Gale-Dragon: Frankly I blame my Dad for getting me into Star Wars, so my universe knowledge isn't that good. First Star Wars story, so don't criticize my planetary or star knowledge, I'm still new at the Star Wars universe. The only characters I own is Zon and Koth, no copying.

"Talking"

'Thinking'

Announcer

*Time jump, places, or both*

**Flashback**

Chapter 1:

Childhood Friend, the Tech Wiz

At the Republican base planet, the Council receives word about a Technopathic genius named Zon Telvark, who'll help the Jedi and Clones fight the Separatist, and unfortunately, the Separatist got word of it too. They wish to use Zon to destroy the Republic.

It turns out he's an old childhood friend of Jedi Master Kit Fisto.

*On a Star Republic Ship*

"You excited to meet your old friend, Master Fisto?" Anakin Skywalker said to Kit Fisto, who was looking out the window of the cursor at the stars.

"Indeed, I was worried about him, but it turns out he's been doing fine on his own," Kit said with his trademark smile, still staring outside at the white dots against the black canvas. "That reminds me, I have to do something. I'll see you in a bit," Kit said as he left the room suddenly. Anakin blinked a couple of times.

*Cockpit, an hour later*

"General Skywalker is there something wrong?" asked the Clone Troop leader assigned to them. Anakin was looking out the window, like Kit, an hour before his leave.

"Nothing's wrong, Gazer," Anakin said to the Clone leader as he continued to stare out into space, literally.

"There must be something wrong because you're just standing there, which is very unlike you," Gazer said. He was right. Anakin was never the one to just stand still.

"It's just…. Normally, Technopaths just keep to themselves and stay out of any kind of conflict, but this one is entering one of the biggest wars in history, willingly… It's just off," Anakin explained as he started to pace back and forth. The clones watch the General go back and forth on the floor.

"Sir, he must have a reason for entering the war," said a clone trooper, who was getting dizzy from watching Anakin pace.

"Even so, Gunn, the character's still off," Anakin alleged as he continued to make the clones dizzy (1).

"Maybe it's because he doesn't know how to act like a Technopath," said the familiar voice of Kit Fisto, coming from the doorway.

"General Fisto, what do mean by that, if don't mind me asking?" asked Gazer. He was relieved that Anakin stopped his pacing.

"Do you know what Autism is?" Kit answered the question with a question of his own. The clone's movements stated that they were confused.

"No. But what does that have to do with Telvark?" Anakin asked in an agitated tone. Kit just stared at him. "Sorry, Master Fisto, I'm a little off," Anakin said as he rubbed his right temple with his middle finger.

"Did you forget to sleep, again?" Kit asked the Knight with humor. Anakin got the message.

"Funny, but what does this Autism thing have to do with Telvark?" Anakin said ignoring Kit's little joke.

"Everything," Kit said softly before leaving the cock pit. Now everyone's confused.

*10 minutes later on a museum planet (2) on the Planetary and History intercross road*

"He's not very specific, is he General," Gazer said as he looked at the holo-letter sent to them by Telvark.

"He is aware that this is a museum planet. There are hundreds of thousands of museums here," Anakin was getting annoyed.

"I don't think there's that many on the Planetary and History intercross road," Gazer replied, although he too was a bit annoyed by the Technopath's lack of information.

"It says 'To meet him at the gray museum building on the Planetary and History intercross road'," Kit said not bothered by the lack of information at all.

"Yes, the gray building, all 20 of them," Anakin said with annoyance after he counted the gray structures.

"But Zon did give us more facts than that," Kit said as he looked at the holo-letter with his trademark smile.

"What do you mean?" Anakin asked once he cooled down.

"Look at the border designs," Kit said as he handed Anakin the letter. He looked at the stars that bordered the edge of the holo.

"They're just stars. You think that they're not just there for decoration?" Anakin said as he looked up from the letter.

"I think he's telling us to narrow the buildings by what they're about," explained Kit as he looked at a map of the area.

"Well, directly, he said a gray building," Gazer thought out loud. "But, he meant a museum that shows Astrology," Gazer seemed real happy about the part about astrology.

"The reason he's called 'Gazer' is that he knows a whole lot about stars," whispered Gunn to the Jedi.

"Thanks for the info, Gunn," Anakin whispered back.

"I think Gazer and Zon-Zon'll get along great," Kit said as he headed towards one of the gray structures that said Astrology. Anakin, Gunn, and Gazer looked at each other in confusion.

"Zon-Zon?" The three said in uncertainty.

*In the Astrology Museum*

"Wow! It feels like we're walking in space," Gazer said as they walked into the Astrology museum. How Gazer described the scenery was exactly the way it was. The pathway was sky blue, while the rest was night black with stars of different sizes and colors decorating it.

"It's cool, but where's Telvark?" Anakin said as he started to walk off the path.

"Please stay on the path, if you wish to remain safe," said an electronic voice that came from the edge of the walkway. Anakin took a step back.

"Master Fisto, do you think we'll find Telvark?" Anakin questioned the older Jedi.

"Of course we will, he likes to look at the stars, so he'll be in one spot" Kit said as he continued down the path, leaving the trio in confusion, again.

*30 minutes later*

The walk way split into four separate directions 15 minutes ago, each of our four heroes took one path to find Telvark.

*With Anakin*

He was walking down the footpath of the section, with no luck finding Telvark, or anyone for that matter.

*With Gunn*

It was the same with Gunn, even though he was using his scanners.

*With Kit*

He had the same luck as the other two, but he was admiring the stars as he walked on.

*With Gazer*

He kept on stopping to examine the stars and paying no attention to where he was walking, nearly walking off the path five times in 3 minutes. How'd he become troop leader? As he was treading along the path, he was heading for a turn, and Gazer wasn't paying attention to where he was going. An arm grabbed him before he walked off the walkway.

"You should really pay attention to where you walk in this kind of place," said a calm voice. Gazer looked towards the voice as he took a step back. The calm voice belonged to a male alien with three emerald green eyes, two in the same place as a human earthling and one in the center of his head, gray skin, small black horns decorated the top of his head, was standing as tall as Gazer, and light red robes.

"Um, thanks, say are you Zon Telvark?" Gazer said as he looked at the stranger.

"No, I just make sure that he's alright, Koth Methen," the stranger said as he held his hand out to shake Gazer's.

"If you make sure he's alright, then where is he?" Gazer noted as he looked on the path and found no one else.

"Unfortunately we've just been paired up, and I don't know much about Zon, except that he's Autistic, and what others told me about him," Koth explained.

"So, this is the first time you actually met Telvark?" Gazer asked trying to make sense of what was said. Then he thought, 'This is the second time someone's mentioned Autism. What is it anyway?'

"Yes," Koth said sadly.

"Then we'll keep searching and hopefully we'll find him," Gazer said trying to lighten Koth's mood.

"All right," Koth said sadly. 'First time with him, I lose him, just terrible, just when we were going to meet the Republic,' Koth thought, and then he noticed that Gazer was wearing a clone trooper's captain uniform. Now he notices. "Um, are you with the Republic?" Koth asked nervously.

"Clone troop leader 832917, but you can call me Gazer," Gazer said as he saluted.

"….."

"Are you all right Methen, sir?" Gazer asked as he stared at the frozen figure of Koth.

*About 15 minutes later*

Everyone somehow managed to find each other in the starry maze.

"Is that Telvark?" Gunn asked as he saw Gazer with Koth.

"No, I just made sure he's all right, Koth Methen," Koth said politely, but still nervous.

"Then where is he?" Anakin said as he looked around to find Zon. Alas, he was not present.

"I, um, lost him," Koth said nervously.

"Oh, so you're Mr. Moth," Kit said suddenly. Everyone kind of gave Kit a stare.

"Um, my name is Koth," said the nervous alien.

"I know that, but Zon-Zon told me that he called you 'Moth'," Kit said.

"That sounds about right," Koth said gloomily.

"Master Fisto, how did Telvark tell you that when we just got word from him yesterday?" Anakin questioned. He was confused as well as the two clones.

"He usually contacts me by…." Kit paused, and then pulled out a small gadget that was no bigger than a hand. "This,"

"Why didn't you use it an hour ago?" Anakin said trying not to sound mad.

"I forget that it's in my pocket from time to time, and Zon-Zon usually contacts me first, plus I haven't figured out how to completely use it" Kit tried to explain. Anakin gave a sigh in defeat.

'This isn't how things were supposed to turn out,' He thought as he placed his face in his hand.

"Hello Kit-o," A soft voice from behind Kit said. Everyone looked in the direction of the voice and saw a blue Nautolan wearing sea green attar, coal black eyes, He was a head shorter than Kit and was wearing his hair/tentacles (whatever you call them) down with one of them hanging over his right shoulder, and was holding a doll that was night black with stars decorated all over it, had orange eyes, no mouth (that can be seen), and looked pretty worn out as well as old. The Nautolan was rubbing the fabric of the doll together (3).

"Zon-Zon, good to see you again. I hear you've been doing great," Kit said happily as he patted the other Nautolan on the head. Zon didn't seem to mind the pat on the head.

"Ditto," Telvark said softly as he continued to rub the fabric of the doll together.

"Zon where were you?" Koth questioned as Zon looked at the stars.

"Waiting for the dragon," Zon said softly as he stared at a red star in the star museum. Everyone looked at the red orb of light wondering what Zon meant. After 30 seconds a blazing red ribbon dragon started to circle the orb.

"That's the Dragon Star (4). It's a celestial star that is said to have a dragon living inside it, due to the fact people mistake the flares for a dragon, and scientist is still trying to find the reason why the star flares like that," Gazer explained as everyone watch the dragon circle the star.

"But where were you waiting for the dragon?" Anakin looked at Zon as he asked the question. Everyone looked around the entire museum and couldn't find him.

"Top secret," Zon said simply. Kit chuckled a bit.

"What do you mean by 'Top Secret'? Koth asked not getting the concept, neither did Anakin and the clones.

"He means that he's not going to tell you," Kit said with his trademark smile. Frankly, the others just gave up on the whole thing. They found Zon. Now the hard part, as if it wasn't hard enough, is to get him to the Jedi Council.

*Back on the Star crosier, cockpit*

"Least it was easier to get him on the ship than finding him," Gunn said with relief.

"Can't believe it was that easy. Well, not if you compare it to how long it took us to find him," Gazer said with the same relief as Gunn.

"Telvark's just weird, but yes it was easier than finding him," Anakin said in annoyance.

**Flashback**

"Crosier?" Zon asked with a confused look. He was still rubbing the fabric of the doll together.

"Yes, and we'll be seeing lots of stars as we go," Kit said with a smile.

"Stars? Lots of them?" Zon asked happily.

"A whole bunch of them. We are traveling in space, so we'll be seeing countless stars," Kit said as he motioned his arms when he explained the countless stars.

"Let's go," Zon said extremely happily. Anakin, Gazer, Gunn, and Koth were just standing there in amazement.

"You guys coming?" Kit asked when he noticed that the others weren't following.

**End Flashback**

"General Fisto seems to know him very well," Gazer said as he started the engines. Anakin was just silent.

'I've never met anyone this strange before, or weird,' Anakin thought as he stared at the interstellar map, looking at the path to take to get to the Senate.

"Looking at stars, Anakin?" Zon's soft voice suddenly came out of nowhere and scaring Anakin into grabbing his light saber and aiming it at Zon. Zon didn't move a muscle, excluding his fingers that were rubbing the fabric of his doll together.

"Oh, Telvark." He said as he withdrew the light saber. "Where did you come from?" Anakin asked as soon as he returned his blade to his hilt.

"Glee Anselm," Zon said bluntly (5). Anakin, Gazer, and Gunn stared at Zon like he was an idiot. "You asked," Zon said bluntly, again. Kit walked into the room and noticed the tension in the air.

"Did something happen?" Kit asked when he got close enough for everyone to hear.

"Anakin asked where I came from (6), and I answered, but they're giving me weird stares," Zon said in confusion as he rubbed the fabric of his doll together.

"I think he meant before you came into the room," Kit said when he saw Anakin's annoyed face.

"Oh, I was watching the stars," Zon said with a smile. Anakin gave up on the whole thing, and the two clones went back to piloting the ship.

"Hey, uh, Master Fisto, may I ask you something?" Anakin asked as soon as he thought of something, then looked at Zon and said "It's Jedi stuff,"

"Ok then… I'm going to go tinker," Zon said as he was leaving the room.

"Be sure to keep the main power on as well as the hyper drive," Kit called out before Zon closed the door. When Kit was sure Zon was gone he said, "You want to know why Zon acts the way he does, am I right?"

"Um, yes," Anakin said. He was a bit surprised that Kit already knew what he was thinking.

"He's Autistic. I told you already," Kit said as he rummaged through a box nearby.

"But what is Autism? (7)" Anakin said with annoyance. Kit paused and gave him a stare. "Sorry Master Fisto, but this is the first time I've heard of Autism."

"I understand Skywalker. That's why I brought this along to help explain, if I can find it," Kit said as he continued searching for what he was looking for in the box.

"You knew that I would ask?" Anakin asked in amazement.

"I knew that you, Gazer, or Gunn would ask, so yes, I came prepared," Kit answered as he continued to search for what he was looking for. "Where is it?" Kit muttered as he continued rummaging. "Found it," He said when he pulled out a holo-book (8).

"What's that about?" Anakin asked as he stared at the book.

"Autism," Kit said with his trademark smile "Did you think it'll be easy just explaining verbally?"

[To be Continued]

(1): Dizzy from watching Anakin pace back-and-forth

(2): What? I had to think of something (so don't ask)

(3): It's more of a sensory thing as well as an Autistic trait

(4): made it up (so don't ask as well)

(5&6): Autistic trait as well; and they tend to take things literally unless you explain it completely. Note: it's very common

(7): The question nearly everyone asks

(8): whatever you call them.

Gale-Dragon: Finished with the first chapter, Please review if you like it.