Category: Star Wars / Stargate SG-1 crossover, Humor, Action / Adventure, Drama
Spoilers: Star Wars: Episode 2
Season/Sequel info: Takes place during season 3, after FIAD.
Rating: PG-13
Content Warnings:
Summary: SG-1 continue their missions. Tensions arise between Daniel and Anakin. [Padme/Daniel, slight Sam/Obi-Wan.]
Feedback: Feedback is welcome and very much appreciated
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"Let me get you a drink," Daniel offered Padme as they traveled toward Naboo. Daniel stood and went to the bar, leaving the young woman and Anakin sitting at the table.
"So Anakin, it must be difficult having sworn your life to the Jedi, not being able to visit the places you like or do the things you like."
"Or be with the people that I love?"
"Are you allowed to love? I thought that was forbidden for a Jedi."
Anakin hesitated slightly before answering, "Attachment is forbidden. Possession is forbidden. Compassion, which I would define as unconditional love, is essential to a Jedi's life" He smiled warmly."So you might say that we are encouraged to love."
"Maybe you have changed, Anakin." She smiled back.
"You haven't changed a bit. You're exactly the way I remember you in my dreams."
An uncomfortable pause surrounded them until Daniel returned, sitting down beside Padme and placing a drink in front of her. "Thank you," she said as she leaned toward him and lightly kissed him on the cheek
Daniel smiled back as Anakin sat watching, the cold glint of jealousy in his eyes. He was beginning to hate the man in front of him. Every time he got closer to the woman he loved, HE stepped in the way.
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"So you can actually control matter with your mind?" Sam asked Obi-Wan as they entered Jedi Archives followed by Teal'c and O'Neill.
"Yes, it takes a lot of practice and a lot of patience, but we're able to move nearly any object. The stronger our abilities, the larger and denser the objects we can move."
"But how do you do that? Does your brain emit some type of electrical..." Sam was interrupted mid-sentence as Jack tripped and nearly knocked over the bronze bust of one of the Jedi masters lining the main hall.
Jack immediately righted the pedestal and flashed an embarrassed grin, "Sorry about that."
"Please try to be careful," Kenobi scolded, and O'Neill nodded back.
Distracted from her original train of thought, Sam asked, "So what are we looking for?"
Kenobi replied as he sat down at a terminal, "A planetary system called Kamino. It seems that our assassin's weapon came from there."
Kenobi continued searching with Sam leaning over his shoulder. After a few minutes she inquired, "Any luck?"
"No, but perhaps the archivist can find it for us." Kenobi then summoned the caretaker of the records.
"Are you sure you're searching in the right place?" Sam asked as she leaned closer to Obi-Wan to get a better view of the monitor he was using.
"That is what I intend to find out, Major Carter." Obi-Wan turned toward her and their faces were merely inches apart.
"Please, call me Sam," she smiled at him, and their eyes locked.
"Sam," he repeated with a hint of a smile.
She heard a cough come from behind her, and Sam suddenly realized that she was being watched. She became immediately embarrassed and rapidly stood up straight, making sure she was no longer touching the man in front of her. Her cheeks and ears started to take on a reddish hue. Jack and Teal'c stood with barely hidden laughter at the reaction they had elicited from their teammate.
Sam was relieved when Madame Jocasta Nu, the caretaker, arrived. The attention of the group became immediately focused on the newcomer. "Did you call for assistance?" the elderly woman asked.
"Yes, yes I did." Kenobi answered eagerly.
"Are you having a problem Master Kenobi?"
"Yes, um, I'm looking for a planetary system called Kamino. It doesn't show up on the Archive charts."
"Kamino," the woman pondered. "It's not a system I'm familiar with. Are you sure you have the right coordinates?"
"According to my information, it should appear in the quadrant here," He pointed to the area on the screen and the old woman looked over his left shoulder, "just south of the Rishi Maze."
"I hate to say it, but it looks like the system you're searching for doesn't exist."
"Impossible," Kenobi declared. "Perhaps the archives are incomplete."
"If an item does not appear in our records, it does not exist," she said abruptly as she turned on her heel and walked away.
"Wait a minute," Sam exclaimed from her spot to Obi-Wan's right. "Can you show me more data on this? Something doesn't look right."
Obi-Wan vacated the chair he had been sitting in and motioned toward it, "Here. I'll show you how to work the console."
After a few minutes of looking over the information, Sam turned toward Obi-Wan and revealed her conclusion, "The system has to be there. Look, gravity is pulling all the stars in the area toward this spot," she declared as she pointed at the screen. "That's where it is. Somebody must have deleted it from your archive."
"But it's impossible to delete information from the archives." Obi-Wan pondered for a moment. "You're sure about this, Sam?" he asked.
"Absolutely."
"Thank you for your assistance. I must speak to Master Yoda about this at once."
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Having arrived on Naboo, Anakin, Padme, and Daniel traveled toward the Theed Royal Palace, followed closely by R2D2.
"So let me ask you something, Padme," Daniel requested.
"You should call her Senator or Senator Amidala," Anakin interrupted.
Amidala gave the young man a scolding look, then turned back to Daniel and said warmly, "It's alright. Padme will be fine. The Padawan is just a little overprotective of me." They walked a short distance in silence, then Padme asked, "What is it you wanted to know?"
"Now don't take this the wrong way, but this is just something that's been bugging me. In the last movie, when you had your handmaiden dress up as a decoy and you dressed up as a handmaiden, why did you still call yourself Padme? It just doesn't make sense to me. If Padme is your first name, then calling yourself by that name while you're in disguise makes for a pretty ineffective disguise. It would be about as effective as if I disguised someone as myself and called them Dr. Jackson but still called myself Daniel. Do you see what I'm getting at here?"
Amidala blinked twice then responded in an embarrassed tone, "Well... I guess I hadn't thought it through. It seemed like a good idea at the time." After thinking for a minute, she questioned, "How do you know about that?"
Realizing what he had done, Daniel blurted out the first thing that came to mind. "Yoda told me," he said matter-of-factly.
"When did he do that? I don't remember you talking to Yoda," Anakin butted in.
"Well I did," Daniel stated forcefully.
"Did not."
"Did so."
"Did not," Anakin shouted loudly, and people nearby began to look curiously at them.
"What's a movie?" Amidala interrupted before more attention could be drawn to the group. Daniel raised his eyebrows and looked startled. Amidala clarified, "Earlier, you said something about a movie. You said 'in the last movie.' What does that mean?"
"Well...," he paused as he quickly thought up a way to easily explain without getting himself into trouble and without deliberately lying. It was one thing to tell the Jedi about the whole situation, but if he told the Senator, she would probably think he was a lunatic. "It's a saying from my planet. It really doesn't translate. It ahh... ah..." he sputtered, grasping for words to explain. Sudden inspiration hit him, and he explained, "Well, it could represent a period of time..." He added with a smile, "usually of about two hours."
"Two hours? So what did you mean by it? That happened much longer than two hours ago."
Daniel realized that he had taken his definition too far with the 'two hours' comment. "I'm not sure I can explain it. Can we just forget about it?"
Having heard Carter's definition and wanting to make this man look bad, Anakin interjected, "No, I think you're lying. Either that, or you're just dumb. Why don't you tell us what you really meant?"
Appalled, Amidala exclaimed, "Anakin, I guess you really haven't grown up at all. You're still behaving like a child." Turning her attention back to Daniel, she said, "It's alright. It really wasn't that important anyway. I was just trying to make conversation."
"Well, then let's talk about you," Daniel offered. "You ruled a planet at a pretty young age. That must have been hard."
"Yes. I wasn't the youngest queen ever elected, but now that I think back, I'm not sure I was old enough. I'm not sure I was ready," Amidala stated.
Shocked by this revelation, Daniel asked, "So you're telling me you were elected queen? How old were you exactly?"
"Fourteen."
"You're kidding me? You were supposed to be fourteen!? Lucas wasn't going for believability on that one was he?" Daniel quipped as he realized that the actress must have been at least eighteen when the first movie was released.
Confused, Padme asked, "What? Who's Lucas? I don't know anybody by that name."
"This guy I know," he answered quickly. Padme looked as though she were going to ask another question, but Daniel immediately interjected, "So your people actually elect children to office? I find that fascinating. How do you manage to have the knowledge to run an entire planet, much less put up with the stress of having to do so?"
"I was very well educated in my youth. I was also a volunteer for the Refugee Relief Movement as well as an Apprentice Legislator."
"But still, how could you have the necessary maturity level? I mean, children on my planet have run a nation, but only when they're forced to do so by the death of a parent or relative who ruled before them. Even then, the children were just figureheads. Their advisors or some other elder made all the actual decision making."
"Well..." Amidala took a moment to think before responding, "Nobody's really explained it. I suppose your planet is just different than mine. Our children just must be different somehow."
"I just wish I knew how. I study cultures, and these kinds of things are interesting to me."
Padme stepped closer to him and smiled, "So you find me interesting?"
Shyly, Daniel answered back, "You could say that."
"Hey," Anakin shouted a little too loudly. "It looks like the Palace is just up ahead."
As Amidala looked at the building, she quickly took on an air of professionalism, and the group walked the rest of the short distance in silence.
They then entered the Royal Palace and waited for their audience with the new queen. The meeting went on for a long while, with Amidala raising the issue of a possible civil war and the probable failure of negotiations, as well as expressing her concern that the Separatists would seek help from the Trade Federation or the Commerce Guilds.
"It's outrageous. But after four trials in the supreme court, Nute Gunray is still the Viceroy of the Trade Federation. I fear the Senate is powerless to resolve this crisis," one governor stated.
"We must keep our faith in the Republic," the queen asserted as she began to stand. The rest of the assembly stood with her as she walked around her desk. "The day we stop believing democracy can work is the day we lose it."
"Let's pray that day never comes," Amidala expressed.
"In the meantime, we must consider your own safety," Queen Jamillia stated.
"What is your suggestion Master Jedi?" the governor asked.
Amidala quickly corrected him, "Oh, Anakin's not a Jedi yet. He's still a Padawan learner. But I was thinking..."
Anakin sharply interrupted, "Hold on a minute."
"Excuse me," she said to Anakin sharply, then continued, "I was thinking I would stay in the Lake Country. There are some places up there that are very isolated."
"Excuse me. I'm in charge of security here, M'Lady," Anakin argued.
"And this is my home." countered Amidala.
Daniel stepped in on her behalf. "She's right. She's knows this place very well. That's why we're here. Anakin, I think it would be wise if you took advantage of her knowledge in this instance."
Amazed, Padme turned toward Daniel. "That's EXACTLY what I was going to say," she whispered to him.
Daniel smiled back and Anakin looked at her, bowed slightly, and responded bitterly, "Sorry, M'Lady."
Amidala simply glared back at him, turning slowly away with a look of disgust.
"Perfect. It's settled then." Queen Jamillia stated as they exited the room.
Spoilers: Star Wars: Episode 2
Season/Sequel info: Takes place during season 3, after FIAD.
Rating: PG-13
Content Warnings:
Summary: SG-1 continue their missions. Tensions arise between Daniel and Anakin. [Padme/Daniel, slight Sam/Obi-Wan.]
Feedback: Feedback is welcome and very much appreciated
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"Let me get you a drink," Daniel offered Padme as they traveled toward Naboo. Daniel stood and went to the bar, leaving the young woman and Anakin sitting at the table.
"So Anakin, it must be difficult having sworn your life to the Jedi, not being able to visit the places you like or do the things you like."
"Or be with the people that I love?"
"Are you allowed to love? I thought that was forbidden for a Jedi."
Anakin hesitated slightly before answering, "Attachment is forbidden. Possession is forbidden. Compassion, which I would define as unconditional love, is essential to a Jedi's life" He smiled warmly."So you might say that we are encouraged to love."
"Maybe you have changed, Anakin." She smiled back.
"You haven't changed a bit. You're exactly the way I remember you in my dreams."
An uncomfortable pause surrounded them until Daniel returned, sitting down beside Padme and placing a drink in front of her. "Thank you," she said as she leaned toward him and lightly kissed him on the cheek
Daniel smiled back as Anakin sat watching, the cold glint of jealousy in his eyes. He was beginning to hate the man in front of him. Every time he got closer to the woman he loved, HE stepped in the way.
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"So you can actually control matter with your mind?" Sam asked Obi-Wan as they entered Jedi Archives followed by Teal'c and O'Neill.
"Yes, it takes a lot of practice and a lot of patience, but we're able to move nearly any object. The stronger our abilities, the larger and denser the objects we can move."
"But how do you do that? Does your brain emit some type of electrical..." Sam was interrupted mid-sentence as Jack tripped and nearly knocked over the bronze bust of one of the Jedi masters lining the main hall.
Jack immediately righted the pedestal and flashed an embarrassed grin, "Sorry about that."
"Please try to be careful," Kenobi scolded, and O'Neill nodded back.
Distracted from her original train of thought, Sam asked, "So what are we looking for?"
Kenobi replied as he sat down at a terminal, "A planetary system called Kamino. It seems that our assassin's weapon came from there."
Kenobi continued searching with Sam leaning over his shoulder. After a few minutes she inquired, "Any luck?"
"No, but perhaps the archivist can find it for us." Kenobi then summoned the caretaker of the records.
"Are you sure you're searching in the right place?" Sam asked as she leaned closer to Obi-Wan to get a better view of the monitor he was using.
"That is what I intend to find out, Major Carter." Obi-Wan turned toward her and their faces were merely inches apart.
"Please, call me Sam," she smiled at him, and their eyes locked.
"Sam," he repeated with a hint of a smile.
She heard a cough come from behind her, and Sam suddenly realized that she was being watched. She became immediately embarrassed and rapidly stood up straight, making sure she was no longer touching the man in front of her. Her cheeks and ears started to take on a reddish hue. Jack and Teal'c stood with barely hidden laughter at the reaction they had elicited from their teammate.
Sam was relieved when Madame Jocasta Nu, the caretaker, arrived. The attention of the group became immediately focused on the newcomer. "Did you call for assistance?" the elderly woman asked.
"Yes, yes I did." Kenobi answered eagerly.
"Are you having a problem Master Kenobi?"
"Yes, um, I'm looking for a planetary system called Kamino. It doesn't show up on the Archive charts."
"Kamino," the woman pondered. "It's not a system I'm familiar with. Are you sure you have the right coordinates?"
"According to my information, it should appear in the quadrant here," He pointed to the area on the screen and the old woman looked over his left shoulder, "just south of the Rishi Maze."
"I hate to say it, but it looks like the system you're searching for doesn't exist."
"Impossible," Kenobi declared. "Perhaps the archives are incomplete."
"If an item does not appear in our records, it does not exist," she said abruptly as she turned on her heel and walked away.
"Wait a minute," Sam exclaimed from her spot to Obi-Wan's right. "Can you show me more data on this? Something doesn't look right."
Obi-Wan vacated the chair he had been sitting in and motioned toward it, "Here. I'll show you how to work the console."
After a few minutes of looking over the information, Sam turned toward Obi-Wan and revealed her conclusion, "The system has to be there. Look, gravity is pulling all the stars in the area toward this spot," she declared as she pointed at the screen. "That's where it is. Somebody must have deleted it from your archive."
"But it's impossible to delete information from the archives." Obi-Wan pondered for a moment. "You're sure about this, Sam?" he asked.
"Absolutely."
"Thank you for your assistance. I must speak to Master Yoda about this at once."
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Having arrived on Naboo, Anakin, Padme, and Daniel traveled toward the Theed Royal Palace, followed closely by R2D2.
"So let me ask you something, Padme," Daniel requested.
"You should call her Senator or Senator Amidala," Anakin interrupted.
Amidala gave the young man a scolding look, then turned back to Daniel and said warmly, "It's alright. Padme will be fine. The Padawan is just a little overprotective of me." They walked a short distance in silence, then Padme asked, "What is it you wanted to know?"
"Now don't take this the wrong way, but this is just something that's been bugging me. In the last movie, when you had your handmaiden dress up as a decoy and you dressed up as a handmaiden, why did you still call yourself Padme? It just doesn't make sense to me. If Padme is your first name, then calling yourself by that name while you're in disguise makes for a pretty ineffective disguise. It would be about as effective as if I disguised someone as myself and called them Dr. Jackson but still called myself Daniel. Do you see what I'm getting at here?"
Amidala blinked twice then responded in an embarrassed tone, "Well... I guess I hadn't thought it through. It seemed like a good idea at the time." After thinking for a minute, she questioned, "How do you know about that?"
Realizing what he had done, Daniel blurted out the first thing that came to mind. "Yoda told me," he said matter-of-factly.
"When did he do that? I don't remember you talking to Yoda," Anakin butted in.
"Well I did," Daniel stated forcefully.
"Did not."
"Did so."
"Did not," Anakin shouted loudly, and people nearby began to look curiously at them.
"What's a movie?" Amidala interrupted before more attention could be drawn to the group. Daniel raised his eyebrows and looked startled. Amidala clarified, "Earlier, you said something about a movie. You said 'in the last movie.' What does that mean?"
"Well...," he paused as he quickly thought up a way to easily explain without getting himself into trouble and without deliberately lying. It was one thing to tell the Jedi about the whole situation, but if he told the Senator, she would probably think he was a lunatic. "It's a saying from my planet. It really doesn't translate. It ahh... ah..." he sputtered, grasping for words to explain. Sudden inspiration hit him, and he explained, "Well, it could represent a period of time..." He added with a smile, "usually of about two hours."
"Two hours? So what did you mean by it? That happened much longer than two hours ago."
Daniel realized that he had taken his definition too far with the 'two hours' comment. "I'm not sure I can explain it. Can we just forget about it?"
Having heard Carter's definition and wanting to make this man look bad, Anakin interjected, "No, I think you're lying. Either that, or you're just dumb. Why don't you tell us what you really meant?"
Appalled, Amidala exclaimed, "Anakin, I guess you really haven't grown up at all. You're still behaving like a child." Turning her attention back to Daniel, she said, "It's alright. It really wasn't that important anyway. I was just trying to make conversation."
"Well, then let's talk about you," Daniel offered. "You ruled a planet at a pretty young age. That must have been hard."
"Yes. I wasn't the youngest queen ever elected, but now that I think back, I'm not sure I was old enough. I'm not sure I was ready," Amidala stated.
Shocked by this revelation, Daniel asked, "So you're telling me you were elected queen? How old were you exactly?"
"Fourteen."
"You're kidding me? You were supposed to be fourteen!? Lucas wasn't going for believability on that one was he?" Daniel quipped as he realized that the actress must have been at least eighteen when the first movie was released.
Confused, Padme asked, "What? Who's Lucas? I don't know anybody by that name."
"This guy I know," he answered quickly. Padme looked as though she were going to ask another question, but Daniel immediately interjected, "So your people actually elect children to office? I find that fascinating. How do you manage to have the knowledge to run an entire planet, much less put up with the stress of having to do so?"
"I was very well educated in my youth. I was also a volunteer for the Refugee Relief Movement as well as an Apprentice Legislator."
"But still, how could you have the necessary maturity level? I mean, children on my planet have run a nation, but only when they're forced to do so by the death of a parent or relative who ruled before them. Even then, the children were just figureheads. Their advisors or some other elder made all the actual decision making."
"Well..." Amidala took a moment to think before responding, "Nobody's really explained it. I suppose your planet is just different than mine. Our children just must be different somehow."
"I just wish I knew how. I study cultures, and these kinds of things are interesting to me."
Padme stepped closer to him and smiled, "So you find me interesting?"
Shyly, Daniel answered back, "You could say that."
"Hey," Anakin shouted a little too loudly. "It looks like the Palace is just up ahead."
As Amidala looked at the building, she quickly took on an air of professionalism, and the group walked the rest of the short distance in silence.
They then entered the Royal Palace and waited for their audience with the new queen. The meeting went on for a long while, with Amidala raising the issue of a possible civil war and the probable failure of negotiations, as well as expressing her concern that the Separatists would seek help from the Trade Federation or the Commerce Guilds.
"It's outrageous. But after four trials in the supreme court, Nute Gunray is still the Viceroy of the Trade Federation. I fear the Senate is powerless to resolve this crisis," one governor stated.
"We must keep our faith in the Republic," the queen asserted as she began to stand. The rest of the assembly stood with her as she walked around her desk. "The day we stop believing democracy can work is the day we lose it."
"Let's pray that day never comes," Amidala expressed.
"In the meantime, we must consider your own safety," Queen Jamillia stated.
"What is your suggestion Master Jedi?" the governor asked.
Amidala quickly corrected him, "Oh, Anakin's not a Jedi yet. He's still a Padawan learner. But I was thinking..."
Anakin sharply interrupted, "Hold on a minute."
"Excuse me," she said to Anakin sharply, then continued, "I was thinking I would stay in the Lake Country. There are some places up there that are very isolated."
"Excuse me. I'm in charge of security here, M'Lady," Anakin argued.
"And this is my home." countered Amidala.
Daniel stepped in on her behalf. "She's right. She's knows this place very well. That's why we're here. Anakin, I think it would be wise if you took advantage of her knowledge in this instance."
Amazed, Padme turned toward Daniel. "That's EXACTLY what I was going to say," she whispered to him.
Daniel smiled back and Anakin looked at her, bowed slightly, and responded bitterly, "Sorry, M'Lady."
Amidala simply glared back at him, turning slowly away with a look of disgust.
"Perfect. It's settled then." Queen Jamillia stated as they exited the room.
