Post by jedikatelin on Apr 7, 2007 23:01:28 GMT -5
Anakin Meets His Match
The story begins on the boiling lava planet Mustafar as Anakin and Obi-wan were getting ready to fight. Padme' was flat on the ground, knocked out by Anakin. Anakin said "if you're not with me you are my enemy," and Obi-wan said "only a Sith deals in absolutes." Obi-wan's lightsaber was turned on. Anakin heard it humming and pushed the button on his too. He turned around to attack Obi -wan but saw that his lightsaber was not working! Obi-wan's voice resounded inside his head 'Anakin that weapon is your life' Something bad had happened to it while he was killing all those separatists and now it didn't work! "Oh no, this looks like the end for me" Anakin thought as he ran for his life, got into his Jedi star fighter and flew away! Obi-wan tried to catch him but could only stand and watch while he was flying away.
Anakin flew as fast as he could before Obi-wan came after him. He wanted to make it back to Coruscant and kill the emperor and take over the galaxy, but he knew his lightsaber was broken. He felt so powerful he could trick palpatine into thinking he was serving him and then betray him and take his, yes that was a good plan. His mind constructed all these plans as he flew. He tried to put it into hyperspace, but in the middle of it all his instruments went blank! He could not see a thing, it was all black. R2D2 beeped that they were trapped in a black hole and might disappear forever!
Hold on, Anakin was thinking, I am the best star pilot in the galaxy and the most powerful man in the universe now. I can get out of this. Soon he did. He saw a light up ahead like the end of a tunnel. He zoomed out in the middle of some bright stars, but it was not his galaxy! He had not been out of the galaxy before and had not seen this place on any star charts. His starfighter went faster into this galaxy and headed for a system on its outer swirling rim. He did not know it, but this planet was called earth! What would it be like, he had to wonder. When he came through its blue and white atmosphere he saw many cities and vehicles, some primitive flying machines by the standards he was used to. He had been picked up by radar of the US army so R2 warned him to take cover.
Setting his starfighter down in the middle of the woods, he got out and walked around on foot. He liked the planet, it was pretty, he could breathe the air. He thought, what kind of creatures live here? The first one he saw was a squirrel. It scared him because he had never seen one before! Birds singing were not so strange to him but he had not seen such species in his life. This was an interesting planet. He might want to take it over for himself after he conquered his own galaxy. Anakin walked all the way out of the woods until he saw a town and some humans much like himself. What would he do now? He couldn't let anybody know he was from space!
There were a bunch of teenage boys tthrowing the football around in the open field. Anakin stood and watched until he thought he knew how to play. Then when one of the boys threw a long pass, Anakin used the force to pull the football to him and it landed in his hands.
"Whoa, what happened?Intercepted by the guy in the weird clothes!"
"Weird clothes?" Anakin said, looking down at his jedi outfit. He was mad, but though he had turned to the dark side it was not fully in him yet. His eyes were blue and since he had no working weapon he was careful.
"Where did you come from?" One boy asked.
"You would not believe me."
"Whatsyer name?"
"Anakin."
"Anna who?" One boy asked with a puzzled face."Anna can what? Is that like Alice Cooper?"
"Who is Alice Cooper?"
"He is the coolest guy in the world."
"What world is this?" Anakin wanted to know.
"Are you crazy as you are weird? Earth. What are you an alien?"
An alien, Anakin hadn't thought about that but he was! Really anyplace but Tatooine he was an alien. He was going to have some fun here. He asked to join in the game. They tossed him lots of passes and he caught them all because he used the force if he wasn't close enough to get it. On defense he used the force to intercept every single pass!
"Wow, man, you are the best football player I ever saw! I wish we had you on our team, we'd win the championship. Then you could go to the NFL and win the Super Bowl."
"What's Super Bowl?"
"It's the game where the very best teams end up."
"Is that kind of like being the most powerful football player and overthrowing all the other teams?" Anakin thought this sounded good.
"Yes,it is. You get a big trophy and lots of money and everybody thinks you are cool."
Anakin looked up at the sky, imagining himself the greatest football player ever. With the force it would be all too easy. "Can I join your team?"
"You would have to go to our school."
"What is school?"
"A place where they make kids stay and learn stuff they don't want to until they are grown up."
"Oh," Anakin could relate, thinking of being a padawan and the temple."Can we play a real game now?"
"It's the wrong time of year. You have to do it in the fall. It's May now, that's springtime. It's not football season. The Prom is tonight, but none of us are seniors so we aren't going. Will you stay and play with us? We might learn tricks from you."
Anakin thought long and hard. If he was to be the biggest football player in the world he couldn't let them learn his tricks. Not having the force, how could they? "I want to play this football with you. "
"What is Prom?"
"A Prom is a dance all the seniors go to for their last year before they graduate. It's in the school gym."
"Is this like a ritual?"
The boys all laughed. "More like a party. Don't you dance?"
"I must go to this prom and see for myself."
"They won't let you in if you don't have tickets."
"I am not worried. Show me the way."
The boys showed him how to get to the school and he stood and watched as they all arrived in their fancy clothes. It might as well have been the imperial senate! He tried to go inside but they told him not to, this was not a costume party! He got mad, but didn't destroy anything yet. He went back to the field where the boys were, but only two were left. He played ball with them some more and made plans to join the NFL as best receiver and defensive back ever. He wanted to go see what was going on with that prom. If they were dressed that fancy like the senate they might be trying to make a move for power of the planet and he was going to take it for himself. Taking over the whole planet was better than just being the best football player.
By the time he got back everybody was inside. Anakin looked and listened through a window. They were going to elect a king and queen, he knew it! This king and queen, they were to rule the planet! He had to find a way to get this power!
The people inside had voted. The king and queen were called up! The king was a boy with blond curly hair. The girl had long strawberry blond hair and was wearing a pink dress. They looked so good, too good to be politicians. They were so happy as the queen got her crown and flowers. Then, the power play from inside came as a bucket of blood was dropped on her head! The young queen looked around, afraid and stunned at the blood on her hands! Now, thought Anakin, was the move for takeover! Should he move now against them all? His lightsaber was broken, he had only the force on his side. Was it enough...
To his surprise, the crowd started to point and laugh. One by one they got louder and louder, and as they did, he could see the queen's anger growing.The king only looked shocked and a little upset, but the queen had real anger in her, the kind you could only get from the dark side of the force. Could she have the force? He had not sensed the force in anyone he had met on earth but it was flowing strong in this young woman. He could feel her anger, and he drew upon its power making him feel so good. Now her anger had become so strong she could not hold it. Things started to fall and break. Her king was knocked out when the blood bucket hit his head. Things inside started to fly around and come apart. She locked all the doors, trapping them inside. Then she used the force to turn on a water hose as many of those who had laughed were killed by it! Finally everyone was dead or screaming and running for the locked doors. The place caught fire, but the queen did not burn. She walked straight through the fire, the doors opening only for her. Closing again, they trapped the last of the group inside until they were all dead!
Anakin walked around the side and looked at her in his astonishment. She had the power! She could use the force to control and kill people and take what she wanted. She was strong in the dark side, even the fire could not stop her! He was falling in love! Padme had been pretty, but she was a political girl who always wanted to negotiate. This queen wanted power and had the power like he did. He had to have her for his own. Together, they could rule the whole galaxy with their combined power! As he kept watching, just a look from her eyes sent a vehicle rolling and crashing. Anakin loved it! He followed her as she walked down the road with her blood covered face staring wildly and madly. Pity anyone who was in her path! Anakin knew then he did not want to face her to fight her, but she must join him.
He saw as she went into a house, but did not follow. Peeking inside, he saw a woman in a black dress using the force to toss knives at this girl! This must be her mother and she had the force too. She must be the master and the young queen the apprentice? The fight was very bad. They both seemed to be hurting each other. Anakin knew he could not let this perfect woman be killed. Yet the mother was powerful in the force too, the dark side surrounded her. He burst into the house, coming between the girl and her mother, and used his own power to block all of the knives. The girl then sent some knives back into the woman. At last she fell onto the ground. It was over. Then she got back up! Anakin had to help the girl again. Bloody and wounded, the woman was put into a strange closet. The young queen spoke. "Who are you and why are you here?"
"I am Anakin Skywalker. Who are you?"
"Carrie. Carrie White."
As news of the devastation spread, sirens wailed throughout the town. Anakin had never heard a sound exactly like that and asked what it was. Carrie told him it meant the fire trucks were coming, and the cops were going to try to find the person who did it--her. Anakin was worried for her! "I will fight them all, we can do it together. Not one will be left standing. We can do it together."
"They are not like the ones I just killed, they have guns. They might shoot us."
"I can stop guns with my lightsaber! Oh, that's right, it doesn't work." Carrie was puzzled by the strange object, but had a feeling about it. She put it in the radar range and turned it on. Sparks flew and it almost caught fire, but when she took it out, it worked again!"
"Ahaha!" Anakin laughed. "We can take them all now, you and me!"
"I don't know, what if we do, and they get the army? The army have nukes."
"What's nukes?"
"Nukes can blow up the whole world, and what doesn't blow up, gets poisoned."
"You mean the power to destroy an entire planet? Insignficant beside the power of the force."
"The force, like we have?"
"Yes! We can defeat them all!"
"I don't know about all, Anakin. Maybe we should run away."
"Don't you want to take over your planet? You, we, have that power! Join me, tonight!"
Carrie looked at Anakin strangely. "You aren't from around here, are you?"
"No, I am not. I come from space."
"Space? I knew it! I knew I was the weirdest person in the world. I'm just like a person from outer space!"
"Carrie, you are not weird, you are special! You have been misunderstood!"
This made her smile."You're right. They don't understand me."
"And they don't appreciate you! What a pity your power and skills are wasted on those who don't understand or appreciate you. Come with me, we will make them all pay, we will show the whole universe!"
Carrie's face became very excited. "You mean you're gonna take me to space with you? Mama would say don't go!"
"Your mama was wrong because she didn't understand her power either. Leave her here and come away with me! When you get to my home galaxy, we can rule and no one will have the power to stop us!"
Carrie stuck out her hand. "Do you mean it?"
He took her hand and bowed his head to her. "Yes! Now let's leave this place now!"
Carrie laughed as she grabbed his hand and they ran out of her house. Just as they did, she saw the candles overtake it. As they ran toward Anakin's spaceship, she looked back and saw it engulfed in flames. Her mother was gone, all those who had taunted her were gone, and now she was going to escape into space and never be caught! As they ran through the dark to the spot it was hidden, two of the boys saw them and hollered out: "Hey, look, it's that weird guy who can use magic on the football." "You mean that Alice Cooper dude?" the other one said. "Look, isn't that creepy Carrie White he's got by the hand? I thought she was the weirdest person in the world, but looks like she just met her match!"
The boys watched as they got into the starfighter and took off. "Whoa, it's a UFO!" They yelled out in their shock. "He was a alien, a real live alien in a UFO!" The starfighter was up and gone before anyone else had time to see it. They were still standing there all stunned when two more of their friends showed up.
"Did you see what happened? Carrie White destroyed the gym, man, she killed everybody!"
"No way! Is that what that big fire was? We were headed over there but got sidetracked here."
"Yes! She's going to jail for sure!" "Oh no she's not, she's run off with that weird guy in his UFO!"
"UFO? This is the weirdest thing ever! Nobody will ever believe it!"
A cop's car came up behind them and shown its lights on them. "Boys, have you seen anything suspicious around here lately?"
"We sure did! Creepy Carrie White and that weird guy, what's his name?"
"Anna something?"
"Alice Cooper?"
"Whoever he was, he was from space and he's got a UFO! He took Carrie in the UFO and they're gone!"
"A UFO?" The cop asked. "Really, boys. Are you on drugs?"
"No, sir, we saw it, Carrie and this alien dude, in a UFO!" The cop stopped talking to listen to his radio. He couldn't believe it when there were reports of a UFO in the town from several people. Some had reported it earlier when Anakin first landed, but they were only disregarded as hoaxers. Now that the tragedy at the Prom had occured, and these boys reported the UFO leaving with Carrie and a strange man, he had to take it seriously. He turned back to them. "Boys, we might be needing you after all." "You mean, you believe us?" "After tonight, I wouldn't be surprised by anything anymore."
"Carrie, who's Alice Cooper?"
"He's a singer. He dresses up and tries to look scary, and sings a song called "No More Mister Nice Guy." She started clapping and singing it, and Anakin joined in. He liked it! It was a story he could relate to. Anakin smiled. So that was who the boys compared him to. It was not an insult. He'd like to meet this Alice Cooper. Soon, they had flown out of the earth's atmosphere. "Won't I need a spacesuit or something? Won't I start floating all around?"
"What do you mean?"
"Our astronauts, spacemen from earth, have to have special stuff like that, and they float around because there's no gravity."
Anakin couldn't believe such low technology. He had to laugh. "They have 'nukes' that can destroy everything but they can't even correct for gravity? Idiots! How deep can they go into space like that?"
"They only orbit the earth in Skylab or go to the moon."
"What moon?"
"That moon." She pointed as they flew by it.
"Your own moon? They can only get as far as their own moon?" He laughed harder and harder. "Maybe we will come back here for them later."
Passing by the moon, Carrie took one look back at her home planet. She might never see it again. "It's so pretty and blue with swirly white, just like the pictures the astronauts took."
"It is one of the prettiest planets I've ever seen, and I've seen quite a few."
"How many planets you been to?"
"More than you'd believe. I'll take you there."
"I can't believe this! I'm in space, and I finally found somebody who understands me! Now I know I wasn't weird, I was special!"
"That's right, Carrie, and don't you ever forget that."
She looked down and started to weep. "I feel bad about something though. There was this guy, his name was Tommy and he was nice to me. I liked him, but I think I killed him. When I got mad, stuff happened. I didn't mean to hurt him."
Anakin's mood changed too. This rung a bell with him as he remembered Padme, how he had choked her and left her on the ground. He didn't know if she, or his babies were alive or dead. "I know just how you feel. The same thing happened to me. The very same thing. I didn't mean to hurt her, I loved her."
"You mean it, you're not just saying that to make me feel better?"
"No, it is true. I know it doesn't make you feel better, I don't feel better. It's always going to haunt me and it will you too. I know how you feel."
"You really do, don't you? You hurt someone you loved, people didn't understand or appreciate you, and you have the same power as me. I never thought somewhere in the universe one person could understand just how I feel!"
"I do, Carrie. They call me "the chosen one." I think you are something like that too. I know that you must have a destiny greater than this. With our combined power, we can rule the galaxy, and no one can stop us!"
Carrie got all excited. "For real?"
"Oh yes, you wait and see! First we have to take care of this one old guy in my way, then it's all ours! We are a team, Carrie. Will you join me?"
"Yes! I will do whatever you say!"
"Then say this: I submit myself to your teachings, my master."
She shook her head and laughed. "Huh? Master?"
Anakin snapped back at her. "I am the new Sith Lord. Once we have desposed of the old one, you will be my apprentice. I will show you power, glory and greatness beyond your wildest dreams. A powerful leader you will become. Do it."
Carrie was afraid, but also thrilled. She couldn't go home now, there was no turning back. She had crossed the line. "Okay, I submit myself to your teachings, my master!" She almost giggled.
"Say it again, like you mean it."
"I sumbit myself to your teachings, my master!"
Anakin was full of himself. HE was MASTER now, and he had the most powerful possible apprentice. Nothing could stand in their way. "Good, good!" He smiled and laughed. "A powerful sith you will become. Nothing and no one can stop us. The galaxy is ours."
The alliance was made. Carrie glanced one more time out the back window, but earth and its moon were now so far away they were no different than any other speck of starlight in the field of black space. "What have I done?" She whispered. There was no more turning back. She turned forward, and faced the future, and the endless space ahead. She put her hand in Anakin's, and he gripped it back. A perfect match had just been made. Perfect for them, but not for those who stood in their path.
The story begins on the boiling lava planet Mustafar as Anakin and Obi-wan were getting ready to fight. Padme' was flat on the ground, knocked out by Anakin. Anakin said "if you're not with me you are my enemy," and Obi-wan said "only a Sith deals in absolutes." Obi-wan's lightsaber was turned on. Anakin heard it humming and pushed the button on his too. He turned around to attack Obi -wan but saw that his lightsaber was not working! Obi-wan's voice resounded inside his head 'Anakin that weapon is your life' Something bad had happened to it while he was killing all those separatists and now it didn't work! "Oh no, this looks like the end for me" Anakin thought as he ran for his life, got into his Jedi star fighter and flew away! Obi-wan tried to catch him but could only stand and watch while he was flying away.
Anakin flew as fast as he could before Obi-wan came after him. He wanted to make it back to Coruscant and kill the emperor and take over the galaxy, but he knew his lightsaber was broken. He felt so powerful he could trick palpatine into thinking he was serving him and then betray him and take his, yes that was a good plan. His mind constructed all these plans as he flew. He tried to put it into hyperspace, but in the middle of it all his instruments went blank! He could not see a thing, it was all black. R2D2 beeped that they were trapped in a black hole and might disappear forever!
Hold on, Anakin was thinking, I am the best star pilot in the galaxy and the most powerful man in the universe now. I can get out of this. Soon he did. He saw a light up ahead like the end of a tunnel. He zoomed out in the middle of some bright stars, but it was not his galaxy! He had not been out of the galaxy before and had not seen this place on any star charts. His starfighter went faster into this galaxy and headed for a system on its outer swirling rim. He did not know it, but this planet was called earth! What would it be like, he had to wonder. When he came through its blue and white atmosphere he saw many cities and vehicles, some primitive flying machines by the standards he was used to. He had been picked up by radar of the US army so R2 warned him to take cover.
Setting his starfighter down in the middle of the woods, he got out and walked around on foot. He liked the planet, it was pretty, he could breathe the air. He thought, what kind of creatures live here? The first one he saw was a squirrel. It scared him because he had never seen one before! Birds singing were not so strange to him but he had not seen such species in his life. This was an interesting planet. He might want to take it over for himself after he conquered his own galaxy. Anakin walked all the way out of the woods until he saw a town and some humans much like himself. What would he do now? He couldn't let anybody know he was from space!
There were a bunch of teenage boys tthrowing the football around in the open field. Anakin stood and watched until he thought he knew how to play. Then when one of the boys threw a long pass, Anakin used the force to pull the football to him and it landed in his hands.
"Whoa, what happened?Intercepted by the guy in the weird clothes!"
"Weird clothes?" Anakin said, looking down at his jedi outfit. He was mad, but though he had turned to the dark side it was not fully in him yet. His eyes were blue and since he had no working weapon he was careful.
"Where did you come from?" One boy asked.
"You would not believe me."
"Whatsyer name?"
"Anakin."
"Anna who?" One boy asked with a puzzled face."Anna can what? Is that like Alice Cooper?"
"Who is Alice Cooper?"
"He is the coolest guy in the world."
"What world is this?" Anakin wanted to know.
"Are you crazy as you are weird? Earth. What are you an alien?"
An alien, Anakin hadn't thought about that but he was! Really anyplace but Tatooine he was an alien. He was going to have some fun here. He asked to join in the game. They tossed him lots of passes and he caught them all because he used the force if he wasn't close enough to get it. On defense he used the force to intercept every single pass!
"Wow, man, you are the best football player I ever saw! I wish we had you on our team, we'd win the championship. Then you could go to the NFL and win the Super Bowl."
"What's Super Bowl?"
"It's the game where the very best teams end up."
"Is that kind of like being the most powerful football player and overthrowing all the other teams?" Anakin thought this sounded good.
"Yes,it is. You get a big trophy and lots of money and everybody thinks you are cool."
Anakin looked up at the sky, imagining himself the greatest football player ever. With the force it would be all too easy. "Can I join your team?"
"You would have to go to our school."
"What is school?"
"A place where they make kids stay and learn stuff they don't want to until they are grown up."
"Oh," Anakin could relate, thinking of being a padawan and the temple."Can we play a real game now?"
"It's the wrong time of year. You have to do it in the fall. It's May now, that's springtime. It's not football season. The Prom is tonight, but none of us are seniors so we aren't going. Will you stay and play with us? We might learn tricks from you."
Anakin thought long and hard. If he was to be the biggest football player in the world he couldn't let them learn his tricks. Not having the force, how could they? "I want to play this football with you. "
"What is Prom?"
"A Prom is a dance all the seniors go to for their last year before they graduate. It's in the school gym."
"Is this like a ritual?"
The boys all laughed. "More like a party. Don't you dance?"
"I must go to this prom and see for myself."
"They won't let you in if you don't have tickets."
"I am not worried. Show me the way."
The boys showed him how to get to the school and he stood and watched as they all arrived in their fancy clothes. It might as well have been the imperial senate! He tried to go inside but they told him not to, this was not a costume party! He got mad, but didn't destroy anything yet. He went back to the field where the boys were, but only two were left. He played ball with them some more and made plans to join the NFL as best receiver and defensive back ever. He wanted to go see what was going on with that prom. If they were dressed that fancy like the senate they might be trying to make a move for power of the planet and he was going to take it for himself. Taking over the whole planet was better than just being the best football player.
By the time he got back everybody was inside. Anakin looked and listened through a window. They were going to elect a king and queen, he knew it! This king and queen, they were to rule the planet! He had to find a way to get this power!
The people inside had voted. The king and queen were called up! The king was a boy with blond curly hair. The girl had long strawberry blond hair and was wearing a pink dress. They looked so good, too good to be politicians. They were so happy as the queen got her crown and flowers. Then, the power play from inside came as a bucket of blood was dropped on her head! The young queen looked around, afraid and stunned at the blood on her hands! Now, thought Anakin, was the move for takeover! Should he move now against them all? His lightsaber was broken, he had only the force on his side. Was it enough...
To his surprise, the crowd started to point and laugh. One by one they got louder and louder, and as they did, he could see the queen's anger growing.The king only looked shocked and a little upset, but the queen had real anger in her, the kind you could only get from the dark side of the force. Could she have the force? He had not sensed the force in anyone he had met on earth but it was flowing strong in this young woman. He could feel her anger, and he drew upon its power making him feel so good. Now her anger had become so strong she could not hold it. Things started to fall and break. Her king was knocked out when the blood bucket hit his head. Things inside started to fly around and come apart. She locked all the doors, trapping them inside. Then she used the force to turn on a water hose as many of those who had laughed were killed by it! Finally everyone was dead or screaming and running for the locked doors. The place caught fire, but the queen did not burn. She walked straight through the fire, the doors opening only for her. Closing again, they trapped the last of the group inside until they were all dead!
Anakin walked around the side and looked at her in his astonishment. She had the power! She could use the force to control and kill people and take what she wanted. She was strong in the dark side, even the fire could not stop her! He was falling in love! Padme had been pretty, but she was a political girl who always wanted to negotiate. This queen wanted power and had the power like he did. He had to have her for his own. Together, they could rule the whole galaxy with their combined power! As he kept watching, just a look from her eyes sent a vehicle rolling and crashing. Anakin loved it! He followed her as she walked down the road with her blood covered face staring wildly and madly. Pity anyone who was in her path! Anakin knew then he did not want to face her to fight her, but she must join him.
He saw as she went into a house, but did not follow. Peeking inside, he saw a woman in a black dress using the force to toss knives at this girl! This must be her mother and she had the force too. She must be the master and the young queen the apprentice? The fight was very bad. They both seemed to be hurting each other. Anakin knew he could not let this perfect woman be killed. Yet the mother was powerful in the force too, the dark side surrounded her. He burst into the house, coming between the girl and her mother, and used his own power to block all of the knives. The girl then sent some knives back into the woman. At last she fell onto the ground. It was over. Then she got back up! Anakin had to help the girl again. Bloody and wounded, the woman was put into a strange closet. The young queen spoke. "Who are you and why are you here?"
"I am Anakin Skywalker. Who are you?"
"Carrie. Carrie White."
As news of the devastation spread, sirens wailed throughout the town. Anakin had never heard a sound exactly like that and asked what it was. Carrie told him it meant the fire trucks were coming, and the cops were going to try to find the person who did it--her. Anakin was worried for her! "I will fight them all, we can do it together. Not one will be left standing. We can do it together."
"They are not like the ones I just killed, they have guns. They might shoot us."
"I can stop guns with my lightsaber! Oh, that's right, it doesn't work." Carrie was puzzled by the strange object, but had a feeling about it. She put it in the radar range and turned it on. Sparks flew and it almost caught fire, but when she took it out, it worked again!"
"Ahaha!" Anakin laughed. "We can take them all now, you and me!"
"I don't know, what if we do, and they get the army? The army have nukes."
"What's nukes?"
"Nukes can blow up the whole world, and what doesn't blow up, gets poisoned."
"You mean the power to destroy an entire planet? Insignficant beside the power of the force."
"The force, like we have?"
"Yes! We can defeat them all!"
"I don't know about all, Anakin. Maybe we should run away."
"Don't you want to take over your planet? You, we, have that power! Join me, tonight!"
Carrie looked at Anakin strangely. "You aren't from around here, are you?"
"No, I am not. I come from space."
"Space? I knew it! I knew I was the weirdest person in the world. I'm just like a person from outer space!"
"Carrie, you are not weird, you are special! You have been misunderstood!"
This made her smile."You're right. They don't understand me."
"And they don't appreciate you! What a pity your power and skills are wasted on those who don't understand or appreciate you. Come with me, we will make them all pay, we will show the whole universe!"
Carrie's face became very excited. "You mean you're gonna take me to space with you? Mama would say don't go!"
"Your mama was wrong because she didn't understand her power either. Leave her here and come away with me! When you get to my home galaxy, we can rule and no one will have the power to stop us!"
Carrie stuck out her hand. "Do you mean it?"
He took her hand and bowed his head to her. "Yes! Now let's leave this place now!"
Carrie laughed as she grabbed his hand and they ran out of her house. Just as they did, she saw the candles overtake it. As they ran toward Anakin's spaceship, she looked back and saw it engulfed in flames. Her mother was gone, all those who had taunted her were gone, and now she was going to escape into space and never be caught! As they ran through the dark to the spot it was hidden, two of the boys saw them and hollered out: "Hey, look, it's that weird guy who can use magic on the football." "You mean that Alice Cooper dude?" the other one said. "Look, isn't that creepy Carrie White he's got by the hand? I thought she was the weirdest person in the world, but looks like she just met her match!"
The boys watched as they got into the starfighter and took off. "Whoa, it's a UFO!" They yelled out in their shock. "He was a alien, a real live alien in a UFO!" The starfighter was up and gone before anyone else had time to see it. They were still standing there all stunned when two more of their friends showed up.
"Did you see what happened? Carrie White destroyed the gym, man, she killed everybody!"
"No way! Is that what that big fire was? We were headed over there but got sidetracked here."
"Yes! She's going to jail for sure!" "Oh no she's not, she's run off with that weird guy in his UFO!"
"UFO? This is the weirdest thing ever! Nobody will ever believe it!"
A cop's car came up behind them and shown its lights on them. "Boys, have you seen anything suspicious around here lately?"
"We sure did! Creepy Carrie White and that weird guy, what's his name?"
"Anna something?"
"Alice Cooper?"
"Whoever he was, he was from space and he's got a UFO! He took Carrie in the UFO and they're gone!"
"A UFO?" The cop asked. "Really, boys. Are you on drugs?"
"No, sir, we saw it, Carrie and this alien dude, in a UFO!" The cop stopped talking to listen to his radio. He couldn't believe it when there were reports of a UFO in the town from several people. Some had reported it earlier when Anakin first landed, but they were only disregarded as hoaxers. Now that the tragedy at the Prom had occured, and these boys reported the UFO leaving with Carrie and a strange man, he had to take it seriously. He turned back to them. "Boys, we might be needing you after all." "You mean, you believe us?" "After tonight, I wouldn't be surprised by anything anymore."
"Carrie, who's Alice Cooper?"
"He's a singer. He dresses up and tries to look scary, and sings a song called "No More Mister Nice Guy." She started clapping and singing it, and Anakin joined in. He liked it! It was a story he could relate to. Anakin smiled. So that was who the boys compared him to. It was not an insult. He'd like to meet this Alice Cooper. Soon, they had flown out of the earth's atmosphere. "Won't I need a spacesuit or something? Won't I start floating all around?"
"What do you mean?"
"Our astronauts, spacemen from earth, have to have special stuff like that, and they float around because there's no gravity."
Anakin couldn't believe such low technology. He had to laugh. "They have 'nukes' that can destroy everything but they can't even correct for gravity? Idiots! How deep can they go into space like that?"
"They only orbit the earth in Skylab or go to the moon."
"What moon?"
"That moon." She pointed as they flew by it.
"Your own moon? They can only get as far as their own moon?" He laughed harder and harder. "Maybe we will come back here for them later."
Passing by the moon, Carrie took one look back at her home planet. She might never see it again. "It's so pretty and blue with swirly white, just like the pictures the astronauts took."
"It is one of the prettiest planets I've ever seen, and I've seen quite a few."
"How many planets you been to?"
"More than you'd believe. I'll take you there."
"I can't believe this! I'm in space, and I finally found somebody who understands me! Now I know I wasn't weird, I was special!"
"That's right, Carrie, and don't you ever forget that."
She looked down and started to weep. "I feel bad about something though. There was this guy, his name was Tommy and he was nice to me. I liked him, but I think I killed him. When I got mad, stuff happened. I didn't mean to hurt him."
Anakin's mood changed too. This rung a bell with him as he remembered Padme, how he had choked her and left her on the ground. He didn't know if she, or his babies were alive or dead. "I know just how you feel. The same thing happened to me. The very same thing. I didn't mean to hurt her, I loved her."
"You mean it, you're not just saying that to make me feel better?"
"No, it is true. I know it doesn't make you feel better, I don't feel better. It's always going to haunt me and it will you too. I know how you feel."
"You really do, don't you? You hurt someone you loved, people didn't understand or appreciate you, and you have the same power as me. I never thought somewhere in the universe one person could understand just how I feel!"
"I do, Carrie. They call me "the chosen one." I think you are something like that too. I know that you must have a destiny greater than this. With our combined power, we can rule the galaxy, and no one can stop us!"
Carrie got all excited. "For real?"
"Oh yes, you wait and see! First we have to take care of this one old guy in my way, then it's all ours! We are a team, Carrie. Will you join me?"
"Yes! I will do whatever you say!"
"Then say this: I submit myself to your teachings, my master."
She shook her head and laughed. "Huh? Master?"
Anakin snapped back at her. "I am the new Sith Lord. Once we have desposed of the old one, you will be my apprentice. I will show you power, glory and greatness beyond your wildest dreams. A powerful leader you will become. Do it."
Carrie was afraid, but also thrilled. She couldn't go home now, there was no turning back. She had crossed the line. "Okay, I submit myself to your teachings, my master!" She almost giggled.
"Say it again, like you mean it."
"I sumbit myself to your teachings, my master!"
Anakin was full of himself. HE was MASTER now, and he had the most powerful possible apprentice. Nothing could stand in their way. "Good, good!" He smiled and laughed. "A powerful sith you will become. Nothing and no one can stop us. The galaxy is ours."
The alliance was made. Carrie glanced one more time out the back window, but earth and its moon were now so far away they were no different than any other speck of starlight in the field of black space. "What have I done?" She whispered. There was no more turning back. She turned forward, and faced the future, and the endless space ahead. She put her hand in Anakin's, and he gripped it back. A perfect match had just been made. Perfect for them, but not for those who stood in their path.