world to me, my family trio, my loyalty is to them, I'm happy with being a padawan again. In fact I don't want to let go, I can finish out with Obi-wan, he's my mentor, my brother I love him. If Father was still alive, he's my father mentor, happy I decided to finish our last years together." he said and he swallowed hard.
"My mother is dead, and though I have a stepfamily, my real family is Obi-wan, Qui-Gon, Padme, that's my family, why give it up and throw it away. Said the most important people in your life, just say Sidious got what he wants, I gave up my family. My friends and my marriage, to be all powerful, for graduation, so yell me is, is it worth it. You're all alone, everyone sees you and thinks, what happened to you, I don't know you anymore." he said and Tru started shaking.
"So you're returning to being your brother's padawan, Qui's padawan, if your father was still alive, he would be thrilled to get you back. I never seen anyone from your age group decide to withdrawal their position to knight and want to be a padawan again." the healer said and the 2 masters nodded. "If none of them did, they're not a true Jedi, just because we're adults, doesn't mean we don't still need you, our mentors, now, you're our parent mentor, their group, mentor."
"Just because I'm 23, it doesn't mean I don't still need you right now for support, take this scenario for instance, instead of bothering to listen to the Chancellor. I come right to your age groups and you oblige immediately, my family, you're my family, my Jedi family is you." he said and they looked down smiling at that. "Love you too baby." she said and Mace chuckled at that. "That's too late for that baby brother, Master, I resign as well." they heard and he nodded then.
"That's fine Lana." he said smiling as a 26 year old human girl padawan appeared as she moved behind him. "Indeed fine it is Lana, rejoin your brothers." Yoda said and she moved to Anakin and Obi-wan. "Lana, the guides of your planet and their intel passed to mother and father, it's all self fulfilling prophecy from here, we created 2/5's of it by the clones. And the ships, followed by my alter ego and Sidious, that moonsized weapon is next." Anakin said and she nodded gently.
"Oh lovely right now, alright so if you never caught that Annie, he wins and we're done." he said and he nodded. "Decided to return to being a padawan now, the war sped up graduation to the trials, but the shroud of the darkside fell when the war started. We're at the home stretch, but as of this moment I resign my position of knight, and humbly ask to return to being a padawan. And stay at your side, my master." he said and the council smiled at the gentle maturity in him.
"Granted, you are a padawan once again, Anakin." Mace said gently and she smiled. "I also humbly request to return to my master's side, I want another 2 years, Master." she said and he nodded. "Very well Lana, you are a padawan once again as well." he said and she bowed to him and Yoda and moved to Anakin and he gripped her hand smiling. "The point to this is we're returning to when the code was at the most pure now, where we graduate at mid to late 20's."
"Though we created a new tradition, team trios, my future was secured when my trio came right to me when we were younglings still. But we lost the girls, Dane, Corran, Sari, Wedon and Jacen in the battle of Geonosis, we were supposed to be mid level padawans. And at 7 years training with another 7 years left, and instead here, our trials got shoved forward way too fast. Causing a wide variety of problems and leaving the shroud open access to attacking us when we least."
"Now expect it, so the war's coming to an end, back to padawan for another 4 to 5 years." he said and she nodded in agreement and the council the trio nodded in approval. "And that's just what we want to hear, why would you want to leave us that fast, as the war ends now. We can put ours back in one piece, and instead our units are in shambles, because of the darkside." Damon said sternly and he nodded as he looked at his ex friend then sternly as he said it to him.
"At least we never lost what mattered most, I'm the only true in our quartet." Anakin said gently and he nodded. "The only true Jedi, with your age group killed in the battle of Geonosis, so young man, want to explain yourself. As your former friend proved his loyalty to us, but the only ones left of your class are you 3 and Ferus Olin. As he left and leaving only you three now, and they proved it here, they are loyal to us and their mentors." Mace said and he swallowed hard.
"Returning to when the code was the most pure, he is, expedited trials test of the darkside, they are and swallowed the fishook, you and Ferus did." Yoda said and he swallowed hard at that and Mace nodded. "Yes and it seemed Anakin revealed some new light, regarding the lightsaber and Darra's murder at Xanatos's heir hands now." he said and Tru went pale, realizing he ratted him out to the council and Obi-wan nodded as he answered that response as he looked at him.
"I guess this never occurred to you, I reported you right to Adi?" Anakin asked and he paled further at that. "Adi turned this into Master, and they and Tolan decided on a test, you did exactly as they knew you would do. That instead of reporting it immediately, you withhold that information, and just as Omega fires, the lightsaber shorts out. When we could have done this in the safety of the temple, you killed Darra by not turning it in." he said and Tru went white then.
"Just so you know, I was in on Master's, the council's, testing you in the truth test, after I over heard your exchange with Ferus. With Obi-wan huh, so there be the punchline, and Siri's the padawan of a council member. So I'm with Obi-wan hmm, I'm with him, with the council and a traitor to all padawans. In waiting for you to speak up, that's why I never said it, I'm a Council mole." Anakin said and True went white in fear, realizing he sold them out already to Obi-wan.
At the time 4 years prior, as Yoda and Mace hid a smile at that and Obi-wan crossed his arms. "I withdrew my position current rank, I'm a padawan once again, the last of the 4 of us. In proving my loyalty to Obi-wan, and the council, but the deepest commitment, to your team. The most serious mind, about that commitment, how can you be a padawan if you were ready to leave. And 6 years after getting picked by Ry', hmm?" he asked and Damon Calrissian nodded sternly.
"Obi-wan knows my loyalty to him is beyond question, but my twin brother is the man you tried to frame here, in your words now. But were you aware Sidious was on Korriban with us right now, you played right into his hands." he said and Tru paled at that remark shaking. "But I saw how you traded knowing looks that day as you exchanged lightsabers in the cave. That there was a chance it could go during the fight, that you knew I knew and I was stuck in a trap."
"And that I couldn't get in front of her in time to save either of you, you or her, Ferus, that there it was, there was a chance it could go then. Not my friend, no not my friend now, I said to myself then, my friend wouldn't do that. But then I thought of how wary you were of me after Zan Arbor, you knew how I felt about Ferus. I was upset, you would want me to look like the failure, the failure of a Jedi I was, that you claimed me to be, ever since Yaddle was killed."
"Even if it meant not saying anything until it shorts out and one, or all of us, are killed by both Omega and Sidious. You would want me to get blamed for it shorting out or exploding, even if it meant putting the entire team at risk till one of us is killed." he said and Tru swallowed hard as he said it quickly to that remark quickly at that. "That's not fair!" he said in denial to that and Anakin sighed as he looked at him sadly at that and Obi-wan crossed his arms at that reveal.
Sadly and with disappointed resignation as he said it to him, as he felt his heart breaking at what they did now. "And suddenly I realized-yes, Tru could have done that." he said and the council crossed their arms. "You're looking at this all wrong." Tru said quickly and Anakin and Lana shook their heads to that. "I don't think so, I think I truly am seeing you for the first time." he said sadly, as he turned away from him and Lana pressed her forehead to Anakin's gently.
Realizing that was his remark when they were 19. "You're looking at this all wrong." he said again in fear and he shook his head. "I don't think so, I think I truly am seeing you got the first time ever, call me a failure as a Jedi. Well you're one to talk, your master is dead, Siri is dead, Soara and Darra, the one lasting longest is Obi-wan and me. Strength of our bond, my loyalty is to him, he's my brother, total commitment." he said a second time and Tru swallowed hard then.
At that remark then. "I decided with my this close to the brink, I resign my knighthood for another 5 years. I'm staying with Obi-wan till I'm 28, make level I master at 33, so by the time my babies are 10. Obi-wan and Master don't mind, my loyalty to them is beyond question, I love them and if Father was alive. He would agree, I don't have to leave him, he can keep me for another 5 years like big brother does and did, and then knighthood." he told him and he paled.
"Indeed, if your father was still alive, your loyalty to him is beyond question after your brother left us questioning the commitment to the girls and Ry'." Damon said and he nodded. "Well I'm withdrawing my position, I want to be a padawan again, I need you guys. To make it through the next 2 months." he said and he nodded smiling. "We understand, if your father was still alive, he would take you back immediately." she said and he smiled as she hugged him tightly.
As he pressed his forehead to her's and she closed her eyes smiling then. 'Yeah there's my baby boy, gods he's grown so mature, yeah he's ready, but if another 3 years as a padawan. Then he gets it, as we deal with his emotional state the next year now.' she thought smiling gently at that. "There's the true loyalty we expected, rather then staying a knight once the war ends, you decided to resign knighthood and become our padawan again." she said and he smiled then.
"You 3 and Thracia were my maternal figures with my being a padawan, but currently this current scenario is urgent, because Sidious's target was me all this time. After Obi-wan killed the Zabrak, supposedly, remember, ' we will watch your career, with great interest.'. We is 'he', he and our Sith are one and the same, I think, he is Sidious, he wants me." he told her and she nodded. "He wants you, he's getting to you over our dead bodies." she said sternly to that news.
And Damon and Winna nodded in stern agreement to that. "Gods where is Qui-Gon when we need him, if he was the only thing Sidious was afraid here. It's got to be his study on force healing, that's why he told Maul to come after the Senator. He had to erase the only source of that knowledge now, but claim he knew this power, he's lying. We had the power, we always did, going to be okay baby, you'll get that power." her padawan said and he pressed his forehead.
And to her's gently. "Well you, Soara and Siri were always there when I needed you, you and Obi-wan, you're all I got left of your age group, along with Bant and the guys." he told her and she nodded. "We know, and we're not losing you without a fight, but you said padawan in everyway you can say it to us, loyalty is beyond question. Once this war is over, padawan again and we move on, and we help with raising baby." she said and Obi-wan nodded in agreement.
"My father is dead, as is Adi, who is left of the parental mentors?" Anakin asked and Tru looked at Damon and Tiana and he swallowed hard, realizing this was an insult to their memory. "But from them to the quartet to us, my baby boy, his commitment to me, his sister to Obi-wan. That's beyond question, if the girls were still alive, my baby girl goes to the girls, my son to us. A new generation in our team families portraying the true loyalty." he said and Yoda nodded.
"There's my baby, you proved it alright Anakin, that's what we mean exactly." Tiana said gently and he looked at her with love in his eyes. " Mother maybe gone, but I have you and Winna still, Master." he said and she nodded. "And you always will, whatever is going on after losing Shmi, can be easily fixed if you had to see us, before Mace decided on whatever." she said and he nodded. "Padme's pregnant, the baby's mine." he said and she and Damon nodded gently.
"I'm also married, but time for the truth, we eloped after Geonosis, been married 3 years and my last furlough resulted in my twins, my babies. But Father's record of said visions after Kegan, and the prophecy are one and the same. I have to cut it close, and once done, slam, lock and bolt my mental door, my alter ego is my twin brother. The one they, the duo, blame for Darra's murder at Omega's hands." he said and the quartet nodded smiling gently at his reveal then.
"There we go, invite the master in, and bond made stronger, you're our pride, we never been more proud of you, son." Damon said and he smiled softly as Tru swallowed hard at the reveal then. "This is how the council deals with rivalries and further problems between 2 friends, seems you were never a friend. If you decided to implicate your fellow padawan over your lightsaber at your current age, boy." Mace said and he started shaking then, realizing he was done for now.
"That's right young man, he told me everything, but seems that he reveals his emotions to his wife as well, but overly critical, you guys don't know what it means to be this powerful. Never listen, you never listen to a born in the field padawan, you just do not understand. But Ferus was jealous at Anakin's credibility to us and being that good, it was your fault Darra's gone. Ferus was holding it back about the lightsaber needing more work." he said and Anakin nodded.
"Putting his desire to graduate over the safety of the team, was what killed Darra, and along with Ferus never checking the crystal. Their desire to point me out as everything they been saying since Zan Arbor, that ultimately wrecked their lives. But Darra was the cause, mom was the effect, if you felt the power blast, I blacked out and my alter ego lost it completely." he said and Mace nodded. "It's the Carver all over again, Anakin?" he asked and he looked down then.
"Baby what's going on exactly?" Jedi Master Clee Rhara asked him gently. "Padme's pregnant, a month left, but my premonitions are on her this time, they're spelling out my murder. And at the hands of my alter ego, I have less then a month left, my remission is over." he said and they nodded quickly and Tru went white, realizing he just murdered him by Darra's loss. "That's right Tru, you just helped my downward spiral along here, you know if you just let it go right now."
"You wouldn't be disgraced and Ferus expelled, I grew up in the outside world, when are you going to get that, but double whammy, followed by losing our entire clan, aside from Lana and Ferus. And then comes losing my arm, this thing is a cancer, digging into my soul, I don't get rid of it, I become like Grievous, blast it." he said and Tru swallowed hard shaking at that news. "No not again, we're not losing you too!" Minga Denjer snapped in anger at the news then quickly.
"First Darra, then Shmi, your friends in your clan, the girls and Ry', and finally Adi, we're all that's left of our quartet, we're not losing anyone else in our quartet or the Jedi now." Damon said sternly and he nodded. "Well my only friends left are your age group Master, you, Obi-wan's clan and Lana, Lana is all I have left of our clan." he told him and he nodded, as she ran her hand through the hair at the back of his head gently, as the council exchanged stern looks.
"Tru you want a second chance from me, to fix this friendship between us, find Ferus, bring him back, we fix this, together." Anakin said and he nodded. "You mean that, we fix this between us and we're okay now?" he asked and Anakin nodded. "Father and Mother, the girls and Ry' would have wanted it this way, the three of us stop him from wiping us out, we have 2 months. Make every second count, and create the story as we go." he said and he nodded gently to him then.
And they nodded. "I should have sent Siri to check on it." Ki said sternly and he nodded. "Not your fault, you didn't know right now, but the last one got shoved into my head. Before I headed for Tatooine to double check, but I was on a double shift that week right now. You know this, growing up normal, I'm also a living force, I can't control those visions." he said and the council nodded sternly. "That must be why Palpatine recommended you." Mace said slowly that news.
"If it is, the Sith wanted him delayed that by the time we did look into it, she's close to death. Well that…., Sidious was shoving these visions into your head, till when you decide to check on it. It's already too late, he wanted this." Obi-wan growled and Mace nodded sternly. "He's doing it again, let's check back tomorrow, after you read a few chapters of that book." Shaak Tii said and Yoda nodded. "Leave tomorrow at Dusk, I do." he said and Mace and Obi-wan nodded then.
"You got a few days to study and start practicing that skill, during your mission, as we see your aura turning brighter and brighter, as our you takes back total control." Mace said and he nodded. "Yeah that and I think the final phase of his plan kicked in right now, but we can make it in time right now, I think he was praying you never had that text. And then throws the line he knows this power, when he killed the only source, if he is 'him'." he said and Yoda nodded then.
"So we got one night on this, and check back tomorrow, before you leave Master." Mace said and he nodded. "Agreed, Mace, Shaak Tii, Obi-wan, agree with you I do, will stay tonight and leave tomorrow night, Anakin And before whoever sent the news where Greivious to Palpatine and he reveals that location, just pretend you will. If he mentions anything worth of value, as given you the power offered, we already did." he said and Anakin nodded to the orders gently smiling.
"You maybe on duty, but you're in medical recovery from another double shift, baby brother." Garen Muln said and he nodded. "Issues in our Jedi family, even the young adult cubs need a break at times and you're too exhausted to think straight here." Damon said with a bemused smile and Yoda nodded in agreement. "We're the only family he has, with his mother dead, but his immediate family are the Lars and Naberries later." Obi-wan said and Mace nodded gently.
"Where's your living arrangements exactly?" he asked and Anakin smiled. "I'm living with her actually right now at the senatorial apartment complex." he asked and they nodded. "So that's where you're going in between missions, you been living at her apartment all that time. Okay that's fine, now that we got the truth, no more living two lives, just combine both together. At least this way we got a lock into her grouping, and her us." Kit said and he nodded gently then.
"That and I need to re-align my color again, Master." Anakin said and Mace nodded. "Yes and speaking of which, your lightsaber's glowing bluish purple now, the transition is complete." he said and he took it off his belt and checked it. "Control the evil and yet I'm a guardian, I'm a 23 year old you." he said and Mace nodded gently. "This was why no one could never defeat me, I'm a very highly skilled in form VII." he said and Anakin nodded smiling as he answered him.
"I have everything I need right here, I'm a soon to be father, friends and I just changed further, but he's too late, you win, what do you see, Master Yoda, am I still connected?" he asked and Yoda closed his eyes to check his aura, and then got hit with a vision. And his padawan as a fully grown adult with 2 young adults, a woman no older then Tiana. And with them was a wookie. A younger version of his other prize pupil and a man next to the girl with smiles on their face.
"See our future I do, been a Jedi master for 18 years, saw your family, Damon's grandson, his best friend and my connection with the wookies, also saw the droids I did. Owen, pleased he will be that gave you a way to stay you we did now, save your family by this one change." he said and Anakin nodded smiling. "My entire side of the family is alive, as is her's, but the twins, if I have twins now, are Jedi turned politicians and fighter pilots." he said and they all nodded then.
"Then again this is not the first time your teaching by a brutal punchline hit them hard, Master Yoda, case in point here was I had to kill in self defense. As Krayne was not going down without a fight and he slashed me across the arm with a rusted vibro-blade." he said and they all nodded. "That's an understatement, after seeing for myself what he meant and now this, hence the case of infamy, former slave turned Jedi knight, the infamous Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker."
"The Hero with no fear, though not true, you're scared to lose someone else you love, we all know this, but you grew up in the real world, and what is talked about between us. Remains between us, you and me as your mentor, let alone the trio and parental mentor trio. Which got reduced to a duo, thanks to this war." Obi-wan said and they nodded sternly then. "We know boys, but you grew up outside the temple, you know the brutality that lifeforms do to others."
"We knew something was wrong after we heard Qui-Gon through the void, so that was it." Mace said and Anakin nodded. "We're not making the same mistakes twice right now, but you lost her, you're not losing us or your family as well. So with that in mind, there is a way, it's in that section of the archives, as you train to use that power. If he is our Sith, and gives you a Sith legend, we got him now." Mace said and Yoda nodded in agreement as he answered him then.
"I never went against you before, but I can not divide my life in secret, Master I have reason to believe last night was a test, Palpatine wanted that. But my induced black out, could be matched to you, Master Windu, I think my aura switched colors, I must be like you." he said and Mace nodded gently. "There is a script in the archives, involving everything Qui-Gon learned, about force healing, I think that should suffice now, but if this was part of the prophecy now."
"And his plan, we play along till you catch him in his words, if he's associated with our Sith, or he is the Sith." he said and Anakin nodded. "I understand, we need to know why all the interest in me, or why this war is still ongoing, what is this exactly, is he associated with him. Or he is him and…, his tone sounded savage when he ordered me to kill Dooku, so yes. That does sound very cold blooded, he's dangerous, behind that grandfatherly look in his appearance now."
"Very well, I can do that, you have my trust now, I'm lucky I told you my truths, before you asked me to do that, but yes Master, I can act as a spy, and double agent. But in return this basically saves the entire Jedi order, let alone me, after I got enough, I'm telling you. And then we put our plan into action, Mace, but this thing is the tumor, I'm running out of time. Sedation and I'm telling our side of the squadron maximum stun, but go and return as fast as I turned."
"You heal my injuries and grow back my limbs, I'm fully human again, but he's taken enough from me, he's not taking all of you as well, Master, he's mine." he said and Yoda smiled in relief at the news. "Then take a seat, Master Skywalker." Mace said gently at that remark and he took the seat next to Obi-wan and the council exchanged relieved looks. "I think this was the plan, disruption of my recovery after Darra's murder, demoralization after mom was killed by Raiders."
"And now distraction by separating us, that by the time he makes his move it's already too late." he said and Yoda and Mace nodded. "But the disruption by the thefts was disrupting normality of training, demoralization was by killing Master and theft of the crystals. Distraction was Ali and the younglings, he did that to plant the crystals into the reactor. So when Miro finished with rebooting the system, as they cause a thermonuclear explosion." he said and Mace nodded then.
"I see the intention here Master, but it follows Xanatos's pattern now, we just ended the first stage, disruption, by my being preoccupied with Padme's pregnancy, next demoralization." he said and Mace and Yoda nodded sternly. "By us denying you your right to a promotion, but considering you're still emotionally a padawan, that was a correct choice here. And finally, distraction, the mission where it separates you from your brother." Mace said and he nodded.
"And being promoted right now you are." Yoda said and he nodded. "That's to his knowledge, in reality, I'm a padawan, under my mentor, Master I want to return to Obi-wan's side. So 4 more years as a padawan, 6 more as a knight, and make Master at 33." he said and they nodded. "Very well then do that, we will then Padawan to us a padawan you are still, to his knowledge promoted you with Ahsoka on mission still, we have." he said and Mace nodded in approval.
"While this was disruption: of a chance for you to get know me, with an emergency going on, demoralization: that was a double whammy, with first Darra and then mom. And distraction: by separating us that by the time you guys come back, we're done for. And my soul belongs to him, as a result, same thing, but taking 13 years to do so." he said and the council nodded. "Yes there's the formula right there, and only the three of us and Qui' knew that formula now."
"It's happening again, Master." Mace said and Yoda and Obi-wan nodded sternly to the news. "Here we go again, it's Xanatos all over again, and 80% of us were here for that, right now, Master, Mace." Obi-wan said and Yoda and Mace nodded in agreement. "We lost 3, but otherwise we got all of us, but that could be it now, so my branch, we must be. Now, a homicide inspector in the local security department to catch a Sith, we must think like one now in truth, son."
"Wise thinking Anakin, I never would have seen that if you never said that, but how far along is she exactly." he asked and Anakin sighed. "We're in the final trimester, due date is in a few weeks, but we may have to induce it, and then clone her body. Make it look like my premonition, so we have him thinking you lost us both in one shot." he told him and Yoda and Obi-wan nodded. "That or we take him out after Grievous is dead." Kit said sternly at the remark then.
"Wait on that, we move too soon, he's calling treason, so two tests of strength, the only one that can match him next to Master Yoda is me." Mace said and Anakin nodded in agreement. "Just let loose, Mace, give it everything you have here, unload into Vaapad." he said and Mace nodded gently. "I will, but I'm losing my hand for this, but get someone in catching range of me." he said and Anakin nodded gently. "I will, but we do this carefully." he said and Mace nodded then.
"But best do this alone Mace, before that kills the quartet too, we just plan a bait and switch, move too soon, we lose all of us." he said and Mace and Yoda nodded in agreement. "Only you know what happened in there, but with you thinking straight and on wherever with your brother. Andy crossed the line, cut my wrist off, and he blew me out the window now, we had Bail or his general in catching range of me, and they brought me back to the Alderaan medical center."
"But you come home, find the slaughter, check the security footage, and know, not only did he nearly kill us all, but he's going to hunt down Gunray and the others." he said and Anakin nodded. "Agreed, there's the rewrite now." he and Obi-wan said together and Yoda nodded. "And now you know I been listen to all three of you and Damon way too much lately." he said and Yoda smiled and nodded gently to that. "Indeed, we do." he said smiling gently then to that.
"Like we said our star pupil, sure you grew up outside the temple, you're as strong as we are, but the Jedi will return and when we do, you Sith Scum, your days are numbered now." Mace said sternly and he smiled then. "So we're rewriting the entire story from here, in what we tell the twins, what they grew up to believe, before Light gets it from the wrong person here." he said and they nodded. "Indeed, but 8 weeks to plan it out, we have." Yoda said and he nodded.
"Master that's treason, there could be a search and destroy order for us." he said and they nodded. "He's going to call treason if we try to arrest him in the office and have us disbanded or worse, and this gives him a perfect reason to call a search and destroy. But we get him to expose his lightsaber if he is one, but if he is one, two tests of strength, bide our time. And then I do it in my own prime, I do him, and my son my alter ego." he said and Yoda nodded sternly.
"Well if he can outmatch us, and we're 10 years younger then he is, we're too old by the time you try it and you're in your mid 40's, baby." Tiana said and he nodded. "I know, but this means as an adult my powers quintupled both sides right now by the time my children are also 23. And the story we told them becomes true, giving my son a bigger reason to hate the darkside. My alter ego was seduced and betrayed and nearly killed me." he said and Yoda nodded gently.
"I should have seen this coming, he was having me question your decisions for 13 years, possibly grooming me for this, and when he makes his move. That the duo that would have talked some sense into me are off world. " he said and Mace crossed his arms. "While I was getting ready to give that text to you, as I told you we already had what you needed. In order to save her, but clearly the chancellor is corrupt." he said in response and Anakin nodded sternly.
"Corrupt and evil, but it's not all black and white, we lost our way as well, and it's beyond ironic, we find the power to become one with the force, a month prior to our destruction." he said and Obi-wan nodded. "Like I said, in our hands your powers save billions, in his, it's a dangerous weapon waiting to go off, one we must prevent at all costs, so we give you what you want. He spends 6 weeks studying that, and we're okay, as he stays himself." he said and Yoda nodded.
"Good point that is, but Anakin, must tread carefully from here though." he said and Anakin nodded. "Alright, alright, if this turns into a cross and double cross, I can take my side of our patrols, tell them put the stun on high and we sedate the Jedi here at the temple." Anakin said and Mace nodded. "Blast it, alright we must be very cautious from here on out, Anakin go to Padme, tell her you told us and we gave you said key, if this was his eliminating the last piece."
"He's done for." he said, and Anakin nodded, before he could answer, a power blast shot through him, and Obi-wan and Yoda as they got thrown into the backs of their chairs. "Jeez, Anakin, you okay, buddy?" Tru said quickly, grabbing him as he slumped forward and he nodded. "I think so, just give me a minute." he said and he nodded as Minga and Winna did the same with Obi-wan and Yoda as he shook his head to clear it, before refocusing as his adult mind engaged then.