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AN: Welcome to the sequel to The Master's Apprentice!
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…
STAR WARS
A SECOND CHANCE
After Jayce Adar, Ahsoka Tano and Padmé Skywalker were killed by a
star destroyer commanded by Darth Vader and Darth Sidious
the Force decides to interfere
the Force takes fate back in time, to that very moment it
all went wrong, back to where Anakin Skywalker got visions
of his wife's death and erased those visions
now replacing their original selves, Padmé, Ahsoka and Jayce return to
the 'present' set at the very point they return from a mission to Adaill V
but now, they know what is to come
the Force has given the Galaxy a second chance
it is up to Ahsoka Tano, Padmé Skywalker and Jayce Adar to prevent the Galaxy
from falling into the clutches of Darth Sidious…
I: THE BEGINNING
CHAPTER ONE: ENTRY IN A WORLD
A flash, blinding and golden, the pain is gone…
The Amidala flashed out of hyperspace, the mirror-polished silver coating reflected the sunlight into the eyes of the captain of the Resolute.
The console was beeping.
Jayce Adar woke up, as from a terrible dream, his eyes refused to open.
Someone was moving, pressing herself closer to him.
"Ahsoka?" Jayce's eyes opened and he immediately saw the rusty orange skin of Ahsoka Tano, the togruta girl groaned in response.
"Jayce?" the voice was confused and terrified.
"Are you… are you okay?" he asked her and felt how she was trembling, how he was trembling.
"I think so…." Ahsoka sobbed sad.
She didn't let go, the darkness had killed her, more so than the pain had, Jayce had been all she could hold on to.
"Ugh…".
"Padmé?" Jayce asked when he heard the sound.
"Right here…" Padmé replied.
"Are you okay?" He and Ahsoka stood up.
"I've broken all of my ribs, cracked my head…. yes, I'm fine," Padmé stood up and straightened her back, or at least tried to.
"How are you Ahsoka?" Ahsoka struggled to stand and let Jayce hold her up.
"I'm fine, just a bit disorientated," she said trembling.
"Eh…" Padmé looked at them the same way they did at her, amazed and confused.
Instead of wearing the exact same clothes as what they perceived a few minutes ago, they were wearing different.
Ahsoka had wrist to elbow armor, white, like the clone troopers had, and a communicator on the right arm, and small shoulder pieces, also white, then her boots, white, like clone troopers' ones and a, well, brown kama, Ahsoka suddenly felt like a clone ARC trooper.
The Jayce, now he looked different, like Anakin, he had dark brown Jedi robes, different than Anakin, and more like Ahsoka, he had white wrist to elbow armor, again a communicator on his right arm, and a black kama.
And Padmé, Padmé was wearing her usual, 'beautiful' 'shocking' sort of dress, like always.
"Well, I don't think we just survived," Ahsoka said, but she couldn't say anything else.
Jayce had in the meantime walked to the console to turn the beeping off, but he just stood there.
"I think you two should see this…" he said small.
Ahsoka and Padmé walked to the front window and peered outside, they were overwhelmed immediately.
The Coruscanti sky was filled with triangle shaped cruisers, Venator-class cruisers, those they used during the clone wars, the humming of engines was hearable in the cockpit of the Amidala when they reached the atmosphere, the sunlight blocked away by a Venator every now and then.
"I don't think we survived, we went back in time…" Jayce realized and felt Ahsoka was standing as close as she could next to him.
He put an arm around her and stopped gazing at the Venators, then looked at Ahsoka, not knowing what to say, he then looked at Padmé, but again no words came up he could use.
R2-D2, an astromech droid with blue and grey panels on a white body, came into the cockpit, loudly twittering and beeping.
"What?" the three had began to understand binary, the droid language a bit, which turned out to be a big help.
R2 continued making the sounds.
"It's true then, we traveled back in time…" Ahsoka concluded.
"You're one hundred percent sure the ship's clock says so, and yours too?" Padmé asked disbelieving, glancing from R2 to C-3PO entering the cockpit too.
"Yes milady, and, well, I'm rather confused," the fuzzy voice said.
"As are we all, Threepio, but at least we are alive," Padmé sighed and sat down on one of the seats.
"Either this is the afterlife or the Force has decided we couldn't die yet," those were simple words, but they were hard to accept for the three.
Most certainly, if you just looked death in the eyes, you actually were it, dead.
"The, Resolute is trying to contact us," Jayce said, bowed over the console.
"Patch it, we'll see if we're back in a minute, they'll most certainly recognize you as a Jedi," Padmé said sighing again.
"Captain of the Amidala, Please respond," a clone voice said, as every single clone had a slightly altered voice, Jayce recognized it immediately.
"Fence?" wasn't he dead?
"Good to hear your voice sir, so will general Kenobi say…" the voice ended in a sort of compassion.
"What Fence? What's wrong?".
"Sir, you left without warning, he was mad at you when he found out you two had gone with senator Amidala, and he still is, you are his padawan after all," oh great, this again…
"Honestly Fence, I have been out for-well, I just got in, so to say, we all did," okay, he was seriously confused, they weren't back in time, they were in a new version of the clone wars, and it was weird.
"I'm afraid I do not follow you sir, but you are cleared to land, the temple is waiting for you," Fence cut of the transmission.
"Well, have any of you noticed?" Jayce said unnecessarily.
"Yes, their armor seems to have changed from the one we know, helmets without fins, breather openings, quite a improvement I'd say," Ahsoka mused.
"Fence had a green kama-lining and shoulder pauldron, I like our new looks," Jayce concluded smiling.
"Wow, look at that," Padmé said, having found a recording in the databanks of the Amidala.
"Okay…" Ahsoka and Jayce were knocked out cold for a second, the recording showed Padmé and Anakin kissing, and Yoda and Obi-Wan merely watching, and smiling along with it.
"They know…" Padmé peeped tight-throated, finding herself unable to realize it.
"And they're okay with it…" Ahsoka added and put her gloved hand on Padmé's shoulder.
Here you think you've seen everything… Jayce thought, and silently whispered it.
"Okay, we're coming up on the Jedi temple, this might be our chance to save the Galaxy from Sidious, so we have to act carefully," Padmé broke out of her trance and by pressing a simple button the recording faded away, but in her head, she could still see the blue ghost versions of her and Anakin embrace and kiss, and Yoda and Obi-Wan smiling as they watched.
"Yes, lets do that," she replied to herself again in a trance.
"Uh, sure," Jayce glanced at Ahsoka and then at the controls.
The silver ship streaked through the dreamy afternoon sky of Coruscant.
Then it landed on a landing pad, a landing pad like an arm sticking out of the five towered building, one on each corner and one in the middle.
The four walked to the boarding ramp, R2-D2, Ahsoka, Padmé and Jayce, they walked away from it, towards the temple.
"Padawan!" Obi-Wan said as he came running, mad and relieved at the same time, it was Jayce's Master all right.
"Obi-Wan?" Jayce said astonished at Obi-Wan's mad face, he was going to lash out at him, lecture him, berate him for whatever he'd done.
"What were you thinking?" Obi-Wan said restraining himself from screaming.
"Hold on," to their surprise it was Padmé who spoke.
"There is something you should know before you berate him-us," she corrected herself.
"I'm sorry, senator," Obi-Wan said and bowed friendly.
"You're probably not going to believe us, but I'll tell you anyway, we just got here, like we just were born, ugh, I'll explain it to you when we're inside, I need a few seconds to think of how I tell you this," Padmé glanced at Ahsoka and Jayce.
"Well, all right then, come on in," Obi-Wan said like he was inviting them into his house.
"… that's what happened, I know it sounds unbelievable, but it's true," Padmé concluded her story.
Obi-Wan just looked at her, then Ahsoka, then finally Jayce, he didn't want to believe it was true, but it was, and he knew it, through the training bond he had with Jayce he felt his honesty.
All of their honesty.
"Wow, I can't- I- oh," he said, tripping on his own words.
Padmé, Jayce and Ahsoka were all looking at him in the most serious way.
They were in the meditation chamber, the one and only unoccupied room in the temple.
"Obi-Wan, I'm sorry, it must be hard for you to take all at once," Jayce said.
"Shouldn't you be calling me Master?".
"All right, Master, it must be hard for you to take all at once," Jayce corrected himself.
"Yes, it is, but shouldn't we report this to the council?" Obi-Wan asked astonished.
"No, only you and Yoda must know, you two are the only ones with a clear mind, and us," Ahsoka stated and Jayce and Padmé nodded approvingly.
"All right then, he's in his room right now, we'll explain the situation to him, and that he can't tell anyone about it," Obi-Wan sighed "He isn't going to like getting orders from you three…".
"He'll have to, it's the only way," Jayce said sad.
"Unbelievable, that is, yet true, it is," the old green Jedi Master said and rested his gimer stick on the floor.
"You three, send back in time you were," it was simply impossible, yet it was true, the old Master just couldn't quite conceive it.
Three serious faces looked at him.
"Master Yoda, you mustn't tell anyone, whatsoever," Jayce inhaled some fresh air "Because we need to prevent it from happening again,".
"Of course," the Chancellor a Sith, the Sith, the one they were looking for, and the answer brought by two padawans, suddenly way more experienced than before they left for Adaill V, and a senator, the wife of Anakin Skywalker.
"An infinite mystery the Force is, as experienced first hand you have," Yoda mused from seemingly far away, staring at the room's ceiling with great interest.
"And we must stay with the light, Sidious controls the Senate, simply rules the Galaxy, darkness overrules us, we must make light," Obi-Wan said smiling lightly yet sad.
"Wise Jedi the three of you have become, and senator Amidala, already your understanding of the Force, outranks most padawans it does,".
Joy filled Ahsoka's, Jayce's and Padmé's heart, the Jedi, and Anakin, were still alive.
AN: Well, hello people!
I'm loving it, I'm free, vacation, woohoo!, so I'll be writing a lot.
Please Review and Enjoy this Chapter, maybe the whole story in the future….