An alternative fate

An: I don’t remember any of the names of Anakin’s friends from episode one, so I’m just going to make up my own. Plus I also forgot Luke and Leia go under the name Skywalker-Kenobi now. I should have mentioned that in the previous chapters.


An alternative fate

Later on that afternoon just as Anakin was arranging for two speeder bikes, one for him and one for Obi-wan, and three creatures that resembled camels. He noticed a human man, two human women and a green coloured creature observing him.

He searched their minds and was surprised to discover they were his childhood friends. The human male was his closet friend Kris. The two females were sister’s “Cordie and Lucia. And the green alien was Remi.

Anakin grinned and gestured for them to come over. He asked them if they were who he thought they were. When they confirmed that they were Anakin nodded and asked “why were you staring at me from all the way over there?”

Kris spoke “you reminded us of someone we used to know as children, but when he was nine he was freed, we haven’t seen him since.”

Anakin grinned “well I must say things have not really changed all that much around here since I was freed.” The women’s eyes widened as they said instantaneously “Ani?”

Anakin grinned “yep, the one in the same.” Remi spoke in his own language “holy crap Ani, would you look at you, you’re towering, over all of us, when at one point you were the smallest out of the lot of us.”

Anakin laughed and replied “well, naturally time, and a whole lot of training seen to that.” Kris asked “you mean to tell me you finally got your wish Ani, you’ve become that fantasy Jedi protector?”

Anakin snorted and moved his cloak to the side enough for his lightsabre to be visible enough. They all looked on in awe. Cordie gushed “oh wow Ani your Jedi Knight?” Anakin nodded “not only that but I’m also a master as well, let me introduce you to my former master and my padawan and children.”

Anakin called out “hey Obi-wan, will you please come over here and bring Luke and Leia with you.” Obi-wan nodded and gestured for the twins to follow him.

Anakin smiled as Obi-wan placed an arm around Anakin’s waist and Anakin placed a gentle hand on Obi-wan’s chest. “Obi-wan I would like to introduce you to my childhood friends. Guys this is Obi-wan Kenobi, he’s my former master, and he is also my husband and my life bond mate.” They each nodded in return.

Lucia asked “and who are these adorable cuties?” Anakin grinned “these are our children Luke and Leia Skywalker-Kenobi. They are twins. Luke is also my padawan leaner and apprentice.”

Cordie commented “the little girl is an absolute replica of that dark haired girl that came with that other Jedi knight who freed you.”

Anakin sighed sadly “that’s because she, Padme was their mother. She died after she had given birth to them. I remarried yesterday to Obi-wan.” she sighed sadly “sorry to hear that Ani.”

Lucia added “But geez you’ve really come such a long way from the slave pod race driver. Look at you your gorgeous; you’re married to someone who is as equally as gorgeous. You’ve got two of the cutest kids known to man. You’re a Jedi Master. You’ve really come along way Ani, and I’m happy for you”

Anakin smiled and said “thanks you guys I really appreciate you saying so.” Remi asked “what’s with the hiring of the speeder bikes and other transportation Ani? Anything we can help with?”

Anakin turned to Obi-wan who nodded “of course all the help we can get would be much appreciated. We’re heading over to the out skirts where our ship is currently waiting for us to return and collect our possessions.”

“Planning on staying a while are you?” Kris asked happily “I hope so it’s been far too long.” Anakin nodded “we’re staying for the next six months, before we return to Courscant. We can’t reveal just yet are reason for being here, but it will soon become all too apparent trust me.”

So whilst the children stayed behind with Shmi, the men and the women travelled by speeder bikes or camel like creatures across the desert towards the ship.

Anakin and Obi-wan both lifted the force powered shield they had placed around the ship, so no one would have been able to see the ship and steal it. Kris and Remi had been impressed when both Anakin and Obi-wan had lifted said shield with a wave of their hands.

Kris asked as they all began to unload the ship and securely load everything onto the back of the camel like creatures and speeder bikes “so Ani have you seen your grumpy ex-slave driver yet?”

Anakin scowled “yeah actually Kris I have indeed reacquainted my self with Wotto. I’m just itching to slash off said flying and overly confident scum’s head clean off of his shoulders with my sabre.”

The others grimaced and eyed Anakin like they couldn’t believe he was the same person who didn’t have a violent bone in his body. Anakin sighed and leaned against the ships open hatch suddenly exhausted, having not taxed him self like this since he found out he was pregnant.

He sighed and revealed coldly “I won’t tolerate being snubbed by that flea bitten bug, I could easily squash the life force out of that worthless waste of air. I’m not in the mood, nor do I have the patients these days since the clone war began and the Jedi are constantly out fighting.”

Anakin raked an irritable hand through his locks, unintentionally alerting his mate to his irritation through their bond. Obi-wan quietly slipped up behind Anakin and rubbed soothing circles on his back and lower spine. Anakin sighed and moaned appreciatively “hmmm you’re a saint, I needed that.” Obi-wan chuckled knowingly.

Anakin suddenly froze just as they had finished loading everything, the hairs on the back of his neck stood up to attention. Obi-wan murmured “yes I sense it also.” Remi being the only other who was sensitive but not force sensitive, also sensed them before they had even made their presence known “Tusken raiders” he rasped, ”several of them in fact.”

Obi-wan ordered the women and Kris and Remi to take cover behind the ship, and those who had blasters were to shoot from behind their hiding place. The less people the Tusken’s sensed or saw the quicker this would be over.

Anakin and Obi-wan took out their light sabres and activated them, Anakin’s a dangerously bright blue glowing blade, and Obi-wan’s, a lethal looking green glowing blade, both gleamed dangerously, while Kris and Remi and the women, Moira included pulled out blasters.

They braced themselves and Kris and Remi had just enough time to marvel and admire their old friend as he activated the lethal and deadly looking glowing blade and stood in a defensive posture ready to pounce and slice through flesh at a moments notice, before they spotted the Tusken’s .

With lightening fast reflexes both Jedi masters worked their way side by side in perfect timing. Blue and green illuminated in the dieing embers of the suns, as day gave away to night. Obi-wan informed his love over their bond ~kill them if you must, we can’t afford to allow then to get near to the others~ Anakin retuned his agreement over the link, and proceeded to slash and swipe his blade with deadly precise and intent.

Anakin’s old friends and Dorme, Sabe and Moira watched in awe as they continued to shoot at the Tusken’s maiming them before either Anakin or Obi-wan would finish them off with a lethal swipe or slash. They shot at the Tusken’s as they watched the deadly blue and green blurs as the deadly humming sound of the light sabre as it was spun in wide arches and plunged into Tusken after Tusken, as heads were decapitated and sent rolling and limbs were served.

The remaining Tusken’s were alerted to their serve disadvantage went the smell of their own people’s charred flesh, and the scattered heads and limbs of their own, came all to apparent. They began to retreat deciding to maintain the remaining life left of their own group.

Anakin and Obi-wan lowered their sabres and watched as the remaining living or injured Tusken’s departed in due haste. Anakin sighed wearily as he spun his sabre, the blue blade flashing and making a humming noise as it was deactivated.

Both he and Obi-wan replaced their sabres inside their cloaks. They slowly made their way over to the others. Anakin’s friends eyed Anakin and Obi-wan in awe.

Kris beamed “holy crap Ani that was wizard. I’ve never seen anything like it. I’ve always tired to imagine what it would be like to see an actual real light sabre, and a Jedi master in action, but two of you all at the same time, that’s just unbelievable.”

Anakin and Obi-wan chuckled and shook their heads in amusement. Anakin groaned as his bones made a cracking sound as he rolled his shoulders and titled his head to the left then to the right.

He and the others made sure they’d gotten everything, before Anakin sealed the hatch. Then he and Obi-wan worked together to replace the force based shields, shielding the ship from prying and unwanted eyes.

Anakin mounted his bike, Obi-wan followed suit, as did Anakin’s friends while Dorme, Sabe and Moira mounted the camel like creatures. Anakin sighed and said before any of them started their engines “force Obi-wan I’ve not felt this drained since the fight on Geonosis when I was nineteen and we were in that fight against Dooku.”

Kris asked “why Ani what happened on Geonosis?” Anakin sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose before replying “Count Dooku was a Jedi master, and a good one at that. But he was seduced to the dark side of the force and he turned. He became a, sith lord.

Anyway it was seven years ago that the clone wars first began. Dooku led us to one of the departing hangars. We ended up in a three way duel, me Obi-wan and Dooku. Unfortunately I was far too much arrogant and a hot headed teenager for my own good. I charged in at full force against a once Jedi master and a experienced sith lord then. Where I was only a padawan leaner, a stronger then your average padawan leaner tends to be, but still no match for a man with over fifty years of experience under his belt.”

He cringed at how overly arrogant he had been at that age before he continued. “Anyway, we had fought, Obi-wan got wounded, not severely thank heavens for that. So it was I and he whom remained standing, I was already weakened from the several shots of raw based energy of the dark side of the force that had been launched at me.

So Obi-wan had thrown me his own sabre and that gave me a slight advantage over him. There I was with youth and speed and two light sabres on my side, against his one sabre and slowed with aged gait. But that advantage didn’t last long, as he dismembered one of the Sabres leaving me with only one remaining sabre.

He unfortunately caught me off guard for just one mere second, just one mere second was all he had needed to maim me and slice off my right hand up as far as my elbow. Leaving me with this” he gestured to his black leather gloved mechanical hand.

Anakin removed the glove and revealed the gleaming golden mechanical hand in all of its terrifying glory. His friends gasped at the sight. Kris reached out and smooth his hand across the mechanical fingers that lightly clasped his, causing him to gasp, a look of fascination and complete disbelief coloured his expression.

Kris asked “so what happened to this Count Dooku?” Anakin snorted “well, what can I say he met a well deserving end. His head met the end of my sabre, almost five years ago; I decapitated the son of a bitch, his head for my arm and hand.” Everyone’s eyes practically bugged at that particular piece of information.

Obi-wan eyed his husband in stunned horror “I knew Dooku had been killed, but I had no idea it was you who were responsible for taking his head clean off his shoulders. I after all had been knocked out cold at the time during that rescue mission.”

Anakin shrugged “it’s not something I’m normally known to do, and you know that Obi-wan. I just didn’t fancy losing anymore valuable limbs to that dark tosser thank you very much.” Obi-wan nodded, he understood how difficult it had been for his love to lose something so as irreplaceable as a limb, especially at the age of nineteen.

Anakin replaced the glove and started the engine, and rearranged himself in the seat as the engine roared to life. The others followed suit and Sabe, Dorme and Moira gathered the rains and gave them a tug.