Here's chapter 2! Hope y'all enjoy!
It had been a couple months since the original incident in Luke's kitchen, and much to Luke's dismay, Obi-wan and his father had decided to set up base in his living area. A hologram sat in the middle of which with several news articles about a mysterious Togruta woman either saving people or being spotted close to an Empire base before it mysteriously exploded or something like that. There were even a few old archive pictures of a young Togruta girl (which had caused relief for Luke when he had noticed that she did not appear to be part human), and her name displayed on top of it, Ahsoka Tano.
Luke stood in his kitchen with a glass of blue milk as he watched the two force ghosts discuss a recent article about some Storm Troopers that had gone missing from a slave outpost in the middle of day, the only thing left behind being a familiar white cloak and no trace of any of the slaves. His father seemed particularly proud of this heist. Though Obi-wan seemed concerned that they could not pin-point exactly when this had occurred.
"She's probably moved on since this," Obi-wan sighed as he stroked his beard, "this doesn't put us any closer to tracking her down than before."
"Still, I need to give her a pat on the back for this one." Anakin said with a satisfied smile.
Luke cleared his throat to catch the two's attention, "It's not like it isn't great seeing you both so often, but why bother with all this?" Luke gestured to the large hologram, Obi-wans expression stayed neutral, though Luke noticed his Father's mouth turn down slightly as his eyebrows furrowed. "I mean, if she doesn't want to be found, then I don't think she will let you at this rate. Besides, there are other issues we must take care."
While Anakin continued to frown at his sun, Obi-wan's lips turned upwards into a satisfied smirk, "Aye, but young Luke, I believe that this may be a way to help us better achieve one of your goals. Do you still wish to reconstruct a Jedi order, as we once talked of?"
"I mean, yeah, I do. But I don't think I understand how one force user will make that big of an impact."
Anakin snorted at his response, "She's not just some force user."
Obi-wan placed his hand on his old padawan's shoulder, "While that may also be the case Anakin, that is not all I was talking about, Luke, I would like you to look at these with me." Obi-wan pulled up some other documents on the hologram. Luke's eyes widened.
"Are these Imperial reports?"
Obi-wan nodded, "Indeed, your father was able to give me the codes to access these, we were able to pass on important documents to your sister, but these were of special interest to us. Can you tell me why that is Luke?"
Luke leaned closer to the hologram as he scanned through the details. "They seem to all be about young children who disappeared, but why would the Empire be so interested in that?" Luke looked up, Obi-wan was smiling approvingly at the boy, while his father looked as serious as Luke had ever seen him.
"Those were children that the Darth Sidious took specific interest in." Anakin crossed his arms in front of his chest.
"Yes, Sidious was always interested in forming his own army of force sensitives, as I remember" Obi-wan stroked his beard as Luke's eyebrows shot up.
"So, are you saying that Ahsoka is the one that took all these children?"
"I never wanted to get my hopes up after our last run in. And I dreaded the Emperor going after her, but I've had my suspicions since I started receiving these reports."
"But that's huge! If there are so many force sensitives, shouldn't we be able to find them?"
"I wish it were that simple, young Luke, but, even after your father finally fulfilled the prophesy," Luke did not miss the look Obi-wan shot Anakin's way, "the force is still balancing itself out, making it hard to locating anyone you are not familiar with."
They all stood in silence for a moment, before Luke felt the presence of his sister as she knocked at the door.
"You can come in Leia" Luke called as the door opened, and Leia came in holding a holo-pad and Han following closely behind her. Luke had noticed that they were spending much more time together, he wondered passively if he should ask why they did not invite him to join them more. He was starting to feel left out.
"Luke, I need to discuss your last mission report with you, and perhaps recommend you to some grammar course. I mean, I know that you were a farm boy or whatever, but this is making me look bad at this point." Leia looked up from the holo-pad when she felt Han tense up behind her, her gaze became icy when she saw the ghost of her father. "Obi-wan, good to see you." She turned towards the other pale-blue being who nodded towards her.
"I'm sorry Leia, we were just in the middle of something." Leia turned her gaze towards Luke.
"Yes, well before you wreck another neighborhood, please correct the forms for the last one you nearly destroyed." Leia forcibly shoved the holo-pad at him.
Luke gently accepted, he knew his sister had not really forgiven their father, and he really couldn't blame her, all things considered.
As Luke started going through his files trying to correct them, he could feel Han's sympathetic gaze. Leia also just so happened to see the hologram that was taking up much of Luke's living room, which gave her pause.
"What's going on here?"
"We believe that we may have leads to an old friend, little Leia." Obi-wan answered following her gaze.
"Your friend is Ahsoka Tano?"
"You know her?" Anakin spoke up for the first time since his daughter had entered the room, his mouth slightly opened.
Leia gave him a hesitant look before answering, "Yeah, she's a general in the Rebellion. She served as an informative for years before I was even introduced to the cause. My father told me once that she was one of the founding members. I don't believe I've ever met her in person, but she has to send all reports to me periodically."
"Wait, you knew where a force user was this whole time and never told me?" Luke dropped the holo-pad on his table as he addressed his sister.
Leia just scoffed, "I know where more than one is, but you never bothered to ask, I never even knew you were trying to find them."
"Y-yeah, well, still."
Han put his hand on Luke's shoulder, "You are not going to win this one buddy, just give up." Luke's shoulders slumped
"Wait, so do you know where she is?" Anakin looked at his daughter, a spark of hope in his eyes.
"Of course, I do, but why should I tell you?" Leia spat.
"Leia, I know you may never believe me when I tell you I'm sorry for what I did as Darth Vader, but please. This is for more than me, do this for your brother, this may be his best chance to form a safe place for force users, like the two of you." The look on Anakin's face was so soft and sincere that Leia was caught off guard.
She turned to her brother who was looking down, "is that true Luke?", Luke just nodded in response. Leia let out a sigh, "Fine, she sent in a report a couple days ago that she was heading to Coruscant, she should still be there."
"Well, that is rather fitting of a place." Obi-wan stated with a smile.
"It sure is." Anakin returned his smile as they started to fade.
"Hey, hold on!" Luke shouted, but it was too late as the two men had disappeared.
Leia and Han shared a look and Han smiled, "To the Falcon then, kid?"
"Wait, you two want to go too?" Luke asked quizzically.
"I've always been curious about General Tano." Leia shrugged.
"And I am not missing this show." Han smiled, "Plus, I figured we would need a fast ship to catch up with two force ghosts."
Luke smiled at his friends, man he loved these guys, "Alright, off we go then."
And like that they were all off to meet this mysterious Ahsoka Tano.
Thanks for reading! R&R and may the force be with you!
