We sat at an outdoor cafe near the edge of the park, Luna was laying on the seat next to me while I and Rainbow talked about some of our past adventures.

"OH! This one time I did a double back-cork-screw and then did a somersault... but I ended up slamming into both of my running mates when I did that..." she chuckled at the funny memory. I just cackled lightly like a mad man, our stories were getting on the rather ridiculous side.

"OH, okay, okay! I got one for you Rainbow!" I gave her a wicked smile and leaned towards her in my seat. "You like Amazing, deft-defying, over the top, insurmountable odds, kind of stories, right?" I gave her a coy evil look, the one where you wag your eye brows at the person and grin madly.

"Who do you think you're talkin' to? Of course I do!" she exclaimed, her enthusiasm was touching, endearingly so.

"Alright then, I'll give you a short story about one of my latest adventures... This happened not to long before I arrived here by the way... I was in a star system named 'Hoth' meeting up with some guys that had info on a 'Prince', this 'Prince' was a part of a group called 'The BlackSuns', they're a mercenary group that was disbanded during the last great war... Anyway, I waited there for freaking EVER waiting for these guys... So, when they show up they start acting all smug and shit... So I have My buddy turn on my ships shields, knowing that this might go south fast I also had him turn on the guns." Rainbow was sitting there, listening intently, just getting in the zone for listening to my story.

"So we have a little chat, I scan their ship; which comes back as blank By the way, and my ship rocks hard. I looked all around me and saw that my bud in the back had just been blown to bits..." Rainbow gave me a look of horror, hearing about a friend of mine die and seeing that it didn't matter to me made her want to check my sanity.

"I know, I know, I should feel bad about him dying... But the guy was an ass and almost got me killed more times than I can count... Besides he was only a droid..." at droid she gave me a look of confusion.

"What's a droid?"

"A droid is a companion that has no emotion, no free will, and no personality whatsoever. His name was R9.... sorry piece of shit got off easy if you ask me..." I gave a gruff 'hardumf' and leaned back in my chair. "SO, like I was saying. R9 was toast, blown to bits and no longer able to help... so I got a little pissed and asked them what the hell, they told me fuck off so I went over and jacked their shit up. last i remember, Hoth had a new comet for about five seconds before they burnt up! And don't give me that look, they would have killed me and many other Jedi if I hadn't of ended them... Guys like that don't deserve to live..."

"So what happened next?" she had somehow gotten a bowl of popcorn from out of the blue and started munching on it.

"Well I went to a neighboring system called 'Bespin' Its a large Gas Giant with no moons... But the Gas Giant has a floating city that houses over several hundred thousand people and aliens on it." She almost choked on her popcorn at that.

"Wait, you said aliens... So to you, there are aliens out there... How many are there?!" she asked, her excitement almost uncontrollable. She was shaking in her seat, waiting for my response.

"Um... there are ... Oooooh... Several thousand different alien species that I personally know of... Chief among them are the Wookies, eight to ten foot tall ape like creatures covered in thick fur, they have claws and live in giant trees that are over a million years old... And let me tell you... always let the Wookie win..." I shuddered.

"Why's that?"

"The last time I heard a guy win against a Wookie.... the Wookie tore his arms off and beat him with them...." I shuddered even more and gagged a little.

"Arms...? you mean..." she pointed to my two upper limbs. I nodded and she went a little green at that.

"Yeah... But on a happier note!" I said making her blanch slightly. "I shall continue. Now, I had made it to 'Bespin' and gotten myself docked at the station. Two of my mentors were waiting for me, Luke Skywalker, Grand Master of the Jedi Order," I said his name with slight reverence, knowing that he would be proud of what I was doing here... but maybe not of how I was achieving it... "And Lando Calrissian, owner and leader of Bespin City. They had both taught me things about the universe... both big and small... Master Luke is THE greatest Swordsman the galaxy had seen in a long time.... rivaling even his father...."

"But I am getting off topic. So, I went and met with the two of them, they gave their condolences about the failed mission and told me not to worry about it... They then assigned these books, they held a collected knowledge of both my orders teaching and the reverse of it... I was given a copied set of it while the originals were going to be a Planet in the unknown regions of my galaxy... and I was to be the messenger... Yay me" we both laughed at my mock fake enthusiasm, my smile defied me and lit up my face.

"So, you were going to be errand boy or somethin'?" She asked, not being overly impressed thus far.

"Well, I was also going to help train the next generation of Jedi from that very same Academy... that's over a thousand students under my care." she blanched at that and tried not to kill herself with her choking.

"Dang! What were you going to do?!"

"I was going to do as he asked... But as we can see..." I motioned around us. "That that plan didn't go as planned..." I smiled. "SO, I took the books, a new droid, this one was and is different," she didn't catch on, so I continued, "And left for M-3, the planet of my destination. I stopped a few places over the course of a few days and picked up some extra supplies and restocked my food stuffs and made my way there in record time." I took a sip of my drink, some kind of herbal tea, and kept on with my story.

"I came out of hyperspace and began my flight towards the academy. I got inside after a hysterically funny talk I had with one of my friends and got down to business with the two other high ranking Jedi there. We talked for a while about the books and just shot the breeze, until it was time for me to get my stuff and turn in. So I went back to my ship and was about ready to grab my stuff when the ship started shaking and the alarms went off telling us we were under attack. So I got in my starfighter and shot off into the darkness of space." I took another sip and stretched a bit in my seat. I looked over and noticed that Luna was also listening in on my story, She was still laying there, but she kept her eyes open and ears pointed towards me.

"There we were, Roughly two hundred starfighters and two cruisers waiting for the enemy to show their ugly mugs... They came out of nowhere, striking fast and hard, taring through our formations. we lost close to fifty men in the first thirty seconds of the attack, but we came back hard! I took out ten of their fighters as i made my first pass though the battle," I was making gestures with my hands, summoning dirt and rocks to simulate fighters and debris. It was a swirling mass, barely even conceivable as to what it was unless you had been listening to the story.

"As I was flying through I took on several bogies, they were tailing me through the mass of fighters and carnage, not giving up for a second. That is until my friend from the academy swooped in with some of his palls and shot them all down, saving my backside. We traded thanks and went on our ways, saving as many of our allies as possible... After what felt like hours I sent out a message for us to regroup, for the enemy had taken to attacking our cruisers. All of our men that had damaged ships came to me, while the rest of them met up with my friend. My group of thirty-five fighters made several formations and began attacking the enemy fighters. We took out about a hundred of theirs and lost about ten or so of ours... It wasn't a fair trade... There were thousands of those guys everywhere."

"So how did you survive...?" Luna asked, she had gone to the other side of the table and was sitting there with dash, the two of them leaning into the table.

"I'll get there.... So I gave an order to everyone to pull out, I took the remaining men I had and went to help one of our cruisers... all the good that did us... it was destroyed before we could do anything. So my now nine fighters and myself had gotten out of the thick of it and were off to the side. The remainder of our forces had already escaped, leaving our damaged fighters to fend for our selves..." Luna and Rainbow gasped at my poorly told story, but they listened nonetheless.

"In the end, the planet was behind us and their armada in front... So we did the next best thing...." I made a small representation of the fight, using the same material from before. "WE made a thine V formation and shot off towards the heart of their fleet... We unleashed everything we had, cutting a swath through their lines... but it was all for not as my men slowly died around me... until I was the only one left as i excited from the other side... my ship heavily damaged... I couldn't escape... So I decided to take them all with me if it was the last thing I did..." The two of them sipped on their drinks in anticipation, knowing that i had survived the ordeal.

"What did you do daddy?" Luna asked.

"Yeah what'd you do?" Rainbow asked hugging Luna close in anticipation, it was kinda funny.

"Well... I let my new droid, 'Vet', take over the ship so I could meditate and find a way to end their abominable existence... I found it in the way of a force ability... It is said that if it is used incorrectly that it can rip apart a whole star system," they both went wide eyed and gasped.

"So you used it on them?" They both asked.

"Yes... It is the very same thing that took me here... From what I know... it destroyed all of them... But I won't ever know... since I am needed here more than there... Someone else can take my position on that academy, someone far more skilled." I smiled and hugged Luna as she crawled over to me from under the table.

"Wow..." Rainbow just sat there and just had this blank expression for a minute or so. "That... was... AMAZING! you took on hundreds of bad guys and won! That's so cool!" She went on and on for for what felt like eternity, Luna just giggled at my expression of being called awesome and amazing... It's not something you want to hear after telling someone you had to commit mass genocide on a race to save ho knows how many others...

"well Rainbow, thank you for lunch, it was good... But I need to go talk to your purple friend... I need to have a few words with her..." I gave her a warm smile to denote my intentions as good.

"Oh... okay, she lives in the giant tree in the center of town... Can't miss it! Well I got to fly, need to get my practice in so I can someday join the Wonder Bolts!" she zoomed off and left a rainbow streak behind her.

"That mare..." I muttered to myself, we got up from the table and headed off towards the center of town. It was getting late, the sun was setting and the moon was rising high into the sky. I knew that we would be getting to Pinkies place sooner or later... So forgoing the purple mares house we went to Sugar Cube Corner and waited for pinkie to great us.

"Hiya Ryan Lion! How are ya!" the pink mare bounded down the stairs to the floor and landed with a curtsy, being as random as can be.

"And good eve to you Pinkie... Might I ask where everyone is?"

"You mean everypony?" she asked curiously.

"Um... yes... Everypony... where are they?" I was somewhat confused by her vernacular, but i went with it anyway.

"They'll be here soon! Oh! Would you two like a cupcake, they're delicious!" She asked giving us both cupcake.

"Um sure..." I looked down to Luna and saw that she had eaten hers whole... unsurprisingly... At lunch she was like a bottomless pit, anything that consisted of food never had a chance...

"Well... If it's going to be a while," Pinkie nodded her head from inside the kitchen, she had slipped by somehow and was standing in the door way. "I'm going to go grab a few things from... well..." I looked at her and just sighed. "I'll be back pinkie!"

"Okie Dokie Lokie!" She yelled from the kitchen, I still had no clue as to what she was doing in there.

"Luna, I'm going to go get somethings... I want you to stay here and be say, okay?" I knelt down to her and hugged her close.

"But I don't wanna leave you..." she got a little teary eyed, it broke my heart... so as any good father would, I caved and let her come along.

"Fine..."

"YAY!" she yelled and jumped up on my head, wiggling her self about till she was comfortable. I sighed and walked towards the door, ducking down so neither of us hit our heads.

"WE made our way to the forest and had little to no problem seeing through the night. Everything was peaceful and filled with life as we journeyed through the forest towards my fighter, I hadn't told any of the ponies yet that my ship was in fact still here, yet not space faring as it once was.

We had been in the forest for only a few minutes when I heard a sound that made me stop. I shot out my hand and grabbed hold of Luna, she had frozen as well and was now shaking in my arms.

"It's alright Honey... I'll protect us..." I say as I go for my lightsaber, But it's not there... the one damned thing in the whole galaxy that I never leave any-kriffing-where without and it's not on my fraking belt! Kriffing Celestia must have taken the damned thing! Well now i can tell her, next time I see her, that she almost got us killed... If I see her again...

Nine wolf like creature jumped out of the bushes and surrounded us, they were made of twigs and branches... at least that's what it looked like. They were growling and snarling at us as they circled ever closer. I kept Luna in my left arm as I aimed my other hand at them, making lightning arc across my fingers... It kept them at bay for a while, letting us move through the underbrush unchallenged.

"Daddy... they'er following us..." She was nuzzled deeply into my chest, keeping her eyes screwed shut as we raced through the forest towards my ship.

"It's alright dear... I won't let them harm you..." I cringed as my words rang hollow in my own ears... I knew that if it came to a straight up fight that those wolves would win... Unless I killed them... I stopped my running and set Luna down at my feet. "Luna dear..." I knelt down to her level. "I need you to keep your eyes closed... I can't carry us any farther... My energy is running low... Just don't open your eyes... no matter what you hear don't open them... please..." I begged her, she just got teary eyed and curled up into a ball and wrapped her legs around her head.

I stood over her, making the most intimidating picture I could. the wolves slowly slipped from out of the bushes... making their slow advance on me and my own. I charged my hands with a powerful force blast, I aimed it the head of their group and unleashed the massive amount of power. it ripped most of them off the ground, along with a tree, and tossed them back about hundred feet. Though they were injured they kept coming, not even flinching form the damage they received.

I charged two fists of lightning and waited for the majority of them to get closer, kicking the others that hadn't grouped up. Once they were within range I let loose, A torrent of ice blue, almost white, lightning went streaming out after them, hitting them full on in the chest. They all, every single one, went flying back, crashing into each other as they howled and whimpered in pain. I kept on casting streams of lightning at them, in hopes of killing them off all at once, until I heard a new voice join the cacophony of the howls and whimpers. My dear, sweet, Luna... was crying... She was howling out in anguish as the wolves began to die, burning on the spot, the lightning making them burst into flames after a few moments longer of exposure.

I stopped my attack instantly and sent a massive force push rocketing towards them, blasting them through the trees, it also put out any remaining flames on their bodies as they flew through the air. I looked down at Luna and I knew... I knew that I would have to teach her... I knew that I would have to teach her how to shield her mind and how to use her soon to be budding powers... I knew it in my heart, and i hated it.

The wolves had stopped chasing us after that, they still followed but at a much farther distance, I felt something from them... it was different from what one would feel from less sapient animals... it was almost akin to admiration or awe... but not on as high a level... but it was still there...

Luna's cries had stopped after I had tossed the wolves away and I comforted her with words of softness and peace, speaking sweet nothings to her about the peace of sleep... Using an odd technique I had picked up from Jacen... that was so many years ago... It hurt to remember that man, the one who could have saved the galaxy... but decided to rule it... This world has so many different forms of intelligent life that it is mind boggling at times... I could see a possibility that most do not even know of the others sentience... it is rather strange... but it is what it is... Harmony... in its purest forms.

After a shorter trek through the wood we finally came across my starfighter... it was covered in a few leaves and a few vines here and their... not exactly what one would expect to find after a few days away. I used the force to clear off the ship and lift the cockpit, releasing the latch on the inside, it was a safety feature I installed after I heard about how the 'Jade Shadow' had its own system of force locks. I started up the ship, using the heaters in the cockpit to warm up Luna as I set her inside, she had fallen asleep on our way over from the confrontation with the wolves...

I went looking about the ship, trying to remember where I put the extra kits I had for making a new lightsaber. I found one of the Kits stuffed into a bed roll, where I know I hadn't placed one in the first place, *Sigh*, I took the kit out and put it on the ground. I then went to one of the aft storage compartments and pulled out a duffle bag and placed said kit inside it... I also got one of the few blasters I had acquired and put it in there too, after taking the energy pack out at least.

After putting some other pieces of equipment in the bag, like a data pad and a few other essentials, i sealed it and moved Luna out of my seat. I ran a diagnostics check and saw that no power was being produced from 'Vet', so I pushed the manual release button and went to fish him out of the plug. He weighed next to nothing in the force, the power of a clear mind does wonders for the force and its applications, for with the right mind set... ONE man can move mountains, or even stars... but with the right mind set and a drive... ONE man can do anything... even begin anew what he had once lost.

I went over and started flipping switches on Vet's exterior, trying anything to awaken my friend. After a few moments he turned on and sputtered a few binary curses at me, which in truth made me chuckle.

"Hello Ryan... how long did it take you to get me up this time?" was his first response to seeing me after cursing at me in twenty different droid based languages... Did I mention he was a little pissed... oh... well he is...

"It wasn't my fault... I got the crap beat out of me and then i got stuck in the hospital for a day... and then I had to go talk to a few of my new friends... if they can be called that..." The last part I muttered under my breath so he couldn't hear.

"Well then.... lets go, we need to repair our ship and get out of here..." he stopped when his eye zoomed in on my guilty looking face. "We can't leave,,, can we?" His beeps became incoherent as he started to spew out random curses and verbal implications that had to do with a Gundark and a very angry Nexu... in heat... it was the funniest damned thing I had ever heard from a droid ... and I was glad that no one else here could understand him...

"Well, let me get my daughter and we can head out..." He gave me what would have been an odd look for a droid and just proceeded to mace himself fall backwards, pressing his off button as he did so. I grabbed Luna and held her in the crux of my arm as I lifted Vet with the other one, making our way back to the party that was about to happen in PonyVille.

Author's Notes:

(Authors note... I am looking for a Proof reader... Just someone that can go through and correct all the tiny blips that form throughout the chapters... like the 'I's and capitalization of the sentences and what not... anypony with experience is urged to ask... I like writing these chapter for you guys... but i want them to be top notch... and if said proofreader/editor has knowledge of star wars than that's just a bonus... not a requirement. Thanks in advance: Praeco Nigrum.)