Adventures of a Time Traveling Padawan Chap 2
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2.1
Ezra couldn't stop the sigh.
Without missing a beat he turned straight around and refused to scream. Because Dangit, this particular one had happened in at least half of his repeated lives! He was used to this by now!
"Chopper, not gonna happen."
The droid whistled disappointedly and flicked off the hologram.
"Listen, I know you like your pranks and all but you could try some new ones out," Ezra suggested carefully.
Chopper whirled angrily and waved his arms around.
"Whoops." Ezra facepalmed. "Riiight, I only just met you guys by now… Okay, so, don't blame me if I explain this wrong, I only heard this once from that time the dragon looped in…"
The next loop, Ezra gleefully reached into his pathetically tiny pocket dimension (every looper learned to make one at some point) and pulled out a USB.
"Yes! It worked!" He grinned as he plugged it into a computer he'd stolen and codes popped up. "Chopper is now a looper! Kind of… okay it's more or less a technicality, but still! Someone else in my loop is Awake!" He fistpumped and then realized something. "Dangit, I haven't met them this loop yet… Aw man! I can't upload his memories to his frame yet!" He pouted and sulked.
The computer warbled in a familiar tone.
"Oh shut up Chopper, it won't take long for me to be able to upload you to your frame anyways. I always Awake only a few days before I meet you guys."
2.2
Ezra watched with an evil smirk as the Inquisitor stalked the hallways of the ship.
So he thought he could mess with Ezra's mind in his dreams huh? Well Ezra was about to show him why you don't mess with the Anchor of your loop! Even if you aren't looping!
Ezra let a snicker out and the Inquisitor whirled angrily.
"Where are you boy?" He hissed angrily. "I don't appreciate having to play hide and seek with my prey."
"The better question would be…" Ezra trailed off as he let the mindscape shift into something else. "Where are you?"
The Inquisitor froze in shock. The boy was simply a Padawan, he shouldn't be able to tell this was a mindscape, much less be able to change it!
He then twitched when he found everywhere to be pink. And covered in ribbons. And confetti. And balloons, lots and lots of balloons.
"You see, I met this really weird creature a little while back. She really liked parties." Ezra shrugged. "Oh, that and she gave me permission to use her as a mental defense."
"Hi!"
Ezra woke up and immediately started giggling, not caring if it was undignified or not. No bad guy could stand up to the insanity that was Pinkie Pie!
"Uh, kid? You okay?" Zeb stood up to look at the top bunk with a worried expression.
Ezra just giggled harder.
2.3
Kanan sighed and rubbed his forehead. This kid was getting on his nerves big time.
They'd stopped at Lothal to get some supplies and had run into a mute kid stealing from the Empire. They couldn't just leave him, especially once they learned he didn't have parents.
But he was incredibly annoying even without the ability to talk.
He made these weird signs and got aggravated at them when they couldn't understand him. When they tried giving him a name because he couldn't tell them his he repeatedly made raspberry noises until they gave up. When they left him alone for more than a few minutes he set up pranks everywhere, Chopper was the only one who really enjoyed that since the droid rarely fell victim to said pranks.
He was a good kid, just... incredibly hard to deal with.
And now Kanan had walked in on the kid levitating a bowl and various cups around the kitchen, Chopper cheering him on with whistles and beeps.
Inwardly Ezra cackled hysterically at the dumbstruck look on Kanan's face when he saw him using the Force so easily. He waved at him with an innocent, eager smile and pointed excitedly at the objects floating everywhere. He wasn't really mute; it was just a hilarious prank that he'd started and couldn't seem to stop.
"Um…" Kanan couldn't seem to form the words needed. This loop Ezra hadn't 'discovered' the lightsaber, so he didn't 'know' about Kanan being a Jedi. It had also been ridiculously easy to upload Chopper's loop memories and fill him in on the prank.
The droid had far too much fun corrupting Ezra the past few loops.
"Dangit, no! That's not what you're supposed to do! Chopper!" Kanan yelped loudly as he ducked a fruit.
Ezra doubled over in silent hysterics and then ducked another fruit. He gave Chopper a mock glare, but then couldn't help the silent snickers as Kanan had to duck the next one. He gave the laughing Zeb a thumbs up as he continued supplying Chopper with ammo.
Ezra smiled at his team minutes before the loop ended. He sighed sadly, Chopper whistling slowly at him in agreement.
The droid wheeled over for Ezra to copy his memories for the next loop, the other members of the team watching the two in confusion.
"What are you doing?" Sabine asked, Ezra closing his eyes trying to remember that feeling of belonging.
He grinned sadly at them.
"By the way, my name's Ezra." He said seconds before the loop ended.
He Awoke and leaned against the wall of his room in his tower, gasping as he laughed sadly. Their faces had made the trouble of pretending to be mute for a whole loop entirely worth it.
The smile slowly fell as he remembered them. But then it rose again when he thought about what he could pull on them this time around.
2.4
Ezra gaped in shock when he Awoke.
"Karrabast." He moaned, trying to pretend his voice wasn't several octaves higher. "I've heard about these loops…" 'Erza' sat down on the edge of her tower and pouted in the face of a beautiful sunset. "At least I get to see what female lasat look like, I've been wondering about that…"
2.5
Ezra was sitting in his tower at a computer, having a vacation loop as the mysterious unknown owner of Blue Time Corporations, a revolutionary company that made high tech programs and only sold to certain people.
The Empire was definitely not on that list of people.
At this point in the loops he was more than capable of creating his company out of nothing and then running it all by himself in secret. Nobody knew who he was. Nobody.
But that wasn't what was important at the moment. What was important was the fact that Kanan had just poked him through the master padawan bond.
This meant that #1 the never before had happened and Kanan had discovered he had the bond with someone he didn't know or #2 Kanan was looping.
Ezra cautiously poked him back, feeling confusion and a twinge of terror in his master. When he responded with a surge of comfort Kanan filled with relief.
'E-Ezra?' His eyes widened. Kanan had never stuttered before. He realized why when he felt the desperation from the bond.
'Don't worry Kanan, I can explain everything. I'm guessing you're on Lothal if I can feel the bond this clearly?'
Ezra shook his head with a snicker as Kanan practically started babbling. He felt a little guilty for laughing at him though, he was just as terrified his first few loops.
A few hours later Kanan had snuck off to his tower and listened in awe as Ezra told him about the loops.
"So, time is broken."
"Pretty much."
"And you're a… 'stabilizer' so that our… 'loop' doesn't crash?"
"Yeeep."
Kanan rubbed his forehead. "I… I'm not sure I can handle this…"
"You get used to it." Ezra shrugged. "Oh hey, you know BT Corps? That belongs to me, by the way. I've had various versions of the thing made over the loops."
"I don't think I'm ever going to get used to something like this…" Kanan groaned.
"Did you really have to tell them you were a full Jedi?" Kanan hissed to Ezra later.
"Hey, I'm older than you by like, fifty times over by now." Ezra defended himself. "I've been your Padawan for hundreds of lifetimes, there's not really anything left for me to learn!"
Kanan blinked. "I… didn't think about that. It's just-"
"You remember me as your Padawan." Ezra smiled. "Don't worry, I'm not all that different. I'm just… possibly a little insane from having to repeat time over and over."
Kanan facepalmed.
"Wait, you're telling me Chopper was looping before me?!"
"It's a technicality, he's not actually looping I'm just carrying his knowledge over each time, but yes. He was looping before you."
"Oh come on!"
The Inquisitor grinned maliciously but then froze when a pie smacked him in the face.
"Out of my mindscape!" Ezra yelled rather absentmindedly. He was too busy concentrating on the fact that Kanan was in his mindscape too.
"You will regret such a move, boy!" The Pau'an hissed murderously but then was hit by a party cannon as Ezra's Pinkie Protection activated.
"What the heck?" Kanan stared as a pink… something (pony?!) popped into existence and started terrorizing the Pau'an.
"Oh right, your first loop… she's a mental representation of a looper from a different loop." Ezra snickered as cake popped into existence. "The Inquisitor tries doing something with my mind at least once every three loops, I finally just did this so that I could have some fun with it." He waved at the now different mindscape as the Inquisitor tried frantically to withdraw from Ezra's mind.
The next morning the rest of the crew was worried for their Jedi members because they couldn't seem to stop laughing hysterically every time they saw the color pink.
Kanan knew that the loops had changed his padawan. He knew that even though he looked exactly the same there were just some things that were completely different about Ezra.
Sometimes it was more evident, such as when he used credits earned from his company to pay for things that they needed despite Hera's objections. Or when he actually used his computer skills to hack into Empire databases or security systems.
He rarely made mistakes and even then Kanan knew they were mistakes that he had made in 'baseline' and that without those mistakes certain important things would not happen.
But sometimes he acted like the same Ezra that Kanan taught in that first loop, so long ago for the kid but such a short amount of time for him. Sometimes Ezra would pull simple little pranks on Zeb or Chopper that reminded Kanan that the loops hadn't changed his padawan very much when it came down to the basics.
A lot of the time Kanan couldn't help but wish the loops didn't exist, because there weren't supposed to be do-overs in life. It just wasn't natural for things to happen over and over again.
But then Kanan saw the things Ezra had done with his knowledge of the future. He saw the catastrophes that Ezra averted and the miracles he was able to help along.
It was moments like those that Kanan felt like their roles were reversed and Ezra had become the master, Kanan the naïve padawan following along in confusion. Then again, when it came to the loops that really was what it came down to.
Ezra knew so much more than he did. Ezra knew strange little pieces of information here and there that Kanan couldn't ever understand how he would remember, there were so many things.
"Hey Kanan?" He was brought out of his retrospection by Ezra appearing in the doorway of his room. "Think we could spar?" He tapped the lightsaber hanging on his hip (the lightsaber Kanan didn't even want to know how he'd gotten).
"Sure Ezra." He smiled.
No matter his feelings on the loops, he wouldn't trade this for anything.
2.1
*Pocket dimensions are pretty much a way for loopers to carry things between loops.
2.2
*This gets annoying after so many times. You can't blame him for having a little fun with it.
*This was also spawned by how many fanfictions there are of this.
2.3
*Ah, pranking nonloopers.
*He could try pretending to be blind and use the Force to 'see' things around him. Who knows, that might actually be possible.
2.4
*The evils of genderbender loops. XD
2.5
*At this point Ezra's stuck between thanking god he's not all alone anymore and hysterically laughing at the fact his and Kanan's roles are reversed.
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