Luke Meets Ahsoka- Never Underestimate a Droid

Luka and Ahsoka were cooking themselves dinner after a long day of training when Luke had a sudden thought.

“Ahsoaka?”, he said tentatively

“Yes?”

“Could I ask for a favour?”

“Sure”. Ahsoka was getting curious now.

“A friend of mine was captured by a gangster called Jabba the Hutt about a week before you found me, and I’ve been thinking about how to get him out of there ever since but…I just don’t know what to do.”

Luke looked puzzled at Ahsoka’s smiling face. “I’m sorry,” she said, “Jut thinking about how the droids used to say: ‘The Jedi rescue is a scenario that occurs 73% of the time beep boop beep’”, she finished, in a sorry imitation of a droid voice.

“So…are you gonna help me?,” Luke asked.

“Of course.” she said smiling, “We’re Jedi, how could I not?”

Luke smiled back, and they got to work.

Ahsoka told Luke everything she knew about Jabba, leaving Luke shocked that he was so old, and Luke briefed her on his odd vendetta with the smuggler. Crime lords like him usually didn’t hold such a grudge so whatever Han had done must have been really something.

“Do you have any Star Charts we can refer to or any schematics of his palace on Tattooine?”, Ahsoka asked.

“Maybe, let’s go see if R2 has some specs.”

Luke walked them to his ship, where the droid was waiting. Ahsoka hadn’t through much of it before, there were a lot of R2 units, but when she saw the droid there was no mistaking him. Incredulously, she asked, “Is that droids number R2…D2 by any chance?”

“Yeah”, Luke replied, “How’d you know?”

“Holy Banthas”, Ahsoka breathed, right before R2 came hurtling towards her.

Beeb Beeb Screeech

“Artooee! I missed you too buddy!”, she exclaimed with jubilation.

Beep Bop Boop

“I’ve been busy little guy, and I see you have too. Have you been taking good care of little Luke here?”

Beep Screeech, he said, spinning his head indignantly.

“Hey! I’m not little!”, Luke said, getting over his shock for a moment.

“This droid and I have been through a lot”, Ahsoka told Luke. “He belonged to your mother before your father even met him, he accompanied Anakin and I throughout the clone wars, and the last I saw him he belonged to Senator Bail Organa of Alderaan. How in the galaxy did he land up with you?”

Luke was so shocked he could barely formulate words but he managed to spill out the story of how R2 came into his possession. Ahsoka laughed as he finished, unsurprised. This droid had lived an incredibly wild life. He was probably the only droid in the galaxy who had never had his mind wiped.

Ahsoka knew exactly what that droid held in his memory banks, so she asked him to pull up a start chart of tattooine and its binary sun system along with everything he had on Jabbas palace. He’d been there a few times and he had the records from the Jedi Temple too.

Luke was barely keeping up with Ahsoka and R2’s strategising, and had to remind them more than once that this was his mission to rescue his friend, before they slowed down.

R2’s presence equally delighted and saddened Ahsoka. He reminded her of Anakin. All the adventured they’d been on, all the challenges they’d overcome. It was only fitting the R2 would be the one to guide Anakin’s son through his own adventures. Ahsoka marvelled out loud at the strangeness of the Force. ‘Nothing happens by accident’, she remembered, one of the first things Anakin had taught her.

It was the will of the force that she had been at Anakin’s side then, and that Luke was at hers now, and, of course, that R2 had been there all the way.

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Change

Nobody Likes change, do they?, Sabine thought to herself as she sat in her room aboard the ghost for the last time…

Ezra had said he was counting on her, and for the past week she’d been going crazy trying to figure out what for. But then it hit her, he wanted her to protect Lothal, the planet and people he cared for so much. And so she’d packed her things and told the crew she was moving out, and into Ezra’s old abandoned comm tower outside Capital City. She thought she was ready, but being on this ship, with these people, it had been the first time she’d felt at home in years…it was harder to say goodbye than she’d imagined.

For the past 2 days she’d been walking around the ship constantly: Drinking in every detail, holding onto every memory. Chopper thought she was going mad. He probably didn’t understand that she was leaving pretty much for good.

Every moment she wasn’t roaming the ship or hanging out with her friends she spent in her cabin. Spattered with every colour of paint she’d every owned, it was her greatest work of art. Her favourite canvas to paint over and over and over again. Sometimes she wished she could peel back the layers and see all her old works underneath. The best moments of her life had been immortalised on these walls, and they were the only things she wished she could take with her but couldn’t…and maybe also the nose gun turret…she and Ezra had both loved that spot.

Every hour she second guessed her decision. Was she not abandoning her crew? They’d already lost Kannen and Ezra, how could they lose her too? If she stayed she felt like she was betraying Ezra and if she left she felt like she was betraying the rest of them. Why did this always happen to her, everywhere she went? When she first left Mandalore, when she left the Imperial Academy, and now this. Her life was marked by constant change.

As a child she’d hated change and always tried to avoid it. She kept her routine the same, had the same friends, lived in the same place. Until she left for the academy. That had been the first real change, and from then on the change just hadn’t stopped. Only now did she realise that it was inevitable. She was leaving the Ghost, and that was it.

Lives change, times change, people change, opinions change, goals change, dreams change, or the whole galaxy changes. You just have to pick up and move on. What’s past is passed. She would hold on to the memories, learn from her experiences, and carry them forward with her. Who knew what awaited her in her new life on Lothal? She didn’t know, and she didn’t want to know, and that was ok.

“Change is the only constant”, she muttered to herself before bursting out laughing. She was starting to sound like a Jedi, that was never good

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A Mandalorian Jedi?

Sabine rocketed onto the landing above her and ignited Ezra’s lightsaber when she saw the squad of stormtroopers awaiting her.

“JEDI!”, they yelled immediately, “Call for reinforcements!”

“Dank Ferrik”, she muttered, and then yelled, “Do I look like a Jedi!!!??”

She allowed herself a moment to grumble before she flew off and cut them all down. She was getting tired of people mistaking her identity. Seriously, her armour was bright pink, and clearly Mandalorian. How stupid could they get? Thinking a Mandalorian could be a Jedi…Tar Vizla had been the first and the last. This never happened to her when she had the Darksaber did it?

She hung around to see if the Empire’s reinforcement were going to show up and when they did she needed backup of her own. She called the only people she knew: Ryder Azadi and his crew. He was officially the Governor of Lothal now (well, not appointed by Coruscant but as official as it could get) and was very busy, but he’d never hesitate to help out a friend. He’d responded cheerfully to her call and was there in minutes. Any trace of the Empire here was bad news since they’d blown up the Dome and sent Thrawn to who-knows-where, so he was interested in that too.

“Sabine!”, he greeted her with a big smile on his face. “At it again huh? I ought to hire you officially.”

She smiled back at him from under her helmet and then realised she was under her helmet so she took it off. “Talk later, look…”, she said as she pointed to the incoming Imperial forces.

“Holy Banthas”, he said under his breath, “I haven’t seen so many forces here in years, what the hell happened?”

Sabine sighed and ignited her lightsaber, “They thought I was a Jedi…again…”

Rider slapped his palm over his face and responded, “Can’t you just stop using that thing? You attract enough attention as it is…How are you still alive?”

Sabine laughed at that, “Firstly, did you just ask a Mandalorian to give up a weapon? And secondly, I’m alive because I have a lot of weapons…Let’s get to work.”

She threw her helmet back on and took off. A flying Mandalorian dressed in pink, with a flashy Jedi weapon, reigning death upon the Empire…Perfect 🙂

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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…”

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Fulcrum – Part 2

“Fulcrum?”, Cassian said in disbelief. “What are you doing here?”

“Shh…”, Ahsoka said, “I’m here to rescue you. Stop gawking. Lets get out of here.”

“You know we could have escaped ourselves right?”, he said as they dashed through corridors carrying blasters Ahsoka had given each of them from the fallen storm troopers.

“Haha…”, she laughed dryly, “Of course, of course…did you find out anything useful before you were captured?”

“Unfortunately not much…just that this operation is enormous and that whatever they’re building is in orbit, not on the surface.”

“In orbit…?”, she wondered out loud. That was equally impressive and worrying. “Let’s head to one of the command centres on the lower levels, maybe the engine room, so we can access the ships logs and find out more.”, she instructed.

They made it to the engine room without too much trouble, and then allowed Andor’s partner to hack into the system and download whatever information they could find. A lot of it was encrypted, and some of it was so vaguely written it didn’t really tell them much. This much caution and secrecy was new for the Imperials, and not a good sign.

Once Ahsoka decided they had what they needed, she led them to the hanger where she thought she’d landed her ship. When they arrived she discovered they were in the wrong one. There were so many troopers between them and the hanger they needed to go to. She didn’t know if they’d make it. “I suppose we could steal some TIE’s…”, she thought out loud…

“You can fly a TIE fighter?”, Cassian replied incredulously.

She gave him an I’m-so-done-with-you look and said, “I can fly anything…plus these used to be Republic ships…”

They all looked a little awed and dumb struck but she didn’t notice because the thought of the republic made her feel a wave of sadness that she wasn’t expecting after all these years. She quickly shook herself out of it. They had a job to finish.

To be continued…

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View from the Moon

For as long as Rey could remember, she’d wondered what her dusty old planet looked like from its moon. Was it as bright as the moon looked like from Jakku? It must be bigger, she thought…it’s definitely bigger…but by how much? Did Jakku have phases like the moon or can you always see all of it? Did it just look like an orangish orb?

She longed to fly away, just to see it and come right back…but would she come back? When she’d learned how to fly a ship, all she could think about was flying away from that desolate place, but then she’d realised that the day she left could be the exact day that her parents returned. And so she trapped herself. Buried herself in her work. She learned to scavenge, and to fix things, and she made herself useful with her feet on the ground.

And every day as she worked, as she roamed the sandy wastelands of her home world, she looked up at the moon and the stars and wondered what her life would be like if she’d made a different choice.

*****

Years later she met a man who claimed to have travelled the stars and lived all her wildest dreams, and before she knew it she was flying away with him. And even though she was escaping certain death, she couldn’t help stealing a glance at Jakku, to finally see what it looked like from the moon.

And as she hurtled through the stars, feeling freer than she ever thought she would, she still feared that she might never find her family. Except she had found her family, just not in the way she’d expected. She had found her family on that ship, and she was never going back.

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Starkiller Base

Ahsoka gasped, and clapped her hands over her mouth, and almost turned off the hologram. She was staring wide eyed at the coordinates of the new First Order space station…She’d gotten word from General Organa that they had taken out the entire Hosnian system only hours ago and that their next target was the Resistance base.

She’d called Ahsoka to fill her in and for some help, and since Ahsoka was always ready to help, there she was: On a ship, on route to the Illenium System, and who knew what else…She was really getting too old for this…but she was a Jedi at heart. Which is why she couldn’t believe her eyes when she saw that the coordinates for Star Killer Base were at…at Illum.

She knew that the Empire had stripped that planet decades ago, and it had broken her heart to see it, but she never thought they’d dare go this far. It seemed as though they’d managed to build a massive hyperspace vehicle into the planet itself. It appeared to operate like the Empires death stars but more vile and powerful than she could ever have imagined. She could barely wrap her head around the technology too…

She leaned back in her seat and stared out the viewport at the wondrously blue spirals of hyperspace. It always helped clear her head. She closed her eyes and breathed deeply, slowly. She had to remind herself that this wasn’t the Empire, this was far worse…an organised and heavily armed intergalactic mercenary group, out for nothing but death and destruction. She held back a sob. Strangely enough, of all the people she could have wished to have beside her right then, she just wanted R2. That droid had seen more action than even she had…

She stared through the viewport again, pondering the next adventure that lay ahead.

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Skywalkers

Luke wasn’t looking forward to this. Ahsoka had been so upset when he’d lost his father’s lightsaber, how upset would she be when she heard this?

He’d arranged to meet her on Lothal. She had a mission there apparently…he wondered what it was, and if he could go with her as he wasn’t quite sure what to do with himself anymore. And he most certainly did not want to return to Tattooine…

He landed his ship at the coordinates she’d given him but didn’t disembark. It was cold and empty out here. He wondered why this was where Ahsoka wanted to meet…

Her ship landed not long after and he got out to meet her. As usual she displayed the ability that she could read his mind and said “There was a Jedi Temple here until a few years ago. I thought you should know. The Jedi had ‘outposts’, if you will, all across the galaxy. Many long forgotten before even I became a Jedi. The ones that are left and still untainted by the Sith are the only sanctuaries we have left…”

Luke noticed that she said “we”, even though she’d spent the better part of their time together telling him she wasn’t a Jedi. He wanted to know what happened to the temple but she seemed pretty sad already and it seemed a soft topic.

She was silent for a long time, watching the horizon, so Luke decided he’d better just break the news to her.

“Umm…Ahsoka?”, he said softly. “I met him. I fought Vader, just like Ben-, ah, Obi Wan said. Then the Emperor started torturing me with this blue lighting and…Anakin killed him…He saved my life…”

Ahsoka didn’t respond. Her expression was placid and unreadable. Then finally she said, “…But he isn’t coming back, is he?”

Luke shook his head dejectedly. Anakin might have been his father, but he meant so much more to Ahsoka. They’d been through so much together… “Hey”, he said softly, “He came back. You were right! He was in pain, but the light was never driven from him fully. He’d buried Anakin Skywalker, but he couldn’t destroy him. When he saw me…helpless…everything you told me about him came to the surface and he did what was right…Did you and Obi-Wan mean that I was the only hope to save him?

A tear ran down her cheek. “Yes…”, she whispered, “I’m glad you got to meet him, even if only for a moment… Years ago the three of us ran into some powerful Force beings that confirmed Anakin was the chosen one. And family always drove him…Thank you”

She smiled, and Luke smiled back. They’d both lost so much, but this put both their minds at rest 🙂

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“It’s Time to Bring him Home”

She stared at the holo-transmission, transfixed. Fulcrum? Ezra and Kannen said she was killed on Malachor.

“Hello,” she said tentatively, “This is Sabine Wren, Spectre 5 of the Ghost. How can I help you?”

A voice crackled to life on the hologram and then she saw the hooded figure again. There was no mistaking her tall montrals and tattooed face. It was Ahsoka Tano.

“Hello Sabine. It’s good to see you again. I understand the rest of the crew is busy on Endor at the moment, so I wanted to speak with you. I’ve received word from an old friend…Ezra Bridger.”

It was a moment before Sabine stuttered… “Ezra!…where? How? How did he contact you!? I’ve been trying to raise him on every channel I could think of! For…forever! I can’t believe you found him!”

Ahsoka smiled, “Well, it wasn’t in any way I’d expected. And I wasn’t really looking for him. I…I had a vision.” Sabine gave her a sceptical look so she elaborated. “I saw him through the force. He’s stranded on a planet somewhere in the western reaches. Beyond the outer rim, in unchartered space. And…somethings happened. He needs our help.”

Sabine couldn’t believe her ears. Was this it? Was this what Ezra was counting on her for? She couldn’t help smiling. Her little brother had made a mess again and needed her to come and clean it up for him…What a Lothrat…

She nodded and said, “It’s time to bring him home. Meet me at the old Republic building in Capital city on Lothal…I’ll be waiting” She smiled, and ended the transmission.

This is it, she thought. This is it.

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