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This is not in ANY WAY associated with any other fanfictions. I learned about the concept of time loops through these fanfictions but this story is entirely based on my ideas and my ideas alone. There might be a few unconscious similarities but this story takes place in a different 'Yygdrasil'.
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The Adventures of a Time Traveling Padawan Chap 3
3.1
"Oh my God." Kanan gaped at the wings on his back.
"While we're here you might want to learn to say 'oh my Celestia'." Ezra snickered as he flexed his own wings easily.
"I'm a horse. No, we're horses." Kanan couldn't think straight. This WAS. NOT. RIGHT.
"Ponies." Ezra corrected. "To be more precise, alicorns since for some reason that's what Jedi compare to."
Kanan continued to gape. "I don't… I… Please tell me I'm dreaming this. Please make this a really weird and freaky DREAM."
"Sorry, nope. Crossover loop. It happens a lot." Ezra laid a comforting wing on his shoulder. "I'm not being very helpful about this, sorry… Just breathe master."
"I'm a freaking pony…" Kanan whimpered in shock.
"Well this is going to be a very eye-opening loop…" Ezra sighed.
3.2
'Kanan I need someone here to help me right now who knows that I'm not insane.'
Kanan blinked as Ezra talked to him through the bond. It was rather strange since it was a lot earlier than Ezra usually Awoke, but he grew worried when he felt the fear and terror from his padawan (screw the loops, Ezra would always be his padawan even if he'd surpassed him in skill a long time ago) leaking across the bond despite him trying to keep it hidden.
'I'm on my way, it'll take me a while to sneak away from Hera though.' They were currently searching for supplies.
'I don't care. Tell her you feel some sort of 'disturbance in the Force' or something. I need help now.' Kanan was scared now, Ezra was full on panicking right now and he needed to get to him ASAP.
He stiffened, Hera noticing, as images slipped past the strong mental control Ezra had developed from a violent flashback on the other's part.
"Kanan? Are you okay?" She asked worriedly as he took a deep breath to keep control of himself.
"I… feel something, someone through the Force…" He winced as the images began filling with blood.
"Are they hurt or something?" Hera was all business now.
"Maybe, I don't know. I need to go now." He rushed off through the crowds, not caring if Hera was offended or not. His padawan was hurting and he needed to get to him.
It took far too long for him to get to Ezra's tower and climb his way up and inside.
"Ezra?!" He found every light in the tower on as blindingly bright as they'd go, otherwise everything perfectly normal. "Ezra!" He followed the terror pulsing through the bond and found him curled up in a closet and shaking in horror, eyes glazed in the midst of a flashback. "Ezra, come on snap out of it!"
He didn't try touching him, knowing from the images being flung through the bond that it would only send him into a panic. Instead he pulsed comfort and safety through the bond, trying to pull him out of his mind. It took several minutes before the surges of emotion drew Ezra out of it enough that he could look up (albeit dazedly) at him.
"K-Kanan?" He whispered as he trembled violently.
"Don't worry Ezra, I'm here, it was just a memory. That's all over now." Kanan said soothingly, still pulsing positive emotions through the bond. "Whatever happened you're okay, you're safe now and you're not alone. I'm here for you." Kanan managed to lay an arm on his shoulder, slowly pulling him out of the closet. Once Ezra had regained enough sense he followed shakily until they were both sitting on a couch.
"I-I'm sorry, I-I couldn't handle it, I-I j-just…" Ezra sniffed, still trembling violently.
"It's okay Ezra, I'm here for you. I'll always be here for you." Kanan was surprised when Ezra hugged him tightly with a sob.
"B-but you weren't, y-you couldn't be…." He cried as Kanan's eyes widened.
"Shh, I'm here now okay? I'm here now and I swear I'm not going anywhere…" He'd heard from Ezra before about loops where he wasn't Awake. He'd already hated not being able to be there for his padawan, but situations like this made it even worse.
All he could do was hold him and help him pull himself back together.
3.3
"Morning dad," Ezra said on reflex, taking note of the nearly imperceptible eye twitch. "You look kind of loopy today."
"Yeah, must have Awoke on the wrong side of the bed or something." Kanan said in response, sitting down to the breakfast table.
"You're talking all weird, dad, are you okay?" Sabine asked curiously from the stovetop.
They were living in an old farmhouse on what seemed to be a technologically stunted planet, with their widowed 'dad', a 'maid' that he'd hired years ago to help take care of them who'd become part of the family, and a 'hired hand' to help them with their farm work. Needless to say Ezra found it fascinating to see what Hera and Zeb looked like as humans.
"I'm fine, Sabine." Kanan's eye nearly twitched again and Ezra mentally cackled at the fact that he got to call him dad finally.
"So, dad," Ezra knew from the slight glare he was sent that Kanan knew he was teasing him. "What's on the chore list for today?"
The next loop…
"Sooo…" Ezra snickered at the full on eye spasm.
"NO."
"Oh come on, dad," Ezra cackled at the expression on his face.
"NO Ezra. N. O. NO!"
3.4
"Hey Kanan, where's Ezra?" Zeb asked as he played against Chopper in holochess.
"No idea." He paused when he realized what that meant.
"Exactly." Zeb groaned. "I don't want to know what he's up to this time…"
Chopper beeped and whistled. 'And he left me out of it?'
Kanan facepalmed.
"This is your fault." Sabine muttered to Ezra as the stormtroopers searched the alley. "How'd we even get here anyways?"
"I have no clue." Ezra lied. "But you have to admit, the looks on their faces was priceless."
"…" Sabine gave in to the urge to snicker at the memory. "Yeah, you're right… But I still blame you for getting us into this mess."
Ezra shrugged. "Hey, think you could get us up on the roof?"
"Maybe, but we'd be seen going up."
"Not if we use this." Ezra pulled out an egg.
"What do you-" Sabine's helmet automatically scanned the egg and informed her of the chemical mixture inside of it. "Oooooh, oh that's awesome. Very awesome. You're showing me how you made this."
"These," Ezra corrected and showed her two more.
She grinned underneath the helmet. "Go for it, I've got a flashbang grenade for added effect." She pulled out a small rounded object.
He grinned too.
Seconds later loud bangs and flashes of light filled the alley, thick clouds of a purplish smoke obscuring all sight. The two figures escaping by rooftop were never even noticed.
Hours later everyone on board the Ghost was morbidly curious over where their resident (organic) prankster had disappeared to. Hera had noticed Sabine was missing too, so went to her room to check on her.
"You have to be really careful, don't want to crack it." Ezra was sitting at her mixing table leaned over next to an egg sitting in a stand. Sabine was leaned over next to him doing what looked like pouring something into it. They were both wearing shirts covered in soot, thick gloves also covered in soot, and protective goggles worryingly covered in soot as well.
"Do you think we could work some colors into it? Maybe make it so that the smoke stains things?" Sabine paused in her pouring and looked inside the tiny hole, pouring a little more.
"That's a great idea! We could make a few extra batches of the powder and see if it reacts to paint first, then try powdered paint…"
Hera turned around, not wanting to know what was going on. Plausible deniability.
Ezra pulled an egg out of his subspace pocket with a grin. It had been several loops and he hadn't had a chance to use the smokebombs he had Sabine had made since.
But now was his chance!
With a cackle he threw it down and watched in amusement as the stormtroopers below the roof he was on became engulfed in thick pink smoke. It took a few minutes to fade away, but once it did he fell backwards in laughter as their armor was stained a hot pink.
Next to him Sabine gaped in shock.
"Where did you get that?!" She whirled to him as he cackled madly.
"I, uh, I made it." He snickered.
"No, we made it! You remember everything too!" She accused as she pointed a finger at him.
"Woah woah woah, you're looping?" He stopped laughing.
"Looping..?" She gave him a strange look.
"That's the actual name for everything repeating the way it has been…"
"Yeah," She slumped in relief. "You mean I'm not going crazy?"
"Oh no, you probably will go crazy at some point, but you're not yet." Ezra grinned. "How many times do you remember?"
"Only the original time and the one before now where we made those," She admitted, pointing to below.
"Oh, well, for me it's been a few since but that's not important. How did you hide it?" He asked curiously.
"I'm not sure, the last time was so… weird, I mean, you acting so… crazy. It just made everything so surreal I thought it was a dream. But now I guess it's not." She shrugged with a frown.
"Um, what just happened?" Hera asked Kanan quietly in confusion. He chuckled.
"It's a loooong story Hera…" He shook his head. "But I am glad there's another looper…"
"What?" Zeb blinked. "You're not making any sense, what are we missing here?"
Kanan sighed. "Great, my first multiverse talk and you guys aren't even Awake…"
It was awkward at first because both Zeb and Hera weren't looping, but once Chopper was able to verify that no Ezra, Kanan, and Sabine weren't suffering from mass hysteria the two nonloopers had to deal with some very strange things.
For one, Ezra refused to pretend the whole thing had never happened like they had asked. For another it was really strange seeing Kanan acting up just as much as his padawan had previously, with Ezra acting up even more.
Luckily for them Sabine was just as confused most of the time.
3.5
"You're kidding." Sabine was in Ezra's room pacing back and forth. "I'm not sure whether to laugh or scream in frustration."
"Yeah, I know the feeling." Ezra nodded. "I've never literally replaced Kanan before, which brings up the idea of whether we just switched roles with Kanan and Hera or there are going to be new people entirely." Ezra even looked like Kanan did, with the same hair and everything. The only thing was that it was still him, just in Kanan's style.
Sabine was actually a twilek like Hera, again dressed in the same outfit as her. "Oh gosh I hope not, I don't want to know what will happen with Zeb…"
"Only one way to find out, you know how Kanan and Hera first met him." Ezra shrugged. "We're literally in the right time to see."
"Are you serious?" She stared at him.
"Yep."
"Ugh, at least you already uploaded Chopper's memories…"
Sabine tried so very very hard to not facepalm when she saw Hera as a human in her own armor, but lost the battle.
Ezra full on burst into laughter when he saw a teenage Kanan dressed like him.
"Oh go ahead laugh it up." Kanan scowled at him.
"What's going on?" Zeb whispered to Hera.
"I have no idea, but remember something similar happened when I joined?" She whispered back.
Sabine just shook her head at Ezra's antics as he kept laughing at Kanan.
"I hate you." Kanan growled as soon as he saw Ezra the next loop.
"Oh come on, you made a great me!" Ezra cackled.
3.1
*I had to. I'm sorry for any nonbronies out there but I HAD to.
*Also, Kanan has probably only had a handful of loops at this point. This is really really shocking.
3.2
*I felt the urge to write some angst, and the loops are pretty bad sometimes... I don't know what his last loop was like.
3.3
*While Kanan admits he and Ezra have a father/son relationship he gets annoyed whenever Ezra tries calling him dad. Ezra spent the entire loop just digging it in that he could get away with it.
3.4
*This happened rather randomly... I wanted to have some NonAwake Sabine bonding with Ezra time, but then it evolved into her looping.
*After I wrote this I started to ship Ezra/Sabine. Not exactly sure why. But there will be some in the future of this story. You have been warned. It WILL be a thought out thing though.
3.5
*Again randomness. But you have to admit the mental image is hilarious. :P
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