THIS OLD TEMPLE: NEW JEDI ORDER RESET
by ardavenport
- - - Part 9
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"Recording. Recording.
"C-3PO speaking.
"This has been quite a day. We were just going to go into the Jedi Temple when Master Luke encountered a vagrant. A very untidy looking person. Uuuugh. I know the lower levels are very unseemly, but it is really a surprise to see anyone like that up above. Most disturbing.
"Well, there was an incident. It looked like he attacked Master Luke, but I don't know how since he didn't exactly get near him and he didn't have any weapons. And Captain Solo tried to shoot him. Really Captain Solo tries to shoot quite a lot of things. But Professor Bren stopped him. And now Master Luke and Professor Bren are quite excited. I really don't know what about."
"3PO?"
"Oh! Senator Leia. Hello- -"
"Where's Luke?"
"He's with - -"
"Leia?"
"Han. . . . . .I came looking for Luke. We got an ID on that vagrant you picked up."
"Oh yeah, really? Well, he and Bren are back there with a couple medical droids trying to pry him off the walls and hose him down. It doesn't look like they'll get much out of him for awhile, so they're planning on going back into the Temple.
"So, who is he?"
"According to his DNA check and Palpatine's most wanted list, he's Ayzhur Ahmus, one time Jedi Knight of the Old Republic."
"You're kidding."
"Nope. He's an exact match."
"I thought they killed them all."
"Well, they missed one. Right under their noses, too. He's listed as 'presumed dead' since they found his lightsaber, but they never had any remains."
"Oh, that's what I'd want to see, a crazy old yef-scare like that waving around a lightsaber. Where'd they find it anyway?"
"An illegal weapons dealer swore to the Imperial interrogators that he bought it from someone who said he found it in the Temple sector, just before they executed him."
"Hunh. And this guy's been here on Coruscant all along. Hmm. He hasn't been doing too well, has he?"
"No."
"Ah, Senator Leia, would you like me to get Master Luke?"
"Yes, thank-you, 3PO."
"I guess the kid's going to be pretty excited. He finally got one.
"Hey, what's this thing still doing on - - -"
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[ author's note: The character, Ayzhur Ahmus, actually first appears in my story 'Begin'. ]
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"Are you sure there's power in this thing?"
"Yeah. . . .
"There. The light's on. "We'll just need R2 to direct the lift."
"Isn't he supposed to be recording this?"
"Yeah, he can do both."
"Not that. You're supposed to preface the recording."
"Oh, yeah. I'm Luke Skywalker and I'm with Methian Bren. We're in the Jedi Temple and we're about to go up into the Council spire."
"I guess that'll do. But no wonder the records are such a mess."
"They're not bad. 3PO's been doing a good job."
"You haven't been giving him enough direction. You weren't even cross-referencing the incoming coms against Palpatine's Jedi enemies list. We've got a lot of people to talk to who've been left waiting for too long. And now we've got this Ahmus guy on our hands - - - I can't believe he checked out - - - that's going to set us back even further."
"Sorry."
"Don't say 'sorry' to me. You're the Master."
"Well what am I suppose to say?"
"Well, a Jedi Master caught screwing up would have bowed and admitted to everyone that he failed."
"That's better?"
"No, but I'd like hearing it."
"Get in the lift. Come on R2. We need to go to the top first."
"Y'know I've never been all the way up here."
"No?"
"A lowly Initiate? If you had to go up to see the Jedi Council, it wouldn't have been for anything good. And I was good kid.
"There's coms halfway up, but I don't know if the clones would have left anything for us to find. We might as well start off at the top and work our way down. Maybe when Ayzhur stops talking to himself we can take him up here to jog his memory a bit. He would have stood before the Council. Every Knight did at some time or other."
"He's doing better."
"He's drooling a bit less now. That's about all I'll swear to. I can see why you don't want any records on him just yet. . . . ."
"Here we are.
". . . . . . . . . . . . . .Unh. The door's stuck."
"Well, that shouldn't be a problem for you. Master."
"You know, I don't hear a lot of respect whenever you say that."
"Say what?"
"Master."
"Hmm. That's probably because there isn't any. I'll work on it.
"Here, give it a go with the door. A little flick with the Force will pop it open.
". . . . . . . . . . . . . Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh. There it is. Did anyone ever tell you you're pretty strong with the Force?"
"Once or twice."
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"Ugh, pretty musty. Didn't think that all that old Jedi wisdom would get so stale.
"But this is it. Where they made all the big decisions. Must have been something during the Clone Wars. Just before it happened."
"You said Ben was on the Council?"
"Obi-Wan Kenobi? Oh, yeah. He was all over the holo-net during the Clone Wars. And your father. People have been sending some of those old recordings on the coms. Things they saved before Palpatine had it all purged. You should look at them sometime."
"Yeah, I know. . . . . hey, what's that?"
"What? Behind the chair? I don't - - - Aaaaaah!!!"
"Oh no. . . . . . . ."
= = =Ooop-ut-ooh ooooooooooooooooooouugghhhhh!!!! = = =
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- - - End Part 9