Chapter Six: In Which Some of the Characters are Reunited and a Very Shocking Scene Happens

Tiana and Anakin were attempting to sneak into the food court-- not really caring if they were recaptured-- when suddenly Tiana found herself crashing into a tall orange blockade. More exactly, Jandalf.

"PADAWAN!!!!!" Jandalf yelled, forgetting about the Thai food that went scattering all over the place. She hugged Tiana, quite in shock about running into her like that.

"MASTER!!!!" Tiana hugged her back. "I missed you!!!"

Jandalf started crying. "I NEVER THOUGHT I'D SEE YOU AGAIN!!!!" She obviously was so startled at running into Tiana that she didn't care whether armies of Stormtroopers came upon them or not.

"WHAT... you thought I'd DIE?!" Tiana looked like she'd faint.

"Or something equally traumatic. What?"

"YOU HAVE THAT LITTLE FAITH IN ME?!" Tiana yelled, and then stopped. "Sigh... I missed you, Master."

"People can't always help it when they die," Jandalf commented, not realizing that these words would turn out to be prophetic.

Anakin finally gave up on sneaking into the food court-- Jandalf being in his way and all, not to mention the Thai food that covered the floor. Curry isn't exactly easy to walk on, especially when the floor is pasted in it. "HIII MASTER!"

"PADAWAN!" Obi-Wan finally noticed his Padawan over in the scene, and hugged him.

"Wow... he missed me?" Anakin was slightly confused.

"Sorry, couldn't see you right away," Obi-Wan said, in way of an apology. "I have some curry in my eyes, and stang, it stings..."

Anakin snickered. "That Jandalf." He shook his head.

"Whaaat? Sheesh." Jandalf looked slightly insulted.

"You're torturing my master!"

"Am not," Jandalf argued right back-- she tended to argue a lot, at least in my experience. (I've argued with her... shudder... never, EVER try that!) "He's the clumsy one. He fell into my food." She looked around at the curry, and other Thai food splattered floor, and Anakin snickered.

Obi-Wan gingerly picked a noodle from the back of his head. "Well, that's beside the point. Let's get out of here."

Tiana gestured at the hallways very randomly-- not being of much help sense her motion covered pretty much the entire area. "The ships are that way," she filled in.

"I know."

"FINE! INSULT MY WORK THEN!" Tiana shouted. For some odd reason, this had caused her to get ticked off, when normally the Padawan was quite docile... well... not really... forget I said that!

Jandalf looked around, suddenly noticing a lack of something. "Where are Audreidi and Han?"

"They went the other way," Anakin answered, since Tiana was too busy huffing to answer. "They'll meet up with us on Sullust, I think."

"Sullust?" asked Jandalf, confused. Since she had been with Shadow, of course she didn't know why Audreidi and Han had decided on Sullust. Actually, even myself as the narrator doesn't know... and I think there's something wrong with the structure of that sentence... (confused) Oh well... I really have to stop tying up the story by narrating! "Why Sullust?"

As was mentioned earlier, no one actually knew why. "That's what she said," Anakin replied. "I don't know why." There was a slightly foreboding feel about this whole Sullust business, but why, no one knew. Out of all of them, Tiana wasn't exactly attuned enough to recognize what was foresight and what wasn't, and Jandalf very rarely had foreboding visions/dreams... and Obi-Wan didn't catch the feeling, mainly because it didn't have very much to do with him. And... well... no one knew what Anakin was thinking-- but it didn't have anything to do with foresight at the moment... probably more likely to be about food.

Tiana happened to know nothing about Sullust, so she proceeded to have a long and detailed discussion with Jandalf about the location (on the Rimma trade route, next to Eriadu-- and also fairly near to Dagobah), and the people who lived there (the Sullustans). Obi-Wan was thinking more logically, and attempted to plot a rough course from their present location (between Corellia and Froz, at the moment). They ended up arguing the entire way-- most of which was not worth writing out because all it did was end up in an in depth discussion about what Sullustans looked like and a confusing OOC argument which was rather foreboding to say the least.

However, they did reach the ships after a lot of discussion, and selected a nice Lambda-class shuttle.

"Shiny..." Anakin whispered, going Gollum for a moment.

The only reason they selected it was because they thought the wings folding up looked cool. And it was shiny.

"IT HAS NO GUNS!!!!!" Jandalf screamed, her excessive Star Wars knowledge serving quite well. Even though she hasn't even read all the books. (rolls eyes)

"It looks cool though," Anakin pouted.

"Who cares?" asked Obi-Wan, also in love with the sleek and shiny ship. "It's a short trip."

"IT HAS NO GUNS?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!" Tiana wailed. "WHERE'S THE COOL SITH SHIPS?!"

"IT'S A SHUTTLE!!!!" Jandalf shouted back. "WHY SHOULD IT HAVE GUNS?!!?!?!"

"BUT WE NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED THEM!!!!" Tiana wailed.

"There are no cool Sith ships in this hanger," Obi-Wan pointed out. "We'll have to take what we can get."

Tiana pouted.

"Quit that, Padawan. It's unbecoming." Jandalf paused a moment. "Heh... I'm one to talk."

"You..."

"Me?"

"You're calling me Padawan again." In that tone. "You're mad at me, aren't you." Tiana had a strange look in her eyes... a very odd expression.

"No, it's not that. Just frustrated because you're pouting. But you are done that now, so let's get on the ship."

Tiana pouted more, but boarded the ship because she didn't feel like being left behind. The last time that had happened had caused a serious plot bunny/paradox, and... uh... yeah. She actually didn't remember this consciously, of course-- in fact, everyone is probably quite confused because this happening did not take place in a fanfiction yet. So I'll take the moment to fill any confused readers in without giving spoilers. A really long time ago, a girl named Lara'li made an interesting discovery. Along with two friends, they were able to do something that changed the future... though they didn't realize it at the time. It was what had created Shadow, and destroyed a lot of stuff too... heh. Anyhow, Tiana had been left behind, and this caused an interesting complication because a girl who was meant to become something didn't... and... yeah. Now I'm getting too deep-- no spoilers today!

"Who's piloting?" asked Jandalf, sitting down.

"ME!!!! Please?!" begged Anakin. If nothing else, it can be said that he's a great pilot.

Obi-Wan rolled his eyes. "I thought as much. I'll be co-pilot."

Anakin whooped, and cheered. "YES!!!! THANK YOU, MASTER!!!!!!"

Jandalf shrugged. "If there's one thing you can say about Anakin, it's that he's an amazing pilot. As they come."

Anakin found it quite interesting that she actually said something good about him.

"But I'M plotting the course," Obi-Wan added, sitting down, and punching numbers into the navicomputer.

"Oh yes. Yes you are. You at least have some idea of where we're going," Jandalf replied dryly, looking at Anakin. Anakin had asked more than once where they were going while walking to the ships.

"Don't put me into a black hole then," Anakin commented.

"Don't worry, I don't plan to."

"I should hope not."

They took off, Anakin driving quite well as they left the EEEEVVVIIIILLLL Garlicky Star. Tiana was quite worried, although not because of Anakin's piloting skills.

"Calm down, Padawan." Jandalf gave Tiana a look-- the latter of the mentioned was holding onto the seat, and was quite white. "We'll be fine. He may be a nuisance, but he's a good pilot."

"I... can't.... bad... feeling..." Tiana continued to be pale.

"What bad feeling?"

"I trust Anakin, Master... I just... have a bad feeling about this..."

Jandalf looked at her sharply. "About what?"

"I don't know... I never was that attuned... I never know..." Tiana was strangely distant-- she was looking at Jandalf, and yet not-- more beyond her. Her eyes were unfocused, and yet looking clearly at something.

"Well... I wouldn't say that. I mean, Obi-Wan proved that sometimes Padawans sense things their Masters miss." Jandalf's tone wasn't worried-- yet-- but there was a trace of something else in her tone.

Tiana remained distant, gazing at the wall, and yet gazing through the wall. "I'm not attuned to the Force. I can't sense things, and recognize them. That's all... I know Obi-Wan could-- but I'm different. I'm me."

"Well, if you say you have a bad feeling, then it's for a reason. I trust you on this... we'll just have to keep an eye on things."

"All right." Trust... Tiana fought to keep from crying at the thought of what might happen. Oh, Force, I can't do this I can't break that trust... The only way she kept her face from twisting was by remaining distant. But that in itself was nearly as bad.

Obi-Wan turned around from the copilot's seat. "It's going to be several hours until we reach Sullust. WE might as well catch some sleep. Force knows when we'll be able to again."

"Okay," Anakin commented. "Flying..." He was quite pleased to be in control of the ship.

"Until we're in hyperspace, Padawan. Then you're sleeping, because you need to be well rested," Obi-Wan commanded, allowing a tone into his voice that said 'no nonsense'.

Tiana shook her head, and attempted to come out of the distant feeling. But she was too connected to something else to really manage to speak without that distant air-- or to someone else. "Is there rooms here? Or just bunks?"

"Four bunks," Jandalf said-- guessing, because she hadn't looked around the ship, and trusted that the narrator would be nice.

"Great!" Tiana almost sounded herself. "I claim a bottom bunk." She didn't like top bunks because she was too likely to knock things off and hit the person below her. Though she's actually never fallen out of a bunk yet.

"Luckily enough, isn't it," Jandalf commented, grinning.

Obi-Wan, however, had looked around the ship. "No, this is a slightly revised shuttle. There's only three." This caused the narrator to be very confused as to what sort of bunks only gave you three beds, and an interesting OOC argument to flair up regarding PGness and who would get the floor.

"Three bunks?" asked Jandalf, as confused as the narrator, and yet not, being as she was writing Obi-Wan.

"Three bunks."

Tiana was willing enough to take the floor, if only to save the rating, and possibly embarrassing scenes, but Jandalf wouldn't have it. Nor were they about to let Anakin sleep in the chair up front, because, "You might push something when you're asleep... I know how you flail when you dream," Obi-Wan said.

"Good point... but... still..." Anakin was slightly too confused to talk straight.

"It's better to save the buttons, Padawan. I can take the floor."

Anakin waved his hands about, and nearly whacked several buttons as it was. "All right, all RIGHT, okay?!"

"Yes, Padawan."

"Yes, Master."

Tiana continued to point out that she was willing to sleep on the floor if she had to, or stay awake.

"I'll take the floor," Obi-Wan commented, rather insistent. "Tiana, you will take a bunk. You need more sleep than I do. You look tired."

Distantly, Tiana replied, "No... not tired... distracted..."

"Well, either way you need some sleep."

"It's... out there.... something..." Tiana stared through the wall, feeling something, or someone.

"He's going to say it..." Jandalf muttered.

"Something elsewhere? Elusive?"

"HAH!" Jandalf laughed.

"What?" Obviously, Obi-Wan didn't notice that he had just quoted himself.

Tiana didn't either, being too distracted. "Out there... beyond... something..."

"Is it dark or light? Do you know?"

"It's... both there... and yet not... something close... but far..." She stared through the wall, her eyes shadowed over. "Something's coming...."

Obi-Wan sighed. "Well, you need to forget about it for now. Quiet your mind and get some rest."

"You heard him, Padawan," Jandalf instructed, as Tiana was ignoring everything.

She blinked, and shook her head. "Yeah, right... sleep..." She suddenly fainted, or more, collapsed, slumping forward as she suddenly lost her hold on the world.

Jandalf gasped, and caught her before she could hit the floor, luckily. "PADAWAN!"

"TIANA!!!!" Anakin shouted.

"OH... dear." Obi-Wan looked rather worried.

"Oh dear," Anakin put in. "I have a really odd feeling."

"NOT YOU TOO," wailed Jandalf, carrying an unconscious Tiana and putting her into the nearest bunk.

"ABOUT TIANA!" Anakin shouted back. "I'M ALLOWED TO BE WORRIED!!!"

"Oh."

"Sigh."

"I KNOW THAT YOU'RE ALLOWED TO BE WORRIED!!!! SO AM I!!!" Jandalf shouted back. Tiana had to be unconscious, because normally she argued too if you didn't notice. In fact, it was usually her that started the argument.

"I CAN TELL!!!!!!!!!!!! WE'RE BOTH TALKING IN ALL CAPS!!!!!!"

"No kidding." Obi-Wan uncovered his ears.

Jandalf shook her head. "There's something going on here, and I don't like it."

"Ditto that." Anakin stared at Tiana, who was quite unconscious still-- not moving either, which was odd, but luckily she was still breathing.

"Well, perhaps there's a residual effect on her mind," Obi-Wan said-- they were obviously under the thought that it was someone who had caused this collapse. And, of course, they were correct.

"Meaning we can sense the trail?" asked Jandalf, looking at him.

"I don't think this just happened. This has been done by something, or someone."

Anakin was suddenly almost as distant as Tiana as he said one name. "Shadow." He looked at Tiana-- she appeared peaceful, but yet not.

"My thoughts exactly," Obi-Wan said gravely, darkly.

"AAGGGGHHH!!!" Jandalf screamed. "THEY AREN'T MERGING, ARE THEY???" She looked ready to pounce on someone, but sadly the narrator was out of her reach. You see, both her and Tiana have read Force Heretic: Reunion. And no, when I wrote this I was not attempting to pull a Tahiri.

"I HOPE NOT!" Anakin wailed.

"I don't know..." Obi-Wan looked quite thoughtful.

Jandalf sat down, the expression on her face slightly dark. "Well, Shadow was a nice enough girl when she wasn't focusing on being all dark and evil and all that nonsense. But it's too early for this..." The look in her eyes was more than slightly worried.

"She was nice?" asked Anakin, quite confused.

"Yes, actually." Jandalf looked quite thoughtful. She hadn't really known the girl called Shadow very long yet, but she did know her well enough to feel a similar connection to her as she had to Tiana.

"To a certain extent," Obi-Wan replied. "More than one would expect from a Sith." Both he and Jandalf had seen another side to the Sith-- a side that would prove quite interesting in the days that would follow.

Suddenly screaming, Tiana sat up, and hit her head. "NO!!!!! OW!" She rubbed her head. "What was that all about...?"

"PADAWAN!!!! What happened??" Jandalf ran over and knelt beside the bunk where Tiana sat looking rather dazed.

"My head hurts," she complained.

"Did you feel anything?" Obi-Wan asked, as Jandalf gave Tiana a glass of water and an Advil that had appeared from nowhere in particular. Tiana took the Advil quite gladly, still rubbing her head.

"Well, I feel pain in my head," she said, dryly, swallowing the pill, and looking slightly dazed, though not so distant.

"Besides that."

"Ooohhh..." Tiana clued in. "You mean with the Force."

"Yes." Obi-Wan rolled his eyes. "Any connections?"

Tiana looked slightly confused as she attempted to remember. "Uhhhh... I have a feeling I'm suppose to remember something here..."

Obi-Wan groaned. "No the amnesia."

Tiana groaned. "My head hurts... SHADOW!"

"Don't worry, it happens sometimes after visions or connections," Jandalf said. Then she caught Tiana's last piece. "SHADOW???!!!!???" She muttered, "I knew it."

Tiana narrowed her eyes, and set her hand on Jandalf's shoulder. "No... not like that... I mean... it's... DIFFERENT, Master."

"Oh? Feel free to clue me in." Jandalf almost glared at her-- a slightly foreboding moment taking place. Tiana didn't notice this, or more, attempted to avoid noticing it.

"I think she's in trouble."

"In trouble?" Jandalf dropped the annoyed look that was quite foreshadowing of days to come.

"But where?" asked Obi-Wan.

"It's too late for that. We can't do anything now," Jandalf filled in before Tiana could scream about not remembering anything, as she seemed quite ready to do. She smacked herself on the forehead, suddenly remembering. "And we were supposed to meet her on Coruscant. Stang! Oh well, try to get some sleep, Padawan." She looked at Tiana sharply-- Tiana looked quite unlike she was about to go to sleep.

Pausing, Tiana thought about this for a moment. "I think that's probably a good idea." She flopped back down, still on the bunk, and fell asleep remarkably fast.

Jandalf relaxed. "Phew. Thank the Force for small favors." She climbed into the opposite bunk, quite tired herself.

Anakin remained confused, until Obi-Wan pointed at the top bunk. "Sleep, Padawan," he instructed.

"I'm worried," Anakin said, as he attempted to climb into the top bunk-- they didn't have a ladder, annoyingly.

Obi-Wan pulled out an extra blanket and made up a bed on the floor. "We can worry when we wake up."

Sighing, Anakin sat down in the bunk. "As long as I don't fall out."

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"It all leads back to one thing," Shadow said out loud, sitting cross-legged on a bed in the Garlic Star, and reading through a stack of books, etc. "It's all headed back to one event, and the effects it causes. But it's so tangled!"

She sighed, and looked at the pile of notes she had created, in meditation, and research-- all the information. "It's one big puzzle... deeper than anything I've ever faced. Lara'li, Shadow, Lania, Jethine, Jandalf, Enn, and, of course, Tiana..." she shook her head, and stared at the notes.

Lara'li: Female Terran Scientist

Jethine: Close friend of Lara'li, and also traitor

Shadow: Lara'li and Tiana's darkside selves

Lania: The girl in the middle.

Jandalf: Tiana's master.

Enn: Jandalf's Padawan

Tiana: Rogue piece.

Shadow shook her head. Of course, she wasn't Shadow at the time-- more likely to be named Lania, actually. But this wasn't piecing together at all. She had wrote it out without thinking-- and it proved one thing all too well-- Tiana was not suppose to be there. But then who is Tiana? She looked quite confused, as she shuffled the notes around. And why does so much of the mystery revolve around Jandalf and Jethine?

The Sith didn't know whether or not there was another piece-- maybe there was. Maybe someone else was out there, who would be drawn into the tangled web-- a person who could balance the scale. Maybe...

She slammed her hand down, and scattered the notes. "There's no way this can work out all right! Unless, of course, Tiana ends up killing me for this..." Shadow shuddered, and did not attempt to think of what that would do to the obvious paradox. There were two to each realm-- Lara'li and Jethine, Shadow and Lania, and Enn and Jandalf-- Tiana just appeared quite displaced-- and did not belong here. That girl was suppose to be on Terra! Shadow realized with a shock. Oh, Force, we're doomed.

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Morning had came halfway across the galaxy, or wherever it was that Jandalf and the rest of them were on a ship in hyperspace. The mentioned Jandalf, at present, had just woken up and was hovering over Obi-Wan face in order to wake him up. "GOOD MORNING, VIETNAAAAAAAAM!!!" she announced loudly in his face.

"YAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!" Obi-Wan jumped-- an interesting thing to see from a Jedi who had just woken up 1.00000184 seconds ago. "Don't DO that to me!!!!"

"Sorry. I had to. Heehee." Jandalf giggled. I suppose the fact that she wore orange all the time gave her reason to be cheerful, because it's a cheerful color, right? Ah, never mind. Because if green's a relaxing color, it's certainly not working for Tiana, who was up ages ago with her diary. A sign of stress, I think, because normally she sleeps as late as she possibly can.

"Agh..." Obi-Wan rolled his eyes.

Anakin, at that moment, rolled over and fell out of the bunk bed. "OW!"

"Well." Jandalf snrked.

"I'm in pain..." Anakin picked up the blanket that had came down with him, and pillow, and set them back on top of the bunk bed. Surprisingly, they went back onto the bed without a wrinkle on them, making both Anakin and Jandalf very confused.

"So. If all goes well we should be arriving within an hour," Obi-Wan pointed out, checking the time as he handed Anakin an Advil. They had been using a lot of them lately.

"Thank you," Anakin said, taking the pill and water. "I feel like I fell out of a bunk bed, errghh."

"Well, you did fall out of a bunk."

"Okay... ummm... I'm just going to go and change now," Anakin commented, grabbing a random appearing backpack, which just happened to have a spare set of clothes in it.

"You look awful. Maybe you should have a shower too." Obi-Wan looked at Anakin, who did look rather awful-- messy hair and all that, you know.

Anakin left, with the thoughts that that was a very good idea-- and a way to get his character out of the way, too... heh. Tiana was out of the room as well-- she was up front, presumably eating, but actually she had changed the hyperdrive to take them to Coruscant while still not really thinking at all. Now she was eating, if nothing else... heh.

"They have showers in these things?" Jandalf was impressed. "Wow."

"Yes, I know." Both of them were quite for a while, as Obi-Wan wondered how long it would take-- exactly-- to get to Sullust, and Jandalf decided to break some news to him...

(The following scene is wrote by Jandalf because I refused to write it.)

Jandalf thought for a moment about just how, exactly, she was going to present this to him. It was momentous, to be sure, and she didn't want to ruin it by beating about the bush too much... but there was always that part of her that loved watching people trying to figure out just what she had meant. "Obi-Wan?"

"Yes?" he replied absently.

She toned her grin down to a simple smile. "I have some news for you."

That caught his attention. She usually had news of some sort or another, but it somehow never failed to be interesting, one way or another. "Really? What is it?"

Jandalf hesitated. "Er... two pieces of news, actually."

Obi-Wan blinked. She's certainly indecisive about this. Strange.

She grinned, and leaned to his ear to whisper: "I'm carrying on the Skywalker tradition."

It took a moment for that to sink in. "...You mean?"

"Yup."

Obi-Wan promptly fainted.

Jandalf frowned. "What? What did I say?"

Up in the front of the ship, Tiana had heard the thunk made by Obi-Wan, and was wondering about it.

Jandalf glanced back at her. "Padawan? Where is your mind?" Jandalf was referring to the fact that Tiana was both distant and very away from the ship at the moment-- in mind, if nothing else.

Tiana didn't respond for a moment.

"Er... Padawan?"

"I'm here, master."

Jandalf sighed and waved her hand in front of Obi-Wan face, just to be sure. "He fainted."

"I see that," responded Tiana. "What did you tell him?"

"My two bits of news." Jandalf grinned again. "Heh heh."

Tiana expressed her confusion very well via her face. "Ummmm.... yeah. You didn't tell him you were his daughter, or something?"

Before Jandalf could respond, Obi-Wan woke up and grabbed her collar, pulling her down and him up, if just a little. "You're kidding me."

"I'm perfectly serious." For once, she thought.

Obi-Wan seemed to be in shock. "But..."

She shrugged, and patted her stomach. "It has been two years, after all."

Tiana fainted, but woke up right after falling onto the floor. "Ow. Bad food..."

"I...this...what..." Obi-Wan, of course, wasn't sure exactly what to say.

"Ummmm...errrr...I think I ate something that disagreed with me..." Tiana ran off to the refresher, with the hope that she could throw up, or something to get her mind off of this.

"You need to calm down," Jandalf sighed, and added so Tiana could hear, "Both of you."

Obi-Wan was still confused. "Then...er...what..."

Jandalf peered down the hall. "Padawan? ARE YOU OKAY??"

Tiana walked back. "No... I don't think so." Then she fainted... again.

Jandalf sighed.

"You mean you're REALLY serious?" Obi-Wan asked, just to be sure.

"Yes." Jandalf shook Tiana, who was still lying prone on the floor.

"Oh," he said, as if the news was new. Well, it was, but not just barely now. "Oh, my."

Tiana finally woke up. "Ow! OW OW OW!!! I'M OKAY!!!! LET GO!!!"

"All right, I was just checking!" Jandalf exclaimed. "What did you eat?"

"I have no clue," Tiana said, rubbing her head ruefully. "It was a diversion, and an excuse to faint."

Jandalf blinked. "A diversion?"

"Nice as the thought is, that didn't help," Obi-Wan put in.

Jandalf rolled her eyes. "Oh, come on."

"What?" He shrugged. "This is just so... unexpected."

Tiana tried to think fast. "Something like that... ummm... I think the shower is free... I have to go... have a shower... I think..." She raced off again.

Jandalf sighed yet again.

"I wonder how Anakin will take this," Obi-Wan mused.

Anakin came into the room joyfully, somehow showing off his clean (wet) hair. "I feel clean!"

"That's nice," Obi-Wan replied absently, not really realizing the Padawan he was thinking of was actually right there beside him.

Anakin sighed.

"Sigh?" Jandalf asked, somehow managing to put in her own sigh simultaneously.

Anakin peered at her suspiciously. "You have... that look... what is it?"

"What look?" she asked innocently.

Anakin stared at her. "Oh, no you don't..."

Jandalf crossed her arms. "Whaaaaat?"

Obi-Wan sighed. "Oh, yes she does."

"Who died?" Anakin asked. "Who got married?"

Jandalf pointed at her stomach. "Not who DIED."

Obi-Wan turned white again, as if he wasn't used to the fact by now. He probably wasn't. "Oh, dear, Oh, dear..."

"WHAT IS IT??" Anakin yelled, then suddenly realized. "...Erk...TIANA!!"

"She's in the shower," Jandalf supplied.

"Stang!" Anakin exclaimed.

"AND TWO OF THEM!!" Obi-Wan carried on.

Anakin finally fainted, and Obi-Wan followed suit.

Jandalf shook her head, and sighed again. "At this rate, we're not even going to get around to naming them."

"Okay," said Tiana, coming out for a reason one of the Narrators doesn't comprehend, "...ummmm...I don't think I'll ever take a shower at this rate. Anyhow...ummm...Anakin?" she said, noticing he was on the floor, and she rounded on Jandalf. "YOU TOLD HIM?!"

"Why did you come out?" Jandalf asked instead.

"Because Anakin fainted."

Then Jandalf answered her question. "I helped him put two and two together. I think he made six, though. Heh...yes, they both fainted."

Anakin groaned.

"Actually," Jandalf continued, "I fainted when I sensed it."

"All of us did..." said Tiana. "I think everyone will."

"I don't doubt that," said Obi-Wan.

"And I assumed that, too," added Tiana. "I mean, really...umm..." She fainted again.

"Two of them," said Obi-Wan, once again. He really was taken aback, if you hadn't seen that already. "You're sure."

Jandalf rolled her eyes. "YES, I'm sure."

Anakin said of Tiana: "I thought she was in the shower?"

"She was," answered Obi-Wan.

"I felt you faint, that's all," responded Tiana, who was suddenly conscious again. Amazing how she does that.

"Ah," said Jandalf, feeling like she didn't really have to say anything else.

Tiana hugged Anakin. "I love you, Anakin...just, ummm...don't faint again!!"

Jandalf grinned. "Heh."

"Uhhh, yeah," said Anakin, then his face suddenly turned beet-red as he realized Tiana was in a bathrobe. "Erk..."

"Erk," echoed Tiana, realizing the same thing. She also turned red, and left the room very fast.

Obi-Wan hid a smile while Anakin continued being red.

"Umm...We should be arriving soon, I hope," commented Anakin, trying to change the subject, and went up to the front of the ship, which wasn't far away.

Obi-Wan heard the engines' change of vibration. "Exiting hyperspace."

"Yeah... cool..." Anakin liked exiting hyperspace, for some reason.

Jandalf looked out the viewport. "So...where exactly on Coruscant are we going?" Somehow she had realized that they were at Coruscant and not Sullust-- but the news wasn't really that shocking, because they had been expecting to go there anyhow. Just AFTER they went to Sullust, that's all.

"Somewhere around the Imperial palace, I think," Anakin said.

Tiana came out of the shower, fully dressed. And in clean clothes too.

"THERE we go," said Jandalf.

"Hi, all!" said Tiana cheerily. "I feel very clean! YAYNESS!" It is apparent to this Narrator that Tiana and Anakin both have issues with feeling dirty. Not like no one else does, but they seem to be very comfortable with sharing their cleanliness with the world.

Other Narrator: (smacks her) THAT'S NOT THE POINT!!

Ow. Anyway.

"Hi, Tiana!" said Anakin, who was regaining his redness.

"Heh..." said Tiana, who happened to be red too.

Jandalf snickered.

"If you don't mind..." Tiana leaned over and slapped Jandalf.

"OW!!" Jandalf screeched.

"Okay, you two," Obi-Wan said to Tiana and Anakin, "break it up or get a room. We've got a ship to land."

"MASTER!!" said a shocked Anakin.

"What?" asked Obi-Wan.

"Yeah... okay." Anakin turned back to the controls.

"Heeheehee..." Jandalf seemed unable to resist giggling.

Tiana scowled at her and the world in general.

Anakin settled into the pilot's chair. "Let's land this ship! And hope that the Empire doesn't bring us in..."

(End scene by Jandalf, if you were wondering...)

Obi-Wan crossed his fingers, and Anakin began singing out loudly, "Have a little faith in meeee..." Tiana sang along happily, running her fingers through her hair. Her hair, by the way, besides being obviously clean was also quite black. Anakin looked at her oddly.

"It's not you I'm worried about," Obi-Wan pointed out, waiting for them to finish singing a loud duet to which the narrator forgot the words to. "You're a good pilot, it's just I have no wish to spend any more time in an Imperial cell." If you had forgotten, do remember that they were captured by Imperials back in the first chapter, and spent a good deal of time trying to escape-- the next two chapters, in fact.

Anakin looked confused a moment. "Oh. That." He looked over at Tiana, who was busy putting in blue contact lenses-- not an easy thing when you've never A) worn them before, or B) the shuttle you're in is moving. There were both these things against Tiana, but somehow she managed to get them in.

The now black haired, and blue eyed Padawan grinned-- she was still wearing her Padawan clothes, but other than that she was the mimic of a slightly younger image of Shadow. "I'll take the mic, Anakin."

"What?" asked Obi-Wan, startled. The com chose that moment to buzz loudly, and an Imperial voice come over.

"I know what I'm doing. Trust me." Tiana smiled distantly, and took the mic.

Crackle, fiizit. Whoa... the Empire needs to work on their short distance communications... heh. After a while of static, a voice finally came through. "Inbound shuttle, state your identification and destination." An Imperial officer, obviously, by both the annoyingly stuck up tone, and the fact that there wasn't likely to be anyone else talking to them besides Imps.

"This is shuttle Vendetta," Tiana said, taking on a sharp tone with strangely different sounding airs. "Our destination is the Imperial Palace. And I'll have you know that detaining us will not be wise for your rank, Officer."

Jandalf hid a grin, and whispered softly. "Very good, Padawan." She had observed Tiana's attempts to wear contacts with great amusement, and curiosity-- due to the happenings of the last while, Tiana hadn't filled her in on the plan to get in. Tiana grinned back. /Thanks./

((A/N: These next few chapters (particularly 7, 8, and 9, I think) contain a lot of talk through the Force, which is put in . Thoughts are in italics.))

The officer had a nervous tone, almost. "Er... yessir. You will be given landing coordinates shortly."

"That's 'Miss' to you," Tiana threw sharply. "You will address your superiors correctly or risk loss of rank." Tiana grimaced slightly, forgetting the correct term for losing your rank-- in fact, this narrator can't even remember it herself. Oh well, maybe when the other narrator reads it, she can fill me in... heh. "And do not keep me waiting," she added as an afterthought.

The Imperial officer swallowed-- quite knowledgeable on what could happen if one got a Sith angry. He didn't know that it was only a Padawan impersonating a known Sith. "Yes, miss. Understood. The coordinates are transferring as we speak." He was thinking at the moment, Oh dear, why me?

Jandalf snickered silently. At the moment, seeing her Padawan act very Sithly, and evil was quite amusing.

"Good. We have correct clearances and will not be detained, I trust?"

"Yes miss. There will be a reception party awaiting your arrival."

Tiana paused a moment. "Thank you. I do not expect the Emperor's advisors will wish to be kept waiting with a mission of such... importance."

"No, miss." The Imperial swallowed slightly as the coordinates went through. Anakin began punching them in as Tiana signed off.

"That went well." Obi-Wan smiled distantly.

Tiana laughed insanely, hardly able to keep on her feet. "Well?! That was awesome! Stupid Imperials!" She composed herself. "Anyone have any black clothes and platforms I can borrow? I need them to complete this... insanity." She laughed again. "Oh, Force, that was awesome, Master!"

As Tiana spoke, Jandalf pulled out a Super Disguise Kit from under the seat. "It's Obi-Wan. I have no clue how it got here. But there should be some platforms in there."

"There should be some in there somewhere," Obi-Wan finished. "The clothes are, if nothing else."

Tiana took the kit and dug through it. "Black robe... cloak... shoes. Bingo. I'll be a moment. Okay, Master... do me a favor, get rid of the orange, and address me as Shadow from now on. Okay? The orange is a little too... you. And I expect the rest of you to call me Shadow as well..." She smirked. "This should be awesome."

"Why, of course, Padawan. I'm not stupid." There was something else in Jandalf's eyes for almost a moment as she looked at Tiana.

The mentioned Tiana grinned. "I know." She left the room. Jandalf took off the orange robe and was wearing very plain gray clothes underneath. She always did, in case there was a time when she couldn't be orange. However, I do wonder how hot it was under gray robes and orange ones too... "Now no one will know who I am." She rolled her eyes-- Jandalf looked different...ish. More like Audreidi, actually.

Tiana came back into the cockpit in all black clothes, and tripped over the platform shoes, landing on top of Anakin. "I hate these shoes," she muttered, standing back up. "I suppose it's the only way to pull off the height though." Jandalf snickered. Tiana sighed, and straightened the black clothes. "How do I look?"

"Perfectly evil."

Tiana grinned. "Thanks. Get a new name, Master..." Tiana tossed her the other black cloak. "That should take away the Auddie look. Anakin... Obi-Wan..." Tiana shook her head. "You two look too much like Jedi."

Obi-Wan looked at her. "So, we're suppose to be advisors, or something? Fine!" He dug about in his disguise kit which happened to contain everything you could possibly need as s disguise.

Tiana shrugged. "I know my part, if nothing else. I hate to do this, but... uhh... Master... can you play an apprentice? For now?"

Blinking, Jandalf looked at her. "Er... don't I look a little bit older than you, for that?"

Tiana attempted to think of other roles, and shrugged. "Well, I suppose Anakin can play a senator, but I'm not sure what else to do for you or Obi-Wan..."

"Not that I can't play the part," Jandalf filled in.

"Well, since I'm Shadow, I can't be your apprentice," Tiana muttered. "Not that I don't like having you as a master, and all that. Find yourself a darker name, too."

"Well, I know I couldn't be your MASTER... just..." Jandalf almost looked confused. "All right. I'll masquerade as Anathema. That's a suitable Sithly name, I think."

Tiana nodded, and then turned kind of red. "I'm not asking you to play my apprentice, Master... actually..." She looked at Obi-Wan guiltily. "Heh."

Obi-Wan stopped. "Oh... so am... I... erkk..." He dug up black robes from his kit. "Well then." He pulled the black robes on over his head, and pulled out one of the tubes of instant black dye.

"Have fun pretending to be my equal." Tiana snickered. "This should be... interesting."

Obi-Wan rolled his eyes, and began dying his hair black with the dye. Amazingly, it did not get all over his hands and turn him black too. Amazing how that works.

Anakin stared at him. "Whoa!"

"Don't forget your eyebrows, luv." Jandalf had a rather odd tone there, Tiana thought.

"Oh. Right."

Anakin wondered out loud what he was suppose to be, and Tiana explained that he could be a senator. She had a plan... sort of. Well, enough of a plan to work.

"You can be the Senator of Paranthandia," Obi-Wan said, putting away the rest of the dye. He now had very black hair and eyebrows.

"Where's that?" Jandalf was confused.

Tiana shook her head, and tossed some clean sand colored clothes at Anakin. "Senator of Tatooine."

Obi-Wan admitted that Paranthandia did not exist, and agreed to Tatooine, albeit grudgingly. "'Well, I suppose that will work," Jandalf commented. "It'll be as if we're bringing Tatooine into the Empire."

Tiana nodded. "Lightsaber, Anakin," she ordered, looking at that now very Tatooine-esque Anakin.

"Hand it over," Obi-Wan commanded, holding out one hand as Anakin reacted to them taking his lightsaber.

"But... but... it's my precious!" Anakin wailed, holding his lightsaber.

"Hand it over."

Tiana rolled her eyes. "My thoughts exactly, Darth Kenobi." She tossed a blaster at Anakin. "Use this, Senator."

Obi-Wan shook his head. "You can't be using Darth Kenobi. That's a dead giveaway." Anakin handed him his lightsaber grudgingly, and rather annoyed too. "Thank you." Obi-Wan shot him a look. "You aren't a Jedi at the moment, Padawan."

"Darth Xiian?" Tiana asked, shrugging.

Obi-Wan blinked. "Where'd that one come from?"

Jandalf grinned. "Ask Auddie."

Tiana snickered. "Fanfiction?" ((From Audreidi's fanfiction, actually-- she let us use the name, obviously.))

"...Ah. Right." Obi-Wan looked confused, and seriously wondering about the sanity of his companions as well. "Well, it's better than nothing, I suppose."

Anakin, meanwhile, was contemplating the sound of Senator Skywalker.

"That's also a dead giveaway," Obi-Wan pointed out dryly. "Senator Groundrunner?"

"Heeeeyyyyyyyyy!" Anakin glared at him.

"All right, how about Senator Picklemaker?" asked Jandalf.

"Or Senator Windowlicker?" asked Obi-Wan. The two masters devolved into hysterical laughter.

Anakin flopped down back into his seat. "Why not just do Senator Blackmailer, and be done with it?" he asked, groaning.

Tiana thwacked the two masters and Anakin. "Senator Ravenhunter," she said sternly, darkly. "There. Live with it. No more argument. And land us while you're at it, Senator."

"Fine." Anakin muttered and turned to the steering wheel.

"I love you too, Anakin," Tiana said, snickering.