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Harry chuckled self-consciously, rubbing at the back of the helmet that covered his entire head. A second later he brought up his lightsaber as one of the many droids shot a little bolt at him. Harry barely got his lightsaber up in time to block it then swept his lightsaber to the side, blocking a second, and had to jump up over a third. A fourth and a fifth followed quickly, and Harry whirled, unable to block the bolts and return them to their source, but able to us keep up with the droid set on slow at least.
"Impressive reflexes, good Force Precognition to start with." Master Dooku mused, one hands stroking his chin thoughtfully. Indeed, Harry was picking this up faster than Dooku thought he would. "We will continue to use the one droid, until you are able to tag it at full power. Eventually we will start adding more droids, after you acclimatize to the highest speed setting of the previous number. Between each, we will meditate and discuss the stances and underlying precepts of Shien. However long each step of this training takes is up to you padawan."
"Yes Master Dooku!" Harry replied, interspersed with the zapping sound of his sword intersecting another bolt. Every time he did the droid moved faster, it's shots becoming more and more random as time went on and it tried to overwhelm him.
However to Master Dooku's surprise, a few seconds later Harry was indeed able to angle his deflection back into the droid. The older man's eyes narrowed. Harry was a good student, rarely making the same mistake more than twice, and seemed to pick up lightsaber drills as quickly as someone with very little in the way of prior training in them could. But this was impossible. Something odd is going on here.
He watched a few moments as the droid continued, its bolts becoming more powerful and its movement's even faster. Beside him Knight Vos called out instructions about how to feel out the Force around him, the movement of the air around the droid, the sense of danger in the Force as the droid targeted him for that brief millisecond it had to before firing.
But Master Dooku's eyes suddenly tracked to Aayla. "Halt exercise," he ordered and the droid's stopped hovering in midair directly behind Harry, his lightsaber having just swiftly come over his head and straight down to try and deflect the bolt. "A moment young padawan. Padawan Secura, is padawan Potter using your Force senses right now? Both physical senses and through the Force?
Aayla blinked. "I… don't think so Master." "I should be able to feel that shouldn't I?" She asked mentally, looking over at Harry.
"I don't know, if I am on not doing it consciously I promise Aayla!" The last thing either of them wanted was to be able to look through the other's eyes without having to think about it, that kind of thing could lead to… bad moments. The kind of thing that mom was worried about underneath her teasing. Neither of them were interested in making the other uncomfortable like that.
"I know Harry." "Master Dooku, could you restart the exercise please," Aayla asked politely aloud. "I want to see if I can feel anything."
"Of course," Dooku said, reactivating the drone. The next second Harry was busy deflecting blaster bolts again.
Aayla closed her eyes, feeling out their bond for a moment then nodded slowly. "I think he is Master, but I think it's tied into his sense of danger through the Force, which is a relief. I wonder if I can do the same thing?"
"Only one way to find out," Master Dooku said, intrigued at this idea. Many Masters and padawans could fight as one unit, their Force Precognition merging and melding along with their styles into a single entity. But to do so unconsciously, especially with such a strange bond as what existed between the two of these youngsters, that was something else.
Aayla quickly leaped up from where she had been sitting on the grass eagerly racing over to Harry who pulled off the helmet, and helped her put it on. Since it was designed for human head there was a little difficult, but they were able to remove two of the lower plates to allow her lekku to hang loose down her front. Harry let his fingers caress them absentmindedly as he helped Aayla buckle the helmet underneath her chin, then stepped away, patting her on the head before joining Quinlan and Master Dooku. Aayla quickly activated her twin lightsabers, bringing them up and around, holding them ready at elbow height.
Without warning Master Dooku restarted the drone, looking over a Quinlan. "How many drones is she up to at this moment?"
"She was up to four at full power before we left the temple." Quinlan replied, somewhat proud of his padawan's skill.
"Let us make it five then," Master Dooku mused. "That way we will know for certain if she can use Harry's physical and Force senses to aid her."
A second later Aayla was leaping around, her lightsabers a twin blur of green light as she batted bolts aside. But within seconds, Master Dooku realized that she was indeed using Harry's Force Precognition to aid her. No way could a 15-year-old padawan have tagged three of the five droids in that short amount of time, one of which was even tagged twice, the one not incidentally nearest Harry.
"Fascinating," he said as he stopped the drones once more. "I have known Jedi Masters and padawans who work for years to build up the kind of rapport you two seem to have built into your bond."
"That kind of ability could be a serious game changer." Quinlan mused. "Does this alter your plans for Harry's training? Should we test their bond's distance? And whether or not it's just using their physical senses as well."
"It certainly is at least partly physical senses at least. I believe I have another helmet, I'll go and get it, and I think we should also have Master Fay join us. Her ability to feel out the Force is better than mine or yours," Dooku replied, already turning away.
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