Call to Aid - Jedi Apprentice

by Random Mobile Suit Pilot

Karl Acker was a simple corporal who almost gets killed on a daily basis. However, he hasn't been thrown into other dimensions before. Tasked by an unreasonable man alongside Jedi Padawan Yadira Ban and Assassin droid HK-51, Acker must travel through this dimension to alter what may occur. He is nothing special, but he is given a very limited item that spawns units

4. Chapter 4

Call to Aid - Jedi Apprentice - Chapter 4

The room before the Jedi council was deceptively quiet, belaying the tenseness of the situation that laid ahead. A heavy weight seemed to weigh on everyone present, including that of HK-51. Yoda had said he was going to give some information about itself and the Jedi, but that still left the last organic without any background. The droid felt as though there was a grave danger hanging over Acker's head if his answers provided proved insignificant.

Suddenly a vibration brought Acker out of his thoughts to his left arm. The armband lit up and brought forth text.

Due to the main database deciding that the look can be changed, the way everything is organized inside the armband is being updated. Also, we have provided a messenger app as well to better provide for your communicative needs. We apologize for any inconvenience this provides to your spawning needs.

Clicking on the x to close the window the menu once again appeared with all sub windows open, but the format appeared different. The updated text now appeared with a small icon.

LV 4

Max SP: 2

SP Available: 2

Training (Free)

Training Droid

Dummy

Target

Remote

Training Droid

Weapons

Blaster

Lightsaber

Star Wars

Old Republic

Jedi Civil War (LV2)

Republic

Republic Soldier (1)

Sith

Sith Trooper (1)

Neutral

Mandalorian Soldier (1)

War Droid (1)

Sentry Droid (1)

The Chosen's Tale (LV2 MAX)

The Master's Start

Jedi

Jedi Initiate (0.5)

Dark Jedi

Dark Jedi (5)

While closing each of the open folders, Acker paused for a moment looking at the Master's Start category. While previously selecting the training droids and remotes had instantly summoned the droids, clicking on the Jedi Initiate icon brought up a description along with a picture of a nondescript child in Jedi clothing. The spawn button appeared in the bottom right of the description.

A child who has received Jedi training their entire life, waiting to be chosen as a Padawan.

Closing that description, Acker was going to move onto the Dark Jedi icon, before a voice called out of the council room.

"You may enter."

With those words the three got up from their positions and strode over through the council doors, Ban flinching for a second before continuing through.

Once inside the room Acker looked around at the 12 filled seats of Jedi. Master Yoda was sitting down in a seemingly comfortable seat. Next to him was a human-looking Jedi, whose intense stare reminded Acker of the disciplinary officer that once fined a bunkmate of his for drinking on the job. He could feel the memory of the disapproving gaze bear down on him now once again. Continuing his look he saw that many of the other Jedi were of other races, though all still mostly humanoid.

"Padawan Ban, please, step forward."

Immediately, Ban walked forward, her body's movements tense as she moved to the middle of the room.

"We have received notice from Yoda beforehand. You are not from this time?" The Council member sitting next to Yoda leaned forwards, putting his chin into his hands.

"Yes." Voice steady, Ban managed to steel herself and gathered her confidence as she looked at the Council member.

The council member looked at Yoda quickly before turning back to Ban. "Describe the time that you were came from."

"The Great Hyperspace War had only ended recently, and we were in the middle of a cold war with the Sith Empire."

At Ban's words whispers broke out among the Jedi present. The councilor who had spoken before waited for the whispers to die down before continuing. "The Sith have long since went extinct."

At those words, Ban's body seemed to freeze for a second before visibly relaxing and continuing. "Before I arrived in this time, I was assigned on a mission to guard a defector. A Sith fleet attacked our protection detail. Thankfully our ship managed to escape." She paused a moment, shoulders beginning to shake again. "That's when another ship came out of lightspeed."

The shaking spread outwards from her shoulders as Ban seemed to fold into herself. "I don't know where they came from, but the ship wasn't a combat ship. It was not armed well and had fewer fighters coming from it than the other ships we just escaped from. Even so they managed to repel all of our attacks and boarded us." Even non-Jedi could feel her panic spreading. "A single transport is all they sent, but they overran every position that stood between them and us. We rushed to the escape pods, but they caught up. I told the General to go on ahead."

The shaking had mostly stopped, but Ban's form remained unchanged. "There were four that seemed to be in charge. Two were Sith, untrained but definitely Sith. Another one seemed to be a bounty hunter in that outfit of theirs."

A look on uncertainty crossed Ban's face. "I'm not sure what the last one was. He was dressed in normal clothing, but had the movements of a professional."

Ban shook her head. "The rest of my team had reached cover and had reached a standoff with the Sith troopers. Then, one of the four walked forwards."

Before Ban could collapse into herself more, she righted suddenly and stared at Yoda, who gave a small nod. Before Acker could ask what happened Ban continued on.

"He politely asked for us to hand over the General." A dazed look appeared on Ban's face. "Politely asked. He said that nobody else had to die as long as we stepped aside." Ban's face fell as she remembered what happened next. "I refused."

The Jedi council room was quiet for a few moments after that, before the same Jedi as before spoke. "I see, do you wish to stop, Padawan Ban?"

Ban's breathing seemed to stop as she processed what the master had asked. Slowly, she looked at him and nodded her head.

He took this as a yes and turned to HK-51. "Your story is that you were an assassin droid that no longer wished to be an assassin droid?"

HK-51 gave a quick affirmation, which then allowed the Jedi to focus on the last member of the trio.

"Mr. Acker, Master Yoda gave no information on who you are nor on how you came to be with these too. While time travel is certainly not a normal occurrence, that does not mean it doesn't happen." He narrowed his eyes at Acker. "However, on you we have no information. Tell us, who are you?"

Dimly, Acker realized that he never realized how much exactly he would reveal. Would he spin a short tale of how he was thrust here by a trans-dimensional overseer, or would he tell the entirety of his military information. Looking over at Yoda, Acker could have sworn that that little troll was influencing him in some way, because he felt like trusting them with his information.

"Ok, first I'll ask a question of my own. How large are your current measurements for space. Is the largest explored region a galaxy? A multi-galaxy? Universe? Multiverse?"

"I'm not sure what you mean by that."

"What is the size of current maps?"

The Jedi looked at each other before replying. "Galaxy."

Acker let out a long breath. "Ok, to make it simple I'm not from this galaxy."

This raised an eyebrow from one of the Jedi, but they motioned Acker to continue.

"Where I'm from, there are… six, major factions in this region of space. Four of them are led by powerful entities, while the rest are led in a democratic manner. The names of each are: The Kingdom of Life, The Empire of Death, the Free Dimensional Alliance, the Alliance of Neutrality, Chaos's Will, and Order's Protection. The KOL, EOD, and OP are all led by their titular entities, Life, Death, and Order. The last three, FDA, CW, and AON are both lead by democracies, though Chaos is a major factor in CW's politics."

Acker paused a moment to catch his breath before continuing. "Life and Death frequently go to war with each other. Something about not liking the other's philosophy, Order and Chaos clash as well, though they sometimes join up in the larger wars led by Life and Death. The Free Dimensional Alliance attacks everyone, though they do have some level of respect for Neutrality, as Neutrality never starts any wars, though it will end them."

Acker paused a moment, his left hand going to the bridge of his nose. "About me now, I'm not sure what I was doing for most of my life. I apparently lost all of my memories at around age 300."

At that eye's that were starting to lose interest refocused on him. How could it be that this young human who doesn't even look like they're out of their early twenties would be over 300 years old?

"That doesn't seem very likely."

"You have no idea of what's possible". Briefly turning to the one that spoke, Acker sported a short smirk on his face before continuing. "Anyways, I woke up one day in a field hospital and was told that I had been hired for a defensive battle for Neutrality. I was injured and brought back there to heal.

A brief look of irritation crossed his face as he continued speaking, "I still have not regained all of the skills I supposedly had back then, even though it's been about 68, wait." Acker paused for a moment before muttering to themselves. "How long was I out that last time again?" Acker thought for a moment before realizing and continuing on, "Anyways, I should be a little bit under 400 now."

The Council room was silent after that. A quick glance around the room showed that most of the Jedi there seemed skeptical about what he had just said. Before anyone could say anything, a small "hm hm hm hm hmm" made people turn to the small Jedi.

"Age matters not, does it?" Yoda gave another short round of laughter before turning back to Acker and motioning for him to continue.

A quick nod of agreement was all that was given before he continued, "After being released, I went around, searching for a job, eventually I ended up signing with Neutrality as a regular soldier. From there I went through the ranks, and ended up a corporal. Then, one day after a particularly bad defeat, some random asshole appeared and tossed me into a portal, along with giving me a spawning ability. Ask Yoda about that. Later he told me that he was sending me," he gestured to the other two, "and those two into this galaxy for information gathering. Now," he said as looks were being tossed towards Ban and HK-51, "those two are from this galaxy, just an earlier time. He had searched across time and space for people that he could send. If you're curious about the part before my amnesia," Acker reached his left hand into a pants pocket and moved it around before pulling out a small chip. "If you scan that, it should have information about my past. "Acker shrugged for a moment before putting it away. "Not that I remember it."

"And what, pray tell, are you supposed to gather information about?"

Acker debated whether or not he should tell them that they were there just to change the order of things that would occur. In the end he decided to just bite the bullet. "Across the years, Sixteen had observed a number of universes and timelines that have had the same events occur as this one. He wishes to add a new element, and see what might come from it."

With that, the stares Acker felt grew more intense as the Jedi next to Yoda asked his next question. "Would you say you would have a negative effect on the order of this galaxy?"

Acker thought back for a moment before shaking his head. "No, not necessarily. The only criteria that he posed was that we would be allowed to leave after something has changed. I have no desire of my own to cause any deleterious actions, and Ban seems to be an honest Jedi," Acker motioned to her, "she managed to get Yoda on her side after all." He then motioned towards the droid. "HK wants to be his own droid, and that we can trust in as well."

The Jedi around the room were quiet for a moment, before one covered in hair, or fur, asked them to leave for a moment.

After what had to have been at least an hour, they were called back in to receive their judgement.

"In review of your… information, we have decided our thoughts on this matter. Padawan Ban." At this Ban stepped forward.

"We are formally welcoming you back to the Jedi Order. While ordinarily we would assign a master-less Padawan to a new master, given the circumstances, you will be allowed your independence."

At that news all of the strength seemed to leave Ban's legs as she fell to the floor. A Jedi again, in a galaxy without the Sith. With everything that has happened, she felt tears welling up in her eyes. Thanking them, she quickly stood up and took a step back.

"HK-51." At that HK took a step forward as well. "We recognize you as your own being and wish you the best of luck discovering yourself. As a friend of the Jedi you are welcome here at any time."

HK felt gratitude rise up deep within his processors at the gracious words and offer. He too thanked them and took a step back.

"Karl Acker." As the last one to be called, Acker felt a sort of tension awaiting him, as though he wouldn't have it as simple as the other two.

"We bestow upon you the same offer of friendship and housing we have offered HK-51. The two of you may go along on Jedi missions if you so wish." The man's eyes narrowed at this point. "However, we will need to have a firsthand experience of your unknown skills. Therefore, later on in a dueling room, you will face off against Master Windu." At that the Jedi that had been sitting next to Yoda gave a brief nod.

Acker felt the blood drain from his face as they continued on that Ban would stay behind to be evaluated. The fight against the Padawan Ban had been taxing, and if the information about Jedi provided by young Obi-Wan was right about the difference between padawan and master, this Windu was going to be very difficult to face.

Author's Note – I have/am recovering from a flu while writing this chapter, so standards might not be as high as other chapters. Sorry in advance. 4/14/19: Not recovering anymore

So, changes to the armband, do you really want me to name everything by book/game series? I went for a more timeline based name sense. If anyone has a better name scheme in mind, want me to go back to the old style, or just a better name for Jedi Apprentice Era stuff, tell me please. The Master's Start is not interesting enough for the time period IMO. If you disagree, reassure me by telling me. Also, better to have an in-universe reason for the change rather than me just randomly changing something in a previous chapter, right?

Partial Backstory for Acker, and will fix part of the other backstory stuff later. Hopefully I can get something interesting in the next, rather than do more backstory. The next plot drop chapter shouldn't be for a while, though the next few (not including dueling Windu) will just be them in the temple.

Next up, Karl Acker, the Accidental Deserter, Versus, Mace Windu, Creator of Vaapad. Who will wi- actually, how long will Acker last?

Deserter because he technically was not given leave by the military.

Hint as to Acker's Lost Skills: A certain spell variant that summons fireworks

Hint as to Acker's Current Weakened Skills: DEMON FANG DEMONG FANG DEMONG FANG Haste DEMON FANG (Big Hint, I know)

You guys saw the level of armband above

Would Demon Fang give Acker enough of a chance to overcome Mace Windu? Probably not.

If you want to beta or help write, go ahead. As previously stated, if someone thinks they can do it better, please do. I would love to read some fics that I think about with better writing. Just don't copy and paste. Although I just copied and pasted my own statement

As always, read, review, critique, help me