Chapter 31: The End to a Beginning

When they all arrived on Abydos, Brandon saw many wonders. When he walked up to where the SGC was located, it was the same way as he saw it last. To Brandon it was like looking at a historical piece frozen in time.

After they walked into the complex, Sam was looking for the General of the SGC. When she finally found him, she ran up to him and gave him a big hug and a kiss.

Sam asked, “How are you Jack?”

General Jack O'Neill smiled at her, “Doing great.”

Jack then looked at Brandon and gave him a big smile.

“Welcome home Master Jedi.”

Brandon smiled back, “Glad to be back. Happy to see you are the General of the SGC. How I remembered it was Paul Davis that was in charge.”

Colonel Davis laughed, “I would not take the position. I see Jack working too hard as it is. That alone would keep me from even thinking of taking his job.”

Jack teased, “Paul you know you love it here. If I did not take it the President would have nailed you to the chair.”

Paul smiled, “That is why I got him to give you the job. General West, General Hammond, and you were too close for you not to have this position.”

Sam told Jack about Brandon wanted to do for Jill Cantrell.

“That is one great idea Brandon. Once this war is over with, then we will have it moved. There are not living relatives of hers, so it should be no problem in moving her.”

Brandon smiled, “Thank you.”

Brandon looked at his wife and daughter. He then looked back at Sam and Jack. “If you will excuse me, I have 6 years to catch up with my family.”

Barbara said, “Yes you do.”

Brandon quickly turned around and there were his parents giving him a big smile. The three of them hugged each another.

Brandon gave a big smile, “It is great to see you all again. I know I might sound crazy, but to me it has been six years since I have seen you all.”

Jerry said, “We know. Jack told us.”

Barbara asked, “Have all of the memories of the new time line?

Brandon answered, “Nearly all of it has. I know that our house in Murrayville, Georgia did not get destroyed.”

After seeing his parents were shocked over what he said, Brandon explained it all.

Brandon's father said, “Wow! Looks like you set things to right not just for Sam.”

Sam came to them. “It seemed to me that Palpatine was hitting on me in every direction.”

“Since you recovered from the initial nightmares before I met you, it seems to me that he could not bother you anymore.”

Barbara asked, “What makes you think that.”

“Very simple, the first nightmares were corner stone of the whole deal. Once that was established, he would be able to build from there. When I came to meet Sam in her past, I must have influenced Sam to destroy that corner stone. All the disasters that only I know about are no more, even the nightmares I had received before my time journey began.”

Nomi asked, “Did you have any dreams like that while you were sleeping last?

Brandon looked at her with a smile, “No.”

Jack said, “Sam did not have nightmares nor had any unusual attacks by anyone or anything, so either Palpatine has his sights on another host or he found another way to keep on living.”

Brandon replied, “That is what concerns me.”

Sam stopped him right there. “I have trained you for years now in not be concerned with those type of possibilities. As you cannot rightfully go back in time to change things, you cannot be there for every situation of life. Bad things will happen. As you have taught me, The Jedi Knights are server of peace. They cannot change the world.”

Brandon smiled, “I remember teaching you that.”

Brandon gave out a bigger smile, “For us, the teacher can learn from the student.”

Sam gave a big smile back, “Who is the Master is and who is the student?”

Brandon just looked at Sam for a very long moment. “You are the Master because it all started when you found me in Atlanta, Georgia. It was you that found me before any of the others. This paradox started when you and I met for the first time. Palpatine did not start it.”

Jolinar spoke from Sam, “You are very wise Master Jedi. The Dark-side of the Force could not have the imagination to come up with the idea of a time paradox. The only thing Palpatine wanted to do was to kill Sam. He did not intend to change time. The reason Sam found you so easily was that the bond you two have could not be broken. That bonding allowed Jill Cantrell to be able to see who Sam was supposed to be, so she could have written all she had.”

Brandon asked Jolinar, “So Jill had a special ability to use the Force?”

Jolinar answered, “So it seems. Since I did not experience her as you did, I cannot rightfully answer that in the way I would want to answer it. I cannot see any other way she could have written that journal without some ability of the Force.”

“I agree. This is my first time to meet you Jolinar. I see Sam has a good and wise friend.”

Sam said, “More than that, much more. Jolinar and I share something that rightfully cannot be explained in words.” Sam walked to her husband. Jack and I have a very special relationship. We love each other very much. Our bonds are strong, and so are the bonds that Jolinar and I have.”

Jack replied, “Each bond is separate from the other. Neither one of us wants neither bond be brake. We all had a good chat before the blending of Jolinar and Sam. The whole symbiotic relationship is completely free without any influence by Jolinar.

“Thank you in being patient with me, and restating what I have known for a good number of years. It still is a lot to take in.”

Jack replied, “We completely understand.”

Nomi looked at her beloved husband and said, “My love, no one expects you to fully except all the changes that you are now experiencing.”

Brandon smiled, “I am sorry that I have overreacted, and thank you all for your patience.

Brandon mother replied, “Do not be silly. You are not overreacting. I think you are more in control then most of us here would have been. What you been through, I would be losing my mind. Even without the Force, you are strong. Just give it time.”

Amanda come up to her father and stood there. Through the Force Brandon knew what her daughter wanted to do, hug him.

Brandon knelt down low so she could do just that. In return Brandon hugged her back. Amanda whispered in her father's ear, “I love you daddy.”

Brandon whispered back, “I love you too baby.”

After hugging him, Amanda said, “Daddy, I have you. That is all I want. Even if you do not fully understand these new experiences or not, know that we love you. I do not understand all of them myself. Just be you, daddy.”

Brandon smiled and was amazed at the mind of his little girl. “How wonderful it is of the mind of a child. Could it be us adults needs to be learning from children than the other way around?”

Brandon said to his daughter, “You are very amazing young lady.”

Brandon stood up and looked at Sam. The smile he gave her was all that needed to be said. She knew that Amanda reminded of how open minded she was about him. Brandon knelt down once again to his daughter.

“You are becoming very much attuned to the Force. In fact, I think you are just as keen sense as Sam was when I met her when she was a teenager.”

Amanda got excited and looked at Sam. Amanda said, “Wow!!”

Amanda darted off towards her.

Sam said, “You are a very open minded young lady, and done great in what I have been teaching you.”

Brandon thanked them all again for their understanding and patience. He and his family went off to spend family time together.

Way out of ear shot, Jack said, “I can understand how impatient Brandon is right now. How many times I wanted to tell him all that happened since he left us.”

Sam replied, “I know. I saw the pure joy he had when he came back. He also saw and felt in me in the long wait I had to endure. How hard it was to be at his side in training him in the Force, and not able to say anything about how much I have missed him.”

Jack said, “Now he is back. I do believe he is more concerned with us than he is himself.”

Sam told Jack of what happen to her in Brandon's old time line.”

Jack replied, “Holy cow! No wonder he is overly concerned. He thinks that something bad will happen to you if not all of us.”

Colonel Davis said, “I do not have either of your Jedi skills, but what I just seen in him and his family, I think all Brandon needs is love, patience, and time. I think his daughter did a wondrous of good for him.”

Sam smiled, “Yes she did.” Sam remembered the first time Brandon came up to her after he rescued her from that gang. She right then and there realized how a wonderful person he was.

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As the days went on Brandon was getting back into the swing of things. With his Jedi duties in helping Jack and the SGC with the war efforts, Brandon was starting to be more a part of this new time line. By remembering all of his old time line, Brandon was able to make better judgments on the responsibilities that were for him to deal with.

Brandon knew how ugly the Dark-side was because he had faced it first hand in the old time lime. The result did save time and effort of the ones in the war.

As Brandon was examining over and over all the maneuvers of the enemies, he could not get out of his head that something was not right. Brandon realized what it was.

Brandon yelled out Jack. We have been played with. Palpatine could wipe us out like cracking an egg. After Jack come over to what Brandon was looking at. Brandon showed all the maneuvers of the enemy.”

Jack replied, “Damn! What is he doing or want?”

Brandon replied, “All this time we have been put off guard since I have returned from the putting things to right. What we all have forgotten, including myself until now, is that his host is still dying. He is still after Sam and me.”

Colonel Davis asked, “Are you sure? Surely he would be going after someone else by now.”

Brandon looked at Sam.

Brandon asked, “Have you know of anyone that has been acting the way you might have if I did not met you in your past?”

Sam tried to remember if she could have known if anyone that ever been upset in the way she did in her dreams so long ago.

Sam answered, “I do not think so.” Sam also reassured she has never had any dreams like that, or had any attacks from the Dark-side of the Force in any way.”

Brandon had to admit he had not been attacked by the Dark-side either. “Just the same, I strongly believe he still wants us as the new Sith Lords.”

Jack said to Brandon, “My dear friend I hope and pray you are wrong and what you are experiencing is just a lag from your old time line.”

Sam said to Brandon, “I do not see anything like that. Thank you for sharing this with us. We all will keep our eyes open. If you come up with anything else, please let us know.”

“I will.”

He then looked at Jack and Col. Davis.

“In a military ideology, what do you see from all this I just shown you?”

Colonel Davis replied, “Before I would like to officially answer the question, I want to learn more. Knowing you the years we been together, I will always follow you judgment, but this is a very big.

Brandon had an idea. He asked Sam, “Could Luke shed more light on this?”

Sam smiled, “I have a better person to ask, Bodo Bass.”

“Great idea! I almost forgot about him. Let's do it.”

Both Sam and Brandon went to a secluded area so they would not be interrupted by the outside activities. It did not take long for the two of them to be with Bodo Bass. “You have done very well in restoring the time line. Things are as they should be. Emperor Palpatine is no more. He was domed from the start. Once he lost Sam many years ago, he knew his reign of terror was done. That is why his fleet was so much in disarray as you saw it.”

“So he is not after Sam or me now?”

“If he could not get Sam at a young age, then there is no way he cannot do it now. He started to influence Sam as a teenager because he saw how powerful Sam is now. What Palpatine could not do was prevent you from traveling back into time because he did not know you would do it. I did everything I could to keep you hidden of your full potential, and the bond you and your Padawan truly have.”

Brandon replied, “I know that I trained her in the past, but she has recently trained me, so I am her Padawan, yes?”

Bodo Bass smiled, “Yes and no. It was a very big undertaking to hide all the knowledge of you being Earth's first Jedi Knight from Palpatine.”

Brandon looked at Sam with great confusion.”

Sam smiled at him, “After you left, I made sure that everyone knew the person that trained me as a Jedi Knight. Long before Earth ever met with Luke Skywalker and the other Jedi Knights far, far away, everyone on Earth knew of you.”

It was about two years after you left, that I met Bodo Bass through the Force. After I told him about Palpatine attacking me in my dreams, he knew that the truth of who you are had to be hidden from Palpatine. I then talked to everyone on Earth to help out in this cause. When the time came when I met up with you once again, you were not trained by me. Instead you were given the memories of the past time line that allowed you to become that Jedi that trained me.”

“It was your idea to suppress your memories of what you have done for me. That made you believe that I trained you first. That is why you are having conflicts with remembering this time line. That is why we are here with Bodo Bass now. Only Bodo Bass and I together can restore you from your suppressed memories.”

“WOW! You mean you are not Grand Master Jedi of Earth and Grand Duchess Jedi of all the Jedi Knights?”

Sam smiled, “Nope.” She paused for a moment, then said, “Those titles had always belonged to you with one difference. We call you Grand Duke Jedi of all the Jedi Knights.”

Bodo Bass said, “For what you have done for Sam and of Earth, the title “Grand Master Jedi of Earth” was given to you by everyone on Earth long before Sam met you again. A lot of things has prospered due to Sam was trained to be a Jedi Knight by you.”

Sam said, “When we came to Coruscant for the first time and realized there were many, many Jedi Knights in that Galaxy, I secretly talked to Luke, Corran, Mara, and the others of the Jedi Council about you. They were amazed on the outcome of how Earth can be so productive due to one Jedi Knight. After getting to know you more, the Jedi Council gave you the title, “Grand Duke Jedi of all the Jedi Knights.”

“All of you acting like I found something with how the enemies fleet was behaving was part of this cover up?”

Sam smiled, “Yes it was. We all knew of their disarray in their organization from the start. Luke told us that the Imperial Fleet could have whipped them out. That of course did make them very dangerous. After the Death Star was destroyed by you, Palpatine's plans were crumbling very fast.”

Bodo Bass said, “When you turned things back around from the influence he put on Sam, you and you alone gave him the fatal blow.”

Brandon asked, “So the bridge to all this was Jill Cantrell?”

Bodo Bass said, “Yes she was. It was the Ancient Jedi Knight that gave Jill all of the proper information of the real and proper time line. It was no coincidence that Sam got that letter that started the whole thing going in the right direction.”

Brandon remembered the last think Sam said to him before he was sent in the past. Brandon told it to them both.

Sam said, “Shorty before we went to that place to set you on your journey, all that you have done came to me. The circle was complete for me, and now it will be for you Master.”

Sam then asked her Master to close his eyes. “Now we both will remove the suppression of your memories from you.”

After a few moments a flood of memories entered into Brandon. It took him sometime to take it all in, but when he did, he opened his eyes and gave Sam and Bodo Bass a big smile.

“I remember everything now.”

The connection they had with Bodo Bass faded with the surroundings of where both Sam and Brandon were.

Both Sam and Brandon stood up and gave each other a dearest hug.

After they hugged Sam said, “Finally Master, I have you back.”

“It is great to be back.”

“How agonizing it has been for me all these years. Now I have you back, and I am the happiest person alive. Nothing can separate us now.”

When they walked back to the others, Brandon saw President Barack Obama and his wife, Michell Obama, standing there waiting on Grand Master Jedi of Earth to be with them all.

Brandon gave them both a smile, “Great to see you both.”

Michell replied, “It is us that should be saying that to you.”

All the sudden everyone was gathering around Brandon.

Nomi and Amanda came at his side. Nomi said after giving a hug and a kiss, “Welcome home my love.

Amanda gave her father a hug, “So happy to have you back daddy.”

Brandon looked at her daughter, “It is ever so great to be back, 100 percent this time.”

He looked at his wife again and gave her a loving hug. He whispered in her ear. Thank you for putting up with me all this time.”

The only thing she said in a reply was, “I love you.”

When Brandon looked at the President once again, President Obama said, “Grand Master Jedi of Earth and Grand Duke Jedi of all the Jedi Knights, I hear by thank you for all that you have done for us on our behalf. There is no medal or artifact that I can give you to show how all of us appreciated what you have done for us through the many years, expect my gratitude.”

Brandon replied, “I thank you Mr. President. I take that gratitude with great humility.”

Brandon looked at everyone in the room. Brandon felt all the love that everyone had for him. “What a wonderful moment this day is to me. What more can a man ask for.”

Brandon looked at his family once again and said, “Now that the circle is complete, I am the happiest man alive. May the Force be with all of us.”

The First Lady, Michell Obama, said, “We will be honored if you and your family will join us for the grand celebration of the end of the Sith reign over the entire universe.” Brandon looked at her with a smile, “We would be honored to join you.” They all started to get ready to go back to Earth through the Stargate. Before Brandon, Nomi, and Amanda went through, Brandon was greeted by two more special people in his life, Emily and Ben Aaron.

The three of them hugged dearly.

Emily said, “Uncle, we happy you are back with us. We are ever so proud of you. In all that you have done for Sam and Earth, we had to be Jedi Knights.”

Ben said, “And we thank you for training us personally.”

Brandon replied, “As Mara Jade said, 'I was the only true one that could rightfully train you two.' I was very proud to train you both. How are mom and dad's training going?”

Ben answered, “I am training Dee, but the last I heard Sam and Grammy were doing super.”

Brandon replied, “Wonderful. We are one big happy Jedi family. In a way, I owe it all to Palpatine. If it was not for his interference, I would not been trained by Sam. That allowed me to go back to the past and make things right again.”

Michell Obama said, “From what Princess Leia told me, the end result of all Palpatine's causing problems in her galaxy, only greater things blossomed from his interferences. I think that is why the Jedi Council there gave you the title 'Grand Duke Jedi of all Jedi Knights.' You have shown great strength and power over all that Palpatine could have done towards Earth and even the entire universe. I was very happy to have read that Palpatine is dead and the Sith is no more.”

Nomi said, “I now have my husband back.”

Brandon looked at her and his daughter. “If I remembered correctly after I saw you at my bedside, I promised a vacation for the three of us.”

Nomi replied, “Honey, all that I care about is simply being with you, just peace and quiet.”

Amanda said, “Same here daddy.”

Michell Obama said, “When you two are ready to have your well deserved vacation, it will be on us. Not from the federal government, but from Barack and myself. It is the least we can do in thanking you both for what you have done for Earth.”

Nomi replied with a smile, “Thank you Michell, we will let you know. It was about their turn to go through the wormhole that the Stargate had established. The President of the United States and his family with Grand Master Jedi of Earth and his family all went through.

The Sith was no more. Earth and the rest of the universe had a new beginning. Now new adventures await our Jedi Knights through the travels that the Stargate system will give them. The ancient history of the Jedi Knights can now be given back to Earth as it was in the beginning. The Circle is now complete. The ancient history of the Jedi Knights can now shine bright. The Force is now with us all.