You can read my Episode I entry from Monday to catch up on this alternate take on the Star Wars prequels. Basically I'm doing a slightly more adult version with some changes to the story.
Anyway, when this starts, Anakin Skywalker is leading a clone assault on some planet. The fighting is intense but the objective is taken. After reporting back to base, he receives a mysterious message to meet on some planet. He worries it might be a trap, but it's actually Padme, who by now is like 6 months pregnant and definitely showing. When she says the baby is his, he is furious and asks if she's told anyone about the baby. She hasn't and he threatens that she had better not reveal anything. (My Anakin is not really a good guy.)
After the escape, Maul is contacted by Palpatine, who tells him to hire some bounty hunters to find Padme and bring her back to Coruscant--alive. Among those hired is Jango Fett. Jango works some source to get on the trail of where Padme is holed up.
The Republic is going to make a major push and so Anakin has to ignore his problem with Padme to help lead the offensive against General Grievous, who by now is about half-droid.
Padme is at home one night when Jango breaks in to capture her. She escapes to get a message for help out. Obi-Wan picks up the signal and goes to whatever planet to fend off Jango and get Padme on his ship. There she reveals who the father of her baby is and they head to Coruscant to talk to the Jedi Council.
Anakin is still fighting on some planet when Maul shows up and they duel. Anakin is wounded but kills Maul--or thinks he does. Afterwards, he's called back to the ship, where guards are waiting to take him into custody. Anakin kills them and then steals a fighter to escape into hyperspace.
On Coruscant, word comes that Anakin has escaped. Obi-Wan tells Padme that Anakin is going to come for her and the Council. He promises that he and the other Jedi will protect her and do what they can to stop Anakin without killing him.
Anakin sneaks onto Coruscant and goes to the Jedi Temple. He's spotted by a guard and kills some clone guards. A few Jedi rush in to stop him, but he kills them too. With Anakin fighting his way inside, Yoda starts getting the younglings on a ship to evacuate them to somewhere safe. Obi-Wan takes Padme to join them.
They're just getting aboard when Anakin finishes a couple more Jedi off to reach the platform. He tries to use the Force to stop the ship and does so for a moment, but Obi-Wan interferes. The ship veers away and crashes in an industrial part of Coruscant. The younglings are killed in the crash while Yoda and Padme are injured. Obi-Wan is trying to get the survivors to safety when Anakin shows up to finish what he started.
He and Obi-Wan duel, ending up in a factory that's damaged and caught on fire from the crash--thanks to the Obi-Wan Kenobi TV show for the idea. Anakin is winning the duel, but Obi-Wan destroys a support of the catwalk they're on. They both fall and Anakin tries to kill Obi-Wan in midair, but Obi-Wan deflects him away with the Force. He manages to land mostly safe while Anakin falls into the fire and is badly burned.
Obi-Wan goes back to the crashed ship to find clone soldiers there to arrest him and any other surviving Jedi on orders of Palpatine. Obi-Wan knocks the clones out to escape with Yoda, Padme, and any other survivors.
Meanwhile a shadowy figure squats next to Anakin and uses the Force to ease his pain. He asks what Anakin would do for a chance at revenge and he says anything. So he's taken away to be put in some bacta and then becomes Darth Vader.
In a speech, Palpatine says the Jedi have rebelled and become Separtist outlaws and so any Jedi will be eliminated. He proclaims that it is necessary for him to take full power and become the Emperor. Some like Bail Organa are pissed but Vader is there, watching silently and menacingly, daring anyone to challenge Palpatine.
Obi-Wan, Yoda, and Padme end up on some planet where there's an ancient Jedi monastery. There's a medical droid and such to help care for Padme. Then Yoda and Obi-Wan leave to rally those Jedi who remain and try to find a way to fix things.
It ends with Padme mourning what she's lost while putting a hand to her stomach--and the future.
If you want to do a cookie scene, then show Maul is still alive--or put it earlier.
The story concludes on Friday...
(It's dark and depressing, but don't worry--it's only going to get worse!)
1 comment:
Well, the third movie was depressing in how bad it was, so that's all right.
Separtist outlaws - interesting twist.
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