"You wished to see me Master Yoda?"
"Secure this room is. Talk informally we may"
"Good I was hoping we could Yoda, now then there's something happening between me and another planet?"
"Not know the two of you did, a problem with the agreements there are. Not the fault of either side it is. Master Korn not know of the seasons he did, not know of planetary conditions either did he, failed he did to ask about that in making a peace agreement between the two planets. Not like him it is, but maybe not completely his fault it was either. Minor adjustments we have made, help Alderaan the neighboring planet will for six months after things have settled they will. Bring over people who know how to work the fields they will, learn much on Alderaan they will, but teach you better ways to help the soil they will as well"
"That's good to hear"
"Another matter we need to discuss. Sidious, not take him down right now we can"
"Why not? I know for a fact that he wasn't taken down for several years after the destruction of Alderaan but what I want to know is why he can't be dealt with earlier this time"
"A greater evil than Sidious there is, if take Sidious down now we do, defeat the greater evil we will not, too strong is the evil, full Jedi we would have but not the strength. Must figure out where the greater evil is first we must, then defeat Sidious after the greater evil we will"
"I understand. I'll do what I can however due to the fact that I'm the only person on Alderaan who remembers I won't be able to do much"
"A hidden ally you will have, reveal themselves to you they will, but reveal them to Kenobi and Skywalker you will not. Not time is it for those two to know of the hidden ally. An old friend he is of Kenobi, more than friend really"
"Who Yoda?"
"His old Master the hidden ally is"
"How? Master Qui-Gon died on Naboo"
"Brought back by the Force he was, full memories he has, remember the Wars as well he does. Why bring him back we know not. The Force mysterious it is in its will"
"Okay, I will of course allow Master Qui-Gon to help, however hiding him from Obi-Wan and Anakin will be hard especially if they come to the planet themselves during the upcoming years before Qui-Gon can reveal himself"
"Figure that out later we will, mute Qui-Gon is and not know sign language he does"
"Notes will be fine, besides he might actually know sign language but can't reveal it because he has memories of the future as well but doesn't or can't reveal that"
"Agree I do, talk to him about it you will in private"
"Okay, so let's see, you, me, Anakin, Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon that's five people who know the truth, six if Padme Amidala remembers once she's reunited with Anakin and Obi-Wan"
"Returning to Tython the Jedi are, silent this will be, secret and slow as well, much repair work needed there is before habitable Tython will be again"
"I'll do what I can to help as well Yoda, though most likely it will only be through secret funds but I will help the Jedi return to Tython before Sidious can destroy them. What about the Clones? I know that they will no longer turn against the Jedi but will you allow them on Tython?"
"Unknown at this time that is"
"Very well, for now I think I should get back, thank you for telling me about this though. I will do what I can to help you defeat the evil before Palpatine, but this is going to be extremely tricky if the greater evil isn't stopped before the Clone Wars"
"Stop the greater evil we must before Palpatine, but do so during the Clone Wars might be better for us that plan is"
"What do you mean?"
"Defeat the greater evil while secretly fighting Sidious work it might. Sidious not know the truth as far as I can tell. Inform the rest of the Jedi the truth we shall in time"
"Is that what the Force is telling you?"
"Now remember the whole truth Kenobi, Skywalker and I do. The Force reveal it's path it will in time. Fight off two evils we can't unless all the Jedi know the truth. Not good it would be if secrets we kept during War time"
"Well when that happens I want to be there so that they know they have an ally. If I personally can't be there I give you permission to tell the Council that I also remember the future"
"That I will do"
"Okay then, time for me to go, may the Force be with you Yoda"
Bail went back and started his new mission which wasn't really much. All he really could do at the moment was send funds to the Jedi in secret seeing as how he really didn't know where to start looking for the greater evil than Palpatine. While all that was going on over the next several days Anakin and Obi-Wan as John and Mark continued their mission and at the moment it wasn't going the greatest
"Okay new plan I protect you while you try and not get us killed landing this thing"
"What do you think the plan's been John?"
"Not sure Mark, but it wasn't this"
Fortunately the pirates were once again defeated and the ship Anakin was flying made an emergency landing. What they didn't know was that they would finally figure out who was behind the attacks and stop them that day because they were at the planet where the leader was. When they went to the leader of the planet they lied about who they were because of their mission. They also mentioned the pirate attacks and that's when the pirate leader made themselves revealed
"That's because I planned that attack. All to bring the people who have been making my job that much harder"
"John you're the one behind the attacks"
"Indeed I am. I'm not a goods trader like I told you I deal in slaves and piracy"
That's when Obi-Wan and Anakin decide to reveal themselves as Jedi after a quick mental conversation
*So that's why the Force was telling us to bring our lightsabers with us*
*Well Anakin time to reveal ourselves*
"By order of the Republic you are under arrest"
Obi-Wan and Anakin bring out their lightsabers and a quick battle ensues. Fortunately it's ended pretty quickly
"Sorry for not revealing ourselves sooner but we had to figure out who was behind the pirate attacks. We can go back to the Republic Senate now and tell them everything"
"Thank you honorable Jedi. May the Force be with you"
The two board a normal transport ship after contacting the Council about the fact that the mission was done and they were returning home. Unfortunately it would take a little longer than they originally thought to return home
"Okay new plan Master"
"What exactly is the new plan Padawan?"
"Well we've been attacked by Jedi hunters the entire trip right?"
"Yes and they've done more and more damage each time. I think they're really trying to kill everyone on board a ship we're on instead of just us"
Anakin switches to Huttese
*That's my plan. We let them kill us*
*Anakin are you out of your mind? Yoda can't handle the responsibilities we have alone*
*Here's where the plan gets tricky Obi-Wan, we don't actually die, we just make the hunters think they killed us. Meanwhile we land on a nearby planet and hope that we haven't lost comms because otherwise even if we survived we'd be thought dead for a long time, maybe even to the time of the Wars which we really can't afford*
*Well as for the comms being busted I lived on Tattooine for 19 years and I learned a thing or two about communication devices. I could fix it if you couldn't, but we'd still have to be dead for a few days just to make sure the hunters were gone*
*Okay, that's a good idea I forgot about that little fact*
*Okay, the Council is still not going to be too happy with us once we reveal ourselves. Yoda is really not going to be happy with us due to what we're going to do*
*He's going to be feeling it isn't he?*
*Yes he is, because we're not just going to have to hide our Force signatures which you were trained to do during the Wars but we're also going to have to hide our bonds which is much much harder. I should know I had to do that one time with Master Qui-Gon during a hard mission shortly before we found you, if you thought hiding your signature was hard hiding the bond constantly is going to be even harder and we're going to be in pain because it will be as if the bond snapped like when you became Vader*
*Okay that's going to hurt I know how much it hurt when your bond with Master Qui-Gon snapped because you explained it to me but this is going to be just as bad if not worse because of the fact that the bond was given to the three of us by the Force*
*Which means we might not actually be able to hide our survival to Yoda*
*Oh we will I can sense the Force approving of this plan, actually I think it inspired this plan in all reality*
The two do a mild meditation and find that them faking their deaths was indeed the will of the Force and as such Yoda would think them dead as well until they revealed themselves to be alive
*Okay, next attack is when we do this*
*Master, just how am I supposed to fake a severed bond?*
*Don't worry I'll guide you while I start myself we'll leave enough of the bond initially that Yoda doesn't think us dead before we're supposed to be. Afterwords we'll severe the bond completely...or at least make Yoda think the bond is severed completely. Anakin this technique is similar to situations before where we've had to dim our connection to each other during the Wars but this time it will have to go deeper. We won't even be able to feel each other though seeing each other without the bond will help matters*
*If it's just like dimming the connection like during the Wars how is hiding our bonds going to be much much harder?*
*Simple Anakin, when we hide our connection to the Force we don't actually cut ourselves off, we leave a tiny part of our minds aware of the fact that we're still Force sensitive however with the bond...we have to make our minds believe that the other person is gone for real. For me I have to imagine the day I lost my Master, for you you have to remember Mustafar and when you were being burned alive and the bond between us was severed completely. There's one more thing we can never connect to each other through the bond until we reveal ourselves to be alive because otherwise Yoda might find out before he should, before it's safe for us. Even if he would know better he might act differently and that could be dangerous for the Jedi in the Temple and it would make him stand out because no one knows of the bond between the three of us*
*This is going to be hard isn't it?*
*Yes Anakin it is, now then he won't be suspicious about us dimming our bond to barely noticeable because he knows about the Jedi hunters, the Captain has already informed Coruscant about the situation per my instructions*
*Okay so we can dim our connection and then when it comes time give the signal and we'll hide our Force signatures and the bond*
*Okay*
Two days later they were attacked again and Anakin and Obi-Wan enact their plan which involved an escape pod and a staged conversation. Though only the two Jedi knew the conversation was staged
"Anakin, get into the pod we'll get the Jedi hunter to focus on that instead of these passengers. Maybe then they'll leave the ships alone"
"I'm trying Master, but it's a little difficult at the moment"
"Do it now!"
The two manage to get into the pod and leave the ship and the Jedi hunter does exactly what they wanted him to do. Leave the ship alone and attack them, five minutes later when they were sure they would make it to the planet they allowed the hunter to hit them and fake an explosion. Everyone on the ship saw the pod explode and as such knew the Jedi were dead. The ship Captain contacted the Jedi Temple to let them know that two of their own were now dead killed by a Jedi hunter in return for the ship having safe passage. However the Temple didn't need the call because Anakin and Obi-Wan had discovered something else during their mild meditation session, it was time to reveal the bond between Anakin, Obi-Wan and Yoda though the reasons behind the bond were to be kept secret knowing about the bond was going to be critical in the future
"We already know Captain but thank you for informing us about it, we'll...we'll send Jedi to the location soon so that we can claim their remains if at all possible"
"Considering the explosion it's highly doubtful but I'll stay out of Jedi business...by the way one thing I do have personal affects of theirs in their quarters, they only had their lightsabers with them. Shall I have someone send their affects to the Temple once I'm on Coruscant?"
"No let us know where you're docked and we'll have a Jedi team waiting your arrival so that we can pick up what they left behind personally"
"Okay it's mainly just clothes and blasters for some reason...oh a gift that they couldn't refuse, though the gift is apparently for all the Jedi and also data disks with reports for both you and the Chancellor and according to Knight Kenobi they're properly labeled for each group so that you know which to send to the Chancellor and which to keep"
"Again thank you and we will have a team awaiting your arrival so that we can pick up their affects personally as our last duty to them"
"I understand I myself would want to do that if I found out a family member was dead"
Later that day the ship arrived at Coruscant and there was indeed a Jedi team waiting for them at the dock
"Allow me to show you to their quarters"
They're shown to the quarters of Obi-Wan and Anakin and as soon as the team is shown the gift Obi-Wan and Anakin were given they understood why the gift wasn't refused despite certain policies
"No wonder they didn't try to refuse at first, this is information that the Jedi Council would want to know. Jedi in that part of the area years before we even knew about them...their weapons as well"
"Master, this is a schematic of a temple, a very old temple that's probably lost to history by now but still a temple"
As soon as the Master looks the Padawan hears his Master gasp
"Padawan this will need to be taken to the Council for confirmation but I think I know this temple"
"Master, Knight Kenobi and Padawan Skywalker brought us a great gift didn't they?"
"Yes Padawan they did, come let us get the rest of their affects and then get back to the Temple we have a lot to do now"
The two leave and get back to the Temple and make sure that the reports meant for Chancellor Palpatine got to him as quickly as possible. Meanwhile they themselves went straight to the Council