V.2-C.102│Mortis in Balance II│

The Daughter fell unconscious, leaving Anakin to take care of the bodies.

But the Father was still alive and kicking, not fully dead yet with lifeforce still within him, making Anakin set towards him, with his daughter within his arms.

"Y-Yo-u..." The Father was struggling.

"Don't worry. I think I am forced to take care of her now." Anakin replied, seeing that the man was still going.

"You... must... leave..." It would seem that the Father had no ill will and instead seemed to focus more on the fact that this place would probably be destroyed.

The girls back with Jabitha had in fact gotten all they needed by being here, for they experienced things within themselves that would help them all confront some inner demons. For Anakin, he had also benefitted as well, but the girls journey may just be starting now...

Someone in particular, Padme, was going through some would say is 'character development' comparative to the others.

"I cant leave just yet. There are still some more interesting things for me to uncover here." Anakin said. "I can make it painless. Easy and simple. I can take your life here." Anakin gave his offer, for he disliked to see the old man suffering.

"You... careful of what your heart..."

"Yes. I know. I am well aware of things to come and know very well I am supposed to do. Don't worry, for I shall still complete the will of the Force, for it did help me come into this world. For that, I am willing to help it out with its small problem." Anakin replied while slinging the Daughter onto his back, so he could reach down towards the Father.

"I may not be able to save your life, but know that everything will be alright." Anakin could supercharge him with lifeforce, but he doubts that is what the old man wants.

"Thank... you... You have brought... balance to this place... through the death... of my son, through the death... of myself and through... the alignment in my daughter, you have completed the prophecy..." The Father managed to gasp out painfully.

"Quiet now." Anakin then with a snap of his fingers, took the Fathers life, forever allowing the man to rest in peace. Of course, he wasn't so cruel as to not allow the Father and the Son a chance to go back to the Force.

They had both been guided by Anakin, off of this planet and into the energy field known as the Force so that they may become one with the Force.

'Right... Now it is time to get a move on...' Anakin thought to himself as he took in the sight of what he had created.

A utopia of sorts that would implode in on itself within an immeasurable but very short amount of time. It would have always come to an end, simply disappearing from the universe to never be seen again, meaning that this was a one time trip.

The amazing things seen here would not be seen again, that is unless Anakin has a say in it all. Which he does, but it is sometimes better to let go of the past, for one to move forward much easier.

Feeling the Daughter on his back, he thought to himself. 'How am I going to explain this? I never intended for... this to happen.' He sighed mentally, for he was probably going to be berated for brining along yet another girl, when truly he could have brought along so much more by now.

He just didn't.

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"What happened?" Back where the girls were, within Jabitha they had taken a back seat when all of this had happened.

They had no idea what was going on, but they were not scared as of this moment, for this was something similar to what they are familiar with feeling through the Force. It was Anakin's doing, with everything becoming white, even the night and day cycles becoming messed up dur to whatever was happening.

Ahsoka and Padme had explained to everyone what this meant and possibly what's going on, but it didn't matter.

Anakin had gotten what he wanted and it was time to leave, but not before the girls all get what they need as well. While a transformation had taken place on the planet, it had not become so bare that nothing existed here anymore and instead there was a few things that could still help everyone.

"I am back!" Anakin called out from the cave, which lead to Jabitha starting up on her own and coming outside of the cave to a good and proper view of the world, for it had become something new.

The girls got out of the ship, surprised at the changes that had taken place but even more so surprised at the person that Anakin was holding.

"Who is that?" Aayla was the first to question, and she thought internally to herself. 'I knew it! I knew it was for another woman!'

"It isn't what it looks like..." Anakin was kind of in a rough spot, for it was exactly what it looks like and because of proximity, everyone here would be able to tell that she was connected to Anakin through a Dyad as well.

How could they not know, when they could sense each other as well...

"I think it looks like and feels like what I thought would be happening." Aayla glared at him, but otherwise didn't care to much and the other girls were also frustrated but again... It didn't matter much to them in this instance since he had already gotten all of them, what was one more?

Of course, they would try and monopolize Anakin for themselves, and make sure he doesn't keep going around and picking up strays.

"Well... her father and brother are dead now, so..." Anakin tried to explain but left it there for there was no explaining this.

There was, but it wasn't like it would make it any better and instead he look at everyone and could tell that they also held some interest in the events that had passed.

[]

Back on Coruscant, Sidious after taking care of Dooku had decided that it was about time he dealt with the Separatists.

He may have been wiser in keeping Tyranus alive, but it was a planned move to remove the leadership of the Separatists so that they would fall in line with what Sidious wants.

"My, my, my. Look what we have here." Sidious moved over to the ship Dooku was on and would scour it himself, but he wasn't that sort of person. He was instead someone that got others to do his dirty work for him, and he hardly had to deal with things like this himself.

Keeping his hands clean, he could avoid the responsibility of any of the failures that could happen in the case of him getting involved.

One could say that this was a trait inherent or in combination with his training under Plagueis had brought to him. A trauma of sorts that ensured that if he ever did wrong he would have flashbacks to any punishments he had received.

"You two. Go in and search the ship." Sidious commanded his two new apprentices, Ferus Olin, now known as Darth Verdrehte, and Jar-Jar Binks, now known as Darth Immerbose.

Immerbose and Verdrehte would search everything within the ship, looking for anything that was of use. An example of such things, were the things that Dooku had that allowed for him to communicate with those that were considered his assassins.

That is right.

Sidious was fully intending to take whatever or whoever Dooku had under his command under his own, for he had fully forsaken the principle rule of two.

Sidious held no care for traditions and things like that because if it didn't benefit himself in some way, than he might as well get rid of it. The rule of two was not doing him any good in this instance, and instead it was restricting his ability to do anything.

"Master." The first to come out was Olin, seemingly out of breath, as Sidious did encourage infighting between his two new apprentices. He wanted them to hate each other, for even if he didn't care for the rule of two, he would still use it to his advantage.

With having two apprentices, he will have them fight it out in the end and then the winner will become his true and only real apprentice.

"Yes? What have you found?" Sidious asked as he allowed Ferus to approach him.

"Here Master. A communication device. Immerbose is sorely lacking master, and I would suggest you have him killed." Verdrehte was immediately wanting to kill off Immerbose because he got in the way of him doing things.

Especially with how clumsy that stupid Gungan was. "No. That is quite alright. His clumsiness serves Darth Immerbose well, for with it many would take him to be some idiot. Even if it is true." Sidious was not against verbal abuse and would do much more.

"Yes, Master." Verdrehte stepped back and instead got back onto one knee, bowing before Sidious which only made Sidious all the more happier. Controlling and allowing these two to foster some amount of hatred for each other, instead of himself was again allowing himself to wash his hands clean.

It was a standard manipulation technique to blame another person for all of their worries or woes, when the person inflicting such pain was in fact the one at fault. But, when Sidious punishes Verdrehte, he says it was all Immerbose's fault and when Sidious had begun torturing Immerbose, he blamed it on the faults of Verdrehte.

Bask in the glory of how insidious, Sidious is.

Immerbose stepped out of the ship and seemed to have a scare across his right arm, a result of the scuffle that had happened within. Or it was the result of his clumsiness... either way, it didn't matter for this would only fuel Immerbose's hate for Verdrehte and vice versa.

"You two may go now. I have things to do myself." Sidious then started to leave these two, knowing that anything could happen between the two.

But he had trained them well enough to where they wouldn't start attacking each other when he was within the room, but once he was out, anything could happen. From what Sidious understood however, was that the two had some level of mutual understanding between the two of them, allowing Sidious to keep an eye on the two.

He wanted to pit them against each other, not have them become friends and then turn on him, the both of them. That would be disastrous and instead he would even make up things to torture the both of them without preamble.

'Now I can finally start moving things along...' Sidious thought to himself as he held up the communication device.

Speaking into it, Sidious probes for who this could connect to. He wants to first contact the assassins under Tyranus and transfer their command to himself. "Hello?" He speaks, but there is no reply, which could mean anything but he decides that if they shall not answer him, then he shall move on and try again some other time.

Next it to start contacting all of the people within the Separatists movement and to secretly make deals, whether this be through the use of money or other things. "Hello? I would like to discuss..." And he would do so without any trouble to himself, first brining everyone under himself, but he would only speak now.

Later on he would need to create several proxies for the real things instead of exposing himself. He had set up a meeting with the Separatists and they all knew about it and had even accepted, due to Dooku's input on the manner.

Thus making the process all the more easier for himself to change the minds of all of these people, greedy, greedy and indulgent wastrels that waste their time on a fight that they were cornered into. For Sidious is the true mastermind behind everything, but if he revealed that, then it would only backfire on him once he brings them to the 'negotiation' table.

They would all accept readily, and without trying to go against what he is offering, for the things he offered under the table as another person, would more than make up for it.