The Salvation Of The Chosen One
Characters: Anakin Skywalker, Obi-wan Kenobi, Padme Amidala, Mace Windu, Master Yoda, Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, Han Solo, Lando Calrissian, Chewbacca, R2-D2, C-3PO, Lord Sidious
Time-line: After returning to the capitol and Anakin's dream of Padme's dying in childbirth and his appointment to the council.
Synopsis: Directly after his appointment to the council, Anakin Skywalker comes clean, surprised by the news, but deciding to help. Obi-wan and the council offers him what he needs to save Padme, which prevents their own biggest fear. Now, from coming to pass, before the arrival of his unborn family as he realizes he can show the truth. And to who he really is to his children, paving a new future for his family and the galaxy.
But first must overcome the piece that lead to his downfall, by confronting the evil in his own soul and the supreme lord of the Sith, Darth Sidious.
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.
Also with this chapter is Anakin makes a fast decision to give his current lightsaber to Obi-wan, for him to give to Luke and with it a gift to Leia. As he, before his alter ego betrays him, is deciding he'd rather die by his best friend's hands. As himself then live as Darth Vader, as he tells them the truth, and Padme's opinion to this….
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 1: Truths Of The Chosen One
"Allow this appointment lightly the council does not, disturbing is this move by Chancellor Palpatine." he said and he said it gently. "I understand." he said and his counterpart said it to him. "You are on this council, but we do not grant you the rank of master." he said and the young knight, looked at him shocked as he answered him. "What?" he asked and they looked at him. "How can you do this? This is outrageous, it's unfair, how can you be on the council."
"And not be a master?" he asked and the master it said as his mentor shook his head sternly. "Take a seat, young Skywalker." he said and the young Knight froze and relaxed and calmed down. "Forgive me, Master." he said and he took the seat next to his mentor as he looked at him with a sigh, as he zoned out as he thought over what this was. "Anakin, Anakin." he heard and refocused at that. "Forgive me, I was thinking over your concerns." he said and they nodded.
"What's on your mind, because we normally never hear you like that?" A Nautolan Jedi master asked him and he explained that. "This is going to sound out of turn, but you ever consider how we look to the rest of the galaxy. But 1) you're kidnapping children away from their families, 2) we could be seen as a cult rather then an Order, we're supposed to be peace keepers here. And we use violence to a end a debate." he said and the second in command froze up at that then.
"Our Jedi mind tricks could be seen as taking away the free will good people, everything we're doing, looks to us as the way it is, but to an outsider, we're as corrupt as the Sith." he said and the grandmaster froze up, never once seeing that from an outside point of view. "And the reason is, you been a Jedi for 900 years Master Yoda, you never see this from things. In how they are now, before the Sith try to wipe us out after we did them." he said and the second nodded then.
"Why did you not send me home after you saw powerful I truly was, after you first declined?" he asked and the grandmaster swallowed. "That one I can answer, because after learning the Sith were back truly, if not us, they would get their hands on you and you'd be a threat to us." he said and he nodded. "Then answer this, why did you not return and free the slave on Tatooine, through me, at least then they're from Krayne." he said and his mentor covered his eyes at that.
"I gained my reputation by infamy, because of Krayne, I did what you could not do and to the NFS I'm a hero, but to the Jedi…." he said and they nodded, sighing. "That choice was to signal a change in things, a change from how the code was supposed to be. And yet, the Non Force sensitives see that if we're not going to do anything about the slavery. Send the padawan that was once a slave, he ends this himself, saving billions now." The second in command said then.
"Qui-Gon was right, do you not see how serious this looks, the last 4 generations could be seen as ready to rebel, even go so far as turn to the darkside. But did Bruck not make a point, Xanatos, Lorian Nodd, and currently Tru, Ferus and me?" he asked and the grandmaster sighed then. "Why did my clan group die exactly, why?" he asked and he swallowed. "Well the reason is because we serve not the republic, but the force, you lost your way 300 years ago Master."
"But 80% of the Jedi in this Order are all one kind, what?" he asked and he jerked, realizing he kept forgetting that. "We're all human, we learn to love, our love for our padawans made us parents, or big brothers and sisters. Tried to control those emotions, but we can't, not all the time, we love you as our padawan, in either version." His counterpart said and he nodded. "Yes exactly, that's the point, it's not wrong to love, fall in love." he said and they nodded gently.
"My point is, it's not just the Republic that has a disease in it, you lost your way, death of some of the old ways, begin anew now. We take on some of Grey Order's philosophy and we change for the better, we combine with the Loyalist committee. And we stay friends, but that's why I was talking to Bail yesterday, he told me they're ready to mutiny themselves. They had enough of this and Padme said the same thing." he said and the 10 nodded in gentle understanding.
"Master Yoda the point is, failure is how we learn, make a mistake, we try again tomorrow, by success you gain nothing, but arrogance, failure keeps us humble. I lost races for 3 years, keeping me humble, but I won, and I get my freedom, but win one/lose one. This is a universal formula, but Master please just trust me when I say this, but if our Sithmaster is human. He's no older then Father, at their current age, he sees you as beyond arrogant for not inducing it."
"A change or 2 in the code, so what happens when you fight him for real, do you realize while he evolved and changed his code, you failed to the same. Leaving only you and Obi-wan left, if we don't stop this now, as I belong to him now, my soul. You lose me and Padme in one shot, because of your arrogance not to allow change to the code. Right here, right now, we change things now, I stay me, or we don't and my alter ego kills me, and you get blamed for this."
"Because this not only kills Padme, her family, and mine blame you, Owen would think I should have stayed here, not gotten involved in the arrest. And frankly with my thinking straight, I agree with him right now, if you just changed the code. The me you know would not be in a coma." he said and he swallowed hard at that remark. "Point taken, we are not losing you to that Sith scum." the second in command said sternly and the 9 nodded in stern agreement.
"You think he's really no older then we are?" the Cerulean Master asked and he nodded. "Your age or 10 years older, I'm right and he's hiding under your noses right now in truth. Masking his signature, his eyes from you, till he has you so fooled, that when you do realize it. It's when the bomb gets dropped and I'm incapacitated here from the reveal." he said and he and the second nodded. "And only we had your best interests in heart when a youngling." he said gently to him.
"And that's why I'm saying this directly to you and Master Windu, what was your first opinion of knowing we were getting ready to see Padme again after 10 years?" he asked and he explained that. "Though it was going to be good to see her again, we were apprehensive of leaving her alone with your alter ego, knowing you're the one. That we knew acted like your brother, as Adi made the decision for me here, of she had protection detail, your brother, your father in truth."
"They have the search at the time." the second said to him. "Well then doesn't it seem odd that the Chancellor chose Obi-wan out of no where?" he asked and the second crossed his arms. "So this keeps you away from Tatooine long enough your mother is barely hanging on now. and when you do go to check, she dies in your arms, and we feel the power blast of your grief and anger." he said and the knight nodded and they exchanged looks with his mentor in concern.
"You just saying it out right, I think you're right, if you're the target and we know how close to Padme you are Anakin, we have only one chance to get this right. By what is talked about in this session right now." His mentor said in agreement. "Well it gets better, but Padme and I talked this over, as you are the only one that knows, we want you to be the godfather, brother." he said and he smiled. "I would be honored by that, thank you." he said and the second hid a smile.
"But this is what the prophecy meant, bring balance to the force, by updating the code, making the sides even and bringing balance to the force. We been in peace so long, there had to be a time of strife, and 26 years is the time of strife. 2) everyone, but you, me and Obi-wan go Grey Jedi till I destroy both of them, and 3) the code must change now. Only then can we be accepted by the galaxy, not as cult, but as citizens to the galaxy." he said and they all nodded.
"So instead of an Order, we're a training academy for force sensitive children, if they wish to continue their training, they're assigned to a master, if not. They return home and learn a trade of their choosing?" the Togruta Jedi master asked and he nodded. "Exactly, but before we reach that point, we have to get everyone to safety, by faking the purge he has planned. So everyone, put yourself into full meditation and pretend they shot to kill." he said and they nodded gently.
"Recreating the Jedi Code could be our one chance of survival, but to an outsider we're brainwashing these children, currently. But just say he gets himself a new padawan, and that new one kills the babies, what was your promise to their parents?" he said and they nodded then. "We swore they would be safe and instead, they die, because the old code is so frigid, it left no room for change, and to save them, this apprentice kills them." his mentor said to that.
"That apprentice could be my alter ego, though me, I can't believe I did that right now, like I was coming too out of my version of Vapaad, and it was killing me. Just to turn on everything you trained me to be right now, but my alter ego, he wants that power. That if coming to you never worked, it's betraying me by actually turning on everything you raised me to be." he said and they nodded. "That's the Sith version to the prophecy." the second in command said to him.
"Yeah, so his was what could be happening in the future, but we change this moment in time, it switches to a far more promising, so though a win one/lose one. You never lose what matters most, in both sides and our families, Padme and me. After losing the girls and Mother, though we got 2/3's the team, we're missing the others still here." he said and they nodded gently. "Yes indeed, your team quartet could be the key, stop him, by what's coming in this conversation."
"And they are your protection detail, while we hide the younglings and us adult Jedi on Yavin IV, as Master Yoda, and your team quartet stay with you and the senator. Although why is the next question we can go into in a bit." he said and the young man nodded. "As we said the future is never set, there is no fate but what we make for ourselves now, Padawans. So change one thing right now, everything in the future changes in the process." she said and he nodded to her then.
"Exactly, we have to change now, make a few adjustments, we're saved from how the rest of the galaxy sees us in the end. Something Padme and I were discussing the last time I was planetside, and frankly, now that it's been 8 months since then. I think she has the right idea, what kind of galaxy is this we're raising our children in, in the NFS. Is this really a war, or just a smoke screen for something else, like you said Master, the shroud of the darkside has fallen."
"I'm starting to think Padme's right, that what if we been serving a lie here, the democracy we been serving no longer exists. And what if the peace we once fought for no longer exists and the government is now the very evil we swore to destroy. And the separatists never really left, but are conspiring against the Republic to destroy us, us: the Jedi Order. He's preparing to make his move and I could be the target for his planning." he said and the council nodded to him then.
"This war, like she said now, represents a failure to listen, but what if there was something far more dark, and just fighting this war, us Jedi are being wiped out. Compared to my alter ego, he doesn't see this, because he's blinded by things, to him this war. Now is destroying the principals of the Republic, while for Padme and me, we think that we could be. Now, on the wrong side of things and this war is turning the Republic into a dictatorship." he said and they nodded gently.
"Just saying his thoughts, but I think this war is undermining the principals of the Republic, but did he ever consider we're on the wrong side. What if the peace we fought for, the diplomacy, democracy, we fought for and sought no longer exists. That the Republic is the very evil we sought to destroy, she could be right and if she is, our Sithmaster. He is hiding in plain sight, he could be someone we know, all of us know." he said and the grandmaster nodded carefully then.
"It's almost like the future me is giving me a warning not to trust him, change the past to fix the future, she and I are fine, everyone but you, me and Obi-wan go Grey Jedi. And we leave it to 3 on 3, if Maul is still alive and he is, then he, Sidious and my alter ego are 3. And you, me and Obi-wan are 3, so the odds are even, the prophecy is complete on one side of it. And completed when my family is my age and joining their strength with mine." he said and they nodded then.
"Interesting concept and you could be right, you are, and we're taking extra precautions here, till we reach the day of said hostile take over." the second in command said gently. "I hear the subtext in that remark between you and the senator, there's more then we thought. If you had to consider this, before telling us what brought that consideration right now. And since we got reunited with her, but this is you talking like you're your brother." the togruta master said then.
"You think that this was Sidious's master plan right now, everything from our father being murdered, to Sifo Dyas, to the attacks on Padme. All of this was a smoke screen, so that by the time we reach his hostile takeover, we never see it coming." his mentor asked and he nodded to him. "I do, in the last 48 hours since we got returned from the Outer Rim sieges, I come to see you are, Master, Master Yoda, something about him is very dangerous right now, though what."
"I haven't a clue right now, but I think behind that grandfatherly look, is a monster, our phantom menace. Remember what you said to father, something else where, something elusive, he's that feeling, the Sith have returned, he could be our Sithmaster." he said and the trio nodded. "I didn't think I'd ever hear that from you, but if you're right, he's been standing in front of us all this time, and cloaked his signature." the second in command said to him gently.
"Something was always out of place, me added in, things were fine, everything was fine till we were 17, then picked back up after Padme came back into the picture, so what does this say." he said and they nodded. "What says it does is you resisted for 13 years, and suddenly change over night, into a true Jedi knight and ready for council you are. To see what even Mace and I could not, that he's been standing in front of us ever since." the grandmaster said to him gently.
"Your remark on his standing right in front of us, your concerns he knew already, that's because he does know, he's doing this behind your back. Dooku was helping him all this time right now, only to have him sacrifice him, by ordering his execution yesterday. Dooku was to be Andy's first cold blooded kill now, this was a war crime, he's a war criminal now." he said and the second crossed his arms. "So this continues, he's Sith in everything, but looks." he said and he nodded.
"Exactly, you knew this on me for 13 years, ever since I won my freedom, I stayed myself, but instead of me, I sent Andy in my place, your bad first impression was met. After he lost his temper with you, meeting me now, and we're just pretending here right now. That during the course of the last 13 years since Sifo Dyas dragged up that recommendation to you. Repeatedly, that you sent a clone of father on the mission that brought me into your life now at the time."
"And from there, with our midichlorine counts, they speed up the growing compared to a normal human, like Jango, it took 5 years for the clones to reach Boba's age. Ten to reach Jango's, our clones are the ones dying in place of everyone we lost here, so everyone. And I mean everyone we lost was a clone so far, Darra was knocked into a coma at the time now. Father, the girls, Ry' and Mother with her, everyone I love here at the temple is alive, I did my best and just made it."
"Every single time, mom I was too late, and Andy blacked out and lost it completely." he said and the duo nodded. "Nice way to phrase it, did he ever consider we saved everyone till finally, at the moment of truth, we bring everyone we lost out of MIC. The force can do miracles we all know this, that what if, instead of resurrected, they're all in a coma. And repeated force healing saved everyone we lost, everyone you love." he said and his mentor nodded then gently then.
"And as I would have said back then after Darra was killed by accident, for 8 years, we were completely identical and then at 17, it's not just appearance by colors anymore. His arrogance got worse, as did his jealousy and hot temperedness, because I stuck to what you taught me. He was the one who's power blast you felt, after you sensed I moved locations to Tatooine, as you knew if I was there something happened, and to answer your other question, Master Yoda."
"I changed over night, because I got hit with a bombshell you deserved to know, one that means your newest students are the next incoming baby younglings. My…, my children are your strongest students master, like I am, but in truth, you get with the baby. What you never had the chance to teach me, with me coming in late now, born and raised a Jedi. My baby is your most powerful student next to me now, my Master." he said gently and he nodded in shock then.
"An expecting father you are, my strongest pupils, your children are now, if not one, but two now." he said gently and he nodded. "Yes Master that's it exactly, I was preparing to tell you this, in our own discussion earlier. But that's what brought this consideration on, only my family can stop him, if I'm right, if I am now, something's very wrong. Like Sidious already knows she's pregnant right now, if he does, we have to protect them." he said and the grandmaster nodded.
"Indeed, protect your family we must till ready to defend themselves, they are now, but coming to me and your brother, fast thinking to protect them and their mother, that was. What is your consideration here if he's standing in plain sight, hiding in plain sight?" he asked and he crossed his arms. "I'm thinking of going into hiding on a planet out of reach of the republic, train the baby in secret, but that's if the target is not just us, the Jedi, but if not, and that's where it hits."
"But Master, you have to hide them and protect them, if something happens to their mother and me." he said and his mentor and the grandmaster nodded. "For my daughter, if I have one, she's hiding in plain sight, but my son, take him to my planet, either my friends. Or leave him with my family, my stepfamily, and he grows up the way I did, just stay close brother. Teach him everything you taught me, because my son is your next star pupil in later years here now."
"If something happens to me, my son takes my position to stop him, but when fully human I have a power advantage on him, if said theory the Kegans gave us is true. He has one on me, but my children added to my powers, he's never going to survive this." he said and they nodded in shock. "So that's what the prophecy meant, only the chosen one and his family can restore balance back to the force and destroy the Sith." the second in command said to that news then.
"Yes, but you knew this, though allowing the red to at times take hold, I stayed blue, but now the blue is turning purple now, I reached the level necessary now. Just to see, but the red is getting stronger everyday out there, we're running out of time. I think this is the last stages or his planning and for the first time ever, I'm starting to see it. You're right about the Chancellor, he ordered his death, though I took his wrists off, a helpless prisoner, but you're right, brother."
"But to do that conversation again, between us now, between you and my alter ego, as you were trying to dissuade my alter ego with Padme, if given the chance. We'd be exchanging a fast hug after she saw me, at this age, but her wariness of my alter ego was plain to you." he said and he nodded gently. "Indeed, I knew you loved her and she loved you, but leaving him alone with her, I was not allowing it and both of you went." he said and the duo nodded in agreement.
"Master, remember our sparring session, before we got assigned to protect her?" he asked and he nodded. "That's Andy, just switch out colors, from blue to red, you already did mine prior to this, and like my playing around with Ferus now. It's the same for you, we were training, but you were always proud of me, I was your pride, Andy was the one that kept getting corrected." he said and they nodded. "The Carver, Radnor, the boarding school." he said to clarify gently.
And he nodded and they nodded. "Yep, Tru and I told you we were getting a new processor for Ali's helper droid, and resupplying the lab. When on Radnor the guys, Darra and I worked as one, and then he was the one that left Ferus kidnapped. But that was his remark to you, after you reprimanded him for getting too aggressive during sparring." he said and the man nodded. "You're a great warrior, Andy, but your need to prove yourself is your undoing', indeed now."
"His need to prove to himself he's better then you are right now, can and will destroy him if he's not careful." he said sternly and the council nodded in agreement. "And at least I got the patience right now, to actually come to you all for guidance after revealing the truth. As we work out a game plan right now, him, his desire to prevent that could lead to his own self destruction. But Andy, he's arrogant, hot tempered and his own anger and lust for power are a time bomb."
"If this was my twin brother as my alter ego, so Andy, short for Andrus, you called him, when he was in trouble, Andrus, so go on that." he said and his mentor nodded "I'd rather dream of Padme, just being around her again is..., is intoxicating." he said and he said it sternly to him. "Mind your thoughts, Andrus, they betray you, you made a commitment to the Jedi order..., a commitment not easily broken..., and don't forget she's a politician, they're not to be trusted."
"Aside from that allow your emotions to get in the way, you lose your concentration." he said and Anakin, pretending to be his alter ego, said it. "She's not like the others in the Senate, Master." he said and changed voices. "Andy after S'orn, we're not taking chances, but S'orn was an accomplice in nearly killing both Didi and Father. Remember, after we walked into Zan Arbor, these people, aside from a few good ones, are corrupt." he said and his mentor nodded.
"It's been my experience that Senators are only focused on pleasing those who fund their campaigns... and they are more than willing. Now, to forget the niceties of democracy to get those funds." he said and he sighed. "Not another lecture, Master, not on the economics of politics, it's too early in the morning.., and besides, you're generalising. The Chancellor doesn't appear to be corrupt." he said and the second in command sighed then.
"Palpatine's a politician, I've observed that he is very clever at following the passions and prejudices of the Senators." he said and he sighed. "I think he is a good man, my instincts are very positive about that." he said and they ended it at that. "But after last night, I lost my faith in him, after he gave me an execution order." he said and they nodded. "Well that explains why he never came back alive, you see it immediately." the second said to him then.
"Chancellor Palpatine is beyond corrupt, but the way this is going here, is you and I, we, see he's evil, but if my alter ego falls, he's going to see 'we' are evil now. To us Chancellor Palpatine is evil, to him, his point of view, if he falls to the darkside now. The we're evil, but to us, we see this as he lost his mind finally, as the darkside is a drug, he's addicted here. To using the darkside and everyone, but him, can see this, taking him alive, means he's going cold turkey."
"Now, from it." he said and he nodded. "Issues with your studies of the Sith, this is more then power, it's an addiction, if fallen, you become a demon." his mentor said and he nodded. "Yes exactly, so just say it was me rather then my alter ego, that power now…" he started to say and a manual on a device appeared on the floor and he opened it. "Yeah okay, the effects of the darkside enhance your physical well-being, strength, speed, someone of health now here."
"But the downside is it starts eating away at the good in you, over exposure if passed a certain limit, there's no changing back, if you were injured and overly exposed." he said and the grandmaster nodded. "So to take you alive, have to cripple you we do, and drain effects of what done it has to your body, as return to us you do. Before lock the door, on your alter ego, and so where the effects of said addiction never affect you, we do." he said and the young man nodded.
"Exactly, but that addiction to it, is like a spice addiction, your bodily hormones are so out of whack, that once free from the exposure, you could sleep for 6 months. Looks like cub suffered this and explained it to my son-in-law's rival's daughter, she was addicted to Andris. That's addiction in the purest sense of the word here, it would take a massive amount of will power. To break free and the strain alone could kill you." he said and they all nodded to reveal then gently.
"And he's addicted to the power lust as Padme finally sees this and I'm ready to protect her, if he raises a hand to her, before our exchange." his mentor said to that. "And the 'we' being the Jedi, but you're so fused into the light there is no changing your thought patterns. To realize this with you just saying your opinion directly, that your twin in truth, your inner self. He has allowed him to twist his thinking till he destroys him." the Togruta Jedi Master said gently to him then.
"Well he's starting to wonder what's happening to us, because you're beyond wary of the Chancellor, Master Tii. He's thinking this war is destroying the principles of the Republic, me, I wised up to what he is finally. As behind that grandfatherly demeanor is a demon, a monster, if he and Sidious are one and the same he had us tricked. And for 13 years, that's why he blew me into the wall, to keep me from exposing him too soon." he said and the council all nodded.
"But our way, Master was that of a true security force officer, but to catch a dark side user we have to think like one, this could be Bruck's mentor's strategy. With what you're asking him to do next, he's wondering in what's happening to the Jedi Order here. And is thinking this war is destroying the principals of the Republic in all truth here, me, Padme has the right idea. As do you, something is wrong, something is out of place here." he said and the council nodded gently.
"And that says all that needs to be said, you're a Jedi knight true, but you been fighting the darkside for 14 years and just made it finally, before it tries in corrupting you." the Irodian Jedi Master said gently and he nodded. "Well I think this was all part of his plan, our Sithmaster created the order of the clones, assigning us to Padme. That keeps me away from Tatooine long enough that by the time I do decide to go back, she's close to death, followed by this now."
"Said mission, he's trying to poison my mind against your teachings till the power lust from a real one now has him so addicted to the darkside you have no choice." he said and she crossed her arms then. "Just trying to get him to see reason is not going to be easy, but he sees me on Padme's ship now, he's going to realize I know how far he fell. And he's become a threat, to us, himself and everyone around him now." his mentor said sternly and she and the council nodded.
"I realize that, but to us, once we learn said Sithmaster's NFS identity, he's refusing to back down and then say it, you know me." he said and the council nodded. "Indeed, know you we do, know you would never turn if had no other choice you would, so your alter ego. Decided, after our talk this morning, but between that, possibly our talk, think I do now here. That beyond corrupt thinks we are, he does right now." he said and the young knight nodded in agreement.
"Yes, but I've been in the light for 17 years and those 17 years, including with you, has resulted in his not seeing what we can, he's lost." he said and they nodded. "If inner you sees things in reverse, then lost he is and must be put down, as a danger he is." the grandmaster said to that. "Interesting concept and you could be right thought, Anakin, though you are and we have to work to protect ourselves." the second in command said and he nodded as he admitted it.
"And her thoughts in your voice they are, like once said we did, mind your feelings you should, worried about her you are and understand that we do." The grandmaster said and he looked down and said it. "Got a reason to be actually master, she's in her third trimester." he said and they nodded in shock. "She's pregnant?!" the second in command said and he nodded. "She is, but seems my alter ego was trying to keep this a secret, but I'm sick of sneaking around now."
"That you know in advance, and I'm telling you now in this meeting, but my alter ego now, he tried to seduce her during my sabbatical." he said and he nodded. "Think over what I just told you now, you know I'm an expecting father and now I just told you that…, so.." he said and they nodded. "She's the mother, you and the senator…." the Togruta said to him and he nodded. "Yes, long story we can discuss in a minute now, but Obi-wan…" he said and his mentor nodded then.
"When we got assigned to protecting her, that wasn't you doing the talking, it was him?" his mentor said carefully and he nodded. "Yeah she chose me, after I told her the truth, but two sides of a person, his lust, for both power and her love. And when she belongs to me, you knew we're married, and you never minded, we just never made it public here. To protect her, but Andy is sneaking around behind my back to see her has resulted in total self destruction finally."
"It's finally resulted in this, what's coming in the next 9 weeks, me, I'm being what baby, now sees me as, their father and mentor." he said and they nodded gently. "And you keep saying, as human Jedi, the sins are a one way ticket to an early grave, so lust and anger. His anger and lust for power have already taken her away from him, she turned on him because of this. He has done that himself, his anger and lust for power have already taken everything he holds dear."
"He has allowed this Sithmaster to twist his mind, till now, now he becomes the very thing he swore to destroy, it's up to you now." his mentor said sternly to that. "Better voice that the way you just said it brother, because a Sith my age and one a full human is a wild animal. They build up this delusion everything they did was because whoever, they're the victim." he said and he nodded. "Then he's gone totally mad now and we have to put him down." he said sternly to that.
"Background studies on Sith, baby?" a human Jedi on the radio said and he nodded. "Yes Master, in truth after Obi-wan told us we had a real Sith on the loose I started running it. Said is said studies for you, and it revealed enough that Sidious's successors though very good. When in training his army are just not good enough when we been patient with dealing with this. That his next in command, his own alter ego is going to wonder in what went wrong in the attack."
"On our advanced training temple wherever my son placed the advanced training padawans now, in sum years, Padme now though in truth here. She chose me, over my alter ego, that's why we eloped at the time, when I brought her home. But the reason we never made this public was because of Dooku and Gunray, they find out, gets worse." he said and they both nodded. "As everyone knows this, with 5 Jedi married with families of their own here, so question now."
"What's the difference between me and you?" he asked and the Cerean Master nodded. "The difference is she is the most famous Senator in the Senate right now, you now. The most powerful Jedi in history, your children, once made public, or your marriage. That puts the target on your backs, and baby as sitting duck birds." he said and the grandmaster nodded sternly. "Protect her by hiding it even from us and her committee, you have, understand we do now."
"Not faulting your ideas of protecting her now in keeping this quiet now, you have, let that go I can, so why this meeting between us?" the grandmaster asked him gently. "Since I got back, I got thrown a bombshell master, but you know what she and I mean to each other. And after 4 years and I was just getting over Darra's murder, when we got back now. But that's the reason I came to you this morning, before the Chancellor sent for me." he said and they nodded gently.
"And it gets better right now, but what's your opinion to your new hope being the child, or children, to me now, and the mother. She just happens to be the woman that you told you this, through me." he said and they nodded slowly. "Just one possible evil Skywalker is bad enough already, the galaxy would never stand a chance if your entire family turns." the second said and the grandmaster realized that was the reason for his meeting with him that morning then.
And he looked down. "Anakin." his mentor said gently and he swallowed and told him the truth. "Something else is wrong, aside from the pregnancy, Anakin talk to me, what's wrong." he asked and he sighed. "I was trying to understand why he demanded me to kill Dooku last night, before my premonition Brother, I think this is all part of the sequence. But Army in white, the clones, a single man in black, carrying a red lightsaber, that could be me, if he gets it now."
"Gets what he wants and what if our Sithlord is the withered old man with a disfigured face, they're fighting against. Now, a brother/sister duo and a group of freedom fighters, that could be my kids and Padme's committee. I'm saying the prophecy stated a period of darkness, of strife, we outnumber them, it's their turn, he wants the Sith way to that prophecy. He wants me, for my powers, so he can plunge the galaxy into a darkness." he said and they nodded in shock.
"You just now figured this out, you were slightly quiet yesterday, before you got us back down here, this is what you been considering all night. Since she told you she was she pregnant, the baby.." he asked and he nodded. "There's way more to this then just destroying the Jedi through the war, remember what was your biggest fear of leaving me alone with him. You said it yourself you trusted me with your lives here, but you can trust me, you just can't trust my alter ego."
"So why is that exactly " he asked and they nodded. "That he could twist your thoughts, till you cave." the second said sternly and he nodded then. "My own biggest fear here was during my lightsaber quest, red was evil, blue was good. To base that another way, with the alliance choosing planets that mean safety, out of area planets to protect baby. But to a non force sensitive, red means hell, blue means heaven, the darkside means your alter ego is a demon."
"There is no reason to turn to the darkside to save someone, problem is my alter ego would do anything, and I mean anything to save her." he said and they nodded. "Even doing a deal with the devil to save her, is that what you're trying to say, Sidious is the devil. Your alter ego gives in, and he just sold your soul right to the devil himself?" he asked and the young knight nodded then. "Yes, and my premonitions are spelling out my murder." he said and they nodded sternly.
"That's what shot through me just now, I think we reached the end here of what Sidious has in mind, but my alter ego wants more. Much more, in truth he wants the ultimate power, to get it, he's going to betray me, betray you. To save her right now, Master, I'm out of time here, Sidious desires a new apprentice, but if I don't turn. And my alter ego will and to get the power to save her, that could kill me now, by the darkside now." he told him and they all straightened then.
"You think you're real the target and she was just a means to an end to destroy us, he kills you by seducing your alter ego, son?" the second in command said gently and he nodded. "I lasted this long without giving in, but now my timer is over, I'm not sure how much longer I can fight. Whatever he's trying to use to entice him, could be he weighs it, us and the order, on one side of the scale, her and this power on the other, to him no contest." he said and he nodded sternly.
"But to him, if I don't turn, then he targets my family, a Skywalker in his control is the biggest weapon he has now, against you Master, but when you found me. I chose Jedi, fighting on the side of good, I would never turn if I had a choice, Krayne and Dooku. That was self defense, as was the Carver, but I brushed it twice and barely a third time, it's tempting. But that's what's scaring me now, what if, to get the power, he decides to fully convert." he said and he nodded.
'Oh baby, it's okay, it's okay, don't give in, keep fighting.' a female human Jedi on the radio thought quickly realizing he was telling them everything, and scared out of his mind. As he wiped the tears off his face. "I resisted for 13 years, this could be it now, and if it is, I'd rather die then turn to the darkside, die in battle as me then, live as a demon. I'm saying I want you to remember me as me, not as my alter ego as his Sith alias, to stop me, there is no alternative."
"In all honesty, and seriousness, if I'm the target and my inner self ate the fish hook and turned on you right now, Master. Then I'd rather you kill me, I'm releasing you from any sin by doing this, as I told you to kill me. But I'd rather die, Obi-wan, then my having to live like that, I want to die as Anakin Skywalker, your best friend. And your padawan, Master, their father and husband, then live as Darth whatever." he said and the grandmaster put his hand over his heart.
"I'm saying if this means my remission is over, I want you to promise you'll take care of them." he said and they both nodded. "My twin killed me and to you this means war now, but Sidious is Father, and my alter ego is me, so either Omega's father or the Zabrak is you. But betrayal is part of the Sith, he runs through apprentices, to get a newer, better model. Which explains last night, he decided to have Dooku killed off, before choosing me." he said and they nodded then.
"Giving us and baby a bigger reason to want him dead, we lost you to him." his mentor said and he nodded. "Understand we do Anakin, to save you, let you go." Their mentor said gently and he nodded gently. "Being a Sith is worse then death, I'd rather die, then live as Darth whatever, I am a Jedi to the end now, and I'd rather you remember me like this. Your star fighter pilot, your star pupil in the current class of Jedi knights, and your friend and son, your padawan, Master."
"Master Yoda, but you know this, I'd never turn on you, I won't, but my alter ego, he'd turn on you to save her life, me I chose you from the very beginning, he betrayed me." he said and they both nodded sternly, realizing he made his oath to them. "The deepest commitment, to you my partnership, I am 100% serious to that commitment. I'm 23, I want to be a padawan again, another 4 to 5 years is all I ask, brother, take me back." he said and his mentor nodded gently.
"It's okay, you're my padawan, you always were, but time to come home now, we're finishing out together, us to the very end now." he said gently and the grandmaster nodded in agreement to his remark, as he said it soothingly, to calm him then. "Understand we do, that explaining this to the baby, telling them what told us, you did and your alter ego murdered you, he did. And to us, avenging you we are, by training baby, to finish the job now, we are now in truth here."
"But believe me, you should that Sidious pay for this, he shall, in my eyes, protect your baby we will, promise you that, but there's the story now, when left you did. But knew she was pregnant you did, not know had twins she did, if carrying twins, she is. But knew we both did, that find out eventually you would, but until then protecting them from birth, we are. That baby number two remains safely anonymous, they will." he said and his mentor nodded in agreement then.
"My lightsaber goes to my son, I wanted him to have it when he's ready now for the fight, but knowing Bail, he's sending my daughter to get you. And using the droids as a means to do so, so my lightsaber goes to my son, my daughter, if I have twins, I want her to have this." he said, giving him a pendant and his mentor nodded as he looked at it, and saw it matched the Senator's exactly then. "That looks like the one Padme wears." he said and he nodded, smiling.
"That was 13 years old, this was newly created, it's the baby version to it, she knows now, daddy, though gone, loves her, always there to protect her." he said and they nodded. "Your words in my voice, you wanted him to have that when he's old enough now. But everything said here, is your words in my voice, my being your best friend." he said and the knight nodded. "But you know where it came from now, I gave her that pendant, before she left, not realizing it."
"Now that Father freed me too, so I could finish out the mission with you." he said and his mentor nodded gently to him. "Going away present her necklace was, Anakin?" their mentor asked and he nodded. "She started wearing it on a necklace of pearls ever since, since we got back together, but you know where it came from now." he said and they both nodded. "I'd consider that as the Jedi version to creating said final will and testament in this decision now."
"If anything happens to you, and we will, we will protect your family, Anakin." his counterpart said to that and he nodded. "I know, but that's the reason for this, said premonitions, I think they mean my remission just ended, my arm. When I lost the first piece of me, the cancer started and I been doing repeated efforts to prevent further damage. But this scenario means that they're trying to weaken me enough to kill me." he said and their eyes gentled at that.
"We get it and we're not losing you without a fight right now, whoever Sidious is, he's not getting his hands on you." his counterpart master said and his mentor nodded sternly in agreement then. "I ever had to explain this to baby, it's telling him the truth, that Darth killed you, through me, in a fight to the death, but you told me to do it. You want to die as yourself, then live as your Sith alias, remembering you like this now, the you we know and raised."
"But losing you to him, we're not letting him get away with it." his mentor said and he nodded. "Well that's what this morning's meeting was about actually, before the Chancellor sent for me, she's pregnant." he said and they nodded in shock to the news. "Master Yoda, I'm saying we're in the end of the Republic, we can save the Order in truth here. If we consider the Loyalist committee's opinion, we can save ourselves by combining with them." he said and he nodded.
"I can feel your inner self's thinking, he's in shock you're considering what she said right now, as he doesn't believe that, and you're sounding like a separatist." the second in command said and he swung his hand up in exasperation. "Anyone else see this as familiar right now, after the last time we had that exchange?" he asked and his mentor chuckled and nodded. "Yes, and said is after he was debating an investigation on our mandate to protect her, but this is ridiculous."
"But Padme and you have a good point here, as for her being pregnant, I'm glad you're telling us this now, then my, Master Yoda and Bail finding this out by accident." his mentor said gently and he nodded. "The baby's mine, Obi-wan, she and me, we eloped." he said and they nodded then. "You're the father, so said theoretical, if that scum gets his hands on baby, we would never stand a chance against two of you, if you fell yourself!" the second said quickly at that remark.
"Great he did that on purpose, Master, he wants me to turn on you, by you refusing my appointment to promotion." he said and they nodded. "But I decline that offer to promotion right now, though I stay at your side brother, we're a male version of the girls, so on you Master." he said and his mentor and the Grandmaster nodded. "Anakin declines, and we refuse, not using my padawan for a stooge in this war, Chancellor, so no." he said sternly and he sighed in relief.
"Hold on a second, my inner self doesn't believe me or Padme in what we just said, and thinks we sound like a separatist, listen you laser brains. This war represents a failure to listen, you want the job of being his rep, you can have it. But clearly something is out of place, no it's out of place, the council has the right idea, so no I decline the promotion. I'm demoting myself back padawan, there's a downside to that promotion, but we're being wiped out one by one here."
"Look you want that promotion to council then you can have it, I resign being a knight, so back to padawan, so can it already, you laser brain. But you're closer to the chancellor then anyone, so please just end this fight and allow diplomacy to resume, would you please." he said and she hid a chuckle at that, realizing he was reprimanding his alter ego for that opinion. "He likes the action and doesn't want it to stop, not with her pregnant?" she said, guessing and he nodded.
"Exactly, she thinks that we should end the fighting and allow diplomacy to resume, but he just said it in annoyance, don't ask me to do that." he told her and she nodded sternly. "Too late we did already, but if he's not going to do anything to stop this and we will right now." the second said sternly and he nodded. "I know, but I'm leaving him alone with you for sum weeks, I get back, and the temple is a wreck, so now what?" he asked and they nodded in agreement then.
"Yep, and to you, this means trouble, he just betrayed us and Sidious murdered whoever tried to take him by force, so where the hell is he. Before you come back to the temple, kill the troopers and check the system to find out what happened up here. Check on the senator and go hunt him down, and before Obi-wan and Master get back after hitching a ride with Bail. And there's the story, Obi-wan checks the camera and sees what you did, and we have to find you and now."
"Before we lose you next, with your wife pregnant right now." the Nautelon Master said sternly and he nodded in agreement. "Alright boys enough of that, that is, back on the matter at hand, can we get please." the Grandmaster said gently and they nodded as they refocused on that. "Alright guys I get you're getting aggravated here right now, over learning your twin is getting fed up here, but this is not the way to handle it, so calm down." she added and they nodded.
"Well that's one way to unload the stress, fast debate here." their counterpart said over the radio. "Yeah that, but there's the truth here to what happened right now, me, so I'm with Obi-wan all this time, before we kill Grievous, my alter ego. Now was told to report to the Chancellor and the bomb gets dropped, he turns this into you three and Master Saesee. A fight ensues and he makes his choice, before leading a raid on the temple, and I get back 5 hours."
"After he leaves for wherever Grievous sent them now, and cut my way through the clones, check the cameras, go to check on Padme, and you. Brother, Master after finding 70 to 100 dead clones all done by lightsaber, know this was me, you check the security footage. And see what I see, have to come after me, after telling Padme where I am and she tries to talk him down. Talk some sense into him, unknown to him, you hitched a ride." he said and they all nodded to him.
"If they thought you're bad as a normal guardian you're worse as a Master guardian, but all that power comes from the heart, the strength of your love for us. As we're your family and he betrayed you, by destroying your entire life, as like you said. Now you really are an only child, your mother is dead, so an orphan and only child now, he betrayed you. And Sidious is going to pay for this in your eyes now." she said gently to him and he nodded in stern agreement then.
"What was that about exactly, Anakin?" his mentor asked him and as the council exchanged bemused smiles at that mental exchange and he explained that. "He wants that promotion, so I just threw him that offer, but one very bad side effect, being his rep. It means he's grounded, I get to go with you, brother, sorry, I know you were listening to that. But me, Anakin, are you, he's Bruck here, brother." he said and the grandmaster shook his head as she answered that.
"So that's the downside in being his representative, it means you're stuck here on the capitol, while I leave for wherever Grievous is hiding right now. Nice try not falling for it here, you're coming with me Anakin, but your alter ego is stuck here." his mentor said and she nodded in agreement. "There's the opening of said story you give baby, I had a final mission to go on, but when I came back, after leaving their uncle alone with him, I find that he betrayed me now."
"Once Sidious revealed himself and Sidious supposedly killed the 5 of you and everyone here at the temple, I do the first messaging and tell you to come back, but heed caution. The troopers are guarding the temple and go hunt him down myself, before Master sends you in after me." he said and they both nodded. "That's the betray you, after 13 to 14 years now, he turned on us, and betrayed you, by killing us, as your friends and mentors." she said and he nodded to her.
"The murder me or tried to is said attempt in a fight to the death, but growing up you all know this, we're identical twins, the only way to tell us apart, or at least till I was 17. Was by lightsaber, my vision quest in building my lightsaber, I'm a master guardian. So my lightsaber was a purplish blue lightsaber, his was red, so one lightsaber if I don't make it. Gets thrown in said molten river, the other gets passed to baby." he said and his mentor nodded understanding.
"Point taken, use that we do to explain this, but explaining this to Cliegg and Owen, not easy it will be, because scared to let him leave, he will be." the grandmaster said and he nodded gently. "Indeed and you're right, the only way, for 8 years we could tell you apart was by lightsaber, as you got your's first, then he got his at 13, you were our star pupil. Our pride and joy, bonding tightly, in your eyes, your brother was like me and your father in strength, as wise as Master."
"You idolize your brother, wanted to be like him." the second said and he nodded. "Well that's just the problem, though you were cautious with him, you considered him the chosen one. But trained me undercover, just in case you misread that prophecy, if the real chosen one crashed. You had me to take up the mantle." he said and he nodded. "Indeed, to us, always you this and you that, it was, your brother was jealous." the grandmaster said and his mentor nodded then.
"But there's another piece to this, but brother, you were training us both, my alter ego was the said other pupil, while I turned out the way all of you wanted, he crashed and burned." he said and they nodded. "Like I said to baby, he helped the chancellor hunt down and destroy the Jedi order, he betrayed and murdered you, you're my pride. And we're brothers, to me, my fear to lose baby, because of this was severe, he's all I have left of you." he said and he nodded then.
"All who is left of us, my children are all you have left of me, I died a war hero, and you were going to make Sidious pay for this." he said and they nodded in agreement. "Indeed died a war hero you did, a great man and powerful Jedi you are right now to us. That like Qui-Gon at 23 you are, that losing him hurt, losing you, is too much, for your brother and me. That we will not stop till Sidious is gone or your alter ego is, protect baby Anakin, Obi-wan and I will now."
"Promise you, we do." the grandmaster said gently to him then and his mentor nodded. "The prophecy stated a rule of two, so just say we were the only ones left of the council. That knowing my alter ego and I are evenly matched, we're both Djem So now, to you. This meant sending Obi-wan in after me, and Padme, she hears this, she's going to see how far gone he is. And you hitch a ride that way, Obi-wan." he said and they both nodded to him gently at that.
"No kidding, Ventress considered I was always chasing after you, but it's because I can't leave you alone for long, before the disaster leads me right to you." he said bemused and he nodded. "Baby brother, Obi-wan, what do you expect, with a 16 year age difference, remember the rock wall after you, the girls and Ry' got stuck in the gorge." he said and the grandmaster chuckled as he saw the look of brotherly love in his padawan's eyes to him as he nodded at the memory.
"And I thought you having these debates with Ferus was bad, but now you're sounding like me and fighting with your alter ego, possibly your twin brother, but that took it too far. But was that really necessary, before we decide our next move?" he said and the grandmaster nodded with a bemused smile to his opinion and the debate. "Indeed, understand I do that annoyed at your inner self you are, but getting into a fight in front of us, you are, going too far, that is now."
"But relax you must, before stress levels get too high they do, Anakin." he said gently to that and he nodded as he settled gently as the rest of the council exchanged bemused smiles. "If that was your twin, instead of your inner self, I would consider he's too close to the Chancellor. Just to see what the rest of us do just to realize this at the current moment right now." she said with a slightly amused look on her face then and he nodded then as he answered her then.
"Who wouldn't right now, but you hear this from me and Ferus enough already that hearing it between me and my alter ego, before he turns on us…." he said and they nodded. "Alright boys, that's enough of that already, stop arguing, we're in a council meeting." his mentor said and he looked down and she started laughing at that. "Indeed, debate this you can later, but right now need to focus, now enough of that already, that is." the grandmaster said gently to him at that.
"Alright Annie, pull yourself together." the Cerean Master said gently over the radio at the look on his face. "And that's the other one, shift change in names." he said and they nodded smiling then. "Indeed, since you were 10 we started calling you that, but you just kept it up, since you hit your lates teens to now." the Togruta said smiling gently at him. "In a way your star pupil, but I was your favorite, he was the one you don't trust." he said and the council nodded to that.
"Indeed, my pride you are Annie, as such we had to work this carefully, before gets what he wants Sidious does." the grandmaster said him and he nodded. "Well there are two ways this could go, but growing up together the kids become intimates now, as they grow up. The second, if you separated them, has baby wondering what would have been if he and his sister. Now were raised together, so we go with the first till they're 12." he said and the duo both nodded gently.
"And 7 years training till they're 19, but living to unifying, to living and back again, so father to me, me to you, and you to baby now, Ferus." he said and he nodded. "Bingo, I have my son, if I have twins, Ferus has my daughter right now, issues, but our team was all boys. But two girls and a boy in his team, before my daughter gets added to the team now and with it. And to quote father now, your focus determines your reality, Tiana and Damon did just fine here."
"Training the opposite gender till Tru and Ferus screwed that up." he said and the grandmaster nodded. "Agreed and make amends for wronging you he will, by training baby number 2, if twins you have." he said and his mentor nodded. "Well we got 7 to 8 weeks to work out a careful plan here, but if this scenario is mirroring anything, it's ending with what we revere can destroy us." he said as he focused on what his mentor told him about the man that sired Granta Omega.
"Hold on, I'm 23 and my inner self is acting like a 13 year old here." he said softly, closing down a second time as he heard his voice then in the exchange with the second in command of the council. 'You are on this council, but we do not grant you the rank of master.' 'What? How can you do this? This is outrageous, it's unfair, how can you be on the council, not be a master.' he heard and said it carefully, as he lifted his gaze up to his boss then.
"Master did you have that same exchange in another way, with anyone, not my generation but his?" he asked and he straightened. "After your brother left for Melida/Daan, he was on his first mission, and word came back in your father chose Obi-wan. But his rival was waiting for weeks after Bandomeer, and still nobody chose him, your brother now. He told me, he had that same exchange with him, emotionally, Bruck was not ready." he said and he covered his eyes then.
"Oh you got to be kidding, I never got insulted by them that much before and…., got'cha you old fool you just got caught, Master was there a key to this character, Chun's mentor. When you were 13, after you came home?" he asked and they straightened at the question. "But Obi-wan focus on your exchange to Chun himself, before he died." he said and he crossed his arms then. "That's what just happened, you, you're like me, the change in personality here is Bruck now."
"The Jedi'll regret ever holding me back' 'The Jedi never hold you back' 'Nobody chose you me as a padawan' 'Then you were not ready.'." his mentor said and the duo nodded. "Before…" he started to say then. "What kind of nonsense is this, put me on the Council and not make me a Master?! That's never been done in the history of the Jedi. It's insulting!" he said in annoyance and the knight said it sternly to him as the grandmaster crossed his arms then.
"I told you, you weren't ready yet, a Jedi Master does not throw temper tantrums." he said and the knight's mentor nodded then sternly as he answered that remark. "Calm down, Andy, you have been given a great honor, to be on the Council at your age…, it's never happened before. Listen to me, Andy, but the fact of the matter is you're too close to the Chancellor, the Council doesn't like it when he interferes in Jedi affairs." he said to him and he said it in annoyance.
"I swear to you, I didn't ask to be put on the Council…" he said to him and Anakin nodded. "No, but it's what you wanted." he said to him and Obi-wan nodded. "But it's what you wanted! Your friendship with Chancellor Palpatine seems to have paid off." he said and Andy said it in annoyance. "That has nothing to do with this." he said and the young man nodded. "Uh huh, this was why I took back my promotion to knight, and went back to being a padawan."
"As my loyalty is to Father and Obi-wan only, but to paraphrase this is duty to the truth, duty to your friends now here, I'm not around for the intended manipulations, Andy. The darkness surrounds this decision, I see it so clearly right now, but do you, when you created that lightsaber, you never looked up the meanings on colors. That could be your undoing now, if you don't pay close attention, I've been working at connecting to this, in the way here now."
"That Obi-wan had to sense there is a very elusive evil here, a phantom menace here, his target is you, something is very wrong, the timing is too perfect right now in truth here now, but listen. We get recalled from the Outer Rim, just as we're in the final trimester, of her pregnancy, directly after you kill Dooku, he appoints you to the council as his representative. Doesn't that seem a little strange to you, every time you get ready to investigate." he said to him sternly.
"Another premonition shoots up, it's too easy, like he knows your feelings." he said sternly to him. "Andy, regardless of how it happened, you find yourself in a delicate situation." Obi-wan said and he sighed at that as he answered him then gently. "You mean divided loyalties." he said and Anakin nodded sternly. "I was waiting for this to happen from the moment I felt the force around Dooku quit." he said and his mentor nodded in agreement to his opinion then.
"I warned you there was tension between the Council and the Chancellor, I was very clear, why didn't you listen? You walked right into it." he said sternly to him. "The Council is upset I'm the youngest to ever serve." he said to him and he sighed as he answered him gently. "No, it is not, Andy, I worry when you speak of jealousy and pride, those are not Jedi thoughts. Not Jedi at all, they're dangerous, dark thoughts." he said and he sighed as he answered him then.
"Master, you of all people should have confidence in my abilities, I know where my loyalties lie." he said and Anakin nodded. "I hope you're right, Andy, I'm worried about you." he said and Obi-wan nodded. "I hope so..." he said in agreement to that as he sighed then as he answered him. "Yeah I hear it now, but after your brother left, it took 3 months to regain our trust, Qui-Gon with us, and by then your brother turned into how you remember at the time."
"When you met him, during the blockade campaign." she said and he nodded to her. "Yeah exactly, just rephrase my reaction, and turn it to him, when you got into a fight. To the death, with him, Obi-wan, not Xanatos, but Bruck, and I killed a slave trafficker back then." he said and the entire council nodded in shocked disbelief at that. "Oh gods, we never caught that before, your alter ego is Bruck as a preteen to teenager!" his counterpart color guardian said to that.
"And this is the me you know, but Bruck, if he laid eyes on Padme…." he said and they nodded then. "Point made, but we're too old for her." his mentor said and he nodded then. "I can focus, but if you knew she was close, well it's because she had to tell me something. Something that meant we had to tell both you and committee immediately." he said and he nodded. "Would this be connected to why I feel a signature matching your's, whenever I get near her right now."
"Anakin?" the second in command asked and he nodded. "She's pregnant, the baby is mine." he said and they nodded. "I just got the news last night, but this meant a change necessary to preserve us as the Jedi, but this is not about me, not anymore. These characters know a Jedi of my strength, powers, in their hands is a perfect weapon, but first me. And then my baby, we can't let them get their hands on my children or grandchildren." he said and they nodded gently.
"We get it, we get it, we understand, you're trying to protect your family." his mentor said and he nodded. "May explain your premonitions, they do." their mentor said and he nodded. "And now this is serious, we lose you to this Sith scum, we lose her and we lose baby. Not going to happen right now, but something doesn't sense right now, why choose now. Just to appoint you to the council, in our eyes, you're still a padawan?" A Togruta Jedi Master said to him gently.