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"Come on Master, just take him with you when you head back to the front lines." Anakin had been trying to get Obi-Wan to do it for months, but this time he managed to start up the conversation with just Master Yoda present, while the three were in the central information tower of the Jedi Temple. Anakin hoped that the elder would be on his side. Though it could easily turn against him.

"No Anakin. He hasn't finished his training. He's undisciplined." Obi-Wan said, making excuses. "Now how about we get back too..."

"What training!? You haven't done anything but make him meditate all day!" Anakin shouted, getting more and more frustrated at his old master's attempts to dodge the conversation. "What are you so afraid of!?"

Master Kenobi paused, the word his former apprentice used hung in the air as a short silence drew out in the room. 'Afraid'. It was true, the majority of the Jedi Council was afraid of the boy. Afraid, because they could sense the darkness that dwelled within him; the pain, the hatred, the sadness. They could feel it all coiling around inside of him, waiting to strike. And his power was far greater than their own.

"I... I think that taking him into the Jedi temple... to believe that we would be able to train him to be ready for battle was foolish." Obi-Wan admitted after a few seconds. "I fear that if he becomes apart of this war, he will be unable to handle the stress and he will be drawn to the dark side. He has already been marked by it. Surely you can feel that much. We should have sent him away to one of the neutral planets. Hoped that he would just remain uninvolved."

"He doesn't want to be out of the way. He want's to help. He wants to save people's lives. But instead he is locked up here like a prisoner with people who believe he is some kind of monster. He might not be intoned enough with the force to feel our emotions, but he is smart enough to realize what people think about him." Anakin said before looking to Yoda for help.

"I dilemma we find ourselves in." Master Yoda nodded. "We keep him here because we are afraid of what might accrue if he is exposed to more darkness. But because we keep him here, he is forced to dwell on the fear and mistrust that surround him, which itself leads to the darkness." Yoda shook his head sadly. "Handling this all wrong, we are."

"What do you mean?" Anakin asked, hoping that it would lead towards his side of the argument.

"A Jedi meditates to intone themselves with the Force, and to strength their minds against the dark side. But touched by the dark side, Danny has already has. Too late is it to place more guards on the walls when the enemy is already through the gates." Yoda said in his sagely manner. His eyes closed and he breathed heavily. "All of our training methods for young Padawans, useless in the situation they be."

"All the more reason we should get him away from the war." Obi-Wan protested. "He cannot shield himself against the darkness. We can't let him be exposed any more than he already has been."

Yoda looked up into Obi-Wan's eyes. "Tell me, Master Kenobi, what is it you sense from the boy?"

Obi-Wan's lip twitched as the thought about it. "Sadness, fear, angering... bitterness."

"Wonder why..." Anakin mumbled to the last one that his former master had offered, though he couldn't deny that those emotions existed within Danny.

"Yes. And what about you, Skywalker?" Yoda asked, looking to Anakin for his opinion.

"Though everything Obi-Wan said is true, I can sense a great deal of hope, kindness, resolve and... regret." Anakin put forward.

"Yes. Yes." Yoda nodded as if he was a teacher congratulating a student for a correct answer. "Rooted inside of him, both darkness and light are. The only question is, which one will win? Right now he is in a limbo, caught between the two powers. Fueled by both, he is, and powerful, he is. But there is still time for him to choose which side he will stand by. The fate of the entire galaxy may rest upon his choice."

Obi-Wan closed his eyes. "I know." He said simply. "That is why I am so afraid for him. I do not hate the boy. I just don't want him to have to be the one. No one should have to carry a burden like that alone."

"Then help him carry it, we must. Guide him we shall, and through our teachings, may he the light, he find." The elder master chuckled. A small moment passed and the old master's eyes closed, a frown passing over his face. "I sense a disturbance in the force. Deception is coming towards us. And enemy within the Temple, there is."

"Are you sure?" Obi-Wan asked, glad for the change of subject.

"Yes. Feel it I do." Yoda said with a nod.

"I'll go alert the guards on duty. More than likely they are after the data on our war time operations that the tower holds." Obi-Wan said before leaving the room.

Anakin was making to follow him when Yoda called him back. "A moment, Skywalker." Yoda said, calling the young Jedi back. "Personally you take this matter with Phantom, yes?"

Anakin looked inside of himself, he knew what Yoda had just said to be true. "Master, just because I have personal feeling about this, doesn't mean that I'm not right." Anakin said. "You've seen him playing around with the children. You know that he sneaks out of the Temple every chance he gets to go play hero down in the city slums. He wants so badly to help people, and for people to not look at him like he is some freak on display."

"See yourself in him, you do." Yoda said looking up into Anakin's eyes. Anakin shifted uncomfortably. "In so many ways, we failed you as well." Yoda said, shocking Anakin as he lowered his eyes to the ground.

"You never failed me, Master Yoda." Anakin said quickly.

Yoda shook his head. "When you first came to the temple, you were separated. Sure of how to react to your presence, we were not. Against our teachers, it was. Focused on the ill, we did, and because of that, you suffered." Yoda sighed. "Punish you we did, for our own shortcomings. Sorry, I am."

"You don't need to apologize." Anakin said, though he was touched by the gesture. "I just hope there is still time for Spooks to heal."

The Jedi Temple Library.

A huge structure that contains knowledge on every historical event on every known world in the entire galaxy. Shelves that reach up nearly a hundred feet and spreed across enough space to fit an entire squadron of fighter jets in it.

The entire place had a grand and noble feel to it.

Or at least it would have, if it wasn't for the laughter that echoed through the building.

"Oh it gets better. The thug starts saying that he wasn't robbing them and that he was just trying to give them a reward for being the hundredth couple to walk down the alley that day." Danny was laughing as he told Ahsoka one of his many funny stories from when he was heroing. "So the guy pulls out his own wallet and gives it to the couple before running away!"

"And you just run into this stuff on your 'walks'?" Ahsoka tried to hold back her giggles as the two of them walked through the halls of the library, keeping an eye out for 'trouble'.

"You just need to know were to look. Its like bug hunting except... actually it is exactly like bug hunting." Danny joked.

Ahsoka sighed. "I would rather be doing that than this right now." She said gesturing around her. "Why do we bother guarding these things? Most of it is public information. Except the Holocrons, but those are behind a blast door that only a Jedi can open." She said, nodding towards a special security door in the corner of the library that housed a special mechanism that could only be opened through use of the Force. "And who would be dumb enough to try to sneak into the Jedi Temple anyways? This place is crawling with Jedi Masters who would sense them in a heartbeat."

"Just be glad that you are only here on punishment leave. I'm here everyday." Danny said as he looked up at the plain white ceiling. Just like the rest of the Temple, it was boring. Alright maybe that isn't true, the Temple did house a hanger that he could go to and look at all of the cool space ships if he wanted, he just had to make sure not to be caught while running off there.

"But you still sneak out to the inner city slums every chance you get, huh. I hear something happened to the Red Suns gang a few days back." Ahsoka said, giving Danny a sideways smile. The gang none as the Red Suns had been completely totaled in the course of a few hours, left to the police after an anonymous call had been placed at the station.

"I wonder who could have done that." Danny said, hardly bothering to fain innocence as his smile light up his face at the memory. But the smile did last long. "I know that I can save dozens of people by helping fight the drug cartels and gangs, but if I was out there, helping protest the planets that can't protect themselves. I could save millions, maybe even billions of lives. But I'm stuck here because all of the 'masters' are afraid of me."

"Danny, they aren't afraid of you." Ahsoka said as she saw her friend's shoulder sag.

"Oh really?" Danny said turning towards the entrance were Jedi Master Ord Enisence was entering the building. His bold green head with what looked like several pairs of upper lips taking the place of his nose gave his race an odd look though Ahsoka knew he was actually very kind. "Just watch." Danny walked straight over to Ord and gave him a smile, forcing his own emotions to be positive in order to not give the Jedi any reason to be uncomfortable. "Master Enisence. Its good to see that you've returned safely." Danny said, being all smiles. "Is there anything you need help with? You know I've got plenty of free time."

The Jedi Master nearly jumped out of his skin. "No... that is quite alright. I... I can handle things on my own thank you." He said before moving quickly past Danny without looking back, a slight shake in his step. Ahsoka could feel the nervous apprehension coming from the man as he moved for the computer section of the library.

"Ouch." Ahsoka said. She hadn't realized that it was that bad.

"Most of them are like that, if less obvious." Danny said, his mood becoming a little more melodically after the short exchange. "All I want is a chance. Is that too much to ask."

"Danny, my Master and Master Yoda are talking to Master Kenobi right now. I'm sure that they can convince him to take you out to the field." Ahsoka said, trying to cheer her friend up.

"I won't hold my breath." Danny said with a sigh.

Ahsoka was trying to think of something to say when her communicator when off. "Ahsoka, are you there?" Obi-Wan's voice asked from the other side.

"Master Kenobi, we were just talking about you." Ahsoka said, hoping that her Master had talked some sense into the older Jedi. But that idea was shot down fast.

"Master Yoda believes that someone is invading the Jedi Temple. Be on guard." Kenobi said before ending transmission.

Ahsoka's mouth twitched as she pushed down her own disappointment. "Well, at least today won't be dull."

Watched the newer Star Wars movie today. Have to say it is my favorite out of the movies, but considering my opinion of the old movies was low, you can interpret that any way you want. At least these guys knew a bit more about acting.

Thought I would write another little piece for this in honor of the movie, though I didn't put that much time into it, so oh well.