The Ghosts of Yesterday
Chapter:21 The Grand Tour
:Jedi Temple, Coruscant current time:
Aayla Secura had already left to go on some mission that the Jedi Council wanted her on. Now he is alone in the room and uses a small personal computer he acquired from the Jedi. He personally hacked into a bank account, including the private ones of a certain dead Viceroy and carefully hidden them for his own personal use.
He doesn't have a hidden agenda but Bond knows it's always best to come prepared and besides he got the codes from the Viceroy along with certain information about the identity of who he really works for. Like any spy it's always best to keep a look out for anything and while scanning this holographic net he came across Coruscant's security network. Of course he uses a series of tricks to mask his movements online. Q taught him that.
It would seem the security network is controlled in one place within 500 Republica. It's a system of surveillance and camera; along with that a few systems are focused on the activities of the Jedi Temple. It would appear that a certain someone wants to keep an eye on the Jedi. Bond gave off a slight smirk and decided to cause a little havoc with these. 007 knows how to wreak havoc with security systems because everything has a flaw, nothing is invulnerable or impenetrable.
Now he put in a special virus that Q designed for him and it uploaded into that very security system. Every time someone would focus on the Jedi temple with the security system they would be watching a marathon of a certain cartoon characters with an added bonus that all security systems would shut off when he is around.
With that done he focused on the history of a certain someone. However it can wait until later. James is finished with the holographic net and decided for him to begin this Grand Tour of the temple along with Coruscant. He put everything away for now and got dressed in a new style business suit he acquired while sneaking out of the temple one of his training nights.
He did enjoy the fashion here, although he found it a little tacky but he managed to do some alterations of his own. He put on a brown suit with a silky blue tie and black leather shoes. He put on his watch and set it to the right time, and then he carefully hides his dark saber and his Walther P99 pistol. Also he put in his pocket his Q-pod for later use.
Then there is a knock at the door.
Bond turned around "Enter" said 007.
The door slides open as Anakin Skywalker and his padawan Ahsoka Tano appear.
"Ah, there you two are." Said James "I read about the previous missions you were on, not bad."
"Thanks." said Anakin "Read for the tour."
"J.B do you still have that object….uh an Ipod it was called." asked Ahsoka "Master Secura said it had music coming out of it."
"I'm seriously still not buying that one Snips." shook the head of the chosen one
"Well it's better to show you." Grins the secret agent as he takes the Q-pod out of his pocket "Any requests."
Both Jedi shook their head in which they didn't know but they happen to spot on the table a stack of cards in which it's built like a pyramid. They found that to be completely weird as it is.
"Fair enough and oh…just a hobby of mine." said James as he looked into the music selection on the Q-pod's display "I've noticed the temple can be a bore at times."
"Did you use the force to do that?" asked the chosen one "Because that is so weird."
"No, it takes concentration and I don't need the force to do that." said 007 "You can always give a try if you like."
"I would, mental challenges are kind of fun but it looks pretty easy." Smiled the Togruta
James snapped his fingers as the card stack came tumbling down, and then he shuffled the cards in which handed them to her. Ahsoka stared at the numerous of numbers of these cards so she left to put them in her room for a moment to try out that mental challenge later as she walked back to find her master and J.B in the hallway. Along with that a song is being played that sounded very interesting to her, Anakin her master seemed to like it as well.
Oh, looking like another Bob Marley day
Hitting from the bong like a diesel train
And I'm down with hanging out this afternoon
We got weeds in the backyard four feet tall Cheech and Chong
probably would have smoked them all
So, I'm out on the couch this afternoon
Beer bottles laying on the kitchen floor
If we take them out back, we can buy some more
So I doubt we're going out this afternoon, oh.
Better hang on if you're tagging along
'Cause we'll be doing this 'til six in the morning
Nothing wrong with going all night long
Tough to put the brakes on, doesn't matter when you gotta
Get up and go out, me and all my friends
Drink up, fall down, then we'll do it all again
Just sitting around, hanging out this afternoon
Landlord says I should buy a tent
But he can kiss my ass 'cause I paid the rent
So I doubt, he'll kick me out this afternoon
Oh, looking like another Bob Marley day
Hitting from the bong like a diesel train
And I'm down with hanging out this afternoon
We got weeds in the backyard four feet tall Cheech and Chong
probably would have smoked them all
So, I'm out on the couch this afternoon
Beer bottles laying on the kitchen floor
If we take them out back, we can buy some more
So I doubt we're going out this afternoon, oh.
Better hang on if you're tagging along
'Cause we'll be doing this 'til six in the morning
Nothing wrong with going all night long
Tough to put the brakes on, doesn't matter when you gotta
Get up and go out, me and all my friends
Drink up, fall down, then we'll do it all again
Just sitting around, hanging out this afternoon
Landlord says I should buy a tent
But he can kiss my ass 'cause I paid the rent
So I doubt, he'll kick me out this afternoon
Down on the corner in a seedy bar Jukebox cranking out the CCR
Had a few to Suzie Q this afternoon, oh
Better hang on if you're tagging along
'Cause we'll be doing this 'til six in the morning
Nothing wrong with going all night long
Tough to put the brakes on, doesn't matter when you gotta
Get up and go out, me and all my friends
Drink up, fall down, then we'll do it all again
Yeah, we get up, go out, me and all my friends
Drink up, fall down, and we'll do it all again, yeah
Yeah, just sitting around, hanging out this afternoon
Wear a wristwatch and alarm clock to see what time it ends
From the moment I wake up,
I just love being with my friends
We barely get by, but have the best times and hope it never ends
We drink all day until we fall down, so we can do it all again
It's not a human walk, it's the human race
If we were living on the edge, taking too much space
So I'll doubt I'll figure out just what to do
'Bout to kick it around, hanging out this afternoon, oh
Better hang on if you're tagging along
'Cause we'll be doing this 'til six in the morning
Nothing wrong with going all night long
Tough to put the brakes on, doesn't matter when you gotta
Get up, go out, me and all my friends
Drink up, fall down, then we'll do it all again, yeah
We get up, we go out, me and all my friends
Drink up, we fall down, and we'll do it all again
Other Jedi started to appear and wondering what that music was, James then turned it off. The looks on their faces are considered priceless from confusion to total blank expressions. To sheer amusement in which they never heard this kind of music before.
Did Bond really blame them?
No he didn't.
Because, it's perfectly understandable
James suspected the Jedi motto would be: Great defenders of life, but lousy teachers of life,
Then all the other Jedi's left except for two. One is human female and the other is not human male with four arms. The human female is tall about 5 ft 8 115lbs with short black hair tied by two sticks, green eyes and green lipstick. She is wearing some sort of green tight dress that shows her athletic appearance and she has medium sized breasts along with black high heeled boots.
Along her belt are two light sabers attached to the belt. She hails from the planet of Dantooie (Just an educated guess where she is from on my part.) She is Jedi Master Keelyvine Reus, who folded her arms and glared at the mysterious man that she heard about but never met.
The non-human alien looked like some sort of reptile possibility a snake however he's done some digging on the aliens in this dimension including this one. This creature is known as a Besalisk, also known as Ojom, were a race of multi-armed humanoids from the cold ocean world of Ojom. Besalisks evolved from large, flightless avians, though were often mistaken for a reptilian species. This besalik in particular hails from that world he is about 6 ft 9 350lbs with no hair and wearing clothing similar to most of the Jedi's in the temple.
He has a look of a military drill sergeant as Bond has heard of this fellow who goes by the name of Pong Krell a Jedi master who uses double-bladed light sabers. He is known as a reckless Jedi who considers clones nothing more that disposable on the battle field Krell narrowed his eyes at the mysterious man and walked over to him looking him straight in the eye.
James Bond, Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano wordlessly walk past them but James stopped and turned to look at both Jedi masters staring at him.
"You know." Said 007 "The two of you would make a cute couple."
Both Jedi's share questionable glances at him.
As Bond is about to walk away Pong Krell placed one of his hands on his shoulder, James turned around to glance back at him and raised a brow as he isn't intimidated by the alien creature. Then batted Pong Krell's hand away.
"So, you think your funny." Said Krell in a deep voice "I don't like funny people."
"Well you're the comedian." Shrugged the shoulders of the secret agent "You sure have the face for it."
Krell growled at the comment but Reus coughed to get his attention.
"Let's go we have a mission to get to, Master Krell." Said Reus
Krell grunted and nodded then he walked off with Jedi Master Reus.
The tour continued as James is following the other two Jedi as he is getting a brief explaining of what goes on in the temple. Staring with the area he is currently in now. The halls of healing in which he is well aware that in war people need to heal and so he has herd some of the medical equipment that would make Earth's modern medicine seem primitive.
He is given a long explanation about this as he is impressed by the layout and the staff that is known as the Medical Corps. The Main Hall of the wing was bathed in warm sunlight from the high windows, which coupled with the blue-green floors and walls created a soothing atmosphere.
The Hall was lined with beds where the ill and infirm could lie in comfort as the master healers moved about. Pink stone pillars soared to the ceiling, while small openings in the walls led into single person therapy rooms. Inside these warm, dim-lit chambers, injured Jedi rested on stone beds with healers visiting to use stones and crystals to amplify the effects of the Force. All three of them walked past the injured and Bond noticed one female Jedi in particular lying motionless in some form of coma.
He didn't know her name but Ahsoka told him it's Jedi Master Depa Billaba a Chalactan from Coruscant and Master Windu's former padawan who went to the dark side on a mission and battled her former master who in fact tried to kill herself but was saved and brought here, although now she is in a coma.
Depa Billaba is about 5 ft 4 125lbs with black hair and brown eyes, she is dressed in traditional Jedi robes and is laying peacefully in a coma. She has on her forehead ceremonial piercing of some sort
"Charming woman." said Bond "She seems peaceful and you do know coma patients can sometimes hear what is going on."
"Master Windu does visit sometimes." Said the chosen one "so does another Jedi master who takes her to the rooftop of the temple."
James Bond sat on the edge of the bed and touched her hand as it felt a little warm, along with that he felt a strange sensation of his own more like of the electrical kind. But he ignored it and got back up to head off to another location within the temple.
Now the tour continues.
James is given a tour of the spires in which it posed some interest to him and so he is shown the main areas within the temple along with the cells that don't hold anyone at the moment. He ran into a couple of Jedi Masters and Knights who given him sharp looks of confusion to basically blank expressions.
James didn't mind one bit. He witness a Jedi being knighted at the hall of Knighthood, he did mentioned that where he is from the Queen does all of the knighting in which Sir is a great honor. To the Jedi that wasn't confusing at all. Then he came upon a large situation room it's even larger than the one in MI-6.
Located in the four Council spires of the Jedi Temple, the Situation Rooms were large circular chambers that filled an entire level of the Tower. Along the outer walls, large transparisteel windows granted a panoramic view of the cityscape outside. Accessed by turbolift and a set of ancient stairs, the lift car was the designated lift for the Council Chambers at the top of the spire and for the offices of the Council members.
The center of holocomm transmissions to Jedi Command, the chamber was located behind a set of blast doors. Equipped with state of the art tactical displays and HoloNet feeds, the Situation Rooms were said to rival the comm stations of most flagships.
The center of the chamber was comprised of a sunken dais upon which a large holotable rested, surrounded by several comm stations and holocharts. With a direct hook up to the Jedi Archives and the communication center, the Jedi Council was always apprised of new information constantly pouring into the Temple.
Now moving on to the Jedi Archives as he heard the place holds much information, he is told about the layout of this place inside the temple including the holocron vault. He remembered the details as best as he could.
Erected near the roof of the Temple Ziggurat, the Jedi Archives was a two story chamber consisting of holobook shelves known as the Stacks and data rooms filled with computers. Arranged into four long halls that all met in a large rotunda in the center, each of the halls had a central aisle that ran its length, with several tables topped with computer terminals that were linked to the main index catalog.
The second and fourth halls, branched off into two smaller aisles as they led to the Holocron Vaults on the outer wall. Off of these main aisles were hundreds of smaller ones that divided the stacks. Each of the Stacks contained trillions of datatapes and datacards, carefully sorted and arranged into categories and the end of the third hall turbolifts on this level led to the analysis wing and the library several floors below. The great windows overlooking the two-stories of the Archives were filled with statues of Jedi brandishing their lightsabers, as if defending the great storehouse
During that time Anakin Skywalker left to go do other Jedi duties so Ahsoka will continue the tour with James. Bond is very impressed with the layout of the archives room it is as big or almost even bigger than The Long Room in Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. All he can do is whistle at this in which his whistle echoed throughout the Jedi Archives.
An elderly woman with hair in a bun came walking towards them, she smiled but continued to stare at the mysterious man who calls himself J.B The elderly woman is tall about 5 ft 10 155lbs with short silver hair tied by two sticks and her clothing is light brown and she wore low heeled shoes. She walked in a calmly manner of a librarian. She is Jedi Master from Coruscant and her name is Jocasta Nu.
"Welcome to the Jedi Archives anything I can help you with." Asked the Jedi Master
"No, just browsing ma'am." Said 007 "I take it your Jocasta Nu."
She simply nodded and went on to explain this place even further.
"Impressive, it's an information paradise," smiled Bond "I will be here more often to look around if you don't mind."
"Not at all." said Nu who turned around and went to do her duties.
After that he is shown everything else until the tour is finally finished.
"Is there anything else you like to see." asked the Padawan.
"No, I think this is it" said Bond "I may head out to explore on my own tonight to see the night life."
Obi-wan Kenobi shows up as the Torguta Padawan bows to him.
"Are you sure that is wise." Asked Obi-wan "Even at night Coruscant can be dangerous."
"It's perfectly all right Mister Kenobi," nodded the secret agent "I'll stay out of trouble….but although in my experience trouble does seem to follow me."
"All right then." said Kenobi "May the force be with you."
James Bond walked away from them but stopped to stare at a bronze statue of the lost twenty. His eyes narrowed at the writing along the statue his name is Count Dooku. James continued to stare at the statue as the man seemed familiar to him.
Very familiar
The facial expression of the statue looks older.
Could it be him?
No.
Unless he survived being shot in the heart in which it's unlikely.
However he will investigate further.
James Bond continued to walk away as the two Jedi Masters and Padawan watch him leave.
"Masters, I have a bad feeling about this." Said Ahsoka
"I concur, I'll follow him and keep him out of trouble." Said Obi-wan who walked away wondering why James Bond was glaring at the statue of Count Dooku for so long, he'll ask him later.
Meanwhile back at the hall of healing on one of the beds and resting still in her coma is Depa Billaba. Jedi Masters Windu and Jedi Master T'ra Saa they both stare at her, along with her vital readings. No change at the moment but then as the two Jedi take their seats to talk to Depa Billaba as they know coma patients can hear them speak. All of sudden the eyes of Depa Billaba opened and she got up quickly.
"AHHHHHHHH" she screamed at the top of her lungs as it startled everyone in the room "What? I…..am I dead….ughhhhh….I don't understand, Master Windu, Master Saa."
Both Jedi's are in a state of shock as in everyone else and wondered how she woke up. As news traveled fast in the temple that Depa Billaba had come out of a coma but how and why in which they didn't know but all of them decided to investigate further.
"Master Windu," said Billaba as she got up and hugged him "I'm sorry, I hope I'm not in trouble."
Jedi Master Windu stands there and stares at her not knowing what to say.