"....."Gobsmacked, Anakin Skywalker zoned out. He just stood there and stared...and stared. His oceanic blue eyes beamed at the ginger Jedi, not knowing what to say. His brain had overloaded and crashed. It was the first time Anakin Skywalker had malfunctioned. "...."

"Master?!" yelled Ahsoka, waving her arms in front of her Master's eyes. "Anakin? Mandalore to Skyguy, come in Skyguy!" Not getting a response, the cocky young Jedi rolled her eyes. She turned to Obi-Wan and snapped "Now you've done it."

"Done what?" asked Obi-Wan, slightly concerned for himself. Walked around his old apprentice, as his eyes, and then his head, slowly creaked around to follow him. "That's just plain old creepy...Ahsoka, a "It's nice to see that you're alive, Master Obi-Wan. I've missed hearing your thrilling adventures." would be nice."

"Fine," grumbled Ahsoka, only just realising that Fives was lurking in the cockpit's doorway. "It's a pleasure to see you, Homie -Wan!" Smirking as she watched the ginger Jedi's face briefly turned red. "Fives, could you be the helpful one and try and get your General back to normal?"

"What do you mean "normal"?" laughed Fives, leaning on the wall. "General Skywalker is anything but "normal"." Casually walking over to the two Jedi, he grabbed a half finished pot of caf - Ahsoka's favourite drink. "Generals, may I present to you, Anakin Skywalker of the 501st!" Grinning with pleasure, he motioned the Jedi to move aside. He poured boiling hot caf down his General's top.

"Ow!" screamed Anakin Skywalker, snapping back into the real world. "What in all Nine Hells was that for?!? Why am I a Father? Are you saying Padme's alive? Where am I? Am I even alive? Why are we st-"

SMACK!

"Focus Anakin!" barked Obi-Wan, regretting his choice to slap his former apprentice; Anakin Skywalker was indestructible.  His hand tingled with pain.

"Yes, Master." sighed Anakin, fed up of his old Master attempting to enforce his weird discipline methods. "So... where are my kids?"

"Give us a few minutes and you will see them..." replied Ahsoka, happily in the pilot's seat. "Only if you stay in the cockpit. "I don't need anyone else attempting to kill anybody today." She eyed Fives as a smirk crept on her face. "Now sit."

Doing as he was told, Anakin Skywalker planted himself in the seat behind Ahsoka - Obi-Wan had beaten him to the co-pilot seat. "I guess I'll have to be the backseat driver."

"Don't start that again." replied Ahsoka, wishing that Anakin hadn't tagged along for her speeder licence test. "If you do I'll get Fives to ban you from flying - He is still a part time flight officer."

"More like I avoid crashing." smiled Fives, recalling those glorious moments on Umbara when he and Jesse found out that they could avoid crashing whilst operating those odd ships. Secretly, he had managed to smuggle one on to the Flag Ship after that mission...but he couldn't remember where Kix had hidden it.  "I'll be in the.... medbay if you need me."

"Who's in the medbay?" curiously asked Ahsoka, easily dodging the sassy swarm of TIE fighters trying to murder them. "These guys are just plain annoying now... they can't fly."

"Nobody," lied Fives, keeping a straight face. "I just want to get my wrist checked out - its hard to move."

"Ok?" questioned Anakin in response - tempted to point out that Ahsoka wasn't sitting up properly and Obi-Wan that needed send power to the engines.

Dramatically, a hologram appeared in front of them. It was Commander Cody. "General Tano," he greeted, wearing his messed up helmet. "We're ready and awaiting your ship."

"That's great news," replied Ahsoka, "Take off your helmet, Cody. We're not at war."

"Yes Sir," responded Cody, casually removing his helmet. He tossed it out of sight.

"Cody, I assume you remember Fives." Ahsoka coaxed Fives into Cody's view.

"Yes." Keeping his face straight, the Commander just stared at the ARC Trooper, avoiding eye contact.

"Good to see you too Commander," replied Fives, with anger brewing inside of him. "Kill any Jedi recently?"

He shook his head.

"Fives, watch your tone." ordered Anakin, feeling slightly annoyed.

"It was a pleasure seeing you," snarled Fives, making his exit. "Traitor."

"We'll see you in a moment, Commander." reported Ahsoka, looking at the pitch back scene covered with meteors and space junk. Lots of space junk. In the corner of her eye, she could make out the sleek shape of the Rouge Shadow nestled away form the Empire's view.

Cody nodded as the transmission ended.

 "We're ditching this ship; the Rogue Shadow is far better equipped than this hunk of junk." declared Ahsoka. "And its go its own training room, with firing line and VR simulator. Plus a very angry wife, or two." Obi-Wan instantly ran out of the cockpit. "What was that about?"

"He's probably gone to get ready for his reunion with Satine I assume." smiled Anakin. " I can't wait to see this one..."

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Was he handsome? Yes. Did she love her? Yes. Were they ever going to have a proper wedding? Probably not. Was he an absolute idiot? Yes. 

Satine Kryze paced  around in the common room, mumbling something in Mando'a that Padme couldn't understand. Her blonde hair bounced with every flawless step she took. Her eyes darted around the room, homing in on the only thing that mattered right now. The door secured with DNA recognition, which would zap anybody it didn't recognise. Two seconds went by... then another five... followed by another second. Where were they? They should be pounding through the door this instant.

Hiss... the square blast door forced itself open, revealing Ahsoka and her squad, and Obi-Wan.

SMACK!

"Ow!" whined Obi-Wan. "What was that for?"

"That was for running off without my permission," replied Satine, fuming with anger. "And this one is for nearly getting yourself killed!"

SMACK!

"This one is for coming back..." smiled Satine, before kissing Obi-Wan.

"Rebel." smirked Anakin from behind the happy couple.

SMACK!

"What is with people and slapping me?"  complained the chosen one, as he searched the room  to see who had hit him this time.

"You are the most stuck up asshole I've ever known!" complained Padme Amidala. "Why?"

"What do you mean, my love?" replied Anakin, thrilled to see his wife.

SMACK!

"Don't you even dare "my love" me!" yelled Padme, attempting to throw a brutal punch at him. "I can't believe you murdered all of those younglings! You monster!"

Easily dodging the feisty punch, the chosen one carefully took a step back. He hadn't expected Padme's anger. She was never angry with him...not for long.  "Padme, calm down, please." Stepping forward, the Jedi took her hands. "I don't know what happened - Vader took over my body. I became one with the Force - but for some reason it didn't want me to stay. The next thing I knew I woke up in a cave, minus my favourite robes."

"Ani..." began Padme, instantly regretting slapping her husband. Letting go of his grip, she placed a hand of his cheek.  A tear rolled down her flawless cheek. Pressing her lips on to Anakin's, she let go of her anger. She knew people were staring at her; this was the first time they had gone public in front of Obi-Wan.

"Ewwww!" exclaimed Luke Skywalker from Cody's aching back. "Padma's got a man friend!" He whacked Cody on the head. "Move it!"

"Ani," said Padme after pulling away from her husband, "This is our son, Luke." She walked over to Cody and peeled Luke from Cody's armour.

"Hi Luke." smiled Anakin, over the moon to see his son in person. "I'm your real Dad."

"No!" declared Luke, scrambling out of Padme's grip. He ran over to Obi-Wan. "This is my Daddy!" To Obi-Wan's annoyance, he sat on his foot and clung on to his sore leg for dear life.

"Luke, I have something to tell you." Obi-Wan removed Luke from his leg and placed him on Sev's back.

"I am not a tree." remarked Sev, cautiously holding on to the kid. He would probably end up with a lightsaber or two in his chest if he somehow harmed this Skywalker.

Obi-Wan continued: "When you and your sister were born, we had to keep you away from your real parents. Palpatine is a bad man - he wants to kidnap you and your sister. Your parents - Anakin and Padme - agreed to place you in our care: but now it's safe for you to go back to your parents."

"Padma?" questioned Luke, trying to consume what his adoptive father had just told him. "Are you my real mummy and he is my daddy?"

"Yes darling." smiled Padme, with tears swelling up in her eyes. "Come here."

"Umm.. Where's Leia?" questioned Satine, slightly alarmed.

"In the refresher..." sighed Cody, fedup of being force to look after kids. "I don't get paid enough..."

"I don't think any of us get paid." corrected Sev, lowering the young Skywalker to the ground. Luke Skywalker ran over to his real Mum and embraced her. He looked at his Dad. "Daddy?"

"Yes, Luke." replied Anakin, kneeling down to his son's height. Within under a second, the brash, stubborn and nut-job crazy Jedi found himself with Luke Skywalker around his kneck. Urging Padme to join, the three of four Skywalkers embraced each other. "Luke, go and give your Auntie Satine and Uncle Obi... a hug. They still get to love you as much as your mother and I will.

Stood in the corner, Ahsoka Tano found herself leaning on Rex, with his arm rapped around her. "I can't believe he managed to keep all of this away form us for so long."

"Yeah, " agreed Rex, enjoying 'Soka's company. " I know he's protective of us all, but he kinda went a little bit tow far. Now that we've got two mini Skyguys to look after... and a stubborn Jedi."

"Which one?" quizzed Ahsoka. "There are two stubborn Jedi present. One with a scruffy mop of hair and another one how will murder to avoid the Medbay."

"Make that two stubborn Jedi." corrected Rex, pecking Ahsoka on the cheek. "And two sassy ladies, who love to slap Jedi for being stubborn."

"Not forgetting your brothers," replied Ahsoka, " Rexster.

"Speaking of your brothers, have you talked to Cody yet?"

"No," replied Rex, slightly tense. "Mostly because you're attached to me and there is practically no room to move  towards Cody." He didn't want another argument with Cody; he hadn't listened to him before and he probably wouldn't again. On the other hand, Cody had clearly been traumatised by the whole thing - From what Rex could see, he was avoiding Anakin Skywalker at all costs.

"Cody!" called Ahsoka, signalling the 212th Commander to shuffle over to their dinky corner. Rex just stared at her. "What? You'll thank me later."

"Captain," greeted Cody, trying to be formal as possible, "Commander."

"Cody," smiled Ahsoka, "It's way to long."

"Yes..." replied Cody, trying not to sound rude. Sighing he turned his attention to his old Comrade. Were they still even comrades? Or brothers even?  "I-I-I should have listened to you from the start, Rex. I was blind. I thought you were starting to loose it. I should've ripped my chip out the moment you said it would make us... us kill... Jedi. I-I-I-I'm s-s-s-sorry f-f-for everything..."

Instantly flinging his arms around his older brother, Rex pulled him close. "It wasn't your fault, Cody. There's nothing to apologise for. You're a loyal soldier, and brother. I could never blame you for doing anything like that. I don't know what I'd do with out you."