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Ahsoka sat outside of the medical bay at the Republic Station they had rushed to the moment they had gotten off planet, along with her master, Anakin.
"I can sense your worry, but you must calm yourself. There is nothing we can do now but wait, and no amount of worry can change that," Anakin said to his Padawan.
"Master, does anyone ever listen to that advice?" Ahsoka said raising a eyebrow.
"No, but I wouldn't me much of a mentor if I didn't at least try," Anakin joked. "Who knows how many times Master Obi-Wan told me the same thing." He then put a hand on the girl's shoulder. "You've done everything you could, but now his life is in the Force's hands."
"But if I had just stayed put like you said, then maybe we wouldn't have been caught. Maybe no one would have gotten hurt," Ahsoka said, blaming herself for what had happened.
"Well then, try to remember that for next time. But don't dwell on it now. Regret is one of a Jedi's greatest enemies. One that cannot be gotten rid of completely, but one that we must keep at bay," Anakin said calmly.
Ahsoka snorted. "You've been hanging around Yoda too much."
"Hey, Yoda is the greatest Jedi alive right now you know," Anakin said defensively.
Ahsoka nodded, a gentle smile crossing her features. "Thank you, master." The door to the med-bay opened up and the medical droid exited. "How is he?" Ahsoka asked.
"There is nothing to worry about. Your friend is only suffering from a bit of food poisoning. He ate a few wild herbs that he really shouldn't have," The droid reported, not noticing the incredulous looks one the Jedis' faces. "I have give in some medicine to help flush out the chemicals, but he will be hungry when he..."
"Wait a second, food poisoning!? What about the wounds!?" Ahsoka asked confused.
"I'm sorry, what wounds?" The droid inquired.
"We're talking about that wound to his chest, from him getting impaled on a lightsaber!" Anakin growled. Medical droids were his second to least favorite type of droid to deal with, right after protocol droids. Even the enemy battle droids weren't as annoying to deal with, because he could at least just cut them up.
"I'm sorry sir, but I do not understand your humor. There is no such wound," The droid commented. Anakin's eyes widened and he pushed past the droid, knocking it to the ground as he entered the room where the boy was laying in the hospital bed. Ahsoka came in right behind her master.
Anakin grabbed the sleeping boy's sheets and lifted it up. But the droid was right. There wasn't a single scratch on the boy's body. "What is he?" Anakin wondered out loud. But he dropped the sheets and turned to his equally shocked Padawan. "We should probably tell Obi-Wan about this," Anakin said as he turned to leave. Ahsoka only stopping for a momentary sigh of relief before following.
They found Obi-Wan in the work space he had been provided with, his hand moving across a holo-display. The older Jedi had a rather unhappy expression on his face.
"Is something the matter, master?" Anakin said, knowing the look that meant he was about to get an earful.
"'Is something the matter?' I would most certainly believe that something is the matter. We have to write up a report to the Chancellor about everything that happened on our mission, and you two have been nowhere to be found," Obi-Wan said, frowning at the two.
"Oh, sorry," Anakin said rubbing the back of his neck.
"Wait, why do we have to report everything to the Chancellor? I thought this was an internal matter for the Jedi," Ahsoka pointed out.
"It would have been, except that some clones died, making it a government matter. And why were there clones there?" Obi-Wan said, glaring at his old apprentice.
"Oops," Anakin said rubbing the back of his neck some more. "Sorry about that too."
Obi-Wan sighed and started rubbing is temples. "Luckily I talked the Chancellor into qualifying it as a top secret mission, otherwise the entire Republic would know about our new friend. And we would have to explain to the entire Senate how a child who appeared out of nowhere fought against the most dangerous man in the galaxy and came out on top. I can't even began to imagine the repercussions if such a thing got out."
"What is going to happen to him?" Ahsoka asked.
"Who knows. The Jedi Council and the Chancellor are going to hold a meeting about it as soon as we get back to Coruscant. For now he is in Jedi Order's care. Assuming he survives his injures," Obi-Wan said scratching his beard.
"Oh... about that," Anakin said remember why they had come in the first place. "The wound to his chest has vanished. There's no sign that he was ever injured at all. The medical droid says that he is just suffering from food poisoning from eating the wrong kind of plants while he was out there."
"You're kidding," Obi-Wan said, his eyebrows flying up.
"Not a scratch on him," Anakin reiterated. "It's hard to believe, I know."
"Nothing heals that quickly. What is he?" Obi-Wan said looking down at his report and realizing he was going to have to revise it for this new information. "He looks like a normal human child."
"Maybe he is bless by the Force," Ahsoka suggested.
"The Force doesn't give someone the power to shot lasers out of their hands, pass through solid objects, or heal so quickly. No, some other form of magic is at work here," Obi-Wan mumbled, closing his eyes and concentrating. "I will need to get a blood sample from him so that we can run some tests. Maybe we can understand what he is and why the Force has lead us too him," Obi-Wan said, before getting up. "In the mean time, you two can write your field reports. And don't tell anyone about this! The clones have already been informed to keep quiet, and I don't want any leaks on this ship."
Anakin and his Padawan both winced but nodded as they the elder master left the room. "Oops," Anakin said again. He had already called ahead to Coruscant and told his secret wife, Senator Padma Amidala, all about it.
"I'm sure we can convince Padma not to make a scene... Alright fine that's not going to happen," Ahsoka admitted.
"A Jedi must face reality, even if it is going to hurt." Anakin agreed.
Obi-Wan felt uneasy as he watched the medical droid move forward with a needle to get a blood sample from the boy. They wouldn't have needed to do this, but the stupid robot had already thrown away the blood soaked clothes when he had put the boy in the bland Manila hospital clothes.
The needle went into the boy's arm and Obi-Wan watch as the veil started to slowly fill with red liquid. "There we go, Master Kenobi," The droid said, holding up the veil.
But then the boy started to shift around. His eyes fluttered open and they found Obi-Wan, standing there in white armor with his hands behind his back and a serious look on his face. And they they spotted the veil of blood.
His eyes widened and turned green. Obi-Wan felt a rush of fear come from the boy as his hand whipped out and a blast of green light hit the needle and fried it out of existence.
"Hey!" Obi-Wan complained turning to the boy who sank through the bed and disappeared. "Well this isn't good," The Jedi said as he called up Anakin and Rex. They had to find the boy before anything bad happened.
"Alright Danny, just calm down. Just because you are in a very white station that looks really high tech, is really clean, and has that 'owned by the government' air about it, doesn't mean that it is the GIW." Danny mumbled to himself as he tried to calm down after seeing the man in white armor taking a blood sample from him.
"No... not at all." He gulped as he moved through the hallways, completely invisible to the human eye. But as he passed one of the rooms, he heard a lot of noise coming from the other side. So he phased his head in through the wall to find out what was going on, and his eyes widened with shock.
It looked a bit like the school cafeteria, with the lunch line and rows of tables. Only instead of the normal people sitting in their normal social division, the entire thing was filled with nearly identical buff Hispanic men wearing identical white armor. Each of them eating what looked like bland brown nutrients bars and speaking in a language that Danny didn't understand.
"Oh my god. I must have died and gone to Tucker's personal hell. Or maybe it is Sam's heaven." Danny said, shivering at the thought. "Either one would explain the fact that I wake up in a hospital room with a man who sported impressive facial hair."
Danny pulled his head from the wall and kept moving along in this current hallway. It wasn't like he had any better plan. "I've got to get... out... of... here." Danny's words fell off as he passed a large glass window, seeing the endless ocean of stars opening up in front of him had drove all thoughts out of the boy's mind as he just stared out at it. He was in a space station.
The view drove everything home for him. Everything that he had been trying to repress the last few days. The death of his family, the monster that used his name to do it, the god that had taken pleasure in toying with his life, his day left deserted on that empty world. All the things that he had known better than to think about, because any one of them could have paralyzed him, and he had to keep moving. But out in deep space, where was there to go? What could he do? What was he even going to fight for, with his family gone and himself so far away from home? He had to fight for something... didn't he?
The thoughts started to overwhelmed him. And it then accrued to him as he looked out into the dark void of space, that he was all alone.
The ghost child lost out to the sorrow that weighed down on him, and he slide to his knees, his invisibility forgotten. Then he began to cry. It wasn't the angry or dispirit tears he had shed in his fight with Clockwork, as he tried to kill fate itself in order to fulfill his promise before time could turn him into the monster it was trying to make him out to be. These were the first tears that were full of sadness, tears to mourn everything that he had lost.
The boy didn't even notice as two troopers came out of the mess hall and spotted him. "What the? Hey, what's this kid doing here?" Cody said as he walked towards the boy, not expecting anything in the least.
"Hey, what's the matter? You lost are something?" Hector asked as he placed a hand on the boy's shoulder.
The child momentarily stiffened before grabbing the clone's hand and spin tossing him across the hallway as if the trooper weighed nothing at all.
"What the devil!" Cody shouted, making to grab the boy, but his attempt landed him a elbow to the chest plate and the boy slipped from his grasp before running off away from them.
"Got to keep moving. Got to hide somewhere to hide." Danny kept saying to himself as he turned invisible again. Not that he knew what he was hiding from. It was only natural for a Phantom to hide.
"What do you mean he's gone?" Anakin asked raising an eyebrow as he spoke with Obi-Wan in the debriefing room. Ahsoka, Rex, and Longshot were also in attendance, being the only others on station who knew about the boy's existence.
"I mean, he woke up and freaked out just before falling THROUGH his bed and out of the room. Though not before blasting the medical droid." Obi-Wan said scratching his chin.
"At least something good came of it then." Longshot muttered, they wanted a different model anyways.
"What are we going to do then? Everything about him was supposed to remain top secret." Ahsoka said, trying to move the subject along.
"Well, it's a little too much to hope that he will simply go unnoticed on a station with this many people in it." Anakin said crossing his arms. "I'm sure he will turn up sooner or later." The younger Jedi master said.
"Is that supposed to be comforting?" Obi-Wan asked, raising an eyebrow. "The boy managed to match Dooku. If he gets into trouble we could have quite a disaster on our hands."
"Well then how about we start moving then before that happens." Ahsoka said, getting impatient. "It isn't like he is hard to track in an area this small. He leaves a disturbance in the Force wherever he goes. If we don't want other people to find him before we do, we need to start moving."
"She's got a point." Anakin said, looking to his old master.
Obi-Wan sighed, but before he could answer they got a call from someone inside the base. "This is General Kenobi, what is it?" He said, hoping against hope that it wasn't about what he thought it was about.
"Sir, this is Commander Cody, we were attacked in the hallways outside the mess halls. Not sure what it was. Looked like a kid, but it hit like a heavy armaments droid." Cody said over the phone.
"I understand, we're on our way." Obi-Wan said.
"Should I gather up the rest of the boys and do a sweep of the area?" Cody asked. "If this is a Separatist spy then we should probably get our weapons ready and..."
"No!" "Don't you dare!" Anakin and Ahsoka shouted quickly, stopping Cody's train of thought.
Obi-Wan coughed. "I assure you that this is no Separatist ploy. We believe the boy is just confused, but he is still highly dangerous. Spread word that if you see him you are to avoid contact and report any sightings to us." Obi-Wan said. The clone gave the affirmative, and the call ended. "We need to locate him as fast as possible. But we cannot risk him losing his temper."
"Then we just need to take it slowly. First we find him, then we try to talk things out." Anakin said, turning to leave the room. "Come on Ahsoka."
"Right behind you master." The Padawan said, and they both exited.
"I guess that mean you two are with me." Obi-Wan said to Rex and Longshot. "Hopefully this will go better than our first meeting."
"You sure you can track him?" Longshot asked General Kenobi as they moved through the hallways. Obi-Wan in front with his eyes closed holding out his hand to feel the changes in the Force.
"The disturbances he leaves in the Force are strong. Stronger than any Jedi I have ever known, though the child has no control over his emotions. Tracking him is simple for anyone with a strong connection to the Force." Obi-Wan said calmly.
"You get any of that?" Longshot asked Rex.
"He said 'it's a Jedi thing'." Rex translated to the best of his abilities.
Obi-Wan stopped outside of a storage room. "He's in here." He said, opening the door.
The three walked into the room and looked around. The room was empty except for some crates stacked neatly against the walls.
"Sure you have the right room?" Longshot asked as he turned his head back and forth.
"Yes. He's here." Obi-Wan said, sounding very sure of himself. Obi-Wan could feel it, the boy's emotions. They moved through the room like a storm. And he could recognize the types. They were emotions he was seeing more and more of these days of war; grief and fear.
"We are not here to hurt you. You can come out." Obi-Wan said, maintaining his professional manner. Nothing happened. "You will reveal yourself." Obi-Wan said, trying for a Jedi mind trick. Something that proved to be a wrong move.
The amount of fear coming from the boy sky rocketed and Obi-Wan was to shocked to dodge as he felt a presence moving towards him. The Jedi nearly doubled over, knees buckling as he felt a fist connect with his stomach.
"Sir!" Rex shouted before he was hit hard on the side of the helmet, knocking him to the side. He tried to look up at what hit him but his brother was tossed on top of him. "Urg... what was that? I didn't see a thing."
"That... would be our guest." Obi-Wan groaned as he got to his knees. He pressed his wrist communicator. "Anakin, we found him, but he got away. Oh, and don't try Jedi mind tricks. He doesn't seem to take kindly to them." Obi-Wan said with a slight moaned.
"You never were good with kids." Anakin said, probably taking a certain amount of pleasure in the older Jedi's failure. "Don't worry, we'll handle this." He said before hanging up.
"Don't worry Master Kenobi. Well handle it. You just make sure that you are okay." Ahsoka said before she too dropped out of contact.
"They talk about me like I'm old." Obi-Wan said, almost sounding depressed as he pulled himself together. He would let them have there fun. He needed to find a functioning Medical droid to check on his ribs.
Danny was still shocked from the second encounter with the bearded man in white armor. He was huddled in the back of a bedroom that he found that seemed to be unused, trying to figure out what had happened.
The man hadn't just known where Danny had been even though he had remained invisible, he had tried to enter Danny's mind. But how did he do it? He had looked human and Danny didn't see him activate any form of magical artifact or gadget that would have allowed him to do anything like that. Then again, he didn't even know where or when he was, though he guessed that he was in the future. The dominance of laser weapons and the space station made that the obvious theory for him. Did the GIW of the future have tech that would let them mind control ghosts? And how did he get there in the first place?
He hardly noticed when the door shifted open with a loud whooshing sound and two people walked in. He turned his head, not dropping his invisibility. He was expecting to see more of the people in white armor, but instead the two standing in front of him were very different.
One was a young man, tall with a rather rough look about him and a scar at the corner of his right eye. His brown hair was messy and unkempt, and he was dressed in black and brown cloth armor. He had a shaggy, yet proud air about him.
The other was the girl from down on the planet. She wasn't human, that much was for curtain, but her bright blue eyes were so alive and full of concern that it nearly shocked the boy out of his invisibility. The girl, for he believe it to be a girl, looked around his age and had dark orange skin with white tattoo marks on it. There was a white skin like membrane with blue stripes over her head instead of hair and she wore a brown skirt and tank top.
It was obvious that these two were not GIW. Neither of them gave off the strict military vive that Danny got from the GIW and the racist monsters in the GIW would never interact with a nonhuman being. Plus, they didn't look the part in their darker outfits.
"Hey there, no reason to be afraid." The young man said, going down on one knee. His voice was calm and gentle and he had a half smile on his face that got rid of much of the tension that Danny had been feeling. He was holding a plate in one of his hands that had some of the brown bars that Danny had seen from his peek into the cafeteria. "The medical droid said you would be hungry when you woke up. So go ahead and eat." The man said, putting the food down on the ground before backing up and standing with the girl.
"Master, I don't think he understands the Common language." The girl said looking over at tall man.
"Doesn't matter, Snips. I've had to deal with language barriers like this before." The man said, keeping a calm voice as he smiled down at the girl. "You just need a calm voice, to give them plenty of room, and make sure to let them make the first move. That is how we can build trust. I'm willing to bet that he is smart enough to figure out that we mean him no harm. Plus, guys got to eat." He said with a slight shrug and a chuckle.
Danny looked down at the plate. It could be a trap. It could be poisoned. But he just realized how hungry he was. It felt like he hadn't eaten in days, and for all he knew that could have been the case. He moved forward and knowing perfectly well that they knew he was there, he let his invisibility drop as he started to pick up and eat the food. He found it surprisingly good, actually having flavor and texture, despite how bland it looked. "Thanks for the food." He said as he started to eat, looking up at the two visitors.
Ahsoka was only a little surprised when the boy returned to the visible spectrum and started eating, sitting with his legs crossed on the floor in front of them, looking up at them with a certain level of curiosity as well as caution.
"It worked, master." Ahsoka said surprised.
"Of course it worked. Obi-Wan could have done it as well, but he tried to hurry things along by using a Jedi mind trick to calm the kid down." Anakin said crossing his arms and smiling. "I hope they let me be the one to give him the lecture on the importance of patents. I'm pretty sure I could give it. I've heard it from him enough times to recite it in my sleep."
Ahsoka laughed as her master joked around. The boy raised an eyebrow as he looked back and forth between the two. "We should probably call a protocol droid to see if we can't figure out what language he speaks." Ahsoka suggested.
Anakin groaned. "Why does it always have to be protocol droids." He sighed. "Fine, I'll keep an eye on him while you do that, but could you also bring some large paper and something to draw with. Something makes me think that the droid would be able to understand him."
"What makes you say that, master?" Ahsoka asked the Jedi.
"Simple, have you ever meet anyone who can turn invisible before?" Anakin asked. "Even if he looks human, he's part of a completely different and unknown species. So we might need a different means of communication."
"Alright. I'll report to Obi-Wan while I'm at it, tell him that we found him." Ahsoka said, giving the boy another look before leaving the home. Things were certainly getting weird.
They group had gathered together for their return trip to return to the Republic capital. Ahsoka was surprised how easy it was to get the strange boy onto the transport ship. Through their connection to the force the Jedi could feel excitement flowing off of the boy when he was entering the ship. Rex and Longshot were notably less excited at the prospect of sharing the confined ship in empty space with the boy. But after being assured by Anakin that they were safer than they would be on the battlefield the two clone troopers climbed aboard.
Anakin had been right in guessing that the protocol droid wouldn't be able to figure out what the kid had been saying, but he hadn't had much luck with figuring out things by exchanging drawings as Ahsoka had watched what had to be the strangest game of pictionary the galaxy had ever seen.
In the end the only thing that Anakin knew for sure was that the kid had a talent for drawing as he showed them several pictures and odd beings that the Jedi had never seen or heard of. They guessed that they were life forms form whatever planet the boy originated from, but they couldn't be sure that he wasn't just making stuff up.
It was a rather quiet ride as they flew through space. They had talked a bit at first, but they had a feeling that having a conversation in front of the boy was a bit rude and had quieted down a bit, even though he didn't show any signs of carrying.
"The guy hasn't blinked in over twenty minutes. Is that normal?" Longshot mumbled as he observed the boy who's face was pressed up against the window, gazing out at the light streams as they flew through hyperspace.
"Well he did recover from being stabbed through the chest with a lightsaber rather quickly, so I would imagine he's fine." Obi-Wan said.
"This can of reaction is pretty common for peoples first ride between planets." Anakin said not bothering it look over at the boy, it wasn't like he was going to move or anything.
"Maybe, but not for this long." Longshot huffed, before turning away from the boy.
"Not meaning to pry, sir, so forgive me if I over step my bounds, but... what the heck is he?" Rex asked the Generals.
"Honestly Rex, I wish I knew. We are as clueless as you are on this matter, but if anyone should know, it would be Master Yoda." Anakin said simply.
"And even if he doesn't, the Jedi temple has a database of every known intelligent species in the galaxy. We will have resources to go off of, even if the boy does refuse to give us any blood sample." Obi-Wan added. A second attempt at getting a blood sample from the boy had cost them a second medical droid and brought an end to any further attempts.
Though the kid seemed more or less comfortable with Anakin and Ahsoka, he tensed up whenever Obi-Wan or one of the clones approached him. Something that Anakin enjoyed rubbing in Obi-Wan's face.
"Can we think of a name for him? Because just calling him 'kid' or 'boy' is starting to feel weird." Ahsoka said as she watched his reaction to the endless sea of lights flying by.
"How about Spooks, cause the kick freaks me out." Longshot suggested.
"Spooks huh, a little childish, but I guess it works. What you think Snips?" Anakin asked his apprentice.
"Sure, why not, anything is better than just calling him kid. After all, he looks like he's the same age as I am, and who knows how old he really is. It would be weird later on if we found out her's really older than any of us." Ahsoka said shrugging.
Anakin laughed. "Yeah, that would be rather entertaining." He said as he flicked at a few switches. "Alright we're coming out of hyperspace now."
No sooner had he said this than the lights blurring passed the ship vanished and they were back in normal space flying towards the Coruscant, the Republic Capital. He flicked some switches to get on the radio with the Senate building's landing zone. "This is General Skywalker, requesting permission to land."
"We read you General, permission granted." Another clones voice came in over the radio.
They were landing in front of the Senate building. Spooks turned as he head the rest of them unbuckling their seat belts. "Come on Spooks. We got an appointment to make." Anakin said, facing the boy and nodding in the direction of the opening hanger door. The boy understood the gesture and got up himself, following the younger of the two Jedi masters and his Padawan.
"He seems very complacent for someone that doesn't understand a word we are saying." Rex said as he came out following Obi-Wan.
"Its because he probably realizes he has nothing better to do. He seems smart enough to release he can't have much of a life if he is alone and can't understand what anyone is saying. So he is following us in the hope that something good will happen." Obi-Wan said. "A leap of faith, if you will."
"If you say so, sir." Rex said as they all disembarked.
"I don't believe this." Obi-Wan sighed as he saw Senator Padma Amidala waiting for them in front of the entrance to the Senate building.
"Master Jedi, Padawan Ahsoka, it is good to see you have all comeback safely yet again." Padma said as she walked up to them. She was well dressed as she always was whenever she was around the Senate. Looking more like a doll in her green and purple dress with her long brown hair done up in one of the odd hair styles that was popular at the senate around that time of the year. Most people would find it hard to believe that she was same person as the Padma Amidala who when straight to the front line to do her own investigating and with a gun to help with the more fast passed negotiations.
"It is good to see you as well, Senator Amidala." Anakin said trying to keep his emotions to himself so that his old master didn't sense them, something he probably didn't need to worry about with Spooks's confusion and curiosity that the large shining towers and flying cars overwhelming any other emotions that might have been sensed. Anakin's love for the senator would have been drowned out like someone whistling in the middle of a bomb field.
Padma smiled and nodded at Anakin as the Jedi master bowed to her. But then her eyes turned to the boy standing behind him. "Is this the one you mentioned when you called me? He doesn't look like he could fight against Count Dooku on even terms. Didn't you say he was stabbed?"
"Anakin, you what part about 'top secret' do you not understand?" Obi-Wan sighed as he face-palmed.
"The part where you waited to tell me that until 'after' I had already talked to Padma." Anakin countered.
"You do realize this means she is going to insist to be let into the meeting about what to do with him." Obi-Wan said shaking his head.
"Thank you for the invitation, Master Kenobi. I think I will." Padma said with she crafty smile causing Obi-Wan to groan. Things were just not going his way this week.
"Come on Master, what harm could there be in letting her attend?" Ahsoka said.
Obi-Wan thought about the multitude of things that could go wrong but he realized that there was nothing he could do to stop the stubborn Senator. Better to have her there than have her starting some kind of petition for increased transparency among the Jedi Order when they act as a military force. "Fine you can join us. But if anyone asks this is all Anakin's fault."
"Hey?" Anakin said in a fake defensive manner.
"Its decided then, I'm looking forward to it." Padma said turning towards Spooks who seemed to finally notice she was looking at him.
Considering the way she was dressed and the respect being shown towards her, he also bowed saying, "Phantom, at your service."
Padma looked a bit confused. "3PO, what did he say?" Padma asked the golden protocol droid.
"Oh, this is quite embarrassing, but he didn't use one of the six million languages in my database. I am sorry." The robot apologized.
"Really?" Padma said, even more curious.
"Maybe we should all get moving. We shouldn't keep the Jedi Council and the Chancellor waiting." Ahsoka said before she walked on ahead of them.
"Oh... the honorable Chancellor is going to be there?.. Great." Padma sighed as they all started moving. It was time for the Jedi to decide on a course of action. Hopefully nothing bad would come of it.
"Wow, never seen this many wrinkles in one place before." Danny said as he looked about the circular room at the faces of very serious people who all seemed to be judging him. Not even half of them were human, though they all had a rather humanoid shape about them. It wasn't even that they seemed all that old. They just were covered in lines of wear, even the man who had brought him there, who Danny believed to only be around twenty had several wrinkles. "Someone really needs to introduce you guys to moisturizer. And you, man you'd need a crane to help with the face lift." He mumbled to himself as he looked at one of the people who was standing in the corner. He was a ordinary looking old man with a really long nose and gray hair. But the guy had huge wrinkles. "You could carry milk jugs in the bags under those eyes."
Danny wasn't bothering to be polite. Since no one could understand him anyways. Besides, wise cracking made him feel more at ease with his situation. Especially since the old man was standing with a dude with dark blue skin, a pair of massive black horns and was holding a spear. Though it wasn't like it was the only weapon in the room. Almost everyone had one of those boxes that the energy swords came from. So if things did go south, Danny would have to run and fast.
"So this is the boy that you spoke of?" The wrinkly man in the cloak said as he stared at Danny with a smile that made Danny worried in more ways than one. "It is almost hard to imagine that he could fight against someone as dangerous as Dooku."
"Wow buddy, I don't know what your saying, but I sure hope there are laws against it in this... galaxy." Danny said taking as step away from the man.
"Hm, do we know what language he is speaking?" The man asked.
"Chancellor, we have cross referenced his words against every known record in the Jedi archives. But we don't have a match." One of the two man from the ride over said, the one that was dressed in all white armor and had impressive facial hair.
"Well then, he is useless to us. Pity." The man said with a disappointed look that made Danny feel a lot more comfortable.
"With all do respect Chancellor, you are talking about an intelligent being. Try to remember that not everything exists for the purpose of war." The woman from the landing pad said, seeming cross about something.
"I understand that Senator, but how can he function in our society if we cannot communicate with him?" The man said his eyes drooping.
A small green creature who looked a bit like a toad spoke up from the center of the ring of chairs. "Then teach him, we must. Through the Force, it can be done."
"I wouldn't do that!" The white armored man started to say in a bit of a panic. But it was too late, the toad like man had raised one hand and closed his eyes in concentration.
Danny felt it, something trying to move around in side of his head. His eyes widened and he raised his own hand, firing a burst of green light that went straight past the toad like being and smashed the window behind him. Danny jumped back as all of the people jumped from their chairs and began to draw their energy swords, each one was green or blue, though they were of varying lengths and the hands were of many shapes.
"Stay out of my head!" Danny shouted, calling on a ring of light that passed over him, transforming him into his ghost form before setting his hands a light with green fire. The energy sword wielding warriors looked as if they were about to move in until the girl from the ship stepped in the way, holding out her arms to stop them.
"Wait, he isn't dangerous. He just scared of mind tricks." The girl said.
"Padawan, surely you don't believe that? The disturbance he creates can only be of the dark side." One of the older females with lime green skin said as she head her laser sword towards Danny.
"No. Right, Padawan Tono is." The toad like being said as he calmly hoped down off his flouting chair and walked towards Danny and the girl. "Out of fear, his reaction came. But we must not also react out of fear. Down that path, much darkness lies." He waved down the others who slowly put away their swords. "Through the force, let our intentions be felt. Harm, we do not mean."
Danny looked straight down at the small beings who looked up at him with a hard to read expression. The was no condemning or judgment in his eyes, none of the fear that Danny was so used to seeing from everyone that looked at him while he was in his more ghostly form. Even though he couldn't feel anyone moving around inside of his head, those eyes seemed to gaze straight through him.
He felt an arm on one of his shoulders and turned his head to see the girl giving him a node of encouragement. He could feel that they didn't mean him harm, but was this also just a mind trick? Had his emotions already been compromised? He stared into the girls bright blue eyes. "We just want to help you." She said calmly.
Danny heisted, but in the end he nodded and lowered his hands, the fire went out and he let himself be turned back into his human form. He might have been scared, but he had no were else to go. It was time for one final leap of faith.
The toad nodded and moved his hand calmly through the air in front of him. Words and meanings pushed themselves through Danny's mind as he pulled his eyes closed, resisting the urge to shut it all out. It was minutes before the process ended and the feeling passed.
"Understand us, you should." The toad said and Danny was surprised to find that he could understand what he was saying. "If you would, tell us you name, hm?"
"I'm... my name is..." Danny struggled, the words feeling foreign on his tongue. But he eventually finished. "Danny Phantom."
"Phantom?" Mace Windu said with a frown, then again, it always looked like he was frowning. The Jedi master had dark skin and eyes, but no hair. He was sitting again, like many of the Jedi masters as they stared at the boy in front of them. "We would like to ask you a few questions. I know you maybe confused by what is going on around you..."
"Understatement of the century." Danny mumbled as he looked about himself again, switching back to his own language.
"But we would still like you to answer to the best of your abilities." Windu finished. "First, how did you get to that abandoned planet, and how long were you there?"
"I... I lost... lost a fight... against a... god?" Danny stammered, still trying to fit the words together to make sentences. "He had... caused the deaths... of my family... of my friends. I wanted to... stop him. I wanted to kill him. But I lost. And so he banished me." The Jedi looked around at each other, rather confused by this. Simply saying that something was a god usually meant that he was from a planet with lower levels of technology, leading him to believe that an alien with more technology was a god. "I was... probably only there of a... cycle or two."
"Did your home planet have intergalactic travel?" Another Jedi asked. Danny frowned and shook his head.
"Can you tell us why you fought against Count Dooku?" Obi-Wan asked the boy.
"Who?" Danny asked confused.
"The man from the abandoned planet. The one with the red lightsaber." Obi-Wan said, showing his own lightsaber.
"Oh... They were going to... kill your friend..." Danny said pointing towards Ahsoka. "I couldn't just stand by... I couldn't do nothing. Only a monster... would have just let her die... when it could fight."
"Tell me, do you think you could have defeaten Count Dooku?" Chancellor Papanoida asked the boy with a smile. "Could you defeat him now?"
"He surprised me... I don't know all that he can do... and I don't know what he has done. I know him better now... But he know...s me better as well." Danny said slowly. "I maybe... but I don't know for sure."
"Can you tell us what your intentions are?" Windu asked as bluntly as possible.
"Intentions? I don't have intentions." Danny said simply. "I don't have anything left. I don't know what to do." Danny said, starting to get the hang of the language.
The Jedi masters exchanged glances and nodded. "I believe that you should probably rest. Being taught through a Jedi mind trick is mental tiring." Windu said, turning to Anakin and Ahsoka. "Master Skywalker, Padawan Ahsoka, could you two lead him to an open room?"
"Understood. Come on Spooks." Anakin said as he walked towards the door.
"Spooks?" Danny asked, raising a inquisitive eyebrow.
"Sorry, we already nicknamed you." Ahsoka said as she followed her master. Danny shrugged at the accuracy of the name before following the two out. Leaving the Jedi to disguise what to do. He didn't realize that his life was now in their hands.
"I have never seen powers like the ones that child had just used." The Chancellor said calmly. "It was most interesting."
"Whatever it is has grounds within the Force, which is the reason he causes such a disturbance in it. But there is something different. Something more that I cannot place." Windu said, scratching his chin.
"I have never seen anything like it either. He can also turn invisible and pass through solid objects, and according to Padawan Tono's report, he can throw electricity as well." Obi-Wan reported. There was some murmuring around the council seats. Force lightning was frowned upon as a method that induces fear and pain. Though not strictly forbidden, it was not something that was taught and definitely had roots in the Dark Side of the Force.
"Seen these powers before, I have." Yoda said, getting the attention of everyone in the room. "Similar to the Dathomir Magic of the Witches of Dathomir, it is. Strange liquids that produce green light and mist, there is. Use in their spells, the Nightsisters do. Give strength, flight, and invisibility, it can. Water of Life, they call it. Though life is not its nature."
"Are you suggesting that he is from Dathomir?" Obi-Wan said with a frown. "Sorry, Master Yoda, but I do not see any spikes growing out of his head. He looks like an ordinary human child, for the most part anyways."
"Perhaps there is another place in the galaxy were this 'Water of Life' can be found." Plo Koon suggested simply. "The galaxy is a wide place. We can not pretend that we know all its secrets."
"True, that be. But decide what to do with the boy, we now must." Yoda said nodding calmly. "The potential to become powerful, he has."
"The boy seems like the perfect spy." The Chancellor said, getting the attention of some of the Jedi, most of whom looked at the man as if he was crazy.
"With all do respect Chancellor, the boy has no training. It would be very ill advised for us to place him on the lines in a war." Windu said, sounding a little worried that the Chancellor might order them to do it anyways.
"Then he must be trained. Apprentice him to one of your Jedi and see that he is ready for combat." The Chancellor said simply. The Jedi tried for almost an hour to convince the Chancellor that it was a bad idea, but he would not listen. So after the meeting had expired and the Chancellor left they were stuck trying to discide how they would carry out this order.
"He is far too old to be starting Jedi training. And he is already to close to the Dark Side for our Orders liking." Plo Koon said as he crossed his arms.
"But he is also do dangerous to allow to go untrained or to simply let walk free." Windu said with a sigh. "And we have already been ordered to make a soldier out of him."
"Well no use moping about it now. We will have to decide who among us with be responsible to babysitting the boy." Obi-Wan said.
"I agree, and I think he should go to the one of us with the most experience." Plo Koon nodded. "So I am glad you are so in favor of it, Master Kenobi."
Obi-Wan's face dropped. "Wait, what!? But I just got rid of my last Padawan. And we all know how Anakin turned out."
"True. The most experience with late entries, Master Kenobi is. Similar this case it to young Skywalker's." Yoda said rubbing his chin thoughtfully.
"Well, good luck with your new Padawan, Master Kenobi. I'm sure Skywalker will assist you in 'babysitting' him." Windu said with a smile.
Obi-Wan groaned as he realized they weren't giving him a choice in the matter. "Why me?"