She stopped to a sudden halt as the residents were out in the streets. The sudden realization that they were ready for them and not to defend themselves. This brought on confusion, but it didn't slow her down much as she spotted Master Jinn talking to a couple that she had not met yet. "Master Jinn what is going on?"
"I do not know exactly." Jinn replied.
"The Unity Gang is coming and we are out to greet them." the woman explained. "Such nice men and they keep the area safe. They set up their new club house in the old school the next county over. You will love them."
"Master, we need to talk." Sara stated. The woman gave her a confused look and Sara doubted that she was telling the whole truth. Qui-Gon followed her off to the side. "Master I felt their presence, it felt dark. They maybe nice, but I don't think they will remain so."
"I hear your concern, but until they do something or the force warns me to act. I have to take them as they are. Not all evil is intentional or directed." Jinn replied. "I will act if I must, but I will not be the aggressor."
"Wait and see? That is not something that I want to regret later." Sara stated. "They carry the worst biker club names as their colors. Murder, drugs, violence. I will find it hard to see them not as a threat." The growing rumble got louder and broke into the roar of individual bikes. They rolled to a stop and the people greeted them and the kids ran around like they were at the playground. Sara's initial feeling of the darkside was muted and the bikers grayed out. It was like a switch was thrown. The threat of violence was there, but not against anyone of the community. A few spotted Sara and Master Jinn and came calmly over. More questioning then anything.
"Hey Mikey is it Halloween?" one asked.
"Not for another month I think, Bert." Mikey replied. "One looks like a jedi though and the other like Vader so ya it could be, but that is the prettiest Vader ever." The other bikers laughed.
"So you two one of those jedi wannabe?" Burt asked.
"Greetings I am Master Qui-Gon Jinn and this is Knight Adept Sara Finn." Jinn stated. "We are jedi." They laughed again.
"You better not be claiming to be jedi. Not very popular in this neck of the woods." Mikey warned. "We have had enough trouble from those jedi and we are hunting a few ourselves."
"Why?" Sara asked. "Are you guilty of anything to warrant the trouble or what?"
"Us we up hold the law as much as anyone." Bert replied. "But someone messing with us or hurting someone has to answer for it and we don't give any quarter." Sara picked up on the man's pride his sense of duty. When he accented the work quarter, Sara knew they would kill any that crossed their line. These were dangerous men, but they followed a code. Like a sleeping bear will not hurt you, but it was still deadly.
"Why are you hunting jedi? Are you sure you should be?" Sara asked.
"Sure they have caused harm and one is known to have killed five or six victims. We know they are jedi. Not all have left since the take over." Bert explained. "Just keep your powers in check we see you eyes go red you're dead jedi."
"Jedi do not have red eyes, but that does sound like the influence of the darkside." Jinn mused. He was unconcerned about the threat they posed Sara felt. "Though one could fall to the darkside. I could help you find these fallen."
"Master Jinn you are not from my world. You don't have to help where help is not needed." Sara countered. "I feel they will not like the idea."
"She is smart we don't need a jedi to find one, but we will be keeping an eye on you both." Mikey added in warning.
"Mikey leave it." Jake ordered. "These two are my friends and as big of a Star Wars nut I didn't think you would not recognize Master Jinn." Mikey looked to Jake and then to Jinn and Anakin ran up at that moment then it clicked for Mikey.
"Wait you are Anakin? Thee Anakin?" Mikey suddenly changed from the grizzly biker to a excited fan. Anakin got a bit nervous and hid a bit behind Master Jinn. "Why didn't you say so."
"His name didn't tell you Qui-Gon Jinn was Kenobi's teacher?" Jake asked. "That he played a very important role in the movie."
"But Jinn died in the movie, and why is Anakin here?" Mikey paused for a good moment. "Oh shit the movies were real, but shouldn't he be at the temple getting trained?"
"I am training young Anakin in the ways of the force." Jinn replied. "We don't need to be at the temple to teach."
"How much is true?" Mikey asked. "How did you defeat Darth Maul?"
"Mikey it is a long story and sometimes reality is a lot more simple then the movies." Sara started. She took him by the arm and lead him off.
"I think she is going to have a tough time keeping them away from you." Jake stated. "Mikey is a big fan, but many other are as well. On the other side they have faced these rogue jedi and you will face challenges as well."
"It is not something I can not handle." Jinn replied. "I feel their wariness, but it is because they have never dealt with a normal jedi."
"Still knowing you are here will warrant some of them to stay behind." Jake stated. "Unless Sara can convince them otherwise."
"So, Mikey after years of waiting hoping that the movies were not true. I faced Darth Maul with Jinn and Kenobi together he didn't have a chance. Just like Palpatine didn't get to be chancellor. The Jedi order has seen the movies, and that has changed the present." Sara finished up explaining. "Anakin is here no where near Palpatine. He will learn without influence the way of the force."
"But he was supposed to meet Padme and marry her and have Luke and Leia? How can you change history?" Mikey asked.
"Mike listen I didn't change the past I changed the present and his future. He did meet the Queen of Naboo, but he knew me for years. As Cat the Mandelorian. He was distracted by me from her, and she is very pretty. He is going to grow up as a jedi in hopefully a family environment. I hope here as they came here with me. He will see our resolve a people that nearly got wiped from the face of the Earth. He will learn how to be free."
"Do you think the clone wars will happen?" Mikey asked.
"It is possible. I only changed the fate of Master Jinn and maybe the boy." Sara replied. "Though there is enough information that the Jedi Council has that will prevent Palpatine's rise to power. The galaxy could still fall into civil war. Much of the damage is in place."
"This will affect Earth too won't it?" Mikey asked. His biker attitude had vanished as his concern developed and the possibility that fiction had become reality. Sara thought on how to answer his question. Could Earth get involved? Ten years is not much time to prepare, but what could one planet do when there was millions of worlds involved. Sure we had a fleet, but most were damaged Rendili cruisers or cheaply built Defender Light corvettes. Surely other ships were planned and Sara had brought many designs home to work from. These had helped them face and hunt the Shirmaksu down. Trade was brisk with Ryloth, but Sara was sure that other trading partners would get involved with Sol. It could be a bad time to be involved with a war and even if no war came to Earth it would still feel the effect.
"Mike war if it comes effect everyone involved. We trade heavily with Ryloth and their stance in a war would make us follow them. We could remain neutral, but with the influx of settlers and the war we just fought it will not be easy. 140 million survivors, 26 million confirmed with symbiotes. No one over forty survived and no one under twelve. We have had a high birth rate and at best we will have a double population. We couldn't do more than defend our world."
"Well you got one thing wrong. The high birth rate is well just like Jake's family. He has eight kids and I know most families have just as many." Mike explained. "If it continues which it can. We will have on average twelve kids easy in the next ten years. They have eight already and access to birth control is limited to abstinence. The government wants us to have kids, so abortion is now illegal and only performed if the mother will die. That is becoming unheard of since the medical knowledge we have gained. Plus all those droids have torn down the past to make room for the future. Roads were left in place, but buildings, bodies, and trash removed or recycled. They then planted trees and foodstuffs. They reclaimed farm land the crops that thrived and now they grow ten times more food then we need. The settlers are joining them and us. Businesses are growing up left and right. 280 million in ten years no more like 400 million and a billion in thirty."
"You are not a biker are you?" Sara asked. Mikey glared at her and looked around. "No I am not really, but when you are like me one of the changed then you do what you can."
"You were immune?" Sara asked. "You have a symbiote?"
"Ya, but people fear us. We don't age period some think we will live for hundreds of years." Mikey replied. "My great uncle is Bert he was in the hospital dying, but in the end he was the only one who walked out of the place. I was in my thirties, now I look like I did in high school. You are one of us. I can tell."
"Maybe I am just this way because I am a jedi?" Sara answered. "Jedi live much longer with the force, but you are right. I became the reason the Katana Fleet even came here."
"You are thee Sara Finn?" Mikey asked. "You look nothing like that girl."
"I have changed over the last ten years, and my armor makes me look older." Sara teased. Mikey laughed and slapped her knee and then Sara laughed as he shook his hand in pain. He laughed as well and he got real close, real fast. Sara knew he wanted to kiss her and she gave only a moment to suddenly stand.
"Sorry I..." Mikey started.
"No don't be. I am a jedi and that rule of no attachments applies I'm sorry." Sara replied.
"Look I know I can come on fast, but are you sure? I mean if its me I understand, but I know you are like me and we have a high attraction to attachments. More so than normal people. The people here don't have full symbiotes and the ones that are, have a big problem."
"What problem?" Sara asked. She felt the fear and the dread, but had no place of reference.
"If a male with a symbiote has a child with a normal the mother or the baby dies. The immunized ones the baby, the truly immune from the start the mother dies." He explained. "I know of symbiote couples and they may have two or three kids. The immunized have a lot of twins and triplets, but they are still aging. We are healthier faster, with tons of endurance. The fully immune or settlers age normally, have single births. We figured everything out real quick."
"So I am the only one around?" Sara asked. Her question pained him as he assumed how he thought.
"No... Look it is that way, but not in a bad way just I am attracted to you and I guess I react too fast when I find out they are like me." Mikey replied. Sara felt his pain and she picked up on all the rejection he had. "Normals fear us and the press was not kind. It is like we have Aids cause we can kill normal women. They fear us men."
"How many bikers here are symbiotic?" Sara asked.
"Most of us. You can take your pick, but most have found a partner, so you won't be hounded, but they will not understand your choice even if it is because you control the force." Mikey explained.
"I am not against a encounter, but I don't think I could have a child not yet, and if what they say is true then I have all the time I could wish for." Sara stated.
"Then could we start over and with say a normal date?" Mikey asked.
"Are you asking me out?" Sara questioned.
"More like in restaurants and other entertainment for a date is limited around here." Mikey replied. Sara smiled.