Star Wars: A New Order: A Twist In Time (Book 6, Script Version)

Chapter Five: Altered...

Nine years earlier...

Shain looks around after being dropped off, a bit dazed after being spun around time and thrown in jail. He spots his friends and Anakin walking up the steps. He catches up to the group and follows Anakin though the temple. He starts to tell everyone of his experience (no one believing him of course) when Jedi Master Cin Drallig spots him.

Cin: You!

Brandon whips around and sees a very angered Jedi Master coming for him.

Brandon: Uh-oh...

Brandon runs though his friends and jumps the rail to the steps leading to the Jedi archive, not really knowing where he was going. But he was happy as long as it was away from him. Cin chases after the boy, and an army of children follow the Jedi master.

Shain uses his force glove from earth to jump over the table while doing a frontflip and twists as he lands, then uses it to push Cin back down the hall, accidentally slamming into his friends. He turns around into Master Jaina Solo, who was his Jedi Master before Katy went back in time. He looks at her wide-eyed, like he knows he is in big trouble.

Jaina: Hello.

Brandon: Hi... (He looks back to see Cin getting up) Bye!

He goes to dart around her when she grabs his wrist, causing him to fall on his butt. He looks up at her, annoyed, and she smiles at him.

Jaina: What did you do?

Brandon: Nothing!

Cin: This is the boy who killed my apprentice!

Jaina: Killed?

Cin storms over and grabs the child harshly, starting to drag him to the Jedi council.

Jaina: Wait a second, Master Cin, this child only nine years old. Your apprentice was killed over seventy years ago.

Cin ignores Jaina and leads Brandon to the council room.

Cin: Masters of the council, the boy who killed my apprentice seventy-one years ago!

The puzzled Masters look at the boy, trying to figure out why he has not aged.

Brandon: Wait! seventy-one... YEARS ago!? That's not possible, unless... (It dawns on him what happened) That lady! She could time travel!

Kota: What are you talking about, boy?

Brandon: I bumped into a girl! Then! We were at the diner! Next thing I know, she killed that kid, then she was gone again!

Aayla looks over at Kaja Sinis, a blue-haired, blue-eyed Civian with a deep voice, born on Coruscant 25,000 years before the return of the Sith. He was the first Jedi and founder of the Order of Jedi Bendu Knights.

Aayla Secura: Is it even possible to time travel?

Kaja Sinis: No. It’s not. At least I never discovered such power.

Anakin slips in quietly and takes his seat.

Obi Wan Knobi: Good to see you Anakin. My question is: if this is the boy who did it why did this boy come back with the Jedi, Sith, important figures, and lost worlds? He was never trained that we know of and escaped from his cell and never heard from again.

Brandon: I told you! It's because that lady took me through time and brought me back!

Qui Gon: Perhaps the boy died shortly after disappearing and there is some importance of him..

Brandon: What!? I didn’t die!!!

Aayla Secura: What you are telling us to be true is impossible.

Satele Shan: Even for a Sith.

Cin: (impatiently) What is your sentence?

Meetra Surik (The Jedi Exile): Well, the boy is not a Sith, nor will ever be. I suggest we put him back in his cell where he was before the discovery of the Orb.

Windu: The boy hasn't aged, though. We can't simply throw him in jail, not fully understanding what happened. We don’t even know if this is the same boy or not.

Yoda: I agree. Too much uncertainty, there is, surrounding the boy.

Brandon: Thank you!

Yoda: Meditate on the boy’s past and future I will...

Anakin: What are you suggesting we do, then? If he is the one who killed him and he somehow traveled through time then we would be letting a killer go free?

Shaak Ti: Have the boy be banished from Coruscant until further notice.

Brandon: WHAT!?

The masters nod their heads in agreement.

Brandon: You can’t just send me away! I came here to be trained! Master Anakin, you brought me here for it! All my friends are here! You have to train me!!!

Yoda: (ignoring the child's plea) All in favor of the boy's exile, say "aye".

Council Members: Aye!

Mace: Opposed?

Brandon: Aye!!! Me!!!

Mace: Then it's settled. The boy will leave Coruscant until further notice.

Brandon: Does anyone in this room hear me at all...? Where will I even go?

Yoda: That, up to you, it is.

Brandon: Oh, good you can hear me! For a second, I just thought I was going insane!

Mace: We will give you a ship to leave the planet with.

Aayla: I will escort you to your ship.

Brandon: Wait, wait, wait! Can I at least talk to my friends before I go?

Obi-Wan: Alright, but keep it short.

Brandon breaks into a dead sprint, heading for the main lobby.

Mace: (annoyed) Dismissed...