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The Adventures of a Time Traveling Padawan Chapter 17

17.1

The gathered jedi flinched at the noise that grated at just the right pitch to distract even the most dedicated from their meditation.

"Caleb! Ezra!"

Kanan startled with wide eyes and immediately shadow jumped into the nearest pillar. Ezra, having joined his master in the extremely early timing of the loop, yelped and apparated away just in time.

Luminara rounded the corner to see two kazoos clattering to the stone floors. She frowned heavily. The two newest recruits showed incredible potential, but they would not stop with their pranks and practical jokes. Not to mention they were never actually caught in the act.

Many times, such as this, they had nearly been nearly apprehended only to disappear into thin air. Every jedi in the temple could easily sense that it was them through the Force but they could never actually pin the blame on them!

Luminara turned around and was about to leave when she sensed something strange. She whipped around just in time to see a hand reach out of the very shadows themselves, grab the plastic instruments, and disappear back into the darkness.

Luminara stared. She blinked. She shook her head. Then she massaged her temples to combat her sudden migraine.

17.2

Ezra Awoke and immediately started laughing. Next to him, Sabine Awoke and immediately began swearing.

In front of them stood Kanan and Hera, both human for this loop. They were covered in mud and were very very tiny. They both looked at their parents in confusion.

"Mommy? Daddy?" Ezra bent over wheezing at Kanan's high pitched voice. Then the words sunk in and he fell over in surprise, already unbalanced. Sabine's swears took it up a notch. She was cycling through several languages and seemed to be reaching Wookie.

"What's-" Hera stopped in the middle of her adorably squeaky question and her eyes widened. "Oh my god." Sabine cleared Wookie with lightning speed and hit Japanese. "Oh my god." Hera proved she'd just Awoken by burying her face in her hands.

Kanan Awoke a few seconds later and started to laugh. "This is funny!"

Ezra wheezed in shock from the floor.

"I did not need memories of labor THANK YOU VERY MUCH." Sabine was into Alagäesian dwarvish now.

17.3

Kallus sighed as he Awoke. Another Awakening, another loop of torture.

He ended up spending three hours going through datapads and reports, getting through them in record time thanks to his experience with the mindnumbing task. Once he was done he technically had four more hours worth of 'free time' but in the Empire such a thing was looked down on from the higher officers. So he took his time walking down to the training grounds.

A quick ping resulted in three responses. He didn't know which ones they were but a quick email to BT Corps would fix that later if it existed. If not, he'd Awoken at a decent time in the loop and he would come across the other loopers eventually. That was as oddity, actually. All the other loopers had general 'set' time periods in which they Awoke but Kallus's was always completely random. The only assurances he had was that he always Awoke behind a desk. Which, quite frankly, was a blessing. He'd heard horror stories about loopers who Awoke while walking or fighting.

Arriving at the training grounds for the stormtroopers he hid the sneer of disdain he desperately wanted to show. What idiot came up with this training regimen? Sure it focused on general stamina and strength, but it lacked any touches in groupwork and the standards for overall accuracy were horrendous.

Not to mention it was entirely uniform. If a stormtrooper were to lose their blaster they'd almost assuredly be doomed. There was no training for unexpected situations.

Kallus was suddenly very very glad that he'd entered the Empire for the ISB position in baseline. He was given actual training instead of this garbage.

"Hmm…" He stroked his chin and a grin slowly came up. "I think I know what I'm doing this loop."

"Any idea what Kallus is up to this loop?" Zeb leaned against the wall of their shared quarters, since Sabine wasn't Awake.

"Not really." Ezra shrugged. "He emailed me earlier and said for us to go baseline. I'm not really sure what he's doing but he actually sent an 'evil' smiley emoji."

Zeb's eyebrows rose. "You're kidding. Kallus? Emojis?"

"I know right?"

Usually in his loop Kallus would go one of two ways. First, and the one he went 60 percent of the time, was to leave the Empire and do various things. Join the rebels, go solo, prank the Empire, lead The Inquisitor on a goose chase across the galaxy, various other inane and pointless things that held entertainment value. Once he somehow ended up the Governor of a planet on the inner rim. It was fun to have a political loop.

The second way, and the one he went less often because of the stress of it, was to stay in the Empire. Sometimes it was simply for the sake of going baseline. He did try to be less destructive without messing up anything in the timeline in those cases. Other times it was to serve as a mole for the rebel cause, giving them information about the Empire from the inside.

But this time. This time he stayed because he honest to Yggdrasil was having fun.

"Quite an effective regime you've constructed, Agent Kallus." The Inquisitor scanned the room of ramrod straight stormtroopers with a rare impressed look.

"Yes, well, I noticed some… flaws within the old system. The Empire is only as strong as its weakest link and I was not going to stand by when our brave troops were being slaughtered because of improper training techniques." At this point Kallus was pretty good at bullshitting.

"So it would seem. Perhaps you would allow me a demonstration?"

Kallus grinned maliciously and the stormtroopers below shivered beneath their armor in terror.

"Is it just me, or are these guys actually hitting their marks for once?" Hera winced and tried to put pressure on her shoulder.

"I don't think it's you," Ezra pointed to where Zeb was fighting stormtroopers hand to hand. "Zeb is having trouble bashing their heads in this loop."

"Think Kallus has something to do with it?" Hera hissed slightly when Ezra pressed a bandage to the burn.

"I know he has something to do with it."

Zeb was covered in small cuts and bruises, his fists and knuckles bloody from punching hard armor the whole fight. But he was grinning. Very very widely. It was slightly creepy.

"I've never had so much fun beatin up bucketheads! We need to have Kallus do this every loop!" He shifted back and forth on his feet, antsy with leftover adrenaline.

"I'll be sure to tell him." Ezra raised an eyebrow at the wild look in his eyes and backed away a few steps.

BTHead: Please try to not do this too often.

BTHead: Zeb is creeping us all out.

BTHead: He won't stop smiling.

Yoyo'd: B)

BTHead: STOP USING EMOJIS

BTHead: IT IS NOT COOL WHEN YOU OF ALL PEOPLE USES EMOJIS

Yoyo'd: Fine.

BTHead: Oh my god you have no idea how much Zeb is freaking us all out.

BTHead: When's your next "ambush" on us because seriously he needs to get this out of his system.

Yoyo'd: Tomorrow actually.

BTHead: What do I need to do to make it today.

Yoyo'd: Help me realistically 'come across' you on Lothal. Zeb will also have to end our usual dual with me as the very in pain loser because there's no other way I'd get out of the trouble for running an unauthorized patrol.

Yoyo'd: Not to mention I need more of an incentive.

BTHead: I have about three crates of neon green eggbombs and you can have LOKI for an entire loop at request.

Yoyo'd: Pleasure doing business with you Ezra.

17.4

Sabine blinked Awake/awake and stretched. 'Hmm, that's nice. I like loops where I physically wake up at the same time I Awake.' A quick Force check and glance at her room verified that she wasn't in her loop. She sent out a wide range Ping for loopers, checking the bond for anyone else.

'Sabine.' Ezra sounded… pinched.

'What's wrong?' She couldn't help but be worried.

'Um… I was checking out the strange power source the loop put inside of me…'

As she listened to her boyfriend Sabine had casually gotten out of bed and gone to a nearby mirror to see if she looked the same or if she had replaced anyone. She blinked when she saw black hair. Turning around, she frowned when she saw the certain… armaments on the walls.

'Oh no. Ezra, I swear to god if you accidentally released the Kyubi..!'

'No no no! I just… he's very confused. And so am I. Because LOKI is in my head too, almost like a second creature got sealed in after the Fox.'

Sabine Wren, currently going by the name of Sabine Mitarashi, quickly started getting dressed. 'So LOKI's in the cage?'

'Kind of. It's like an extension. Like someone tried putting in a kitchen counter extension and did it so horribly the entire counter is falling apart.'

'Please tell me the Fox is Awake.'

'Nope. But he's pretty complacent about the whole thing. Apparently while being mind controlled he never got any sleep and he's content to just sleep in the back of my head the whole loop.'

'Well then we're lucky, sometimes dealing with the fox is a right bear.'

Right about then the others connected to the bond and Ezra filled them in as Sabine left her room.

"Sabine?" The looper turned to see a familiar face from her previous visits to this loop. "You're usually up before now."

"I guess I slept in, I was feeling a little loopy last night." Sabine noticed the lack of response to the code phrase. She sent out a small ping and Anko didn't react to it in the slightest.

She checked her loop memories briefly. Apparently Anko was her older sister this loop. It seemed like the loop was a variant because there was no way that would work out in baseline.

"Well breakfast's fend for yourself, I have to head out for a mission. I'll be gone for a few days. You'll be fine, right?" Anko looked at her as she paused at the door.

"Totally." Sabine waved her off.

Anko shrugged. "Then bye chibi, if you have any parties make sure the booze gets hidden before the brats drink it all."

Sabine straight up cackled once the kunoich was out the door, having noticed loop memories of just how exactly Anko Mitarashi was not the proper example of a parental figure.

'Oh wow. She's probably the funnest parental figure I've seen in a while.' Ezra commented.

'More like least responsible,' Hera hmphed. 'Sabine, is it alright if we all meet where you are? I have to call in sick and I think Kanan does too?'

'Yeah, though in a very roundabout way… why do ninja have to do so much paperwork? I replaced Kakashi, by the way.'

'Then just leave the paperwork for later, Naruto told me once that Kakashi does that all the time.' Sabine suggested. 'Zeb? Chopper?'

'I'm a ROOT agent!' The currently organic droid replied far FAR too cheerfully for comfort.

'I'm going to ignore that.' Zeb grumbled. 'I'm… actually not sure where I am right now. Can I get back to you?'

'Well I can just skip school.' Ezra said matter-of-factly. 'It's not like it's something my PreAwakening self didn't do. The teachers don't even care. Well, except for Hera, but well… Hera.'

'I'm going to skip the whole 'what does that mean' and take that as a compliment.'

'Good call.'

'So…'

'Don't even.'

'No, I'm honestly curious here.'

'Come on guys…'

'Zeb, just answer the damn question.'

'I don't wanna!'

'ZEB.'

'…'

'So now, Zeb, answer honestly. Are you or are you not the physical representation of chakra this loop?'

'…'

'Well there's our answer.'

'…How is this even possible?!'

'Well our loop has a person who's the physical representation of the dark side of the Force, as far as I'm aware, so if this loop is a fusion and not just us replacing people…'

'…What?'

'Uh… spoilers?'

'Ezra!'

'Did he just block us?!'

'Oh he didn't.'

'He did."

'Ezra Bridger you are in so much trouble!'

17.1

*Ezra loops back with Kanan sometimes. They like to screw with the jedi.

*The return of the kazoos.

17.2

*Meanwhile Zeb is a droid and Chopper is the universe's shortest lasat.

17.3

*Kallus gets bored easily. And he's been trying to find things to do that don't end in him dying, Ezra, so get off his damn case already!

*He and Zeb spar at every chance they get but it's more of a semi-friendly rivalry now.

17.4

*Sabine rather enjoys the Naruto loop. It was one of her first loops, so she has fond memories and her shinobi/kunoich abilities from that loop are her favorite set of abilities to use.

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