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The Adventures of a Time Traveling Padawan Chap 12
12.1
Ezra didn't bother asking where Hera and Kanan were going with the weapon crates, since Zeb was Awake and would just snark back at him.
"Grab a crate, pull your weight!" Sabine called back to Ezra. Ezra rolled his eyes, knowing full well that she was Awake too and just trying to annoy him. "What's the plan this loop Ezra? Hera and Kanan definitely aren't Awake, they asked where I got my 'new toys'." Sabine brushed off a patch of egg-bomb powder off a crate.
"Not sure, I'm thinking about going baseline. Haven't had one of those loops in a while." Ezra shrugged as he chose the crate he always ended up with and followed the other two. "Oh, and Zeb, Kallus is Awake. He asked for you to give him a run for his money in those duals you guys always have, in not so many words. I'm pretty sure he's trying to learn more about weaponry and fighting now."
Zeb gave an evil grin. "Oh I'll give him a challenge."
"No killing him." Ezra rolled his eyes. "Remember that whenever you kill him in the loops, the next person assigned to trying to 'apprehend' us is always worse."
"Yeah yeah, how about injuring?"
"Go for it. He wants to learn the hard way through experience, something about encouragement to do better faster."
Zeb chuckled darkly and Sabine smacked his shoulder. "Next time you talk to him, let him know I'm willing to teach him a thing or two about ninjutsu if he wants."
"Sure, thanks for offering. I think he's starting to get settled in the loops finally."
Kallus held in a gulp as Zeb grinned. 'Well, I did want to learn the hard way…'
"Do not worry Agent Kallus, you are deemed as capable of making a full recovery. Your organs were avoided and only a few minor bones were broken, must have been him having some sort of 'honor' system." The doctor snorted. "A short while in the bacta tank and you'll be fine."
"Thank you doctor," Kallus nodded as much as he was able at the moment.
'Oh he's good.'
The next time Zeb and Kallus faced off, Zeb was impressed. It seemed the Agent was good at learning from his mistakes.
This didn't mean much when facing a looper millennia older than him with loops worth of experience dueling NonAwake versions of him, but it was a start.
A very good start, Zeb noted as he narrowly dodged a jab at his head.
'Let's just make this a little harder.'
12.2
"Ezra, we need to talk." Kanan approached his padawan.
"Uh, sure." Ezra shrugged and flicked off his tablet. "What's this about?" 'Is this going to make it an even twenty times Kanan's figured out about the loops without looper influence?'
"It's about you and Sabine."
Ezra's mind immediately screeched to a halt. 'Karrabast.'
In most loops Kanan wasn't Awake he and Sabine kept their relationship secret. Awake Kanan could care less about the old Jedi code prohibiting relationships, but NonAwake Kanan would very often make things very complicated indeed.
One loop Sabine had 'kidnapped' him off to a distant moon just to get out of that particular situation.
This loop they'd accidentally been seen by Hera, who'd immediately made sure everyone knew about it. Kanan hadn't said anything about it so they'd assumed they were safe.
Apparently not.
"Look, I can explain," Ezra was more than willing to tell Kanan about the loops just so he and Sabine weren't bothered about it. If there was any time he didn't like his master in the loops it was when his NonAwake self started meddling in his and Sabine's relationship.
"No Ezra, I know I should have told you something about this sooner, but I never thought it would come up-" He stopped short at the wave of raw frustration Ezra threw at him through the bond. It was the ginormous crippling amount of emotion only capable of being felt by ancient beings. And they both knew it.
"No Kanan, I'm not going to hear it." Ezra stood up from his spinning chair and crossed his arms. Kanan didn't speak, still overwhelmed by the emotions coming over the bond. Something in his padawan's stance and voice also told him that speaking right now would be a very very bad idea. "There are things called time loops, where time is repeating over and over again. Not everyone remembers and the ones who do don't always remember with each repeat. Including you." Ezra's eyes darkened into a dangerous glare and Kanan felt deep instincts inside him demanding him to start running. "Me and Sabine have been dating for longer than you could even comprehend because you. Are. Not. Awake. When you are, you don't care. I am NOT going to spend this loop trying to deal with you being a fracking drajl just because some old code doesn't want Jedi to be in love. So don't even try anything. Because I. Will. Not. Deal. With. It." Without another word Ezra walked out of the room.
Kanan was still fighting his flight instincts when Ezra shoved a bundle of emotions and memories across the bond.
He sat down shakily and had to use a Jedi calming technique three times before he stopped trembling.
Once that was done, he took a deep breath and began unraveling the 'package' he'd been given. He had a feeling it was very important…
12.3
"Nope." Ezra walked back out of the room tiredly. "Not doing it."
"What?" Hera asked, absently rubbing her swollen stomach.
'Good luck master, you'll need it…'
'You're telling me..?' Kanan sent back weakly as he tried comforting the overemotional Hera.
12.4
Ezra appeared in his mindscape, readying himself as the Inquisitor whirled to face him.
"You, how are you doing this?!" He hissed angrily.
Ezra just grinned. "I'm a little loopy," He said teasingly, knowing the Inquisitor wouldn't understand the code. "Now hold on tight because I'm not sure how this is going to go. We both might end up as vegetables for the rest of this loop…"
"What are-" Was all he managed to get out before everything went dark.
"Ezra? Ezra!" Kanan shook his padawan with a roll of his eyes. "What did you do to him this time?"
Ezra was still too caught up in giggling manically. "Hogwarts, HUFFLEPUFF!"
"What?" Kanan befuddled look seemed to snap Ezra out of the worst of it and he calmed down to chuckles.
"So you know how in Dean's loop, God keeps putting angels as mortals to make them 'realize their wrongs' and all that?"
"Yes, I remember because I was Castiel for some reason." Kanan deadpanned.
"Well, I used a variant of the idea to basically 'reincarnate' him in a world that existed in my head outside of real time." Ezra sunk back into giggles for a while before getting a hold of himself again. "I put him in Hogwarts and… and he was a Hufflepuff!" He fell backwards while cackling.
"You're joking right?" Kanan's jaw dropped.
"No!" Ezra gasped out. "The thing was, he didn't remember anything because I made sure he didn't! And! And! Oh it was hilarious!"
Kanan finally started laughing too. "Okay, you're going to tell me all about it! I can't wait to hear this!"
"He punched Draco right in the face!" Ezra snickered hysterically. Kanan finally gave in and leaned against his padawan as he laughed. "It was so funny!"
12.5
Mike watched amusedly as the two Choppers beeped and whirled excitedly to each other.
"We're doomed." Zeb said, staring at the two astromechs in horror.
"You do know that LOKI was made from some of Chopper's memories backed up on a USB for too long, right?" Mike raised an eyebrow.
"That… explains a lot." Kanan looked to Mike's tablet, which was where LOKI preferred to generate his hologram form.
"Should I take offense to that?" LOKI asked over the intercom.
"Uh, guys?" Hera's voice followed. "Chopper isn't the only other looper who came…"
"Hi 'Mike', 'Sable'." An identical voice said. You could practically hear the amused grin.
"Oh hey, you going by Hannah for this loop?" Sable perked up eagerly.
"More than likely."
"Hey Mike," Hannah caught his attention later in the hallway. "I met Yoyo'd. He's currently trying to avoid the Empire so he and his counterpart aren't experimented on. Plus, I don't think NonAwake Zeb would appreciate that he's looping."
"Probably not, but then again the rest of them wouldn't either." Mike shrugged. "Hey, seen any sign of our Kanan yet? I haven't felt him through the bond but you know he's the only one of us who can actually hide his Force signature."
"No, but I heard something about a 'metal monster' turning ships into crushed cans." Hannah said amusedly.
"That's Zeb alright," The anchor rolled his eyes. "I'll see if I can reach him. Otherwise, want me to generate a fake ID with BT Corps?"
"Sure. You still set that company up even in, what, two months?"
"Hannah, I could set my company up in ten seconds if I wanted to. And the five second delay is because that's how long it'd take for anyone to realize there's completely revolutionary programming tech on the market." Mike deadpanned.
"Touché."
12.6
"Cannonball!" Ezra yelled as he jumped into the water.
"Hey, watch it kid!" Zeb splashed him as he came up for air.
"Ez, if you mess up my tan I'm kicking you back into Zeb's room for a week." Sabine rolled her eyes.
"Not going in the water Kanan?" Hera asked from a floaty.
"Not just yet, I need to learn how to swim first…" The Jedi scratched the back of his head when everyone turned to him.
"Wait, how do you not know how to swim?" Ezra asked in shock.
"I've never had a reason to learn!" Kanan defended. "Besides, I can't remember if I knew how in baseline or not. And I've never had any loop memories that could help me learn how."
"That's it, get in the water." Ezra pointed to the large, crystal clear pond right out of a fairy tale. "If I have to I'll cast a partial anamorphic spell."
Kanan looked nervously at the water. "I don't know…"
"Oh come on, the water's beautiful and the perfect temperature!" Hera rolled her eyes.
"…Ezra has to stop trying to get me over my fear of cold for the next ten loops we're both looping."
"Deal." Ezra said. "This is seriously a life skill, I don't know why you don't know how by now."
Kanan pulled off his shirt and began wading carefully into the shallow part of the pond. The two loopers messing around finally got annoyed, Zeb shoving Kanan into the deeper water and Ezra catching him.
"See? It's not so bad." Ezra grinned.
"I hate you guys so much." Kanan grumbled. "And I hate the loops too, I swear they use me as the running gag." He tried treading water but as soon as Ezra let go he started sinking.
The Anchor caught him and rolled his eyes. "Use your arms too, it takes a really strong swimmer to swim in one spot with just their legs."
Kanan suddenly screamed and something clicked instinctually. He swam like a lightning bolt out of the water, cursing up a storm.
Zeb came up next to Ezra laughing his butt off.
"That was great!"
"Zeb, did you really have to do that?" Sabine snickered.
"That was kind of mean." Hera covered her mouth to hide her smile.
"That was hilarious!" Ezra clapped Zeb's shoulder as he fell into hysterics. "See master? Swimming isn't so hard!"
"I really really hate you guys." Kanan muttered, huddled up in the shallow water with a deep scowl.
"Oh come on Kanan, lighten up!" Zeb laughed.
'I think I know what you mean by 'running gag' now,' Chopper whirled to Kanan, far away from the water due to an extreme dislike of the stuff. He couldn't short out anymore but so long as a normal droid had cemented a hatred for getting wet.
"At least someone does, I swear I'm the only one who sees it…" Kanan got out of the water and grabbed a towel, sitting down by the droid. "I'm adding 'swimming' to my list of 'Things I'm never doing ever ever ever again' right under snow."
'Snow? Just snow?'
"Yes. Snow involves everything cold."
'Ah, I get it. I don't really like the stuff either. It gets in joints and melts.'
"Really? Never thought of that, quick question. Will you ever do anything aimed towards getting me over my phobia?"
'Nope, I completely understand a phobia of cold stuff. I hate cold. I'm not scared of it though, just hate it.'
"I think we're going to get along great from now on…"
"Aw, look Sabine." Hera was getting out of the water to sit next to Sabine. "Kanan and Chopper are bonding."
"About time," The kunoich chuckled. "Hey, can you help me put some sun tanning cream on my back? I think Ezra's distracted." The lasat had just dunked said teenager under the water.
"Sure." Hera shook her head at their antics. "I have a question of my own though, how long are we going to stay at this place? The loop looked pretty busy last time I checked."
Sabine looked around the beautiful shoreline and the sparkling water. She then looked at Hera and raised an eyebrow. "Not anytime soon, but it's not the first time we messed up the timeline because we weren't where we were supposed to be."
"Very true." The twilek laughed.
12.1
*Similar to Ezra with his programming and Zeb with his languages, Sabine visited the Naruto loop and got into ninjutsu.
*Kallus is more getting into fighting in general.
12.2
*I apparently really like Ezra and Sabine being protective of each other.
12.3
*And then there are those loops.
*Poor Kanan.
12.4
*Haven't had one of these in a while.
12.5
*7.1
*Think back to when Zeb replaced Gajeel, he's got Iron Dragonslaying magic.
12.6
*Mostly just fun fluff. :3
Quick note on Zeb's seemingly very calm acceptance of Kallus looping. He's a looper. At this point he's really really really old and (whether they act it or not) all loopers are "wise". He knows that through the loops, villains don't usually stay villains and that Kallus has even more reason not to. Not to mention it's fairly obvious he's got the worst luck out of all the loopers so far. Every loop he's going to wake up with brand new memories of what atrocities he's committed this time. Zeb's not going to make things hard for someone who has to deal with that sh!t.
Also the fact that they're still having their "fights" helps a little. Just a little.
Please Read and Review, tell me how you guys feel about Kallus so far. ;3