Sometime after Esther left, the royal family stood outside to meet Esther's new manager.

Soon came a limousine, out from which came a very snobby looking human woman with dark sunglasses, a camera crew arriving just after.

"Priscilla Surlei, at your service." said the woman. "Producer and manager of the greatest influencers on the holo-net."

"Qui-Gon Jinn." Qui-Gon reached his hand out, but Surlei grunted in disgust.

"I don't shake hands. Too many germs."

That made Qui-Gon look at his hand with a hint of insecurity.

"Now, if you'll excuse me, I would like to inspect the ones I am changing the images of."

Without as much as an excuse me, Surlei passed right through the royal family.

"How rude!" Caroline said angrily.

"Are we sure she's Esther's manager?" Padme looked at Anakin.

"Well, Esther said to trust her." Anakin said. "Her attitude will probably change once she's had a chance to settle in."

Just as Esther said, her new manager got right to work having her camera people get as much footage as they could of the Jedi going about their day.

They got great footage of some of the kids playing, the younglings training with some of the masters, the horses being cute, and even some footage of Gabby making bubbles and playing with her siblings and some of the other younglings in the garden.

When these videos were posted, they got lots of comments about how adorable the younglings were. So many heart-eyed emojis and AAAWWWW's from people across the galaxy. 2,000 likes within only two minutes of being posted.

However, when Surlei got a look at this footage... she called in her crew for a meeting.

"WHAT IS THIS?!" Surlei said. "I told you to find something good, not some puff piece!"

"But Princess Esther told us not to post anything bad." said one crew member.

"What you've posted is bad, you idiots! I need tension, drama, gossip! That's what sells. I want you to get back out there and find me something juicy to post. Nothing goes on the holo-net without my full approval. Got that?"

"Yes, Ms. Surlei." said the crew, albeit reluctantly.

So, the next day, the camera crew searched around the palace for anything Ms. Surlei would like. However, the only thing going on this morning was the Jedi cleaning their rooms.

All the younglings were even totally behaving today. Nothing juicy going on.

"Ms. Surlei is not gonna like this." said one camera man.

"You're telling me. I mean, how could she not like that video of that purple pony chasing her tail."

The two crew members laughed a bit until they heard something coming from one of the rooms.

"Anakin!" exclaimed Obi-Wan's voice.

Curious the crew members followed the sound to Obi-Wan's room, where Anakin had been helping him clean, but what they saw was a big surprise.

There they were, Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi... engaging in an all-out pillow fight!

Feathers were flying all over the place, and the two men kept whacking each other with the pillows. Of course, the camera people got this all on tape, but they could hardly keep from laughing, especially after what happened next.

Obi-Wan jumped onto the bed.

"It's over, Anakin! I have the high ground!" Obi-Wan taunted, only for Anakin to pillow whack him in the legs, making him fall on his back on the bed, and Anakin jumped up and started tickling Obi-Wan on his stomach and torso.

"Cootchie, cootchie, coo!" Anakin teased as he mercilessly tickled his former master.

"Anakin! Stop it!" Obi-Wan begged, trying to push his brother's hands away.

Neither of them had any idea this was all being filmed or that it was later being showed to Ms. Surlei.

"Have this posted immediately." Surlei ordered.

The next day, Anakin took his kids to get ice cream.

Omega had never tried ice cream before, and she quickly found strawberry was her favorite. And as usual, Anakin got more ice cream on his face than in his mouth.

As Gabby, Omega, and Boba sat with their father to eat their ice cream, they noticed people walking by were laughing, whispering to each other, or taking pictures.

"Daddy, I think you might wanna clean your face." Gabby said.

Anakin did clean off, but this time, it wasn't him being a messy eater that people were laughing at.

That was when Anakin's comm started to beep. When he answered, Obi-Wan came up.

"Anakin! We have a problem!" said Obi-Wan. He was running from someone or something.

"Obi-Wan, what's wrong?" Anakin asked.

"A new video was posted yesterday-" Obi-Wan was stopped as a pillow was thrown at his face, which he threw off, and then someone tickled him until he pushed them away. "Stop that!"

Peppermint entered the picture and got Obi-Wan onto her back.

"Go onto Insta-Star and look up a blog called Juicy Jedi!" Peppermint said. "We gotta run!"

So, Boba took out his phone and looked it up. An intro video came up.

Welcome, viewers, this is Priscilla Surlei with the greatest source of raving gossip about the Jedi. You've seen them in the news after battles and even when they accused one of their own of treason. But here, we find the real juice behind the lightsabers and meditations.

Boba then looked up the videos and showed one to Anakin. A video titled Jedi Knight Pillow Fight.

Anakin was shocked when he saw that the pillow/tickle fight between him and Obi-Wan had been recorded and posted on the holo-net.

"Oh no. No, no, no, no!" Anakin panicked. "This is very bad."

"That's not the only thing, Daddy." Gabby said, looking at her phone.

There was a picture of Ahsoka with Petro, and she looked like she was yanking his hair. But Gabby knew Ahsoka would never do anything like that.

"That's it, I'm going to talk to Surlei right now and get that video taken down." Anakin said. "I'm sure I can reason with her."

"Absolutely not!" Surlei said.

"What do you mean you won't take it down?!" Anakin said angrily. "People are humiliating Obi-Wan because of that video you posted."

"That's not my problem. The video had already gotten twelve million hits across the galaxy. You should be thanking me."

"Thanking you?!" Anakin said as if she were crazy, which she was. "You had no business humiliating any of us. Esther hired you to help change our image, not humiliate us!"

"Esther hired me to change your image. And I am. Now, get out of my office before you contaminate it."

Anakin was escorted out of the office. And the gossip only got worse from there.

Two days later, two "romantic" posts were made.

One was a picture of Master Plo down on one knee, as he'd been picking up something Shaak Tii dropped, but Surlei had it posted as an engagement picture.

And in another, Eeth Koth was seen holding Aayla Secura in a dip, the post spreading a rumor that Aayla was cheating on Kit Fisto or that Eeth was trying to steal his fellow Jedi's woman.

"I cannot believe you would do something like this!" Kit said before punching Eeth, which the cameras also caught as the two males started to fight.

Later that same day, the camera crew caught Anakin messing up his clothes thanks to a messy eclair he snuck from the fridge, and they'd taken a bunch of footage of him being a messy eater and made a compilation with a funny song called "Nom, Nom, Nom" (Parry Gripp, if you haven't heard it).

People started to call the Hero With No Fear the Prince With No Table Manners. And some mean kids even threw bibs at him when he was at the store the next day.

A few days later, Carmine was helping a few Jedi with dance lessons. A few Jedi Masters joined.

However, while they were doing some more complicated dance moves, Master Mundi's pants were torn, exposing his underwear with kittens on them.

No one could keep from laughing when that happened, but the Jedi was mortified, and he refused to leave his room for three days.

That very night, Lamenta entered everyone's dreams and called forth a meeting through their dreams to talk about what had been happening.

"Okay, I've had it up to here with Surlei's gossip!" Anakin said. "I'd Force choke her if I could keep those cameras away long enough!"

"It's taken all my strength not to do it myself." Plo said. "I was never proposing to Shaak. The only part they got right was us getting together."

"You're together?! Like together together?" Gabby said excitedly.

"Indeed. But that is not the point."

"He's correct." Obi-Wan said. "What can we do about this gossip site? We've all seen how it's affected our lives. Satine and I can't even walk into a restaurant without someone tickling me."

"While I do find your ticklishness adorable," said Satine. "It is atrocious behavior from strangers."

"My eye still hurts from Master Fisto hitting me." Eeth said, holding an ice pack over his eye despite that they were in the realm of dreams.

"I said I was sorry!" Kit said.

"Well, no one will hire me to babysit because of that picture of me trying to get gum out of Petro's hair!" Ahsoka said. "They think I abuse kids."

"And I feel like everyone's staring at my hair, looking for grays." Qui-Gon said, self-consciously touching his hair.

"Has anyone tried contacting Esther?" Lamenta asked.

"I've called her like fifteen times, texted at least forty messages, sent twenty emails, and left voicemails. Nothing's getting through." Memoria said. "Either connection is really bad, or Esther dropped her phone. But I'll keep trying when I wake up."

"Until we can get hold of Esther, we can't let Surlei make any more gossip about us." Lamenta said.

"How exactly are we supposed to do that?" Boba asked.

"By doing nothing!" Gabby exclaimed. "If we don't do anything, she won't be able to take anything out of context. We gotta be as boring as possible."

"Gabby, no offense, but boring is not exactly your strong suit." Carousella said.

"Yeah, you turn everything into a game." Ahsoka said. "You even made battle droids dance once."

"So, this is a new game. It's called Don't Do Anything Exciting!" Gabby said. "We just do calm things. Coloring, reading books, sleeping. Stuff that doesn't look very thrilling on camera. Even just sitting and doing nothing."

So, the next day at breakfast, Surlei was ready for some more gossip.

"Make sure you get some good footage of Skywalker being a messy eater." Surlei told them. "And make sure a food fight breaks out. The fans will eat that up."

The camera crew aimed their cameras at everyone, but nothing happened.

No one was throwing anything at each other, and Anakin was eating extra neatly today. So, one camera member picked up a muffin and threw it at Qui-Gon's head, hoping to start a food fight.

"Ouch!" Qui-Gon rubbed his head and got the crumbs out of his hair but did nothing else.

"That's a wasteful thing to do with a muffin." Anakin said.

"I'll take it." Remix said, eating the muffin off the floor, which wasn't that much gossip since he was a horse.

"Matthew!" came Surlei's voice over the earpiece. "I'm having all this streamed to my computer, and so far I'm seeing nothing good!"

"My name is Mateo, Ms. Surlei." said the camera guy. "and it is still early. The Jedi are probably still tired."

Ahsoka yawned, proving Mateo's point.

"See? I'm sure they'll do something later."

"You'd better hope so. My reputation is on the line here."

But Surlei was proven wrong.

All through the day, the Jedi didn't do anything that could be used for gossip.

The kids mainly did things like coloring, reading books, listening to music on headphones, doing homework assignments, or napping. The grownups also did calm things like meditating, reading, or napping like the kids.

As expected, Surlei was furious!

"What is this?!" Surlei said. "The most exciting thing on this tape is Qui-Gon snoring like a bear! You'd better have something juicy for me tomorrow!"

But, nothing happened the next day either.

Or the next day, or the next day. That was when Surlei took things to a new low.

"I want you to dig into the Jedi's records. Find out any secrets you can find. See if anyone has an embarrassing middle name or secrets in a diary." Surlei said. "The people have a right to know."

Sometime the next day, Gabby was reading a book and having some chocolate milk, when Mace suddenly burst in and slammed his hand on the side of her chair.

"How could you do that?!" Mace said angrily, almost making Gabby spill her milk.

"Do what, Uncle Mace?"

"Tell everyone my middle name!" Mace said, taking out his tablet. "Look at this!"

Gabby looked and saw a new article titled: "Mace 'Ashley' Windu. With a lot of LOL comments.

"You're the only one I told."

"I didn't tell anyone, Uncle Mace. I promise." Gabby said. "I would never break a promise like that. Just have Lamenta check me."

Speak of the devil.

"Boba Jango Fett-Jinn-Skywalker! You are so dead!" Lamenta shouted angrily, chasing Boba down the hall.

Gabby decided to run out and see why Lamenta was so angry.

Luckily, Carmine grabbed the angry Lamenta and held her.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa! What's going on here?" Carmine asked.

"Daddy, Boba told everyone I have a crush on Petro!"

"I did not!" Boba said.

"Then how come you won't let me truth-scan you, huh?"

"Wow. You really don't trust me, Lamenta? Your own cousin? You need a spell to tell you if I'm being honest?" Boba said. "Thanks for having faith in me."

Boba started to walk away, but Mace stopped him.

"Boba, for the sake of this argument, just let Lamenta do it." He said.

Reluctantly, Boba let Lamenta to a lie-detection, and it showed he was telling the truth.

"Boba... I'm so sorry I didn't trust you." Lamenta said. "I'm just so upset!"

"We all are." Gabby said. Then she got an alert on her phone and looked at it. She immediately had a look of horror on her face. "Surlei! Is a dead woman!"

"What's wrong?" Carmine asked.

"Surlei posted an article about my suspecting Caleb had a crush on me before."

"Why would you think that?" Boba asked.

"I was three, and Caleb played a prank on me, and someone told me boys sometimes trick girls because they like them." Gabby said. "Then I wrote about how I wondered if that was the case with him, and I'm not even interested, even if we were the same age, not then, not now."

As if things could not get any worse, Anakin and Padme headed to the adoption agency with Omega so they could continue with the adoption process.

"So, what happens now?" Omega asked.

"Well," said Anakin. "We're gonna be interviewing with social workers, then they'll have someone come and inspect our home to make sure it's a suitable place for you, and then we'll just sign the final papers, and bam! You're officially a Skywalker."

"I can't wait!" Omega said.

So, Omega was told to wait in the room with one of the workers while Anakin and Padme were interviewed privately in another room.

Twenty minutes later, Anakin and Padme left the room and heard screaming.

"Stop kicking, you little brat!" Bane said, placing binders on the girl, he held his gun towards the social worker as he backed away to get Omega out of there.

"Bane!" Anakin said angrily.

Anakin chased Bane outside and tackled him, holding his lightsaber to the bounty hunter.

"Omega, run!" Anakin said.

And Omega did run! She ran back into the agency and found Padme.

Padme tried using a hair pin she had to pick the lock on Omega's binders, and she held the poor girl in a hug. Omega was crying.

"It's okay, Sweetie." Padme said. "Mommy's here."

Anakin handed Bane over to the authorities as soon as they got there. However, he was soon met by a familiar face he'd not seen since Ahsoka and Lamenta were wrongly accused of murder.

"Tarkin?" Anakin said.

"General Skywalker. It's been a while." said Tarkin.

"It's Prince Skywalker now." Anakin said.

"Where is the girl?" Tarkin said.

"Which one? I've got a lot of them."

"The clone. Omega, I believe she was called." Tarkin said, bringing out a tablet. "The Kaminoans have issued a court order saying you have to return her."

"Are you crazy?!" said Anakin. "The Kaminoans have endangered her very life by making her a science experiment!"

"Omega is their property and was created for that very purpose!"

"That doesn't matter! She's a child, for Force's sake! And whether the Kaminoans like it or not, she's my daughter."

"Not technically." Tarkin said. "The girl will come with me, whether you like it or not."

"No! You're not taking her!" Anakin said. "You don't know what you're doing to her!"

"That is something for the court to decide. I need to take the girl."

As expected, Omega started screaming again once Tarkin took her into his custody, and she cried for her parents to help her. Anakin and Padme both looked very distraught as they were held back from going after her.