Chapter 70

The Jedi I captured are stripped of all technology and dumped on a jungle planet in the Grove collection system. I can't persuade the Jedi that keeping coms silent is in their best interests. I know that every single Jedi will try to escape the planet and return to the Jedi temple, but in attempting to make a connection to the temple, they will give away their position, just like how Darth Maul found Qui-Gon Jinn.

I won't even give them a chance to fuck up as I know they will, let Yoda explain to them why they have to go into hiding. I on the other hand will try one more huge change to the galaxy and see what I can do with it.

I wait on the lava planet Mustafar. Of course, I'm waiting to see if Anakin turns up and fights Obi-Wan. I'm not even sure if he will turn up but I would bet money because Padmé is here with Obi-Wan Kenobi. I start to wonder if I would lose that bet but a ship with a single life form lands.

Anakin is raging, something has made him angry. He thinks Padmé has betrayed him when Obi snuck on board and turns up to confront Anakin. The dark side has corrupted him and he's still not thinking straight. I know this because he says the stupidest line I ever heard "In my opinion the Jedi are evil"

I agree that the Jedi are that special kind of scum but to think the Sith was better was straight up wrong. The evils I've seen the Sith and Brotherhood of Darkness do aren't even close. However, I am stumped as to why Anakin still choked out Padmé and said that line, apparently Anakin can't handle the dark side of the force, not even a little. Anakin didn't end up killing any younglings but I guess when you kill the rest of the Galaxy peacekeepers then the look Padmé gives him is still going to be awful.

Anakin and Obi-Wan go off and have their fight while I go and check up on Padmé. Padmé is the reason I'm here, as a politician she was ok. She succeeded in many things like keeping ultimate power out of the supreme councillor's hands but also failed when she allowed Jar Jar Binks to be manipulated to start the clone wars.

I wander into Padmé star skiff and find a medical droid working on her. She's not doing well. I feel her hope is gone and she has given up. The man she loved and would have followed into the dark side with has tried to kill her and now I feel that she has no purpose. Her life's work as a politician is gone and just like she said "The Republic falls with a round of applause" is very true and it adds to her lack of hope.

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I see her reading on the monitor and witness the expert skill of the droids, there isn't anything wrong with her body but the spirit is gone. It's an odd illness as it rarely kills and with time and purpose you can make a recovery but poor Padmé has just given birth to twins and her body's weakness is adding to her spirit's weakness.

Padmé is crying, she feels alone and isn't attached to her kids because she thinks they are safe. I ponder for a few seconds, what I'm about to do feels massively wrong but Padmé needs a purpose, she needs a kickstart to her spirit.

I make myself known, A scary unknown person in scary black armour hovers over the newly born children, I say nothing and wait for Padmé to notice me. The sudden gasps that choke out her crying let me know she has seen me. I turn my head to her while slowly grasping out my hand to touch the baby's hand. I say nothing, I only feel Padmé's terror rising.

Without a single word said I take the children. The medical droid tries to stop me but I deactivate it by unplugging its power supply with force powers. To Padmé it looks terrifying, she calls out but is out of breath through the crying and giving birth. She pulls herself up and reaches out to me but I don't answer. Padmé is desperate, with no weapon she can't fight back and even if she could she wouldn't in case she hit her children. Padmé flops off the table hurting herself but she continues to crawl towards her children.

It's a dirty trick but I feel her purpose is steadily coming back. She no longer thinks about her failed politician career, even what Anakin did to her is only lingering at the back of her mind. She reaches out to grab my leg but before she can tug on my armour I grab her hand and lift her off the floor.

I have her children in one hand and I pull Padmé up to my face. The shiny black armour shows no emotion and Padmé is finding it hard to look away. Her fear is high and each moment I feel like she is going to cry again.

"I will take your children and use them as tools of war" I speak in a human-robotic voice.

Padmé sputters out a no.

"Why not, you gave up on life, why would you care" My words shake her heart.

Thick tears spill from her eyes and she raises her weak hand to slap me but it has no power. I dropped her like a sack of rocks, she panicked but that turned into surprise when I placed the babies in her arms and picked her up.

"The second you give up I will take your babies" All of this was a trick that went a little too far but Padmea needs to think that I will do as I say, if not she might give up again.

I took all three of them and left a message for Obi-Wan under Yoda's name. Obi-Wan will probably have a fit when he comes back from the fight but fuck him, his idea of splitting the kids up and giving one to a senate member and the other to a moisture farmer is messed up, I'm going to put all of my new treasures to good use.