Hey y'all. Sorry about the wait. It's been a hectic summer. This also took longer because I got good advice on editing that I wanted to try - and it works. I rewrote this chapter after I had already written it, and since I don't have a beta, I figured this is the closest I would get to actually get to actually editing my story. I liked the end result, let me know if you did as well.
Dislaimers:
1) Do not own Star Wars
2)I am doing this for my own enjoyment and for practice. It will probably (definitely) not be in any clear order, although I will try to make it clear when this is taking place.
If you have requests or ideas for pranks, please let me know.
.5 ABY
Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn watched now sleeping Luke and Leia, the twins that showed that they were the children of two of the best strategists of the Clone Wars. The young adults had been reviewing materials and plans for an Alliance Operation that would end up being crucial while creating a code that only a few people in the galaxy would ever know. Both of them tried hard to fight against the power that tugs at all mortals, but ended up failing as they fell asleep in what Obi-Wan thought were extremely uncomfortable positions. Luke was seated in a metal chair and his torso lying over the table, with tablets under him in various positions. Leia had leaned back in her more comfortable chair with her head tilted to the left and a little bit of drool on her chin.
"I think the continuous late nights have finally caught up to them." Qui-Gon remarked.
Obi-Wan shot his former master a glare even as he kept silent (Qui-Gon never took sarcasm well, even though he seemed to dish enough of it out. Although, Obi-Wan ended up questioning how much was sarcasm quite a bit of the time), and silently thanked the Force for the idea to keep the twins apart for the first 20 years or so of their life. The Empire had a much harder time finding out about them and they would have caused SO much trouble that even if they weren't force sensitive, the Empire would have come knocking anyways. It's been only 6 months since he told the twins the truth, and already the majority of the Rebellion was running around in pink for their droids that would keep insisting that they didn't have to work for them. Slavers are also finding it hard to do their 'work', and Jabba may or may not (depending on the rumors; Obi-Wan has no desire to see if any of them are true) be trying to leave Tatooine. And these kids had the most rudimentary training in the force!
Obi-Wan, even though he is dead, is oblivious to the fact that it is his fault that all this is happening (hey, ghosts aren't omniscient). He never figured out that Anakin did some 'work' on R2D2 that allowed him to keep his memories and be Extra Sneaky. And he left this droid with Luke and Leia, son and daughter of the biggest pranksters of the galaxy (Padme was always a Skywalker at heart, she just had to realize it). That droid has 'reprogrammed' many droids in the same fashion that Anakin reprogrammed it, and has gotten pink paint in places where Luke could not reach, and has gotten rid of (disposed of, assassinated, offed) people that Leia couldn't because she couldn't blend in enough. Most of these are low level assistants and soldiers, but it causes enough confusion that it allows the Alliance to at least feed itself and keep running long enough for them to come up with a suitable plan of attack
"I think it's time they met Master Yoda," Qui-Gon startled Obi-Wan out of his thoughts (and ruined the author's attempt at giving some back ground that she thought was necessary to the story).
"Why? They'll cause more havoc than they already do."
His biggest fear, of course, is that they turn into mini-Anakin's (figuratively and literally): balls of emotion, pranks, strategy, and supernatural abilities.
"Yes, but they do need to learn about the Force, and we've seen in the past 4 months that they need a teacher that is alive before they continue lessons with us. They have an incredibly hard time learning anything with us now that we are dead, but Luke had a relatively easy time with you when you were alive."
Obi-Wan threw his head back and sighed Very Loudly, because Qui-Gon was right. He heard the underlying fact that they needed to protect themselves, and that they weren't learning how to do that with them. He looked back down at the sleeping children and grimaced. Why did it always have to be the youth who ended up in the thick of it all? Naboo, the Clone Wars, and the Rebellion all seemed to be fought by the youth who would be scared forever and never heal from the horrors they would end up seeing. Fine. If continuing their education in the ways of the Force would allow these young people to avoid the worst of war (which he doubted), keep them alive, and keep others alive as well, he would do what was necessary.
"Very well. I will tell them of Master Yoda's location tomorrow night, if Luke will talk to me."
"Go to Leia if you don't think that Luke will receive your message. She is generally more logical than he is."
(The reader should know that Qui-Gon wasn't in the room when it was Leia who suggested a galaxy wide prank war once Luke told her what Obi-Wan told him. Leia is also the one who takes the most outlandish ideas and makes it so that they could be possible to pull off in the future - like turning the Emperor's wardrobe pink and purple or telling Vader the truth and converting him back to the Light. What better way to get revenge than to take the Emperor's right hand man out from under his nose?)(The reader should also note that Leia would make a terrifying villain.)
"That sounds like a good idea. She doesn't think that I lied to her about her parentage, and should be more open to what I have to say."
"Are you saying that you didn't lie to Luke, former apprentice?" Qui-Gon looked at the other man sternly, but he did not see it.
"From a certain point of view, I didn't."
"But it also means that from a certain point of view, you did lie to him."
"Qui-Gon," Obi-Wan sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. "Stop this already. I didn't lie to him."
Obi-Wan left his former master with the twins as they were beginning to wake up.
"You know I'm right, Obi-Wan," the dead Jedi said to himself as he watched the twins reorient themselves and their things. "You just don't want to admit it."
Now that he was alone with the kids, he took the time to look at something that he'd seen a while ago that peaked his interest. It was a plan that required stealth to pull off, but it looked like the bare bones of a plan to corner a commander of some type in a place that was renowned for it's lack of surveillance. In the small print, it looked like Luke needed to learn more about fighting with a lightsaber to pull it off, and both of the twins being able to walk around undetected. Qui-Gon smiled. He, unlike Obi-Wan, liked what the twins had been doing so far. If he could help them cause a little more chaos for the Empire, and galaxy at large, he would do whatever a dead Jedi in his position could do.
See what I did there? :D
