Featured songs:

1. "Me Myself and Time" by Demi Lovato

2. "Bad Reputation" by Half Cocked


The Marauder soon came to land on Ryloth.

Following a warning from Garrett, the Batch parked the Marauder somewhere to keep it hidden so the gremlins wouldn't damage it too. They also met with the magical members of the royal family and all the horses who came to help while Garrett went digging for more information on diurnal gremlins, and sure enough, when they got a look at the city, those little critters were everywhere!

They were pulling weapons apart, breaking the lights in homes, damaging vehicles, and basically causing all kinds of problems with any machine. Printers spitting out twenty pieces of paper at a time, televisions glitching, automatic doors randomly opening and closing, speeders' steering functions only letting drivers go around in circles. One was even driving a clone's speeder, chasing the poor guy all around town as he ran away screaming.

"When you said there were gremlins, you weren't kidding." Teatra said.

"I ain't seen a pest problem like this since that gopher invasion on Strudel's farm." Maybelle said. "Even they weren't this destructive."

"In my belief," said Indira. "these creatures simply don't know a more constructive outlet for their energy."

"From what I understand about gremlins," said Kara. "They can't be reasoned with. Not easily, anyway."

"Can't Kara just super speed catch them?" Remix suggested.

"Speed isn't enough to catch gremlins, I'm afraid. Remember our last assignment?"

"That's right," said Anakin. "Gremlins are very tricky critters, even for speedy enchanteds. Only way to defeat them is either catching them or repelling them."

"I say we round 'em up!" Pinto dug one hoof into the ground and pulled out a rope. "Yeehaw!"

"Well, you guys heard him," said Maybelle, letting Crosshair onto her back. "Let's round up them gremlins!"

So, everyone grabbed some kind of rope they could find. Anakin, Gabby, and Lamenta stuck to using vines for lassos, and they ran in and started wrangling as many gremlins as they could find, and trapping them in magical energy cages. The Cabello siblings mainly used lassoing they used in their rodeo days.

Anakin reached for his lightsaber, only to find it was gone. And when he looked up, he saw a couple of gremlins playing with it.

"Hey! Give that back!" Anakin said, climbing the tree to go after the gremlins.

Inconveniently, the gremlins figured out how to activate his lightsaber, and sliced the tree branch Anakin was climbing on, sending him falling. Luckily, Anakin caught himself with the Force before he could hit the ground.

Lamenta turned invisible so she could get to the gremlins without them seeing her, but that was harder than you might think.

"I got one!" Lamenta exclaimed. But the gremlin squirmed around until it was put into a cage.

"Come here, pests!" Wrecker shouted, chasing after another three. But the gremlins were really fast, and one swiped Wrecker's helmet and put it on. "Hey, give that back!"

Another gremlin swiped Boba's phone and started playing with it.

"My phone!" Boba exclaimed, rushing after the gremlin. "Get back here, you little thief! You'd better not delete any of my apps!"

Every member of the royal family and the Batch facing a gremlin either got a device stolen from them or got into some kind of fight with them. Citizens of the town tried to fight the gremlins themselves by catching them under boxes and pots, spraying them with a hose, or whacking them with a frying pan. It knocked out a few of the pests, but more just kept coming.

Tech tried to blast some more of the gremlins, but one jumped on him and swiped his helmet, and another took his glasses.

"Hey! I can't see without those!" Tech said, trying to go after the gremlin with his glasses, but ended up tripping over Carousella's tail as she was grabbing another gremlin with her jaw, and landed on his stomach on the ground. "Ouch!"

Crosshair was also in a bit of a pickle as two more gremlins were playing Tug of War with him and his weapon. Despite being a good shot, even Crosshair wasn't going to risk firing, only for the gremlins to mess with his weapon somehow and make him miss, or worse, hit someone else.

Omega mainly blinded any gremlins she could, seeing as one had temporarily blinded by the flash from Hera's camera earlier.

"There's too many of them!" Hera said, whacking another gremlin with a metal pipe.

"We need to send for more help!" Qui-Gon said.

"Carousella, Crescent," said Anakin. "Apparate to the Jedi Temple and get as many people willing to help as you can."

"We're on it!" Crescent said. And he and his sister galloped until their horseshoes started glowing and headed to do as commanded.


Meanwhile, at the Jedi Temple...

Anakin's family may be training to use magic and facing all kinds of daring adventures, but Jedi training had its share of adventure and challenges as well.

Those who began their training a little later were no exception.

In the Temple today, a young Myra Windu was doing lessons with her formerly estranged father Mace Windu in one of the gardens in the Temple.

"Concentrate, Myra. Be aware of your surroundings." Mace told her calmly. "Focus, but don't overthink it."

Myra's assignment for this course: she had to move some big heavy rocks from one spot to another.

Myra concentrated on the rocks. Despite being related to one of the order's most powerful Jedi, using the Force did not always come easy. Myra was far from being the typical teenager you might expect to see in the Jedi Order, especially under the old code.

Unlike the other teens in the Jedi, Myra went to a normal high school, and she liked to dress in black and red and play rock music.

Myra managed to move the smaller rocks no problem. Bigger rocks were another story.

"Come on, rock. Move along." Myra said, forcing her mind to focus. But the bigger rock fell long before it could reach its destination.

"Dang it!" Myra said.

"That was better," said Mace. "Let's do it again."

"Daaad, we've been doing this for an hour." Myra whined.

"Jed training takes time. When I was your age, I had my share of struggles too. You'll get better with time and patience."

"Now if only you could teach me not to die of boredom," she mumbled a her father moved the big rock to its original space.

"I heard that. Again."

Myra sighed. As much as she loved her father, she was getting really annoyed by these lessons being less than entertaining; she would much rather be rocking out on her guitar.

"Did it ever occur to you that maybe I'm not cut out for this lifestyle?" Myra said.

Windu was a bit surprised to hear his daughter say that, though not that much, knowing Myra was stubborn like him, as well as spirited like her mother. She didn't tend to pay a lot of attention in the Jedi classes, nor did she seem that interested in most of the manners of using the Force. But it was in her blood, surely there had to be some way she could use it, and use it for good.

"Myra, being a Jedi is in your blood. Like it or not, you do have a connection to the Force."

"Then it's my choice what to do with it, isn't it?"

"Myra..."

"I'm done for today. I gotta study for my final exam. Jedi or not, I still got high school to worry about. Even math is more entertaining than this."

And Myra left, much to her father's objections.

Mace was in over his head at the moment. He thought after he and Myra finally started bonding, being a father would come easy; having seen Anakin handle it, he thought it couldn't be that difficult. But then, seeing Myra's sassy attitude, he remembered what it was like with Anakin as a teenager. And Myra was currently at that age where she didn't want to listen to her parents and find her own path. As if neither of them had enough on their plates already.

Myra had typical teenage things: friends, summer vacation plans, and of course final exams. Mace, on the other hand was dealing not only with teaching younglings when he was called, running the sweet shop, or even still getting the hang of being a dad to his biological daughter as well as his stepson Kade, but planning his wedding as well. And with Brenda out with her friends to start hunting for her wedding dress, he was on his own today. He still hadn't even gotten to what was scarier than the wedding itself: meeting his fiance's side of the family.

From what Mace understood, Brenda came from a very traditional family. She grew up a church goer, a student in private school, and was pretty much a Good Two-Shoes from a very young age. Perfect grades, perfect attendance, perfect hygiene. The pressure was on in the Monroe household. You could imagine, Brenda got an earful when her parents learned she'd gotten pregnant out of wedlock, and she stopped talking to them for a while. Eventually, she managed to cool things down when she got engaged to Lyle Dawson, and this time had a baby after getting married. But now, they were going to meet her first baby daddy as he was now going to be her husband.

Neither Mace nor Brenda knew what to expect when they met the Monroes. There was also Brenda's younger sister Heidi, who unlike her sister, got married before having children, and for the longest time Brenda was compared to her after Myra was conceived. Because of that, Myra never got to see her maternal relatives much, including her cousin Rhett. Brenda already got enough drama from her mother's weekly calls to ask Brenda if she's doing everything right this time to keep her fiance from leaving her.

Let's just say, Brenda had a very complicate relationship with her family. Despite having loving parents, they didn't exactly get the whole story behind couples breaking up. Putting it simply, it was always the woman's fault in their eyes. She was too dramatic, gained weight, or didn't stay beautiful enough for her man, all the stupid reasons for men to leave their wives or girlfriends. Myra explained to her parents that her ex was a Jedi and he didn't know she was pregnant, but that backfired, and her father told her, "You should've started with that, then. Maybe he wouldn't have left."

In part, Brenda thought maybe Mace might've stayed if he knew they were expecting, but that didn't lessen Brenda's rage with her father for automatically saying it was her fault when it was the baby daddy who made the decision to leave before hearing the whole story.


Myra tuned her guitar and began to play. Being a rock star remained her ultimate dream, but like most kids, she had expectations, responsibilities, and of course a lot of questions. Since she was a small child, she was told that as a youth, she had more freedom that adults did, but that seemed pretty hard to believe given that her elders made her do chores, homework, study, and basically do all kinds of things that took up her time, and thus leaving her too busy or too tired to do any of the fun stuff. Growing up without a dad was hard on Myra the first few years of her life in all kinds of ways.

Holding a job as a single mother was not easy, but Brenda managed to earn enough so she and her daughter wouldn't starve, but it also meant extras like new toys, trips to the arcade, amusement parks, and such were a rarity. But, Brenda always made sure her little rock star always had everything she needed. And when Myra discovered that she loved music, for her little girl's fourth birthday, Brenda got Myra her very first guitar. A ukelele. Myra would play that little guitar all the time.

Myra would play her guitar along to whatever song she heard on the radio, make something up, or even sing one of those simple songs little kids liked, like "Row, row, row your boat," or "Old McDonald." She even brought that guitar to school with her for Show and Tell once.

This guitar of hers, it was her favorite. She got it as a special gift from her stepfather. After she successfully played her acoustic in her school talent show, her parents saw fit to reward her with an electric guitar she'd been eyeing in the music store window display. It was shiny, red, and she even got a cute little hamster sticker on it in memory of her late pet hamster Munch. She even gave the guitar a name.

"You know, Cherry..." Myra told the guitar. "Someday, we are gonna make it in music. It's just not gonna be an easy path. Dad doesn't understand, but all this Force and meditating just isn't how I roll."

Myra turned on a beat on her phone and began to play her guitar.

I can make the rain stop

If I wanna just by my attitude
I can take my laptop
Record a snapshot
And change your point of view

Myra thought only about how she was determined to achieve her dream, and although it was harder than she might have anticipated, she knew she could do it. She knew herself and her own strengths, and she was taught to play to them in order to find what she wanted to do, and perhaps discover other strengths she didn't even know about in the process.

I just entered this brand-new world
And I'm so open-hearted
I know I've got a long way to go
But I, I'm just getting stared

I'm over my head
And I know it, I know it
I'm doing my best
Not to show it, to show it
Whatever it takes to be
What I was meant to be
I'm gonna try

No matter how many times Yoda said, "there is no try," Myra paid no mind to it. If there was one reason she loved rock, it was that there were no rules; she could just be open and let it all out.

'Cause I'm living the dream
And I know it, I know it
I'm trying my best
Not to blow it, to blow it
And I know everything will be fine
With me, myself and time

Myra's song was interrupted as she heard voices shouting "Jedi assistance requested on Ryloth!"

Myra exited her room just as Carousella ran by, just nearly avoiding ramming into Round n' Round.

"Hey, watch it!" Round n' Round called.

"Sorry! In a crisis! Need help!" Carousella said.

"Carousella, what gives?" Myra said.

"Gremlins are attacking Ryloth, and we need all the help we can get to catch them all."

"Um... can't Omega make sunlight or something? I saw them have that weakness in a movie once."

"Movies with magical creatures aren't that accurate, Myra. Besides, these gremlins are diurnal, as in active in the daytime. And they're causing trouble."

Myra looked at Round n' Round and immediately figured, anywhere was better than being stuck in the Temple. Might as well look for some kind of excitement.

"Count me in!" Myra said, getting on her horse's back.


"Will you hold still?!" Kara said angrily, Force pushing another gremlin into a cage.

"Okay, what have you got on diurnal gremlins, Gary?" Anakin asked as Garrett finally arrived with information.

"Well, diurnal gremlins, as we know, like to tamper with devices and play tricks. But, the typical nocturnal gremlins actually do have a weakness to sunlight, whereas diurnal gremlins do not like the dark."

"So, in other words, moonlight is their weakness?"

"One of them- Incoming on your right!"

Anakin punched another gremlin.

"Thanks for the tip."

Tech was currently in a Tug of War with the gremlin that swiped his goggles and was trying them on.

"Give them back! I need those to see clearly, and judging by... how you bumped into things more after putting them on, you don't need them." Tech grunted until the gremlin got really mischievous and just let go, making Tech fall down. "Ouch!"

At least he was able to get his glasses back on.

"At least now I can see clearly again." Tech sighed.

Carmine sang loudly at a high note, which seemed to repel some of the gremlins as some of them covered their ears, which made it a little easier for Qui-Gon to Force push a few more into another cage.

"That's another thing," said Garrett. "Most gremlins don't tend to like loud music, which is why radios, boomboxes, and loudspeakers are critical to keeping them from tampering with."

"Hiyah!" Teatra kicked hard at another gremlin. "If moonlight is a weakness of theirs, then there must be a spell that can make the moon come out early, right?"

"There is, but it takes an immense amount of power and concentration of a night wielder to perform such a spell, and Lamenta has not yet reached that level in her training."

"What if some of us gave her a power boost?" Anakin asked.

In one of their previous classes, the royal family studied how Enchanteds could give each other a boost of strength by combining their strengths if one was not yet strong enough to cast a particular spell alone.

"That could work, but it would take some time, and with all these gremlins running around, it may prove tricky. They could jump in at any moment and interrupt Lamenta's concentration."

Suddenly, that was when a group of Jedi arrived with Carousella, Crescent, and a few other horses.

"Backup has arrived!" Ahsoka exclaimed, ducking as a gremlin attempted to jump her.

"Cuidado!" Fiesta said, warning Eeth and Zipp as another gremlin came about.

"Diurnal gremlins," grumbled Zipp. "I thought pest control got rid of all of them."

"I don't know much about these creatures," Eeth said. "but judging by their behavior, I'd say they're, how do the kids say? Tricky."

"Okay, here's the sitch," said Anakin. "Lamenta needs some of us higher level Enchanteds to give her a boost to bring out some moonlight to defeat these monsters, but we need to keep these gremlins distracted so they don't break her concentration. Gremlins like to tamper with things, and they're also really devious. Comedia, you're a professional prankster. Did you happen to bring a few gags with you?"

"I never leave home without any." Comedia said.

"Zipp, these gremlins can be tricky even for a speedster like Kara, so you'll need to think swift, not speed."

"Got it." Zipp said.

Gabby came in after catching another gremlin.

"Everyone going after gremlins, we have to get them into these cages. You don't need magic to throw them in. Just get the gremlins in direct contact with them, and they'll be trapped." Gabby said. "Incoming."

That was when Gabby shot a ball of water at a gremlin that tried to tamper with Myra's guitar, as she'd forgotten to leave it behind when she left.

Myra punched another one.

"Touch my guitar, you're dead!" Myra said angrily to the little beasts.

"Gabby, your powers are one of the strongest. You, Kara and your grandpa should have enough energy to give Lamenta the boost she needs." Anakin told his daughter. "The rest of us will take care of these gremlins."

"On it, Daddy!" Gabby said, immediately rushing to locate her aunt, cousin, and grandfather. And given that Omega's power was light, she decided to get her in too.


Lamenta ran to a clearing Hera helped them find. Thankfully, sneaking to see the area Gobi sent her too wasn't the first time she'd explored the area. To perform this spell, they needed a space that was clear enough for five people to do what Garrett had taught them was called an Enhancement Circle.

"What exactly is an enhancement circle?" Hera asked.

"Well, you know how sometimes in those emotional support groups, people hold hands and say motivational chants together?" Kara said.

"Yeah."

"It's a little like that, except for sorcerers to help one spell caster gain enough strength for a spell that is outside their level."

"In this case," said Gabby, opening the book. "Lamenta has to make the moon come out early.

"Um... that's impossible. I'm pretty sure the suns and moons rise and fall from a planet's rotation on an axis. At least, I'm pretty sure that's what our science teacher said." Hera said.

"It's not impossible. Although it is a level twelve spell." Gabby said. "That's even higher than the most powerful spell I've ever cast."

That only made Lamenta more nervous.

"Not helping, cous." Lamenta said.

Despite having a best friend, going to school, and being less shy than she was two years ago, Lamenta still had pretty bad anxiety, and that included a lot of self-doubt on her spell-casting abilities. Ever since the incident where she accidentally turned Padme's hair sparkly with glitter stars, another where she made Mariposa fall under a deep sleep with really loud snoring, and the most recent... making deadly night shade grow in Boba's bed instead of in a planter. Luckily, none of them were seriously harmed. Plus, Padme made the sparkly hair look work at the next dinner party she hosted.

Still, Lamenta had a lot of doubts. In part, she had inherited her father's anxiety. She might have had the power to see the truth all the time, and that power could come in handy where no one can deceive her. Except, it could also be a curse. When you have the power to see everything that's kept in the dark, you may end seeing things you never wanted to see. In other words, secrets are not an option when you have Lamenta's truth vision, and it also means no one can surprise you. Lamenta could see right into everyone's mind about what they got her for Life Day or her birthday if they thought about it for even a moment, and it was impossible to throw her a surprise party. Everyone also had to be really quiet about their deep dark secrets around her. And Lamenta didn't even try to see everything. It was a nightmare for her. She saw and knew a lot of things most six-year-olds didn't need to know. But, she could still be frightened, and get anxiety. She could see the truth, but not the future.

"Don't worry, Lamenta." Qui-Gon said. "You won't be doing this alone."

The power boosting was fairly simple, but like the spell Lamenta had to cast, it required a vast amount of concentration.

"Okay, Hera. Just read the instructions to us so we can follow them." Omega said.

"Um... okay. But I'm not sure I'll pronounce everything correctly." Hera said.

"It's not too different from regular Basic."

"Okay then..." Hera looked into the book and read the instructions for the Enhancement Circle.

Step 1: all members sit in a circle and join hands. Step 2: All but the one receiving enhancement must close their eyes and concentrate their energy on only the one being enhanced.

"And it says here, Lamenta will have to concentrate and say, "abaliorum industria fultus, potestatem me-am augeo, ut adaequabo.""

"That sounds like a lot to remember."

"I'll guide you one piece at a time," said Hera. "Ready, everyone?"

Everyone looked at each other and joined hands.


Meanwhile, everyone else was continuing to fight the gremlins the best they could.

Padme managed to lasso a couple and throw them in cages. This was nothing compared to what she faced in the Battle of Geonosis, or even all the crazy things she had to deal with during the Clone War, but nevertheless these gremlins were pests.

"I hope the others can get that spell done right." Padme said. "Ahsoka, behind you!"

Ahsoka ignited her lightsabers and sliced a big piece of junk some more gremlins nearly crushed her with.

"Even battle droids weren't this much trouble." Ahsoka said.

The other Jedi were using the Force to pull gremilns in and push gremlins into the traps, but more just kept coming.

"Hey, gremlins. Over here!" Comedia sang, waving her dad's lightsaber. "Got another device for you to play with."

But when the gremlins ran to Comedia, she flew off until the gremlins found themselves stuck to the ground in a rather sticky situation.

"Sticky floor trap!" Comedia laughed. "Classic."

While all the other Jedi were expertly using the Force, Myra whacked the gremlins with her guitar or punched them. Occasionally, she did Force push one or two away. But then a bunch more came at her.

"Myra!" Ahsoka called, repelling some more gremlins from Myra.

"Did someone feed these things after sunrise or something?"

"If you're thinking they're just the opposite of that movie we saw, it's more than likely only about forty percent accurate compared to this."

"Well, how else are we supposed to get rid of them?"

"For now, we gotta buy Lamenta enough time to get a boost and power up. And right now, you need to up your Jedi game."

"Yeah, not exactly my kind of game."

"Hasn't your dad been training you?"

"Yeah, well excuse me if Force wielding doesn't come to me the same way it does for you."

Myra hit another gremlin with her guitar.

"Leave my guitar alone, freaks!" she said angrily.

Myra shredded a loud note on her guitar, which made the gremlins want to run, and that also gave the other Jedi a moment to get them trapped. Ahsoka saw this and was susprised.

"Did you just see that?" Ahsoka said.

"I think I heard the royal family's professor say gremlins don't like loud music." Round n' Round said. "And Myra can play loud."

That was when Ahsoka had an idea.

"Myra, think you can play a little song for these gremlins?"

Myra started to like where Ahsoka was going with this. She stood up on a high crate and got herself a beat from her phone.

"Alright, gremlins. Get ready to rock!"

And Myra started to shred like a pro and sing a song.

Myra:

Now I don't give a damn 'bout my reputation
You're living in the past, it's a new generation
And a girl can do what she wants to do
And that's what I'm gonna do
And I don't give a damn 'bout my bad reputation

Whoa no (no no no no no no)
Not me (me me me me me me)

The gremlins started to get distracted by Myra playing the guitar, which gave the others time to trap or catch them.

And I don't give a damn 'bout my reputation
I never said I wanted to improve my station
And I'm only feelin' good when I'm havin' fun
And I don't have to please no one
And I don't give a damn 'bout my bad reputation

Whoa no (no no no no no no)
Not me (me me me me me me)
Whoa no (no no no no no no)
Not me (me me me me me me)

Some gremlins were actually brave enough to try to approach Myra directly, but Myra shredded once, and to her surprise, the gremlin was pushed away as though... by the Force. That made Myra curious.

And I don't give a damn 'bout my reputation
I've never been afraid of any deviation
And I don't really care
If I'm strange
I ain't gonna change

Myra decided to get a little closer and shred again, and the more she played, she was able to use the Force through her guitar. And each time, she found she could Force push or even pull the gremlins, and even throw objects at them. The harder she rocked, the stronger the effect.

And I'm never gonna care 'bout my bad reputation

Whoa no (no no no no no no)
Not me (me me me me me me)
Whoa no (no no no no no no)
Not me (me me me me me me)
Break it down!

And Myra did break it down. More and more gremlins were defeated by the second with Myra's newly discovered weapon, and its name was Rock and Roll.

[Guitar breakdown]

And I don't give a damn 'bout my reputation
The world's in trouble, there's no communication
And everyone can say what they want to say
It never gets better anyway
So why should I care 'bout a bad reputation
Anyway

Whoa no (no no no no no no)
Not me (me me me me me me)
Whoa no (no no no no no no)
Not me (me me me me me me)
Whoa no (no no no no no no)
Not me (me me me me me me)
Whoa no (no no no no no no)
Not me (me me me me me me)

Before they knew it, by the time Myra finisher her song, there were almost no gremlins left running amok, but they still needed the moonlight to defeat them for good.

"I hope they're almost ready," said Ki-Adi, seeing the gremlins trying to break out. "I don't know how much longer those cages will hold those things."


Hera guided everyone through every step, and before they knew it, they were at the final step.

"Lastly, everyone but Lamenta has to say this chant three times . 'Adaequare, firmare, altiorem potestatem incantandi'"

So, Omega, Gabby, Carmine, and Qui-Gon held hands and said the chant together with Hera guiding them the first time and then saying it two more times.

A yellow glow started to appear on all their hands, that glow transferring itself to Lamenta. Lamenta could feel so much strength running through her body. She started to wonder if this was anything like how Boba felt when he had all his family's magic transferred to him.

The magic seeped into Lamenta's veins as she felt her powers growing stronger, and she opened her eyes, them glowing white and bright, and a purple glow soon came from her hands as she was now prepared to cast the spell.

Lamenta concentrated and remembered the words to the spell she needed to cast.

"Ad mandatum meum profer lunas ante diem verum finem!"

And at her command, everyone who witnessed what happened next was astonished. The sun quickly set and made way for the moon as the sky turned dark. And the moon shined bright upon the gremlins, making them screech as the moonlight burned their skin the way sunlight did nocturnal gremlins. Everyone had to cover their eyes as the gremlins exploded in a plethora of orange light. Except, as the light dispersed, no one noticed an unusual purple gas filling the air, putting everyone to sleep. Everyone except Lamenta as she had just enough power left to reverse the spell after she was done.

Lamenta breathed heavily as the deed was done. But, she was shocked when she found everyone was asleep.

"Grandpa, wake up!" Lamenta said, shaking Qui-Gon's shoudler.

"Hmm?" Qui-Gon yawned. "What happened?"

Qui-Gon and his granddaughter started waking up everyone else, and they were all confused.

"What the heck just happened?" Myra asked, getting up.

"I have no idea," said Anakin, helping his wife up. "But at least the gremlins are taken care of.

"Wrecker, get off of me!" Hunter said, Wrecker waking up on top of Hunter's back, crushing him.

Zipp shook herself awake and got her rider up.

"What a mess this place is not," said Zipp.

"Guess we'd better get to cleaning up after those pests." sighed Anakin.


So, everyone began working to pick up the debris the gremlons left behind, and those with skills fixing things and mechanics began repairing what they could that the gremlins had broken. R2 and Mini-R2 were pretty helpful in assisting with this work too.

Mace was stunned to have witnessed his daughter using her guitar to channel the Force. He'd never imagined such a thing was possible. But then again, like Myra said, the Force didn't work for her the same was as most other Jedi. And... music was her strong suit. Maybe Myra just discovered a new method of Force wielding.

When the Jedi got back to the Temple, Mace and his daughter met with Master Yoda regarding this matter.

"It was very similar to how Padawan Carmine has unleashed magic spells through musical instruments." Mace explained to Master Yoda. "We already did a blood count. No magic in Myra's blood."

"No magic in my mom's side of the family either, and I should know." Myra said. "And I doubt my dad has any magic in his blood either. Unless some Enchanteds can like, not get powers until they're in their forties?"

"Not to my knowledge."

"Used this method before, have you, Young Myra?" Yoda asked the girl.

"No. Not on purpose anyway." Myra said, getting into a train of thought. "Now that I really think about it, I think I remember strange things happening when I played my guitar when I was younger. Things floating around, and once someone was literally blown away when I played a hard rock solo for the first time. But I thought it was because I played too loudly at first, not from the Force going through my guitar."

"Hmm. An intriguing discovery this is. Work for you, the traditional training methods have not, you say?"

"Some, maybe. But all this meditating and using just the mind. That's just not me. I'm a hands-on kind of girl. You know, I gotta let it all out, I like it loud!"

Yoda chuckled and said, "Very much like your mother you are. Spirited. Remind me of a teenage Anakin Skywalker you do."

"I'm sorry I'm not this perfect traditional Jedi, but you gotta cut me some slack. When my mom was raising me herself, we both had to learn to be resourceful and fight for a lot of things."

"Perhaps study this new method you should, Myra. Changing times are."

"In other words, maybe it's time to update a few more of your classes?"

"Perhaps. But learn more about this new method, you must. Learn to control it properly. More to it than you realize there may be."

Myra looked at her reflection in the guitar and thought about what Master Yoda said. Maybe there really was a lot more to her abilities than even she realized.


But when the royal family got home, there was one thing that still lingered on in their minds.

No one said anything about it for a while, but as Omega sat and fed Luke his bottle, that was when the one question everyone was thinking finally came out.

"What were all those gremlins doing on Ryloth anyway?" she asked.

"Good question," said Garrett. "Other than machines to tamper with, there doesn't seem to be relatively anything that would've attracted them. And to my knowledge of Ryloth, they aren't native to that world either. Which can only mean one thing?"

"Someone put the gremlins there on purpose?" Goldie hypothesized.

"Why would anyone do that?" said Padme.

"That's the thing. I don't know." Garret said. "Tech, are there any reports of gremlins escaping from prisons or any Enchanted zoos in the database?"

Tech checked the database.

"That is a big no." Tech said. "No gremlins were in the database at all. Nor can I find any criminals who were known to use gremlins in their crimes."

"Could it just have been a sick prank?" Caroline wondered out loud. "Simply a destructive act of spite?"

"Possibly." Garrett said. "Gremlins are not so easily tamed or controlled. It would take someone of great smarts and patience, or a very devious mind to do so."


As it seemed the reason behind the gremlins appearing on Ryloth would remain a mystery, everyone went about their business and went to bed. Boba and Omega were graduating soon, and their final exams were just a few days away.

Threepio and the R2's were shut down for the night, then Qui-Gon read the children a bedtime story, and they were all dismissed to their bedrooms for the night.

"Goodnight, children." Qui-Gon said.

All the kids went to sleep that night. But just after they did, all but Lamenta started tossing and turning in their sleep, some even talking in their sleep. Only, it wasn't just the kids. The grownups started getting restless in their sleep too, including the Bad Batch. Even the horses were tossing and turning some in their stables.

And within moments, everyone woke up with a gasp or a scream.

Lamenta, however, remained in a deep sleep. A slight side effect from the power boost and casting such a powerful spell, then reversing it, she was exhausted into a dreamless sleep, which she fell into the moment her head hit the pillow.

The grownups tried to calm themselves and go back to sleep, but all the kids crawled into bed either with one of the grownups or older kid. Gabby crawled into Boba's bed, Goldie with her parents, and Omega with her grandparents. Diamond even crawled up into Kara's bed, feeling too scared to sleep in the stable. But it wasn't even just in the palace that people were waking up scared.

In the city on Naboo, Ryloth, Coruscant, even at the Jedi Temple, the same thing was going on. Lots of people were waking up with screams or terrified gasps. A lot of people were having trouble getting back to sleep afterward, and a lot of little kids started crawling into their parents' beds because of it.