Chapter 72

Yoda is considered a grandmaster and is the head of the Jedi. When it comes to lightsaber forms, he is the master of masters, but I'm the master of cheese. I will use whatever I can to win. I will cheese myself to victory, and Yoda is my apprentice, but so are a couple of others.

I'm not a typical teacher. Instead of one apprentice and one master, I will take any number of students as long as they are talented, lucky, or hardworking. Yoda doesn't like this, but he and the Jedi order need as many capable hands as possible to teach the next generation.

My students are a nine hundred Yoda, a pair of ten-year-old twins and a collection of Jedi and padawans. All of them have their strengths and weaknesses, however, I don't teach the best ways to use a lightsaber because there is Yoda for that, I don't teach how to connect to the force for everyone is different and unique and to find their own way is the best way, what I teach is to cover weakness with strength and hide strength with weakness.

In my lessons, I concentrate on telekinesis because that force power is simple and can cover almost anything your enemy throws at you if you have enough creativity and imagination.

I show my new coin-sized shield generators to the group and offer a demonisation. A small chubby hand is raised with gusto and waves back and forward to be picked.

I pick them up with telekinesis to show off and place the ten-year-old Layla in front ready.

"Attack me," I say

Layla doesn't hesitate and swings a wooden sword at me. Each strike is intercepted by a coin that projects a small shield no bigger than an adult hand span.

Despite not being able to get through the shield, Layla doesn't stop striking. I become bored and lay down on my side. Layla is trying her best by standing over me and whooping her weapon down. She changes her angles but the coin follows and I suffer zero damage.

"This is boring," I say as I lift the other twin with telekinesis to join the fight. Luke joins his sister swinging his weapon and instead of adding a new coin to combat the extra weapon I redirect each weapon using deflects and parries from the single shield coin to cause wondering swings to get in the way of others.

I pull out a chocolate bun and take little bites as the twins start to get hit by their own deflected weapons. When they start to cry I make them stop. The bruises they get instantly change colour and begin to heal as I fix them. With a light pat on their heads and a chocolate bun in their hands, the twins are whisked off the floor by my telekinesis.

"What use is a shield that big" asks a padawan.

The poor kid witnessed her master getting gunned down by the clone troopers and now has a bit of an anger management issue. I don't blame her, that's what happens when you isolate your emotions and then have a sudden life-changing event that you can't adapt to.

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I look at her with a little sympathy and a lot of cheekyness. I want to rub the fact that if the Jedi had these little shield coins then the blaster fire from the clones wouldn't have killed so many Jedi but that wouldn't be right and may cause the young Padawan to be hurt and do a silly thing like trying to hurt me.

I lift her out of the group just like the twins before and place her in front. "Attack me"

The Padawan looks shocked and nervous, her eyes dart over to my Asura droids. They are ever present and ready to protect me at a single notice. The padawan still remembers three Asura droids gunning down twenty clone troopers in seconds and then pointing their weapons at her to knock her out to save her. She learnt that I was the master of these killer droids and has become immensely warry of them.

It's been ten years since the horror at the Jedi temple and even tho Yoda has vouched for me I'm still not looked at with trust but that's ok, this kind of distrust will probably save their life if properly trained and honed.

The padawan is lifted back into the crowd and I nod at my droids. Two of them replace the padawan and attack me. I tone down the difficulty of the droids so the rest of the apprentices can see what I'm doing.

The two Asura droids fire their blaster at me and the shield coin blocks one while I move out of the way of the other. The younger apprentices are impressed but not the Padawans and Jedi. A further nod causes a new pair of Asura droids to join the attack. I release a further five coin shields and block all the shots. The droids start to move around to get a better line of attack. I stop moving altogether and the coins are deflecting the shots to each other and hitting the droids at odd angles that can't be defended from. The droids suffer little damage due to the armour built into them. The blaster fire stops as the droids switch their energy blasters for slugthrowers. The bullets rattle on the shield like rain on a tin roof but none of them are reflected to sender.

That's when I changed the game a little, a single shield coin turns on the side and just like Captain America, the shield is used as a weapon slicing the droid's weapon in half.

I stop the Asura droids hoping that my audience has got the picture of how vital the shield coin can be. I just showed how this little toy can be used for deflection, protection and attack by using a simple force power that few use to the greatest effect.

"But that's not fair, your speciality is telekinesis" moaned the padawan

She had one hand on her hip and she was looking away from me like I just irrated her.

Yoda gave a little chuckle "Many powers he has, but telekinesis isn't his speciality"

"What is his speciality then" said the annoyed padawan

Yoda looked at me with anticipation. I turned away from her and clapped my hands "Illusions" and as I said the word that spread out and echoed off the walls the room warped and changed colours.

The sudden gasps that came from everyone showed how mind-boggling this was. Every one of them uses the force to protect their mind from manipulations but here is a forest where a room was once.

"I don't...I don't understand" muttered the padawan

It wasn't just a visual illusion but sound, touch and smell all told them that they were in a sweet-smelling forest filled with life and movement. The trees were dancing in the soft breeze, and rays of light broke through the canopy to cause the padawan to frown as it directly invaded their eyes.

"Telekinesis was the first thing I learnt and it helped to keep me alive until I developed my speciality. Without telekinesis and the many tricks I developed, I wouldn't have grown to my point now. Learn the basics, adapt them to serve you and survive. Living is war and you need all the tools you can get, whether it be telekinesis or a shield to block an unexpected attack. That's what I teach, survival.

The illusion disappears and the group are given their own shield coin to use and adapt into a new weapon for the Jedi.