Star Wars Crossover Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Walking around the ship that Harry had coined the Marauder confused Ahsoka more than anything else she had seen so far today.  The ship was fairly large on the outside, and seemed to be a decent sized freighter with a nice little weapons package attached that would keep one away from pirate troubles, but on the inside,  it was a whole different ball game.  Now science didn’t count for much in her book with what she had seen the force accomplish, however she was certain that the ship she was in would have stumped every smart person she had ever met in her life.

For one the ship was literally shrouded in the force.  Until he had told her some seemingly random words she couldn’t even see it, and that was an amazing feat considering once he told her the name of the ship, and where it could be found it suddenly appeared, and it was blinding with force energy.  Even that was nothing compared to the inside.  While the ship was decent sized on the outside it was positively massive on the inside.  She was certain she could have fit at least three ships that she had seen on the outside in this hangar bay alone, and she couldn’t even fathom it enough to ask questions.

Harry gave her a brief tour, and she was silent the whole time just basking in the feeling of being surrounded by the powerful sensations of the force.  They eventually ended up in a quiet room that resembled some of the nicer bars on Coruscant.  It had a long elegant tabletop, and was being serviced by a battle droid, “What would you like sir?”

Harry ordered two drinks he called fire whiskey from the droid and Ahsoka’s jaw dropped when the droid answered, “Roger Roger.”

Surprisingly this was the first question she had to have answered, “You have a battle droid servicing your drinks?”

Harry shrugged instantly, “Admittedly I stole this guy from Grevious’ trash.  They were going to scrap the poor sod, so I took him, repaired him, and with a little magic programmed him to be an excellent bartender.”

Ahsoka was only just now starting to realize there was likely something to this differentiation from the Force to the Magic he used.  Almost everything he had done other summon things to him were things she had never seen or heard of Jedi or Sith using.  The whole thing was puzzling.  This made the next question seem obvious, “Where are you from?”

Harry smiled sadly at this as he took the drink and offered her one which she politely declined in request for water wanting to remember the conversation and be sharp in her inquiries.  When he got the battle droid which he named Roger he spoke, “I am from a system that is far beyond the Outer Rim and the capability of any vessel to reach.  It is in a system called the Milky Way, and my home is called Earth.”

Ahsoka looked at the man in awe, “You are from a deep system.  That is incredible!  In all my travels with the Clone Army and Jedi I have never met someone like you.  Most people from Deep Systems are just legends that we tell at night for theoretical jokes and giggles.”

“Funny my people do the same about you.  They still believe they are alone in the Universe.” Harry said with a laugh.

“If that’s true, then how are you here?”

Harry took a long swig from his drink, “Well the concept of how it happened is very simple, but since you have been skeptical of almost all my abilities you really aren’t going to like this one.  I stepped through a portal on my world, and I ended up on a sandy planet called Tatooine.  It was not a good time let me tell you.  Galactic Basic is a little different from the language I grew up with, and not everyone even speaks that on that planet.”

Ahsoka nodded, “Unfortunately I am familiar with that planet, my condolences.”

The girl had not yet fully processed what the man had said.  However, if he could simply teleport from one place to another, it wasn’t so hard to believe that he had a worm hole or portal that could move him incredible distances, “But what about your friends and family?”

The young man finished his drink in a gulp, “All dead.  No friends and family left.  All have moved onto the next great adventure.”

He held up his glass towards Rodger, and the bot quickly came over and filled his glass while Ahsoka processed.  After a moment she spoke, “I am sorry for your loss.  I take it you are no stranger to war then?”

The boy grimaced, “Fought in three of them.  Won three of them, but each of them came with incredibly high cost.  The last one made me realize that there was no more hope left on my planet.  I had decided to leave it all behind and move on.  I stepped into what I myself thought would be the next great adventure, and boy was I right.  Ended up on that desert shit hole for nearly an entire year.”

“How old are you?” The girl asked bewildered.  Even if he was the oldest possible age, he looked like he would only be around twenty-five.  To have fought in three wars in that time frame would have been crazy.

It was clear for the first time she would not get a straight answer, and he said, “Old enough.  Let’s just say I am older than I look, and I am really sensitive about my age.”

Ahsoka didn’t buy that for one moment but felt that the young man’s honesty with her from the beginning had earned him the right to skip out on an occasional question, “Okay so tell me about this way you use the force.”

This actually made Harry straighten up, “This is actually where the conversation gets really interesting.  Like I told you at the bar I have yet to meet someone who can wield magic, the force or whatever you want to call it, so perhaps we can help each other here.  Magic is a tool that some are born with and most aren’t.  When you are born with magic you can bend the will of the world to your fingertips, or your wand depending on the type of wizard or witch you are.  However, when I say you are born with it or you aren’t that is a definite.  No matter what anyone can do or want you can’t just make magic appear, and I have a way to test if the force and magic are one in the same.”

The young man pulled out a long shape stick that was smooth with an unadorned shaft and a handle that formed from two conjoined spheres.  It looked to be about fifteen inches long, and he twirled it in his fingers before handing it over to Ahsoka.  She wanted to ask if he was kidding, but she could sense the power of the object in front of her.  She wasn’t sure if that was due to her gift of being able to sense force users and the force more accurately than most Jedi’s or if it was the items immense power of the force.

When she touched it, a surge shot through her entire body, and orange and white sparks jumped out of the wand at rapid speeds, and Harry’s eyes shot up, “Merlin’s Beard.”

Ahsoka didn’t have a lot of context for what just happened, but he summoned the wand from her hands, and he said, “So they must have at least some similarities or that would have just felt dead to you.”

Ahsoka felt the power leave her and became a little disappointed, “So you’re saying I could learn the things you could do?”

Harry nodded gravely, “Any Jedi could theoretically.  I fear the reason most of your kind can’t do what I can do is because of the lack of instruction or imagination.  With proper tutelage some of your Jedi Master’s could possibly rival me in terms of magical abilities.”

Ahsoka looked amazed while Harry spoke, “The possibilities are endless, but there are some things I still can't explain.  I can make my reflexes faster, and my body stronger by using magic temporarily, but I saw you dodge that blaster bolt at the beginning of the little skirmish earlier, and I can promise you if I had been in your shoes my options would’ve been pretty limited to just stopping the bolt in midair, or apparating out of the way.  That was an easy trick as I was keeping an eye on the fourth guy earlier, and expected him to do something sneaky, but to just straight up dodge it would’ve been near impossible, and I am considered to be quite gifted among my people.”

Ahsoka thought about this for a few moments before asking, “Is it possible that we are almost like different species in ways of magic?  It could be something like the difference between you and I.  You are a human and I am Togruta.  I use the Force and you use Magic.  We are still people, and we are still users of the powers of the Universe.”

Harry stroked at his face, seeming in deep thought, “In layman terms I think that makes enough sense.  Though I would like to see a little more study done into this.”

Ahsoka was slightly embarrassed to offer her services. This young man…well maybe not as young as she thought, but the young appearing man had no way of knowing she had nothing to her name at the moment, and she didn’t want to come off as desperate.  This however presented an opportunity for the very adventure she had been missing so much in her short exile from the Jedi Order.

After a few moments of silence Harry spoke, “You spent time commanding troops on the battlefield, and proved yourself to be a rather capable general, but how are you at following orders?”

Ahsoka bit her lip at this.  It had been one of her weakest points in all her training was just going with the flow, and she decided since this stranger had been honest with her she should pay back the same courtesy, “It isn't my strongest point.”

“Good.” The man said, surprising her, “Because the type of job I would like to offer you isn’t for someone who is just going to go along for the ride.  I am just as clueless as you and any other Jedi about how similar our powers are, and if we are going to properly explore that then I will need someone to challenge me and possibly the very nature of magic or the force.”

She almost instinctively said ‘it's not the Jedi way’, but she didn’t need to be reminded that she was no longer a Jedi. She was free to go where she wanted when she wanted at her own free will and leisure.

“What will my job entail?” Ahsoka asked more intelligently, trying to remove her emotions from the matter.

Harry grinned, “All sorts of things.  Can you fly a ship?”

“Yes.  I am good too.” She said trying to take pride in her skills.

This caused the man’s smile to widen, “Good because I am horrible since I was self taught.  Perhaps I will pick up tricks along the way.  A part of your job as...lets call you my first mate will be to help me find a crew for this ship as well.  I want good trustworthy people on my team.  I don’t care how long it takes, and if we have to build our roster one man at a time then so be it.  I would like to see your abilities with the force pushed to the limit, and to see just about every trick you can do.  In return, of course I will show you many of the finer points in magic, and possibly along the way we can teach each other a few things.  I can’t pay you tons of money, but I can make sure when you come back you have enough to find a place, and give yourself ample time to find another gig.  If you like you can even assist me on some of my bounty hunter projects, and maybe other things as well…”

The young man’s green eyes wandered off at this, but the girl was too distracted by the incredibly tempting offer for her to notice, “Let’s do it.  I have an acute awareness of The Force even among other Jedi’s I am considered talented in this area.  The Force seems to be guiding me in your direction, and who am I to tell it no.”

Harry pondered her words, “It’s interesting that you say The Force guides you to do things.  We are trained on my planet to make Magic bend its will to us.  We control it in almost every aspect.  The only time I ever feel magic pushing me to do something is when I hold people under oath, which I think you and I should consider.”

“An oath is just words, can it still be broken?” Ahsoka asked curiously.

“Not exactly.  The oath we would make would bind our powers of the Force or Magic.  If you were to break your oath it would likely strip you of all your powers or outright kill you.”

Ahsoka looked very weary of this, but the man held up his hands, “I would want something very simple, and if you are weary of that then perhaps this would be better.”

Harry focused hard, and suddenly she saw his aura flair up like when he apparated across the planet earlier, and when she expected something crazy to happen a small chain necklace appeared with a pin going through the middle of a circular area.  It was beautiful craftsmanship, and she gasped at it, “It's beautiful.”

Harry smiled, “This particular object has a fascinating history that we will delve into when I tell you about some of the deeper magics of my world, but for now let me tell you what I want us to agree on.” He paused looking at her intently, “I am taking a bit of a jump here.  We just met, but I think I am a good judge of character, and if you fought for the Republic and justice in the Galaxy I think you won’t abuse this power I will attempt to teach you.  The Oath I want you to take is similar to the one that the creators of this blood pact made.  I want you to swear to me as I will swear to you to never use the powers we teach other against one another.  We will only use these powers to help each other, and keep the larger population safe.  For the Greater Good.”

He seemed to grimace through the last few words, but Harry took a small knife and looked at her carefully, “Do you agree to the blood pact?  The Force and Magic itself will not allow you to break this agreement.”

“So even if you turned out to be a blood thirsty Sith out in search of destroying the Galaxy I couldn’t stop you.” Ahsoka asked wearily.

“Yes, but search your feelings.  Is that what you think my intent is.” He asked smartly.

She did as he asked, and felt nothing but the approval of the Force.  She was meant to do this, and it would help the Galaxy at large if she did this.  A threat was rising, and someone would have to meet it with every power the Universe has to offer, “I’ll do it.”

Harry nodded and raised the blood pact in the air above them, “I Harry Potter swear to protect Ahsoka Tano with all my power and agree to never use what she teaches me to harm her or the Galaxy at large.  For the Greater Good.”

“I Ahsoka Tano swear to protect Harry Potter and never use the power he teaches me to harm him or the Galaxy at large.  For the Greater Good.”

Harry made two large circular motions with each hand and the blood pact began to glow.  She felt the smallest bit of her power leave her and saw blood pact swirl and suddenly rest glowing a stunning gold color.  Harry grabbed the necklace, and made a motion to put it on her and she nodded bowing her head slightly as he slid it over her head, “We could one day agree to break this pact, but we would have to do it together.  Adventure is out there.  Let’s go take it.  Shall we?”

The girl grinned at this, “I just hope you can keep up.  I have been fighting in a war for the last few years, I don’t know how you will measure up.”

The young man just laughed at this saying, “Oh I am sure you will find that adventure and action seems to seek me out.  I give it two days tops.”

Harry motioned for her to follow him to the cockpit of the ship, and just as they took their seats he snapped his fingers, “I forgot you still need to meet my other companion.”

She looked around confused as to whom he could possibly have been referring to when he called out, “Dobby.”

A small creature that slightly resembled Master Yoda in size and shape, except brown appeared in an orange jumpsuit that looked like a prisoner's outfit, “You called Master Harry Potter sir.”

Harry shook his head, “Dobby please don’t call me that.  You are going to give our new companion the wrong idea.  Dobby, Ahsoka Tano, she is going to be coming with us on our quest across the Galaxy, and learning the ways of magic.”

Ahsoka just stared at the little creature clearly realizing this was not a human, and trying to figure out just what he was.  The little creature clearly carried The Force with him, but his glow was like that of a youngling.  Very quiet, and hardly noticeable except when he first appeared that the same type of flash that Harry had when he apparated, “Pleasure to meet you Dobby.”

She offered her hand, and Dobby looked at it positively delighted, causing Harry to roll his eyes, “Dobby is most pleased to meet Ms Soaka as well.  If she needs anything Dobby would be most pleased to assist you.”

Harry offered an explanation, “Dobby here is a house elf.  His species survives off linking themselves to another family or individual's magic.  We have a symbiotic relationship.  Dobby gets to link himself to my magic keeping him healthy and in return he helps keep my ship clean, and makes food, and even does repairs to the ship.  Though I think I will let you oversee that from now on if you know anything about ships.  Dobby and I are both self taught so we make mistakes and end up floating in space for days trying to figure out what happened.  Most importantly though Dobby is my last friend in the entire Galaxy.  He followed me through that wormhole without my knowledge, and hid from me for weeks knowing I wouldn’t be happy, but I couldn’t be more happy to have him with me these past few years.”

Dobby beamed at this and his small chest puffed out a bit in pride, “Dobby is the best house elf serving the bestest master.”

At this the little house Elf popped away, and Ahsoka just couldn’t believe that she had already met another magical being that could teleport.  The gift had never been heard of but in the span of a few hours she had met two that could do it, “Can you teach me how to do that?  And does he have the same powers you do?”

“I can teach you, but it is going to take time.  Apparating can be dangerous, especially for someone like you who has been to so many places, so we need to make sure you have an excellent grip of the concepts of early magic before we attempt anything like that.  The Other question is tricky, and partly why I believe you could be partially right in your explanations for how are powers could differ.  Dobby is a house elf, and does house elf magic.  He can levitate objects , disappear, and make things vanish when he is cleaning.  He is an unusually strong House Elf due to his age however, and the fact that he is bonded to a fairly powerful wizard.” Harry said modestly.

“So you think it's possible I could hold a similar type of power to Dobby?” Ahsoka asked.

“I don’t think so.  Dobby has never expressed being able to feel the magic, or see into the future like I hear other Jedi’s can do, but you could hold a different brand of magic similar to how Wizards have a magic, House Elves have magic, and Goblins on my world had a type of magic as well.” Hary explained.

“Goblins?” Ahsoka questioned, “Little green creatures that run around with spiked weapons and evil eyes?  My former Master and I have run into a few of those in our time.”

Harry stilled at that, “Not exactly, but that sounds terrifying.  Goblins on our world were short little human-like creatures with sharp claws, beady eyes, and pointed ears.  Mean little creatures.  The second war I fought in forced my brethren and I to wipe them out.  It was a terrible tragedy, and there were no Goblins left in my world when I left it.  It was a shame they took so many ancient secrets of magic to their graves with them...lost forever.”

The green eyed man seemed troubled by his memories of the war he fought in, and Ahsoka quickly changed the topic, “Where are we heading anyways?”

“Felucia.  It is the most magically charged world I have visited.  I have built a home there, and that is where we will go until we are ready to move onto the next job, or until we get a little cramped.” Harry explained.

Ahsoka grimaced, “Got kidnapped last time I was there.  It should still be a Republic controlled plane though how are we going to land?”

This made Harry smile, “You will see Ms. Tano.  If you think some of my other tricks were good you are going to love this one.”

(A/N) Guys I wrote this a long time ago.  I wish I had better inspiration to continue it, but currently I don't!  Maybe when the Ahsoka show comes out and we get to spend more time with her character some inspiration will come to me, but this was just for a bit of fun.  I hope you all enjoyed this, and in the coming weeks I might even crack open my Harry Potter X Avengers Crossover that never saw the light of day.  Cheers guys and I will see you all on Tuesday with my update on Dreams of Home.