A highly Force-Sensitive teenager from Earth comes across Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Ahsoka when they crash-land on Earth. He is accepted into the Order despite his age, but begins to question its laws…Final chapter will give a reasonable explanation for his and Ahsoka's absence in RotS. There are some relationships here and there. More Chapters to come-I will try to update about a chapter or two a month.

"I can't believe Grievous got away, again." Ahsoka slumped into a chair in the cockpit of the ship.

"Patience, Padawan, we'll catch him eventually." Her master told her.

"But Master, he was in my sights. I could have taken him before he got into his ship."

"Snips, you can't just charge straight into battle."
"But you do it all the time, Master."

"She's got a point, Anakin," Obi-Wan said with a smile, "Maybe you should try to lead by example."

"Look, Snips, you just have to be careful, you are not yet strong enough to take on Grievous by yourself."

Ahsoka slumped deeper into her chair, "Yes, Master."

"Obi-Wan, can you plug in the coordinates for Coruscant?"

"Of course."

Suddenly shots were heard colliding with their ship. Ahsoka snapped to attention, "What was that?"

Her question was answered when the ships hologram communicator turned on and Dooku's figure appeared. "Master Kenobi, Skywalker, how nice to see you again."
"Dooku," Anakin said angrily, "What do you want?"

"Your surrender. If you lower your shields and forfeit your lightsabers I will show mercy. Resist and my droids will destroy you."

"We will never surrender to you, Dooku."

"Very well, what a shame." The hologram shut off and immediately blaster fire was colliding with the ship.

"Master Kenobi, do you think you could pick it up?" Ahsoka asked, tense.

"Almost done. Why didn't we bring R2--" he said annoyed.

"He short-circuited, remember?" Anakin said as blaster fire hit the shield generator and the force of the enemy fire threw Kenobi head first into the dashboard, knocking him out. "Ahsoka," he said, "buckle up, we're entering Hyperspace."
"Is Master Kenobi okay?"
Anakin checked for a pulse, "He's fine, just unconscious." He buckled his old master into his seat.

"Where are we headed?"
"I'm not sure, but we're going to have to wait until we exit hyperspace until we can change the coordinates." Suddenly the ship entered a tunnel of blue light and shot through space.

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It was the longest time any of them had ever been in Hyperspace, almost 50 hours. Obi-Wan had been entering and exiting consciousness and Ahsoka had slept most of the trip (mostly due to the long mission they had just complete). But Anakin remained vigilant. He didn't want to leave Hyperspace and be a sitting duck, but he could not fight sleep any longer. He closed his eyes and a few minutes later the ship left Hyperspace. They were left drifting through space.

"Master, wake up. We've left Hyperspace."
"Where are we, Ahsoka?"

"We don't know," Obi-Wan was sitting in his chair, holding his head in pain, "our Hyperdrive malfunctioned and we've, apparently, been orbiting around this planet for some time now."

"Is there any record of it in the databank?"
"None, we are in a completely unknown galaxy."

"We're going to have to land. Without R2 we can't repair the Hyperdrive in space."

"But Master, we don't know what lives in this galaxy." Ahsoka said sounding uncharacteristically scared.

"Well we are going to find out soon." Anakin turned off the autopilot and turned the ship to get ready for a landing.

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"The unidentified ship has been orbiting the planet for almost four hours now. The United States government has contacted Russia, Germany, and England about it, but they have all denied ownership. At this time we encourage anyone who may know something to contact us at—" A 15 year old boy turned off the battery powered radio and continued walking through the woods. He had been missing for almost a year now. He ran away when his parents were murdered and has been living in the woods since then. He had long, blonde hair (a result of living in isolation for so long) was about 6 feet tall, but only weighed about 130 pounds. He had to ration the amount he ate. He often had to sneak into markets at night and take food. He didn't like doing it, but he had to survive. He couldn't go back either. He was framed for the murder of his parents and even his own sister testified against him. It was, however, his sister and her friends who did it. He never got a reason for it, he ran away too quickly.

"It's just another story that the media started up to distract us from—" Something crashed in the distance, "What the hell?" and the boy ran towards it.

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"Nice landing, Skyguy."

"Be quiet Snips."

"I'm siding with your Padawan on this one Anakin. That wasn't your greatest landing."
"Look, the engines died on me. Besides I felt the presence of the force here, don't deny that you felt it too. I thought there would be a city around here when I started flying again."

"I felt it too. Maybe this area is just strong with the force."

"Who's that?" Ahsoka pointed to the boy who had just broken through the clearing. He was in disbelief. Right in front of him was the very thing he had denied just a minute ago.

"Hello," Obi-Wan stepped up, "I am Obi-Wan Kenobi. Is there a city nearby where we can get repairs?"

The boy just stood there, mouth agape.

"Let me try," Ahsoka stepped forward. "Hey, I'm Ahsoka Tano, what's your name."

"You're a--, you're a—"

"A Jedi? Yeah. We just crash landed here, can you help us out?"

"An Alien." the words barely passed his lips when he passed out.

"Good going Snips."
"Hey it wasn't my fault."

"Anakin, help me get him into the ship, we'll have to discuss repairs with him later."

"Master, why don't Ahsoka and I head out and try to find a city?"

"No, Anakin. We don't know what else lives on this planet. The natives could be hostile."

"I don't think we have to worry about that Master Kenobi."
"Why would you say that, Ahsoka?"
"He obviously passed out in shock, right?"
"Right."

"Well, right before he passed out he said, 'you're an alien.' It's as if he had never seen anything except for his species before."

"All right. Ahsoka, I want you to watch after him. Once we get this boy inside the ship, Anakin and I will set up a camp."

"Master is that really necessary?"

"Anakin, we don't know how long we may be here for."

"Yes master."

Obi-Wan picked up the boy with ease and Anakin opened the ship. They placed him on one of the bunks inside the living quarters. "Come on Anakin. Let's get a fire started. Without the engines we are going to have to find someone to help us soon."

The two Jedi left and Ahsoka came into the living quarters and lied down on the bed opposite the boy. "This is going to be a long mission."

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"Finally," Anakin said, sweating, "we got the fire started."

"If you had just listened to me instead of trying to use your lightsaber and the force we would have had it done an hour ago."
"Well if you had just—" A loud scream erupted from the ship. The boy had just woken up. "Ahsoka!" Anakin charged into the ship and broke down the door to the living quarters. "Get off her—" He had expected to see the boy attacking Ahsoka, but he was wrong. Ahsoka pinned down the boy. He was frantically trying to get her off. They were both tiring quickly. "Ahsoka," Anakin said in disgust and pulled her off, "what are you doing?"

"I didn't do anything, Master, he woke up, so I went over to see how he was doing and he just started screaming. I had to keep him still."

"What do you want from me?" The boy said, standing on his feet, panting. "Where am I?"

"Relax," Obi-Wan stepped forward trying to comfort the boy, but the boy grabbed the lighstaber from his waist,

"Back off."

"Look," Anakin said, "you don't even know what that is."

"It's obviously a weapon, why else would all three of you have them with you?"

"Look, we need help, that's all," Obi-Wan took another step forward, "please can we just talk through this?"

"I don't know who you are, or where you are from, or even what you are," he shot a glance at Ahsoka, "but get away from me. I'm warning you."

"Warning us?" Ahsoka ignited her lightsaber, the boy studied what she had done, "who do you think you are talking to?"

"Look, we are sorry that this happened, but our ship crashed and we need parts. That is all." He took another step and the boy raised the lightsaber and right before he hit the switch Obi-Wan yelled, "NOOOOO!!!" The boy ignited it, but he was holding it upside down and the blade activated and went through his right leg. He fell and the lightsaber deactivated. Obi-Wan caught him and said, "Are you all right?"

"What do you want with me? Why can't you just leave," the boy was angry now, "why can't you just leave me alone?" The room started shaking, things that were not bolted down began to levitate, "just get away." The Jedi were caught off-guard and were all pushed into a pile at the back of the room.

Anakin stood up and used the force to bring the boy to all fours. Everything fell from the air and crashed once the boy's concentration was broken. The boy pushed Anakin back with the force, barely missing Ahsoka and Obi-Wan, and ran out of the ship as fast as his one leg could carry him. Suddenly he felt something grab him. As if invisible hands were holding onto his body, forbidding him to continue. He felt the hands turning him and no matter how hard he struggled he could not break free. "What do you want from me? Why won't you just leave?" He was now facing the three Jedi; Anakin had his hand raised in a gripping form.

"We just need a little help. We crash landed on this planet—"

"Earth," the boy interrupted.

"Right, Earth, and we need repairs. Is there anyone around who could help us?" Anakin lowered his arm and the "hands" released him, but he almost fell due to the pain from his leg.

"Repairs? For that?" He pointed toward the ship and started laughing.

"What's so funny?" Ahsoka said angrily as walked forward, "We are stranded on this planet and have no way of leaving and all you can do is laugh?"

"It's not your situation. You are just seriously overestimating the technology of this planet." He kept laughing.

"Well," Obi-Wan said, "what about the other planets in the galaxy?" We caught at least six others on our radar before we crashed. Surely one of them must be able to help us? Can you contact them?"
The boy just laughed harder, "Other planets? Seriously? For all we know this is the only planet in the solar system that even has life."

"Only planet in the galaxy?"

"Are you telling me," Anakin walked forward, "that you have no communication with other galactic systems, or even planets?"

"Pretty much."

"But you must have traveled and explored. Certainly we could get parts for our ship somewhere?"
"Yeah of course."
"Finally," Anakin said, "where?"
"NASA."

Obi-Wan and Anakin gave him a confused look, Ahsoka just said, "I'm just going to assume that they are not going to help us."

"It's our space association. They might, I mean you are proof of existence of life outside of our planet, but it's going to cost you."

"We have galactic credits." Obi-Wan said.

"What?"

"Money, how much would it cost us?"
"Even if that was valid currency in the U.S they wouldn't accept it."

"U.S?"

"The United States…of America."

"Is that your government?"

"No it's this country."

"What do you mean? There's more than one government on this planet?"
"It's irrelevant, if you want to get off this planet you don't need to know about that. And even if you did get NASA's help given the kind of things I have seen they can't help you much. Besides we are nowhere near there."

"But how are we going to get off without the right parts?" Ahsoka asked.

"Patience, Snips. Kid, is there anything around here that could help us at all?"

"Well, I guess I could take you to a mechanic and you could get some parts, but that would probably be even less helpful than NASA."

"You've never seen me at work."

"Master, are you sure you aren't exaggerating a bit?"

"Ahsoka, have I ever been wrong."

"Do you want me to answer that, Master?"

"Okay, I'll take you, but you don't have good money."

"We'll have to try to persuade them," Obi-Wan said.
"Persuade them? Hah, good luck. These mechanics are some of the greediest people you'll ever meet."
"I doubt that." Anakin had flashes of Waddle going through his head.

"They don't accept anything except for money."

"We'll think of something," Obi-Wan said, "You just get us to one of these places."
"Okay, but if she wants to come she's going to need a disguise or something."
"What do you mean?" She said.
"Well, I assume you don't want to attract attention to yourselves, and having a horned, orange skinned…. girl with you isn't the best way to remain inconspicuous. Actually none of you will be. You three may as well have a siren going off over your heads."
"Well, then," Anakin said, getting annoyed, "what do you suggest we do, boy?"

"Hmm…I got it. But only one of you is going to be able to come along…give me a minute." He darted through the trees, heading back to his campsite.

"Master," said Anakin, "do you really think we can trust him?"
"I don't sense any malevolence in him, and the force is strong with him."
"But why would only one of us be able to go with him? You think he's planning something?"

"I don't know."

The boy returned a few minutes later with a pair of jeans and a t-shirt. "Okay, you're coming with me." He handed the clothes to Anakin.

"What? Why me?"
"You know what you could use as parts and I only have one spare pair of clothes."

"But—"

"Anakin, just go. We'll stay here. May the force be with you."

"May the force be with you." And they left.

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"Well, here it is." The two stood in front of Greg's Auto-Repair.

"Thank you."

"There is no way you are finding anything that you can use in there."

"Have faith, kid. You never know."
"Damn, you are hard to read."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, normally I'm good at figuring people out, but I just don't get you. Your two friends back there…easy…but you. You're just too complicated."
"Hmm, well what do you know of my two friends." Anakin doubted what the boy said.

"Well the Orange one is rather aggressive, reckless, but she seems like she has a soft spot in her heart for people she spends a lot of time with. And the other one, your…uh…Master, he acts very calm, but there's something about him. He's troubled or scared that something is going to happen. And it's not about some petty thing. He's afraid that something is going to happen to you."

Anakin couldn't deny what the boy had said, "That's pretty good. But what of me?"
"I already told you. You're too complicated."
"Try me."
"Well. You're aggressive and reckless, far more than your friend. You have little patience for failure, but there is something. Something that you hold on to. I don't know what, but it's almost as if this…thing is what keeps you going."
"You know, kid, you're better than you give yourself credit for." The two went into the store. The boy walked up to the mechanic behind the counter and said, "We need some spare parts for a car."

The mechanic studied the two for a moment and said in a deep, scratchy voice, "In the back. Talk to Olli." He pointed to a door in a far corner of the store and the boy and Anakin walked into a garage. The walls were lined with spare parts. The boy had no idea what any of them were, but Anakin looked as if he knew what he was doing.

"What are you looking for anyway?"

"Well, our Hyperdrive is damaged, but it's nothing I can't fix without a few twists here and there. But the engine was shot down by droids."
"Droids?"

"You know, droids? Battle droids? The CIS?" The boy just stared at him, confused. "You really never have had outside contact before, have you?"
"You're the first."

"Hmm. Well, we are fighting the CIS, an army made up of mostly droids. And we had just finished a mission when a few of their fighters found us separated from our squadron and attacked us. We managed to escape, but our engines were nearly destroyed and we punched in the wrong coordinates for our Hyperdrive."

"Your what?"
"It lets us travel faster than the speed of light."

"That's cool."

"Yeah. So we crashed here and we met you."

"I see. So, how are you going to pay for this?"

"I have a plan."
"We're not paying are we?"

"Nope. Now here's the plan: There are only two people here and I haven't seen any security cameras, so I'm going to take out this Olli guy and cut through the back of this place."

"How, it's solid concrete?" Anakin smiled and pointed to his lightsaber, "With that? Will it work?"
"Hey, it cut through your leg just fine. How is it by the way?"
"It's fine. Just a flesh wound, sort of."

"How bad is it?"

"I'll live."
"That bad huh?"

"Why do you think it's bad?"
"Kid, when you fight in a war for as long as I have you learn that 'I'll live' really means 'it's killing me'. That and every time you put pressure on it you wince."

"So there's a war."
"Yup."

"So how do I know I can trust you? If you're fighting in a war? Maybe you're just here to kill us."

"Because, we're the good guys."

"Do your enemies know that?"

"Look I'm not here to argue with what you think of us. You don't even know what we are."

"I'm not arguing, I'm just saying, maybe to your enemies you guys are the bad guys."

"Hey, boy," the mechanic's scratchy voice was coming from the door, "I know who you are—"

"We have to get out of here, now."

"I know what you did."

Anakin gathered everything he had picked out and ignited his lightsaber. He thrust it through the wall and cut a hole big enough for the two to leave through. "What is that all about?"
"I'll tell you later."

Anakin helped the boy to his feet and they ran off, back into the woods. The Mechanic and Olli were still screaming at them.

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"Is that really how it happened, Master?"

"Yes. Anakin likes to stretch the truth a little when it comes to that mission."
"And his arm? Did he really lose it against Count Dooku?"
"Yes, but the way that battle went is a little different than how he tells it."

"Well, Master, I think that story can wait," The boy and Anakin stepped into the clearing, "The kid has something he wants to tell us."

Anakin pushed the boy forward and took a seat. "I don't want to tell you this, but it may be in your best interest." He paused and took a deep breath, "I am wanted for murder and have been on the run for about a year."

Anakin stood up, said, "I knew that something had to be up," and stood by his old master. Ahsoka just stared at the boy, but Obi-Wan was deep in concentration.

"You didn't do it did you?"
"No."
"A likely story."

"Anakin, please be quite. Now tell me, what happened?"

"I don't know the whole story. But when I came home one day I saw my parents on the ground, stabbed to death, and my sister and her friends standing over them with the knife. I went to call the police, but they grabbed me and framed me for the whole thing."

"And you expect us to believe you?" The boy said nothing.

"Anakin, please stop. Continue."
"I was tried for murder and found guilty after my sister testified."

"How old were you?"
"Fourteen."

"That's young."

"Even a youngling can be a killer, Master."

"Ahsoka, please take your master inside."
"Come on Skyguy." She tried to push him, but he wouldn't budge. He gave the boy one last glare, turned, and walked into the ship with his padawan.

"So that's why you are out in the woods, alone."
"Yup."
"Did you ever try to explain what really happened?"

"Of course, for almost a month, but it never worked."
"So what are you going to do now?"
"I don't know. I'll probably have to move again. It won't be long until the government finds out your crash sight. When that happens I have to be long gone."

"What if I could get you out of here? Away from everything?"
"What are you offering?"
"Nothing yet. I just need to know how willing you are to start over."

"You mean a second chance?" Obi-Wan nodded. "I would love nothing more."

"Good then. I need to go talk to Anakin." He stood up and began to walk toward the ship.

"Sir."
"Yes?"
"Thank you."
"For what?"
"You're the first person who has ever believed me."

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"No way, not happening, that is never going to happen."
"Look, Anakin, he's got nowhere to go and no one in his life. What could be the harm?"

"He could be a murderer and you want to bring him with us."
"Do you really think he did it?"
"And do you really believe him?"

"Yes, but that doesn't matter. The important thing is that he is the only thing on this entire planet that has the presence of the force and it is strong enough to make us think that these woods were a populated area. You felt it, didn't you? When we were circling this planet you didn't feel anything until we were over this area. You thought that it was an uninhabited planet didn't you?"

"Yes, but from what I have seen the planet would be better off without his kind."

"Anakin, the point is Dooku is looking for us. Eventually he is going to track our movement through Hyperspace and he is going to find this planet. What do you think will happen to the boy when Dooku senses his power? It will just be another Sith to deal with."

"Obi-Wan, do you really think that will happen?"
"Yes. And if it does this planet will be under droid control very soon. If Dooku senses that boy, everything here will be gone." Anakin just stood up and walked away. "Where are you going?"
"I'm going to try to fix the engine." He picked up his tools and walked to the engine at the back of the ship.

"Ahsoka, you can come out now."

"Sorry, Master Kenobi."
"It's all right."
"Master, are you sure that's a good idea?"

"I don't know."
"Isn't he a little old though? He's already old enough to be sent away to the Agriculture Corps…if he had been training.

"True, but who knows. Anakin was taken in. Besides, we may have ruined his chances of being able to stay hidden here."

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The boy ran in to the living quarters with his radio. "You guys have to get out of here, now." It was early morning and Ahsoka was not in the mood to get up.
"What are you talking about, kid?" Ahsoka said tired and annoyed, "what's the rush?" She covered her head with the sheets.

The boy pulled them off of her and yelled, "They located the ship. They are going to be here today to investigate."

"Look, boy," Anakin walked into the living quarters, "I don't know who you think you are, but you can't just barge in here this early in the morning."

"Look, you don't have much time. They found out that you crashed here. You've been discovered, you don't have a lot of time."

"What are you talking about." The boy turned the radio on and after adjusting the knob to reduce static, he got a clear signal—

"And here's an update on the UFO. It has just been located in the woods several miles north of New Jersey. We ask that you do not, in any way, try to make contact with the ship. We will be giving you updates throughout the day—" The radio went to static.

Obi-Wan started rubbing his beard. "This is not good. Anakin how close are you to finishing the repairs?"

"I just have to fix the Hyperdrive, but I don't know how long the engine will hold. The parts I used are beyond primitive. It won't carry us for long."
"Will it take us far enough to get a message out to the Council?"

"I don't know."
"Well it looks like we'll have to find out soon. Anakin, get working on the Hyperdrive."

"Yes, Master." He ran back to the ship to finish the repairs.

"Sir, is their anything I should do?" the boy asked.

"And what about me, Master Kenobi?"

"You two just need to be patient. I'm going to go help Anakin with what I can, so you two just wait for me to call for you.

"Yes, Master."

"Yes, sir." Obi-Wan went in to the ship to help Anakin.

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The boy and Ahsoka sat in awkward silence for several minutes before the boy said, "I'm sorry about how I reacted earlier."

Ahsoka just turned her head, bored and said, "Hmm?"

"You know, when I kinda freaked and said you were an alien."

"Oh, don't worry about it."

"So what's your name?"
"Come on, I'm sure you've heard it mentioned before."

"I have. But I want to hear it from you. After all it's your name."

"I'm Ahsoka Tano."
"Hello Ahsoka, I'm Michael Henry." He extended his hand and she shook it.

"Nice to meet you Michael."

"So where are you from?"

"Shili, why?"

"Just striking up conversation. You know where I live. Now I know where you live. It's just something to remember you by."
"Well I don't exactly live there anymore. I haven't since I was a kid."

"Why not?"

"Well the Jedi found me and took me in for training."
"Jedi?"
"Yeah, you know." Michael just stared at her, "You've never heard of the Jedi? But you can use the force, how have you never heard of us?"

"First contact."

"Right."
"So what are Jedi?"
"They are an order of Force Sensitives who--"
"Force Sensitives?"

"People who—"

"Ahsoka," Anakin called, "we got to get out of here, now."

"Okay, Master," She called back to him. She looked at Michael, "Michael, it was great meeting you."
"You too, Ahsoka." She ran to the ship and waved goodbye one last time before the door sealed and the ship took off. Michael was alone, again and headed back to his campsite in order to pack up and move. He could hear trucks coming nearer.

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"Obi-Wan, put the Hyperspace coordinates in and don't mess it up this time."
"Anakin, we have to go back to get him."

"We can't, we'll be seen."
"So what? It's only a matter of time before they have contact. Besides only one of two things can happen now. Either his people find him and he gets punished, or Dooku traces us here, senses him and kills him or worse."

"That's not our problem."
"I think you should listen to Master Kenobi here."

"Ahsoka, not now." She sat down and stayed silent.

"Anakin, do you remember, years ago, when I ended up on Tatooine?"

"Master, not now."

"Qui-Gon and I found a slave boy who helped us get our ship off of that planet and what happened?"
"You took him in."
"That's right. Now where would you be had we not found that boy?"
"Look this is a completely different situation. I was a boy, he is almost an adult. There is no chance of the council accepting him for training."

"Maybe, but he has no one in his life. He is alone. What harm could it do to him? Besides when has the council's will ever stopped you from doing something?"

"You're really set on doing this aren't you?"

"So it's settled. Let's pick him up…quickly."

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