Fate Of The Sith

Ponyville Library:

Shock settled on my face as I slowly read through the books. Most were basic history and informative texts and those related to science I had dug out. were woefully out of date yet, the one I was reading had me stunned. It had started off as an informative book about the differences in races that call this planet home. My crew and I had found ourselves part of the ‘Pony’ race, displaying a huge list of sub species, a great many of them classed as extinct, the three most common being Earth Ponies, Pegasi, and Unicorns respectively. Each had its own special abilities listed.

“Magic?” I contemplated slowly. All the books were written in galactic basic, odd considering it was a language mostly found within spacefaring cultures. However, the language was far-reaching and nowadays most planets had adopted it, one way or another, leaving a multitude of ways this planet could have adopted it.

As I ran a hoof through my mane, I experienced an odd feeling of being covered in a light fuzzy blue coat with a dark gray mane - when I had spent the entirety of my life hairless!

“Magic...” I was not often prone to speaking to myself; however, the information before me had changed my plans vastly. If what was written here was true, I had the potential to channel the force though my new horn.

The Sith must never know.

Turning to the door as I slipped the three books into my survival pack, I watched as a squat bipedal lizard grumbling as he entered the Public building, looking me over with a surprisingly expressive face.

“Woah. Nice get-up.” He smiled warmly and moved to scan the letter left behind by that mare from before, Twilight.

“Ugh. First Rainbow Dash gets hurt by that griffin, then this? Looks like I am going to be busy for the next few days?” Ah, so the mandalorian had already started a fight. Well, this person might know where she was.

“Griffin? Could you tell me where she is?” I internally cursed as my words confirmed I knew at least of her.

“She? Well, she was at the mare bar last I checked...” He shrugged and looked at a book laying in front of me, a guide to the local area.

“Did you want to check that book out?”

“No, thank you.” I nodded to him and left the Library without another word.

Ponyville:

Finding a ‘Mare bar’ in the large town was harder than expected. the place was filled with alleyways and dead ends on twisting streets.

The cantinas I had once frequented were dens of spice and trade for things you did not want officials to know about, were if there was an imperial it was better to leave lest you be hit on or punched in the face.

By comparison the bar was a cheery place, sporting a ‘Mares Only’ plaque telling me I couldn’t be wrong on that one. Even the next bar had a similar announcement but for colts.

The air was clean, the music was slow and I could not smell even a trace of spice. What kind of self respecting cantina was this?

“Hey cutie, pick your poison.” Well at least that was the same.

“I am looking for someone.”

My crippling lack of funds dawned on me. I had seen fit to take my credit chip but all twenty thousand credits I had saved up over my lifetime were now sitting in a bank to far away to be of any use.

A mare far larger than me sat by my side, far to close to be comfortable, it was at that time i noticed how small I was and the idea irked me.

“Cute little mare in uniform looking for somepony?” I turned to look at the mare fully. She had a light purple coat with expressive dark purple eyes, something in my reshuffled psyche found her pleasing, I however had business with a certain Mandalorian, I had no time for... that.

“Well, S-see a friend of mine was seen in here and-” I was cut off by a hoof to my lips, suddenly I realized how hopeless I was in situations like this. Getting shot at I could handle, Running a Destroyer while a Sith sits over my shoulder I could handle.

A woman shows me just a bit of attention and I crumble.

“Let me buy you a drink~” the mare smiled at me and I smiled back.

“that would be nice.”

Everfree Castle Of The Royal Sisters, Sith Firebase:

Sneaking into a military base was not normally a problem for Shadow Step. He was a trained professional after all, however the bat winged pony had tripped some kind of magical alarm that this group had installed into the ruin that was once the Castle Of The Alicorn Sisters.

In other words they knew he was here, and he was not a unicorn.

It had started out just fine, he’d half-flown half-climbed up the sheer cliff face that surrounded the plateau.The eerily well equipped ponies had claimed as their base. He’d slipped past the board guards, encased in better armor and with more advanced weapons then he would have thought possible. This group was no smuggling gang. Then into the castle itself, a place he expected, rightly so, to have a multitude of small nooks and crannies as well as long stretches of unexplored dark corridor.

However, his idea of a Smuggling ring was banished when he saw a strange kind of reactor. He knew from the newspaper last week of a new one being built to support canterlots increasing demand for power, a arcane contraption that used magical reactions to create a charge.

The reactor the group possessed was incredible for its technological advancement. The infiltrator now knew the group was more then it seemed, perhaps some kind of strange tech cult?

“My Lord! We are looking for the intruder! They won't stay hidden for long” Flicking his ears towards the sound Shadow smiled softly, this must be somepony of importance.

Creeping across the ceiling, careful to keep his wings wrapped around him like a cloak of shadow, the slowly hissing enchanted horseshoes kept him from falling beyond the normally unreachable place.

The mare he was following took a simple route through the castle to a well-lit hall and into a room. Darting forth as the mare turned to look back into the hall, he snuck into what looked to be her bedchambers. The mare had a long robe over her making it hard to distinguish her features.

Once the door closed he pounced, right into her hooves, stunned by her face, it looked like thin spikes had been pushed through her muzzle and eyebrows, he was forced to the floor by the surprisingly strong mare.

“Who are you?” she demanded, lifting herself up and keeping him pressed to the ground with the force.

“How? you never saw me!” Shadow Step was pressed to the stone floor, stunned.

“Your thoughts were chaotic and you sung them as loudly as you could, I could do nothing but find you” looking down at the colt with a grin the Sith did her best to suppress her giddy impulses at the chance to extract information from a spy, she always loved doing that.

It would only be a moment before the screaming starts.

Republic Ship, Bridge:

Trotting out onto the bridge of the Republic ship, the jedi master watched as the crew, transformed though some manifestation of the force into equines, slowly recovered, the captain of the ship just as recognisable with her scowl and dour demeanor as when she was a human.

“Captain, we need to talk,” the Jedi master stepped forward taking note that his robe had been lowered, his chest and forelegs were almost bare while his back, flanks and hindlegs had the long robe draped over them. The cloth would not hinder his new form and the familiar weight of his lightsaber at his side gave him a focus for his confusion at the ships current state, and the voice he spoke to just moments before.

looking back to the bridge he found it a mess, the equines around him all had noticeable features of their race, what was once a mon calamari officer was now a four foot equine with gills, unlike the rest of the bridge crew, he had scales rather than fur.

The Captain looked less than impressed at her surroundings as she turned to the Jedi “I am assuming you are Jedi Master Cullen? Can you explain this?” she asked the middle aged Jedi.

“The force, I can feel it all around us, it is the only explanation.” Realizing he was speaking cryptically, he shook his head to clear it still getting used to his wider field of view.

“Well, then this is irrelevant, the Sith ship is in low orbit and we can assume that they have set up a ground operation. After we destroy the Ship, the remnants on the ground will be irrelevant.” she smiled until a buzzing filled the room.

“This ship is incapable of fighting the Sith Destroyer,” came the robotic voice from before, causing Cullen to bristle and the captain to turn around as if looking for the source.

“Who is that? how did you get onto the general ship comms?!”

“I run the General ship comms,” the voice perfected replied.

Ponyville, Berry Punches house:

Waking up in a locals bed might have been a bad idea.

“MUMMY WAKE UP!!!!! I NEED TO GO TO SCHOOL!” This women... well mare, was a mother?

“Mummy who is in bed with you?” Oh this might be the worst place ever to wake up.

“Quiet now, sweet Mummy is getting up.” pretend to be asleep I felt the hoof that had lain over me throughout the night retract and poke me in the side.

“Oh, good morning,” I stated lamely, I must be the worst captain in sith history.

“heh, Good morning~” Oh fantastic, first the mandalorian now... you know what, I don’t even care.

“Good morning, sorry to impose on you throughout the night, I must return to my ship lest it fall apart,” she grinned and slipped out of bed.

“Well please stay for breakfast,” she moved into the bathroom before I could respond.