Anakin heads home.

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A long time ago in a galaxy far far away.

STAR WARS: The Time Traveling Skywalker.

When Anakin Skywalker gets thrown twenty years into the future he meets Luke and the rest of the gang. Happiness is all around in Anakin's life, but darkness looms over the horizon as the crushing forces of the Emperor and Darth Vader seek to destroy the Rebellion. Can Anakin help his son put together the clues of what the events were that gave birth to the evil Empire and possibly prevent his own fall to the dark side? Meanwhile Anakin is seeing his master Obi-Wan Kenobi off to fight the evil General Grievous.

Anakin Skywalker had just seen his friend and mentor off on a mission to stop the separatist droid general, General Grievous who was currently hiding on the planet Utapau. He was heading home when all of a sudden, there was a blinding flash of light. He distinctly heard.

"Lord Vader, can you hear me?"
[Mechanical Breathing]

"Yes, Master. Where is Padme? Is she safe? Is she alright?"
[Breathing continues]

"I'm afraid, that in your anger you killed her."
[Mechanical Breathing]

"I? I couldn't have! She was alive! I felt it!!!" Anakin heard a strained growl of anger, sorrow and pain. Machinery being crushed around him and then the sound of metal breaking, heavy foot steps and then.....

"NOOOOOOO!!!"

Suddenly Anakin screamed, " NO!!!" And looked around at his surroundings breathing heavily and his eyes were wide with fear as the sound of the respirator echoed in his mind, he was suddenly flying out in space in his Starfighter. When the full extent of his vision came back into view, he looked around and saw that he was orbiting Tatooine, he silently said to himself, "what am I doing here? one minute I was on Coruscant the next, I'm here on Tatooine what the blazes is going on?" He then saw an Alderaan star Cruiser orbiting the planet being chased by what looked like a Republic Star Destroyer but it was white and was firing green Canon bolts and the cruiser was firing back then the Star Destroyer fired another shot and hit the cruiser disabling the engines. Anakin took his Starfighter and docked on the cruiser before the other ship could pull the cruiser into its Docking Bay. He snuck on board the cruiser and found it had what looked like Master Kota's men guarding the main hallway leading into the cruiser. All of the sudden someone on the other side of the door began welding into the ship, and the door exploded at least 10 troops that looked an awful lot like, Clone troopers to Anakin, came in and started firing at the soldiers. Anakin quickly looked for a place to hide and turned down a passageway into a hidden area on the ship he was waiting idly by in the corner when suddenly.

A dark chill went down his spine and, he heard the sound of a loud respirator. He heard it for several moments before the Shadow of a dark figure, walked by the entrance to the chamber and headed down the main hallway towards where the soldiers were. On his way to the Escape pods, he ran into a couple of droids that looked oddly familiar. They were none other than Threepio and R2-D2, R2 started whistling and beeping as soon as he saw Anakin, Threepio panicked and told R2, " You know you shouldn't talk to strangers!" but R2 insisted to keep talking to him, Anakin told the droids to follow him to the Escape pods. R2 gladly accepted but Threepio wasn't so enthused, but when a blaster bolt hit the side of the Escape pod Threepio managed to get into it with Anakin and R2. Threepio, said to himself "I'm going to regret this!" When the Escape pod took off they saw the outside of the ship and Threepio said "the damage doesn't look as bad from out here. Are you sure this thing is safe?!" The Pod safely landed on Tatooine and Anakin, Threepio and R2 got out of the Escape pod and wandered the desert for a short time and suddenly the trio got separated by a herd of Banthas. Anakin wandered the desert until he came onto Mos Eisley Spaceport he figured he'd find an apartment for a couple of days until he figured out what was going on. Anakin fell asleep that night thinking about Padme and what their child was going to be like he woke up a few times in a cold sweat because of his dreams about her dying in childbirth. The next morning when Anakin got up he decided to take a stop by the bar in Mos Eisley and see if he could get some information out of anyone. Turns out no such luck until a couple of hours later when an old man in...were those Jedi's robes and a blonde haired kid walked into the bar and the young one started ordering a drink, while the old man went over and started talking to a Wookie that was near the bar. The Wookie looks awfully familiar but soon came a couple of criminals messing around with the young man one of them said that the other one didn't like him and the young man said that he was sorry then the criminal said that he didn't like him either and said that he should watch himself, then boasted that they were wanted men and that he himself had the Death sentence on twelve systems, and the young man said, "I'll be careful." And the other guy said, " you'll be dead!!!" Then the old man said, " This little one is not worth the trouble. Come let me get you something." And then the criminal charged forward at them and then something caught Anakin's eye the old man pulled out a lightsaber and chopped off the other guy's arm, then he deactivated the weapon after the other guy backed down and then the old man said," Chewbacca here is first mate on a ship, that might suit us." Anakin followed them over to a table where they started talking to a young man with dark hair and a vest with a white shirt, brown pants, blaster on his belt he walked up to the table and asked The Old Man and the boy who they were and the old man couldn't believe his eyes but kept quiet all the same he said that his name was Obi-Wan and the young boy's name was Luke then Anakin had a look on his face of disbelief in the man when the dark haired man said, " I'm Han Solo, Captain of the Millennium Falcon. Chewie tells me you guys are in need of a ship." And Obi-Wan asked him if the ship was fast the dark haired man said, " Fast ship? You mean you've never heard of the Millennium Falcon? " and Obi-Wan said, " should I have?" And Han said, "It's the ship that made the Kessel run in twelve parsecs. I've outrun Imperial starships, not the local bulk cruisers mind you, I'm talking about the big Corellian ships now! She's fast enough for you old man. So what's the cargo?" Obi-Wan said, "Us three, two droids and no questions asked." The dark haired man said smiling, "What is it some kind of local trouble?" Obi-Wan said, "Let's just say we would like to avoid any Imperial entanglements." The dark haired man said, " Well that's the real trick isn't it. Alright, I'll take you to Alderaan but it's going to be 10,000 all in advance." And Luke said, " ten thousand we could almost buy our own ship with that!" Then the guy said," Yeah but who's gonna fly it kid, you?" And Luke said, " You bet I could I'm not such a bad pilot myself, I can't sit here and listen to this, let's go!" But Obi-Wan sat him down and said, " We will pay you 2000 now plus fifteen when we get to Aldderan." and the captain of Millenium Falcon said," Seventeen, huh!" he said," Alright you guys got yourselves a ship be at Docking Bay 94." and Obi-Wan repeated," 94." While nodding and then the captain of Millenium Falcon said," Looks like somebody's admiring your handiwork." and two of the Troopers that were on the Alderaan star Cruiser were talking to the bartender looking around Obi-Wan guided Luke and Anakin out the door looking for R2 and Threepio when they got to Docking Bay 94 they saw the Millennium Falcon and Luke said, "what a piece of junk." And the captain of the Millennium Falcon said, " Hey she may not look like much kid but She's got it where it counts and can go places where you've never been before, we've been put in kind of a rush so with that said if you'll kindly climb on board and after a few adjustments we'll get going. " they climbed on board the Millennium Falcon all the sudden they heard blasters go off and Han ran in yelling, " Chewie get us out of here!!!" They took off with the troopers still firing at them when they got into space the captain said," Oh! great we've got a couple of Star Destroyers on our tail!" and the blonde haired Kid said, "Are you sure this thing can out run them." Then Anakin heard Luke say, "I thought you said this thing was fast!" and the captain said," watch your mouth kid or your going to find yourself floating home, I know a few Maneuvers I can outrun them until we hit light speed." they maneuvered the Star Destroyers pretty well when they hit light speed and sped off to the coordinates towards Alderaan Obi-Wan turned Anakin and said, " Come with me, we have much to discuss you and I."

Meanwhile on the Death Star...

Obi-Wan steered Anakin into a close room and said," What are you doing here, how are you here?!" And Anakin said, "Please Obi-Wan it's me, Anakin, I've been sent to the Future somehow from everything I can figure out, but I don't know why and I don't know how, except for maybe with the force." Then suddenly Obi-Wan let him go and he said, " You must keep your real identity a secret to both Luke and Han Solo along with anyone else we run into, " Why?" was the only thing that came out of Anakin's mouth. Obi-Wan said, "can I trust that you will not turn on me or Luke when I say this to you." And Anakin said, "you can trust me." Obi-Wan motioned for Anakin to sit down next to him and Anakin did so, Obi-Wan said, "much has changed since you left your time Anakin, the Republic was destroyed, the Jedi are all but extinct and the Empire has taken over the Galaxy under the rule of the Emperor Palpatine and his right-hand man Darth Vader they are both Sith Lords I didn't want to tell this to you, Anakin but after the Clone Wars, when the empire was first taking over and I told Luke as well Vader betrayed and murdered you, Luke is your and Padme's son." Anakin sat back in his seat and his mind was completely dazed at what he had just heard, the Jedi were destroyed, the Republic was replaced by an Empire he had no clue about, and his best friend and Mentor Palpatine was now the emperor of the Galaxy and also a Sith Lord Along with whoever this Darth Vader is. once he regained his posture Obi-Wan began to explain the rest to him and said it wasn't going to be easy to hear but Padme was dead because of Vader and the emperor. Anakin fell back in the corner and began to weep and howl in despair mourning his now dead wife. He was heart broken and in so much pain he could hardly handle it but he eventually got to where he was able to sit up straight and talk to Obi-Wan again, "Master Yoda and I are the last two Jedi left in this time line." Anakin could hardly believe that so much death and destruction was about to befall the Republic before he left his time. Anakin used the Holonet to search for two people Emperor Palpatine, and Darth Vader the images brought up for the Emperor were not entirely useful it was of a frail old man in a black cloak with his hood pulled over his head concealing his face and then he searched for Vader and an image came up showing him a tall stocky built figure dressed from head to toe in heavy black armor and a black almost skull looking mask and a black helmet, the biography on him says that he is a hero in the region's of the Empire a former Knight in the Jedi order, Vader fought in a duel with the fugitive Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi which proved nearly fatal to the Dark Lord he now has to wear the special armor and life support suit given to him by the Emperor himself along with other cybernetic enhancements such as prosthetic limbs and implants in his eyes, ears, internal organs, and a metal rib cage, neck, and lower spine. Anakin could not even begin to imagine the constant agony Vader must be in he couldn't bring himself to believe that, that's not a fate that even he deserved even after all that he'd done, he exited the Holonet when he heard the hum of a lightsaber sound off and blaster shots he walked out to see Luke practicing with a lightsaber he couldn't believe it the lightsaber was his own. His son was practicing with his lightsaber it was slightly older looking then the one on his belt it took a few minutes for him to get ahold of it and one lousy comment by Han Solo...

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