The Survivors of Those Lost

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Anastasia walked down the platform with her babies by her side maidens and soldiers by her side when all of a sudden Sion appeared in front of them.
"Jedi," Lady Aisa spat. Clone Soldiers gathered around her and the babies began shooting them as he deflected the bullets.

Lady Aisa looked down at her babies and the maidens.
"Take them onto the ship," She said "I can't risk losing either of them"The maiden nodded and took the children into the ship. Explosions rang throughout the planet, making the platform shake with them in it.
"You won't win," She said, raising her hand at him.
"You will never win-" She groaned and looked down at her hand, seeing a bullet hole through her hand. She turned around and saw Padme standing with a gun aimed at her hand.
"I beg to differ"She held her hand in pain and carefully ran to the ship. Padme shot her leg and Lady Aisa fell in pain. She looked back at Padme and scowled at her.

"I'm gonna kill you and your precious little daughter, Padme Amidala!" She shouted as maidens came over to her aid "Mark my words" She and the maidens walked onto the ship and flew to where Anakin and her father were taken to be nursed to health.

She walked into the room where he sat shirtless with her maidens not far behind.
She had changed into a black sparkly dress that cape flowed when she walked and her dress pooled at her feet. Nurses and doctors gathered around his burnt arm as a capsule filled with blue liquid was tightened around his shoulder. Half of his face was burned around his eye and down to the right side of his chin.
"Vader"
"My Love" Anastacia wrapped her arms around his neck and hugged him carefully.
"Gods I'm so glad that you are okay," She said. She looked back at Anakin who winced at the tightness of the capsule and grazed her hand over the burn marks on his face. Anakin looked down at her hand.
"My love, your hand, "He said, rubbing the outline of her covered wound. She nodded.
"Courtesy of Padme Amidala" She scoffed, looking at the hole in her hand. Anakin called a nurse over to his wife to examine her hand.
"And the babies?"He asked. She nodded her head and smiled at him. She thanked the nurse who wrapped up her hand.
"They are okay," She said. Anakin smiled and nodded. Her face was saddened when she remembered her father and Anakin saw her look.
"What's wrong my love?" He asked
"Wait what about my father?" She asked. Anakin looked sadly at his wife and at the doctor who walked in.
"I can take you to him, my lady," The doctor said. Anastacia looked to Anakin who nodded at her.
"Go, my love, your brother awaits, "He said. She nodded, leaning down to kiss him before leaving with the doctor and the Emperor. She met with her brother at the door.
"Sister" Lord Xeeze said, bowing to his sister.
She bowed to him and turned to the Emporer.
"Emperor, lovely to see you in good health," She said. Emporer Palpatine nodded.
"Same for you, Lady Aisa," He said "Go see your father"The two nodded and walked inside. They saw their father's black-suited body.
"Oh, father" She knelt to look at her father.
"Are you okay?"He whimpered in pain.
She looked up at the Emporer and her mother who wore her black robes and her orange-red eyes.
"What has happened to him?"She asked.
"The injuries he suffered from his fight on Mustafar had burned his body and nerves" Palpatine explained.
"Does this mean that he can't fight?"Lord Xeeze asked.
"There is a great limitation on his body" He answered. Tears welled up in Anastacia's eyes as she looked down at her father.
Then she heard wheezing coming from her father, almost as if he was trying to talk to her. She knelt to her father's mask with her ear and listened to him.
"Palpatine will be our downfall" Her eyes widened and she looked up at the guards surrounding the room. What compelled him to say that the man who saved their family would be the downfall of their family?
"Leave us" She demanded. They bowed their heads and walked out.
Lord Xeeze glanced at his sister who nodded at him before moving to raise the table, allowing his father to stand up straight as Lady Aisa walked over to Palpatine.
"May we speak in your room?"She asked. He nodded and led her
"I was taught a lesson by my past experiences and by my mother," She said
"There are dictators that seek to find those strong and seek to wither their strengths until they are but a weak man to a monarchy"Palpatine hummed.
"You are as wise as your mother said," He said, "but why do you ask this?"The two stopped and stood by his throne. She laid her hand on his shoulder.
"I read that someone in my mother's family said that very quote, someone who was wise like you" Palpatine chuckled
"You flatter me," He said. She chuckled and waved her hand at him. She had already had a plan in mind way before she and her family had planned to leave the republic behind, to be honest, she didn't trust Yoda or Palpatine, but she knew that to secure a place for her in this chaotic war, she had to do something that only a mastermind would think of.
She would have to play both of their games for her family to survive.
"If I may ask, who in your past did say that?" He asked. She grinned at him.
"His name was Darth Bane, my grandfather's mentor who had taught my mother everything that she knows" She moved her hand to aim at his chest as she began suctioning his life force from his chest. He gasped and looked down at her.
"Lady Aisa, how could you?"He sneered, trying to move her hand away but Anastacia forced him to his knees.
"You aren't right to govern this empire, therefore I shall do what you did to your former master and release you into the force," She said
"But this should be impossible, how are you-"
"Didn't you hear the news, Emporer?" She said, feeling his remaining life force leave his body "I am a daughter of the force, a child of the force, born from the dark side and I will take what I want" Lord Sideous took his last breath and fell dead to the ground. She stood up and looked down at the body.
She had done it.
She killed the Emporer.
Underneath all of that kindness and compassion, She was truly as ruthless and maniacal as they say.
She grabbed a sword from off the wall and plunged it into the Emperor's body, slicing his neck to make an illusion of wounds. Anastasia stepped back as his blood poured all over the floor. She quickly cut the sides of her dress and to be coated her robes in his blood and ran off to the hallway.
She met with Anakin, her brother, and her parent standing in the room with soldiers. Casteem noticed a fearful look on his sister's face and looked at the soldiers around them.
"He's dead!" He shouted. The soldiers obeyed and left.
Once the room was free of these soldiers, they all turned to her and Anakin was the first to run to her aid. He had changed into a black suit with a silver chest plate that covered his chest, black boots, and a black cape.
"Who's dead?"Lord Vader asked.
"The Emporer," She sobbed "We were just talking and I must have spoken too much because he attacked me and then he ran into the sword I held"She fell into his arms. Anakin signaled soldiers.
"Check the room!"He shouted. Soldiers ran through the halls and into the room. Anastacia looked up at her family.
"What does this mean?" Lord Xeeze asked. Darth Rela stepped up to her daughter and husband.
"It means that you two are in line for the new rulers of the empire" She answered. Anastacia looked at her mother.
"But momma, I can't-" Myria grabbed her daughter's hand.
"You're a Jakar, the granddaughter of Darth Bane and a celestial daughter to the force, you will be able to lead these people," She said. Anastacia nodded and looked at a Soldier.
"Call a meeting!"She ordered "I will announce it to everyone on board"
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Meanwhile, Padme, Sion, and the others had escaped to Bail Organa's castle where Yoda and   Bail Organa waited. They entered a room where Master Yoda and Obi-Wan sat at a table where they all talked. Master Yoda looked up at them as they walked in.
"Your child ?" Yoda asked.
"Safe, and watched by nurses" She answered.
"What are we to do about my brother?"Sion asked.
"There is nothing that we can do, "Kenobi said "He and the rest of your family are gone" Sion sighed and nodded.
"I understand but what am I to do now?"Sion asked. Yoda looked to Master Kenobi who nodded.
"We have decided that it would be better to send the children away," Kenobi said "Your daughter should stay with Senator Organa and your son will be watched over by Kenobi" Yoda explained.
"You brought my son here?"Padme asked
"Did we, yes" Yoda answered "Protection for your"
"Is he safe?"She asked
"And aware of the plan, Padme" Kenobi" answered
"I want to keep watch of my son with Kenobi" Padme suggested. Yoda shook his head.
"Safe it is not, "He said
"I have to see my son" She demanded "I can't lose him to Casteem or the dark side" Kenobi looked to Yoda and nodded.
"Your child is it?" Yoda asked. Kenobi nodded. Yoda hummed in thought.
"Only if you listen and obey his training you can go."He said. Padme nodded.
"And what of me Master?" Sion asked.
"And watch the daughter in case new changes happen you will stay," Yoda answered. Sion sighed and nodded, expecting a more physical mission.
"So what do we do now?"Sion asked.
"We say our goodbyes," Yoda said as he got up and left. And they did say their goodbyes, others walked with one another while one stayed, waving his friends goodbye unaware if they would ever see each other again.
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Lady Aisa and Lord Vader stood by the two thrones, him wearing his black suit and his helmet by his side and Anastacia wearing a red and black ombre dress with black jewelry.
The couple stood amongst soldiers and workers in front of them, a camera aimed at her face one that was broadcasting this announcement to every Imperial ship and soldiers in the galaxy. Anastacia looked over at her brother and parents who held her children. Her mother and father stood off to the side, holding the twin babies in their arms.
Nalasai stood by her foot, wearing a beautiful black dress like Anastacia's but with sharp lapels on the shoulders that looked like dragonfly wings. They had adopted the young girl as their own, not only as a padawan to Anastacia.
Anastacia sighed and looked down at Nalasi who tugged on her dress.
She raised her hand to pull the girl up to sit on the arm of her throne. Nalasi leaned up to Anastacia's ear to speak.
"You can do this" She whispered.
Anastacia smiled and nodded at the girl before she and Anakin stepped down into the crowd. The camera began tolling and she took a deep breath.
"People of this imperial ship, I regret to inform you that your Emperor is dead" Anakin announced. Gasps filled the room, making Anastacia even more nervous but kept her composure when she felt Anakin's hand squeeze her hand.
"He tried to assassinate me and in the end, I killed him for my protection" She announced.
She looked at Anakin and held out her hand.
"We have come to inform you that we will be taking his place as Emporer and Empress, and if anyone here has any complaints or disagreements on our new place," He said
"Then you can leave, if not, your work will go the same" The room became quiet before the soldiers fell to their knees and chanted.
"All hail the Emporer and Empress" Others chanted with him as others fell to their knee. Anastacia grinned, looking out to those who bowed to her family.
She did it.
She won and that to her was all that ever mattered.

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