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“I don’t know why, and I certainly don’t know how,” Obi-Wan Kenobi said, eyeing the shocked faces of the long dead council members and then turning to Anakin, “but I am absolutely sure that this is your fault.”
“Wha- Me!?” Anakin said, outraged.
“Yes, you.” Ahsoka deadpanned. “Although, this is definitely in the top ten of the weirdest things you’ve dragged us into, master.”
“Hey! I’m innocent!” He insisted.
Ahsoka and Obi-wan simply stared at him until he blushed.
“Weeelll, I Might’ve touched that string-like thing in the force after I killed Darth Sidious and died.” He said shyly.
“I knew it! Goddammit Anakin. I swear me, Rex and Kenobiwan are the only reason you ever survived the clone wars. You’d have kicked the bucket decades ago.”
“Kenobiwan? Really?” Obi-Wan deadpanned.
“Hush, my dear padawan, I was bored! What else did you expect to happen? What was supposed to do as a force ghost? It’s not my fault the ‘fabled’ chosen one can’t die like a normal person!”
Obi-Wan snickered to himself. That was absolutely true. A bored Anakin spelt disaster for everyone else. His eyes swept the room again until his eyes landed squarely on Qui-Gon Jinn, who he’d missed with his first sweep since he was standing behind them.
“Master! It’s been so long!” He exclaimed with a smile. “How are you?”
The master in question blinked owlishly. “Initiate Kenobi?”
He chuckled, “Yes, who else would I be? Although I’m not an initiate at the moment, I believe.”
“But- “
“Where is the old goblin?” Anakin said, looking curiously at the grandmaster seat which was currently occupied by Mace Windu, his expressions cycling through shock and a stern wariness, and everything in between. “He’s not here? I don’t sense him on Coruscant.”
Obi-Wan sighed, ignoring Kit Fisto’s stifled snort. “Anakin, you can’t call Grandmaster Yoda, ‘the old goblin’. And I think he’s off-world at the minute.”
“And yet,” Anakin replied smugly, “You knew exactly who I was talking about.”
Obi-Wan sighed, but before he could answer, Anakin continued: “Besides,” He waved his arm dismissively, “Can’t exactly be the Grandmaster without a Jedi Order to Grandmaster over, now can he?”
“And who’s fault is that? Hmm? Oh wait, I remember, it was someone named Darth Vader.” Ahsoka said.
“Darth- that’s a Sith name!” Mace Windu exclaimed, finally getting back his wits, trying to make sense of the three time travellers who were completely ignoring the council masters.
“Yes, the Sith aren’t extinct. And no, I’m not gonna let you have 5 months of meetings just to say that they can’t possibly be back and I’m lying, Mace. ” Ahsoka said.
Anakin winced, ignoring Mace Windu’s indignant squawk at being addressed so casually. “When you put it like that…”
“When I put it like that?” Ahsoka said, turning back to Anakin, “And who else would you blame for the fall of the Jedi Order? Sidious? He wasn’t strong enough. He would’ve died if he tried anything like it, even with the 501st with him. He’s a politician, not a fighter, and an even worse commander. The only reason he ever matched Yoda when they fought was because the entire temple had just died, and the dark side was excessively powerful.”
Anakin was about to fire back, but then he paused, “Wait a second! I can sense Darth Sidious and Darth Plagueis are both on Coruscant!”
Ahsoka was about to turn to Obi-Wan, who’d watched their bickering in amusement and fondness. But turned back to Anakin to blink at him. “Wait, that means we can go kill them both now!” She squinted and extended her senses into the force. As one of the most battle-hardened Jedi to ever live, her skill with the force was unparalleled for her age, and since she’d felt Darth Sidious after he revealed himself, she could spot his dark force signature with some effort.
She smiled, exposing her predatory fangs. “I can finally pay him back for turning the clones against us!”
She placed her hand on her lightsaber. “Let’s go!” She shouted.
Anakin and Obi-Wan made noises of agreement, and all three of them rushed for the door.
“He- Wait!” Qui-Gon exclaimed, finally regaining his wits.
“We’ll be back later, gotta kill some Sith!” she shouted just as she was opening the door.
Only for it to shut closed in her face with a force push from Mace Windu.
“You three.” He sighed, rubbing his temples. “Are not going anywhere.”
“You are all going to tell me where the heck you’re all from, and why I can’t sense any of you in the force, despite one of you claiming to be Initiate Obi-Wan Kenobi, who is suddenly at least 20 years older. Right Now.”
Obi-Wan looked at him with amusement before shrugging. “We’re time travellers from the future. Since Anakin mentioned Darth Sidious, so we’re forty something years in the past. And younger, too.
“Anakin? No Darth Vader?” Anakin asked.
“No, you’re Anakin right now. And I swear to the force if you fall to the dark side, again, I will make sure you never have children again.”
He paled and covered his crotch with arms. “Hey! My twins were awesome. They saved the galaxy from an evil sith emperor and-“
“Who you put on the throne.” Ahsoka interrupted.
Anakin’s face soured. “Not my fault that Sidious manipulated into killing every jedi in the temple.”
“You could just not do it, you know? What is it with Skywalker’s being so dramatic? I swear, Luke was just as bad as you are. Can’t you just fall to the dark side in peace?” Ahsoka complained.
“Could you stop bickering for FIVE MINUTES!” Mace roared, releasing his aura to intimidate them. It had scared many a jedi, even masters feared an angry Mace Windu.
But it did absolutely nothing to them, since they’d all fought in the Clone Wars where death was around every corner.
They all glanced at each other. “No.” they chorused as one.
“I haven’t kept my master’s ego in check for almost twenty years! It quickly goes to his head if me and Obi-Wan aren’t there to shoot it down. Like the moment he becomes a Sith, he immediately starts using a cape? Really, master? A cape?! You’re worse than Ventress!” Ahsoka said.
“Capes are cool!” Anakin defended, but then sheepishly added, “But yeah, it was really heavy and unnecessary. Sidious needed me to look intimidating. It was his whole shtick to make everything seem really over the top scary.”
“I mean, half the time you weren’t even on the battlefield. And don’t get me started on the Death Star.”
“I know,” Anakin Sulked, “Sidious wouldn’t let me enter the battlefield very often unless I could increase my reputation by fighting thousands of rebels at once. It was so boring.” He cried out.
Suddenly he eyed Ahsoka, “But when you found out I was Darth Vader, oh man, the look on your face was priceless.”
Ahsoka blustered, “Well, what was I supposed to be when I found out that my former master was the emperor’s lapdog? Annoyed?”
They continued to bicker for 20 more minutes. Mace had eventually given up on making them stop, since the information they were using to bicker with was invaluable and they completely ignored all attempts the council did at stopping them. The eyes of the council members growing wider and wider with every atrocity that they heard Anakin had committed and the war they were all forced to fight in, much less lead.
Mace Windu took the time to observe them, trying to see if there was anything useful he could gather, that they weren’t telling him.
He eyed Obi-Wan, who said the least, but his words always made the other two wince. It seems he hit home most often. He carried himself like a general, but wore a fond smile at the antics of the other two. He looked to be in somewhere in his late twenties, but it was hard to be sure. The beard he was sporting on his face made it hard to tell.
Ahsoka was easily the youngest of the trio, somewhere around 11 or 12, the age of an initiate. She carried two lightsabers on her belt. And despite Anakin calling her padawan, she didn’t wear a padawan braid. She also discredited her master constantly, questioning his skills and decision, coupled with snide remarks over his fall to the dark side. Mace Windu was looking with wide eyes at the supposed ‘lap dog of the emperor’, who’d supposedly committed almost every crime under the sun, including destroying an entire planet via a moon-sized weapon called the Death Star.
And Anakin, the master in question, vehemently tried to defend his pride (but failing miserably), although not denying any of the many war crimes he was being accused of, except stating that they hadn’t happened yet, so he couldn’t be convicted of anything. Despite his supposed training as a jedi, and later as a sith apprentice, you couldn’t tell at all that he was such an ominous figure. He carried himself more like a youngster than a jedi or a general, joking around with his padawan.
Suddenly Ahsoka said, “Remember the time on Felucia?”
The other two nodded sagely. “Yes indeed, that was a terrible time. We were so close to catching Darth Tyrannous.”
They nodded along, before all three bolted out the closed door in an instant, using a force push to rip it off its hinges, in less the half a second the door was open, and they were halfway down the hallway.
Mace Windu was the first one to react, “After them!” he barked, breaking into a sprint after the cackling time travellers, who seemed to be having the time of their lives.
He had a rough idea of where they were going: the senate building. They’d mentioned that Sith were on Coruscant several times, and they didn’t seem like they were joking or unsure.
‘That can’t be, right? We’d have known they were on Coruscant, right?’ The Sith were the embodiment of fury and evil. It was absolutely impossible for them to hide from the entire Jedi Order.
He immediately ordered the entire temple to be locked down, to stop the clearly insane time travellers who were under the delusion that there were Sith on Coruscant. Unfortunately for Windu, they were completely invisible in the force, and they forced him to chase them like a force-null would.
They were too fast to catch up to, even for him, the Master of the Order, but they weren’t fast enough to escape his chase, he could barely keep them in his line of sight as they raced to the hangar, whilst simultaneously fighting jedi sentinels, knight and masters alike, batting them aside with a contemptuous ease.
Once they arrived at the open hanger, they wasted no time jumping on an unused speeder, and disappearing out into the traffic with a “Well return it later!”
All three of them, plus half the council still in pursuit, were all directly heading for the senate building.
When they arrived, a host of guards greeted them. Some of the slower council members had alerted the senate to what was going on.
It didn’t seem to phase them at all. They didn’t even slow down, but simply crashed the speeder into the platform after jumping. Knocking half a dozen of them down with the force, then they drew their lightsabers to deflect the following blaster fire.
All the shots aimed at them were lethal or with intent to kill, and yet it didn’t slow them down at all, and they instead opted to start force pushing all of their opponents away.
The force-nulls stood no chance against the extremely skilled jedi, who were intent on disabling them and continuing on.
Mace Windu was barely able to intercept them before they got inside.
Obi wan took charge of the covering for Anakin and Ahsoka from the blaster fire, with perhaps the most skilled use of Soresu he’d ever seen. Ahsoka engaged a very annoyed Mace Windu in combat and matching him blow for blow, using an unorthodox Jar’Kai that left him barely able to react to her counterattacks, unable to predict her next move at all, it was almost like fighting Master Yoda, with all her flips and acrobatic jumps. Anakin used his prodigious force powers to outright hold 3 of the council master in a locked force push, which they were slowly losing.
In an amazing display of skill, Obi-Wan disabled the blaster of every guard there by returning the bolts straight back at the rifles. This granted him a brief reprieve, and allowed him to join Ahsoka in her fight against Mace Windu, who was quickly pushed away.
It was barely 30 seconds after they’d landed that they’d entered the senate building, whilst fighting off half the council and an entire battalion of guards, subduing all of them with non-lethal force.
Once they made it inside, the fighting got a lot more complicated. There were civilians and senators trapped between their targets and them. The three of them were weaving between, all of them while making their way through the hallways. They seemed to know exactly where they were heading, and either cut holes through the doors that were closed, or simply ripped them off their hinges with force pulls or pushes.
The entire senate was, of course, on lockdown, but that didn’t seem to surprise them or slow them down either. They were so untouchable that Mace Windu, one of the best lightsaber duellists of all time, was repelled with ease.
Ahsoka and Obi-wan were now fighting off the council as they shouted ineffectually at them to stop their madness, but they were completely unfazed. Anakin was taking the lead in breaking the doors down, leaving his back completely defenceless, but was covered by his two companions perfectly. They never even stopped bickering, trading verbal blows while blocking physical ones from the council and the guards.
His heart sank when stop breaking down the door. Either they were correct, and that Sith had indeed infiltrated the senate with the order none the wiser, or they were wrong, in which case they murder some innocent senator and humiliate the council for failing to stop them. Either way, it was going to be a migraine inducing headache.
Mace Windu’s disbelief reached an all-time high when they made their way to into senator Sheev Palpatine’s office. Anakin exploded the door inwards, firing shrapnel at high speeds to everyone in the room.
Despite still being unable to sense him in the force at all, Anakin’s excitement was palpable in the air.
When Mace Windu finally got to the doorway he was greeted with the sight of three time travellers standing with lightsabers drawn against a terrified Sheev Palpatine and an unknown muun.
“Hego Damask the II.” Obi-Wan said casually, ”I’ll admit, I didn’t expect you to be Darth Plagueis. We dismissed you pretty early on, but this isn’t a surprise. You look exactly as harmless as Sidious.” He finished before leaping at the man with a swing that would decapitate the muun if it hit.
Mace Windu’s eyes widened in horror as he felt he was about to witness three jedi attack a civilian businessman.
The muun stumbled back, barely dodging Obi-Wan’s first swing through sheer luck, and looked to Mace Windu for help.
Mace leapt into action, intent on stopping their madness.
“Are you crazy!?” he shouted at them, “Him?! A Sith?!” Mace had spoken to Palpatine frequently, and he’d never displayed a hint of force sensitivity. He couldn’t sense any force sensitivity from the muun either, despite his terror easily being read in the force. He was a force null too.
Anakin was smirking at Palpatine, who seemed pale and who was being backed into a corner.
While Mace duelled Obi-Wan, there rest of the council had caught up, and was attempting to stop Ahsoka and Anakin from killing a respected senator.
The council wasn’t holding back, all of 9 of them respected and skilled Jedi Master, duelling two rogue jedi, and yet they could not subdue the pair. While they were individually skilled and had some experience in teamwork, they were simply outclassed by Ahsoka and Anakin, who acted almost as one.
The stalemate continued for a tense few minutes before Obi-Wan could outmanoeuvre Mace Windu and rushed for Darth Plagueis.
“Darth Plagueis. I can’t say it’s a pleasure to meet you.” He said simply, swinging his lightsaber.
Mace Windu froze in shock when he saw Obi-Wan’s blue lightsaber being blocked by a blood red one.
“You…” Palpatine growled, “Who are you!? How do you know!?” He shouted in pure fury, and the council watched in a stupor as he drew his own red lightsaber, jumping at Ahsoka and Anakin.
“Impossible! They’ve been hiding on Coruscant this entire time!?” Ki-Adi-Mundi exclaimed. He, along with every other member, was frozen in shock at this revelation. The sith both stopped suppressing their aura’s, and a maelstrom of darkness erupted. It was like the light left the room, only to be replaced with a smoking darkness.
It was almost a physical pressure on them. Weighing them down like a lead blanket. The council members could feel themselves slow down, and their limbs become heavy. A fury unlike anything they’d ever felt before assaulted their minds. Vision of torment, torture and countless deaths flashed before their eyes like a vision of a future that left them gasping for air.
The time travellers, though, wasted no time in their attack.
“Darth Sidious.” Anakin growled. “Die.”
Ahsoka immediately switched targets, leaping from Anakin’s side to assist Obi-Wan in his assault against the muun, Hego Damask.
The Sith, long thought to be extinct, were suddenly found on Coruscant. Not only that, they’d been on Coruscant for years and the entire Jedi Order had no idea. It was a terrifying thought.
Thinking quickly, Mace Windu changed his target. He’d deal with the fallout of killing a senator later. It was no doubt going to have massive consequences on the order, but this was a split second decision. He saw a massive shatter point looming over them; he knew that if he let them escape, there’d be consequences for years to come that’d probably kill billions of souls.
He smoothly joined the fight against the two sith who, having joined up, were in total sync and throwing out force lightning like they were going out of style.
They were formidable. Now that they weren’t suppressing their presence, it was like an ocean of darkness, full of hate and fury. They directed directly it at them, and Mace Windu felt that if the three time travellers weren’t with them, they’d have long since lost. They were that good.
The jedi felt like they were stuck in water, their movements felt heavy and slow, drowning in the sheer presence the sith exuded. Mace didn’t doubt that even force nulls could feel it.
They were retreating, however.
Mace Windu didn’t notice it at first, being so absorbed in the fight in order to utilise his Vaapad, but they were slowly making their way to the window in the back.
Following Mace Windu’s lead, the rest of the council had joined in as support for the Time Travellers, who seamlessly incorporated them into their attack.
“Alright, fuck this.” Anakin said suddenly, stopping his attack, and closing his eyes.
“Anakin, Don-“ Was all Obi-wan managed to say before a massive dark side explosion came from him.
It jarred Mace Windu and the rest of the council, who stared in horror at the former jedi.
If the sith before them were like oceans of darkness, then this was like a supernova of darkness. Everyone, except the time travellers and the sith were nearly forced to their knees, gasping for breath. The furious emotions of the sith that assaulted them with visions of torture and death were simply silenced by the sheer wrath of Darth Vader.
He was now sporting yellow eyes with a blood red crimson iris. His connection to the force was so strong that his lightsaber was turning red from his presence alone. It was almost a physical manifestation, like the light side of the force had disappeared from the force, only to be replaced by a darkness so strong it choked every light side force user in the galaxy.
And the council members were right beside him. It was only through sheer willpower they managed to not collapse.
And then he attacked. His aggressive movements turned simpler, overpowering the Sith with strength alone. He didn’t use any complex movements, nor any complicated force attacks. The force followed him with every attack, strengthening his every swing so that it was almost impossible to block.
Mace Windu hesitated slightly. He couldn’t do anything else, really. What could he do? But Obi-Wan and Ahsoka had no such qualms. They groaned in exasperation and joined his renewed assault.
Anakin Skywalker was a lot stronger than he was before. His hate was directed solely at Darth Sidious. He didn’t doubt that jedi knights and initiates in the temple would have trouble standing even from such a distance.
Mace Windu forced himself to use his Vaapad, gulping in the surrounding darkness to fuel his attacks against the Sith.
The sheer hate that Anakin was exuding was absolutely terrifying to Mace. He’d prepared for his entire life to face the dark side, and yet even he became slightly paralysed at the strength of the emotion, despite his Vaapad powering him up.
He was stronger and faster when fighting Darth Sidious, completely ignoring what he guessed to be the master, overpowering him through force and fury.
Ahsoka and Obi-wan easily switched their targets to the muun, while Sidious was slowly being overwhelmed by Anakin.
“Now!” The muun suddenly shouted, and both of the sith force pushed against the window behind them, jumping out.
Their speed and stealth was incredible. The time travellers had expected this and shot after them like blaster fire, and yet the sith were escaping. The narrow gap between the sith and the time travellers was widening every so slightly as they jumped between speeders and transports, fire force lightning at the time travellers and forcing them to redirect it or block it.
Suddenly, turning a corner, the sith were gone. They were still very visible in the force, like two beacons, overshadowed by Skywalker, but still very much visible. It set Mace’s nerves on edge like never before.
The time travellers, however, were just standing around in the alley.
The sith lord in question paled considerably, and crossed his legs, and covered the area between his legs with his arms, not at all acting like is presence in the force would suggest
Ahsoka jumped on him, easily subduing him with the same unorthodox movements she’d displayed earlier. As Obi-Wan ignited his lightsaber.
“No! Please! I’m sorry!” Anakin yelled in pure terror. This was so contrasting to his sheer power in the force like a dark force nexus all on its own.
Obi-Wan stepped up to Anakin, who was desperately, but ineffectually trying to kick Obi-Wan away while Ahsoka held his arms onto the ground.
Obi-wan was about to strike, having raised his lightsaber above his head in preparation, when he paused. Mace was actually considering intervening as that wasn’t very jedi like and they most certainly didn’t castrate their enemies.
Although none of them acted like jedi at all. They were more like best friends on crack.
Obi wan narrowed his eyes at Anakin, “You get away with it, this time. But I expect you to come back to the light, like a jedi, after this is over.” He said to Anakin, who whimpered but nodded vigorously.
Ahsoka jumped off her master and they all look into the sky.
“Ready?” Obi wan said after reluctantly helping Anakin off the ground.
“Heck yes!” Ahsoka shouted.
They all reached into the force and pulled.
Suddenly a spaceship leaving the atmosphere in the air stopped cold.
Then they yanked. And the ship was suddenly flying towards them at top speed.
It crashed heavily onto the ground in seconds, leaving a massive crater on the road below.
The time travellers were unaffected by the shock and jumped back into the fray to fight against the two emerging sith.
“Who are you!?” Darth Sidious growled at them. His hate felt almost like a physical pressure on Mace.
“They’re time travellers.” Darth Plagueis said calmly, stroking his chin in contemplation.
The time travellers froze as Darth Plagueis continued, “It either means that the Chosen One’s abilities far exceeded our expectations, or that the force denied us our success.” He walked up behind to his apprentice, who was staring at the time travellers with a murderous expression.
The muun paused slightly, staring at the assembled jedi before him with a calm that unnerved Mace Windu. Him and his apprentice were surrounded by almost a dozen of the most skilled jedi on Coruscant.
Plagueis looked curiously at Anakin, who stared back with his yellow sith eyes, “I can see that you’d make a terrible jedi, you’re too emotional. Would you mind telling me which one it is? You’re certainly strong enough to travel back in time…” the muun said, stroking his chin.
Unfortunately, the three time travellers didn’t deign him with an answer, charging at him and his apprentice wordlessly. This time, there was nowhere for them to run.
Mace ordered the council members, and arriving jedi masters to circle them, and stop their escape rather than join directly. This battle far outmatched most of them. Even the Jedi Masters would be little more than cannon fodder before the sith.
The battle is short and bloody, and yet the entire area they’re in gets levelled by the increasingly violent force users, throwing more and more destructive attacks at each other.
Dangerous as the battle was, Mace couldn’t help but be fascinated by the three time travellers. They were in perfect sync, reading each-other’s movements as if they’d been born in battle.
It paints a grim future that they were forced to develop this level of cohesion just to survive.
Looking closer, Mace thought that each of them could be the sith in lightsaber combat. Although they were outmatched in pure battles of force, Ahsoka and Obi-Wan were easily able to hold their own, through the re-direction of attacks rather than blocking them, like Anakin. Mace hadn’t seen anyone so skilled in lightsaber combat since Master Dooku, who was also away on a mission. And he was one of the most skilled jedi the order had ever seen. The youngest one was barely the age he was when he became a knight, and he had to admit that she was more skilled than he was.
The battle came to a head when Anakin killed senator Palpatine. A downward swing caught the sith off-guard, searing through him from right shoulder to his stomach.
The master, Darth Plagueis, paused for a moment, but otherwise continued his battle with Ahsoka and Obi-Wan
The final sith lord died a death worthy of a sith. While Anakin was staring silently at the dead body of the senator Palpatine. Darth Plagueis retreated from Ahsoka and Obi-Wan into an alley. Now that his apprentice was dead, and he had a lot more mobility, he restricted their numbers’ advantage. Forcing them to come closer to him, and slow down their attacks.
Just as Ahsoka lunged forward to kill him, after breaking his guard, he dropped his lightsaber.
Ahsoka pierced Plagueis straight through the chest, but the muun smiled.
In his last moments, he locked Ahsoka and Obi-Wan in place with the force, drawing upon his very life force
Sensing the gathering power, the togruta tried to jump back, while Obi-Wan tried to pull her back with the force, but Plagueis frozen them both in place.
The rest of the gathered jedi sensed the attack to, but were too far away to do anything.
All except for Anakin.
When Anakin felt the force gather around the muun, he rushed forwards. He recognised what the Plagueis was doing and brought his hand together to create a force shield around the sith.
The force shield was so strong that the air surrounding Plagueis turned opaque, and a split second later, Hego Damask II disappeared in a blinding explosion inside the bubble.
Anakin grunted with effort and his pale face was beading with sweat, but he was otherwise still standing.
Now that the battle was over, after Mace made a thorough sweep of the surroundings, and checking the corpses of the sith, to make sure that they were dead. He approached the time travellers who were bickering as easily as if they were talking about the weather, even though two of them almost died a few minutes ago.
As he approached, Ahsoka turned to him and asked, “Right, we never got around to asking, but what day is it, exactly?”
Mace rubbed his temples. The current situation was a combination of a giant disaster and a massive relief, because the sith were exposed before they could do any noticeable harm.
Mace rattled off the date and Anakin’s face turned thoughtful, “That’s sounds like it was right around when I was conceived. I can’t be sure, of course, but it is around 9 standard months from when I was born.”
“When you pull yourself back to the light, we can kill the Hutt’s?” Ahsoka suggested casually.
Mace was appalled, but Ahsoka’s face brightened. “Yeah! A lot of your issues came from the fact that you grew up in slavery and the jedi just told you to release your emotions into the force. If we let you grow up without having experienced slavery for 9 years, then maybe you’ll be a bit more well-adjusted.”
Anakin’s face was caught in a mixture of agreement and offense. “What do you mean ‘more well-adjusted’? I turned out fine!”
“You literally killed every single jedi in the temple without a single second of hesitation. And with an army of brainwashed soldiers with you, to boot.” Ahsoka deadpanned.
Mace blanched, ‘all of them?!’
“When you put it like that…” Anakin sheepishly replied, rubbing the back of his head.
“But…” He said, face turning serious, “I don’t think I’ll ever be a good jedi. You know how emotional I am. Maybe sith training with positive emotions?” he suggested, thoughtfully.
“You want to give your younger self sith training?! What the hell are you thinking?!” Mace hissed at Anakin.
He actually had to calm himself down for a moment, “in what world isn’t that a terrible idea?”
He shrugged, “this one.”
Mace put his hand on his lightsaber, shaking his head, “I can’t let you do that. That goes against everything I stand for. Even if I have to fight you right now, I’ll stop you from spreading the sith teachings.”
He knew that he’d at least need to put his life on the line, but he’d at least witnessed how Anakin fought, and his Vaapad would work wonders against such an aggressive opponent.
The other two time travellers were silent, leaving the choice up to Anakin.
“Well, when you put it like that…” He said, “I’ll still do it. Bye!” He said, force pushing Mace away violently.
The other two immediately followed suit, fleeing with the young sith.
“Stop them!” mace roared at the council members. They were just out of range, inspecting the bodies of the sith lords.
All of them sprung into action, drawing their lightsabers and chasing after the three rogue force users.
Until they turned a corner, and all of them had disappeared. Even their presence in the force was completely gone.
The only traces they’d ever been here was the lingering force presence of the two dead sith.
Force, Mace Windu wanted to punch something
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Anakin squinted suspiciously at Obi-Wan. “Why do I feel you knew which day it was? We caused way more chaos than we could’ve done. It’s like you wanted this fight to be as chaotic as possible.”
“And you didn’t?” Ahsoka interjected.
Anakin shrugged, and Obi-Wan said, “No, I actually remember this day quite well.” He grinned, “Today is the day that Mace Windu took over as Grandmaster for the week, while Yoda was out on a weeklong mission. Yoda thought it’d be funny to only tell Mace Windu after he left, informing the rest of the Jedi Temple, but not him. He’d probably only been sitting in the chair for a few hours when we arrived.”
Anakin tried to contain his laughter at first, then seeing no reason to, he howled so much that he fell to the ground, clutching his stomach.
Ahsoka similarly joined him.
Wiping a tear from her eye, she said, “Thank the force. He’s always had a bit of a stick up his ass. He never gave us any praise and always gave us the most tedious missions.”
Obi-Wan looked at the two of them with fondness. “We’ve experienced too much of the Jedi Temple’s flaws to ever be jedi, so there is none of the unrighteousness the rest of the temple is no doubt experiencing.”
Anakin took a good long while to compose himself, before answering, “True, if you think about it, the jedi right now live in the literal centre of the galaxy and watch it from a literal marble tower. A part of it is definitely sith meddling, trying to isolate them from the rest of the galaxy, but it looks really stupid if you think about it. How can we help the galaxy if we can’t connect to it at all?”
Ahsoka made a noise of agreement, and moved to pilot the starship they borrowed.
“What do we do now? Just head straight off to Tattooine? It’s the worst planet in the galaxy, but we need to pick up your mother…” Ahsoka paused for a moment, then she turned to Obi-Wan “I just realised we left tiny you back at the temple, Master Obi-Wan.”
Obi-Wan snorted. “You two always wanted that spark of adventure. I was just dragged along for the ride. Do you have any idea how insufferable I’d be if you dragged my younger self along? I’d want to do everything by the book, not to mention I wouldn’t want to be here in the first place, as I’d feel it would ruin any chance of me every getting a Jedi Master when I was hanging around three mavericks who were blatantly flaunting the rules.”
Anakin snickered, “that’s true, I can’t really imagine Obi-Wan Kenobi, the ‘perfect’ jedi, going for a joyride with three heretical jedi. One of whom has fallen to the dark side.”
Obi-Wan shook his head. “I just turned eleven years old, already anxious about my lack of a master, and my rivalry with Bruck Chun wasn’t helping. He was constantly goading me about lacking a master, to hide his own insecurities.”
He stopped for a moment, putting his hand on Anakin’s shoulder, smiling gently. “Oh yeah, thanks for reminding me. I promised something would happen if you ever fell to the dark side again, my dear padawan, didn’t I?”
Anakin shivered, “Meep.”