Anakin refuses to leave his mother behind in slavery if she'll never be freed. Qui-Gon never comes back, but Obi-Wan does. When he does, he's... different. Darker. Fallen. Even so, he carries through with his unspoken promise to train Anakin, though the boy will never become a Jedi. Perhaps that means Anakin will be able to fulfill his childhood dream of freeing the slaves.

When Luke Skywalker is sent to the past, he ends up in the middle of the last skirmish before the Battle of Coruscant. He is fast running out of time to save his father from Falling to the Dark Side and becoming Darth Vader. But what if Anakin can't be saved? What if there is no way to avoid the downfall of the Republic and Jedi Order? What if Luke has to find another way?

Anakin, codenamed Vader, has been taught from creation that the Jedi are the enemy, that they are to be feared. But he loathes being the plaything of the Sith, so he flees. Only to find himself captured and chained in the Jedi Temple. And yet, perhaps the Jedi are not the enemies that Anakin has been told. Perhaps they can help a lost, lonely werewolf find peace.

On a mission gone wrong, Anakin loses his memories, crashing on a planet in Wild Space. The first familiar face he finds is someone who looks like Palpatine but is obviously someone else. The more time passes, the more Anakin begins to wonder if this is one of Palpatine's long lost siblings believed dead. Meanwhile, Ahsoka, still struggling with Anakin's loss, runs into someone else who looks identical to Palpatine.

Vader time travels to Anakin's body on the Invisible Hand, while Anakin time travels to Vader's body after the assault on Hoth, in his search for Luke. Both of them only have a week in the future and past respectively, a week for them to see what could have been and what they can do to change it before they're out of time.

Luke grows up plagued with constant nightmares about what happened on Mustafar. He wants answers about what really happened to his father, answers no one is giving him. He's certain Ben Kenobi is hiding something, both about his own real identity and Luke's father. And his suspicions are confirmed when on the Death Star, he senses who Vader truly is.

Half-Force beings can't die, not even from mortal injuries. Instead, they just develop an unexplainable connection to the person who killed them, that lets the other control them. Anakin didn't mean to find that out by accident when he fights Windu during Operation Knightfall. He always felt like the Jedi's slave. He just didn't expect it to become literal. And then he's sent on a mission with Obi-Wan, for the first time since the Jedi fell.

Killed on Mustafar by Sidious while attempting to rescue Vader, Ahsoka is reborn as Luke's adopted younger sister. She struggles with constantly remembering flashes of her life as Ahsoka as she remembers more about Anakin. More than anything, she wants to find out more about her past, wants to find Anakin again in person but he's dead. Right?

Obi-Wan surviving the Death Star leads to Vader's TIE fighter being shot down in the dogfight over its surface as it approaches the Rebel base at Yavin IV. And when Vader crashes on the planet, not too far from the Rebels, Leia finds herself dealing with much more than her grief over losing Alderaan and her family there as she comes face to face with her birth father.

After his death, Anakin awakens in his younger body at the beginning of the Clone Wars. He tries to reconnect with his once family while struggling to learn how to be human, if indeed he ever knew in the first place. For all that he longs to be around Obi-Wan, he struggles to trust him, and he failed Ahsoka once, so how can he trust himself to protect her?