This Old Temple: New Jedi Order Reset Chapter 11, a star wars fanfic

THIS OLD TEMPLE: NEW JEDI ORDER RESET

by ardavenport

- - - Part 11

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"Recording. Recording.

"C-3PO speaking.

"Oh, dear. I've fallen terribly behind on this. But I don't see how anyone can blame me. We were attacked! R2 and myself. Horrible! We're on Coruscant. That kind of thing does not happen here. At least not in the Senate quarter. Not in the upper levels.

"We were attacked by Knight Ahmus. Really, he isn't very stable at all. I can't believe he is who they say he is. Jedi Knights were supposed to be so reliable.

"R2 tried to shock him, but he threw poor R2 across the room! I don't know how he did it. He doesn't look very strong. He got past all the guards and went straight to the Jedi Temple. Thank goodness Master Luke decided to let him stay there. I think it's really for the best. Though he has been busy setting up a living area for him. He's using R2 to help him.

"But at least he is out of here. Ugh!"

"I have a backlog of communications; I wish R2 wasn't so busy with Master Luke. 7X-T0 and 7X-T1 have barely been keeping up. Though I must admit, Professor Bren has been helpful. He is quite organized and I think that he is really beginning to work well with us. I suppose it was a good thing after all that he started working with Master Luke. He is currently setting up interviews with people. Candidates for the position of Jedi. Very interesting.

"Oh, but now Master Luke has been talking about moving this project to the Jedi Temple itself. I certainly hope not. We have such nice offices, with a lovely view over the Senate plaza. And the accommodations are really excellent. And I really do not want to be in the same place as that Knight Ahmus person. He's quite unstable.

"I shall try my best to talk him out of it."

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"Professor Methian Bren, Padawan to Master Luke Skywalker, ha! I still laugh when I say 'Padawan'. Heh.

"It's oh-one-oh dash oh-seven, post-Empire - - zyatz, I never get tired of saying that - oh-nine-oh-three in the morning, Coruscant. The Jedi Temple.

"And you are, Jedi Knight Ayzher Ahmus, of the Old Republic, at least that's what it says on the designation for this room. And your DNA check . . .

" . . . You know it doesn't look very good in the holo with you cowering in the corner like that. I'm not skimping on the scanners for this. I'm running a 3-D of the whole room, so you might as well make a good showing of it. The Senate knows about you and they're starting to ask ugly questions about why you're out of sight.

"Hmmph. Tough customer, I see. Maybe I should let you pee in those Senators' corners. Give them an ugly answer.

"All right. I'm going to start then.

"Before you threw Master Luke's droids around, you said the dark was gone. Along with all the Jedi Masters. So, I know you've got a pretty good grip on the Force. When you're sitting there in your corner we know you're feeling out the Force. Master Luke and I can tell, you know. Well, at least Master Luke can. And you couldn't be that crazy if you can do that. . . . . . . .

"So you're just going to leave me here talking to myself? Well, maybe I'll just help myself to this meal here, since you don't seem to be interested in it. Let's see if I can get that biscuit there, the Jedi way.

"Aaah. . . . . . . .aaaah. . . . . . .oh. Dropped it again. Well. Not too appetizing there on the floor. But there's still more biscuits. Let's try another one.

"Aaaah. . . . . aaaaaaaaaahhh. . . . . . . . Ha!! Couldn't bear to see me waste another one, eh? I thought you'd jump for that. Living on the streets you wouldn't be in a position to waste a meal too often. You might want to give me a few pointers on floating things like that. I always seem to end up dropping them. . . . .

"Well, are you going to say anything? Or are you just going to sit there and chew?"

"Water."

"Eh?"

"Water. . . . .this biscuit is dry."

"Hmmmph! Well, seeing that you asked so nicely I'll get you some. . . . . . . .Here."

"Thank-you."

"Hmmmmm, best manners you've shown so far, too. So. . . . . . . . what am I doing wrong?"

". . . . . . . .you think too much. The Force doesn't happen one thing after another. It's the Force."

"Right. Knew that had to be the problem. I keep dropping things 'cause I'm too smart. Master Luke only tells me that three times a day. I suppose that's why I failed the program. But I already knew that anyway.

"What I don't know is what you were doing all this time. You were living on the sub levels of Coruscant all this time. Well, I'm not sure what you were doing could be called living. But you were there. One last Jedi that the Imperials missed."

"I'm not a Jedi. Not now."

"There's an old Imperial wanted list that says you are."

"If I was still a Jedi I would have tried to defeat the Sith. I didn't."

"Is that why we haven't found any others? They either made a suicide run on Palpatine, or they dropped their allegiance?"

"Yes. Palpatine killed all the Jedi. And Master Yoda has warned any of the others left that the past is gone. Not that there are that many. But they walked away from the Jedi Order. You and your Master. You're the only Jedi now."

"Hunh? Uuuuuuuuuuhhhhh, yeah. . . . . . .right."

"Huh, huh. Just ask your Master. He can hear Yoda. And Obi-Wan Kenobi. And his Master, too. And his father. . . ."

"Really? And why hasn't he said anything about it to me?"

"Perhaps you're not ready."

"But they're talking to you?"

"No. They've said nothing to me. Well, Master Yoda said that it was time for a New Jedi Order. Without the mistakes of the old."

"But you're still telling to me about it?"

"Well, I'm crazy. I don't care."

"Hunh. You're not that crazy. Not now at least.

"So, since you're finally in the mood to talk - - at least putting words together into sentences - - you might as well start at the beginning. What happened to you? When the Clones attacked the Temple? When the Sith took over."

". . . . . . . . . . . I wasn't in the Temple. Everybody knew there was a power struggle with Palpatine. That he had too much power. That the Jedi would side with the Senators who wanted to force him out of power as soon as the Clone Wars were over. And we were about to win. Dooku was dead. The Separatists were in retreat. It was just a matter of time.

"But something was going on. The Temple was suddenly on alert; locked down. We didn't know why, but you could feel it in the Force. Something. . . . .ominous. The dark side rising. But how could it be getting stronger if the war was ending? We'd been looking for a Sith Master for years. Some people thought that it might have been Dooku all along, but . . . . the feel of things didn't get better after he was killed. It got worse. You could feel there was an attack coming, but you couldn't see where. Everything was in shadow, as if the Force had left the Jedi."

"So, why weren't you in the Temple, if everyone was on such high alert?"

"I was one of the scouts. I wasn't any good in a fight, so I was outside."

"Why's that?"

"What?"

"Why aren't you any good in a fight?"

"I couldn't kill anyone. I stayed at the Temple during the Wars."

"Yeah, that would be a big disadvantage for a War. How'd you get to be a Jedi with that kind of handicap?"

"Being a Jedi isn't about killing. At least it was never supposed to be."

"Hmmph. You got a point there.

"Well, if you were a scout, why didn't you warn them? They got wiped out in the Temple."

"Warn them about the Clones? They were stationed in barracks with battle cruisers all around the Temple during the Wars. They were soldiers for the Republic. And they were led in by a Jedi. Anakin Skywalker. He'd just been put on the Council.

"By the time I realized what was happening. . . . . . Terisick and Julum'Ar tried to help and they just got cut down. But I . . . . . ."

"You lived."

"You call this living?"

"Mmmmmmmmm, I'll give that one to you. But you're still a Jedi."

"I'm not a Jedi."

"That's a load of poodoo. Obi-Wan Kenobi sat it out on Tatooine for years, and he was still a Jedi."

"He was still fighting the Sith. It just took him awhile to. . . . . . but I. . . . . . I didn't . . . . ."

"Well I didn't either. But I'm still here. Doing something. Not hiding in a corner pissing on myself.

"All right. I guess you've said enough for now. I suppose Luke'll want to talk to you next. When he can get to it. We're starting to get more candidates for Jedi. We're kind of hoping to get some help with this. . . . . . If you're interested. . . . . .

"We're done."

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