The next day

Bzz bzz bzz, a strange buzzing sound erupted in Ahsoka's dream, she woke with a start, crap, she thought, it was 6:50, she had almost overslept, in record time she was ready and was soon rushing to hanger 13 to meet Anakin.

'Hey snips,'

'What have I missed?'

'Nothing much, a debriefing, spot checks, the usual stuff,'

'It's less frantic that usual,'

'When we usually came in here it was a rescue or an attack we needed to rush into.'

'True.'

'Seeing as we're not going into a battle, what ships will we take?'

'The jedi fighters, what else?'

'I just thought it would be something, um, less war-ish if that's the right word'

'They are the only ones we have,'

'Oh yeah, makes sense.' Ahsoka was thinking of a more, calm, suited to comfort rather ship, than battle, but the war has only just ended, so she could not expect something too fancy. Obi-wan soon joined their conversation, 'Stop dawdling, none of us are getting any younger you know.'

'Speak for yourself master,' shot back Anakin as he ran towards his fighter, the quicker he could be alone, the better,' Come on R2, let's go,'

'Race you there Skyguy!'

'You're on.' Anakin was not in the mood to race; he just went along with it to keep his padawan happy even though he wasn't. 'Always on the move,' Obi-wan muttered to himself as both Ahsoka and Anakin jumped in their fighters and he slowly walked to his.

As soon as Anakin had the hyperspace ring locked in position and had reached lightspeed, he began to let his mind wonder to his family, the infinite choices that they could choose from. What could happen if he told the council, would they accept it or would he be expelled from the order, if he told obi-wan, would he keep it a secret or tell the council, so man questions he could not answer.

After a couple of hours in hyperspace, Anakin's mechno-arm began to irritate him, there was something rubbing against the stump where the arm was attached, at least I have something to fix he thought to himself, there must be a screw loose or something similar. After a few minutes of tinkering with the joint it seemed to do nothing, so he decided to remove his arm to see what the actual problem was. It turned out to be missing a pair of nuts and bolts, luckily, he had many spare in his fighter for moments like these, and worse, after screwing in the pair he got lost in his thoughts and forgot to re-attach his mechno-arm.

After the 5 dreary hours in hyperspace, it was time to re-emerge above Endor, the blueish grey gas giant with a forest moon orbiting it, that was where they were heading, after they had abandoned the hyperspace rings they steered the jedi fighters towards the moon. A crackly voice came through the receiver in Anakin's ear, it was Obi-Wan, 'Spread out and try and find any remains of a crash,'

'Copy that,' came from Ahsoka

'Rodger that Obi-wan,' Anakin wasn't really in the mood for playing games with his master like usual, so he just went along with it though he had something better in mind. They split up to scout the moon's surface from above. After a long 2 hours Anakin spotted something, a small piece of metal and another then what looked like a trail and a path of crushed and deepened ground, it must be the crash site!

'I think I've found it, 22 clicks east by the look of it,' Anakin crackled through the speaker, if they had found it, it wouldn't take long to find master Plo Koon and he could go home to see his family, that's what he hoped anyway, but things didn't often go to plan when he was around. They landed on the surface a few kilometres from the crash site as there was nowhere else to land nearby, as Anakin jumped out of his ship, he heard a gasp from Ahsoka, 'Master, what happened to your arm!,' she cried out in a panic.

'What do you mean what's wrong with my arm..' crap, Anakin thought he forgot about his arm and was surprised to find Ahsoka didn't know about his prosthetic, he decided to play a little trick on her, 'Oh yeah, it was a bit annoying, so I cut it off,' Anakin said giving Obi-wan a message through the force, 'Play along, try not to give it away please,'. Obi-Wan needing cheering up and responded to Anakin's explanation with 'What were you kriffing thinking you idiot?' Anakin was surprised by his master's acting skills; it was taking them every amount of jedi to stop them laughing. 'We have to get you checked, where's the medical bay?' At this amount of panic coming from Ahsoka, Anakin lost it.

'What are you laughing at its not funny you skrogging madman,' That's when Obi-Wan's jedi restraint was not enough and he joined Anakin in hysterics whilst Ahsoka stood there confused, seeing Ahsoka's face, Anakin calmed down and went to go get his arm. To throw his mechno arm at Ahsoka, the shriek that came from her mouth almost woke the dead which made Anakin and Obi-Wan frantically shush her, in case of any hostile beings living on the moon. Obi-Wan decided that it was enough, but he did know why Anakin had taken his arm off, 'Anakin, why did you take your arm off in the first place though,'

'You know me master, I love making improvements to it, plus there were some missing screws and it was rubbing,'

'At last, you have a reason to do something stupid,'

'I'm just making the most of what I have, now, help me put it back on,'

'Fine, come here,' As the two jedi masters began to screw Anakin's mechno-arm back into its original position, Ahsoka wondered when her master had lost his arm, it must have been soon after he completed the jedi trials. Maybe during one of his first lightsabre duals, but not really knowing the answer she decided to ask him,' Master, how did you lose your arm?'

'Well snips, it's a long story,'

'We've got a long time, you can start now if you like,'

'Just a second,' there was a small click as Anakin pushed the protective cap on the last screw and then he began.

'It happened at the very start of the clone wars, I was 19 and still a padawan learner,' Ahsoka was shocked to know how young he was, 'to master Kenobi. Count Dooku was on the battlefield but was about to escape on a speeder bike so we began to follow him in a gunship and a few clones. We followed Dooku to where his ship was and stopped him, Obi-Wan tried to get us to do it together, but as usual, I had other ideas, I ran at him but he shot force lighting at me and left me smoking in the corner so Obi-Wan had to take him alone. After a few minutes of fierce combat, Dooku placed two deep wounds on Obi-Wan's arm and leg, he's still got the scars,'

'But if you had actually listened to me, we would not have been in that situation in the first place,'

'I know, I know just let me get on with the story,'

'Fine,'

'So anyway, when obi-wan was lying on the floor, Dooku raised his lightsabre, ready to bring it down on him, that's when I used the force to jump across the room to save you skin for the 10th time,' said Anakin, directing it at Obi-Wan.

'9th time, that business on Cato Neimoidia doesn't count.'

'You sure?'

'Yes Anakin,'

'You mean when you didn't put your re-breather in and collapsed so I had to do it for you?'

'I didn't forget, I just... lost it in the battle, you can drop it now,'

'Ok, I need to continue the story anyway. So, where was I?'

'Stopping Dooku from killing me,'

'Right, yes. So I leaped across the room blocking the blow just in time and that's when the duel began, Obi-Wan threw me the lightsabre he was using as both of ours had been lost or destroyed beforehand. After fierce battle, Dooku somehow used the force to immobilize me and cut off my arm just below the shoulder joint and threw me over to obi-wan and I landed on his leg, that's when I think I passed out, so, Obi-Wan you have the honour of finishing the story,'

'Ok. As Dooku began walking towards us, Master Yoda entered the hanger to engaged Dooku and save us, you'd be surprised at what someone so small can do.' Obi-Wan briefly re-lived that moment, few people had ever seen Master Yoda in one to one combat, and for a 900 year old jedi he was extremely talented in the art of lightsabre combat, 'Then Dooku decided to try and drop a huge pipe on us by crushing the bottom side of it, while Yoda prevented us from being crush Dooku escaped. Anakin regained consciousness and we were both rushed to med-bay.'

'I have made many adjustments to my arm to make it as light and useful as possible, I have used it to get put of cuffs before now by having the hand section detachable by itself,'

Then Ahsoka spoke, 'Well that was, dramatic.'

'Thank you, I specialise in it,' Then they quiet and put their full attention to finding Master Plo.

A tingle travelled down Anakin's neck, he felt as if he was being watched, he looked round but only saw a dense forest with emerald canopies of leaves above them, so he just put it to being on a new moon. What he didn't know was they were surrounded by small, primitive, furry creatures assessing them for possible danger, finding it, they surrounded the three jedi.

As the small teddy-bear like beings jumped from the trees and bushes, Anakin ignited his lightsabre, ready to cut down each creature as they jabbed him with there spears, as he raised his weapon Obi-Wan stopped him,

'Anakin, no. They see us as a threat, which me and Ahsoka are not, but right now you are, lay down your lightsabre and I will try and talk to them,'

'Fine, but if it ends badly, I'm blaming you,' Anakin replied deactivating his sabre.

'Deal, now how do I start?'

'I don't know, you're the negotiator,'

'Very funny,' As Obi-Wan carefully shuffled towards the one of the small beings it jabbed its spear harder, so he raised his arms in surrender and gestured for the others to follow suit.

'I blame you,' Anakin hissed as they were tied onto pols and were carried through the wilderness.