So! I am, as of last week, officially in California visiting family. No worries, if anything it gives me MORE time to write so my stories will actually benefit from it. But I'm running low on pretyped chapters! I've got plenty of ideas to still go for but tell me what you guys are wanting to see and I'll work it in somewhere! I love hearing your ideas and the feedback I get!
Thank you ShepardisaBOSS, Paint the Wolf (Guest), Dragonfan47, StoryWander, and Kat Bridger for reviewing last chapter!
Paint: At the same time it's funny it's not. Phobias are illogical but so is emotion. Neither one should be made fun of. Since this is a fictional character we're talking about here it's fun to laugh about it and nothing's wrong with that, but (and I'm saying this to everyone not just to you Paint) in real life if you know anyone with a phobia do your best to help them cope with it in their own way. I happen to have a phobia of my own and it's downright cruel when people think it's funny to do things to trip me off. Sorry to get all depressing on you though! You guys can laugh and poke fun at Kanan's cryophobia all you want. :P
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The Adventures of a Time Traveling Padawan Chap 14
14.1
"EZRAAAAA!"
"KANAAAAAN!" There was silence. "What? He said my name first."
The human looked down on the three small creatures in annoyance. "This loop is already giving me a headache."
"Why am I the 'cute one'?" Hera asked curiously. "Wouldn't I work better as the 'smart one'?"
"I know chemical compounds like nobody's business." Sabine examined her claws proudly. "Comes with the art."
"Wait a second…" Ezra finally looked over his new body with a look of growing humor. "Are we those creatures that…?"
"From the 'you have to make a connection' lesson? Yes." Kanan crossed his arms.
"Still don't know what they're called…" Ezra mumbled as he flicked his ears amusedly.
"Give it a break Ezra."
"So you're telling me we've gone from being famous singers, to repeating time over and over, to rebels against a tyrannical empire?" Simon, currently human, tilted his head.
"…I would say something about that but really from the right point of view none of that makes sense." Zeb facepalmed.
'Is this your guys' first fused loop? That would explain your confusion.' Chopper whirled.
"It's their first fused loop, I've already had a few because I'm the awesome one." Alvin smirked. "Which the guy I'm replacing must be because I can't do something as uncool as looping into the place of a nonawesome person."
"Suddenly I see why he's replacing Ezra…" Zeb growled to Dave.
"Hey guys?" Said human looked around worriedly. "Did anyone see where Theodore went off to?"
Everyone fell over as the ship apparently did a barrel roll.
"Hey guys!" A familiar, but nonsqueaky, voice came over the intercom. "I can fly a ship! YAY!"
'Okay, that was just too cute.' Chopper beeped hysterically.
14.2
Ezra looked at the lightsaber in confusion.
'Right, this, yeah I don't know what to tell you here…' The voice muttered rebelliously.
'What do you mean?! Wasn't it you who led me here?!' Ezra made sure to think his reply.
'Sorry, nope. That happens in baseline too.'
'What?'
'Nothing.'
'Stop doing that!'
'Doing what?'
'Saying something that doesn't make sense and not explaining it!'
'Turn around real quick.'
Ezra, by now knowing the voice's advice was always useful, whirled around to see the man with the shoulderguard standing in the doorway.
"Out." He glared at him.
"It's a lightsaber," Ezra ignored that comment. "Isn't that the weapon of the jedi?"
'Ding ding ding.' The voice said almost boredly. Ezra held in a shiver, he'd already figured out that the voice being bored was usually a bad thing.
The man didn't answer, just held out his hand.
"Look, I know you're not going to believe me, but…" Ezra trailed off as the voice started speaking.
'Say that and he's DEFINITELY not going to believe you.'
'What else am I supposed to say? I got lost looking for the bathroom?'
'Well it sounds more sane…'
'Told you he wouldn't believe it.'
'Oh shut up.'
"Stupid stupid voice!" Ezra yelped as he dodged another stormtrooper. "Why am I listening to a voice in the back of my head?!"
'Because you know you'd have done it anyway without my urging! Duck, down left!'
Ezra followed the instructions and cursed as the blast nearly singed him.
"WHY DID I DO THIS?!"
'Because because! Jump to the right!'
"THAT MAKES NO SENSE! And now I'm running through an imperial ship abandoned by the crazy people who brought me here and yelling at a voice in my head!" Ezra's yells took on a slightly hysterical tone. "WHY?!"
'Can't tell you that one, sorry. I know a lot of things but I'm not omnipotent. Oh… oh dear. Stop or you'll run face first into something very hard.'
Ezra skidded to a stop right as a sheet of metal slammed down across the hallway.
"You got me caught!"
'I saved you a broken nose.' The voice countered.
"You know all this other stuff, why didn't you know that was about to happen?"
'Because the first time I got caught right once Zeb left and didn't get a chance to run and after that I just avoided that situation all together.' The voice was silent as Ezra blinked. 'Oh karrabast, I didn't mean to say that.'
"Wait a second…" Ezra switched to thinking. 'What do you mean?'
'Uh… Well, hello, younger me. I'm you. But, you know, stuck in a time loop.'
'…What?'
'…Let's just go with the 'I'm you from an alternate future' thing for now, okay? That's actually mostly true anyways.'
Ezra sat down numbly. '…?'
'Okay, listen up, just relax and calm down okay? Hold on a sec, I just remembered something. Remember that cube thing you snatched? Take it out real quick.'
'…Huh?'
'Okay, I guess I need to slow down… Sorry, we don't have time for me to explain. Just trust me and I can tell you later. But for now, the holocube's gotta get opened. And right now is the only time you have to do that.'
'…'
'It's detrimental for the sake of your sanity and later abilities.'
'…I… Okay..?'
'Good. Now listen carefully to me…'
14.3
Kanan walked into the room.
He looked at the room for two minutes.
He turned around.
He left the room.
"Ezra! What have I told you about mutating eggbombs?"
14.4
Kallus parried a blow and pushed the lasat back a few feet.
He restrained a sigh.
It just wasn't the same fighting an Unawake Zeb, the looper could always give him a good spar at any time. Not to mention Sabine was all too eager to call out advice from the sidelines.
This loop only him and Ezra were Awake, meaning he was bored out of his mind.
"Ah!" Zeb stared at him fearfully as he clutched at his hand and he blinked. When had he disarmed him..?
"…Oh screw this loop." Kallus grunted. "Ez, got a Yoyo?"
The Anchor shrugged and tossed him a familiar artifact. "I thought I gave you one last loop?"
"It got broken." Kallus caught it effortlessly. "I'll be anti-corrupting Empirical persons of import." He started walking back to a ship he'd learned how to fly one loop. "See you next loop since I'll likely be executed." He waved behind him boredly.
"Kay, you need hobbies that aren't so deadly you know that right?"
"Says the Anchor." Kallus shot back.
"Touche."
"What was that back there?" Kanan demanded as soon as they were all safe back on the Ghost.
"What? Never seen a time looper?" Ezra effortlessly sent a mental packet he'd had prepared for NonAwake Kanan the time he'd gotten bored of telling him repeatedly.
"I…" Kanan's eyes bulged out of his head. "…Huh..?"
"Kallus is looping too, he's probably just bored out of his mind since Zeb usually spars with him when he's Awake. I'm betting the boredom got to him."
"What?" Everyone stared at him.
"Dangit, I hate it when I have to explain this… again…" Ezra rubbed his forehead. "This is so much easier when I have LOKI helping…" The AI had left to go help Kallus get around without having his usual authority.
The Agent was very likely having the time of his life being able to let loose for once.
"Ezra… what are you talking about?" Hera's voice showed she clearly thought he had snapped. "And what did you do to Kanan?" Said Jedi was staring at nothing with wide eyes as his brain processed what Ezra had sent.
"Kanan's just trying to understand the mental packet I sent to him over the bond." Ezra waved her concerns off. "And time loops are what I'm talking about. Time's repeating over and over again. Not all people are looping and not everyone remembers at once… Like this time it's just me and Kallus." Ezra shrugged. "The loop he started looping in was weird… He was a good guy, for one."
"Ezra?" Kanan's voice was shaky.
"Yeah, master?"
"Why are… you're… but it's…" Kanan fell into a nearby chair bonelessly. "I…"
"Calm down." Ezra grinned amusedly. "I'm still me, just… older. Technically, of course."
"Oh hey…" Ezra clicked on his private inbox on his tablet. He looked at the image and the caption for a few seconds before falling backwards laughing.
"Ezra?" Kanan looked at him curiously. By now he'd gotten partially used to the strange things about his 'time looping' padawan.
"Kallus!" He cackled manically. "He just… He just frickin pranked..!" Ezra just couldn't speak anymore.
Kanan picked up Ezra's tablet with a raised eyebrow and choked on air when he saw the picture.
The caption read:
'I have pranked an entire Star Destroyer full of stormtroopers and some of the more important figures in the Empire. I am officially a looper. I also think I've been around LOKI and Sabine too much.'
14.5
Ezra landed harshly and jumped up again.
"I frickin hate this loop!" He groaned when he ended up shot in the shoulder. "Why does this happen to me…"
Ezra ducked a shot from another cadet and flipped up a platform. This loop his abilities were reduced to baseline level. It was taking him forever to compensate inside of battle situations!
"Morgan is not as promising as he appeared at first." The bigger assistant that Ezra could never remember his name said with narrowed eyes.
"Yes, but Agent Kallus was quite insistent that he be allowed to continue despite a lacking performance." The creepy pale guy with a really strong British accent (who Ezra also could never remember the name of) said with disapproval clear in his voice.
And then they blinked and Ezra was climbing over the top with two other cadets right on his heels.
"How'd you pull that off?" The ISB Agent asked the Anchor curiously.
"I just let the Force guide me." Ezra grinned. "Mostly. Kind of. Sort of. Barely. Baseline abilities used in sync with how I realized I'd accidentally memorized those stupid courses."
Kallus's eyebrows rose. "…Cool."
"I know right?"
"By the way, here's that chip. Don't worry, the security's been shut down permanently. In a way that nobody will know until it's too late."
"…Sweet. You've been hanging around me too much."
"And Sabine."
"True."
Kanan blinked as he came back to… something.
"Oh hey, mind if he tags along? He got hit pretty bad in the head when I was escaping and then he helped me get out." Ezra smiled innocently as Zeb grumbled darkly in the background
Kallus, with a heavy bandage around his head that was obviously bleeding through despite how many there were, looked at him interestedly. And completely innocently. Like a puppy.
Kanan did the only thing he could think of and facepalmed.
14.6
"You-"
Kanan sighed as music played as soon as he spoke.
"Yes master?" Kanan just knew Ezra had something to do with it, an innocent act that innocent was up to something.
"You have to-"
Music played.
He sighed.
"You have to make a connection-"
"Are you kidding me?" Ezra looked at the Connector toys in disbelief.
"Gotcha." Kanan grinned, revealing he was Awake through the bond.
"Oh you're getting good."
"You have to make a connection-"
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"You have to make a connection-"
Kanan yelped as the creature launched itself at his face, only to be completely baffled when it proceeded to purr and lick his nose.
Ezra, having no idea what was going on, laughed his butt off and just rolled with it.
"You-" Kanan didn't bother finishing as he Awoke midsentence. "I am having a vacation loop and I am going somewhere tropical and warm."
Without even pausing the jedi pulled a wand from his subspace pocket and apparated to somewhere Ezra didn't feel like checking for.
'Have fun.' He sent.
'I'll send a postcard.'
Ezra blinked and couldn't help but smile.
There was a picture of Kanan snoring on a beach chair along with the postcard that had been magically delivered to him.
"The locals have been 'learning' from me, they took this while I was taking a nap."
The postcard itself was a picture of Kanan falling off said chair mid-scream, covered in ice and a bucket visible in the upper corner.
"Ah, the ice bucket." Ezra chuckled. "Classic."
14.1
*Crossover!
*So I actually learned quite a while back that the cat creatures are called Lothcats. However for the sake of a running gag the loopers remain unaware.
14.2
*They see me trollin~ They HATIN~
*Mike has alternated between giving Ezra legitimate advice and singing nonsensical songs to annoy him.
14.3
*"But I'm not even sure how it happened this time!"
*You'd be surprised how often this happens.
14.4
*Kanan's boredom ends in him doing some suicide attack or prank against the Empire at least one in every three loops. Ezra's right: he really DOES need a hobby that's not so deadly. The weapons thing is helping but not very much. Especially when Zeb's not looping to keep him entertained in spars.
*The prank involved pink and ribbons. Lots and lots of ribbons.
14.5
*Sometimes the loops will limit the loopers' abilities and, considering they've had millenia to advance them, getting downsized usually takes a little getting used to.
*The loopers have a lot of fun making friends with the looping Kallus and managing to trick the nonloopers into at least playing nice with him.
14.6
*Kanan's misery is officially my favorite running gag. The poor guy.
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