Once the couples get back to the apartment the pups go crazy. Scamp wanting to play with Fives after he hadn't been there in so long.
"I think we should order something in. Is there anything you'd…" Ariel looks over to the couch to see Fives asleep with Scamp licking his hand.
"He hasn't been sleeping well for the last few weeks." Echo sighs, glad to see him finally sleep.
"I'm sorry. It's all my fault." Ariel looks sad at all the hurt she caused.
"Hey enough of that. We're all here for a nice date night and to get rid of these doubts." Nora pats her shoulder.
"Pluss everything's finally settled, just let him sleep." Echo smiles.
"I guess we can figure out what to eat while he rests." Ariel looks at him fondly.
So Ariel and Echo cooked up dinner while Nora baked some cookies.
The smell must of woken Fives up since when it was close to finishing….
"That smells good. Can I have?" Fives tries to take a biscuit.
"Not yet." Ariel moves the tray away from him.
"Just one." Fives reaches for it entangling them.
"You beg more than the pups. You know that?" Ariel giggles.
"Woof." Fives smirks holding her close.
"Hush puppy." Ariel sticks a biscuit in his mouth giggling as she gets free.
Fives and the pups look confused at what she said. Then Fives hugs her tickling her with his whiskers making her laugh. Then snuggling on the couch.
Nora and Echo smile at the two.
"I'm glad to see them finally talking. But if your brother says anything that stupid again, he's on my hit list." Nora glares.
"I'll let you have a hit at him. Maybe you can knock some sense into his thick skull." Echo chuckles.
Echo was suddenly hit by a pillow and glared at Fives.
"Better a thick skull then a reg brain." Fives has another pillow in hand.
"That's enough." Ariel giggles kissing his cheek.
Echo was going to say something, but Nora just pulled him back for a kiss. "Mm. I've missed you. You are not allowed to leave me alone that long again." Nora snuggled in.
"I think I like that idea." Echo puts an arm around her as he nuzzles her.
"And you lectured us." Fives huffs.
"We're not in public for the world to see when we still need to keep a low profile." Echo calls back.
"Alright guys. Play nice." Ariel pecks Fives cheek.
"Come on let's get the food on the table." Nora chuckles as she gets out of his grip.
Echo sighs then glares at Fives before fallowing Nora to the table.
Fives does the same. Ariel nuzzles into Fives calming him down.
As they sat to eat they all talked about what they've missed and such. When Nora explains about the guys behavior that day.
"They what!?" Echo stood ready to go on a rampage.
"Echo cool it. They're our brothers. And how would you explain you knowing." Fives lifts a brow at him.
Echo sits back down pouting and arms crossed.
"That's really weird though. What would make them act that way?" Ariel ponders.
"I thought so too. Windu looked mad. I've never seen him glare like that before." Nora thought over that.
"Wait you told general Windu?" Echo looked worried.
"He knows about them?" Fives looks worried for his brothers.
"I was worried, they were acting really off. At first I thought they were just tired but he thinks they may be spending too much time with Anakin. Though Echo doesn't act that way." Nora starts to wonder.
"True." Ariel giggles.
"Because Echo is one of the reg kings." Fives chuckles sipping his citer.
"I never thought the rule was worth breaking, at least not till I met Nora." Echo looks away flushed.
The girls aw at that and Nora comes up to sit on his lap and kiss him.
"So sweet." Ariel looks at him softly.
"Since when did you get smooth moves?" Fives lifts a brow with crossed arms.
"Oh he has his moments." Nora smirks making Echo flush more.
'I bet.' The other two laugh a bit.
At that Nora and Echo chuckle the dogs barking as well. After dinner they watched a bunch of movies. The boys seemed really interested in 'The legend of Zoro,' and 'Balto.' The two looked on wide eyed on the movies the girls laughing at how cute they looked.
"Just like little kids at their first superhero movie." Nora chuckles.
"So cute." Ariel giggles.
As the movie ended the guys cheer and the girls had to laugh as the shushed them.
"Is there more of these Zoro and Balto movies?" Echo asks excitedly.
"I want to see more of this Zoro. He's pretty daring." Fives ponders liking the character.
"There are two other Balto movies, never as good as the first but still. And as for Zoro, there are books, movies, and shows on him. We'll see what we can get." Nora smiles.
"You guys want to watch it again?" Ariel suggests.
"YES!" The guys shout excitedly.
The girls' chuckles and Nora says "Maybe we should do a Zoro themed party for my birthday."
"You're birthday's coming up? Why didn't you say anything?" Echo looks surprised.
"I actually almost forgot with all the craziness. This will be my first birthday without my family, off of Earth." Nora looks down sadly. Angel comes up to licks her hand wanting her happy.
Echo hugs her "Then we'll make it a special party."
"We should have it with the others. Make it a big event." Ariel nods.
"Then sneak off for a date." Fives pecks Ariel's cheek holding her close.
"Thanks guys." Nora feels misty eyed at that.
Then Echo's alarm goes off. "We better go, curfew is in an hour." Echo looks sadly at her.
"Curfew. Why does their have to be one?" Fives sighs holding Ariel close.
"You two be safe going back. Te amo mi amour." Nora kisses Echo. (Translation: I love you my love.)
"Te amo mas." Echo kisses back. (I love you more.)
"You better stay safe." Ariel pecks his lips.
"I will." Fives does the same holding her close.
Ariel snuggles into him. Fives holding her close as he pecks the top of her head.
As the guys started to leave the pups whined and then grabbed at their pants.
"Hey come on now you two we have to go." Echo tries to pull Angel off.
"Come on top dog. Time for us to go." Fives tries to make Scamp stop chewing on his pant leg.
But the two wouldn't let go and whined when they did get them off, only to latch on again.
"Time to let go you two." Ariel tries to remove them.
"I'll see if I can calm them down, maybe find out what's up." Nora puts her hand out and the pups sit pouting with big eyes.
Then Nora eyes shot open as she flushed deeply red.
"What is it?" Ariel looks confused.
"Why are you so red?" Echo looks worried.
"What's wrong?" Fives looks confused.
Nora looks at them still flushed as she looked down and kicked her feet saying "They said they didn't want they're daddies to leave."
At that they all redden as they looked at the pups still looking dejected.
"W-what?" Fives reddens at that.
"Daddies?" Ariel reddens herself.
"They, they really see us as… as…" Echo starts to turn red as well.
"I think it's best to leave it for now. Tell the pups goodbye." Nora nods to them.
They look at the sad eyed pups again and pet them goodbye before going. Both guys extremely red.
Once the guys left the girls went to go sit on the couch. Nora hid her face in her hands as she became redder.
"You okay?" Ariel looks at her worried.
Then Nora suddenly started to laugh.
"What's going on?" Ariel looks confused.
"I know they saw us as they're mommies but the guys as daddies I… I… haha." Nora couldn't help but laugh it was funny and embarrassing all at once.
"I guess that's true." Ariel giggles herself.
As Nora still chuckled she said "Imagine one day, an actual family with them. With kids of our own…" Nora stopped at that and smiled misty eyed at the thought.
"Coco skin with my orange hair." Ariel smiles at that idea.
"His amber eyes and coco skin. The little ones would look so cute." Nora smiles at the thought.
"Maybe some boys that look like their dads." Ariel flushes and smiles at the idea.
That night the girls couldn't help but talk and even draw what their future children could look like. It was an interesting thought, for one day.
With the guys…
As they walked about Echo was flushed red like a tomato, but several thoughts came to him and said "Fives?"
"Yeah?" Fives, much the same, looks over at him.
"Do you think it'd be possible, one day? A family. Kids. Could we truly do it?" Echo thinks of it with a far off look.
"I'm sure." Fives ponders.
"It'd be nice." Echo smiles at the idea now.
"Yeah it would." Fives smiles as well.
"I wonder what they'd look like." Echo starts to imagine.
"Maybe Ariel's hair and her curiosity." Fives smiles at that idea.
"I'd imagine her big eyes that's for sure and her hair. And her smile." Echo adds in his own thoughts.
"A pretty princess that looks like her mom." Fives imagines a little girl with a tail splashing about on a beach.
They walk the rest of the way with this idea in they're heads. A family, it didn't sound so crazy of an idea now.
"You two are back late." Call a familiar voice.
"General Fisto." Fives stands at attention.
"Sir." Echo does the same.
"Try to keep how late you stay to a minimum." Kit gives Fives a look before heading off.
"He hates me now." Fives sighs heavily.
"He's just being protective." Echo says patting his shoulder.
With that they head off to bed.
The next morning…
Ariel was up early. She made pancakes, eggs, waffles, and bunch of other things.
"Wough, what happened here?" Nora looks at the buffet of food.
"Morning. Anything you want?" Ariel finishes up with some bacon.
"Okay what's wrong?" Nora crosses her arms.
"Wrong? Nothing's wrong? What makes you say somethings wrong?" Ariel starts on an omelet.
"Because your stress cooking, something you always did right before exams." Nora raises a brow. "Now spill."
"Kit. Dad, is telling the council today. He wanted to do it on his own." Ariel sighs placing the omelet on a plate then joins her at the full table.
"Why does he have to tell them anyway? And why didn't he want you coming? You're just as much a part of this." Nora raised a brow.
"He said he owed it to them. But I think he was also worried about what they might say when upset. Worried they might say somethings that would make me feel unconfutable." Ariel looks at everything.
"Doughnuts. I should make doughnuts." She stands ready to make something new.
"Oh no you don't sit down and eat. We'll go out for doughnuts later if you really want. Maybe brings some for the guys. But for now you relax." Nora pats her shoulder.
The pups looked up at everything with wagging tails and begging for some of it. The girls couldn't really deny them with how much there was.
With the guys….
Echo and Fives where trainign with the others, but Echo….Well he was kind of giving the guys the cold shoulder.
Fives was the only one that could get near him without sensing the doom vibe directing at him.
'Echo someone's going to notice.' Fives sighs at his brother's emotional state.
At this Rex sighed and said "Okay everyone stop." They all stopped what they were doing.
And Rex came up to Echo who just turned from him and he said "You heard about what happened huh."
Echo crosses his arms at that "Nora told general Windu."
They all paled at that.
"We're doomed!" Hardcase and Jessie hold each other.
"What happened?" Fives looks at them with a lifted brow.
"To tell the truth we don't know what came over us. One moment it's simple exercise. Hardcase gives a simple flirt that gets him in trouble and the rest of us, well I can't even remember well what happens." Rex tries to think.
Kix rubs his between his eyes and said "Me neither. Things got foggy after I caught a whiff of her scent. I think she got a new perfume on."
"So one whiff of a new perfume and you all lose your common sense." Echo scuffs.
"Echo, that's a bit far." Fives places a hand on his shoulder.
"No he's right Fives, what we did wasn't respectful to Nora. We'll apologize later when we see her. For now, can we all try to calm down?" Rex looks over at Echo with a frown.
Echo sighs at this and says "Yes sir."
Rex smiles at this and nods as he gets them all back to work.
Meanwhile…
Windu was on his way to the meeting that Kit had arranged to have for the masters. 'So he's going to tell them. When should I tell her? I haven't had any time to truly get to know her. What should I do? And should I even have a right to decide his fate?'
As he pondered this, he saw Anakin walking down the halls towards the gym. He glared at him and said "Skywalker?"
"Is something the matter master Windu?" Anakin smiles.
"Yes, your men. I suggest teaching them some manners." Windu looks angry at this point.
Anakin glares "Excuse me."
Windu then explained what happened yesterday and Anakin looks shocked.
"I'm sorry general Windu I had no idea. I'll be sure to talk to them." Anakin nods.
"See that you do, cause if this happens again, I'll be having a chat with them." Windu then heads off.
Anakin sighed at this 'What's got into you guys.' And heads off to the gym.
Back at the apartment…
As the girls got ready to go out Nora said "Hey Ariel, try out the new perform Padme gave us. It's really sweet. And I never got a chance to let Echo smell it." Nora chuckles.
"He didn't? Why?" Ariel looks confused sniffing it.
"No, I fell in the pool remembered." Nora sighs.
"Sorry about that." Ariel fights a small laugh at that.
"I'll be fine just hope it doesn't happen again. So embarrassing." Nora flushes as she dabs some on.
"I wonder what's happened with dad." Ariel looks a bit worried.
"Hey we'll figure it out in a bit. We'll stop off for doughnuts and then head to the garden for some time with the guys as we plan my birthday. I'm starting to think maybe a costume party might be nice. You know let everyone loosen up." Nora chuckles.
"You just want to see Echo dressed as Zoro." Ariel giggles.
"So what if I do. You probably do the same with Fives." Nora sticks her tongue out at that.
"Maybe." Ariel does the same.
The two laugh, unable to control it for long.
At the council room…
"Why did you want to meet?" Ti looks at Kit confused.
"Yes what is going on Master Fisto? Please explain." They all look confused, aside from Windu sitting in his seat.
'Don't lose heart my friend.' Windu nods to him.
"I… I am Ariel's father." Kit manages to say.
With that an uproar happens. Many having questions or whispering among themselves.
"Explain. Why not come forward till now did you?" Yoda looks at him softly.
'He knew.' Kit can see that knowing expression on the little master's face.
"Aqua asked me not to. She wanted me to stay and make the world safe for our child. So, when I thought I lost both of them…" Kit looks down sadly.
"Why come forward now?" Sacura looks at him confused.
"Because she's here. She's alive. And I want to know her not only as a master but as her father." Kit motions to himself with a softness to him. "I will take any punishment you see fit. But I'd ask. No I beg of you. Please don't separate us." He looks at them pleadingly.
"Wait outside you should. Tell you soon we will." Yoda nods to him.
"Of course." Kit bows then heads out.
'All I can do is wait now.' Kit sighs sitting on a bench.
As time passed he felt little paws play with his leg. Looking down he saw Scamp.
"Hi there little one." Kit picks him up patting his head.
"Scamp!" Ariel runs with a leash and collar in hand.
"Get back here you!" Nora runs behind her with Angel barking.
Scamp's ears fall as he nuzzles into Kit. Wanting his grandpa to save him.
"Sorry, he got out of his collar." Ariel sighs picking up the trouble maker. "That was naughty. Very naughty." She lectures getting his collar back on.
Scamp looks at her sadly. He didn't like it when his mommy was mad at him. He licks her hand hoping to butter her up.
"That's not going to work." Ariel shakes her head putting him down. "Now sit." She points to a spot.
Scamp sits with drooped ears. Angle nuzzling him.
"Poor boy has a tough mom." Kit chuckles looking at him.
"Do you know what the verdict is yet?" Ariel looks at him worried as she sits next to him.
"Not yet." Kit shakes his head slightly.
"I hope everything goes well." Nora looks on worried.
"Well looks like you have company." Kenobi comes out to see all of them.
"I take it the verdict is in?" Kit stands.
"Yes." Kenobi nods.
"Wait, let me give my piece please." Ariel enters with them.
"That's not needed." Secura shakes her head a bit.
"Yes it is!" Ariel shouts at them. "I've waited all my life to know where I came from. And now… now I have a chance to know all parts of me and know what it's like to have a father. Please. Please don't take that from me."
"Ariel-" Kenobi starts.
"I know he kept it a secret, but he had a reason." Ariel cuts him off.
"Ariel…" Windu starts.
"I… I'll even take a new master. But please don't separate us or punish him for following his heart. I…" Ariel starts.
"ARIEL!" A group calls cutting her off.
"Yes?" Ariel looks at them with big and pleading eyes.
"There is no punishment." Windu shakes his head.
"What?" Father and Daughter look surprised.
"So he's not in trouble." Nora smiles, happy at this.
"There is a price to pay though." A different master says.
"You are to resign from the council and Jedi." Kenobi explains. "Luckily there are grays here and it will be up to them if you can teach one of their foundlings." He smiles at him.
"Thank you." Kit gives a bow to all of them.
"I'll miss seeing you in this room my friend." Windu holds a hand out for his.
"I'll miss being in it." Kit shakes his hand.
As soon as they're out of the room Ariel hugs him. She was overjoyed to be with him.
"Why don't we celebrate? I could take you out for a lunch." Kit holds her close.
"Um… we kinda have plans." Ariel flushes a bit.
"We were going to hang with the guys." Nora flushes at well. 'This is so weird.'
"Alright." Kit sighs. "How about dinner for the five of us?" he suggests.
"You okay with that?" Ariel looks at him a bit worried.
"I'll be nice." Kit answers.
Ariel lifts a brow at that.
"I swear, I'll only pick on him a bit.' Kit swears with one hand raised and the other over his heart.
"See you later then." Ariel pecks his cheek.
With the guys…
They were playing hover ball. The 501st winning against the 212th.
The 501st cheers at they're victory as the 212th grumbles.
"We'll get you next time." Cody huffs.
"We'll see vod." Rex laughs as the 212th head off to shower.
As they leave the 501st keep cheering and congratulating each other.
The girls come in and Nora asks "Hey what happened?" They had left the pups with some of Ariel's younger siblings so they could play with them.
"You guys playing hover ball again?" Ariel smiles over at him.
"Not just play. We won." Fives smirks pleased with himself.
Echo glares over at the guys as if saying 'Don't you all have something to say?'
Nora looks over worried. 'Oh boy.'
Rex sighs and says "Um Nora we just wanted to apologize for yesterday."
"Yeah that wasn't our best behavior." Kix sighs.
"I'm glad to hear that. But what got into you guys? You guys don't usually do that." Nora frowns.
"I don't think anyone knows what happened." Jessie shrugs.
"Well let's just forget about it and hang out. Hey you brought doughnuts awesome." Hardcase smiles.
"Yeah we brought them with us." Ariel nods.
Nora opens up the box and says "One for each got it."
They all nod and come over to get one but as they did they get caught in the scent of the new perfume.
As Kix got one he says "Wow these are sweet, though not as sweet as you." He smirks at Nora.
"Kix!" Nora glares.
"What are you doing?" Ariel looks annoyed.
"We can't help it. Not with such gems with us." Rex kisses Ariel's hand.
"Rex!" Ariel pulls her hand away.
"Get away!" Fives pushes Rex at that.
"Back down rookie." Rex threatens.
"Both of you cool off!" Nora shouts.
"But we can't, not with you two burning our hearts." Hardcase puts an arm around her and kisses the side of her head.
"Get off her!" Echo tackles him to the ground the two wrestling.
Nora gasp shocked. 'Echo what's gotten into you?'
He had never been like this before. And it was scaring her.
"Will you four stop?!" Ariel shouts annoyed.
Jessie puts his arms around Ariel and said "Hey while they all fight how about we get away from here?"
Kix puts his arms around Nora and says "Yeah find somewhere more privet."
At that the girls had had enough and force pushed them off.
"You guys are all jerks!" Nora runs off crying.
"Cool off sleemos!" Ariel does the same.
Once the girls leave the guys feel they're heads hurt.
"What just happened?" Echo holds his head "Nora!" Echo feels panicked. He tried to go after her but Hardcase grabs him "Waugh there vod, not a good idea."
"Why?" Fives sounds annoyed while his head spins.
"Because something's going on with all of us. Did you all feel that?" Rex asks.
"It was like our minds hazed out." Kix groans as he rubs his head.
"You mean it's the girls? Or something about them is making us go crazy?" Jessie looks on shocked.
"Could be, it's the best guess we have." Rex looks at his men who all look ashamed.
'What she must be thinking.' Fives grips a fist at that.
"We have to find a way to fix this. What's going on?" Echo looks worried and sad.
"We'll talk to General Skywalker maybe he'll have an idea." Kix snaps his fingers.
They all nod and head off hoping to figure this out.
In the garden…
Windu and Kit were talking about what happened in the council.
"I'm sorry I couldn't make thing more lenient for you. But if I did I'd be suspected." Windu sighs.
"I understand Mace." Kit smiles at him. "So you plan on telling them then?"
"I'd like to spend time with her first. Get to know her and then I'll tell her. Maybe do what you did, give us a week to truly be with each other before I tell anyone else. That is if she even wants anything to do with me." Windu sighs.
"Just give both of you a chance my friend." Kit pats his shoulder.
"Thank you old friend." Windu nods.
Then they were shocked by a racket of sadness. Nora came out running out of the temple and to a gazebo, Ariel running after her.
Ariel is much the same. She was frustrated with them and their actions.
"What happened?" Windu looked shocked never seeing her so upset.
"It better not be those boys." Kit hisses a bit.
Windu glared at that but decided to check on Nora first. Kit decided on the same wanting to figure out what was going on.
In the gazebo…
"What's going on with them?" Ariel is frustrated.
"He's never acted like this before. It scared me. I just, how could they betray us like that? After everything." Nora cries into her friend's hug.
"What's going on girls?" Kit comes in a bit worried.
"I don't want to talk about it." Ariel huffs clearly upset.
"Why don't we talk over lunch? Clearly your plans are over." Kit pats her shoulder lightly.
Ariel ponders then nods. She didn't want to be around the guys at the moment.
Nora was still sobbing but Windu come up and said "Come you'll feel better in a new setting." He pats her shoulder.
Nora nods "Okay." just wanting to get away.
With that they got the pups and went out. The two furry babes happy to be out on a walk.
"Sorry, we didn't want to drop them off to be alone." Ariel pets Scamp as they stop by a rest area.
"Oh no it's fine. We can find a café or restaurant that serves outside." Kit smiles at the playful pup.
"Are you sure you're okay coming with us. Aren't you busy." Nora looks over at Windu, still sad.
"It's fine. It will give us time to talk outside of training." Windu nods to Nora.
With that they head off to a family restaurant that serves outside. The pups yipping at the new people wanting to play. The two playing with one another. Then as Angel is getting pets Scamp chews on his leash, playing tug-a-war with the table.
"Behave." Ariel giggles placing down a small plate of stew down for Scamp to snack on.
Scamp sniffs then chows down. His little tail swaying.
"You're strict yet spoil him." Kit sips his soda.
"We are how we're raised I guess." Ariel giggles a bit at that. "I'm sorry." She looks down a bit feeling the hurt come from him.
"No." Kit shakes his head a bit. "I'm grateful on how they raised you. I just wish I could have been a part of it." He smiles softly if still a bit sad.
"Well according to them if you take Scamp for the day you'll get an idea of it." Ariel giggles looking down at her boy scrunching his nose at a carrot.
Nora just ate slowly at first then Angel barked. "Sorry girl, here." Nora gives her some of the soup, making sure it's cool for her.
"You're careful with her." Windu nods.
"She could get her tongue burned. Padme already joked about how I be with my own kids when I got a bit panicked about leaving them for our trip to Atlantis." Nora chuckles. Then feels tears again. Unable to eat.
"Is something wrong?" Windu frowns worried.
"I'm sorry it's just, Echo was with me when that happened. I just, I don't know what came over him." Nora cries again.
"The way they acted…" Ariel plays with her food a bit feeling down herself.
"He's never been like that before. The only time he's been aggressive was against Roy when he insulted my honor." Nora sniffs.
"Who is this Roy?" Windu raises a brow angry. Wondering if he was in the group that came.
"He was some jerk that got mad I wouldn't take a job at his restaurant as a singer." Nora tries to wiper her tears.
"Well you see…" Ariel explains what happened on Earth.
"So that's what happened there." Kit felt a mix of emotions on hearing the tale of both men.
"So you sing?" Windu looks curious.
"Yes. We were all getting money to help move. I wasn't so good as a waitress but the head singer for the night quiet and Ariel here called me out to the boss." Nora chuckles.
"I knew she'd be amazing." Ariel nods.
"Yeah but I was so unprepared and nervous. I'm just glad I figured out a song before I got booted off the stage." Nora laughs.
"He would have done that?" Kit looks upset at that.
"If he thought it was needed. But thankfully Nora figured it out." Ariel nods with a small smile.
"After that I got kind of popular and that's when Roy made his appearance about two months later. And you know the rest." Nora finally looks calm.
'Good she's smiling again. Now how to make them suffer for making her cry?' Windu think.
'They both seem happy again. Good.' Kit smiles at this.
With the guys…
"What could have happened? What was affecting us? We were fine yesterday." Fives passes in their room.
"We should call them to explain or find them and apologize. We can't just leave things like this." Echo paces back and forth.
"No we can't." Fives sighs finally sitting.
"What why?! Don't you want to talk to Ariel?" Echo asks panicked.
"If we contact them they'll most likely ignore us and if not we don't know what caused it. What if when we're alone with them…" Fives didn't finish.
"We might do something worse." Echo pales at the thought almost sick.
"Exactly." Fives nods sighing heavily.
'And her dad already hates me.' Fives goes pale at the idea of what he'll do when he finds out.
With the girls…
They all went to the park to walk the dogs a bit and chat a bit more.
"So you like music. I never would have figured." Nora looked at Windu surprise.
"I don't usually share much about my personal likes." Windu coughs.
"Well I have plenty of Earth music we can listen to if you want. Do you prefer classic, lyrical, or instrumental?" Nora smiles.
"Hmm classical and instrumental mostly. You?" Windu asks.
"Lyrical. I like finding the meaning of the words. They can be so powerful and beautiful when you take them in, but I have to like the beat as well." Nora explains.
Windu smiles at this thinking 'Zyanya was much the same.' He remembered her dragging him off whenever her people started singing and trying to tell him the meaning of the song.
"Music huh? I used to listen to Aqua sing about whatever was on her mind." Kit recalls fondly.
"So mom liked to sing?" Ariel smiles softly.
"Many things." Kit nods. "I could always tell what she was feeling when she sang. She loved singing to you."
"I wish I could remember." Ariel sighs a bit heavily.
"I could share memories of it during meditation if you like." Kit suggests.
"Really?" Ariel turns to him hopeful.
"Yes." Kit nods. "It can't be too long but I…" he starts then feels arms around him.
"Just a minute of hearing her voice would be amazing." Ariel has an endless smile on her face.
Kit hugs her back patting her head.
"Oh my birthday is coming up soon. In about two weeks. I'm still not sure what to do on it but you two are invited if you'd like." Nora smiles.
"It would be nice to have you there." Ariel nods.
"I don't see why not." Kit smiles softly at her.
"It would be my pleaser." Windu nods.
Nora had to smile at that, never really getting to know Windu like this. So far the cold exterior he always seemed to have wasn't there anymore and he was just a normal person now.
"We should head back now." Kit sighs, not really wanting this time to end.
The girls look down at this.
"Fine but we don't want to see the boys." Nora growls.
"They were real jerks." Ariel huffs.
"Don't worry we'll handle them." Windu nods as they head back.
As they head back they did see the guys at the front but as they did they ran off.
"Cowards." Nora glares.
"They're really just going to run?" Ariel huffs.
"Why not leave them to us?" Kit suggests looking forward to tormenting them.
"No you know what, we should give them a piece of our minds. We can't count on you guys for everything. So they're going to get what's coming to them." Nora huffs.
"Yeah! They don't get to just run off." Ariel stumps her foot.
With that the girls stomp off to find them.
Windu then looks to Kit "We should keep close just in case."
"Agreed." Kit nods.
And with that they went into jedi sneak mode.
The girls caught up to the guys forcing them to face them.
"You two aren't going anywhere!" Ariel huffs.
"We want an explanation and we want it now!" Nora growls.
The pups were confused as to why their mommies were mad at their daddies. They just sat wondering which side to take.
"No you can't be here…." Echo pulls back trying to resist whatever it was that was affecting them but…his mind was hazing and…
"We…" Fives tries to think of what to say as his mind hazes.
"What? What excuse do you have?" Ariel huffs.
"We have every right to be angry. Why shouldn't I chase of others that want to try taking what's mine?" Fives pins her to a tree lifting her head as he moves to kiss her.
Scamp bites his dad at that. Fives shouts in pain at that.
"Little pest!" Fives shouts pulling Scamp off him and glaring at the pup.
Ariel takes Scamp back at that. But first slaps Fives.
"He's not a pest! You are!" Ariel force rips the necklace off his neck running off with Scamp in her arms.
As that happened Echo growled "You want an explanation! Alright here's one. I'm sick and tired of not being able to run off every guy that comes after you! All because I'm not worthy of you. But I'm going to show them and you that I am." Echo traps her in his arms at that.
"Echo what are you doing!" Nora shouts.
"Something I should have done long ago." Echo tries to kiss her neck but Angle bits his leg as well.
"Ah! You little…." Echo glares at Angel who takes a fighting stance at him.
Nora gets her arms free before he can do anything to Angle and then force pushes him up against a tree and gets birds to attack him.
"You don't think your worthy of me, well your right you're not so you don't have to worry about that anymore!" Nora cries as she grabs Angel and they ran off.
"Ariel? Scamp?" Fives feels his head clear. "My leg." He flinches feeling the pain from that.
"Ow ow ow…." The birds fly off satisfied as Echo just looks down defeat 'No, no, no no.' "What have we done?" Echo looks on stricken.
"You two are to NEVER go near them again. Is that understood?" Kit glares at the two troopers.
"Or we shall personally deal with you ourselves. And that's an order troopers!" Windu shouts with blood boiling.
"Sirs." The two say sadly.
With the girls…
"Are you okay baby?" Ariel, teary eyed, looks over Scamp once back home.
Scamp whimpers a bit and licks her hand. He felt scared by his dad, but he wasn't hurt. And from what he could tell his mom wasn't. So why was she so sad?
"I'm sorry baby. I'm sorry." Ariel cries snuggling him close.
Scamp nuzzles her. Giving licks on the cheek as tears drip down.
"My brave girl thank you for helping me." Nora kisses the top of Angle's head.
The pup whines as she licks her mom's tears. What was her dad doing.
Later on that night the guys try to call the girls. Try to at least say they were sorry, but are only met with static.
"We really messed up." Fives sighs heavily looking at the static.
"We've lost them. I just know it." Echo whines curled up on his bed. 'I don't deserve her I truly don't.' He had told her his biggest fear and now it was coming true.
Neither slept well that night.
The next morning the guys woke up for training. Only to find General Skywalker wasn't leading this exercise. But Generals Kit and Windu stand there with sharp looks on them.
'We're dead!' They all think paling.
Meanwhile….
Anakin was in shocked after hearing what happened. He couldn't believe what had happened. So he went to Padme's to talk.
"What is going on. They've never been like this before. I can't imagine, how can they…Padme help me here I feel like my brains going to melt." Anakin looks to his wife.
"I'm just as confused I don't know what got into them. They've always been so respectful." Padme puts some perfume on.
Anakin smirks as he says "Is that the new perfume you got from Naboo?"
"Oh you noticed." Padme fans her eyes.
"How can I not. What's in that stuff." Anakin walks up to hug her.
"Well let see. Several types of flowers, a sort of fruity scent as well, sp, pheromones." Padme looks shocked.
"What, what's wrong?" Anakin looks worried.
"I gave the girls a bottle of this. Have they been using it." Padme looks over worried.
At that Anakin's eyes widen as he races off to the girl's apartment.
At the girls apartment…
The girls were in their pj, eating sweets, and watching movies, and getting puppy cuddled time when they could.
They didn't want to go anywhere near the temple today.
"I need a girl power movie. Mulan's good, and cat women. What about you?" Nora asks as she looks at the movies.
"I want Merida and Cat Woman." Ariel chomps on some candy.
Suddenly they heard a hard knocking on the door.
"Go away we don't want visitors." Nora calls.
"No visitors! Not unless you have our pizza!" Ariel chumps on a cookie.
"It's me Anakin, girls please open up. I know what's been going on with the guys!"
At that the girls jump and rush to the door.
"What's going on with them?" Ariel looks worried now yet still angry.
"Why are they acting this way?" Nora confused by all this.
"It's the perfume." Padme comes over saddened.
"Perfume?" The girls say at the same time.
"I'm sorry. I didn't think of the pheromones in them and the strong sense of smell in the clones." Padme nods sadly.
"Wait this all happened because of that. I should have never worn it!" Nora felt sick at this.
"I suggest showering then saving them." Anakin motions for them to go.
"Save?" Ariel looks confused.
"Since my men had offended you I… I handed over their reconditioning training over to concerned masters. Your dad and Windu." Anakin clears his throat as he explains.
"Dad?" Padme looks surprised.
"Explain later." Ariel looks ready to panic.
"We got to go now before they kill them!" Nora panics as she knows what those two could do to them.
"Wait. What are you two doing with one another?" Ariel looks at them confused.
"Let's just say your dad and you two aren't the only ones with a secret love." Anakin look at them both then takes Padme's hand.
"Now go get ready." Padme motions for them to get going. "We'll watch the pups."
"Thanks." The girls go to take quick showers.
With the guys…
They were fighting for their lives in a mountain range. They started with all the 501st and are now down to a small unit. The others sitting in a penalty box.
"Okay WHO made them mad!? Step forward now!" Rex shouts shooting stun blasts at them.
Kit blocks it then sends them off with his saber. His rage clear.
"I'll make you a deal captain! Hand over Domino and you might get away with a few bruises." Kit calls coldly.
"You two?!" The group turns to them.
"We might have acted off around the girls after Kix's warning." Fives rubs the back of his head.
"You went near them?" Kix growls a bit.
"No they came after us. We tried to resist and then then….We just acted off." Echo flushed embarrassed and ashamed.
"Define off?" Jessie eyes them.
"I might of… sorta… pinned Ariel to a tree and tried to kiss her." Fives sighs heavily at that.
"I trapped Nora between my arms and tied to kiss her neck." Echo looks down sick at himself.
"Sir I know the first rule of a trooper is no one left behind but…" Hardcase looks at them scoldingly.
"Can we make an exception?" Jessie finishes.
"With how angry they are? There won't be much left of them." Rex shakes his head looking at the angry generals.
They look at the generals seeing the other party fall. Yeah they weren't holding back much.
"Come out and face us! If you don't surrender them, you will all suffer!" Windu growls eyes ablaze.
"Time to go." Kix moves Domino with the others.
"You're helping us. But we should face them. Especially after what we did." Echo looks shocked.
"You got them mad. But it wasn't your fault." Rex explains.
"I'll figure out what caused us to act that way. If we survive this." Kix hears another group fall.
"Time to come out troopers." Kit calls annoyed.
"Come meat your end." Windu says dangerously.
"Echo we need to end this." Fives whispers looking over at him.
"Your right we can't let them suffer." Echo whispers back as they start to head out.
"Wait a minute!" Rex calls.
Too late the two left to face the angry generals. Both looking annoyed at their hunt being over.
'Oh this is going to hurt.' Fives prepares for what is to come.
'Nora if I don't survive. Please know I'm sorry.' Echo's shakes as he prepares to be hit.
"Stop!" The girls call, taking the practice sabers of their masters with a force pull.
"Why stop this? Yesterday you were slapping them." Kit glares at Fives whom he really wants to pound.
"What happened wasn't their fault." Ariel shakes her head.
"What do you mean. How is it not their fault." Windu raises a brow.
"Padme gave us a new perfume from Naboo. It had pheromones in it! The troopers can't handle themselves around that kind of stuff because of their more advance senses." Nora explains worriedly.
"Perfume!?" All the guys sound annoyed and confused.
"We were turned into sleemo by perfume? Oh man. Embarrassing." They all turn red or face palm.
"Then I guess training is over for the day. But what I said still stands." Kit glares at Fives stomping off taking Ariel with him.
"Dad wait!" Ariel calls as she's pulled off.
"DAD?!" They all pale at that realizing how truly close to death they were.
'He really hates me now.' Fives sighs heavily.
Windu looks to Nora and says "As for you…"
"Don't. I don't want to be here anyway." Nora starts walking off holding herself.
"Nora…" Echo starts sadly but.
"Stay away from me! Your actions may of bean from that perfume but some of what you said was truly you. And if that's how you think, I don't want to see you ever again." Nora runs off crying.
Windu glares at Echo who feels a sense of dread over him before he goes after her.
The guys looked over at Echo and Fives and asked "What did you guys say. Yeah whatever it was must of bean bad. Why did she run crying after saving you. You boy save some explaining to do."
'Ariel…' Fives looks longingly at the door, reaching for the necklace that is gone.
Echo just fell to his knees, tears trailing down his eyes as he looked on heart broken.
At that the brothers figured something out. 'They love them.' They couldn't say more and just sat next to them, not asking anything. Just being there.
Fives sighs heavily wanting to be with Ariel. His heart breaking at the thought he really lost her.