Well, it's officially been a year since OotB was first published, I'd like to personally thank each and every one of you for sticking with it for this long and giving this story a chance. This chapter pays a bit of homage to Savage Opress, whom I finally got as a figure a couple days ago. I find his story kinda sad, I may add him in the ch's to come as a character, wait and see. Disclaimer: Blah blah bah, don't own anything beyond OC's, blah blah blah, Property of George Lucas, yada yada, ok, I'm done.

Chapter 10

Sparks of Romance

It was early in the afternoon when Ahsoka entered her room and dropped onto her bed after a long day of lightsaber warm ups. Bored and with nothing to do, she picks up her Holoprojecter from her bedside nightstand and tunes into the HoloNet channel, unaware that the small Spy Droid carefully monitors her while hidden behind her book shelf.

"Murder on Toydaria." The most recent news article reads. "All of the citizens of Toydaria were swept up in panic two days ago as their beloved ruler, King Katuunko, was brutally murdered in his own palace. Several eye witnesses report seeing a large, yellow skinned Zabrak male proceeding out of the palace pursued by Jedi Generals Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker. The Zabrak in question was also seen carrying what witnesses described as a double-bladed red lightsaber. Whether or not this assassin was employed by Count Dooku as punishment towards the King's refusal to join the Separatists is still under thorough investigation by the Jedi Order."

"Wait a second," Ahsoka begins to think to herself. "He looks almost like..."

"Darth Maul."

A few short seconds after those words left her, the Spy Droid in surprise towards hearing the Zabrak's name knocks over a book it hid behind, attracting the Padawan's attention and view towards it with shock. It then quickly makes for an open window on the left, but is quickly stuck down by the spinning green blade tossed at it by Ahsoka. Looking down at the remnants of the destroyed robot, Ahsoka switches off her weapon with a look of shock upon her face.

"I knew it." She says with her previous suspicions now as clear as day. The Sith were tapping in on her communications with Riyo and Adam. The only question remaining was for how long?

"Well, this is both good and bad news"


November 1st, 2010, 4:30 PM

Adam carefully drags the damaged and deactivated Commander Droid through the living room with Riyo handling its legs. His parents were out buying groceries while Alysha was at a friend's house which made today the prefect opportunity to get to work on repairing the two droids they had picked up the day they were attacked. Once in the kitchen, they place the robot gently next to the inactive Droideka onto of the kitchen table.

"So, remind me why we're doing this again?" Riyo asks her male friend.

"Well, I always wondered what it would be like to own my own personal Battle Droid." Adam answers. "I guess I'm just as into machines as Anakin is. Plus if we do manage to fix these guys up, they could help us be prepared for another droid attack like last time."

"How would they help with that?"

"I don't know, they may be able to still contact Count Dooku across vast distances or detect incoming ships, worth a shot, right?"

"I guess so."

Taking out various tools from a red tool box lent from Glynn and get to work. Adam uses a screwdriver to repair assorted pieces of machinery inside the hole of the Commander Droid, which he had made with a blaster fire to it's chest, while Riyo carefully reconnects a few uncovered wires inside apart of the Droideka's uncovered head.

Glancing away from her work for a moment, she then notices something different about her friend she hadn't ever seen before. The color of his thick and lush brown hair, the look of determination and will in his hazel blue eyes, it was all just right there in front of her. Suddenly, a small spark of electricity erupts from the Droideka head snapping her back to reality but also gaining Adam's attention.

"You ok?"

"Yeah, just attached the wrong wire I guess." She makes up to avoid embarrassment.

After thirty minutes of working, the droids are in as good condition as they can make them.

"Okay, on three. Ready?" He says with his finger over the start up button of the Commander Droid as Riyo does the same with the Droideka.

"Yep." She complies.

"One, two.. three."

Both press the buttons on their separate droids as each rise to life and overlook the area they find themselves in.

"Huh? Where am I?" The Commander Droid says in confusion turning his head in all directions. He then sets his gaze upon a familiar individual.

"Hey, I remember you. You're that boy who shot at my chest with a blaster."

"Yeah, that's right." Adam answers the machine. "We brought the two of you back to my house to repair and reprogram you. You two are now programed with the directive of serving and protecting my friends and family. Can you comply with that?"

"Ye... yes. I sense I have been given new programming. In that case, it's my pleasure to serve and protect you, Master.. uh..."

"You can call me Adam." He says to the droid. "A pleasure to be with you too... um, what is your identification?"

"Oh, I am MK-18, Master Adam."

"Ok, nice to meet you MK. And you are?" He says now facing the Droideka.

The machine then begins to speak in a complicated droid dialect that neither him nor Riyo can understand.

"Uh, sorry, didn't quite catch that."

"He says his ID is DK-92 and he too has found the programming you've installed in him." MK translates.

"Alright, great to meet you, DK. This is Riyo Chuchi, you've no doubt heard of her through your previous instructions to capture her from Count Dooku. You are to listen to anything she asks of you and to assist any of my friends and family should they ask for it. Also, are you two still able to detect incoming signals from nearby ships?"

"I believe so, sir."

"Good, you are also to inform us ahead of time of impending invasions when they are detected near our planet. Got all that?"

"Yes, sir."

"Awesome. Now, your first official tasks should be..."

Just at that moment, Teresa and Glynn come through the front door with bags of groceries in hand.

"Hey guys!" Teresa calls to the two teens.

"Hey Mom! Perfect timing. Your first tasks are to assist my mom and dad with those bags they have."

"Roger Roger." The Commander replies.

They then proceed to follow their commands while Riyo and Adam head back to Adam's room.


The two Force powered teens walk into the blue painted room, Riyo plops herself onto Adam's bed while Adam picks out 3 DVD cases each with designs and characters resembling Anakin, Obi-Wan and many numerous others.

"So these movies pick up where Episode 2 left off?" Riyo asks.

"Essentially, one in particular shows how Ahsoka got her start as Anakin's Padawan."

"No kidding?"

"Yep, I'll start with the first volume of Clone Wars." Adam then inserts the DVD into his Playstation 2 and takes a seat nearby Riyo.

While watching, they view many pivotal moments in the war, the Battle of Muunilinst, Mon Calamari, and various Republic campaigns to many outer-rim worlds in peril. One battle of extreme importance was the duel on Yavin 4 between Anakin and Dooku's assassin Asajj Ventress, the first of many they would soon have. Just when Anakin seemed defeated when Ventress had knocked his lightsaber from his hand, he manages to rip on of her own from hers and when fueled by evident anger and fury, causes the ground to quake beneath her and sends her spiraling toward a deep chasm below. Adam and Riyo knew however this would not be the last Anakin would hear of this mysterious and dangerous Force Adept. The final battle shown before the end of the movie was of General Grevious's debut into the war against 5 Jedi, when only remained standing, Ki-Ai-Mundi, the battle quickly changes to Yoda looking out a window towards a stormy day on Coruscant with a look of shock, almost as if he could feel the battle light years away. The movie ends and Adam pushes the eject button.

"Wait, that's where it ends?" Riyo asks a bit confused.

"Yeah, now we have to Volume 2 to find out what happens." He quickly replaces the previous disc with the newer one and the movie starts.

They see the climactic conclusion of the battle on the previous movie. The Clone Troopers manage to rescue Master Mundi along with an injured Shaak Ti and Aayla Secura, the rest were presumed dead. (But the Whiphid Jedi K'Kruhk actually survives his duel with Grievous well into the era of the New Jedi Order... even further too!) After experiencing a vision of Qui-Gon and a younger Anakin, Master Yoda along with the rest of the Jedi Council agree to promote Anakin to the rank of Jedi Knight.

Anakin arrives at the Jedi Temple as summoned with his master looking out at the city below.

"Anakin, you're late." He says to his Padawan.

He sighs in frustration and faces the window.

"When the council requests your presence, it is always of great importance."

"If I'm late for another scolding, does it really matter?"

"Scolding? You're not a little boy anymore, but as long as you are my student, you will heed my wisdom."

"You're right, I'm not a little boy, and as far as your wisdom goes, you're not Qui-Gon Jinn!"

This one remark leaves a saddened and shocked look upon his masters face, earning a look of guilt on his own.

"Master, forgive me, I.. I didn't mean.."

"I know, I miss him too. Not a day goes by that I don't look to his wisdom for guidance. I've done my best to pass his training to you, and in our time together, you have proven to me that you are capable of all he believed you would be. And now we must leave our roles as master and student. It is time we became... brothers."

"Master?"

The door to the council chambers then opens mysteriously with a confused Anakin wondering what was going on. He walks into the pitch black room with the door closing behind them. Suddenly, the room lights up with a glow of all the lightsabers of the members of the Jedi Council, including that of a proud and happy Obi-Wan.

"Step forward, Padawan." Yoda calls to him as the young man kneels down before the old and wise Jedi Master as all the Jedi lower their swords ceremoniously.

"Anakin Skywalker," Yoda says while placing his lightsaber over each of his shoulders in a British knighting sort of way. "by the right of the council, by the will of the Force, dub thee I do... Jedi..." He then severs his Padawan braid from his head which falls onto the floor. "...Knight of the Republic."

Anakin then rises up in pride and joy, knowing that his long awaited dream for him and his mother had at last come true: He was a Jedi Knight.

Later at a Republic landing bay, the newly Knighted Anakin meets his old droid friend R2-D2 as a holographic display of Padmé appears presenting him as a gift to him. He then out of passion cradles her image with his metal hand. Afterwords, a yellow Jedi Starfighter carrying R2 and Anakin lifts off from the landing bay and shoots off into the sky, ready for whatever the war had in store for them. Then, before the movie can go any further, Adam switches it off.

"Wait, why did you turn it off?" Riyo asks wondering why he did so.

"Well, there's content that takes place AFTER the one featuring Ahsoka, in fact, back before that movie came out, I don't even think her character was developed, which is kinda why she doesn't show up in anything else besides the Clone Wars movie and TV series."

"Oh, alright then."

Once again, Adam switches the discs in his Playstation and starts up the new movie. It detailed information and battles Riyo had heard of before but never really experienced first hand, like the battle of Christophsis where Ahsoka made her debut in the war and as a Padawan, the struggle to have Jabba the Hutt annex the Hutt Clan into the Republic, and rescuing his son Rotta from the clutches of Count Dooku and the Separatists. In the end, it all turned out for the better with Rotta being returned to his father and the Hutts joining the Republic and allowing them the use of their hyperspace lanes.

After it ended, Adam then reinserts the Clone Wars Volume 2 disc to continue where they left off. It details a mission Anakin and Obi-Wan take to the outer-rim world of Nelvaan in search for General Grievous. But what they find there is far from what they expected. The men of the Rokrul Village had disappeared for some reason and had not returned, so Anakin was sent to discover their fates. He eventually enters a dark cave and experiences dark visions of a horrible future to come. Soon afterwords, he discovers a Techno Union laboratory where the men of the tribe were mutated and manipulated as slaves for the Separatists. Anakin is able to break their hold over them and helps them return to their families back home. Meanwhile, on the other side of the galaxy, an all out Separatist invasion of Coruscant takes place with General Grievous succeeding in kidnapping Chancellor Palpatine and fleeing the planet. The movie ends with Anakin and Obi-Wan being informed of the Chancellor's abduction and the Republic fleet scrambling to arrange a rescue.

"So, any questions?" Adam asks his Pantoran friend after the film ends.

"Yes, has all of this yet to occur, the battle of Coruscant and the Chancellor being kidnapped?"

"Well, as far as I can tell with what Ahsoka's been giving us through war updates, yeah, it hasn't happened yet."

"Speaking of Ahsoka, you seemed pretty excited to talk with her when you two first met."

"Yeah... well the reason behind that is... I sorta had a bit of a crush on her for a while ever since she appeared in the Clone Wars movie."

This one comment catches Riyo off guard for a moment. He had a crush on one of her closest friends? But did he still have those feelings for her? It was very nerve wrecking for her to wonder.

"You had a crush on her? Meaning... you don't anymore?"

"Well... "

"Guys!" Teresa calls out to the two teens. "Dinner's on the table!"

"Um..." Adam manages to mumble for a moment. "Let's go eat."

"Ye... yeah, sure."

The two then head out of the room towards the kitchen.


November 1st, 2010, 9:00 PM

Riyo switches on her holoprojecter onboard her ship and the image of Ahsoka appears before her.

"Hey." She says to her Padawan companion.

"Hey, so how did reprogramming the droids go? Can they still pick up signals from Separatists ships?"

"As far as we can tell, yes. Let's just hope we never get any more attacks like last month." A troubled frown then makes itself clear upon the young Senator's face.

"Hey," Ahsoka says worried for her friend's current state. "You ok?"

"Yeah... it's just... well.."

"What is it?"

"Well, I'm not sure if this is right, but... I think I may be having feelings for Adam."

"Really?"

"Yeah, I kinda noticed it when we were repairing the droids and when he said that he at one point had a crush on you."

"Wait a second! He said that he had a crush on me? Like literally said it to your face?" She says with a little concern.

"Yeah, problem with that?"

"Uh, no, no... just never assumed he felt that way about me."

"That's the point! I'm just so confused about that fact that I may like this boy and whether or not he may feel the same. And even if he does, is it really the right thing to do with our Jedi training? What if I start to get obsessed with keeping him safe like Anakin did with Padmé?"

"Riyo! Calm down." Ahsoka calls to her friend, managing to get her to relax a bit.

"Right, sorry. I'm just so confused right now."

"Well I don't know exactly what to tell you about your "boy troubles", but I can ease your mind about the whole feeling compassion for another issue."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, my Master told me a couple minutes before Adam and you were attacked that feeling compassion and love for another isn't necessarily a bad thing, it only will become dangerous if you let it consume you and your way of thinking. And if it's truly a blessed and joyful bond, then use that love as strength to keep them and yourself safe."

"Yo... you're absolutely right. Just because I may like Adam doesn't mean it will cause me to turn to the Dark Side, I just have to know how far to go with those feelings and not let it take over my life. Thanks, Ahsoka."

"Glad I could help."

"Have you managed to find out if the Sith were listening in on our conversations?" Riyo then asks.

"Yeah, I just sliced a Separatist class spy droid trying to escape my room earlier this afternoon. The only problem is: How long were they listening in and Who was close enough to deploy it?"

"I don't know, but now that they know we're on to them, they might up their attempts to reestablish compromization, also, I think I may have an idea of what the Separatists plan for the future may be. The reason for all the outer-rim attacks is to lure the Jedi away from the capitol leaving Coruscant virtually defenseless, therefore making the capture of the Chancellor a walk in the park."

"So, in other words, keep a close watch on things back in the capitol?"

"It's the only lead we have for the time being, besides, I have a feeling that the true threat we face may lie behind friendly borders."

"I'll keep a close eye for any suspicious activity here, what movie's next up?"

"Episode III. And it takes places after the invasion of Coruscant when Anakin and Obi-Wan attempt to rescue the Chancellor."

"Alright, I think we may be getting very close to some answers here. I gotta go, Bye!"

"See ya."

The image of the Togruta Padawan then fades away from view leaving the Pantoran girl alone with her thoughts.

"I know the next movie has something big in store..." She thinks to herself. "I just don't know if I'll be able to handle it when I see it."


"She WHAT?"

"I apologize, My Lord" Count Dooku says attempting to calm his master's rage. "It was an unforeseeable mistake, I can deploy another spy droid if it pleases you."

"You will do no such thing, Lord Tyranus! Clearly mistakes are all that you are capable of these days, need I remind you of the incident that your former assassin created with that Zabrak monster?"

"You.. heard of that, My Lord?"

"How could I not? It was all over the HoloReports when King Katuunko's death was announced to the public. Strange though, how he resembled my apprentice that served me before you... you... wouldn't happen to know how that feral creature came to be, would you?"

"Not at all, My Lord."

"Well then, returning to the matter with the spy droid Young Tano destroyed, I myself will take to correcting this error we've encountered. When the connection has been reestablished, you are to continue as before with gathering information, understood?"

"Yes, Master."

"Good, I'd hate, for your sake, to see you fail me another time my friend."

The Holographic image of Darth Sidious then disappears from the Count's sight.


Late at night in Ahsoka's room, the sleeping Padawan lies in her bed as peaceful as an angel. When suddenly, a shadowy figure darts around at fast speeds, causing her to stir with a few moans but not awake her from her sleep. The dark and sinister image of Darth Sidious then appears before her, his shadow casting an evil like presence over her. She then moves around slightly close to regaining consciousness. But before she does, the Dark Lord injects a strange syringe needle into the young girl's arm, causing her to return to her deep slumber.

"How remarkably similar you are to your master, young one." He says while lightly stroking her head. "If for some reason I fail to replace Lord Tyranus with him, you will make a decent substitute."

He then reaches into the pocket if his robe and pulls out a small microchip like object. He then also takes out an object similar to a welding arc and begins to use it on Ahsoka's outstretched arm with sparks of electricity lightly bursting from usage.

End of Ch 10. Not much so say beyond sorry for not including too much info with the Clone Wars movies, some were complaining about putting in too much and it really pales in comparison to the movies in the saga. Next Ch, the family goes over to Nina and Mark's for Thanksgiving dinner where they learn a shocking secret about Riyo, and later on, Riyo and Adam utilize the environment simluator to whole new levels by recreating a holo image from records of a powerful warrior, but who? Take a guess and the first person to guess right will recieve a behind the scenes sneek peek at futher chapter plots. Well, thx for reading, see you next time!

JAC ^_^