Kento regarded him silently for a few moments. "All right. Try not to get yourself killed. We're racking up quite a debt to you. It would bother me if you did something crazy that got yourself killed before we could call it even." "Meh, you do this and we'll call it even." Harry replied without the slightest trace of concern. "Dobby will be there in a few minutes to get Mallie and your son."
Mallie regarded him silently a few moments before she nodded, "Thank you Harry … again," She said before slipping away from the comm unit.
"Dobby should be back to take you to the ship in a bit. We have less than an hour or so till landfall if the Wookiees' estimates are right." Harry replied.
"Understood," Kento replied, staring at Harry a few moments longer, and Harry raised an eyebrow expectantly. It wasn't until Kento glanced over his shoulder, clearly determining where his wife was before he turned back and spoke quietly. "No matter what you say, we're not even. This is just another one I owe you."
Harry just nodded his head in acknowledgement disconnecting the call before he spun from the comm device past a still silenced Aayla. He paused only a moment. "Dobby!"
Dobby popped in, "Yes, Master Harry Potter!"
The elf took one look at Harry's outfit and accompanying expression, and the being wilted a little bit with a sigh before straightening up, all manner of joking disappearing from his face.
"In a few minutes, I need you to get Mallie Marek and her son and bring them here. They have permission." Harry told him as he created a few portkeys for Mallie's possible use and set them out on a table, labels attached to each one. Dobby didn't question and simply nodded.
Then a bit of a mischievous grin crossed Harry's face. "Until then I need you to bring me every quidditch game set we have. Merlin knows I've got enough of the damn things."
Dobby tilted his head in confusion before he disappeared again. He didn't understand why but clearly he could tell it wasn't the time to question Harry given his mood and his expression. A moment later a trunk plopped down in front of Harry.
Harry didn't waste any time in opening it. "Huh, didn't realize I had so many." Harry snapped his wrist and a wand appeared in his hand as he pulled out a small trunk from the bigger trunk. He opened the small trunk and began to tap the inside with his wand.
"Harry?" Ahsoka asked tentatively, she could feel the Force moving as he manipulated with his wand.
"Talk later. I'm on a time crunch. They make landfall in…" He said brusquely, before he trailed off.
"Thirty minutes give or take … " Shaak Ti supplied after Aayla clearly made several attempts to do the same.
Harry nodded absently, the tip of his wand glowing over the matchbox sized trunk he had taken from the expanded trunk before he closed it and set it aside, pulling out another box and beginning to do the same.
Ahsoka couldn't contain her curiosity as she moved around his shoulder to at least see what he was seeing. In his hand was a small box that looked like it contained two… balls that seemed to be vibrating in the box and made of some sort of metal. It was those two that Harry was focusing his wand work on before he snapped the lid shut, setting the box down and picking up another one.
She looked up at him with a look of confusion on her face.
Harry's expression was one of concentration on his task, though it didn't stop him from grinning wickedly. They stood under the cover of a small tree, partially hidden by the foliage surrounding them. The two Jedi stared out at the beach and the plains right by it. The first ships of the invasion fleet had already made landfall, clearing an initial path for the massive force behind them.
But it was the grey and overcast sky that drew their attention, as lights from dozens of craft were descending slowly through the clouds. There were already some forces that had landed and the droids were clearly entrenching their positions.
Harry seemed to be ignoring all of it, he was simply stared out at the distance, to some undefinable point.
The girls were all very puzzled, though Ahsoka was watching him carefully.
Mallie and a disturbingly calm infant had arrived at Harry's home with little fanfare. Harry hadn't done any more than nod at her thanks. Before they had left Harry's retreat, he had given Dobby some very odd instructions.
"Dobby, do you remember the erm… third time you tried to save my life?" Harry asked
The little being had looked abashed and nodded. "Master Harry stole his Weezy father's car and drove to Hogwarts."
Harry frowned briefly, "That wasn't the third time that was the seco.. oh yeah. Letters, hovering charm, the boundary at the train." He shook his head. "No I meant the fourth time."
"Master Harry Potter be asking Dobby never to save him that way again," Dobby said after nodding slowly. "Master Harry Potter did not like ending up in the infirmary."
"Right. Like I needed anyone's help ending up there," Harry said with disgust before shaking his head. "So. I want you to do the same thing, only this time out in space and with lots of ships. Lots more targets and lots more bludgers."
The house elf had seemed to need to think that over before he bounced slightly in glee, "Dobby can do that!"
The excitement in the house elf's voice had sent chills down the spine of the other three occupants of the room.
A few moments later, the little being had disappeared with the trunk containing lots of little trunks in tow.
Harry hadn't answered any questions, even to Ahsoka. Instead he had told them he was taking them to the surface, if they wanted to go the portkey was leaving immediately.
Harry had then used a plate and portkeyed Shaak Ti Aayla and Ahsoka to the edge of the forest near the city of Karchiho. Of course Shaak Ti had been completely disoriented and like Ahsoka and Aayla's first time, and had no frame of reference for having herself apparated. So unlike the other two the Jedi Master had actually thrown up upon arrival. When she stopped heaving she looked up prepared to say something to Harry or defend herself from the expected joke, but they had then realized that he wasn't there with them. but Ahsoka could sense that Harry was moving about doing … something. Though she couldn't determine what, he was focused on it intently. His presence bounced up and down the coast, sometimes near and sometimes far.
He didn't join them until almost fifteen minutes later, Aayla had just made a comment about heading to the city, when Harry popped into existence next to them, with just a very soft crack.
"Harry!" Aayla jumped slightly spinning around, her now pink lekku whirling as she spun at this sudden arrival, "Where did you go?!"
Harry didn't answer her immediately, ignoring the sight of the invading army, instead looking at the ground until he found a rock the size of his fist. He picked it up and using his wand he sketched a series of markings around it, He then set it down on the ground and pushed down slightly so as to make sure it wouldn't move.
Ahsoka bent down to look at it more closely,
"Don't touch that," Harry said, his voice sharp.
She looked up at him quickly, careful not to get close to it, "What is it?"
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