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Star Wars: Destroying the Past
Chapter 7, Ally revealed
"Every leader needs support"
Defeat imminent! Although they battled hard and their effort valiant, the group of Padawan's could not hold off the might of the republic's Jedi. One by one they realised they couldn't defeat their opponents and after their escape was thwarted they are now being taken out, one by one. However in the mitts of the battle de-facto leader Andraw Crest hears a mysterious voice and now finds himself in a strange location, without any clue.
Andraw looked around him. One moment he was on Coruscant, watching his friends and him slowly get defeated and then he was whisked of to…wherever here is. He heard that voice, the same one he heard when they split up, a girl calling his name. He then decided thinking wasn't getting him anywhere and started to look at where he had arrived. It seemed to be dusk with orange sky and numerous clouds that didn't block the sunlight but added to the effect of the colour. The landscape was filled with plain, rocky mountains that connected to each other through slopes in some unnatural order. The paths to each mountain were slightly sloped white stone walls, crenalated with paths to allow two people by. It was a network of paths leading from mountain to mountain and at the top of the mountains was a tower. Every mountain had one, all exactly the same.
Andraw started to walk to one, it's wasn't that difficult as the paths were level to them bar a slope in the middle. He got to one and found no door, just an entrance. The tower was wooden, about two stories with windows without glass. He walked a few meters in, shadow long due to the constant setting sun, looked up, and was surprised.
"A bell tower?" he questioned, as at the top of the structure was a large bronze bell. Stairs were on the wall to go up to a platform surrounding it, but the wood had no sign of rotting or use. He didn't understand. How did he get here? Why was he hear? Were the others ok? How can he get back to-. He stopped thinking. His eyes set dead on the floor. His shadow was just as motionless as him. It was the second shadow that caught his attention. A human shadow was looking from the side of the entrance. Someone was behind him! He turned sharply but the figure saw it coming at turned away before he could see who it was. All Andraw saw was a swish of cloth and a foot before the figure was out of sight.
"Hey! Stop!" he called, running outside and turning to where the figure should be. There was nothing.
"Where are you? Who are you?" Andraw scanned the seemingly endless landscape when he heard giggling.
"You're not going to see me that way." said a voice, coming from everywhere. A sing-song voice, feminine and playful. Andraw was taken back. That was the voice that was talking to him.
"What do you mean? I want answers!" the young Padawan, who was now forcefully growing up, tried to find where the voice was coming from. But it seemed like the giggling was in every direction.
"I you want me" she said, voice all around him "then come and get me." Andraw turned, that voice he could pinpoint. It was coming from behind him. He looked to see a figure going into another bell tower, but too far away to pick out details. Without wasting a second he pelted there. He went through the entrance, she wasn't there. He went up the stairs to the platform with the bell, she wasn't there. He went outside and looked at where she could have gone. Aside from the tower he came from, there were two paths to two towers. He tried to sense her in the force but found nothing "She must be masking it, that means she's a force user." He couldn't tell whether she was in the left or right, and if he picked wrong she would slip past him. Meanwhile in the right tower a figure stepped towards the bell and with a smile on her face, flicked it. It let out a high ping, only just audible outside. Andraw heard it, and ran towards the sound. "She's letting me know where she is. Question is, is this another one of her games" he grabbed his lightsaber, thankful it was still with him "or a trap?"
He went inside, listening for the slightest footstep if she slipped past him. Yet again she wasn't anywhere in the tower. He heard another ping of a bell, now coming from the left tower. He jumped up to a window, with the tower in his sights and jumped. His force amplified jump got him there in seconds as he flew over the plain landscape of the mountains. He arrived at the base of the tower and with lightning speed, went inside. Nothing. "How can she escape so fast?" Andraw didn't attempt to find her again. "She's just toying with me. It's pointless trying to look for her, so maybe she'll come to me." He walked up the stairs to the bell platform and looked at the metal monolith. It was notably plain with no markings or decorations to indicate any tribes or communities that made it. Trying to think of a plan (yes another one) his eyes landed on a large pole, wooden and about as two inches thick.
Then he remembered seeing similar poles in the other towers he visited. He was suspicious, she could have whacked the bell with one of them, it would certainly be more interesting and fun, but instead she flicked it. A theory formed in his head. He picked up the pole, grasping it in his two hands and whacked the bell with it. The sound was tremendous, low but loud, triumphant yet overpowering. The vibrations, however, was the greatest factor. The whole tower shook, the other towers shook, the entire world shook. The Plan Padawan wobbled then fell over from the earthquake he made. "If that didn't attract her attention nothing will." He got up, moving his brown hair out of his eyes then raised the pole and struck again. He hit with more force and the shock was larger, but he was prepared and stood his ground. As the bell droned into silence he readied again for another strike. He swung but suddenly a voice shot out.
"You keep that up the whole place will go down." he stopped his action, a centimetre from the bell. The girl had spoken again, she was in the building.
"I wouldn't have to if you would stop taunting me." Padawan Crest argued.
"I can taunt you as long as I want and you still won't get it."
"What do you mean? Get wha-" He realised it "you don't want to be seen do you?" No reply. Andraw had a theory. He walked down the stairs slowly, sat in the centre of the tower and closed his eyes. "Ok, I'm not looking, are we going to talk now?" He heard movement by the doorway and footsteps approaching him. He kept his eyes shut.
"So now you get it, if I left you on your own it would have taken years."
"So why don't you want me to see you anyway?"
"If I tell you now that would ruin it." she was walking closer and closer to him.
"Well could you describe what you look like so I can imagine who I'm talking to?"
"Ok then" she walked around him as he sat "I've got luscious, wavy hair that shines as brightly as the sun…"
"Something tells me this is going to take a while." Andraw though.
"My eyes are deep and passionate. My legs, smooth. My skin, soft." she bent to his left ear. "My chest, C-cups."
"Ok now your just boasting. So on the subject…what are you wearing?" he grinned.
"None of your business" she snapped, then continued with a playful melody to her voice "but you can be sure it's much better than what you have on."
"Hey!" she giggled and walked in front of him. From what he could hear she lay down.
"But you must be more interested in what Cam's got on, if she wears anything else bar than what we saw." Andraw was close to opening his eyes in shock.
"What are you talking about?" She sighed as she lay on her side.
"Don't lie, I saw you gawking at her, and who wouldn't. God, that outfit she has sure is noticeable. Thighs, back, cleavage?"
"I don't know what your saying?"
"Don't hide it, you've got the hots for her."
"I do not!" He was close to opening his eyes. "anyway this is besides the point. Who are you? Why am I here?"
"Who I am will have to wait. As to why your hear you should know, you wanted the help." Andraw remembered. Through all this he forgot the guys.
"Please I don't know how I called you but I need to get back to help my friends." she sighed again, but his was more a sign of disappointment. Andraw knew she was face to face with her now.
"Think about it Andraw, when you get back." he did, his friends were in trouble and their only transport was cut off. And he was in trouble. The Ginger Jedi was beating him and by now he had taken his friends to interrogation. It was him against the order. It was then that Andraw realised he was desperate. He couldn't take them down no matter how hard he tried. She was right, he did want help and as far as he could see, this girl was it.
"Can you help me? Will you help me?" she smiled.
"That's better. Yes I can help you, and I will." Andraw smiled.
"Thank you, by now they will be captured so what skills do you have?" she stayed silent for a moment.
"What do you mean by now?" his smile dropped.
"I've been here for at least quarter of an hour, maybe half. They would have been beaten and captured."
"Wrong. Not a second has gone out there since you came here."
"But how is that possible. I'm on another planet aren't I?"
"Wrong again. You are still on Coruscant."
"But this is clearly not Coruscant!" he was getting annoyed at the unclear answers, but kept his eyes closed to continue and hopeful get clear ones.
"No it isn't. You are in yourself."
"Stop! Stop talking like this and be clear!" he shouted. Silence. She signed.
"I'm trying to be clear if you would let me." Andraw relaxed slightly. "Your body and mind are on Coruscant, but your mind is in you. This whole place the mountains, the towers, the bells are inside you."
"What, like some sort of inner-world?"
"Precisely. No time has passed outside here but the instant you get back. This world has always been inside you, you just didn't know it, and it was only until recent events I found my beautiful self in here."
"Hang on. What do you mean by 'recent events'? And just what exactly are you? Your defiantly not my conscience, I'd be really scared if you were." she laughed.
"No not your conscience. Although you should flirt more, then you could get your lovely Camille, together, in bed-" she stopped as she noticed his face. Even with his eyes closed he was staring daggers into her. "Alright, alright, I went of topic. Anyway, think about it. When did you hear the voice and what could have made me?" He thought back, back to when he heard the voice.
"Andraw" A voice came out of nowhere. Andraw looked around for who said it. It was a woman's voice but not one he's heard before. "Andraw" there it was again, clearer this time, right next to him. He looked to his side. All that was there was his lightsaber. "Did that voice come from-"
He straitened up immediately. "My lightsaber! You're my lightsaber!" she smiled, though he couldn't tell with his eyes closed.
"Ding-ding-ding! Give that boy a prize!"
"When we went though that vortex you changed shape, but is seems the changed were less than superficial."
"Much less."
"But how did you come about? Become living, sentient…and with personality."
"I don't know how myself, but here I am. Listen" she moved closer to him till they were face to face "I can help you in ways you can't imagine."
"That's great" he lowered his head "then I can fix what I've done."
"What do you mean?"
"They were relying on me to lead them and think of a plan and it's only got them captured."
"Don't say that. You made them work together so that you survived the vortex. You helped them avoid capture by the troopers. Not all plans work, but this one will, it just wont go as you planned. I can help you win this, do you trust me?"
"Yes." he replied instantly.
"Do you trust yourself?" he paused. He thought.
"Yes. Yes I do." she smiled.
"I think that's enough. You can look at me now." he hesitated, she seemed pretty determined for him not to see her earlier "don't worry, I'm fully clothed." He opened his eyes. She was lying on her side, looking at him . She had curly, chin length hair about the same colour as his with dark brown eyes. She wore a one piece sand coloured dress that cut of to see her bare legs and feet. He skin was light like his and overall her description of herself wasn't far of…except for one thing.
"Those are B-cups." she frowned.
"They're nearly C's." she said, eye twitching, vein throbbing.
"And how is what your wearing better than what I have?" her smirk returned as she clenched the bottom of her dress.
"Well you don't know what I have under it."
"And I don't want to know!" he looked away, she pouted.
"Honestly, your hopeless! You know, I think you should take up the ginger Jedi master's offer, a cell for both you and Cam." Andraw turned back to face her.
"What I don't get is why you were so determined to not be seen?"
"I was testing you, your trust of me and of yourself." Andraw didn't buy it.
"You did it for fun didn't you?"
"Yeah, fun." she continued to smile, he continued to frown.
"Thanks you just made me realise I am putting my blind faith into a nameless, perverted lightsaber." her smile dropped.
"I may be a lightsaber and I may be perverted, but I have a name."
"Ok, what is it?"
"It's not that simple. To use my power and to help your friends I you need to call out my name out there."
"So give it to me already!" Silence. She looked him strait in the eye.
"I am no longer just a weapon that can be used by anyone, me and you are now connected. You cant just wield me like any other lightsaber, I am a separate person." Andraw was silent, taking it in "If you die then I die too. You need to use me to the best of your abilities, and I do too." she got up and so did her wielder. "Are you ready to fight side by side with me?"
"Yes."
"Are you prepared to lead your team?"
"Yes." she walked to him and lent to his ear.
"Fight with me, lead with them, escape together." he nodded, determination bursting though him. She held her hand up to his ear to whisper something.
"My name…is…"
Andraw opened his eyes, he was back on Coruscant. Around him his friends were sill fighting and in front of him was his opponent. Obi-wan felt a rapid change in his challenger through the force. One moment he was panicking and concerned, now he was confident and calm.
"You seem to have resumed control over yourself, but it's too late. The battle will be over shortly." Andraw turned to him, smiling.
"I never caught your name."
"I am Obi-wan Kenobi, and from what you told me you're Andraw."
"Andraw Crest, yes. Your right, the battle will be over soon. And we will win." Kenobi gripped his lightsaber tighter. He had either gone crazy and was about to try something rash or he may actually have a trick up his sleeve. Either way, I may get rough. Andraw called upon the force, more than he had in the fight. One hand holding his lightsaber, the other on top of it. Or rather, her. Inside his world, on top of a tower, she smiled. Time to get out. Everyone noticed him building up his force to unleash an attack, but they didn't expect this.
"Clash," Andraw shouted "Yochisuzu!" suddenly a bright white light shone where Andraw was and a mighty wind blew across the battlefield. Everyone felt it and saw the light. Ahsoka and Sara stopped fighting to stare. Windu and the injured Thom were speechless. Yoda let go of Scott so they both stood in awe. Anakin and Nik stopped duelling and this is what Nik had to say.
"What the hell is that?" Royse and Cam joined the staring. "What's with this force signature?" Royse thought as Cam thought of Andraw who was in that light. The clones all stood, baffled, on the ground and in the air. The senate was watching, wide eyed.
"Master Fisto." Padme asked "do you know what that is?" the master only shook his head, not averting his gaze for a second. Andraw felt the power going though him and his lightsaber. Slowly the blade lengthened and then the hilt split into three. Obi-wan kept his stance and soon the light diminished and everyone saw what had happened.
"What, is…that?" Master Kenobi said, eyes wide.
"Oh, you mean this?" he raised Yochisuzu high. It was a bo-staff of blue plasma, as long as he was tall, with three hilts that moved freely to where his hands were. "So" he angled an end near Obi-wan "shall we continue?" Obi-wan wasted no time and they locked blades. Andraw hit and hit with his weapon but Kenobi blocked every time. The Jedi master stumbled back a bit but ran towards him for a powerful strike. It was then that the true power was revealed. He slammed the end of his staff on the ground next to Obi-wan and started a massive shockwave! The panels on the ground exploded off and our favourite ginger Jedi was sent flying! Caught off surprise he rose then fell into a building.
"Master!" Anakin shouted as he pelted towards Andraw, forgetting Nik in a second. Plan man saw him and did a quick scrape of his staff across the ground. A wave of metal and force energy headed towards Anakin. He tried to jump over it but fell short and was knocked away. The troopers were restless.
"Commander!" said a trooper to Fox "what do we do?" Fox activated his COM.
"All Larty's, surround him, NOW!" the gunship's moved in on him, aiming their cannons. Andraw hit Yochisuzu on the ground, building up force and jabbed the end at one of them. A shockwave hit it and it went of course and tried to stabilise itself. He then did the same to the others, one even hit the ground, clones jumping out to escape.
"Cam, Royse!" he yelled "get that ship flying! Everyone else, get Thom up!" Sara stopped looking at him and turned to her opponent who was too absorbed in Andraw's secret weapon. The queen of pink unleashed a strong force push and Ahsoka was caught off guard. Sara ran to Thom while she was still recovering. Yoda felt this and was reminded of his opponent, but when he turned to him, he was gone. Nik had run there first but Mace Windu stood over his opponent. Sara and Scott joined him.
"Aright, fight baldy, defeat baldy and get Thom to safety." Nik said, igniting his lightsaber and pointing it at Windu. "Apprentices to action, CHARGE!" they did with Nik attempting to make the sounds of a bugle. Nik slashed then jumped over the grand master, Sara struck and ducked to his left, Scott parried and jumped back. They swarmed around him, confident their combined abilities could deal with him, but in one repulse they backed off. Windu prepared for another strike but suddenly he was lifted into the air and throw some distance. The trio of Padawan's looked to see Thom, barley kneeling with his hand up. Nik and Scott each got a shoulder and lifted him.
"Easy big guy." Nik commented, Sara kept ready if another person attacked. Cam and Royse had gotten into the shuttle and already had it airborne and heading to Thom while Ahsoka had went to aid her master.
"Master, are you ok?" Anakin looked at the battlefield.
"The shuttle! They have it!" Rex and Cody didn't need to hear another word.
"Alright men!" the captain ordered "get to that shuttle! Stop them!" the small army of troopers ran in on the battle.
Royse opened the door to the ship for the other to get in. Nik, Scott and Sara wasted no time getting in there with their injured comrade.
"Get him strapped in." Royse said "This may be rough." Andraw looked around, disaster had turned to triumph. He smiled "There was a way to turn the battle around."
"Hey Plan-Man!" Nik called from the shuttle "hurry up or we'll leave without you!" Snapping out of his thought Andraw prepared to jump. But he stopped when he saw the army of Clone Troopers approaching. He also though of Yoda and Windu, their power could hold the ship. He cast away the doubts as he had the solution. He raised his staff high and gathered the force.
"You ready for this?" he asked, seemingly to no-one.
"I was born for this." Yochisuzu replied. The troopers were in firing range. Yoda was near. Andraw gathered more force than he ever had before and slammed the end of his lightsaber on the ground.
The shockwave went though the air, on the ground and everything, but the Shuttle, felt it. Countless clones were sent flying. Jedi shielded themselves. The gunship's were rocked. In every building the glass shattered into millions of shards. A lone flying camera was hit dead on and short-circuited. This camera supplied the senate with the battle and the signal abruptly stopped dead.
"What was that?" Onacondo Farr exclaimed.
"The signals gone." Master Fisto explained, but the rows were starting.
"What was that?"
"What's going on down there?"
"Are they escaping?"
The answer to that last question was a smug, infuriating, in-your-face, Yes. The T-6 Shuttle was leaving the wrecked square, all seven Padawan's on board, and was rising in the sky. Already the LAAT/i's were heading on them. Cam was at the controls and picked up the gunship's.
"Guys, is Thom strapped in?" she called.
"Yep." Scott replied "Why? Please tell me your not going to-"
"No time to explain!" she spun the ship on it's side, narrowly avoiding a cannon from their pursuers. She never did get those shields working at full. She twisted the ship round and round and the passengers in turn got battered, round and round. She increased the speed and soon escaped the atmosphere and wasted no time to slam her fist on the hyperdrive. As the black of space turned to an unnatural blue she slouched in her seat. They made it.
"Hey, guys, you Ok back there?" She turned her head to see everyone turned over, upside down and groaning, except Thom who was strapped in. Scott got up, feeling the burn.
"New rule…(pant)…you are never…flying anything again!" she smiled and got out of her seat. Now they were all in the medical station on the shuttle, it was small, but it sufficed. Thom was on the table with the others around him.
"Take of your shirt." Royse said. Thom hesitated, why was she so sudden and- "To see your injuries." she added.
"Oh." he did so, slightly embarrassed at the realisation. They examined the damage.
"A ton bruising and a few big cuts, no sign of broken bones or anything serious though." Nik said, in one of his rare serious moments.
"There some bacta here." Sara said.
"Bring it." Royse replied as they started to apply it. Andraw was looking at it all but his attention was on his lightsaber, returned to normal lightsaber shape.
"Wasn't too shabby for the first time, eh?"
"Yeah, it was amazing. Your amazing Yochisuzu."
"Your not too bad yourself, forget Cam, all the girls will be after you with that performance."
He smiled to himself at the start of a complicated relationship, before noticing everyone staring at him.
"What?" he asked, Cam stepped forward.
"I'm not sure how to say this, so I'll let Nik do it in the most obvious way possible."
"WHAT WAS THAT!" he shouted.
"Couldn't do it better myself." Andraw gathered himself. This was going to be hard to explain. He sighed and addressed everyone.
"This is complicated. When we went though that vortex it changed our lightsabers, but not just in shape and colour." they perked up at this "My lightsaber is a living entity now. She has a name and a form."
"Wait, hold on there." Nik said "She? Your lightsaber has gender?"
"She has gender, power and lives in a world inside me." Sara came forward and placed a hand on his forehead.
"He's not heating up."
"It's true! I don't know how and she doesn't know how but my lightsaber is alive. She has a name, Yochisuzu and when I called her name my lightsaber transformed into what you saw. You can't deny that my saber changed." they were silent. Something definably did happen to his lightsaber, but all this about a weapon gaining sentience, although time travel was considered far fetched a few hours ago, or in reality, a few hundred years in the future. Andraw looked at his lightsaber and noticed something crucial. "Look! If you sense hard enough my lightsaber has a force signature." They did so, some more reluctant than others. Thom was first.
"It does!"
"What?" came various replies. Nik and Royse probed deeper and too felt it. Cam turned to the others, not able to probe so deep. They nodded and soon no one could deny it.
"But it's strange." Royse commented "It's not like a being's signature, nor a place or object that's been surrounded by the force."
"Hold on!" Scott exclaimed "If his lightsaber has a signature, then ours…" they all got their weapons out. The elegant weapons of the Jedi for thousands of years. Nik almost fell back when he felt his. Thom had no trouble finding it. Cam turned to Royse, once again cursing her low skill in the force. She nodded and turned to her own, all too aware of it. Sara was a bit disturbed to find that behind the pink was a living person. Scott just stayed silent, but too felt it.
"Guys" Andraw said, they turned to him "I have no idea how this happened or what exactly is happening now, but what I do know is that in this war, and the conflict we made" he raised his Yochisuzu "this is our salvation."
Meanwhile on Coruscant the Jedi were recovering from the events that just took place.
"What in the galaxy was that weapon?" Anakin asked as he and Obi-wan inspected the troopers. Most of them just got knocked around but a few got concussions and head wounds. From being flung into a building Master Kenobi looked a bit worse for wear.
"I don't know but by the force it was powerful. I bet every Jedi on Coruscant felt it." Obi-wan replied. They met up with the other Jedi, including Mace, Yoda and Ahsoka.
"So masters" Anakin asked "what's the next plan of action."
"We will find the rouges." Windu said simply. "From the security Fox gathered their main technician, Cam, has knowledge of star crafts inside and out so there's little chance of her missing the tracking beacon. But we have alerted republic spies to keep a look out for them, whoever they may be." Ahsoka walked forward.
"What I don't understand is that my opponent, Sara Darkwood for the record, claimed she had a master and had a Padawan braid." at this they other Jedi's eyes widened.
"Whatever they may be" Obi-wan commented "they must be apprehended and taken in for questioning. We have kept all knowledge of the incident away from public eye so that there is little chance the separatists would find out about them. They may see them as potential allies."
"Maybe their already allies." Anakin butted in, frowning.
"Yes in any case we must also maintain the war effort. With the head of the galactic senate gone we could lose some key planets and systems." Yoda stepped forward.
"Yes. Focus on the War, we must, but the rouges as well. Keep our sight wide and our minds wider. Find them we must. Find them, we will!"
To be continued…
Yochisuzu translates as Earth Bell, a fitting name I thought. I know, I might as well have done a Star Wars/Bleach crossover but can you blame me. With the Elements of the anime Bleach's Zanpakutou in lightsbaers is a kick ass idea, I hope you liked it.
Will the gang find out about the true potential of their Lightsabers? Will Andraw continue to lead his team into victory? And will I, Evil Tree, have to up the rate from teen to mature after Yochisuzu's performance?
If you have the time please review and make my birthday :D
(P.S. Before I finish I would like to thank Ebony Wave, Searge, unhealthyadict, stabbythings, KittyCaterpillar and CookieLivcat for their supporting reviews :D)
