Apparently the thunder said "ouch"

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The PMC Franklin touched down at Mos Espa space port. The small port town didn't take much notice of the landing. Large yachts like the Franklin touched down all the time and the Rangers had spent a great deal of time an effort to make the Franklin and it's sister ships look as unremarkable as possible.

Jor had awoken not ten minutes before and rolled out of his bed in sickbay with a thud onto the floor and a very loud "Ouch."

The doctor helped him to sit back up in the bed and started going over his vital statistics which weren't much good since Jor's cybernetics were pretty much the only thing keeping him alive at the moment. "It's ok doc. really. Help is coming, you won't have to do this alone."

The doctor shook his head. "Master Halcyon, no one knows we're here. We're under strict coms blackout. We don't want the world to know that there's one, possibly two wounded jedi out in the open on a very hostile planet."

Jor smiled in spite of the pain rising up to his brain from just about every part of his body. "Trust me doc. Ok, just trust me. I'll be all right." Jor said. He eased himself off the bed to stand up and immeditealy regreted it. The doctor helped him keep from falling over and get back into the bed.

Outside the ship, a man in black cloak aproached the Franklin. The docking bay door opened for him with no trouble, dispite it being locked and he just stood right outside the ship, waiting for someone from inside to come to him.

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Mariella had awoken several hours into the journey, and had immediately placed herself into a recuperative trance. Waking at all of the movement, she watched silently as Jor was placed back into his bed. She did not feel like speaking.

She felt...strange. Her complexion was pallid, and her green eyes were tinted a strange yellow every now and then. Inwardly, she felt sick to her stomach, as though something had entered, taken up there, and was refusing to leave. Taking several deep breaths, Mariella tried to center herself and succeeded, pushing down whatever it was that was ailing her. Her body was fine. It was her spirit that was troubled.

Her fingertips were burned and blistered from the lightning discharges on Yavin, but she declined the doctor's help when he moved toward her. Apparently she looked well enough to be left alone to rest. Sitting cross-legged on her bed, she simply watched Master Jor.

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Jor swallowed loudly and looked over at Mariella. "Hey kiddo. How ya feeling? You were pretty shaken up when we found you."

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Outside the man in black waited patiently. The boarding ramp to the ship descended and a squad of soldiers filed out, pointed their weapons at him. The man in black raised his arms in surrender, dropping a pair of pistols on the ground along with a sheathed sword.

"I come in peace. I heard you might need a good doctor."

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"I'll survive, Master Jor...thank you..."

Mariella's eyes fell to the floor.

"I suppose such an endeavor was foolish of me. I could have gotten my padawan killed."

The young knight was ashamed of herself, and it showed. She had known full-well what she had been walking into in some way or another and had gone ahead anyway.

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"You saved your Padawan's life by getting her... him... it to the temple along with that distress signal." Jor said. "Foolish is telling a platoon of infantry to take a couple shots at you." He finished. Looking down at himself he noticed his suit was covered in scorch marks. He scowled at the cosmetic damage on the armored plates before resting his head back down on the bed.

He reached over to the nightstand next to the sickbay bed and grabbed the ships comlink there. "Let the guy outside in. He's a friend."

Outside Lieutenant Church lowered his rifle. "Let him through. We got clearance from Master Halcyon."

The man in black bowed slightly to the soldiers. "Damn right you did."

He walked past the squad and up the ramp of the ship. He had never been on a Normandy class Yacht before but he knew where he was going. He almost had a sixth sense that told him where sickbay was no matter what ship he was on. It took him only moments to get there.

He nodded his hooded head to Mariella before looking at Jor crossing his arms. "You look terrible."

"Yeah, i'm aware of that Old Man. Fix me." Jor said snidely.

The man in black pulled his hood away and undid the scarf around his mouth, revealing the face of a much younger looking Jor Halcyon. "When will you whippersnappers learn to duck." He said as he moved over to the bed and withdrew from the folds of his cloak a small black bag which held his medical tools.

"Actually. This time around it was my own dumb fault." Jor said relaxing a little bit as his counterpart gave him a shot of painkiller in the neck. "Told the Lieutenant outside to pop a few caps in me. I needed the juice."

The younger Jor put a hand over the wounded Jor's chest and closed his eyes to concentrate. "Just be thankful i'm around to fix you when you break yourself. Not to many parts of you left to replace with machines."

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The young knight's confusion showed on her face. It was very rare that force-sensitives could be cloned successfully, and much more rare that such cloning was to any great effect. Yet here was another Jor, as if time had been turned back. She held herself in restraint as they conversed, centering herself again, lest her emotions get out of control once more.

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The younger Jor lifted his hand up from the older Jor's chest and stroked his goatee. "You'll be fine. Those little nanites in your blood are doing their jobs. It will take a while for you to get up to full speed again but that's life as a 55 year old human."

Jor let the pain killer seep through what was left of his body before trying to sit up again. His younger counter part helped him into a sitting position on the bed. They both looked over at Mariella and spoke at the same time, in perfect unison. "You sure look confused."

Jor nudged his younger self and continued on without him. "The younger, better looking me here is from an alternate reality. See, about 10 or so years back, some serious shit went down on the planet Tishi. The kind of serious shit that breaks holes open in the fabric of space."

This is where the younger Jor cut in. "His friend Six managed to pull my ass out of the frying pan when i tried to escape certain doom by flying my ship through that break."

"And he's been nothing less than a cramp in my style ever since." Jor said.

"Unlike my aging counterpart here, i have no mechanical bits in me and while i'm a hundred years older than him, i don't age the same as he does." The Younger Jor explained. "That i'm afraid is another long story for another time. But i'm also a formally trained Doctor and probably one of the very few people qualified to stitch this humpty dumpty back together again."

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Mariella had never heard of an alternate reality, but trusted that Master Jor was not insane, and knew what he was talking about. She had had her fill of arguing with Jedi Masters in the past week or so. Any information that she might want at a later date would most likely be in the archives.

"I...um...alright. A pleasure to meet you...again? I'm Mariella."

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The Jor in the black cloak bowed slightly. "A pleasure. I'm Jor Halcyon and just Jor Halcyon. Not Master I'm so Important Jedi Jor Halcyon, or Super Telepath Man Jor Halcyon. In extreme cases you might call me Doctor Jor Halcyon."

"Drake calls him Mirror Jor." The Jor on the bed said. "We'd better get back to Ilum. I need to report our little Sith Lord sighting to the rest of the Jedi and Mariella needs to get her padawan back before Jedi Master Jellyfish bores the little one to death."

"I'll go with you. I want to keep an eye on your injuries in case complications arise." Mirror Jor said. "Plus, maybe if I annoy you enough on the trip there you'll be less inclined to get injured in the future."

"Wonderful." Jor said in as monotone a voice as he could manage before lying back down in the bed.

Mirror Jor turned his attention back to Mariella. "What about you? Do you need a Doctor?"

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Mariella shook her head.

"No, thank you. I'm fine."

She was relieved to be heading back to Ilum. The place still did not feel like home for her, but it was the closest thing she had. Sdon might be worrying with nobody familiar to keep him occupied. The young knight sank back into silence, the uneasy and dark feelings beginning to rise in her again at the thought of how she had almost failed him. At the thought of the fault-lines she had seen across his path.

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OOC: And off to Ilum. I'll just close us out with this and post us arriving at Corbenic.