I fly the ship low, then tell the young Jedi standing by the open door with the job of picking people up to pick Jyesella Dellaeon. I watch Jyesella rescue all the younglings, padawans and few barely knighted knights, who were helping defend the left side entrance. Were we wrong about "once you start down the dark path, there is no hope for you"? Because the entrance defenders would certainly have been killed, no slaughtered, by Vader and the clones, if not for Jyesella. I still remember her before the disastrous mission where she fell to the dark. She was one of my friends when I was a youngling. I called her Sella.
"Are you sure, Master?", a Twi'lek youngling, named Aayn'synda asks, with fear in her beady black eyes.
"I'm sure. She helped us defend the Temple.", I say, full of confidence. The younglings and padawans carefully pick up Jyesella, just before Vader can deal the finishing blow to her and bring her into the ship.
Jyesella looks over at me with fear on her face. I send reassurance to her through the Force, but her expression doesn't change. Thanks for saving the younglings, Sella. Although please don't try to escape again. I notice she has some burns from the Force lightning on her small body. I try to calm her down by using the Force to reassure her, as well as give her a sleep suggestion, as I don't need her being a problem for the other Jedi. She calms down a bit.
I say, "Hey, Sella. Thanks for helping... I guess. Don't worry, I'll try not to hurt you."
I turn to Jedi Knight Zena Eren, who is wearing her Temple Guard uniform, without the mask, over her Jedi Robes, saying to her, "Keep an eye on Jyesella. I'm just going to fly us up to orbit and start the jumps for Typhon. Shouldn't be more then 30 minutes."
Zena nods, and gives a bit of a bow, saying "Yes, Master Ti."
I nod back, then explain, "Sella, Zena is just going to keep an eye on you, to make sure you stay out of trouble. Zena, you are to have someone else find you one of the med droids, so you can do a better job watching Jyesella. You will then have the med droid try to take care of Jyesella, seeing that she got some burns from the Force lightning at least, from what I've seen." The two women nod as I walk off into the cockpit. I dodge the lasers as much as I can and fly us into orbit. I use the Force to allow me to fly and run the gun controls, then start the series of hyperspace jumps to throw the Imperials off our trail, and head to Typhon.
Once we are in hyperspace, I walk back to check on the other Jedi. I tuck all the younglings (and some younger padawans too) into their own beds and have them put their lightsabers on a shelf by their beds. Once it looks like they are all asleep, I go check on Knight Eren.
She appears to be doing a good job trying to help the med droid. When she sees me come over, she says, "Master Ti, here are the lightsabers that she grabbed from a Jedi who fell. They appear to be like her old pair. You should probably hang on to these, Master." I put them on my belt. I help Knight Eren heal Jyesella, then take turns watching her so the other can sleep. During this, Jyesella is mainly just sleeping, until the next morning. I grab her some food for breakfast and we both end up eating together. After breakfast I bring her to an empty room in the ship, hoping to get a quiet conversation with her. We both sit down on the sofa next to each other.
"Hey, Sella. Thanks for helping. Can you tell me how you managed to figure out that the Sith were attacking?", I ask, hoping to get more info about how and why she helped.
"When I was locked up, I heard on of the guard mention the words Sith, attack, and many dead. That was enough to make me suspicious. Then they all ran off, so I used that window of time to escape. You guys basically just forgot about me, so it wasn't that hard to escape, especially given that my Master was once a Jedi Shadow, so I took lots of stealth training." I type this down on my datapad.
"So how did you get ahold of those lightsabers?" I ask, wondering how she got them.
"When I walked out there, a young male jedi Knight, who used twin lightsabers like mine were, had just died. I just grabbed his, as the kybers sort of bonded with me." I also type this down.
I then ask her, "How are you feeling, like physically and mentally?"
"Physically, I'm still recovering from the force lightning. Mentally, I'm still worried that you'll try to lock me up again or just kill me. I don't know if you took mental health, but that's not good for sentient beings to be worried for their lives 24/7." Oh, no! I did take mental health, and this isn't good. This is really bad, so at least she told me.
"My current plan is that, assuming you don't fall again, to just keep an eye on you, maybe let you be a Jedi again. Also, assuming you are behaving, you can use training power lightsabers to teach the other Jedi dual wielding. I've tried dual wielding and am not good enough to teach it well. I'd probably end up teaching them the wrong way. Also, thanks for telling me how you are doing, as you always shield strongly, so it's really hard for me to figure out how you are doing." Jyesella's eyes grow wide.
"Who ended up replacing me at teaching dual wielding?"
"Nobody did for a while, then I stepped in, mainly to just officially fill that job. They all said that you did a better job than I did, when they thought I couldn't hear. I listened to that, and tried to improve, but some of the Knights, especially, needed more work, so we ended up just passing all but a very few Jedi, and just keeping quiet on that weak point of ours. I really need a replacement." Jyesella laughs at Master Ti, of all Jedi teaching dual wielding.
"Really? You might welcome me back to the Order?"
"Yes. So far, I'm not sure when we will restart classes yet. Please don't try to teach them before you are at least mostly recovered, alright, Sella."
Author's Note: Wanted to get another Chapter out this weekend, so here we are. May the Force be with you.