The Jedi Knight looked at his hand, of all the blood he had spilled throughout the duration of the Clone Wars. He only wished to be powerful to protect everyone he cared the most, but he would never reach the lengths of the crimes he had watched.
Especially when a bastard of a Sith Lord still walks the galaxy
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"At what cost?! You're a good person! Don't do this!" She begged, but her pleas only began to light the fiery hatred within the man she loved.
"I won't lose you the way I lost my mother, the way I lost my family." He told her, trying to sound reasonable "I am becoming more powerful than any Jedi has ever been, and I am doing it all for you, to protect you."
Anakin turned to Padme. "I wouldn't do any of this...you have to believe me..."
"Just come with me! Help me raise our child! Away from all of this!" She pleaded with him, hoping to get through him.
"Luke...", Padme uttered the name of their unborn son, wondering what could he had thought of his father after realizing who he was despite Obi-wan's words about him that motivated him to become like his father.
"Don't you see? We don't have to run away anymore! I have brought peace to the Galaxy! I'm more powerful than the Chancellor! I can overthrow him!" Anakin proclaimed in an effort to convince her.
"Of course, there is the Rule of Two", Master Tiin sighed to himself.
"And together we ran rule this Galaxy! Make things how we want them to be!" He continued, not before Padme began to take a few steps back away from him.
"She's seen through him...", Depa pointed out.
"This...isn't Skywalker anymore...", Mundi added, no longer finding any qualities that Anakin had to the Sith Lord they witnessed.
"I...I don't believe what I'm hearing Obi-Wan was right! You've changed!"
Anakin was already afraid of himself and he found the strength to call out. "Padme, whatever you're trying to do. You have to keave now..."
"I don't want to hear another word about Obi-Wan." Anakin warned her, wanting to dodge the subject.
"Do not provoke him, Senator", Mace equally warned, realizing his change of demeanor. "You are crossing dangerous borders"
"I don't know who you are..." she finally spoke, her eyes were already the verge of tears upon realizing who he truly was. "You're breaking my heart...you're going down a path I can't follow!"
"Because of Obi-Wan?" He said, his face carrying loss.
"Because of what you've done! Stop now! Come back! I love you!" She cried out, pleading with him but his eyes now glared at her with his fury.
"LIAR!" He screamed at her, all sense of passion replaced by sheer rage.
"Padme, get out of there now!", Anakin called out again, realizing the worst case scenario. And one he could not bear to imagine.
"What? What happened?" Ahsoka asked not knowing why her Master became suddenly enraged, especially towards his own wife.
Padme turned around and her blood ran cold. Obi-wan was on the ship. He must have been hiding in the cargo bay. She now knew Anakin thought she was betraying him. Obi-Wan walked slowly down the steps of her ship as Anakin's rage was growing.
"YOU'RE WITH HIM! YOU BROUGHT HIM HERE TO KILL ME!" He accused her, no longer caring what he had told her earlier.
"He had thought that Senator Amidala had brought Master Kenobi with her, but I don't think she knew that he had hidden on her ship", Depa pointed out.
He realized the volatility of the situation at hand. "No...no...DON'T YOU HURT HER!", Anakin warned his future as Rex and Ahsoka stood by him.
"No! Anakin I didn-" She was cut off as she saw him hold out his hand. A veil of red descended on the world. She clawed at her throat, but there was nothing her hands could touch.
"NOOO! NO! PADME!", Anakin screamed in terror as the present Senator, Rex, Ahsoka and Obi-Wan restrained him from trying to stop his future from choking his pregnant wife, not risking the holoplayer to be damaged or destroyed.
The Senator only covered her mouth with both hands in terror, horrified at what he had done to her. And it didn't take long before she began to weep, realizing that the Anakin she knew was already gone. "Anakin, why?"
"LET HER GO ANAKIN!" Obi-Wan commanded in a rare moment of anger, stepping out of the ship.
Obi-wan and the rest of the Jedi were horrified at how much Anakin had fallen. All because of the order's flaws and of Sidious. "Anakin...why her?", Obi-Wan painfully asked to himself.
Anakin just continued to exert his power over this act. His anger was already blinding him to what he was doing.
"LET. HER. GO!" Obi-Wan repeated, jus as Anakin finally let up and Padme collapsed to the ground, unconscious.
"NO!", Anakin shouted with the strength his lungs could handle and he sank to his knees weeping at Padme's lap. "I'm sorry...I'm so sorry..."
Padme couldn't say anything as the holoplayer left her in sheer silence and terror on what is to come, but fresh tears continued to flow from her eyes, not bothering to wipe them due to the trauma inflicted on her.
"By the Force." Shaak Ti whispered covering her mouth, at the sight of Anakin harming his wife, the very person he sacrificed everything for.
"He..he killed Senator Amidala." Rex said, his hands trembling at the sight. Ahsoka felt helpless as she witnessed her friend's grave predicament in front of her.
"He killed his own wife." Windu said, disappointed at this act of blinded rage.
Obi-Wan knelt beside Padme's unconscious body, where she lay limp and broken in the smoky dusk. He felt for a pulse. It was thin, and erratic.
Looking away, the Sith Lord turned the turned his attention to Obi-Wan, his eyes blazing with combusted anger. "YOU TURNED HER AGAINST ME!"
"The slightest hint of betrayal is enough for him to see anyone as his enemy", Plo Koon uttered, horrified on how much the Dark Side had consumed Skywalker.
Ahsoka and Rex's eyes widened in fear and anguish, realizing that the man in front of them was not the same man who had cared for them over the years.
Obi-Wan looked at the best friend he had ever had, realizing he was too far gone. "You have done to yourself!", the Jedi Master shot back.
Pacing back and forth, Vader roared at him. "YOU WILL NOT TAKE HER FROM ME!"
"He's too far gone...", Shaak Ti admitted in complete reluctance, seeing that this was far from the war hero that she had fought alongside with. "Vader has taken over him"
"He is no longer the Jedi that we have all known...", Kit Fisto added in an equally harrowed tone.
"Your anger and lust for power have already done that", Obi-Wan somberly replied in a tone skin to that of a disappointed father, removing his cloak as he circled his former apprentice. "You have allowed this Dark Lord to twist your mind, until you have the become the very thing you swore to destroy!"
"Don't lecture me, Obi-Wan!", Vader spat. "I've seen through the lies of the Jedi! I do not fear the Dark Side as you do!"
"Turned him and others away from the light, we did", Yoda professed, seeing the truth in Anakin's words. "Flawed the order had become..."
"I have brought peace! Freedom! Justice! and security to my new Empire!", Vader proclaimed.
"YOU HAVE DONE NONE OF THOSE!", Anakin shouted angrily to his future, trying to accept what was running through his head. "AND YOU NEVER DID!"
Looking at whatever insanity that got through his head, Obi-Wan asked back. "YOUR new Empire?"
"He intends to overthrow Sidious once he learned what he can...", Mundi pieced out. "Just as Bane had in mind"
"Don't make me kill you", Vader warned him.
"Master Skywalker and Master Kenobi...are going to fight?", Caleb questioned in disbelief, as he had known the two of their brotherhood and qualities as a formidable duo.
"I wouldn't fight him...I would never", Anakin uttered in denial, desperately hoping that Obi-Wan could simply just take Padme away and run.
Obi-Wan couldn't believe what he was hearing, and he responded. "Anakin, my allegiance is to the Republic! TO DEMOCRACY!"
Vader conceded to his point and declared. "If you're not with me...then you're my enemy!"
"No...please no...anything but that", Padme begged, not wanting that the two wouldn't fight for all they have went through over the years.
Realizing there is little to be done, Obi-Wan closed his eyes in surrender. "Only a Sith deals with absolutes..", he answered back, drawing his lightsaber. "I will do what I must"
No...both Anakin and Obi-Wan thought to themselves, painfully realizing what will happen next.
Master...Master Kenobi...Ahsoka closed her eyes as she began to weep at what comes next. And she did not mind the comforting arm that Rex offered over her shoulder in an attempt to remind her she was not alone.
"The fate of the Galaxy is at hand...", Mundi marvelled the concurrent duels in hand.
"As we are the chosen few to have seen it", Master Fisto further added.
For Anakin, Obi-Wan, Padme, Rex and Ahsoka, they could only brace themselves of the pain that lies ahead.
The Dark Lord glanced behind him, Obi-Wan's eyes widened in terror when he saw the yellow orbs rather than the shining blue that once held the image of the Jedi Knight he had for a brother.
"You will try..."
The Sith Lord leapt towards the Jedi Master. Blue blades crossed, and the volcano above echoed their lightning with a shout of fire.
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