Hey guys! Nice to see you again! Man, looking over the stats for this story honestly makes me feel all gooey inside and I start wiggling and squealing in happiness. GUYS. WE HAVE 123 REVIEWS AND like 70 followers and in relation that's a little odd but that's probably cuz a lot of my reviews are guest (I love you guys).
So I've been approached by numair2304 about contributing loops to ATTP. I'm all for it guys! My rules are 1: Don't access me through the review system with stories, unless you're a guest and they're tiny snippets like the You Have to Make a Connection lesson. Otherwise it tends to clutter u the review box and nobody wants that. 2: I have to beta them before they go into the story since I'm a horrible grammar nazi and I have the right to not include something you give me. I probably won't do this but it's just in case something goes down I've said my piece. 3: I am open to interpretation on suggestions, and suggestions are not contributions. I probably won't say who gave the inspiration for a loop unless it's a super complicated idea or I find it funny. Mostly because it's hard to keep track of who said what. 4: yeah that's pretty much it but I'm leaving it open for more rules just in case.
So yeah! I really hope you guys decide to add in and if not that's totally fine! Warning though, since this isn't affiliated with the official loop stories it will NOT show up in any of the official loop stories and if you would like that I'd suggest going to one of the authors of an official loop story and not me dealing out a copy fic from the back of a van. -w-
Thank you to numair2304, Kaylie (Guest), JoshRand1982, Shadow Elise Bridger, PrincessSilverAngel, SheppardisaBOSS, Pulsar747, Dragonfan47, Midnight Luna (Guest), Paint the Wolf (Guest), bLuewErewOlf25, Ms. Rhianna Grayson-Wayne, Rosa2495Quotev (Guest), and CHBNewRomeHogwartsBerk for reviewing last chapter!
Kaylie: You see, I have IDEAS for him if he ever gets looping. But I'd really not rather say them right now. Plus, I don't think it's realistic that he'd start looping or that their so far unnamed admin would allow him to loop. Kallus was an extremely lucky lucky random situation and it's honestly extremely lucky that he started looping in the first place. I also don't feel like torturing the loopers like that. It feels too... evil. But believe me I have plans for him if he ever DOES start looping.
Midnight Luna: Nah, that's fine! I freaked out a little thinking I'd made a mistake though! XD My Little Pony loops are funny I'm just not very confident in my ability to write them so that they don't mirror the official loops and I'd hate to even accidentally do that.
Paint: Heeey, where's that account you once talked about? *nudge nudge* Nah that's fine I just kinda want to chat with you over something easier than guest review system. Yes, creepy smiles are the best. :3 Ascension? I've heard of that game but I honestly can't remember what it's about. -v-
[MUA DOES NOT OWN ANYTHING AND NOW OWNS EVEN LESS]
The Adventures of a Time Traveling Padawan Chapter Eighteen
18.1(Paint the Wolf (Guest))
"You have to make a-" Kanan's words took a completely different turn as without pause he started yelling. "-MOVE YOUR GĀDHAVAS!" He blinked and scowled.
Ezra couldn't stop laughing. "L-let me guess," He choked out. "Loop ended while you were yelling?" He cackled when Kanan scowled again.
(Paint the Wolf (Guest))
"You have to make a connection-" Without pause Kanan Awoke and continued talking. "You know what screw teaching let's go watch movies."
"Original trilogy?" Ezra pulled out the boxed set he'd hoarded from the hub loop from his subspace pocket.
"Of course. But can we skip the Anakin goes insane scenes? It's bad enough knowing that it happened."
"Why not."
"You have to make a conn-" Oddly cutting off in the middle of a word for once, Kanan blinked and shook his head. "What is up with me Awakening during this lesson?"
Ezra shrugged. "Running gag?"
"I'm already this loop's running gag, Ezra."
"You have-" Kanan didn't even get to 'make' as a pie sailed towards his head. "What the heck?!" He sputtered through cheesecake.
"Aw, didn't Awake again." Ezra marked down the 153rd attempt in a notepad. Eventually he'd nail his Master right as he Awoke. Eventually.
"You have to make a connection-" An adult Ezra couldn't hold it in and started laughing.
"Takes a bit to be able to Awake midsentence and keep it going, huh?" A smaller teenage Kanan crossed his arms and smirked slightly.
"You have to make a HOLY SHIT." Kanan whirled backwards and fell facefirst in an attempt to get away from the horror.
An oddly UnAwake Ezra looked at him like he was insane, not knowing how much was wrong with the scene.
"You have to make a connection…" Kanan trailed off. "You know, usually I have a different person in front of me during this lesson."
"Sorry?" A bipedal turtle with an orange bandanna around his head said with an apologetic grin. "Name's Mikey. 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle loop."
"Kanan Jarrus, "Star Wars Rebels" loop. Are you your loop's anchor? You seem to be replacing this one's."
"Wait, Star Wars?!" The turtle's eyes practically bugged out of his bandanna. "Ohmygod does this mean I can be a jedi now?! I am so totally gonna prank my bros using the Force when I get back!" He jumped up and down excitedly.
Seeing he was dealing with another looper "cursed to forever be a teenager", as Ezra liked to put it, Kanan smiled. The teenaged loopers were always the funnest in his opinion. "No, you can't." He put on a serious face. "There are rules to using the Force. Responsibilities." The turtle's face fell. "Such as no using the Force for pranks until you're Master level, for safety reasons."
Michelangelo grinned. Kanan did too.
"You have to make a-" Kanan yawned. "Oh god I'm exhausted…" He fell backwards and let the grass cushion his fall.
"What was your last loop?" Ezra sat down beside his fallen master casually.
"Gurren Lagann." Ezra winced. "I… I don't even know what I was doing but I am exhausted from doing it and I swear my throat feels scratchy even in this loop from all the yelling." Kanan put his arm over his eyes to block out the sun.
"You do sound a little hoarse…" Ezra took a moment to check on Kanan through the bond. "…You're not gonna be able to get back up, are you?"
"Nope. Can't even pull myself to the ship with the Force." Kanan sighed wearily. "That loop just takes everything you've got and then drags out even more."
"I heard Kallus has been real excited about ending up there eventually." Ezra commented as he lifted Kanan up and floated him over to the ship.
Kanan blinked and his head almost managed to lift up. "Oh hell no. He and Zeb have been getting ridiculously destructive already with their fights. I am legitimately considering banning them to fighting seriously only on abandoned planets and moons. With those giant robot things? I don't think an abandoned solar system would be enough."
Ezra thought about it for a minute and then winced and agreed. "At least Kamina hasn't made his way through our loop yet. I heard he's worse than Naruto by a longshot."
"Yggdrasil help us all…"
18.2
Hera barely blinked as she Awoke. She kept the ship on course, trusting her hands to guide it steadily by experience.
Quickly scanning her loop memories she sighed internally while keeping her poker face on.
Of course it was yet again another loop where she and Kanan were together.
Hera sent out a ping, hoping against hope… but narrative casualty didn't work that way. Chopper whirled in from the hallway beeping wildly in hilarity.
"Again! Again! Wonder when it'll get through your guyses thick skulls?!" He beeped a few more times before spinning and heading out. The other solitary response ping wasn't on the ship and Hera's loop memories said it was at least a month before their usual time picking up Ezra.
"Always just has to come in and tease me in these loops." Hera muttered and rolled her eyes. "Now, how to do this…"
There were several ways to deal with the situation. Hera had tried many many things over the course of the loops but it always came down to Kanan (rightfully) not being able to handle the concept of abandonment. If she left, went on a vacation loop, and let Ezra (or other loopers) handle damage control he would sulk and be hurt because she left. If she was able to let him down easily he'd sulk and be hurt because, well, she left. If everything went to hell in a handbasket and she had to reveal the loops to him he'd understand why she left him but he'd still sulk and be hurt because she had.
Despite a lack of romantic feelings towards him Hera didn't like hurting Kanan. Especially in a way that usually ended up leaving some pretty deep scars for the loop, even if it wouldn't matter once the loop reset.
She'd heard that her UnAwake self was far easier to deal with from the other end of things. Looping Kanan was unashamed to admit that, yes, he had abandonment issues, and yes it made him a little clingy normally much less if he were in a relationship with someone.
Hera sighed as she checked her options off. Nobody in the crew was Awake other than Chopper and he never helped her out in these situations. It was too long until Ezra would join to help her out and with the mission they were currently on Hera couldn't 'suddenly' make a pitstop on Lothal to speed that up. If she tried to end things right now, it wouldn't make sense to anyone.
So when UnAwake Kanan walked into the cockpit with a smile and a soft greeting Hera smiled back and prepared to spend the whole loop acting out a relationship.
Again.
18.3
Kallus looked at Kanan oddly.
"Why do you want to see my Pocket?"
"I'm just interested, is all. Everyone's works differently and they keep different things." Pause. "…Okay, I was wondering about your weapons collection by now, mostly." He admitted. "Zeb's always either thinks it's amazing or ridiculous depending on the most recent match's ending."
Kallus shrugged. "Suit yourself. I should probably see which ones need cleaning anyways." With a strange twist of space Kallus pulled them in. "It's mostly weapons." He grinned. "I keep all the weapons I earn in each and every loop, or the ones I'm given."
Kanan stopped gaping at the massive piles and piles of weapons of mass destruction long enough to raise an eyebrow speculatively. "I'm guessing that has to do with baseline?"
Kallus winced slightly but nodded, digging through a stack of swords and pulling one out every now and then. "In baseline and every loop I'm not Awake soon enough to derail it I steal a bo-rifle during the massacre on Lasan." He took a deep breath and let it out. "I don't really remember how it happened in baseline but… every loop it's different. I always take it from a Lasat I killed personally. An elderly Lasat who'd been unable to really fight, a veteran who'd retired a long time ago but was still trying to protect their family. A mother trying to protect her cubs. A rookie who'd barely even started learning how to fight. A survivor who'd been… interrogated." Kanan didn't mention anything when Kallus's voice started to waver. "It's… a personal goal. Almost something to prove to myself that I'm not like my baseline self anymore. Every one of my weapons, every single one in here," He motioned to the football field sized area stacked almost twenty feet high in places with weapons and objects. "Was gifted to me. Was something I made myself. Was something I just had and was never something belonging to someone else first."
Kanan looked around again. "…I'd say you've more than proven that you're not your baseline self, but I get the feeling that wouldn't stop the urge to prove it."
Kallus turned around with a smile, unsheathing a sword that looked like a giant snake fang. "That's true but it does help to hear it. Want to see how difficult it is to clean a sword make out of a basilisk's fang and soaked in its venom?"
Kanan took the subject change with grace. "Of course. How'd you get this one?"
"Hogwarts, you'd be surprised how many versions of that basilisk are just suffering from a major toothache. He was pretty happy when I dealt with Tom Riddle's diary so he offered me a 'boon' or whatever…"
18.4
Ezra smiled and waved graciously as the paparazzi screamed. He then shut the window with a bang.
"I hate it when loops go like this!" He groaned, sliding down to hide below the windowsill.
"Tell me about it." Tony Stark slid down next to him. "Sup kid."
"Hey Tony." They fistbumped.
18.5
Kallus Awoke, blinked, then Awoke again.
"Well that's my record for shortest loop." He blinked again and shook his head.
"Sorry about that, had to uh… I wasn't going to be a Sith apprentice. That's, uh, if the last loop you were in lasted only a second, that happened several dozen loops ago for me…"
Seeing Ezra over by the sidelines of the current gunfight Kallus worked his way through the chaos expertly. "Don't blame you. I've had several of those… first time I did the same. Second time I said 'what the hell' and faked it long enough to make a lightsaber."
Ezra snorted. "Only you would fake being insane and evil just to be able to make a lightsaber. You could have asked me or Kanan, or heck, any of us. We all know how to make them by now."
"That wouldn't count." Kallus insisted. "Besides, this one is way cooler than anything I've seen you guys make." He pulled a small bundle out of his subspace.
"Holy shit, is that really a..?"
"Mini chainsaw lightsaber? Why yes, yes it is." Kallus smirked. He straight up cackled when an Awake Zeb spat several curses at him from across the fight.
18.6
"SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT." Kanan practically chanted, running into the next room. "WHERE IS THE PAPER WHERE'S THE FUCKING PAPER."
He ran from room to room. He was on his seventh paper, just one more and he'd make it past this horror of a loop and he could just go somewhere safe where he could turn on the lights and leave them on for about two lifetimes and-
He screeched like a banshee when a white face and black tentacles were around the next corner. Quickly turning around he screamed so high his voice broke when the face was right there.
"Kanan!" Ezra sighed in exasperation. "That's one of the biggest rules of Slenderman! DON'T turn around! Ever!"
"I'msorryI'msorrydon'tmakemedothatagainIneverwanttogobacktothatloopthatwasterrifyingcanwekeepthelightsonforthenextfiveloops?" Kanan huddled miserably on his bed twitching at every flicker of movement.
"I need to teach you the rules of horror games… and loops." Ezra shook his head. "And yes, the lights will be on the whole time."
"Rule number one!" Ezra clicked the chalkboard with his pointer. The gathered loopers of his loop and a few guests quickly pulled out notepads. "Don't joke about horror loops. Horror games are fun, horror loops are not. No joking around."
There were nods and scribbles as people took notes.
"Rule number two! Be prepared for anything! The game slash loop is out for one or multiple of three things. To scare the everlasting shit out of you and traumatize you for life, to destroy your body and/or soul for the rest of eternity, or to kill slash eat you in the most painful and terrifying way imaginable."
More scratching from pens and pencils.
"Rule number three! Never, and I repeat never, look! Behind! You! This especially applies to Slenderman! He teleports!"
There were shudders and dark mutters throughout the room.
"Rule number four! Depending on the goal of the 'game', if you can, by that I mean the enemy is concrete and not supernatural and likely to come back more pissed than ever, destroy that sunovabitch as soon and as violently as possible. I want you to find a way to throw that sucker into the nearest sun if you have to! Use whatever resources you have on hand including looper abilities! This may be a bad choice if it's your first time going through a specific loop, you might want to try going through it the 'traditional' way so you understand how it works first."
Nods and very eager voices in agreement.
"Rule number five! I'm going to just state rules on Slender for this one. When you start, don't run. I don't care how terrified you are. In the beginning you're on 'Easy' mode. Running attracts him. You're allowed to start really getting antsy by the third or fourth page. Those weird 'bumbadump' sound effects are your cues for how serious everything is. If you start running into him every minute or so, go around corners slowly so that you see around them as soon as possible. If you see him look straight down and find a way around him. Don't look at him! It makes him angry and means Game Over if you stare for too long! Once you're in the final few pages you need to run for your damn life. He's right on your ass at this point and no matter what you do or what tricks you use he will be right there. At this point turning around means Game Over! Looking at him for longer than half a second means Game Over! If you see him turn to the next doorway or area and don't stop running! Keep running and running, don't worry about the map unless you have photographic memory and can remember where you have or haven't been! Just keep running and eventually you'll find the last page and the loop will be over!"
There were various claps and more than a few 'oh thank god' s.
Ezra folded his pointer up with an accomplished smile.
"Do you have any tips for Five Nights at Freddy's?" A guest looper who Ezra couldn't seem to place asked timidly.
"Eh, so-so." Ezra made a motion with his hand. "There's so much weird stuff going on in that loop that half the time you loop in it'll be a different location or a variant. There's lots of tips and ways of outsmarting the game but sometimes it doesn't let you outsmart it. We done here for now? Good, I need to go give this talk to Kanan. He's still in his room with the lights on."
Ezra walked out the door. A second later he screamed and a familiar static sound echoed through the halls, 'bumbadump' echoing alongside it once the screaming and static stopped.
The loopers stiffly huddled in their seats looked at each other in horror.
"Sh-should we..?" Sabine asked weakly.
"There's nothing we can do for him now, Sabine." Hera laid her hand on her shoulder sadly. "Everyone, let's stick together and go see what eight items we have to find. I know this ship like the back of my hand… I've built it a few loops! I can keep track of where we've looked or not."
Everyone filed out and squished together into the hallways, readying themselves for yet again another horrifying and traumatizing experience.
18.1
*I'll just go ahead and say that Paint has contributed several of these before at some points.
*It said pie but then cheesecake. Why? It's cheesecake pie. Ezra is considering switching to a messier flavor, perhaps cranberry?
*May or may not be my 2012!Mikey from my fic TMNT Loops. I haven't really decided yet.
*Alright so I recently watched Gurren Lagann and let me tell you. *opens mouth* *closes mouth* *sits down and curls into ball* EPISODE EEEEIIIGHT. *sobs*
*Okay no but really Gurren Lagann is fucking fantastic and I don't know why I put it off. It's like this combination of My Little Pony friendship/bro powers, Dragonball fightscenes, Dragonball yelling to become more powerful, and Transformers giant robots except they're literally just heads. Watch out for Episode Seven though because it is extremely pervy and even though it was hilarious it also made me really uncomfortable and possibly slightly triggered me. So just a little warning in case you guys might be triggered by that.
18.2
*And now we begin my series of loops where Kanan and Hera have to deal with and handle Kanera in the loops. :3
18.3
*His pocket's the size of multiple football fields inside and every one of them is filled to the brim with weapons. Okay no one is set aside and about halfway filled with various robots he's used but still. Kallus found his hobby.
18.4
*Tony and Ezra are buds. JARVIS and LOKI like to chat amicably about how their creators need to stop being reckless and putting their lives in danger doing crazy stunts.
18.5
*It doesn't technically count, since Ezra was the one who ended the loop so soon. He actually has to somewhat TRY staying alive to make it onto the shortest loop list.
18.6
*Kanan doesn't typically have a potty mouth but in the case of Slenderman everyone tends to run around in circles cussing their heads off. He was so close to being free.
*Coincidentally the next loop Kanan asks everyone where they were since he hid in his room the whole time and never saw anyone. It took a while before Ezra was able to give him that 'Surviving Slenderman' talk.
So yeaaah, mental trauma time! Again! Everyone hates Slenderman. He's a huge douche. Who nobody can tell if he's looping or not. Phew, lotta commentary this chapter...
The loops I was submitted will be added in next chapter, since I already had this chapter mostly typed up. Remember guys! Ask questions on the loopers! :P Please Read and Review!