Ages as of Now:
Huey, Traban, Ming, Jazmine, and Jocasta: 820
Riley, Cindy: 818
Yoda, Yaddle: 817
All will be revealed in due time.
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Chapter 5: Some Things Never Change
800 years later:
Coruscant, considered the crown jewel of the galaxy for hundreds to thousands of centuries. The planet has been the base of operations for the Republic and the Jedi Order for over millennia. If one were to enter orbit of this worldwide city, they'd encounter thousands of spaceships and hovercars, ranging in all sizes and shapes; from every part of the galaxy.
Suddenly appearing out of hyperspace, a Republic-class Cruiser, having many dents, scorch marks, and patch jobs hobbled into regular space to make it's descend on to the planet. Jedi Master Huey Freeman looked at the now smoldering remains of his control panel with a look of pure irritation. The damn thing just blew up right as he was entering light-speed, and from there it was a two hour hell-ride filled with near misses and one damn disaster after the next. This was why after eight hundred years he still hated flying.
He allowed the ship's emergency systems to kick in, putting the controls on autopilot before heading to the main hold where he accessed the remaining systems from the control panel there.
"It's times like this that I miss the Hidden Snake; such a reliable little ship it was." Huey thought aloud with a sigh at old memories. He shook his head of his thoughts as he focused on the now, which was the ship that was falling apart with him in it.
"From the looks of this diagnostic, this ship will not last much longer. If I can't get to the temple soon, I may need to land somewhere and conduct repairs to this piece of crap. Otherwise, she'll literally fall apart at the steel plated seams. The next jump to light-speed would tear this thing apart like Cindy against that Rancor who ate Riley 178 years ago. Damn, I have a good memory." Huey said as he tried to touch the panel, but it sparked at his touch and burned him.
He decided to just go wait in his room when he passed a mirror on the ship and sighed. She hadn't aged a day in the last eight hundred and four years.
"Not even the masters knew that being a Celestial meant me looking like this forever. I thought I'd at least look eighteen." Huey said aloud to himself as he let his hand graze his cheek while the ship shake and things were falling. He really should check that system now…
After checking the systems, mainly navigation, he saw his ship was in the orbit of Coruscant.
"Finally, thank the Force for small favors." He said as he turned to pack his things and get the hell off the metal death trap that was his ship.
It had taken him some time to find a useable ship out beyond the Outer Rim, where he was, and unfortunately; this one had been the best he could find. Seriously, the others were almost literal piles of scrap metal, and were beyond even his ability to repair. As it was, this one had been barely salvageable, but he had managed with the things he had picked up over his lifetime. He had been on that planet for almost six years, and now the Force was calling him back to the known galaxy, to make his return to the Jedi Temple of Coruscant.
"And who am I to question the will of the Force." Huey remarked sarcastically in a voice that was to be a ridicule of his former master, Anko Tao. The woman had drilled that into his head since he didn't like where the Force had dragged him most of the time. Even now it was still true, because he damn well didn't want to be at the Jedi Temple he was going to.
Shaking his head again of his thoughts he realized that he had been doing his packing subconsciously. He shrugged as he had found himself on auto-pilot a lot over the years. He slung his bag over his shoulder and walked to the cockpit of his ship. After taking a minute to survey the various noises, smoking pieces, and sparking and exploding things, he sighed in exhaustion.
"Alright so, the main control panel is shot to hell, which means I'll need to jury-rig it just enough for me to land." He said as he turned around and crossed his arms, "and then the hyper-drive; It was puffing out smoke worse than Riley on a Hutt-control world, and shaking more violently than Jazmine when she caught that illness on Shidar. I hope when I made the last jump it wasn't the last jump."
He sighed heavily as he went to work on his tasks. He used the Force to stop himself from get hurt or exploded on as he hot-wired his ship. He saw that some of the systems were back on but there were only two that he really needed; the landing gear and the radio. He quickly grabbed the com-link as more sparks and explosions went off on his ship.
Activating the communication array, he grimaced as several hundred years of old feedback squealed through his left her ears before it cleared up.
"Jedi Temple, this is Cruiser 7071994 requesting immediate emergency landing clearance and perhaps a medical team on standby. I repeat; this is Cruiser 7071994 requesting immediate landing clearance." Huey said into the thing while rolling his eyes. He was gonna land whether they liked it or not. All he really wanted was the medical team.
There was a brief pause, during which the transmission was relayed to the tower. Then a female voice came back to him, probably one of Cindy and Riley's kids.
"Freighter 7071994, this is Jedi Temple Control, say again?" She said as Huey rolled his eyes again; definitely one of Cindy and Riley's kids.
"Listen kid, I have a busted up ship and it'll probably explode, so I need those bay doors opened now. This ship isn't going to hold together much longer." Huey said while transmitting his codes, and was surprised to see the temple bay doors opening.
"Clearance granted 7071994; I will send an emergency medevac team to meet you at the landing bay, if you so need them."
"I guess they never got around to removing my codes from the docking lists." Huey said aloud to himself as brought the ship in while it groaning as he shut off all commands except the landing gear.
The hanger was nearly deserted, and he thanked the Force for that as he ship came into it. He heard the landing gear groan and squeal in protest as it skidded across the hanger floor while he was still powering the systems down, watching them spark and flicker before dying altogether. The ship finally stopped… but not before exploding while he was at the top of the boarding ramp. He went flying across the room and was stopped in the middle of the air by a Jedi Healer using the Force.
He sighed as he was finally released from the medical bay and able to walk the temple. He basically tip-toed around as he looked for the person he had come here for.
"A moment please." Huey heard as he froze in place and turned to see several Jedi, who just screamed Jedi Council members by the looks of them.
"Yes, a moment, if you will. A few questions have we, about your security codes." Yoda said as he gave a smirk while Huey narrowed his eyes at him.
"You little trog, you've been around Riley and Traban too damn much." Huey thought as he sighed in defeat.
"I can answer a few, but I would like to check on my wife." He said with irritation evident in his voce, only to immediately noticing their reaction, which were faces of confusion, and some simply raising eyebrows in question.
"Identification, we need. The code you used to open the hanger, long unused has it been. Not used in three hundred years, it hasn't been here. How you know this code, puzzling it is." Yoda said as he rested his walking cane in front of himself.
"You know exactly who I am, you brat. My name is Huey Freeman, my rank is that of Jedi Master, and my Identification number is 07071994." Huey said as Yoda chuckled a bit, but said nothing as the one next to him entered the information as he had just said into a datapad.
"His identification confirms he's… wait a minute…" the bald black man next to Yoda said as his eyes widened, "Impossible! He left the Oder centuries ago, and yet… you look just like him."
"Yes, your records don't lie; I'm over eight hundred years-old. Yoda is about four years younger than me." Huey said with his own smirk as he gestured to Yoda, who gave a bow of his head.
"Now, if you do not mind, much the council has to ask you, old friend." Yoda said as Huey gave him a raised brow.
"After I've confirmed my wife's location, I will answer your questions. Sorry, old friend, if I come across as rude or harsh, but where my love is concerned, you know I don't have the patience to deal with things such as these." Huey said as he gave a slight bow to them and turned on heel, walking away from the group of bewildered Jedi, and one amused Yoda.
"Married? Master, you told me we could not marry, or even have relations of that sort with another individual." Obi-Wan Kenobi asked, looking at his master Qui-Gon Jinn in shock. Had he been cheated, or just plain screwed over?
"Master Freeman, sworn in the Old Code like I, he was. Rules and restrictions, changed they have, since he'd been here last." Yoda said, his eyes following the tan-robed man's journey to the Younglings classrooms.
"Freeman? As in the "Boondock Code" Freeman? Along with Tousen?" Obi-Wan asked as he recalled the history lessons he had learned as a Youngling while Mace Windu wordlessly handed Qui-Gon the datapad.
"Celestial?" Qui-Gon asked in surprise, seeing nothing but the word and a description of Huey displayed on the datapad.
"Wiped out long ago, they were. A terrible tragedy, indeed it was. Huey, the one of the last of his kind, he is. Along with Traban, Riley, Jazmine, Cindy, and Madam Jocasta, they were." Yoda said with a hint of sadness in his voice.
"How long can they live?" Obi-Wan asked in mild curiosity, yet with plain and obvious confusion like the Masters around him.
"Unless slain indefinitely, immortal they are." Yoda said with his eyes closed and a nodded of his head. He exhaled deeply as he opened his eyes again, "Sith Lord Darth Bane, during his reign of terror, tried to end their existence, he did. As a child, Traban was born. Last of children, born to their home-world, he was. Parents relocated, they did. Found a plant out pass the Outer Rim to settle on, they did."
"You seem to know a lot about Master Freeman and his family, Grand Master Yoda. Care to share how you know or came upon all of this?" Qui Gon inquired as he peered up from the entry in the datapad with Yoda only chuckling.
"My ways, I have. Known them a long time, I have. Live as long as I do, and secrets, you uncover from friends. Revealed, it all is, with time." He said, hobbling off, leaving behind a bewildered Mace Windu, an amused Qui-Gon, a confused Obi-Wan Kenobi, and the charred parts of an exploded starship in the empty hanger.
Huey sighed as he and Jazmine let each other go from their long-overdue grope and tongue action. Nearly twenty years without hearing a word from each other and as soon as he sees her it was full-blown makeout session.
"So, you said you had something to tell me." Jazmine said as Huey nodded with a serious face.
"Yes… it's time. Traban is coming back as well, and Riley and Cindy are making their way from Ilum to here. They'll be here-"
"Now." Cindy said as she walked into the empty Youngling teaching room and hugged Jazmine. Riley came in behind her and dapped Huey off as the two watched their wives.
"Where are Traban and Ming?" Huey asked with a raised brow as Riley glanced at him from the corner of his eye.
"They got here before we did, and already left. Traban didn't even meet with anyone before he turned around and got the hell up outta here. He contacted me saying that he'd get reinstated on another planet, but Ming bringing his ass back here now." Riley said as Huey nodded.
"I think one of your kids work in the communication towers." Huey said as Riley shrugged with a less than pleased expression.
"I don't care really what they do for a living, so long as they're safe. Though, I'm still surprised that immortality ended with our first born son and daughter. Cindy was crying her eyes out when we first heard the Medic tell us. I didn't even know Earth could change us that much." Riley said as Huey nodded.
"Yeah, who would have thought that getting the Chicken Pox would cancel out immortality?" Huey said as Riley and he looked at each other and shrugged.
It wasn't like they were having hundreds of kids anyway; the most any of them had so far was thirty children and that was over a span of eight hundred years. But, that didn't mean they didn't have 'fun time' almost all the time, or that they're kids didn't grow up to have kids of their own. Huey sighed as he remembered something.
"I suppose I should go before the council now that we'll all be here. If Traban gets here while I'm gone you know what to do…" Huey said lazily as he grabbed Jazmine, kissed her passionately and walked from the room like he didn't just give her sexual tension.
He headed for the lift that would take him up to the council chambers, but then sighed a thought hit him. "Some things change, while others stay the same." Huey thought as the layout of the temple, and while it had grown much since he had last been here, the important things had remained the same still.
Huey wanted to growl as he was made to wait to speak with the Council.
"Damn old bastards, making me wait like this… Oh, great example of the pot calling the kettle black. But still, they wanted to talk to me, but then they make me wait. I bet it's all Yoda's doing, since he knows what short patience I have for these kind of things."
Huey leaned against the wall across from the chamber doors, arms crossed and right leg over his left with his finger tapping a metronome sound on his forearm.
He turned his head, and looked out upon the skyline of Coruscant. Not having to worry about a half-assed cruiser falling apart around him, he noticed a lot of buildings reaching further above the clouds, melding together with the ever present hovercar traffic in the skylines.
"More people are here than three hundred years ago." He thought before mentally face-palming himself, "Of course there would be; you've been gone for so damn long." He thought as the doors to the Jedi Council room opened and he walked in.
He stood in the middle of the room with his hands behind his back before the entire Jedi Council. Huey introduced himself to them, before standing at full attention. He had been doing it all for so long that it only took about a minute for them to stop gawking at how fluent he had done it.
"Welcome before this council you are, old friend. At attention, you need not stand. Long has it been pondered, your fate. Nearly three hundred years, since last we saw each other, hmm?" Yoda said after the introductions had been done with.
Huey gave a formal bow to the council as while his head was down he rolled his eyes.
"To be completely honest, I did intend to return to deal with… things. I'm sure you've met with Riley and Cindy already. As you know we left due to… circumstances that were out of our control and I was forced to leave for far pass the Outer Rim." Huey said in complete monotone as the council gave him looks.
Yoda made a humming sound while Huey narrowed his eyes. He'd seen the same look on Yoda before, and Traban had always had that look on his face. He knew Yoda was already trying to think six moves ahead; too bad Traban and he were the wisest and smartest of all of them.
"Your wife, Jazmine, well she is?" Yoda asked with closed eyes and a smirk as the council turned back to Huey with shock filling the chamber as that small revelation hit the council members who hadn't witnessed his arrival to the temple.
"She's just fine. I find peace in the fact that she was quite pleased to see me after so long." Huey said with a bit of edge in his voice at some of the councils darker and disgusted looks; all the while thinking of how best to get Yoda back for that. He snapped his attention to the council as he saw several faces contorted in concentration, yet even more with frowns.
"If you're trying to scan my surface thoughts, that won't work." He said as some of them jolted, being startling out of their attempts to do so.
"Over the years, I've constructed several mental shields that not even the strongest masters of the mind arts can get pass." Huey said, while mentally adding, "Yet Traban can get through them each and every time!"
"What are your intentions now, Master Freeman?" A female master asked as Huey turned to the dark skinned woman as she spoke.
"I need to see the status of my vault, get a new ship, and then I was thinking of going around the known galaxy. You know, see how it's faired since last I was around." Huey said with a shrug as the woman frowned upon hearing him. Huey turned to look at the others and saw a Cerean Master scowling at him. Compared to his scowl it was like a big cheesy smile.
"I know you may have been raised in the ways of the Old Code, but I do know, however, that the Jedi of your time were forbidden from having or forming such attachments as wives and the like." The man said as Huey dropped his blank face ad scowled at the man, making him flinch back. That's the power of a Freeman scowl; patented.
"Is that coming from you, Cerean? How many wives and children do you have, Master… Mundi was it?" Huey said as the man nodded while shifting uncomfortable in his seat under Huey's stern gaze. He felt like a child under those dark maroon eyes…
Huey turned his attention to the council as a whole while Yoda closed his eyes once again. Mundi had pissed Huey off with that question, and the storm that was his friend was about to be unleashed.
"For those of you that don't know of me, or my history, let me sum up a few things for you, children. I am a Jedi Master of the Old Code, and have been for over seven hundred years. The Jedi Code that was instated that you all follow was set after Thame Cerulian joined the Dark Side. The masters of our time had us swear to always follow the Old Code. I use my emotions and my instincts, and I'll be damned if I stand here and be chastised by a group of insolent children. Your old masters tried to wipe that out of us, but you can never destroy what we are at our core." Huey said as many of the Masters gave him looks of anger.
"Sith Lords" Mace Windu spoke up while leaning forward in his seat as several Masters looked panicked upon hearing that, "I've done some digging and found that you and another master by the name of Traban Tousen became Sith Lords around six hundred years ago." Windu finished as Huey nearly laughed at how stupid the child was.
"We were labeled as Sith Lord by some of the more irate council members during that time, but we weren't really." Huey said as he gave Windu a more pointed look, "Next time, why don't you find all the info, before jumping to anything, but then again; you are just a child after all." Huey finished as he turned to Yoda, who had opened his eyes.
"I believe you should have opened Master Valdes's personal holocron. You know it holds the answers to the many questions that happened in those days; along with why we were reinstated as Jedi, despite some wanting to kill us." Huey said, looking around the gathered Masters while he decided to forgo any niceties and address the reason they were gathering.
"To be quite blunt, and I don't give a damn what any of you have to say, but this council- no, the whole Jedi Order in general have grown soft, weak, and complacent in their power during our absence. I sense the workings of the Dark Side within the Senate from here and if-"
"Now hold on!" A master interrupted him while standing up suddenly, "You have no right to speak-"
"Silence" Yoda said calmly, cutting off the Corellian Master as he opened his eyes and exhaled softly, "Mast Freeman, much he has seen. Foolish it is, to ignore his warnings. Trust he has of mine, no question." Yoda finished as his eyes scanned the Masters, many of them shocked that their Grand Master for over a hundred years would trust an unknown Jedi without doubt.
"Rank of Master, he was given, by the Council after the Battle of Takoma over seven hundred years ago, but never confirmed it was. Confirm it now, should we?" Yoda said as he looked to Huey, who raised an eyebrow in slight surprise. Huey struck a thinking pose for a second before he shook his head.
"Oh, hell no!" Huey said as he shook his head, "I don't even want it now that I think about it. I hate meetings, and if you ask Traban, I can't even get my own descendants to listen to me." Huey said with his last comment getting many quirked eyebrows.
"Rank of Master has been awarded you, old friend. Why do you run from it, hmm?" Yoda asked as Huey sighed and gave Yoda an annoyed look.
"Huey", Yoda said in a soft voice as Huey looked at him, "Denying who and what you are, help you, it will not. Your need to help others, deep it is. Traban, be glad he would, if you accepted." Yoda finished as Huey sighed in defeat.
"Damn manipulating little brat. You've been taking lessons from Traban." He thought, remembering Traban saying something along those lines to manipulate him into going to that Amazon planet when they were Padawans over eight hundred years ago.
Damn his memory really was good…
"I really hate you right now, you little green bastard." Huey grumbled as Yoda gave him a satisfied grin.
"Protest too much, you do. Spoke highly of you, Master Tao did, during her lifetime. As well as Knight Gorman, Master Shodai, and many others in their holocrons too, they did."
"Hmph, they were always sappy bastards." Huey muttered with the slightest smile. To be honest he was touched they thought of him that way, even after he had abandoned them during one of their greatest battles...
Suddenly the doors to the council chambers were thrown up as a Jedi Healer came running in with a frightened expression on her face.
"Masters?" the Healer said as they turned towards her. She had some burn marks on her clothes and a few slash marks, but in all she looked well.
"What is it? We were in the middle of a very important meeting." Windu said sternly as she bowed before them and stepped next to Huey.
"I am truly sorry Masters, but a Jedi has just apprehended a Sith Lord, and has brought him into the temple. He escaped the Jedi's hold on him and then did battle with many Jedi who tried to recapture him. It wasn't until they all used their combined power to stalemate him. One of the Masters who happened to be pushing got him from behind and we have subdued him in the Infirmary where he has requested to see you, Grand Master Yoda; something about green midgets, uneducated children, and stupid brats." The Healer said as Huey raised a brow, but turned to the door as Yoda jumped to his side and they both began making their exit.
"This meeting isn't over yet." Mundi said as Huey turned back to the assembled Masters, yet Yoda kept walking.
"If you'll excuse me Masters, I best meet this 'Sith Lord' before someone offends him and he blows them and/or this Temple up." Huey said with a slight bow as he turned on heel and walked out; not waiting for their acknowledgment as many wide eyes followed him out of the doors, some Masters with their mouths agape.
"...Did he really mean that?" Plo Koon's deep voice rumbled as he stroked his chin absent-mindedly while Nautolan Master, Kit Fisto, grinned at him.
"Be interesting to find out, my friend." Fisto said as Plo Koon nodded with his own unseen grin under his breathing mask.
"Indeed, there will be some interesting times ahead. Master Freeman and any others like him will certainly bring changes. It'll be interesting to see his power." Plo Koon said as the hologram image of Master Shaak Ti nodded, noticing the inflection on the word Master when he spoke. Windu narrowed his eyes as he was sure that Huey Freeman and whoever else was with him would only bring headaches and trouble for them. It had been a shatter point in the Force that he saw as soon as the meeting had started.
"Well then, I'll prepare him a list of Padawans to choose from." Adi Gallia, the dark skinned woman from before, said as Fisto and Plo Koon stood up.
"I don't think they'll be taking Apprentices, Adi. I'm sure they'll pick up whoever they want when they want. Besides, they've been doing this a lot longer than we have, so I'm sure they know what to do and how to do it." Kit Fisto said as he and Plo Koon walked from the room, much to the irritation of Mundi and a few others.
"Fisto, Koon! The meeting isn't over yet!" Windu yelled after them as Fisto laughed.
"I think it was over when Master Yoda left the room. Be seeing ya later." He said without turning around while waving them off.
"We'll pair them with Master Qui-Gon and his Padawan, Obi-Wan. That way they'll be… watched closely. Freeman gives into his anger too easily, and if he's like that, then it'll be all the more necessary." Windu said with his eyes closed as he reined in his emotions on his journey back to the apathy that was him, "We'll simply say that it's to allow them to become… re-accustomed to the Known Galaxy, since he claimed to have been away for about three hundred years." Mace finished as he opened his eyes and watched as his fellow remaining members of the council nodded.
In the Infirmary:
He sat there on the hospital regulation bed in a meditative position; eyes closed, crossed legs, and blank faced. He inhaled and exhaled steadily as he became one with the Force. It was all so calm, yet he could sense a virtual smoke cloud that was the Dark Side over the Senate building. It was so thick, yet hidden. If he hadn't been as great with the Force as he was then he'd have mistook it for the bad blood people merely had when dealing with politics. It was very common for negative emotions and dark aura to be affiliated with politics and the like.
He didn't even feel at unease as the sound of a cane against ground, and the walking of people entering the room came to his hearing. He seemly over looked them as he did all else when in this state.
"You walk with a cane now, old friend. I see that old age has taken its toll on you physical. You know Huey here would have gladly allowed Jazmine to come and rejuvenate you had we known. I would have come myself had I known this would be the case. And, if I may ask, are the two behind you and Huey, Yoda-boy?" Traban said as he neither opened his eyes nor moved an inch in his meditation.
"Hmm, yes, old I am. Returned to my prime, good for the future it would be. Later, it will be discussed. How are you, old friend? Becoming one with the Force, you are still well at. Masters Plo Koon and Kit Fisto, these two are. No harm, they are to one such as you. No ill will, they come with." Yoda said as Traban had still not moved, but Yoda noticed he was chained to the bed and into the very floor. Sometimes he wondered how Traban could be so calm when he, himself, did not like to be in such a state.
"I've been better; much better. These children have treated me so roughly. I remember in our days we treated the Sith with grace and pleasantries, but now they handle supposed Sith Lords in any manner. They have chained me to this bed as if I were an animal." Traban said as he slowly opened his eyes, "As if I weren't a master of the Force such as they." he continued as he waved a hand over the chains. The chains snapped like twigs and the cuffs around his wrist broke in half, "As if I weren't any better."
"For your treatment, sorry I am. Sith lord, they thought you were. For their actions, forgive them, you must." Yoda said as Traban got off the bed and stood.
"I shall, old friend, but only because it is the Jedi way, and because you would be very upset with the death of all of your Jedi, Grand Master Yoda." Traban said with a slight chuckle as Fisto and Plo Koon tried to figure out if he was serious or not.
"That title, you need not use. Knew me before it, you did. Old friends, we are. No titles, there are, between old friends such as we." Yoda said as Traban nodded and walked over to them.
"I heard you were captured by a Jedi, who was it?" Huey said, making his presence known beside Yoda as Traban turned to him.
"My oh-so-lovely Ming did the honor of dragging me in here. When I jerked away from her the Jedi here attacked me, saying that a Sith Lord such as I needed to come peaceful; all the while trying to kill me with their lightsabers." Traban remarked as Fisto and Plo Koon looked at one another. It must have been the over-eager Knights and Masters looking for either a promotion in rank or something to kill their boredom.
It only took a few seconds for what looked like the rest of the council to come to the door of the small infirmary room, all trying to see who it was inside. Yoda suggested that they step out of the tiny room so the other Masters could have a look at Traban. They did so as Traban stood beside Huey and Yoda while the council was opposite them.
"Well then, allow me to introduce myself to you esteemed council members. I am Traban Tousen, I obtained the rank of Jedi Master over seven hundred years, and my ID number is 05011994." Traban said with an air of pleasantry and a small, yet graceful bow while Yoda chuckled lightly and Huey rolled his eyes.
They both knew that Traban was being a type of sarcastic that only he and Huey reached, and while Huey liked to show his, Traban was always one to let people think and find out when they had been insulted by him. Right then as soon as Traban used the word 'esteemed' Huey knew that Traban was speaking down to them from atop Coruscant space-scrapers. Traban could be so damn condescending sometimes…
The Master bowed back to him in a show of respect, yet some did it warily; upon seeing that Traban gave a smile and held up his empty hands as he looked at them.
"Do not worry yourselves, Masters. My being a Sith Lord was merely a misunderstanding that has been cleared up." Traban said with a slight chuckle as the tension the Masters were carrying lessened a bit.
"Ask that you and the others team up with Qui-Gon Jinn and his Padawan, Obi-Wan Kenobi, the council does. What say you, hmm?" Yoda asked as he gazed up to Traban and Huey, who shrugged after exchanging a look between one another.
"It sounds fine to us, so long as the same things apply as they did last time, aye Yoda-boy?" Traban said as he and Huey looked at the nodding Yoda.
"Yes, they do. Always and forever, do those bylaws apply to you two and they. Never change, will it; no matter what." Yoda said as Traban smiled and Huey nodded.
"Yeah, I guess it's good that some things never change." Traban said as he raked his hand through his hair.
"Some things will never change, and you're lazy attitude is one of them." Huey said as Traban gaped at his friend while he walked away with Yoda, who was chuckling the entire time.
"Hey what's that supposed to mean? Huey? Huey! Answer me!" Traban said as Huey just kept walking, ignoring him as he started chasing after him.
Some things will just never change…
