Chapter 57: "...To be my..."

a/n I am still happy we freaking won against Webnovel. listening to "Viva La Vida, but it's Epic" remix on Youtube sounds amazing when celebrating. also it would make a cool soundtrack for Ulthaan tbh.

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EXT. MOS ESPA - JUNK DEALER PLAZA - DAY

QUI-GON: Come JAR JAR, this is the place ANAKIN said would have our parts.

Meanwhile, said Gungan had gotten himef in trouble by trying to eat some strange looking alienoid food from a stall without paying.

QUI-GON sighs as he had to get JAR JAR out of trouble again.

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INT. WATTO'S JUNK SHOP - DAY

QUI-GON, JAR JAR and ARTOO enter the dingy junk shop and are greeted by WATTO, a pudgy blue alien who flies on short little wings like a hummingbird.

WATTO : (subtitled) Hi chuba da naga? (What do you want?)

QUI-GON : I need parts for a J-type 327 Nubian.

WATTO : Ah yes, Nubian. One moment please.

WATTO flew away and spoke in the background.

A few moments later an middle aged woman came out of the shop and WATTO followed behind ger respectfully.

It can be seen from a glance that WATTO is a slave/servant of the woman who is the real owner of the store that had once belonged to WATTO.

SHMI: Hello. What can I help you with?

QUI-GON : My droid here has a readout of what I need.

SHMI: Alright, I will have a look. Come with me to the back warehouse, the parts your looking for should be there, you can search for wahtever else you need.

ARTOO and QUI-GON follow SHMI toward the junk yard, leaving JAR JAR alone with WATTO and a stealth cloaked Terror Trooper, that was hiding above, in the store.

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EXT. WATTO'S JUNK YARD - BEHIND SHOP - DAY

SHMI reads a small portable monitor he is holding. He stands before a hyperdrive.

SHMI : ...Here it is...a T-14 hyperdrive generator. Your in luck, I'm the only one hereabouts who has one. Parts for a Nubian is very rare in these parts.

QUI-GON: How come you have it?

SHMI: I own multiple businesses and companies, this is the place that i feel moat safe at thanks to a certain good man. Now my life is better then it has ever been, though I do hope to see my Son soon. Its been a month since I was visted by him. Sorry for my ramblings. Now then, shall we get down to business, it would cost roughly 56,000 Tallons.

(A/n Tallons is the new currency implemented by Cerberus after replacing the Hutts and their previous currancy of Peggats. 40 Credits = 1 Peggat, 1 Tallon = 4 Credits. This was how the Hutts scammed so many people with their Peggat Currency. But Cerberus changed it to Tallons so the poor people wont stay poor and can excahnge it into Credits anywhere in Cerberus Alliance controlled space. This means QUI-GON has 100,000 Tallons at least to spend.)

QUI-GON : I have 20,000 Republic dataries.

SHMI: I'm afraid that won't do. You will have to exchange them at the Cerberus Bank for Tallons.

QUI-GON frowned when he heard this. It was natural and is something he would do if he could, but he didn't have a choice.

He can't risk going to a Cerberus Bank where his identity could be found by their personal.

Fighting against that enhanced "Terror" army was a hard fought battle that had us all thinking OBI-WAN had died.

I don't know how he came back, as I was there when his "body" was cremated. But I choose to take this as a second chance the Force has given him by recreating his Living Force vessel/body.

There was 100% chance that we were still enimies of Cerberus since that day.

QUI-GON : I don't have anything else. (raising his hand) But credits will do fine.

He used a Jedi Mind Trick in SHMI, so that she can take the Credits and exchange it at the Cerberus Bank herself rather than the risk of drawing the unwanted attention of Cerberus personal.

SHMI: Sorry, but they won't.

QUI-GON, using his mind power, waves his hand again.

QUI-GON : Credits will do fine.

SHMI frowned when she saw what he was trying to do. Adrian had told her about the Force, since naturally, she wanted to learn about the abilities her son Anakin possessed.

Adrian had told her that she would be fine from a Jedi Mind Trick since her willpower and mental fortitude had been strengthened by the pain and hardships she had to endure since her childhood when she first became a slave.

There are not many Non-Force Users in the Galaxy that has the Mental Willpower to resist a Jedi Mind Trick, and she was one of the few.

(A/n SHMI was stated to have unconsciously used a little bit of the Force, like Force Wall passive everyone has, to stay alive when she was being tortured, r.a.p.e.d and brutally beaten by the Tusken Raiders. Why? Cause She forced herself to stay alive just so that she can see Anakin before she died, and when she did, she gave up her will to live and passed away in his arms. If that isn't having a strong will, then I don't know what is.)

She didn't feel confident in herself, and so she asked for anyway to help protect herself from Mind Tricks. Thus she wore a special Amulet made of Blue Stones, which he also Enchanted with magic and runic engravings of some kind.

He said that the Blue Stones was harvested from a certain "Living Force Mountain".

Something like a Living Mountain would have been dismissed by her as make believe, but Adrian had yet to lie to her, why would he even lie to her in the first place at all?

Needless to say she was displeased with what QUI-GON was trying to do, and so she kicked him out until he had the Tallons to pay her properly.

She already has a newly made/superior version of the so called "Terror Troopers" hiding throughout her store.

She didn't like their appearances, but Adrian said it was manly used as an intimidation display like a certain "Lightsaber Collecting General" would spin his weapons to dissuade all offensive and defensive tactics employed by his enemies.

She has had to deal with many customers trying to swindle, threaten or rob her, but the Terror Troopers did their job and protected her.

Although she did have a personal bodyguard called "Excalibur Umbra". She didn't know what it was but it was very powerful and can easily beat a Krayt Dragon on its own, or so Adrian had said that.

She watched as QUI-GON, ARTOO and JAR JAR left the store.

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INT. NABOO SPACECRAFT - QUEENS CHAMBERS

As QUI-GON was making his way back to the ship so that someone on board can go to exchange the Credits for Tallons at a Cerberus Bank instead of himself, or trusting JAR JAR.

AMIDALA, EIRTAE, RABE, and OBI-WAN watch a very bad transmission of a SIO BIBBLE hologram.

BIBBLE : ...cut off all food supplies until you return...the death toll is catastrophic...we must bow to their wishes, Your Highness...Please tell us what to do! If you can hear us, Your Highness, you must contact me...

AMIDALA looks upset...almost nervous.

OBI-WAN : It's a trick. Send no reply... Send no transmission of any kind.

QUI-GON listens to his comlink as he was making his way back to the ship. OBI-WAN is in the cockpit as he cintacted his Master.

OBI-WAN : ...the Queen is upset...but absolutly no reply was sent.

QUI-GON : It sounds like bait to establish a connection trace.

OBI-WAN : What if it is true and the people are dying?

QUI-GON : Either way, we're running out of time.

OBI-WAN: About the Bank, I'll convince the Captain and a guard to go in your place. Then you can go back to buy the Hyperdrive.

QUI-GON: I sense some unease from you?

OBI-WAN: *sigh* I...still remember that time back on Mandalore when we confronted Hawke. Just the mention of Cerberus reminds me of that day I aldost died. I still have no idea how I even survived, I am just glad I'm alive.

QUI-GON: I am too, and tge Dutchess certainly wasn't happy when she learned about your miraculous return.

OBI-WAN: *Groans* please don't remind me Master. She tried locking me in prison to keep me safe and from leaving Mandalore when I said I had to return. And the next thing I know, we get Married within two days.

QUI-GON and OBI-WAN smiled as they conversed to ease the tension this whole assignment has caused.

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EXT. CORUSCANT - BALCONY OVERLOOKING CITY - NIGHT

DARTH SIDIOUS and DARTH MAUL look out over the vast city.

DARTH MAUL : Tatooine is sparsely populated. If the trace was correct, I will find them quickly, Master.

DARTH SIDIOUS : Move against the Jedi first...you will then have no difficulty taking the Queen back to Naboo, where she will sign the treaty.

DARTH MAUL : At last we will reveal ourselves to the Jedi. At last we will have revenge.

DARTH SIDIOUS : You have been well trained, my young apprentice, they will be no match for you. But I sense something else at play in all this.

DARTH MAUL: I sensed it as well Master.

DARTH SIDIOUS: Hmmm, go to Tatooine as planned. I will get in contact with someone that can be your ally for this mission.

SIDIOUS could sense his Apprentice's feelings and frowned.

DARTH SIDIOUS: Do not become arrogant in your abilities. This unknown variable can be dangerous. This ally goes by the name Fulcrum. She is a highly skilled Bounty Hunter trained personally by Zer0, or so my sources say.

DARTH MAUL recognised the name Zer0, how could be not?

Zer0 had been revealed to be Adrian Hawke, the Illusive Man, the CEO of the Cerberus Corporation and the Cerberus Alliance.

DARTH MAUL: It will be as you desire Master.

DARTH SIDIOUS: Good. It is too late for them to stop us now. Everything is going as planned. The Republic will soon be in my command.

The hologram of DARTH MAUL fades off as DARTH SIDIOUS looks out over the city.

DARTH SIDIOUS is left alone as he ponders how best to assassinate his Master DARTH PLAGUEIS.

He could truck him by giving lots of Alchohol once he is made Chancellor, then he could kill him in his sleep.

He has already learned all he could from his Master, and now it was his time to rise, the Age of DARTH SIDIOUS will begin.

Unknown to him, a certain reincarnated couple were laughing at his so-called plans of Galactic Domination, as they watched him as if it was just another scene from a Movie.

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EXT. TATOOINE - DESERT MESA - NIGHT

The sinister looking Sith spacecraft lands on top of a desert mesa at dus, scattering a herd of banthas.

DARTH MAUL walks to the edge of the mesa and studies the landscape with a pair of electrobinoculars.

He picks out the lights of three different cities in the distance, then pushes buttons on his electronic armband.

Six football-sized PROBE DROIDS float out of the ship and head off in three different directions toward the cities.

DARTH MAUL stands on the mesa and watches them through his electrobinoculars.

FULCRUM: We should find them soon. The ship's power would need to be on, so your droids should have little issue with tracing the electromagnetic signatures of the ship within the Sandstorm.

DARTH MAUL didn't answer but nodded at the Bounty Hunters words.

He himself had worked with Bounty Hunters in the past, CAD BANE and AURA SING.

They were skilled allies and ones that didn't betray him, he respected them and the same can be said for Fulcrum.

The two of them continued their search for the QUEEN within the Sandstorm, only talking to one another when necessary.

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EXT. MOS ESPA - STREET - DAY

One of Darth Maul's PROBE DROIDS slowly floats down the main street of Tatooine.

It looks in shops and studies PEOPLE as it searches for OBI-WAN, QI-GON, or the QUEEN.

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EXT. TATOOINE - DESERT - NABOO SPACECRAFT - DAY

ARTOO cruises ahead of QUI-GON and CAPTAIN PANAKA, who are riding one of the EOPIES; JAR JAR ridses the other along with a Naboo guard disguised in average clothing.

They had been able to exchange tge Credits for Tallons and aquire the T-14 Hyperdrive when they returned to the shop.

They stop in front of the sleek Naboo spacecraft. OBI-WAN comes out of the ship and joins them.

QUI-GON : Start getting this hyperdrive generator installed.

On a hill far overlooking the Naboo spacecraft, the SITH PROBE DROID turns and speeds away.

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EXT. TATOOINE - DESERT MESA - DAY

The PROBE DROID beeps and whistles to DARTH MAUL. The SITH LORD gets on a speeder bike, along with FULCRUM who git onto her own Speeder, and follows the PROBE DROID into Mos Espa.

FULCRUM: This will be fun.

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*Flashback, soon after SIDIOUS and MAUL spoke with one another.*

*varying povs/general pov*

ADRIAN had decided to contact a very particular person he knows.

When he did, a Teenage Togruta girl had picked his transmission.

AHSOKA: Hi Dad!

ADRIAN: Hello AHSOKA.

AHSOKA: Why did you contact me? I thought you were busy? Also when will you come back to meet with everyone from your vacation? You have been gone so long!

ADRIAN: Haha, sorry about that. Don't worry, I will be back soon. But there is something important I want to talk to you about.

AHSOKA: Okay.

ADRIAN: Listen carefully, a certain Sith Lord will be contacting you very soon. Make sure to wear your Mandalorian Armour and never remove your helmet. Also, use your alias FULCRUM.

AHSOKA: Will do DAD!

ADRIAN: Don't get to excited by this. I know you are very ecstatic to be able to go on missions and alignments by yourself, but don't forget your training and keep a leveled head or there will be punishments.

I can see that AHSOKA visably shook and quivered when I said "Punishment".

I treat her as I would like any Indian child back on Earth. She is physically the age of a young girl of 5 years old, but with the Serums I gave her. She is now mentally a teenager like how she was when The Clone Wars began, she was 14 in the first episode of season 1. She also now has the body and appearance of her 14 year old body.

Back on Earth, since I am also an Indian, I still follow my origins and its traditions even in this new life.

In India, one would physically beat the child in varying ways, though it depends on who the parent is, on order to discipline the said child.

Very brutal indeed, but it isn't as bad or severe as it sounds.

It's more like a slap on the head, face or hitting the bum with a stick. Though if the parent is more violent and strict, it can be brutal, but the former methods is what I did.

Mainly i would send low jolts of electricity through hers or ANAKIN'S body, including slashing them with water or hitting them on the bum with a stick.

Non serious things like that.

They actually end up laughing about it immediately afterwards when they are alone at how they misbehaved.

Before I even began dealing punishment like that, I had discussed it with JINX and SHMI as those two were the only people I could talk to this about as they had actual experience.

Sure I had knowledge given to me by ROB Jr, but I was unsure about it myself.

SHMI agreed to punishing ANAKIN but only in very certain ways as she instructed. I decided to follow her idea for both of the kids. JINX was the most knowledge since she's 5 Milenium years old, so naturally she had had many husbands and children of the years and knew how to raise them.

AVA: You adopted ANAKIN and AHSOKA? Isn't your punishments for less then yen year old children abut much?

ADRIAN: It isn't. If they can't handle that much, then I won't ever let them leave nor fight anyone. That is nothing compared to what people back on Earth had to endure. What I am giving them are "stings", but in our past life, people were "stabbed" and "shot". In fact, my punishments are more playful if anything.

AVA: At least it isn't like what your family on Earth did to you.

ADRIAN: It wasn't that severe. It was just their overreaction to things that caused misunderstandings to occur practically all the time. I got used to it.

AVA: Stop with all this talk of our past life, I don't like remembering sad times like that.

ADRIAN: It wasn't all sad. Like this.

I stood up from the bed we were on and kneeled on the ground. AVA watched me curiously as she sat on the edge of the bed gazing into my eyes.

ADRIAN: I remembered something the ROB Jr told me when I was being granted my wish. I still think it is a bit fast, though while I don't mind either, I want to set straight one of my regrets and mistakes.

AVA: A-and that is?

I outstretched my clenched hand to her.

AVA took my clenched hand and held it within her own palms.

ADRIAN: Gwendolin Capillus, now Ava Kendra. I Amar Singh, now Adrian Hawke, ask you...

I opened my hand and AVA'S went wide as she saw something she always dreamed of having. Something that made ger cry as she realised how precious it was to me and I was giving it to her.

ADRIAN: ...To be my Girlfriend!

Within my palm, was a bracelet made of coloured threads.

(A/n Image)

When I was in school, I had to go to therapy sessions to help cope with the recent death of my mother in my past life.

During one of these therapy sessions, I was asked what colours my mother liked. I myself didn't know as I was too young and didn't bother asking. All I knew was that she supported Chealsea and like Blue, but she passed away from Cancer and so I had also saud maybe Pink. As Pink was the colour to support Cancer. Then there was White coloured flowers at her cremation/funeral. In the end I siad I didn't know what clour she liked.

In the next therapy session, the teacher had brought all kinds of cloured thread and said that we would make a bracelet in her memory out if all the clours she had with her luke I had said.

I had cried tears of joy and sadness as when I held the finished bracelet I felt one step closer with my mother again.

I had kept it with me ever since, but when I died, it most likely had been destroyed along with my body in the Terrorist Attack back on Earth.

In this life, I recreated it personally exactly as it was.

And now I was giving it to AVA, to GWEN. I wanted to show how serious I was, and maybe by some small chance, my mother would know of this as well and bless her from the afterlife. To know I love her and will marry her, that is certain.

AVA grabbed the bracelet with shaky hands, and fell into my arms and cried, we didn't care about anything else as we embraced each other.

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The ROB Jr (Ulthaan) revealed that Gwen was going to ask Adrian to be his boyfriend one week after the  evening of Chapter 1 interaction.

But he died in a terrorist bombing before that could happen.

Now he asked her that very same thing.

Ps, what are you thinking of my alterations to CANNON so far, and what do you think of EPISODE 1. I am copying it, since most if its events will remain the same, EPISODE 2, battle of Geonosis and the CLONE WARS will naturally be different.

The whole purpose of the Clone Wars, or to be more accurate, its main objective, was to show Palpatine's manipulations on The Senate and the Jedi so that he can solidufy his power for the Empire and how he was exposing the Jedi for what they really are to Anakin. Causing him to lose his faith in the Jedi and trust Palpatine more and more.

This was mostly shown during the kidnapping of Palpatine and THE BOX arc.

The while purpose of those episodes were for Palpatine to reveal that the Jedi don't trust Anakin to reveal Obi-Wan was alive and in disguise. Which worked to Palpatine's plans. He even says "If you feel you can stop this plot against me, I TRUST YOU". He legit says it directly in such an obvious way.

Palpatine even corrupts Barris to frame Ahsoka for the bombing, which led to her leaving the Jedi Ordet and causing Anakin to lose his faith and trust in tge Jedi even more.

Pss. Did you know that Yoda can actually speak properly? He speaks weird cause it is cryptic and helps to leave a lasting impression on the minds of other people and to get his point across to others easier. That is why Younglings learn from Yoda far easier than any other Jedi. This was confirmed by Filoni or Lucas, I forgot which one actually said it