(Imperial Communication Center, 3rd P.O.V)

After sneaking around the Death Star’s security, Echo and the CMC arrived in the Imperial Communication Center “Alright now, I’m going to take down those officers and troopers so the rest of the station isn’t aware of our presence, then we’ll need to hide the bodies from sight otherwise the rest of the troops will be combing this place until they spot us, and when that happens, we’ll probably be taken to the Emperor to be painfully electrocuted to death.” Echo said as he explained the plan to the fillies who winced at the prospect of being hurt in such a cruel way. “So all we have to do is stay out of sight, and we’ll be okay?” Applebloom asked Echo who nodded in agreement. The filles hid around the corner as Echo put his helmet back on and walked up to the communications officers. “Hey is there anything I can do to help?” Echo asked as the officers turned to see him. “Everything’s fine here trooper, go back to your patrol.” One of the officers said trying to dismiss Echo. “His majesty ordered me to stay and protect any and all comms officers from any possible insurgents.” Echo said to the officer, who shrugged his shoulders. “Well if that’s what the Emperor tasked you to do, then prepare to be bored because there’s literally nothing to do except stare at comm codes all day.” The officer said as he sunk in his chair, completely bored out of his mind.

“Well sorry to hear about that.” Echo said as he pretended to check his rifle, but actually set it to kill. He took off his helmet and tossed it at one of the officers. “Hey what are you!” He was cut short after taking a shot to the head and Echo began blasting the remaining four officers. Since there wasn’t a trooper patrol, Echo managed to kill all of the comms officers and take out the surveillance cameras before signaling the CMC to come in. Echo ran to the door and shut it, and shut the blast doors so no troopers could come in. “Alright, you three put the bodies somewhere so that the other troops don’t see them.” The CMC did so and had a little trouble moving them and placing them in some sort of huge locker. Echo looked through the comms and began to override the system and began to look for a frequency that might get someone to help. “Come on, Come on.” Was all Echo said as he scoured through some frequencies until he was able to finally get one; It showed a Twi’lek and a person. “Oh no, not them!” Echo groaned as he recognized the two faces on the screen. “Who’re they?” Sweetie Belle asked Echo. “They’re smugglers that have managed to help me and the Republic back during the Clone Wars. Their names are Hera and Kanan.” The fillies recognized those names. “Oh, those are the names of two of the Rebels that Ezra was with a few weeks ago.” Scootaloo said when she saw Hera’s trademark confident smirk on the screen.

“Wait a second, you three actually know them, well now I’m glad I’ve ran into you when I did, you three have managed to save me from this place!” Echo exclaimed as he picked up Scootaloo and hugged her with enough force to knock the wind out of her lungs. “If your little celebration is over, don’t we have something else we need to do before we can leave here?” Applebloom asked as she looked at the station’s schematics and saw a lot of turbolaser turrets guarding the Emperor’s shuttle bay. “Oh right, now this is going to be a little bit more difficult because this requires us to either hack the defenses, or blast them until they’re no longer operable. Hacking is going to take too long, and I really want to shoot something other than these idiots.” Echo said as he pointed his blaster rifle at the locker where the comms officers were stored. “Alright let’s go, the more time we waste here less likely Eric’s going to be okay!” Sweetie Belle said as she opened the door and peeked out into the clear hallway.

(Emperor’s Chamber, Eric’s P.O.V.)

I kept blocking Vader’s strikes, but each one seemed much more powerful than the last, I have to think of something fast, or I’ll be either forced down the main reactor shaft, of get cut in half by a lightsaber! “If you will not be turned, then that pitiful excuse for a planet will be destroyed along with you.” Vader said to me as I dodged another slash from him. “I can’t let him do that, if he does that, I’ll never be able to marry Roseluck, or start the family I’ve always wanted!” I thought angrily. I screamed through the Force, channeling all of my pain and rage into my voice as I deflected another slash, but this time I countered Vader by nearly cutting both of his cybernetic hands off. “Yes, Yes good use your anger and destroy him to assume your place at my side.” The Emperor said as he stood up and continued to watch our lightsaber duel. “I’ll never turn to the Dark Side Palpatine, you’ve already caused Anakin to lose everybody he ever held dear, sooner or later you will fall!” I shouted back to the Emperor as I continued to press my attack against Vader. The Emperor looked at me with a disappointed look on his face. “So be it Jedi.” he said venomously.

I continued clashing my blade with Vader’s until I saw my chance to potentially end this fight so I could get the hell out of this place. I clashed with Vader once more, but i started moving our blades in a circular motion and flicked Vader’s lightsaber from his grasp and down into the reactor shaft, and I knocked both the Emperor, and Vader over with a Force push as I ran towards the door. I noticed that the guards were standing in front of the door and I leapt right over them and continued running towards the hangar. However, I noticed that something was off with the way this was going, I wasn’t encountering any resistance as I ran to the hangar, then a thought came to mind. “Oh no someone, or should I say somepony followed us here, but who?” I thought to myself and my answer came in the form of four screams, one male, three female. “Oh no not the CMC!” I said as I could hear the Emperor laughing. I now knew I had to go back and save them from a terribly slow and painful death.

As I ran back to Palpatine’s chambers I saw the CMC and a rogue stormtrooper lying on the floor slightly smoking, telltale signs that Palpatine was clearly using his Force Lightning on them. “Welcome back Jedi, I assume these insufferable things are your friends?” Palpatine said with a sadistic smile on his face. Vader stood by him with all the battle scars I inflicted on him and I ignited my lightsaber once more. “Let them go, three of them are just kids, that seems a little low for most powerful sith lords.” I said as Palpatine chuckled. “True, but I’m not like most sith lords since I got Lord Vader to slaughter hundreds of them in one night.” Palpatine said gnarling his fingers to zap the group of children and rogue trooper once more. I quickly moved into the fray by deflecting some force lightning with my lightsaber but was unable to grip it and used the force to hold the lightning with my hands to control the lightning. “Get out of here, now!” I shouted to the CMC and trooper as they recovered from the painful effects of force lightning. I then forced some lightning at Vader to distract him from harming the group escaping I stepped closer towards the siths with and using as much of the force as I could muster, I sent the lightning toward the siths to send them back tumbling and being electrocuted. I\ran out after the others and quickly forced my lightsaber back into my hand as I ran out the door and back toward the hangar. I saw the shuttle with the trooper waving me to hurry. I jumped on as I took the pilot’s seat with the trooper taking the other and the CMC behind us as we quickly took of from the hangar and into hyperspace.

(Stolen Shuttle enroute to Equestria, 3rd P.O.V.)

After escaping the Death Star, Eric just sat back in his chair in exhaustion from not only a lightsaber duel from Anakin, but dealing with the Emperor. He felt hurt in his heart after hearing how many children Vader slaughtered,but he was cut short after the three fillies hugged their Jedi friend with smiles on their adorable faces. “We’re soo glad you’re safe.” Sweetie Belle said burying herself in his chest. “That’s nice, but I have a question for all three of you, and that is “What were you thinking, don’t you realize that you all could’ve been killed?!” Eric asked somewhat angered by his friends’ recklessness. “We’re awfully sorry Eric, It’s just that well…” Applebloom apologized as Scootaloo interrupted. “It was all my fault, I wanted to see if we could get our cutie marks in Space explorers and we, uh, got caught in the act.” As much as Eric was disappointed with their reckless actions, Echo spoke. “Go easy on them, they’re just kids after all and without them, we wouldn’t have been able to rescue you.” He was right though, so Eric eased up on them. “When we land, I’ll be sure to tell of your heroic bravery to save me.” They were relieved and hugged me once more as Eric then turned to the Echo.

“So why did you help me?” Echo sighed first before answering. “Well, First I want to ask you something, Do you remember the Domino Squad from the Clone Wars?” Eric pondered for a moment as he could slightly remember since he was only a youngling at the time. “Yeah, who was in it? Hevy, Fives, Cutup, Droidbait, and Echo right?” Eric asked as the trooper frowned for a moment. “Well, I knew those brothers really well and I so happen to be one of them, I used to be CT-1409.” He said as Eric instantly recognized those digits. “You’re Echo?! But in the records it was said you were KIA at the Citadel.” Eric said remembering back in his days of the Clone Wars. “Yeah well, it’s going to take more than an explosion to take me out.” Echo said as Eric then was amazed another clone would help him. “But why didn’t you kill me? I mean when the Clone Wars ended all the clones killed most of the Jedi, even my master, but why not you?” Echo sighed as he explained.

“You probably did not know this, but all clones had an inhibitor chip implanted in us during the early stages of our development and after hearing about them from Captain Rex after Fives died, I removed mine to keep my allegiance to the Republic. I never wanted to kill a Jedi who would so happen to be my general and it would be more than I could bear.” Eric knew the feeling as if he were forced to kill the Jedi, he would’ve more likely refused. “Well we should be coming up on our stop and our home which I’m sure you’ll be happier in.” Just as Eric said that, The Imperial shuttle jumped from Hyperspace to see the planet of Equestria.

(Imperial Shuttle Approaching Equestria, Echo’s P.O.V.)
As the shuttle we stole started to approach the planet called ‘Equestria’ I sat in my chair and stared in complete awe of its beauty. I saw beautiful blue oceans, mostly untouched landscapes. As we entered the planet’s atmosphere, I felt like this place could give me the peace I needed from all of the constant carnage. “It’s beautiful Eric, I can see why you’d call this place home.” I said to Eric as we started our landing sequence. As we set down the three ‘fillies’ scrambled towards the landing hatch with Eric motioning me to come with them and set foot on the planet’s surface. Eric opened the door and the three fillies ran out to what I presumed were their parents. Applebloom ran to an orange mare with a blonde mane and tail, she had beautiful green eyes, a hat on her head, and three apples on her flank. Sweetie Belle ran to a white mare that had a fancy purple mane and tail, blue eyes, and three blue gemstones on her flank. Scootaloo ran to a very light cerulean mare with a rainbow mane and tail, fuchsia eyes, and a white cloud with a rainbow lightning bolt on her flank.

Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo all hugged each of their respective guardians, but the older mares looked angry at them. “Y’all have some explainin’ to do missy!” The orange mare said, scolding the yellow filly. I couldn’t stand it any longer they almost died by my side a while ago, so I stepped in. “Ma’am with all due respect they were just trying to save Eric from the Emperor, they ran into me and we managed to get ourselves captured, because the Emperor had suspected that there were intruders on board the Death Star, and they along with myself were almost killed by that sadistic man, so cut them some slack.” I said to the orange mare. This made her look in my direction, when she saw that I was wearing Stormtrooper armor she ran towards me quickly spun around and raised both of her hind legs and kicked me back into the shuttle. “This armor doesn’t protect you at all, why do the troopers wear this crap?!” I shouted angrily at how poorly this armor was compared to my old Clone Armor.”And same goes with the helmet,this thing doesn’t help with your aim either.” I said as I took off the stupid helmet and threw it into a corner. As I got up and walked back out of the shuttle to see the white mare had the horn on her head, which I didn’t notice, until now glow a light blue and tossed me into a puddle of mud. “Take that you ruffian, and stay away from my sister.” She said as I stupidly picked myself up again, only to have the very light cerulean mare bring a cloud over my head and started jumping on it, making it rain on me! “Alright that’s enough!” I shouted completely fed up with the treatment I’ve been getting, when I haven’t done a damn thing to them.

(Roseluck’s P.O.V)

It’s been at least a day now since Eric left with those horrid Sith lords took him away, I missed him so much, at night I just stared up at the sky and hoped that he’d come back to me. After I lied down to rest last night I thought that I heard Eric’s voice, but it didn’t sound joyful, it sounded like he was angry, sad, and in a tremendous amount of pain. “Eric I hope that the Force will bring you back to me.” I said as I felt some tears stream down my face. As morning came, I felt like Eric would come back to me. I wanted to just tackle him and kiss him until somepony would have to pull me off of him as soon as I saw him. I walked towards Sugar Cube Corner and I saw the very same ship that Eric went on with the Sith lords to leave me behind. “Why have they come back didn’t they say they’d leave us alone if Eric left with them?!” I thought as I saw the ship open up and I saw three fillies run out of the ship along with one of those troopers in white armor, and finally I saw Eric, but he looked as if he had been through some huge battle! His clothing was torn in some areas, hair was messed up, and his robotic hand was exposed without the glove. Throwing caution to the wind, I ran straight towards him, leaped and pinned him down beneath me. “Eric, you’re back, I’ve missed you so much!” I said as I buried my head into his tunic, soaking it in my tears of joy and sadness, but instead of a happy hug back, he groaned in pain as he clenched onto his stomach tightly like a foal with a tummy ache. “Are you alright?” I asked as I got off of him and he explained as best as he could while standing back up. “I took quite a beating from those Sith lords. Much more powerful than I thought and I could have been killed if it weren’t for Echo and the CMC.” He pointed at the trooper and the fillies as I felt relieved they were able to save him. I walked over to the trooper and hugged his leg. “Thank you for bringing him back home, how can I ever repay you?!” I said as I held on to him. “Well for one thing, you can tell these three I’ve fought beside the Jedi during the Clone Wars and I’m no longer with the Empire.” This confused me all of the troopers we’ve seen would’ve been killed by one of the Sith lords if something like this happened. “You fought during the Clone Wars? I thought that all of the Clones that fought during the Clone Wars turned on the Jedi, why didn’t you?” I asked as Rarity, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash all stopped trying to assault the trooper and became very curious as well.

“In our genetic code, there are these inhibitor chips implanted in every clone to give out orders, including killing the Jedi. My brother Fives discovered the truth about these chips, but was sadly killed, but it didn’t stop me from removing mine and I’m glad I did.” The trooper said hanging his head in slight sadness. “Fives? Eric mentioned somepony named Fives was in Domino Squad, or something, were you part of Domino Squad too?” I said as I looked at the trooper with a curious expression. “Yes, I knew him since we were trainees, and I tell ya he was one true soldier.” The trooper said with a single tear escaped his eye. “I’m so sorry about your loss, but where are my manners? I’m Roseluck, Eric’s fiance, and who might you be?” I asked the trooper who had a smirk on his face. “I’m CT 1409, but people call me Echo.” Echo said as he kept his smirk on his face making Rainbow, AJ, Rarity, and my jaws hit the ground in bewilderment. “H-how can you be Echo? Eric said that Echo died when he destroyed the Citadel to protect all of that sensitive intel stuff!” Rainbow said as she stared at Echo with an accusatory stare. “It’s gonna take much more than an explosion to get rid of me, that’s for damn sure.” Echo said with a chuckle. “In all seriousness, if it weren’t for Eric, me, Applebloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle would’ve been dead meat at the hands of the Emperor.” Echo said as he patted Eric on the back. Eric blushed at this and this got a laugh from everypony, but I giggled and nuzzled him, just because I was so happy to have my brave Jedi back with me.

Author's Note

Hello ponies and bronies, Obsidian here to apologize for the delay as of school and all that, but since Spring Break is here I have more time to focus on said updates. I want to thank Randablitz for editing and I would love to see what feedback you all have to say because I can't stress enough that I can't improve the story without knowing any errors you are seeing so please do so.

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