An Ton's Journey

Well, as we flew through the hyperspace, or how was it called, the best thing to do, was to get used to my body and wear armor that I provided for the crew.

There were some additional ones for safety, and I decided to wear ones that Dark templars wear in battle. The ones from kind of nanobots.

Obviously, I was now thinking of how to control armor too.

It could change forms, and I ordered for it to look like simple costume. With black theme as a base and golden lines on the borders of any end of clothes. I don't know how they are called.

As I was not on their ship this time, and was kinda bored, I began running in corridors while increasing pace on every circle.

At first, I was hitting walls or other protoss while running, but at later point I got used to running in this body and could run around at fast speed and evade probes and other protoss.

At some point, While running, I was running so fast, that I could even ran on the wall using centrifugal force. Or how was it called.

As it was not really easy, I obviously was falling when I was distracted. Not really surprised.

But with robotic body, it was really easy to run at constant speeds and not exhaust myself.

After testing my running, I went to the training room and I began trying to evade small balls thrown at me from the front.

At first, I could evade them, but when people began throwing them faster and more frequently, I could not evade most of them.

What? It is hard.

Sometimes, from being not used to moving sideways, I was falling. Sometimes, I was overwhelmed by the balls and stopped evading.

For the whole travel time I was using around two hours at most (in a day) to get used to this body.

As we came out of hyper space, close to Naboo, we as planned stealthily landed on to the planet.

As I was not really a part of their group, but still with them, I decided to go with them and suggest my help, but only after they get in touch with Gungans, as I don't want to remove a chance for their cooperation.

Especially considering that it is their homeworld.

As they were walking through the forest going to the Gungans lake, in hopes to get help, I received a report from stationed team that they built a fortified base and could warp any army anytime. As they had the spire, they also warped some unusual structures for their fortress, so it was surrounded by walls, shield, and invisibility at the same time.

Even though walls were not highest possible, just twenty to thirty meters in height, it was enough for them.

On these walls they packed so much weaponry, that I don't envy anyone who tries to get close.

And as these walls were mostly covering shield generators, they were protected much better the non walled sky.

Sky was protected by Newly restored corsairs.

As I heard, corsairs were tested on this world's ships and they were EXTREMELY effective.

They could create impulse inside the ship itself and destroy the team without destroying ship itself. Even though shield would need to be destroyed for that result.

But, considering their attack speed, it was not that big of a problem.

As Anakin an co were trying to find Gungans in the lake and not finding them, by the suggestion of Jar Jar bings we went to their " Sanctuary".

As everything went the same, my companions decided to bow, I decided to stand still.

"Bow down, please, we don't have any other way " Amidala said to me.

" Well, I don't really want to bow to anyone. and I am not even part of your team. I here only for Qui-gon. " I replied.

As her guards looked at me harshly, I just shook my head.

" Ohoho " Said Gungan's leader

* Blrbrpbrl * ( sound of his mouth's shaking )

" It not important. He is outsider. " he said.

and said the lines like these to the queen, even though I might've been wrong as I was looking around and didn't pay much attention " Gungans are important, Gungans to are strong. Stronger then Naboo. We agree"

"You know, that you could just ask for my help. Don't you? Even though it would cost you some favours, but it still could be done " I said to Qui-gon, who was relaxing.

" What? I didn't expect this. " Said Obi-wan who heard me.

" Well, even though Maul escaped from your prison, somehow, and I am not one of the rulers of my race, I am pretty influential " I replied.

" You don't need to do that. We will be fine even by ourselves " Amidala said to me, still annoyed at me for not bowing.

After some talk, Qui-gon and I agreed that he will ask me for help if it will be needed.

And that I should at least bring them in close proximity to react fast enough.

He seems to be smarter then Amidala. Hah.

Ignorant jedi is smarter then a queen. I feel sorry for this planet.

As next day started, my army was already in the skies invisible. Ready to attack at any time.

Well, I hope it will be enough. I could bring more, but I think it is already too much...

Well, It is still better being ready for anything.

As It was planned the same as before, I just followed the Qui-gon and Obi-wan, hoping to see their battle to death with Maul.

As everything went the same, until Maul came. but he was not alone. He came with couple of other siths. Wait. weren't there supposed to be only one inheritor per sith? and they were not here in canon. Fuck.

Was it me capturing Maul the reason, or is this universe different from what I know?

As they all came from the entrance, Qui-gon sent queen out and said to me:

" It seems we will need your help. " Qui-gon said, and Obi-wan looked at his master strangely.

" Massively or just here?" I asked.

" Massively, I received reports of more trade federation ships coming." He replied, while turning his saber on, and preparing to fight to the death against all those Sith.

" Okay. Aden, Oden. begin clearing enemy away. And try to disable these ones, we might need them." I said. At what I received strange look from Qui-gon, as I said it into nothingness.

But when " Yes. " Came from nowhere, around ten meters away from them, He was surprised.

As the battle began, Sith warriors spread out and surrounded us from all sides, also sending two Siths after Oden.

As there were around twenty of them, mostly with covered faces an bodies, it was hard to distinguish between some of them. But Maul was the most obvious, as he straight up targeted Qui-gon and Obi-wan singlehandedly, while others tried to catch up to him.

As for me, Two of them came for me. On with longer then normal blade, and other with two shorter ones.

My exoskeleton might be not as strong as my body, but I covered it with the same material as on Nexus, thinly, and in my opinion it should be able to stop their sabers.

But I didn't risk it and just hovered up using my thrusters, changed my armor to full covering armored version, and began shooting at them with my portable psi machine gun. What, I didn't tell about it? Well there are a lot of things that happens and no one speaks about them.

For example, Aden and Adriana began falling in love. In my opinion.

Well, if I am not wrong.

Oden on the other hand is still training very hard to become stronger and better. It doesn't mean that Aden is slacking, but Oden is too invested in training.

And much more.

As for why I cal it portable, it is because it was in my backpack all the time, and it is smaller then normal sized.

And let me say, these Sith are extremely good at deflecting and evading my shots.

Even with 2k shots per minute, not a single psi bolt reached their bodies. Even though two more joined and threw stones or light sabers at me.

Well, it might be another reason - evading their weapons. And I don't want to test my exoskeleton's durability by exposing myself to their blades.

As I couldn't do anything by shooting at them, I decided to see at what was going on and release all the DTs to capture or kill the sith.

Qui-gon and Obi-wan were surprisingly still not that hurt. Maybe a few burns on the clothes or skin, but not much more.

They were standing back to back and defending from seven or so siths and Maul.

As for Oden, I saw how he fought. He was using blink and his unusual moves to take their weapons and put them to sleep using chokehold or just breaking their spine.

And all his fallen enemies began disappearing after a minute of me watching. Well DTs have arrived.

" Clear siths out. Try to keep them alive." I said from up above.

At my words, Maul looked at me with anger and tried choking me using force. Well it failed.

As DT began disabling Siths from behind, Only Maul evaded his demise. Well, not for long.

As Qui-gon and Obi-wan began pushing him, DTs surrounded him from behind and he tried to jump over their heads to escape, Oden blinked in mid air and locked his hands in a way where his saber fell from Mauls hands.

" Nice. Move them to the ships and send on to the base. " I said, while Tens of DTs began appearing to carry the unconscious or bedridden siths.

" Oden, how is the battle in the other places is doing? " I asked.

"We destroyed last division of droids on land. It was easy, but as help came from outside, we lost two carriers. No lives were lost though." He replied.

" As for trading federation station, it was destroyed from inside before we could finish it off. Even though we broke through their shields, it exploded from inside. And it seems it was done by Anakin" He replied.

" Oh, yes. so what about these trade federation guys who are here? I asked, while Qui-gon was talking with surprised Obi-wan.

"They were disabled by queen" He replied, doing it like I ordered.

I didn't want to buŧŧ in their business anymore, so I decided to point the world in a direction to which it should've followed.

At least this way I would have some information about future.

"Okay, this time I will keep all the sith. I think there will be no objections" I said, looking at nodding Qui-gon.

" I didn't know that you had such an army in your hands. If I knew, I would've asked sooner." He said.

"Well, thank you. You will see much more while you will live on our planet. " I replied.

" Wait, he will be living there? " Obi-wan asked.

" Yes, you are already to be the master and he agreed on it for helping you " I said.

"Now, lets go to the queen and check on her " Qui-gon said and we walked. This time, I too received medal that I didn't need, but it is always nice to be recognised for doing stuff.

Well, after finishing this little journey, I decided to get back to the protoss base. on Rakata Prime.

As for Earth, no one should know about its existence, so it was being covered in invisibility little by little.

Khaydarin crystals were being warped, even though they were smaller then back on Aiur, but still they were very good for creating energy net that would be spread out all across the planet.

As for the reasons for this net, first of all - not concentrating them in one place and to store excessive energy all around the world.

Every pylon was not only it's small generator ( weak compared to Khaydarin crystals ), but it is also a storage for energy.

As for transferring of energy between them, this was mainly done using structure around pylon's crystal.

As access to energy was all easier and easier, protoss were finally able to expand their bases, that I should call cities or living zones.

Every day, using anchors crafted using Nexus, to connect to their universe, all more and more protoss were being brought alive.

For now, there were only around 5-6 millions protoss, mainly consisting of soldiers and their families.

But a week ago, all more and more protoss were appearing that had no connection with army.

Normal peaceful citizens. I didn't think they had families not connected to army, but it seems I was wrong.

As for how we would get back to the Rakata Prime? I was thinking of not using warp spire, as it would reveal technology that would be too advanced and dangerous for us. Until protoss would make a name for themselves.

And a strong name, or we would be used or destroyed.

As for how we would shorten our travel? we flew to Coruscant in search of better hyperdrive. At least 1.0 or less, and maybe for some information about how they were made.

Obviously, all the sith were sent on Rakata's base Via spire, and all the inquiries about them were ignored using reason of not trusting in their prison.

And also using agreement for new temple that we will build on the Rakata.

As DTs were searching all the construction facilities, Templars were looking through the available schematics for hyperdrives and affiliated things.

All the technological information that DTs found, was recorded and saved for future research, as it would help to understand this technology better, and maybe find a way to make it better by ourselves, not using system every time.

And even using systems shop would be cheaper, as it will not have to research these things on its own.

As I was waiting, I decided to walk through the streets of Coruscant and look at how people live in this place.

Obviously, I saw a lot of cars flying in specially made highways, bit from time to time there were people who ignored them and flew how they wanted.

The most interesting time was when one of the cars flew out of the highway, to get faster through the filled street, and three,what I ȧssume were police cars, flew right after it.

The results? well, Driver crashed in shield of one of the buildings. he survived, but car's parts fell and almost killed some of the pedestrians.

No shield above the ground to protect people? bad idea.

The main entertainment that I saw were movies, that were much better in quality then on Rakata, clubs, pubs, strip clubs, kabares, shops, drug shops, and restaurants.

These were dominant in the area where I decided to walk.

As for the other parts of the planet, I had no time and no real interest in them. There were too much different zones that it's like absolutely different worlds on one planet.

As I finished my walk and bought a couple boxes of good food for our travel companion, I returned to Ardis

Ah. I should print it's name on the outside. Like in movies, so everyone would know what my ship is called. Definitely. or maybe not? I will think about it.

As search for engine took time, I spent time reading, playing games, training my evasion a little bit, time flew by.

As it was hard, after a week of search, people who could install 0.85 hyperdrive were found. It was longer and harder then expected.

As it was not really legal, Qui-gon was sent to finish his reports and get ready for a long ȧssignment.

As I was reading some stories ( probably fake, but who cares) about old war between the sith and Jedi, I remembered to finally get Maul's Saber and bring it to our ship's two Smiths.

To deconstruct it, test the power against materials, maybe make suggestions about how or why they work and anything else.

As not much was known, especially about Kyber crystals, that were mainly kept by the Jedi and Siths, the only thing that Smiths could think about after looking at how it is constructed, is that it had a battery and it was not a Kyber crystal that stored the energy.

After understanding that it is impossible to miraculously understand how it is made, it was scanned and reassembled.

As DTs were able to take a few sabers before jedi took them, I ordered to create an additional group specially made to research them.

As for this blade, no matter how I tried to turn it on, it was not responding.

So, do I need force to use them? or are they really sentient as I saw in one of the few unconnected episodes of the starwars series.

Somewhat about them choosing an owner.

And something else.

I don't really remember.

Well, for now I returned it back in to inventory.

And for safety sake, I placed my minigun in there too. Just because I could.

~ After another week~

Today, Ardis's hyperdrive was finally installed and modified. Also, smiths bought repair details from the people who modified it and chatted about possible things that might break.

in the last week, I visited weapon shop and bought myself couple of thousands of different types of grenades, tens of different portable shield generators, automated blaster turrets, ten Droidekas, that were worth a fortune, an advanced laser drill, and some flying droids that were made for searching. Like the ones Maul used on Tatooine.

As ship was ready, we notified Qui-gon and we are leaving next morning.

As I already bought a lot of tasty food for Qui-gon, I wanted to taste it.

" System, could you please begin researching taste buds and taste representation? I want to taste some food " I asked system.

" I can provide some processing power to this task, but it will slow down research that would be able to provide you with other feelings that you asked me to research earlier. and it will require constant supply of energy from you, resulting in lowering your minerals income for 90% for approximately a year. do you agree?" System replied.

" A year? I expected it to be faster " I replied.

" First of all, research requires energy and I have much more important things to do, also I am not your slave, to use all my power for you, we are in symbiotic relationship. You provide access to this universe and provide materials for conversion, I provide you with things impossible for you. " System replied with straight voice.

" Ugh... sorry. My bad. " I replied.

" Apology accepted. Don't stress it. I know from where these thoughts came from. Your previous world was too biased in regard to systems " System replied in calmer voice.

" Ok, got it. So, how would it happen? all the feeling of taste will appear on a year? or it will happen gradually? " I asked.

" It will begin appearing in the last month I think. in the last month final calibration will be done with your help. You will begin feeling taste and calibration will be done according to your previous human's body tastes. Meaning you will not feel taste differently. " System replied, and left the conversation.

" Thank you...." I asked when system just disconnected.

Well. my bad. But just a year or so and I will be able to taste? nice!

But I am kinda embarrassed that I thought that system should give more attention to my needs. Well, it seems I was overly confident.

~ in the morning ~

" Welcome on board Qui-gon. Sit back, relax, and prepare for your travel. we are going on pretty long journey " I said, and appointed him simple room like for everyone.

" Thank you, An ton. I appreciate such a good reception even when reasons for my travel are not the best " Qui-gon replied.

" Well, about this you should talk with Aden, just like most of us were affected by mind manipulations in the past, so speak with others about ot. I was not affected." I replied, while we were walking through the corridor toward his room.

" You have a lot of droids on the ship. " Qui-gon mentioned, while looking at two probes carrying some details in to the garage for smiths.

" Yes, it is actually very comfortable to have a lot of helping droids around. And these ones are called probes, they are our race's main working droid model" I replied, while picking one of them from the side of the corridor.

" Look, they are kinda cute aren't they?" I said while probe moved a little bit, looking at Qui-gon with its front.

" It look interesting, but I find your definition of cute being strange. " He replied.

" Ahhaha. You will understand me after being in their presence for a long time." I replied, placing probe back and patting it a little bit. Probe replied with some kind of sound that I interpreted as satisfaction.

These small things have partial sentience, but only partial. And it was created from zero, so each one of them have little differences. And not even protoss could create absolutely full artificial sentient robot. And even if they could, I doubt they would've.

They Only had programmed, or loaded personalities. Only these ways

At least to my knowledge.

As we arrived at his room, I left him and went to the apartment.

The flight was pretty long.

At first Qui-gon was surprised at quality of food, until I told him how I got it.

Then, he became interested in templars Training, and joined them for a fight with no weapons.

With no light saber, he was trashed easily, as many protoss were professionals in hand to hand combat, especially on this ship where only best from the best were training.

In a battle with weapons, Qui-gon was winning in one on one against everyone except Oden, Oden was researching how jedi fight while we were on Coruscant, so he was ready for their fighting style.

When DTs were use invisibility, then it was another thing. Qui-gon was easily defeated by everyone, as he could only feel the emptiness in their position, and it was pretty hard to fight using only general position.

After last fight with templar who used invisibility was done, he came to me for a talk.

" I wanted to ask for a long time, but how do they turn invisible and why I feel emptiness in the force while they are at it? " Qui-gon asked, heavily breathing after excessive amount of exercises.

" Well. then answer me how do you use force, and how do you learn different abilities of Jedi and tell me everything about Kyber crystals " I replied, smiling in my head.

" Sorry, but I can't. These are only for jedi " Qui-gon replied.

" And I too can't. These things are only for our race. " I replied.

" I see. So, who exactly are you? how were you able to call for such a big fleet at Naboo? " He asked.

As we were already in hyperspace, and you could say he was already one of us, I decided to tell him a little bit, bur obviously not that I am their leader and that I am made from literally impenetrable material.

" Well, Let's keep it at me being very important person that should be kept safe. " I replied, evading lying, as Jedi can kinda feel lies.

At least I think so.

" I already heard that. " Qui-gon said, picking up towel from the bench, at which I was sitting.

" I know, and we will keep it at it, as you won't understand my position because you know nothing about us " I replied.

" I see. that is true. " He said while using towel to wipe sweat from his head and neck.

" So, did you like my team? " I asked, looking at their training. That I had no way of doing. I was not a warrior. I was just a simple man in highly advanced body.

" Yes. they are extremely strong and powerful. I can even feel that they held back " He replied on my question.

" We wouldn't use deadly abilities and ways in a simple sparring. And you too, was not fighting in full strength. You had a lot of chances to kill us while we fought with weapons. " One of DTs replied, taking his practice gear off and walking away, while probes took the gear and brought it to the cleaning station.

" And you didn't use your force powers for these fights" I said after DT left.

" Ah, yes. that was a sparring on weapons, not full power fight. And there are not enough space to use force powers optimally." Qui-gon replied.

" Ok, I'm gonna wash myself and sleep. Good night. " He said and walked to the toilet, instead of shower...

well, he will get used to it.

" Good night. " I replied, and went in to my room and decided to play some puzzle games.

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``` Author's Note ```

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Thank you for reading, and enjoy if you can.

Well, this chapter is much longer then usual, but it was all thanks to good mood, and thanks to me backing out from making chapters filled only with action that moves mc forward.

It was looking too bȧrė that way. I need to fill thin story with more descriptions, dialogues, and things that surrounds mc, but from MC's perspective. Obviously.

If anyone have complaints please leave them here. I will read and try to do better.

Also, previously I asked about Pa.tre.on.

Noone answered.

Don't need it, and it will not change anything, but I created it. Because I can.

I wil ltry to make longer chapters as it would be better for all of us.

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