Death is a fickle thing, often coming at times when it is least expected. One fundamental truth of the Force is that everyone will die eventually. That doesn't mean Anakin Skywalker is ready. He'll never be ready. And yet, a part of him wonders if it's even real. Where does truth end and deception begin? Does it matter?
Count Dooku takes three-year-old Ahsoka as his apprentice, raising her in the ways of the Sith. It changes everything. Without Ahsoka to ground him, Anakin is left increasingly unstable, growing more distant from the other Jedi as the war drags on. And Ahsoka becomes a dark, dangerous Sith apprentice under Dooku's guidance. Not a fix-it; dark-fic; eventual happy ending
Anakin Skywalker is left broken after Obi-Wan Kenobi fakes his death to go on an undercover mission, but as fate would have it, he accepts an offer from Count Dooku to destroy the Sith and save the galaxy. Only time will tell if Obi-Wan can save Anakin from the lure of the Dark Side, or if Anakin will become the very thing he was seeking to destroy... *REWRITE BEGINS AT PART 59!*
Barriss Offee struggles with her faith in the Jedi Order and speaks with Ahsoka Tano about their beliefs in the aftermath of her bombing of the Temple. In the background, Sidious nudges events into motion as he sees fit.
Visited by a future version of his Padawan and arrested by the Time Variance Authority for "breaking" the timeline when he killed Grievous, Anakin Skywalker finds himself thrown into an entirely new world. Enlisted by the TVA to hunt down an evil version of himself, Anakin only wants to go home, but should he? Or is he always destined to turn into Darth Vader? Loki TV series AU
Stuffed animals can be more than just toys. Anakin gets Ahsoka a stuffed loth cat shortly after she becomes Padawan, a companion which follows her throughout her life.
As Dooku dies, he warns Anakin and Obi-Wan that Palpatine was only ever the Sith apprentice. The true Master of the Sith is still out there, and among the Jedi no less. Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Ahsoka begin an investigation to discover the truth. When Jedi start dying, they know that their time is running out. They have to find the Sith Master before they, too, are killed or worse.
The mission to rescue the Chancellor from the Invisible Hand is thrown into chaos when Obi-Wan suddenly and unexpectedly murders him. Anakin is stunned by the turn of events and the claim that Palpatine was really Darth Sidious. He doesn't understand how his former master could have committed cold-blooded murder, so what is the truth?
As he walked between realms on a path to find Padme, Darth Vader finds himself back on Mustafar eight years in the past. He joins forces with Maul and his brother in their bid to get revenge on Obi-Wan Kenobi. All Vader wants is vengeance on the man who left him to die, and a chance to help Anakin Skywalker find the destiny he lost. Predictably, it's not quite that easy.
Loki talks. Thor listens. It changes everything. Or, Iron Man doesn't find Thor as quickly after he took Loki off the quinjet, and the brothers have a much needed conversation with unexpected revelations which sets off an unforeseen series of events.
"I don't like sand," Anakin had said. Padme never questioned why he said it, or what might have prompted the comment. And then, during a vacation day on a Nubian beach, he can't help but say it again. "It's coarse, and rough, and irritating... and it gets everywhere."
It's not her fault that she screamed. No one ever told her that her master lost an arm, and she never thought she would find out like this. Or, when Ahsoka learns that Anakin has a prosthetic arm.
When Obi-Wan goes to see Padme before leaving for Utapau, he discovers a secret. She is pregnant with not one, but two, Skywalker children. The unborn Luke struggles to get his attention, and unintentionally shows the Jedi Master flashes of the impending dark future, one which Obi-Wan promises to avert. If only he knew how.
Hardeen beats Anakin into unconsciousness before fleeing. On the way back to Coruscant, Ahsoka tends to her master's injuries, while Anakin seeks out the truth regarding Obi-Wan's death. Missing scenes from the Deception Arc
After a failed assassination attempt on Emperor Vader, Luke Skywalker realizes the horrifying truth, that the man who raised and trained him with the Force, Ben Kenobi, lied to him. Vader did not kill his father. Vader is his father. They'll have to work it out from here, but they'll do it together: father and son, just how it always should have been.
Obi-Wan never asked what happened to Shmi, and Anakin never told him… until he did. He may or may not have added that he knows a way to bring his mother back to life using necromancy, even though it involves a deep use of the Dark Side. It's for a good cause, so it'll be fine. Right? Necromancy AU post AotC
Anakin and Obi-Wan reach the room where Ventress, Savage, and Dooku are fighting, a few seconds sooner. Given the chance, Ventress is more than happy to accept help from a new ally to take revenge on her former master.