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Thank you Dragonfan47, Paint the Wolf (Guest), E (Guest), Notrandomatall, majishan, GameBerzerker (Guest), and Guest (Anonymous) for reviewing last chapter!
Paint: Knives are dangerous... 83 Yes I have watched Gravity Falls. I find it both confusing and intriguing... I might include it later on. ;)
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FYI, in regards to 7.1 there are a LOT of oneshots centered on the same loop furthur on.
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The Adventures of a Time Traveling Padawan Chap 8
8.1
'Mike' watched amusedly as Ezra led Kanan to the spot where he'd last seen him. Waving slightly from an alley, Mike walked towards them with a smirk.
"Hi," He grinned. He could feel Kanan reach out towards him to check his Force sensitivity and welcomed the 'poke' with relatively open arms. He had to hide his exact Force signature, since he'd checked and knew that he had the same one as his younger self, not to mention his master-padawan bond that was still there.
"Hello." Kanan nodded, acknowledging the fact that he held the Force. "My name's Kanan Jarrus, Ezra said you were interested in joining our team..?"
"Michael Pill, and yeah. That's the idea." He nodded.
"Well you can understand that we'd be a little distrustful, especially in these times." Kanan said cautiously.
"No worries, I completely understand. I'm guessing you want me to prove I'm willing to help?"
"Exactly."
"Perfect. What's the plan?" He put away a small tablet he'd been using to get the creation of Blue Time Corps underway.
"I did not think that you guys did this type of thing!" He called to Kanan from where he was holding on for his life to the side of an Imperial transport ship.
"Just get climbing!" The Jedi advised.
"Just get climbing, he says…" Mike muttered to himself. "This is not going to go well, the ship is small enough that the sounds we're making will be heard from inside, which means any advantage we have of surprising them is down the drain… Unless…" He grinned. He climbed up the side of the ship at full speed, easily overtaking Kanan.
Once at the top he quickly hopped over to the entrance hatch. Without a second thought he used a familiar USB and plugged it into the systems.
'Sup Ez'?' The voice of CHOPPER said, slightly confused. Ezra never used the USB since Chopper started looping unless he needed help with something.
While Chopper was himself because of gaining a soul, CHOPPER was more or less Ezra's personal AI now that he was just a bundle of old loop memories. Every once in a while Chopper let him sync up and share data, but not very often since the astromech preferred being his own mind.
"It's Mike right now, CHOP." He said quietly. "And you're an AI I designed called LOKI."
'Ah, gotcha.' CHOPPER didn't need any further explanation to slip into his own alias. 'What would you like me to do, boss?'
"Cause some chaos in the ship, make them think there's a virus or something. They were bound to hear us coming up the side and I don't think they're going to just ignore that." He said loud enough for Kanan to hear coming up.
'You got it boss!' LOKI dove into the ship's systems as Mike removed the USB.
"And that was?" Kanan raised an eyebrow.
"LOKI, stands for something really complicated. He's an AI I built a couple of years ago." Mike put the USB away and easily opened the door. "After you," Kanan passed him as he grinned.
It was easy to sneak into the cargo area once LOKI started distracting the crew, Kanan and Mike made it to the area without a single hiccup. Examining the crates Mike realized it was a simple rations run.
"Really? All that for some ration bars?" He asked amusedly, knowing why they stole food but pretending he didn't.
"You'll see why later." Kanan didn't notice the knowing eye roll.
It was ridiculously easy to open the cargo hatch and put everything in the Ghost with LOKI running rampant. Before they left Mike plugged the USB in again on a port near the cargo hatch.
"Come on Lo',"
'Thanks for the exercise, boss.' LOKI said teasingly before going back into the data stick.
"Best invention I ever made." Mike chuckled, meaning more than he said. He followed Kanan out the cargo hatch and back into the Ghost with a quick jump midair.
Landing in a perfect roll Ezra watched him in surprise as he entered.
"What happened in there?" Sabine asked curiously. "It's like the ship was completely unresponsive, they only barely noticed we were here."
"That would be the work of LOKI here," Mike plugged the AI into a keyboard on one of his armbraces.
The AI popped up a credible image of the actual Loki. 'Sup.'
Chopper whistled at the AI interestingly.
'Hi there,' LOKI waved to the droid. 'Don't forget that deal you made earlier, boss.' He teased, reminding Mike of one of the conditions the Looping Chopper had made for CHOPPER when he'd decided to stop having 'Mike' upload his memories. LOKI had spoken in Cybertronic Engineering Code so that the people around didn't understand him and get suspicious, though he usually spoke in English.
"Yeah yeah, I remember." Mike rolled his eyes as he lowered his arm and left the hologram of LOKI in midair. "So what's the verdict?" He asked the crew members.
They looked at each other for a few minutes before turning back to him.
"Welcome to the Ghost's Specters, Specter Seven." Kanan held his hand out.
Mike shook his hand with a grin. "Thanks for having me."
This loop was going to be pretty fun.
8.2
"Sabine," Ezra whined as he was pulled away from his computer. While he appreciated the kiss she gave him he still didn't like being dragged away while he was busy.
"Come on, you've been working on that stupid program for hours." She leaned against his chair. "Hera's been really nervous since this is her first loop without you along with us."
"Well she should get used to it, I spend a lot of loops here at my tower." He froze once he said that. "Wrong thing to say?"
"Wrong thing to say." His girlfriend glared at him.
"I still can't get used to the idea of you two together," Hera admitted to the couple sharing a chair and cuddling.
"Took me a while to get used to too," Kanan shrugged. "Luckily I'd learned to block off the bond before then…"
At the face Hera made Zeb snickered. "You do realize they're both technically adults, right?"
"Well yeah, but they look like teenagers…" Hera sighed.
"Hey, there are some loopers who are children in their baseline in relationships." Ezra spoke up.
"What?"
"That's right, you haven't had a crossover loop yet…" Sabine mused.
"Hey, I have an idea." Zeb snickered. "Weirdest pairings in our loop."
"No." Kanan groaned. "I have to deal with that enough…"
"Rules?" Sabine grinned.
"No stories that are mentally scarring and doesn't have to include a NonAwake crew member." Zeb grinned.
"I have mine right off the bat." Sabine smirked evilly.
"Wait a second, what's going on?" Hera looked at them all in confusion.
"A favorite pastime of loopers," Kanan said idly. "Tell embarrassing slash scarring stories about other loopers or others in general. And Sabine, I'm pretty sure that what you're thinking falls under mentally scarring."
"Oh come on, it's not that bad." She grinned.
"It is that bad." Ezra deadpanned. "I'm just going to sit back and watch this one."
"I'll start out with the loop where a NonAwake Kanan was in a threesome with an Awake Ranma and some hooker Ranma picked up in a bar." Zeb grinned as Hera's eyebrows shot up and Kanan groaned.
"That doesn't count Zeb, you said in our loop." Ezra reminded him with a snicker.
"Why does the universe try pairing me with random people all the time?" Kanan exclaimed. "Seriously!"
"A threesome?" Hera couldn't help the amusement in her voice.
"I'm pretending I never heard of that, since I already didn't know about that loop." Kanan buried his face in his hands.
"Okay, then how about the time with the Inquisitor and that Sith girl?" Zeb pointed out.
"Oh yeah, I remember that loop." Ezra nodded. "I hid in my tower the whole time so I would stop laughing every time I saw them together."
"I don't think I can even contribute yet," Hera shook her head. "I can't think of anything as crazy as that."
"I know, there was once this loop where before Zeb's planet was destroyed a NonAwake him and Agent Kallus were together." Kanan laughed.
"Fragging Pit, you're joking right?!" Zeb looked horrified.
"Oh yeah! That was a really early one wasn't it?" Ezra cackled at the lasat's face. "It made an interesting loop seeing the chemistry between the two every time they started fighting." He snickered.
"Me? Him?" Zeb was looking more disgusted by the minute. "I did NOT need that mental image!" He pulled something out of his subspace pocket and took a drink of it before slumping against the wall. "I am never going to get that out of my head…" He moaned and hit his head against the wall.
"Aw Kanan, I was going to use that one," Sabine whined.
'Kanan and Hera, repeatedly throughout the loops, both NonAwake.' Chopper said as he passed by the door to the room.
"What?!" Hera yelped. "Y-you're kidding, I mean…"
Kanan rolled his eyes. "It's happened a lot, and I mean a LOT, through the loops. A lot of the time I've Awoken into relationships and had to keep it up the whole loop…" He mumbled.
"I've done that a lot." Zeb commented from where a small dent was forming in the wall.
"Please tell me it's not going to keep happening now that I'm looping." Hera begged.
"Sorry," Ezra shrugged. "It's bound to happen sooner or later." She groaned.
"Oh, I have one!" Sabine's look was practically predatory. "It was a loop with a Guest Anchor as Chopper, so you weren't Awake Ezra."
Ezra gave his girlfriend a scared look. "I'm not sure if I want to hear this."
Kanan paled. "Oh please not this, the Terminator guy told me about this when I looped into his loop a while later."
"Ezra. Kanan." Sabine cackled at the looks the two Jedi had.
"You're joking, right?!" Hera's eyes widened in shock.
"I'm about to literally be sick," Ezra's face was green.
"Isn't that..?"
"Yes, yes it was. And it was hilarious. But don't worry, they didn't 'do' anything." Sabine laughed manically.
"I hate you guys so much right now…" Kanan whimpered from the trashcan where he'd had to run.
8.3
Ezra walked through his mindscape idly. Without even thinking about it his Pinkie Protection activated and the Inquisitor was soon panicking as he tried to retreat from the Anchor's mind.
"What's wrong Ezra?" Kanan asked, having sensed the usual once-every-three-loops attack on his padawan's mind. "You're usually ecstatic to give him what he deserves."
"It's almost getting old." He shrugged. "I mean, it's Pinkie, it never really gets old. But it's not as funny anymore. I'm trying to think up another way to kick him out of my mind."
"I can show you what I did that loop we switched places." Kanan shrugged.
"Sure."
With a small amount of guiding from Kanan, the mindscape disappeared and there was nothing. Lightning fast memories flashed by, so fast that you couldn't tell what they were about but slow enough to get a general impression on them.
Ezra recognized them as looper memories.
"So that's why he was pretty much catatonic the rest of the loop…" Ezra put a hand to his chin in thought as the Inquisitor was left running around in circles trying to escape the onslaught of memories.
"Yeah, I was really just experimenting. Turns out nonloopers can't really comprehend so many memories hitting them at once." Kanan shrugged, the Pau'an falling to the floor twitching.
"I think it's similar to how it takes a few loops to really get used to loop memories," Ezra commented.
"Maybe. Think it'll work for you?"
"No, not really funny enough. But now I have an idea to see if I can't reform him by shoving 'positive' memories at him…"
"That sounds interesting, mind if I help when you try that? I don't think he's getting up for the rest of the loop…"
8.1
*7.1 continued.
*There's a huge difference between CHOPPER and Chopper. Chopper has a soul, while CHOPPER is quite literally an AI. Around the time Chopper gained his soul the backed up memories sort of gained an intelligence of their own because they'd pretty much been on there for MILLENIA.
*Also, Ezra finds his NonAwake self just plain cute. "He's so innocent... and kind of an idiot... I see why Sabine didn't want to date me back then..."
8.2
*I apparently lied. Have more Ezra/Sabine fluff.
*Loopers constantly tell stories. Pairings are evil, as many loopers understand. Pairing stories of people when they're not Awake are at the same time funny and horrifying.
*FYI, the Terminator replaced Chopper... not sure how, but whatever...
*I feel the need to clear this up. When I watch shows I see the 'typical' ships people will follow. Kanera and Ezra/Sabine (whatever the ship name is for that), for example. Then I see the weird ones. Zebra, mostly... But then there are the ones that I don't exactly like but I still see why some WOULD ship it. The thing about pairings in their loop is if it's unharmful, the others will let it play out. For entertainment value if nothing else. If they had 'done' anything the loopers would have very likely stepped in and beat the slag out of a certain someone... Especially Sabine. She'd have gone full overprotective girlfriend for her NonAwake boyfriend's sake. But sometimes these weird and completely WRONG pairings just happen. They are weird in the duration of the loop but the loopers usually know that weird stuff is gonna happen. Stopping it every time is a surefire way to eventually go nuts. But if it gets dangerous or inappropriate they step in and fix things. The matter then becomes entertainment value for the future loops.
8.3
*It DOES get tedious after so long.
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