It had been an eventful day for the Hopps family yesterday. As it had not only been the day of Judy's appearance in a play that she and a few of her friends had performed but Stu and Bonnie Hopps officially learned that one of there daughters wanted to become a police officer. Not helped that, shortly after the play. Judy confronted Gideon Grey over some tickets he stole, Gideon scratched her across the face.
Even though the scratch itself was little more than a minor flesh wound, and Judy did recover the tickets. But her parents were too worried that it had happened in the first place to even acknowledge that Judy had stood up to the resident bully in Bunny Burrow. Then there was a knock at the door. "Uh... Bonnie? You're going to want to see this." Stu said when he answered it. Bonnie then joined her husband at the front door. There at the door was a strange blue and white trashcan like robot.
"Uh... hello?" Bonnie said, warry of this robot. "Can we... help you with something?"
The robot then beeped to the rabbit couple. When it stopped, Stu and Bonnie just looked at each other in bewilderment. "ARE. YOU WITH. THAT GALACTIC REPUBLIC. WE HEARD ABOUT. ON THE NEWS?" Stu said slowly.
Then another robot, this tall and golden. "R2! I thought I told you to wait for me!" The robot said as he kicked the trash can robot.
"What... what are you doing here?" Stu said warily.
"And this is why I insisted that you wait for me R2." The tall robot said admonishingly. "My name is C-3PO, and this is R2-D2. We have come on behalf of our master, Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker."
"What about? And why couldn't he come here himself?" Bonnie asked.
"Master Skywalker and his party are... detained with business," C-3PO said, R2 then beeped. "Not now! They can't understand you in the first place. As for why he sent us here." 3PO said as R2 projected a hologram. "This footage was obtained from a probe droid."
The footage showed Judy's confrontation with Gideon. "We already know about this," Stu said.
"R2! Fast forward!" C-3PO said. R2 did so... showing Judy repulsing Gideon and his friend Travis with some sort of telekinetic power. "And there, is the crux of our master's interest. It appears that your daughter can use the Force."
"Huh... so the kids weren't fibbing," Bonnie said in disbelief.
Stu then stuttered in shock. "We're her parents! We would have known about this BEFORE now!"
"Regardless. Master Skywalker should be along shortly... assuming he's still alive." R2 then rammed into C-3PO in disgust with the protocol droid.
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Several days later. Judy was in her bedroom when Bonnie went for her. "Honey... could you come downstairs?... and outside please?" Bonnie asked, cringing at the bandage on her daughter's cheek.
"Whatever," Judy said as she followed her mother downstairs, and to the front yard. Her face then brightened up when she saw what her mother wanted to show her. "Wow! A Human!" She said as she saw him. Anakin Skywalker. The Chosen One, one of the most famous Jedi Knights in the entire galaxy. Hero of the Clone Wars.
"Yep... now I understand that you did something you never did before." Anakin said as he knelt to look Judy in the eye.
"You mean... that was the Force? I can use the Force?!" She said excitedly.
"That's what it seemed to be to me," Anakin said. "I would have been here earlier... but I got caught up with a mission. So now... we're going to do a little blood test on you." He said he produced a needle. "C-3PO, if you'd do the honors? I'd do it myself, but I have no idea how much blood we can take from her without taking too much." C-3PO obeyed and took the blood sample. "Okay Snips, I got the sample. Now get to analyzing it." He said into his communication device.
"Please stop calling me that... I'm twenty-one now Master!" "Ahsoka, you know better than to complain," Anakin said teasingly his long-suffering Togruta apprentice.
"If I learned from someone other then you, I might. Now, I'm going to analyze the blood." Ahsoka said several minutes passed. "Done Master... and you're not going to believe this. But her midi-chlorians are pretty high."
"How high we talking here?" Anakin asked. "We're not looking at another Chosen One are we?"
"No... no, it's much closer to Yoda's count... the scanner can't make up its mind on that. That's why it took me so long to get back to you. I couldn't figure out if this was working properly." Ahsoka explained.
"What are you going to do with our little Judy?" Stu asked in concern.
"Well... in the old days. The Order took babies that showed potential to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant." Anakin said frankly. "But, in recent years there's been a bit of a change in management. So in short, planet Mammalia is going to get it's very own Jedi Academy." He explained.
"And that is?" Bonnie asked.
"A school, for teaching people who are sensitive to the Force to master their powers, and you Judy... you get to be the first student," Anakin said. "You know something... I was only a little older then you were when I was taken in by the Order. Had to leave my home, my mother behind... still can't stand sand..." He then noticed the befuddled looks on the Hopps while Judy had the largest smile he ever saw on a sentient lifeform that small. "And... I'll work on something with the Jedi Council."