"Masters!" Anakin said, opening the door to the Council Chamber. "Masters, I – I got lost."

"Got lost in the temple, you did?" Yoda asked, raising an eyebrow. "Most embarrassing… still, found you are, yes?"

"No, I don't mean – I didn't get lost in the temple," Anakin said, then wilted slightly. "Uh, again. I didn't get lost in the temple… again. But, I was chasing this contact in my fighter, and I tried following it through hyperspace, and I got… lost."

"And so did I," his padawan added. "I followed the hyper vector. We both got lost."

"Well, that will please some people, I'm sure," Obi-Wan said. "I've heard the Separatists wishing that at least one of us would get lost, if not both."

He nodded to his old student. "But please, Anakin, do continue. I'm sure it will be a fascinating tale."

Anakin looked momentarily embarrassed, then nodded.

"I guess, yeah," he agreed, his earlier excitement returning. "Anyway, I completely miscalculated the hyperspace vector, or maybe R2 did, I don't actually know for sure if he used the one I put in or one he worked out, but either way we ended up on an uncharted planet. And then, when we left-"

"-you're not going to tell them what happened on the planet?" Ahsoka asked. "But that was a good bit!"

"Hey, give me some time, Snips," Anakin protested. "I wanted to try and do the whole story in a kind of summary before going back on the details. Anyway, uh, when we left, since we were on an uncharted planet we had to use the Force to pick a vector. And, we ended up on another planet that wasn't the one we were aiming for."

"Two uncharted planets in two jumps?" Mace checked. "That's impressive, Skywalker. It suggests a real talent for exploring."

"Well, the second one wasn't uncharted," Anakin corrected. "It was on the charts, we eventually found that out, it's just that it looked different because it wasn't incredibly horrible."

"So what did happen on the first planet, anyway?" Obi-Wan asked. "I'm going to assume that once you found out what planet you'd ended up on, you simply returned home – but what did Ahsoka want to say?"

"We found someone on the planet!" Ahsoka announced. "A four hundred year old Jedi Master!"

"I'm actually a bit older than that," the Jedi Master in question said, walking into the room, and Yoda stared.

It was one of the few times the little green Master had been genuinely rendered speechless.

"...Ikrit!?" he asked, eventually.

"Yes, Master," Master Ikrit replied, with a small bow. "I know I've been missing for a while, but I needed to save the children of the Maasassi trapped by Exar Kun as a way of forcing them to build temples to him."

He paused. "At least, we think it was Exar Kun?"

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's right," Anakin agreed, vaguely. "Between the stuff we know, anyway. But he needed help from a Jedi child and Ahsoka did it, which was pretty cool!"

"Sorry, there were Maasassi children?" Obi-Wan asked, since he was one of the ones who actually had context. "Didn't they go extinct thousands of years ago?"

"Until this week," Ikrit confirmed.

"It's been really hectic," Anakin volunteered, with a shake of his head. "Anyway, after that we went to Ossus-"

"Ossus?"

This time half the Council said it, and Ki-Adi-Mundi shook his head in astonishment.

"Your luck is ridiculous, or the Force is very interested in you," he said, after a moment. "Possibly both. Probably both, actually."

"You found an incredibly important Jedi planet on a random jump," Mace said. "Only you, Skywalker."

"And that's not the last of it," Anakin said. "Because, uh, we only actually found out it was Ossus and where that was in relation to Hosnian Prime and other planets like that when we found an old Jedi temple… and a Jedi Master who'd been in hibernation ten times as long as Master Ikrit."

Slowly, a living tree walked through the door of the Council.

He had roots for legs, and branches making up his upper limbs and head, and an ancient lightsaber on a bandolier. He moved into the room, then stopped next to Anakin before putting his arms together and bowing.

"Greetings, Masters of the Council," he said. "I am Ood."

AN:

There's a surprising number of ancient Jedi out there.