Gale-Dragon: Yay, chapter 5 is now up. Note: I own Zon Telvark, Koth Methan, and the Heartless Killers. The rest belong to George Lucus.
"Talking"
*Scenery change, time jump, or both*
Gale-Dragon: In the last chapter: Grievous and Ventress managed to capture Jedi Windu, Fisto, Kenobi, and Skywalker, Clone troopers Gazer and Gunn, Methan, and Telvark. But Telvark pulled the wool over their eyes and captured them, and revealed that Jedi Fisto was actually Heartless Killer Aphrodite in disguise. Now Back to the Story.
The Difference and Steel
Windu, Kenobi, Skywalker, Gazer, Gunn, Ventress, a no limbed Grievous, and Telvark stares, or glared, at Aphrodite, who was still in Fisto's from with the sinister blood-red eyes staring back at them, with her left hand on her hip, giving a feminine appearance. "I'm quite surprised that you're hyper-observant, although I thought that I mimicked Fisto right down to his habits. What did I do that wasn't his character?" Aphrodite said in her voice.
"You made three mistakes in your impersonation of Kit-o," Telvark said coldly.
"The first one being the whole sheep on the feet thing, huh," Aphrodite said twirling one of the head tentacles around her right index finger.
"That was number three," Telvark corrected (1).
"And I doubt that you'll tell me the first two. Right, Zonnarin?" Aphrodite said in a casually sweet kind of voice.
"Zonnarin?" Skywalker asked in utter confusion.
"Zon's full first name," Methan said to Skywalker. He nodded.
"Right, but I don't think you'll find out one of them, but the other you'll probably find out quickly," Telvark said with a childish smile. Aphrodite frowned.
"What did you do with the real Fisto?" Windu questioned the shapeshifter. Aphrodite looked at Windu with her blood-red eyes.
"Probably dead," Ventress said with a smile,
"Uhg, I never pose as a dead person, that's just sick," Aphrodite said in disgust.
"And cutting out a living person's heart isn't?" Kenobi asked raising a brow.
"For the record that was Hades, and the eight of us have our own personalities that affect on how we kill, well minuses Athena," Aphrodite said staring off to the side before returning her stare to the group and said "But Hades likes to be very morbid about his killings, especially when he leaves a witness," then added with a sinister smile "Besides we need the Little Turtle to be alive, we still have a use for him,".
"What do you mean by that?" Kenobi asked the Fisto look alike.
"As much as I want to tell boys that, but I'm disappointed to say that I can't tell you," she said with a small grin.
"No, you're not," Telvark stated emotionlessly.
"Yes I am," Aphrodite said simply.
"No, you're not,"
"Yes, I am,"
"No, you're not,"
"Yes, I am,"
Here the onlookers (Jedi, Cones, Methan, and the Separatist) are looking back and forth between the two arguings).
"No, you're not,"
"Yes, I am,"
"No, you're not,"
"Yes, I am,"
"Yes, you are,"
"I don't mean it and that's final," Aphrodite said practically shouting. Telvark grinned happily, the Jedi, clones, Methan, and Separatist chuckled, then Aphrodite realized what happened and muttered "I can't believe I fell for that," just as she finished a swirling vortex of purple and black appeared behind her. "Looks like my ride's here," She said walking to the portal. Aphrodite looked at the people behind her giving them a good-luck look before stepping through the portal and it closed behind her. They stared at the space for a moment or two.
"What just happened?" Ventress asked no one in particular.
"We better get going," Kenobi said as he headed to the Separatist's hanger where their ship was probably there.
"Can the Technopath get these limbs off me, and put them back on Grievous' body?" Ventress asked struggling agents the metallic limbs that bounded her. Grievous wiggled in agreement.
"Nope," said Telvark in a childish voice as he walked alongside Methan to the hanger. Both Ventress and Grievous were enraged by that.
"Now the only thing to worry about is the droids," Skywalker said looking for the hanger.
"Nope, I turned the Dummy-bots off," Telvark said happily as they walked passed droids on the floor. Telvark does work fast. They managed to find their ship, but it was in no condition to fly. As Telvark wiped the ship's memory and placed a little 'surprise' for the Separatist, the others decide to 'borrowed' a Separatist ship, but they couldn't use it until Telvark was done 'fixing it up', and that took at least a minute or two.
'Telvark sure works fast,' Thought the Jedi, clones, and Methan at the same time when Telvark shouted done with a smile. He just swapped the appearance of the Separatist ship and the Starcruiser and the controls/working attachments.
"I added a little surprise for the Separatist on our old ship," Telvark said happily in a childish voice.
"I hope it isn't too bad," Methan said nervously.
"Let's just get out of here before something happens," Skywalker said motioning everyone to the ship. As soon as everyone was on board, the clones started the ship as Telvark opened the hanger door with his abilities. Soon, they were outside in the deep void of space.
"Now, how do you activate the teleportation drive?" Asked Gazer as he looked at the control panel in confusion, he didn't know what activates the teleportation drive.
"I'll activate it," Telvark said happily as his eyes turned light blue.
"WAIT!" everyone else shouted, but it was too late, the teleportation drive was already activated, and then disappeared. Well….. They got back to their base, but not without getting a little sick, although Telvark seemed happy and fine.
After everyone felt better, they left the ship. They ran into Secura and Yoda.
"I heard that someone posing as Master Fisto was with you on your mission," Secura said with her arms folded in front of her.
"How'd ya know Mellow?" Telvark asked childishly as he hugged Starry.
"We found a Master Fisto in one the hallways, a little drowsy, wondering where Telvark is. It was something about a message," Secura said with a confused look. Telvark smiled "And we knew for a fact that Master Fisto was on a mission with you boy, so we questioned him and it turns out that the one that was with you was fake," She added with a simple smile. As soon as she finished Fisto walked into the room.
"Whom, we speak of," Yoda said looking at his fellow master.
"I think I now know why you sent the message wondering if I was the real Kit-o." Asked Fisto with a yawn, then added drowsily "The fake didn't have the communicator with him."
Telvark smiled "Yep, that was Rose's second mistake," he said hugging the tattered doll with a smile.
*Flashback*
Telvark escaped from the prison and turned off all the droids. He used his ability to hover a sleeping droid to where the two Separatists were questioning/holding the Republicans. Telvark stopped at the door out of view from them. He took out his communicator, wrote the message 'Are you the real Kit-o?' sent it to its counterpart, and waited for the little bell to ring, but after a minute he got a reply saying 'Of course I am. Why do you ask?' there was no bell sound coming from the room.
'I thought as much,' Thought the Technopath. Telvark turned the droid on and sent it in the room.
*End Flashback*
"So that's reason two, but reason one?" Kenobi asked the grinning blue Nautolan.
Telvark smiled as he passed the drowsy Fisto "Let's just say that it's something that Rose's is so used to she wouldn't notice, but when Kit-o notices it," Telvark paused and pretended to pinch his nose "He hates it, just like Madame," Telvark finished with a smile. Now that didn't make sense.
"Haha, very funny, Zon-Zon," Fisto said sarcastically. He got it, but who's Madame?
"What? It's true," Telvark said innocently.
"I never said it wasn't, but no one needed to know that," Fisto said a slightly annoyed tone.
"Better than a cretin trait of No NEWS," Telvark said childishly before walking off. Fisto rubbed his temple.
"Sometimes I wonder about his sense of humour," Fisto mumbled. Who were the people Telvark was talking about?
"What does Telvark mean?" Secura asked.
"It's more of an inside joke, a very old and bad one," Fisto said simply with a small smile. A light bulb went off in Skywalker's head.
"Question, you have, Skywalker?" Yoda said with a smile. Could Master Yoda read minds, or was guessing. Skywalker looked around to see if anyone was coming and finally get to say what's been bugging him all day.
"I just want to know who 'Steel' is and why he called master Fisto 'Kit-o'," Finally Skywalker got to say it, now all he had to do was wait for the answer.
"Steel the nickname Telvark's given my father," Fisto said not surprised. Everyone looked at Fisto and asked 'Why did Telvark give your father that nickname?'
"My father was a metal worker (2), and he always came home smelling of different types of steel, so that's why" Fisto explained with a small smile.
"But why did he call you Kit-o?" Windu asked since the explanation didn't say why.
"Father called me 'Kid-o'," Fisto said simply.
"Wait, then why did Telvark call you 'Kid-o', err, Kit-o, wait," Skywalker paused for a second "Kid-o, Kit-o…. Oh, I get it," Skywalker said finally. Fisto smiled. "He paraphrased the nickname your father gave you," said the Jedi knight with a small smile. Fisto nodded.
"It doesn't happen often, but if you already have a nickname, Telvark won't give you a nickname, which is probably going to happen with the clones, although the only two exceptions where Ally and I," Fisto said with a small smile. Methan was typing the new information in the little dictionary.
"And you forgot to tell us this why?" Windu asked a little annoyed.
"Like I said it doesn't happen often, and I kind of forgot about it," Fisto said rubbing the back of his head with a sheepish smile. Everyone gave a sweat drop (3).
"Also Telvark mentioned sheep on feet, what the heck does that mean," Skywalker added.
"Are you wearing sheep on your feet?" Fisto said drowsily.
"That's what Telvark said to Aphrodite," Skywalker said remembering the kick in the face "But what does it mean?"
"'Are you wearing sheep on your feet?' means 'Are you wearing wool socks?' the sheep stand for wool and the feet stands for what kind of thing you wear on them. He used to ask me that every day and the answer was no every time," Fisto said with a yawn.
"Now there are three things that bug me," Kenobi said with his chin in his right hand.
"It's about Heartless Killer Aphrodite, isn't it?" Windu asked his comrade.
"Heartless Killer Aphrodite was posing as Master Fisto?" Secura questioned in surprise menu and was reinsured by the three Jedi that was on the mission.
"Why did she pose as Master Fisto, and how did she keep the real Master Fisto out of the way?" were the questions that Kenobi asked his fellow Jedi.
"Not sure about the why, but I can tell you the how," Fisto said with a yawn.
*Flashback*
Fisto was just about to leave the meditation room when he spotted a clone trooper, who looked completely lost.
"You a new clone assigned to this place?" Fisto asked the clone. The clone was startled when he heard the Jedi Master's voice.
"Um, yes, I was looking for the deck hanger, but appears that I'm way off," The clone said not keeping eye contact.
"I'll show you where the hanger is, don't worry since you're new they'll assign you a partner to help you memorized the place," Fisto said with a smile. He turned his back to the clone to show him the way to the hanger.
"That's good, mainly because," The clone took a handkerchief from a hidden pocket "I don't want to be too much trouble, Little Turtle," Fisto quickly turned just in time for the handkerchief to cover his nose and mouth. Whatever was on the handkerchief knocked Fisto out pretty quickly.
Next thing Fisto knew, well, one he was in his room; the other was that a little bell sound woke him up. Fisto fished in his pocket for the little communicator, took it out, and read the message that said 'Are you the real Kit-o?', being a little sleepy, Fisto typed in 'Of course I am. Why do you ask?', and then placed it back into his pocket. After a moment, the drowsiness wore off a bit, and as soon as Fisto was on his feet, he went looking for Telvark, to ask what the message was about since Telvark shut his communicator off.
*End Flashback*
Everyone stared at Fisto when he finished with a yawn.
"That explains the how Aphrodite got Master Fisto out of the picture, and why he's a little sleepy," Kenobi said as Fisto gave another yawn.
"But the main question is why Aphrodite was posing as Master Fisto?" Secura asked the others the question.
"And what she used to knock me out," Fisto said trying to shake off the drowsiness that still had a hold of him.
"Whatever it was, it still has some effect on you," Windu said. Fisto gave a drowsy nod.
"And why did Aphrodite call Master Fisto 'Little Turtle'?" Skywalker added remembering the words of Aphrodite when she said that the Heartless Killers needed to keep Fisto alive.
"I recall being called that name somewhere before, but who and where slips me," Fisto said with another yawn. The other figured that Fisto didn't fully remember because he was still drowsy.
"What could the Heartless Killers are planning?" Secura questioned out loud.
"Unknown, the Heartless Killer's plan is, but in time, reveal the plan, they will," Yoda said before he walked off. Fisto yawned again.
It was night and the stars were shining and Telvark was looking out the window staring at the stars, with Starry in hand. Windu, Kenobi, and Skywalker spotted him as they walked to the training room.
"Having fun, Telvark?" Skywalker asked in a joking manner.
"Anakin," Kenobi scolded his padawan.
"It's not easy," Telvark said suddenly. The trio looked at the Technopath in confusion. "Being Autistic, it's not easy" Telvark added when he saw their confused look the reflection of the window.
"I don't think we can understand how hard it is because we never had it," Kenobi said.
"At least some people try to understand," Telvark replied with a smile.
"Even though they don't have it," Windu said. Telvark nodded.
"When you have Autism, you have a hard time relating to people (4)," Telvark said looking at the stars. "So, they sometimes say things that hurt, even though they don't mean to be. That's probably one of the main reason we seem to be outcasts," Telvark said remembering a time when he was little piling flat rocks on top of each other, ignoring the hateful looks of onlookers.
"Words also hurt you to even though you don't show it," Skywalker said looking at the window.
"Yes," Telvark replied. His mind went back into the flashback of him sitting near a boulder. "But, there are some people who do care about autistic people and their difference," Telvark said finally as he remembered a 5-year-old Kit Fisto walking up to him and said 'Hey' the little 5-year-old Zon Telvark looked up at the green one, who was holding his hand out in a friendly manner and asked 'You want to play?', little Telvark stared at the little Fisto and then the outstretched hand, he reaches out and gripped the hand. Little Fisto pulled little Telvark up and said 'come on,' the little Fisto led little Telvark to a small group of children and said with smiles 'lets play'. Little Telvark smiled too and joined in the play. "Kit-o was one of the ones who cared and he didn't even know what Autism was at the time," Telvark added with a smile of the memory.
"I think that the other main reason is ignorance," Kenobi said looking at the stars. Telvark nodded.
"Ignorance seems to be one of the main roots of hatred," Telvark said still staring out the window.
"That seems to be the truth," Windu said joining the trio at the window.
"Hey, Telvark," Skywalker said looking at the blue Nautolan.
"What do want to know?" Telvark said not taking his eyes of the white dotted black sky.
"Do you remember anyone who called Master Fisto 'Little Turtle'?" Skywalker asked him. Fisto couldn't remember probably because of whatever knocked him out, but maybe Telvark could.
"Only Ghosty," Telvark said with a smile. Well, Skywalker's question was answered but raised another question. Telvark walked off leaving the Jedi in confusion.
After a little rescue mission to help Grievous get back together in one piece, Count Dooku wanted to see both the cyborg general and Ventress for their failed mission to retrieve the Technopath.
"Ventress care to explain why you fail to retrieve the Technopath?" asked the Count. Something wasn't right; the retrieval mission was Grievous', not Ventress. It was true that Dooku sent Ventress to assist Grievous in capturing the Technopath.
"Lord Dooku, the mission was Grievous', you told me that, and when Grievous fail the first time you sent me to assist," Ventress stated and Grievous agreed with her, and they rarely agreed on anything. Dooku raised an eyebrow.
"What are you talking about? You agreed to the mission, and tell me what kind of idiot sends a cyborg to apprehend a Technopath?" Dooku said in a mildly scolding voice. Ventress and Grievous looked at each other and said in unison "That's what the Technopath said." Dooku raised an eyebrow. "Tell me exactly what happened on the mission," Dooku commanded. Both did explain the entire mission, and reluctantly the humiliating parts as well, they knew that Dooku was going to ask anyway, so might as well tell now or be humiliated later.
"Heartless Killer Aphrodite was posing as Jedi Kit Fisto?" Dooku questioned. The two goons nodded. "Interesting, I wonder what they could be planning," Dooku asked to no one particular.
"Must be something big," Ventress said out of nowhere.
"Now what makes you think that?" Grievous asked his fellow villain.
"Remember what Aphrodite called Fisto?" Ventress asked the cyborg.
"Of course it was a stupid name. It was 'Little Turtle' wasn't it?" Grievous said in an annoyed tone.
"Yes, and the fact that she said that they needed to keep him alive," Ventress added.
"I think we'll find out when they make their plans known," Dooku said looking out the window. Dooku was lost in his mind 'If the Heartless Killers were on our side, as well as the Technopath, we could easily win this war.'
~}i{~
"I got the clone data you needed Athena," said the familiar voice of Aphrodite, who was still in Kit Fisto's form.
"Thank you, but did you also get the DNA as well?" Asked an emotionless voice in the darkness.
"Need you even ask," Aphrodite said handing a computer chip and a small tub of blood to a pale hand extending out of the darkness. "Got it from him the moment I got him out of sight," Aphrodite said proudly.
"Thank you, now I can finish my project on time," Athena said coldly as the two walked to a relatively big machine with a tub that was half the size.
"Didn't our landlord give us a limit on how much electricity we can use?" Aphrodite asked looking at the giant machine.
"It runs on triple-A batteries and automatically shifts to another set of triple-A batteries once the first set is used up," Athena explained coldly.
"Oooookaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy," Aphrodite said, "At least we won't get in trouble."
"Did you harm our Little Turtle?" Athena asked her fellow Heartless Killer.
"Only when I had to extract the blood, but he was out like a light. That knock out stuff you created has saved us the pain, and time when it comes to keeping the people we need to keep alive out of the way, only for a moment," Aphrodite said as she twirled. "You were right about Zon Telvark, he knew that I wasn't the real Fisto," She added when she stopped twirling.
Athena nodded as she typed on a keyboard that was attached to the machine. "As I said," she said not taking her eyes off the screen.
"Out of all us Heartless Killers, You're the one who's the heartless one," said a new female voice in the darkness.
"That is very true dear Artemis. Very true, indeed," said a menacing male voice. There was a soft metal on a wood noise that was like the metal was softly carving into the wood.
"Oh, and thanks for the ride home Apollo," Aphrodite said waving in the direction of the male voice.
"It is not a problem Aphrodite. Not a problem, indeed," Apollo said in a calm voice and the carving noise continued. "Is the Little Turtle is doing fine? Doing fine, indeed?" added Apollo.
"A little drowsy from the 'Knock Out', but other than that he's fine," Aphrodite said with a smile.
"That is good because we need him alive when he has to play with the Little Tiger, Little Phoenix, and Little Dragon later on. We should make sure everything is in place for their playtime. Everything in place, indeed," Apollo said with a smile on his face.
"You know you don't have to make those now, Idiot Brother," Artemis said rudely as the carving noise stopped. Apollo held up the wooden head he was working on.
"I apologize dear sister; I have gotten ahead of myself. Gotten ahead of myself, indeed," Apollo said softly.
"We just need to make sure that our four little ones don't play too soon," said a rumbling voice.
"Zeus, we all know that, so don't be redundant. That's Apollo's job," said a flowing male voice.
"Poseidon lets just let time flow the way it wants," Athena said still not looking up from her typing. The others sighed.
"Why are you still in that form?" Poseidon asked Aphrodite.
"I have no idea," Aphrodite said with a smile. The others gave an 'oh boy'.
~}i{~
"Thanks for the help," Methan said to Fisto. "Now if only he didn't wander off.
"Don't worry, he's probably just doing it because he still doesn't know you," Fisto said with a small smile.
"Hey Mr Nervous, Kit-o," Telvark said popping out of nowhere and scaring Methan out of his skin.
"Looks like you don't need to worry about Zon-Zon calling you Moth," Fisto said with a small sheepish smile as Methan, who looked like he was having a heart attack.
"Mr Cool, Mr Clever, Hammer, and Trouble want to talk to you, and me," Telvark said happily before walking off to where the people he mentioned were. Fisto went in the same direction after Methan felt better.
"You want to know what Kenobi and Koon's nicknames are based on?" Fisto said in confusion.
"You did say you would explain them later," Koon said softly.
"Hold on a sec," Fisto said as he walked towards Telvark, who was just watching the conversation. Telvark already had two discs out and handed them to Fisto with a smile. Fisto walked back with the two discs. He opened one and a small library of pencil-thin books popped opened. Fisto snatched three books and handed one of each to Koon, Kenobi, and Methan.
The one-handed to Koon had a picture of an upside-down triangle wearing a black top hat, two thin arms, and legs, two small black eyes, a happy smile, and had the big words at the top that said 'Mr. Cool by Roger Hargreaves'.
The one-handed to Kenobi had a picture of a chubby round, orange circle, with glasses, short stubby arms and legs, a green top hat, and in big words at the top that said 'Mr. Clever by Roger Hargreaves'.
The one-handed to Methan had a picture of a formless blob with a black O for a mouth, stubby arms and legs, two small black eyes, and in big words said 'Mr. Nervous by Roger Hargreaves'.
"Zon-Zon based your nicknames off some of the Mr Men (5) and for Ventress," Fisto said tapping the other discs that made a small library of pencil-thin books. Fisto pulled one of the books of the line and showed it to the others and said "the Little Miss' (6)," while showing the book with a picture of a round pink circle, with brown pigtails, plump arms and legs, a wicked smile, and big words that read 'Little Miss Bad by Roger Hargreaves', just like Ventress' nickname
The Jedi and Methan gust stared at the thin books.
"That seems very childish," Skywalker said bluntly.
"I know, but they fit like a glove," Telvark said with a smile as he hugged Starry. Fisto chuckled, while the others sighed.
Looks like a life with an Autistic Technopath will be both interesting and confusing.
The End (at least for this story)
(1): Just had to correct didn't ya Zon.
(2): No clue what Fisto's father did for a living, but it's my story, so my idea.
(3): Sweatdrop is commonly seen in anime. I know Star Wars isn't an anime, but I had to add it.
(4): Basically one of the two main things on what Autism is.
(5) & (6): the Mr Men & Little Miss book series were written by Roger Hargreaves to teach children emotions by using funny characters based off of solid emotion. It's good for Autistic children too.
Gale-Dragon: Chapter 5 finished, now for the character bios.
Name: Zonnarin Telvark (or Zon for short)
Age: same age as Kit Fisto, but a little shorter than Fisto.
Race: Nautolan
Eyes: Coal-black (turns bright blue when using Technopathic abilities)
Hair: Bluehead tentacles
Favourite Foods: anything with a high flavour concentration (except for spicy, he hates spicy)
Personality: Childish, but smart when he wants to be
Name: Koth Methan
Age: Probably in his 30s
Race: Never told anyone what he is
Eyes: Emerald green
Hair: Some kind of black spikes
Favourite Food: Apples
Personality: A major nervous wreck (no surprise)