Star Wars fic: "Wake the Storm" (6/9)

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Wake the Storm (43205 words) by bedlamsbard
Chapters: 6/9
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Palpatine | Darth Sidious, Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, Chewbacca, Lando Calrissian, Yoda
Additional Tags: Time Travel, Crossover
Summary:

Considering that he had picked up what was probably a Sith artifact, promptly passed out in the middle of a war zone, and apparently woken up twenty years in the future with Obi-Wan having taken up residence in his head, Anakin thought he was entitled to have a few questions.

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“It isn’t true,” he insisted, but he heard the doubt in his own voice. “You killed us –”

“The Anakin Skywalker that I knew,” Palpatine said, his eyes glowing gold beneath his hood, “was strong enough to face the truth. The Jedi are extinct. Their fire has gone out of the galaxy. You must know that, my boy, or you would not have come here.”

Obi-Wan, dead and haunted by the ghosts of his own past. Yoda, half-mad, attacking him in the swamps of the planet he had exiled himself to. Luke, fumbling together his lightsaber with only the most basic rudiments of the Force.

Beyond hope has Anakin Skywalker fled. Beyond light and hope and fear he is.