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ZaraValinor Registered: May '02	Date Posted: 11/8/04 4:15pm Subject: Repercussions of Time 04/20/05 Finished. Thanks for the Noms. - Date Edited: 6/13/05 9:59am (41 edits total) Edited By: ZaraValinor
	Warning. This scene has a similar description to a scene that will be in Episode III. Margional spoiler. Hatred and anger, they had seized him like a disease, touching upon his every nerve, until he was ablaze with emotion. It was this that drowned out all else in him. All love, all empathy, was forced out by the power of his dark energy. And that energy needed a conduit for its escape. Obi-Wan Kenobi, the man who had raised him from childhood, who had taught him, and furthered his skills in the Force, was the object of his outlet. Oppressive heat surrounded them, the air shimmering its palpable essence. Angrily their lightsabers came together, straining against one another. Each man was lost on a wave of emotion that could not be tamed. Anakin reveled in the look of object desperation so conspicuous in his old Master's eyes. This was not the calm Jedi facade that Obi-Wan had drilled into his head from their first moments together. The Jedi Master was gone and in his place stood only a man. Anakin had reduced him to nothing more then a man with a lightsaber. “Where is your Jedi calm now, Master?” Anakin asked mockingly, watching for the reaction in those red touched azure eyes. With a burst of strength, Obi-Wan threw Anakin's blade from his own. “Don't speak to me of calm!” His voice was ragged and haggard by the heat that stole moisture from everything around them. “You've betrayed everything I ever taught you. Everything you believed in.” Shaking his head with a feral smile, Anakin replied, “Never. I never believed in your words. You were my tool, my old Master. A means to an end.” The pain and hurt that lanced through Obi- Wan's eyes was as addictive as any drug and Anakin yearned for more. “You crafted me at my will. You killed a Sith and you made one.” “No!” Obi-Wan exclaimed. Raising his lightsaber high, he leapt, his blade cutting a vertical swath through the air, aiming straight for Anakin. The younger man rose his blue blade to meet that one which matched it. Coalesced light, sparked and sizzled as each of them fought for dominance. Anakin batted his old Master's lightsaber away with a swift, one-handed stroke, then brought his free, mechanical hand to Obi-Wan's throat, squeezing the life and breath from the man. Slowly, he lowered Obi-Wan to the ground, the Jedi Master gasping as his lightsaber blade was brought closer and closer to his neck. At that moment, so close to murder, something paused in Anakin. He wasn't sure exactly what it was about Obi-Wan's face, composed in a mask of struggle and hopelessness, but his resolve melted. His hesitance in dispatching the man before him, proved how dangerous the weakness still inside of him was. In a reverse move, Obi-Wan butted the hilt of his lightsaber into Anakin's face, shattering his nose and causing the younger Jedi to backpedal, nearly falling into one of the rivers of molten lava surrounding them. Gingerly, Anakin brought the fingers of his flesh hand to his nose. When he pulled them away, blood spotted his fingers. “You'll pay for that old man.” “Is this what Qui-Gon saved you from slavery for? Is this what I trained you to be? A puppet to Palpatine,” Obi-Wan asked between air sucking gasps. “No, more then either of you thought me to be,” Anakin countered. “I am power.” Shaking his head, Obi-Wan argued, “You'll be nothing. A soulless shell.” He squinted past the sweat and the blood. “What would Padme think of that, I wonder?” “It doesn't matter,” Anakin argued, forgetting the blade in his hand. “It does,” Obi-Wan hitched on a cough. “It does matter, Anakin. Because if you continue on this path, there is no turning away from it,” Obi-Wan swayed, limping toward his former apprentice. “You're better then that. Fight against Palpatine's cunning words, find the truth in his lies.” He will act as your friend. He will pretend that you can be saved, but trust me Lord Vader, he is your enemy now, Lord Sidious had warned him of Obi-Wan. Kenobi and the Jedi have used you to their hearts content, pulling you away from the ones you loved. Don't let their cunning words sway you. “You're a liar,” he hissed, with a baleful glare. “You've always lied to me, Obi-Wan. You promised one day I'd see my mother and she'd be proud of what I'd become.” “Do you think she'd be proud of this?” he exclaimed, belligerent. The cold metal of his lightsaber, despite the heat thrumming around them, suddenly made itself known and Anakin charged, their battle resuming once again. “You didn't know her. You never took the time to care.” Obi-Wan could not have answered if he had wanted to, Anakin beat at his lightsaber was his own sapphire blade. You are strong, my young apprentice. He will be no match for you. Palpatine understood the power burgeoning inside of him. Palpatine knew he could do great things with that power. He could control death with it. His and those around him. “I'll give you one last chance, Anakin,” Obi-Wan broke in between strikes and parries. “Turn away from the Dark Side. Don't give in to hate. Come back with me, Padawan.” It was the use of this former endearment, something that Anakin felt himself far away from that caused him to charge at Obi-Wan. He did not want to feel that spark of goodness, that spark that would lead to guilt. He had not acted wrong, it was the Jedi that had. Obi-Wan brought his saber up and parried the strike, dodging side ways to come at Anakin from another angle. But the younger man had not calculated his speed and he plunged forward, tumbling towards the precipice. “Anakin!” Obi-Wan cried a warning. Just when Anakin was sure he was going to pitch over into that destructive river of molten fire, something intercepted his path. He rebounded off of it like striking a transparasteel wall. He hit the rock bed and quickly looked up, startled to find a foreign young man standing before him. He had red-gold hair, long and wavy like Anakin's, eyes the color of the sea, and though he could not have been any older then seventeen, he was battle hardened, and scarred. On either side of his hip blasters sat holstered, plus one strapped to his thigh. A lightsaber dangled from his utility belt, yet he was not dressed in the standard Jedi garb, but was clad in a simple black unisuit. From behind Anakin he felt Obi-Wan trout cautiously forward. “Who are you?” Both Kenobi and Skywalker momentarily distracted from their heated battle by this new arrival. The strange young man lifted his arms out and instantly both Anakin and Obi-Wan's lightsabers sailed through the air, coming to slap in his waiting palms. “My name is Ben...” and the sea colored eyes settled on Obi-Wan before flicking back to Anakin... “Skywalker. I'm here to rescue you." -----signature----- Proud Master to Meredith_Kenobi & Lolly_Tolly "He full-on Obi-Wan'd me!" Dean Winchester - Supernatural
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JediMaster_Jen Registered: Jun '02	Date Posted: 11/8/04 7:29pm Subject: RE: Repercussions of Time (Strange Episode III AU)
	Wow! That was amazing, Zara. What an interesting an original idea to have Ben go back in time to save his granddad. Brilliant. More? Please. -----signature----- "Qui tacet consentit"~~ (silence implies consent) L.A. Lakers--2009 NBA Champions!!! L.A. Dodgers--2009 World Series Champions!! Hopefully!!
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JediFalcon Registered: Feb '02	Date Posted: 11/8/04 7:53pm Subject: RE: Repercussions of Time (Strange Episode III AU)
	I want more this will be defienately interesting -----signature----- Rogue Three in FFC Rogue Wing, Ward rm #306 Council Member of the Lightside Master to Stridarious Crimson makes my heart go Master of BYS AHBY The Impeccably Patient Drugged-Out Lunatic of the Skies I wonder whats my purpose in life
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PadawanKitara Registered: Dec '01	Date Posted: 11/8/04 9:37pm Subject: RE: Repercussions of Time (Strange Episode III AU)
	-----signature----- Courtier of the Royal Order of Shambling Dufi We are Dufi...Resistance is Futile! UCLA BRUINS
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Darth-Cookie Registered: Nov '04	Date Posted: 11/8/04 9:37pm Subject: RE: Repercussions of Time (Strange Episode III AU)
	I've been lurking on these boards for over a year and this finally prompted me to register. I'm loving this - great start!
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DreamOfKenobi Registered: Jul '04	Date Posted: 11/9/04 4:43am Subject: RE: Repercussions of Time (Strange Episode III AU)
	Very cool start! I hope there will be more posted on this one soon. -----signature----- Counting the days 'til Episode III "What happens in the cave stays in the cave." "You're going to be the death of me..." We are the Vaders and we plan to take over the galaxy!
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Sara_Kenobi Title: NSWFF trivia hostess Registered: Sep '00	Date Posted: 11/9/04 8:28am Subject: RE: Repercussions of Time (Strange Episode III AU)
	Wow, that was awesome, Zara. Also very unexpected. My jaw fell when read who the guy was. -----signature----- The NSWFF Trivia Challenge: http://boards.theforce.net/non_star_wars_fan_fiction_resource/b10809/30183507/p1/ Alderaan's Gambit (Updated June 26th) http://boards.theforce.net/the_saga/b10476/29908930/p1/?27
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Shmi02 Registered: Jun '02	Date Posted: 11/9/04 9:23am Subject: RE: Repercussions of Time (Strange Episode III AU)
	Very cool-- I wasn't expecting that ending at all-- I look forward to reading more. Very well written, by the way-- it makes it so much easier to read when the writer has a good handle on language and grammar!
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ZaraValinor Registered: May '02	Date Posted: 11/9/04 6:03pm Subject: RE: Repercussions of Time (Strange Episode III AU)
	JediMaster_Jen Wow! That was amazing, Zara. What an interesting an original idea to have Ben go back in time to save his granddad. Brilliant. More? Please. Thanks Jen. More tonight. JediFalcon I want more this will be defienately interesting More to come and thank you. PadawanKitara Thanks. Darth-Cookie I've been lurking on these boards for over a year and this finally prompted me to register. I'm loving this - great start! I'm glad I inspired you. DreamOfKenobi Very cool start! I hope there will be more posted on this one soon. Tonight. Sara_Kenobi Wow, that was awesome, Zara. Also very unexpected. My jaw fell when read who the guy was. The jaw-drop. Yes! Shmi02 Very cool-- I wasn't expecting that ending at all-- I look forward to reading more. Very well written, by the way-- it makes it so much easier to read when the writer has a good handle on language and grammar! Thanks. I appreciate that. -----signature----- Proud Master to Meredith_Kenobi & Lolly_Tolly "He full-on Obi-Wan'd me!" Dean Winchester - Supernatural
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ZaraValinor Registered: May '02	Date Posted: 11/9/04 8:16pm Subject: RE: Repercussions of Time (Strange Episode III AU) 11/09/04 - Date Edited: 11/9/04 9:43pm (5 edits total) Edited By: ZaraValinor
	Fifty-seven Years into the Future Fifteen-year-old Ben Skywalker froze as he felt the void in the Force, his eyes widening in sudden fear that was squashed by the need to remain calm and find his father. They had been living on the uncharted moon of Nadoran at the edge of the known galaxy. One of the few areas that the Yuuzhan Vong had not occupied completely and had yet to comb through the citizens looking for slaves to fill the coral-patches. Ben's father, Luke Skywalker, believed that they were the only two Jedi left in the galaxy. The Force was a tranquil pool in which only their signatures disturbed the waves. His father had commented a number of times that it felt very much like his early days as a Jedi, the last of an Order that had once held thousands. Working as farmers, Ben and Luke had been on Nadoran for just short of a season. There had been no need to separate, since the Force was a blight in the sight of the Vong and Ben had been grateful for his father's guiding presence in a frightening world. If it had not been for his father, Ben would have despaired long ago. He could not see a way past this disaster, yet his father clung to hope and was a tether for his son to hold to while the galaxy became a torrent of violence. He burst into their quarters, where he had left his father to rest after a long day in the fields, not surprised to find his father waiting for him. It was physical pain to see how old Luke had become. His father was strong in the Force, but age and war had gnarled away at him, causing him to appear older then his nearly sixty years. Ben knew with a tight twist of his stomach that if the Yuuzhan Vong were to discover them, his father would not survive the battle. “The ship is preped,” Luke said by way of greeting, grabbing his son's shoulder and leading him to the small docking port that housed their two man cruiser. Ben nodded, gathering his thoughts, searching his mental star chart for the nearest, and safest, system. “I wasn't able to get the supplies. They shut down the markets.” “Customary procedure when the Vong are in atmosphere,” Luke assured him, though Ben was well aware of the Yuuzhan Vong's 'procedure'. His mother, Mara, had been swept away and killed in one of their slave hunts. “There'll be enough.” That stopped Ben in his tracks, forcing Luke to pause as well. “What are you talking about? We have meager rations for one person let alone two.” Luke drew a steadying breath and gazed at his son intently. The younger Skywalker wanted to run away from that gaze. “I'm not going with you,” he answered evenly. “But...” and it was like all other capability to speak had been siphoned off, his throat constricting, his breath coming out in irregular gasps. “Ben listen to me. You have to survive. I don't have the strength left to do what is necessary. You do,” his father explained, grasping Ben's shoulders for emphasis. Ben fought the urge to break away from his father's grip. He couldn't listen to this, he couldn't bear it What would he do without his father? Where would he go? “If this is about the supplies, I'll go into a hibernation trance, you can have the rations.” “This is exactly what I mean, Ben,” Luke argued. “You will share with me everything you have and it will only spare me for a small time, while costing you. One of us has to survive and it can't be me.” Straightening his shoulders, Ben denied, “I can't do it without you.” “You must,” Luke insisted. “But you'll die,” he argued, trying this last avenue. His father must see how young he still was, that his training was incomplete, that he couldn't possibly fulfill the plan that his father was concocting. A fond smile deepened the age furrows in his father's features. “There is no death; only the Force. I will always be with you.” Ben gazed at the two men before him, each such an important part of his history, each gazing at him as though he'd gone mad. Obi-Wan, the man Ben had been named for, appeared more cautious, gazing at the lightsaber that had inexplicably been taken from him. No doubt wondering how a mere boy had managed to outsmart him. Anakin, his grandfather, blinked at him for several long heartbeats, before spinning towards his former mentor. “This is some sort of trick. Another deception conceived by the Jedi to control me,” Anakin blurted out accusingly towards Kenobi. An indignant anger fell on Obi-Wan's features, but Ben leapt to answer before a fight between his grandfather and the man who was as good as could begin again. “If you think that, no wonder you turned to the Dark Side,” he shot flippantly. It was better if Anakin's anger was turned to him and not the man who had raised him. With a growl, Anakin launched himself at Ben. In the flutter of an eyelash, Ben ignited the confiscated weapons and crossed them, inches away from Anakin’s neck. He cocked an eyebrow. “I don’t believe that would be a wise move, Grandfather.” Turning to Kenobi before Anakin could answer, he asked without lowering his weapons. “Do either of you have a ship?” “Who are you really? What is your purpose here?” Obi-Wan asked, his suspicion and wariness hardly unreasonable but detrimental to Ben’s cause. “There will be time for explanations later. The longer we delay, the greater chance Palpatine will find us,” Ben informed. He made unnecessary calculations to the sabers in his hands, reminding Anakin of his danger. “And I would not make any attempts to contact your new Master through the Force.” “There are no other Skywalkers,” Anakin snapped. “You are a charlatan.” Squashing down the urge to just knock Anakin unconscious, Ben said with strained patience, “Reach out to the Force, Anakin. Feel the truth in my words.” Knowing how volatile Anakin was, Ben stilled himself for an attack. But he only felt a tainted stirring in the Force wash over him, felt a small connection and for a moment, it was like having his father back. Anakin’s eyes snapped open. “I don’t believe it.” Now restraining tears, Ben forced himself to be stern. “Believe what you will, it is the truth nonetheless.” He shuttered, shaking away the memory of his father. “Obi-Wan a ship? Do we have one?” “How do I know I can trust you?” Obi-Wan asked. With a flick of his wrist, Ben deactivated one of the sabers and threw it at Obi-Wan. “Because if I wanted to kill you, I would have done so already.” “I knew it,” Anakin gasped. “You’re in league with him. I don’t know how you changed the Force around you, but I will figure it out.” Ben resigned himself to the inevitable. He switched his grip on the lightsaber, thumbing it off and bringing the hilt of it to the back of his grandfather’s head. Anakin crumbled to the ground it lump of fabric and muscle. “I had hoped this would be easier.” He whipped at a pool a sweet under his nose and found that it was dotted with blood, quickly he rubbed it against his unisuit. “Impossible,” Obi-Wan muttered thoughtfully, looking between his fallen apprentice and Ben. “Yet your aura’s....” he drew off unable to complete his thoughts. Underneath their feet, the ground quake and Ben was made keenly aware of the precariousness of their situation. “Palpatine would have been monitoring this confrontation closely. I haven’t picked up on any invasion into my mind, but that doesn’t mean he hasn’t sensed my arrival. It took a lot of Force energy to break through the fabrics of time.” Leaning over, he hefted his larger grandfather into his arms. “Are you well enough to lead the way?” Dazed, Obi-Wan nodded his affirmation. “Yes. If you are who you claim to be, then we best be on our way.” Searching eyes raked over Anakin and Ben, Obi-Wan wanting to take the load of his fallen apprentice but hesitant to expose himself in such a way again. “I have him,” Ben assured the older Jedi. Without another word, Obi-Wan started a determined gait towards the ship. It was slackened by the limp he must have sustained from the battle. While he followed, his father’s future mentor, Ben reached out to the Force. He had time, it told him. A small amount of time, to fix years of mistakes. Not for the first time he thought it should have been his father to come backward in time, to stop the two men who had been an influence in his life. But it was Ben who had been dropped into the middle of foreign ground, expected by the Force to hasten the balance so that when the Vong infiltrated the galaxy, the Jedi would be ready for them. Where there had been a scant hundred, there would be thousands. Of course, his plans consisted of turning his grandfather back to the good side and encouraging Anakin to destroy Palpatine now, instead of twenty years in the future. A daunting task that had not diminished by his miraculous time-travel. It was made all the more difficult with the realization that he would have to convince whatever Jedi remained that if they did not change their present the repercussions of time would be dire. Not to mention they would all have to believe that he had come back through time fifty-nine years. The ship Obi-Wan lead him to was kept in obvious care, despite the charred spots where the heat of this Force-forsaken world had burnished it. It was of a line and design that Ben was not familiar with, yet it’s graceful curves and sculpted scope gave him reason to instantly admire it. He caught Obi-Wan watching him, but not in that same piercing manner he’d exhibited since Ben’s arrival. There was something longing in his gaze, an opaque nostalgia. “Anything that flies,” Obi-Wan said in a hushed, pain-laced, tone before turning his attention to the keypad and initiating the loading ramp. Ben didn’t care to comment, putting together the older Jedi’s meaning. Instead he followed Kenobi up the ramp and waited for the ramp to close before asking, “Is there somewhere secure to hold him?” “Yes, this way.” It was a small cell, adequate enough for a ship of this size. “Not everyone believed I could bring him back to the light. Master Yoda insisted I bring this ship. I guess he was right to think Anakin would only be brought in as a prisoner.” That gave Ben pause. Had the aged Jedi Master known of his arrival? If so was this venture doomed before it even begun? Could he really change what would be? He had survived for the last two years with the hope that it could be done. Now he worried that his and his father’s efforts had been all in vain. He dropped Anakin to the small bunk and quietly stepped out of the cell. “There is still hope,” he said, as much to himself as to Kenobi. “Where will we go now?” “I guess I was waiting for you to tell me,” Obi-Wan answered wryly. “To Master Yoda I suppose.” “On Dagobah?” Ben asked. Surprised again flickered over those bearded features. “How did you...,” he stopped, catching himself in discovery. “Yes. He’s on Dagobah.” Azure eyes focused on him. “You really are his grandson aren’t you?” “I will be.” -----signature----- Proud Master to Meredith_Kenobi & Lolly_Tolly "He full-on Obi-Wan'd me!" Dean Winchester - Supernatural
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PadawanKitara Registered: Dec '01	Date Posted: 11/9/04 10:29pm Subject: RE: Repercussions of Time (Strange Episode III AU) 11/09/04
	will this one alteration forever change the course of the sith and jedi? interesting question -----signature----- Courtier of the Royal Order of Shambling Dufi We are Dufi...Resistance is Futile! UCLA BRUINS
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ZaraValinor Registered: May '02	Date Posted: 11/10/04 8:20am Subject: RE: Repercussions of Time (Strange Episode III AU) 11/09/04
	PadawanKitara will this one alteration forever change the course of the sith and jedi? interesting question Yes, interesting indeed. Let's hope for the galaxies sake that it does. -----signature----- Proud Master to Meredith_Kenobi & Lolly_Tolly "He full-on Obi-Wan'd me!" Dean Winchester - Supernatural
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ZaraValinor Registered: May '02	Date Posted: 11/10/04 2:45pm Subject: RE: Repercussions of Time (Strange Episode III AU) 11/09/04
	Upping. -----signature----- Proud Master to Meredith_Kenobi & Lolly_Tolly "He full-on Obi-Wan'd me!" Dean Winchester - Supernatural
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JediMaster_Jen Registered: Jun '02	Date Posted: 11/10/04 5:39pm Subject: RE: Repercussions of Time (Strange Episode III AU) 11/09/04
	I'm actually surprised that Obi-Wan was the first one to believe Ben. I figured Anakin would realize the truth first. Let's hope Ben can change the galaxy or Luke's sacrifice means nothing. Great chapter. -----signature----- "Qui tacet consentit"~~ (silence implies consent) L.A. Lakers--2009 NBA Champions!!! L.A. Dodgers--2009 World Series Champions!! Hopefully!!
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ZaraValinor Registered: May '02	Date Posted: 11/10/04 6:30pm Subject: RE: Repercussions of Time (Strange Episode III AU) 11/09/04
	JediMaster_Jen I'm actually surprised that Obi-Wan was the first one to believe Ben. I figured Anakin would realize the truth first. Let's hope Ben can change the galaxy or Luke's sacrifice means nothing. Great chapter. Obi-Wan's still wary, but he doesn't see other choice, where Anakin isn't exactly Mr.Goodguy and is going to suspect any one who comes with the white flag. Of course Ben is a little more abrasive then he should be. -----signature----- Proud Master to Meredith_Kenobi & Lolly_Tolly "He full-on Obi-Wan'd me!" Dean Winchester - Supernatural
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Jeditheskyisblue Registered: Mar '01	Date Posted: 11/10/04 8:40pm Subject: RE: Repercussions of Time (Strange Episode III AU) 11/09/04
	This is really, really good. I can't wait for more. At first I was hoping that since Anakin was pausing now and then about trying to kill Obi-Wan that he wouldn't fall into the lava but then when he was about to I wanted to scream No. Of course Ben showing up and stopping Anakin from getting hurt was something I wasn't expecting in a million years. Poor Ben losing his Father and now he has this huge task before him of trying to turn his GrandFather back to the light side so that the Jedi can beat the Vong. Like I said I can't wait for more please post more soon. -----signature----- It's Never To Late... http://boards.theforce.net/message.asp?topic=2214874&page=1 Is It To Late?(Sequel INTL) http://boards.theforce.net/message.asp?topic=2638672&replies=1 It Wasn't A Mistake(L/M) http://boards.theforce.net/message.asp?topic=2398787
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