Lida's/Rey's POV
I checked the hallways for anyone around and was happy to find it empty. I reached Skywalker's room and placed an explosive at the bottom of his door, with a laser trigger. The second he steps into his room an explosion will happen, killing him. Once I had it set up, I smiled and left the hallway, keeping my face covered so no one can say they saw me here.

Anakin's POV
"Hey guys." I smiled as I leaned in the doorway of the younglings training room. They were cute, I can't wait to have children one day with (y/n). It's not something we've actually talked about but I'm sure she wants them just as much as I do.

"Hi Master Skywalker." They all said simultaneously with bright smiles on their faces.

"I'm looking for BD. Is he here?" I asked scanning the room.

"I have him." A little red headed boy spoke up and sure enough BD was sitting on his shoulder.

"And what's your name?" I walked over to the kid and knelt down to his level, he looked to be about ten or eleven.

"I'm Cal Kestis." He answered shyly, avoiding my gaze.

"Nice to meet you Cal, I've come for my little friend here but by the looks of it, he prefers to stay here with you." I chuckled as BD cowered behind the boys head to hide from me.

"Yeah he's my friend." Cal became less shy and gave me a smile.

"Beep-Boop?" Is she back yet?

"No she's not buddy." I sighed.

"Beep-Boop-Boop?" Then can I want to stay with the child?

"Sure." I grinned to the droid.

"You can understand him?" Cal looked to me with bewilderment.

"Yes, It took some time but sooner or later you'll begin to understand him as well." I patted his shoulder and stood up.

"I hope so." Cal turned his head to look at the droid and BD curled up close to him and Cal giggled. I smiled at the sight.

"Have fun kids." I turned to leave the room and they all said their goodbyes while looking at me with amazement. They always looked at me that way, I'm known as the Chosen One which seems to fascinate everyone. I on the other hand have started to believe the chosen one is just a myth. I'm just stronger with the force than everyone else, I'm gifted, not a prophecy.

I walked down the temple halls to my room with Lida on my mind. I'm so confused by everything and I have no idea how else to look into her. There's nothing for me to check, no family, no address, not even any friends. She spoke with some co-workers here but I already talked to most of them and they hardly knew anything either. I sighed as I reached my room and punched in my key code to open it. Just before I entered I heard someone call my name down the hall.

"General Skywalker!"

I turned my head to see Echo walking towards me. "What is it Echo?"

"Rex asked me to deliver the plans to you for the IPV-2C Stealth Corvette. He said you asked to look over them." It took a moment before realization hit me.

"Oh right I almost forgot about those, thank you Echo." I reached to grab them but was startled by another voice calling me.

"Anakin!" Obi-Wan came rushing down the hall, "We've received a transmission from (y/n), you need to come now!" His eyes looked urgent and I knew it was important. I felt my chest tighten, she better be okay.

"Echo can you place the plans in my room for me please?" I asked him and he nodded.

"Of course sir." He walked around me to my room.

I  barely took a few steps away when I was shaken by an explosion, the impact causing both Obi-Wan and I to slam against the wall knocking him unconscious. I groaned in pain and the temple alarm went off. I tried to stand up but felt dizziness take over and I fell back down. I turned to Obi-Wan and checked his pulse, he was fine. I looked towards where the explosion came from and noticed it was my room.

Someone tried to kill me.

"Echo!" I called out to him but I couldn't see anything due to the smoke. I didn't hear a response and I already knew the worst. Echo was dead. There was no way he survived that. The explosion was small enough to not cause damage to any of the surrounding rooms but big enough to blow my door away and blacken the edges of the wall and create cracks.

I was the only target, who could have done this?

"Skywalker!" Master Plo ran to me, "Are you alright?" I looked up to him and I could see two of him. I must have hit my head pretty hard.

"I'm alright," I lied, "Check on Obi-Wan." I weakly pointed to him laying on the floor. He obliged and went to my masters side. I felt pain on my forehead and I pressed my hand to it and pulled it away to see blood.

"I think he's okay." He assured me and I heard multiple footsteps running towards us and I could hear an annoying ringing sound, most likely due to the loudness of the blast.

"Get them up to medical now!" I heard Master Plo shout to the people who just came to our aid. I tried to look up at them but it was becoming difficult to see, everything was passing by in a blur. No doubt I have a concussion.

I felt arms pull me up onto a gurney, "No, (y/n)" she needed me, I needed her. I had to know she was okay. "I need...help her." I mumbled before the dizziness took me over and I lost consciousness.

(y/n)'s POV
"So what exactly is your plan?" Padme whispered to me as we poked our heads in the hallway that led back into Jabba's throne room. "We can't exactly walk in there, they'll shoot us on sight, and you don't have your weapons! Oh force, we're gonna die." She threw her arms up.

"Thank you so much for the positivity Padme." I glared at her, "Just trust me okay? I got this." I poked my head back out and there was one bounty hunter leaning on the wall in the hallway, bingo. "Psstt!" I called to him but he didn't seem to hear me, "Psstt hey you!" I shouted in a whisper and he turned his head and looked at me curiously, the lighting makes it so he can't see my appearance very well. And if there's one thing Anakin has taught me about bounty hunters is they all care about three things, credits, drinking, and women. Lucky me, I happen to be one of those things. "Yeah you, come here big boy." I flirted and Padme snorted from behind me.

"Big boy? Is that what you call Anakin?" She teased and I lifted my foot and kicked her in the shin. "Ow!" She shouted in a whisper but chuckled afterwards.

The bounty hunter started to slowly walk towards me, "Why you hiding baby?"he stumbled slightly and I knew he was drunk, oh this is too easy.

"Maybe I'm not wearing any clothes." I teased and he whistled.

"I like the sound of that." He slurred and got closer to me. I pulled my head out of the doorway and waited for him to enter, he walked in and turned to face us, his face fell as he reached for his blaster, "hey you're the-"

"No were not." I waved my hand in front of his face. He stopped going for his weapon and dropped his hand down.

"Yeah you're not." He smiled drunkly.

"You want to give me your weapon."

"I want to give you my weapon." He reached for his belt and pulled out his blaster and handed it to me.

"Sorry about this." I shrugged and the man looked at me confused.

"Sorry for wh-" I grabbed the side of his head and banged it against the wall knocking him unconscious.

"Oh! That looked like it hurt." Padme inspected the guy, "Is he dead?"

"Nah." I inspected the blaster in my hand and made sure the safety was off before handing it to Padme, "He's just sleeping. Let's go."

We slowly walked down the hallway, the music from the room becoming louder. "Stay low, everyone is busy talking to each other and drinking to really pay attention. I need to find the one who took my lightsabers before we get out of here."

"Got it." She whispered. I stood in the doorway and poked my head out to scan the room and that's when I saw him, playing with my weapons like they were toys. He accidentally ignited one and almost stabbed himself with it, idiot.

"There he is." I pointed to him for Padme to see.

"How are you gonna get them?"

"Like this." I used the force to call the sabers to me and they flew out of the mans hands and were brought to mine. No one noticed and he looked around the room confused, they were all drunken morons right now.

"Now what?" She asked.

"Uh I haven't thought that far ahead."

"What? You said, and I quote 'I got this'!" She mocked me.

"I thought we'd be dead by now!" I admitted with a shrug.

"Wow so you just expected us to die here and not tell me, that's great." She rolled her eyes.

"Oh I'm sorry it wasn't MY idea to come here now was it!"

"I was trying to make a difference!"

"Well congratulations you made a difference, our life spans are now shorter!"

"Are you two done?" A voice broke us out of our petty argument. We looked to see that the entire room had their eyes on us.

"This isn't good." Padme whispered to my ear.

"You think?" I glared at her. I slowly stepped forward and Padme trailed behind me, "You know I think we got off on the wrong foot here gentlemen." I started to distract them as I stepped closer to Jabba who was glaring at us, "I absolutely love how you've decorated this place Jabba, it's so elegant. And the sand..." I gestured to the floor with a grin, "Gotta love sand it gives it a nice touch." He narrowed his eyes at me as I got closer and in one swift movement I ignited my weapon and held it towards his neck. The room uproared in shouts and I could hear weapons being pulled out to be aimed at me. "Drop them or this slug loses his head." I threatened.

Jabba roared with laughter, "Orop hoohat." Drop them. As he said this all the men in the room lowered their weapons and for a moment I felt victory. "Ateema orop bu hatch." Now drop the hatch.

"What did he say?" I looked to the protocol droid.

"Drop the hatch."

"Hatch? What hat-" The floor below me gave away and Padme and I both screamed as we fell into the hole in the ground. The metal hatch closed locking us in and there were holes so I could still see everyone above us. They all leaned over and began to cheer as they watched.

"What is happening?" Padme asked as she stood up from the floor.

"Looks like a show." I started to get flashbacks of my time on Byss. The crowd cheering as the Gundarks tore those innocent people apart. "They're gonna release something in here to kill us, keep your blaster ready."

She gripped the handle tightly and I looked around the small room we were in till I found the entrance where the thing was gonna come in from. The gate slowly started to lift and a monster slowly stepped in, my eyes widened. "A rancor?"(Picture above)

"Can we kill it?" Padme stared frightened at the creature.

I got my weapons ready, "Were gonna have to, there's no way in hell I'm leaving Anakin a widower, he'll never forgive me."

The Rancor roared and charged at me, I used the force to throw Padme against the wall out of the monsters path and when I turned back it's giant claw smacked me down knocking the sabers out of my grip and they rolled off to the side. It held me down as it began to crush me and I struggled for air. The crowd began to go crazy on top as it watched me be suffocated.

Blaster shots from Padme were being aimed at him, one hitting him in the eye, it screeched and lifted its claws off of me and I called my lightsabers back to me.

It turned its attention to Padme and ran after her, she froze in fright. I threw one of my weapons at him and it landed by going through his arm. He screamed in pain and I ran towards him, pulling my weapon out and jumping on top of him as I took both my lightsaber and lifted them above his head, I looked up and met Jabba's eyes. I didn't break the gaze as I brought them down and they went straight through the Rancor's skull. It screeched one last time before falling to the floor, dead. The crowd grew silent. I hopped off the monster victoriously, that was too easy.

I lifted my hand up and pulled the hatch open. They all backed away and I jumped through, landing on my feet. I used the force to pull Padme through the hole and brought her to my side.

"Kidd hoohat!" Kill them! Jabba shouted and I looked to the bottom left of him and saw a tiny version of him. I used the force and pulled the thing to me, I was immediately grossed out by how it felt. It was slimy and it smelled so bad.

Padme instantly knew what I was doing and she put her blaster to the things head and it began to cry, "Let us go or I'll kill this.. worm." Padme shouted causing Jabba to panic. He told everyone to lower their weapons again and to let us go. We slowly started to back out of the room, "Thats right! Step away or junior gets it."

"Junior?" I whispered.

"I don't know I'm just saying what comes to mind, just go with it." She whispered back.

"Yeah what she said!" I tilted my head towards her and we were finally near the exit. The guard at the door eyed us curiously and I tossed the kid to him and his eyes widened as he reached to catch it. I force pushed him inside the door, knocking down all the people that were coming after us. "Run!" I shouted and we ran as fast as we could.

We ran past all the civilians who were giving us funny looks as we made our way back to our ship. I checked behind us and could see bounty hunters in the distance chasing after us. I stopped and Padme stopped a few feet ahead of me, "What are you doing (y/n), we need to go!"

"Buying us time." I responded. I used the force to lift up the sand from the ground the people stopped and eyed it curiously, not wanting to go through this sand wall I've just built. I then pushed it all towards them causing it to go in their eyes and down their throats. They yelled from the pain in their eyes and choked.

Padme laughed in amazement as we continued running to our ship. "You're amazing you know that!" She shouted.

After a few minutes of running we made it to our ship and we stopped to finally catch our breathe, we weren't being followed anymore and I used the remote to open the ramp. "Let's get the hell out of here." Padme walked up the ramp.

"I'll be up right now, let me send a report to Master Yoda. Just get the ship ready." I grabbed my device.

She nodded and walked into the ship, I set up the pad and placed a call to Master Yoda. There was no response so I decided to leave a message, "Master Yoda, it went just as I suspected. The Hutts had no intention of abolishing slavery, it was a trap. But we made it out okay and we're leaving now to head back to Corus-" I paused when I saw a red figure in the distance. "What is that?" I whispered to myself. I squinted my eyes to see but the figure was still far away, it began to get closer to me and I started to feel unnerved by his presence. Something about him was... dark. I couldn't tear my eyes away, almost like his dark force was putting me in a trance. Finally he was close enough and I could make out some of his features, "A Dathomirian?" Where the hell did he come from, why was he here?

That's when I felt it, a grip on my throat. I brought my hand to my neck to try and pull this invisible force off of me but it was no use. He stopped a few feet away from me, his dark yellow eyes were burning into mine. I dropped to my knees trying so hard to gasp for air but I couldn't, he was going to kill me. I could feel myself become weak and all I could think of was Anakin and how I've failed him, I dropped down and my body hit the pad causing the message to end.

I heard a shot come from behind me and the man in front of me dropped his hand and he dodged the shot from Padme. I gasped for air, letting the oxygen fill my lungs. "Padme!" I croaked, my throat soar, "Get on the ship now!"

"Not without you!" She shouted to me, "Look out!"

I looked forward and saw the man advance on me with a double ended red lightsaber. I immediately pulled my weapons out and caught him just in time. I pushed up with as much strength as I could and used the force to push him away. He flew back a few feet before turning back to me and running at me again. We got into a furious battle. He was skilled, the most skilled I've seen, I don't think I could win this. I jumped away from him and he took no time in running in my direction.

Our red and white blades clashed together over and over as I deflected all of his attacks. I was trying to slowly make my way to the ship, hoping I could force push him away and jump onto the ramp while Padme flew us away. He then knocked one of the weapons out of my left hand. I tried to call it back and he used this opportunity to slice through.

Cutting off my left hand.

"(y/n)!" I heard Padme scream.

I cried in pain and fell to the floor, clutching my wound to my chest. It was a strong burning pain. He stood over me and smirked down at me. This couldn't be it, I couldn't die here. I just got married, I finally got the life I wanted. I was finally happy and it was about to be ripped away from me. I saw Anakins face smiling down at me in my mind, scared I was never going to see that beautiful smile again.

How dare he try and take it from you. I heard a familiar voice in my head. It was mine , but.. not mine at the same time.

This wasn't fair, I deserved the life I was given. I've come so far, it couldn't have been for nothing. I deserved to be happy with Anakin. I wasn't going to allow this man take it from me. I was scared and angry... so angry.

Let the anger take control, it only makes you stronger.

I wasn't going to let anyone take what I have from me.

He lifted his weapon, about to strike a fatal blow.

NO ONE!

I let out a scream, as loud as I could. A wave of energy flew from me and I saw his eyes widen with surprise as the energy shoved him back and he twisted in the air before landing a far distance away from me. Padme rushed to my side, she had the weapon I lost in her hand and she tried to help me up but my eyes stayed on the man. He was getting up, but he didn't come towards me, he stayed in the same spot, eyeing me with.. fascination? I breathed heavily, what did I just do?

"(y/n)," My friend called my name and my eyes left the man and met hers, she jumped a little when I did and looked at me nervously. But she quickly composed herself, "We need to go." She looked from me to the man, still standing there. "Before he decides to move."

I suddenly felt the pain in the spot where my hand was suppose to be worsen and I flinched. I slowly got to my feet and we made our way to the ship quickly.

We got up the ramp and I dropped down near the entrance, overcome with pain as Padme frantically ran to the controls. She wasn't good at flying but she was gonna have to figure it out this time.

I stared out the opening at the man as it began to close.

I'll see you soon. I heard a deep heavy voice in my head and I knew it was him. How did I hear him? Could he hear me?

Who are you? I thought back as the ramp doors came to a close.

Call me Darth Maul.