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Year: 10 BBY
Chapter 37: New Master & Padawan
Once more Mark finds himself on the planet wide city of Galactic City which could be found on the Core World named Coruscant. He was sitting in his chair in the High Council Chambers, listening once more to the other Council members talk. His hands rested in front of his face. His hand just barely scraps the dark brown beard he have groan since the crash of the Attack Cruiser on Bakura. He was planning on shaving, but Rachelle says she like him with his facial hair so he kept. The only thing he does is trim it so that not a lot of hair hangs down from his chin. It did not take long for him to get used to it.
It has been a month since he has recovered from the crash on Bakura. Now it is forbidden for anyone to go near the Hyperspace Disturbance. There is no reason for since the only planets that are nearby the disturbance on this side are planets that could no long sustain even the smallest of life.
Earlier today, they got done granting Anakin Skywalker the titled of Jedi Master. Something Mark has requested couple weeks ago during a meeting and it has been something they were talking about.
Mark looks down at his watch a bit. This meeting has been going on for a few hours now. Really it nothing interesting for him. Mark gave his only thoughts right after Anakin was given the rank Jedi Master. It was possible ways to defend the Galactic Republic from both Darth Sidious and Darth Vader.
"Also here to talk about the acceptance of Leia Skywalker being the Padawan of Jedi Knight Rachelle Hunter and Luke Skywalker being the Padawan of Jedi Master Obi-wan Kenobi, we are." say Yoda as he looks around the room.
Mark put his hands down and looks at everyone around the room. He knows he felt a connection between Leia and Rachelle. It is quite obvious that they were meant to be student and teacher. He has faith in Rachelle's skills and able to teach her. She has learned well from him.
"I agree on both acceptances. Personally I think Rachelle would be a good mentor for young Leia Skywalker. Through the Force, I have sense a connection between those. I also have faith in my former Padawan that she will do great as a mentor to Leia. As for Obi-wan Kenobi, we all know he is a great teacher if he could work with someone such as Skywalker and make him into the respectable Jedi that he is today." say Mark adding in his 2 credits. It seem like everyone agrees and Rachelle was called to the chamber. She stands in front of the High Council. Mark decides to let someone else do the talking on this matter.
He sits there with his hands in front of his lips while he stares at Rachelle standing there in a dark brown tunic with a light brown robe. She looks more formal as a Jedi then he is at the moment. All he is wearing is a white tank top, with pale brown tunic pants, black boots and his Lightsaber, which he has repaired the coverings of. Then again, Mark was the type of Jedi who does not always dress up so formally.
"Jedi Knight Rachelle Hunter, you have requested to become the mentor of one Leia Skywalker. The council has decided that Leia Skywalker will become your Padawan. We are also aware of the trouble times that we are facing, so try to train her as best as you can. With you being train by Mark, there is greatness to be expected to what you can teach her." say Mace as he waves his hand.
Mark can sense that Rachelle is proud to take on her own Padawan. They have been talking about since they came back to the Jedi Temple from their ordeal on Bakura. Rachelle looks at Mark, she knows he usually quiet during the meetings. Mark sighs as he begins talking through his fingers. "I agree with Mace, with all I taught you and I know you learned what I taught you well, I have a feeling that Leia should become a great Jedi, just like you are becoming." say Mark lightly from his seat.
It is true; there are some very high expectations of Rachelle, due to who her mentor was. Mark has trained a total of 3 Padawans and they all do great. Kento Marek, Jenna Farlay and Rachelle Hunter were the 3 he has trained and they are highly skillful in their own ways.
After Rachelle was dismissed, Mark left because the last thing on the agenda for the meeting was to grant Obi-wan Kenobi the right to be the mentor of Luke Skywalker. He never leaves a meeting earlier than allowed. Since he has already put his 2 credits in for Obi-wan, his choice have already been cast. He walks into the lift and leans against the wall as he watches Rachelle.
After that the trip down the lift has become quiet. Through the Force, he could tell that Rachelle is jumping with joy inside of her. "So what are you going to teach Leia first?" ask Mark. "I think I am going to review the basic of the Force and Lightsaber training and slowly work her way up to advance." say Rachelle. "If you need any advice on teaching let me know. I could throw a few pointers out." say Mark as they step off the lift.
Mark went through some of the basic pointers of being a teacher. He told her how to complement a job well done, and how to go about talking to the student for a failed job. You cannot be too harsh when you addressing a fail but you shouldn't go out of your ways to complement. Also something else he told her is that she wants to have a comfortable relationship with the student so that they are willing to learn and trust you. Plus he also told her that she shouldn't be too hard on the student but as the same time do not be too easy or they might not want to learn. It is all about balance and having the patience to teach.
Just like back when she was his Padawan she listen to every word that comes from his mouth. She wants to be one of the best teachers within the Jedi Order; she cannot let people think her lover could only be the best teacher in their relationship. Got to keep things interesting.
"I also recommend being careful around with Leia, she really does look up to you. This could be good and bad. The good thing is she will be more willing to learn from you, but the bad thing is she might follow blindly, which means that if you do something bad she might think it is alright." saying Mark. It was obvious that Leia looks up to Rachelle; she has a lot of respect for her.
Rachelle nods when she hears this. It was quite obvious that Leia Skywalker looks up to her a lot. It reminds her of herself when she was that age with Celestia Aluna. She knows she will never be like a mother to the young Skywalker due to the fact that she already has a mother and loves her so much that no one could replace her. Rachelle hopes that she could be like an older sister to her. An older sister that is willing to help and guide her to becoming the best she can become.
It makes sense why Leia looks up to Rachelle a lot more than most women. Besides her small amount female friends in the Jedi Order, her cousin Pooja, who is studying to become a Senator, and Winter, the adoptive daughter of Bail and Breha Organa, she does not have a lot of female companions to look to. Out of all of them, she knows Rachelle more. Yes she talks to Winter a lot over the Holocom or meet with her when they are on the same planet, but it is not as much as she likes.
"Where is Leia?" ask Rachelle. "At home, she was feeling a bit ill. She was in one of my classes before I got called for the meeting. I had Dooku take over the class and on my way out, Leia seem to have feeling sick to her stomach. Mind you she have been looking sick for the past couple days, so I told her she could either get a ride home or go to our or her father's quarters. Jenna offered to take her home since she was heading over to Amelia's apartment." say Mark. Rachelle had heard that Mark was running a few minutes late for a High Council meeting and that surely explains why. What she knows about Mark, he always tries to be on time to those meetings.
"Well she did look very sick this morning. I am surprise Padme let her come." say Rachelle. "More like Leia begged, she was using my classes to review stuff so when she becomes a Padawan she will have a good head start." say Mark. "How sick was she?" ask a worry Rachelle. "Sick enough that she was about to puck. Should have notice she was feeling very unwell today. She did look extremely pale and not acting like she normally does." say Mark.
He remembers how Leia was just sitting alone listening to what Mark said as she was looking over some Holobooks. When someone tries to talk to her when it was not her brother, Mara and Galen, she snapped at them. She did once snap at Mara when she was talking to her too much. That action right there have him concern. Leia is a very nice youngling. She respected all of her classmates, even the ones that seem to annoy her a bit.
They walk down the hall where the quarters are. Rachelle's quarters are right beside Mark, but he is having a strong feeling that they might be sharing a bed. To be honest, Mark loves sleeping with Rachelle, even through he seems to get a lot of sleep at night but with Rachelle there seem to be more. When Rachelle requested to have a Padawan, she also requested to take up the quarters next to Mark, which have been empty since beginning of the Clone Wars.
This is the first time they step in and Mark can see dust everywhere. Mark looks at a plain table and sees enough dust that he can dip his fingertip in. "Okay, I am not much a clean freak, but this is just insanity on top of insanity here." say Mark looking around the room as he slides his hand across the dusty tabletop. He kicked the back of the couch and notice dust puff up in the air.
They walk into the bedrooms and notice the beds were in ruin. "I am guessing this quarter was abandoned. These beds looks like they have been damaged in a fight." say Mark. He then notices burnt marks on the walls. Mark went closer to examine them. The marks were made by Lightsaber.
Mark then sees a small vision of two people dueling in the room and they both died. One of them has fallen to the Dark Side. "You sure you want this Quarters, there is one across the hall that is open." say Mark uneasy of the fact that Leia will be in a quarters that a battle and double deaths have happen. Mark also notices some Holobooks on a shelf. He pulls them off and reads the cover which was lightly glowing through the dust. Nothing odd. He was about ready to put it back, when he notice something.
Mark carelessly knock down the other Holobooks which some of them got damage from the fall. Mark notices a door with a 5 digit lock on it. Mark did not even bother trying to solve the lock. Mark reaches out through the Force and made the locking mechanism in the lock unlock. Like the Holobooks the lock was discarded to the floor.
Rachelle was interested in what Mark was doing, so she moves forward and stands behind him once more. Mark slide the door open and realized that the bookcase need to be moved. He uses the Force to slide the heavy bookcase to the side. This gave Mark room to crawl into the small hole in the wall.
"Force, this is a lot of reading materials regarding the Sith." say Mark as he pull out several of Holobooks and a pyramid shape Holocron. Mark is no expert on Holocrons, but he knows that most Jedi Holocrons are cubical shape while Sith Holocrons are pyramid shaped.
Holocrons are advance technology that someone could interact with the gatekeeper, which is like a guide to the Holocron. It is made out of organic crystals and holographic technology. Some of the Jedi Gatekeeper of Jedi Holocrons could sense the ability and level of a Jedi so that it can give restrictive information accordingly. That is like that to prevent a Padawan being see information that is too advance and dangerous at their stage of skills. Other restrictive are that you might have to uses the Force to tear the Holocron apart and insert a crystal Mark does not know a lot about Sith Holocron but he have heard that to an unaware listener.
One thing that all Holocrons have in common is 99 percent of the time, only a Force Sensitive could activate. So it is some advance piece of technology.
"A Holocron?" ask Rachelle leaning forward to the green and black pyramid shape Holocron. "Not just any Holocron, it is a Sith Holocron. Wonder what is in it?" say Mark. "Remember what Master Yoda always says, you need to be careful when dealing with the Dark Side or you might find yourself being drag into it." say Rachelle.
Mark looks up at her. "I have been a trained Jedi for 27 years, well actually 28 years if you count the year ahead that I was in for the other dimension and most Jedi in this order consider me one of the best that grace the halls, I think I know about the lure of the Dark Side quite well, I have been fighting the urges of the Dark Side and those who align themselves with that side for a long time. I am well experience not to let some stupid piece of technology made by a Sith corrupts me." say Mark. "I think it is best for the whole High Council to see it before any single Jedi see it." say Rachelle wisely. Mark nods and he pack up the Holocron and walked into the other bedroom.
The other bedroom was not even damage, but a malfunction bed controls. Knowing Rachelle as much as he does, Mark figures his lover could find away to fix it. She is great with technology like the ways he is great with working on Speeders and ships.
"Okay are you sure you want this quarter?" ask Mark looking at Rachelle. Rachelle nods at this. "It only needs some fixed up. Come on, your mother is most likely worrying that you somehow exploded yourself up once more." say Rachelle. Mark rolls his eyes. Ever since he came to this universe, he has been exploded up twice as much as he did in the other universe. Frankly he is amazed he is still alive after all those explosions. He knows his life have been a bit rough. He never was so injured before as he was when he recovered from that coma. He did not like that feeling one bit, made him feel very weak at times that he needed to be strong.
"Could we not mention explosions for awhile, unless we truly have to mention them? The last one was enough." mumble Mark as he walks out of the quarters.
Darth Vader is on the Planet of Zoist, which is an ice planet in the Sith Space. The whole planet have bunch of factories all over it that he have built, which is always building ships. Also it is on this planet that bunch of hackers who are always hacking into other shipbuilding companies to steal their ideas so that they can use their ideas to make their ships for free.
Now to generate money, he even sells some of the smaller ships on the black market. Darth Vader steps off his shuttle and walks into an ancient castle that is frozen in ice. He steps in and a purple Twi'lek kneels before him. "Master, we are currently advancing the technology of our ships. It seem like our ships have been falling slightly behind of the Galactic Republic's ships." say Darth Solaris as she looks at him.
"Have you tried to hack Zane Tech database?" ask Darth Vader. "Yeah, 5 times. Did not work, it seem like it kept frying our computers, so I decided to stop. They have some strong firewall. Then again all their files are located at their headquarters which is heavily protected from any type of intruding." say Darth Solaris showing him a report on a Holodisk.
Darth Vader kicked the wall and due to his strong mechanical legs the wall dented a bit. "Then experiment, we dock out enough ships that we can experiment on. I want 10 percent of all the ships being made to be used for experiments. How is the Death Star project coming along?" ask Darth Vader.
"From the latest report that we have gathered, it getting there. Something on this scale has never been done before. A station that can destroy a whole planet with a full power beam in one shot is something new and different, due to that reasoning it almost halfway done. Remember this project have been going on since the Clone Wars." say Darth Solaris. Darth Vader looks at her and chocked her with the Force a little bit.
"I already know that. I do not want to hear what I already know! My former Master was having that build so when he made his Galactic Empire, he would have something to bring fear into people. That is why I want this done. I have all his materials to finish the project. I want the project be documented and stored. So if we need to build another one it could be done twice as fast." say Darth Vader.
"It will be done, Master. Just a question when are you going to let me back on the battlefield?" ask Darth Solaris missing the option of being on the frontlines of the war. She has been making sure the members of the Empire stay loyal to them. They had a few traitors among them.
"When I say so. Do not defy me, I can always find a replacement." say Darth Vader as he cross his hands. Even through Darth Solaris is powerful with the Force, but Darth Vader could be very intimidating that it scares her all the way to death and back. He have proven how ruthless he could be when he have killed 5 highly trained Jedi and then two Dark Jedi traitors easily. Heads, arms and legs were flying everywhere.
On Coruscant, Mark is sitting with Amelia, Padme, Lillian, Mara, Maria, Rachelle, Luke, Kim and Anakin. Poor little Leia is laying in bed. Apparently she has gotten something similar to the flu. Padme have been bringing soup into the room every hour and half. The topic of discussion was the Triad War, which is the first war that has 3 major fractions going against each other since the Ruusan Reformation.
"This war is going to cost us a lot. Already the Senate is thinking about cutting some of the other programs and project to fund the military. I know I said I have learned a lot, but this is not exactly I wanted. I want to create peace. I understand the reason for a good military." say Padme.
"Padme, we are going against two powerful Sith that are out for personal gain. Sith do not do things peacefully. They tricked and use force to get what they want; there are no peace talks or treaties with them. You attempt that; they will use that to their advantage. The Sith cannot and should never be trusted." say Mark tapping his finger against the table.
"Have anyone ever offer them peace treaty?" ask Kim. She have experience a lot of battles, wars and deaths. She has been in wars or battles that involve 3 different groups but they were not major groups such as the Galactic Republic, the Empire, and whatever Darth Sidious calls his group. Some wars and battles were stopped because of people willing to talk. "I just say what the Sith are like. Take all the truthful things you know about the Jedi and flip them, you got the Sith. The Sith believes peace is a lie. All they care about is power. See Jedi uses their power to learn and protect others, not for personal gain. Sith on the other hand are like some of the greedy idiots that is in many governments." say Mark, he is proud to be a Jed that is something he have been proud of since the day he became a Jedi Padawan.
"So what are we going to do?" ask Lillian. "What we have been doing since 15 BBY, to protect the galaxy, Jedi Order and the Galactic Republic during the Triad War." say Mark looking Lillian. Indeed they will be in a rough ride, but if Mark is for sure that that the Jedi Order and the Galactic Republic will emerge from the rough ride on top. They have to or the galaxy will be in the same mess that the galaxy in his universe is.
Okay sorry for it taking me a long to post. Yes this is the last chapter of this story. It was going to be longer, but I decided to take out the part.
By now I think you would know the secret superweapon that can destroy planets, so I put the name. One thing I could never figure out was why it took so long to build the first Death Star (Since the beginning of the Clone wars until close to 0 BBY), but the second one which was larger then the first one only took 4 years to build. I figure it most likely due to that something of that power and size being built for the first time, they did not know how to exactly go about it, then the second one they know how to, but it was destroyed before it was completed. That is the only thing I could figure out. I know during the Force Unleash 1 game for the wii, the 1st Death Star was almost completely build, so I figure it must have taken around 22 years to make the 1st Death Star when they begin testing in 3 BBY to 2 BBY (During the Star Wars Force Unleash) So they must have build the second on much more faster to the state of being ready to fire. I guess you can also throw in the fact that Palpatine had to build it in complete secret during the time of the Clone Wars, because after it (in the 3rd movie) It seems just the outline of the first one was being done. Then again what do I know, only one who knows that would be George Lucas and the last time I checked, I am much younger than him and my name is not George or last name is not Lucas.
Yes, I have been planning on Leia Skywalker being trained by Rachelle. Now the idea of Galen Marek be trained by Anakin Skywalker stems off from the original Saga in which that Galen Marek was trained by Darth Vader who was in fact Anakin Skywalker. With that I also guess you know who Luke is going to, Obi-wan Kenobi and Mara Jade will be going to Mark, that was something I had plan since the beginning of the series if I was going to continue it from the first story.
Since this is the last chapter of the story, I better tell you what the next story is called. As of right now I am debating between 2 names, so I will give them both. It is either going to be called PD: Triad War or PD: Blast from the Past. I am leaning more to Blast from the Past one. Hey look first one that is not 38 Chapters, like my other two stories within the series.
Guess what time it is? This weekend I will be away until Monday, Labor Day weekend. So do not expect any posts or me getting anything type from Friday to Monday. So if I get a chapter done it might get down later on Monday evening or sometime Tuesday.
Until next time, enjoy and have a nice Memorial Day Weekend.