Chapter 27: Lava Bridge
The heat was sweltering. The tunnel didn't have air circulation which meant that the heat of the lava had nowhere to go. It was over a hundred degrees and the group made up of Jedi and civilians had no choice but to follow the river to get out of the tunnel.
Finally, when it seemed like the heat would win, they were out of the citadel and following the lazy river of lava through the wild landscape.
They continue to follow the river until they reached a bend in the river. The bend completely blocked the path with lava, surrounding them on two sides with lava and one side of impossible to climb cliffs. The only path was to turn around and go back the way they had come.
Anakin looked up at the cliffs. Technically a Jedi could climb up the cliffside with the use of force enhance jumps but-
"The civilians won't be able to do it," commented Luke from behind Anakin. Anakin jumped as he turned to face the youth. Luke ignored him as he continued to study the cliff. "We would have to carry them and I don't think we can handle the cliff with so much extra weight."
Anakin crossed his arms not likely that Luke's comment felt like an insult to him and his friends even if Luke had added himself and the other Jedi to it. "Well, your the one who is skilled at escapes. What is your plan."
Luke turned to stare at the river of lava. On the other end was a flat surface of the rock with what appeared to be a game trail leading off across a rocky landscape. "We need to cross." Before Anakin could call the plan into question, Luke order the Jedi, "bridge formation."
Sabine removed a few hand grenades and launch them into the walls above the group. The bombs went off sending rocks falling. Each rock was caught while in the air with the force from a new order Jedi and gently placed into the lava below. Now there were stepping stones leading to the opposite end of the river. The end that opened up to a nice rock field and from there in the distance was what appeared to be a game trail winding around the rocky surface.
Anakin had to admit. It was impressive but… "the civilians can't just jump across the lava," objected Anakin.
"Besides," objected Obi-Wan "there is no way to know if a rock is stable until we land on top of it. Even for a Jedi, recovering from a fall will be difficult."
"Which is why this only steps one," explained Luke. He looked at Ezra. "Ez, Alina you two are up." The two nodded and fell into mediative states where Alina stood behind Ezra, a hand on his shoulder as she pumped healing magic straight into his system.
Anakin didn't know much about healing, but he was pretty sure that when a few of the masters perform a great feat that required a large reserve of strength, they would often refuse to do it unless they had a healer to heal their strength as they did there task.
Ezra began to glow his strange green force energy that only he seemed able to do. Then something odd happened. Force projections of Ezra left the boy and began to cross the river. They were translation as if they weren't really there, but if one stepped on an unstable boulder, them and a newly created force projection of the boulder fell into the lava. This continued until finally one of the projections made it to the other side safely. The ghost did a touchdown dance before returning to Ezra.
"Fascinating" commented Obi-Wan studying Ezra who now the real one was following the steps of his most successful projection across the lava.
"Did you understand what that was" asked Anakin to his old master.
"Indeed it seemed to be similar to Mace's gift to see shatter points. If Mace was here he would be able to see all the paths across that would end in one falling into the lava. Ezra's gift does that but unlike Mace, there is a physical form that way others can see it as well even if it's a see-through projection, it's serving them." He pointed to the new order who a majority were following Ezra across having learned the same safe path that Ezra had learned. "To create multiple force projections like that… no wonder he required a constant healer."
Ezra and Galen were the only two who actually cross to the other side. Luke and Corran remain behind and the others were evenly spaced out on the rocks.
"Now Galen" called Luke. Galen, on the other side, nodded and threw his lightsabers into the air. The two flew off as if boomerangs and to a rock formation. A long rock archway that attached the two sides of the cliff together. The blades slice it at opposite ends and send the middle and a perfect fit for the rivers berth to the ground.
Anakin panicked. Even if the rock didn't hit them then the lava splash created by the rock would cover them completely.
But that didn't happen. Instead, the rock followed the same path as all its little brothers. Together the new order grabbed a hold of the arch and brought it safely down. Due to there even separation, there was no side that was leaning slightly into the lava as it would have done if all had attempted to control it from just one side.
The arch hung in the air right above the lave. Hold up by the combined force presence in the group. "Come on" called Corran, the only new Jedi who didn't have a handout and seemed to solely focus on keeping the arch afloat. "We need to cross." He looked at the bewilder senators and then the old Jedi. "If I go first to prove it's safe then will the rest of you guys are going to have to get the civilizations across?"
Anakin and the others pulled out of there shock and agree to Corran's terms. Corran had to take a big step to get on the bridge, but once there he merely walked across as if it was an ordinary bridge across a river. Once he jumped down to the other side Anakin and the others began to help the senators up onto the bridge. A few crossed on there own fine, if not in a hurry as if they were afraid that it will fall out from under them. A few more though, needed to be coaxed by the Jedi, and one Anakin had to actually carry across for he completely froze up. Ironic over a lava river.
Once the party made it across the new order members that were on the boulders in the river continue to jump over the stones to make it to safety. They made it just as those on the ends began to lose their grips. The bridge fell. Unlike the boulders, the arch was made out of a softer rock that disintegrated when it hit the lava. The entire area was filled with the noise of magma eating rock. Once it was done the group looked over to the side that they had once been and to Luke who now stood all alone.
"Oh no" muttered Anakin. "The bridge impacted buried the stones. He won't be able to jump over."
His concern was unwarranted for at that moment Luke began to levitate. Once high enough he moved forward and cross the river as if it was nothing and they hadn't spent an hour and a lot of power to get everyone across.
"What," asked Luke when he had landed into the crowd of gobsmacked senators and old Jedi.
"Why didn't you just carry us all across" shouted Anakin. "Why did we have to go through all of that."
Luke frowned. "The others only took their first lessons a few hours ago and flying so close to a large source of heat like that river isn't for novices. It creates killer heatwaves. I would have to carry them along with you and the senators. If we had tried it I would have only just now gotten half of the party across and I would have no energy to get the others. Believe it or not but this was the safest way to get everybody across and we have used that formation before in the field."
"Not over lava," admitted Corran. "I was concern that the heat would mess up the dynamics."
"Indeed once this is done we will have to run some more lava scenarios." Luke walked off, seemly to already forgotten his talk with Anakin.
Anakin just stared at his back until he realized that he was alone, the entire group had already disappeared onto the game trail. "Hey wait up."
The game trails were oddly empty. When Anakin brought this up Ezra smiled ad reassured Anakin that he had nudged the wildlife away from them.
"I really wanted to meet them" whined Ezra. "They feel like awesome lethal predators but when we have civilians Luke makes me keep the animals away. He says that it's too scary for both the civilians and the animals to meet."
Obi-Wan chuckled at that "I can understand where he is coming from."
"Um. I stopped listening after the lethal predators part" admitted Ahsoka. "Isn't anyone else worry about that? No. Just me."
That was the last comment anyone made as they moved in silence through the ravine until finally, they reach an opening wide enough for a ship.
Luke called the group to a halt before addressing Ezra, "call Roger and the others. Give them our coordinates so they can pick us up."
The senators took that as a sign to collapse where they stood now that it seemed like they won't have to go any further. Water bottles were scrounged up from among the Jedi's belongings and passed around. The new order joined the civilians on the ground for a minute before Luke order them back to there feet.
"I know we are all tried," he congealed. "But we can not rest. As long as we are on this planet we have to be alert in case of an attack. It wouldn't be the first or fifth time that at this stage of our plans we are ambush. I know the air-walking and bridge holding took a lot out but I need you guys to dig deep and keep going."
Obi-Wan smiled and Anakin had to agree with him. Luke was a great motivator.
Galen though was clearly a cranky person when he was tried. He scuffled at Luke's speech. "Not all of us is pulling there weight what about these cling-ons he pointed to Obi-Wan, Anakin, and Ahsoka. They have done nothing but follow us. The least they can do is stand guard now."
"We could," offer Obi-Wan always a diplomat even though Anakin was fuming at the insult.
Corran jumped in before Obi-Wan could continue. "Give it a rest Galen. They are trying to help and they did. They helped get the senators across the bridge. You are just grumpy. You know how you get when you get tired. So stop lashing out."
Galen glared at Corran in return. "Of course you're on their side. You have done absolutely nothing for this trip. No surprise since we didn't need a bookworm to regurgitate what he has memorized."
Corran bristled. "I helped with the planning. You didn't even hear of the citadel until I cited one of my old tomes. "
"You didn't hold up the bridge" continue Galen. "Heck, you had to be carried by Luke when we were all air-walking and you know why? Because you can't levitate to save your life. The most simple trick that kids use as a toy in the crèche, and you can't even do it."
"Wait" interrupted Ahsoka looking at Corran. "Really? I thought that you have to know that to be a Jedi."
"Not necessary" provided Obi-Wan. "There are a few Jedi in our own order who are incapable of levitating, but those are the ones who tend to specialize in the mental part of the force. Such as force healing, force visions, and Corran's ability to memorize books. Those are skills that for the average Jedi are hard to learn. But for the few who fail at levitating they tend to be the strongest in those fields."
"You see" defended Corran. "I can memorize, I can even give you nightmares so I highly recommend you knock it off."
"I'm familiar with those same facts. But at least all the others who failed at levitating could at least get a feather off the ground. All you can do is shake it."
"I have you know I have been practicing. I can now move a rock off my palm."
"Oh yeah prove it." Galen threw a pebble at Corran who caught it with a hand on reflex and just stared at it. The events finally catching up to him.
"Now is not the right time" he defended dropping the rock.
"We are waiting for a ship to pick us up and all we have for entrainment is an entire planet full of pebbles. What better time is there." He levitated the pebble so that it was right at Corran's eyes sight.
Corran looked at Luke. "Sorry," and Luke did seemed sorry, "but you fell into the trap."
Corran glared at Galen. When Galen refused to back off and actually started to poke Corran with the pebble, Corran gave in. He grabbed the pebble and after a few curses place it on his palm and stared straight at it.
The group fell into an intense silence as they all watch the little pebble began to shake and dance across Corran's palm. Each second it seemed to be about to lift off only to settle back down until it tried again. It seemed like if you blinked you would miss the pebbles flight.
Then it began to remain in the air. Everyone held their breath as slowly, slowly it started to creep up in the sky.
"Sabine Wren." Luke's thunderous voice broke the tension, sending the pebble flying off to the side. Behind Corran stood the slightly shorter and thus hidden from sight Sabine. Both hands were behind her back and she looked like a guilty child. "I'm sorry" she admitted honestly. "I just couldn't help myself. I had to raise the pebble."
Everybody just looked at her and Corran's face that was growing ever red and they all broke out into laughter. It wasn't just the humor of Sabine levitating the pebble so that Corran thought he was doing it. The laughter was also caused by a general sense of relief. They had escaped the citadel and the lava river and now tension that they didn't know was there was being wiped away by Sabine's antics.
Corran just spluttered clearly angry at the insult while Luke, after calming his own amusement tried to comfort Corran.
By the time the last of the chuckles were done, a ship appeared on the horizon. The senators all smiled, relief that their adventure was finally over. But the Jedi were not pleased. Ezra voiced the concern. "That is not the ghost."
"It's not one of ours either," admitted Obi-Wan.
Anakin, who knew the most about ships recognized it, "it's a solar sailor, Dooku's prefer means of transport." He reached for his lightsaber and lit it. Soon the entire area was bathed in the glow of several sabers as all the Jedi lit there's.
The ship touchdown next to the group and coming off the ramp wasn't just Dooku but general grievous and a few of the assassin droids. The droids raise their blasters at the group while Dooku and Grievous light up there sabers.
"Leaving without saying goodbye to your host." Dooku tutted "I thought senators would have better manners than that."
Luke took a step forward, his blade was lit but stood at a resting position unlike everyone else who had taken there fighting stance. "Why don't we calm down" offered Luke.
"There is no need for violence."
"Yeah there is" insisted Anakin, the others, expect for Alina and Obi-Wan agreed with him.
"Please step aside" continue Luke, ignoring the naysayers. "You can not win, the only thing your actions will create is more violence."
"Death of the Jedi is all I wish," snapped Grievous.
"I can sense your feelings" admitted Luke. "I don't doubt that your anger towards the Jedi isn't there. I'm not even going to say that they don't deserve it, but what good will killing them do. It will never make you happy. And Dooku" he looked at the older man. "The whole reason why you fought this war was because of the corruption in the senate. In the past days, the Senate has gone through a sever cleaning, a majority of the corrupted senators are gone. What good is your fight."
Dooku and Grievous answer by ordering their droids to open fire.
"Stop doctor Phil-ing and start slicing them up like sushi," snapped Galen, catching several bolts with his lightsaber.
Luke nodded "you and I will take grievous, the others will take Dooku, and the old order will take the droids."
"If its alright with everyone I will like to take Dooku solo" admitted Corran, moving forward and closer to Dooku. "If you are willing of course." He bowed to Dooku, an impressive feat with the blaster bolts flying everywhere.
"Why Corran," asked Luke.
"Dude is it because I said you didn't do anything," asked Galen. "You know that I didn't mean. I was just cranky."
Corran smiled at them before focusing on Dooku. "I am a master of makashi, Dooku is known as the greatest makashi master which means that if I defeat him I will earn the title as the makashi master and it wouldn't be boasting, a feat that Jedi are not allowed to do, for it will be the truth. It will mean much to me if you will allow me the chance to prove myself." He bowed again to Dooku as he began to remove his green robe.
Dooku gave a cruel smile, "well how can I refuse such a request. The two took the fencing stance used by the makashi form and began to fence. Swiping at each other as their feet began to dance across the rocky terrain."
"Fine. Galen you with me the rest of you take out the droids." With that Luke and Galen launch across the field to grievous. Each one took a side of grievous, leaving them with only two lightsabers instead of trying to combat all four of his. They move independently, not attempting to combine their attacks, but taking on each side as if they were a sole fighter.
The rest of the Jedi (with the exception of Alina) quickly moved onto the droids. The old order cut at them with lightsabers, but Ezra and Sabine were raised to use the lightsabers as a last resort. Ezra jumped onto the shoulders of one of the assassin droids and hacked into its system, taking control of it and having it fire at its fellow droids. The few droids that it didn't destroy fired and destroy the drone, Ezra though, had long ago jumped off and was on his way to his next target.
Sabine chose to keep her distance from the fight and instead, she pulled open her backpack and deftly assemble a grenade launcher that she likes to carry into battles. She opened fire on a pocket of droids, sending a majority of them up into the air in pieces.
"My design," she said with clear pride in her voice to the senators nearby. "Ten times more destructive."
With the help of the old order, the group managed to take out the droids quickly, leaving on the duel left, but not for long.
Galen seemed to come to the conclusion that two blades against two other blades were a stalemate and decided to end it one way or the other. He sliced at the droid and when distracted he quickly attached but ends of his blades together creating a staff similar to Darth Maul with the only difference was that one blade was blue while the other was red. He twirled the blade and force it up, slicing off the cyborg's arms.
In the confusion and screaming, Luke got the upper hand and neatly slice off his two cyborg arms as well. Grievous collapse to the ground staring up in anger at the two Jedi looking down at him.
"Surrender" demanded Luke.
"Never" snapped Grievous he launched himself at Luke and bite the young man's fingers.
Luke yelped having not expected that, Galen responded immediately, like the dangerous arms he removed this dangerous limb as well and cut the cyborg head off. This was followed by Luke and Galen's usual arguments about when killing was necessary.
Unfortunately for Dooku, he wasn't doing any better than his compatriots. Corran was young and skill not just in Makashi but also in reading his opponent, the true power behind the fighting style. He saw all of Dooku's openings and them viciously. Finally, Dooku's age caught up to him and he made one mistake too many. When their blades cross for the umpteenth time, Dooku failed to respond in time as Corran twisted his own blade around his forcing the blade out of Dooku's hand and send it flying to the side. He pointed the blade tip at Dooku's chest. Yield.
Dooku glared but he had to admit that he was bested by the child. Fine, he snapped. The boy called Obi-Wan over who deftly cuffed Dooku with force suppression handcuffs. The three of them joined the others who had to gather around Luke and Galen. Alina was treating the only wound the group had, Luke's bite mark as Luke and Galen came to an agreement that they will agree to disagree. Ezra and Sabine were examining the remains of the robots, Ezra expressing a desire to collect droids since he now had collected almost all the types of helmets out there. All in all, everybody was fine despite the recent fight.
That is until a second ship, a larger one appeared in the sky, landing almost on top of them.
The symbol that flash across its wing caused a loud sigh of relief to fill the opening. It was a republic ship, the old order's headship.
"Is Chopper and Roger ever going to appear" asked Ezra.
"Those two are probably drinking oil, and completely forgotten us" muttered Corran.
The ship landed and for the second time in a few hours the Jedi council set foot on the rocky ground of the citadels planet.
"Jedi" called Mina, the head senator, she stepped forward and brushed some of the dirt off her clothes. "Thank you for rescuing my colleges and myself." She bowed with the dignitary as if they were meeting on Coruscant.
The council bowed in return. "Glad we are to see none of you were hurt," admitted Yoda.
"Rest assure" continue Mace "we will get you safely back." He jester to the ship "please get on and make yourself comfortable. We will leave just as soon as we have a chance to talk to the Jedi that rescued you."
As if on command, the senators became boisterous, the fears from the ordeal already being forgotten.
Once they were gone the council turned to the new Jedi. The looks on their faces were enough to freak the new order out.
"Masters," asked obi-wan starting to get uncomfortable himself. "Is there anything you wish to say…or…"
He drifted off as Yoda walked towards Luke, who, absently kneel down so he could meet Yoda's intense gaze.
After a few minutes of this Yoda nodded his head, "look like your father you do, but, your mother's child you are, young Skywalker."
Luke backed off in shock. He wasn't alone the new order looked just as surprised as him. Anakin, Ahsoka, and Obi-Wan just stare, their confusion too great for them to be shocked.
Finally Luke asked, "how did you know."
"Roger, the droid, he ratted you out," explain Mace. "Not intently, but he was kind enough to share a video of the times that you're masters battle him. When I saw a video of my own grandpadawan as an adult, it became clear that you guys were from the future."
"Makes sense it does" explain Yoda. "Why Anakin Skywalker was thought to be the prophecy, for he is the father of the prophecy. His power and yours are similar."
"I'm a little confuse" admitted Anakin. "Are you saying that this is my kid." He pointed to Luke. "He can't be, he's my age."
"I'm from the future" admitted Luke looking apolitically at his father. "You wouldn't have me until the end of the clone war. I came from about twenty years into your future."
"Grim the future must have been, for all of you to come back" stated Yoda.
Luke nodded looking sad. "It wasn't great. For one thing, you were dead dad as was our mom." Luke had decided that if asked he would tell his dad that he was dead. And thus it was probably good that Leia didn't come on the citadel rescue mission. She would have humiliated and hurt their father by going into depth about what he became.
Padme died whispered Anakin, completely forgetting who he was standing in front of or the part that he had died as well.
"Obi-Wan said that you and mom were just so close that neither of you could live without the other. When mom found out you had died it killed her," whispered Luke. It was the truth just as much as Obi-Wan's story about how Anakin had been betrayed and killed by Vader. All about the perceptive.
Anakin sat down, the color on his face was gone. Luke continue his story knowing that the older Jedi was really waiting to hear the justification for time travel. "Our galaxy was hard" defended Luke. "The republic was gone and in its place was a Sith empire. Naturally for such a thing to occur the Jedi order as well. I created the new order from the ashes of the old. I also studied the mistakes made by the old to ensure that my order will survive in a climate that was much harsher then the old had faced in years."
"Despite that, we wouldn't have chosen to time travel" defended Corran. "For good or bad, it's our galaxy, and it wasn't like we didn't have hope. We were small in numbers but we were very strong and we had helped. The rebels, they were a large group of people that we're fighting to restore the republic. It was trying and hard but we were actually succeeding. In a few years, we could have even face the emperor."
"But then someone fell into a back hole." Ezra pointed discretely at Luke in case anyone had forgotten how Luke ended up on their planet months ago. "It created a ripple where Sidious knew about the rebels and us long before anyone of us was born. He sent assassins to kill our parents before we were born, and he even killed leaders of the rebellion before there was a rebelling. But that wasn't the worse of it. Since there creation the rebellion has made it their top priority to stop the empire from finishing its greatest weapon the death star. A weapon capable of destroying an entire planet with just one blast."
"What." Everyone stared in surprise at Dooku. They had forgotten him. The man now stared at the new order. "That wasn't part of the plan. The plan was to create an empire yes but one that the people will love, that will stand for truth and justice not fear from some sort of superweapon."
"Hate to break it to you buddy boy," said Galen, "but Sidious lied to you. Don't be so surprised. It's the Sith way to lie, especially to each other. It was always his plan to kill you off, which he did, and create himself an empire even more corrupt and cruel than the republic ever was. At least with the rebels and us, we were able to delay the creation of the death star for years. But once Luke jumped into the past, the future change to one where all alone Luke was easily taken by Sidious who learn all about his enemies before they even became his. Without the rebels or us the weapon was finished on time five years after the empire was created and he used it to destroy all the planets that he knew were the centers of rebel feelings. Mandalore, Naboo, Alderaan is just the high civilian planets that he destroyed by the time we jumped back in time. By then we had no choice not only would we cease to exist but all those people on those planets and any hope of stopping were counting on us to change the past."
"And since we had to go back to change things," explained Alina. "We figure we might as well change it for the better. Obi-Wan was a great help. The one from our time" she explained to the confused Obi-Wan. "He wasn't just in the center of all the action, he didn't just know all the battles and the codes, but he also knew the players. He knew how certain people will react when we got involved which was the biggest help of all."
"Although those Federation convoy codes and delivery dates were very helpful on getting supplies thanks for that" added Sabine with a wink.
"They're both right. I didn't get a chance to say this but thanks, master. We couldn't have done it without you." Luke, clapped a hand on Obi-Wan's stone shoulder. He seemed to have frozen in shock. Either from his role in the adventure, the fact that he was Luke's master, or that he had told the kids how to rob ships like pirates.
"But it's all over now" continue Luke as if he was trying to reassure Obi-Wan. "The separatist and the republic are signing a peace treaty. He won't be able to use a few more years of war to weaken the republic's defenses ad thus making a takeover possible. Just focus on that right now master."
Obi-Wan nodded. "Yes, the treaty. It will make this all seem like a bad dream."
"That will not work" commented Dooku from where he was standing. Everyone turned to look at him. "The separatist are sending reinforcements to the citadel. You will never make it out of the system."
Luke frowned at that. "We will just have to cross that bridge when we get to it." He walked up to the ramp and ignore the group as he sat down in a jumper seat and waited. He stroke his chin a habit that he had picked up from Obi-Wan for when he was thinking.
The entire group was tense as they lifted off from the planet. The entire Jedi armada was also placed on high alert but no word had come in about a separatists reinforcement. The group began to leave the system right as several ships left hyperspace.
"Stop" shouted Luke, grabbing the cannon controls from one Jedi. "They aren't separatist. Sense them, they mean us no harm."
The Jedi in the group did reach out to the ships and sure enough, they sense no ill will among the group. The communication signal went off indicating that the wide array of ships wanted to talk to the group.
"Umm masters," asked the knight at the communications desk, the confusion of not being shot at was clear across his face. Should we answer? He was looking at Yoda for his orders.
"By all means." Yoda's face full of mirth, "answer the call, we will."
The light beep and a hologram of a young woman and man appeared in the center of the room. "Jedi," said the woman in a dignified voice. The young man though response with "mom."
"Lux," asked Mina moving pass the Jedi to look at her son. "What are you doing here. Who are these people."
Lux stammer as if he didn't know how to respond. It was the young woman who explained. "I'm Steela ma'am, leader of the Onderon rebel cell."
"Rebel cell? On my home planet, who my son is a part of." Mina now focused on him as if trying to decide what she should be the angriest about.
"It's not what you think" shouted Lux. "We aren't trying to destroy Onderon. We are protecting it." Mina looked at her son as if she doubted him but let him continue. "We defend Onderon" explained Lux. "Instead of relying on the separatist and the republic to protect us we protect ourselves and insured that Onderon is truly being cared for. We aren't alone" he waved his hands at the other ships. "The new order has taught many worlds how to care for and defend themselves."
The Jedi all gave Luke a look. Luke looked embarrassed. "If they can defend themselves then it's one less world for the Jedi to worry about. Who knows if all the worlds were capable of independence then maybe the Jedi can go back to their true motives, gathering knowledge and beating slavers. I also thought that it may help with the civil war if worlds weren't forced to join sides out of fear of being conquered."
"Its true ma'am" explained Steela. "You know as well as us that the Onderon people have never wanted to be part of the war. We were forced into the separatist camp just like many other worlds were forced to choose aside. The Jedi taught us how to fend for ourselves to ensure our freedom and when we heard that the war was prolonged due to your imprisonment. Well, we decided to take matters into our own hands instead of waiting for the republic or separatist to move. We all came to help. We would have arrived sooner but this system was being blocked by an armada of ships."
"Took them out you did," asked Yoda, looking slightly surprised.
The young woman smiled as confirmation.
"Hmm," said Yoda looking deep in thought "saw this coming I did not, but good it may bring." That was all he would say on the matter as the Jedi left the system with the rebels following as backup.