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bedlamsbardQueen's Gambit (293466 words) by bedlamsbard
Chapters: 29/?
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Padmé Amidala, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Dooku (Star Wars), Palpatine | Darth Sidious, Mace Windu, Yoda, Bail Organa, Ahsoka Tano, Quinlan Vos, Barriss Offee, Plo Koon, Luminara Unduli, Adi Gallia, Stass Allie, CT-7567 | Rex
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Parallel Universes
Series: Part 2 of Ouroboros
Summary:
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NB: The internal chapter numbering is one off AO3’s numbering, since AO3 counts the prologue as a chapter. At this point, it’s too much trouble to change it.
Chapters: 29/?
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Padmé Amidala, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Dooku (Star Wars), Palpatine | Darth Sidious, Mace Windu, Yoda, Bail Organa, Ahsoka Tano, Quinlan Vos, Barriss Offee, Plo Koon, Luminara Unduli, Adi Gallia, Stass Allie, CT-7567 | Rex
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Parallel Universes
Series: Part 2 of Ouroboros
Summary:
Civil war threatens the galaxy. Hundreds of star systems have declared their intentions to leave the Republic and form a Confederacy of Independent Systems.
In the hopes of securing a quick peace, the Jedi Council has dispatched two Jedi to capture or kill the leaders of the separatist movement, Queen Amidala of Naboo and her lover, the former Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Into this period of conflict have come four refugees from another universe, fleeing a devastating massacre triggered by the death of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, secretly the Sith lord Darth Sidious, at the hands of Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker…
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“How’s she doing?” Anakin asked without moving his hand away from his eyes. “She’s winning, right? She’d better be winning.”
Obi-Wan considered the two duelists, trying to separate out emotion from analysis. It was very good to see Ahsoka again; it was extremely disconcerting to see Barriss with her, or indeed, at all. “They’re fairly evenly matched, but I think Barriss is the better duelist. You were right back on Isold; Ahsoka is still relying too heavily on her second blade, but I don’t think Barriss has much experience fighting a dual-wielder. Neither of them seems to have the field experience that they do in our own universe.”
He watched Luminara step back out of the way as Barriss somersaulted over Ahsoka’s head and landed behind her, Ahsoka just barely blocking her blow with a backhand stroke.
“So she’s winning?” Anakin pressed.
“Making that assessment would be over-hasty at the moment,” Obi-Wan said.
“Obi-Wan –”
Barriss snapped a kick into Ahsoka’s right wrist, knocking her longer blade out of her hand and deactivating it. Ahsoka let out a sharp cry of pain and Anakin shot to his feet, his hand falling to his own lightsaber before Obi-Wan grabbed his sleeve and dragged him back down.
“She’s fine. It’s educational.”
NB: The internal chapter numbering is one off AO3’s numbering, since AO3 counts the prologue as a chapter. At this point, it’s too much trouble to change it.