Thanks for the love you guys give this story! It's amazing, really, and I love hearing ideas from you guys for future chapters!
Thank you majishan, word puzzler, Paint the Wolf (Guest), GameBerzerker, and guest (Anonymous) for reviewing last chapter!
Paint: Of course Ezra's lost his mind he's the Anchor. And Oh My God. LOKI x CHOPPER would be both the most entertaining and most terrifying ship. LOPPER sounds appropriate. And it seems I have some character developement for CHOPPER to get to writing - I've been meaning to but I've been distracted. Actually, last chapter only had the Looping! and NonLooping! CHOPPERs meeting. LOKI was already there with Mike. also how are you after the booty when he was only missing his shirt I have my end of semester tests on the last two days of school. THAT'S what really sucks.
guest: That would be cool and all, but this is just a compilation of oneshots essentially. It would be... kind of... impossible to write out everything in full detail. And while some loops are interesting enough that an entire story expanding on it would be cool, I'm just not that interested in doing that myself. If you guys want to use one of my loops to make your own nonlooping story you're more than welcome to though! Just let me know because I'd love to hear about it!
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The Adventures of a Time Traveling Padawan Chap 13
13.1
"Who are you kid?!" Kanan yelled as the blue haired teenager drove the speeder alongside him.
"Meh, just another street rat." Ezra shrugged, not really feeling it this loop.
"Ezra? Are you okay?" Hera asked their 'new' crew member worriedly.
"Meh." He just shrugged and spun around again. Something was definitely wrong, even spinning around in his favorite spinning chair didn't cheer him up!
"You have to make a connection-"
Ezra sighed and didn't even bother looking at the cat creature, scratching its head as it purred and walked right up to him.
"I worked in the back of a pet shop once for a few extra credits. Animals apparently really like me." He shrugged noncommitedly, not feeling the usual cackling fit that came over him whenever he messed with a NonAwake version of his master.
Kanan just facepalmed and chalked it up to the weirdness that was his padawan.
"You little brat," Zeb paused in his rant at Ezra and blinked.
"Feeling a little loopy or something?" Ezra raised an eyebrow boredly.
"Yeah, feels like I just Awoke." Zeb shook his head, code given and received. Ezra waited patiently as he reviewed his loop memories. "Hey, what's up with you this loop?"
"I'm not sure, just… not really feeling it…" Ezra plopped down in his spinning chair, which 'magically' always happened to be wherever he needed it. He still thanked Rarity for teaching him that trick.
Zeb rolled his eyes. "Okay, spill. What happened last loop."
"Nothing, I swear." Ezra defended suspiciously. Now it was Zeb's turn to raise an eyebrow. "Okay, fine… Last loop just… It… There wasn't very much different about it, to be honest… As far as the crew goes. Everyone was exactly the same."
"But?" The lasat urged him on, getting a sinking feeling. The last time the Anchor had been this down was when he'd been in a Freddy's loop three times in a row.
"But we were with the Empire." Ezra groaned.
"You're kidding."
"Nope. That was the freaky thing, we were the bad guys but everyone was still… them, you know? I only stuck around to be an infiltrator and to mess with things." Ezra sighed. "I just… want to spend the loop relaxing, okay?"
"Sure thing Ez," Zeb clapped his shoulder. "If any of the others Awake I'll let them know."
"Thanks Zeb." He sighed again, spinning idly.
13.2
"So, 'Hannah'?" Hera asked her counterpart curiously.
Hannah just shrugged. "It's pretty common to have names changed in the loops. Sometimes a name like Hera isn't normal, so the loops end up giving us different names. They usually have some connection, either with how they sound, similar letters, sometimes it's just one thing added on top of another. I'm still not sure where Ezra got 'Michael Pill' since that was long before I Awoke."
"You shall nevah know~!" LOKI snickered as the two twi'lek rolled their eyes.
"You're taking the loops a lot better than the others," Hannah noted. "In fact, better than I did my first loop."
"I guess it's just different since I'm not actually going through them." Hera shrugged.
"True." Hannah admitted. "While the things we go through are crazy, they're just funny stories once everything's said and done. Speaking of stories…"
"Rules?" Sable asked right off the bat.
"Nothing to do with pairings, deaths, or anything that could be mentally scarring to the nonloopers." Mike announced from next to her.
"And nothing too embarrassing," Hannah added on.
'Aw man…' The looping Chopper, having decided to go by Omi, whirred disappointedly.
"Who's starting?" Mike settled back into his seat with a raised eyebrow.
"Obviously not you, since you always wait until we're done saying ours before saying something that blows them both out of the water." Sable rolled her eyes.
"Exactly."
"I'll start," Hannah hummed thoughtfully. "How about… Fans?" There was a flinch from Mike.
"Oh yeah, I've got this in the bag…" He muttered.
Sable rolled her eyes. "Fans? I've got one. In one loop, I was a princess."
"Your majesty!"
"Princess Sabine!"
"Sign this law please!"
"Please help me!"
"Your highness!"
"What do you think about-"
"Who do you plan on being engaged to-"
"Has anyone proposed yet?!"
"Princess!"
"MARRY ME OH MY GOSH!"
"And?" The nonloopers looked at her curiously.
"I was an unmarried princess and therefore everyone was bent on getting on my good side to either hook me up to someone or marry me themselves. I ended up going 'rogue royalty' on them and then I still ended up with my own crazy group of fans because it's apparently something everyone thinks is cool or something…" Sable grumbled.
"Royalty suckups, I hate those ones." Mike nodded sympathetically.
"I have one way better," Hannah smirked. "Popstar."
"When was this loop?" Mike snickered.
"I'm not sure, that loop was confusing… I think there was a stealth anchor." Hannah shrugged. "But the paparazzi… They wouldn't leave me alone!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" The screams and cheers rattled the window.
Hera shut it with a sigh.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!" The muffled screams continued.
"Alright Mike, go for it." Sable leaned back expectantly.
"You guys remember the Avengers' loop, right?" Mike ran a hand through his hair.
"Yeah, sometimes their timelines don't actually extend to the 'Avengers' part." Hannah shrugged. "I was Hawkeye."
"Yeah, well, this was one of those weird loops with that situation." Mike sank into his seat. "I was Tony Stark."
"Oh." Sable's eyes widened.
"And for some reason I'd looped in as a weird mix between Bruce and Tony." He buried his face in his hands.
"Owch." Hannah visibly flinched.
"And Tony himself replaced Hulk."
"Oh my." Sable held a hand over her mouth to hide her smirk.
"So yeah, not only was there the usual public insanity over Tony Stark, but I was bothered a ton because I'd been seen yelling at Tony and forgetting to think it." He groaned. "Of all the people to get stuck in my head, it had to be him."
"I thought you practically idolized him for the technology he created?" Hannah raised an amused eyebrow.
"That does NOT mean I want him stuck in my head. Do you have any idea how many languages he cusses in? More than Zeb…"
Hannah and Sable burst into laughter while the nonloopers just scratched their heads.
13.3
Ezra Awoke in a soundless area with no form of light or substance around him. Curiously poking out with the force, he realized that he didn't even have a form of his own.
Reaching out telepathically his hypothetical eyes popped out of his hypothetical head.
'Oh you've GOT to be kidding me.'
An Unawake Ezra blinked and looked around curiously. He shook his head and shrugged.
His attention was quickly caught by two guys down on the streets…
Ezra connected subtly to his Unawake self's senses, only to be bombarded by adrenaline. Recognizing the situation through hurried images he made a mental grin.
'Duck.'
Ezra ducked the fist coming his way with wide eyes. Zooming away on the speeder he'd stolen he shook his head.
'No worries, you're not crazy. Yes you're hearing voices, well, a voice, but you're not crazy.'
"Who..?! Who's there?!" He nearly shook his head but had to focus on the chase going on around him.
'If you want to talk to me all you have to do is think it. And swerve to the left real quick.'
Following the voice's directions Ezra ended up getting away relatively unscathed.
'Who are you? Why are you helping me? Why are you in my HEAD?!'
'Not important, because it's something fun and productive to do, and I have no idea.'
Ezra processed that for a second. 'You… don't know how you ended up in my head?'
'Nope.'
"Well this is just great…" He groaned, forgetting to think it. 'Okay, so, we can't exactly be arguing over this right now because I'm kind of in the middle of something. We'll be having a talk about this later, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt for now.'
'Fine by me. I'll keep giving you advice and stuff because I have nothing else to do. That okay?'
'I guess..?'
'Good, cause… wait for it… look up.'
Ezra looked up.
"Oh come on!"
13.4
"I I I I've had the time of my li-i-ife! And I've never felt this way before-ore!" Ezra sang loudly and purposefully off tune. "And I swe-ear, this is tru-u-ue! And I owe it all to you!"
Kanan was too busy snickering, while the rest of the crew (UnAwake) were just watching with wide eyes.
Ezra threw down the microphone with a smirk and turned around. He jumped off the table and walked out smoothly.
"…What the heck was that?"
Kanan lost it and burst into hysterical laughter.
13.5
"No Ezra." Kanan shuddered when he looked out the window and saw the snow. "No no no no."
"Oh come on Kanan!" Ezra shook his head. "You're going to have to get over it someday."
"If I have anything to do with it, 'someday' will be very, very far away." Kanan shivered.
"You have cryophobia?"
"If that means a fear of cold, then yes." Kanan took a drink of his cider. "This is good," He looked at it appreciatingly.
"Yeah, Mac makes the best." The purple creature in front of him nodded. "But I'm more interested in your phobia right now. Do you know how it started?"
Kanan, currently in a similar form as the creature, sighed. "It's… kind of stupid. No, really stupid. It was a game loop, with snow sledding."
"Owch, I can see where this is going…" Twilight flinched sympathetically.
"Do you ever get the feeling that the universe is using you as a running gag?" Kanan slumped against the table, hoof holding onto his mug. "I swear, that's my life in the loops. I was dead last, crashed a minimum of fifty times, and everybody hit me when passing, then threw a snowball at me… I was horrified to learn that I literally had to finish the race. I'd blink and be back in my sled on the slope and going again." Kanan shuddered. "The cold I ended up with lasted to the next loop."
"That… isn't that stupid." The purple alicorn shrugged. "I had a fear of snakes, for no reason. It's likely with you that it started as a small fear slash hatred and then developed into a full blown phobia."
"…Yeah, I think that is what happened." Kanan blinked and lifted his head. With a frown he prodded at the master padawan bond. 'Ezra, should I be worried that you feel more hysterical than the time you put the Inquisitor in a compressed time loop within our loop?'
'NO. Everything's fine! Just… Just hold on a sec!' There were snickers and cackles from Ezra.
"Wait a minute…" Kanan's eyes widened right as Pinkie Pie burst into the bar.
"Oh my gosh! I forgot to give you your 'Yay You're a Prince and Not Freaking Out Over Being a Pony Anymore' party!" She blew a noise maker in his face with a wide grin.
Kanan just blinked owlishly at her. "Pinkie, you already gave me that. Just… split into two different ones."
"Just go with it, she gets kind of…" Twilight paused. "Dedicative if ponies don't go to her parties."
Kanan sighed. "Ezra, I'll get you back for this you know that right?"
Ezra, who'd been hiding behind Pinkie, stuck his head out with a grin. "Oh I know. But it's worth it after your reaction the first time you looped here."
"See?" Kanan waved his hoof at his padawan with a look at Twilight.
"I think so." She giggled. "Come on, we might as well go to the party. Pinkie's parties are always worth it."
"Yay!" Pinkie bolted out babbling about party favors and frosting.
13.6
Kallus Awoke as usual sitting down at his desk. As usual, he pretended to shuffle a few datapads as he skimmed through his loop memories. And, like always, he felt incredible disgust over the things his NonAwake self did.
It seemed he had Awoken later in the loop than he normally did, which was interesting. He looped rarely compared to the other loopers so he didn't have as much variation.
A few minutes later there was a buzz and he had to argue with a cadet over podracer parts. Seriously, what did he need podracer parts for? Suddenly he blinked and remembered something Ezra had told him.
He facepalmed and turned around.
"You could have just asked." He raised an eyebrow to the Anchor, who had stuck his head out of the vent curiously at his words.
"Oh hey, you Awake?"
"Would I say that if I weren't?" He nodded.
"Oh. Then mind deactivating the security? And maybe helping us out with something?"
"I don't have anything better to do this loop." He shrugged.
"…What?" Zare gaped.
13.1
*Poor Ezra and his solo loops. :( You guys wanted to see a little more of these, though it's not much.
13.2
*This whole time I've been saying it's 7.1 but it's actually 7.2 take a note
*It's always a 50/50 over whether NonAwake Hera is the chill mom who rolls with the weirdness or the spazz who is (rightfully) constantly terrified for her children's lives. *coughbirdmomandsquaremomcough*
13.3
*Okay this was inspired by something similar happening to Twilight in MLP Loops. Again, the IDEA was from there but this story is not connected to any other story WHATSOEVER.
*Again, Mike trolling Ezra. :3
13.4
*Ezra likes music. ^^
13.5
*Felt like Kanan needed a little encouragement dealing with his phobia as it grows more serious... Okay and again yes I added MLP but I was itching to do another pony!Kanan loop and it just happened.
*Twilight actually did have a phobia of snakes in baseline.
13.6
*Kallus gets bored easily.