43 V.1-C.43│Aftermath III│

'My excuses were bought out.' After Anakin had successfully managed to smooth talk and get a punishment much more lenient he had nothing much else to do then check up on his training droids here.

It was currently quite late at night and the Jedi, whether they be younglings, padawans, knights, everyone seemed to be awake. 'No rest for the wicked.'

No rest for the wicked indeed because Anakin had plans, big plans for his droids, for himself and the future. He will not stop at helping people regain their freedom, to live as they want with only the laws to restrict people from doing anything to crazy.

Droids that could look after and keep the peace while he had others be used in areas that the population could be harmed from. He would not use the living droids for this as it would surely taint his image within their minds.

He continued to walk down the halls coming across many people who were tired or heading off into another direction. 'I wonder how Barriss held up?' Anakin thinks to himself going towards the training room he leaves his training droids.

Coming towards the room, he is not surprised at Barriss' presence but he is surprised by two unfamiliar Force signatures also within the room. Sure he had every so often lets some people use his droids but it was of acquaintances.

An example being Ferus Olin. While originally Anakin would have had a rivalry with the said individual it was more one-sided. Ferus would try to beat him at everything he did and for fun Anakin would use Ferus as a test subject to test his abilities.

Anakin starts to open the door. "Well now, lets see who we have here."

Within the room, Barriss would be seen side by side with the little Togruta girl known as Ahsoka watching a young adult currently engaging in combat against his droids.

Anakin's entrance causes a distraction knocking Aayla off her feat and onto the ground. Anakin begins to enter, Aayla awkwardly begins to stand up and the droid that was in combat with Aayla had disengaged.

Barriss speaks up seeing Anakin arrive. "Anakin!" She runs towards him. "Where were you? I did not see you in the temple during that droid attack." Barriss says with subdued concern.

"That is because I was not within the temple, I was doing something else but what really should be asked here is why are there two unknown individuals here?" Anakin says with a strict tone.

"I-I-I-" Barriss seems to fail miserly at coming up with an explanation.

Aayla decides to save Barriss from embarrassment and steps forward. "It was my fault. I wanted to use your training droids here and have been doing so for only a small amount of time."

Anakin turn towards the miserable Aayla who was just defeated by said droid in lightsaber combat. 'It seems that my droids are getting better and better as I upgrade them, but to fail against one... She must not be that good with a lightsaber.'

"And who might you be?" Anakin asks knowing full well who the Rutian Twi'lek is.

"Me? My name is Aayla, Aayla Secura and I am a padawan."

"A padawan? Who is your master?"

Aayla responds. "My master is Jedi Knight, Quinlan Vos." She says rather proudly and considering the bond between the two Anakin knows why.

"Well, fellow padawan Secura, I would suggest that you ask permission from the person who owns these things before using them."

Aayla raises her eyebrows. "Own? I thought the Jedi didn't like having possessions. It seems the so called talented Skywalker was actually breaking the code."

Before Anakin could respond the little Togruta girl makes herself known quite loudly. "Are you Anakin? Are you my new friend?"

"New friend?" Anakin looks between Ahsoka and the other two to gets some answers.

Barriss is the one to respond. "I kind of promised the little one that you would be her friend."

"Friend, eh?" Anakin looks towards what would have been the originals apprentice.

Deciding that becoming friends with the girl wouldn't hurt much he ignored Aayla's looks and directed towards Ahsoka. "Sure. We can be friends."

"Yay! Anakin is so cool!" Ahsoka continues. "Now that you are my friend we can do things together."

"Together?" Barriss questions.

"Yeah, Ani is meant to be friends with me. I saw it." Ahsoka says something that catches everyone's attention.

"I was meant to be your friend? Where did you see something like that?" Anakin decides to ask Ahsoka the question on everyone's mind whilst thinking to himself. 'Did she see an alternative timeline or something? The original where she is taken as the apprentice? This is not something that was apart of the original.'

Events were already starting to spiral out of Anakin's control but it starts with the little things, where he would still be able to rely on his knowledge to help himself and others but it seems that his presence has started to change alot of things.

Is it for the better or for the worst? Only time would tell.

"I dreamt about it many times."

Deciding that it may be time to change the subject Aayla decides that the attention should shift back over to her. "Anyway... I am a bit confused about everything. For starters if I remember correctly, aren't you supposed to be like, only 11 years old?" Aayla directs to Anakin.

"That is true I am currently only 11." Says Anakin as his height reaches 1.8 meters and his overall being makes him look like an older teenager, somewhere around Aayla's age in fact.

Aayla looks Anakin up and down. "Are you sure?" She says with a doubtful tone.

"Very."

"Whatever you say then." Aayla pauses before continuing. "I wanted to use your droids and I am guessing your friend here Barriss helped guide me here along with the little youngling there."

"You couldn't come to me?"

"I didn't know where you were and I most certainly would not be able to talk with any of your Masters given the situation that had just happened."

"That is a correct assumption but remember I was not in the temple. I had said this a few minutes before did I not?"

"That just means that I wouldn't have been able to use the room."

"You know what lets just forget about this matter and move on to other subjects like telling me what had happened while I was gone." Anakin decides to end any potential argument.

Barriss interjects before they start. "You have to tell me what happened with you as well."

"Sure."

Anakin then proceeds to listen to what they experienced and what had happened when he was away, but Anakin didn't really need to know the event itself just what they had went through so he could better determine how well his control over the droids were.

'It seems I did pretty good.' Very little damage was done to anyone and any damage done to belongings or other miscellaneous objects was also minimal, not that the Jedi would care all too much about these things considering their code.

"I think that is enough. Don't you guys think you should be heading elsewhere?"

Barriss speaks. "Well, the lessons us younglings have to take are not going on right now, but some resume after a day or two. At least that was what I heard." Ahsoka nods in agreement.

"I was bored and had nothing to do." This was true but she had very recently come out of a mission that had her come close to the dark side of the Force.

Right now she was just looking for anything to help her mind clam down after the events that took place. Losing her memories was traumatic, regaining some of them was also an experience she did not like, so she was looking for the thing she felt was missing.

She herself feared she was still lost after what had happened to her. That only advice she had gotten was from Master Yoda and even then it had not been too helpful. "Patient, you must be. A Jedi, you are."

Yoda had told her the Force does not led people to things they always want but to things they need. "Believe, trust in the Force, you must. Guide you, it will. Help you, it must."

It had seemed that the Force had guided her to here. Where the very strange individual of Anakin Skywalker was made known to her and the strange occurrences around him.

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Things had been going swimmingly on Tatooine after Anakin had left them and had Grievous become his representative there. Moving all of the droids over from Dathomir had been a hassle but it was worth it considering he would need defenses in place.

The Hutt's wouldn't take to kindly to what had been done.

Especially when they have one of their own trapped within a cage, imprisoned by the people who have now taken over a system from them. A seat of power that was extremely beneficial.

Tatooine itself was not of much importance, only becoming something of a seat of power. Nothing more, nothing less because they did not have much to help propel the planets economy or the growth overall in anything.

It would take a while to become a superpower great enough to start their own conquests but Anakin does not plan to do anything like that. Not so soon after his most recent acquisition.

Shmi had moved back to Tatooine as well, and had been treated like a Queen. Anakin did not mind this but if everyone there started to see him as a prince he may need to start answering even more questions and this time it would not be from his Masters.

It would be by the Jedi High Council itself.

He could only imagine their outrage, they would of course get over themselves after any explanation he gives them but it would certainly be something to see. 'In fact, I now am quite looking forward to everyone's reactions.'

Currently Anakin like always was training but instead of any intensive physical workout he was working on the spiritual aspects of the Force. Meditation.

Not that fun but relaxing nonetheless.

Thinking over everything that had happened so far, he could only lament at the fact that no matter what he does the Republic would fall and Sidious would probably rise to power and still create his own empire.

Vader was both instrumental to Sidious in the originals but also not needed. The events leading upto to Sidious' uprising would happen and he could only delay the inevitable but that does not mean he would be unable to change anything.

'The Jedi dont deserve to die.' Thinking his statement and projecting this outwards towards the Force it responds in a negative.

'You still want the Jedi to die, huh?' Midi-chlorians allowed for communication with the Force, the energy-field takes gives people insane abilities. Anakin used this to his advantage to see if it would respond and his experiments were successful.

So far he had only been able to get possible yes or no answers from it. What it wanted, what it desired. Things like that were hard to decipher but it still wanted the Jedi to come to an end.

[]

HK-47, the first living droid. The first one to be giving life by his master, by his lord that goes by Anakin Skywalker. HK sees Anakin as his father, he had after all created him.

He was sent to protect Anakin's mother, whom he has started to consider as his own grandmother of the sorts because even though he is not of the flesh and blood of Anakin, he was made through the energy-field known as the Force.

He had lived the longest out of all of the elite droids Anakin had created.

This put him up on a pretty high position. Protecting Shmi was not that hard, sometimes attempts would be made on her life but he would quickly dispatch of them. It wasn't all to often but alot of people believed that could harm her or use her in some way to gain a fortune.

Especially since she lives on a planet like Tatooine.

Speaking of Tatooine he had been commanding the other living droids around to help out after the rebellion took place. "HK, sir we have come across no problems with the locals here but would like to make an assessment of the area."

"Statement: Go ahead."

Most of the living droids listened to him and in fact respected him but there were a few that didn't really listen but HK supposed that was the result of being reborn as a living being.

He was worried at first that the others may want to betray his father but none had even had the thought.

What they were doing now was analyzing the environmental condition of Tatooine and looking at various geographical locations to best determine where they could start their plans of terraforming the planet.

This would take time so for now they would have to settle on creating a utopian based cities across Tatooine as they get to work on stabilizing the atmosphere to make it more comfortable for flora to grow and prosper.

What they would have to do is bring over water from another planet and the planet they have in mind was Dathomir.

They did not need much else but water, as the water levels measured on Tatooine was not equivalent to the rumors or legends equating it to lushes trees and grand wide oceans. There was no indication of the planet having any of these things.

The moisture levels were not high enough for that type of terrain, so there must have been a grand event which made the planet like the way it is now. 'Thinking: Maybe this planet does not even have accurate historic records.'

'Albeit the records were legends or myths passed down orally.' It was not best to trust something, the words told by another so they conducted tests and the tests said these stories must be false.

Or they didn't tell the full story.

"Command: Begin the reconstruction effort."

"Roger, roger."