V.1-C.36│Slave Rebellion II│

"Set coordinates for Tatooine. Enter hyperspace." Anakin says out loud towards the ship. It activates its hyperdrives and zooms past the lots of other ships entering Coruscant, Anakin speeds towards Tatooine as fast as he can.

'Let the games begin.'

Opening up his mental connection to the droids on Coruscant meant to act as a distraction, he commands them to start the attack on the Jedi temple.

What Anakin is doing is ensuring that the Jedi are on the lookout for droids that have gone rogue. He wouldn't be doing anything dangerous but he needed some type of distraction to take away from the fact he had left.

He knows Qui-Gon and Mace would not be too worried about him especially since he had shown the capabilities of the Nanosuit that has achieved symbiosis with is capable of. It is able to resist a full on blow from a lightsaber, of course the material used to have this affect is Beskar.

The very rare material the Mandalorians are obsessed about. 'I would be too if I needed more of the stuff but for now there is no need.'

Anakin had his Vader suit ready within the ship so he could change at any time but when he arrives on Tatooine he would come as Anakin Skywalker, visiting his mother before leaving to Alderaan.

Supposedly this will be the official story but he will in actuality stay behind to help the slaves and the droids take over the planet. Grievous would be tagging along as well as he has a desire to spill some blood.

'Sometimes the loss of life is necessary. I chose the lesser of two evils in this instance.'

One droid in particular he did not include in the fight against the Hutt's was his very first living droid, HK-47 because its task was to protect his mother and protect his mother it would.

For all intents and purposes, HK-47 had grown attached to the woman and started to see her as its grandmother. A little jarring to Anakin but he guessed it made sense considering HK thinks itself his child.

It isn't really wrong to think like that either, he had created HK so he would take on that mantle and hope to become a good figure for HK to follow his footsteps in. Anakin hoped to do that with his future biological children as well.

Anakin didn't plan for the uprising to be a long siege, he had planned for it to be over rather quickly. 'That is if everything goes to plan.'

Opening up his communications device, Anakin calls Grievous. "Master? You called?"

"Yes. I was wondering if you had made it to Tatooine yet?"

"Yes, the locals have a bit of an eye problem but other than that everything has been going to plan. There has been some movement though from the Hutt's."

'That's not a good sign.'

"Tell me exactly what they are doing."

"For now they have just bolstered up their forces. It is steadily increasing though and I fear we may need to bring in more droids to handle the situation. The elite are pretty good but I dont think they would be capable of making it to Jabba the Hutt."

"That is a good point. For now we will monitor the situation and if it gets any worse I will have to call in for some backup when the situation worsens."

"Has there been any other movements?"

"Not really. I haven't made my way over to the district your mother lives in and gone to the slave rebellions main headquarters here so I am unsure on their end other then the sparse communications given the day prior."

"Right, you best be on your way then and make sure not to cause to much trouble and draw unnecessary attention to yourself."

"You got it." Grievous' cyborg laughter could be heard before the call was cut.

Mentally sighing Anakin thinks to himself. 'Grievous will get me in trouble one of these days, I just hope it is not today.'

Exiting hyperspace Anakin within Maul's stolen, he means 'commandeered' ship arrives just outside of the Tatooine system.

'I am surprised that they have not started monitoring space yet if they have caught on or it is that they believe they are safe to stay thinking I did not come prepared.'

'That could be their downfall.'

Landing once again on the sandy desolate planet of Tatooine Anakin thinks to himself in this moment. 'Home sweet home.' Then continues. 'I think it is time to surprise my mother but before that get someone to transport my Vader suit elsewhere before 'I' leave with my mother to Alderaan.'

Walking around the streets of Mos Espa Anakin reminisces about his time here on Tatooine as it had felt so long ago he had come to this planet. 'Nostalgia. Ain't it great.'

Delving into the Force Anakin starts to send out a pulse through the Force to locate where his mother may be. 'In the store. Of course.'

Smiling Anakin heads to the direction of the storefront. 'Skywalker Technologies.' Entering he could hear his mothers voice call out from the counter. Anakin looks over to see she has her head done concentrated on something, probably one of her projects meant to help others.

"Welcome to Skywalker Technologies, how can I-" Shmi pauses as she looks up with surprise clearly seen on her face. "Anakin! My Ani, you have come!" Excited she drops what she is doing and rushes over to her child whom now towers over her at a staggering 1.8 meters tall and his physical growth is yet to stop.

Anakin opens his arms wide knowing she is rushing him with the intent to hug him. She wraps her arms around him and Anakin cant help but get a little emotional. 'Damn, I have been hit by the feels.'

"Hello, mother. I am back."

His mother starts to spitfire question at him one after the other with no time to consider her own breath. So much to say and talk about but so little time to do so.

"Yes, yes. Calm down mother, I have something to tell you."

"What is it Ani?"

"You have to leave Tatooine for a little while and I have set up a place on Alderaan for you and Jira to move into."

Obviously Shmi knows more about the slave rebellion then she lets on. "Is that why have come? To fight with the others?"

"How do you know that?"

"Now look here, I may not be as smart as you but I can do some investigating on my own."

'I guess I shouldn't have underestimated the extent to which she knows of my shenanigan's. Mothers sure are scary.'

"It is true, I am to be the face of the uprising here. To lead them to freedom."

"Its dangerous, I cant allow it. Within the Republic you are safe but out here anything could happen."

"And that is why I am insisting that you go with Jira to Alderaan." By now the two are not hugging anymore and simply a few centimeters apart from each other.

"But Anakin-"

"I am sorry mother for interrupting you but for your safety I think that I will have to forcefully remove you from Tatooine." Anakin states as Shmi looks confused. "C-3PO, come out and escort my mother to the ship and get her to Alderaan."

"Yes, Master. I can most certainly help you out with this, and I assume I will be needing to get lady Jira as well."

"Correct, I assume you know the way."

"I am the protocol droid my Master has made." C-3PO responds in a snarky tone.

"Ok, ok. Get on with it then." Before Anakin forgets he also mentally tells HK-47 to be on the ship along with C-3PO and Jira.

"I am sorry mother, just know that I love you and that everything will be alright. You just have to trust in me."

Shmi stares into her sons eyes looking for something but in her heart she knows he will be fine just as he was all those years ago, going off who knows where. She had accepted that her child could make his own decisions at that point even if she did not like it.

"Fine. I will go, just promise me you wont get hurt."

"I promise." Anakin replies.

Shmi leaves along with C-3PO with reluctance and before she goes she also says. "I love you as well."

Now that everything had been taken care of he needs to make his way to the slave resistance headquarters hidden away within the former slave district, turned Skywalker district.

That is right the district that use to be called the slave district is now called by Anakin's last name in memory of his actions, what he represents and in the fact he owns the land.

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Back with the Jedi on Coruscant they are currently experiencing a disturbance to their day to day normal lives.

A lot of people are rushing back and forth through the hallways of the grand Jedi temple, younglings, padawans, knights and all sorts were moving around going to areas that were either safe or heading in the direction of the trouble.

"Well, I guess there is some trouble to get to." Obi-Wan says where he left off last.

"What are we waiting for, lets go."

Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan start dashing through the hallways infusing themselves with the Force to accelerate their approach towards the trouble.

"Why would anyone be brave enough to attack the temple?" Obi-Wan questions out loud.

"That is not the questions you should be asking, it is how is good enough to get past many of the security measures put in place to cause this trouble in the first place." Qui-Gon says.

Coming across several people, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan happen to chance upon a scene where Jedi Master Mace Windu had cut down a droid.

"Master Windu, what is going on here." Qui-Gon questions.

"Well, from what I can tell some droids have started to attack throughout the temple in many different areas. People have been dispatched or been sent to areas that are considered safe."

"Droids? Rogue droids here?" Obi-Wan continues. "Why would droids attack here? They must have someone commanding them."

"That is the thing, we cant seem to trace the signal even though we have the home base advantage here." Windu replies.

"Have you already tried to establish why the attack is happening? No one would attack the Jedi without a reason."

"I dont know, but I fear that this could be connected to the mysterious warrior you two faced on Naboo. We weren't able to uncover the identity of the person who attacked other then it was a Sith."

Windu continues. "We just didn't know which one, whether that be the Master you two had taken care of or the apprentice."

"They always come in twos." Qui-Gon states.

"True, now we need to make sure to take care of all the droids. In fact the situation right now cannot be considered dire as for some reason the droids are not aiming to kill anyone."

"There has been no deaths?"

"Yes, only minor injuries to adults mostly while the younglings were left alone."

"That is interesting." Oni-Wan says.

"Yes, but for now we got no time to waste we should get to other areas." Mace leads the group.

The now three Jedi run through the Jedi temple going to multiple locations but the droids never end. If they are dispatched to one location and take care of them they are then sent to another. 'Well this is not a fun experience.' Obi-Wan thought to himself.

"They have no end, surely by now we should have cut down their number for now."

"Maybe, but whoever is behind this attack doesn't seek to truly hurt anyone and could very well be a distraction." Mace says.

Qui-Gon then questions. "A distraction it may be, but for what?"

Obi-Wan strikes down another droid and he is started to get annoyed by this point. "Everyone is safe, it just seems like this things dont pose a threat at all."

"That is the thing Obi-Wan, we dont know where the real threat could come from so taking care of all the droids is our only option at this moment."

Within another area of the temple a youngling was thinking of her friend. 'Ani, where are you?'

Barriss had been evacuated along with the rest of the other younglings separated into their clan areas being kept safe by Jedi who had been keeping guard over them.

"Hello." It was at this moment Barriss notices a little girl talked to her.

"Why, hello." Bending down she gets a closer look at her.

"My name is Ahsoka Tano, who are you?" The inquisitive little Togruta asks Barriss.

Deciding to entertain the girl and keep her mind off of things humors her. "Well, my name is Barriss. Barriss Offee."

"Will you be my friend?"

"Friend? Sure I can be your friend." As Barriss replies, Ahsoka's face lights up at her declaration.

"Are you a Padawan? You seem powerful."

"Not yet, I am not. I have yet to take the trials and gain the recognition of a Master. I am hoping to have one though."

"Really? But you already have a Master, do you not?"

"No? What are you talking about."

"That other boy, his name is... his name is..." The name stuck on her tongue Ahsoka tries to remember.

"Are you talking about Anakin?"

"Yes, doesn't he teach you?"

"Well, that may be true but he is not my Master simply because he helps me out."

Her mind switching fast, Ahsoka then asks another question. "Can Anakin be my friend too?"

"I am sure he wouldn't mind being friends with you."

"Cool! He is cool!" Ahsoka exclaims in childlike excitement while Barriss thinks to herself. 'Great another fan of Anakin's...'