After a month of waiting, R2 finally made it back safe to Naboo, courtesy of Wedge, who also gave Luke a brief update on what was happening while he was away. That month, Luke had the most Jedi training he had had since Yoda, spending practically every waking hour on some lesson or practice fight. After Wedge had said his goodbyes, the three Jedi and Padmé sat down to hear what R2 had to say.
A few beeps and whistles later, the news they received was disappointing. R2 had been able to find out he had been taken to a medic station above Polis Massa, the same place where Padmé had given birth to Luke and Leia actually. But after the reports of his initial arrival, there was no update on his condition or what happened to him. It didn't help that only a week after his arrival there, the Empire took it over, and possibly destroying records on him.
"Thanks for trying R2." Luke said. "Maybe he took on a different name there? After all the documents that R2 found only called him unidentified victim #792." Padmé suggested. "It's possible, R2 did you bring copies of the documents you scanned?" Kanan asked. After a series of fast paced beeps and whistles, Luke turned to Kanan, trying to hide a grin, as he said "R2 says that of course he did, he's not some stupid protocol droid."
Ahsoka and Padmé chuckled at that comment as Kanan said "Good, let's see if we can find someone who checked out who didn't give a name while checking in, unless you looked for that R2?" R2 gave a negative answer and so the four humans set to work skimming all the files he brought. Hours later, their eyes hurting from staring at the files for so long, Luke groaned as he said "Where do you put all of this R2? Next time do me a favor and don't bring us literally everything. On the plus side you found my birth certificate so thanks for that."
"Maybe it's time we took our focus off of Mace." Ahsoka stated, "I mean we came across three guys already that checked out who we didn't have the check in info of, but none of them are even close to being how I would describe Mace." "It is starting to look hopeless, at least on finding him. So we could take a break, I mean I am all for it." Kanan said.
"Okay let's do this." Luke broke in, "We finish this pile of documents, and if we don't find anything that points to him, we move on." The others agreed and hours later, with still no luck, Luke had to admit defeat with the rest of them. "I think that the Empire destroyed the records of him being there, he probably had already left by the time they got there and they didn't want to give anyone any hope he was still alive." Padmé said, "I believe I will get in touch with some old friends for you and keep looking up this lead, but you need to move on, there are more Jedi's then just Mace Windu."
"Right, let's all check in with out contacts and see if they have any news for us about a list." Kanan said. Luke contacted Leia, but before he could even talk to her she said, "Good, you finally called. Listen contact Mon Mothma, she needs you to get in touch with her." And with that she was gone.