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CHAPTER 10: Spirits of the Force

Jayden woke on a strange world. He stood on the shore of a lake, one of lava and molten rock. It was a perfect back ground for the fight that was taking place.

Anakin and Obi -Wan. Obi-Wan and Anakin. They where heroes of the Clone wars. They where master and apprentice. They where friends. Now, they are sworn enemies. They fought furiously on a small platform over a lake of lava, their sabers clashed in a flurry of blue and white. Obi-Wan jumped from the platform over to the shore realizing he couldn't defeat Anakin in such a confined area. "It's over Anakin! I have the high ground!" Obi-Wan shouted at his former apprentice as he stood on the glassy shore of the lake. Anakin stood on the platform over the lake. He had an aura of arrogance and rage about him. "You underestimate my power!"

"Don't do it Anakin." Obi- Wan pleaded. And with that, Anakin Skywalker jumped over Obi-Wan who, in one swift movement, cut off one of his arms and both legs. Anakin fell to the ground and rolled down to the shore, stopping just short of the lava. Obi-Wan was a Jedi master. He was supposed to be fully in control of his emotions at all times. But at this time, it was just to much for him, possibly any one, to bear. The feelings welled upside of him, he felt like he'd physically explode if he didn't release them. "You where the chosen one! It was said you'd destroy the Sith not join them! Bring balance to the force not leave it in darkness!" He was almost asking Anakin this He was confused by what happened to his former student, how he turned to the dark side. His heart wasn't merely broken, it was destroyed. He turned around, picked up Anakin's lightsaber, and began to walk away. "I HATE YOU!" Anakin growled, his voice less then human now. Obi-wan stopped and turned around. His eyes full of sorrow and regret. Tears filled them as he took one last look at the man that had been his greatest friend. "You where my brother Anakin. I loved you." A splash on the shore caught the cuff of Anakins pants, soon his whole body was engulfed in flames. And with that Obi-Wan-Kenobi walked away. He was dazed and felt lost. He found himself talking to his own master, though he knew he couldn't hear him. "Qui-Gon, could you have been the father he needed, the father he could look up to, instead of the brother he needed to surpass?" Obi- Wan Kenobi never looked back.

The scene changed. Jayden was in a medical room. Anakin's charred body laid on an operating table. He was fully awake as they attached the cybernetic limbs and black life support armor to his body. He screamed and writhed in agony. To keep anyone awake during this was inhuman at best. They placed the black respirator faceplate on him and, as the table rose, a helmet was paced on his head. He began breathing. It was heavy and labored. But it was breathing. A man in a black cloak walked to Vader. Jayden's eyes widened in horrified realization. His lips trembled and his knees grew weak. He couldn't believe the face he was seeing. "Lord Vader... can you hear me?"

"Yes, Master. Where is Padme? Is she safe? Is she all right?"

"It seems in your anger, you killed her."

"I...? I couldn't have! She was alive... I felt it!" The new dark lord ripped himself off the table and lumbered under the weight of his new mechanical limbs. They where heavy, and the workmanship appeared to be deliberately bad for reasons Jayden couldn't ascertain. Jayden couldn't see his face, but he could feel his emotions. Anger, hate, sorrow. He screamed all these in one, simple word. "Nooooooooooooooooooo!" Vials shattered and droids where crushed, the chosen one had lost control of his power along with his emotions. And with that Palpatine, the one, true, dark lord of the Sith turned and smiled at this, his ultimate victory. And then he looked at Jayden and it faded. He raised his hand and Jayden woke in more pain then he'd ever felt before.

"JAYDEN!" Ruby had been yelling and shaking his body for ten minutes now. He wouldn't wake up. Nothing she did could do it. "YANG! WEISS! SOME ONE HELP!" She was panicking. She needed to get him to wake up. His body suddenly began to shake violently. Was he having a seizure? Suddenly, he sat bolt upright and began breathing heavily. His heart was beating fast enough that she could visibly see it through his shirt. Weiss and Pyrah ran in the room. "Ruby what's wrong!" Weiss said. "I don't know! Jayden had been meditating for about four hours. I tried to get him up at the time he told me to but he wouldn't wake up. I tried for ten minutes when I think he started having a seizure!" Pyrah began checking Jayden's body for signs of injuries or concussion. "He looks fine, but it's almost like he was... Electrocuted?" Pyrah helped Jayden on his feet, his heart rate was slowing down now. He had to be held up by Pyrah though or else he'd fall. Ruby's eyes where wide in fear. "Jayden what happened?" Jayden got off Pyrah and leaned on Ruby's bed post. "I," he paused to take a deep breath, "I'm fine. I'll explain what happened after the meeting. You won't understand till then." He labored to raise his hand. A flash drive floated off the desk and slowly moved towards him. He grabbed his sword and used it as a walking stick as the four of them went to the debriefing room.

Jayden was disillusioned. Chancellor Palpatine, leader of the Galactic Republic, was a Sith Lord? No. If that was true then it was all a scam. The invasion of Naboo, the separatist movement, the Clone Wars, the attack on the temple. All orchestrated by one man, moving the entire galaxy like pawns in a chess game. The Jedi hadn't predicted it, and for their blindness they where destroyed.

Yang, Blake, and the rest of team JNPR where already in the debriefing room when Jayden got there. He was walking by himself now and his heart rate was back to normal. They were gathered around a holo display projector in the center of the room. They were talking, none of them sure why they where there except for Jaune. Weiss and Pyrah gathered with the rest while Jaune walked towards Ruby and Jayden. "So, ready to debrief them?" He asked. Jayden had made the best preparations he could given the little info he had. "Yeah. I've made holo displays with all the data I have." Jaune was still depressed. Things had only been getting worse since he decided to hang out with Cardin all the time. "We should get goin then. Let's tell them Ruby." The three of them walked towards the rest and Ruby started the meeting. "Guys, two days ago we received word that we'd be receiving our first mission early." The teams where shocked. They weren't supposed to receive missions until second semester. Ren was the first to voice what they where all thinking. "Why would we receive a mission so early?" Jaune stepped up to deliver the most shocking news of all. "Please direct all questions to Jayden, he'll be leading the mission." Again, they were surprised. Jayden knew the time was here. He decided to just rip the bandaid off. He inserted the flash drive to the holo display and a holographic image of the target lit up. "Several weeks ago the Schnee Dust company located a potential mine and, upon further exploration, a space craft of extra terrestrial origin." The group was silent, except for Yang. "Jayden, is that from-?" Jayden cut yang off. "Yes Yang. It's... It's from my galaxy." The group was silent. Now he had to explain it all. "Everyone, the truth is, I lied about being from outside the kingdoms. Well, not exactly a lie, but a half truth. Ten years ago I came to this world from another galaxy. I was part of an order of knights who guarded the Galactic Republic. For a thousand generations our order were the keepers of the peace. We served as everything from body guards for politicians and settlers of trade disputes to preventing full scale war. Until the end, when we became generals. Three years before I came here there was a large separatist movement. War was all but inevitable. To fight the hordes of the separatist droid army we created an army of our own. An army of Clones. Bred to be the perfect soldiers we, the Jedi, led them into battle for three very long, very bloody years. This ship some how crashed here sometime during that war. The Schnee dust co. asked we scout it to determine what it is, since they have no idea. But I've changed the mission parameters. Where destroying it. The tech is to dangerous to allow out side." Everyone was quiet. Blake was wide eyed and Norra looked utterly shocked, for once she was speechless. "You honestly expect us to believe such utter non sense?" Was Weiss's response. Jayden figured he'd have a hard time convincing her. "You tell us your an alien, that that ship is alien, and you expect us to just buy it?" Ruby stood up to his defense. "Weiss we can prove it!" Now Jayden was the one who was surprised. "How?" Weiss and Jayden both asked. She looked at Pyrrah and smiled. "Pyrrah, you know how to sense aura right? Well, Jayden doesn't have any."

"That's impossible! Every one has aura, it's the soul itself!" Ruby had this planed out perfectly. "It's a manifestation of the soul. Doesn't mean the soul has to manifest that way. Check out Jayden." Pyrah walked towards Jayden and placed a hand on his cheek. She closed her eyes and breathed deeply. Suddenly she was surrounded by a red light. Jayden remained unaffected. "I- I don't believe it. There's something there, but it's not aura." She stepped back. She wasn't sure how to interpret what she'd sensed. "That was the Force. It's similar to Aura yes, but vastly different." Ren stood up and moved towards the holo display. "That ship is obviously alien in origin. Plus if you don't have aura, that means you can't be from this world." He was right. There wasn't a single known case in history where a human didn't have an aura, normally it'd mean they didn't have a soul, and only Grimm didn't have souls. Many never utilized it, but all had it. Norra appeared to have accepted Jayden's revelation rather easily. "So how we going to smash something that big?"

"I believe I can help in that area." Jayden looked towards the entrance and saw professor Ozpin. "Jayden, what where you planning in those regards." Jayden turned toward the hologram, and pointed to the underbelly of the ship near the back. "The main fuel reactors should be located around there. If we manage to rupture them they'll form a chemical reaction with the air turning that ship and half the mine into a giant fire ball." Ozpin looked closer at the hologram and turned towards Jayden. "Besides the ship itself, which appears to be in a relatively functional state, there seems to be about one hundred individual energy signatures, not counting organics." Jayden yelled and smashed his fist on the display table. The image flickered for a second. "Great! One hundred fucking battle droids! What else? They got some Grimm to?" The teams where surprised by Jayden's sudden out burst. Ozpin adjusted his glasses and took over the debriefing. "In two weeks time you will be sent to these coordinates to begin your mission. You will go through intensive training tomorrow to learn to fight the new enemies you will face." He turned towards Jayden. "I suggest you be ready." And with that he and Jayden both walked away. Yang turned towards Ruby. "Something's wrong." And followed him.

"We where idiots!" Jayden yelled as he cut a boarbatusk in half with his lightsaber. An Ursa rushed him from the left but Jayden jumped and shot it with a powerful arc of electricity. "We where blind, and arrogant, and stupid!" He'd come out to the forest to blow off steam. It all made sense now. The Jedi, the Republic, the Separatists, they'd all been played by Palpatine. He'd been directing both sides to drag out the war and grant himself more and more emergency powers until he was already an emperor in all but name. Palpatine had been the man in his first vision. He couldn't see his face in the hologram and his voice wasn't enough for him to recognize, but in that vision he induced earlier he'd seen the literal past. Jayden had an exceedingly rare ability known as force flow where ones essence can, with meditation, travel back in time, though only to observe. Palpatine was scared and disfigured, but it was him, he could feel it. The Ursa lay on the ground, it's breathing slow. Jayden looked at it, and cut its paw off with his ninjato so it would bleed out. He didn't want it to just die, he wanted it to suffer. "Jayden that's enough. Put it out of its misery." Yang walked up to Jayden. They where in the clearing they'd fought in the other day. "Why! It's just a monster. Why doesn't it deserve to suffer?" Jayden was furious. Hatred filled him. He hated Palpatine for using them, the separatist and republic for falling into his trap, and the Jedi for not seeing it. Yang activated Ember Cecilia and shot the monster in the head. "If you act this way towards monsters, eventually you will become one. Jayden, what's wrong. You've never been this way before. You aren't this kind of person."

"Am I? Guess you really can't tell who any one is then!" She walked closer to him, Ember Cecilia still active. "Jayden what are you talking about? You've been out of it since the meeting now your cutting down anything that moves?" Jayden was seething. "I found out what happened to the Jedi! Chancellor Palpatine, the Chancellor of the Republic, was a Sith Lord! God we where idiots!" He was actually laughing now, the stress finally getting the better of him. "We couldn't even tell the one behind it all was in front of us the entire time! We deserved it, in our arrogance we believed all the rumors people spread. How we where all powerful and invincible." Yang walked towards him, she tried to grab his shoulder to comfort him. In his rage he raised his hand and sent her flying back several yards. She slammed into a tree hard enough to crack it. She got up, her right arm hung loosely at her side, in his rage he'd dislocated it. He ran towards her to help her. "Yang! I'm sorry! I didn-." She punched him in the face and he fell on the ground. "Fine then, when your done having your fit come back to the dorm room so we can talk. She turned around and walked toward the school. Her eyes where Violet.

Yang had long since left, he was sitting on the rock he'd placed his stuff on the other day scolding himself for his actions."Why the hell did I do that!" He was angry at himself now as well. He'd hurt Yang, the only one who tried to comfort him. He couldn't forgive himself for that. "Jayden." Jayden stood up and ignited his saber. He hadn't sensed anyone so the voice startled him. "Whose there! Yang, you come back?"

"Jayden, go to the ruins." Jayden unsheathed his ninjato. He couldn't sense anyone so he had no idea what direction they where in. "I said whose there!" The trees where still. It was the middle of the night, you could just see the shattered moon through the tree tops. Jayden started going over plans in his head. He could try and run to the school, it's cowardly but he couldn't fight a person he couldn't see. But first he had to figure out where this person was. "Why do you want me to go to the ruins?" Jayden was stalling, if this guy kept talking he might figure out where he was. "You must complete the trials of knighthood Jayden, only then can your training truly begin." Jayden tensed, his eyes widened and a cold sweat broke out on his fore head. The trials? No one on this planet knew about those. So how did... "Who are you! Show yourself!" He still didn't show himself. Jayden's hand a where still arcing with electricity, he raised his hand and walked forward, he had to find this guy, he could be a serious threat to Jayden's presence on Remnant. "You won't find me Jayden. But fear not, I am a friend of a friend."

"Mind giving me a name jack ass?" Suddenly the trees began to rustle violently. Jayden rose several feet off the ground. "My name, Jayden, is Qui-Gon-Jinn."