Anakin sighed as he pushed open the door and entered the jury-like Council room. The assembled Masters gazed at him expectantly and a tad disapprovingly, and he knew why. He and the Council did not exactly see eye to eye.

"What to say, have you?" asked Yoda, scanning Anakin intensely with his green-gold eyes. "Urgent, you said it was?"

"I suppose you all felt the... Disturbance, a few hours ago?"

"We felt it," confirmed Master Windu, "But none of us knew what to make of it."

"Well, at the very instant this disturbance occurred, I happened to be entering my quarters."

"Go on," prompted Master Mundi, slightly impatient with all the suspense the junior Knight was creating.

"But when I entered my quarters, there was already someone there," said Anakin. "And I knew him very well, and he knew me... Just, not yet."

"Come on, continue," said Master Gallia, "Some of us aren't too pleased with the mystery you're shrouding around the situation."

Well, it's the least I can do, considering all the times you've used that tactic on me, thought Anakin, before preparing to reveal the identity of the stranger.

"Masters, I know him well because he trained me for eleven years of my life. The boy I met in my quarters was, indeed, a thirteen-year-old Obi-Wan Kenobi."


"Padawan."

Obi-Wan looked up from his hands and towards the door. The Master who had entered his room extremely briefly earlier was standing on the threshold, and seemed to be rather nervous, because he was staring directly at the Padawan, and the strong shields he had had when they had first met were failing miserably.

A curse seemed to echo through his mind, followed by the immediate strengthening of the shields. But Obi-Wan saw no reason that he would be cursing, so the small profanity must have come from the Master.

"Hello. I never caught your name, Master-"

The ginger-haired Master paled considerably.

"My name is something that might come as a shock to you. You know me, rather well, in fact-"

"But won't I hear the name from others who call you by it?" asked Obi-Wan before blushing upon realizing his blatant lack of respect for the Master.

The Master suppressed a smile. It didn't show on his face, but somehow... Even with the durasteel-strong shields placed around the bearded Master's mind, Obi-Wan knew...

"I suppose it wouldn't do anyone any good if I kept it from you. First of all, I know Anakin told you that you traveled through time. That is the truth. The year now is 978, not 956 as you thought. And I... I am Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi."


Master Windu blinked. "Your master... From the past?"

"Expect this, we did not," said Yoda, although he didn't look surprised. If you loved nine hundred years, nothing surprised you. "Unusual, this is. But not unheard of."

"Not unheard of?" asked Anakin, confused. "But wouldn't we have some record of this if it had happened before?"

"To a Jedi, it did not happen. A simple farmer, the victim was. To the future he went, but while he was there, killed he was. Destroyed, the future which he went to was."

"So you're saying that our Obi-Wan is twice as vulnerable with the visitor here," said Anakin. "And if he was killed, then I would never be trained, Darth Maul would still be alive, and the war..."

"Enough with this!" said Windu. "You said that the visitor was a Padawan, correct? Who will train him?"

"Not Master Kenobi, that's for sure," said Anakin, slightly irritated by Windu's outburst. "He said that it could cause a serious time paradox, or something like that."

"Correct, Obi-Wan is," said Yoda. "Impossible to say where the training came from, it will be, if that, we do."

"I hardly know him," said Windu.

"Not me," said Master Mundi. "I don't think any other Master will be willing to."

"Leaves only one option, that does. A Knight, Skywalker is now."

"You can't possibly be suggesting..." said Anakin, beginning to understand what Yoda was talking about, and not liking it one bit.

"If Yoda wants it to happen, it will," said Windu grimly. "You, Skywalker, will take Obi-Wan Kenobi as a Padawan."