Return of the Old Ways Chapter 3
Temple life, justice, and prelude to war
Life at the temple was far more pleasant then home, my first days at temple were quite eventful as word reach reached around the temple about my fight with Windu making me somewhat popular with my generation and the younglings who I found following me and asking a number of questions.
It all started when I was in the library one day.
-flash back-
I was in the library reading whatever I can get my hands on after a training session with my master when I sense several eye's watching me.
Turning around I spotted little children in Jedi Robes who I knew to be younglings, they hid from me in whatever cover they could find namely the bookshelves and tables.
Smiling I knelt down "it's alright you can come out" I said to them watching as they slowly came out of their hiding spots and approached me with as much confidence as they can muster and grouped up in front of me, each of them ranging from different heights and species, a few were humanoids with tendrils for hair, a lion like alien, a small colour humaniod bug like one, and a small human boy.
"hello there, who are you?" I asked before a human boy walked forward with confidence.
"I'm Petro" he introduced himself before gesturing to each of his team mates as he listed them off "that's Gungi" the young Wookie stood tall amongst his friends "Zatt" the young male humanoid with multiple tendrils coming out of his head (Nautolans) "Ganodi" a female Rodian who was shorter then her friends "Byph" the small male Ithorian who hid behind Gungi and gave me a little wave that I returned in kind "and finally Matooni" the female Tholothian standing behind him.
"are you the Jedi who beat Master Windu?" Matooni asked stepping forward with all of her friends, their wide eye's staring at him with anticipation.
"um… I put him on the defensive giving him no chance to retaliate" I answered honestly which seemed to have quite the positive affect on him as they grouped up and chatted excitedly
"it's him! I told you it was him!/ yes we know now Matooni!/ amazing he push thee Master Windu back/ he's also the first ever padawan to Master Windu/ do you think he'll teach us a few of his moves?".
I went rigged as they all turned to me and bombard him with questions "How old are you?/ how did you do that thing with your lightsabre that we heard about/ can we see your lightsabre/ what are you?/ can you teach a few moves?".
"um…" I started just registering the words thrown at me "18, channel an unstable barrier around my lightsabre that exploded on impacted, sure, Human I think, sure" I answered taking out my sabre and igniting it into a white blade that stared in amazement.
"excuse me!?" the head Librarian now known as Jocasta Nu walked towards us with a disapproving look that just made you feel ashamed of what you did "Padawan Thornton we do ignite lightsabres in the archives".
"sorry Master Jocasta" I apologised deactivating it and looking down on the floor along with the others.
She gave us all a stern look "don't do it again" before leaving us alone allowing us to release our held breathes.
"by the force that was terrifying, I never knew that the old librarian could wield guilt and shame like that" I whispered gaining nods and agreements from the younglings.
"I see you've met your admires "a new voice joined in, causing us to turn around to see Barriss standing behind us.
"good moring Barriss" I greeted her with a smile which she returned in kind "so how's your day been?".
"good, I been training with my Master, she's been teaching me new techniques as of late"
"that's good, the same with my master and I've got to say this completed style of his, fix's the Forms lack of defence".
"you do remember your Promise to teach me those force techniques?" she asked with a smile on her face as she walked to up me.
"of course, but lets do in the training rooms, we might cause a havoic" I said but my admires as she called them gripped onto my robes and gave me a pleading look as they all asked the same question.
"can we come?!"
"um" I started, looking between them and Barriss who smirked at my situation.
"please?~"
"I don't see why not?" she shrugged, watching my predicament in amusement.
"well if Barriss is okay with it, Sure" I agreed causing them to let go as they huddled up and exclaimed they're joy.
"awesome!"
"we get to see one of his moves!"
"Maybe afterwards he can teach us one of them!?"
"Yeah! Maybe the one he used on Master Windu?!"
They all turned to me once more and pushed me towards the exit, intent on me showing them a few moves all the while Barris followed behind, laughing at the scene.
-Timeskip Training rooms-
We arrived at the training rooms, Barriss and I stood faced to face while the younglings stood at the side, watching with anticipation on what they're about to see.
I took out a single lightsabre from my belt and held it in my right hand with the white blade springing out of the hilt, Barriss followed suit igniting her green blade, I held it front of me in a straight position towards her so she and the other could see what I was about to do.
"okay the technique I'm about to teach you is the one I used on master windu at the end of the fight" I said hearing the excited whispers from the audience as they focused on what I am about to do.
"the trick here is to channel the force around the blade and making an unstable barrier" I instructed, channelling the force through the hilt around the white blade, creating a dark blue translucent cover over the blade, the students and barriss looked at it in awe, Barriss then attempted to replicate the move I did, she held it front of her but seemed to struggled with channelling it by the look on her face.
"don't force it, but guide it around the blade not in it" I advised watching as she relaxed a bit before creating a weaker version to mine as it was more diluted and thinner "ok now" I held it front of me in a defensive position, stopping the flow of the force around the blade "strike me".
She seemed taken back by this sudden command "what?"
I gave her a reassuring smile "don't worry I'll be fine, just strike my blade with yours" she seemed hesitant at first but relaxed in a basic style with her sword held angled up in front of her, she then slashed from the left her blade connecting with mine before the unthinkable happened.
Instead of me flying it was Barriss who flew across the room from her own technique that exploded right in her face, we rushed to see if she was alright after skidding across the mat to a stop on her back, we all stood over her as she grunted in pain from that experience "you alright?" I asked, concerned if she was majorly hurt.
"just a bit of discomfort around the wrists and my back" she groan as I gently help her sit up before channelling the force around her wrists, she shivered at the touch of my force healing the pain before I moved around her back, tracing down her spine.
"anywhere in particular?" I asked, using the force to slowly heal down the back while the Younglings watched in awe as a blue translucent light washed over her form.
"upper shoulders" she mutter before I targeted those area, healing them for sometime before stopping.
"there better?"
"much" I help her up to her feet before she pattered her dress down "I don't know what I did wrong? I did as you instructed" she complained before an idea crossed my mind as to where she went wrong.
"did you projected the barrier inward or outward?" I asked as I guessed what the problem was.
"um, inward, I created the barrier around the sabre as you said, but felt that by I needed to support the unstable barrier so I kept it inward" she answered.
"ahh" I sounded, understanding why it rebounded back at her "and that was the problem Barriss" she looked up at me, wanting to know why it did that "you see barriss when you tried to hold it by focusing the barrier inward, the moment you blade touched mine the barrier exploded against you and not me as a result of being held in" I explained as she looks to her lightsabre which was at the far side of the room.
Using the force, the lightsabre flew into my hand before I handed it back to her, "while in my fight with Master windu I let the unstable barrier go on it's own, channeling it until I pushed it outwards when I struck, which sent Windu flying instead of me".
Barriss looked down, feeling down on not only failing that technique but having it explode in her face, seeing this I quickly tried to reassure her "don't feel bad Barris" she looked up at me with a cute little pout on her face "not everyone successfully gets any technique the first time, with practices you'll get use to it" she nodded at me, a little smile crossing her lips.
Wanting to help her mood out a bit, an idea suddenly came to me "hey! How about I show you an advanced technique to this one" I said getting them excited at learning the advanced form, walking a safe distanced from them, I faced the far end of the room with them watching from the side, channelling the force once more around the lightsabre, covering it in the barrier before slashing in the direction of the wall, releasing the flow of energy in a crescent wave that blasted through the room before colliding against the wall in an explosion of Pure force power that blasted everything everywhere.
As I deactivated my lightsabre the Younglings all rushed to me with Barriss not far behind before they all stood before me.
"how did you do that?!"
"That was awesome!"
"please teach us!?"
"can we see that Again!?"
I stood there registering their words before answering "I did the exact same thing with Channeling the force around the blade only this time when I slashed my lightsabre I released flow of energy which resulted in that speeding slash of pure energy that collided against the wall.
"Wicked!"
"I told you he would show us!".
"Yeah and we got see such awesome tricks that we could never learn from the masters".
"except master Yoda".
-flashback end-
After that, almost every time I taught Barriss something, a group of younglings or padawans would follow, intent on learning a thing or two.
Training in Master windus style of Juyo was in my opinion definitely a true style for the jedi as it filled in the styles weakness by adding some defence into it as well as replacing the use of emotion with will and a the thrill of battle, it also added in this great trick by creating a loop of emotion and force energy and sending it all back onto the opponent.
In other words when facing a darkside user, I become a loop that return all of his hate and emotions that he pushes onto me back onto him and dominating him without resulting to the use of the darkside.
Another thing that happened was that I got a few droids for my ship as well as putting the fear into some Exchange thugs, it all happened when I introduced the earth sport known as Baseball and made a new friend.
-flashback outside the temple-
It was a sunny day in Coruscant, and I along with a number of Padawans and Younglings, stood outside of the temple, and divided into two teams, team supernova that we called ourselves which featured me and Anakin skywalker along with a few Padawans and younglings, against Team Hyperlanes which was Barriss along with her own set of padawans and younglings.
The bases are load, Skywalker in 3rd and I took my position with my improvised wooden bat which was wooden sword with Barriss pitching with an old decommissioned training probe, all I need2d was a homerun and the team Supernova would win.
I held my bat in a from 5 stance, waiting for Barriss to move "it's the final outing, bases are loaded as Tarion Thornton takes his batting position" I spoke in 3rd person "he faces off against team Hyperlanes captian, the beautiful and Mysterious Barriss Offee" her green skinned cheeks blushed in a dark colour because of my complement.
"she is easily distracted by the Handsome and charming batter for team Supernova"
"stop it" she muttered, narrowing her eye's at me in order to hide her growing blush and the smile threatening to break across her lips "and you're not charming".
"she tries to focus but can't as she is mesmerised by his charming smile" I grinned wickedly at her as she was getting distracted by my 3rd person narration.
"knock it off!" she called out with heavy blush on her face, my team chuckle at this display.
"she goes for the pitch" Barriss throws the ball with a bit of force behind it, it speeds towards me "the batter swings" my wooden bat makes contact with a bit of force around it, sending the metal ball skyward "and he hits!" I ran along with the rest of the team while Barriss's tries to get the airborne projectile with force added jumps and sprints but it sails over the temple.
"it's a home run!" I called out passing second base "the supernova's won! The supernova's-*CRASH!*" the sound of glass breaking reached our ears when I hit third.
Looking up we saw one of the windows on the grand council champers tower broken "won" I whispered in dread of what I did, then a shadow of a figure appeared through the broken glass.
"who's that?" Anakin asked, using his hands as cover from the blinding suns glare as he looks up.
"I think that's one of the masters?" another said joining in.
"Probably mine, I can feel that heated glare a mile away" I added before-.
"Padawans Offee, Skywalker and Thornton!" the figure shouted in an all but familiar voice "I see you see down there! Your going to Pay for this window!" Windu shouted down to us.
"Called it" I muttered before another figure stood beside my master.
"Anakin!?" another voiced joined.
"oh great, now my master" Anakin sighed at the prospect of hearing another lecture.
"Barriss!?" another joined in.
"M-Master Luminara" Barriss whispered in fear and shame of what she just did.
"WHEN I GET DOWN THERE YOU LOT A GOING TO PAY FOR THIS WINDOW!" my master roared down at us, sending fear rocketing up our spines at the prospect of what he was about to do.
So thinking fast I cried out the only sane action there was "SCATTER!" we all ran in different directions from site, screaming to the top of our lungs with Barriss and Anakin running along side me.
- coruscant streets, one run later-
After running as far away from the temple we need to be until things cool down, we then found ourselves in the streets of coruscant, panting and breathless from all of the running we did.
"oh man, that was fun" Anakin breathlessly chuckled while leaning against the dark metal wall.
"which part? The game or running from my Masters furry?" I asked sitting against the nearby pipe.
"Both" Barriss breathed out as she panted from that long run "how are you not breathless like us after that?" she asked looking at me when I didn't show the signs of exhaustion like them.
Shrugging I replied "I use to run from my pursuers a lot, this was but a workout compared to how long I had to run" getting up "alright now that we've run all the way from the temple to the streets of coruscant I say we use this opportunity to explore and familiarise ourselves with this planet" I suggested which made the two of them look at each other before murmuring about it.
"come on, it's a once in a life time opportunity" I tried to persuade them "I mean, when are you ever going to go exploring around coruscant with a master just for a day? Think about it, we get to go to any of the shops here and see if they have anything of interest, restaunts, bars, various clothing stores or even a robot store" I finished, watching the wheels turn in their in their heads by the looks on their faces.
"Robots?" Anakin whisper, dreaming of the various robots he gets to see besides the junk shop on tatoowin
"restraunts and clothes" Barriss mutter, looking down on her self and seeing the same article of clothing she usual wears and the memory of the temple food that they eat for the rest of their lives.
"I'm In" they both said.
"alright then" I said slapping my knee before pushing my self off the ground and standing once more I looked between the two of them "we can't go around with our faces present or we'll be busted sooner by coruscant law or the masters looking for us, so pull your hoods up and keep your lightsabres hidden and close or else you'll find them picked from you by the low lifes here" I instructed pulling my hood over my head hiding my blonde hair with the shadows casted upon my face hiding it slightly.
They too pulled the hoods of their cloaks up and followed me as we explored the maze like streets of coruscant, passing and browsing through many stores we came upon, from the clothing store that sold exotic dressing and articles that Barriss dragged us through, to the speeders that had Anakin drooling from the number of new speeders and their designs before we made it to a droid emporium run by a Twi'lek.
I browsed through the number of protocol droids and security droids, taking in their designs and paint job before approaching the owner "hi there, I'm looking for a few Protocol droids that are capable of performing Maintanince, cleaning, repairs, piloting, slicing, etc".
She beamed with anticipation and pride before speaking in Huttise "yes! Yes! I have a great many droids that will serve you well" she then gestured for me to follow "this way please" following her, we came upon a row of astromech droids with cylinda like bodies and dome heads with two bipedal legs at it's side with a third small one at the bottom of it (think the R2 series), each of them came in different secondary colours but all still spotted the main white colour on their bodies.
"Latest of the astromech Droids, the R series which is the latest line of astromech droids, they are equipped with a torch, Taser, slicing and hacking tools, two thrusters at the side of the legs and a third at the bottom, a claw to grabbing and move any wiring or devices, storage unit in case you need to protect or hide anything, built in vacuum for cleaning, finally up to date knowledge of ships, coding and hardware" she said.
I hummed in thought before turning back to her "how much is each?" I asked before an excited look spread across her face, but before she say anything the door to the shop open and all positive emotion was wipe from her face as she looked right behind me.
Turning around I saw what could be described as shady and ragged individuals who gave out a negative feel of arrogance, hostility and power. It didn't take a genius or a master to figure out who these guys were and what their reason for being here was.
The shop owner moved behind the front desk with the three shady men leering at her and moved towards her, I took my place behind them, watching to see where this goes.
"Angela" the leader, a male Devaronian said with two large Trandoshans bodyguards behind him "we're here to collect the debt you owe us, and I would just hate it if this lovely shop of yours suddenly had an accident" one of the Trandoshans purposely knocked over a shelve full of equipment.
The shopkeeper quivered in her place "P-please, don't, I'll have your money by tomorrow" she pleaded but the thug didn't listen which angered me, I discreetly took out my lightsabre much to the silent protest of Bariss and Anakin who made crossing motions with their hands.
"how about you beat it!" I Ordered causing the three to turn and look at me.
The leader dismissed me "Beat it kid, this doesn't concern you" just as he turned around I activated my lightsabre causing a sharp *Hiss* sound that once again drew their attention, the Leader went wide eye at the site of my weapon.
"A-a Jedi" he stuttered in fear while his body guards drew their weapons and faced me, confidence once again found it's way back into him "This is none of your business jedi, so why don't you leave".
"I'm making it my Business" I stated before two more sharp hisses resonated within the shop and once again fear spread across his face.
"Three Jedi" he whispered in fear, backing in the desk as my friends came up beside me with their sabres, "I'm not getting paid to face three Jedi" he grumbled moving slowly towards the doors with the two transdoshans until they left, leaving me, bariss and Anakin with the hopefill and relieved shop owner.
"Thank you" she sighed in relief, collapsing on the desk as we deactivated our weapons.
"are you alright?" Anakin asked stepping forward and helping with cleaning up the mess those thugs created.
"yes, but they'll be back" she sighed joining to help clean up the mess while I used the force to put the knocked over shelves back into place.
"Why are they allowed to get with this? Shouldn't republic security be stopping these sorts of things?" Bariss Inquired on the lack or refusal of getting the Law enforcement involved.
Angela scoffed "Republic security doesn't waste their time dealing with small crimes here, and the exchange pays the officers off".
"so even if we were to tell the master or authorities, this problem won't go away"
"hey, Angela right" the shop owner nodded at my question "where these guys hang out or live?"
"Tarion!, No! we're already in trouble as it is with the Masters, we don't want to add further charges to our punishment" Bariss protested as she quickly realised what I was up to.
"oh come on Barriss" I started "we're Jedi, defending the innocent is one of our main duties" "but since we're all about democracy how about we put it to a vote, all in favour of putting the exchange in Jail raise your hand" "All opposed?" "motion carried, we put an end to the exchange"
"now" Where do we find them?"
-coruscant industial-
we arrived at the location she was the more happy to gave us and translated in her less then profanic use of language *get those poodoo's for all the misery they've caused everyone*, and now here they were standing in front of an supposedly abandoned factory "So, how you do all want to do this?" I asked the question on our minds.
"We burst in and take them all out" Anakin offered his idea which horrified Bariss.
"That's suicide, we'll be killed at the very first second, I suggest a steathly approach to this" she offered which sounded far more better then his plan.
"I have to Agree with Bariss on this one, we have the element of Surprise here, let's use it to enter the factory undetected and take out the leaders" I said causing him to deflate, looking around I spotted a series of silos connected by pipes that ran into the building, and there at the top was an open sky light window, "Follow me" I said running at the large silo's and using the force to jump on top of them, I jumped from one silo to the other until I ran across the pipeline to the building and climbed onto the roof before turning around to see the two of them following my example until we all stood together on the roof.
we slipped through the open window and landed on to the vents, looking down below we saw a number of armed and armoured individuals moving boxes full of weapons, equipment and what looked like little black sticks, moving forward slowly across the vents we entered a room where we saw the same Devaronian from the shop talking or to be more precise grovelling to a human that we deduced was his boss.
"I'm sorry boss, the Jedi was there and I was unable to collect the money that shutta owes"
"those Jedi have always been a nuesence, but I still expected you to get that money" the boss, a Caucasian middle aged man with brown slick back hair, one green eye, and a long vertical scar over his blind right eye.
"Please sir" he pleaded as the guards by the door block his exit "I can still be useful, I can get that money for you, please just give me another chance, I can still be usefu- *Phew*" he was cut off by the boss shooting him through the head with his blaster, he fell back on the ground lifeless with a burned hole through the head, Bariss looked away from the merciless and brutal murder she just witnessed.
"you will be an example to those who fail Vinnie the Butcher" the boss identified himself in third person before motioning for his corpse to be taken away "Hang that filth in hall as a reminder to those who fail me" the two guards unfazed by this, dragged the corpse away leaving their boss alone in the room.
Bariss looked at me with pleading eye's "Tarion, this is too much for us to handle, we need to inform the masters or the authority's" she pleaded for us to leave, but I was set on bringing him to justice.
"we can't let this type of scum get away" I whispered keeping my eye's trained on him while I dig deep into my robes and pull out a communicator and dialled in number until a man in a uniformed answered.
"You've reached the office for republic police department, state your name and purpose"
"This is... Master Windu of the Jedi order" I said, pausing at the prospect of using my name before I identified my self as my master which made my partners in crime look at me questionably "I am here investigating rumours of criminal syndicate and request armed back up to these locations, supsects are armed and extremely dangerous, wanted for murder, drug trafficking, extortion and assault, do you copy?" I explain, speaking with authority and composer that my master would be proud of if he showed it.
The man blinked in surprise before regaining his composer "I copy Master Jedi, be advised armed response will be at your coordinates, E.T.A 10 minutes"
"Affemitive, send all the men you can get, there's a warehouse full of this criminals" I added the extra bit so that there's the small chance an army could burst in here, before switching my communicator off.
"Master Windu?" Anakin asked as to why I used my master identity.
"Would you prefer I used my real name and Title?" I said reminding him of our own situation and rank before turning the conversation back onto the man below us, "now we got 10 minutes to clean up most of the filth here, so lets give the law enforcement some hand before they get here" I whispered before dropping down silently behind him with my lightsabre at the ready.
"Vinnie the Butcher, in the name of the republic, I am placing you under arrest!" I declared earning his attention, as he turned around to look at me.
"so your the Jedi responsible for the delay in my debt collecting" he scoffed at my appearance "no matter, one Jedi won't be problem".
"Who said it was one Jedi?" and on que Anakin and Bariss dropped from the ceiling surprising the gang leader.
"Three Jedi!?"
"Surrender, you are both out numbered and out matched!" Barris
Vinnie face scrunched up in an ugly snarl as he discreetly pressed a button under his desked "No, Jedi your the one who's outnumbered" the doors behind us slammed opened and poured in 10 armed guards "KILL THESE JEDI!" he ordered as a transparent barrier formed over him, seperateing him from the room.
"here's is where the fun begins" and with that we activated our light sabres and the room was filled with blaster fire.
-Fight scene-
the armed men fired upon us with their blasters, I swung my blade with both hands in a frenzied motion leaving an afterimage of it's self as I deflected red bolts of blaster fire back at the guards, from the corner of my eye I saw my fellow Padawans doing the same with their green blades, deciding to give us an advantage my hand left the lightsabre living it in my right hand, the second lightsabre flew into my hand and ignited.
I switched to using my left hand to deflect as I held my right lightsabre up, channeling the force around the blade and swinging down and releasing the energy into a crescent wave of the force that travelled to the line of gun men and exploded against the wall, scattering them all around the shaking room, quickly settling the lightsabre in a reverse hold I speeded ahead to where a majority of the recovering men were.
one of them had recovered enough to aim his rifle and shoot but I flanked right just in time for it to avoid my head, sliping behind him and to the middle of the group I swiped my leg around in a spin knocking them off their feet and on to the ground again, but then from the corner of my eye I saw one of the thugs sneaking behind Barriss with a blaster aimed at her head, reacting quickly I threw my sabre across the room where it impaled through the back of the thug who let a cry of pain catching her attention before she saw my sabre dislodge from his falling corpse and race back to me, I saw her nod to me in thanks before we both focused on our opponents.
My senses screamed at to ducked just in time to avoid a swing to my head, spinning I cleaved through one of the Trandoshans from before rotating with the blades cutting all of the enemies around me with some being cut in half while others fell to the ground nursing their cut/ burns on their limbs and torso's.
looking over to the others I saw that they were just finishing up with the exception of a few, I thrusted my hand out sending a wave of the force that travelled across the room and into a few of the thugs surrounding Anakin, sending them flying into the wall.
turning around I saw a few trying to escape the way they came in but a quick pull through the forced dragged them back in then a downward force slam had them on the ground.
looking around again I saw my friends had just finished up, and just in time to as an explosion rocketed the factory before a shout "REPUBLIC POLICE! FREEZE!"
-fight scene end-
the sound of gun fire could be heard from further within the factory, however it stopped shortly after what could be heard as a one sided gun fight with the cries of police ordering the exchange thugs to put their hands on the back of their heads, soon a squad of arm police bursted in to the room with their guns aim but seeing us and the downed forms of the majority of the warehouse they figured what happened and hostered they're weapons, the leader approached me as I deactivated my lightsaber.
"we're responding to a call made by Master Windu about a crime syndicate" he stated as his men cuffed the downed members.
"Yes, I made that call" I stated stepping forward having his eye's on me "as you can see we've taken care most of the members while they're boss Vinnie the Butcher is confined within his own Ray shield" I gestured to confidante man sitting smug within the shield.
"That's right pig's, as long as i'm in here you can't get me" he said with arrogance as he leaned back on his chair, staring at us with a triumphant smug smirk on his face "i'll stay in here, however long it takes for you all to leave because i'm sure that you have better things to do then wait until I lower the shield".
"he's right master Jedi, we can't stay here and wait him out, we are needed to responded to other threats" the Officer begrudgingly said glaring at Vennie from his position while saw a complete flaw in his so called impenetrable shield.
"you may want to get those cuffs ready officer because i'm about to exploit the flaw in his defense" I said before walking forwarding to Vinnie and stopping a few feet from the rotating translucent shield, taking in what would be the last look he'd ever make.
"Ha! don't kid yourself, this is the best ray shield money can buy, not even your lightsabers can penetrate it!" he gloated unaware of what I was about to do.
"True, that shield protects you from any threats inside the room" I admitted before a smirk spread across my face as I took out my lightsabre "But it doesn't protect you underneath" I stated, activating the blade again then plungling it into the ground where I spined around, cutting around me until fell into the small man sized hole I created, landing on the floor below the one everyone was on.
from above I heard the frantic cries of Vinnie who caught on to what I was doing "nononononono!" listening where the sounds where coming from and the memory was he was, I stood just below where the frantic exchange boss was, taking out my second sabre I threw them onto the ceil above me and used the force to move them in circular fashion, cutting a large hole that Vinnie fell through screaming and landed just at my feet.
once my sabres returned to me, I held the blazing blade at his throat "Again Vinnie the Butcher, you are under arrest" I said smiling down on his scowling face "Now on your feet" I instructed, watching closely for any sudden movements as I escorted him back up stairs to the others where the Officer held a pair of cuffs and clipped them off on the man.
"Vinnie the Butcher, you are under arrest for extortion, murder, assault, drug trafficking, and possession of illegal tech" he said taking him off my hands and reading him his rights, once he was done he turned to me "Thank you master Jedi, you don't know how long we've been searching for this scumbag" another police officer came in and took Vinnie out of the room.
"we're just doing our dutie officer" I slightly bowed along with the others as our hoods concealed our identities.
"Still again thank you, but if you don't mind may I know the names of the Jedi who assisted in the arrest, it would make the paper work a whole lot more easier" that caught us off guard as I Introduced my self as my Master but Barriss and Anakin never gave theirs.
we all sweated at the fear of being exposed as padawans and lying about our identities until-.
"Master Kenobi" Anakin said presenting himself as his master with confidence.
"And Luminara" Barriss also introduced her self as her own Master.
"Thank you again Masters Windu, Kenobi and Luminara" after that he left, leaving us three alone.
"Masters Kenobi and Luminara?"
"You did it first"
"Right, so lets bring the good news back to Angela"
-Angela's Hardware Emporium-
we arrived back at Angela's shops, the bell on the door alerted her to arrival of people and when she saw us, her face was filled with Happiness, hope and excitement that she left the comfort of her desk to address us "how did it go? did you manage to beat that Poodoo?".
"We came, we saw, we kicked ass, you don't need to fear the Likes of Vinnie and the exchange around her again"
"That's WONDERFUL!" she yelled out, jumping with Joy before composing her self and speaking to us in a professional manner "On behalf of the people of this district we thank you for putting an end to the years of torment we suffered under their reign".
"just doing our duty"
"in fact how about as a gift I give you all special discounts at this store?"
"there really no need for that" I said dismissing the generous gift "we'll pay the full price, now how much were those droids we were talking about earier?".
"2000 credits each"
"And kind of discount were we getting again?"
-flashback end-
after getting my 6 new droids including one protocol droid and setting them on the ship we returned to the Jedi temple where we were not only embraced by our worried master (except for mine who was lecturing me) but also punished for leaving the temple and being gone to long, needless to say I was the first to voluntarily take the blame as I qouest them into exploring the streets but I was surprised when they defended me and said that they should also be punished for they willingly and knowingly straying from the temple and exploring unsupervised.
I was sent to mop the floors, orginised, record and store un-catalogued tomes and artefacts that I was more then happy to do, as well as extra and brutal training sessions with my Master that left me feeling sore all over.
from what I heard about the others who was caught including Barriss and Anakin, they were ordered to clean the windows, write essays on history and what not to do, but hey, we all agree it was still worth it.
after serving out half my sentence under my master watch, I was brought along to a council meeting along with the other masters and their padawans to see Master Obi-wan on the holo-communicator giving the council his finding on the secret republic clone army and the separatist droid army before being pushed back by droidekas.
the Council was in a debate on how to act on Dawn of war.
the threat this war has on the galaxy and the revelation that an old jedi member was leading the separatist was more then enough to convince council members and the senate to use the clone army against the Separatist threat.
we all boarded my ship, the defender after I offered it to be used on this occasion.
and now half of the temple masters and jedi along with their padawans, did whatever they could do around the ship except enter my room for personal reasons, to pass the time as we travelled through the hyperlanes, awaiting until we hit the bug planet.
finished, I hope you liked it, review and what you think, and may the force be with you.
Next time on Return of the cold ways: Chapter 4 The battle of Geonosis, and dark powers revealed.