Hey guys! Nice to see you. :3 Some silly stuff going on this chapter~
Thank you JoshRand1982, ShepardisaBOSS, Paint the Wolf (Guest), Pulsar747, CyberLeader, Guest (anonymous), and Dragonfan47 for reviewing last chapter!
Paint: You weren't rude at all - I was just mentioning it so that people understand that real life phobias aren't as funny as fictional phobias. It's one of those topics that kind of squick me because a lot of people irl apparently don't understand that phobias aren't something you should joke about when it's something that happens to someone you know. Phobias aren't something to be embarrassed of either: Sure it's illogical and people don't understand it, but as I said EMOTIONS are illogical and people don't understand THEM. And phobias are FUELED by emotion and past events that honestly are very understandable when you get down to the root of it. Such as mine. A year or so ago I accidentally cut my finger on a machete while cutting wood. It pretty much file'd a thin piece of skin off my pinkie, chipped an artery, and pinched a nerve. Not to mention if I'd gotten it at just a BARELY different angle, I'd have cut my finger plain off. Ever since then just looking at sharp objects makes the most incredibly disturbing sensation of being cut open and stabbed run through my head and since I think in sensations it feels as if it's actually happening. When I first explain that I have Aichmophobia, a fear of sharp objects (though usually more pertaining to needles), people don't really understand and think it's funny. It's when I explain (in very gruesome detail) exactly why and how disturbing it is do they realize that it's not funny. Sorry for being such a downer though! Why don't you create an account on fanfiction? I'd love to actually talk to you.
Guest: If you're confused look up "infinite loops" on tv tropes and you can get a good explanation of the loops. ;)
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The Adventures of a Time Traveling Padawan Chapter 15
15.1
Ezra coughed as he tried to talk.
'Wait, am I actually mute this loop?' The Anchor grinned. 'Oh this is gonna be fun.'
"Wait, what?" Kanan blinked as Ezra hadn't even reacted to the usual signal.
The boy looked at him blankly, hands suddenly moving in what appeared to be universal sign language. [Do I know you?]
"I have no idea what you're saying." Kanan admitted, the boy rolling his eyes. "But I have a friend who probably will, not sure if she knows USL though…" Actually he knew for a fact that both Sabine and Zeb knew the language when looping. Since only Hera was looping, that was a bit of a problem.
Apparently Ezra wasn't looping though. The teenager barely so much as twitched when Kanan casually poked him through the bond.
"Do you think there's a stealth Anchor?" The twi'lek asked him.
"Maybe. All I know is Ezra's not Awake. Heck, there might be an Anchor somewhere on the other side of the galaxy and we just don't know. The ping might just have not reached them yet." Kanan shrugged.
"So we get the privilege of messing with a NonAwake Ezra." Hera grinned. "Though something about the whole mute thing sounds vaguely familiar…"
Kanan blinked and looked at Chopper suspiciously. The astromech had been acting oddly and the Jedi had the sinking suspicion that he was secretly Awake. But that didn't make any sense, since he didn't emit his usual soul signature.
"E-Z-R-A, B-R-I-D-G-E-R," Sabine said as she watched the mute kid sign out the letters to his name. The nonlooping Mandolorian had luckily known how to speak USL.
"Well, Ezra," Kanan began but then paused as he began to sign rapidly.
"He's asking if he can join." Sabine looked at him amusedly. Ezra clapped to get her attention and then signed some more. "I think we should give him a shot, to be honest. He's saying he won't be a burden." She added on as an afterthought when she received a slight glare.
Kanan was going to ask him to join anyways. Ezra, Awake or not, was always a good addition to the team. "…Sure, why not." He shook his head as Ezra fistpumped silently.
Kanan's eyebrows rose as he saw a bowl float by. "…What?"
Hera was sitting at the kitchen table amusedly as Ezra bobbed his head to music playing in his earbuds. He was doing dishes and apparently absentmindedly using the Force to float things around the room.
'You're Awake aren't you.' Kanan deadpanned through the bond, curtaining it so Hera didn't notice.
'…Dangit. To be fair, I actually am mute this loop. How's Hera's reaction?'
'Hasn't realized you're likely Awake. At this point it looks like you don't even realize what you're doing. Good thing her last Jedi loop was a while back, otherwise she'd know that having this much fine control over the Force while untrained is pretty much impossible.' Kanan raised an eyebrow at Hera, as if asking what was going on.
"I came in a few minutes ago." She snickered. "He hasn't even noticed I'm here."
'Not true~' Ezra sang through the bond. Kanan made sure his snicker was only mental and didn't show in his expression.
'Want an accomplice?'
'Please.'
'Alright, so, you have something to do with Chopper right?'
'Absolutely. He's letting LOKI use him as a body right now and no, before LOKI filled him in he wasn't Awake. He's still technically not Awake.'
'Makes sense. Now, we have to make this look convincing…'
Jedi master padawan bonds were so useful. Not only did they provide an easy, unhackable means of communication, but they made pulling pranks so much easier.
As the loop ended, Ezra turned to Kanan with a conspiratorial grin.
"Go ahead." Kanan crossed his arms and leaned back in his chair with a similar grin.
'Sup Hera.'
"Why you little-"
15.2
"Happy birthday me." Ezra hummed and tapped a few buttons on his tablet. "Now, if only I could convince this version of Sabine to leave me alone…"
It was probably one of the weirdest variants he went through, where Sabine was the one with a crush on him instead of the other way around. While he'd been entertained at first once he started dating her looping self it got awkward. Very, very awkward.
As in, him hiding out in his tower the entire loop awkward.
NonAwake Kanan was almost always sympathetic and usually helped him get out of the situation. Awake Kanan, not so much. He found it absolutely hilarious and Ezra would swear he'd smelled popcorn whenever things started to get really dramatic.
So Ezra had decided to do his usual and hide out in his tower… Until Sabine apparently got 'dedicated' and he remembered that she knew where his tower WAS.
So now he was on a transporter trying to get out of dodge.
"Whatcha doin' there kid?" Ezra blinked and looked to his right where someone had sat down a little bit ago. He blinked again and held back a snort.
"Nothing much." He told Lando casually. While this guy came up pretty much every loop, Ezra hadn't run into him outside of certain events. This could lead to something interesting for this loop…
"Oh? I'm pretty sure I saw something." His eyes glinted slightly.
"Really?" Ezra raised an eyebrow. "And who are you to see it?"
"Lando Calrissian. You?"
"Ezra." He gave a smug look when Lando looked interested that he hadn't given his last name. "Only either someone incredibly confident or ridiculously stupid would give their full name to a complete stranger."
Lando laughed. "I like you kid, you've got spunk." Ezra grinned. "So what are you doing?"
"Stuff." Ezra thought over possibilities as Lando snorted. Really, there wasn't much of a point. But Ezra had been getting bored the past few loops so he turned the tablet to him with a smirk to reveal several codes. "What do you know about Blue Time Corporations?"
Like magic his eyebrows shot up. "BT Corps? You're talking about one of the most revolutionary tech and programming companies, exclusive to only certain buyers. Those buyers are under strict guidelines to not share. The Empire would kill to get their paws on some of that stuff and other people too." He narrowed his eyes. "What would a kid like you know about BT Corps?"
Ezra snorted. "This 'kid' is the owner and the one that creates everything."
Cue jaw drop. "…You're kidding."
"Nope." Ezra popped the p as he casually checked that the privacy spell he'd cast was still intact.
"Why tell me?" Lando visibly put aside his shock for curiosity.
"Boredom." Ezra admitted with a shrug. "The fact that I'm the only person who knows. Kind of grates on you after a while, ya know?"
"No, but I can imagine." Lando was obviously shifting from the surprised phase to amused disbelief.
"You want some proof?" Ezra smiled.
"That would be nice."
Ezra clicked a few things on his tablet and then flipped it towards Lando.
Cue second jaw drop.
"Believe me?"
"I want in."
"That was my point."
A few weeks later Ezra was thoroughly amused and… actually, learning quite a lot about business that he'd missed. He preferred sending middle men. With Lando acting as his 'manager' he had to get involved personally a lot of the time.
Though it did take a while to get him to stop risking so much. Gambling and taking risks in general didn't bother Ezra, it was the sheer amount that Lando took on a daily basis.
There was a slight issue at first with that since Lando didn't see any problem with it. But a conversation where Ezra revealed the loops in frustration convinced him that Ezra actually just wanted him to tame it down instead of stopping like everyone else was always getting onto his case to do.
Out of everyone possible, Ezra knew that risks could be taken. He was a looper for crying out loud! Risks were often a part of everything he did. Not to mention he was (usually) a part of a rebel crew. That involved a LOT of risks.
At the same time, he knew there had to be a limit to how many risks a person takes.
"Hey kid!" Lando came through the door with a grin. "Remember how you told me what happens in baseline where I'm involved?"
"Don't tell me," Ezra deadpanned.
"Yup. Met your bud Zeb. Won that droid off him." His grin widened. "Gave the droid back."
"No." Ezra raised an eyebrow.
"In exchange for a favor at an unappointed time." Lando shrugged admittingly.
"Ah, it comes out." Ezra grinned.
"Hey, you're the time traveler guy." Lando smirked. "You're also the reason I haven't gotten another bounty on my head for… What, three months now?"
"And a half." Ezra snickered.
"Exactly. I figured I could cut your friend some slack."
"Thanks, Lando."
"No problem kid."
'Ezra?'
'Yeah Kanan?'
'I just heard from a source that Lando Calrissian is the manager of the BT Corps owner.'
'…Yyyyeah…'
'…Just be careful.' Kanan's voice was more than amused.
'Of course. When have I not been?'
'Well…'
'Don't answer that.'
"The loop's bound to end sooner or later…" Ezra pointed out. "I just wanted to let you know that I'm going to try and play nice with your Nonlooping counterparts but it's probably not going to go well."
"Eh, I know how I am." Lando snorted. "Just do the same thing you did with me and you should be good."
"I won't be able to do the same thing every time, not to mention that would get boring pretty fast," Ezra shrugged. "But I'll try. Maybe try finding a way to do it without revealing the loops…"
"I don't know how that'd work, but if anyone could it would be you." Lando smirked.
"Damn right."
15.3
The nonlooping Zeb gaped as his Awake counterpart phased through a metal wall.
"Oh, hey." The looper couldn't quite restrain a smirk. "Finally found you guys."
"Having fun?" Mike snarked, turning his tablet so everyone could see the headlines screaming about a metal monster destroying Imperial ships.
"Yeah…" He scratched the back of his head sheepishly. "My last loop was kind of a bad one. I needed some stress relief."
"Ah." All the loopers nodded in understanding.
"Since when-" Zeb twitched. "You, how?! What?!"
"We can keep certain abilities from other loops." Sable shrugged. "Like me, I kept chakra and ninjutsu from Naruto's loop."
"They don't know what chakra is." Hannah reminded her.
"Kind of a more physical version of the Force, except the ability to use it is a lot more widespread and generally anyone has a possibility of using it." Mike shrugged. "Hey, you need a name so you don't get mixed up with your nonlooper counterpart." He reminded Zeb.
"Do I have to?" He whined. "The loops never give me normal names. I don't have anything to go off of."
"Too bad." Sable shrugged. "You'll have to come up with something."
"Fine. I'll think of something." He grumbled. "Oh yeah, Yoyo's taking this as a vacation loop."
"I thought he would," Mike hummed. "What kind of vacation loop?"
"Actual vacation. Think he was heading for Naboo."
"What?" Kanan turned to Hannah for explanations.
"Yoyo is another looper, and we're not giving his name because reasons. Vacation loops are kind of varied. You've got ones where we don't pay attention to baseline and completely change the timeline, vacation loops where we spend the whole loop pranking the Empire in increasingly humiliating and humorous ways, and actual vacation loops where we typically spend the whole time on a beach." She shrugged at their surprise. "Well we don't all take actual vacation loops, at the least there's one of us making sure the Empire's not getting out of hand."
"Outside of the times other loopers loop in and we get to kick back and watch as the fireworks fly." Mike smirked.
"Hah! Yeah I remember the time Naruto came here." Sable looked into the distance dreamily. "The colors…"
"And the blast radius." Mike whistled.
"He punched a ship in half." Looping Zeb grinned. "That was a great one."
"How do you punch a ship in half?" Ezra whispered to Kanan with wide eyes.
"I don't even want to know."
15.1
*HEY GUYS DO YOU REMEMBER 2.3 IN ONE OF THE EARLIER CHAPTERS :D
*Ezra is such a troll. Honestly I'm not even sure what I've done to his character anymore.
*Typically they can sense through the extended Master-Padawan bond to see if anyone is Awake like how they learned about Zeb, but first Kanan and then Ezra learned how to mask their 'aged' feel to pretend they weren't Awake. It has a few practical uses but it's mostly used for pranks.
15.2
*I feel like Looping Ezra would have such an awesome friendship with Lando. The kind of friendship where they get chased after by bounty hunters and blow things up all while relaxing and sipping fruity drinks out of fancy glasses and bendy straws.
15.3
*7.2
*In case you were wondering what Zeb was up to.
*Yes, Yoyo is Kallus. Kallus doesn't care that his code name is so ridiculous because honestly he really REALLY likes the Ying Yang Yoyo and Ezra has to keep supplying him with extras because he keeps breaking/losing them.
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