*Master quick question, just how are we supposed to keep things private between us without mental communication and our sign language and codes?*
Obi-Wan shocks Anakin by speaking Huttese
*As far as reports go they don't understand Huttese correct?*
They both then switch to mental communication just in case
*That's correct...oh I get it, because you lived on Tattooine for 19 years and I lived there for nine growing up there actually we can speak Huttese if we really need to talk to each other in public*
*Exactly Padawan*
*That should work then*
*Well best get going, it's going to take a few days to even get to our drop off point where we're supposed to start the mission*
*Plus we don't even know how long said mission is going to last due to the fact that pirates are unpredictable*
The two leave the Temple behind and a few days later start their new mission, not knowing that during the mission the two of them would finally remember their secondary mission given to them by the Force as would Yoda
"We're under attack!"
"That's the fifth attack in as many days"
*And we're no closer to figuring out the people behind the attacks either Obi-Wan and we've been here a month now*
*We'll figure something out, in the meantime stop talking and start shooting*
*What do you think I've been doing?, you're on the other side of the ship Master*
*Point, meet back in the commissary after this battle?*
*Agreed*
The battle ended and the two met in the commissary per their mental agreement
*Obi-Wan I think it's time we changed tactics*
*How so Anakin?*
*Well simply going from ship to ship hoping for an attack isn't working, plus we're getting no closer to our mission objective of figuring out just who is ordering these attacks*
*So what do you think we should do Anakin?, the government is currently suspect so we can't ask them directly and the pirates are too fast for us to get a tracker on them*
*I'm going to do something really stupid and also something the Council definitely wouldn't approve*
*What's that?*
*Offer myself up as a slave*
*Forget the Council not approving Anakin I don't approve of that plan, not only is there a possibility they'll kill you instead of taking you as a slave there's a very real chance we'll lose contact with you except through the bond. You know our orders as well as I do*
*What choice do we have Obi-Wan? I know you think this plan will work but it's already been two months and we're no closer than when we started, we have to break this pirate ring soon or else people will stop traveling and traders are already starting to talk about not coming to this part of space and some of the traders bring vital supplies, like bacta*
(Sighs) *I know Anakin I know, but wait a little longer, I'll try and think up a new plan and if you still don't agree with it we'll go ahead with your plan. I'll tell the Council that we believe it's the only way to get closer to our goals and hopefully even if they punish us they'll understand our reasoning. At least you have past experience to help you pretend to be a slave*
*Not that I liked it but Watto was good to us*
*True enough*
*So sleep for now and think up a new plan tomorrow Obi-Wan?*
*Yeah, don't forget to do morning training...at least what training we can do*
The two get some sleep and then after morning training Obi-Wan and Anakin discuss the alternate plan which was actually better than what Anakin planned in the long run
*You know that could actually work better for us, but do you think the Captain's of the vessels would allow it? I know for a fact that you became a great pilot because of the fact that you didn't have much of a choice during the Wars however at the current time you don't have the necessary skills unlike me from the start*
*I know Anakin but we'll simply have to use Force suggestion if it comes to it*
*Actually the Council never forbade us from revealing ourselves to the pilots if we felt we could, maybe just maybe we can reveal ourselves to be Jedi and they'll accept that we're both good pilots*
*Except for the fact that we're still going to be split up*
*Okay new plan I tell them that I pod race and you reveal yourself to be a Jedi. I pilot a vessel while you continue to be a passenger on these flights*
*That's even better than my plan*
*Okay then we're agreed?*
*Yes we are*
The two split up and go with the new plan. Meanwhile Qui-Gon was helping on Alderaan and keeping himself hidden the entire time. The situation wasn't critical at the moment but Alderaan had offered itself as a neutral planet so that negotiations between two planets that weren't currently getting along could meet in a neutral location that wasn't Coruscant. A Jedi team was there as the primary but Qui-Gon was there just in case. By that point the situation between Alderaan and a neighboring planet was well in hand and both sides were happy with the results, this time the Senate got the information much more quickly and as such that helped the neighboring planet realize that they had to ask for help while still being reasonable in their demands and what they were constantly asking of Alderaan wasn't reasonable by any means. Qui-Gon left Alderaan and went to another planet that the Force was telling him he needed to go. Meanwhile back with Obi-Wan and Anakin they were finally getting closer to their objective in regards to the pirates when one night they met up and got some sleep, that night though they finally remembered the second part of the mission through a memory dream