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A Disturbance in the Force
Luke Skywalker snored. Most people didn't know it, but the son of Jaina Solo did. 14-year old Jayken lay on his bed as he listening to one of the most feared and respected Jedi in the universe snore. It didn't sound good. First, it started off with a number of snorts, followed by a whole load of weird grunting sounds.
Jayken was Luke's padawan. They were on the Snarkle Crashbungle, the slowest ship in the galaxy. Their first trip off planet, the two were sent to buy a R5 droid that had recorded a conversation between McZargle's top staff.
Their first night in hyperspace or impulse for faster ships, (i.e. all) Jayken felt sorry for Mara when he first heard Luke snore. The next morning, when Jayken had shyly questioned about it, Luke said he had sensed a disturbance in the Force. This was the answer Luke gave all the time Jayken questioned him about his nighttime activities. Jayken had finally managed to put an end to the snoring by stuffing Force-conjured cotton into his ear. Tonight however, Jayken did not have his cotton to stem the flow of noise form the Jedi Master in the bed opposite his. The cotton had taken a vacation.
Jayken decided that he should stay awake and do something useful rather than sit on his bed listening to Luke. Jayken happily got out of his blanket and walked over to the cockpit. Now, the real question came? What could he do that was useful? The teen sat in the pilot's seat vaguely wondering what all those cool flashing lights were. Even protected by the titanium doorway, Luke's force-enhanced snores crept through. Only an extremely powerful Jedi with an extremely powerful lightsaber or a pair of Force-conjured cotton plugs could stop Luke's painful harmonic moaning.
As Jayken was definitely not the former and the latter had gone to Bespin to sightsee, Jayken had to sit up all night, only to fall asleep in the morning. Their current mission was to locate a ruin that apparently harnessed great Dark Force power. According to the navigation banks, they should reach it in an hour. In the meantime, Jayken thought, might as well work on his Force powers. He adopted a meditative pose and sat in total silence, his mind connecting to every living being through the Force.
It was then, in the silence of the moment, save the quiet hum of the ship's engines, that Jayken knew it. It was coming. He shuddered as he tried to repress the force coming out of him. Finally, unable to suppress it, he let it lose while sitting cross-legged on the cold hard metal off the Snarkle Crashbungle.
"Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm." Jayken resisted the urge to laugh as he chanted something from the old history files. " Wonka uger supa chhopa kappajama wronkert kaboose!" With the last 'word', he flourished dramatically at Luke and made a sound like snoring while trying to stop laughing. The bed levitated a few feet in the air. Giggling slightly, Jayken went back to bed. The snores had subsided, perhaps because bed and Luke were hovering 4 feet in the air.
An hour later, when the nav computer beeped happily, Luke groaned as he sat up on his bed.
"I sensed a disturbance in the Force," he said to Jayken, who was staring at him. Sighing, the Jedi Master got out of his bed.
"Whoaaaaaaa! Boom."
TO BE CONTINUED…