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Chapter Two: And you call yourself a Jedi
Somewhere in space
After the event with the anomaly Robin's pod ended up on the outside of a solar system about three days away for any inhabitant planets. As from the last chapter he's in really bad shape. The trauma affected his body and mind, after about two and a half days of unconsciousness he woke up in shock. " Where the hell am I, for that matter who the hell am I and what am I doing here?" Still having basic memories and knowing everything but his name and anyone who he came into contact with before he woke up he began searching around the small pod for the answers.
After finding nothing he reached for his utility belt and without thinking about it pulled out his drivers license. Richard Grayson age 18 Gothom, Height 6' 1", weight 190 lbs.
' Okay now that I know who I am, but that still doesn't answer the question of where or why I'm here.
Sinking back into his seat Robin strains to remember anything that would tell him what was going on but to no avail. Hours went on until the pod started to drift into the gravity of a near by planet.
" May day, may day can anyone here me I'm going down repeat I'm going down." Robin said into the headset. 'Shit this is going to hurt' he thought when he glimpsed a large structure dead ahead ' yep its really going to hurt.' As he hit the right wing of the building he's going through one, two, three, four rooms before he stopped. The room he ended it looked like some sort of weird gym or sparring room, it contained about 15 people, some with very odd looking weaponry that he couldn't recognize and some that looked like Bo staffs and practice swords.
Robin stared to get out of his crashed pod when he heard scions and someone over a announcement system, " Security to training room 3, security to training room three immediately." Stumbling off the pod Robin looked around at some of the people looking at him. Scanning the room he could see that 5 people were on the floor closest to the crash area with another 5 seeing if they're all right. Mumbling was heard from the rest of them wondering if they should take him to security when one particularly large human looking student walked up to Robin and said, "Were going to take you to the security station now with your corporation or not" while grabbing Robins arms.
" Than I think your going to need to go the medical ward if you don't let go of me right this instant." Robin said with a grin on his face. And with that Robin grabbed his captures wrist and threw him across the room and into the wall. At seeing this other students started to engage him. The four that were paying attention to him attacked at once, however Robin reached into his utility belt and let drop three smoke balls and disappeared from their view, not knowing why he could find his opponents in the smoke he successfully knocked out three out of the four attackers the last one seemed to sense his approach and with a wave of his hand brushed away the smoke and blocked his attack with is training staff. At this point all eyes were on Robin and his opponent while they circle each other looking for a moment to attack. Wanting to even the fight Robin reached again into the belt to pull out a retractable Bo staff never taking his eyes off of the student making the first move. He attacked with a strong horizontal sweep across Robin's stomach, which he easily blocked and countered with a roundhouse kick to the side of the student's head, which connected and sent him spinning to the ground making an end to the match. The last five people looked shocked when three more people entered the room. If Robin had to guess they were about 30 years old maybe older, each one holding a cylindrical pipe with some sort of energy blade coming out the end of it.
" What is the meaning of this," a man said looking around the room and seeing the wreckage and five bodies around the room from fighting Robin when he spoke again, " I want to know what happened and I want to know now."
One of the people attending to the wounded spoke up, she was around 5' 10", light blue skin with two tendrils coming from the back of her head, " Master Skywalker, this man crashed his ship into the academy when Garack tried to restrain him and take him to security he attacked him and the other four that were trying to help him, when you came in, sir."
" You saying this one man did all of this and beat five of the best students and this academy in less than five minutes."
" Yes sir that is what I'm saying."
" Well young man," Master Skywalker said turning to Robin, " you seem to be quite skilled to have defeated five of the strongest and the new Jedi academy."
" What the fuck are you people talking about, I have no idea what half of you are saying and you say I just beat five of the best people here and your not mad or anything, this just doesn't make sense." Robin said in utter confusion.
" Well if you will follow me I think I can explain it to you, by the way what is your name young one."
" Richard Grayson."
" Well Richard if you follow me we shall sort this out then, Mara get the bots in here and have them clean this up please, as for the rest of you continue your combat training in room 2 for now." In response the students replied with a 'yes Master Skywalker' and left while Richard followed him into the hall and down to his 'office' to explain his story to the man.
Upon reaching Master Skywalker's office, " So what are you doing at my academy Mr. Grayson and why did you attack my students."
" Well that's to answer your first question I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing here if you hadn't noticed I crashed here, and to answer you second question when the first guy was restraining me, I don't know I just had to get him off me and after that it was all reflex." Richard said with confusion on his face.
" Are you telling me that you beat five of my students on reflex, forgive me but that seems hard to believe that you defeated five Jedi, alone and with no use of the force."
" What's the 'force' and what does if have to do with this those guys didn't seem very good." He said monotone and expressionless.
" I can see that this is going nowhere so lets change it up a bit, where are you from?"
" I can't remember anything of my past all I know is my name, age and the fact that I was in space, I don't even know why I'm wearing these cloths and mask, all I know is I can't remember anything about myself."
" I see, then I will have to explain a few things about myself and where you are, I'm Master Luke Skywalker and you are at the New Republics Jedi Academy. The men you attacked are my students and I noticed you don't understand what I'm saying to you."
" No sir I don't, one of the things that I have noticed is when I was fighting your students he pushed the smoke away with a wave of his had, how did he do that?" Richard asked
" That was the force its what gives a Jedi his power, put simply it's a field of energy that is created by all living things and surrounds us and binds the universe together." Luke said.
" So it's in everything and you can manipulate it."
" Yes," Luke said, " but first lets get you to a med lab so we can see if you have any injuries from your crash and then we will get your quarters in order…before I forget here," he reached into his desk and pulled out a small pill sized object, " this is a universal translator so you can understand what people are saying because not everybody speaks basic here as I'm sure you have noticed…R2 please show Richard to the med lab for me."
At that point a small dome toped robot came into the room with a beep and a whistle, carefully looking over the robot a flash of images erupted in Richard's mind of a man, about his height but he was part machine and had some kind of armor on and then the flash ended. Richard putting a hand to his forehead trying to bring the image back only became more confused by it, he knew that he just remembered something important but couldn't get anything more from.
" Richard are you alright." Luke asked concerned
" Yeah, yeah I'm fine," and with that followed the droid out the door and down the hallway for his check up.
" I sense the force is strong in that one, I just wonder how strong it is?" Luke said to himself.
Med Lab
Richard is sitting on a med table while a medical droid is scanning for his vitals and taking a blood sample to see if he has any diseases.
" Is this done yet," Richard said, at that point someone walked into the room, he immediately noticed that it was the same girl from before in the training room that he crashed into and told Master Skywalker what had transpired.
A bit more description of her, she's a Twi' Lek, 5'10", has light blue skin with the two tendrils protruding from the back of her head. She's also somewhat slender with a nice sized chest as he noticed.
" I'm here to escort you to your new quarters so if you will please follow me." She gestured to the door and I followed her to my room. " So is it true that you don't remember who you are?" she asked
" Yes and how did you know already I only told Master Skywalker that 10 minutes ago?"
" You'll find it hard to keep secrets here since some of the students are telepathic…well here we are, you will find a rest room in here and you'll probably want to change out of those strange garments, you will find fresh cloths in the dresser."
As she started to walk away Richard yelled, " wait you didn't tell me your name."
Giggling she said, " It's Yaegashi" and with a smirk skipped away.
It's going to take some time to get use to this place that's for sure he thought to himself. But its not all bad, thinking of Yaegashi, the was she moved and her smile, and quickly smacking himself ' you can't remember who you are and yet your thinking about a girl that you just met what is wrong with me.' He said and lay on his bed and went to sleep.
" Can I see young Richard Grayson's blood tests and have a medicloreion count please." Luke said into the intercom. A second later a chart appeared on his screen, " 20,000 that doesn't seem possible but its accurate to what I felt, Mara will you please come in here please." He said again into the COM.
Moments later Mara Jade appeared in his office, " what do you want Luke?"
" I take it you saw his medicloreion count Mara?" knowing that she would have looked into it herself.
" Yes and it doesn't seem possible for it to be that high, what do you think we should do."
" Well since he has no memory and is already a good fighter I say let him stay and train him in the arts, it is after all out duty to train whoever has the gift and give guidance."
" Yes but he scares me, an untrained Jedi defeating Garack, Zer, Kong, James, and Fong in less than five minutes from a crash like that doesn't seem possible even for a Jedi."
" Yes but after seeing the blood test it would also confirm the high medicloreion count would it not."
" I guess but can we just but him in classes with the people that got there asses kicked by him, I mean would that be fair to them. They would have to explain some much that it might end up hurting him in the end."
" So what do you suggest we do." Luke questioned
" Well have him in classes and give him some private lessons with one of the teachers on his off time." She said
" Or I could give him lessons?"
" But why do you need to give the boy lessons Luke," she raised an eyebrow.
" To tell you the truth I think that it might be time to start the padawan training like Master Yoda did with me."
" As you wish Luke but even you have to admit that there is something odd about him."
" I know that is why I'm going to teach him myself."
Mara strode there looking at him, " Is they're something else you wanted."
" Yes come over here." He said and gave her a quick kiss, " I'll see you later okay."
Back to Earth
It's been three weeks since Robin left and the Titans mood had not improved when a disturbance showed up on their sensors.
" Titans we got trouble downtown." Cy yelled but he was thinking ' Rob might be gone but I promised that I would lead the best I can and that is was is going to happen.'
As the titans piled into the T-car with an odd sense of familiarity but when they arrived at the robbery but something wasn't right, there was no R-cycle and Robin barking orders and telling them to stay sharp or keep their eyes open, it just didn't feel right and they all knew it.
" All right y'all remember we don't know who were dealing with so keep sharp." Cy said
" Well why don't I tell you Cyborg. " came the eerie voice of Slade, " I see you're one Titan short, that's a pity I really wanted to have another chat with Robin, I'm sure he enjoyed our last chat I know I did."
At that a volley of star bolts and a sonic cannon blast hit him. " You will not speak about him like that ever again!" Star fumed.
" My dear where is your fearless leader now I do hope nothing happened to him."
" Lets just say you won't see him around for a while Slade," Raven said coldly, " He won't be back for a while so you might as well get use to it."
" I take it this had something to do with that anomaly a few weeks back did it?" he said
" Maybe, what does that matter to you, you just cause problems for everyone especially Robin so what does it matter to you." Raven said
" My dear the only reason I came to this abysmally city for the soul reason as to gets Robin as my apprentice, which you must remember failed, but then it was all about getting even and testing myself against him so what purpose would I have if he's no longer here." He said matter-of-fact.
With that Slade just left money and all.
" Well that was a bit anti-climatic don't you think." BB said
" Yes, can we please go home now, I wish to go home." Star said softly. She started to tear up at the mention of Robin's name, which she did all the time now. Star now days could be found either crying in her room or wrapped up in Robin's bed sheets sleeping. Raven didn't have the heart to tell her that he never used that bed cause of the hammock above the door, which apparently only she knew about.
The fact of Robin's disappearance only got worse for the Titan's as the weeks went on. Every day they were loosing hope of ever seeing their friend alive again and it was tearing them apart on the inside. Star was no longer the happy go-lucky, giggling girl anymore, Beast Boy didn't play nearly as many video games in his spare time and didn't joke all the time, Cyborg seem to change the least but even his changes were noticeable, the smile was gone and he spent most of his time in the garage. Raven was worried even more than Star was although she still didn't give up hope on the Boy Wonder, because of the telepathic link between them, true she couldn't sense him anymore but she just a feeling that he was alive and that is all she needed to keep hoping. Also apart form Starfire although she would never do it in public she would cry herself to sleep and found it hard to meditate now a days.
The Academy
" Alright it has been three weeks of your training with the force lets see how you do." Said Luke to Richard.
" Ok master let us begin," with that he made the first attack. Jump flipping behind Luke, Richard landed behind him and crouched to sweep his feet. Luke realizing this jumped quickly and spun around to deliver a blow to the back of Richard's neck only to find him no longer there but to his right side launching an attack of his own. The punch made contact but hardly fazed the Jedi master.
" Good, very good Richard but you must remember to focus your mind to not let your opponents see what's coming from your mind, remember feel the force flowing from you." Luke said
After that little speech the two Jedi went back to training where by Luke only managed to knock back Richard 5 time when Richard knocked back his master 17 times. However Richard was using more energy than Luke so in the over all battle he was loosing.
In this last session however Luke found himself having trouble in the fight keeping his energy usage to a minimum. Soon they are both going all out and Richard was gaining the upper hand. After a long series of punch/kick combos he did a last attack of a flying kick, which Luke barley dodged and while Richard was landing he force pulled the mat out from under his foot causing him to fall, ending the match.
' Damn that was to close, he could of beaten me with that last attack if I wasn't careful," Luke thought, ' its almost unbelievable to think that three weeks ago he knew nothing of the force and its ways and now the has full grasp of almost all of the force abilities. I think it is time for him to start on his light saber.'
" Master Skywalker." Richard said
" Yes Richard."
" I was wondering when my saber training will begin, I'm kind of worried that I will fall behind the rest of my class in training."
Luke could only laugh at that statement. My dear padawan you have probably surpassed all of your class in combat and force training. As for your saber training you will start that now but first you have to build your saber."
" To be honest I already have I just can't find my crystal, I hope your not to angry at me for it I just wanted to be ready and start as early as possible."
Again Luke chuckled, " I should have known you would be doing that in you're off time so I will tell you where to find your crystal. You must go to the cave on the northwestern continent at coordinates 732-589 you will find your crystal there."
Bowing deeply Richard said, " Thank you so much master is it alright if I leave right away."
" Yes that would be perfect I feel that you will need the time to find the right crystal for yourself," Richard started for the door when Luke said, " But before you leave one last thing," he stopped, " don't just use the first one you see let the force guide you to your stone, only then will you know what one you will choose."
" Yes thank you sir for everything." And with that he left the sparing room. A little ways down the hall he met up with Yaegashi.
" So how did it go with Master Skywalker?" She pride and giving him a quick peck on the cheek.
" Great, in fact I head out to find the last piece of my saber tomorrow on the northwestern continent, but I don't know how long I will be gone. He said I have to find the right one for it to be complete so I don't know how long that will take." He said sounding worried.
" Don't sweat it I'm sure you will be back in no time the force is strong with you it will lead you to it probably in a couple of minutes unlike me. Did I tell you it took me 5 days to find my crystal, Five days it really sucked and another week to build the saber but it was so worth it." She said smiling
There was something about 'Yaegi's as he called her' smile that felt familiar to him somehow but he couldn't place it. He just figured it was something to do with his forgotten past. Every now and then he would get glimpses of it but nothing to recall a name or event that would bring his memory back to him, and sometimes he didn't want to remember. He felt he had a good life here now and was completely intending to keep it.
" Well since you don't leave till tomorrow morning what do you want to do in the mean time," she said with a smirk on her face, " or are you going to the library to study again" she emphasized again.
" You know me to well Yaegi just a workaholic, it's only 14:30 how about I meet you out side the mess hall and dinner, k"
" Fine but you have to promise that after dinner you will spend some time with me and the guys and not go back to the library okay." She said
" You got a deal," just then he got a flash, this one lasted longer than the others. In it he just said the same thing but it wasn't to Yaegi, it was to some other girl in a blue cloak and leotard with her hood up. After having the flash he stumbled a bit and leaned against the hallway wall holding his hand against his forehead with a headache when Yaegi rushed to him
" You had another one didn't you?" she asked. All he did was nod, " you know it scares me when you get those."
" Why?" he asked
" Cause I'm worried that if you remember who you are you will leave me and your friends behind and just go away and I will never see you again." She started to pout.
" Come on you know I would never leave you behind just because I got some memories back, come on now cheer up now I promise I will spend some time with you after dinner ok, oh and please tell Garack, Kong and the others that I'm going away tomorrow for my crystal I know they will want to know they've be bugging me about it for a week and a half since I surpassed them in combat." With that he headed for the third floor and the library.
What he didn't tell her was that he was looking for a way back home even if he didn't know where it was so he looked up anything on space anomalies on a planet with the description of what he had from his flashes but always came up empty handed. Granted that's not all he did in there he was also reading everything that he could on the technology that seemed so new to him, to our comprehension he would have a masters level in the technology, but to everybody here it was basic knowledge. Sooner than the thought the dinner bell chimed and he ran out of the library to meet the others for dinner.
At dinner Richard was use to getting looks from the girls. Ever since he arrived here he was treated like the hot new thing and its true that he is handsome, but ever since he started to 'date' Yaegashi he was getting dirty looks from some of the guys now mostly because she was one of the most attractive girls at the academy, but he didn't care what the other students thought of him, mostly because he could kick there asses if they tried anything to him and they knew it. So they backed off. As the made his way over to the table where he spotted Yaegashi and the others he just had to smile. His closest friends that he made since coming here were actually the first six people that he met and five of them he wiped the floor with they were Garack, Zer, Kong, James, and Fong along with Yaegi that was the group he hung out with
Brief description of the five guys Garack he's Ho' din, green colored scales, around 8' 2" tall and stocks for hair, large black eyes, and large fingers with suctions cups on them. He's a full of himself and very self-conscious. Zer is a Nagai around 5' 7" tall, she has straight black hair and is very pale, slender, pointed ears, and is very focused and determined. Nest is Kong, he's a Cathar, looks like a big lion but with no tail, personality whys extremely loyal, and dedicated, with a friendly personality, James is your regular human, black colored skin with a bald head, he's about 5' 10" with a little chip on his shoulder. Last but not least is Fong, she's Codru-Ji, she has four arms and pointed ears, tan skin with white eyes, and long red/brown hair. She the skeptic in the group, not changing and very stubborn. This is the group of close friends that forgetful hero has made in a short time. Yet all the while he has a sinking suspicion that he has to leave them all and it pains him to not know why.
Right now however it didn't matter he is just is enjoying the simple fact of hanging with his friends and enjoying a nice hot meal even if he didn't know what was all in it. Just laughing and having a nice conversation was all he needs in life with bits of his former life missing at the moment. That's all he cares about.
A/N: Ok finally done just a brief note all the alien descriptions can be found in the Star Wars role-playing game ultimate alien anthology guide if you want a better description, so bug my buddy Rusty to look at his copy.
