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Halo Clone Wars: Chapter 4
Posted By: Enthrone Darkness Triumphant<admiralprestoncole@yahoo.com>
Date: 26 February 2009, 4:51 pm
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Alright everyone, here is the prelude to the prologue. I just want to let everyone know that I will use the "BBY (Before Battle of Yavin (SW EP 4))" time keeping system just to keep everything simple.
Cheers and enjoy the chapter
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Chapter 4: Reflections of the Triumphant
"I was on leave after fighting the Battle of Coruscant, but my master had other issues to attend to…."
Chancellor's Suite
Coruscant
Month 5, 19 BBY
"Anakin. I told you it would come to this. I was right. The Jedi are taking over!!"
Anakin watched as Windu deflected the Sith lord's force lightning with his purple sabre. The frail mans skin melted to expose his true form; chiselled from the eons of using the dark arts.
"Anakin please, I am too weak! I can help save what you love, please," pleaded Sidious.
Anakin begged Windu to arrest the dark lord but he refused, claiming that man was too dangerous, had too many corrupt officials under his power, a man too powerful for even the Jedi to hold.
Then in front of Anakin's eyes, Windu raised his lightsaber; moments from striking the killing blow. He couldn't bear to watch this go through; his emotions were getting the best of him, his love for Padme was too strong.
"NOOOOOO!" Anakin screamed as he cut off Windu's sword hand.
"What had have I done? I am sacrificing everything for my own selfish needs. No, I cannot let everything I have held dear for my whole life go right through my fingers, I am the Chosen One, the bringer of balance to the force, the supposed destroyer of the Sith; here I am helping him. No! Will not go through," Anakin thought to himself.
Windu had just got blasted with the force lightning and Sidious initiated the force push.
Anakin watched as one of the greatest masters of the Jedi Order was blown through the suite's windows.
With all his concentration and powers, Anakin called out to the force and pulled Windu back into suite, flinging him a bit too hard against the opposing wall.
Windu staggered back up, his arm still throbbing from losing his hand. In front of his very eyes, Anakin activated his lightsaber and started to confront the Sith Lord.
"You lied to me! You used me for your own nefarious needs!" Anakin screamed. "Joining you would have killed Padme, nothing else."
Tears started to stream down Anakin's eyes.
"My master told me that our own destiny was not written for us, we ourselves make it through our deeds and acts," Anakin trembled under the burden of his emotions. "You will harm the Republic no more."
"ANAKIN! PLEASE!" Sidious exclaimed as the blue sabre cut right through the base of his neck.
The rippling effect through the Force did not go unnoticed as many Jedi's looked to the heavens. They felt the sceptre of the Sith dissolve and the burden being lifted from within the realms of the Force.
Windu got up as he watched Anakin fall to his knees, still sobbing over his misdeeds. Anakin looked up as the master put his arm around the saviour of the republic and called a gunship for pick up.
"General, are you okay?" the trooper asked as he walked into the suite. "What happened to the chancellor?"
"He was perpetrator of the Clone Wars, he was the Sith Lord. Have his body brought back to the temple," Windu ordered as he motioned Anakin to his feet. "We must go Skywalker; there are a lot of proceedings that we have to go through."
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Spire of the High Council
Jedi Temple, Coruscant
Month 5, 19 BBY
"Lost three of our finest Jedi's we did, but the outcome was for the best, indeed." Yoda spoke as he eyed a couple of young Jedi's standing in the center of the room.
Anakin felt ashamed for letting his emotions nearly destroy the Republic, the Jedi, himself and also letting down his padawan. He looked at the floor as he felt all the remaining Jedi Council members gaze at him, probably contemplating which punishment would best befit his actions.
"Jedi's have never sought vengeance Skywalker, and we do not intend to do it now," Windu smiled at the knight. "You proved to me that you can be trusted and the fact that you were indeed the chosen one. Ahoska, you should be proud to be trained by him."
"Now Skywalker, discuss your relationship with Senator Amidala we must. Go against the code you did when you married her; lied you have all these years to keep your marriage a secret. Feel good doesn't it to have the burden taken off?" Yoda asked.
"Yes it does Master, and I apologize for my behaviour over all these years," Anakin solemnly spoke. "I request that I be removed from the High Council until I am ready for such a noble position. That is if I don't get expelled from the Order."
"We will not expel you Skywalker," Windu spoke. "However, putting you on the council was Palpatine's decision and as you have said, you still have much to learn. We will reinstate you once your padawan has completed her training plus you will have achieved the rank of Jedi Master by then."
"With this said and done, discuss the future of your relationship with Senator Amidala we will." Yoda spoke as he shifted in his chair. "Great danger this relationship poses for you and her. See this first hand you have when Palpatine used the relationship for his own deeds."
"I see your point Master, what would you have me do?"
"Divorce you must, hard this may seem, but for the greater good it is." Yoda calmly explained. "Strong your bonds are, but creates shortcomings to your and the senators careers it does."
"That may be a problem Mast…"
"Explain!" Windu sternly cut Anakin off.
"Well, she is kind of, pregnant with my child." Anakin blushed.
"OH ANAKIN!" Obi Wan shook his head and smiled as his hologram flickered. "You were always reckless."
"This is most interesting, may I suggest that we take custody of the child," Plo Koon suggested stroking his boney fingers over his mask. "There is a good chance that it will be force sensitive and both the mother and father can check on it at their will, since one will reside in the temple while the other is just a mynark minute away."
"Reasonable idea it is; debate this we must."
"Anakin, you and your padawan may leave; we will inform you of our decision about your child after the debate." Windu spoke as he put his chin on his robotic hand, immersing himself to the idea. "In the mean time, inform the Senator about the conclusions in this meeting."
"Thank you Masters, you are most merciful"
"Not at all Skywalker, just learn from your mistakes is all that we ask. May the force be with you both," replied Shaak Ti.
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Mandator II Star Dreadnought (Renamed Mercy)
Coruscant
Month 5, 18 BBY
Vengeance! That is all that she sought after the Jedi ruined her life, killed her masters and corrupted the teaching of the force for their own good. She would have her revenge as she latched onto the maintenance hatch and started to cut her way through it. The crimson red lightsaber effortlessly went through the battle plating, making it glow red hot as the sabre went around it.
With a clang, the hatch fell to the ground, and she jumped up into the maintenance hallway, slithering into another access point, disappearing as a couple of clone sentries marched by to check out the problem with the hatch.
"General Kenobi, I believe we have an intruder on board, it appears that this person has cut through our hatch, but the ship was left behind."
"Trooper, guard the point, I will dispatch the ARC Troopers to hunt the stowaway and send reinforcements."
"Yes sir."
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"Anakin, it seems we have an unwanted visitor on board, could you please check it out?" Kenobi asked.
"Master Windu is already on it, I am just finishing up with Padme, please give me a moment."
"Alright, just don't take too long, we have a schedule to keep up with you know." Kenobi replied as he cut off the transmission.
"Well Padme, is it official? Are Luke and Leia accepted?"
"Master Yoda personally took them in, they seemed quite happy being held by him." Padme sadly smiled. "It is comforting to know that they will be raised under good hand and that we can see them grow up."
"Yes, indeed." Anakin replied. "Did Chancellor Organa really have to demobilize the entire Open Circle Fleet? It was the most illustrious in the war. I mean at least a portion could be held onto to help with ensuring security."
"You know Ani that the Outer Rim worlds requested this because of the memories the fleet brought upon about the war." Padme spoke as she brushed her hair. "Personally, this was for the best, and the Chancellor did us a favour too. He did keep the entire divorce proceedings under wraps so that only the high court, the Jedi Order and he himself knew about our relationship."
"I know, but it will be hard for the clones to accept civilian life. Could you however do me one last favour, please?"
"What is it now Ani?" Padme questioned stiffly.
"Well, Captain Rex and the ARC Troopers have really been unsettled about leaving their commissions, so I was wondering if you talk with Organa to have them reassigned to the Senate Guards."
"I'll see what I can do, have a safe trip Ani," Padme smiled.
"Send my love to Luke and Leia."
"I will," and she cut the transmission.
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"Well took long enough," Obi Wan smiled as Anakin walked into bridge.
"Sorry, making sure the kids were alright and all," Anakin replied as he checked the nav computer. "Are we ready to jump?"
"Yes I suppose, we still haven't been able to locate that stowaway; this ship is too large for playing hide and seek," Kenobi replied as he stared out of the massive windows of the bridge.
"Well, looks like the perpetrator will be coming with us to Kuat; I'll have the clones run a sweep one we are in hyperspace." Anakin said as he finished sending the coordinates to the fleet of 450 ships. "The capacitors are charged, and the destination coordinates are locked, you can give the order Obi Wan."
"Captain, tell the fleet they can jump," Kenobi ordered.
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She did not know what line to sever, one of them had to be the link to the navigation computer. She had to act now, the ship was about to jump, severing it at the right moment could send the ship into infinite voyage in hyperspace. The Republic designs stated that the yellow stripes would carry the lines for navigation.
She activated her sabre, and slashed right through the cable, severing it cleanly in half.
Alarms started to wail, and a strange sense of vertigo fell through her body. The gravitational field within the ship was getting higher, this couldn't be right.
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"Anakin, what's happening?" Kenobi asked with a worried tone.
"The gravity well generators have activated, they are going past operational limits! Tell the fleet not to jump!"
"TOO LATE!" one of the operations officer exclaimed as he pointed towards the window.
The space around the fleet had started to warp, funnelling to point a few hundred kilometres underneath the Mercy. The generators had created a micro black hole, mimicking a point charge, but has Quantum Mechanics had stated, there had to be an exit point. In a split second, the entire fleet fleet's hyperdrives activated after their countdown ended. The field grew and it sucked the entire fleet into the point and dissipated as the Mercy went through the field, along with the entire remnants of the Open Circle Fleet.
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