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Yoda: Dark Rendezvous - Part 2
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In a dream, Whie encounters Asajj Ventress, along with fellow Jedi learner Scout.  In the dream Scout is bleeding from the head and Asajj is doing her best to entice Whie to kiss her.  Whie is awoken by some of the other Jedi Padawan.

It is the day of the Jedi Apprentice Contest.  Scout is surveying the competition.  She knows she is not as strong in the Force as most; in fact she is quite weak compared to most of the others except for her ability to anticipate things before they happen.  Yet this day she was summoned by Yoda to the room of thousand ponds.  She'd given up on becoming a Jedi Knight herself.  Scout was previously accepted as a Padawan but her master was killed three months later.  This was very disheartening for her, but it also drove her to train harder than she thought she could and work her way to the top of all the classes.  Scout had spent much the last few weeks scouting for weaknesses in all of her potential opponents.  Scout defeats a much better opponent in the first round using a faint trick and putting him in an arm bar until he submitted.

Next, she fights Hanna that she does not really particularly like very much.  They are forced to fight with the lights out to simulate real combat.  After an intense back-and-forth battle, Scout is victorious by putting her in a choke hold.

In the cafeteria, Yoda and Master Leem discuss Whie's bad dreams from the night before.  Yoda tells her that that Whie was born on Vjun.  Jai Maruk joins them and discusses how he doesn't think Scout should be fighting anymore as she doesn't exactly keep with the Jedi ways.  Yoda disagrees and it takes a little wager out on Scout's behalf.  If she finishes in the bottom four Yoda will send her to the agricultural core. If she finishes second, third, or fourth she shall remain an apprentice.  But if she wins it all, Maruk will have to take her on as his new Padawan.  Suddenly Master Ironclad stands up and proclaims that the next phase of the tournament will be held within the dining room they are currently in and begins the tournament.  After a flurry of intense skirmishes throughout the cafeteria, the only two remaining contestants are Scout and Whie.  It takes barely a few seconds before Whie had her in a thumb lock, and he be a nice guy asks her to give up rather than continue inflicting pain.  Playing on Whie's lack of killer instinct she's able to break free and turn the tide and best him in the battle.

Yoda and Master Maruk find Scout in the infirmary and tell her that she is now to be a Padawan learner.

Master Leem finds Whie in one of the chambers.  Whie realizes that he's actually had this encounter before in his one of his dreams from months earlier.  Master Leem requests that Whie go with her to see Yoda in the infirmary as they have something that they need to do.

Whie and Master Leem, along with Maruk, Scout and Yoda talk in the infirmary.  Yoda tells them that he will be sending them on a mission together and that he himself will be a traveling along with them.  He will not say where they're going and the fact that Yoda is going with them must be remain a secret.

Back on Vjun, Darth Sidious again contacts Dooku and tells him that Yoda visited the Chancellor that day to inform him of his secret mission.  Sidious requests that Dooku treat Yoda accordingly.  After the conversation, the crazy old woman returns.  Apparently she says that she can read people's futures in broken dishes and spilled drinks, and demonstrates by telling Dooku that something that will be happening soon to his apprentice.
 
Using an actor who does a spot on impersonation of Yoda, the Jedi make it look like Yoda is going to Ithor as opposed to where his real mission is.

The droids, Solis and Fidelis, witness two Jedi, two Padawan, and a particularly strange moving R2 unit leaving the Jedi Temple.  Solis says the target is moving.

In space above Coruscant, Asajj Ventress keeps watch for Yoda's ship as it leaves.

The Jedi group, in disguise as tourists, have a few hang ups, but eventually get through spaceport security.

Asajj Ventress tracks the fake Jedi ships to Ithor.  She takes out several ships little trouble and centers her attention to Yoda's ship.  As she moves in to destroy it, she realizes that the ship is being controlled by the R2 unit and that she's been tricked by a decoy.  She isn't entirely upset by this, however, because she knows that since one of the ships flew back to Coruscant, chances are it's going to tell everyone that Yoda’s ship was destroyed and send the Republic into chaos.

As the Jedi group heads toward Vjun, Whie is becoming very agitated because he is quite concerned that they're going to meet Count Dooku and Asajj Ventress.  Since he had the dream regarding himself, Scout and Asajj he's uneasy about the whole trip.

Solis approaches Scout and tells her that someone has turned in one of her belongings to the lost and found and they must go together to retrieve it. As Whie is collecting the food for the group, he is approached by Fidelis who calls Whie by his real name.



 

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