The Student Becomes the Master

It was just another day at Chopper Base. Things were going slow as Hera and Sabine had gone on a supply run and Zeb was out doing who knows what. Ezra was laying in bed tossing his lightsaber up and down for lack of anything better to do when Kannen walked into the room.

“Hey Kannen”, he said

“Um, Ezra”, he replied looking uncomfortable, “I need your help with something.”

“Sure!”, Ezra said, perking up, “what do you need?”

“I want you to help me train…to fly The Ghost”

Ezra just stared blankly at him for a minute.

Kannen scowled and said “what?”, when Ezra didn’t respond.

“Umm kannen, are you sure that’s a good idea?”, Ezra said finally.

Kannen sighed. “We spend a lot of time in space. Most of our battles are fought on The Ghost. I need to be able to help. And I know I can.”

“Is that even legal? Flying…um, blind?”

Kannen smirked at that. “Kid, everything we do is illegal. Besides, Jedi train to trust the force more than our eyes. There are many ways to see.”

“Alright. If you’re sure. Just don’t blame me when Hera comes after you for wrecking her ship.”

Kannen chuckled, “You got a deal.”

They decided it’d be safer to try with the phantom because if anything happened to The Ghost they’d be dead men. Kannen had a trouble with all the buttons, but he could steer just as well as ever. Then he accidentally jumped into hyperspace, cursing the damn buttons, and Ezra decided the lesson was over.

“Let’s try shooting”, Ezra suggested, “It’s not like Hera’s letting any of us fly her ship anyway.”

“Alright”, Kannen agreed, sounding glum.

They flew the ghost a bit away from Chopper Base so that they wouldn’t blow it up and when they found a good spot Ezra got outside with some empty crates while Kannen climbed up to the turret gun.

“Ready?”, Ezra asked through the comm

“Ready”, Kannen replied with conviction.

“Ok, here goes.”

Ezra levitated the crates using the force and steadied them in front of the ship. He started with fairly fixed targets and then started moving them around. Kannen didn’t miss a single one. Ezra quickly realised it was too easy for him and decided to try multiple targets at once. Kannen shot them down so fast Ezra almost got crushed by one as it was falling to the ground.

Ezra whooped through the comm, making Kannen smile.

“Thanks kid”

“Anytime master” 🙂

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“My Older Brother Taught Me”

“My older brother taught me.” The words came easier to Ahsoka’s lips every time.

The first time someone had asked her how she knew so much about the galaxy or where she learned to fight, she’d been caught off guard and had mumbled something about having a good teacher before slipping away. After that she’d spent some time thinking about what to call Anakin now that she was “undercover”, so to speak, and this was the best thing she had come up with. After running through all the options: Master, Teacher, Father(ew), the best friend she’d ever had, she’d landed on ‘Older brother’. In every way besides the biological sense, he truly was that. He was family.

And even though she was no longer his student, even through she had walked away, she would always be bound to him. Through love, respect, trust, and, of course, the Force. Whenever she needed to calm herself down or remind herself that she was on the right path, she meditated, and reached out to him through the force. His familiar presence was soothing and comforting, when everything else in her life was not.

Although she missed him, the knowledge that he was always there for her was enough to make her feel better.

Until one day, that presence was gone, leaving behind a void of pain and anger and violence that she couldn’t understand. When she learned about The Emperor’s ‘Order 66’, she’d attributed her feelings to that and assumed the worst: Anakin, her mentor, friend, her partner in everything, her brother, was dead. And she would have been inconsolable if she hadn’t convinced herself that Anakin would no doubt have gone down fighting, and that even in his last moments, he would have been protecting all that was light in the galaxy.

Still, the force was both living and cosmic. If he had left the living force and moved on, she would have sensed it. Perhaps in all the chaos that had ensued she had been unfocussed and therefore sensed something else.

She knew Anakin, but that uneasy feeling was always there in the back of her mind, her worst fear, waiting to be realised.

Anakin and Ahsoka's Last Interaction Is a Gift - Nerdist

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Battle of the Heroes

As Obi-Wan fought, every cell in his body cried out in rebellion. This was wrong, so wrong.

He wasn’t trying to hurt Anakin. He couldn’t. His body was convinced that this was just another day of sparring. Another day spent training, learning the way the other fought.

He knew Anakin’s every move, and Anakin knew his, the only thing stopping them from decimating each other was one last shred of love.

Obi-Wan couldn’t bring himself to hurt him. This boy who he’d trained, who he’d raised, who he’d loved like a brother and a son.

He thought of Ahsoka, who loved him the same way. What would she say when she found out? How would she feel if he hurt Anakin?

What had happened to them? How had they gotten here?

He had the urge to cry like a baby, but he shoved that feeling down and focussed on the force. How it coursed through his veins like blood, and how he no longer felt that reflected back by the man across him.

Within seconds…it was over.

And then he couldn’t hold it back any longer.

Tears streamed down his face, masked by the sweat he’d collected during the fight.

“You we the chosen one! It was said that you would destroy the Sith not join them!”, he sobbed. “Bring balance to the force, not leave it in darkness…”

He walked away, picking up Anakin’s lightsaber as a reminder of all that could have been…

“You were my brother Anakin,” he said, chocking on the last word, “I loved you…”

He turned his back on his old friend, knowing that nothing would ever be the same again…

It had happened…he’d lost everyone…how was he supposed to go on from here?

Perhaps Anakin’s child would be the one…the one to bring peace to them all…

Obi-wan could barely take another step, yet he hauled himself all the way back to the ship. He didn’t have time to mourn just yet…

His mind was numb with pain, and as he walked he whispered desperately to himself, “A new hope will emerge…”

Why couldn't Anakin defeat Obi-Wan? Anakin was clearly a better Jedi, and he saved Obi-Wan from all kinds of trouble. - Quora

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