Sup! Nice to see you guys again.
Thank you E (guest), Guest (anonymous), Paint the Wolf (Guest), Game Berzerker (Guest), and Dragonfan47 for reviewing last chapter!
E: Quite frankly I love angst. So the idea of Zeb and Kallus being in a relationship before the destruction of Lasan and then being forced to deal with all the slag that would cause (the angst, the anger, the horror, the betrayel, etc) really really appeals to me. Of course outside of that situation I don't think I'd actually ship it. Too much of a difference to make a good couple with canon's influences.
Guest: Yes. Zebra. Even if I'm unsure whether to ship it or not I can't help but just love the name. X3
Paint: Meh... Like I said to the anon, I don't think I'd ship it. (Of course if it were an AU where Ezra was an adult as well or they were both teenagers... now we're talking.)
Berzerker: I knew they were games! :P Fandom is kind of a general term, it can apply to a game's fandom as well. (P.S. I'm a dudete. :P)
[YELLS LOUDLY ABOUT DISCLAIMER AND CRIES TO HERSELF BEFORE CRAWLING INTO BED WITH BOX OF TISSUES]
The Adventures of a Time Travelling Padawan Chap 9
9.1
Zeb woke up, small letters, in his bed. He didn't really notice anything for a few minutes until he realized through hazy loop memories that it was on his PLANET. Without a second thought he jumped up with wide eyes.
"Easy there, you were injured pretty badly in that accident." He turned to the nurse keeping an eye on him, a few blurry loop memories setting in and the feel of several dangerous burns across his body making him hiss in pain.
It took a long while for him to notice that everyone was treating him strangely. It took even longer for him to realize why.
Scientifically, he shouldn't even be alive. The explosion (caused by an accident, he'd been told) had hit him straight on. He was playing around with the theory that he'd been hit right as he Awoke, meaning his many abilities gained through the loops had kept him from dying.
(Said abilities included the Force, Iron Dragonslayer Magic, an Aesir's All Tongue from being Thor, and the many odds and ends he'd picked up. With all these it wasn't so difficult to believe he'd been saved.)
The bad thing was, lasat were generally very down to earth creatures. The fact that he'd survived nearly being burnt alive and had healed at an impossible rate had mystified them and outcast him more than a little.
He couldn't get much of anything out of his loop memories, the explosion might have hit him a millisecond before Awakening causing the memories to be damaged. So he had to go along with the 'diagnoses' of amnesia from his injuries.
It was getting frustrating, he was being treated like a glass object that would break if anyone even touched him. It would probably be true if he were a normal person, but as an experienced looper it was driving him insane. Though it gave him an excuse to not have any ties with anyone.
Having escaped his 'babysitters' for the moment, Zeb used a touch of force to convince a guard he had never passed by. The wall protecting the city from the wilds of Lasan was made of metal. Luckily for Zeb, metal was his thing.
All he did was walk straight into it. He'd been practicing this spell, he'd called it 'Iron Acquisition'. It allowed him to walk through metal like it was water. He was also planning on showing Gajeel it the next time he saw the Dragonslayer.
It was only a matter of moments before he passed through the outside of the wall and was hidden in the trees. A passing word to a lizard-like flying creature gave him an early warning system if any big predators came by.
He was only too happy to hide in the forest for the rest of the loop if he had to.
Unluckily for him, right about now was when Lasan was usually destroyed by the Empire.
"No slaggin' way I'm letting those Barzulns get away with it this time…" He growled to himself as he typed quietly on a 'liberated' computer. "Now, let's see if I can remember those hacking instructions Ezra gave me that one loop…"
TheIronSpeaker: You're joking.
BTHead: Nope. Sorry Zeb.
TheIronSpeaker: No way am I letting them get away with this!
BTHead: Sorry Zeb, I can't help you on this…
BTHead: Unless… 8D
BTHead: IDEA
TheIronSpeaker: Why do I get the feeling you're making that really creepy cackling sound?
BTHead: Because I am
TheIronSpeaker: …
TheIronSpeaker: Alright spill.
TheIronSpeaker: What's your plan?
BTHead: Okay, it involves you being one of my company's representatives.
BTHead: And possibly involves Agent Kallus. :3
TheIronSpeaker: …I get a bad feeling I'm going to regret this. But continue.
*a few minutes later*
BTHead: *cackling evilly*
TheIronSpeaker: I'm not sure whether to join you or freak out.
TheIronSpeaker: This plan is nuts.
BTHead: Since when are our plans ever NOT nuts?
TheIronSpeaker: …Touché.
Zeb was very happy that he'd had a few loops as a Jedi. Otherwise, without having a strong ability in the Force, this never would have worked.
"Come on you stupid planet-destroying Imperial idiot, take the bait already!" Zeb hissed quietly as he clung haphazardly to the ceiling of the room that Agent Kallus was currently in. He'd compelled Kallus to come to the room and the Agent was looking around suspiciously.
Right as Kallus was about to call for his guards, a scroll hit his head. He swung around, blaster in hand ready to take out any intruders. The idiot never bothered to look up.
Taking the scroll Kallus looked it over carefully. It was a perfectly ordinary looking scroll, though he'd likely never seen one before. Ezra was often cursing the stupidity of people in their loop when coming into contact with 'outdated' things.
"What the-" Kallus never finished his sentence. As soon as he opened the scroll the designs inside transported him to Ezra's current location, where the Anchor then proceeded to hit him with one side of the Ying Yang Yoyo.
Ezra found the Xiaolin monks' loop very interesting.
Kallus sputtered as he found himself in another room, a scroll similar to the one he'd bene investigating in front of him. Before he could react a blue haired child threw a small object on a string at him.
He flung his arms up to protect his face on instinct, but the object only needed contact.
There was a bright light and everything seemed to flip.
*a few hours previously*
TheIronSpeaker: Okay, so I get the rest of it but what is this Ying Yang Yoyo supposed to do again?
BTHead: The Ying Yang Yoyo is a Shen Gon Wu designed to open a portal to the Ying Yang world.
BTHead: If you happen to hit someone with one side of it, well, things get interesting.
TheIronSpeaker: Interesting?
BTHead: Say in that loop's baseline. Jack Spicer, the 'villain', was hit with the 'good' side and was flipped from an idiot who was bad at being evil because he messed things up to an idiot who messed things up but was honestly trying to be good.
TheIronSpeaker: …
TheIronSpeaker: Do you have extra loop copies of that thing?
9.2
"EZRA!" Kanan yelled as he watched the Inquisitor throw him across the room. He then blinked and shook his head. "Okay, weirdest moment to Awaken number five…" He muttered, quickly flinging the Pau'an backwards with a strong burst of Force.
'Oh hey, that almost makes it onto my "Weirdest Moments to Awaken" list…' He heard across the bond from Ezra. 'Owch. Make that number six on "Most Painful Ways to Awaken"…'
'Anyone else Awake just now?' Kanan asked to the several unnatural extensions of the bond.
'I just had my arms and legs tied together, hold on.' Zeb reported.
'My ship's in pieces!' Hera bemoaned.
'She means we're both in a cell.' Sabine noted. 'And yes.'
'I am currently using the Force to beat it into the heads of several stormtroopers on why we do NOT TRY TO DISASSEMBLE LOOPING ROBOTS WHO CAN DESTROY YOU.' Chopper whirled angrily.
Taking a quick moment to knock the Inquisitor out, Kanan helped pull Ezra to his feet. 'So is that a general yes?'
'Yes.'
'Uh huh.'
'Yup.'
'My ship…'
'What is up with this loop?' Kanan broadcasted in confusion.
"I think, that." Ezra pointed to the massive moon-sized object through the viewing panel of the ship they were apparently on. 'Hey, am I the only one having trouble finding any loop memories or is that just an overall thing?'
'No, I can't find any either.'
'Same here.'
'Considering I am literally about to have my brains blown out, I'm having a little difficulty concentrating enough to try!'
'Sabine, think you can go give Zeb a hand?' Kanan went straight to the resident kunoich.
'No prob. Already on my way.'
'My SHIP.'
'Hera, snap out of it.' Kanan shook his head as he and Ezra began making their way to wherever Chopper was, since he felt closer.
'Beware, I'm setting LOKI loose on this thing.' Ezra stopped by a port long enough to let his AI (who'd liked the name LOKI and stuck with it) into the systems and they continued on.
'Oh fragging Primus… uh, guys? See you next loop.'
They all froze in shock and then grabbed for the nearest thing to stabilize them as the entire ship jerked wildly from the force of an explosion. There was a sense of loss and they took a moment to realize that Zeb had just died.
With an angry expression Ezra took out his tablet and made a connection to LOKI. "Lo'? Make their lives hell."
'You've got it boss. Chopper, mind giving me a hand?' The AI responded angrily over the ship's intercom.
'Hera, snap out of it and pilot this thing so we don't crash. Sabine, get the egg-bombs out. The ones with the permanent smell. Ezra? Me and you are going to have a talk with whoever's in charge here.' Kanan snapped out orders to the remaining loopers.
While they always came back the next loop, getting killed was NOT fun. And it also tended to piss off the loopers remaining.
9.3
Ezra and Sabine were cuddled up on a couch when the loop abruptly ended.
"What the heck?!" Ezra shot up from his seat in his tower. "Oh come ON."
"Dangit!" Sabine whined as she found herself aboard the Ghost. "What just happened?"
'Kallus.' Chopper reported from where he sat in the same room. 'That variant of him was smarter and just blew us up from afar. I was about to warn everyone but there wasn't enough time. Did he interrupt snuggle time?' The droid teased.
"Yes, in fact, he did." Sabine growled. "And he's going to regret it." She stalked out of the room muttering about 'permanent egg-bombs'.
"What just happened?" Kanan frowned as the mandolorian left.
"What are you talking about?" Hera asked Chopper.
'Time loops. I might as well tell you guys now since she's going to mess up the timeline…'
A few days later Sabine was sitting with Ezra in his tower, having left Chopper to keep an eye on the extremely confused NonAwake rebels.
"Do you really like cuddling so much?" Ezra asked amusedly as he watched a news report.
It was showing the public humiliation of Agent Kallus using several very thorough methods that 'could not be shown on broadcast'.
"It's the calmest time I ever get to spend with you." Sabine grumbled.
"Okay, that's true," Ezra conceded. "But did you seriously have to do all that?"
"There's also the fact that he killed us."
"Oh yeah, that too…"
9.4
"Oh my gosh." Ezra gaped at another version of Sabine. 'Mike' facepalmed.
"Great, now my cover's blown…" He grumbled. "You know, I was having a lot of fun keeping it hidden who I was."
"Sorry." The looping Sabine shrugged unapologetically to the man she could feel was her boyfriend in disguise.
"Wait, what?" Kanan blinked.
"Why is there another me?!" The nonlooping Sabine said rather frantically. Mike didn't blame her, she probably thought she was cloned or something.
"We can explain, but first. Get out of that." Sabine demanded to her boyfriend. He grinned apologetically as he released the spells hiding his appearance.
The rebels gaped as there was now two versions of both Sabine and Ezra.
"Hi, sorry about hiding and all." 'Mike' shrugged. "I knew you'd react like this. Want to give them the multiverse talk while they're in shock?" He asked his girlfriend.
"That's probably our best bet." She shrugged. "You know, I wonder if the others are going to Awaken now."
"Maybe, but we should probably stay away from them if we all are." He pointed to the nonloopers. "They probably wouldn't take it too well…"
"They're not taking it well." Sabine rolled her eyes,
"What..?" Hera said weakly.
"Here's a good question, have any of you ever heard the concept of time loops?"
Chopper whirled hilariously.
"You don't count Chopper, I had LOKI fill you in on the situation weeks ago."
9.1
*I don't remember what I was going for when I started this.
*On the other hand, this provides much opportunity... *evil grin*
9.2
*Again I have no idea what the point of this segment was but it came out pretty good.
*Kanan and Ezra, as loopers, are both susceptible to the dark side because of... well, what do you think? They're living for eternity in a friggin madhouse. But they've also found ways to do traditionally 'dark side' things without actually slipping because of experience. Such as getting revenge when one of the crew gets killed. After all, one doesn't need to kill/go mad to have revenge.
9.3
*Apparently I'm just gonna be throwing in little Ezra/Sabine tidbits here and there. Enjoy.
9.4
*7.1 Continued again.
*Ezra is pouting because she ruined his fun.
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