I don't want a long Author's Note to take up too much of this chapter, so let's just dive Right in!

But before that, I just want to thank God for blessing me with the words I needed to write this chapter. Without his help, I never would have been able to write this chapter as quickly as I did.

*I still don't own Danny Phantom, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, or any references used in this story!*

Dialogue Key

"May the Force be with you." = regular speech

'Now fulfill your destiny!' = thoughts

"I'm going ghost!" = someone yelling

Truth Comes To Light!

Kneeling in the dark prison cell she was being kept in, Barriss Offee sat silent as she looked out the small window that provided her cell with sparse lighting. Upon her arrest she'd been relieved of her Lightsaber and had powerful Force Binders slapped on her wrists to keep her from using the Force to escape from custody by either stealing a card key or by using the Force Persuade technique to mind control the guards. She was currently wearing only a plain white robe due to the nature of what was to happen later today.

After a long debate about her actions, the Republic Military under orders of the Senate and the Chancellor had sentenced the girl to death by Firing Squad. Since Barriss was still, technically, a soldier at the time, it seemed like the most appropriate method of execution for a traitor.

Barriss herself still has many regrets about her most recent actions. Chief among them being her framing Ahsoka, her best friend, for murdering Letta Turmond and orchestrating the terrorist bombing of the Jedi Temple. The Mirialan femme fatale doesn't know why she did. Under the influence of the Dark Side of the Force she just decided she needed to frame someone to get the authorities off her tracks. She didn't even care who it was at the time. She hates herself for what was done and wishes only to apologise to her friend, even if she's never forgiven for her actions.

'Oh, Ahsoka. Where are you?' Barriss asked through the Force.

It's really the only thing she can still do with the Force these days.

The Mirialan was broken from her thoughts when the thick iron door to her cell was opened and a Jedi Sentinel walked in with someone familiar close behind.

"Prisoner Offee. You have a visitor." the Sentinel informed speaking in a distinctly female voice that was slightly distorted by her mask.

The Sentinel moved out of the way in order to let in the least likely people Barriss had expected to see. Her former master, an older Mirialan woman named Luminara Unduli, and an African man known as Mace Windu: a Jedi Master who is part of the Jedi High Council. Her master, she could understand being a visitor to a degree. Despite being close, Barriss had always tried to keep her emotions at bay in order to avoid making attachments due to the code of the Jedi. Although she always thought of the older Mirialan woman as the mother she never knew.

But what she can't understand is why Master Windu is here. As far as she knows, the man has absolutely no reason to be here unless to interrogate her for more information. Such as any accomplices she may have had during the whole debacle with Ahsoka.

'Questioning me is pointless then.' she thought bitterly. 'Nobody else was involved except me. And while I may regret my actions, I meant every word that I spoke. The Jedi Order has long since lost its way. What once was a faction of glorious peacekeepers has become nothing more than a band of warriors and mercenaries hell-bent on spilling as much blood as possible to win a meaningless war!'

"Barriss, my Padawan," the young girl averted her gaze slightly when Luminara called her 'my Padawan'. "I thought you might enjoy a bit of familiar company in your final moments. And we need to have a talk with you."

"If you're going to interrogate me, you might as well forget it. I have nothing else to say to you. And even if I did have the information you see, I wouldn't give it up anyway." Barriss stated.

She nearly flinched as Luminara placed a gentle hand on her shoulder like she'd done so many times in the past. But for some reason, she noticed, the feel of this particular action was more motherly than usual.

"Barriss, we're not here to interrogate you. We just want to talk. The fact of the matter is, we haven't been completely honest with you about something." Luminara explained. "Many younglings, yourself included when you were that age, wonder what their parents were like. Whether they loved them or not, who they were, things like that. You yourself asked who your parents were and we just told you that we didn't know who they were personally, but that they loved you very much. However, we lied when we said that we didn't know your parents."

Now Barriss was just confused. Why would they bring up something like her parents at a time like this? And why after all these years?

"What does this have to do with anything? Even if I learn about my parents now, I'm already a dead woman walking." Barriss said, not seeing the point in learning about her parents at a time like this.

"The fact is, Barriss, that we lied about the identity of your parents, not because we didn't want you to know about them. It was because we wanted to protect you from the many enemies they had made in life. Enemies who would surely have targeted you to get to your parents." explained Mace.

Barriss nodded as she understood the reason it was kept from her. Such a thing as that is not all that uncommon in the galaxy. That situation where Skywalker and Ahsoka had to rescue Jabba the Hutt's son and bring him back to Tatooine is one such situation. A debacle that had been implemented by Count Dooku in order to trick Jabba into joining the Separatists so that the evil faction could gain an even greater foothold in the Outer Rim territories. And they would need the Hutt's hyperspace lanes to transport droids and supplies to do so.

"Your parents are actually very powerful Jedi Masters, Barriss. One of whom was considered a Maverick back in his youth." Mace revealed.

This bit of news startled the young woman greatly. Her parents were - ARE - Jedi?! And they actually broke the code and had her?!

"Forgive me for being skeptical, Master Windu, but I find that very hard to believe." Barriss said.

"I know it's hard to hear this, Barriss, but it's the truth. Your parents are still alive, they are Jedi who - with the Council's blessing - married out of love, and they had you, young one. And they love you very much." Mace said, sounding surprisingly fatherly at the moment. "But they knew that they couldn't raise you themselves like they wanted to. They both had made far too many enemies in their careers as Jedi and didn't want you to become a target. So it was with heavy hearts that… we left you in the care of the Temple Creche and watched you grow up from afar."

'Wait a minute… what does he mean by that?' Barriss thought to herself. 'Surely it's not like he and Master Luminara are…'

Barriss' eyes widened as the reality of Mace Windu's words hit her like a ton of bricks. So much so that she could only say three simple words that actually carried a much deeper meaning than she or any of them really understand.

"Oh my god!"

"That's right, Barriss." Luminara said as she brought the young girl into an embrace. "We are your parents. I just wish this could have been revealed under less dire circumstances."

This news just became way too much for the young Mirialan to bare. Coupled with the stress of having to deal with the ramifications of her actions towards her fellow Jedi, plus facing the inevitability of being executed, PLUS finding out who her parents really are, knocked her brain for a loop at least seventeen different ways sideways to Sunday. Her mind was so overloaded, brain flooded with so many different emotions, that she did the only thing that she possibly could at this time.

She fell back in a dead faint.

*To Be Continued…*

So, that's the first official chapter of this story. I know it's a little on the short side, but I'm still ironing out the details about how Barriss will escape to Earth so you'll have a decent escape chase scene that I feel I can be proud of and you will actually enjoy. Before I end the chapter with my usual outro, I have a few questions I'd appreciate you guys taking the time to answer.

What color crystals do you think Danny and Barriss should receive when they build their Lightsabers, and why those particular colors?

This is going to be a harem story with a maximum of six girls. (Barriss, Paulina, and Star are already part of it.) Who else would you choose to be with Danny and why did you choose them?

Do you guys want Danny's girls to become Halfas like Danny is? If so, what would you have their Ghost Forms look like? If not, what sort of powers (in addition to the Force) would you like them to have?

And finally, when do you guys feel Danny and his fellow warriors should encounter Republic forces? (Jedi, Clone Troopers, etcetera)

Thank you guys so much for reading. Please don't forget to answer my questions up above. And as I'll say…

May the Force be with you, and have a great day.