Baby Jedi
34 BBY; 29 years before Kanan meets Ezra.
Asa:
My master and I had been sent out to respond to a distress call. There had been some kinda attack on a village on this planet. Unfortunately, we were to late.
"Maybe we should check for survivors?" I suggest.
"That would be a good idea. I sense that they are still some life forms around here." Master Sar Labooda says.
The entire village looks as if it had been boomed. It was highly unlikely that anyone could survive whatever happened here, but there was a slight chance. I closed my eyes and opened myself to the force. I was listening for something.
"My babies. Please someone save my babies." Someone cries off in the distance. Someone is crying nearby them.
"Master this way. I hear someone." I say.
"I hear it too. Let's go before it's too late." She says.
The two of us run to the ruins of a house. Inside we both clearly hear a baby crying and a female crying for help.
"I'll take the girl. Padawan, you find the infant." Master Labooda says.
"Yes master." I say taking off in the direction of the crying. I find a collapsed baby crib with debris from the remains of the house on top. A tonka sits on top meowing. The crying is coming from underneath.
"Hold on little one. I'll get you." I say. The cat hops off the pile. I use the force to lift the debris. As soon as I can I run over to the crib and start to tear apart the boards of the crib to get to the baby. Then I pick up the kid. It continues to cry. "Shh, I've got you kid. Asa has you. You'll be fine."
I carry the kid back to my master. I find her near the body of a woman.
"Master I have the baby." I say.
"Unfortunately young Caleb here parents didn't survive. His mother here was just barely hanging on when I found her." She says gesturing to the body. "She asked me to save her two kids. A three year old Rebecca and her brother Caleb Dume."
"Then I guess we better find Rebecca…" I say.
"No, hand me the boy. I'll tend to him while you search."
"But master wouldn't it be more effective for both of us to search."
"It would but we can't leave this child alone. I will take him back to the ship and call for assistance. Com me if you find anything."
"Yes master. With as little time as we have to find the girl one of us should stay here to look for her. I wish I could return to the ship with you."
Sar Labooda:
"Hush child. I'm only taking care of your wounds. Your safe." I tell the crying infant. He only has a few cuts but other than that he's fine.
"Ok, Caleb this might hurt a bit." I say. I took a quick sample of his blood and ran it for a midi-chlorian count. Caleb's mother Sierra had told me how his crib toys would move on their own. She had said she never had that happen with Rebecca. I had gotten her to talk about her family as long as I could trying to save her. Every thing she told me about him supported my theory that this baby was strong with the force. Her daughter however probably wasn't. I'd have to test her too just to be sure but it was unlikely being she was three and showed no signs. I hear my com go off.
"Master I found the girl." Asa, my Padawan says.
"Is she alive?" I ask.
"She has a weak pulse and her force signature isn't very strong at all. I can barely sense her master." She responds.
I look at the test results for Caleb. Just as I suspected. "Asa I need you to take a blood sample and send it to me."
"But master wouldn't it be easier to take it back on the ship?" She ask.
"Do not question me Padawan. The boy is strong with the force and I need to see if she is before I report back to the counsel." I say.
"Sorry master. I'll get right on it." Asa says. She takes the blood sample and sends it to me. "So what's the results master?"
"The boy is just slightly over mine. The girl is slightly higher than most non force sensitivities, but not enough to be trained. I thought as much based on what the mother said. We'll have to find her a nice home somewhere."
"What about the farther?"
"Dead he was around were we landed during the attack. Now I must inform the order. Stabilize the girl but don't move her yet."
"Yes master."
I com the temple. "Master Labooda, something to report have you?" Master Yoda responses.
"Yes master. We arrived too late. My Padawan and I have only found two young survivors so far. A toddler girl in dire need of med and her infant brother. Their parents didn't make it." I say.
"Senses as much we did." Master Mace Windu says.
"There's something else is there sis." Depa ask. "You discovered something about one of the children."
"Master Billaba you know me too well. Yes the mother told me before she died that the boy Caleb Dume showed signs of being Force sensitive. I ran a test to confirm it."
"The results proved this to be true?" Master Plo Koon ask.
"They did. I ran them for both children myself." I answered.
"And what of the girl?" Shaak Ti ask.
"She's around 2,500. He was around three times that. He's only a few months old. He would just be old enough to eat baby food. Do we have the resources to care for child this young?" I respond.
"We will find a way to care for the child. I will personally find a family here on Coruscant for the girl. That way can keep an eye on her. If anything maybe the family will take him in as well until he's old enough to return to the temple." Kit Fisto says.
"Return to the temple with both children you and your Padawan will. Search and rescue we will send. Lucky are the children found them on time you did." Master Yoda says.
"Yes master. Thank you." I say.
"Asa, have you stabilized Rebecca?" I say into my com.
"Yes master, when will help get here. I have her on a mattress and she cannot be moved." Asa response.
"Than move the mattress with the force. We are to take both of them back to the temple."
"I thought you said that she wasn't strong enough to be trained."
"She's not. They don't want to separate the two of them until she's recovered. Therefore she will live in the temple until she is healed enough and a foster home can be found near by the temple."
"They want to keep an eye on her? Why?"
"I did not ask and nether should you my young Padawan."
"Sorry master."