Dagobah Slip Stream
Part Three
Her eyes were glued to the Heads Up Display.
She sat watching her charge, Jaina Solo, soar across the screen.
She like all of her fellow 'Masters of Balance' had taken a charge and watched over them.
It was all they could do except sit on their thumbs.
Their Masters had ordered them:
No direct action. Yet.
Thus they had decided to protect those that could take direct action. Any thing from saving their life to giving the subtle nudge.
She sat toward the edge of the system in the Aii.
Aii was her Jedi Stealth-class Scout ship. It looked, from the outside, like a J-type 327 Nubian transport, painted matte-black.
But it was sleek, quick, and agile, with Jedi modifications and some not-so-Jedi weapons. But she couldn't go into battle unarmed.
Maybe the Old Ones could, in their time. (Which was probably why they were all dead.) But no one showed Jedi that much respect anymore.
Zii liked the Aii. Mostly because she had spent most of the past few months on it, following Jaina and the rest of Rogue Squadron from place to place. Fight to fight. And, besides that, Aii was her mother's name.
Her grip on the arm rest tightened as she listened to the comm chatter. "Eleven, Break Starboard." She cried, she didn't worry about getting caught. The simple fact was that they would never influence her. But she sure could influence them. She isolated the voice that had cried out her warning. She might have need of her later.
"Rogues…" It was the Colonel's voice. Her comm connection was fussing. "…get clear!"
"Sticks…get clear!"
"GO…! Ejection! Ejection!"
Zii slid deep into the Force. She would need it to help Jaina. She searched for the greatest Force presence -besides her own- that was in distress.
She wrapped her awareness around it. She pulled at it. She moved Jaina away from the crumbling Bothan Assault Cruiser, toward safety.
She felt Jaina's hope dimming. Any trainee worth his lightsaber's focusing crystal knows that once you loose hope, you start to loose strength. Some times life.
She reached into Jaina. Into her life, her personality, her hopes and dreams. But more than that, into the Force, she looked at the Force through Jaina's eyes.
A new experience, for sure.
Pushing that aside she reached out to the presence Jaina felt was most familiar and opened the connection.
Zii felt Jacen Brush her, for a moment before a more familiar presence push her back. Zii saw Cas, Jacen's guardian and her best friend, move her to the side.
Together in silence they watched the twins meet, share and separate. One twin alerted the other strengthened.
In a moment of pride, Zii didn't see the explosion's shock wave hit her ship.