Realizations I: The Attack Of The Clones
Characters: Anakin Skywalker, Obi-wan Kenobi, Qui-Gon Jinn, Padme Amidala, Mace Windu, Master Yoda, Adi Gallia, Siri Tachi, Tru Veld, Ry' Gaul, Soara Attana, Darra Thel Thanis, Darth Sidious, Count Dooku, Jango Fett
Time-line: After the attack the night before.
Sypnopsis: After the attack the night before, and his being assigned to bodyguard duty, to Padme Amidala. Anakin Skywalker realizes the definition to the prophecy created about him. Creating a way to separate himself from his darker persona, he creates a twin brother. And cuts all contact with Chancellor Palpatine, becoming the chosen one, everyone says he is, he confesses his feelings about Padme to Obi-wan.
And the council and they agree to another exception in the code, forging a future away from his past, after the death of his lost team member. Anakin sets out to save everyone he loves, while sticking to the path the council laid out for him. But there is a dangerous evil lurking in the shadows, one that will still at nothing to destroy him. In the form of the now returned Sith, and fallen Jedi: Count Dooku.
Warnings: This is going to be a rewrite from the second assassination attempt, to the end of the prequel trilogy now. As they discover the identity of the Sithlord, and finishing cutting himself in two. As the next story is focused on the attempted arrest to the end of the movie when the twins are born. While this one is going to be from the second attack to the month of his acceptance on the council.
Disclaimers: I don't own Starwars, the story belongs to me, all characters used are the property of George Lucas and the movie companies.
Chapter 2: Assignments And Realizations II
"Become too complacent, need to change we do, before bring ourselves back we do, Anakin?" he asked and he nodded gently "Bring balance now, the balance was just chosen, who wiped out who, 1,000 years ago, why choose, just as Padme is debating an army. There appears to a back log in sudden fights going on right now, well this discussion in the senate the army. That it's all part of the balance now, a time of war, a time of peace, we been at peace for 1,500 years now."
"The strife returned to the galaxy, by them attacking Naboo, and killing father, and what appears to be an oncoming war about to start. But the balance is peace, strife, peace, so if we're about to suffer a repeat with our phantom, after he killed father. We wiped them out, now it's their turn, but where do I come in, well there's two ways that prophecy can come true. The Sith version, or the Jedi, but you're not going to like this." he said and they nodded gently then in agreement.
"We start back when the code was at the most pure, so back to the living force, as you said: life create it makes it grow, luminous being we are not. Not this crude matter, that to nurture either version, is back to doing from within now, we have to unlearn from this. As of the last 900 years, that we never saw this coming, because we been too focused on serving the will of the republic. Not the will of the force." he said and the grandmaster nodded in approval then gently at that.
"I hate it already padawan, but go ahead, what's the only way to keep us from losing you, to him exactly?" his adult counterpart said and he nodded. "I can save mom, but the close call now means here, after losing Darra and Master Yaddle, Father. I trade a victory for an act that you would see as beyond traumatic, in a few years, if he and the Chancellor are linked. Or worse, he is him, before you cut my alter ego out by the roots, and clone him." he said and they nodded.
"Well you know I been listening to all of you way too much here, that when I bring my son for the trials, in year 3 of the war between us and our Sith empire now. That he realized, with his henchmen, my twin, half human and half machine now. That two fully human Jedi, and from the most powerful family in the order, he's not surviving this. Once you and I complete his training at the moment, as my daughter is going to get Landon now." he said and they all nodded gently.
"Right you are Anakin, in truth now, not like this I do at all, done so well you have in 3 years, that healing from said loss now, of Darra since her death, is by pairing you up with Lana Chion now." The grandmaster said gently and he nodded. "To complete the prophecy is by something that goes against everything you train me to be. Before you cut him out by the roots, lock the door and we all go into hiding, the old Order is extinct, and we start anew." he said and they nodded then.
"We all in agreement here, why separate at all, our team was there together for 30 years, we stick together for life now." he said and masters nodded, smiling in agreement. "Agreed, and we had two girls and 4 boys, and Andy was on the Hawkbats." Damon Calrissian said and Adi, Clee and Tiana nodded, smiling in agreement. "Boys, Lana, after the incident with the MTT, don't ever do that again, just to underline your brother or sister's point." Adi said and they and Lana nodded.
"And again was that really necessary you two, you nearly gave us all a heart attack." Soara Attana said and he and Tru Veld exchanged smiles at the memory of their rescue operation. In saving their masters that day. "Wrong twin Tru, wrong twin, me in white is your me, me in dark brown, is Andy, your lightsaber and her being knocked into a coma is my twin. It was me that busted you and I talked you and Ferus into telling them the truth here, as I finished the repair work now."
"On it, as we decided to do some serious triage on the blasted thing on our return, but said head injury in my case, I was on temple rest. But there it is, one member was knocked into a coma, the second left out of graduation jitters, and we're taking him up. And on his promise and I just scared the heck out of you, Dane and Lana, as a result of mind fever." he said and Tru nodded smiling, in delight, realizing he and Anakin could reconcile and be back to being partners again.
"So our Sithmaster is fixated on the wrong twin, as this is really my you now, and you saved us by shoving Omega's blaster into maximum stun, but medically induced coma. But we got very lucky and this scared Ferus out of his mind now, that our stories all matched up. This means your twin is the one we confronted here now, and as you said what we're all thinking here. And there's the 'never let him move on', as he just barely got us all killed in sabotaging Ferus now here."
"But even though they cancelled the acceleration trials, why bother here, we been together for 7 years, I say we finished out the entire 13 to 14 together now." he said and he nodded. "Agreed here, but his rant, we're overly critical since he done that, we never listen to his attitude problem. And we just don't understand him, how it feels to be the chosen one, but then why not, we're overly critical, of the fact he's spending every waking moment, since Ferus left, at the arena."
"With the chancellor, we never listen to his saying he's ready, when his pride, turned to arrogance and in being ready, and we all admitted, we want more time with our mentors. Our parents and big brother or sister, after he stayed quiet till it nearly killed the four of you now. And he doesn't, in truth, understand here that as a Jedi, humility is part of the training, getting cocky here. Is someone is going to get hurt, case in point here now, is nearly killed you and Darra that day."
"But yeah, you never forgave him for never saying anything, as our team was dismantled, but the trio are close to coming to now finally." Dane said and she nodded in agreement. "Agreed, it was close, any closer we'd be dead, so there it is, my best friends, my sextet. And our entire clan are alive and we're seeing this through, like we always have, as a team family quintet. Well the Hawkbats, like our Sith, are fixated on the wrong one." She said and Dane nodded in agreement.
"I can't believe he did that, after their hand sized energy balls took out the droid flying the bloody thing, it nearly skidded into the over sized energy cannon balls." he said and Tru and Dane started laughing and nodded. "While you're flying the blasted fighter, I'm busy fighting it out with our Zabrak and the shootout got out of hand from there. That knowing exactly what he was thinking, we had the warzone way too close to the palace itself." his mentor said, amused to that then.
"That's 4 here, and we recall big brother, and hopefully father reconstitutes Darra and we're back to being a sextet again now, with Andy on the Hawkbats at the moment." he said and she and Dane Van Perril nodded in agreement, in relief, as the truth fixed the rift between them. And they were back to being a team and brothers and sisters finally as Mace exchanged smiles. And with Adi and Tiana in relief. "Younglings, you're not teenagers anymore, relax." Depa said with a smile.
"That's the meaning of the prophecy, you had to start us over from the ground up, new code, but where is the line between good and bad, answer: it's combining the code. And with the Grey Jedi code, when our training was at the most pure, as yes our allegiance is to the republic. To Democracy, and to quote what you would say to her, we will not betray the Republic. Palpatine's predecessor, our allegiance is to him, to each other, to our families, the order, and most of all."
"To the force, we're keepers of the peace, not soldiers here now, as after killing him and his new apprentice, and said, now, could possibly be your alter ego, Anakin?" his mentor said and he nodded. "I think so, but I'm praying to the gods I'm wrong here, it doesn't mean here something. Of going against everything you ever trained me to be, it's not your fault, it never was. My alter ego resented you if I don't prevent mom's death." he said and they nodded sternly to the news.
"Wait a second.." he said, and they nodded, as he closed his eyes, and focused on his back up as it levitated to them, and they heard tapping on the door, before it opened and it floated in. As it came to his hand, closing his eyes, he bent the crystals to his will, before they started bleeding. Turned red, and he opened his eyes. "Here we go." he said and they nodded, as he switched it on, and they saw scarlet red blade. "There's the one from last night." he said and they nodded.
"You're training twins, Master, Master Yoda, twins runs in my family, first me, and then my kids, though if I get a both, my daughter, is me in every sense of the word. In personality, her brother, like Padme, but my son, you know he's me at my current age. After 13 years of this in raising me, and knowing when trouble starts, I got to improvise to get us out now. And of the situations we get ourselves into." he said and the grandmaster nodded as Obi-wan's counterpart hid a chuckle.
"Indeed right now, but these stunts, pushing me closer to heart failure everyday, but clouded your twin's future is, if this continues right now, but you, future crystal clear it is now." he said and the young Padawan nodded gently to him then. "It gets better, but the Sith that came there first was not our Zabrak now, but rather Sidious's master Plaeguis. He's a Muun, and from the intergalactic banking clan, but our Sithmaster executed him in his sleep." he said and they nodded sternly.
"Before knocking your father into a coma, indeed, tricked we had been, as wiping out the current set we are one by one, one chance we have to get this correctly, we have now." he said and Jedi Master Mace Windu nodded sternly. "Agreed, but it was after realizing our Sith was hiding in the background, you went back for me, I bonded to Master Windu. Though I love Obi-wan like a brother, and you knew this, your lessons, and Father's, were drilled into my head here now."
"I would never turn on everything you trained me to become, but yeah I need to change clothes, this is my twin, my real clothes are how I dressed 5 years ago. So Andy goes with Obi-wan on the search, white dressed me, is on protection duty, Mother." he said and they nodded. "Agreed, Andrus, you been reassigned, you are going with your brother on the manhunt, Anakin. You protect the senator, you been reassigned in Masters to Siri." he said and the boy nodded then.
"Well if I have this correctly now, making council doesn't make you a master, but experience, and wisdom do, but 1/2 of you are Masters, the others are knights now." he said and they nodded to confirm that thought gently. "Exactly, you understand now, not all of us are masters, we just been burned one too many times, but the experience, wisdom and humility make you a master. But being the padawan to a council member is high honor, as the chair is passed, from master."
"To student as we prepare to retire and your father, he decided he was of better use in the field, so your brother gets the chair, before passing it to you. And then from you to your son, when the time comes now, Annie." he said and Anakin nodded, with a gentle smile at the news then. "And there's the proof now, you're too indoctrinated by the light side and our training you. To even consider turning on us, your father and your brother now." She added and he nodded, smiling.
"Yes Master." he said and his sister moved to stand at his side, as Miro Daroon activated a camera, to show two copies of him standing there, one in white, the other dark brown. "So we can tell you apart now finally here, our you dresses in white, carrying the next two down from me. In colors, your twin is dressed like this, carrying a ruby red lightsaber, it was you. That killed those kouhuns last night, before catching your brother." His adult counterpart said and he nodded.
"You let him go 6 years early here, but took me back and I finished out the entire 13 years under you." he said and they chuckled and nodded. "Became a padawan at 13, graduate at 26, just like your brother, you're following him to a T." he said and the young man nodded. "Got another 7 years, I don't mind, I'm not ready to let go." he said and the grandmaster nodded in affection. "Understand I do Anakin, a true Jedi, you are." he said and the man went to parade rest gently
"Idea, pretend Andy, my alter ego, you brought with you, along with one the girls, the most obvious choice here is Lana herself, our teams." he said and his orange colored counterpart nodded. "So these visions V-tan and O-veive told your father and me about, they're connected to the prophecy?" she said, leaning forward and he nodded to her. "Directly connected, that's the future, so Jedi future, split me in two." he said and the council nodded in relief he said that.
"It's looking like the force rebelled, created me, and it could be decoded in two ways, where he gets to my alter and wipes us out, by using me to do it. The Jedi way is my playing twins, the death of the old code and creation of a new one, that new one. Is what my son created and instead I just did it for him, and it's exactly 26 years prior now. We been in hiding so long, he expected us to be extinct, so it's done finally." he said and they all nodded in agreement then.
"There's a memory here now, that Obi-wan and I don't need, the learning circle, is coercion of the worst sort imaginable." her padawan said and he nodded. "Even after 23 years nothing ever changes, Lana and I are you in every sense of the word, Ferus was Obi-wan after he came back from M/D." he said and she nodded in agreement. "And we're not doing this all day, we said time and time again, the future is never set, there's no fate here, but what we make for ourselves."
"Your twin is unifying force, which explains why he's desperate here, even if that meaning selling his soul to the devil himself. You took a safer option, and came to us, requested a fast detour to check on Shmi, and we granted it right now. So I think it best here, that we split the difference, that Mother, Mace and I handle the senator, the boys. And Lana deal with the search now, but there is no rushing things, we react too soon, it could kill someone or better right now, in truth."
"But as I said here, what you do and say in anger could come back to haunt you in the worst way possible, so look at it from all angles. And there's trouble and new information, on Tatooine, tell us and we go from there now, so just relax, it's fine. We take the security duty, just keep the line open to me only, after you bring her the rest of the way. As that search is bouncing all over the mid to outer rim right now, till the security alert activates fully." she said and his mentor smiled.
"With two people going along, on that mission, it's requesting a fast security pick up, by not walking in the front door, the way he, you, did, and get out of the canyons. Before they pick up your radio signal and you get arrested, we're coming to you, and we're returning to Tatooine. As we report back." Anakin said and his mentor nodded, smiling at the idea. "Wise idea that is, got him and Dooku on the run, we do, if do it like that now, we do." the grandmaster said smiling.
"He's thinking I been killed in the fight, clones me and in truth, we're in hiding till the time is right to come out, as you never went into exile Master Yoda, but stayed with us. Training my family, till we had the twins so strong, in our beliefs now, they would never convert." he said and he nodded sternly. "They get the training you should have had, from birth to adulthood now, but they grew up doing everything for themselves." his mentor said, smiling then and he nodded then gently.
"We're two sides of the same warrior and you and I been friends longer then we been master and padawan, that there's the entire point, as the story is created now. Andy went to the darkside on us, joined with the Master, you came back, saw the massacre now. Saw that 80% of the assault survived the initial bloodbath, Padme told you where he dispatched him to. You went there, he barely missed killing you, and then Padme and I came in after you." his mentor said to him then.
"Yes Master, but me I'm your golden child here, my alter ego, turned twin brother is the subject of all your fears." he said and they all nodded gently. "The rivalry was playful, you and Ferus are the best of friends, but your twin, he's jealous to the point of sabotaging my own." she said and he nodded gently. "I'm your baby brother Sis, as such, why did I bond so closely to you, after you revealed yourself here?" he asked and her padawan smiled in affection as she nodded gently.
"You knew everything about Obi-wan and me already, always insightful, you knew though we love each other, we decided to stay friends, I understand after seeing the horrors of your past. And you jumped to my side, while he trained your twin." She said and their color mentors smiled in affection then, realizing their past shifted, before he became lost to them forever. "This past week now, he told you about his dreams, you could see it as a coincidence." he said to him then gently.
"One twin is coincidence, both, we need to check on it, right now." Her mentor said and her counterpart nodded in agreement. "Issues in the spotting shifts, someone crashed the speeder after you jumped out the window, and that someone is me. I'm so exhausted. That you had me search the pub, while you were playing decoy." he said and they nodded. "Makes sense, I'm not letting you get behind the wheel, with you this exhausted, baby." she said and his own nodded.
"Padawan in theory, but currently you're a just out of teens 20 year old, and one asleep on your feet, and you, in trying to catch her off guard, crashed her speeder. After dropping your lightsaber, again, with you this exhausted, we need to take you out of rotation. As you get the week's worth of sleep your body needs right now." her color counterpart said gently then. "Well that explains last night, after we took the grave yard shift at the moment." she said and his mentor nodded.
"So you swapped turns, he yelled at me, after I told him we're in protection duty only, and you did the night shift, and after I jumped out the window, it was you that caught me. And then in jumping on top of her, crashed the blasted thing." his mentor said and he nodded to him gently. "Andy, my twin is called Andy, you at times still call me Annie, though I don't mind, you're my adopted family, I'm bonded tightly to you." he said and the council smiled in affection then.
"Alright girl, not red or blue, only human." he said, looking at his real lightsaber gently. "I walk the path without crossing it entirely, control the evil in my soul, but I'm a guardian. I'm a guardian, I am a master guardian." he said, and turned it on, as they saw his sky blue, had darkened to blueberry, borderline violet and the trio smiled proudly. "Want for better word, Andy's possessiveness resulted in Darra's coma, we never let go." he said and they all nodded then.
"And there's why out of the trio, you three came forward, he knew, but never said anything, you were about to check the crystals, but the short hit, just as Omega fired." his mentor said and he nodded sternly. "You trained me a little too well brother, but recently here, you're training my twin, he's getting irritated and I got moved to Siri." he said and the council nodded. "Makes sense, you're starting unifying training, controlling the premonitions." She said to him gently.
"We make this change, and we create two sides of you, our you is everything we love about you, the other, we considered your twin, is carrying the red lightsaber. And our Sithmaster, never realized he got the wrong twin, you belong to me and Master Yoda. Your brother, your alter ego's version of us, is our Zabrak, said Sithmaster, and the Sith. That you said dropped into Mos Espa, before Qui' found you and brought you home." his adult counterpart said gently to him then.
"I know here, Master, but Obi-wan, if I may, as you recall here now, after I told you my dreams, before heading up, I crashed the speeder, our changling's, before I got behind the controls. I haven't slept in over a week, since we were in enroute from Ansion, I think, I know. This could be another piece to that plan the Sith who was master to our Zabrak, first Naboo. The chancellor's words could be a double meaning here, then my mother." he said and they all froze at that.
"It's another Yaddle, is that what you're saying, Padawan?" She said gently, leaning forward and he nodded. "Yes Mother, but not quite, what was Omega's father doing, before he died, our color could be that key, to catch a darksider, we need to think like one." he said and she nodded sternly, as the grandmaster hid a smile then, at his use of that title for her, he adored her. "In turning over a new leaf here now, I come to realize here now, why is he putting me together with Padme."
"My childhood crush now, when my dreams are now going berserk, answer: he wants me away from Tatooine long enough, that by the time we do decide to check. It's too late, and I get my first true taste, of the power that comes with the trio." he said and they all nodded sternly. "And you're so strong, just your anger and grief is going to slam into us, and so hard here now. That we all know you're too far gone here, to have one of us snap you out of it right now, in truth."
"Yes I see what you're saying, and I barely made it in time, with Qui-Gon." her counterpart said sternly to that. "I know, not reacting sooner cost Master Dantallion her life, and Father nearly crossed the line, we then lose Master Yaddle followed by Darra. This could be third times the charm, and part of our Sith's plan, I'm his target, it all makes sense. Just why did, when building my lightsaber, the Zabrak jump into my vision?" he asked and they nodded slowly to the news.
"Well that explains the concern, it's not you I'm getting worried about now, it's him putting you together, alone with the senator, it's…, he wanted this, he wants you distracted. That by the time, you do decide to look into this, your mother is close to death." one of them said sternly. "As you said, we thought Dooku was not the type to attempt this, but we don't know him anymore. But this party is now officially over, I'm not having you traumatized." his mentor said to this sternly.
"Indeed, we will watch your career with great interest, it's not just the Chancellor, but our Sithmaster now, he is him." Jedi Master Mace Windu said sternly and he nodded. "Before I take her home, I want to check on mom, I could be wrong, but if I'm not, we prevent here. What nearly happened with Father." he said and they nodded sternly. "Agreed, pushing you to brush the darkside he is, allow that, we will not!" Jedi Grandmaster Yoda said and he sighed in relief.
"As he would tell you, it's not attachment, it never was, I'm a teenager, just turned 20 year old, so being human, what happens when you're around the person you had a childhood crush on." Padawan Anakin Skywalker said and Mace nodded with a bemused smile. "It's about to turn into young love, and I thank you for telling us this, we have 6 Jedi married. And with children in the order, Thracia being one of them, but I understand, but a back to back, is not happening here."
"After knocking Darra into a coma 9 months ago, we'll grant you an exception, if you fall in love on your own sabbatical, but if you crashed that speeder, you're asleep on your feet, Padawan. You need to rest and recharge your batteries." he said and Anakin nodded, hiding a smile, as his mentor hid a sigh of relief, with this admittance, he got the reason, for their spat the night before. "Thank you for alerting me to that, brother, but wrong or right, better safe then sorry right now."
"It's not that I think you're not ready, I'm just afraid to lose you." his mentor said and Anakin nodded. "Side effects of being human, and Jedi, at times, at my age, you never see us as young adults, but still the little boy or girl, you raised for 13 years. But we're on the home stretch, so the entire 13 to 16 years, Master." he said and his mentor nodded in affection. "I understand, with that admittance, as the remark said, invite us in, and we forge an even deeper bond here."
"Been 3 years now, but you just deepened it further with me, we're bending the rules slightly, so just take it easy with the loopholes, we gave you strict orders to protect her. But she tries that right now, she's more reckless then your alter ego is." he said and Mace hid a chuckle, at the bemused smile on his face as Yoda nodded in agreement. "Issues in my family, my daughter is like me, my son like his mother, when we were their age." he said and she started laughing.
"And keep it up your family does now Annie, and not making it to 900 I will, stop doing this to me, you have to." Yoda said with a bemused smile and he nodded as the human members tried to pull themselves together. "You always knew my family was reckless at the drivers seat, but tendency to trouble, you, as my mentors, are not making it to 60, if they keep it up. As you raised me, knowing my penchant for trouble, after the bounty hunter incident now." he said to him then.
"Indeed right now that and you're dealing with fixing engines day in and day out, after something exploded, but these younglings have got to pull themselves together. We always knew you were great at fixing things and you're our best pilot, but if your son is that way too. It's just you is enough to age us 20 years, your entire family, some of us are not making it to 80. If you keep it up." she said and he nodded, as his mentor closed his eyes, as he tried to pull himself together.
"It's too soon for this baby, I'm not ready to be a grandfather when you just barely got back together." his color mentor said with a chuckle. "Alright, alright we can dispense the jokes, but rather then 1 team, we double it, our unit girls, brother. I think we better yank double duty, so we got the search, Siri, 5 person team, so 3 on 3…" Anakin suggested and they nodded in agreement. "Agreed, one has the manhunt, the other protection." His brother said, smiling then.
"I sense Count Dooku's hand in all of this, Obi-wan." he said and he smiled. "And I sense a trap now." he said and he smiled. "So next move." he asked and he smiled in anticipation. "We spring the trap." he said smiling sternly and Anakin nodded, smiling. "There's the sense of connection, we created rules that made it so we're undefeated here. Father's training was good to us, we became better men now as a result." he said and his brother nodded smiling gently.
"You used Qui's tactic to get onto the factory floor, when Siri was undercover, and then, pretended to be a slave again?" Mace said and he nodded. "Idea worked a little too well, but he killed Halla, directly after getting her to the factory, he's mine. I tried to take him alive, but he forced me into killing in self defense, which explains the look you guys saw on my face. I was waiting for him to yank that blaster." he said and the quartet nodded in understanding then.
"Self defense is never wrong, but killing in cold blood is honey." Jedi Master Depa Billaba said and he nodded gently. "Which is why I turned into big brother of my age group, he says, he thinks, he believes," he said and Yoda shook his head, smiling. "Hero worship, you adore your big brother, we're your family, that this life suits you, more then it does Andy." she said smiling in affection and his mentor smiled gently, knowing that one sentence said it all now to them.
"Just like Kad could never see Bruck as the cold blooded killer Xanatos turned him into, I don't see Obi-wan as anything but the legend he became after 23 years now." he said and they nodded in understanding as she chuckled gently then. "Alright easy boys, with two teams it's working double time here, but here's where knowing our ex Jedi just crossed the line now. He's a war criminal for attacking a galactic senator, we find our bounty hunter, we find Dooku."
"That's the 10th bounty hunter in as many years, he's more cunning then Ona right now, if he attacked just as she was getting ready to tell us who hired her." Mace said and they and their counterpart team nodded gently. "Well after Ona, and the collection we dealt with, we had enough hunters now to last a lifetime here, but this must be why Sifo left and never came back." Anakin said and he nodded. "Agreed right now, connected, it could be." Yoda said to him gently then.
"It's all connected, the bounty hunters distracting us, the search, Sifo's disappearance and unexplained murder…, our army, this grand army of the republic is meant to execute us. There's got to be certain code, in the programming, we find it, we can head it off, and keep the order alive." Anakin said sternly and they nodded in agreement. "Try not to get arrested, before that kills the rescue party, brother." he said sternly and his mentor nodded gently to that remark.
"Annie I get it, but I'm an adult I can take care of myself." he said and he looked at him. "Best friend, mentor, father, I love you, you and Padme are my family, outside the team. If she and I take that jump, she gets pregnant, you're the godfather now, Obi-wan." He said and he nodded in affection. "I get it, I understand, you maybe a young adult, but when with me, still a young teenager, you get overly protective, the way I did father." he said and the trio hid a smile.
"If father was alive, he had the search, we had protection duty, so I think we can fix it, Mother, you and me, we have protection duty, Ferus's version of me, could be my padawan. Till we're back together, or at least till he gets over the graduation jitters." Siri Tachi said and she nodded then. "Uh huh good point, we're swapping padawans, and Lana is 23 with 3 years left, but she's too much like Anakin as it is, so we'll deal with the manhunt." Obi-wan Kenobi said to them then.
"If Qui-Gon was here, you and he had the search, Siri and I had protection duty, but there it is, Ferus's mistake cost us a way to run double duty, as we swap padawans." Jedi Master Adi Gallia said and Mace nodded. "I'll take over on that one, so Anakin, once on Naboo, cut the radio, till we need you." he said and Anakin nodded. "Just leaving you to your devices, tell her the truth, we gave another exception, you fall in love on your sabbatical, it's fine, we don't mind here."
"As this, if this balance means you and your unborn son, now put an end to the tyranny of the Sith forever, there's the meaning of why you're the chosen one. As in chosen family to wipe them out and bring back balance, but there we go, Lana, council chambers please." he said and they heard a 23 year old female voice say it. "On my way Master." she said and 5 minutes later, Padawan Lana Chion appeared and she gripped Anakin's hand and he smiled at her.
"Lana, I'm assigning you to your brother, you are to help him with the manhunt, your sister has bodyguard duty, but first mission alone." he said and they nodded. "I'll radio in, once I got a confirmed hit here, but I need to see what is going on over there. So once I know, I'll tell you Lana, and you tell big brother." Anakin said and she nodded. "We're not doing this all day, but at least the prevention is you're in a better mood." Obi-wan said to them gently and they nodded.
"Yeah that and you know I never changed a bit, still me, I'm just a young man in love with my childhood love interest, but if her sister says this, she gives and gives. Just once she should be allowed to take, you know what we mean to each other, I never changed. And we caught him in the act, before it was too late, but another 6 years is fine, not ready." he said and Obi-wan smiled in affection. "I understand and I love you too, my brother." he said and Mace smiled proudly.
"Translation, you want to stay a padawan another 7 years, you're not ready to let go, and this way, it's the training you need, you're a living force, unifying is not your strong suit." he said and Anakin nodded. "Send someone else, if he's connected to him, or he is him, you just cut him off cold turkey, you're my color mentor, Master." he said and they and Siri nodded smiling then. "I'll handle this, in telling him that, you go to her." Obi-wan said and he nodded, smiling then.
"Tell her the council granted you another exception now, we know, and we're fine with it." he said and Anakin nodded, as he bowed gently at the waist, and packed up his suitcases, for a trip to Naboo, changed clothes into coming white, with the medium chocolate robe now, before he headed to her. "Sorry Captain, had to make a fast change she got the wrong twin, that was Andy, this is me, Anakin." he said and Captain Gregor Typho nodded in understanding gently then.
"Group meeting, now." He said and they nodded, as they, Jar Jar Binks and her third handmaiden moved to the sitting area then. "During the meeting this morning, it became my pair up, while the girls, Master Windu and I were protecting you. We decided, in finalizing your opinion on that manhunt, now, and Obi-wan took Lana and my twin, Andrus with him now. We're looking into who it could be, but Padme, before we bring you home, we have to make a pitstop for a month now."
"Back on Tatooine, your pay it forward now." he said and she smiled as she got it then. "We did you and now it's doing the entire network, you're a skilled pilot, after everything you did for us. We complete the job and either free your mother, or if she was already, free the entire network now, that's what I can do to help, as we check on your mother and her husband. If she got married as we meet your stepfamily now." she said and he nodded, smiling as she sighed in relief.
"But I learned if we asked for their blessing we become one of the blessed number in Jedi that married and fell in love, we had 7 others, our children's adoptive older brother. Is Damon's grandson now, but we had contacts and if Leila's husband now gets the truth here. How I lost my wrist, and why our Sithmaster cloned me, it's calling war, after the Scum nearly killed us both." he said and she nodded. "So another exception for us, that's wonderful." she said smiling in delight.
"Girls, we, the Jedi, just hit a memory cap right now, but the Chancellor's remark to me, when the council arrived, was the key, involved with him, or he is him." he said gently and she and her handmaiden nodded in shock. "The Zabrak's mentor!" she said in shock and he nodded. "He did that on purpose distract us, till he has me brush the darkside, I need to check mom. But it's the tuskins I told you about, they're known to be vicious wild animals." he said and she nodded.
"And you're like everyone else, it's wrong you had to do that true, but whatever they taught you, was the key now, we wait too long, and it could destroy something." she said and he nodded gently then. "That's why we're going back, we have to check, the real target is me, I'm the key to everything in his mind now, but if not me, is a Skywalker is a very powerful student. Good and my powers can save billions here now, turned evil it's a thermal detonator waiting to go off."
"And the council just cut his acces to me off cold turkey, sorry Gregor, only she understands, she saw the Zabrak that killed father." he said and he nodded, as her handmaiden crossed her arms then gently. "Padme, Senator, we hit a slight snag, this little idea was a plot, by the Sith, putting us together, distracting me, to keep me from checking." he told her and Senator Padme Amidala nodded in fury, feeling her getting protective. "Your mother now?" she said and he nodded then.
"Yeah first stop is home, and then we take you home." he said and she nodded smiling. "What would be a reason to be uneasy is, that's really my alter ego turned twin brother, so two A names. You still call me Annie, his name is Andy, short for Andrus, I'm not pressing you into anything. As they know and are fine with it, so it's no longer a secret, and not destroying us now. So we just tell your side and everyone on both sides knows and we're public knowledge now here in truth."
"As they learn after our son joins the resistance with his sister, who the parents are, but if this was Andy, is it's keeping it a secret, we'd be living a lie, we can't do that. As it could destroy us in the end now." he said and she nodded in agreement as she took his hands. "That was Andy that was flirting with me last night, I knew you were on the other end of that camera. Only you decided to be a gentleman, knowing I need privacy to change." she said and he nodded then.
"The said argument here between us, before it resulted in a fight right now, I understand you're trying to defeat it, but it's all part of the design, allow it to go through. And he, our Sithmaster's non force sensitive alias, becomes the most hated man in the galaxy. But diplomacy to dictatorship and back again, that's bringing the force back into balance." he said and she nodded. "Then I'm against him for life." she said and Typho smiled in relief he talked her down then.
"Yeah, but you belong to me, he's crazy jealous, possessive, that's forbidden." Anakin said and she nodded, as she hugged him. "Yeah, my best friend, close to fiance, I love you, I belonged to you from the day we met, Annie." she said and the handmaiden and head of security exchanged smiles, knowing the previous night was a case of switched identities. In the twins, knowing their version was hugging their senator then there, the other had been assigned to the manhunt.
"I missed you so much, but back together forever, my love." he said and she pressed her forehead to his then. "I love you too, my Annie, if this is meant to be, it's meant to be." she said smiling, and Jar Jar Binks smiled in affection at the remark, knowing she was more then thrilled to have him and Obi-wan back then. "Hey Annie, we need to talk brother." they heard a male voice say, and he turned to see Tru. "What's up, Tru?" he asked and he nodded to him, smiling gently then.
"The council told me here, what you decided, I blamed you when I should have blamed Andy now, so start over, before something else happens?" he asked him and he smiled then. "Gladly, I missed you brother." he said and he hugged him and he tightened his arms. "You and Ferus are my best friends, but after the incident with Zan Arbor, that's the difference here. But Ferus left to get his head together, with him 4 years away from gradating." he said and he nodded gently.
"And to rephrase that after you said it to him now, in truth, we both knew, he just decided to lie about it, we better redirect that conversation, because you never forgave him. For not telling you the damn thing was broken, and needing an adjustment here, right now." he said and Tru nodded in agreement to that. "Though you changed out the crystals, it shorted out at the last minute, she's gone, because of his crazed jealousy." he said and he nodded sternly to that news then.
"But I saw how you had a slight gold glint in your eyes, a malicious look, with you trapped in that shield trap. That there was a chance it could go during the fight, that you knew I knew it needed more work. And that I couldn't get in front of her in time to save her, Tru, Ferus, that there it was now. There was a slight chance it could go then, and to my most immense relief here, I managed to put the stun mode on it."
"And before he fired the blaster at the moment, before the lightsaber went then at the time, but not my brother, no not my brother. I said to myself, my brother wouldn't do that, but then I thought of how wary you were. Of me after Zan Arbor, you knew how I felt about my powers, I was upset, you would want me. Now 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 the Sithmaster. You would want me to get blamed for it shorting out or exploding, even if it. Now, meant putting the entire team at risk till one of us is killed." he said and Andy swallowed hard as he said it quickly to that quickly at that. "That's not fair!" he said in denial to that and Anakin sighed as he looked at him sadly at that remark.
And Dorm'e crossed her arms at that reveal, sadly and with disappointed anger as he said it to him, as he felt his heart breaking at what his twin did."And suddenly I realized-yes, Andy could have done that." he said and the quartet crossed their arms. "You're looking at this all wrong." he said quickly and Anakin and Tru shook their heads to that. "I don't think so, I think I truly am seeing you for the first time."he said, as he unloaded it to him then finally.
"Do you even see yourself through my eyes anymore here, from the time we were younglings starting Jedi training, from the time Obi-wan found us. The council and the trio raised us, I know we came in late for training, but still. When I looked at you, I felt like I was looking at a mirror, for 8 years from 9 to 17. It was like looking into a mirror, and forgetting until the lightsaber was on, who of us was who here now."
"As we were identical in everything here now, aside from colors, we were completely identical, identical twins. But matching clothes, boot size, lightsabers, since we were younglings, and suddenly at 17 to now. It's you start dressing in this jumpsuit, you're spending 70% of your time right now. And when not on mission at the arena, talking to Palpatine, what's happened to you." he said, feeling the pain at his change grow in him.
"You always had a dangerous interest in the darkside, did that scum get to you or something, because my brother would speak up immediately. What's happened to you exactly, Andy, did being on that planet take away the you I know. Or did being around Palpatine do it." he asked and he turned away from him, as he wiped his face. "Because this continues and I really am an only child, instead of a twin." he said, trying to control it.
"Andy get back to the temple, I'm staying with her, you been re-assigned to the manhunt." he snapped, and Tru felt a pained jolt, as he felt him leave without another word. "He just realized you're furious enough you don't want to talk to him for a while here, Anakin. But then neither do I, he lost us both in one shot, you're completely disgusted with what he's turning into." Tru said and he nodded. "More my brother then he is, we're Jedi." he said and Tru nodded gently then.
While patting his shoulder. "Palpatine could be connected to him, or he is him, I don't know right now, but frankly, he's been around him so long, just look at his clothes. We're dressed like this, white trousers, white over shirt, white undershirt, chocolate robes. He's wearing a dark brown, in clothing, and the lightsaber is red as well, but all going dark Jedi carry two things. Red lightsabers, and sporting jet black clothing, and he's close to it." he said and the trio nodded.
"If that's not cold blooded and nothing ever is, I see why I told him that now, he's not you, my you would never do that." she said and they nodded. "You brought the wrong twin here, at the time, after you took him, Mace went back for Anakin, and decided to test him. We figured there was the chance, if the Sith were back, they would go after a Skywalker. And Andy befriended the chancellor, Annie connected to Master Windu and done." Tru said and she nodded to the news.
"So best friends?" she asked and they nodded smiling. "Padme, this is my best friend Tru Veld, Tru this is Senator Amidala, my fiancé." he said and Tru bowed at the waist. "Nice to meet you my lady." he said and she smiled in affection. "You better get in touch with Ferus, tell him we're still four, though Darra's in a coma, they put Lana in her place." he said and Tru nodded. "I can't believe Andy did that, you would have told me to check the crystals." he said to him then.
"There's the 'won't let me move on' remark, if it was Andy instead of me, they're still holding it against him for not telling them, Tru's lightsaber was broken. The blow caused enough strain to crack his focusing crystals, do that the energy cell can't hold up and it shorts out. That's what put Darra in a coma, it gave out, just as Darra jumped in front of the guys, and she got shot." he said and they nodded in shock. "I forgot we had an audience to this." she said to that gently.
"Anakin, with your choosing to change things of your own accord, with it being less then a year since that mission, I am returning your lost loved ones to you. But my powers only stretch back 13 years with you 20 now, so you get a life time. And with your Jedi friends." they heard and three people appeared and he looked at his team mate smiling in delight. "Father!" he shouted in delight, and Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn smiled.
"Hello padawan, I know it, time to return to work." he said and Anakin nodded smiling. "It's partner pair up, the girls have Padme, but I created twins, so Andy is with you, Father." he said and he nodded gently. "I got the manhunt, Adi has the protection duty, alright, whatever Mace said, I'm saying it again, once on Naboo, keep the radio off. And till Obi-wan calls you, and you call us, but if Yoda handed you my research, I want you to study that on sabbatical now."
"But as Obi-wan said here right now if we're in the last months of her pregnancy this is a very dangerous time for you, where you'll be tempted by the darkside. Trust we know what we're doing and trust in the force, it could be your fears, or it could be our Sithmaster. You have that which you need now, you don't need him anymore, time to finish this." he said and Anakin nodded, feeling the first batch of relief, he felt in months, as Darra Thel Thanis hugged him then.
And he tightened his arms around her. "Padme this is Darra, Darra this Senator Padme Amidala, a very dear friend, and if we take that jump, my fiance." he said and she bowed gently. "Nice to meet you, m'lady." she said and Padme smiled. "Damon's going to be thrilled to get you back, that's 3, that just leaves Ferus now." Tru said and she nodded. "Ferus left out of graduation jitters, thinking you been killed, instead you were in a coma." Anakin said to her then gently at that.
"Uh stand by." he added and activated his comlink then. "Ferus?" he said and they heard a gentle tone. "Anakin, yeah I read you, what is it." he said and he smiled. "Ferus, did you feel the spot Darra normally filled in your heart heal just now?" he asked and he heard a fast tone then. "Yeah I did, what was that exactly?" he asked and he smiled. "The force granted my unspoken wish and returned 3 of our missing loved ones to us, she's back now finally."
"We're a quartet again." he said and they heard a delighted tone in his voice at that. "We always knew the force was very good at the unexplainable, but I didn't think it was capable. And of resurrecting the loss of a very dear friend right now, but if what you're now, about to say next is now, what I'm thinking here, well then yeah I'm coming home. Get the team back together, but loved ones and.., Masters Yaddle and Qui-Gon, too."
"They're back, we got all of them back now." he said and Anakin smiled, and nodded, before seeing the missing member that had been MIA, and since he started now. "Yeah Ferus, listen, that's what I'm asking alright, we need you back brother, I'm holding your spot till you get back. But our pair up has the manhunt and protection duty, we just swapped padawans here right now. So once back up here, you're going with Obi-wan and Lana, but Father has you on the job."
"Mother, that's Master Adi, has me for this, but you had the wrong persona here, white dressed me is the real me, going jet black me is the man you confronted here. And after Darra got knocked into a coma, remember said blow to the head, that's white dressed me. Black dressed me was eaves dropping on your conversation, heard it needed more work still. I confronted you, and we swapped the crystals, but it gave out as I shoved the blaster to maximum stun here now."
"But the explosion from them destroying my ship cut her wrist, and the blow struck a vein, we never realized it also nicked the artery. Till after we took out Omega, that's why, like her, I passed out on you, the blow to the head, triggered such a case of brain fever. We both needed medical attention, I got off easy, though I was in medical supervision. Darra, Minga put her into a medically induced coma, and we were waiting for today." he said and Ferus nodded, smiling then.
"That explains everything then right now, I confronted your twin, he knew and never said anything, I was furious here, because not only was it too close in her case. But you're suffering dizzy spells and heat flashes, from the mind fever here. The last was so bad, I had to get you to calm down, before you took your lightsaber to me. But best friend and surrogate big brother, Lana and I your version of Obi-wan and Siri."
"Alright I'm dealing with the manhunt, so we find whoever is trying to assassinate her, via bounty hunter hunter, we find whoever masterminded this plot. Yeah I get the point, and you and I swapped mentors, but I get why here right now. And said's that your premonitions have gone berserk here again, but yeah I got it, I'm packing up. And I'm waiting for pick up." he said and he nodded as they exchanged smiles then in relief.
"Alright see you when we're back on Coruscant, brother." he said and Ferus nodded smiling. "You too Anakin, may the force be with you." he said and Anakin nodded. "May it be with you, brother." he said and knew he smiled in affection gently as they ended it then. "Getting the team back together, we have to fix the damage here, but we're not playing his game here. So every time he makes a suggestion, it's being shot down." Qui-Gon said and the trio nodded gently.
