Opening the door, it was Shmi Skywalker.
"Quickly, come in. Has something happened, Governor Kote?" Shmi Skywalker welcomed Kote in and asked.
"Nothing, I just came to see how you all are doing here," Kote smiled, then continued, "Is Anakin home?" as he sat on the sofa.
Shmi Skywalker poured a glass of water for Kote. "He's in the backyard playing with the household droids."
"He really has an extraordinary love for machines. How about he stays with me? He could learn more by studying with me," Kote said to Shmi Skywalker, Anni's guardian.
"But Anni is only a little over one year old, not yet two. He would just be a bother if he followed you," Shmi Skywalker said, afraid of troubling the kind and excellent Governor.
"No, Anni has the same thing in his body as I do. We are the same kind of people; we are both The Force sensitives," Kote revealed the similarity between himself and Anakin.
"Indeed, Anni was destined to meet someone like you," Shmi Skywalker exhaled. "Then I'll entrust Anni to you, Governor Kote."
"No, no, no, you've misunderstood. I'll just be giving Anakin some training every day, and we'll visit some planets to experience different cultures and scenery. He'll come home as usual," Kote quickly explained, afraid Shmi Skywalker had misunderstood.
"You truly are a good person," Shmi Skywalker sighed, then called out to the backyard, "Anni! Governor Kote is here!"
Little Anakin, who was playing with a B1 Battle Droid in the backyard, quickly ran into the living room and, seeing Kote sitting on their sofa, exclaimed, "Brother Kote!"
"It's been a few days, Anakin," Kote greeted him back, offering little Anakin a candy produced in Sundari, which was Bo-Katan's favorite, so Kote always carried several.
"Are you doing well in Vadiel? Are you playing well with the other children?" Kote asked little Anakin.
"Good!" One-year-old Anakin didn't know many words, but he could still understand these questions. After speaking, he unwrapped the candy Kote gave him and put it in his mouth.
"Then, would you like to go out and play with big brother?" Kote looked at the future child of the force.
"Good!" Little Anakin nodded in agreement. Kote patted Anakin's hair, thinking how nice it was to be a child.
Then Kote, with Anakin, bid farewell to Shmi and headed to the underground Mandalore Temple.
During his previous visit, Kote had sensed that The Force was richer there than anywhere else. Also, during his recollection, he had learned about this temple, knowing that it required the The Force of two individuals to bring it back to the surface from underground.
Kote and Anakin sat at the highest point within the temple.
"Anakin, close your eyes and imagine an extra hand in front of you that can pick this up," Kote took out a small pebble and placed it on the ground.
"Pick it up?" Anakin closed his eyes, his small face straining to feel something. Soon, a pebble rose into the air and was crushed.
This was completely different from Kote. Kote only discovered he had The Force during a The Force outburst, while Anakin understood it completely with just a bit of guidance.
"Very good, just like that. Stop for now," Kote told Anakin to stop, and instructed him not to use force, but to gently lift and gently move.
Little Anakin seemed to understand, yet not quite, but he still nodded.
"Well, it's probably hard for a one-year-old to understand this," Kote shook his head, but still began to explain the Mandalorian The Force-sensitive rules to little Anakin.
First: You can have emotions; emotions will only make you stronger, but be wary of the influence of negative emotions.
Second: The Force is just a tool, not your everything.
Third: The Force has no Dark Side or Light Side; it only depends on the user.
Fourth: Adapt to circumstances.
After Kote finished these four rules, little Anakin didn't really understand what they meant, but he still repeated them along with Kote. Every day, he spent three hours training his The Force and reciting the rules a few times.
Meanwhile, on Kamino, CE-888, with its double growth rate, was already older than Anakin. Lana Sey had no idea how to raise CE-888, so she could only place him in a unique room for study, personally caring for him daily and analyzing why this situation was occurring.
CE-888 was playing with a puzzle toy using The Force. As Lana Sey entered, he stopped using The Force, acting like his other Clones.
"Alas, Zeta, even so, you cannot be with your other Clones," Lana Sey looked at the intelligent child before her.
The other two-year-old Clones had already started early education, but he was alone in a room every day, playing with boring toys. After completing the routine blood test, Lana Sey left the room and contacted Kote again.
After connecting, Kote was seen meditating somewhere.
"Kote, did you forget about CE-888?" Lana Sey asked the seemingly forgetful person.
Kote was late to realize. He had originally planned to go to Kamino after returning from Tatooine. "I'm going now," he said, then hung up the holocomm and immediately had a ship prepared for Kamino.
Anakin watched Kote leave in a hurry and jumped up, "Yay, no practice today!"
But Kote quickly returned, picked up Anakin, and left. "We're going out to play, Anakin."
Anakin, who had been a bit dejected about not getting a break, cheered up again when he heard about going out to play. "Woohoo!"
Soon, Kote carried Anakin to Starport 2 and boarded a completed herculean-class transport ship. "We can take off now."
Following Kote's words, five herculean-class transport ship immediately ascended from Starport 2, carrying many weapons and equipment, all brought for the future training of the Clones. Although they were still young now, in just five or six years, they could begin training, after all, they were Kote's Clones.
Kote's genetic makeup belonged to the top tier among Mandalorians; his father was Mandalore's strongest warrior, and his mother was an excellent politician, which shaped Kote into who he was today.
After a route change, they arrived on Kamino in just three days, but during these three days, Anakin's training was not relaxed at all.
Five herculean-class transport ship docked at various starports, and the 0x9 labor droids on board transported weapons and equipment downwards. Anakin, visiting Kamino for the first time, was very excited and wanted to rush out immediately, but Kote caught him with one hand, put a raincoat on him, and said to the little guy next to him, "Don't go too far from me."
"Understood!" Anakin said, mimicking a droid's voice.
"Little rascal," the two walked down from the herculean. The strong wind and rain that greeted them almost blew Anakin away. "See? I told you not to stay too far from me." The two entered the interior of the cloning facility.
Lana Sey also came out to greet Kote, leading him to tour the Clones who were undergoing early education and training.
"Where is that child?" Kote asked about the most special CE-888.
"He's still in his room. For the growth of the other Clones, we haven't put them together," Lana Sey said.
"Take me to him. I want to see my own Clone," Kote said, taking Anakin along.
Upon entering the room, they saw a sullen Clone lying on a table. He looked very similar to Kote when he lifted his head, but his hair color was black, not Kote's silver-gray.
"Wow, a mini-version of Brother Kote!" Anakin exclaimed.
"You are! My template!" CE-888, or Zeta, gasped.
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