Chapter 5

Danny

The day after bringing the food to Jof Favrem went mostly uneventfully for Danny. His head was filled with wonder at the thought of the Jedi Order, Galactic Empire, space battles and wars fought on distant planets. "Mr. Fenton!" Mr. Lancer practically yelled to get his attention. "Huh what!" Danny said, realizing that he had dozed off in class. "Dozing off, yet again, Mr. Fenton? Perhaps you should spend more time hitting the books than playing your video games," Lancer sternly said. The bell for the next class rang and Lancer held Danny back, "You need to read Chapters 17 through 20, and answer all the questions in your textbook. If you don't, I will have no choice but to call your parents over all you're dozing off. Am I clear Mr. Fenton?" "Got it," Danny said, and went off to Lunch to see Sam and Tucker.

He sat down and heard Sam say, "What about that Galactic Empire she was talking about? If the Jedi Order was really so tough, the Empire must be even stronger if they wiped them out." "Yeah, but she had no idea what she was doing, I did the Math on my PDA Sam, the odds of the Galactic Empire coming here are 3,457,781 to 1, I say we're good," Tucker told her. "Hey Danny," Sam then greeted as she noticed him. "Lancer?" Tucker asked. "Yep," Danny confirmed. "So, what do you think about Jof? Can we trust her?" Sam asked. "I don't see why we shouldn't trust her. And plus Jazz seems to trust her," Danny told them. "She also trusted Johnny 13," Sam pointed out. "Oh yeah," Danny admitted, scratching his head in embarrassment. "Well, why shouldn't we trust Jof?" Danny then shot back then started eating.

"Ummm…well…we only got her side of the story!" Sam said, but she was clearly grasping at straws, "For all we know she's actually some kind of crazy serial killer or terrorist or the Jedi were some crazy death cult!" "You just don't like her because she ate the beef jerky," Tucker flatly stated. Sam mumbled something and then silently ate her Lunch. School went by quickly the rest of the day, and Danny went to his room to do his homework. Miraculously, he managed to finish it in an hour, and immediately called Sam, "Hey, you good to go somewhere?" "Sure, where to?" Sam asked. "I wanted to go to the crash site, show you Jof's ship," Danny told her.

"Better tell Tucker, you tell him, I don't want to hear him squee," Sam said, and hung up. Danny called Tucker, who did in fact squee, so loud he had to hold the phone away from his ear, for three whole minutes. Danny went Ghost and flew to pick up Sam and Tucker then immediately flew straight for the crash site. "What happened?" he asked when he saw that her ship was gone. "Could you be mistaken?" a disappointed Tucker asked. "No, see, there's the crater where it landed, and drag marks," Sam pointed out. "Then what happened to her ship? That thing was bigger than a Hummer!" Danny asked, starting to feel freaked out. Just then his Ghost Sense went off and he heard a yell, "I AM THE BOX GHOST! BEWARE!" "Are you kidding me?" Danny asked, looking at the blue skinned ghost.

"Ha ha!" the Box Ghost laughed, "You will not defeat me this time, for I have found the ultimate box!" the Box Ghost held up a glowing blue cube. "Whoa! Do you think that's part of Jof's ship?" Tucker asked. "Only one way to find out," Danny said, then blasted a ghost ray at the Box Ghost, knocking him away and making him drop the cube. "CATCH IT!" Danny yelled as he flew under it, Tucker caught it just in time. "MY BOX!" the Box Ghost wailed then Danny blasted him with an ice ray from his eyes. "Sam, could you get my Thermos please?" Danny asked. Sam grabbed his Thermos and sucked the Box Ghost in. "Whoa, this is definitely not human," Tucker said as he got a closer look at the cube.

"Let's give it to Jof, it must be hers," Danny said, and flew in the direction to the Hotel she was set up in.

Jof

Jof sat in as close to a meditative position as she could without exacerbating her broken leg and concentrated. She hadn't done many healing trances on herself before; she wasn't trained as a healer or warrior originally. For the nine years she was a Jedi before the Clone Wars she had been a Chronicler, traveling the galaxy in search of new knowledge to add to the Jedi Archives. She had learned much theoretical knowledge during that time, and had to use a lot of it during the Clone Wars and since Order 66, but healing trances were still somewhat difficult for her. She decided to focus on her head injury first, her mind felt slightly disoriented, yet she concentrated harder, and recited the Jedi Code to focus, "There is no emotion, there is Peace. There is no ignorance, there is Knowledge. There is no passion, there is Serenity. There is no death, there is the Force."

Jof recited the Code as a mantra as she felt damaged blood vessels in her brain heal, slight swelling become reduced, a small hairline fracture in her skull healed, and finally her skin knitted itself together. Jof exhaled in exhaustion and untied the bandages on her head. She then got up using the crutches Jazz and her friends had provided for her and went to the primitive refresher room, the 'bath room' and the mirror inside. Jof saw that there remained a scar on her forehead. "It is good enough," Jof said and went back to her mattress. She then sensed three presences enter the room and said, "Hello, Danny, Sam, and Tucker." "Okay, that is getting a little creepy," Sam said as she became visible in front of her.

"I'm sorry, six years of being hunted has meant that I could not let myself be surprised," Jof said, then saw the three of them look at her. "I sense your unease, what is wrong?" she asked. "We went looking for your ship, but it was gone," Danny told her. A cold chill moved up Jof's spine at this news, and her lekku twitched like mad. "The Empire is here," she whispered. "It doesn't necessarily mean that! I mean there are a lot of Alien Conspiracy Nuts out there who could have…taken…your…ship…" Danny tried to say, but realized it was false because if some Alien Conspiracy Nut HAD found her ship, it would be all over the News in no time. "But, we haven't heard of any space ships near here!" Tucker pointed out. "That only means that my hunters are biding their time. If the Empire deems it necessary, its soldiers will raze this city and everyone in it," a grim Jof said.

"But we did find this!" Danny said, and pulled out from behind his back a blue glowing holocron! "The holocron," Jof said; all is not lost; the Force is still with me. "Please, give it to me," Jof pleaded. Danny blinked in astonishment and handed the holocron to her. "What is it?" Sam asked. "This," Jof reverentially said, "is a holocron. It is an ancient chronicle of the history and wisdom of the past Jedi Masters. The knowledge contained inside this is invaluable." She then looked at the three teens and said, "If I should fall, if the Empire is here, you must not let this holocron fall into their hands. Too much knowledge has been lost or destroyed by the Empire; this must not be lost as well. Please, promise me that you will protect it." The three teens looked at each other and after a few minutes of discussion Sam said, "We'll protect it." Jof sighed in relief as she said, "Thank you."