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Regrouping

Damian sat in the grass, Ahsoka sitting in front of him, both with their eyes closed in meditation. Damian opened his eyes after a moment, watching her.

"Are you ready?" Damian asked after a moment. "I don't know if this will hurt, or if it will even work, but if it does you'll be far stronger than you are now."

Ahsoka nodded and Damian reached a hand out, resting it against her forehead and losing his eyes, allowing the Force to flow through him and then out through his hand and into Ahsoka. He felt her tense, clamping her teeth shut, but continued. He had only recently started to be able to see Force Connections again, after ruining his own connection by not meditating for so long, and that was going to be helpful in gaging the effectiveness of this experiment. After several seconds, he felt Ahsoka begin to relax. After twenty minutes, he opened his eyes, stopping the flow and lowering his hand, grinning. Ahsoka's aura was now all moving and as thick as Damian's, though still only a little less than half was actively glowing, unlike Damian's three quarters.

"Did it work?" Ahsoka asked.

"It did," Damian nodded. "I don't know if it's permanent, but it worked. You still need to meditate and train yourself to learn to use the whole thing. I don't even know how to use all of mine. But I have faith in you. Now, shall we get started?"

Ahsoka nodded and Damian laid out a cloth covered in pieces for lightsabers. He and Ahsoka began to collect pieces, putting them together around their lightsaber crystals and adjusting the settings as they did. Once they were finished, they set the finished products down. Ahsoka had made a pair of very thin and long silver hilts for hers that curved about a a quarter of the way in from the back end, though only slightly. Damian's was a near-exact replica of the one that had been ruined except that it was made of Mandalorian Iron. He also swapped out the plating of the other for Mandalorian Iron.

"Sentimental much?" Ahsoka smirked.

"This has been in my family for generations," Damian said. "I'm not being the one to lose it."

Ahsoka grinned and nodded, picking up her lightsabers and extending the blades. They were thinner than her green and yellow lightsabers, and a little longer, though one of them was shorter than the other, as with her first set.

"Now that you have those, what are you going to do with your first set?" Damian asked.

"For now I'll keep them," Ahsoka said. "Sentimental value, and all that."

Damian smirked and rolled his eyes before standing, and connecting his newly constructed lightsaber with his newly upgraded one, extending the blades and spinning the weapon before retracting the blades and drawing his blaster.

"I've been meaning to test this out," Damian said. "Toss a target for me will you?"

Ahsoka picked up a boulder that a normal blaster would only barely effect and hurled it skyward. Damian raised his blaster and fired, the golden blast punching through it, leaving a glowing yellow hole like a lightsaber blade would.

"What did you do to that gun?" Ahsoka asked.

"I put my other lightsaber crystal in it," Damian said. "I figured it would make a nice surprise for any Sith Stalkers we fight."

"At that speed, it might actually punch trough a lightsaber blade," Ahsoka grinned.

"That's the hope," Damian nodded.

Ahsoka grinned as Damian put his blaster away, extending the blades of his lightsaber. Ahsoka extended both of hers and lunged, slashing at Damian rapidly, Damian blocking and deflecting the strikes rapidly, keeping pace with Damian. Damian smirked, glad to see she was still as good a fighter as him. Then, he flipped away, separating his lightsabers and lunging again, slashing at her. Again she held her own, but was forced to retreat this time. Damian spun, slashing at Ahsoka from the left and she ducked spinning as the blades passed over her then slashed upward at him. He turned sideways, avoiding it and slashing at her. She backflipped over it, landing lightly and stabbing at him. He spun out of the way and slashed again and she dove away from him, rolling to her feet and stopping, grinning.

Just as she did, a shuttle passed over them, landing on the platform before Barriss left the shuttle, heading through the house and out to them, holding out a green lightsaber crystal.

"I hope you still have some lightsaber parts," Barriss said.

Damian grinned, nodding and kneeling, setting out the parts. Barriss knelt, quickly forming a lightsaber grip that was largely wood and bowed outward toward the front before thinning back off to the silver blade projector that extended into a spike on one side.

"That looks like Gungi's lightsaber," Ahsoka said.

"I know," Barriss said. "I liked his idea."

Ahsoka nodded and Damian sat down in front of Barriss.

"This is going to feel weird," Damian said. "But when it's done, you'll be stronger than you could be on your own."

Barriss looked confused and Damian smirked.

"Meditate," Damian said. "I'm going to connect you to the Force myself to the level I am."

Understanding filled her face and she nodded, closing her eyes. Damian did the same, allowing the Force to flow through him as he did with Ahsoka, then placed his hand on Barriss's head, allowing the Force to flow into her as well. She gasped when it started, but then relaxed sooner than Ahsoka. After several minutes of this, Damian lowered his hand, opening his eyes and standing, Barriss continuing to meditate. After a little while, she opened her eyes too, grinning widely.

"That was amazing," Barriss said. "I'm so jealous of you."

"Don't be," Damian said. "I attract Sith Stalkers like moths to a flame."

Barriss nodded and Damian looked toward the house.

"How are they?" Barriss asked.

"Improving," Damian said. "Slowly. Shaeeah is almost healed, just a little while longer. Jek...Jek needed some more extensive help. For obvious reasons. He'll be down for a while."

Barriss nodded. Then, she extended both of her lightsaber blades. "So, who's going to teach me to dual wield?"

"Both of us," Ahsoka smirked, extending her original lightsabers as Damian extended his own. "And it's not going to be easy for you to learn. So you had better get ready."

Barriss grinned, readying herself, clearly already knowing how. Ahsoka smiled knowingly and Damian shrugged it off, both he and Ahsoka charging at Barriss.

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