The troopers went on alert as they got there weapons out and looked at what the civilians where screaming about then they saw her.
"Hello clones." Ventress smirked as she walked over with her lightsabers out.
"Ventress." Wolffe growled s the woman responsible for the loss of his eyes and many deaths of his brothers.
"I see you still remember me commander. How touching." Ventress mocks.
Stitches glares as he growls "What do you want Ventress there's nothing but civilians here?"
"Yes they are all civilians but one of them in particular is very different than the rest." Her glares goes over to Arya.
Wolffe feels his blood go cold then boil as he said "Back off." He growls.
"Oh do we have a crush commander, how cute. But my master needs her so…" She runs at them but the troopers fire as she blocks the blasters, the civilians run trying to escape.
Arya is in shock and feels frozen, what did she mean by she was different. She was just a student?
"Arya we have to get you out of here." Stitches wakes her from her shock and she looks over "But the others?"
"They where trained for this." Stitches grabs her and starts to lead her off.
Ventress sees this and jumps over the troopers as she slices Stiches "AH!" he yells as he falls in pain.
"Stitches!" Arya calls in shock at the sight of the man lying in pain on the ground.
"I love to finish your friend off but we have to go." Ventress tries to grab her hand but Arya slaps it away.
"Why you…." Ventress snarls as she tries to grab at her once more but as she does she is almost hit with a blaster.
"Get away form them!" Wolffe howls as he rushes over.
"So you want a turn commander. Gladly." Ventress growls as she launches at him.
"No!" Arya shouts as she looks on then she sees the two fighting as Wolffe tries to blast her, she keeps on blocking the blasts till she brings her hand out and starts to pull Wolffe over using the force.
"It seems this is the end commander." She smirks as she's about to stab him but "Stop!" Ventress suddenly feels herself pulled off the ground, a force of wind surrounding her as she calls "No! Let me go you welp!" She glares at Arya who had her hand outstretched and glaring, with a bit of shock.
Wolffe looked on as well confused, he had landed on the ground and was now looking up to see this. How was Arya doing this? 'Is she a jedi?' His mind begins to whirl when suddenly general Windu arrives with a few of his men and says "You need to calm down your powers are unstable!"
"She tried to kill them!" Arya calls angry.
"You'll destroying everything around you!" Windu outstretches his hand. At that Arya notices what she's doing and stops out of shock. Ventress drops and is taken by a pod. Windu glares at that and then looks over at the in shock woman who was staring down at her hands.
"Miss you need to come with us." Windu comes up to her to explain.
That snaps her out and then she said "Stitches!" she runs over to him and finds another trooper medic attending him.
"He'll be fine, just a saber burn to the back." The medic tries to reassure her. She nods with tears in her eyes.
Wolffe then came up and said "Arya…" Before he could say more he's tackled in a hug.
"Your okay…" She says shaken.
"I'm fine Arya. I'm fine." He rubs her back trying to reassure her as he would for a brother. But this felt so much different.
Windu came up and said "Commander we need to get her back to the temple and discuss somethings."
Wolffe just nodded, he new this be necessary, and he was curious to know what had happened himself. Pluss it be the safest place for her at the moment. He looked down at her worried. Not just for her but for what he had just realized. 'I'm in trouble.' He sighs mentally.
Later on….
Arya is still a bit in shock from everything, but after being checked over she's more interested in answers.
She's brought to the council room, but she refused to go in unless Wolffe is with her. Windu is confused by this but accepts it.
As they came in Wolffe saluted the generals and gave a nod to his own, who at the moment could only be seen as a hologram, he nodded back.
Windu was the first to speak "Miss Arya was it? We asked you here because it seems you have some force abilities."
"I didn't know force users could control elements." Arya looked confused.
"It is rare but some do have the capability. You have what is called force wind. The thing is that this ability is usually mostly found among sith." Luminara explains.
"What? But I'm not a sith!" Arya protested with shock and fear.
Wolffe was also in shock but did not show it, he could never imagine Arya as a sith. 'Maybe your feelings are messing with your judgment.' He almost flinched at the thought and threw it out. If she was a sith she would have never saved him from Ventress.
Plo then said "No you are not. I believe what has happened is that you have your own method of force wind. I myself have created an elemental force method that would usually only be used by sith but the flow of it is much different. Yours is much the same, you did not use this ability to destroy or bring harm but to protect. On that matter I must thank you for saving my commander." He nods over at the woman.
Arya replies "He's good guy, no one deserves that." She frowned at the thought of what Ventress had been trying to do.
"Another mystery we have it seems. Close you two are. How it come this to be?
Yoda asks.
Wolffe stood strait at this, he would probably be in trouble for what was to come but Arya said "We met three times this week. Two times by accident and on the third I told them of an event that he and his brother should come too. Why do you ask, I thought troopers could go about the city as they pleased?" Arya raised a brow, she knew the rules but she wasn't about to get him in trouble.
"They can, what they can't do is have attachments to civilians." Windu gives a cold stare at Wolffe who just holds his ground he would glare back but he knew better then to do that to a general.
"Actually, I've been thinking about that matter." They all turned to Plo Koon who then began his speech "I believe that the rules the Kaminaons have set up for our men our not justified. They are still living beings and they are not jedi. Why should we restrict them in such ways"
"I must remind you master Koon that we are at war." Windu sets his sights on him.
"True but there has been war before and the men who were part of it had lives as well. Or are we to make the troopers fight for us just because they are clones, they still breath and live like any other sentient being. They where made for this war but never asked to be part of it." Plo looks at his fellow master.
"Master Koon does have a point. It was a jedi who asked for the clones and therefor they are our responsibility. And they have all bean loyal to the republic and the jedi. Also like master Koon said they're not jedi so why keep them from such things as attachments?" Obi-Wan rubs his bear as he takes this in.
"True it is, the clones are sentient beings. And we are to protect them, they have fought for us valiantly and in return, what have we given. Nothing. Not make us better then slavers, does it?" Yoda closes his eyes.
"Generals we have never thought that way." Wolffe finally spoke a bit in shock.
"One has, a trooper by the name of Slick and it led him down a path that led to betray the republic." Obi-Wan adds.
"Growls, Slick was a traitor who killed his own brothers." Wolffe looked away disgusted at the memory of the traitor.
Plo then said "Even the idea foiled him, so I believe we should allow the troopers to have attachments. And have more freedom in this war. It cannot last forever, what will happen to our men once it is over?"
Wolffe took that in, he never thought of that. What would happen once it was over?
"Wolffe, I know that look. What is on your mind?" Plo asks.
"It's nothing general." Wolffe goes back at attention but Plo went on with "Wolffe what do you plan to do after the war?"
At that the whole room looked at him. Even Arya looked at him in curiosity. Wolffe sighed, he couldn't get out of it now. "I never expected to even survive the war sir. So I never thought of it."
At that many of the jedi's eyes widened. Arya gasped as her eyes glazed "You never expected to survive?"
"A trooper is made to live and die in war. That is all we've bean taught." Wolffe sighs hating to make her cry but he had to tell the truth.
Arya looks upset by then and yells "And none of you knew this! None of you even tried to correct their fears or did you all know this would happen!"
"Young lady I suggest calming down or…." Windu starts.
"NO!" Arya yells a wind surrounding the room. "You were all willing to let them go on and do just that. I was todl jedi respected life but that's far from what I'm seeing here!"
"Arya?" Wolffe grabs her shoulder gently making her calm and the wind stop.
"I'm sorry but I can't stand the thought of such a thing." She starts to shake and cry.
Plo then says "That is why even if the council refuses, I will be allowing my unite the right to have attachments."
The council and Wolffe looked over at Plo in shock.
"You risk much in doing this master Koon. But sense that you do this with compassion for your men. So allow it I will." Yoda nods.
The other looked shocked or smile at Yoda who smirks. As Plo nods his head and said "Thank you master."
Yoda then said "Now, on to the matter of miss Arya. Your powers are strong, but unbalanced, and you have already bean targeted once by our enemies. It is only right we help teach you to use them and protect you from them."
"I won't become a jedi. I know the rules and I will not become detached from my emotions or keep myself form attaching myself to others." Arya glare with crossed arms.
Windu looked like he wanted to say something but Yoda beat him to it "Force you we cannot. To old to be taught in our ways. But protected you must be. Assigned to a jedi master you must be and a battalion."
"I volunteer to take on miss Arya as a student. She has already saved my commander and has made connections to two of my men. I believe she will feel the most comfortable among us." Plo smirks under his mask.
Arya smiles and said "I agree. I just need to inform my family of what's happened."
They send her out with Wolffe to do just that as they continued to talk on other matters. As she talked to her family Wolffe noticed how the large family argued strongly to have her be kept on Coruscant. Wolffe didn't trust himself to speak in a situation like this. But he could understand why they fought so hard to keep her. As she talked to them he couldn't help but think of his suddenly realization.
'The rules have changed, but can I really just…I don't know what to do.' He just stares at the back of her head as she talked with her family. His thoughts wondering how it would feel like to put his fingers through it and scolding himself for the thought.
They had to call general Koon to help calm the family and explain why they had to do this. The family explained that Arya had a mental disorder, aspergers, it was slight for her and she had gotten help, but the family wanted them aware of it.
They nodded and in understanding of what they had to know of this and then headed Wolffe escorted her to sick bay where she be staying and have her force levels studied why they had just appeared.
As he dropped her off he saw how nervous she was but patted her shoulder and said "Everyhtign will be okay." She looked up at him and smiled saying "Thanks Wolffe." As she headed in for the studies.
Wolffe sighed as she left and then headed over to talk to stiches in the other room. Something told him his brother had more to do with what was going on then he thought.
