Rowan's Star Warsby Rowan ExChapters1 - Mare of Tatooine2 - Mare of Tatooine Pt. 23 - Fashionable Apprentice4 - Fashionable Apprentice Pt. 21 - Mare of Tatooine Above a planet which one would easily identify as one of the most famous smuggler hotspots on the Outer Rim, a starship entered its atmosphere. Inside this starship, a lone pony meditated as the ship flew towards a small settlement. Standing up and staring outside, he wasn’t sure why his ship flew over to that particular settlement. The Force must’ve plans for him. Watching the ramp go down until it was safe to walk on, he took his lightsaber and his cloak then walked down the ramp. Followed by a protocol droid he himself built, he walked towards the settlement before freezing in place as one of the inhabitants of the sand igloo came outside. He bowed down in respect before galloping to hug his old friend. “Welcome back, old friend!” the head figure of the house greeted. “I see that you survived the Purge.” “And I see you have a nice family, Dr. Night Light,” the Jedi Knight greeted back. “May I stay for a moment?” “Yes, sure! Enjoy the company of a family with a legacy once known to everypony in the galaxy,” Night Light announced with glee. “So, Master Starswirl, come on in.” Starswirl smiled for a moment before calling his droid in as they entered the settlement. He smiled as he walked around, seeing as it was still like he and Night Light were little foals playing with sticks imagining them as lightsabers and pretending they had the Force. He frowned as he also remembered that after they played, they were shocked to learn that Starswirl was actually an adept, and a rather good one since it had caused the Jedi Order to get him trained. The Jedi Order… a name of something that was now fallen. Starswirl was momentarily distracted by three filles. One of the three, a orange pegasus who he saw was wearing a makeshift helmet, stopped and took a moment to stare at him in awe. Her friends, a white unicorn with curly mane and an orange earth pony who wore a bandana on her head along with what seemed to be a big pink ribbon, stared as well. He nudged Night Light who stopped and just chuckled. “They’re just friends of my first-born,” Night Light explained as he faced the three awestruck fillies. “Hey, I want you all to meet Starswirl. He’s a Master Jedi, so give respect.” “Really?” the curly maned unicorn asked. “Well, if he is a Jedi, can he show his lightsaber?” “I’m not sure if it’s wise, but I’ll let you show it.” Starswirl raised his cloak and clipped out his lightsaber hilt from his belt. During this window of time, everypony noticed his choice of clothing which was a robe similar to the color of sand and a black belt. “This is my lightsaber which I call the Crusader.” Starswirl ignited his lightsaber, causing it to now sport a humming blue blade. He deactivated the lightsaber and swiftly used his own magic to block a stone which was hurtled towards him. He slowly placed the stone on the side of him and looked around to find whoever threw it just to find a purple hoof lurking in the shadows. His vision was immediately replaced by a series of images he always had ever since he became a young Knight in the Jedi Order. Images of a new Republic. Images of a purple unicorn rising into a legend. A burning body. His lightsaber and a hoof stuck in it. A mask of white. A pony with three colors for her mane. Another image of the purple unicorn beside something else. Then darkness. He had fainted because of a Force vision. For once, he actually managed to get a glimpse of something purple. It was a rare color, after all. A color which was said to be a sign of balance. Starswirl’s first thing that he saw was a face of a curious pony which he had once when he was just a young padawan. He blinked and sat, causing the pony who was looking at her step back to her right. “What’s your name, young one?” asked Starswirl. The pony hesitated for a few seconds before she answered. “Twilight Sparkle, Master Jedi.” Her voice was reminding Starswirl of the Jedi Librarian at Coruscant for some reason. “Father told me to take care of you while he went away.” Starswirl opened his mouth to speak only to hear a beep. He looked to his left to find an old astromech droid which he recognized. “Oh, hello Teesix,” Starswirl greeted. Twilight Sparkle’s eyes widened. “You know T6-A2? How did you know his name?” “He is your family astromech droid, yes?” Starswirl asked. “I’ve known him for a while. And your father too.” “Father did tell tales about you,” Twilight humbly replied. “Is it true you fought in the Battle of Jakku?” “Jakku?” He chuckled. “That planet became a junkyard for scavengers ever since the New Republic trashed the last of the Old Empire. It was also the same day that the New Republic turned into the Star Empire, causing an imbalance to the Force.” “Oh.” Twilight began to walk away, leaving Starswirl a small window of time to throw a stone. She dodged it, which Starswirl expected. What he didn’t expect that she would fire the stone with a stun spell. “You are the Chosen One,” he whispered. Twilight must’ve heard him since she froze and stared at Starswirl with an incredulous look before she went away. As the mare went off, Starswirl yawned and went off to sleep. 2 - Mare of Tatooine Pt. 2“Hey dad!” Twilight called. “Master Jedi Starswirl called me the Chosen One!” Night Light, who was reading an ancient and intricate scroll his family had since the Old Republic era, jumped and nearly destroyed such ancient object as he stared back at her daughter, who seemed to have triggered some sort of alarm from the whole family, especially her brother who was coincidentally passing by. “Chosen One?” her brother asked. “Must be because of your fur. I told you it’s ugly.” “Hey, I happen to like violet!” Twilight protested back. “Why don’t you paint yours in red and black instead?” “Stop it, both of you!” Night Light commanded. “Twilight Sparkle, meet me at my room. Shining Armor, go ‘pick up some power converters,’ if you want.” The stallion grinned in a rather disturbing way as he rocketed out of their house, causing the remaining inhabitants to laugh. The three fillies, who were still there, followed. Twilight and her father then went into the room adjacent to where Starswirl was sleeping. Night Light closed the door and pulled out a small chest under his bed. He opened the chest, and pulled out a spherical device from it. He passed it to Twilight who wondered what it was until it lit up and revealed itself to be an old Holocron. “Wha…?” Twilight could only watch as information leaked out from the old Holocron. “I… father… is this all true? We… we’re from a race of Jedi and Sith warriors?” “T… I think you should go with Starswirl to train,” Night Light answered, nodding. “Why?” she whispered. Night Light blinked at his daughter’s rather distressing tone. “I… I think you’ll know.” Saddened, Twilight left his room without the Holocron and headed towards her room and began to cry. As she grieved, Starswirl entered the room with his holocommunicator and walked out again, causing curiosity to take over Twilight making her follow. After a few circles inside her house, she poked Starswirl, causing him to stop and look a the holocommunicator. “Oh.” He looked at Twilight before to his communicator. “Young Twilight Sparkle, do you wish to be my padawan? In return, I could let you see your ancestors’ achievements over the Old and New Republic. I am sure you are curious.” “What will happen after that?” Twilight asked, showing a small ray of hope. Starswirl looked at Twilight. “I am not sure, for the future will come from your acts alone,” he taught. Before Twilight answered, his communicator rang and a holographic pony appeared. “Master Starswirl! I need your assistance as soon as possible,” it said. “I’m sending the coordinates to your communicator.” Night Light bursted out of his room and encouraged Twilight to join him. The mare reluctantly followed, for she knew something good will happen sooner, or she thought. Starswirl took his robe and then headed outside. Before Twilight could follow, Night Light called her for one last time and gave her a robe on her own. “Be safe, my daughter,” he blessed. “May the Force be with you and be never fall to the Dark Side.” “I will, father.” Starswirl was making preparations when he saw his friend’s daughter board his ship. He was rather amused and confused due to how she looked. So when she reached Starswirl’s chair in the cockpit, she went towards the navigational area. Starswirl couldn’t help but chuckle on how Twilight was enjoying technology, which he had noticed when he went into her room “accidentally,” spotting a rather abnormal amount of books and educational supplies. At least she will put her knowledge to good use after this. Finishing the preparations, Starswirl then flew off away towards the space just close to the planet but not within its atmosphere and looked at Twilight. “Twilight Sparkle, you are now my Padawan and I am your master,” he proclaimed. “We will begin your first training after we head towards the coordinates.” “Hmm. What should I do while we wait, Master?” Twilight politely asked. He smiled. “I have a small library, maybe you could entertain yourself with the lore of the Jedi Order first.” And just like that, Twilight immediately searched for the bookshelves, causing Starswirl to break into laughter. Starswirl then headed towards the ship’s holoterminal and checked on the pony who sent a distress call to him. He recognized the mane after he saw it. “Master Luna,” he welcomed. “Why did you sent your coordinates? Is something wrong?” “I… you received my call?” Luna asked. “Out of all Jedi who would heard it, my old padawan receives it first. Anyway… I found a place for us Jedi. It’s not much for the moment, but once I have restored the abandoned temple in it…” “What are you talking about, master?” Starswirl wondered. “I want all of you to receive the glory of my former home, Equestria.” Luna grinned. “That, and I really want all of you to meet my sister, Princess Celestia of Equestria!” Starswirl’s ears flopped as he heard his former master squeal like a colt. He jumped as soon as he also saw Twilight walking over, confused on what happened and intent on finding out what was the noise. She found her answer when she saw Starswirl’s holoterminal. “Oh! Um… sorry! I mean, uh… I’ll be uh… leaving, I gues…?” Twilight stuttered. “Well, it looks like the Force allowed a coincidence,” Luna proclaimed. “I also just picked up a new padawan. Her name is Rarity Belle.” Starswirl looked at Twilight only to find that she was gone. “Yeah… see you there, master.” Starswirl closed the connection and trotted over the library where he saw his padawan looking at various lightsaber hilt schematics. He walked closer and smiled. “You’ll be there soon,” Starswirl told him. “You just need to train to use the Force with your actions. But first I must ask you a question.” Twilight looked up. “Will you accompany me to this task?” 3 - Fashionable ApprenticeIn a planet which seemed to be uninhabited but full of plant life, the Jedi Knight Starswirl and young Padawan Twilight Sparkle the Honorary stepped out of their starship after they had landed on a flat space which seemed to be cleared just for them. Picking up a few materials, including an empty lightsaber hilt, Starswirl came out first. Twilight soon came after and nearly tripped as she was reading about the Old Republic through an old book. It forced her to run towards Starswirl who was surprisingly a few feet off staring at her. “No distractions next time,” Starswirl told her. “There may be something which we may never know.” After a few steps, things came into play as they recognized small busy towns full of ponies in the sky and land. Once they were close enough to observe one, the first thing that caught Starswirl’s attention was a statue of Master Luna on the outskirts. Twilight, wondering why there was such statue in a town, approached it with her master. As soon as they arrived at the base, they looked back as they heard footsteps. “Who’s there?” Starswirl shouted. Two ponies, one dark blue and another white, approached our alerted pair. “It is us, Master Starswirl. No need to panic,” the dark blue instructed. “Are you sure that’s Master Luna?” Twilight whispered. Starswirl looked at Twilight and whispered back, “What makes you say that?” “They don’t look Jedi,” she whispered back. “I mean, based on your holographic pictures of them, didn’t Master Luna have a faint scar on her ear?” Starswirl looked at the two ponies before pulling out his lightsaber and ignited it. “Starswirl! Young padawan!” a senile voice called out to them. “Run! They’re changelings!” Twilight immediately ran over the statue and into the forest where it was located, leaving Starswirl alone with the two figures which transformed into bug creatures. Twilight Sparkle ran and teleported, dodging obstacles that lie in the path she took in the forest she was in. She didn’t know where she was, and she regretted running away from her master. She stopped to turn away, only to find that the paths had vanished and the forest seemed to be against her. She fell to her knees and closed her eyes. She stood up, hoping that the Force would guide her, and began to walk. She ironically knew that the Force didn’t work that way, though. After walking and sidestepping, she opened her eyes to find herself in front of a bridge, and a ruined castle overhead where she saw two robed ponies. The tall dark blue one waved her hoof while the short white one looked at the tall one confused…? “Master Luna!” she shouted. “Is that you?” The tall one nodded. “Where is your master! young padawan?” she shouted back. “Back at that statue that looked like you but more Dark-like!” Twilight replied. “Oh.” Twilight immediately ran through the bridge and approached the two, bowing once close enough. “Rise, padawan,” Luna commanded. Twilight did so. “I think Master Starswirl needs our help.” “I think we need to introduce ourselves first,” the white one suggested. “My name’s Padawan Rarity Belle. I came from Jakku.” “Master Luna White of the Jedi Order,” Luna introduced. “How about you?” Twilight gulped. She saw the holocron and how she should introduce herself. Should she? “Padawan Twilight Sparkle the Honorary,” she whispered. “What?” Luna asked. Twilight spoke. “Twilight Sparkle the Honorary,” she introduced herself, rather softly. “‘Honorary?’ That’s an ancient title, I daresay,” Rarity commented. “Are you from one of those old legendary lines of Jedi during the Old Republic?” Twilight immediately changed the subject. “Uh… We should probably go and help my master first, right?” “Right.” Luna looked at the bridge. “Let’s go. But the title discussion will be mentioned later.” ]“At last, I thought you were both animal food!” Starswirl greeted as he deflected beams from the incoming attackers using his lightsaber which hummed and sparked as beams deflected off it. “This place is dangerous! Was your call a distress signal or an invitation!?” “It was an invitation,” Luna answered as she dived in, igniting her own lightsaber which sported a green blade on both ends. “And I was about to organize a welcome party and hide my padawan’s training materials until you alerted the changeling hive!” “How did Master Starswirl alerted such a thing?” Twilight asked, taking a long stick from the ground and using it as a weapon. “Also, what’s a changeling hive?” Rarity, who actually had a decent weapon which was a full-on green-bladed lightsaber, spoke up and answered the padawan’s question. “We are still wondering about that too, Twilight.” Rarity pushed a changeling off her, causing the chitin-covered bug to be thrown away. “And to be honest, we don’t either what changelings are.” “We don’t have anything about our enemies!?” Twilight clarified as she used her magic to counter a few of the beams as well as hitting a few changelings with her stick. “How come?” “They’re extremely well-hidden,” Luna lectured as her lightsaber deflected a quarter of the beams. “They also feed on one’s love, as much as I remember when they tried to attack a wedding. Luckily, they failed due to circumstances I will not explain.” “Why?” Starswirl asked as the attacking creatures retreat due to the fact that they can’t overwhelm the Jedi Masters and padawans. “No reason,” Luna replied. “They just stopped, then they said there were change of plans and they vanished.” As if on cue, the insect-like creatures have immediately left their sight. “Well, this is a surprise.” “They’re retreating,” Twilight noticed. “Should we follow them?” “No need,” Starswirl ordered. “For now.” He smiled. “I guess I’ve seen enough of your current performance to give you these.” Starswirl took the empty hilt and gave it to Twilight. “Ah! Looks like two padawans will have their trials done on the same day,” Luna announced as she holstered her twin-bladed lightsaber. She then looked up. “Everypony, let us head out of this place; we are not safe here and I have somepony that wants to know about you.” “This is not your ‘sister,’ is it not, master?” Starswirl wondered. Luna chuckled. “All points to thee, my former padawan. Thee goddess of sky and sun, was until Imperial takeover. We never thought that thou Jedi would come and save us, free us from thy control.” Luna looked at herself. “Oh my, looks like my old language have returned, speaking about dear sister Celly.” “Celly?” they all asked. “Celestia,” Luna corrected. “We were first known as Princesses but after my discovery of the Force and my Jedi training, we departed from each other. Hmm.” She looked towards a certain mountain where it seemed like a temple and a castle was built on the side. “How could I forget the Canterlot Jedi Temple?” Luna told the three. “I was about to build my own down in this forest. Should we all take a ride?” “Are we going to use primitive technology?” Twilight asked as she looked around. “I can see train tracks…” “Nay!” Luna flailed her left hoof. “We shall take a transport!” The Jedi master promptly pointed to a yellow device which looked like it had never been used for millions of years. “Well, after I clean it up.” Luna looked over the object. “And refuel it, if I can just find that fueling pod my sister installed…” 4 - Fashionable Apprentice Pt. 2“Let me tell you a few things about this place,” Luna told the others as they rode the newly cleaned four-person transport speedster towards the mountain. “This place was known was the country of Equestria. The town near where we fought was once known as Ponyville, a simple town founded by apple farmers. The mountain we are heading is named Mt. Canter, and the castle seemingly built in its side is a city known as Canterlot. It was once the dazzling jewel of Equestria, the capital.” “Huh, so the trees were apple trees?” Twilight asked. “I’ve never seen them before.” The dark blue alicorn stared at Twilight. “Hailing from Tatooine, I presume?” Twilight nodded. “I see, and I knew why I guessed you came from Tatooine due to your dress. For your question, not all of them are apple trees, youngling.” Luna landed the speedster on a large balcony where it seemed like a few droids were cleaning up the place. “Just those trees with red ball-like items hanging from it. Trust me, you’ll want them sooner or later. They’re edible and so have a wonderful taste.” She went out of the speedster after a droid connected it to a fueling pod. The three followed and Rarity went to Luna’s side. “So… where’s your sister?” Starswirl wondered. “When I was under your tutelage you were rather shot me than letting me know how she looked like. Twilight looked back, jumped and elbowed her master. “Right behind you, master.” Starswirl looked back to find a white pony which towered him. He saw that this pony had a horn and wings like Luna and saw her mane and tail with three colors as it waved in the light. She had the kindest smile. What made her different from her sister is that she wore a vest containing various materials which he saw were tools and a modified blaster. Starswirl looked back at Luna. “Your sister is a smuggler?” Starswirl clarified, having taken notice of her sister’s clothing. Luna nodded. “Why?” “Equestria’s a smuggling country these days,” the white alicorn answered with a voice which seemed to be softer than Luna. “Seeing the New Republic fall into another Empire made our visitors permanently call this country a smuggling zone. Welcome to Equestria, Jedi. Luna.” “Celestia,” Luna greeted. “This is my padawan, Rarity Belle, my former padawan, Starswirl, and his own padawan, youngling Twilight Sparkle.” “Greetings, I am Princess Celestia. I was once known by my little ponies as the Sun Princess, but I fear that ever since the Empire tried to take everything I had to drop the title. For now, I am merely a smuggler keeping the Canterlot Jedi Temple clean because I’m bored,” Celestia introduced herself, going a little flat on the end. “I’m bored and I miss being a ruler of a state.” Starswirl looked around. “I’m planning to rebel against the Star Empire,” he announced. “If that helps. Maybe you can be part of something.” With ludicrous looks pointed to him, Celestia couldn’t help but tell her own idea, if she was right about what he meant. “I was thinking of a royal republic after we have arrived on this galaxy… However, since this planet was uncharted, I couldn’t just present the idea. Now that it seems like it has turned into an empire, maybe we can overtake this one out,” she explained. “But… that’s impossible to do without like an army or something!” Twilight protested. “Not to mention, the fragments of the old Empire joining this one out is just gonna make this worse! Unless we have some sort of spy inside or some knowledge how we can beat them.” Rarity had an idea. “How about master Luna’s invitations?” she suggested. “There’s rumors about one of the Old Republic’s old senators making steps against the Star Empire. General Leia, I think.” “General Leia?” Luna wondered. “I’ve heard of that name. She, along with the last Jedi of the Old Order and a smuggler, destroyed the Death Star and Death Star II, or so they say.” “Hmm. I see.” Starswirl looked at Twilight Sparkle suddenly, like something disturbed him. “Padawan, mind talking to you in private?” “Yes, master,” Twilight answered. The two dismissed the area and headed into the depths of the surprisingly decent Jedi Temple. As they walked towards a small training chamber as shown, Starswirl spoke first. “Remember when you ran to your father when I said you were the Chosen One?” Starswirl asked. Twilight nodded. “You woke up after blacking out,” she reminisced. “Why? Is that why you picked me as your padawan?” “I was referring to my Force vision where I saw a violet unicorn, probably you, bring balance to the Force and to the galaxy,” Starswirl explained, nodding. “I suppose your father reacted?” “Well, he gave me this holocron…” Twilight began. “I played it. Then I kept it in my bag. Afterwards, I kind of left my back from the speedster.” “Can you bring it here?” Starswirl asked. “I would like to see it.” After arriving on the room, Twilight looked at her back then summoned her bag. Starswirl placed his hoof on her shoulder with a small frown which Twilight didn’t noticed at first. “You should minimize the use for magic,” he began as he took the bag off Twilight and went to place it in one corner. “It is not healthy for an adept to use magic. Try to use the Force. There is a reason you are just as good as magic.” “How do I use the Force?” Twilight asked. “I thought it controls everything.” “But the Jedi can also control the Force and the Force can flow with them,” Starswirl explained. “You must focus enough and have the correct conditions which I know you already know. Now, for your training, you must unlearn what you have learned and learn what you have not learned.” “Trust my instincts,” Twilight interpreted. “I’m not sure how this will work out, I am a sort of scholar.” Starswirl answered by picking up a discarded resistance helmet lying around with its blast shield down and slid it out to her Twilight’s head. Afterwards, he handed his practice saber which had been on his belt along with his own lightsaber. Twilight blinked and tried to peek only to feel a hoof sliding the helmet back down. “I can’t see in this thing,” Twilight complained. “How can I even start and activate this… hilt?” “Trust in the Force,” he instructed. “Once you have activated that practice saber we can move on to the next training; defense.” After a few minutes, Celestia and the others wondered what was going on until Luna felt a small disturbance in the Force. This caused her to gallop inside the temple and saw why they were taking a long time to return. She saw Starswirl training Twilight Sparkle in a vacant room, their materials on one side. Luna also saw Twilight with Starswirl’s training saber, which made her confirm that she was actually training. While she watched, Rarity and Celestia galloped and passed by silently and caught up with Luna. “Are they training?” Rarity whispered. Luna smiled. “Yes, my padawan.” She took a note on how her former padawan teached his padawan before noticing something about her current padawan. “Where is your lightsaber, miss Belle?” Rarity moved her hooves around her belt and gulped her throat as she had indeed lost her lightsaber. “I think in our haste we had left my lightsaber over the castle ruins, master.” Luna muttered something Rarity would find too gross before running off to their speedster. Rarity, knowing what it meant, soon followed with click-clacks of their hooves echoing the chamber as they immediately focused on taking back Rarity’s lightsaber. Both of them knew that the first lightsaber is always special and if it were to be destroyed, then they would only make another one. Twilight Sparkle, wearing the modified resistance helmet, tried her best. The blast shield interrupted both her magic and her instincts, and her Master Jedi said that she should tap into the Force. She was having doubts about how this would work since she just heard of the Force yesterday and read about it just a few hours ago. And now, she was told to activate something she had on her hooves. She concluded that it was a lightsaber as she inspected and checked what she was holding. The design felt simple and thought it was a practice saber hilt. “Once you have activated that practice saber we can move on to the next training; defense,” he had instructed. She groaned on the inside. She wasn’t cut out for this, but she was already in another planet, not in her father’s settlement. Seeing only one option, she closed her eyes and tried to clear her mind. At first, she felt nothing of interest nor any suspicious feeling that the holocrons told her until she felt something. Once she had opened her eyes, she noticed that the shield had seemingly become translucent. Taking notice, Twilight activated the saber. “Good!” her master praised her. “Now, what did you feel?” The translucence of the shield disappeared. She took notice of it. Twilight answered, “I felt like I can see the saber I had.” Twilight swung the saber a few times before she took full curiousity to focus on what she had in her hooves. “What’s difference between practice saber and a real lightsaber?” “You curiosity is commendable,” he commented before answering, “the difference, my student, between the lightsaber and the practice blade is the intensity of the plasma blade. The lightsaber can cut through materials and vaporize your hooves while the practice saber can only give a slight burn on the fur. Now that you have learned to tap into the Force, avoid the lasers.” “Lasers? What laser— Ow!” Twilight instinctively faced left as something felt like burning. “Ow! Master, what are you doing?” Twilight faced right only to feel something on the left again. “I requested Celestia to shoot you some sting shots,” he answered. “Wait, what?” Twilight tried to look to her master only to end up getting hit in the back. “When did you—?” Twilight let out an audible groan for once. Focusing, she then immediately blocked something afterwards. “I see that my sister was good in not letting themselves get hurt,” Celestia commented in sarcasm. Star Swirl blinked as he healed his hoof which was hit by Twilight in defense. “It was fortunate that you were merely using stun shots, but it still burned my skin.” Starswirl looked over to Twilight. “You can remove your helmet now, Twilight.” Twilight Sparkle removed the helmet and stared at Starswirl’s burnt hoof as she deactivated the practice saber. “Uh… Did I do that?” she asked. Star Swirl nodded. Twilight Sparkle immediately panicked and tried to apologize. Celestia couldn’t help but laugh in pity, noticing her cutie mark, which was a pink starburst surrounded by five small stars in different colors. She couldn’t help but remembering one of her old friends which also had a similar cutie mark only with white small stars. She also noticed how the padawans were named and wondered if it was a coincidence or a planned event.
1 - Mare of Tatooine Above a planet which one would easily identify as one of the most famous smuggler hotspots on the Outer Rim, a starship entered its atmosphere. Inside this starship, a lone pony meditated as the ship flew towards a small settlement. Standing up and staring outside, he wasn’t sure why his ship flew over to that particular settlement. The Force must’ve plans for him. Watching the ramp go down until it was safe to walk on, he took his lightsaber and his cloak then walked down the ramp. Followed by a protocol droid he himself built, he walked towards the settlement before freezing in place as one of the inhabitants of the sand igloo came outside. He bowed down in respect before galloping to hug his old friend. “Welcome back, old friend!” the head figure of the house greeted. “I see that you survived the Purge.” “And I see you have a nice family, Dr. Night Light,” the Jedi Knight greeted back. “May I stay for a moment?” “Yes, sure! Enjoy the company of a family with a legacy once known to everypony in the galaxy,” Night Light announced with glee. “So, Master Starswirl, come on in.” Starswirl smiled for a moment before calling his droid in as they entered the settlement. He smiled as he walked around, seeing as it was still like he and Night Light were little foals playing with sticks imagining them as lightsabers and pretending they had the Force. He frowned as he also remembered that after they played, they were shocked to learn that Starswirl was actually an adept, and a rather good one since it had caused the Jedi Order to get him trained. The Jedi Order… a name of something that was now fallen. Starswirl was momentarily distracted by three filles. One of the three, a orange pegasus who he saw was wearing a makeshift helmet, stopped and took a moment to stare at him in awe. Her friends, a white unicorn with curly mane and an orange earth pony who wore a bandana on her head along with what seemed to be a big pink ribbon, stared as well. He nudged Night Light who stopped and just chuckled. “They’re just friends of my first-born,” Night Light explained as he faced the three awestruck fillies. “Hey, I want you all to meet Starswirl. He’s a Master Jedi, so give respect.” “Really?” the curly maned unicorn asked. “Well, if he is a Jedi, can he show his lightsaber?” “I’m not sure if it’s wise, but I’ll let you show it.” Starswirl raised his cloak and clipped out his lightsaber hilt from his belt. During this window of time, everypony noticed his choice of clothing which was a robe similar to the color of sand and a black belt. “This is my lightsaber which I call the Crusader.” Starswirl ignited his lightsaber, causing it to now sport a humming blue blade. He deactivated the lightsaber and swiftly used his own magic to block a stone which was hurtled towards him. He slowly placed the stone on the side of him and looked around to find whoever threw it just to find a purple hoof lurking in the shadows. His vision was immediately replaced by a series of images he always had ever since he became a young Knight in the Jedi Order. Images of a new Republic. Images of a purple unicorn rising into a legend. A burning body. His lightsaber and a hoof stuck in it. A mask of white. A pony with three colors for her mane. Another image of the purple unicorn beside something else. Then darkness. He had fainted because of a Force vision. For once, he actually managed to get a glimpse of something purple. It was a rare color, after all. A color which was said to be a sign of balance. Starswirl’s first thing that he saw was a face of a curious pony which he had once when he was just a young padawan. He blinked and sat, causing the pony who was looking at her step back to her right. “What’s your name, young one?” asked Starswirl. The pony hesitated for a few seconds before she answered. “Twilight Sparkle, Master Jedi.” Her voice was reminding Starswirl of the Jedi Librarian at Coruscant for some reason. “Father told me to take care of you while he went away.” Starswirl opened his mouth to speak only to hear a beep. He looked to his left to find an old astromech droid which he recognized. “Oh, hello Teesix,” Starswirl greeted. Twilight Sparkle’s eyes widened. “You know T6-A2? How did you know his name?” “He is your family astromech droid, yes?” Starswirl asked. “I’ve known him for a while. And your father too.” “Father did tell tales about you,” Twilight humbly replied. “Is it true you fought in the Battle of Jakku?” “Jakku?” He chuckled. “That planet became a junkyard for scavengers ever since the New Republic trashed the last of the Old Empire. It was also the same day that the New Republic turned into the Star Empire, causing an imbalance to the Force.” “Oh.” Twilight began to walk away, leaving Starswirl a small window of time to throw a stone. She dodged it, which Starswirl expected. What he didn’t expect that she would fire the stone with a stun spell. “You are the Chosen One,” he whispered. Twilight must’ve heard him since she froze and stared at Starswirl with an incredulous look before she went away. As the mare went off, Starswirl yawned and went off to sleep.
2 - Mare of Tatooine Pt. 2“Hey dad!” Twilight called. “Master Jedi Starswirl called me the Chosen One!” Night Light, who was reading an ancient and intricate scroll his family had since the Old Republic era, jumped and nearly destroyed such ancient object as he stared back at her daughter, who seemed to have triggered some sort of alarm from the whole family, especially her brother who was coincidentally passing by. “Chosen One?” her brother asked. “Must be because of your fur. I told you it’s ugly.” “Hey, I happen to like violet!” Twilight protested back. “Why don’t you paint yours in red and black instead?” “Stop it, both of you!” Night Light commanded. “Twilight Sparkle, meet me at my room. Shining Armor, go ‘pick up some power converters,’ if you want.” The stallion grinned in a rather disturbing way as he rocketed out of their house, causing the remaining inhabitants to laugh. The three fillies, who were still there, followed. Twilight and her father then went into the room adjacent to where Starswirl was sleeping. Night Light closed the door and pulled out a small chest under his bed. He opened the chest, and pulled out a spherical device from it. He passed it to Twilight who wondered what it was until it lit up and revealed itself to be an old Holocron. “Wha…?” Twilight could only watch as information leaked out from the old Holocron. “I… father… is this all true? We… we’re from a race of Jedi and Sith warriors?” “T… I think you should go with Starswirl to train,” Night Light answered, nodding. “Why?” she whispered. Night Light blinked at his daughter’s rather distressing tone. “I… I think you’ll know.” Saddened, Twilight left his room without the Holocron and headed towards her room and began to cry. As she grieved, Starswirl entered the room with his holocommunicator and walked out again, causing curiosity to take over Twilight making her follow. After a few circles inside her house, she poked Starswirl, causing him to stop and look a the holocommunicator. “Oh.” He looked at Twilight before to his communicator. “Young Twilight Sparkle, do you wish to be my padawan? In return, I could let you see your ancestors’ achievements over the Old and New Republic. I am sure you are curious.” “What will happen after that?” Twilight asked, showing a small ray of hope. Starswirl looked at Twilight. “I am not sure, for the future will come from your acts alone,” he taught. Before Twilight answered, his communicator rang and a holographic pony appeared. “Master Starswirl! I need your assistance as soon as possible,” it said. “I’m sending the coordinates to your communicator.” Night Light bursted out of his room and encouraged Twilight to join him. The mare reluctantly followed, for she knew something good will happen sooner, or she thought. Starswirl took his robe and then headed outside. Before Twilight could follow, Night Light called her for one last time and gave her a robe on her own. “Be safe, my daughter,” he blessed. “May the Force be with you and be never fall to the Dark Side.” “I will, father.” Starswirl was making preparations when he saw his friend’s daughter board his ship. He was rather amused and confused due to how she looked. So when she reached Starswirl’s chair in the cockpit, she went towards the navigational area. Starswirl couldn’t help but chuckle on how Twilight was enjoying technology, which he had noticed when he went into her room “accidentally,” spotting a rather abnormal amount of books and educational supplies. At least she will put her knowledge to good use after this. Finishing the preparations, Starswirl then flew off away towards the space just close to the planet but not within its atmosphere and looked at Twilight. “Twilight Sparkle, you are now my Padawan and I am your master,” he proclaimed. “We will begin your first training after we head towards the coordinates.” “Hmm. What should I do while we wait, Master?” Twilight politely asked. He smiled. “I have a small library, maybe you could entertain yourself with the lore of the Jedi Order first.” And just like that, Twilight immediately searched for the bookshelves, causing Starswirl to break into laughter. Starswirl then headed towards the ship’s holoterminal and checked on the pony who sent a distress call to him. He recognized the mane after he saw it. “Master Luna,” he welcomed. “Why did you sent your coordinates? Is something wrong?” “I… you received my call?” Luna asked. “Out of all Jedi who would heard it, my old padawan receives it first. Anyway… I found a place for us Jedi. It’s not much for the moment, but once I have restored the abandoned temple in it…” “What are you talking about, master?” Starswirl wondered. “I want all of you to receive the glory of my former home, Equestria.” Luna grinned. “That, and I really want all of you to meet my sister, Princess Celestia of Equestria!” Starswirl’s ears flopped as he heard his former master squeal like a colt. He jumped as soon as he also saw Twilight walking over, confused on what happened and intent on finding out what was the noise. She found her answer when she saw Starswirl’s holoterminal. “Oh! Um… sorry! I mean, uh… I’ll be uh… leaving, I gues…?” Twilight stuttered. “Well, it looks like the Force allowed a coincidence,” Luna proclaimed. “I also just picked up a new padawan. Her name is Rarity Belle.” Starswirl looked at Twilight only to find that she was gone. “Yeah… see you there, master.” Starswirl closed the connection and trotted over the library where he saw his padawan looking at various lightsaber hilt schematics. He walked closer and smiled. “You’ll be there soon,” Starswirl told him. “You just need to train to use the Force with your actions. But first I must ask you a question.” Twilight looked up. “Will you accompany me to this task?”
3 - Fashionable ApprenticeIn a planet which seemed to be uninhabited but full of plant life, the Jedi Knight Starswirl and young Padawan Twilight Sparkle the Honorary stepped out of their starship after they had landed on a flat space which seemed to be cleared just for them. Picking up a few materials, including an empty lightsaber hilt, Starswirl came out first. Twilight soon came after and nearly tripped as she was reading about the Old Republic through an old book. It forced her to run towards Starswirl who was surprisingly a few feet off staring at her. “No distractions next time,” Starswirl told her. “There may be something which we may never know.” After a few steps, things came into play as they recognized small busy towns full of ponies in the sky and land. Once they were close enough to observe one, the first thing that caught Starswirl’s attention was a statue of Master Luna on the outskirts. Twilight, wondering why there was such statue in a town, approached it with her master. As soon as they arrived at the base, they looked back as they heard footsteps. “Who’s there?” Starswirl shouted. Two ponies, one dark blue and another white, approached our alerted pair. “It is us, Master Starswirl. No need to panic,” the dark blue instructed. “Are you sure that’s Master Luna?” Twilight whispered. Starswirl looked at Twilight and whispered back, “What makes you say that?” “They don’t look Jedi,” she whispered back. “I mean, based on your holographic pictures of them, didn’t Master Luna have a faint scar on her ear?” Starswirl looked at the two ponies before pulling out his lightsaber and ignited it. “Starswirl! Young padawan!” a senile voice called out to them. “Run! They’re changelings!” Twilight immediately ran over the statue and into the forest where it was located, leaving Starswirl alone with the two figures which transformed into bug creatures. Twilight Sparkle ran and teleported, dodging obstacles that lie in the path she took in the forest she was in. She didn’t know where she was, and she regretted running away from her master. She stopped to turn away, only to find that the paths had vanished and the forest seemed to be against her. She fell to her knees and closed her eyes. She stood up, hoping that the Force would guide her, and began to walk. She ironically knew that the Force didn’t work that way, though. After walking and sidestepping, she opened her eyes to find herself in front of a bridge, and a ruined castle overhead where she saw two robed ponies. The tall dark blue one waved her hoof while the short white one looked at the tall one confused…? “Master Luna!” she shouted. “Is that you?” The tall one nodded. “Where is your master! young padawan?” she shouted back. “Back at that statue that looked like you but more Dark-like!” Twilight replied. “Oh.” Twilight immediately ran through the bridge and approached the two, bowing once close enough. “Rise, padawan,” Luna commanded. Twilight did so. “I think Master Starswirl needs our help.” “I think we need to introduce ourselves first,” the white one suggested. “My name’s Padawan Rarity Belle. I came from Jakku.” “Master Luna White of the Jedi Order,” Luna introduced. “How about you?” Twilight gulped. She saw the holocron and how she should introduce herself. Should she? “Padawan Twilight Sparkle the Honorary,” she whispered. “What?” Luna asked. Twilight spoke. “Twilight Sparkle the Honorary,” she introduced herself, rather softly. “‘Honorary?’ That’s an ancient title, I daresay,” Rarity commented. “Are you from one of those old legendary lines of Jedi during the Old Republic?” Twilight immediately changed the subject. “Uh… We should probably go and help my master first, right?” “Right.” Luna looked at the bridge. “Let’s go. But the title discussion will be mentioned later.” ]“At last, I thought you were both animal food!” Starswirl greeted as he deflected beams from the incoming attackers using his lightsaber which hummed and sparked as beams deflected off it. “This place is dangerous! Was your call a distress signal or an invitation!?” “It was an invitation,” Luna answered as she dived in, igniting her own lightsaber which sported a green blade on both ends. “And I was about to organize a welcome party and hide my padawan’s training materials until you alerted the changeling hive!” “How did Master Starswirl alerted such a thing?” Twilight asked, taking a long stick from the ground and using it as a weapon. “Also, what’s a changeling hive?” Rarity, who actually had a decent weapon which was a full-on green-bladed lightsaber, spoke up and answered the padawan’s question. “We are still wondering about that too, Twilight.” Rarity pushed a changeling off her, causing the chitin-covered bug to be thrown away. “And to be honest, we don’t either what changelings are.” “We don’t have anything about our enemies!?” Twilight clarified as she used her magic to counter a few of the beams as well as hitting a few changelings with her stick. “How come?” “They’re extremely well-hidden,” Luna lectured as her lightsaber deflected a quarter of the beams. “They also feed on one’s love, as much as I remember when they tried to attack a wedding. Luckily, they failed due to circumstances I will not explain.” “Why?” Starswirl asked as the attacking creatures retreat due to the fact that they can’t overwhelm the Jedi Masters and padawans. “No reason,” Luna replied. “They just stopped, then they said there were change of plans and they vanished.” As if on cue, the insect-like creatures have immediately left their sight. “Well, this is a surprise.” “They’re retreating,” Twilight noticed. “Should we follow them?” “No need,” Starswirl ordered. “For now.” He smiled. “I guess I’ve seen enough of your current performance to give you these.” Starswirl took the empty hilt and gave it to Twilight. “Ah! Looks like two padawans will have their trials done on the same day,” Luna announced as she holstered her twin-bladed lightsaber. She then looked up. “Everypony, let us head out of this place; we are not safe here and I have somepony that wants to know about you.” “This is not your ‘sister,’ is it not, master?” Starswirl wondered. Luna chuckled. “All points to thee, my former padawan. Thee goddess of sky and sun, was until Imperial takeover. We never thought that thou Jedi would come and save us, free us from thy control.” Luna looked at herself. “Oh my, looks like my old language have returned, speaking about dear sister Celly.” “Celly?” they all asked. “Celestia,” Luna corrected. “We were first known as Princesses but after my discovery of the Force and my Jedi training, we departed from each other. Hmm.” She looked towards a certain mountain where it seemed like a temple and a castle was built on the side. “How could I forget the Canterlot Jedi Temple?” Luna told the three. “I was about to build my own down in this forest. Should we all take a ride?” “Are we going to use primitive technology?” Twilight asked as she looked around. “I can see train tracks…” “Nay!” Luna flailed her left hoof. “We shall take a transport!” The Jedi master promptly pointed to a yellow device which looked like it had never been used for millions of years. “Well, after I clean it up.” Luna looked over the object. “And refuel it, if I can just find that fueling pod my sister installed…”
4 - Fashionable Apprentice Pt. 2“Let me tell you a few things about this place,” Luna told the others as they rode the newly cleaned four-person transport speedster towards the mountain. “This place was known was the country of Equestria. The town near where we fought was once known as Ponyville, a simple town founded by apple farmers. The mountain we are heading is named Mt. Canter, and the castle seemingly built in its side is a city known as Canterlot. It was once the dazzling jewel of Equestria, the capital.” “Huh, so the trees were apple trees?” Twilight asked. “I’ve never seen them before.” The dark blue alicorn stared at Twilight. “Hailing from Tatooine, I presume?” Twilight nodded. “I see, and I knew why I guessed you came from Tatooine due to your dress. For your question, not all of them are apple trees, youngling.” Luna landed the speedster on a large balcony where it seemed like a few droids were cleaning up the place. “Just those trees with red ball-like items hanging from it. Trust me, you’ll want them sooner or later. They’re edible and so have a wonderful taste.” She went out of the speedster after a droid connected it to a fueling pod. The three followed and Rarity went to Luna’s side. “So… where’s your sister?” Starswirl wondered. “When I was under your tutelage you were rather shot me than letting me know how she looked like. Twilight looked back, jumped and elbowed her master. “Right behind you, master.” Starswirl looked back to find a white pony which towered him. He saw that this pony had a horn and wings like Luna and saw her mane and tail with three colors as it waved in the light. She had the kindest smile. What made her different from her sister is that she wore a vest containing various materials which he saw were tools and a modified blaster. Starswirl looked back at Luna. “Your sister is a smuggler?” Starswirl clarified, having taken notice of her sister’s clothing. Luna nodded. “Why?” “Equestria’s a smuggling country these days,” the white alicorn answered with a voice which seemed to be softer than Luna. “Seeing the New Republic fall into another Empire made our visitors permanently call this country a smuggling zone. Welcome to Equestria, Jedi. Luna.” “Celestia,” Luna greeted. “This is my padawan, Rarity Belle, my former padawan, Starswirl, and his own padawan, youngling Twilight Sparkle.” “Greetings, I am Princess Celestia. I was once known by my little ponies as the Sun Princess, but I fear that ever since the Empire tried to take everything I had to drop the title. For now, I am merely a smuggler keeping the Canterlot Jedi Temple clean because I’m bored,” Celestia introduced herself, going a little flat on the end. “I’m bored and I miss being a ruler of a state.” Starswirl looked around. “I’m planning to rebel against the Star Empire,” he announced. “If that helps. Maybe you can be part of something.” With ludicrous looks pointed to him, Celestia couldn’t help but tell her own idea, if she was right about what he meant. “I was thinking of a royal republic after we have arrived on this galaxy… However, since this planet was uncharted, I couldn’t just present the idea. Now that it seems like it has turned into an empire, maybe we can overtake this one out,” she explained. “But… that’s impossible to do without like an army or something!” Twilight protested. “Not to mention, the fragments of the old Empire joining this one out is just gonna make this worse! Unless we have some sort of spy inside or some knowledge how we can beat them.” Rarity had an idea. “How about master Luna’s invitations?” she suggested. “There’s rumors about one of the Old Republic’s old senators making steps against the Star Empire. General Leia, I think.” “General Leia?” Luna wondered. “I’ve heard of that name. She, along with the last Jedi of the Old Order and a smuggler, destroyed the Death Star and Death Star II, or so they say.” “Hmm. I see.” Starswirl looked at Twilight Sparkle suddenly, like something disturbed him. “Padawan, mind talking to you in private?” “Yes, master,” Twilight answered. The two dismissed the area and headed into the depths of the surprisingly decent Jedi Temple. As they walked towards a small training chamber as shown, Starswirl spoke first. “Remember when you ran to your father when I said you were the Chosen One?” Starswirl asked. Twilight nodded. “You woke up after blacking out,” she reminisced. “Why? Is that why you picked me as your padawan?” “I was referring to my Force vision where I saw a violet unicorn, probably you, bring balance to the Force and to the galaxy,” Starswirl explained, nodding. “I suppose your father reacted?” “Well, he gave me this holocron…” Twilight began. “I played it. Then I kept it in my bag. Afterwards, I kind of left my back from the speedster.” “Can you bring it here?” Starswirl asked. “I would like to see it.” After arriving on the room, Twilight looked at her back then summoned her bag. Starswirl placed his hoof on her shoulder with a small frown which Twilight didn’t noticed at first. “You should minimize the use for magic,” he began as he took the bag off Twilight and went to place it in one corner. “It is not healthy for an adept to use magic. Try to use the Force. There is a reason you are just as good as magic.” “How do I use the Force?” Twilight asked. “I thought it controls everything.” “But the Jedi can also control the Force and the Force can flow with them,” Starswirl explained. “You must focus enough and have the correct conditions which I know you already know. Now, for your training, you must unlearn what you have learned and learn what you have not learned.” “Trust my instincts,” Twilight interpreted. “I’m not sure how this will work out, I am a sort of scholar.” Starswirl answered by picking up a discarded resistance helmet lying around with its blast shield down and slid it out to her Twilight’s head. Afterwards, he handed his practice saber which had been on his belt along with his own lightsaber. Twilight blinked and tried to peek only to feel a hoof sliding the helmet back down. “I can’t see in this thing,” Twilight complained. “How can I even start and activate this… hilt?” “Trust in the Force,” he instructed. “Once you have activated that practice saber we can move on to the next training; defense.” After a few minutes, Celestia and the others wondered what was going on until Luna felt a small disturbance in the Force. This caused her to gallop inside the temple and saw why they were taking a long time to return. She saw Starswirl training Twilight Sparkle in a vacant room, their materials on one side. Luna also saw Twilight with Starswirl’s training saber, which made her confirm that she was actually training. While she watched, Rarity and Celestia galloped and passed by silently and caught up with Luna. “Are they training?” Rarity whispered. Luna smiled. “Yes, my padawan.” She took a note on how her former padawan teached his padawan before noticing something about her current padawan. “Where is your lightsaber, miss Belle?” Rarity moved her hooves around her belt and gulped her throat as she had indeed lost her lightsaber. “I think in our haste we had left my lightsaber over the castle ruins, master.” Luna muttered something Rarity would find too gross before running off to their speedster. Rarity, knowing what it meant, soon followed with click-clacks of their hooves echoing the chamber as they immediately focused on taking back Rarity’s lightsaber. Both of them knew that the first lightsaber is always special and if it were to be destroyed, then they would only make another one. Twilight Sparkle, wearing the modified resistance helmet, tried her best. The blast shield interrupted both her magic and her instincts, and her Master Jedi said that she should tap into the Force. She was having doubts about how this would work since she just heard of the Force yesterday and read about it just a few hours ago. And now, she was told to activate something she had on her hooves. She concluded that it was a lightsaber as she inspected and checked what she was holding. The design felt simple and thought it was a practice saber hilt. “Once you have activated that practice saber we can move on to the next training; defense,” he had instructed. She groaned on the inside. She wasn’t cut out for this, but she was already in another planet, not in her father’s settlement. Seeing only one option, she closed her eyes and tried to clear her mind. At first, she felt nothing of interest nor any suspicious feeling that the holocrons told her until she felt something. Once she had opened her eyes, she noticed that the shield had seemingly become translucent. Taking notice, Twilight activated the saber. “Good!” her master praised her. “Now, what did you feel?” The translucence of the shield disappeared. She took notice of it. Twilight answered, “I felt like I can see the saber I had.” Twilight swung the saber a few times before she took full curiousity to focus on what she had in her hooves. “What’s difference between practice saber and a real lightsaber?” “You curiosity is commendable,” he commented before answering, “the difference, my student, between the lightsaber and the practice blade is the intensity of the plasma blade. The lightsaber can cut through materials and vaporize your hooves while the practice saber can only give a slight burn on the fur. Now that you have learned to tap into the Force, avoid the lasers.” “Lasers? What laser— Ow!” Twilight instinctively faced left as something felt like burning. “Ow! Master, what are you doing?” Twilight faced right only to feel something on the left again. “I requested Celestia to shoot you some sting shots,” he answered. “Wait, what?” Twilight tried to look to her master only to end up getting hit in the back. “When did you—?” Twilight let out an audible groan for once. Focusing, she then immediately blocked something afterwards. “I see that my sister was good in not letting themselves get hurt,” Celestia commented in sarcasm. Star Swirl blinked as he healed his hoof which was hit by Twilight in defense. “It was fortunate that you were merely using stun shots, but it still burned my skin.” Starswirl looked over to Twilight. “You can remove your helmet now, Twilight.” Twilight Sparkle removed the helmet and stared at Starswirl’s burnt hoof as she deactivated the practice saber. “Uh… Did I do that?” she asked. Star Swirl nodded. Twilight Sparkle immediately panicked and tried to apologize. Celestia couldn’t help but laugh in pity, noticing her cutie mark, which was a pink starburst surrounded by five small stars in different colors. She couldn’t help but remembering one of her old friends which also had a similar cutie mark only with white small stars. She also noticed how the padawans were named and wondered if it was a coincidence or a planned event.
