Codywan Sleeping Beauty AU
Obi-Wan gets hit with a Sith curse dooming him to die when touched by cortosis, a metal known to be used against Jedi and other lightsaber wielders
fortunately, the Council was able to find a way to transmute the curse by mixing it with another curse, resulting in the curse becoming 'sleep for many years' (due to the newly hybrid nature of the curse, it's unclear how many exactly or even if there is an exact number, but they get the sense that it'll be more than a decade) rather than straight up 'die' when he inevitably ends up coming into contact with cortosis
the wake-up condition is a classic one though: true love's kiss
Cody, however, hopes to be able to keep his general with him and their men for many more years, but knows exactly how unlikely it is that he'll still be alive when it's time to break the curse if they manage to hold it off for as long as he's going to try to, what with his double-rate aging
so he begs the Council to make one more amendment to the curse: that Cody will share Obi-Wan's fate, so that Obi-Wan won't have to spend all that time and then wake up alone
they find a way to grant his wish
another year goes by, and then it's time to face General Grievous on Utapau
after being disarmed, Obi-Wan knows the risk of ripping open Grievous' chest with his bare hands, but accepts it as the price for ending the war
it's Cody, who followed along, who takes the final shot into Grievous' exposed heart right before the curse can finish taking effect
in the immediate aftermath, the rest of the 212th are trying to figure out what to do with their unconscious general and commander, when Boga, wailing, gently snatches them both off and disappears into the caves leading out of the sinkhole
unequipped to follow her, they ask the locals, who suggest that the varactyl likely claimed them as family and took them back to her den
they'd just started searching for the den to try to bring their commanding officers home to the Temple when they got an unexpected comm from the Chancellor
and then the goal of their search changed from 'recover' to 'execute'
however, as they went to take another step into the tunnel Boga had disappeared down, they felt a strange rumbling
as they retreated toward the surface to escape the oncoming earthquake, they noted that the tunnel was rapidly caving in just ahead of where they'd been standing, leaving them without a clear path to finding their targets
the battalion spent another week searching the surrounding tunnels with no success; in fact, they estimate that it would take decades to search the tunnels leading out of that sinkhole alone, much less the connections to surrounding sinkholes
before they can settle into that task, the Emperor recalls their battle to Coruscant for reassignment, unwilling to waste resources on such a pointless endeavor
over the next years though, the Utai and Pauans noticed that a certain black specter would show up regularly to that same sinkhole, spending a few days at a time searching the tunnels
some even said that they heard furious screams coming from the area whenever he visited, but those were dismissed as rumors
more than a decade later, another set of visitors arrive
there are four of them, in a junky old freighter: a Wookie, his human partner, a blonde human boy, and a well-dressed human girl
they'd heard rumors about the specter's searches, and listened to the Pauan's recollections of the Jedi General and his clone Commander who supposedly had been entombed in the tunnels and never recovered
while the Wookie and the ship's captain loudly complain about the whole trip as they make repairs to the ship, the pair of younger humans start their own search for the lost Jedi
and crucially, they make the decision to hire out a varactyl to navigate the tunnels
one that reacts quite favorably to Luke Skywalker's and Leia Organa's presences
and immediately takes them to her family's nest deep underground
where a Jedi and Commander have been waiting many years for their niece and nephew (never known, but already loved) to wake them from their slumber
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