Whaaat? Chapter 10 already? Wow! This story if officially not only my longest fanfiction to date, but also my longest story i've ever written ever, so I'm really excited about it. So enjoy chapter 10! YAY!
Last time, on A Not-So-Normal Week: Anakin played dead, Ahsoka and Anakin went to a pumpkin fest, Anakin has a giant pony collection, and Ahsoka laughed hysterically at his pony collection.
This time, on A Not-So-Normal Week: Everyone is really bored, so they desperately seek things to do...
A Not-So-Normal Week
Chapter 10: We're ALWAYS Bored!
"POKE WAR!" Ahsoka declared.
"You're on!"
The two began poking each other with furious enthusiasm. However, it became quickly boring. They soon slowed to a stop.
"That was pointless." Anakin muttered.
"I thought it was fun." Ahsoka said, lightly poking him in the arm.
"Seriously, enough now." Anakin said.
"Fine," Ahsoka replied, "If that's so 'boring,'" She made air quotes around "boring," "What should we do?"
Anakin thought for a moment. "Is it just me or are we always bored?"
"We're always bored." Ahsoka replied, sighing and resting her head in her hands.
Anakin nodded.
In the bored silence Ahsoka began to hum a Christmas song.
"Snips, it's only October." He said as Ahsoka continued to hum "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas."
Ahsoka briefly paused her humming, "So?" She said, picking up her song where she left off.
"So… it's too early for Christmas songs." He replied.
"Too early? Master, there's already Christmas stuff in the mall." She started to hum "Frosty the Snowman."
Anakin groaned. "I'm going to go do something else."
"Like what? There's nothing to do around here." Ahsoka said, now humming "Jingle Bells."
"Good point," Anakin muttered. "We really need to find something to do."
The two sat in silence for ten minutes straight… until they were startled by the doorbell. Ahsoka jumped slightly. "I wonder who that could be," She wondered aloud.
Anakin opened the door. It was Captain Rex. "Hi Rex. What are you doing here?" Anakin greeted him.
"I was-"
"Bored? Us too. There's never anything to do around here!" Anakin wailed.
"Yeah, you guessed it." Rex replied. He took off his helmet. "Where's Ahsoka?" He asked.
"She's in the dining room humming Christmas songs." Anakin said with a dramatic rolling of his eyes.
"Isn't it-"
"Too early for Christmas songs? Yep."
Anakin walked into the dining room leaving Rex slightly stunned. Rex was always in awe of Jedi abilities, and they took him by surprise most of the time.
Rex ran to catch up to him and found Ahsoka paging through a magazine humming yet another Christmas song.
"What'cha reading?" Rex asked, taking a seat next to her.
"It's a magazine called 101 Things To Do When You're Bored." She said, flipping the page.
"It's really called that?" Rex asked in amazement.
"Yeah. Look," Ahsoka closed the magazine and showed Rex the brightly colored front page.
"Have you ever done any of the things?" Rex asked, peeking over her shoulder to look at the page.
Ahsoka sighed. "We've done all hundred and one- twice." She said, "And the next issue doesn't come out until next month."
"Just do them again." Rex said.
Ahsoka turned to him. "Why do something you've already done twice if after the second time it's boring then what's the point because something that's supposed to make you not bored makes you more bored and then you're more bored then you were when you were just bored."
"Huh?" Rex said with a strange facial expression. He hadn't understood a word.
Ahsoka groaned. "Never mind." Rex spotted a glimmer in Ahsoka's eyes. She must have some idea.
Ahsoka suddenly smirked and pulled out a small camera. "Smile!" She exclaimed, and snapped a picture of Rex's stunned and shocked expression.
With Ahsoka laughing hysterically, Rex snatched her camera and snapped a picture of her.
Ahsoka laughed harder and grabber her camera back. "Oh, Master!" She called in an almost musical voice.
Anakin came in. "What is it, Ahsoka?" He asked.
"SMILE!" Ahsoka cried, and she snapped a picture of him.
"Hey!" Anakin cried.
Ahsoka giggled and stuffed her camera into her belt pocket.
"How much stuff can that pocket of yours hold, anyways?" Anakin exclaimed.
"Depends on how I put it in there. You want to see inside?" Ahsoka asked.
"How?" Anakin inquired.
Ahsoka unclipped the pocket from her belt and set it on the floor. She opened it and jumped inside.
"Ahsoka?" Anakin cried, looking inside. He saw nothing but darkness.
"Come on in, there's plenty of room!" Came Ahsoka's voice from inside.
"Um, ok…" Anakin said. He jumped inside and Rex followed.
"Whoa," Anakin and Rex exclaimed in unison. The space was enormous. It was like a whole city down there, all full of Ahsoka's junk. You couldn't see the end in any direction.
Anakin and Rex stared in awe and stunned silence.
"What's gotten into you two?" Ahsoka asked, waving her hands in their faces.
They didn't answer.
"Come on, let's go into my house." Ahsoka said.
"You have a whole house down here?" Anakin asked.
"Yeah. I keep most of stuff down here. If I kept it all in my room at the Temple I would run out of room."
The three went into Ahsoka's house. It was decorated with lots of pretty pink and neon green decorations and furnishings.
Anakin picked up an object. "So that's where my CD player went." He glared at Ahsoka as she flushed dark red.
"I was only borrowing it." Ahsoka insisted.
"Yeah, for six months?" Anakin countered.
"Uhmmmm,"
"Told you. I'm taking it back." Anakin set it on the table so he wouldn't forget it later.
"You know what's really cool down here?" Ahsoka asked excitedly.
"What?" They replied in unison.
"I can control the time of day." Ahsoka led them outside and pressed a button. The gray walls of the pocket turned bright blue and a sun shone overhead. She pressed it again and the walls darkened and stars twinkled.
"That's really cool." Anakin said.
"Thank you," Ahsoka replied, turning the time back to afternoon, "But it gets boring down here after a while." Ahsoka said.
"Maybe we could go back to the Temple?" Anakin asked.
Ahsoka laughed. "We're in the Temple, remember?" She spoke, of course, of her pocket being in the Temple.
"Oh right," Anakin replied.
Ahsoka led them to a certain spot marked out with red tape. "Now, you stand there, one at a time, and jump." Ahsoka said.
Anakin stood and jumped, and he found himself suddenly out of the pocket. Ahsoka did the same followed by Rex.
"That was really, really weird, but kind of fun." Rex said.
Ahsoka nodded, clipped the pocket back onto her belt, closed the flap, and pressed the snap down. "Let's hope it stays down. Sometimes moving things around can make it a little shaky." She said.
Anakin chuckled. "I'm sure it will be fine." He said.
"Does this mean we have nothing to do again?" Rex asked in a whining voice.
Ahsoka's shoulders slumped and her expression dimmed. "Yep, we're bored again."
"Naturally." Anakin retorted with an exasperated sigh.
"Is it just me or has it been a really long time since we've gotten a mission?" Ahsoka wondered aloud. "I mean, everyone's always here."
"For some reason it seems the Separatists aren't attacking." Anakin said, "But it isn't just you. I've noticed it too."
At a Separatist base in the Outer Rim…
"HA! Yahtzee! I'm sure to win now." Ventress laughed evilly.
Dooku stuck out his tongue, "Just you wait! And you didn't get sixty-three points on top like I did, so you didn't get the extra thirty-five! I'm going to win."
"Are not!"
"Are too!"
"ARE NOT!"
"ARREEE TOOOOOO!"
Back at the Jedi Temple…
"Somehow I have the feeling they won't attack for a while." Anakin said.
"How do you know?" Ahsoka asked uncertainly.
"Eh, I've just got this feeling…" Anakin said.
"Fine. Well there's gotta be something to do around here. Something that's actually useful. If we don't find something to do, we might die of boredom!" She pretended to get stabbed by a dagger and fell over.
"You're so overdramatic." Anakin muttered.
"But we are bored." Rex pointed out.
"True. But sitting around talking about being bored is even more boring so why do it?" Anakin said.
"Maybe we should wait for another one of those flyers to come floating by like the pumpkin fest one." Ahsoka suggested.
"Well there's nothing else to do." Anakin muttered.
So they sat and waited.
Three hours later…
Anakin drowsily leaned his head on his hands. This was never going to work. Rex had taken out a portable game device and had been playing for the past three hours. Ahsoka's head was on the table and she was asleep, snoring loudly.
Sleep threatened to take Anakin too, but he kept awake. Finally, however, he gave up waiting.
"Guys, let's face it. There's no way a paper is going to come floating along to give us something to do." Anakin said.
Ahsoka made a grunting noise in her sleep and awoke. She rubbed her eyes. "You say something, Skyguy?" She asked sleepily.
"I'm done waiting." He said, "Nothing is ever going to come."
Ahsoka took a glance around the room and suddenly burst out laughing. "No wonder nothing's showing up!" She hopped out of her chair and walked over to the other side of the room. "The window's not open!" The Padawan opened the window, letting a swift burst of wind through.
Anakin watched and suddenly a paper smacked him in the face and got stuck by the wind. He pulled it off. "Are you bored? Do you have nothing to do? Well, I would hate to be you because I have no idea what you should do! HAHA!" The flyer read.
Ahsoka's expression went from hopeful to miserable. "That's all it says?" She asked incredulously.
Anakin sighed. "Yep. That's all it says."
"That's not very nice." Ahsoka said sadly.
"YES! Level six hundred thirty-five!" Rex screamed.
Ahsoka and Anakin stared at him, frozen in shock.
Rex glanced at them sheepishly. "Hehe, I got to the next level!" He said.
"At least you have something to do." Ahsoka pouted. "I'm bored out of my mind! It's going to drive me insane sooner or later."
"You're already insane, Ahsoka." Anakin said.
"EVERYONE'S INSANE!" Master Windu's voice came out of nowhere. Turns out he had burst through the door and after shouting he left.
Ahsoka snuck a glance at Anakin. He wasn't looking at her, so she darted into the kitchen and made a cup of coffee. She quickly drank it and came back before Anakin realized she was gone.
"So, what are we going to do?" Ahsoka asked, bubbling with energy.
"Hm, I don't know. Last time I checked we all had nothing to do." Anakin muttered.
"Nonsense! There's plenty to do!" Ahsoka cried, jumping up and down. Her whole body was shaking madly from the caffeine.
"Ahsoka…" Anakin said with a raised eyebrow. Something's not right here, he thought to himself.
Ahsoka suddenly put on a pirate hat. "ARG, Maties! We shall attack! Because we are PIRATES!" She cried. She ran out of the room.
Anakin stared, frozen in shock.
Rex suddenly came out of the kitchen. "Hey, General?" He asked Anakin.
"What is it, Rex?" Anakin replied.
Rex did not say a word, but held up a single, empty, used coffee cup.
Anakin frowned. "Ahsoka!" He shouted angrily.
Anakin chased after his Padawan, but she had a huge head start. He found her in the auditorium. She had set up the stage with a pirate set and was fighting with wooden swords against Obi-Wan.
"Ahsoka, stop!" Obi-Wan was shouting, "I don't want to play pirates right now!"
"Ye can't escape me pirate attack!" Ahsoka cried, charging at him again with the wooden sword.
The monkey orchestra was playing dramatic pirate music as they dueled.
Anakin knew there was only one way to stop this. He put on a pirate costume himself and Force jumped right behind Ahsoka.
"Surrender, you evil pirate!" Anakin cried, taking out a wooden sword of his own.
"Never!" Ahsoka cried, turning her attention from Obi-Wan to Anakin.
Obi-Wan heaved a sigh of relief and took a seat in the audience chairs. Soon, Jedi began to peek in and come sit down to watch, and no sooner than that was the entire auditorium full of over three hundred Jedi.
"Alas, maties! We will defeat your dirty ways soon!" Ahsoka shouted, pushing her wooden sword hard against Anakin's.
"I think not!" Anakin declared. He thrust his sword forward, knocking Ahsoka back. Then he broke the flag pole and let it fall down, landing on Ahsoka's stomach. She let out a cry, and tried to escape, but she was trapped.
The crowd erupted in tremendous cheers, and Anakin held up his sword in sweet victory. The crowd quickly left until only Obi-Wan was left.
"Hey!" Ahsoka cried weakly. "Isn't someone going to help me get out of here?"
"Oops, sorry," Anakin said, lifting the heavy pole off of her.
Ahsoka breathed a sigh of relief. "That's much better."
"Why did you drink coffee?" Anakin shouted at her.
"I was thirsty." Ahsoka replied simply.
"Well, water is much more refreshing." Anakin said.
"Whatever. But at least that gave us something to do." Ahsoka said.
"For a minute anyway." Anakin muttered.
"It's getting kind of late. Should we have dinner?" Ahsoka asked.
"Yeah. I'm starving." Anakin replied.
So the two went to the cafeteria, where a few hundred other Jedi were eating dinner as well. Luckily, it was a large cafeteria.
Ahsoka and Anakin both ordered some warm chicken soup and sat down to eat.
It didn't take them long to eat, and they were hungry so they didn't really talk that much.
Ahsoka finished her soup and pushed away her empty bowl. "That was good," She said with a satisfied sigh.
"I agree," Anakin replied, finishing his as well.
"What should we do now?" Ahsoka asked.
"How am I supposed to know?" Anakin replied, "There's never anything to do."
Ahsoka nodded sadly. "I know."
Suddenly the two heard music. It was a catchy song that happened to be Ahsoka's favorite at the time. "Oh! That's my phone!" She said. She pulled out her green and pink phone. "Hello? This is Ahsoka speaking." She said.
Anakin tried to listen but heard nothing.
All he could hear was Ahsoka replying to the person on the other line. "Uh, huh. Uh, huh… yeah, mm hm… REALLY? Just a second let me ask him!"
Oh great, what was it this time? "Master! Barriss invited me to a sleepover tonight! Can I go? Please, please, please, PLEASE?" Ahsoka begged him.
"Well, I don't see why not-"
"THANK YOU!" Ahsoka literally screamed, making several of the Jedi at nearby tables stare at them awkwardly.
"He said yes!" Ahsoka said into the phone. "Alright! See you then!" Ahsoka hung up the phone. She got out of her chair and bounced up and down excitedly. "Let's go, Master! I need to pack up my stuff!" Ahsoka cried.
"Alright, let's go-" Anakin said as Ahsoka grabbed his arm and pulled him swiftly along. "Ahhhh!" Anakin shrieked. "I can walk!" Ahsoka rolled her eyes and let him go. Then she took off walking very quickly back to their quarters.
Ahsoka burst through the door and went to pack her stuff. Rex had left earlier, and while they didn't know where he currently was, he had left their quarters.
Ahsoka was finished in ten minutes flat.
"You sure you didn't forget anything?" Anakin asked her.
"Nope."
"You have your pajamas?"
"Yep."
"Toothbrush and toothpaste?"
"Yep."
"Deodorant?"
"Maaaster." Ahsoka groaned.
"Just checking! And you have everything else you want to bring?"
"YES. Now can we go?"
"Alright." The two left the room and were soon at Luminara and Barriss's quarters.
"Hi." Anakin said. Ahsoka rushed in as soon as the door was opened.
"Hello, Skywalker." Luminara greeted him.
"So when should I come and pick Ahsoka up in the morning?" Anakin asked.
"Any time is fine. She can stay until after lunch if you would like." Luminara replied.
"Alright. I'll call you when I'm on my way." Anakin said, and they exchanged goodbye's and left.
Luminara went into the living room. Barriss had also invited Chuchi, who she had become friends with through Ahsoka. So they were all there, best friends. "Alright, girls," Luminara said, "I am going to be in my room all night either working or sleeping, so I won't bother you, but if you need anything let me know."
"Alright." Ahsoka and Chuchi said together.
"Good night, Master." Barriss said. Luminara left.
Ahsoka, Barriss, and Chuchi all giggled. "This is going to be sooooo much fun!" Ahsoka said.
"Yeah!" Chuchi agreed.
"So what should we do?" Barriss asked. "You guys can pick."
"Maybe we should watch a movie?" Ahsoka suggested.
"Oooh! Sounds fun!" Chuchi agreed.
So they put on a movie and talked and laughed while watching. By the time the movie was done, it was nine p.m.
"Wow, it isn't that late yet." Ahsoka said, pointing to the clock.
"Yep. We've got lots of time to do stuff!" Barriss said.
"Let's play a game!" Chuchi said.
"Like what?" Barriss asked.
"Apples to Apples!" Ahsoka suggested.
"I love that game!" Chuchi said.
Barriss agreed, so they got out the game. They had the all exclusive Jedi edition of the game.
Ahsoka picked the first green card. "The word is fuzzy. Fluffy or furry." She read off the card.
Barriss and Chuchi looked through their cards and both handed one in.
Ahsoka looked at the cards. "Lightsabers, or Yoda?" They all burst out laughing. "Neither are fuzzy!" Ahsoka said, still laughing. "But out of the both of them, Yoda is more fuzzy, so I pick Yoda."
Still giggling, Chuchi announced, "That was my card." And after another round of laughter, Chuchi took her green card.
Barriss took a green card next. "The word is annoying. Bothersome or irritating."
Ahsoka snorted slightly. "I've got the perfect card." She said with a mischievous giggle.
They handed in their cards. Barriss read the cards. "Anakin Skywalker or snowstorms?" They all laughed hysterically.
"I hope no one considers this offensive, but I have to go with Anakin Skywalker." Barriss said. They all laughed harder.
"That was mine!" Ahsoka declared between laughs. Ahsoka got the green card.
Chuchi picked up a green card next. "The word is dull. Boring or colorless."
Ahsoka and Barriss handed in the cards and Chuchi looked at them. "Droids, or door knobs?" They all laughed the hardest ever.
"I think droids are boring." Chuchi said, so Barriss got the card.
They all played for a while longer, then got tired of it. It was now nine forty-five.
"What should we do now?" Ahsoka asked.
"I've got a wonderful idea…" Barriss said with a big grin.
:D to find out what happens at the sleepover, along with many other things, stay tuned for chapter 11!