Sup guys! Quick warning - there are mentions of some adult things in this chapter... doesn't get into detail, but I'm warning you guys just in case.
I THINK this chapter shows the last of my Ezra/Sabine shipping spree, not sure.
Thank you Mackenzie (Guest), ShepardisaBOSS, JoshRand1982, Paint the wolf (Guest, Tadpole.B (Guest), and empathy (Guest) for reviewing!
Mackenzie: I wouldn't say it's THAT good but it's certainly awesome. ;)
Paint: I think it's in the second chapter. YESH! JOIN ME IN MESSING WITH THE SWR UNIVERSE! MWAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH- *cough*
[DISCLAIMER]
The Adventures of a Time Traveling Padawan Chap 6
6.1
Sabine rolled her eyes, using her left hand to cover them as Ezra pulled on her right one.
"So where are we going?" She asked amusedly.
"It's a surprise!" Ezra grinned at her, though she couldn't see it.
Before he picked her up he'd had Chopper give her a message over what to wear, which was basically her normal outfit. She'd had no idea that Ezra was able to send messages through Chopper…
"Come on Ezra…" She joked and resisted the urge to peek between her fingers.
"Okay, open your eyes we're here." She moved her hand to see his grin, then turned to the sign next to an old looking shack. Her jaw dropped.
"Please tell me this is a professional match?"
"Come on, would I be so cruel as to pit you against newbs?" His smirk widened as a competitive glint shone in her eyes.
"Blue team is down, Blue team is down!" Sabine reported through her mike to Ezra.
"Red team is down to last survivor!" Ezra added on.
"Yellow team is in view!" Sabine lifted her rifle up to her shoulder. "Cover my shot!"
"Gotcha!" Ezra popped his own rifle into view and shot. "Never mind, Red team is now down!"
"Yellow team is down two players!" Sabine shouted as she jumped up, fired off multiple shots, and then ducked back down behind cover.
Ezra ducked back down too, barely dodging a projectile that flew over him and splattered against a tree. "So, enjoying our date?" He asked breathlessly.
"Best. Date. Ever!" She grinned wildly.
"Good, because this'll make it even better. Paint bombs are allowed and these count, I checked." He held up a familiar egg, the white shell stained the color inside and on their equipment.
"Oh my God." Sabine breathed with a manic evil glint in her eye. "Ezra, you. Are. Awesome."
"I know," He said cockily with a smirk. "Now. Who's left?"
She took the egg from his fingers, slinging her rifle to her back and jumping up. Ezra rushed to cover her as she pulled her arm back.
"PINK TEAM RULES SUCKERS!" Sabine screamed as she lobbed the egg over at the largest remaining group, Green team.
They both dropped like stones as the air where they'd been standing was hit with paintballs of all colors. They laughed madly as angry yells and shouts of Green team being down could be heard from across the field.
"Holy crow, that one was not the one I meant to use…" Ezra flinched sympathetically as Green team was now a bright hot pink instead of the more pastel color they were wearing. "That or it was in my Pocket longer than I'd realized."
"That was so awesome!" Sabine cackled crazily as she leaned up against their cover.
"You are teaching us how to make those." The leader of the Green/Hot Pink team said as soon as they all left the shed, Sabine and Ezra carrying their small trophy proudly.
"Sure, meet us back here in about two hours. Bring heavy gloves, thick work aprons, and goggles." Sabine waved as they all nodded eagerly and left to go search for said objects.
"Well that was fun." Ezra grinned. "We never even got splattered."
"I know right?" Sabine smirked. "It was an awesome date Ezra." She smiled at him as he blushed slightly.
"Would you be willing to go on another?" He asked with a shy grin.
"I'd love to."
"Do I even want to know what's going on here?" Kanan asked warily, watching the room full of people and explosive chemicals with a worried eye.
"From the paintball tournament." Ezra nodded, wiping condensed fumes off of his goggles. "They were curious about our egg-smokebombs and we offered to show them how to make them."
"Brainstorming with so many people is amazing!" Sabine called from the next table over as she poured an actual liquid into an egg instead of the powders that Kanan knew were supposed to make the smokebombs.
"I'm just going to… leave…" He edged out of the building, hurrying in fear when smoke poured from the corner.
"Again Caile? You need to be careful with this stuff, some of it's really flammable." Sabine shook her head at the sheepish man in the by now soot covered corner.
"Luckily he hasn't gotten to any of those ones yet…" Ezra muttered to himself.
"He won't at all if I have anything to do with it." Sabine hmphed and he grinned at her.
6.2
Zeb was chatting excitedly to a small alien, Ezra watching in amusement.
Like Ezra with his affinity for technology Zeb had decided to learn a skill other than fighting using the time the loops allowed. He'd proved to be incredibly good at learning languages. Encouraged by their successes Kanan, Sabine, and Chopper were now trying to find their own hobbies but hadn't had much luck. They'd picked up some interesting skills in the meantime though.
"He says we need to go that way." Zeb pointed down the street of the crowded marketplace.
"Sounded like there was a lot more in between in." A NonAwake Sabine commented with a raised eyebrow.
"Of course there was, he was telling me a few things." Zeb refused to elaborate further.
"Let's just get going, we're late as it is." Kanan sighed.
"I could have just used some of my own credits to get us a ride there…" Ezra grumbled. It was a bit tricky sometimes, but he always managed to keep Blue Time Corporations running in secret. It involved a heck of a lot of middle men and some crazy multitasking skills but Ezra had lifetimes of experience at doing it by now.
"No, I don't even want to know how you got those credits in the first place." Hera admonished as he rolled his eyes. Of course he had to keep his business hidden from the crew sometimes, especially the nonlooping Hera. The motherly twilek wasn't particularly good at dealing with knowledge of the loops and the times she knew about BT Corps she always learned about everything else involved for some reason.
They were hurrying down the streets when Zeb suddenly veered away from them, Ezra and Kanan noticing because of their Force sensitivity. The Anchor gave Kanan a small pulse of reassurance as he followed the lasat to let him know he'd be alright.
"So, where are we going?"
"That guy was telling me about the marketplace just a few blocks away when I mentioned that I liked learning languages," Zeb admitted. "I wanted to go and see if I could keep up with all the ones used there. It's supposedly a really diverse place."
"Cool," Ezra nodded. "I need to see if I can pick up a few things anyways, I've been running out of chemicals for my eggbombs…"
"Don't you usually make those with Sabine?" Zeb raised an eyebrow at him.
"Me and her have an agreement. Since that's the first time we ever really bonded, neither of us make them with anyone else unless the other is there. It's kind of our relaxing time. And we also have a pact to not get together with our NonAwake selves, though that really just counts for me since she'll rarely ever have to deal with a NonAwake me." Ezra folded his hands behind his head as he walked.
"You know guys have been getting pretty serious lately." Zeb commented. "How many loops have you been dating?"
"I'm not sure, maybe around sixty by now?" Ezra scratched the back of his head.
Zeb whistled. "Isn't that almost impossible in the loops?"
"No, I actually met a couple who married in the loops without having married in baseline." Ezra grinned at the lasat's surprised face. "You haven't had a fused loop with Equestria yet, but their names are Spike and Rarity. They fit really well together. According to Spike they were dating for around six hundred loops before he proposed to her, and it took a long time until they could actually have the wedding. You know, when it comes to Sabine I'm not entirely sure we are serious," Ezra admitted.
"You're kidding right?" Zeb deadpanned.
"What?"
Kanan turned around from the door to Sabine's room when he heard certain sounds coming from there. He hurriedly blocked off the bond, now noticing that Ezra was completely… distracted. Yeah, he'd go with that…
"Oh come on!" Zeb's nose scrunched up in disgust at the same time he wanted to blush. "Could they NOT do that in the same room I sleep in?!" Maybe it was time to make Ezra share Sabine's room instead of continuing to share a room with him…
Hera yelped in surprise when she walked into a heavy makeout session. "What in the-?!"
"Dangit!" Ezra facepalmed. He'd barely joined the crew of the Ghost at this point in the timeline, so now Hera would demand explanations until she some way or another learned about the loops.
"Listen Hera, it goes like this…" Sabine sighed wearily having already come to the same conclusion. "Time is broken and keeps repeating over and over again, not everyone always remembers, so far you haven't remembered at all, me and Ezra have been dating for several lifetimes now, and I'd really like to finish what I started." Ezra blushed at the last comment.
Hera stared wide eyed at the two before nodding dazedly. "I… I can ask Kanan to explain this right?"
"Yeah he's been Awake the second longest," Ezra stopped short as Hera literally ran away. He shrugged. "Oh well." He squeaked as Sabine continued where they'd left off.
Zeb, Kanan, and Chopper watched as Ezra and Sabine walked down the street, dressed fancily in expensive clothes. There was also extremely expensive food all over said clothes. They were laughing so hard they nearly couldn't walk, and it was only Kanan's assurances from what he could feel through the bond that the lasat and astromech believed they hadn't drunk anything that night.
"Did you see their faces?!" Sabine giggled against Ezra's shoulder.
"I don't think anyone missed seeing that," Ezra laughed.
"That was greatness! That poor waiter though, he'll probably get fired for spilling food all over a customer." Sabine tried to tone down her laughter.
"I'll just have BT Corps hire him for something, he sure helped liven up what was looking to be our most boring date yet." Ezra chuckled. "Sorry about that by the way, I wanted to try a different approach from our usual thing."
"It's fine, I'm happy you're so invested in us." Sabine pulled him over for searing kiss. By the time she pulled away Ezra was looking dazed and the three watching them were tempted to gag.
None of them noticed that the chuckle Ezra gave was slightly malevolent. He waved a hand discreetly behind his back and there were three yelps as a nearby puddle from the recent rains exploded all over the culprits.
"How about I take you to a movie?" Ezra asked as they walked away from the splash zone. "Seems like it's sprinkling again."
Sabine snickered. "Riiight… Like this?"
"How about I take you to a drive-in movie?"
"Okay, so we are kind of serious." Ezra admitted as he thought about it. "But I still want to take things carefully."
"Could you guys at least switch to sharing rooms?" Zeb grumbled. "You spend most of the time in her's anyway."
"When Hera finally starts looping." Ezra allowed with a chuckle.
6.3
"Ezra, what the heck." Sabine blinked and shook her head at her new sixth sense. "This loop is… weird."
"You're telling me!" Kanan groaned. "I'm the one who has to teach you guys!"
"Good news is that after so many loops 'teaching' me you know what will work and what won't." Ezra shrugged. "Plus I'm technically a full Jedi, I can help you out."
"I'm going to need the help…" Kanan muttered.
"Is it even possible to have the Jedi-Padawan bond between six people?" Zeb asked curiously as he absently levitated a piece of scrap metal.
"I guess we'll find out!" Chopper whirled amusedly. "I'm just curious how an astromech can use the Force."
"The Force is connected to everything, animate or inanimate." Kanan lectured. "Plus you have a soul from the times you've been organic, which somehow carries through the loops."
"What is going on?!" Hera was in shock.
"Oh hey, she's Awake finally!" Ezra grinned when he felt her lifeforce older than it should be (if only barely), the characteristic of a looper.
"Finally!" Zeb rolled his eyes.
"Don't panic Hera, we can explain everything." Sabine said in a soothing voice and then hugged her. "I'm so happy you're looping now!"
"I don't… what?" She blinked confusedly.
"You know what this means now, right?" Zeb glared at the two (physically) teenagers.
"Yes Zeb, I'll move out of our room." Ezra rolled his eyes. Sabine fistpumped and snickered.
6.1
*Ezra had a good idea.
*Pretty sure Sabine's favorite color is pink, so hence Pink team.
*Forgot to mention this: the idea for the egg-smokebombs comes from the 2012 TMNT series.
6.2
*Zeb and Sabine now have a running competition over who knows the more languages.
*Heh heh... You have to remember not only are they 'perpetually teenagers' but they're old as Pit mentally...
*Okay truthfully I really just have no excuse for this segment.
6.3
*HERA IS AWAKE
*POOR HERA WILL HAVE TO DEAL WITH HER CRAZY TEAM FOR ETERNITY
*I believe that Hera would be the most mature even after millenia of looping.
*Come on, nobody can tell me they haven't considered a crack!loop where the entire crew were Jedi. (Chopper + Force = Awesomeness = RUN FOR YOUR LIFE)