I'm Jaina, Your Daughter from the Future
By MysticAlly
Summary: Jaina Solo is transported to the Empire Strikes Back to convert Darth Vader to the light sooner and help the Alliance. She's 14 years old, highly skilled politically as well as in the force, and, well, what more can I say!
I do not own Star Wars (sob!), though when I do eventually I'll let you all know! For now, the plot and idea is mine, all mine, I tell you! Very well, then, let's begin the story!!!
Chapter 1: Here I Am!
Jaina Solo barely had the strength to open the door. It was bad enough she had just spent 2 straight hours dueling with Anakin at the academy; 'Kicking his ass, I should say!'; now she was lugging around her preposterously heavy textbooks as well.
Lucky Jacen and Anakin, she thought. They didn't need to do nearly as much reading and writing, and more reading, and more writing, she mentally sighed, as she did. True, they had to learn more tedious math, but that was nothing compared to what she did!
Jaina yanked the zipped duffel bag open and studied it's contents. Pick a book, any book! You'll have to study them all eventually! she thought. But one book did catch her eye. She carefully opened it, her tired fingers tracing it's expensive leather cover. 'A History of Political Thought Pre- Clone Wars'. Hhmm. Interesting.
Jaina brought the book to her finely polished genuine-wooded desk and examined the book, search for a publication date and perhaps even a summary and index, if there was one. As she had guessed, the book was just what she had looking for. She began reading. No matter how tiring learning to be a Jedi Knight and a politician at the same time was, she never, ever regretted her decision.
"Are you sure about this, Jaina?" her mother had asked gently when she was eleven.
Jaina looked insulted, and brought her chin up.
"Of course I am! I like politics, and it would be a shame to waste my force abilities. I might need them someday."
Mother looked at her for a while, never taking her eyes of her daughters'.
"You know, Jaina, your grandmother and I didn't enter politics at a young age for the sake of being young and in politics. The galaxy was in trouble, and it needed good leadership desperately. We didn't have very much of a choice."
Mother looked out the window for a moment, focusing on a white bird swooping nearby.
"But you do," Mother turned back. "You do have a choice. You don't have to rush your education, delay your childhood, like we did. You have so much potential, Jaina," Mother stroked her long brown hair, so much like hers when she was that age, "you don't need to waste some of it just because you felt pressure to do more than you should." Jaina felt her eyes lower. Out of shame. She knew it. Mother was trying to cover it, but she knew it. She would never be as good as Grandma Padme or mom.
Leia Organa immediately sensed her daughter's change in mood.
"No," she nearly stormed. She caught herself and softened. "Jaina, dear, never think like that. Grandmother and I were forced, Jaina, do you understand that? We had to become involved before we were ready." Leia sighed. She herself still had to accept the truth she would have to speak now. "To tell you the truth, I probably would have been much better off had I entered government later on."
Jaina looked up, stunned. "Why?"
"I would have learned more about combat, espionage, flight, and such," answered Leia. "During the war I had to learn all that on my own, and I paid the price for that a few times."
Leia now smiled.
"But you have the chance, Jaina. You have a very caring uncle who will teach you all you ever wanted to learn about the force, and a mother who will teach you all you ever wanted to learn about government and diplomacy."
Jaina now smiled.
"All right, mom," she said. "I will become a Jedi Knight, though not a Master, and I will pursue politics."
Jaina smiled at her memory. She wouldn't have changed it at all, even now, she grimaced, massaging her aching arm. After just a few minutes of reading, though, her study session was interrupted.
"Oh, shut up!!!" she yelled at the holophone, ringing as though it was programmed to drive her insane.
Jaina growled, grabbed the phone on her desk, and said "Who is it?" sweet as pie.
"What, you've already forgotten about your uncle?" teased Uncle Luke.
"Oh, it's you!" Jaina said, relieved. Uncle Luke was always in good cheer and welcomed, even if it did interrupt a fascinating philosophy lesson.
"Jaina, are you busy?"
Jaina shoved her book into her duffel bag, zipped it shut, and threw it on the floor.
"Not at all,"
"Good!" said Uncle Luke, apparently also relieved. "There's something I need to talk to you about. Now."
"What, is there something wrong?" Jaina asked, her eyes narrowed with concern and uncertainty. When the galaxy's most highly respected Jedi Master really needs to talk to you about something, its bound to be really, really, important.
"Come here to the academy and I'll talk to you. Don't forget to tell your mother. We mustn't forget about last time!"
"Oh, right! I definitely won't forget this time!" Jaina chuckled nervously. The last time she didn't tell her mom she was going to Uncle Luke's half the local military guard searched for her. But that wasn't why she was nervous. If Uncle Luke was brining up funny memories right before she was to meet him for something urgent and should be dealt seriously, it couldn't have been good. Not good at all.
After getting her mom's permission and arriving at the academy courtyard, as it was a nice, sunny day, she saw Uncle Luke coming.
"Uncle Luke!"
Luke motioned for her to follow him and she did. Running up to him she asked, "What's wrong."
"Jaina," he asked. "Do you recall the battle of Hoth?"
Jaina's face hardened with confusion.
"Uuummm, yes, I know about the battle of Hoth," she answered slowly.
Uncle Luke remained serious.
"Do you know about how your grandfather was consumed by the dark side and how I had to turn him back to the light? About the Rebellion's fight for justice in the galaxy?"
Jaine was still thoroughly confused.
"Yes, it know about that as well. Why are you me asking these questions?"
Luke opened a door to a dark room and led her inside. The light suddenly turned out, showing an small room with walls covered with maps, diagrams, shelves bursting with big, fat ancient books, and a small desk in corner. She'd never seen this room in her life. Uncle Luke seemed to ignore her surprise.
"I have been meditating much in the past couple of days," he continued. He didn't care to mention that was the reason behind his absence in recent lessons, though that was what Jaina assumed. He seemed to be scurrying around for a book. "I have been questioning and checking my discovery, as it is quite unusual, but everything points to one conclusion: a disturbance in the force will be changing the course of events about twenty years ago within 5 hours."
Considering the magnitude of what she had just been told, Jaina was unsettlingly unshaken. Why the heck am I not shocked. What is going on here? she could only think. She waited for Uncle Luke to continue. Jaina was speechless.
"Now, I know this sounds crazy," Uncle Luke looked at Jaina almost apologetically, "but we don't have the time for me to explain the details. In short, I am going to send you back in time, to the battle of Hoth, where you are going to bring Vader back to the light and help the Rebellion win sooner. I trust you will be careful about the information you will tell them about the future."
Luke suddenly showed an immense guilt. "I am so sorry for putting this all on you. Force, I am so sorry. If I had the choice I would be out there now, doing this. Or at least sending you help. But by gods, Jaina, I have no choice. If I go back in time and use the force at the same time my past self does so, which is very well possible, it will. I can't explain now, but it will not be good, trust me. I can only do this with one force- strong. I can't control more than one person. Of the three of you," explained Luke, meaning Jacen, Jaina, and Anakain, "you are the most capable. I don't mean to be so blunt, but."
"Uncle Luke," interrupted a calm and undisturbed Jaina Solo. "Uncle Luke, its okay. I understand. If you weren't blunt and honest, it would make it just as hard. Believe me," rolled the eyes of the girl who had met perhaps one too many word-spinning, dishonest politicians.
"I'll have to tell your parents later. Dear gods, I really can't believe I'm doing this to you! Here." Jaina was handed an unfamiliar lightsaber.
"This is my old lightsaber. It belonged to your grandfather, who will be Lord Darth Vader where you will be going. I know you may not think you are ready, but I know you are more than capable for this."
Jaina looked it over. She figured that when the past Luke and Lord Vader, or grandpa, she couldn't help but smile, didn't believe she was Leia's daughter and from the future, she could show them this. She couldn't help chuckling at the idea of calling her ex-Sith Lord grandfather Grandpa Vader.
"And here," Uncle Luke gave Jaina a small bag, "are some other things you may need, like food, weapons, papers, and such. But I don't think you'll need to use them, with the Rebellion's help and all."
Jaina looked over it's contents. It was quite a bit of useful things. She looked over herself. She was wearing semi-tight denim jeans, a semi-tight shirt, her hair was tied in a ponytail, and she wore sneakers. She was all set.
"I guess I'm ready," she said. A thousand thoughts were racing through her head, but she shoved them away. She only tried to muster all the confidence she could. If Uncle Luke trusted her, then she was ready.
"All right then. You will be arriving in the Rebel Hoth base one day before the battle in an empty compartment room in the morning. I need you to link your mind with mine, and stay that way until you feel a slight jolt in your head. Are you ready?"
"Yes."
Jaina calmed her racing nerves and tension with long breaths. She let her mind go, embraced the all-knowing felling of the force. She easily found Uncle Luke's mind, which was as open as hers. They opened a link, a passage for their thoughts, and soon that passage became fuller, no filling with emotions, the bits of fear and confidence they shared, and with each bit came burst of their force ability. Soon their every current feeling raced faster than hyperspeed between their heads, so that now both their minds became one. Jaina felt something new. That would be Luke sending her back in time. She felt like she was in a roller coaster, her faster and faster her mind seemed to spin, until her whole body felt weightless, and she seemed to drop. The G forces should have shaken her, but they didn't until. As suddenly as the roller costar ride had begun, it stopped, at it abruptly left her head, a...jolt. Here I am! she thought.
Jaina waited a few moments. Force knew what would happen if she messed up. When all had been still for some time, she opened her eyes.
SOOOOO, what do you think? I know the explanation for the time transport is pathetic, but hey, if I took the time to figure out one it would take tine away from writing more juicy plot and cool encounters!!! Please review!!! It only takes a few seconds!! Thanks for reading!
By MysticAlly
Summary: Jaina Solo is transported to the Empire Strikes Back to convert Darth Vader to the light sooner and help the Alliance. She's 14 years old, highly skilled politically as well as in the force, and, well, what more can I say!
I do not own Star Wars (sob!), though when I do eventually I'll let you all know! For now, the plot and idea is mine, all mine, I tell you! Very well, then, let's begin the story!!!
Chapter 1: Here I Am!
Jaina Solo barely had the strength to open the door. It was bad enough she had just spent 2 straight hours dueling with Anakin at the academy; 'Kicking his ass, I should say!'; now she was lugging around her preposterously heavy textbooks as well.
Lucky Jacen and Anakin, she thought. They didn't need to do nearly as much reading and writing, and more reading, and more writing, she mentally sighed, as she did. True, they had to learn more tedious math, but that was nothing compared to what she did!
Jaina yanked the zipped duffel bag open and studied it's contents. Pick a book, any book! You'll have to study them all eventually! she thought. But one book did catch her eye. She carefully opened it, her tired fingers tracing it's expensive leather cover. 'A History of Political Thought Pre- Clone Wars'. Hhmm. Interesting.
Jaina brought the book to her finely polished genuine-wooded desk and examined the book, search for a publication date and perhaps even a summary and index, if there was one. As she had guessed, the book was just what she had looking for. She began reading. No matter how tiring learning to be a Jedi Knight and a politician at the same time was, she never, ever regretted her decision.
"Are you sure about this, Jaina?" her mother had asked gently when she was eleven.
Jaina looked insulted, and brought her chin up.
"Of course I am! I like politics, and it would be a shame to waste my force abilities. I might need them someday."
Mother looked at her for a while, never taking her eyes of her daughters'.
"You know, Jaina, your grandmother and I didn't enter politics at a young age for the sake of being young and in politics. The galaxy was in trouble, and it needed good leadership desperately. We didn't have very much of a choice."
Mother looked out the window for a moment, focusing on a white bird swooping nearby.
"But you do," Mother turned back. "You do have a choice. You don't have to rush your education, delay your childhood, like we did. You have so much potential, Jaina," Mother stroked her long brown hair, so much like hers when she was that age, "you don't need to waste some of it just because you felt pressure to do more than you should." Jaina felt her eyes lower. Out of shame. She knew it. Mother was trying to cover it, but she knew it. She would never be as good as Grandma Padme or mom.
Leia Organa immediately sensed her daughter's change in mood.
"No," she nearly stormed. She caught herself and softened. "Jaina, dear, never think like that. Grandmother and I were forced, Jaina, do you understand that? We had to become involved before we were ready." Leia sighed. She herself still had to accept the truth she would have to speak now. "To tell you the truth, I probably would have been much better off had I entered government later on."
Jaina looked up, stunned. "Why?"
"I would have learned more about combat, espionage, flight, and such," answered Leia. "During the war I had to learn all that on my own, and I paid the price for that a few times."
Leia now smiled.
"But you have the chance, Jaina. You have a very caring uncle who will teach you all you ever wanted to learn about the force, and a mother who will teach you all you ever wanted to learn about government and diplomacy."
Jaina now smiled.
"All right, mom," she said. "I will become a Jedi Knight, though not a Master, and I will pursue politics."
Jaina smiled at her memory. She wouldn't have changed it at all, even now, she grimaced, massaging her aching arm. After just a few minutes of reading, though, her study session was interrupted.
"Oh, shut up!!!" she yelled at the holophone, ringing as though it was programmed to drive her insane.
Jaina growled, grabbed the phone on her desk, and said "Who is it?" sweet as pie.
"What, you've already forgotten about your uncle?" teased Uncle Luke.
"Oh, it's you!" Jaina said, relieved. Uncle Luke was always in good cheer and welcomed, even if it did interrupt a fascinating philosophy lesson.
"Jaina, are you busy?"
Jaina shoved her book into her duffel bag, zipped it shut, and threw it on the floor.
"Not at all,"
"Good!" said Uncle Luke, apparently also relieved. "There's something I need to talk to you about. Now."
"What, is there something wrong?" Jaina asked, her eyes narrowed with concern and uncertainty. When the galaxy's most highly respected Jedi Master really needs to talk to you about something, its bound to be really, really, important.
"Come here to the academy and I'll talk to you. Don't forget to tell your mother. We mustn't forget about last time!"
"Oh, right! I definitely won't forget this time!" Jaina chuckled nervously. The last time she didn't tell her mom she was going to Uncle Luke's half the local military guard searched for her. But that wasn't why she was nervous. If Uncle Luke was brining up funny memories right before she was to meet him for something urgent and should be dealt seriously, it couldn't have been good. Not good at all.
After getting her mom's permission and arriving at the academy courtyard, as it was a nice, sunny day, she saw Uncle Luke coming.
"Uncle Luke!"
Luke motioned for her to follow him and she did. Running up to him she asked, "What's wrong."
"Jaina," he asked. "Do you recall the battle of Hoth?"
Jaina's face hardened with confusion.
"Uuummm, yes, I know about the battle of Hoth," she answered slowly.
Uncle Luke remained serious.
"Do you know about how your grandfather was consumed by the dark side and how I had to turn him back to the light? About the Rebellion's fight for justice in the galaxy?"
Jaine was still thoroughly confused.
"Yes, it know about that as well. Why are you me asking these questions?"
Luke opened a door to a dark room and led her inside. The light suddenly turned out, showing an small room with walls covered with maps, diagrams, shelves bursting with big, fat ancient books, and a small desk in corner. She'd never seen this room in her life. Uncle Luke seemed to ignore her surprise.
"I have been meditating much in the past couple of days," he continued. He didn't care to mention that was the reason behind his absence in recent lessons, though that was what Jaina assumed. He seemed to be scurrying around for a book. "I have been questioning and checking my discovery, as it is quite unusual, but everything points to one conclusion: a disturbance in the force will be changing the course of events about twenty years ago within 5 hours."
Considering the magnitude of what she had just been told, Jaina was unsettlingly unshaken. Why the heck am I not shocked. What is going on here? she could only think. She waited for Uncle Luke to continue. Jaina was speechless.
"Now, I know this sounds crazy," Uncle Luke looked at Jaina almost apologetically, "but we don't have the time for me to explain the details. In short, I am going to send you back in time, to the battle of Hoth, where you are going to bring Vader back to the light and help the Rebellion win sooner. I trust you will be careful about the information you will tell them about the future."
Luke suddenly showed an immense guilt. "I am so sorry for putting this all on you. Force, I am so sorry. If I had the choice I would be out there now, doing this. Or at least sending you help. But by gods, Jaina, I have no choice. If I go back in time and use the force at the same time my past self does so, which is very well possible, it will. I can't explain now, but it will not be good, trust me. I can only do this with one force- strong. I can't control more than one person. Of the three of you," explained Luke, meaning Jacen, Jaina, and Anakain, "you are the most capable. I don't mean to be so blunt, but."
"Uncle Luke," interrupted a calm and undisturbed Jaina Solo. "Uncle Luke, its okay. I understand. If you weren't blunt and honest, it would make it just as hard. Believe me," rolled the eyes of the girl who had met perhaps one too many word-spinning, dishonest politicians.
"I'll have to tell your parents later. Dear gods, I really can't believe I'm doing this to you! Here." Jaina was handed an unfamiliar lightsaber.
"This is my old lightsaber. It belonged to your grandfather, who will be Lord Darth Vader where you will be going. I know you may not think you are ready, but I know you are more than capable for this."
Jaina looked it over. She figured that when the past Luke and Lord Vader, or grandpa, she couldn't help but smile, didn't believe she was Leia's daughter and from the future, she could show them this. She couldn't help chuckling at the idea of calling her ex-Sith Lord grandfather Grandpa Vader.
"And here," Uncle Luke gave Jaina a small bag, "are some other things you may need, like food, weapons, papers, and such. But I don't think you'll need to use them, with the Rebellion's help and all."
Jaina looked over it's contents. It was quite a bit of useful things. She looked over herself. She was wearing semi-tight denim jeans, a semi-tight shirt, her hair was tied in a ponytail, and she wore sneakers. She was all set.
"I guess I'm ready," she said. A thousand thoughts were racing through her head, but she shoved them away. She only tried to muster all the confidence she could. If Uncle Luke trusted her, then she was ready.
"All right then. You will be arriving in the Rebel Hoth base one day before the battle in an empty compartment room in the morning. I need you to link your mind with mine, and stay that way until you feel a slight jolt in your head. Are you ready?"
"Yes."
Jaina calmed her racing nerves and tension with long breaths. She let her mind go, embraced the all-knowing felling of the force. She easily found Uncle Luke's mind, which was as open as hers. They opened a link, a passage for their thoughts, and soon that passage became fuller, no filling with emotions, the bits of fear and confidence they shared, and with each bit came burst of their force ability. Soon their every current feeling raced faster than hyperspeed between their heads, so that now both their minds became one. Jaina felt something new. That would be Luke sending her back in time. She felt like she was in a roller coaster, her faster and faster her mind seemed to spin, until her whole body felt weightless, and she seemed to drop. The G forces should have shaken her, but they didn't until. As suddenly as the roller costar ride had begun, it stopped, at it abruptly left her head, a...jolt. Here I am! she thought.
Jaina waited a few moments. Force knew what would happen if she messed up. When all had been still for some time, she opened her eyes.
SOOOOO, what do you think? I know the explanation for the time transport is pathetic, but hey, if I took the time to figure out one it would take tine away from writing more juicy plot and cool encounters!!! Please review!!! It only takes a few seconds!! Thanks for reading!