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"Satele. Satele, are you in there?" Kanan said as he knocked on the door to Satele and Sabine's room.
"Sabine and Satele went out. They'll be back in a bit," Zeb told Kanan, yawning as he appeared from his room's doorway.
"How do you know this?" Kanan asked him.
"Sabine told me that they were going out and should be back by now," Zeb answered as he walked back into his room while Kanan left to his room to wait for Satele.
"I can't wait to reveal what we're working on to the others," Satele told Sabine as they headed back to the Ghost with their helmets over their heads as they neared the Ghost.
"Me too," Sabine said, giggling as they entered the Ghost.
"Kanan wants to see me, Sis," Satele told Sabine
"How do you know?" Sabine asked her.
"Earlier he said that he wanted to see me, but I wanted to hang out with you for a bit," Satele answered as she went to head in the direction of where everyone's rooms were, "See you later, Sis."
"See you too, Sat," Sabine said as Satele left to go to Kanan's room.
Satele knocked on the door to Kanan's room as she approached it.
"Come in," Kanan said from his room.
"You wanted to see me?" Satele asked Kanan as she opened the door and saw Kanan meditating on the floor but as she entered the room, Kanan placed his holocron into his pocket after looking at a star map within it as she removed her helmet from her head and placed it under her arm.
"Yes, I did," Kanan answered, "What were you doing with your sister?"
"Me and Sabine were just painting together," Satele answered, "Anyway, why did you want to see me?"
"When we were on that asteroid you made a dangerous connection through the Force after using an ability that hasn't been seen for generations. Now I have to know if you are ready," Kanan told her.
"I am ready," she told him before she realized that she didn't know what he meant, "wait. Ready for what?"
"For a test, a real challenge that will put your Mandalorian training to use, and one that could determine if you're meant to become the second Mandalorian Jedi in history as when I told you when we met that you had the potential to become one," Kanan told her.
"If it's what you want then, I'll do it," Satele told him.
"Good. Now go prep the Phantom," Kanan told her.
"As you say, Master," Satele said as she left the room.
"I might regret this," Kanan said as he left his room and stood at the doorway.
"You have to do this, Kanan. After what happened on the asteroid, you have to help her," Hera told him as she stood next to him.
"I hope I can," Kanan told her.
"I know you can," Hera assured him.
"So, where are we headed for this test " Satele asked Kanan after placing her helmet on one of the Phantom's seats as the shuttle lifted off as it detached from the Ghost.
"That's what you're gonna tell me," he answered as he turned the Phantom's autopilot feature on before walking back to where the seats were with Satele picking up her helmet as they sat down across from one another. "When I was around your age, there were around 10,000 Jedi Knights defending the galaxy. Now we are few."
"I know," she told him, "You told me even though I knew how many Jedi there were before the Clone Wars."
"But what you didn't know was that in those days, we had small outposts, temples spread throughout the stars," he told her, "The Empire sought out these temples and destroyed many of them, but not all. I want you to meditate, let the Force guide you to one of them."
"What if I can't find it?" She asked him.
"That's part of the test," he answered, "Trust yourself. Trust the Force."
"Also what if the Force guides me to two temples?" She asked him.
"Then, choose the nearest temple, Satele," he told her.
Satele then closed her eyes as below them a Lothcats was hanging out below them inside the plains of Lothal.
"So, did you take this test at my age?" She asked him as she continued to think about Lothal and Concordia.
"It was different for me, Satele. Everything was different back then. All that remains now is the Force," he answered.
"And only my connection to the Force can lead me to the temple," she realized.
"She can be taught," Kanan remarked as she began to meditate and thought of two separate places, Lothal and somewhere within the Mandalore Sector and that was the moon of Mandalore known as Concordia.
"There's a massive stone, with a tunnel, I think, and a bright star inside of it," she said as she thought of the temple on Lothal that she sensed, "And it's right here on Lothal."
"You sure?" He asked her.
"I can't give you the exact coordinates, but I can direct us there," she told him.
"So did you sense another temple?" He asked her.
"Indeed I did," she answered, "The other one is made of beskar, box-like shaped within the Mandalore sector on Concordia."
"Mandalore's moon?" Kanan said in disbelief, "I didn't even know there was one in the Mandalore sector."
"I didn't know either, it must've been made by Tarre Vizsla," she told him, "But for the temple here on Lothal, I can't give you the coordinates, but I can direct us there. I know I can." Kanan then sat back in the pilot's seat as Satele followed him and stood behind the seat as they neared a large Lothalian mound like structure in the distance, "The stone from my vision."
"Autopilot disengaged," Kanan said as he turned off the Phantom's autopilot.
"You already knew," she told him as the Phantom descended downwards onto the plains below in front of the large structure ahead of them as the wings closed back up.
"I checked the holocron back in my cabin," Kanan explained as he stood up and walked away after turning the pilot's seat around towards Satele.
"And it told you there was a Jedi temple on Lothal and Concordia?" She asked.
"The holocron holds extensive star maps, but I was surprised as you that there was a temple here and on Concordia as well as it didn't show the one on Concordia but did show the one here on Lothal," he told her as he left the Ghost with her following him as she placed her helmet over her head.
"Course, I couldn't be sure this is one of the places you were meant to be as I wasn't sure if the closer one would be here or somewhere in the Mandalore sector but it was both on Lothal and in the Mandalore sector which makes sense as you grew up here but was born in the Mandalore sector. You better figure out how we get inside. And don't take too long. Remember, the Empire has access to all the old Jedi records. They may know about this temple and have it under surveillance," he told her.
"I have a suspicion on how to open it, but am not sure if it's how we open it or not," Satele told him as she approached the large mound like structure that was ahead of them while Kanan steadily followed her a bit as Satele climbed up the side of the mound-like structure as he sat down on the ground meditating as she removed her helmet and placed it under her arm as she turned to him, "Nothing. No sign of an entrance. Not even a crack. But I know this is one of the places. I feel it. Seriously, can't you give me a hint?"
"Don't look. Listen. Use the Force to hear the stone and its story," Kanan told her as she placed one of her hands on the side of the mound-like structure and closed her eyes.
"The stone. The temple, it...It wants to admit me even though I'm a Mandalorian and not from this planet. No. Wait, not me. Us. Master and Padawan. Together," she said after listening to the mound-like structure's story as she used the Force to hear it as she opened her eyes and walked away from it.
"Then together it shall be," Kanan said as he stood up and walked towards her as she approached him and they soon stood in the middle of a circle on the ground and extended one of their arms out towards the mound-like structure and it began to rise upwards in a counterclockwise direction and soon a door appeared from it as it stopped rotating.
"Whoa," Satele said with amazement as she saw the door from the mound-like structure that she and Kanan just lifted upwards.
"Don't lose focus. We don't want this thing crashing down on us," Kanan told her as they began to enter the temple and Satele gasped in shock as soon as she saw a dead Jedi who was decomposed of their skin sitting in front of a pillar-like structure within the room.
"Why's there a dead guy sitting there?!" Satele asked as the dead Jedi disturbed her, causing her to lose focus as the entrance of the temple sealed shut behind them.
"You lost focus," he told her.
"Well, that dead guy disturbed me," she told him, "Why is he even in here anyway?"
"Those are Jedi whose Padawans took their tests bit never returned from them," Kanan answered, "But in here, you'll have to face your worst fears and overcome them. And there's no guarantee of success."
"I have plenty of faith. Faith you'll keep me on track," she told him.
"I'm not going with you," he told her as she began walking towards a stone doorway.
"What? Where are you gonna be?" She asked as she stopped and turned towards him.
"Right here, with them," he answered.
"Alright then, I'll have faith in my Mandalorian training," she told him before hearing a rumbling sound in the distance of where she was suppose to enter and looked at the area where she needs to enter before turning back towards him and handed him her helmet, "Keep that safe, Kanan. I'll need it when I get back."
"I will and good luck," he told her as she entered the door that she was supposed to enter.
"Wait. What exactly am I looking for?" She asked as the door began to close as she turned towards him.
"Nothing and everything," he answered.
"That doesn't help," she told him.
"I know. But that's what my Master told me," he said as he folded his legs as he sat on the floor after placing her helmet next to him.
"What's happening?" Satele asked as her surroundings changed from the temple to the place where she lived till she was 5 years old, the Wren stronghold on Krownest and stood a few feet behind her parents who were standing in front of a doorway where they were watching a 9 month old version of herself with her hair being it's natural hair color, dark brown as she wore a Mandalorian dress colored the standard Mandalorian blue and was unconsciously levitating a ball as she sat on a bed in her bedroom.
"It looks like we were right. She has the ability to use the Force," Alrich told Ursa.
"I had a feeling that something was wrong with her," Ursa added.
"You're not alone in this, Urs," he told her.
"No matter what, we will protect her," Ursa told him.
"They knew from the very beginning," Satele remarked as her surroundings changed from her parents talking about her when she was only 9 months old inside the Wren stronghold on Krownest to outside the stronghold with Ursa, Alrich, her younger brother, Tristan who looked almost like how Sabine described him to Hera a few weeks ago as they aimed their WESTAR-35s along with fellow Clan Wren members at her and Sabine who stood to her left as she aimed her own WESTAR-35s back at them.
"This is ridiculous, what you claim is so trivial," Sabine told Ursa, Alrich and Tristan.
"It's not trivial, Sis, it's because she broke out tradition and became a Jedi," Tristan argued.
"It's like throwing away your armor," Alrich added.
"Either you stand with us or die alongside your sister," Ursa told her.
"I will stand with Satele no matter what, Mother," Sabine told her.
"Very well," Ursa said as she and the others fired their WESTAR-35's at her, killing her instantly.
"Sabine?!" Satele cried out in horror before pulling out one of her WESTAR-35's out and fired it at them, killing them as well before kneeling before her sister's dead body, crying in despair as her surroundings changed once again, this time from Krownest to the Jedi homeworld of Tython in the deep core of the galaxy inside a meditation room where a middle-aged woman with pale but a bit tanned colored skin and blackish hair was sitting on the floor of the room, meditating, a few feet from her.
"Why is there a Mandalorian in my meditation chamber?" The woman asked as she noticed Satele crying as she kneeled on the floor a few feet from her.
"Who are you?" Satele asks the woman as she stopped crying and looked at her and she knew that she had seen her somewhere before as she looked familiar to her.
"I'm Satele Shan, Grandmaster of the Jedi Order," the woman answered.
"But that's impossible. The Jedi Order has been wiped out," Satele told her.
"That was centuries ago, the Jedi Exile, Meetra Surik revived the Jedi Order after the Jedi Purge before she set off for the unknown regions to look for my Great-Great-Great-Great-Great grandfather, Revan," Shan told her, "But anyway, who are you?"
"I'm Satele Wren of the Mandalorian Clan Wren," Satele answered, "And this is all an illusion."
"I sense that you're not lying," Shan told her, "But I also sense my blood in your veins."
"Then it seems we are related and you're my distant ancestor and I think it's time we part ways, Ancestor," Satele told Shan.
"Agreed. I'll see you again one day, Satele," Shan told her descendant from thousands of years from her time.
"I guess we will," Satele remarked as her surroundings faded back to ones of the temple on Lothal when a woman that looked a lot like her but had black hair, sith yellow eyes and her armor being all black and was holding a lightsaber that was Mandalorian styled with spikes jutting out around the emitter.
"You won't live to see the day you'll speak to our ancestor again," Satele's dark counterpart remarked as she ignited her saber she was holding with a crimson colored blade coming out from the lightsaber hilt.
"You're just an illusion as one of my darkest fears. And I'm not afraid of you," Satele told her dark counterpart as she slashed her lightsaber at her only for it to phase through her before backing away and sat in front of a pillar as her dark counterpart disappeared.
"Big fears have you faced, young one. And learned who some of your ancestors are," she heard a voice tell her.
"Yes, I have," she told the voice.
"For what lies ahead, ready are you?" The voice asked.
"I am," she answered.
"Come. See more clearly what you could not see before," the voice added.
"Who are you?" She asked.
"A guide," the voice answered as lights appeared from above and swooped in front of her before flying into a room in front of her and she stood up as she followed the lights into the room with the door closing behind her as she entered the room.
"Satele's taking too long," Kanan groaned as he stood up from the floor near the dead jedi with his legs still folded and unfolded his legs as he got up.
"Patience," the same voice that spoke to Satele told Kanan, "Remember you nothing of your own training?"
"Master Yoda?" Kanan called out as he recognized the voice before sighing, "It can't be. I'm losing it."
"Losing? Lost. Yes. But what loss, hmm? The question, that is," the voice said, telling him that the voice is indeed Yoda, the Grandmaster of the Jedi Order during the Clone Wars.
"Master? How… How can this be?" Kanan asked the voice.
"Be not concerned with how. Know I am here because you are here," the voice of Yoda told him.
"Thank you, Master," Kanan told Yoda.
"Thank you? Hmm. Nothing have I done. Hmm. See you, I can. Before, I could not. Changed, something has," the voice of Yoda told Kanan.
"I've taken on an apprentice," Kanan told him.
"Apprentice? Hmm. And now Master are you to a Mandalorian? Of this decision, honest you must be," the voice of Yoda went on.
"It's true," Kanan confirmed, "I'm not sure it was my decision to train Satele. Not because of her, her abilities which some are ones I haven't seen before or her heritage, because of me, because of who I am and that she didn't want to at first but after a bit convincing she agreed to let me train her."
"Which way is the right way?" Satele asked as she continued to follow the lights.
"The wrong question, that is," the voice of Yoda told her.
"I'm sorry. I don't understand. To be honest, I don't even know what I'm doing here," Satele told him.
"A better question, that is," the voice of Yoda said after chuckling.
"Kanan said I was going to be tested, but he never said what for or why, but the only thing I learned in this place was that I'm the descendant of Revan and former Grandmaster of the Jedi Order, Satele Shan," she told the voice of Yoda.
"And your Master, tell you everything, must he?" Yoda asked her.
"Well… No," she answered.
"Your path you must decide," the voice of Yoda added as a door in front of her opened up and she walked into it as she followed the lights.
"A dangerous time, this is for your apprentice, for you," Yoda told Kanan, who still had his legs folded on the ground in the room with the dead Jedi.
"I know. I can sense it," Kanan told him, "I feel as if her abilities are growing faster than I can teach her."
"You sense, or your fear?" The voice of Yoda asked him.
"I lost my way for a long time, but now I have a chance to change things," Kanan told him.
"Hmm. Last chance," the voice of Yoda remarked.
"I won't let her lose her way, not like I did, after all she has a sister and brother," Kanan told him.
"Whoa," Satele said with amazement in her voice as she entered a room within the temple that looked like a star map throughout the entire room.
"Tell me. why must you become Jedi, despite being a Mandalorian?" The voice of Yoda asked Satele.
"I don't know. I guess because Kanan believes I can," she answered.
"Ah. Kanan thinks you can," Yoda remarked, "Hmm. And you?"
"We'll, I'll become stronger, powerful," she told him.
"Ah. Power you seek," Yoda surmised.
"I'd make the Empire suffer for everything it did, for everything it took, enslaving my planet, stealing our Beskar, I want to help my people!" She told the voice of Yoda.
"Ah. Jedi way is revenge? Teach you, your Master did?" The voice of Yoda asked her.
"No. Kanan would never. He's a good Master, a great Master," she told him.
"Then why seek you revenge?" He asked her.
"I don't," she told him.
"Hmm. Inside you much anger, much fear," the voice of Yoda told her.
"I just want to protect myself, my friends and my family," she told him.
"And this is why you must be Jedi?" The voice of Yoda asked her.
"Yes, and not just them, everyone of my people. I'll protect everyone like what Kanan and the others do for the people of Lothal and how it feels," she told him.
"Feel, yes. How?" The voice of Yoda asked her.
"Alive. They feel alive," she answered.
"Good. Good. Ahead of you a difficult path there is, Padawan. A Mandalorian Jedi you may yet be," the voice of Yoda told her as a small crystal flew towards her and landed in her hand as the appearance of Yoda appeared before her, sitting on a log.
"Yoda?" She asked as she saw him in front of her.
"Indeed, I am, Padawan. But how you see me, I'll answer when you see me again," Yoda told her as he disappeared.
"How are you?" Kanan asked Satele as she appeared from the door in front of him as it lifted upwards.
"Different, but the same," she answered.
"I know what you mean," he told her as he chuckled.
"You actually don't," she told him, "I found out that two of my ancestors were Jedi."
"Really? Who were they?" He asked.
"Revan and former Grandmaster of the Jedi Order, Satele Shan," she answered before opening up her hand to reveal the kyber crystal that Yoda gave her.
"Satele, that's a kyber crystal," he told her.
"Yeah, I know. Master Yoda gave it to me," she told him.
"He spoke to you, too?" Kanan asked her.
"He spoke to you as well?" She asked him as well.
"Yeah. Well, then I guess he spoke to both of us," Kanan told her as he handed her back her helmet.
"I have to admit, when I brought you here, I didn't see this happening," Kanan told Satele as they left the temple, "Getting a lightsaber crystal is a big step."
"It's strange that it's just here," Satele remarked as the temple began to move clockwise as it began to lower.
"And it will be, for now, and hopefully it'll be here long after you and I are gone," Kanan told her.
"I was just thinking, shouldn't we use it as a base or something?" She suggested, "Who knows what else is in there?"
"I know what's in there. The past," Kanan told her before they went back into the Phantom, which soon lifted off as it's wings unfolded from the hull as it began flying back to the Ghost.
"Sabine, can we speak in private in our room?" Satele asked Sabine as she approached her twin after she and Kanan arrived back at the Ghost.
"Sure thing," Sabine said as they walked towards their room, "What do you want to talk about?"
"It's about our ancestors," Satele answered.
"What about them?" Sabine asked.
"When I went with Kanan to the Jedi temple, I found out that we're descendants of Revan and a Grandmaster of the Jedi Order named Satele Shan," Satele told her.
"Yeah right," Sabine said in disbelief before noticing her twin's facial expression, "Wait, you're not joking are you?"
"I'm not joking, Sis. But I need to get started on working on creating my lightsaber as I got a Kyber crystal from the temple," Satele told Sabine.
"Alright, Sat. I'll donate some parts for you if you want for your lightsaber," Sabine suggested.
"Yes, I'd appreciate that, Bine," Satele smirked as she looked back at her.
"I'll see what I can do," Sabine told her as she left the room.
Weeks later, Hera and Kanan sat around the couch around the holotable inside the common room as Zeb sat in a chair while Sabine stood in front of a cabinet as Chopper rolled around the room.
"She's been working on that thing for weeks. What kind of lightsaber could she possibly build with the junk we have laying around? Zeb asked.
"Well, I had a few spare parts I found over the years," Kanan answered.
"I gave her a lot of parts including items that will make it look more Mandalorian," Sabine added, "And those parts include, modulation circuits, an energy gate, a spare stolen blaster. Chopper even donated a power cell." Chopper grunted a response as soon as she said that.
"I gave her some additional tech," Hera stated, "She was pretty specific about what she was looking for."
Satele then slid down the ladder as soon as Hera said that with a lightsaber and the saber was definitely Mandalorian in design along with its box structure, it also had a blaster installed and held it in her left hand and everyone gasped as they saw the lightsaber in her hand.
"I thought I'd let you check it out first," Satele said as she handed her lightsaber to Kanan.
"Well, it's different and more Mandalorian than any other lightsaber I have ever seen before. But that seems about right for you as it shows your heritage," Kanan told her.
"Nice design, Sis," Sabine told Satele as she saw Satele's lightsaber's design.
"Thanks, Sis," Satele replied.
"Go for it," Kanan told her as he handed it back to her after examining the lightsaber and seconds after he handed it back to her, she ignited the saber's blade which was blue and hovered it around the room.
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Also happy May the 4th be with you, also known as Star Wars Day and who else has seen the first episode for the Bad Batch?