Author's note: So i just realized that i forgot to mention the time frame of everything, last chapter it was Days:Hours:Minutes:Seconds: 1/100th seconds. The time frame for this is going to be Weeks:days:hours:minutes:seconds:1/100th seconds. Also the time frame is suppose to be what is observed on security cameras of the Ebon Hawk
The Lull before the Storm -Part II: Dantooine
0:0:00:00:00:00 The Ebon Hawk touched down in the Jedi Enclave at local Dantarian time 15:17. Padawan Shan nearly ran out of the ship in the direction of the main building to the amusement (?,its hard to tell what organics' emotions are) of Canderous and Miss Vao, who watched her exit the ship.
0:0:00:00:04:51 Top of the board Ramp: Canderous (longingly): "If only she wasn't such a stuck up princess..."
0:0:00:00:05:27 Top of the board Ramp: Miss Vao then proceed to commit assault on Canderous by kicking him in groin, leaving him doubled over, groaning in pain. The wookiee Zaalbar immediately went to see what all the commotion was about, and to most likely intervene in the conflict on Miss Vao's behalf. He merely nod his head dejectedly at what he saw.
0:0:00:00:07:61 Top of the board Ramp: Zaalbar to Miss Vao in Shyriiwook: "yaag agah rooohu rrar mu yo agaaha gard wwrcahwowhwa?" *translation:How do you give me such a headache and scare every time?*
0:0:00:00:11:73 Top of the board Ramp: Miss Vao to Zaalbar: "He was being a meanie Big Z!"
0:0:00:00:15:83 Top of the board Ramp: Zaalbar to Miss Vao in Shyriiwook: hrrrrrrrrrrrrrrnnnnn...Huaah maw wuwu agah? *translation: Rightttttt (due to emphasis on the r&n(s) extreme sarcasm was implied), how long till he recovers?*
0:0:00:00:18:22 Top of the board Ramp: Canderous to Zaalbar while staring with extreme prejudice towards Miss Vao (Mutters): "...not soon enough..."
0:0:00:00:20:71 Captain Onasi and Specialist Venis heard the commotion and swiftly walked towards it.
0:0:00:00:22:51 Top of the boarding ramp: Captain Onasi to Miss Vao, Zaalbar and Canderous: "Whats going on here?"
0:0:00:00:25:64 Top of the boarding ramp: Canderous to Captain Onasi, while staring in a threatening manner to Miss Vao: "...Nothing..."
0:0:00:00:31:82 Canderous limped away to the medical bay, to fix his "gun". Zaalbar shrugged his shoulders and dragged a protesting Miss Vao to nearby store in the hanger to get food and to keep an eye on Miss Vao. Captain Onasi gave a look to Specialist Venis.
0:0:00:00:35:13 Top of the boarding ramp: Specialist Venis to Captain Onasi: "Don't look at me"
0:0:00:00:59:45 Captain Onasi and Specialist Venis then moved outside in front of the Ebon Hawk and engaged in "small talk" concerning how the new blaster pistols seemed to be less powerful but quicker on the rate of fire per second.
0:0:00:05:26:04 Padawan Shan briskly walked back from the main building to Captain Onasi and Specialist Venis in front of the Ebon Hawk. She stopped short of them.
0:0:00:07:37:17 Outside of the Ebon Hawk: Padawan Shan to Specialist Venis: "I have spoken briefly with the council; they request an audience with you. We should go at once."
0:0:00:07:43:93 Outside of the Ebon Hawk: Captain Onasi to Padawan Shan (Incredulous): "An audience with the Jedi Council? That's pretty unusual for someone who isn't even a Jedi. (skeptical/suspicious tone) What's this about, Bastila?"
0:0:00:07:51:34 Outside of the Ebon Hawk: Padawan Shan to Captain Onasi: "I'm sorry Carth, but I cannot tell you. All i ask is that you trust in the force and the wisdom of the Council."
0:0:00:08:02:82 Outside of the Ebon Hawk: Captain Onasi to Padawan Shan: "Well, I don't like being left out of the loop, but I'm not looking to get you in any troubles with the Jedi Masters. We'll do things your way for a while."
0:0:00:08:07:10 Outside of the Ebon Hawk: "Padawan Shan to Specialist Venis: Come they are expecting us. I will lead you to the council chambers."
As Kerc, padawan Shan and captain Onasi left, I realized I was being watched; the problem with the room that I was in, that being the navigational room, was that there were certain blind spots in the camera's viewing. I learned this rather quickly when a shadow fell over my photoreceptor...my eye if you will.I swiveled my head one hundred and eighty degrees, and opened the panel to my rear fusion welder rather quickly.
Canderous was standing there. With a gun. A really REALLY big gun. The barrel was nearly 0.3 meters wide.
When I had pulled out my fusion welder, he had point his gun at me. A standoff.
"Get out droid, I need to wipe something from the security cameras. NOW!" Canderous ordered after several minutes standoff.
Rather fearing for my existence however short it may of been, I exited rather fast for a astromech, and with dignity.
As it turns out there is not a lot an organic can do on Dantooine. Other than merely farming and contemplating the "Force". Miss Vao was quite beside herself with boredom after several minutes outside of the Ebon Hawk, so when I exited the freighter, she half skipped half ran over to me and tapped me on the photoreceptor. Repetitively.
"Whatca ya doing Little guy?" she inquired.
I kept on rolling away from the Ebon Hawk and after a moment or two's worth of thought: "Dwooo beep bloop" *translation: Finding more hospitable company* I replied back trying to put a lot of emphasis on the word 'hospitable', by emphasis I mean it was louder to a much greater degree.
"...And I'm not friendly?" asked Miss Vao putting a puppy dog face. Crazy underage female twi'lek, you can not guilt a droid no matter how cute or adorable you are to everyone else. However to be fair she was not the one who caused me to fear for my life, and quite possibly threaten my very existence.
"Woooop deeeeeep Woodooo" *translation: You are NOT a droid however* I shot back at her. Miss Vao seemed a little taken back by it and simply muttered something along the lines of "crazy droid". I was NOT the one who was trying to guilt trip a droid after all.
After exploring the Jedi Enclave for a bit I found a weapons dealer near the hanger with nearly a metric ton of weaponry Some of them might even make Canderous scared, who knows?
I finally found something worth noting; an on going pazaak game. Miss Vao was going up against a particularly good player, if by the way his sabacc face did not change even when he lost time after time. After nearly an hour of watching Miss Vao beat the pazaak card shark, even if he was quite clearly cheating with a skiffer, I noticed a re occurring pattern in the game, when a player was done low, or had a bad hand, you bet the biggest. Lost after lost this guy just kept on shelling out more and more credits from thin air, or rather the fact he was using a very ingenuous contraption so every time Miss Vao pocketed a credit, it always ended up back on the card shark's side of the table.
After a while I left the several hour long ongoing pazaak game. As I was going down the corridors I saw a rather confused wookiee walking or rather stalking about in something akin to a worried fashion.
He saw me roll by and asked in Shyriiwook "yaag wuahh huahhhhh ah wu aaa uma? Mu hu mwa gaa oid Uoo waa gaa moo." *Translation:Have you seen Mission any where? I've been looking all over the place, but I cant find her anywhere and its dinner time.* in a rather polite but a rather decidedly worried tone.
"Dwoo weeeep beep beeppppppppp blop" *translation: She behind me on the left playing pazaak* I replied rather flatly.
"Ur Oh" *translation: thank you* He quickly growled as he moved past me.
I kept moving away from the corridors of the enclave and closer to the Ebon Hawk. I had not gone more than a couple meters before I heard a loud crash of a table going flying followed by the sounds of a rather angry wookiee and young female twi'lek and a rather scared human.
As I rounded the corner I found Padawan Shan, Specialist Venis and Captain Onasi headed back to the Ebon Hawk. Captain Onasi was staring at Specialist Venis with a odd look. Padawan Shan was also staring at specialist Venis with a similar look, though she seemed to do it in a hidden fashion. For his part Specialist Venis was lost in his own thoughts, oblivious to the stares of his two companions, as he walked out of the main building and up the boarding ramp of the Ebon Hawk.
As I boarded the Ebon Hawk, everyone had mostly gone off to their separate sections of the ship, I decided to see what had happened in the council even though it was a private meeting.
I left the Ebon Hawk a few hours later, once everyone was asleep for the most part. I found a nearby security console and did precisely what I was designed to do, hacking. While I may be on the side of the Republic, I must say one thing if only to get it out of my system; civilians can get better security than code for the Jedi Enclave mainframe was Besh-isk-mern-besh-yirt. Simple as that.
As I poked about in the system I was able to patch together an audio and video feeds of the time Padawan Shan, Specialist Venis and Captain Onasi spent inside the building. Oddly though, there was no feed of padawan Shan entering the building beforehand, when she went to go speak with the Jedi Council. How odd.
Apparently specialist Venis was accosted on his way into the the Enclave by a Jedi that matches the description of a human known as Beyala. She claimed that he had no right to mock the Jedi traditions by not wearing Jedi robes. She based this solely out of the fact he has an enough presence in "the Force". Odd.
Captain Onasi made a remark to specialist Venis that the Jedi Masters were waiting for him already.
The council meeting is as follows:
"Ah, so you are the one who rescued Bastila. It is appropriate you are here. We have been discussing your rather special case. I am Zhar, a member of the Jedi council." greeted a pinkish, middle age Twi'lek to specialist Venis. He went on to say " With me are Master Vrook" indicating a rather older balding pale colour human, "Master Vandar" a rather small species of which I have no record of existing prior to this date "and, of course, the Chronicler of our Academy, Master Dorak" pointing to another old human, though with darker skin and hair."Padawan Bastila I am sure you are already familiar with" Kerc nodded to this.
"Isn't the Jedi council on Courscant?" asked specialist Venis
"Yes, the high council of the Jedi Order is on Coruscant, but we are the Council in charge of training facility here on Dantooine" replied Master Zhar in a rather flat, matter-of-fact tone.
"I have some question to ask you personally first, if you don't mind" Specialist Venis said as if he was trying to steer the conversation into his own direction.
"Indeed, I am sure that you do. I assure you that we will have answers for you" stated Master Zhar again in the same tone.
"Why did the Sith destroy Taris?" asked Kerc.
"Darth Malak seeks to destroy the Jedi Order. Our most effective weapon, perhaps our only hope, is Bastila's skill with battle Meditation" said Master Vander quietly, speaking for the first time. "With this power she can swing the tide of nearly any battle in our favour. Which is why Malak was seeking her so fervently."
"And if he could not have her, he would see her destroyed. Taris was just in the way" spoke up master Vrook loudly, as if finishing what Master Vander was saying.
"We need Bastila in our fight against the Sith, Indeed we need every Jedi we can muster, since the Sith have been hunting us down at every opportunity." Master Zhar continued. He paused for a second and then said "Which brings us to you..."
"Me? What about me?" asked specialist Kerc in a confused manner.
"Bastila tells us you are strong in the Force." answered Zhar in his same flat tone "We are considering you for Jedi training."
"Strong in the Force?" asked Specialist Kerc, still very confused.
"Master Zhar speaks out of turn, perhaps." Master Vrook says as if unsure, "We need indisputable proof of your strong affinity to the Force before we could even consider accepting you for training."
"Proof?" asked Padawan Bastila in a very insolent tone "Surely the entire Council can feel the strength of the Force within this man...and I have already related to you the events that took place on Taris..."
"Perhaps it was simple luck..." suggested Master Vrook.
"We both know there is no luck" Master Zhar gently said "There is only the Force. We all feel the power in Bastila's companion, though it is wild and untamed. Now that this power has begun to manifest itself, can we safely ignore it?"
"The Jedi training is long and difficult, even when working with a young and open mind" retorted Master Vrook "teaching a child is hard. How much harder will it be for an adult to learn the ways of the Jedi?"
"I am willing to try my best" Kerc said eagerly, trying to break the silent argument between Master Zhar and Master Vrook.
"Traditionally the Jedi do not accept adults for training, though there are rare exceptions in the history of our Order." Master Dorak said, as if he was reciting something he learned, speaking for the first time. His eyes focused onto Kerc "But you are a special case".
"I agree with Master Dorak." stated Master Vander "Many of our own people are leaving the Jedi Order to follow the Sith teachings, we need recruits to stand against Malak! With Revan dead..."
"Are you certain Revan is truly dead?" Master Vrook stated angrily interupting Master Vander "What if we undertake to train this one and the Dark Lord should return?"
"We should discuss this matter more fully in private." Master Vander replied quickly, and after a moment's of pause "Bastila you and your companion must go. This is a matter for the Council alone".
"As you wish, Master Vander" replied Bastila, bowing deeply "We shall return to the Ebon Hawk and leave you to your deliberations."
The pair met up with Captain Onasi and left the main building.
Master Vander then stared at the security camera directly and said "its not that easy". Then the video feed loses all quality, and the audio only picks up native animal sounds. Odd.
I went back to the Ebon Hawk, plugged into the main computer, and shutdown to be recharged.
0:0:07:27:15:71 Both padawan Shan and Specialist Venis had odd dreams, due to the rapid eye movement patterns, at the exact same time that night. Then again to me willingly going to a catatonic state, having vivid dreams, and promptly forgetting it all and taking it in stride as normal, is quite an oddity.
Forgive me for the short chapter! I am actually about to go on a trip to New Mexico soon, so expect some short chapters, reviews would be ridiculously nice right now =)