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Now, this is probably the last chapter of this story, but it's not the end of Corrie and co., so don't fret!
Master Yoda chuckled. "Very smart, you are."
"That's not the word I'd use for it…" Master Obi-Wan muttered darkly, while his Apprentice grinned at Master Yoda.
Lolee could guess what he was going to say.
"Thank you, Master Yoda! No-one seems to think that, except you!" Corrie exclaimed.
"Yeah, we always think we're terribly clever, and we get told we're stupid!" Lolee added.
The worst was quite obviously over. Their Masters seemed to have gone into shock and pure disbelief at hearing the intricacies behind their prank. All that was left now was for them to be told to dismantle the Radio, go back to their rooms, do a millennia of meditation and scrub the floors of the entire Temple in one day. That was how it always worked. That was why the next comment sent Lolee reeling.
"Reprogram it as an intercom, you can?" Yoda asked.
The silence after he asked was long. The Padawans looked at each other and then at Master Yoda, as if to say, 'Is he serious?'
Corrie broke the silence by laughing, and Lolee joined in.
Cra and Arak shrugged at each other. "I don't see why not." Cra answered, eventually.
Master Yoda gave a satisfied "Hmph.", but the other Masters were equally shocked.
"Do it now, you can. Take your Masters with you, you will." the little Jedi ordered as he floated away, leaving a bunch of shocked Force-sensitives in his wake.
"Well…"Lolee said slowly, looking over at Crawen. "To the roof."
Corrie and Lolee led the troupe through the Temple, grinning broadly at the result of their prank. "I think this counts as extra on our record, don't you?" Lolee asked.
Corrie shrugged. "I don't think we'll ever beat this. I think we have found the ultimate prank."
"I wonder what the next one's going to be…"
The pair grinned at each other evilly, but we're interrupted by Master Mundi's exasperated sigh.
"Boys, can you at least let us get over this prank before you start on another one?" He sounded exhausted and there was a hint of pleading in his tone.
"Yes, Master." Lolee agreed with a way too innocent grin that he knew would make his Master suspicious, even though they weren't actually planning anything.
It worked.
Master Mundi groaned, but Master Obi-Wan grinned back at him.
Confused, Lolee looked at his friend, who looked very apprehensive.
"Mind that it doesn't involve flour, Lolee, or you'll have to count Corrie out." the smirking Master said blandly.
Cuey gave a bark of laughter, but Corrie sent a hate-filled glare at both him and his Master.
"So, not called for, Master."
Obi-Wan just laughed, and Corrie shook his head, ignoring him.
"Do I want to know?" Lolee queried.
Corrie sighed. "Yes, but I'm not telling you."
"That's alright, I'll ask Cuey later."
Rolling his eyes, Corrie spun around and gestured towards the rooves that they had bounced around, what seemed like an eternity ago.
Lolee looked over the high rooves again. He'd been picked to go to the Training Rooms, because they were the hardest to access. Lolee wasn't the most intelligent of the group, far from it. He'd never had a mind for numbers, his memory was terrible and he wasn't all that interested in the history and culture of Coruscant, or any other planet. What Lolee was good at, was physical work. He was the best in the class with anything to do with physicality. He was faster and stronger than every other Padawan his age. His skill with a sabre was unmatched. Arak was the only one that even came close, which surprised a lot of people. The twi'lek was very meek and timid, but when you gave her a sabre, she was transformed. Lolee's physical prowess, however, was renowned.
Their group was for the elite, it really was.
Crawen was stupidly good with numbers, and his memory was impossibly good. He thought outside the box, new ideas always coming to him, which was why he was so good with electronics.
Arak was almost as good as Lolee with the sabre, almost as good as Crawen with electronics, and her compassion was so high, she'd nearly been a healer. She had the gift of telepathy, which she was developing, slowly but surely. her insight truly was amazing.
Cuey was the most logical person in the universe. He thought in straight lines, but he went further down those lines than anyone else did. He had always been the one to follow things through to the end, and he never gave up. He was insanely, stubbornly persistent and it served him very well.
When it came to all-rounders, Jonah was their star. She was good at everything; strong with a sabre, a straight A student, connected well to the Living Force. She didn't even have to make an effort to be good at everything.
And then there was Corrie. Well, he was very intelligent. He was an idiot, but he was intelligent. He was always the first to pick things up, but he was also the first to drop them on their head. He was a fantastic diplomat, and he loved learning about culture, but anything else, he didn't want to know. His redeeming feature to their teachers and Master Obi-Wan, was Corrie's astonishing strength in the force.
Grinning, Lolee drew out of the Force and jumped onto the closest roof. The rest of the group were close behind. "Hold on, let's all go together." Master Trovin: Arak's Master said, the other Knights and Masters agreeing with her.
Everyone looked at Crawen.
The Iktotchi pointed towards the Creche. "We should go down the girl's way first." he suggested, and everyone knew better than to object, so the whole group bounced over the rooves, going first to the Creche, and then to the Training Rooms, reprogramming the transmitters as they went.
The whole process was still very fun or the Padawans, although Master Mundi was scolding Lolee at every jump for doing something so dangerous, unsupervised.
Everything was done with ease, until they got to Cra and Corrie's path to the Spire.
The Masters were miffed.
They could not, for the life of them, figure out how the Padawans had done it.
Needless to say, the Padawans in question, who had all heard the story, found it hilarious.
Unfortunately for the Masters, the industrial pipes only allowed their unique path to spire at night. During the day, they were just pipes.
"Alright, Corrie, how'd you do it?" Master Obi-Wan finally asked.
Corrie and Cra grinned at each other, but Corrie hesitated before telling his Master the whole thing with the pipes. "What was that you were saying about revealing our secrets distinctly sucking, Lolee?" Corrie sighed and hurried into the story once he caught sight of the raised eyebrow he was getting from his Master.
Master Windu had commed someone and after an hour of waiting, the pipes were belching once more and the group made their way over to the Spire, successfully reprogramming the transmitters, ending up once more in front of Master Yoda.
Lolee slapped the back of Corrie's hand, letting out a triumphant cheer, before holding his hands back in place. Slapsies. It was one of their favourite games. Lolee's force-enhanced speed, against Corrie's force-enhanced reflexes. They got bored easily, and slapsies was actually rather entertaining. It was more interesting than watching Cra and Arak re-work the Radio, in any case.
As Lolee slapped Corrie's hand again, the human pulled away, pointing towards the twi'lek and iktotchi partnership, which had just finished up. "I don't know why I agree to play with you, Lee."
Giving his slapsies partner a grin, Lolee just turned to watch as Cra handed master Windu and Yoda their comm.s . "It's connected to your comm. units, now. You just have to tell it to activate the intercom, and you'll be live on air. No-one else can access it through your comm.s, unless you authorise them, because it has a password." he explained as briefly as he could. He always went into too much detail when he was talking about electronics.
Master Windu gave him a look. "And I suppose you'll be able to access it, because you set the password?"
Cra held his hands up in a surrender. "No, Master Windu, that's for you two to set up later."
"And you can't access it from your Datapad?"
"No, Master Windu."
Satisfied, Master Windu and Master Yoda nodded. "Good. Now, you can go and start scrubbing the floors."
The Padawans groaned as the troupe filed outside.
"Be back in your room for seven tonight, Lolee." Master Mundi ordered.
Giving his master a salute, Lolee sullenly followed the others down towards the kitchens in silence.
As soon as the Masters were out of earshot, Corrie nudged Cra. "Say, Cra, when Master Windu asked you if you could access it from your datapad and you said no, you were lying, right?" he asked.
Cra shook his head. "You know I wouldn't lie to a Master, Seline. I can't access the system from my Datapad."
There was a very brief disappointed silence, before…
"I can from Arak's, though."
Alright, that's the end of this story! Finally, a finished story online…
Anyway, I'm planning to write a heap of short fics on these OCs, so watch this space! if you have any ideas or requests, feel free to tell me!