The Jedi Strikes Again

Chapters

Happiness on Equestria
Reunions of Friends and Brothers
Lessons Learned
Rising Tensions
Separatist vs The Empire
Destined Path (Mature)
Battle to Fall
A Battle of Fates
Defeat and Ascentions
Aftermath of Battle

Happiness on Equestria

(A Long Time Ago, In A Galaxy Far Far Away)

With Eric Keteris on Dandoran with Roseluck, Malachor and his companions live on Equestria to celebrate after a tremendous victory over the Empire just mere weeks ago. Now with the Empire slowly regaining its strength, another old organization is on the verge of collapsing as it has been avoiding the Empire since the end of the Clone Wars.

(Ponyville, Equestria, 3rd P.O.V)

The Cutie Mark Crusaders were grace with Babs Seed, Applebloom’s cousin. “So ‘cuz you really went into space?” Babs asked with an awestruck expression.

“Yep, and you shoulda seen all the stars and planets out there, it was amazing!” Sweetie Belle replied remembering the sights of the vast universe.

“Except when we ended up on board a prototype superweapon, under the command of a cruel sadistic old man, and his equally cruel lackey who is mostly machine, but very scary.” Scootaloo said with a frown as well as pointing out some key information.

“But if it weren’t for our friends Echo and Eric, we’d probably had been goners.” Applebloom stated with a smile. “Geez, that sounds intense.” Babs said with worried expression.

Then Malachor had arrived at Sweet Apple Acres to assist Applejack with looking after her little sister, cousin, and their friends. The CMC had never seen Malachor before, but they were indeed curious about one of the saviors of Equestria. When Malachor approached the CMC clubhouse, he sat in the grass with his knapsack filled with Jedi and Sith Holocrons. He looked them over just make sure these were the ones he wanted to use to help him with his meditation before dealing with four rambunctious fillies. As he started to get into his meditative trance, the four fillies quietly snuck out of their clubhouse and saw three triangular objects, and three cube objects, one of them was floating in mid air in front of a someone they didn’t recognize. They figured he was asleep and slowly made their way towards the objects and were about to take one of the triangular ones until somebody ran over to stop them.

“Just what do you think you little fillies are up to?” A voice asked as the fillies stopped dead in their tracks; It was Echo.

“We were just tryin to see what these things were.” Applebloom said holding one of the Sith Holocrons in her hoof.

“I’m glad I stopped you then, there’s nothing worse than seeing Malachor angry, and trust me the Emperor is absolute afraid of him, so you best put that back before he…” Echo said before pausing when he saw Malachor open his eyes and walked toward the fillies with an angry expression on his face.

“Before I what Echo?” Malachor asked making the fillies jump in surprise.

“Well uh you see, I was just trying to stop these fillies from messing with your meditation sir.” Echo replied standing in front of the fillies who poked their heads out from behind the clone.

“Really? How commendable, and I seem to have misplaced one of my Sith Holocrons, more specifically one of Darth Revan’s, I don’t suppose that one of those fillies has taken it do you, because it would be a shame if they did.” Malachor said with a calm voice.

Now Echo was scared, whenever something of Malachor’s went missing and he was speaking calmly, it usually meant: “Tell me the truth, or suffer the consequences.” Applebloom pushed the holocron to Malachor with a terrified expression.

“P-p-please mister Malachor, don’t hurt him, we’re sorry.” The little filly ran back and clung onto Echo’s leg once more.

“Oh, I’m not punishing him, but the four of you will be, I won’t tell Applejack that you tried to take one of my Holocrons, if you promise to tell me what you’ve learned from them, in your own interpretations, I don’t like copycats, so don’t try to cheat your way out of this.” Malachor said with a long sigh as he knelt down to the filly and lightly ran his fingers through her mane.

“We haven’t learned anything from them holocrons, We were just curious.” Scootaloo responded as she peeked out from Echo’s leg as well as Sweetie Belle and Babs. Malachor only chuckled.

“Not yet you haven’t, because you can’t open them, but I can.” He said with a smile, but the fillies looked at him skeptically.

“Here, come and sit down, I’ll show you the secrets that lie within.” He said as he sat back down in his meditation pose.

Echo motioned the fillies to go and sat in front of Malachor and somewhat reflected on his right arm for a second and faced back towards the others. The fillies watched the triangular Sith Holocron opening up and a figure appeared before them. The figure had on a mask similar to Echo’s helmet, but he wore a hood and strange looking robes.

“This is the holocron of Darth Revan, Dark Lord of the Sith. This Holocron was made for the purpose to teach young Jedi to cast off their chains, forged by the Jedi Council and free their minds to explore their true potential. Hear these words and commit them to your heart and revel in the power of your emotions. Peace is a lie. There is only passion. Through passion, I gain strength. Through strength I gain power. Through power, I gain victory. Through victory, my chains are broken. The Force shall set me free.” The projection of Revan said making the fillies stare in awe at what they just saw and heard. Babs looked on the hologram and was more fascinated with this as any of the fillies.

(Space over Coruscant, 3rd P.O.V)

After the last Star Destroyer from the Battle over Equestria arrived back to Coruscant, Sidious was not pleased by the destruction of his most powerful weapon, loss of almost ¾ of his fleet, and almost lost to Malachor.

“This defeat shall not be mentioned, for if the galaxy were to know of this, it shall be our undoing.” Sidious said with his raspy voice to Vader.

“Yes my Master, but at last Eric is dead thanks to the precision of Agent Kallus.” Vader said while pointing to Agent Kallus.

“Yes, your kill of that boy is most commendable and is why I want to make you the new commander of the 235th fleet and scan for rebels in the Inner Core.” Sidious turned to Kallus as well.

“As you command, my Lord.” Kallus said with a bow.

“My master, what shall we do about the Equestrian system?” Vader asked his master.

“We shall leave them be for now, we’ll return when they least expect it and decimate their forces.” Sidious said with an angry expression.

“As you wish, my Master, I shall order more Star Destroyers to be constructed and more recruits.” Vader said as he bowed to his master and left to leave Sidious. Two Commanders however overheard the conversation and left the area.

“Cody, I don’t know about you, but I don’t like this, we’re going to be killing billions of innocent civilians, I think we should leave and warn them.” Ganch whispered to Cody after he took off his helmet.

“You can’t be serious about betraying the Empire, unless you’ve become a traitor.” Cody looked at him with an angry expression after he removed his helmet.

“At least I have a moral conscience, unlike you, I thought that you would defend the innocent, like during the Clone Wars.” Ganch said as he punched Cody in the face, knocking him out and put his helmet back on and ran towards the hangar, only to be stopped by Admiral Tarkin.

“Commander Ganch, what are you doing?” Tarkin asked with a suspicious look.

“Just heading to the hangar to do a mandatory cargo check.” Ganch said calmly.

“Hmm, and who authorized it?” Tarkin asked. “Kallus requested me to do this, seeing as he has been promoted, due to killing the Jedi boy during our failed attack of the Equestrian system.” Ganch said while standing at attention.

“Never mention our failed operation again, and seeing as these are orders from Kallus, you may continue.” Tarkin replied as he walked on.

“Thank you, sir.” Ganch said as he watched Tarkin leave his sight and immediately continued to sprint towards the hangar and get to Equestria.

(Dandoran, 3rd P.O.V)

After leaving Equestria and arriving on the calm planet of Dandoran just a few months earlier, Eric and Roseluck had been living near the abandoned Jedi Temple and making due with the lack of civilization.

“Eric, can we please tell your father about his developing grandchild?” Roseluck asked her lover with an endearing pout.

“I thought we told him months ago? And please don’t interrupt my meditation, kinda hard to concentrate when I’m being scolded at.” Eric replied sounding a little older as he had gain some more facial hair from his sideburns and mustache.

“Oh right, I forgot, sorry.” She said with a frown on her face.

“Well that my meditation is over, what seems to be the problem now?” Eric asked as he scooped up Roseluck and sat on the bed.

“I’m just having one of my mood swings. It’s not easy to be a first time mother.” She said with a frown.

“May not be easy now, but I know Cut Lawquane would have had to face the same issue.” Eric responded and stroked the mare’s mane. Roseluck placed a kiss on Eric’s cheek and smiled. Eric lightly rubbed his mare’s stomach. The baby made its presence known by kicking inside its mother’s womb. The two lovers felt the kick and sighed happily knowing that soon they will be a family.

“Just a few more weeks and our foal will be here.” Roseluck said with a smile.

(Ponyville, Equestria, Rarity’s P.O.V)

It had simply have been quite a grand day in Ponyville for it being the wedding for Ella and Malachor and I was in charge of Ella’s wedding gown and Malachor’s suit for the occasion. I was ecstatic to see all of my hard work pay off as I saw Ella in her beautiful wedding gown for her final fitting.

“It’s a work of art Rarity, I can’t wait to show it to Valrun tomorrow.” Ella said with a smile.

“I know darling, he’s going to love it and soon the two of you will be together forever, how romantic.” I said as I clapped my hooves together in happiness.

“I know, but I love the possibility that we might have our wedding in orbit, but seeing as how most of you are uncomfortable with that we decided to move it to an outdoor wedding instead.” Ellas said as she shrugged her shoulders. Ella’s dress was a strapless white gown that had some ebony lace trim around the midsection and the bottom of the gown.

“Yes, I can see the beauty of having the wedding in space, but we’re just not ready to be that far away from home just yet.” I said with a nervous chuckle.

“I can agree, I love to see love like this.” I turned around to see Princess Cadence and her husband Shining Armor at the door.

“Who are you? I don’t believe we met.” Ella asked as her left hand went behind her to use the Force to retrieve her lightsaber.

“No need for that thing, I am Princess Cadence and this is my husband, Shining Armor. We live in the Crystal Empire and through some rather strange yet interesting reports from my Auntie Celestia and Luna, we know who you are.” Cadence replied with a smile.

“Yeah with that epic space battle over the planet and lightsabers and things like that, it was all really cool.” Shining Armor added.

“I assume that Celestia told you that my love and I are the last of the True Sith Order then.” Ella said with a roll of her eyes.

“Well that and how Eric Keteris could no longer be here with us.” Cadence said maintaining her smile.

“Excellent, that makes my day much easier, it’s an honor to meet you, Cadence, I hope that Valrun and I can come and see your kingdom during our honeymoon.” Ella said with a smile.

“As nice as this is, Ella I believe that we still have work to do.” I said with a smile.

“Right, right. I think that my utility belt would make this come all together.” Ella said as she took her utility belt and placed it around her waist and looked at herself in the mirror.

“You were absolutely right, it does finish it, now all we need is the veil.” I said as I picked up the veil with my magic and gently placed it on her head.

“Absolute beauty.” I said with pure happiness as I looked at Ella’s wedding dress all complete.

“Thank you so much Rarity!” Ella said as she picked me up and started giving me a bone crushing hug.

“You are most welcome darling, but I think you would like to hear Malachor’s thoughts.” I said as the hug was broken.

(Ponyville, 3rd P.O.V)

In the square of Ponyville, multiple ponies including Echo, the Droids aboard the Venators, Malachor and Ella’s crew and Flynn had arrived at the altar where the marriage of two Sith’s were about to take place. Celestia was the one to officiate the ceremony with Luna and Twilight. Cadence was in the front row comforting her husband who was crying like a baby. Meanwhile Malachor was already standing at the altar awaiting his bride to be with Flynn as his best man.

“I’m glad this day has finally come, I just wish that Eric and Roseluck came here to see it.” Malachor said with a sigh of disappointment.

“Oh well, he does have a child on the way, so that’s a good reason to stay put for a while, we’ll send him the recording later.” Flynn said with a chuckle.

“Yeah, now let’s do this.” Malachor said when he saw everypony turn to see Ella in her gown with the CMC being the flower fillies. Dancing and throwing petals about, Ella gracefully walked up to her loving Sith groom on the altar and faced both him and Celestia. Ella lifted her veil to reveal her smiling face. Malachor and Ella clasped each other’s hands and turned to face Celestia.

“Dearly beloved, we’re gathered here today to join these two Force Wielders together in the bonds of matrimony.” Celestia said with a warm smile. Malachor suddenly felt a familiar presence in the Force, one that was presumed dead long ago. He ignored it for now, and returned his attention to the most important day of his life.

“Without any further delay, Do you Ella take Malachor to be your lawfully wedded husband until death do you part?” Celestia asked the young female Sith. “I do, now and forever.” Ella responded.

“Do you Malachor take Ella to be your lawfully wedded wife until death do you part?” Celestia asked the young male Sith. “I do now, and forever.” Malachor said as he turned to his bride.

“Then by the authority vested in me I now pronounce this couple husband and wife, you may kiss the bride.” Celestia said with a smile. Malachor and Ella needed no further instructions as they kissed with a passion that rivaled the Emperor’s resolve for conquering planets, everypony felt the love the two Sith had for one another and gave out an ‘aw’ at the sight.

After the kiss was broken, Malachor swooped up his new wife and carried her to the starship not far from the altar. “Let’s go and explore the Galaxy together.” Ella said with a cheerful smile on her face.

“We shall, but first let’s go to Dandoran and give Eric the good news, after that we can go on our way.” Malachor said as he started up the engines.

Author's Note

Hello Ponies and Bronies, Obsidian here to give you all a kick start to the trilogy you guys wanted. I have great things planned here and we draw close to the New Hope movie in the timeline so this might be it or I'll continue through the Galactic Civil War. As always to give us feedback to improve the story and thanks to Randablitz for editing.

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Reunions of Friends and Brothers

(Savage Destiny, Ella’s P.O.V) (Warning Mature Content in this chapter, Please skip to next P.O.V to avoid sex)

After leaving Equestria shortly after our marriage, I was simply happy that I finally got to marry my one and only lover, and former master, Valrun Zortek. I was the happiest I have ever been in so long. When we were apart my heart ached for his touch, I wanted to hear his voice soothe me, and I wanted to see his smiling face. Now that we’re officially married, we wanted to have some private time, and to tell Eric about this so we were heading to Dandoran. Valrun came into our room and stared at me with my wedding gown still on. “See anything you like?” I asked seductively as I started to take off my utility belt and gently placed it on the chair across from the bed. “I do, I see my beautiful wife taking off her dress.” He said as he too began to strip. I giggled at his remark. When I felt my dress finally fall from my body I felt a chill run up my spine. I saw the man I’ve always loved standing in front of me completely bare, same as myself. We neared each other and he cupped my cheek in his hand and I leaned in and we kissed each other on the lips. As we kissed it awakened a drive, a passion that would never extinguish, we started to get a little bit rougher with our kisses and I pushed my tongue into his mouth, he was a little startled by it, but he did the same thing to me and I gave out a moan in pleasure.

“Let’s continue this on the bed.” I said with a seductive tone. “You read my mind.” Valrun said as he walked over to the bed and lied down. I smiled as I could feel my nethers getting warmer as I lied down on top of him pressing my breasts against his muscular chest. We lip locked once more and I felt his erection poking my lower abdomen. “Ooh, seems like you’re enjoying this.” I said with a seductive smile. “I am and I see you are too.” He said he placed his hand on my breasts and started massaging them lovingly. I moaned in pleasure as he continued his sensual massage. “I really want to you to get a taste of my nectar.” I said as I got up and turned around and laid myself back down on top of him and saw his erect manhood pointing up like a skyscraper on Coruscant. I leaned forward and licked his tip eliciting a gasp from him, then I felt his tongue lick my sex slowly. I moaned and placed the tip of his member into my mouth and lightly suckled on it. I felt my loving husband increase his lickng pace by lightly flicking my clit. I started to bob my head up and down his length getting it nice and wet for the main event of the evening. After what felt like hours, I was ready for him to penetrate me for the first time. Normally when we slept together we only cuddled in the nude, but we never had sex before. “Are you ready, my love?” Valrun asked me as I straddled his hips positioning his member with my entrance. “Yes, just be gentle.” I said as I held him in place as I lowered myself onto his erect cock. As I felt the pleasure ripple through me I felt a bit of pain, but I ignored it and moaned in ecstasy as I felt my inner walls squeeze him tightly.

“My love, I love how tight and wet you are.” Valrun moaned as he held onto my breasts. “I’m glad, I’m ready for you to move now.” I said as I felt my inner walls relax a bit to allow him to move. Valrun nodded and began to slowly thrust in and out of my love tunnel, and it felt so good, I had to have him go faster. “You can speed up a bit if you want.” I said as he started thrusting a bit faster, but not so fast that he would be pounding my pelvic region. After what felt like an eternity I felt my inner walls start to tighten up around Valrun’s length and he felt it too. “I’m so close dear, where do you want me to..” Valrun started to say, but I cut him off. “Inside, please I want to feel your warmth inside of me!” I screamed in ecstasy as my orgasm hit me hard I felt myself tighten around him and he released his essence into my womb, I wasn’t ovulating yet, but it felt so good. After his orgasm, Valrun started to soften and slipped out of me. The two of us were embraced as we kissed each other one last time before falling asleep as a married couple.

(Valrun/ Malachor’s P.O.V)

After a little while, I woke up to see if we had arrived in the Dandoran System yet. I went over to the navicomputer and saw that we were there. I dropped us out of hyperspace and activated our protocol/assassin droid HK 49. “Query:Yes Master?” HK said in his usual dutiful voice. “I need you to safely land the ship near Eric’s ship, but not too close, I want our arrival to be a surprise for him.” I said with a sly smile. HK saluted me. “Statement: Yes Master.” He said before walking over to the ship’s controls. I returned to my wedding bed with Ella and lied back down with my one true love. I felt her stir in her sleep a little. “What was that about?” She asked with a short yawn. “We’ve arrived at Dandoran, and I’ve instructed HK 49 to handle our landing, so I could spend the rest of the night with you.” I said as I lightly kissed Ella’s forehead. “Good, because I need someone to cuddle with, and that’s you.” She said as she closed her eyes once more. I chuckled a bit then yawned myself and fell back to sleep.

(Dandoran, Roseluck’s P.O.V)

Being on this wonderful planet is pretty similar to Equestria, but due to the lovely environment, I felt as if this were my home. I awoke alone in bed, I looked around for Eric, but he was nowhere to be found. I shrugged it off. “He’s probably meditating alone.” I said as I went to the ship’s food synthesizer to get something to eat for myself and the baby. Grabbing something nutritious, I savored the wonderful food as if Equestrian food could never make such exquisite flavor. I then heard the sounds of another ship not too far away and looked out the windows to see one of Malachor’s ships. I wasn’t sure of who was on board and I didn’t care, I had to know who it was, and what they wanted with us. I opened the ship’s ramp and went outside to look for the descending ships’ landing location. I walked through the forest to see the ship finally touch down and open its ramp. I saw a droid walk out of the ship holding a blaster rifle, I didn’t like the look of this droid, it looked like it was going to kill me if I took a step closer. “Um who are you?” I asked with a hint of fear. “Statement: I am HK49, protocol and assassin droid in service to Darth Malachor and Darth Viscera.” The droid said starting to lower its weapon. I was relieved to know that it was Malachor and Ella and I was excited to know what had happened on Equestria after me and Eric had left. Speaking of which Malachor and Ella had walked next to the droid. “You can go back in HK, we’ll take it from here.” Ella said with a smile. “Statement: As you wish Mistress.” HK said as he turned around and went back into the ship.

“It’s wonderful to see you two again.” I said as I hugged Ella. “It’s so good to see you again too.” Ella said as she hugged me back. I looked at her left hand and saw a golden band around her ring finger. “So are you married now Ella?” I asked curiously. Ella and Malachor smiled at me. “Yes we are, and we came to tell you and Eric this, but it seems that Eric is nowhere to be found. By the way Celestia told Ella and me to give you and Eric this.” Malachor said as he handed me a document. It was a marriage license with me and Eric’s names on it. “I-I don’t know what to say, thank you so much.” I said with tears in my eyes and hugged the two Siths. “It’s our pleasure, now enough about us, how’s the baby?” Ella said as she playfully tickled my stomach. I giggled at the feeling. “I’m doing just fine, the baby is due any day now, and I can’t wait for Eric to see that you two are here!” I said as I happily squirmed in the female Sith’s arms.

(3rd P.O.V)

Meanwhile within the Jedi Temple, Eric was in meditation for almost two hours to try and see the future that all Jedi had the ability to do. He had then opened his eyes to see something he’d never think he’d see again; The Jedi Temple on Coruscant. “What the? Why am I seeing this place?” He asked as he was confused as to why he saw his former home before and during the Clone Wars. The temple looked war torn and blaster bolts and lightsaber marks painted the walls and on the floor were countless bodies of fallen Jedi and Clone Troopers. “Why am I seeing this?” He asked as he felt tears coming to his eyes. Eric continued to observe what was going on in the Temple, and he saw Master Yoda, and Obi-wan Kenobi fighting through tons of clones. Then it all made sense, This was Order 66. I looked around to hear a maniacal laughter that sounded familiar and stood not too far away was Darth Sidious. Eric was now afraid to see what happened next. “Rise my new apprentice for you shall be known as Darth Vader.” He said as I saw Anakin Skywalker who had turned to the Dark Side. “You were the Chosen One Anakin, and now the Force now resides in darkness because of you.” Eric said while hanging his head in despair. Then the air got hot as Eric saw an entirely new setting of molten lava rivers, he then saw Obi-wan and Anakin fighting over the river of molten hot rock.

“It’s over Anakin, I have the high ground.” Obi-wan said after he jumped onto a hill near the river of lava. “You underestimate my power.” Anakin replied looking at his former master. “Don’t try it.” Obi-wan said shaking his head. Anakin Force Jumped off the little platform and over Obi-wan, similar to how Eric did with Vader, but Obi-wan swung his lightsaber to cut both Anakin’s legs and one arm off forcing Anakin to land, roll down the hill and stop near the lava river. Obi-wan picked up his lightsaber and turned to his fallen apprentice. “You were the Chosen One! It was said you would destroy the Sith, not join them! To bring balance to the Force, not leave it in darkness!” Obi-wan said in an upset tone. “I Hate You!” Anakin shouted trying to climb away from the lava. “You were my brother Anakin. I loved you.” Obi-wan said in sadness at the loss of one of his greatest friends. Then Anakin’s leg caught fire and began traveling up the fallen Sith, burning him severely. After a while, Anakin’s extremely burnt body started moving slowly away from the river. “Your Majesty this way!” A clone trooper said as Sidious and two clones came running to find Anakin’s burnt body. “There he is. He’s still alive. Get a medical capsule immediately.” Sidious said as he went to his apprentice’s side as the two clones ran off to obey their master’s wishes.

Then shortly after, Eric appeared in some kind of lab and saw Anakin’s body in the outfit I saw on Darth Vader and then I saw the helmet descending onto the remnants of Anakin Skywalker to form the Sith Lord many would fear. Once the helmet was secured I heard the signature sound of Vader’s respirator. The operating table rose and now Vader was upright with Sidious off to the side. “Lord Vader, can you hear me?” Sidious asked somewhat worriedly. “Yes Master.” Vader responded in his mechanical voice. “Where is Padme? Is she safe? Is she alright?” Vader asked as Sidious slowly backed away. “It seems, in your anger, you killed her.” Sidious said as he continued to back away. “I-I couldn’t have. She was alive I felt it!” Vader said with disbelief. After his anger boiled, the Force began to destroy a few items before he broke from his restraints and screamed. “Nooooooooo!” Eric looked at the scene in sorrow. “So Senator Amidala was his wife, and he didn’t mean to hurt her, and now he’s truly lost everything.” Eric said as he finally understood Vader’s plight. Then he caught a glimpse at what happened on Kashyyyk when the Empire took control. He saw multiple Imperial ships and Wookiee ships battling in the skies as Stormtroopers fought on the ground and Vader was just finishing off a Jedi Knight to discover a young boy, who had just used the Force to take Vader’s lightsaber. “A son.” Vader said in surprise as the Knight was killed by Vader. Vader started to approach the boy until an Imperial officer came in with some stormtroopers and was about to gun the down but Vader quickly slaughtered them to save the boy and offered his hand. “Come with me, more will arrive soon.” Then what seemed like a few years later, Starkiller had become filled with the Dark Side and was tasked on his final tests to help Vader overthrow the Emperor. “So Vader had a secret apprentice, what a surprise.” Eric said to himself as he looked at Starkiller.

(Dandoran, 3rd P.O.V)

Roseluck was happy to be in the medical bay for her check up to see how the baby was doing. “Well ma’am the baby is doing just fine.” The medical droid said as it conducted the ultrasound. “When is it due?” Ella asked. “About five days, to a week.” The medical droid said. “Congrats Rose, you’ll soon become a mother to begin your family.” Ella said happily. “Indeed, I bet Eric would be pleased to hear this.” Malachor added. “Yeah, I know, you should see him now, he’s got a beard now.” Roseluck said with a smile. “Interesting, speaking of said man, do you know where he is, I have a gift that I wish to give him.” Malachor said with a smile. “He goes somewhere when he needs to meditate, but I never know where.” Roseluck said with an unsure expression. “Well that’s troubling, especially with your child mere days away, doesn’t he realise that a father should never miss the birth of his child?” Ella asked with a very concerned expression. “Yeah, but sometimes he gathers food and water while he’s gone, but he says he spends almost five hours meditating a day.” Roseluck mentioned putting a hoof on her chin. “I think it’s because he’s trying to continue to abide by the Jedi teachings, which is starting to prove more destructive than helpful, that’s why I brought this.” Malachor said as he presented the group with a holocron. “This is one of my own, it’ll help him in the times ahead. He needs to embrace his emotions, rather than run away from them, especially when he’s in a relationship with you and is going to be a father.” Malachor said with a stern expression.

“I don’t know…” Roseluck started to say, but she found out what her friend meant, if Eric is trying to ignore his emotions, then he’s ignoring her. “I will tell him what you told me, and I will tell him to open this holocron repeatedly until he learns what you have to teach him!” Roseluck said with a determined expression. “Yes, that is exactly the attitude you’ll need to wear him down.” Ella said with a smile.

(Meanwhile on Kamino, Eric’s Vision)

After a look through Starkiller’s life I saw him kill a few Jedi and Sith, encounter Sidious and saw his great sacrifice to save the Senators aboard the Death Star. “Huh, looks like the apprentice was just a catalyst for the creation of the Rebellion.” Eric said as Starkiller’s corpse laid on the ground. It wasn’t more than a blink of an eye to reveal the old cloning facilities on Kamino. “What is going on? I always heard that creating Force Sensitive clones was impossible because of the unpredictable nature of the Force!” Eric exclaimed in surprise as he saw clones of Starkiller himself. He engaged multiple stormtroopers and fought against Vader once again and to his point of view, this clone was more Starkiller like in a good way, even if he is a clone but he was more rebellious against the Dark Side. Eric watched as Starkiller’s clone smashed Vader through multiple walls and later on electrocuted Vader so he could be immobilized. And what really surprised the Jedi Knight was that the girl Starkiller loved picked up his lightsaber and showed she was willing to defend him. Vader nearly pushed her aside and Starkiller engaged and defeated Vader in a duel which also lead to his capture to the Rebel Alliance. “Now I know how and why the Rebellion fights the Empire.” Eric said as he opened his eyes ending his meditation. A few moments later Eric heard the sound of his stomach growl. “Heh, seems I’ve been here a little bit too long, time to get some grub.” He said as, picked up his lightsaber, stood up, and walked out of the Temple.

It may have taken some time, but Eric was able to get some fresh water and fruit that was native to the planet and was taking it back to the ship. As Eric got closer to the ship, he heard the sound of Roseluck laughing up a storm. “Rose, are you okay?” Eric asked as he entered the ship cautiously. Putting down the food and water on the landing ramp, he entered the bridge where the sound of laughter had originated. He walked into the main room of the ship and saw two very familiar faces, Malachor and Ella. Malachor was sitting across from Roseluck apparently playing Pazaak and swapping stories. When Ella caught sight of Eric, she tapped her husband’s shoulder. Malachor looked up and saw Eric standing there with a surprised expression. “Eric, how nice of you to join us, Rose and I were just playing a friendly game of Pazaak, care to play?” Malachor said with a smile. “I’d like to, but I need to lie down and eat something. I brought more food and water just to let you know.” Eric said feeling uneasy and exhausted as he trudged toward his bedroom. “He must’ve spent too much time meditating, he’ll be alright, just tell him to take it easy on the meditation, because it’s both physically and mentally exhausting to the practitioner.” Ella stated matter-of-factly. Roseluck nodded and went to get some of the fruit Eric brought. “Want some, it’s really good!” She asked. The two Sith shrugged. “Sure why not.” They both said. “So any interesting stories about when two first arrived here?” Malachor asked.

“Well I found an old Jedi Temple when I was exploring while Eric was removing that tracking device you hid in the hyperdrive.” Roseluck said as she chuckled nervously. “Really? That’s interesting, did you go inside, or go back to tell Eric?” Ella asked as she saw the pained look on her friend’s face. “I went inside, I was lost and I had to hide somewhere to avoid the harsh elements of nature.” Roseluck dropped her head a little. “Did you go in through the front door, because it can only be opened by a Force Wielder.” Malachor asked with a curious expression. “The temple seemed really old and I found a crack I could go through to get inside.” Roseluck answered. “I can tell this is a difficult subject for you. Let me guess, you waited for Eric, but while waiting for him you just felt alone while you were inside the darkness of the temple.” Ella said placing her hand on Roseluck’s hoof. Roseluck sniffled as tears came to her eyes. “Yes, and I saw skeletons of, the Jedi who once entered long ago, I was so scared I thought that Eric would never find me.” She said as she leaped into Ella’s arms to be comforted. “It’s alright, because Eric did find you and brought you back home, sure it was scary, but you got a glimpse of what the Jedi used to be.” Malachor said as he kneeled down and gently stroked the mare’s mane. “I-I guess that’s one way to look at it, but that was also the day Eric and I found out that I was pregnant, and I’ve never been so happy in my life.” Roseluck said with a smile as she wiped away her tears.

(Hyperspace, 3rd P.O.V)

On an Imperial Shuttle stolen from the Empire, Clone Commander Ganch was looking over Cody who was unconscious on a small medical table wearing some handcuffs around his hands and ankles. He saw the Commander of the 212th Attack Battalion coming back to consciousness and saw Ganch in his old Clone uniform he managed to smuggle out. “It’s been so long since I’ve worn this, I’ve always hated that garbage that they gave us to wear, it can’t protect us from even a stun blast.” Ganch said as he started to remove his stormtrooper armor. “This armor is the finest in the galaxy and release me you traitor.” Cody said as he struggled to break from his restraints. “This armor is garbage and you know it Cody, I can’t even hit a stationary target without missing nearly 65% of my shots first, face it, we’re like those Clankers from the Clone Wars.” Ganch said as he looked at his old Clone Helmet. “Release me now or face what punishment the Empire will give you.” Cody said. “Talk all you want Cody, but I’m not letting you go until we arrive at our destination, also don’t bother calling for help, I already disengaged the tracer, and our armor transponders, we could be dead for all that they care, matter of fact they don’t care at all.” Ganch said to Cody with a stern expression on his face. Then the medical droid arrived into the room looking a lot like AZ, who helped Fives discover the inhibitor chips. “Clone Commander Ganch, everything is prepared for the operation, may we commence?” The floating droid asked. “Yes the faster we get that chip out, the better time I’ll have flying this ship.” Ganch said as he put on his helmet and injected Cody with the anesthetic.

“No Stop, You are… a ….traitor.” Cody said before the anesthetics took effect rendering him unconscious again. “Commander Ganch, I’d recommend looking away.” The AZ droid warned the 612th Commander. “That’s fine I’ve got to check the navicomputer to see if we’ve arrived yet anyway.” Ganch said as he walked towards the shuttle’s bridge. As the AZ droid began the procedure, Ganch was looking over the navicomputer for someplace they know would be safe. “Well we’ve arrived, now let’s drop out here.” Ganch said as he dropped the ship out of hyperspace and discovered an entire fleet orbiting the planet. Then the AZ droid arrived since the surgery would only take a few minutes. “Commander Ganch, the surgery has been complete and here is the chip.” AZ showed the Commander the inhibitor chip from Cody. “Great, now I need to get clearance from the fleet, or we’ll be blown to smithereens.” Ganch said as he continued to look at orbiting fleet. “We have you on our screens now identify yourself immediately, or leave.” A voice said over the ship’s communication network. “Yes this is Commander Ganch requesting permission to land, Codes are 11-38-10.” Ganch responded and awaited their response. “This Commander Rex, you’re cleared Ganch, welcome home brother.” Rex said over the comms. “Thank you, but I didn’t come alone, I brought someone you’d be interested in seeing, await our arrival on the surface in a few minutes, Ganch out.” The Commander said with a sigh of relief to know one of the greatest 501st Captains was still alive. “Commander Ganch, Commander Cody is waking up from his operation now.” AZ said as he floated in from the medical bay. “Let’s take a look.” Ganch then approached the Clone Commander. “Urh, what happened? Where am I and what happened after Utapau?” Cody asked as Ganch walked in. “Well Cody, We escaped from the Empire, we’re landing on our new home Equestria, and according to the reports, you killed General Obi-wan Kenobi.” Ganch said bringing Cody up to speed, while also leaving out that Vader was Anakin Skywalker. “I-I can’t believe it, I wouldn’t betray my General. All because of these chips and.” Cody sighed for a moment. “Well, at least be comforted to know that Ahsoka is still around and I just got off the comms with Rex.” Ganch said with a smile and Cody’s eyes widened in surprise. Ganch removed the restraints and Cody sat on the edge of the table. “I knew that Captain would still be around. Where’s my old armor, I can see why you hate this amor.” Cody asked as Ganch opened the locker behind him. “I’m glad you agree with me brother, soon we’ll be landing and Rex will want to give us some brotherly love.” Ganch said as he handed Cody his old gear.

(Ponyville, Equestria, 3rd P.O.V)

On the surface, Flynn was teaching Twilight about some advanced knowledge of the Force and how it can be manipulated to become a great ally to the Jedi and Sith. “Wow I never knew that the Force was so versatile, I wish I could use it.” Twilight said with an envious expression on her face. “Well, magic may be only an illusion to most Jedi and Sith, but I find it to be a more advanced part of the Force than you realize and you use it quite well, Miss Sparkle.” Flynn comforted her. “Thanks Flynn.” Twilight said with a smile, but then her ears perked up at the sound of a ship landing outside. “What’s going on?” She asked as she looked out of her window and saw an Imperial Shuttle landing in the middle of town. “Why can’t they just leave us alone?!” Twilight asked with anger. “The Empire returns, or probably stolen.” Flynn said as he grabbed the unicorn and Force leaped out of the library and towards the shuttle. Landing near the shuttle, he put down Twilight as she looked at Flynn. “Never do that without warning me again!” Flynn looked down at her and apologized. They looked to see Rex, Echo, Wolffe and Gregor running at top speed towards the shuttle with ecstatic smiles on their faces.

“What gives?” Flynn asked the four clones. “You’re going to see two of the greatest Commanders in the Republic.” Gregor said enthusiastically. “Are you talking about Cody and Ganch, because last I checked they’re with the Empire.” Flynn said skeptically, only to get his shin kicked by Rex. “Ow, what was that for?!” The Jedi held his shin in pain. “That was for insulting Cody and Ganch, they came here to leave those Imps behind. They probably went through Hell just to get this shuttle here without being followed!” Rex said angrily. “Well jeez, sorry if I pinched a nerve there.” Flynn said in annoyance. “Actually it wasn’t that hard, Imperial security wasn’t as top as the Republic’s.” A familiar voice to some said from behind the Commanders. “Ganch, Cody!” All four of the clones shouted with glee as they started giving the two new renegade troopers noogies. “What do you mean?” Flynn asked Ganch after the brotherly love beatdown was over. “Well I punched Cody to knock him out, restrained both his hands and legs, placed him into a crate and ran towards the hangar. Along the way I ran into Tarkin. He asked me what I was doing, so I made up the excuse that Kallus told me to check all of the cargo in the hangar, Tarkin dismisses me, and I ran into a shuttle, cleared it to leave, and next thing you know we’re here safe and sound.” Ganch said while looking at his friends shocked expressions. “That can’t be true.” Rex said resisting the urge to laugh at Tarkin’s stupidity.

“Oh it’s true Rex, every word.” Ganch said with a smile. “Well it’s great to have you two back.” Wolffe said patting Cody’s back and Ganch looked at the Jedi Master. “Heh, you look alot like the Commander I fought with in the Clone Wars.” He patted Flynn’s shoulder. “Tell me about it, Eric mentioned you when we we’re talking about the Clone Wars.” Twilight said as she looked up at the Commander. Ganch and Cody were surprised to see that the small equine next to Flynn could talk. “Are these the inhabitants?” Cody asked looking at the lavender unicorn with curiosity. “Yep, Oh hey Celestia, Luna, how are you today?” Flynn said as he looked at the two alicorns behind the two clones. “Quite fine, we came to see what was happening here and it turns out more allies had arrived.” Luna responded as the two alicorns landed near the clones. Ganch was surprised to hear the lavender unicorn say that she knew his old commanding officer. “Where is Eric, I’d like to see him.” Ganch said as everyone smiled sheepishly and placed their left hands and hooves behind their heads. “Well, you see…” Celestia started catching the two clones’ interest. By the end of her explanation Ganch was happy that Eric was alive and well.

“Well, he was sometimes reckless like another General I knew.” Cody said when Celestia had finished. “And who would that be?” Celestia asked. “Anakin Skywalker.” Cody said as he remembered some of his reckless yet successful operations. As if on cue, Flynn’s holocommunicator chirped. “Hold on a second, I need to take this.” Flynn said as he turned away from the group and answered his communicator. Upon activating it, Flynn saw his new daughter in law Roseluck appear. “Hello Flynn?” She asked with an excited expression. “Hey there Rose, what’s up?” Flynn asked with a smile. “I just want to let you know that your grandchild will be due in less than a week and that Malachor and Ella had arrived on Dandoran not too long ago.” Roseluck replied. “Well that’s great sweetie, how’s Eric doing?” Flynn asked. Roseluck’s ears dropped as she answered. “He’s not so great, he would usually care for me, but most of the time he’s been gone meditating for hours on end and bring back food and water. I’m worried that Eric might hurt himself if this continues.” Flynn looked at his daughter in law with a concerned expression. “The moment he wakes up, tell him to call me immediately, this can’t go on any longer!” He said with determination. “I will, I wish you a good day.” Roseluck said as the transmission ended. The group behind Flynn looked at him with concern. “What’s going on?” Luna asked. “Eric is meditating too deeply at times that it may end up destroying him if it continues, and he’s been neglecting Roseluck.” Flynn responded with concern.”What did you tell her to do?” Wolffe asked. “I told her to have Eric contact us the minute he wakes up.” Flynn responded. “I see, now what can Cody and I do to help around here?” Ganch asked Rex. “You two probably know something about the Empire’s next move, so let’s hear it.” Rex responded. “Well the Emperor is seriously upset about losing to some guy named Malachor, and he’s going to come back with a massive invasion force. One large enough to destroy every single ship and lifeform on this planet.” Ganch said with a fearful expression. “This is a serious problem indeed, if they’re willing to exterminate all life on this planet we need to find a way to get more numbers to help support our cause.” Celestia said with a serious expression on her face.

(Dandoran, Eric’s P.O.V)

After a few hours of rest, I woke up to feel rejuvenated and energized again. I was expecting to see Roseluck’s signature smile, but I saw this angry-looking scowl on her face. “Mood swings again?” I guessed as I got up and stretched out my back. “No. Call your father right now, or I’ll do it for you!” Roseluck said with a stern tone. I was surprised yet returned with an annoyed expression. “You’re beginning to sound like you’re my mother.” I said earning me an angry look from Roseluck. “Alright fine, I’ll do it.” I said as I went to the transmitter on the bridge and activated it to call my father. It wasn’t long before i saw my father appear. “Hello Eric.” My father said with a concerned expression. “What is it that you want to discuss?” I asked looking quite unhappy. “Son, your meditation habit is extremely unhealthy for you, Roseluck, and the baby.” My father said with a stern tone. “What do you mean?” I asked. “I mean you feel too connected to meditation that you’re neglecting the relationship at hand which should be more important.” My father said as I knew he was right, but I had a good reason. “I’m sorry, but the Force calls to me to return to the Temple here on Dandoran and just lately I’ve seen things you wouldn’t believe.” I said remembering the fall of the Jedi to the rise of Vader’s apprentice. “Oh really, is it so much more interesting, that you’re willing to meditate during your own child’s birth, is it more important to you than Roseluck, because if it is, then why did you bring her with you when all you do now is make her fear for your well being?!” My father shouted at me clearly upset at me. My anger for his arrogance began to rise and I was grasping my lightsaber ready to release my anger. This was the first time my own father has ever raise his voice at me in any way. “Father I don’t know what to say to you, but I‘ve seen things far more frightening than you could imagine if you would just listen, if not then I see no reason to speak with you any longer.” I held in my urge to shout back. “I’ll listen, but I think you need to know this before you start. Your child is due in less than a week. Did Rose ever tell you this, or were you too busy to listen to the love of your life?” My father said as he was willing to listen to me, but he did give me some food for thought. “The baby is due in less than a week? I had no idea! What kind of a terrible father have I become?!” I internally screamed at myself for neglecting Roseluck the way I have been.

“You may be right, but new threats are rising and it is only a matter of time before they arrive, Also Vader is now a master.” I sighed with anger and regret. “Yeah, about that, Commanders Cody and Ganch are here and they told us that the Emperor is going to assemble a fleet large enough to eradicate all life on Equestria, and we’re trying to think of a way to gather some allies. Do you have any ideas, also let me guess Vader has a secret apprentice doesn’t he?” My father responded which made me widen my eyes in surprise. The Commander I fought with was still alive. “As glad as I am to know Ganch is there, but no it’s not the Empire you should be concerned about, and yes Vader has an apprentice.” I responded loosening my grip on my lightsaber. “Well if it isn’t the Empire we should worry about, what is it.?” My father asked. “I couldn’t see, but the only thing I do know is that the Shadow has returned.” I responded knowing what he could do. “I don’t know what you mean son, but I’ll alert the others, but please don’t forget what I said about your meditation habit, you’re really worrying Roseluck, and it’s scaring me too. I can’t lose you son.” My father said with a hint of sadness in his voice. “I can’t make promises when the Force wants to show me something important, but I want to be here for Rose’s sake and your own. Tell Ganch I said hello by the way, Eric Out.” I said before ending the transmission. I turned around and heard Roseluck in the room sobbing a little. I walked in to see her almost in complete distress of what had been going on. “Come here Rose, I’m so sorry.” I said as kneeled down. She hopped off the bed and hugged me. “You’ve been so caught up in that meditation, I thought you didn’t care about me.” She cried out onto my chest. “I’m sorry Rose, I really should have told you what was going on, I promise I’ll try to keep you in the loop from now on.” I said as I hugged her and buried my head into her mane.

(Deep within the Outer Rim, 3rd P.O.V)

Within the Outer Rim, many battles during the Clone Wars took place in this region and after the Empire took over, Droid factories in many territories were destroyed and most of the CIS leaders were slaughtered by Anakin on Mustafar. However there was one leader who didn’t go to Mustafar and kept his fleet hidden from the Empire; Mar Tuuk with his commander TA-175 a Tactical droid commanded a fleet of 3 Providence Class Cruisers, 2 Trade Federation Ships and 20 Munificent Class Frigates. Onboard the Providence-class Cruiser, Dark Intent, Mar Tuuk was ready to begin his plan for a planet to set up his droid production facility. “TA-175 what’s the status of the fleet?” He asked his Commander. “All ships are prepped and ready.” The droid responded. “Good, I know of a good system to begin our droid production line, Type in these coordinates and make the jump to hyperspace.” Mar ordered as the droid typed in the coordinates and the fleet jumped to lightspeed. After a while of being in hyperspace the CIS fleet ended up seeing an entire fleet already in orbit around the planet.

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Lessons Learned

(Space over Equestria, 3rd P.O.V)

The fleet over Equestria consisted of two Republic Venator class cruisers, fifteen Harrower-class dreadnaughts, and fifteen Terminus-class destroyers. They were tasked to keep the outer atmosphere of Equestria protected from Imperial invasions or other dangers. Mar saw the fleet and felt afraid seeing two old Clone Wars vessels along with thirty other vessels he didn’t recognize. “Sir, we’ve completed the scan on the fleet orbiting the planet.” TA-175 reported to Mar. “We have two Republic Venator class, fifteen Terminus class and fifteen Harrower class, very powerful adversaries, but we could break their defenses and send a transport to the surface.” TA-175 said once more as Mar thought over the information. “That, or we could try to negotiate with them, if not we destroy them.” Mar said as he thought that it wouldn’t be a good idea to engage these ships without cause. “But sir, By these calculations, there is a 100 percent chance a Jedi could be in charge of this fleet and based on the data I’ve collected the chances of our transports to build a droid facility are over 90 percent.” TA-175 protested. “If there is a Jedi in charge, then it would be best to be as negotiable as possible, for your calculations don’t stand a chance against a Jedi Knight, a master of the Force.” Mar stated matter-of-factly. “But sir, I was programmed to kill all the Jedi, Many of our facilities on Geonosis had been destroyed and if we do not attack then let’s move on to a more suitable and untouched system.”TA-175 argued. “No, it would seem that these ships are enemies of the Empire, like ourselves, if they wish to cooperate we get a droid factory, they get more troops to fend off the Empire, that sound like a fair trade I’d say. Also, just because you were programmed to kill Jedi doesn’t mean you’re the ultimate machine, and besides most of the Jedi were killed off by their own troops, making your job unnecessary.” Mar retorted while rubbing his chin in thought.

“If you are calling me useless, than I refuse to listen to anymore of your orders. You may keep the ship, but I take the fleet.” TA-175 then headed into an escape pod and jettisoned into the next flagship, Nebular Grasp. “Good bye old General.” Was the last Mar heard from his commander as the entire fleet moved to another system. “We have you on a secure channel, please identify yourself, and state your intent, if not leave immediately.” A voice said over the ship’s communication network. “This is Mar Tuuk of the old CIS aboard the Dark Intent. I wish to negotiate to assist with the small rebellion in this system.” Mar responded. “This is Admiral Tema Byron aboard the Wrath of Malachor Harrower-class dreadnaught, you’ve been cleared for a meeting with the rulers of this planet as well as our rebellion, board a shuttle and land at these coordinates, Byron out.” Byron instructed the old CIS general. “Thank you.” Mar said as a transmission appeared revealing a Jedi and two of the inhabitants that seemed to rule the planet. “Never thought I’d see a Separatist general ask me for help at any point in time.” Flynn said with a smirk. “Don’t get used to it, I only arrived because I figured you’d be in need of more troops and ships.” Mar said to the Jedi. “Sorry, it’s just that I’m so used to see you CIS types shoot first ask questions never. Anyway if you want to help you have to satisfy the rules of Princesses Luna and Celestia, or leave, simple as that.” Flynn said as he motioned to the two equine princesses.

“I understand and I have no intentions on conquest, just revenge on the Empire for wiping out the droid facilities all over Geonosis.” Mar said clearly wanting to assist. “He’s good in my book.” Luna said with a gentle smile. “As long as you don’t harm any of my subjects and their families, you’re welcome here General Tuuk.” Celestia said with a warm smile. “Thank you.” Mar replied as he got into a small ship and flew down towards the planet's surface. As Mar looked over the topographical scans he saw that there was a desert West of the polar region. “That seems like a good place to set up shop, and it’s in an uninhabited area, so nobody gets hurt.” Mar thought to himself as his shuttle landed in a forest that had a huge castle that was renovated into a military stronghold. Landing in a small town, Mar got out and saw the same Princesses he had seen on the transmission and the Jedi. “General Mar Tuuk at your service.” Mar said as he saluted the princesses. “At ease General. Now you said you wanted to build a droid factory on this planet, do you have a location in mind?” Celestia asked. “I have, I could use that old building in the forest not too far from here.” Mar said as he looked in the direction of the forest. “That seems acceptable, also be aware that there are a plethora of creatures that would be disturbed by your factory, do your best to not harm them, for that is also their home as well as yours, do you understand?” Luna asked with a concerned expression. “I do, but unfortunately my old commander, TA-175 abandoned me and took the whole fleet, including a majority of the construction materials. He is a clever tactical droid who had won many victories during the early months of the Clone Wars and there is no telling when he’ll return to strike.” Mar said as he forewarned the Princesses and Jedi. “Well, we have some scraps from our battle with Empire from not too long ago, and you could use those scraps to build some ships and parts of your factory, and let’s just say the Empire was generous enough to give us ¾ of their fleet to use for scraps, so have fun.” Flynn said as he saw Mar’s widen in shock at the scale of the attack the Empire made against this planet.

“Just out of curiousity, what warranted an attack for a fleet that size?” Mar asked. “I’ll tell you later right now, we’ve got some work ahead of us.” Flynn said as the two former enemies discussed the factory plans.

(Dandoran, 3rd P.O.V)

Meanwhile on the peaceful planet of Dandoran, Roseluck was expected to have her child at any moment as she was aided by Ella and Malachor, while Eric was out collecting food and water when he heard a voice he had not heard since his padawan training. “Hello there young Jedi.” Eric looked for the source of the voice and turned to see Yoda, sitting on a stump, but it was only an illusion through the Force. “Master Yoda?” Eric asked in disbelief. “Yes, young Jedi it is I, and a task for you I have.” Yoda’s illusion said in his signature raspy voice. “What must I do Master Yoda?” Eric asked as he kneeled to the vision of Yoda. “A darkness surrounding you there is, come to Dagobah and confront it, you must.” Yoda spoke as Eric looked at the Jedi Master. “Yes Master Yoda, but after I help my wife, please understand Master Yoda.” Eric said as he started to head back to his ship. “Understand I do, go to her you must.” Yoda said before disappearing into the air. After knowing what his next move was, Eric gathered the food and water and returned to the ship. Shortly after arriving he was lucky that Roseluck wasn’t on the Talon so this gave him a chance to prep the ship after the baby had been born. “OK Dagobah system… where are you at?” Eric said to himself trying to find the Dagobah system. “Going somewhere?” Malachor said from behind Eric causing him to jump in surprise. “Oh Malachor, don’t ever do that.” Eric said as he continued his search for Dagobah. “Just so you know, Rose and the baby are alright, but there’s something strange that you need to see, NOW.” Malachor said as this got Eric’s attention. “I understand, I was going to look for myself after I find the coordinates to Dagobah, Master Yoda instructed me to get there for I have some darkness within me.” Eric explained as he had found Dagobah. “That’s fine, just to warn you though, watch where you step, Dagobah is a massive swamp world, and give the old man my regards it’s been so long since his Padawan days.” Malachor said with a smile at the memory of meeting Yoda for the first time. “I will, now that I have the ship ready, let’s take a look at my new child.” Eric walked out of the ship and went into the other. Eric saw Ella sitting outside the medical bay with a smile. “You have a son Eric, and don’t worry we’ll take care of Roseluck until you return, just tell her what you’re doing before you go.” Ella said as she pointed towards Roseluck’s sleeping form holding a blue bundle in her hooves.

He walked in silently and looked down to see his son, a small human baby with his same skin color. Eric couldn’t help but smile at his son and lightly rubbed his head causing him to stir, which woke Roseluck. “Hey honey.” She said upon seeing Eric’s smiling face, but it slowly became a more concerning face. “Rose, I have to tell you that I was summoned by an old master of mine when I was only a youngling and I have to leave to Dagobah.” Eric said earning a small sniffle from Roseluck. “Even if I don’t understand why you have to go, please hold our son and let him see you before you go, I want our son to see his father for the first time.” Roseluck said as Eric did exactly that and bent to gently pick up his son and held him. “Rose, have we a name for him yet?” Eric asked caressing one of the cheeks of the baby. “I thought of John, his name shall be John Keteris.” Roseluck said with a smile. “It’s perfect.” Eric said as he placed his son back into Roseluck’s hooves and kissed his wife. “Hopefully I’ll be back sooner than you know it.” Eric said breaking the kiss. “Ok, do you want me to wait until you return to tell your father about his grandson, or do you want me to tell him after you leave?” Before Eric could answer, he felt something, a presence filled with anger and hate. Then blaster fire was heard and a small interceptor swooped down from its first pass. “I’m not taking any chances, Ella get Malachor and Rose and leave this place, head for Equestria, I’ll return after I’m done with Yoda!” Eric shouted to the female Sith who nodded and ran off to find her husband. Eric looked back at his son crying. “I’ll return for you John.” He said to himself and ran out of the ship and activated his black and blue lightsaber and deflected some blaster fire to let Malachor, Rose, and Ella escape. Once Malachor and the others were away the interceptor didn’t follow them, but rather land near Eric’s location. Who appeared made Eric quite surprised, a Sith who had been thought to be dead after the invasion of Naboo. “Maul.” Eric said as he looked at the Sith with anger. “So you remember me, unlike Kenobi.” Maul said with a calm yet hateful tone. “Of course I would, I’ve heard of you after Qui gon’s funeral, but I’d never expected for you to survive.” Eric replied to much how Obi-wan would. Maul activated his saberstaff and leaped at Eric.

Eric reacted with confidence and forced Maul over him causing him to land behind the Jedi. “I see you’re still loyal to the Sith and a pawn in Sidious’s plans.” Eric taunted as he had an idea. “Sidious killed my brother, tore me from my mother’s arms, used me as a weapon, and casted me aside like a child’s toy! I hate Sidious as much as I hate Kenobi and you!” Maul said as he repeatedly struck Eric’s blade in anger. Eric knew Maul was a skilled blade wielder and with a double-ended lightsaber was something Eric had never fought against before. After striking at Maul to try and get an opening. Maul kept up with Eric’s attacks and tried to stab him through the chest. “I need to get away, but I can’t have him follow me to Master Yoda, I have no choice, I’m going to have to lead him to the Temple and trap him there.” Eric thought to himself as he saw the Temple coming into view. He then broke through an opening and Force jumped over the Sith and ran toward the Temple’s entrance. “Hope you’re not afraid of the dark Maul, because if you want me you’ll have to come get me.” Eric taunted as he ran inside. “Just like Kenobi, running from a fight like all Jedi are.” Maul said as he chased after the fleeing Knight. Maul ran into the Temple, but lost sight of his opponent. He used his lightsaber to light the dark Temple and searched for the Jedi, but Eric however was silently slipping by as he was near the entrance and slipped out. “That was too easy.” He thought to himself as he closed the Temple with the Force and ran back to the Talon so he could get away to Dagobah. To say that Maul was angry, was an understatement as he slashed his way through the Temple and saw that Eric’s ship was nowhere in sight. “I will find you and kill you Jedi!” Maul shouted to the sky.

(Space over Equestria, 3rd P.O.V)

After escaping from an attack from an unknown interceptor on Dandoran, Malachor, Ella, Roseluck and John had arrived over the safety of Equestria. “My Lord? Is that you? I thought that you and Lady Ella were on your honeymoon.” Admiral Vicarn said over the ship’s transmission network. “Yes Admiral, But our honeymoon is on hold for now as we had been attacked by some lone fighter on the Dandoran system.” Malachor replied. “Sorry to hear that sir, but you’ll be pleased to know that we have a new ally in our midst, he used to be a part of the CIS and has agreed to help us by giving us more ships, troops, etc, in exchange for setting up shop here and living peacefully.” Vicarn said over the transmission.”Very nice Vicarn, can we please land?” Malachor said with a slight roll of his eyes. “Yes you may sir.” Vicarn responded as the transmission ended. Landing on the surface outside of the Everfree Forest, Flynn and Mar Tuuk waited for them near the ship’s landing ramp. The moment the ramp lowered, the two men saw a droid running towards them with a blaster rifle at the ready. “Whoa, whoa, whoa!” Flynn said as the droid pointed his blaster at them. “Easy HK, we’re among friendlies here, so take it easy.” Ella said as she ran out of the ship and placed her hand on the droid’s blaster. “Statement: Yes mistress.” HK 49 said in his monotone voice and lowered his blaster as Malachor and Roseluck carrying her newborn son John in her saddlebag.

“Do my eyes deceive me, or is that my grandchild?” Flynn asked as he saw the little newborn. “I’m glad you all are safe, but who was it that attacked you on Dandoran and is Eric safe?” Roseluck looked over to Malachor who nodded to reassure her. “We don’t know, but Eric’s fine. He said he needed to go to Dagobah, because somepony named Master Yoda told him to.” Roseluck said as she saw her sisters Daisy and Lily coming towards her with tears of joy in their eyes. “Rose! It’s been too long since we’ve seen you and we missed you ever so much when you left.” Daisy said as she and Lily hugged their sister. “I missed you girls too, and now you’re both aunts to this little miracle right here.” Roseluck said as she broke from the hug and revealed John to his aunts. “Well isn’t he a precious young nephew.” Lily said as the two aunts went ‘aw’ at the adorable baby. Meanwhile Flynn was not so well after Roseluck had mentioned Yoda. “I can’t believe this, Master Yoda is requesting Eric to come and see him, what for?” Flynn thought to himself as Malachor made his way over to him. “Flynn? Are you alright?” Malachor asked his newest student with a concerned expression. “Am I fine? Hehe Yeah, I’m great why wouldn’t I be?” Flynn replied acting a little strange. “Flynn, look a me. Do I look stupid to you?” Malachor asked. “I’m sorry Master, but I’ve just had a little hard time with Master Yoda is all.” Flynn responded as he looked down in shame. “Look, you may not have known this, but I’ve known Yoda since he was a Padawan. I think the biggest problem you have with him is that he left you to discover your own hidden darkness, and you’ve never faced it, so you blame him.” Malachor said as he placed his hand on his student’s shoulder. “Now don’t worry, Eric is a strong willed man, and I’m sure he’ll overcome this, for now why don’t you go and hold your grandson, he could use some masculine influence, otherwise he’ll be spoiled rotten by his mother and his aunts before he learns to walk.” Malachor said as the two men looked at the infant laughing in contentment. Flynn walked over to Roseluck as she smiled and hoofed over John towards his grandfather. John looked at him and giggled in delight which made Flynn happy as if his fears had vanished.

(Dagobah, Eric’s P.O.V)

After escaping Maul from Dandoran, I made my hyperspace jump right after I left the atmosphere. It wasn’t long until I had finally reached the planet of Dagobah and upon seeing this planet, through the Force it felt peaceful and pure, but something felt off, like there was a presence that made me feel unwelcome. “Time to see what Yoda has in store for me and I’m not surprised that he survived Order 66, he’s a living legend who survived worse.” I said to myself as I was careful when I landed on the swampy surface. Once I landed, I opened up the landing ramp and picked up my lightsaber and attached it to my belt. I ventured out onto the planet and looked around to see the environment. It was foggy and murky like the swamp it was and since the dark side aura I felt here was strong, I saw why Yoda would escape here. “Master Yoda? Master, are you here?” I asked as I continued walking. “Here I am. Eric Keteris, good to see you it is.” Yoda replied as he sat on a stump near his hut. “It’s good to see you too, Malachor sends his regards.” I said with a smile. “Malachor, been too long it has, my friend he is despite his affiliation.” Yoda said as he closed his eyes and smiled at the memory of meeting Malachor long ago. “So Master, why have I been sent here?” I asked the old Jedi master. “A darkness within you there is, face it you must, your weapons, need them you do not.” Yoda said as he pointed to my lightsaber. I removed my lightsaber and gave it to Yoda. “So what must I do?” I asked once more still unsure of what might happen. “To the cave nearby you must go, and face the darkness.” Yoda said as he pointed his cane towards the left. I looked over and slowly made my way over, just before entering I asked one last question. “What is it that I am looking for?” Yoda looked at me and smiled. “Only what you take with you.” He said as he gestured for me to continue my way to the cave. I turned back toward the cave and walked inside slowly to face whatever darkness may be awaiting for me.

(Space over Equestria, 3rd P.O.V)

The fleet orbiting Equestria was just doing its usual scans to make sure everything was going well with the surrounding area. That was until a fleet of CIS ships all dropped out of hyperspace and immediately started firing on the fleet causing several ships to get severely damaged, six destroyers were obliterated and three dreadnaughts were destroyed making a decent size hole in the defenses to allow a ground force land. “Ha ha ha, This was too easy, begin the ground invasion.” TA-175 ordered to one of the droids aboard the ship. “Roger, roger.” The droid responded. “Don’t think that this is over my old commander.” Mar said over the communications network. “I’ve planned this out perfectly my old general. Once the rest of the fleet is destroyed, your ground resistance is next.” TA-175 responded as he disconnected the transmission. “Send in the rocket droids and take out that command ship.” He ordered the droids on the terminals. “Yes sir.” The droids said. However as the targeted command ship was being locked on, it launched a wave of fighters and bombarded several of the missile turrets. The CIS droid had been clever when he scanned the ships earlier and knew several weak points which had allowed the rocket droids that made it to the command ship to enter through holes within to wipe out the crew. “This is taking too long, Destroy that cruiser.” TA-175 ordered. “Sir, our boarding parties are being torn to pieces by other droids.” A battle droid said. TA-175 was really angry and shot the droid with his blaster. “I don’t care! Destroy the cruiser and wipe out all escape pods.” TA-175 ordered as the turrets began to target the magazines and engines.

“Admiral Vicarn, we need to leave, our transports are fast enough to outrun them.” Vicarn’s lieutenant said as the ship was being blasted apart. “Agreed, all hands to the hangar, get to your escape crafts, initiate self-destruct, and send this ship on a collision course.” Vicarn ordered as each of his bridge staff members set the ship on a collision course, while the engineering crew set the reactor to overload. “Sir the command ship is heading on a collision course with one of our control ships.” A battle droid said in a panicked tone. “It won’t matter, I took the initiative and amplified the deflector shields, even if we do take damage, it won’t be severe.” TA-175 said with confidence as the Equestrian fleet was torn apart. The ship that was on the collision course took one of the Trade Federation ships with it into hyperspace. “Sir one of our ships was just destroyed along with the enemy ship.” A droid reported and got shot for his report. “We cannot fail, how many ships they still have?” TA-175 asked a droid at his terminal. “Enough to keep us entertained.” A droid said. “Continue the attack and send out bombers to inflict more damage.” TA-175 ordered as the droids activated the bombers. “Sir, we’ve picked up an escape pod in our tractor beam, you’d might be interested in who’s inside.” A droid informed. “Bring them to me, I wish to meet them.” TA-175 ordered as a squad of Commando droids did so. The escape pod opened up to reveal Admiral Vicarn and HK 49. “You are under arrest.” A commando droid said as he and the other droids pointed their blasters at the two rebels. Vicarn and HK 49 were escorted to the bridge where they met the tactical droid in charge of the attack. “Well would you look at that, a legendary HK series droid.” TA-175 said as he ignored the human Admiral. The commando droids looked after Vicarn as TA-175 looked at the HK droid. “I’d never calculated to capture my first two prisoners, once this fleet is obliterated you will see the end of your rebellion and I will get to lead a new and powerful droid army.” He said as he opened the network channel to the surface.

“I wouldn’t be so confident TA-175, because we have something you don’t, an ion cannon. Ion control prioritize targets and fire at will.” Vicarn said as he shot his own blaster at the commando droids, killing them all. Several blasts came from the planet and impacted several ships, permanently taking them out. TA-175 looked at Mar over the transmission. “I will offer you a chance to surrender or else Vicarn and the droid dies.” As he showed that their little standoff had been cut short due to being surrounded by droidekas. “Fine, but I’ll be sending some important diplomats to you.” Mar said hiding his smile from the droid. “Good, we’ll be waiting.” TA-175 said ending the transmission, but the devious droid knew Mar well and how he abandoned his station on the blockade over Ryloth. “It seems as if your friends had come to rescue you, Send them to the interrogation room.” TA-175 ordered the droidekas and Commando droids as they escorted the prisoners to the interrogation room as TA-175 stayed on the bridge. “Initiate the self-destruct sequence in 30 seconds after the diplomats arrive.” He ordered the droids. “Yes sir, but we won’t have enough time to leave.” The droid said. “That is why one droid will activate it and it is not too far from the bridge.” TA-175 reassured as he then got on a group comms with the fleet ship captains. “Alright, we are expecting guests so do not fire on the diplomat ship, but prepare for an orbital strike to neutralize the ion cannon as soon as the Nebular Grasp explodes.” TA-175 ordered. “Roger, roger.” The droids agreed.

However, Malachor and Flynn boarded the Dark Intent and split up to find Vicarn and HK and to stop the countdown. Flynn found the reactor and reset it, but Malachor encountered some major resistance with the droidekas. A droid was about to initiate the self-destruct when the Jedi arrived. “Sir, our countdown was cancelled.” A droid said as he was cut down by Flynn. After that transmission TA-175 arrived with a squad of Commando droids and Magna guards. “Jedi Master Flynn, what a surprise.” TA-175 said as he remembered him from the Clone Wars. “TA-175, how awful to see you again you’re looking as grotesque as always.” Flynn said in response. “Likewise Jedi, but I’d figured you’d be here to free those prisoners and shut down my self-destruct sequence.” TA-175 said as he remained confident. “I didn’t come alone I brought my new Master with me, and he is a freaking powerhouse, as you will soon see.” Flynn said as he patched into the ship’s cameras and found Malachor activating his Force Walk, and destroyed the droids surrounding the room in a huge burst of Force Lightning.

“Impressive, even by my standards. You underestimate my knowledge young Jedi for I always have a few contingencies from my experiences in the Clone Wars.” As the droid then activated his commlink. “Engage the orbital strike and bomb the cities.” He ordered as Flynn saw the massive amounts of firepower being used. “Droids, kill the Jedi.” TA-175 ordered as the Magna guards and Commando droids moved to engage Flynn. The commando droids were dropped by HK 49, the Magna guards were assaulted by Flynn and TA-175 escaped as their battle commenced and had one last surprise; detonating a bomb within the magazine igniting the Dark Intent and time ran out before the reactor would destroy the ship entirely. “Exclamation: Come back here coward!” HK 49 shouted as he ran after TA-175. After Flynn had finished off the last Magna guard, he met up with Malachor, and Vicarn headed for their ship and left the ship to its fate. TA-175 was about to enter an escape pod, but said. “Until we meet again rust bucket.” “Statement: Not this time inferior clanker.” HK said as he leaped into the pod with TA-175 and started to engage in Close Quarters Combat. TA and HK fought within the pod to try and deactivate one another and TA was on the verge of losing if he was struck once more as HK then spoke. “Query: Now who’s the rust bucket?” “You still.” TA responded as he blasted HK with his blaster and sent the droid back onto the doomed ship as TA jettisoned off the burning ship. “HK, let’s go, we’ll deal with him later, we need to stop that orbital attack.” Flynn said as his commlink chirped. HK managed to reach another escape pod and jettisoned of the CIS vessel, only to be picked up by Malachor and Flynn. “Flynn, Malachor, All orbital shields are fully operational thanks to Celestia.” Luna said as she blasted a few droids out of the sky. “Good work, looks like TA-175, isn’t as smart as he thinks he is.” Flynn said as he and his friends flew back to the planet.

(Cave on Dagobah, Eric’s P.O.V)

I entered the cave and felt the Dark Side sending chills up my spine. “So this is what the Dark Side feels like.” I said as I ventured further in. “Your child will be an agent of the Dark Side.” A voice said to me from the darkness. “John will never turn to the Dark Side, now show yourself!” I said in response. I saw myself, but I had the eyes of a Dark Sider, and then it hit me, this was the darkness within me. “The Dark Side calls to him, I must end the child before it is too late.” I said activating a lightsaber, but it was red. “If you kill him you’ll have to kill me too, and if you kill me you’ll cease to exist, so you need me, and you know that don’t you?” I responded to my darker self. “True, but remember this, The Dark Side is inevitable for some and corruptible for others. Heed the warning and your son may survive.” My darker self said as he deactivated his lightsaber and vanished. “I thank you for your wisdom, and I’ll keep that in mind.” I said as I began to allow my emotions to help me cope with this new information as I sat down and vented my sadness, anger, and pain flow from me. “So this is what Malachor meant by allowing myself to feel my emotions flow, I definitely feel more connected to the Force, I guess the Dark Side is useful at times.” I said as I wiped away my tears and returned to Yoda. “So Eric, learn something have you?” Yoda asked me with a smile. “Yes master, I have.” I replied feeling more one with the Force. “Good, now you must go back to Equestria, and train your son in the ways of the Force give Malachor and Flynn my regards, you must.” Yoda said as he handed me my lightsaber. “I’ll tell Malachor you said “hi” and I’ll make sure to ask for his help while I train him, because now I see that sometimes knowing the Dark Side is necessary to maintain control over one’s power.” I said as I accepted my lightsaber from Yoda. “Yes,Yes, to Malachor you listen, guide you he will.” Yoda said as I went back to the Talon and left for Equestria to be reunited with my wife and son.

(Space over Equestria, 3rd P.O.V)

After the destruction of multiple CIS ships, there were still plenty of ships for heavy firepower. But when a planetary shield prevents TA-175’s plan to annihilate the ion cannon, but did cause some damage to cease it’s fire on the fleet, allowing the droid to reach its new command ship, the Shadow’s Grasp. Upon entering the bridge he is met with the ship’s droid captain. “This proved to be the most efficient way to see their defenses, their fleet may be destroyed, but I still calculate more will be on the way.” TA-175 said to the captain. “Sir, most of our ships are neutralized, I suggest that we leave and regroup and find a way to resist the effects of the ion cannon.” The captain suggested. A droid then came from the communications table. “Sir, we’re receiving a transmission and it’s not from this planet.” The communications droid informed both the captain and Commander. “Put it through.” Both droids ordered. “Roger roger.” The droid replied as he went back to the table and put the transmission through to reveal a hooded figure, but it was not Sidious. “Ah Commander TA-175 I presume?” the figure asked. “Yes, I am, but who are you?” TA-175 asked the figure. “You can call me, your new general if you wish to succeed on the planet you are currently over.” the figure removed his hood and revealed the old Sith, Maul. “Darth Maul? That’s impossible, you’re supposed to be dead.” TA-175 said. “It was thanks to my master’s training for how I survived and if you want to survive, you can find me at Korriban where I can help lead you all to victory.” Maul said as the droids looked at one another. “We accept, we’re on our way.” TA-175 said as he opened a fleet-wide transmission. “All vessels disengage and retreat to Korriban.” TA-175 ordered. “Good, now until then your orders are to get here, then we’ll find a place to set up our factory, Maul out.” Maul said with a sinister smile. The ships began to break off the orbital strike positions and formed up with the Shadow and made the jump to Korriban.

After the battle was over, Malachor, Flynn, Vicarn, and HK 49, arrived onboard the command ship Wrath of Malachor and went to the bridge to meet up with Admiral Byron. “Admiral Byron, how many ships do we have left?” Malachor asked the female Admiral. “We’ve lost nine Destroyers, and six of our Dreadnaughts. There are two severely damaged Destroyers, three Dreadnaughts are badly damaged, while the Venators are undamaged as well as the rest of our Destroyers, and Dreadnaughts.” Byron said slightly shaking in fear. Malachor sighed. “So in total we have seventeen ships still able to fight, but the majority of them need repairs?” Flynn asked as he was quite upset with this tragic loss and the success of the tactical droids plan. “I’m afraid so sir, but we have an advantage, I gave our ship schematics before this assault so we should have some new ships soon.” She said with a sly smile lightening up the sadness. “Well I guess there’s a silver lining for this situation.” Malachor said as a communications officer came running towards the group as if his life depended on it. “Ma’am, Princess Celestia wants to speak to you, Admiral Vicarn, Lord Malachor, Master Flynn, and HK 49 immediately!” The officer said as he panted. The three men, woman, and droid made their way towards Princess Celestia and Luna who had been waiting for them along with the Element Bearers, the Clones, and Mar Tuuk. “Sorry to keep you waiting, we were just assessing the damage, and we have some very heavy casualties.” Byron said with a frown.

“Well, even if we lost a lot of brave soldiers, that doesn’t mean your selfless acts made their sacrifices all the more honorable for them.” Celestia said with a smile. “Bryon and Vicarn, may you two please step forward.” The two Admirals stepped up toward the princesses and stood at attention. “For your exemplary services to Equestria and her ponies, we hereby promote you both to Grand Moff of the Equestrian Fleet.” Luna said with a smile. Both the male and female admirals jumped for joy at the sound of the words Grand Moff. The clones saluted on their promotions and the ponies cheered in triumph.

Meanwhile in space over Equestria, Eric had finally returned. Instead of a fleet securing the planet, he only saw debris of ships that once orbited this planet. “What has happened here?!” Eric said fearful for his wife, son, father, and friends’ lives. “We have you on our scanners now, state your name and intentions, if you do not respond immediately, you will be destroyed!” The familiar voice of the newly promoted Grand Moff Byron declared over the ship’s communication network. “Hey now no need to get feisty Bryon, surely you don’t recognize the first Jedi to be on this planet don’t you?” I said in my confident tone. “Oh Eric, it’s you! Thank the Force, if you’re wondering about the fleet’s current condition, thank the CIS droid TA-175 for the few ships you see, as for the planet’s surface everyone’s alright, and Vicarn and I got promoted to Grand Moff, but enough of my prattling. You’re cleared to land Byron out.” Byron said with an overjoyed tone, also sounding a little intoxicated at the same time. “The CIS survived, I thought they would have been decimated by the Empire.” Eric thought as he continued his way towards Equestria’s surface.

(Empty Space, 3rd P.O.V)

On a lone ship in the middle of nowhere was a boy, a boy who was once an apprentice and is now a rogue. He sits in his room to meditate and ponders through the Force. “There is a great disturbance in the Force, two shadows, the Empire, and the Light all jumbled together.” The boy said with a very concentrated expression on his face. The boy felt this and he knew that if they were to succeed in their plans, it would forever leave the Force in a state of darkness. But after facing off Vader multiple times and engaged with countless Imperials, he does not want to engage the Empire any longer. “I don’t know whether to help them or not, I just don’t know.” The boy said as he placed his hands over his eyes in sorrow.

Author's Note

Hello Ponies and Bronies, Obsidian here and what a battle this was and probably better than the Imperial invasion. Maul returns and Starkiller is back since I loved the Force Unleashed games, I'd recommend them. Now with great reveals, how will the Equestrian rebellion stand against such strong adversaries? Well you'll just have to find out. Thanks to Randablitz for editing as always and please leave feedback for us to improve.

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Rising Tensions

(Ponyville, Equestria, Eric’s P.O.V)

After landing back on Equestria, I found some changes such as a droid factory, an Ion cannon, and a planetary shield generator. “Wow, what have I missed?” I asked as Celestia and Luna both rushed in and gave me a death grip of a hug. I was struggling to breathe and talk so I couldn’t tell them I was suffocating, but all I could do was pat their backs repeatedly. “Um, Princess, not to be rude, but I think you’re about to kill him.” A voice said. I knew that voice, it was the voice of someone I knew from the Clone Wars, Mar Tuuk. Celestia and Luna broke their hold on me, allowing me to breathe freely again. “Mar Tuuk, I haven’t seen you since the battle over Ryloth.” I said as had some anger in my voice. “I know I was responsible for many terrible things on Ryloth, and I can’t take them back, but what I can do is fight our enemies until I die at their hands.” Mar said with conviction. “I guess now is not the time to argue, all I can be thankful is that there is little to no enemies after us.” I said as I reeled in my anger. “I agree, but Celestia has allowed me to stay here as long as I fight for her, and that’s what I intend to do, so now we have our own droid army, and thanks to Grand Moff Byron, we can replace the ships we lost today, as well as add to the fleet.” Mar said with a smile. “I see Byron and Vicarn were promoted, congrats for them, but what was it about the fleet almost being destroyed?” I asked as I immediately dismissed the question. “You know what, never mind all I want to do right now is just relax and have some time with my family. It was a pleasure meeting you two again by the way.” I then walked away into Ponyville in search for Roseluck, or my father.

After a few minutes of searching I saw Roseluck and her sisters, Daisy, and Lily playing with John. I silently crept over to Roseluck to surprise her. “Don’t even think about it.” Roseluck said as I only stood there in shock. “How did you know?!” I asked in surprise. “Because I know you too well.” Roseluck replied as she kissed me tenderly. “Guess what Rose.” I said leading her towards a huge surprise about our son. “What is it?” Roseluck asked curiously. “John is Force Sensitive.” I said with a smile as Roseluck’s jaw dropped in shock. “Does that mean?” Roseluck asked in disbelief. “John will be able to use the Force and become a great Jedi.” I said as Rose hugged me in delight. “Although, he will need to learn some aspects of the Dark Side in order to be balanced.” I said as I broke the hug. “Why does he need to learn that?” Roseluck asked in confusion. “While I was on Dagobah, I met my darker self, and he said that John would fall to the Dark Side, if he just learned the Light.” I said as I looked down at my son with a smile. “So I think we should ask a pair of certain Sith to help us.” I said with a smirk. “Ok, but for now let’s just enjoy our time together as a family for once.” Roseluck said as I picked up John and held him in my arms. “Alright.” I said as I tickled John’s stomach causing him to giggle. “I hate to ask you this, but who was it that attacked us on Dandoran?” Roseluck asked with a fearful expression. “It was Maul, why I don’t know, but one thing’s for sure, he wants to destroy me and he won’t rest until he’s done so.” I said with an exasperated sigh.

(Roseluck’s P.O.V)

I was scared for my Jedi husband. He’s been through a lot since we’ve met; Dealing with the Empire, Fighting off Dark Side users, and even got captured twice and he has not had a decent relaxation with his friends and family, but I was more worried about this Maul character that had attacked us on Dandoran. I really admired his resolve for dealing with all of these problems, on top of that was dealing with my pregnancy. All I could do was give my Jedi a loving embrace. “I’m very proud of you Eric, despite all of these hardships, you still managed to come out on top.” I said as I gave him a loving kiss on his cheek. Just as we broke our little moment, Daisy and Lily had came toward us and Lily was carrying John. “So this is the infamous Jedi?” Daisy asked. “Yeah, but he’s my infamous Jedi.” I said with a smile. “We can see that, but our little nephew wants his mommy right now, so…” Lily said as she held John out towards me. “Alright, give him to me.” I said while rolling my eyes. “It is really nice to meet you and we’re glad you were able to make our sister here happy, she had been really depressed before you came.” Daisy said with a smile and looked over to me. “Glad I could help, it’s kind of a weird twist, I mean I lost my mother to the Confederacy of Independant Systems when I was young, and now we have an old CIS general here helping us.” Eric said with a nervous chuckle. John just cuddled with me as I then saw Malachor and Ella come over toward us.

“So Eric, how are you holding up?” Ella asked. “I’m fine, oh Malachor, Yoda says ‘hi’.” Eric said with a smile. “It’s good to know that he’s alright, and that he taught you a very important lesson about yourself, the one I taught him long ago, to be at peace with your emotions, rather than hide them.” Malachor said with a proud smile. “Yeah, so listen, I just learned that John is Force Sensitive, and I want to train him to be a great Jedi, but he needs to learn some of the Dark Side in order to be balanced, so will you help me teach him when he gets a bit older?” Eric asked Malachor. “I’d be honored to do so.” He simply replied with a smile as I just held onto our future Jedi son.

(Korriban, 3rd P.O.V)

As the CIS Fleet from Equestria arrived on the Sith Planet of Korriban, the ships orbited the planet as TA-175 flew to the surface to meet the old Sith, Darth Maul. Arriving at one of the many abandoned Sith Tombs,, he saw Maul near the entrance. The small Separatist shuttle landed and the Tactical Droid Commander approached the ex-Sith. “You must be Maul, I am TA-175 of the 352nd Separatist Fleet.” TA-175 introduced himself. “I know who you are, but do you know who I am, and what the significance of this planet is?” Maul said while he kept his face hidden under his hood. “Well, according to some old Sith files from Count Dooku himself, you were confirmed KIA on Naboo and as for the planet of Korriban, all the data states it is a Sith Planet.” TA-175 responded as he had maintained his posture. “Not just any Sith planet, but the birthplace of the ancient race, ideology, empire, and practices.” Maul pointed out as he pointed his lightsaber hilt at the droid for emphasis. “I see, but what is the purpose for bringing me and my fleet to this planet?” TA-175 asked. “Simple, we need to assemble our forces here, because the Jedi will never come here because of the massive amount of Dark Side energy here, and the spirits of the ancient Sith lords will probably try to end his existence if he ever sets foot on this planet.” Maul said with a sinister smile. “Who is ‘he’ that you had mentioned?” TA-175 asked once more. “Does the name Eric Keteris mean anything to you?” Mauls asked in response. “That name, I know that Jedi, Father of General Flynn and Commander of the 612th Battalion.” TA-175 replied. “And I suppose he’s a rather troublesome thorn in your side isn’t he?” Maul asked knowing that the droid wanted to kill that Jedi. “He has been a troublesome virus I wish to exterminate.” TA-175 responded. “Then we have a common enemy, and I know one of his greatest weaknesses, his family and friends, hurt them and he’ll be easier to draw out.” Maul said with a devious grin. “I can see that, but what about forces and allies, I lost many ships and droids on my assault on Equestria.” TA-175 questioned. “Then we’ll just have to use the remains of the old Sith Academy to fuel our conquests, and trust me there’s enough material to go around.” Maul said as he led the droid commander to the scenic overlook which featured a giant pyramid-like structure sitting in the distance. “If we can acquire a large army of ships and droids, Conquest will be simple. With your plans at work, Do you wish to obtain the title of ‘General of the CIS Fleet’?” TA-175 offered as he looked at the Sith. “As long as I have your guarantee that you’ll never betray me when the situation isn’t in our favor, if you try to betray me I’ll have you destroyed and replaced, is that clear Commander?” Maul said while tapping on the droid’s metal chest with his lightsaber hilt. “I am bound to the Separatist Allegiance, I will not betray my General. But my previous General Mar Tuuk betrayed me, I wish to personally eliminate him, but once vengeance is secured, I follow your orders until I am dismantled.” TA-175 said as he had never betrayed during his time in the Clone Wars. “Excellent, now let’s get to work, the fleet isn’t going to build itself.” Maul said with a smirk on his face. “Yes sir, I’ll send the fleet to the surface and get the troops working immediately.” TA-175 replied as he got on his commlink.

(Rogue Shadow, 3rd P.O.V)

Starkiller sat in a meditation position trying to home in on the Force energy of the planet he saw in his vision. “I know it’s somewhere in the Outer Rim, but I can’t scour it blindly.” He said to himself as he allowed the Force to guide him. “Where is it, I know it’s there somewhere, but where?” He asked himself as he felt his frustration begin to cloud his mind. He tried to calm himself knowing that a clouded mind affects the Force. Then he begins to see a small Terra-class planet in between a star and moon and some ships orbiting the planet. “Ok, so I know what to look for, but I still need to see if there’s someone of import there that could guide me there.” He said as he took a deep breath and focused his mind to see the tremendous amounts of lifeforms on the planet, including five Force signatures. “Hmm, guidance you seek?” A voice said sounding familiar to the old renegade Sith. “What do you want with me old man?” Starkiller asked the voice. “Much frustration and anger within you there is, but a master I am and here to help I will.” The voice replied to Starkiller. “Well if you want to help me, then where can I find you?” Starkiller asked. “Not remember you do? From Dagobah you visited to find something lost.” The voice answered as Starkiller remembered the small green watcher from the cave. “It’s you, the watcher in the swamp. Who are you?” Starkiller said as his eyes widened in surprise. “Master Yoda I am. A guide to you I will be. Tell me, why must you seek Jedi?” Yoda asked. “To learn more about my father and his faction.” Starkiller replied. “Yes, Kento Marek your father he was. A great Jedi.” Yoda responded as he had trained him since he was a boy.

“How do you know him?” Starkiller asked in astonishment. “Trained him I did. Great pupil and excellent wielder of the Force.” Yoda answered. “What can you teach me?” Starkiller asked. “Know a lot you have. Nothing much I can teach you there is not, but a former Master of mine a few tricks he can teach you.” Yoda answered as he referenced Malachor. “Can I find him on that planet from my vision?” Starkiller asked. “Yes, Equestria, the planet’s name is. To these coordinates you must go.” Yoda spoke as the coordinates were typed in. “Thanks, Yoda, for your guidance.” Starkiller said with gratitude. With that the Rogue Shadow jumped into Hyperspace towards Equestria.

(Space Over Coruscant, 3rd P.O.V)

Onboard the Super Star Destroyer, Darth Sidious was in his room looking over the planet of Coruscant and the building strength of his fleet. “Soon we shall bring down Malacor and his pitiful little band of Rebels.” Sidious said with a confident smile on his deformed face. Just as his apprentice, formerly Anakin Skywalker, now Darth Vader had arrived in his lair and kneeled before his master. “What is thy bidding my master?” Vader asked. “I have sensed a disturbance in the Force, do you remember the Sith named Maul, Lord Vader?” Sidious asked his apprentice. “I’ve heard rumors of him, but never have I fought nor seen this Sith. Some call him ‘The Shadow’.” Vader replied. “Well your newest task is to find him and end him before he becomes a significant problem to our cause, he wishes to destroy us and the Rebels, but as always we must remain at least one step ahead.” Sidious said as he walked over to Vader. “Yes my master, shall I assemble a fleet to search for him?” Vader asked. “Yes, but remain cautious, for Maul has allies from a certain faction you decimated on Mustafar. Can you guess which faction that was?” Sidious said with a smirk. “The Separatist Alliance, I understand Master, but I also believe there is still a Separatist leader still alive. I will find him and destroy him as well.” Vader responds as he rose to his feet and left his master alone once more. “I know you won’t fail me Lord Vader, but always remember that Maul is master of endurance, he will try to lead you to a favorable location.” Sidious said as he saw a few ships leave to find Maul’s hiding place. Vader understood and was determined to not fail Sidious.

(Korriban, Maul’s P.O.V)

I watched my new fleet being built from the ruins of the old Sith Academy, and I have to say that I was very impressed. “Soon you will be dead Jedi, then nothing will stop me from taking on the Empire.” I said with a smile. TA-175 walked up to me General as I was in charge of the operations of the construction. “Sir, all facilities for ships and droids are now operational. All I need are blueprints for ships you may have processed.” The droid said as this made me very pleased to hear. “Take these plans, These are just some plans I found while I ruled over Mandalore for a while.” I said as I handed TA-175 the plans for our new fleet. “Roger roger, I’ll get these plans underway immediately. Is there anything else you may require?” TA-175 asked before he was about to head off to the newly-built facilities. “Prepare for battle, the one called Vader will be coming here soon.” I said as I felt a chilling presence through the Force. “Yes sir.” TA-175 replied as he went to the facilities. I however got to some of the ASA (Anti-Ship Artillery)which consisted of ion cannons and fragmental armament on a high cliff. “Prepare all cannons and be on high alert for any ships that are around Korriban, Then report to me if you see anything,, understand.” I ordered the droid gunners. “Roger roger.” The captain replied as I then had to take care of one final measure and see if the base ray shield was operational to defend the entire base from any attack. “So you’ve finally noticed me my old Master.” I said to myself with an irritated tone. “Soon, I’ll get my vengeance after you killed my brother and took everything from me.” I was then interrupted by one of the construction droids. “Sir, we’re almost done with your flagship, all we need is a name for it.” I thought for a moment then came up with something in memory of my fallen apprentice. “Savage’s Vengeance.” I said to the droid. “Roger, roger.” The droid said as he quickly left me alone once more. I then thought about what Sidious could be sending to kill me, he would not come alone or have some plan up his sleeve. “Knowing you, you won’t come and deal with me yourself, you’ll probably send an Inquisitor, or something else bothersome.” I said to myself as I saw the finished Savage’s Vengeance rising from the foundry where the Academy once stood. The ship was from the design of the Old Republic era, an Interdictor-class cruiser and I marveled at the majesty of the vessel as it went into orbit with the fleet. “That’s a mighty fine design, but we still need a large efficient army of droids from battle to Commando.” I said to myself as TA-175 was supervising the construction of the droid factory. “Commander, we need more troops as soon as possible, for whatever the Empire is bringing we need more numbers to overwhelm them.” I said as TA-175 nodded in understanding. “Yes sir, I’ll get it done, but we’re almost out of material from the Academy’s ruins.” The droid commander said with slight impatience. “Use the asteroids around the planet, they have the metallic materials to keep the production going.” I informed my commander. “Yes sir, I’ll send up a ship to gather the asteroids.” TA-175 responded. “Just leave enough of them to use as a natural barrier to buy us time for when the Empire arrives.” I said as an idea came to my mind.

(Rogue Shadow, 3rd P.O.V)

The Rogue Shadow dropped out of hyperspace and Starkiller was greeted with the sight of a huge fleet orbiting the planet made of CIS ships, two Venators, and ships that he had never seen, or heard of. “Seems like this planet is under someone’s control, Setting Rogue Shadow’s jammers online and cloaking now.” He activated the Shadow’s abilities to cloak and jam signals that may be hailing toward him. “Seems like a piece of cake, nobody seems to notice my presence.” Starkiller said to himself with a smile. The smile on Starkiller’s face faded away as he started to hear a warm, motherly voice enter his mind. “Don’t worry about the fleet, we knew you were coming, somepony named Yoda managed to speak to Malachor a while ago, and he told him why you’re coming here.” The voice said. “I don’t know who you are, but you’ve probably ruined a great surprise.” Starkiller responded sarcastically. “Don’t worry, nopony, but Malachor and I know about you coming, so you’ll still be surprising plenty of my subjects, Starkiller.” The voice said with a slight giggle. “Whatever you say, expect my arrival in a few minutes.” Starkiller responded as the Shadow passed under one of the Venator class cruisers. “Very well. Welcome to Equestria Starkiller.” The voice said. As Starkiller landed on the planet outside a little town he walked out to look over the planet and found it quite peaceful. “As peaceful as Naboo.” He sighed and walked towards the town with his two lightsabers. “Well, time to introduce myself to the locals.” He said as he opened up the ship’s hatch. It took some time as he had reached the town called Ponyville and saw it bustling with some of the inhabitants of multicolor equines. “Okay, now I’ve seen everything.” He said as he tried to stay out of sight of the ponies. The renegade sith used various buildings to avoid detection as he looked for the Sith named Malachor. I ended up seeing a cream colored pony with a rose colored mane and tail playing with what seemed to be a human baby. I was unsure of how to approach this, but I knew she had not seen me as of yet. I walked up to the pony slowly so I wouldn’t scare it. “Don’t even think about it.” The pony said with a deadpan tone while the baby just giggled at its mother’s statement. I stopped dead in my tracks after she had said that and I was on the verge of just Force Jumping away. “How did you know I was there?!” Starkiller asked in complete surprise. “Oh come on Eric, I just… know… you… too… well…” The mare said as she turned and looked upon her visitor, who wasn’t her husband. “Expecting someone else?” Starkiller asked staying put as the mare was completely surprised. “Yes, I was expecting my husband actually. I don’t believe I’ve seen you before, who are you?” The mare said with a slight blush on her face. “I am actually new to this planet, I’m Starkiller and I’m looking for Malachor.” Starkiller replied. “Oh, well, he’s with Eric near Twilight’s Library. I could take you there if you like.” The mare said with a smile as she placed the baby in her saddle bag.

“Lead the way miss.” Starkiller said as he allowed the mare to lead him to his new destination. “My name’s Roseluck, and this is my son John, in case you’re wondering.” Roseluck said with a smile as she pointed to her baby boy, who seemed to be enjoying his travels with his mother. “Glad to meet you.” Starkiller responded as he followed Roseluck until they arrived to the library. “Wow, this kind of reminds me of Kashyyyk.” Starkiller said as he gazed upon the tree. “I see you’ve been traveling and I’m sure Malachor would like to meet you as well.” Roseluck said as she knocked on the door. “Actually, I was raised on Kashyyyk for the first few years of my life until He came and killed my father right in front of me.” Starkiller said as he started clutching his fists in anger at the memory of what Vader did to his life. “Who’s he?” Roseluck asked. “Vader, he killed my father when he came to Kashyyyk to look for any remaining Jedi, then he found me and saved me from some Stormtroopers and trained me, he betrayed me, then cloned me.” Starkiller said as he listed all of the things Vader had done to him. Roseluck was only in pure shock to hear the Sith lord that almost killed her husband. “I am very sorry to hear that Starkiller.” Roseluck said solemnly as the door opened to reveal Twilight. “Oh hey Rose, how can I help… you..?” Twilight asked as she spotted Starkiller standing next to Roseluck. “Don’t worry Twilight, he’s good.” Roseluck reassured the lavender mare. “Okay, so are you looking for Eric, because he’s in the main room with Malachor meditating right now.” Twilight said as she stepped to the side to reveal Eric and another man sitting across from him. “Thanks, I just need to speak with Malachor.” Starkiller said as he stepped inside the treehouse library. “Ok, well come on in, mister…” Twilight said as she paused at not knowing her visitor’s name. Just as Starkiller walked into the main room he saw one who he believed was Malachor and another that looked to be a Jedi.

“Excuse me, I’m sorry to interrupt, but I was sent here by Master Yoda, to train with someone named Malachor.” Starkiller said politely. “If you’ve been looking for me, then your search is over Galen Marek, or should I say Starkiller?” Malachor said as he stood up allowing the sun to come onto his pale skin. “So you’re Malachor? Wow, to be honest I was expecting you to be an old man, not young and fit.” Starkiller said as he looked at Malachor from head to toe. “But either way, who’s the Jedi?” He also asked as he looked at Eric for a moment. “Jedi Knight Eric Keteris to you Starkiller.” Eric simply replied as he walked over to Roseluck. “Sorry about that, it’s just that I haven’t seen another Jedi for a while, and why do I get the feeling that you and Roseluck are in a special relationship?” Starkiller asked as Eric picked up his son and started lightly tossing him up into the air making him squeal with delight. “It’s because I’m married to Roseluck.” Eric simply answered. “Oh, and I suppose the baby is yours as well?” Starkiller asked with an arched eyebrow. “You got it, now if you can excuse me, I believe it’s time for someone’s nap, have fun you two.” Eric said as he went to put John down for a nap. “Okay, so can we continue this somewhere else so we don’t bother the boy?” Malachor suggested as he led Starkiller away from the Keteris family. “Sure, so what can you teach me?” Starkiller asked as he and Malachor walked away from Twilight’s Library. Malachor had a smirk on his face. “Let me answer your question with another question. What do you wish to learn?” He asked the rogue Sith. “Well, Master Yoda told me to see you if you could train me, but I’m not sure what it is. So hopefully you could teach me something I never could have before hand.” Starkiller responded not sure of what could be expected.

“Well, it seems that I could teach you just about everything I know, but know this there will be a few things that I will not allow you to learn. One of them is the ritual of Force Walking, or perhaps you’d like to hear the voices of the Force Ghosts you’ve bound to yourself pester you from time to time.” Malachor said as he rolled his eyes trying to ignore the voice of Darth Vitiate nagging at him. “What’s so bad about that ritual, other than the voices?” Starkiller asked. “Well my Master Darth Nox told me that he had at least five Force Ghosts bound to him, and because he had so much power, it threatened to destroy his body, so there’s that.” Malachor said as he placed his left hand on his chin in thought. “I see. Well if that’s the case, where can we begin?” Starkiller asked the old Sith. “We can go to my ship Savage Destiny, that’s where I moved the majority of my holocrons.” Malachor said as the two men walked towards the center of town.

(Savage Destiny, Ella’s P.O.V)

I was sitting in the medical bay of the ship awaiting the results for the pregnancy test. “Well, anything to report?” I asked the medical droid. “No ma’am, there’s no blastocyst, or zygotal development, but you will be ovulating in three days.” The droid reported. While I was relieved about the news, I also felt a wave of sadness come over me as I realized that I wasn’t with child, and I wouldn’t be for another three days. “Thanks, MD-362. That’s all for today.” I said as I walked back to the master bedroom. I lied down on the bed and slowly drifted off to sleep as I lost myself to the peaceful silence. After about two hours later, I heard the sound of my husband’s voice and a stranger’s voice approaching the ship, but I grabbed my lightsaber and hid near the closet. “I see you’re quite the collector.” The stranger’s voice said to my loving husband. “Yes, I have holocrons from even the great Naga Sadow to Darth Bane.” I heard my husband say with a chuckle. I heard the two of them heading towards the middle of the ship and I prepared myself to leap out at the stranger. “Cool, but is there something wrong?” The stranger asked. “Well my wife should be here, but she doesn’t seem to be anywhere around here.” I heard My husband say as he tried to locate me by using the Force, luckily I already cloaked my presence before they even got here. “What’s she like? I fell in love once with a pilot named Juno, but she joined the Rebellion the original me created and couldn’t bear to join as well.” Starkiller sighed near the end. “My wife, Ella, was once a Jedi like me, but she wanted to learn more about the Force when the Jedi wouldn’t teach her. She ended up as my apprentice, and after a while, we got engaged, then she faked her own death, so I could get promoted to being a Dark Councilor.” My husband said as he listed out his achievements due to our relationship. “I see, Juno and I met when she made some upgrades to my ship, after each mission I grew fond of her and eventually I felt passionate.” Starkiller shared remembering the Imperial pilot. “That’s very unfortunate, but I wish I could have met her, she could’ve been a great asset to our war effort, since we had to deal with the prototype Death Star, Sidious, Vader, and Tarkin all at once.” Valrun said as I moved silently out of our bedroom and behind the stranger. Then Starkiller must have felt something was behind him and turned around quickly and activated his two lightsabers of blue blades in a defensive stance as I had my own two-toned blade at the ready. “Who are you, and what are doing here?” I asked, completely ignoring my husband’s shocked expression. “I’m Starkiller, Malachor’s potential apprentice, you?” He responded back with a question of his own. “Ella, Malachor’s wife and former apprentice.” I responded. Starkiller deactivated his lightsabers and put them back on his belt as I did the same as I felt I can trust him.

“So how was your day, dear?” Valrun asked me with a slightly high pitched voice. “Just fine, just so you know, I want to have a child soon.” I whispered into his ear, making him blush. Starkiller took his leave since he knew that this was a lover matter and it could be awkward if he stayed any longer. “Well aren’t we a bit forward about this. How long until your next fertility cycle?” Valrun asked as I seductively smiled back at him. “Three days, think about it, until then I need to go and see what those troublesome fillies are up to before they accidentally destroy the town.” I said as I left the ship leaving my husband alone to think about what I said to him.

(Imperial 8th Fleet, 3rd P.O.V)

As the fleet of over 26 Star Destroyers was assembled to find and destroy Maul, Vader was in his lead flagship of Sidious’s Fist. “Lord Vader, we’re approaching the Korriban system, Captain Ozzel is suggesting that we drop out of hyperspace about 30 parsecs away from the planet to commit a surprise assault.” An Imperial Officer reported to the towering Sith. “Very good Commander, We will engage the planet and destroy any vital systems and supplies they have and kill Maul and the Separatist leaders, the Emperor will join us if Maul escapes.” Vader stated. “Yes my Lord.” The officer responded, bowed and left the Sith Lord alone once more. Then Vader sensed something he thought he had defeated not too long ago. “The clone apprentice lives.” Vader said to himself as he sensed the clone of his fallen apprentice named Starkiller he had found on Kashyyyk.

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Separatist vs The Empire

(Space over Korriban, 3rd P.O.V)

In the Space over the old Sith planet, The Separatist fleet was based within the planetary rings to make the rings an obstacle for incoming ships. The fleet had 15 Munificent Frigates and 2 Providence Cruisers. The droid captain on board the Providence Cruiser, Galactic Fire was in charge of the planetary defense. “Captain, are there any signs of hostile activity near us?” TA-175 asked the droid captain. “Negative sir, No enemy ships have been sighted as of no-.” The droid replied, but didn’t finish as a droid on a terminal interrupted. “Sir, our scanners have just picked up about 20 enemy vessels heading position just outside our range!” The droid franticly reported. “It must be the Empire, From my calculations, they must pass the asteroid rings around the planet. Slow them down so we may begin preparations on our attack.” TA-175 ordered the Captain. “Roger, roger. All ships fire at will, burn their fleshy hides!” The Captain shouted to his troops as they rushed to their battle stations. The Imperial Star Destroyers were appearing out of hyperspace and Vader inside the flagship of Sidious’s Fist looked at the CIS fleet. “How nostalgic to see these old vessels, but they aren’t of any importance, Admiral prepare for immediate assault and evade the asteroids.” Vader ordered the young blonde admiral. “Yes my Lord.” The Admiral replied and the Star Destroyers begin their attack and rose over the planetary rings. “Um Commander, the Imperial ships are evading the planet’s rings.” The Captain informed his Commander. “Well don’t just sit there attack them!” TA-175 shouted back in frustration. “Roger Roger.” The Captain said then turned to the crew. “All ships open fire.” He ordered and the response was multiple cannons firing upon the Empire.

“Lord Vader, The enemy has opened fire, shall we deploy the fleet to ensure that nothing escapes the system?” Captain Ozzel asked. “Send in fighters and have them escort the landing party to the surface and have the cruisers open fire.” Vader ordered as he left to the landing party so he could go to the surface of Korriban. “As you wish Lord. All pilots to your fighters and crafts assist the landing party crafts and blanket those ships in blaster fire.” Ozzel ordered. The Imperials returned fire on the Separatist Fleet as the Captain then shouted his next order on the oncoming fighters and landing transports. “Deploy all fighters keep the landing transports from the surface.” The Captain ordered. “Roger, roger.” A droid said in response to the order. Not long after the order was issued the distance between the Separatist Fleet and the Imperials was closed off with the droid fighters taking out TIE Fighters and a couple of landing crafts. The Imperial Fleet took quite a few droids down as well as they started to move to assist their landing parties. The capital ships engaged one another sending red and green blaster bolts into each other’s hulls causing massive amounts of damage to either faction. Vulture Droids and Tri-Fighters from the Separatist flew off to engage the Imperial transports and TIE fighters. “Lord Vader, we’ve engaged the enemy fleet and we’re sending the landing crafts some reinforcements.” Ozzel reported to the Sith Lord heading for the planet. The TIE fighters from the Star Destroyers began launching from the hangars and towards the enemy fighters to defend the transports. Some were blasted from cannon fire from the cruisers and some droid fighters were lost from TIEs. “Commander, there’s a landing party heading your way, we doing all we can to try and stop them, but a few have broken through.” The Captain reported remorsefully. “It is now time to use our ground defenses, just destroy all the Imperials or force them to withdraw.” TA-175 ordered his Captain as he avoided to not get upset. “Yes sir. All fighters, ignore any of the transports that make it past us, focus your attention on the fighters and capital ships to make them withdraw.” The Captain ordered his troops in space. The droids understood and began their assault on the fighters and transports that haven’t passed the Separatist Fleet. Droids picked their targets and blasted away multiple fighters and transports, but the Star Destroyers had hammered the fleet and lost 3 Frigates. The Captain pressed the attack and knocked out 2 Star Destroyers and critically damaged another. TA-175 on the ground prepped his ray shields around the base and walked towards the two ion cannons. “Open fire on my command.” The Commander ordered. “Ready to fire.” A droid gunner responded. TA-175 then spoke to his Captain. “Move the ships and make room for the ion cannons to assist.” TA-175 commanded. “Yes sir, all ships disengage and have the enemy follow, we have our surprise up and running.” The Captain ordered. The Separatist ships began to break off from their firefights with the Star Destroyers and started to head back towards Korriban.

(Equestria, 3rd P.O.V)

Meanwhile in Equestria, Starkiller and Malachor had just finished talking about their ordeals with the Empire. “Wow, so the old man and the living junk yard are legitimately terrified of you? You’d have to be a great master of both Light and Dark in order to make those two scared.” Starkiller complimented. “Yes, but think of it this way, The Force is just the Force, to me there is no need for a distinction between Light, or Dark. Every Force Wielder is naturally stronger with certain aspects, so abilities aren’t inherently good or evil, it’s how you use them.” Malachor said with a smile while making sparks of Force Lightning in his left hand. Then a feeling was sensed that felt off as if the galaxy was in a dispute. “It seems that the Empire has found someone else to bother, but I believe that whomever they’re attacking is but a small symptom to a much larger threat, I suggest we prepare ourselves, but not for a while, let’s see who the Empire is currently interested in so we can prepare for them.” Malachor said as he closed his eyes and started meditating. Starkiller did the same as his new mentor. “What do you see?” Starkiller asked. “I see a planet, more specifically, Korriban, the planet is under attack by the Empire as it is currently occupied by the Separatists, but I sense a tremendous amount of darkness coming from an Imperial landing craft and from within the droid factory on the plant’s surface.” Malachor responded. “I see it too, so it looks like the living junk yard is out to destroy somebody, but who?” Starkiller asked. “I’m not sure, but I know going to Korriban would be a bad idea.” Malachor conceded. “Agreed, so what do we do?” Starkiller asked. “For the moment, nothing, but we should alert Celestia, or Luna to this and plan ahead before jumping the gun.” Malachor said as he opened his eyes and sat still for a moment.”Alright, let’s do it.” Starkiller agreed with his mentor. “Fine, but we need to keep several of our allies in the dark about this, Eric included.” Malachor said with a hint of regret in his voice.

“Why? It just doesn’t feel right for us to do that since he knows the enemy and has more to lose than anyone other than you, or everyone else, I’m just going to be quiet now.” Starkiller said upon realizing how pointless arguing was going to be. “Mmhm, sure, now let’s head to Canterlot.” Malachor said. “Canter-what now?” Starkiller asked in confusion. “Canterlot is the capital of Equestria, so we need to head there now, or be stuck behind a bunch of self-absorbed nitwits complaining to Celestia for completely mundane reasons.” Malachor said. “Not that I have a choice.” Starkiller shrugged as he and Malachor headed to Canterlot. “Well it’s either come with me, or we tell Eric and you stay behind and do babysitting with Roseluck while we’re gone, take your pick.” Malachor suggested as he went towards the ship’s controls. “Let’s head to the capital.” Starkiller said as Malachor operated the ship toward Canterlot. “Haha, sure, we’re on our way, we should arrive within five to ten minutes.” Malachor said as he sat in the pilot seat.

Within those few minutes, the city of Canterlot was bustling with ponies that were just minding their own business, until a ship went flying over the city and landed in Canterlot Park. Many of the fancy and wealthy ponies were curious, some were terrified and ran home, while others just went about their business. As the two Sith’s landed within the Castle grounds, Celestia and Luna looked out to see what the noise was and were quite pleased to see Malachor but were unsure about his accomplice. “Sister, I don’t like the looks of Malachor’s newest pupil, he seems to be hiding something.” Luna said as she focused her telescope onto Starkiller. “Fear not Luna, trust me that he will not cause any harm.” Celestia reassured her sister. “I don’t know Tia, it’s not that I don’t trust your judgement, I just want to get to know him so I can trust him. Remember what happened to me all those years ago when you thought you knew me, but it turned out you knew nothing?” Luna asked her sister. “I know, but I know this stranger before he even appeared here, let’s at least get to know him.” Celestia said as she flew down towards Malachor and Starkiller. “Alright. Hey wait for me!” Luna called out as she took off. The two Princesses glided down to the Sith’s and Celestia had a motherly smile on her face. “Welcome Malachor and Starkiller to Canterlot.” “Nice city, can’t say that those ponies could care less about us being here.” Starkiller said with a slightly condescending tone. “Sorry about that, just some annoying nobles decided to try and heckle him and he almost lost his temper because they wouldn’t stop calling him an unsophisticated savage because of his clothes.” Malachor apologised for Starkiller’s attitude.

“Hey?! Inconsiderate Sith alert, Do you have any idea what it was like to fall for Vader’s tricks?” Starkiller snapped for a second. “I’m very well aware of your hardships, but still I think it was rude of those snobs to talk about your clothes that way, I mean you had to fight your way through a bunch of the Empire’s shenanigans and all you got were slight burns, nicks and tears, I say it adds character to your attire.” Malachor said defensively. “At least you’re not one to judge, and that I appreciate.” Starkiller said with a sigh with his anger now out of his system. The two sisters watched the two Sith talk for a couple of minutes before they both cooled down to tell them why they were there. “So our purpose for being here is that we’ve felt something through the Force, something dark.” Starkiller said. “What was it?” Celestia asked with a concerned expression. “We believe the Empire is attacking someone on the ancient Sith planet of Korriban.” Malachor replied. “You say that as if it was a bad thing.” Luna said nonchalantly. “That planet was the birthplace of my ancestors, the place I studied to become Sith, the place I met Ella for the first time, and where I governed the Sith Empire until its destruction! So yes, that is a bad thing and worst of all the Separatist force that tried to invade us is there right now being commanded by someone other than TA-175!” Malachor shouted at the lunar princess in anger at her complete dismissal of the situation. “Well what do propose that we do about it?” Luna asked puzzled. “First we need to think of a strategy to help get more allies, trust me with what the Empire is currently doing, this tells me that the Emperor is afraid of something and he’ll strike at us when we least expect it, so we need to get more ships and troops so we can possibly expand and secure Dandoran as a fallback point.” Malachor suggested making the two alicorns look at him with skeptical expressions.

(Space over Korriban, 3rd P.O.V)

After what felt like years of relentless fighting over Korriban, The Separatist Fleet was moving over some while keeping up their firepower and luring the Imperial fleet to engage them. “Commander we’re in position, fire when ready.” The Captain said. “Ion Cannons, Open Fire.” TA-175 ordered the cannons. The Ion shots fired into the space around Korriban and were travelling at a phenomenal speed towards the Imperial ships. “Lord Vader, we have a problem, they have ion cannons, they’ll be able to tear our ships to pieces, I tried to tell the Admiral not to follow the enemy ships, but he said that it would be cowardice not to follow and now three more Star Destroyers have been completely disabled!” Ozzel reported expecting to be strangled by Vader’s Force Choke. Then an ion blast ruptured the Admiral’s ship and with a direct shot from the magazine, the Star Destroy exploded killing thousands. “Congratulations on your new station Admiral Ozzel have the ships turn around and disengage from the cruisers, Prepare for the orbital strike.” Vader ordered his newly-elected Admiral Ozzel.”Thank you my Lord and consider it done.” Ozzel said as he set the fleet to its new position over Korriban targeting the factory below. “Fire at will, destroy that factory!” Ozzel ordered. The Star Destroyers still able to fight turn away from the Separatist fleet and were beginning their attack on the factories. “Sir, we’ve only lost 3 cruisers and the Empire have broken their attack from us, but apparently they are now targeting the facilities.” The Droid Captain reported to TA-175 who was with Maul. “Oh gee, I didn’t notice that until the fire alarms started going off.” TA-175 retorted sarcastically. “Activate the ray shields and get defenses set for the transports that had survived the blockade.” Maul ordered as TA-175 nodded and activated the shields.

“Looks like it time for the ground game to begin, and unlike the Empire we have the advantage of numbers and firepower.” Maul said as he looked at the inventory of dorids reserved for the ground assault. The screen showed over 60,000 droids had been constructed and were ready to kill some Stormtroopers. The version 1 battle droids had been programmed more like professional soldiers and are equipped with the E-1 blasters that can do an amount of damage. “All units to defensive posts, defend this facility as we prepare our final preparations for our assault.” TA-175 ordered as the droids did so without question. In mere moments the Imperial transports touched down and the the troops as well as Vader emerged from the transports and were met by the nearly endless waves of droids running out and shooting at the troopers. The Imperials had more casualties than the droids, but Vader managed to cut a path for himself and left his troops to duke it out with the droids. “Sir, The invasion force is ready and have already left the planet and awaiting your ship to jump into hyperspace.” TA-175 informed his general. “Good set course for..” Mauls started but was interrupted by the sound of mechanical breathing. “The Shadow lives, it was only a matter of time before you would reveal yourself.” Vader stated as he drew and activated his lightsaber. “Sir, you go, I’ll deal with him, I’m sorry I won’t be there with you to experience victory, but it is here I must stay.” TA-175 said as he drew his vibrosword and clashed with Vader, buying his general time to escape. “Thank you Commander, you will be remembered.” Maul said as he ran into his flagship, Savage’s Vengeance and commenced the launching procedure. TA-175 and Vader however were battling it out with a duel between a Sith Lord and a Tactical droid. “Impressive, most impressive, but not enough to stop me.” Vader said as he shoved the droid away and threw a few crates at the droid. Being able to hold his own, TA-175 slashed through each crate and came closer to Vader and began attacking the Sith once again, but Vader was too focused on the duel to notice Maul’s ship taking off and joining with the rest of the invasion fleet as the battle droids, and ion cannons fought off the Imperial offensive in an effort to drive the Empire back. Once Maul met up with the invasion force, he typed in the hyperspace coordinates and sent them to his fleet and one by one, each ship jumped.

(Equestria, 3rd P.O.V)

While the princesses and the two former Sith were debating on a strategy to reduce heavy casualties, a letter from Twilight appeared in front of Celestia. “Hold on a second, I need to see what Twilight wants.” Celestia said as she unraveled the scroll and began to read the letter.

“Dear Princess Celestia,
It has come to my attention that Sunset Shimmer has asked me if I could come and visit her for a bit, I know we have a lot of things going on, but it’s been so long since we’ve seen each other and I want to tell her about the crazy things that have been happening recently. If you refuse to allow it, I’ll accept it, but I think that this would be a good opportunity to patch things up with her, she really wonders what you think of her now, so why not tell her, and show her all of the amazing friends we’ve made?
Sincerely,
Twilight Sparkle”

“So what did the letter say?” Malachor asked as he saw Celestia’s face widen into a smile. “Twilight wants to visit my old student Sunset Shimmer, in the human version of this world, and that gives me an idea, since the Empire and this unknown threat are coming here, what do you think will happen if we were to just mysteriously disappear and leave them here?” Celestia asked as Starkiller started to laugh. “That’s brilliant! In the midst of all this we just spontaneously return and kick all of their asses, saving billions of lives and resources!” He exclaimed in happiness. “As great of a plan this is, how do we keep our subjects, as well as ourselves separate from the human counterparts?” Luna asked. “I feel as if something terrible could go wrong like a tear in the space-time-continuum or a warphole to collapse the fabric of existence.” Starkiller thought of the consequences that could very well be catastrophic. “Maybe if we made everypony change their race, then maybe we can avoid this, but how are we going to move the fleet to that place?” Celestia said as she looked up at the skies and saw the fleet orbiting the planet. “Perhaps if we combined a huge amount of Force energy and magic. I think that it would create a portal large enough to allow our ships to go through without any issues.” Malachor suggested as Luna hugged him tightly while shaking him from side to side. “You’re a genius! We need to get started right away!” Luna said as she released the Sith from her grasp. “With a plan in motion, let’s get to work and inform Princess Twilight of the news.” Starkiller said as Celestia began writing a letter to her pupil.

(Korriban, 3rd P.O.V)

In the facilities on Korriban, a duel with two unlikely adversaries clashed against one another, A Separatist Tactical Droid against a Sith Lord. The droid used a sword that has the similar properties of a lightsaber called a Vibrosword. “You are skilled, but you are still only an outdated droid.” Vader said as he struck down on the Vibrosword. “Perhaps, but then so are you since your master will replace you at some point.” TA-175 retorted angering Vader into slashing a control panel. “I will not be fooled by your trickery, but if you can tell me where the Separatist fleet are heading, I may show mercy.” Vader proposed to the droid. “I will never betray my general, not for all the upgrades in the galaxy, I’d rather be hacked to pieces than betray him!” The droid responded as he managed to slash through one of the Sith Lord’s shin guards. Vader looked up quickly as saw the blade slash against his mask leaving a gaping hole, exposing his left eye and eyebrow, showing the yellow eyes of the Dark Side that resides in former Anakin. His respirator sounded damaged and his voice sounded normal with some of his vocabulator. “Then you will die.” Vader said as he made one swift move and forced the droid towards him and slicing his torso in two. “I die for the cause.” The droid said as his systems finally shut down for good. Vader deactivated his lightsaber and looked at the fallen droid one last time before returning to what was left of his forces. His commander walked up to him as the rest of his platoon was fighting off the droid resistance. “My lord, We are taking heavy casualties and the Separatist fleet jumped into hyperspace not too long ago.” The Commander informed Vader. “Disengage and fall back we’re leaving this system, but first Ozzel will take care of these scrap heaps.” Vader said as he walked passed the Commander and his troops. “All troops fall back!” The Commander ordered as the troops ran back to the transports which soon took off back to the Imperial Fleet. “Lord Vader we’ve lost 6 Star Destroyers, 34 transports, and over 160 fighters. What are your orders sir?” Admiral Ozzel asked and informed the Sith Lord.

“Regroup at Coruscant, resupply, then depart for that peaceful, pony planet.” Vader said as he slightly limped to the medical bay to get his suit and mask repaired. “Yes sir, and Korriban?” Admiral Ozzel asked. “Destroy the factories down below.” Vader said as he faced the Admiral who visibly cringed at the sight of the Sith Lord’s face. “Y-yes sir, Right away.” Admiral Ozzel said as he walked away and ordered the cannons to fire. After a barrage of Imperial firepower, everything that was outside of the ray shield was scorched, including the droids that defended the perimeter around the ray shields and the ion cannons were destroyed. But the facility was still safe due to the durability of the ray shield and the Empire fled Korriban after they disengaged.

(Equestria, Twilight’s Castle, 3rd P.O.V)

At the Castle, Twilight and Spike were enjoying a nice dinner and conversing about the day they’ve had. “So what’s new with you Twi?” The dragon asked as he ate a couple of gems. “Sunset Shimmer wants me to visit and tell her what’s been going on with us here, but I’m not sure if Celestia wants me to though.” Twilight said with a sad sigh. Just as she said, Spike burped up a royal message from Princess Celestia and the scroll landed on the table. “Huh, I wonder if there is a new way of doing this other than from my stomach, why not her bird to fly over or something?” Spike wondered to himself a little tired of this happening to him. “Let’s see what she says.” Twilight said as she opened the letter and read it to herself.

“Dear Twilight,
You may have just given us the greatest idea to save multiple lives, We will send our subjects to the human world and you will also see Sunset Shimmer once more. We are grateful that you gave us this idea and we are most pleased to see how my former student has been.
Sincerely,
Princess Celestia”

“Yesyesyesyes!” Twilight exclaimed as she jumped around the dining room in joy. “I’m guessing that she said you could go?” Spike asked the happy mare. “Better, we’re taking everypony with us, and the Princess is coming with us!” Twilight exclaimed as she shook her dragon assistant. Spike felt as if he was going to be sick if she continued shaking him as if he were a maraca. “I’m very happy for you so can you put me down please?” Spike as he was on the verge of losing his dinner. “Whoops sorry, but this is so exciting!” Twilight said as she teleported to the mirror and began writing to Sunset.

Author's Note

Hello Ponies and Bronies, Obsidian here to say that this time of year will be quite slow for the week due to my STAAR tests taking place so I might not upload as frequently as possible. Hopefully you all enjoyed this little surprise of throwing everypony into the human world and you will learn that we have taken some facts into consideration and are will to follow them. Be sure to leave feedback for us to improve and a thanks to Randablitz for editing.

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Destined Path (Mature)

(Human World, 3rd P.O.V)

The city of Canterlot was bustling with pastel colored humans just going about their business. At the local high school, Canterlot High, six girls were sitting outside by the school statue, which just so happened to be a magical portal to Equestria. Not too long after the Battle of the Bands that took place a month back, Sunset Shimmer had really improved with her reformation and how friendship has completely changed her. Sunset Shimmer was sitting around the statue with her friends with Sunset’s old journal, which started to glow and vibrate. “Ooh, looks like Twilight’s writing back!” The human Pinkie Pie said with her signature smile. Everyone looked at the glowing and vibrating book with wonder as Sunset opened it and read what Twilight had written.

“Hey Sunset,
I’m just writing to tell you that we’re coming to stay with you girls for awhile. When I say we, I mean all of Equestria, because Equus is under the threat of being attacked by two hostile armies from the stars, one of them is quite terrifying because it is ruled by a ruthless, evil old man and his apprentice who is more machine than a living being, the other threat is an army of droids built and programmed for only one purpose, to destroy Equestria and all who live here. The good news is that we have allies that can help us, and they’re the ones who suggested that we come to you and hide for a bit while our two enemies kill each other and our forces wipe out what remains. See you soon, and look towards the skies, I promise you won’t believe what you’ll be seeing!
Your friend,
Twilight Sparkle”

“Well that’s certainly distressing, I mean two enemies that have the capacity to destroy all of Equestria just to prove who’s stronger? That’s just awful!” Sunset said as she looked over what Twilight had written just be sure she wasn’t hallucinating. “And based on what she wrote, how can someone so old be so terrifying?” Rarity inputted. “Wait she’s writing something else.” Rainbow said as the books started to glow again.

“Also, all of your questions will be answered by our new allies who have actually fought the old man, who is quite agile and powerful despite his old age, and his apprentice is even worse because he’s killed children and has had no regrets of doing so, and the two of them make quite a fearsome threat.”

“Well that’s just downright evil! Anyone who hurts children, much less kills them, deserves to die!” Applejack exclaimed. “But Twilight said he was powerful, and I would very much not like to meet him.” Fluttershy squeaked out. “Agreed, so perhaps we should tell Principal Celestia and Vice-Principal Luna about this, just so they don’t wonder what is going on.” Rarity said as she gently stroked the pink haired girl’s back. “Let’s do so.” Sunset agreed as the six girls went into the school to confront the Principals about an unusual event.

(Equestria, Ponyville, 3rd P.O.V)

Back in Ponyville, Princesses Celestia, Luna, Twilight, and Cadence just finished the massive race switching spell on their subjects to avoid cataclysmic consequences between them and their human counterparts and were now ready to allow their experts of the Force help them open a portal large enough to move everypony and the fleet to the human world. “Alright, are you ready to play your parts?” Luna asked the Force Wielders sitting around the magic mirror. “Yup, now let’s do this.” Starkiller said as he sat down and started to meditate along with his companions as the princesses blasted the mirror with their magic. The mirror absorbed the magic and something was beginning to happen, the mirror started to glow and a huge beam shot up through the tree and up into the sky and a portal opened up and one by one each ship went through the portal and entered the human parallel. “This is Captain Rex aboard the Conquest, we have the entire fleet across the portal, Activating cloaking in 3 minutes.” Rex said over a commlink. “Great work Captain, please wait for further instructions.” Celestia said. “Roger that ma’am.” Rex responded. “Alright everypony go on through we’ll be the last ones to go through.” Twilight said as everypony went through the portal. “R7, get the ship ready and land on board the Freedom.” Eric said on his commlink and R7 beeped his reply as he launched Eric’s Starfighter from the war to the Venator cruiser.

“Alright everyone, let’s go.” Cadence said as they disengaged their massive amount of magic and Force energy input to its normal frequency. “Alright, time to see this parallel universe.” Malachor said as he rubbed his hands together with glee. “Yeah, it’s been so long since Sunset and I have seen each other.” Celestia said as they started to walk through the mirror, only to be greeted by six girls with wide smiles. “Welcome to our world Princess.” Sunset said as she smiled at her old mentor.

(Space over Coruscant, 3rd P.O.V)

In his lair over the planet of Coruscant, Darth Sidious eagerly awaits his apprentice’s report on the Separatist destruction. “Your Majesty, Lord Vader has just returned from Korriban, and Commander Ozzel has just been promoted because Admiral Baxter has been K.I.A.” An Imperial Officer reported. “Bring me Vader and the Admiral to me at once.” Sidious ordered the officer. “Yes, my Lord.” The officer replied as he ran out of the room. Soon Vader and Admiral Ozzel arrived to the Emperor and bowed in respect to their leader. “You requested us, My master?” Vader asked for what Sidious was in need of. “What happened during your assault on Korriban?” Sidious asked still facing the window. “We have sustained some casualties and the Separatist fleet escaped into hyperspace, however we did crush the resistance they had and Lord Vader killed a Separatist leader on the planet.” Admiral Ozzel replied as he stood to attention. “Do you have any ideas on where they went after they escaped?” Sidious asked starting to let his anger make itself known. “We have an idea where they may be Your Highness, but it’s the best chance we have.” Admiral Ozzel continued. “Good, then we can take of two problems at once then. Set our course for Equestria.” Sidious ordered with hatred in his voice towards uttering the name of the planet of his first ever defeat. “Yes my Lord, but the whole fleet? I recommend that we should at least have a reserve fleet here over Coruscant.” The Admiral advised as Vader walked over to his master. “I agree with Ozzel, Master his instincts have proven to be more effective than to just blindly rush into a situation without a backup plan.” Vader said as Sidious turned around with a neutral expression on his face. “Very well, We take thirty cruisers in our assault and Admiral Ozzel, if we win the fight, you will be looking at a promotion to Grand Moff.” Sidious said as he and Vader walked out of the lair with Ozzel behind them, proud that he will be getting a promotion for his intelligence in combat.

(Deep Space, 3rd P.O.V)

In the depths of space, Maul’s Separatist fleet had arrived into a safe area of space. 20 Munificent frigates, 2 Trade Federation ships, 4 Providence cruisers, and 1 Interdictor class cruiser. On board the Interdictor class cruiser, or known as Savage’s Vengeance, Maul was in the command center overlooking the void of space. A battle droid walked up to Maul slowly so he wouldn’t disrupt his commanding officer. “Sir we’ve gotten word that the Empire retreated and our Korriban facilities are still operational due to the shields, but we have reports that Commander TA-175 is no longer functioning.” The droid informed. Maul closed his eyes and sighed. “At least he fought bravely to allow us to continue our invasion.” Maul said in response. “We have spare droid parts if you wish to construct a new commander and what are our orders sir?” The droid said. “Get started on constructing my new commander, and prepare to head to these coordinates.” Maul ordered. “Roger roger.” The droid responded as he turned away from his general and went to a droid on the terminal to type in the hyperspace coordinates. The droid returned shortly after.

“Sir coordinates are locked, but the hyperdrive needs time to recharge.” The droid informed Maul. “So be it, just do what needs to be done so we can destroy our enemies.” Maul said to the droid as he smiled at the prospect of getting his long awaited revenge. “Roger roger.” The droid said as he left to work on the new droid commander and find a way to boost the cooling process of the hyperdrive. “Soon I will avenge you brother, soon.” Maul said to himself as he held his saberstaff in his hands.

(Human World, Malachor’s P.O.V)

As I stepped through the portal, I saw the exact human duplicates of my friends. “Interesting.” I said as I looked at the young girls. “Who are you?” A girl with red and gold hair with teal eyes, black leather jacket, blue pants, a yellow shirt, and black boots. “I’ll tell you who I am, if you tell me who you are.” I said with a smirk on my face and Ella started to get a frustrated look on her face. “This is my husband Malachor, and I am Ella.” Ella spoke clearly annoyed. “Well hello to you too, I’m Sunset Shimmer.” Sunset said with sarcasm. “I don’t find your sense of humor very amusing.” Ella said in response. I was wondering why Ella was being so possessive of me, then it all clicked, it was her time of the month. “Darling calm down, we can sort this out later, just please don’t hurt the girl.” I beseeched my dear wife in a calming tone. “Fine, but if she tries anything she’ll deal with the wrath of a Darth.” Ella said as she walked away from the group. “Wow, moody much?” The human Rainbow asked. “Don’t mind her, it’s that time of the month for her, and we want to try for a child again.” I said with a dismissive wave. “Right, anyway, it’s nice to meet you Malachor and Ella, but who are they?” Sunset said uneasily then directed her attention to the three other men crossing the portal. “I’m Eric Keteris, Jedi Knight, this is my father Flynn, and the guy with the tattered clothes is Starkiller.” Eric said as he pointed to the two men at his sides. “It’s a pleasure to meet you all, with introductions out of the way perhaps you could show us around this new dimension of yours.” Flynn said humbly that his wife would have always fell head over heels for.

“Sure, but could you guys tell us about where you come from, just so we don’t have any cultural misunderstandings?” the human Fluttershy asked as she looked over at us. “Me and Flynn come from Balmorra and are Jedi of the Grand Republic.” Eric replied. “I am a clone of Starkiller from Kamino.” Starkiller inputted. “Ella and I are the only two True Sith, from the Sith Empire from thousands of years ago, during the Republic’s golden age. We come from the planet Dromund Kaas.” I said as I bowed honorably. I could see the jaws of these hitting the ground when I uttered thousands. “How are you two still able to live?!” the human Pinkie Pie asked in complete astonishment. “I wonder that myself.” Eric added as he looked at me for an answer. “I managed to transfer my consciousness to others and Ella has learned the same technique, but after some research during the Old Empire, we discovered the planet known as Kamino, and they’ve been keeping our clones as a closely guarded secret, even from Sidious and Vader.” I said with a smirk on my face. “I was made on Kamino, how come I’ve never seen any of your clones?” Starkiller asked. “I told the Kaminoans that if they, or their descendants utter a word about Ella’s, or my clones we would return and destroy everything and force them into slavery.” I said with a neutral expression. “That’s barbaric, how could you tell them that?!” Rarity asked completely appalled by my last statement. “Simple, if there’s one thing you don’t ever want to do, it’s make a high ranking Sith Lord angry, because death and destruction follow, basically cross me, and I’ll make you wish you were never born.” I said as I allowed my eyes to glow purple.

(Deep Space, Maul’s P.O.V)

For the past few hours, I have been working on my new Commander with the spare droid parts that had been lying around the ship. My new Commander is a new Super Tactical Droid and I have programmed it with the knowledge and more of what TA-175 had. I called him TA-176 as a brother to my previously fallen Commander. After placing in the final parts needed for him to be fully functional, I looked on my work with a genuine smile. The droid activated as his eye lights illuminated to a yellow glow and moved his head to observe his surroundings. “Greetings General Maul, how may I be in your services?” TA-176 asked. “Just to get your basic situational diagnostics out of the way, then report to the bridge.” I said as I pulled out my datapad. “Yes sir.” TA-176 replied as I went off to the bridge. After a couple of hours TA-176 was ready for duty as I heard the doors to the bridge open, then close. “Sir, the hyperdrive is ready.” A droid said on his terminal. “Excellent, now onwards to that planet.” I said as the ship’s hyperdrive engaged once more. With the Separatist Fleet activating their hyperdrives, each ship made the jump to the planet of Equestria. “What’s the estimated time of arrival?” I asked. “About 4 hours sir.” The droid responded and turned to his general. “Good, in the meantime, I’ll be resting until we arrive.” I said as I walked back to my quarters for some much needed rest before battle.

(Hyperspace, 3rd P.O.V)

As Imperial ships rush through hyperspace, Sidious was in a real bad mood. “What troubles you my Master?” Vader asked his master. “We are taking too long to arrive at that pitiful planet, how long til our arrival?” Sidious responded angrily. “About two hours, don’t worry, they won’t see us coming and we’ll annihilate them while they have their guard down.” Vader reassured. “Never underestimate their abilities Lord Vader, They may seem weak, but they’ll have a strength to be able to put a bigger dent in our plans.” Sidious said with the knowledge of their previous defeat. “True, but with the dent we put in their forces, they won’t have the numbers to defeat us, and this time we’ll commit a ground assault.” Vader suggested. “Very well, Prepare yourself for the invasion, but I still feel as if we are going to meet the Separatist there and the Shadow.” Sidious forewarned. “Yes my Master, I shall prepare our troops for attack.” Vader replied.. “See to it that we permanently eliminate those bothersome equines once and for all!” Sidious said allowing his hatred to flow from him. “As you wish.” Vader said as he bowed his head to his master.

(Human World, 3rd P.O.V)

Back in the human world, Malachor, Ella, Eric, Flynn, Starkiller, and the Humane 6 were heading into Canterlot High to meet the two principals that run the school. “Sunset, are these the visitors you mentioned earlier?” Principal Celestia asked as she saw the group of Force Wielders standing behind the Humane 6. “Yes, these are the visitors and they happen to be quite interesting.” Sunset replied as the Jedi and Sith or both stepped forward. “We truly are honored that you are allowing us to stay here for the time being…” Malachor started, but was interrupted by his holocommunicator chirping that he had a call coming in. “Sorry, I need to take this. Eric, could you be gracious to give our regards?” Malachor said as he walked down the hall to answer his call. “It would be my pleasure.” Eric replied as he talked to the principal as Malachor answered the call. “What was that about?” Vice Principal Luna asked. “Don’t mind him, he’s just answering a call from one of our allies.” Ella said as she looked back at her husband with a smile.

“Yes? Oh Grand Moff Byron, what a pleasant surprise. What can I do for you?” Malachor asked his friend. “Well my Lord, I kind of need you to come and bail me and my squad out of a spot of trouble with the local law enforcement, and before you ask, no this was not my fault.” Byron said as she was being told to hurry up with her call. “Give me the short version, please.” Malachor said with an exasperated sigh. “Alright, stumbled upon a bank robbery while exploring the city, stopped the robbers non lethally, then the officers showed up and are now trying to arrest not just the robbers, but me and my squad for “Obstruction of justice”.” Byron said with sarcasm at the end of her explanation. “Fine, I’ll help you, just stay put. I’ll be there in a few minutes.” Malachor said with an exasperated sigh. “Yes sir, Byron out.” Byron said as she ended the transmission.

Malachor walked back to the group with an annoyed expression on his face. “I’ll be back in few moments I have go and keep Byron and her squad from being incarcerated for “obstruction of justice”.” Malachor said while making air quotes as he used Force Speed to run to Byron’s location.

Meanwhile in the downtown area, sirens wailed as the police were investigating a recent bank robbery. “Keep your hands behind your heads.” An officer said to Byron and her squad as the robbers were lead towards the squad car. “Whoa, what’s that?!” The police sergeant asked in surprise as an object came rushing towards them like a whirlwind. The officers placed the robbers into the car and then aimed their guns at the object heading toward them. “Easy men, steady and fire on my command.” The Sergeant ordered. “Don’t shoot, or you’ll die!” Byron warned the officers of their fate if they started shooting at whatever was heading towards them. “Quiet lady, let us handle this.” The sergeant said as he turned to his men and stared in awe at what was in front of them, a man in a black hooded robe with silver plates on the shoulders. “Holy crap!” An officer shouted as he shot his pistol at the man who seemed to have caught the bullet in his hand with no damage to his clothes, or his appendage. Malachor looked over at the officer who shot at him and extended his hand and lifted the chubby man and started to move towards him. “Do you have any idea who you’re dealing with? Next time think before you act, otherwise it will cost you your life.” Malachor said calmly as he gently placed the heavyset officer on the ground and let him scamper to his Sergeants’ side. “What is it that you want?” the Sergeant said sternly with little fear. “My Grand Moff and her squad to be released, and for you to apologize to me and the Moff for the disgraceful lack of conduct you have displayed.” Malachor stated making the bystanders agree with him as they had seen the Moff and her squad act in the defense of the bank and innocent civilians.

“I will be polite about this, but what makes you think you can just appear and tell us how to do our job? You would not like it if I showed up and told you how to do your job now would you?” The Sergeant said humbly yet sternly. “Let’s put it this way, I come from a place where insubordination, failure, or incompetence is punishable with death, so imagine yourself in your current position, and your superior ordered you to kill me, but you can’t so he kills you for your failure.” Malachor said truthfully. “Plus, I’m pretty sure you can’t do this.” Malachor said as he shot Force Lightning from his fingers into the sky. The Sergeant was impressed, but knew he can’t win an argument that had already been won. “Release the lady and her accomplices, but take the robbers to the station for questioning then a long stay at our finest prison.” The Sergeant ordered as he got into his car and Byron and her squad were released. “Thank you my Lord!” Byron said as she kneeled to her superior. “It’s fine Byron, you handled yourself well today, now I need to get back to that school so I can see what’s going on there.” Malachor said as he ran back to the school.

As Eric, Flynn, and Starkiller wrapped up their brief histories about one another, Celestia and Luna were impressed with their lives and how they could control the Force. “Principal Celestia look at this!” The human Cheerilee exclaimed as she turned on the news. “Wait, is that…” Luna started to say. “Malachor? Yup it is, and he seems to be conversing with the police as nicely as a Sith Lord can without killing them all.” Eric said as he saw Malachor levitate a cop over to him and placed him back down on the ground. “Hey, hey can I be released now?” the cop asked as he was only 7 feet in the air. “Not until you apologize for shooting at me for no reason.” Malachor said sternly. “It was an order I had to follow, surely there was a time you had to follow an order you never liked?” The cop protested as he struggled to get down and he did catch the sith in a corner. “The only people who were allowed to give me instructions were my Master, and the Emperor, they knew to never order me around otherwise there would’ve been some serious issues. So now I’m ordering you to apologize to me freely, or I can toss you into that car with the robbers, who I’m sure would love to talk with you right now. Your choice.” Malachor said as he started to slowly lower the cop about an inch from his original height of seven feet in the air. “This is why I never get enough respect because I’m always such a doormat, but I apologize.” The cop sighed with a hint of anger. “I accept your apology, and for the record, you’re not a doormat, a doormat would have started crying and pleading the moment I would hoist them into the air, and despite your discomfort, you held firm to your beliefs, and for that I commend you.” Malachor said as he gently placed the cop on his feet. “Yeah whatever, but just remember, there are more highly skilled law enforcement than just us, be sure you're on the right side of the road if you catch my drift.” The cop said as he got into his car and drove off to the station. Celestia paused the t.v and looked at the others. “Is he always like that?” She asked. “Not always, one time an Imperial Captain named Dylon Demarko disobeyed an order to not engage Republic forces over Corellia and my husband electrocuted him to death.” Ella said as she remembered seeing her husband kill the disobedient Captain.

“Geez, you Sith have a very disturbing way of dispensing justice.” Luna said with a fearful expression. “That wasn’t the worst thing I’ve ever done.” Malachor said as he walked into the teacher’s lounge. “Oh really?” Celestia asked. “Yeah, the worst thing I’ve ever done was slaughter an entire enclave of Sith Acolytes to get back at one of my rivals, Darth Seether because I thought that he killed Ella three weeks before our original wedding day. Let’s just say that trying to stop me resulted in massive amounts of dead bodies and destruction.” Malachor said as he started tearing up at his most painful memory. “Did you regret any of this?” Sunset asked in complete shock. “At the time, no, afterwards, yes.” Malachor replied. “Did Seether face you for what ya did to his students?” Applejack asked. “He did, and I killed him in front of the Dark Council, and I got promoted to Dark Councilor of Ancient Knowledge, or Chronicler, as I called it.” Malachor said wiping away his tears. “And now after thousands of years, Ella and I are finally together as husband and wife.” Malachor said with a smile as he kissed Ella.

“Well it is a pleasure to make all of your acquaintances and we are more than happy to give you a tour around our school to make you feel more comfortable.” Luna offered with a smile. “Thank you very much. Is it possible to lecture the students about our teachings?” Ella asked. “Sure, as long as it isn’t about sedition, or anything illegal.” Celestia replied. “Great! Now if you’ll excuse me and Malachor we have some marital issues to attend to.” Ella said as she grabbed her husband and ran out of the school and went on to the roof. “H.K., could you bring the Savage Destiny down here?” Ella asked over her commlink. “Response: Yes master, I’m on my way now.” H.K responded as he flew the ship down towards the High School. “Excellent. Now darling, you and I are going to shag until we get pregnant, understand?” Ella said as she passionately kissed Malachor. “I understand but, not up here.” Malachor said as they were out in the open and not confined in some private room. “That’s why I called H.K. dear, after all that’s where we first made love.” Ella said with a smirk. “Have I ever told you how much I love you?” Malachor asked lovingly. “Only every day.” Ella replied with a smile. As the two lovers hugged each other, as the Savage Destiny landed on the school’s roof.

(Savage Destiny, Ella’s P.O.V) (Warning, Mature Content Ahead, Please skip to next P.O.V if you do not like sex. Thank you)

After the ship landed safely on the roof, Valrun and I went inside and we went to our room. “I’m guessing we’re going to romp all night if we have to, aren’t we?” Valrun asked with a smile. I nodded enthusiastically. “Hopefully it won’t come to that love.” I said as I kissed his cheek. He kissed me on the lips and our kisses became more passionate as we went on. I felt the familiar touch of Valrun’s tongue prodding at my mouth to allow him entry. I gladly allowed it and our tongues wrestled for a bit before I felt a chill go down my spine. “He’s stripping me!” I thought to myself as the back of my corset was opened up. We broke from our kiss for some air. Valrun began to strip himself of his clothes to match my level of nudity. “Let’s make this as memorable as our wedding night.” Valrun whispered lovingly into my ear. “Yes, my Master.” I said seductively. “We’re equals, and our future child will call us both Master.” Valrun said playfully nibbling on my ear. “Let’s finish getting undressed and have our fun.” I said as I took off my utility belt and started to take off my skirt. “You read my mind, but could you take off my trousers for me?” Valrun asked with a smile. I happily obliged his request and took off his belt and started to unbutton his trousers and pull them down. “Good thing I don’t ever wear a bra with this outfit, or I would be terribly uncomfortable.” I thought to myself as I felt Valrun’s hand massage my pillowy mounds with care. I pulled down his boxer-briefs to reveal his manhood starting to become erect. I started to gently stroke him and I kissed his tip. I could hear pleasured moans escape his mouth as I continued with my ministrations.

“Love, why don’t we continue this on the bed, so you can get some attention?” Valrun suggested as I started to gently suckle on his member. I took his member out of my mouth to speak. “Sure.” I said as I stood up and led me to our bed. Valrun lied down on his back and I climbed on top of him, kissed his lips and turned around so that my womanhood was in front of his face. He gently removed my panties from my body and kissed my inner thigh. I went back to gently sucking and bobbing my head up and down his length until his tip started to hit the entrance to my throat. Valrun started to lick up and down my slit making me moan in pleasure, sending vibrations to his member in my mouth. Valrun’s tongue play was starting to get more intense which made me start to grind my hips on his face. I redoubled my efforts in orally pleasuring him. Taking a deep breath through my nose, I shoved my head down and swallowed allowing my husbands member to enter my throat. The both of us were on cloud nine, but eventually we had to stop so we could get to the main event of the evening. I let Valrun’s member slip from my throat, turned around to face him and kissed him once more. “I love you Valrun.” I professed. “I love you too Ella.” He replied as I lined his member up with my entrance and inserted it into my depths. The both of us gave out a moan of pleasure as we connected our hips. Valrun started to thrust his hips into mine as I did the same with him.

(30 Minutes Later)

Valrun and I had spent half an hour making love and we’ve been in six different positions, but we returned to our personal favorite; me on top facing him so we could stare into each other’s eyes as we climaxed together. “Ah, Valrun, darling, I’m close!” I screamed in pure ecstasy. “Me too, love, get ready!” Valrun shouted back as he thrusted as hard as he could, burying his member deep inside of me as he shot his load into my fertile womb. I could feel my inner walls clamping down on his member to prevent him from pulling out as he climaxed, but I climaxed as well, mixing out respective fluids together. I collapsed on top of him pressing my breasts onto his chest as we kissed one last time before allowing sleep to claim us.

(Space over Equestria, 3rd P.O.V)

As Equestria’s fleet was no longer guarding the planet, The Empire arrived to find out for themselves. “My Lord, we’ve arrived to the planet and scans show there are no ships in the system.” Admiral Ozzel informed the Emperor. “What do you mean there aren’t any ships here Admiral?!” Sidious asked angrily. “That’s just it Your Majesty, we can’t believe it either, I mean how could they have know we were coming? It just doesn’t make any sense, but rest assured we will find them as quickly as possible!” Ozzel replied confidently. “Send a ground assault and find the possible base they’re probably cowering in, then bring me the leaders alive for questioning and later execution.” Sidious ordered the Admiral. “Yes sir, I’ll also inform Lord Vader.” Ozzel said as he left the Emperor and went off to find the Sith Lord. “Lord Vader, the Emperor has tasked us to find the leaders of our enemy and bring them to him alive, if at all possible.” Ozzel said to the towering Sith Lord. “Then that we shall do, assemble all transports for landing and have fighters patrolling the system.” Vader ordered. “Yes my Lord. Colonel Veers, prepare your strike force for immediate departure. Pilots to your fighters and patrol the system for any ships that maybe hiding.” Ozzel ordered as the respective troops saluted and hustled to do their tasks as the battle had arrived when the Separatist come.

Author's Note

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Battle to Fall

(Equestria, Ponyville, 3rd P.O.V)

As the Imperial transports entered into the planet, they were quite surprise there was no resistance fire from the ground. “This is Black Eagle to Emperor’s Might, we have no contacts on the ground, the entire town seems to have been deserted.” The pilot said over the comms. “This doesn’t make any sense, an entire civilization and fleet can’t just mysteriously disappear from existence, there has got to be an explanation!” Colonel Veers shouted in frustration. “Troops are on the ground and are requesting orders.” Commander Yulman said over his commlink. “Search the town for anything strange, or unusual.” Veers ordered. “Yes sir.” The Commander acknowledged. While up in the Imperial fleet aboard Sidious’s Fist, the ships were scanning the system to be sure there was no ambush awaiting them. “Colonel, we found some sort of mirror, but nothing else.” A trooper said as he looked at the mirror. “What does it look like?” The Colonel asked. “Well it has a purple frame and it seems large enough to be about the height of a full length mirror and it doesn’t have a back to it, other than more glass, pretty weird if you ask me sir.” The trooper reported. “Let’s see if Lord Vader can investigate, all looks can be deceiving.” the Colonel said as he contacted Lord Vader. “My Lord, it seems that we have found a strange mirror, and I think it has something to do with the disappearance of our foe, it would be helpful to get your opinion on the matter.” Veers said to Vader. “Secure this mirror at all costs, I’ll have the Emperor come and help me investigate.” Vader replied as the Colonel saluted. “Commander secure that mirror immediately, the Emperor himself is going to assist Lord Vader in this investigation.” Veers ordered as the Commander saluted.

(Hyperspace, Maul’s P.O.V)

As our ship travelled through hyperspace to meet up with the Empire, my new Commander, TA-176 arrived on the bridge. “Sir, our scans have picked up thirty Imperial ships holding position over the Jedi’s homeworld, but the fleet defending it seems to have disappeared along with the planet’s entire populace, according to Imperial the reports we’ve been intercepting.” The droid said. “Hm unexpected, but the Empire we can still settle a score with them. Prepare all cannons and all droid fighters for engagement, I also want transports readied for a ground assault.” I ordered the droid Captain. “Roger roger.” The droid replied as it worked on it’s terminal. I was perplexed by the report, but it could wait for later, for now the Imperial Fleet was of greater concern. As our fleet appeared out of hyperspace, the size of the Imperial fleet was roughly the same to my fleet, but I had confidence that we can and will defeat them. “Commander, fire all weapons, they’re completely unaware of our presence!” I shouted when I realized that the Imperial Fleet wasn’t trying to blast us to bits the moment we exited hyperspace. The cannons fired, but at their own targets and immediately some of their ships began burning or getting torn apart by our fire.

(3rd P.O.V)

At the Imperial fleet, Admiral Ozzel saw the Star Destroyer next to his get pummeled by cannon fire and immediately called the Emperor. “Your Majesty, we are under attack, and it’s from the Separatists!” Ozzel said over the comms. “Fire back, and have your fighters take out as many of their weapons as possible.” The Emperor ordered. “Right away, My Lord.” Ozzel said as the transmission ended and turned to his crew. “All ships direct fire at the enemy and all fighters disable their armament.” “Aye sir, all fighters you’re clear to engage!” An Imperial Officer said over the internal comms network. The TIEs acknowledged their orders and began their strafing attack on the Separatist fleet. Imperials fired back at the droids and fighters from the Separatist were launched to engage the TIEs. “Sir, your transport is ready for launch.” TA 176 informed Maul. “Excellent, you stay here and oversee the space battle, we both know these hapless imbeciles couldn’t hit the broadside of a sandcrawler.” Maul criticized. “Roger roger, good luck General.” TA-176 said as his leader departed. The convoy of Separatist transports began their journey to the surface of the planet, but were now targeted by fighters and smaller artillery as flak erupted around the transports. “9+70, we’re in the atmosphere.” A pilot droid said. “ Adjust the g-force settings and keep us level.” Maul said as he adjusted the stabilizers of his landing craft. After most of the launched landing craft reached the surface and outside of the town called Ponyville, the droids began to regroup and stood as their general stood in front of them awaiting their next orders. “Send in the Droidekas and pin down those troops and the V1 Battle droids will assist you, Super Battle Droids lay down suppressive fire, and have the tanks focus on those walkers.” Maul said as he looked at the Imperial ground forces in the town.

The droids understood their mission and began their march into Ponyville and the Imperial forces stationed there. “Sir, a massive army of droids are heading for us, orders to shoot?” The Colonel asked Lord Vader. “Destroy them, but leave their commanding officer for me.” Vader replied. “Yes sir. All troops open fire!” The Colonel said as he pointed at the droids. The Stormtroopers began firing and the droids marched on as the front battalion of V1 Battle droids opened up with their own fire. The Separatist tanks were firing at the Imperial Walkers, hitting them in their joints making them tumble to the ground in flames. “Lord Vader, we’ve lost our some of our Walkers, and there’s too many droids, and I see another tank, it looks a bit different from the ones we’ve seen.” The Colonel reported. “Focus on their vehicles, and get some distance from those droids in some of those buildings and wait for reinforcements.” Vader replied. The second Separatist tank variant moved into position and fired its projectile at some incoming Imperial transports, which crashed into the middle of the town. “Destroy that tank at all costs!” The Colonel ordered as he saw empty trooper helmets fall out of the transport. “What the?!” He shouted at the sight. The droid forces closed in on the town and showed no sign of stopping. “Colonel we have a few missile launchers, but not many additional missiles, recommend combining all ammunition for one heavy weapons specialist.” A trooper said.”Do so immediately, All troopers hold the line, we must not fail the Emperor.” The Colonel said as the troopers pressed their defenses. The Defoliator tank stayed on the hillside to allow the normal tanks to advance into the town with the infantry not far behind. Most of the V1 battle droids were blasted to bits, some of the Droidekas were turned into scrap, but the majority of the Super battle droids were still intact due to their superior armor and rapid fire wrist blasters. The Lord Sidious arrived from behind the battlefield to see what the mirror had to do with the Rebel’s disappearance. The Sith Lord met with Lord Vader and the Commander.

“So what mirror had to do with the Rebel’s cowering from this planet?” He asked as the sounds of battle echoed through the town. “Maybe it’s some sort of teleportation device, but to where remains a mystery. Perhaps if we use the Force to assist us, we could find where it leads.” Vader proposed. “I agree, but right now it seems the Separatists have engaged our ground forces as well.” Sidious looked out to see his men and some droids get slaughtered in the fray. “That tank sitting on the hill seems to be able to eradicate all organic lifeforms, but leaves inorganic ones alone, it would prove useful to destroy it first and worry about the rest of the vehicles before the infantry.” Vader said as he looked at the carnage in the distance. “Agreed, and since you’re mostly machine, you seem to be the best candidate to destroy the weapon.” Sidious said as he pointed at the Defoliator. “Yes Master.” Vader replied as he used Force Speed to run to the distant tank. “Look, that Sith is on his way to the Defoliator tank.” The droid Corporal said looking through his scanners. “I’ll take care of him, just focus on the troops.” Maul said as he ignited his saberstaff. “Roger roger.” The Corporal replied as the tank was being reloaded for another volley. Vader hacked, slashed, and deflected blaster bolts on his journey to destroy the Separatist weapon. While it was more tedious than an issue, the droids provided a great method of anger management for Vader’s tendency to kill off incompetent soldiers and officers. “Ready. Aim. FIRE!” The Corporal ordered and the Defoliator Cannon shot a shell not too far from Vader and the droids eagerly awaited the results.

Through the cloud of dust and smoke, the droids were fine, but to their surprise Vader was as well. “Uh-oh.” The droids said as Vader sliced off the main turret and slashed the vehicle until it resulted in an explosion. Maul looked on with amusement, but was disappointed with the destruction of the Defoliator Cannon. “Well, that was an interesting experiment, too bad it cost us a great weapon. Oh well it’s like they always say: if you want someone killed right, you kill them yourself.” Maul said as he jumped on to a speeder that was inside the transport and sped off to Vader’s location.

(Human World, 3rd P.O.V)

It was a beautiful day at Canterlot High. The sun was shining, students were entering and leaving classrooms, all was well for the students. However, three students were just flat out angry. The Dazzlings were hiding from the students of Canterlot High, more specifically, the Rainbooms. “Ugh, I can’t believe this! Those stupid girls and unicorns all have new friends and I’m guessing they’re here to stay too!” Adagio Dazzle, the leader of the Dazzlings spat out in anger. “I know, but did you see what they were wearing? Heh, talk about D&D nerdgasms.” Aria Blaze, the heavy hitter of the trio said while rolling her eyes. “I don’t know. I thought that the man and the woman in the black clothes were pretty creepy.” Sonata Dusk, the taco fanatic of the group stated as she shivered from the goosebumps that ran all over her body. “No arguments there Sonata, especially with what we saw on the news last night. I mean the hooded guy managed to lift a fat cop seven feet off the ground without even showing a magical aura, then shot freaking lightning from his fingertips!” Adagio said as she was now envious at the hooded man’s great fortune of power. “But that leaves us to wonder how he did it in the first place.” Aria pointed out. “How about we sneak onto that weirdly shaped airplane and see if there are any spell books we could read to see how he could do what he did.” Sonata suggested making her two friends stare at her in surprise. “Who are you and what did you do with Sonata?” Aria asked still in shock. “What? Was it not a good idea?” Sonata asked bashfully. “Sonata, that was easily the greatest idea you’ve ever come up with in over a thousand years.” Adagio complimented. “Thanks, I guess.” Sonata replied. The three sirens crept their way towards the starship without trying to draw attention to themselves, but unfortunately it was on the roof and the school was populated. “Darn, we can’t go in, we’ll be spotted for sure!” Aria grumbled she saw the tremendous amount of students. The intercom came on with its signature feedback squeal. “Attention all students, please report to the gym for a special presentation from some very interesting visitors. I promise you won’t be disappointed with what they have to say! Until then enjoy your lunch period!” The ecstatic voice of Principal Celestia announced making the students excited. “And there’s our door, it’s lunch time right now, and lunch time lasts for the next hour, so let’s steal some grub and wait for that presentation.” Adagio said with a smile. The other two sirens nodded in agreement. Sneaking around the school, they were able to at least feast upon a few scraps of food and some water from the outdoor water fountain.

After about forty-five minutes the sirens were thinking about what kinds of knowledge they would find up on the roof. “What do you guys think is up there?” Aria asked. “Maybe there are some weird magical relics up there.” Sonata said while tapping her chin thoughtfully. “Maybe there are some potions up there too.” Adagio said as she listened closely for the bell to ring. “I think the bell finally rang, this is our chance.” Adagio informed her accomplices. “Ok, let’s go!” Aria said as she spotted the fire escape ladder. “Wow, how did we miss that?!” Sonata asked in surprise. “I don’t know, but what’s important, is that we have a clear path to the roof now.” Adagio said as she followed Aria up the ladder. It was a long way up, but didn’t take more than three minutes to finally reach the top. Exhausted but triumphant, the Dazzlings looked at the weird aircraft from a really close perspective. “Wow, that looks like something from a sci-fi movie or something.” Aria said as she gazed upon the aircraft. “Well if we’re done, let’s finish what we came here for.” Adagio said as she and the others tried to find some way inside.

(Savage Destiny, Ella’s P.O.V)

After waking up and getting a nice shower to wash off the stench of sweat and sex from my body. I sighed in happiness as I felt the warm water touching my skin as I put my shampoo and conditioner into my hair. After that I began to wash my body with my lavender scented body wash. “Ella? Are you awake?” I heard the voice of my husband, Valrun ask from behind the bathroom door. “Yes dear, I’m in the shower.” I called back from inside the shower. “Alright, I just wanted to let you know that I’m going to the lecture at the school, so if you want to just stay here, I’ll be back later, okay?” Valrun said. “Ok, I think I’ll just stay here, I want to see if we finally got what we wanted to accomplish last night.” I replied as I started to turn off the water. I used the Force to summon three towels from the closet; one towel was for me to stand on, the second was for my hair, and the third was for my body. “Ok, have a nice day dear, make sure to get some rest.” Valrun said as I opened the bathroom door and kissed him lovingly on the lips. “I will, now go and teach those children about where we come from.” I said as I walked over to my wardrobe to find a clean outfit to wear.
After choosing an appropriate outfit that won’t get the students too excited, I went to the medical room to find out if I really got what me and Valrun had ever wanted. “Hello, MD- 362. I was wondering if we could retake the pregnancy test.” I said to the medical droid. “Of course ma’am, just give me a moment to get the necessary materials for the test ready, then we can begin.” The droid said a happy tone. “Take your time, I’m not in any rush.” I said soothingly. A couple moments went by and MD-362 was ready to begin the procedure. “Please relax as I begin with a simple heartbeat.” MD-362 said. I inhaled deeply through my nose and exhaled through my mouth as MD-362 moved his stethoscope around my body listening to my heartbeat. After a few tests and quite some time later, we were finally done, but I was really excited to hear what the droid had to say. “Good news ma’am, you are in the zygotal stage of fetal development. In other words, you’re pregnant, congratulations!” The droid exclaimed with joy. I was so happy that my dream of becoming a mother was finally coming true. “Thank you so much MD, I must tell Valrun this incredible news.” I said excitedly. “Yes, but please promise me that you won’t do anything too physically exhausting.” MD said in a worried tone. “I won’t, and thanks for the advice.” I said as I headed towards the ship’s loading ramp.

(3rd P.O.V)

Once Ella left the ship, The Dazzlings were quite surprised at this ship’s capabilities. “Woah, this is soo cool.” Sonata whispered excitedly. “Yeah, I can just imagine what it looks like from the inside.” Aria whispered back. “Only one way to find out.” Adagio said as the three girls snuck aboard the ship and were amazed what they found inside. “Alright, now all we need is to find some kind of spell book or something to see if we could obtain those powers as well.” Adagio thought as the other two looked around the interior design. “Hey girls look at this, it’s robot!” Sonata exclaimed when she spotted the infamous assassin/protocol droid known as HK-49. “It certainly is, and it looks badass!” Aria said as she looked at the droid as it just stood silently against the wall. “Will you two stop ogling the robot and find something useful?” Adagio asked as she looked around the captain’s quarters. “Well what have we here?” Aria said as she saw some weird triangular objects on a shelf. “Looky here there are some blue cubes here too!” Sonata said as she spotted the blue glowing cubes on the opposite side of the room on a shelf. “You’re right, let’s grab as many as we can and leave before that lady comes back!” Adagio said as they took six each of the strange objects off the shelves and placed them in their backpacks and ran out of the ship. “So what do these things do anyway?” Sonata asked as she headed down the ladder. “We’ll know when we get away from this place.” Aria said as she touched the ground silently. “Will you two shut up? We’re trying not to get caught.”Adagio said, but her expression turned to fear as she heard someone that will make her feel like she was next on the hit list. “C’mon, c’mon we need to leave now!” Aria said to make Sonata descend faster. “I am going as fast as I can.” Sonata replied as she tried to get down the ladder safely.

“Whatever, just hurry up so we don’t caught!” Aria retorted. As the girls finally descended down the ladder, they made a mad dash outside with the holocrons away from the school. In their haste they nearly failed to notice a strange humming sound coming from around the corner. As the girls were running they almost ran directly into a purple beam with a black center. Stopping merely centimeters away from the beam, the looked to the left and saw the woman that left the ship. “Going somewhere?” The woman asked with a devious smile on her face. “Oh nowhere actually you see we were about to RUN!” Adagio shouted and turned tail to the other direction. “Ah, ah, no you don’t.” The woman said in a stern fashion as she extended her arm and the three girls froze in place. “If I die, It’s all your fault Adagio.” Sonata said with anger. “It was you idea to go up there!” Adagio shot back. “Both of you shut up!” The woman yelled in anger. “What do you want with us, we’re just poor hungry teenagers just trying to survive.” Aria said hoping she could be let off the hook. “Perhaps you should’ve thought things through before trying to steal from a Sith. Traditionally I would kill all three of you and not care, but in this instance, you have a chance to avoid that fate if you place your backpacks on the ground when I release you, if you run, you die, understood?” The woman asked with a scowl on her face. “I think we have no choice on this one, Dagi.” Sonata said with a concerned look. “Sonata’s right, if we try to run, she’ll kill us with her powers, and she won’t even feel guilty about it! I don’t want to die!” Aria cried in absolute terror. “Ugh, fine, take ‘em back, just another failed attempt to try and gain vengeance over the brats that ruined us.” Adagio said with anger as she tried to give back what was stolen. The woman opened the backpacks and took all of the strange objects out of them, then looked back at the three terrified sirens. “If you wanted to learn about the Sith, or the Jedi, you could’ve just asked me you know, and we could’ve avoided this altercation.” The woman said with a slight frown.

“Well based on this, I don’t think this is the type of magic I want to possess, I just want to at least work at that new taco joint that opened up.” Sonata confessed. The woman started to laugh. “What’s so funny?!” Adagio growled. “I’m sorry, it’s just so funny to hear the Force referred to as magic, when that’s not even close to describing it. My name is Ella by the way.” Ella said as she wiped a tear from her eye. “I am Adagio Dazzle, this is Sonata Dusk and Aria Blaze.” Adagio introduced herself and her accomplices. “Quick questions: What’s a Sith, a Jedi, and the Force?” Aria asked Ella. “Come back to the ship and I’ll tell you.” Ella said with a smile. As the four girls returned to the ship, Ella rattled on about the history of her origin, the Force, the Jedi, and the Sith. She even threw in the Battles of the Old Republic and the Clone Wars. The Dazzlings were amazed by all this new information. “So if you’re that old, why do you look so young?” Adagio asked. “Having a bunch of clones comes in handy deary.” Ella said with a smile. “If you were a great Jedi, why did you leave them?” Aria asked. “I left because I wanted to learn about the Force in its entirety, you can’t really learn that if you just stay with the Jedi, you’ll have to leave the Order and become Sith.” Ella explained. “Cool, so what’s like to be a Sith?” Sonata asked. Ella sighed. “I’m not going to sugarcoat this. Sith training is very strenuous because you’re not there to make friends, so you must be able to fight back because once you’re outside in the tombs, nobody is going to came and save you. Basically, you complete your trials and survive, or be dead and forgotten.” Ella said with a frown on her face.

“So you had to kill you classmates? That’s really messed up.” Aria said. “Yes, but if I didn’t they would kill me instead, and that was something I couldn’t allow.” Ella said with a frown. “Any more questions?” Ella asked. As if on cue the HK-49 reactivated and looked at the gathering of his mistress and three other girls. “Query: Who are these meat bags mistress?” The droid asked as he aimed his blaster rifle at them. “Easy there HK, they’re just guests, no need for alarm.” Ella said as she stood up and walked over to the droid. “Statement: I apologize and I have information about the status of the Equestrian world.” HK said as he lowered his blaster. “Very well, what’s going on back home?” Ella asked. “Statement: The Empire arrived to the planet first, but the Separatist had arrived not too long after. They are now engaged in full combat from both space and ground, but there is tremendous damage to Ponyville.” HK replied with his report. “At least our plan is going just the way we want it to, and the town can be rebuilt, so everything’s fine, also you’re going to have to play babysitter for a new member of the family.” Ella replied while giving the droid a cryptic clue about her pregnancy. “Query/ Statement: I see, shall I inform Master Malachor of the news of Equestria?” HK asked. “Yes, but leave out the news that he’s going to be a father, I want to tell him myself.” Ella said with a smile. “Statement: As you wish, Mistress.” HK said as he left to find his master.

The sirens looked at Ella in shock. “What was that thing, and why did it call us meat bags?” Aria asked. “That was my husband’s assassin/protocol droid HK-49, modeled after the infamous HK-47 owned by Darth Revan. Don’t let his meat bag comment get to you, he calls everyone that because it’s all part of his personality.” Ellas said while waving her hand dismissively. “I see, well I guess it is getting late and I’m sure you’re quite busy with other things and we’re sorry we tried to steal whatever those triangular objects are.” Sonata said rubbing her arm in shame. “Don’t leave, I sense that you three have no place to call home and this ship has more than enough room for the three of you, also those objects you tried to steal, they’re called Holocrons, and those were collected by my husband and I during our prime years, and if he was the one who caught you, then you would know the true meaning of the word fear, I’m a bit more forgiving, so count yourselves lucky.” Ella said as the sirens just stopped in their tracks. “Thanks, but we are still powerless and we don’t want to fight your battle.” Aria said. “You’re not completely powerless, I sense some of your power sleeping within you, and I could help you awaken it, but if you don’t wish to gain it, then by all means leave, and you’re not joining the fight, we’re only here until our enemies are sufficiently weakened so we can finish them off.” Ella said with a smirk. “Could you help us with our power?” Adagio asked. “I can, and the first step is with these…” Ella said as she levitated some Jedi and Sith holocrons around her. “How are those going to help?” Sonata asked. “These holocrons will teach you the basic principles of Jedi and Sith philosophy, and they’ll reveal some key insights that you’ll need in order to discover your power again.” Ella explained. “Well what are we waiting for? Let’s do it!” Adagio said excitedly.

(30 minutes later)

The Dazzlings were feeling like their power was starting to return, but it felt too weak still. “So what now? I mean we’ve studied from those holocron things, but we still feel weak.” Aria asked. “Now you must journey inwards.” Ella said. “How?” Adagio asked. “Embrace your worst fear. Allow your terror to cloud your senses, feel its power to distort, to control and corrupt. Face your fears and you’ll have your power back, but always be careful of your anger, it can be a useful tool, but if you allow it, it’ll destroy you.” Ella said as she heard two sets of footsteps enter the ship. One of them was HK and the other was the Sith himself, Malachor/ Valrun. “Honey, I’m home.” Valrun said as he entered the main briefing room with a smile. “Valrun, I’m in the study room.” I called back to let him know where I was. “I’m coming for you then.” He said in a playful tone, making the sirens giggle. “Who’s aboard with you?” Valrun asked. “Just my new students that want a second chance with power, especially after avoiding death for stealing some holocrons.” Ella said as Valrun lost his temper and yelled loud enough to make a car alarm go off in the distance. “Are you done dear?” Ella asked as she took her hands away from her ears. “Yes, I’m fine now.” He said as he found his wife standing in the study with three young girls that matched Twilight’s description from the Battle of the Bands. “These aren’t the girls from the Battle of the Bands Twilight spoke to me about are they?” Valrun asked with some anger showing. “So what if they are, they almost ran right into my blade and all they want is to live here in peace and make a good singing career. Do what you taught me, forgive and forget.” Ella said attempting to soothe her husband’s anger.

(Ponyville, Equestria, 3rd P.O.V)

The battle between the droids and the Empire was still raging on as the Imperials managed to get a better foothold on the town of Ponyville. Tanks were destroyed and used for cover, droids and Stormtroopers littered the streets and blaster fire was traded across the streets. “Sir, the Imperials have gained a more functional foothold on the town.” The Droid Sergeant said to Maul as he entered the rear. “Send in the Crab Droids and get some Hailfire Droids to eliminate the Imperial vehicles.” Maul said as he killed a few Stormtroopers as he passed through on his way to Vader. “Roger roger.” The Droid Sergeant said as Maul met up with the fierce Sith Lord. “So the rumors of ‘The Shadow’ are true, the survival of Darth Maul.” Vader said as he deactivated his lightsaber for a moment. “Formerly Darth, now just Maul.” Maul said to Vader as he got off his speeder. “We may not be adversaries, but if you surrender and join the Emperor, he may show you mercy.” Vader proposed. “I’d rather destroy him and take over the Empire!” Maul said with anger. “Then you will die as an outcast.” Vader said as he activated his red blade. Maul unhinged his dual bladed red lightsaber and the two began to clash at one another. “Victory will be mine, the galaxy will be mine!” Maul said as he struck against Vader’s blade and blocked his attacks. “Your skills are impressive, but you’ve grown weak since you left the Dark Side.” Vader said back as he attacked and blocked Maul’s dual-blades. “I will not be defeated by you, I know who you are because of Lady Tano.” Maul said as he pushed Vader back with the Force and leaped at the cybernetic Sith. Vader however was surprised Maul knew about the former apprentice of Anakin Skywalker. But he barely made it out of Maul’s leap attack as one of his blades slashed against his mask and left a gaping hole, exposing his two eyes, his vocabulator and respirator were damaged.

“Ahsoka.” Vader said to himself. Maul took advantage of Vader’s weakened state and began to bring his blade over his head in preparation for a beheading blow. Vader raised his hand to stop Maul with the Force and push him into a tree, the Sith quickly threw his lightsaber to try and slash Maul in half. Maul dodged Vader’s strike and kicked him in the exposed portion of his scarred and burnt face. Vader then forced his lightsaber back to him and activated the blade and began his attacks on the Sith. “All legends must end.” Vader said as he closed in on Maul. “I couldn’t agree more Skywalker.” Maul said as he rushed towards Vader. “Anakin Skywalker was weak, I destroyed him.” Vader said as he then locked blades with Maul.

Author's Note

Hello Ponies and Bronies, Obsidian here to say that this fight is only beginning with the duel between Vader and Maul. But the question remains, who will win? You're going to have to read to find out and what fate will be sealed for our heroins as they will encounter three powerful Siths. I like to thank Randablitz for editing and be sure you give us feedback for improvements.

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A Battle of Fates

(Human World, Rebellion Fleet, 3rd P.O.V)

On the Republic Venator, Freedom, Admiral Yalutarian was on the bridge with Captain Rex, Commanders Ganch, Cody, and Wolffe, discussing of the size and possible strength of the Imperial and Separatist fleets that loom over the planet they were bound to defend. “So we had a total of thirty Imperial Star Destroyers, and about thirty Separatist ships, along with a command vessel unlike anything we’ve seen.” Cody said as they group of officers looked at the holotable that had a holographic mock-up of the battle going on at Equestria. “Fraid so, but how are we supposed to fight a larger army of clankers and Stormtroopers?” Ganch questioned. “Hopefully they’ll be on their last legs when we go back and we don’t have much of a problem, but still there will be a confrontation with Vader and the Emperor.” Rex said as he watched some holographic ships disappearing from both factions. “Yeah, but what about ground support?” Wolffe asked as he changed the scenario to the current ground battle. “We don’t have any tanks or heavy artillery, so we just need to rely on the troops to find some way to disable their tanks.” Admiral Yalutarian said looking over the holographic battle. “Agreed, so who’s going to tell Eric, Flynn, Malachor, or Ella about this?” Rex asked with a smirk on his bearded face. “I might as well tell Eric since he and I had been there for one another through the Clone Wars.” Ganch spoke. “Alright, but Ganch don’t be surprised if he gets upset. After all, all he wanted to do was raise his son with his wife in peace and not fight another war.” Wolffe cautioned his fellow Commander. “It would not matter really, he still owes me after I saved him from a lightsaber duel with General Grievous over Nar Shadaa.” Ganch said with confidence and left to find his General.

(Human World, Eric’s P.O.V)

I had to admit, seeing my wife as a human really tugged at my heartstrings. I was smiling as she breastfed our son John. “He’s got quite an appetite doesn’t he?” I said jokingly. Roseluck looked up from our son to look at me. “He certainly does, I just hope he’ll get used to the idea that this is not what I normally look like.” She said with hint of sadness. “What seems to be troubling you?” I asked as I picked up her sadness. “I just don’t know how this whole thing is going to end, I mean will the Empire ever leave us alone? Will John accept my normal form as his mother, or not, and when he goes to school will other foals make fun of him? You know that kind of thing.” Roseluck said as she returned her attention to John when he finally finished feeding. “There is not much I can say to this, but the best I can say is that I know he’ll love his mother as I do when we met and that we can self educate him ourselves if school does not work out for him. That’s how I was raised and maybe it could serve him as well.” I said hoping it would at least reassure that John will be fine. Roseluck had tears of joy in her eyes. “Thanks hon, I really needed that, but still a mother can’t help but worry.” She said with a chuckle as she burped John, who let out a surprisingly large belch for a baby. “Goodness gracious me!” I said with laughter. John started laughing in response. “Big appetite, equals big burps.” I said as I poked my son’s stomach.

A knocking on the door had our heads turned toward the origin. “I’ll get it.” Roseluck said as she handed me our son so she could answer the door. “Oh, hey Ganch. What brings you here?” I heard Roseluck ask from the doorway of our hotel room, which was paid for by the Rebel Alliance when we first arrived here to wait for the Empire and the Separatists to fight each other until they were weak enough for our fleet to engage them in their confusion. We were in the Human World for nearly two months since we walked through the portal. “Hello, Can I speak to Eric for a moment, this won’t be easy for you or him.” Ganch asked. Roseluck allowed Ganch to pass. “Hey Ganch. Long time, no see.” I said as I held my son. “Yes sir, but I need to tell you that we are going to attack soon and we need you to assist in the attack.” Ganch said. “How soon, because if I don’t ever come back alive this time, I at least want to say goodbye to my wife, son, and friends before going into battle.” I said with a hurt expression. “We are supposed to attack soon and probably be best if we left immediately.” Ganch said. I sighed in defeat. “Alright.” I said before turning to Roseluck and John. “I love you both, never forget that.” I said as I allowed my tears to flow from my eyes as I hugged my wife as if it would be the last time to do so. “I love you too, May the Force be with you.” Roseluck said as she kissed my cheek lovingly. As we parted Ganch and I left towards the BoO (Base of Operations) aboard the Freedom.

(Savage Destiny, Malachor/Valrun’s P.O.V)

The news that Ella was pregnant with our first and only child astounded me, I was completely speechless. “Are you really sure?” I asked. Ella rolled her eyes. “For the one thousandth time: Yes.” She said with a giggle at my disbelief. “It is true Mr. Valrun, only a few more days til the daughter can be delivered.” MD said as he turned to organize some medicine. “I can’t believe this is finally happening! I just wish our parents could be here to see their grandchild.” I said with a remorseful expression as I bowed my head in sorrow. “Statement: Excuse me, If I am not interrupting anything, You have a holo transmission from the Venator Freedom.” HK informed as he walked in. “Thanks HK, I’ll get to it in a minute.” I said. “Statement: I’m afraid it is urgent sir.” HK said once more. “Fine.” I said with a groan. I ran to the holoterminal and answered the transmission. “Ah, Master Malachor, your presence is required on the Bridge of the Freedom, for us to discuss our plan of attack against two powerful armies.” Admiral Yalutarian said. I nodded in response. “Did you extend this invitation to Grand Moffs Vicarn and Byron as well?” I asked. “I did take the liberty and notified them before you. They command their fleet, we command ours, but all we know is that the Force-wielders will take part in the ground assault.” Yalutarian replied. “With all due respect Admiral, I think the time of separate fleets is over, we need to act as one military entity if we’re to succeed in any further battles, but I’m on my way regardless.” I said as I went to start the Savage Destiny’s engines. “I believe you’re mistaken as we are together in this battle as one, but we command our separate fleets, but we will await your arrival, Yalutarian out.” The Admiral said as the transmission ended. “What’s going on?” Ella asked with concern. “The final assault is at hand, and you are to stay here and stay safe. The last thing I need to do is see you, or our daughter get hurt, so please don’t argue with me about this.” I said as I put the engines on idle to let Ella exit the ship.

(Ponyville, Equestria, 3rd P.O.V)

As two Dark Force-wielders clashed through the streets of the wrecked town of Ponyville, Maul and Vader had been two adversaries that showed remarkable performance in combat that they were in a stalemate and landing an occasional scratch on one another. “You can not win, you are just an outcast to the Sith.” Vader said as they broke a saber hold. “No matter, you will soon know what it means to die and be forgotten.” Maul replied as he swept under Vader’s feet. Vader fell to the ground and as Maul was tending to finish him off, Vader Force pushed Maul into a building and got up. Maul and Vader were exhausted after battling each other for an agonizing thirty minutes. “None of us may win today, but next time, One shall fall.” Maul said as he flipped over a building and away from the battle-torn Sith. Vader walked back to his master with only the damage of his mask exposing his eyes. “Master, how goes the progress on your investigation on this mirror?” Vader asked as his respirator was labored in its breathing cycles. “I sense a great power in this mirror, but what power it possesses remains unknown.” Sidious replied as some troopers were testing the mirror and looking for something unusual. Then a trooper looked at the glass and put his hand on it, but instead fell through before he could scream. “Pvt, anything as of yet? Pvt?” A Stormtrooper Captain called and found his Private went MIA. “My Lords, Pvt, Nugall has just gone MIA while investigating the mirror.” The Captain reported. “Sir, you may want to look at this.” A Lieutenant called as his arm was inside the mirror. “Your Majesty, I think we found out how the Rebels disappeared, come and see this.” The Captain said as he showed his Lieutenant’s arm inside the mirror. “Impressive, Good work Lieutenant and Captain, you two deserve a promotion for making a big service to the Empire. Now we can seek out the Rebels and wipe them out in their own hiding place.” Sidious said. “Thank you Sir, shall we get a few squads together?” The Captain asked as he pulled his second in commands’ arm out of the mirror.

(Human World, 3rd P.O.V)

It was a sunny day at CHS, students were just going about their usual business, until a man dressed head to toe in white armor with a polarized visor, and blaster came falling through the Wondercolt statue. “Huh? Where am I?” The trooper asked as he looked around and saw a bunch of pastel-colored humanoids walking toward a facility. “Must be a school, or academy of some sort.” The trooper said to himself as he picked up his blaster rifle and checked it for any damage from his trip through the portal. “Alright, time to find out if the Rebels are hiding here. Might as well start with the staff of this establishment.” The trooper said as he walked towards the school and was met with a ton of stares by the students as he headed for the office. “Excuse me, I’m looking for your superiors.” The trooper said to the secretary. “You mean Principal Celestia and Vice-Principal Luna? And what’s with the Star Wars cosplay?” The secretary asked quite puzzled of what she was witnessing. The trooper pointed his blaster at the nearby printer and shot his blaster at it and destroyed the printer. “Can pretenders do that?” The trooper asked. “Ok so that’s real, the Principals are on the right second door to the left and by the way, thanks for hitting the printer we really needed a new one.” The Secretary winked. “Thanks.” The trooper said as he walked towards Principal Celestia’s office. He walked through the hall until he saw the door titled “Principal Celestia” on top of the door. Pvt Gary looked through the window to see if the office was occupied and found it to be empty. “Huh, she has to be here somewhere, but where?” Gary said as a scream of fright sounded off in the main lobby of the office.

“Oh no.” Gary sighed as he peeked out to see what the commotion was. Celestia was very upset when she saw a single blast point on the printer. “Who did this?!”’ Celestia asked in a frantic tone. “Just a hunky trooper, by the way that printer was a piece of junk, I’ve been telling you that we needed a new one.” The secretary said as her employer just glared at her. “Where is this ‘Trooper’ now?” Celestia asked with some anger. “He went to find your office ma’am.” The secretary said. “Oh no uh shoot what to do?” Gary said as he tried to look for some kind of way to hide or escape. As Celestia rounded the corner with her taser, she was met with a quick martial arts chop to the back of her neck, knocking her unconscious. “Pvt Nugall? Where are you soldier?” The new Major asked as his squad searched for their missing comrade. “Over here sir.” Gary said as he poked his helmeted head out from around the corner. “Good, now help me with the interrogation, His Majesty wants all the info he can get without getting too irritated.” The Major said as he hefted the unconscious school official over his right shoulder. “Sir, let’s do this in her office, so we don’t attract any unnecessary attention.” Gary said as he pointed his thumb towards Celestia’s office door. The ISB carried the unconscious principal into her office and strapped her down in her chair. The Major and his crew awaited her to come to.

Celestia started regaining consciousness and she saw a couple of new men standing in her office. Celestia tried to move in her chair, but realized that she was strapped down. Her struggling got the attention of the the ISB Major. “Comfy?” The Major asked. “What is it that you want?” Celestia snarled. “Information about the Rebels. If you tell me where they are, you and your students will live, refuse and there will be a massive amount of body bags on the news tonight.” The Major said as he placed his blaster pistol on the desk. “No! Please, don’t hurt them, they’re just kids! What have we ever done to you?!” Celestia pleaded. “Hosting traitors to the Empire, Speaking out against our politics, and Disrupting the peace we bring to the galaxy. Once they’re destroyed, we’ll have no quarrel with you and this world, so tell us what we want to hear.” the Major replied as he looked at the frightened woman. “What you can do to me will only pale in comparison to what Darth Malachor will do, so while I am terrified, I will tell you nothing!” Celestia said. “Fine, I was hoping to avoid this, but if I can’t get you to talk, maybe Lord Vader can.” The Major said as he opened a comms channel to Vader. The tall battle worn Sith appeared on the holocommunicator and looked quite menacing to Celestia. “What is it Major Briggs?” Vader said with his slightly distorted vocabulator and labored respirator. “It seems as if our guest won’t cooperate by revealing anything to us. We thought you might have a suggestion to get some information.” Major Briggs replied as Vader turned to the tied up Principal. “Allow me to finish this while you and your men lure out the Rebels.” Vader said as he cut off his transmission. “Alright you two guard the woman, Gary secure the main hall, the rest are on lookout for Vader and the Rebels.” Major Briggs ordered as his men, except two ran out to their posts.

(Rebellion Fleet, 3rd P.O.V)

On board the Savage Destiny enroute to the Venator Freedom, Sonata Dusk was waking up from a nice nap to get something to eat from the ship’s food synthesizer, until she felt a chill go up her spine. “Brr, why is it so cold?” Sonata asked. “Oh, it seems that I forgot that you and your friends were here.” Malachor said as he turned and saw Sonata shivering. “Where are we the North Pole?” She asked. Malachor chuckled. “No, right now we’re in space, or more specifically, we’re just in high orbit meeting up with the fleet.” Malachor said. “I knew we should have left for breakfast an hour ago, but you all decided it would be best to sleep in, then we wouldn’t be a part of this.” Adagio said to herself shaking her head in disbelief. “Too bad, you’re involved now. Just deal with it.” Malachor stated flatly. “Whatever, can we have something to defend ourselves at the very least?” Aria said as she walked into the room. The three sirens followed the Sith into his private room where they looked around at the old relics and artifacts from the Old Sith Empire. “Take these. You may not be able to use the Force, but you don’t have to in order to just wield a lightsaber.” Malachor said as he handed the sirens their lightsabers. The sirens ignited their red, purple, and yellow blades and just stared in awe at their beauty. “Wow, this is really cool. Do we get to keep these, or what?” Aria asked as she deactivated her red blade. Malachor smiled. “Of course you can keep them, consider them as gifts from a great friend.” He said as they went towards the Savage Destiny’s bridge to see the Freedom coming into view.

Once aboard, the four reached within the space around the ship, but no request for landing would be given due to there being no enemies. Savage Destiny landed on the old Republic venator cruiser as Malachor and his companions arrived on the bridge. “What are they doing here?” Eric asked. “Forgot they were on my ship, so they’re coming along to help.” Malachor said matter-of-factly. Eric and the others simply shrugged and went back to the holotable. “So where do we stand?” Flynn asked. “As of right now, The Imperial Fleet now has eighteen ships left, the Separatists have seventeen ships, and we have at least forty-nine ships.” Commander Cody reported. Flynn nodded. “What about the ground forces?” Eric asked. “Separatists have tanks and a ton of clankers, The Empire has their junk armored troopers and their walkers.” Rex reported. “I understand that the walkers are quite deadly, which could explain the mass amounts of scrap metal that we might see.” Eric theorized. “Right, so we need to eliminate as many vehicles before the infantry, due to the fact that the walkers and tanks can take down any fixed positions like heavy turret emplacements, and the armor on the walkers is too strong for standard fighter blasters, we need to trip them, or bomb them.” Ganch said as he pulled up a side-by-side comparison of the two types of Imperial walkers. “But that will also leave us with the greatest threats, Sidious, Maul and Vader.” Eric pointed out remembering his skirmishes with the Siths. “Agreed, so who’s going to help out with the…” Flynn started to ask, but heard his holocommunicator chirping. “Roseluck, it’s nice to see you, but we’re in the middle of a meeting can you call back in a bit?” Flynn asked his daughter-in-law.

“I wish I could, but I just saw a few squads of Stormtroopers near CHS, and Vader himself has arrived as well, fortunately he didn’t see me, or sense John. I’m afraid our time of hiding is over.” Roseluck said as she looked like she was going to start crying. “Hang in there, Just stay away from the school. If I know Vader he would sense John. He may be a cyborg, but he is still what is left of a great Jedi. I’ll be on my way to assist you or hold off Vader.” Eric volunteered. “We’ll come too, since we don’t know if anymore troops will come through the portal. We need to be ready for anything.” Adagio said. “The more the merrier, but we’re going to have to engage now since we don’t have anymore time, prep all ships for battle and assemble all squads, I’ll meet you all on the battlefield.” Eric spoke as he and the sirens left the Bridge. “You heard the man. Move out!” Commander Cody said as he put on his helmet and left the Bridge. “This is Admiral Yalurtarian to all ships, prep squads for battle and ready shields.” Admiral Yalutarian ordered as the astromech pilot droids reported to their ships and R7 who manned Eric’s starfighter. “For the Rebellion!” Malachor shouted as he left for his flagship Emperor’s Inquisition.

Once Eric and the Sirens landed a shuttle down to the surface, they readied themselves as Stormtroopers guarded the area. Within the school, Vader approached the Principal and looked with his own eyes how terrified Celestia looked. Vader’s respirator was still labored, but functional. “We don’t have to make this uncomfortable, but if you can reveal to us where the Rebels are, you can walk away from this unharmed.” Vader proposed. “Why should I trust you? If what my friends told me about you is true, then you’ll just kill me and my students anyway.” Celestia replied. “Perhaps this child will confess what you will not.” Vader said as the ISB Major brought in a terrified Sunset Shimmer. Celestia’s eyes widened in fear. “No, wait! I-I’ll tell you, just do what you want to me, but leave her alone!” Celestia pleaded. “Very well.” Vader replied. The troopers released Sunset, but kept her secure in case the prisoner has any intentions of tricking Vader. “The Rebels are here, but where specifically in the city, I don’t know, but their fleet is in orbit.” Celestia said while holding back tears. “Thank you for your cooperation.” Vader said as he turned to leave. “Major, release the prisoners, but keep them under your eyes and ears.” Vader instructed the Major. “Yes my Lord.” The Major replied as he bowed. Celestia and Sunset were released and Vader felt triumphant and contacted his Master on the updated information.

“Master, our suspicions have been confirmed, the Rebels are indeed hiding in this dimension, what shall we do with their academy?” Vader said. “Destroy it, Make it as a symbol and a proper example that harboring traitors from the Empire will not be tolerated.” Sidious replied as he looked upon his apprentice. “As you wish.” Vader said as he made his way back towards the school. Inside Principal Celestia’s office, Celestia was filling out paperwork to distract herself from the fact she was being watched by a captor, then she heard the sound of a labored respirator. “What do you want now?” she asked in a fearful tone. “The Emperor wants this academy destroyed to serve as an example to the consequences of harboring Rebels.” Vader replied. “No, please don’t do this!” Principal Celestia begged as Vader ignited his lightsaber. “Perhaps I was wrong about sparing you and your students.” Vader said as he raised his blade. “It wouldn’t be the first time, Skywalker.” A voice said from behind Vader. The Sith turned to see four figures before him. “Eric Keteris, we meet again and quite surprising that you’ve survived after our last encounter.” Vader spoke as he met the Jedi face-to-face. “Glad to surprise you, perhaps Kallus should be killed for his incompetence. Now leave this school alone, or I will make sure your respirator stops working for good this time.” Eric said with a hint of anger. “You and your apprentices have no idea how powerful I became after our last encounter, I drew with the Shadow and personally slaughtered an army of droids, but most importantly, I’d be more worried about the lives of your Father and friends.” Vader responded.

“I do worry about them, and I will risk my life to keep them safe, and these three aren’t even Force Sensitive, but they might be able to put up a fight. Now come on and fight someone who is able to fight back, you coward.” Eric replied. “Then you will die braver than most.” Vader said as he hilted his blade and engaged in a four-v-one battle. In the brawl, Vader deflected many attacks and used the Force to be able to gain some distance between his adversaries. Adagio used a very strong defensive style, Sonata used an adaptive style, while Aria used an aggressive offensive, but strong defensive style, similar to Vader’s, but the Sith Lord had much hatred and anger in turn gave him more power and strength and when he caught Aria in a Saber lock, he was able to win and knock the blade out of her grip and Force choked her towards the window. Adagio threw her blade at Vader to distract him from his hold on Aria, who dropped to the ground gasping for air. “Pick on someone your own size you bully!” Adagio proclaimed as Vader turned to face her. Vader quickly put Eric and Sonata out as he faced Adagio and Aria alone. “You could serve as grand inquisitors to the Emperor and you can unlock the true power of the Dark Side.” Vader said as he walked up to the girls. “I think I’ll pass on that, I mean it’s nice to feel important, but hurting others, is too low for me.” Aria replied as respectfully as she could. Vader would not take that as an answer and with a swift use of the Force, Aria faced something many had feared, Impalement to a Sith blade. “NO! LEAVE HER ALONE!” Adagio screamed and threw her arms out and Vader was blasted backwards through three walls and hit Vice Principal Luna’s car. Aria stared at her usually docile friend, who now was enraged and ready to kill. “I’m… sorry… Adagio… Please… do it… for… us.” With her final words, Aria Blaze died. Adagio took her friend’s lightsaber as well as her own and her eyes flared red in anger. “I will find a way to bring you back, I promise.” Adagio said as she activated both blades. Vader recovered from the Force blast and saw the young blade wielder with much anger. “Your anger serves you well, I can sense the power within you, I can restore your friend if you join me and the Emperor.” Vader said as he walked up towards the enraged siren. “I will kill you and learn this power for myself!” Adagio spat out in anger.

“Revenge is not the Jedi way.” Vader said. “I’m no Jedi.” Adagio said as she lunged at the cyborg and cut off one of his arms making him scream in pain. Then the sound of laughter filled the air. “Good, your hate has made you powerful. Now fulfill your destiny, and take your place at my side.” Sidious said as he commented on Adagio’s innate power from her rage. Vader looked at Adagio fearing it could be his end. Sidious eagerly awaited the final conclusion she was about to make. Adagio raised her blades to strike, but stopped and withdrew. “I will join you, if you give me my friend back. I’ll convince her to join us.” Adagio said as she helped Vader up. “How unexpected, but it can be done, but will you train your friend in the ways of the Sith as a master?” Sidious asked walking up to Adagio. “Only if you permit it, my Lord and Emperor.” Adagio responded as she kneeled in respect. “How noble, yet I see you’re attempting to deceive me.” Sidious said with a little snarl near the end. “Never! I will be your new Grand Inquisitor, and I’ll serve you until you deem me useless, but won’t it be beneficial to have more Inquisitors to hunt any Rebels who hide in your ranks?” Adagio said as she stayed in a kneeling position. “Lord Vader, Repair yourself as soon as possible.” Sidious ordered as Vader grabbed his lightsaber. Vader bowed his head in acceptance. “As for you young one, You see the Empire appreciates you for joining, but I fear that the Inquisitorial stage of our operations had passed after many of the Jedi had been eliminated and I fear you’ll become a rival to me if I deemed you as a Master to the Sith and that is something, I can not tolerate.” Sidious said as he swiftly activated his lightsaber and impaled Adagio in her kneeling position. Eric and Sonata awoke from their unconscious states to see Adagio and Aria on the ground with a single wound through their chests. Sonata began to cry as she lost her friends and her surrogate sisters to these cruel men. “They are at least one with the Force and there is no death.” Eric tried to comfort Sonata over her loss. “It’s a nice thought, but I want them back.” Sonata said as tears streamed down her cheeks. All Eric knew was that if Roseluck were here, he’d probably get slapped, but all he could do was give Sonata a tender hug and a peck on her cheek just to make her feel better. “How sweet of you. Too bad it’ll be the last thing you’ll ever do.” Sidious said as he gnarled his fingers in preparation to use Force Lightning. Eric quickly sprung into action and activated his black cored-blue lightsaber and blocked the incoming lightning. “Sonata, we need to help the Rebellion.” Eric said as the lightning stopped and the Jedi jumped to face the Sith. “Ok, let’s go.” Sonata said as the two ran back into the school and killed a few Stormtroopers along the way.

Gary Nugall however, was the exception as he and the school Secretary named Veronica were enjoying themselves completely oblivious to what was happening as Gary removed his helmet as a white human with cut black hair and a small beard as he made out with the beautiful secretary. Their fun was cut short when a black cored red blade hummed behind Gary’s head ominously. “Where are my friends and don’t bother lying to me either, or it’s goodbye secretary.” A deep masculine voice said. “I honestly do not know, I was just too lost in this beautiful woman to even notice. I can leave the Empire for all I care, but I’d try where the giant hole in the school’s wall is.” Gary said flatly as he resumed his make-out session with Veronica. “Great, when you’re done kill the troops outside and put this on.” Malachor said as he handed Gary a Rebellion shoulder pad. “No thanks, I’m done with this stupid war and decided to live here, but those troopers I can handle.” Gary said as he handed back the pad and cocked his rifle. “I’ll be back baby.” Gary said as he put his helmet on and headed to his former comrades. “Be safe.” Veronica said as she hugged her lover. “I will.” Gary said as he shot three troopers in the head accurately. Malachor shook his head with a smile as he headed through the hole in the school and saw two dead sirens. “Well time to play the part of a miracle medic.” He said as he made his way over to Aria’s body. Laughter echoed throughout the room and this laughter was from pure evil. “Welcome my old friend, It’s been quite awhile since we’ve last met.” The voice said. “Yes, but unlike you, I have a sense of decency, now feel the true power of the Sith.” Malachor said as his eyes glowed purple and a huge amount of Force Lightning came rolling forth and hit Sidious into Principal Celestia’s car and fried the engine beyond repair. Sidious was not known to give up easily and used a large amount of the Force to propel himself back towards his foes and ignited his two lightsabers and struck both of the two with a powerful kick. Sidious landed and once more decimated the two fallen Blade wielders beyond healing. “In the Sith, death is final. You will learn this the hard way my old friend.” Sidious said as he took his stance. “You forget, I’ve got more tricks up my sleeve.” Malachor said as he drew upon the Darkness that came from Sidious and healed himself and Starkiller. “You’re not the only one with a grand trick.” Sidious smiled as he hit his holocommunicator. “Admiral Ozzel, Execute Order 68.” “Yes your highness.” Ozzel saluted and ending the transmission.

What Sidious was oblivious to was that Adagio and Aria were being healed and were able to live once more. “We’ve got to help them, we need to warn the fleet.” Adagio whispered as she grabbed her lightsaber and picked up her friend and ran back into the school. Sidious was slack jawed at what he saw. “How is that possible?!” He asked in anger. “Who do you think taught Plagueis how to manipulate midichlorians?” Malachor asked. “I will destroy you!” Sidious shouted as he started to slash wildly. All of a sudden, Sidious just stopped and looked around. “I will not be undermined by an outcasted Sith, a failed clone, and an old Jedi.” Sidious said as he Force propelled himself away from the brawl, but still was eager to what Order 68 has in store for them. “Good riddance.” Starkiller said, but looked and saw Malachor on the ground clutching his side in pain. “What’s wrong?” He asked in concern. “This body is expiring, but don’t worry, I’ll be back, just tell Ella ‘the story continues’.” Malachor said as he fell to the ground with a smile on his face.

Author's Note

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Defeat and Ascentions

(Equestria, Ponyville, 3rd P.O.V)

The battle on Ponyville’s streets was still raging on, Stormtroopers and droids lie on the ground dead, tanks and walkers in flames many buildings are either crumbling down, or burning. This was war after all, and war was a terrifying thing that nearly every civilization has encountered at some point during its development, but Equestria hasn’t seen this kind of behavior for centuries. To many, Equestria resembled Alderaan in the sense that it was a beautiful, peaceful, and a beacon of hope, but all of that changed the day that the Galactic Empire came. This time was very different, seeing two enemy factions here fighting for dominance and both sustain heavy losses. “This is most Interesting.” Maul said as he was observing a large amount of Stormtroopers massing around a mirror in the middle of the town completely undamaged. Maul just observed the troopers as they went through the mirror one by one, disappearing to wherever the mirror seemed to lead to. “Yes, very interesting indeed.” Maul said as a sinister smile made its way onto his face. “Captain, gather some Commando units and have them observe those troopers, we need to find out why that mirror is so important to the Empire, also don’t engage the troopers, let’s see if we can study them in silence.” Maul said to his third-in-command, The droid Captain. “Roger, roger.” The droid said as he walked away to gather some Commando Droids to observe the Stormtroopers gathering near the mirror. Looking through their scanners, they observed the troopers going through the mirror into the Force knows where. “We must inform General Maul.” A commando unit said. “Roger roger.” the other replied as they turned back to find their General.

Now it was time to finish off the Empire’s offensive and push the troopers into wherever they were going and then follow them to their new location to finish them off. “Sir 5 more AT-ATs and 7 AT-STs have just arrived to reinforce our hold on the town.” Captain Jarik informed his C.O. “Thank you Captain. Have the walkers protect the portal, I’m pretty sure they won’t fit through it due to their size.” Colonel Veers said as he watched his men walking through the mirror portal in a single-file line. “Yes sir.” Jarik said as he saluted his C.O. The giant walkers were placed into security positions as the smaller AT-STs or “Chicken Walkers” as the Rebels call them, were patrolling for the Separatists. “Sir, it seems that the Separatists have withdrawn, why we don’t know yet.” Jarik reported to Veers. “No matter, we must enter this portal and kill the rebels and their new-found friends.” Veers replied with a calm expression as he looked towards the hills near the town. “Roger that sir.” Jarik said as he went back to his platoon for the mission to come.

Meanwhile, at the Separatist camp near the Whitetail Woods, Maul was reviewing the data he had received from his recent recon team. “Yes, this confirms my suspicions, the Imperials seem to have found where the Rebels are hiding, so now I can finish them both off and begin my conquest on the rest of the galaxy!” Maul said with a slightly maniacal chuckle. “Sir, the Commander of our fleet is calling in.” A droid Captain informed Maul. “Put it through.” Maul replied as the holocommunicator showed TA-176. “Sir, The Imperial fleet have sustained many losses and we’ve lost almost a quarter of our fleet.” The commander reported. “Good work, drive the Imperial dogs back so they abandon their allies here for us to finish.” Maul commended. “I’ve just received an update from our scanners, Rebel forces have arrived in the battle. 2 Republic Venator cruisers and multiple ships of unknown designs.” TA-176 updated the General. “Engage the Rebels, the Empire is now a secondary concern!” Maul ordered as he looked up to the sky and saw the carnage. “Shall I introduce our secret weapon?” TA-176 asked. “Not yet. Let’s let the Rebels have their fun first then we crush them.” Maul advised. “As you wish.” TA-176 said as the transmission ended and on the Bridge of Savage’s Vengeance, TA-176 looked at the Rebellion fleet. “Begin attack on the Rebels, send in fighters and bombers and target their engines and bridge.” TA-176 ordered as some Separatist frigates began to turn toward the fleet. The Rebels were no slouches either as their fleet of forty ships began to engage the Separatist and Imperial fleets individually, making it a bit more difficult for Maul to plan an effective plan as his fleet had five less ships than the Rebels. The Imperials were in a much worse scenario because they had a six-to-one ship ratio, and Ozzel was pressed into considering retreating without the Emperor and Vader, but he remembered that it would mean instant execution for abandoning the Emperor. “My Lords, We are outnumbered as Rebellion forces had just joined the battle and the fleet is crippled and weak, I suggest we retreat to replenish and rally more ships.” Ozzel informed his superiors with great respect. “Admiral Ozzel, your wise leadership skills are about to keep us alive, so I trust your judgement on this matter, however Equestria is now regarded as Forbidden Territory, any ships that make it to the border of that system are considered lost with all hands, is that clear?” Sidious said as he and a very badly damaged Vader were walking back to the portal. “Yes my Lords, I shall return with Order 67. Ozzel out.” The transmission ended as Ozzel headed back into the bridge. “All ships make a jump to these coordinates, we’ll return to finish them off with Order 67.” Admiral Ozzel announced as each Imperial Star Destroyer that survived the engagement made the jump into hyperspace.

The Imperial’s sudden retreat didn’t go unnoticed as Maul was completely confused, but shrugged it off as Imperial cowardice. “Sir, our AATs, Hailfire tanks, and Droids are ready for combat.” The Droid Captain informed General Maul. “Good, now go through the portal and annihilate anything and everything that tries to oppose you!” Maul exclaimed in joy at being able to kill innocent civilians again. “Roger Roger.” The Captain said as he motioned the army to begin their assault. The droids advanced into the war-torn town and arrived at the portal within a few minutes. The tanks began firing on the Imperial walkers to buy the droids time to enter the portal.

(Human World, 3rd P.O.V)

As Imperial ground forces had already stormed the school and fought off Rebel ground forces, Many fell to the lightsabers of Eric, the Sirens, Flynn, and Starkiller. “Should we try and move the fight to Equestria to avoid any civilian casualties?” Starkiller asked after he stabbed a stormtrooper in the torso. “Yeah, or we could move further away towards any abandoned buildings and hold there.” Eric suggested as he delected a blaster bolt from a Stormtrooper. “But I think Starkiller has a point, what if the fleet requires our assistance?” Aria asked after decapitating a stormtrooper. “Fine, but knowing the Empire, we’re probably going to find a ton of walkers around the mirror, and those walkers are enormous and have enough firepower to destroy a shield generator.” Eric replied as he vaulted over a trooper and threw the trooper into a wall with enough force to kill him. After the Imperial forces had been almost depleted, A rebel ran panting toward the Jedi. “Sir… we have a… situation. It…” The rebel said before a blaster shot through his chest and died. The Jedi were surprised to see Battle droids advancing. “Oh great, looks like our second enemy is here.” Starkiller said in sarcastically joyful tone. “This’ll be a lot like the Battle of Geonosis.” Eric said as he advanced to slice a few droids. “Yeah the only exception is that we don’t have our brothers to help us this time.” Commander Cody said as he blasted a droideka while it was still rolling towards them. “Glad you boys could join us, hopefully old age hasn’t affected your aim yet.” Eric remarked as he threw his saber to slice up 3 droids. “Ha ha very funny Eric, at least we’re not wearing that junk armor!” Rex laughed at the time he and Kanan got shot by Ezra’s stun blaster. As the ground forces fought off the Separatist, In space over the planet, Vulture droids and tri-fighters flew around to hit Rebel ships as the cruisers engaged in combat. “Sir, the Rebels have taken a beating, but they’re armor are making our blasters almost ineffective.” TA-176 reported to Maul. “Charge the Ion Cannon and fire at them!” Maul ordered. “Roger, roger.” The tactical droid replied. “Begin the primary weapon and fire at the lead ship.” The droid ordered as the large cruiser turned to fire. With a large shockwave of energy, the ion beam streaked across a straight line towards the Rebel fleet. Hitting 4 ships and disabling the power, the cannons made quick work of the doomed ships. “Grand Moff Vicarn, we need to get that ship out of commission! Grand Moff?” Admiral Yalutarian asked as Vicarn was not responding. Yalutarian closed his eyes as he silently mourned the loss of one his greatest allies. “All ships, target the ship with the ion cannon.” Yalutarian announced as cannons began firing towards the cruiser. “Report on shields and weapon?” TA-176 asked the droid on the terminal. “Shields are holding and the weapon is ready to fire.” The droid responded. “Good, Concentrate fire on the next largest ship.” TA-176 ordered. The ion cannon charged once more and with a great shockwave of energy, the Venator cruiser Conquest was hit and plummeted to collide with two more Rebel ships. “Enough of this, Commander fire the Silencer and make short work of those scrap heaps!” Grand Moff Byron ordered as she saw the destruction of another few ships. “Aye, ma’am. Silencer prepped and ready.” The Commander responded. “Fire!” Byron ordered as a huge red beam charged and fired at three ships next to the Separatist flagship. Not wanting to blow up the flagship, but merely cause major structural damage to disengage any weapons and stabilizers. “That is a powerful weapon, fire the missiles and aim for the hyperdrive and engines.” TA-176 ordered. “Sorry sir, but all weapon systems are now offline due to the debris smashing all of our turrets and the ion cannon is too badly damaged, and some of our stabilizers are now malfunctioning. I recommend abandoning ship.” The droid reported. TA-176 looked out to see the Rebel fleet and then sent a holo transmission to Maul. “General, the Savage’s Vengeance’s armament is offline, stabilizers are gone and the ion cannon is heavily damaged, I will make one last effort to cripple the fleet and ram this ship into them.” TA-176 said to Maul.

“Do it, it’s been an honor having you serve me Commander.” Maul said as he went to look for people to kill. “You too General, The Separatist fleet will fight til the last ship and the ground forces will be under your command.” TA-176 said as he turned to the droid. “Full power to the engines and aim for the ship with the destructive weapon.” “Roger roger.” the droid replied. “Wow, Byron what was that?” Yalutarian asked in amazement. “It’s called The Silencer, it was a weapon commissioned by Darth Nox to assist the Imperial Navy.” Byron replied. “Ma’am we only have five minutes until we can fire again.” A technician reported. “Thank you Halson, and when we get to full charge fire at the ship heading right for us.” Byron said calmly, knowing that the attempt was something she’s experienced before. “Ma’am a transmission from the enemy flagship is hailing us.” An officer informed the Grand Moff. “Put it through, how long to full charge?” She asked. “One minute and thirty seconds.” Halson replied as he watched the charge meter on his monitor. “Good, prepare to fire when I’m finished with the enemy’s transmission.” Byron said as she awaited the transmission. “Greetings adversary, I am TA-176, Commander of the Separatist fleet here to offer trade.” TA-176 said as he stood in the bridge. The droid was smart and like any war hero, it’s not how to fight, it’s when to fight. “Something tells me that, I think it involves me and my staff to die along with you and your crew.” Byron replied with a blank expression on her face. “Negative, I will trade for the safety of your fleet and mine for Separatist classified information.” TA-176 said as the Savage’s Vengeance was mere meters away from the Rebellion fleet, with some fires and external damage from the fight. “I doubt that. Halson, what’s the charge at?” Byron said as she turned to Halson. “Ready to fire on your command Grand Moff.” Halson said with a salute. “I decline your offer. Fire the Silencer.” Byron said as she terminated the transmission. At a valiant effort of self sacrifice and heroic bravery, a Munificent Frigate moved in front of the damaged battlecruiser and had the idea to take a bullet for his commander, but to no avail as the crimson beam blasted through both vessels with no challenge as they both were consumed in a fiery cloud. The remaining fifteen Separatist ships as the Dark Nebular Grasp was now the next ship in command witnessed the ship’s power, they saw it would be difficult to disable a weapon of that kind of destruction. “All fighters scout the flagship for a weakness, all vessels separate to avoid that weapon but fire on other rebellion warships.” The new droid Commander ordered as Vulture and Tri-fighter droids destroyed the last of the Imperial fighters and breaks towards the Rebels. The Separatist gained more altitude and distance from the fleet but continued bombarding the ships.

Just as the fighters scouted the Rebellion flagship for a weakness to disable their destructive weapon, there did happen to be a weak spot to knock out the gun to allow the fleet to retreat back to their factories on Korriban. “Sir we found a weakness to disable the weapon. It’s a waste heat ventilation shaft the runs towards the core, it won’t destroy the ship, just cripple it enough so we can retreat.” A Tri-fighter reported. “Excellent work, Take a squad to fire upon that weakness and another to cover you. All cruisers prep coordinates to Korriban and jump once the weapon is destroyed.” The Commander ordered. Tri-fighters mobilized with Vulture droids for cover and made an attack run on the small shaft, avoiding fire from the ship’s defenses and other small starfighters. “Grand Moff, enemy fighters are converging on the waste heat vent for the Silencer, and they’re too fast for our auto-turrets, and our fighters can’t be mobilized fast enough to engage them, any suggestions?” A pilot asked. “Let them disable the Silencer, we don’t need it for the rest of the fight we can repair it later.” Byron replied as she made her decision. With a quake of vibrations throughout the ship, The Silencer was disabled and the droid fighters retreated back to their ships before each Separatist jumped back to Korriban. “Begin repairs to the Silencer, I have a feeling the Empire will be returning soon.” Byron ordered calmly. “Sooner than you think, Grand Moff, we have two Imperial ships entering the system. One Star Destroyer and another of an unknown class, but it’s huge.” An officer said over his terminal and the two Imperial ships entered the fray.

“Open a comm to The Emperor and Vader to tell them their extraction has arrived.” Admiral Ozzel said to an officer. “Aye sir, and it seems the Separatists have retreated back to Korriban, but the Rebels still have a substantial resistance for us. Maybe we should ask for non hostile extraction.” The officer replied. “Sir, it seems one TIE fighter had survived the entire fray, but is being tailed by Rebel fighters.” An Officer informed the Admiral. “Send some warning shots to those fighters, but don’t hit them.” Ozzel responded quickly. “Aye sir. Should we still open a comms channel to the Rebel fleet for a temporary ceasefire?” The officer replied. “Do so immediately.” Ozzel calmly replied as the Super Star Destroyer, Executor approached the planet. “Attention, this is Admiral Ozzel of the SSD Executor, We wish not to fight upon your fleet, but we merely wish for a non hostile extraction, any engagement will be considered as an act of war and you will be fired upon, we await your reply.” Ozzel announced as he waited. “Yalutarian, I think we should accept his offer, I don’t think we have the firepower to penetrate that vessel’s shields, and it’s at least forty, maybe fifty times our size, not a good prospect for a battle.” Byron said with a deadpan expression. “Oh just how you jumped to firing that weapon on the droid commander who surrendered for a retreat for information, A good warrior never kills an unarmed warrior, even if he was the enemy.” Yalutarian said with a deadpanned expression as well as remembering what Flynn had told him long ago. “Perhaps, but that command ship was going to ram into our fleet and kill us all, and Vicarn was my betrothed, and I was angry with the monster that robbed me of a good man, I’m sure you understand that kind of pain. Still it’s either allow the Empire to extract their men and we live to see tomorrow, or we all die and Equestria is razed to the ground for defying the Emperor. Take your pick, I’ve already made my decision. I await yours.” Byron replied sounding a bit choked up. “I know my decision as well, I hate to see innocents killed, but I don’t know your pain as I had never married and joined the Republic with my father, Yaluren.” Yalutarian replied as he opened the channel. “This is Admiral Yalutarian of the Venator Freedom accepting your offer, all fighters will be advised to not engage.” The Republic admiral replied

“This is Grand Moff Byron of the Harrower Dreadnaught Malachor’s Wrath, accepting your terms, our ships are all on standby for your extractions’ completion.” Byron said on her own comm channel to Ozzel. Ozzel smiled. “Good choice, you’ve saved the lives of millions of soldiers and many more civilians. Also the Emperor has graced your planet with his begrudging praise by allowing your planet to become forbidden territory, congratulations.” Ozzel said with a hint of slight anger, but overall appreciation for his adversaries. A shuttle was launched from the Star Destroyer to the surface to retrieve their superiors and soon the Empire will be from this planet until Sidious considers coming back.

(Meanwhile in the Human World, Canterlot Mall, 3rd P.O.V)

Maul was walking through the mall that was recently evacuated due to the mass attack from the Empire and his droid army, he recently received word that his flagship was destroyed and the fleet had retreated to Korriban. “Commander, rebuild the fleet and army and make more of the Interdictor classes with those ion cannons, if they served well in the battle with catastrophic results, a fleet would be all the more deadly also Commander, make sure the Empire or Rebels do not disrupt our projects and keep the planetary defenses and shields on.” Maul said. “Roger roger General.” The commander said as the holocommunicator ended the transmission. Eric was looking everywhere to find Princess Luna and Princess Celestia. When he heard that Malachor had finally perished to save Aria and Adagio, he was upset, but knew that it wasn’t the end of him, so he went to Canterlot Mall to look for the Princesses, but felt a dark presence nearby. “Hello Maul, how’s life?” Eric asked while rolling his eyes in annoyance. “I was cut in half by Kenobi, Sidious killed my brother and I left the Sith, but why does it matter to you?” Maul replied and asked at the end. “It doesn’t, I was just being polite because I sensed your dark presence.” Eric said flatly. “Well, despite this politeness, I suppose you’re here to kill me on your own?” Maul said as he turned around to face the Jedi. “I guess so, but I have gotten stronger since our last encounter. I have seen the Darkness, but I don’t let it rule me. It’s never too late Maul, just put down your lightsaber and come with me.” Eric said calmly trying to placate the former Sith to join the Rebellion. “I’m afraid it is too late for me, I may no longer serve the Sith, but I do not wish to partake in the Rebels, You may see that I am the enemy of your enemy and my enemy is almost everyone in the galaxy, just as soon as my New Separatist fleet is at peak strength I will gain vengeance on all my enemies.” Maul said as he looked at his dual-blade lightsaber. “So be it, but don’t say that you didn’t have the opportunity to change.” Eric said as he activated his black cored blue blade and held it in a Soresu stance. Maul activated his red dual-bladed lightsaber and began his attack. The clashing duelists fought through the empty mall, Eric was able to deflect many of Maul’s attacks efficiently and was agile to strike some attacks himself. The people who were too afraid to leave the mall heard the sound of the clashing lightsabers and were spellbound by the beauty of the duel occurring among them.

“You have indeed grown stronger young Knight, but you still have power yet you refuse to unlock.” Maul said as they broke off from one another. “I will unlock it when I feel like I’m ready to unlock it. Unlocking too much power is how many meet their end because they can’t control it and they get consumed by it.” Eric retorted as he remained cautious of his current surroundings knowing Maul would likely use many of the vending machines, or inanimate objects lying around as projectiles and distractions for a lucky killing blow. Maul then stood at full height as he looked around for something. “I feel more Jedi here, more Jedi and a small Force Sensitive.” Maul said as this made the Jedi a little concerned. “Oh, and what a joyful surprise and it’s similar to yours, but not.” Maul said as a menacing grin was emerging on his face. “You have a son. Another generation of Jedi to be hunted by me, or the Empire.” Maul said with a malevolent chuckle. “I will destroy you if you try to touch on hair on his head!” Eric spat in anger. With a swift movement of the Force, Maul moved an overturned cart to reveal Roseluck and the baby Force Sensitive John. Roseluck and John were both whimpering in terror at the red and black skinned Zabarack towering over them. He forced up the two and was only putting slight Force choke pressure on Roseluck with an activated red lightsaber close to her neck. “Nnnooo!” Eric shouted as he charged at his enemy to save his wife and son. “Not so fast there, One more step and she’ll experience the worst death any life would ever receive.” Maul said as he still had Rose and John in his grasp. “Please don’t hurt them, your fight is with me, not them. Typical Sith tactic, when backed into a corner, use innocents as leverage, how cowardly.” Eric said as he shut off his lightsaber in a sign of submission. “Oh no, I would never hurt this pretty darling, but the Jedi bloodline must end as every Jedi had.” Maul said as he ripped away John from Rose. “Not on my watch.” A new voice said as his cyan blade knocked Maul’s saber staff away from his captives. Since Maul was distracted Rose took her son from Maul and ran to Eric’s side. “Are you ok?” Eric asked his wife as he hugged and kissed her. “We’re fine, but what about you?” Roseluck asked. “My dad and I will handle this you and John go find the Princesses and hide somewhere else, I’ll come and get you if we win ok?” Eric said as he looked at his wife and son making sure Maul didn’t actually hurt them. “Well, isn’t this an interesting outcome, Father and Son fighting with one another, what fun.” Maul said as he forced his lightsaber back to him. “Let’s do this son, for the Keteris Family!” Flynn said as his blade returned to him. “Gladly.” Eric said as the three duelists clashed in another fight similar to Maul’s duel in Theed with Qui-gon and Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Maul had faced odds similar to this before but all he had to do was keep his mind alert and remain agile. Eric was more offensive while Flynn was moving slowly towards Maul’s left flank to catch him off guard. Maul noticed and kicked Eric in the face sending the young Knight backwards and force pushed Flynn into a wall. Maul jumped up to the second level of the mall and stood on a small bridge that was just above his enemies. Maul saw two vending machines on his left and smiled as he lifted the first one and threw it down. “Watch out!” Eric shouted as he tackled Flynn to save his life. Both escaped as the two Jedi looked up to see the Dark Force user. “He can’t hit us if we’re underneath him and has no solid ground to stand on.” Flynn said as he started using the Force to pull down Maul’s bridge. “Thanks for the save though.” Eric smiled as he got up. “No problem, now let’s do some remodeling.” Eric said as he joined his father in some impromptu remodeling to bring their enemy back down to their level. Maul gracefully landed onto the ground floor and quickly attacked Flynn with a quick kick into the torso. Eric dashed forward and tried to render Maul unable to move around. The agile duelist quickly activated one of the blades and struck at Eric’s blade. Maul then activated the second blade and began fighting Eric as Flynn recovered. Flynn was quick to rejoin the fight and clashed with Maul and Flynn deactivated his blade making Maul fall forward a bit and Flynn hits Maul in the back of his head and attempted an overhead chop. Maul knew what would come next if he didn’t react quickly, With one swift movement, he was able to avoid a fatal blow and reactivated his dual bladed lightsaber. Maul shoved Flynn back and as Flynn was going to try to split Maul’s hilt, Maul hit Flynn in the chin and backstabbed him through his abdomen.

Eric saw this and was completely enraged and pulled his father’s lightsaber from his writhing grip and activated it along with his own and crossed them while an scowl graced his features. Maul started to throw a piece of the fallen bridge at Eric, but Eric just sliced right through it. Maul threw a chair, which Eric also destroyed with both blades. In a last ditch effort Maul threw a vending machine and Eric jumped and held his father’s blade downward and landed delivering heavy blows too quick for Maul to react. Maul kept up with Eric for a bit, then Force pushed Eric back to gain some space to move around, but Eric was not having it as the berserk Knight kept on the offensive and split Maul’s saber staff in half. Maul’s saber staff was still active and Maul began to put his Jar’ Kai discipline to good use along his Niman training. “Such power and skill, you’ve unlocked a power in the Dark Side and striking me down in anger will make you closer to being a sith.” Maul taunted for a moment before force jumping onto a ledge on the second floor. Eric followed him up and kept attacking with an assault of dual bladed fury. “Maul, I will teach you the true meaning of pain and suffering!” Eric said lost in his anger. Maul smiled knowing his taunts were working. As they fought, Roseluck was whimpering in terror in a clothing store on the first floor. John was about to start wailing in sadness from sensing his father’s rage, his mother’s fear, and the demise of his grandfather sent him over the edge and he started to wail. Above on the second floor, Eric could hear the sound of his son crying and it snapped him back to his normal self. “What have I become?” Eric thought as he now realized that he was becoming just like Maul by allowing his anger to give him power. Breaking off from the engagement, Maul gained some distance from the Jedi. “Your anger gives you great power, but if you let it, it will destroy you. No matter what your original intentions, you will become truly lost.” Eric heard the wise words of Malachor about giving into anger for power, and how it could destroy you and everything you love. “The power you possess in your anger is impressive and could even match against my skills, but I only came to show you what my pain was like and how I fell into the dark side. You took a tour on my past and what you felt in your anger was shared from me. I do not tend to kill you and I shall take my leave, but next time there can only be one standing.” Maul said as he quickly Forced pushed Eric back to the ground floor and Maul escaped into Canterlot. “Not this time.” Eric said as he used the Force to hold Maul in place. “Stay and finish what you started, or run away like your old master taught you and hide like a coward.” Eric said. “Eric, please stop this. If you kill him, you’ll be no better than him just to avenge your dad, he wouldn’t want you to walk down this path.” Roseluck said as she peeked out from the store with a sad baby John about to cry another storm.

Eric turned around and saw his wife and son in tears. Eric was just hurt by what he was seeing, knowing that he was somewhat responsible for their sadness. Eric released Maul and fell to his knees. “As a fair worthy opponent young Knight, I respect your love for your family.” Maul said before he left the mall. Everyone that didn’t leave the mall started to emerge from their hiding places including the Princesses and saw the mess, but more importantly the tragic scene of a young family embracing each other and crying.

(Canterlot High, 3rd P.O.V)

Back at the battle-torn school, The remaining Jedi, Clones, and Sith had fought off the remaining forces of the Empire and Separatist that came from the portal. “You think that’s the last of them?” Ganch asked. “Yeah I guess so.” Cody said as he shot a V1 battledroid in the head with his blaster. “Huh, they’re retreating back to the portal, serves them right.” Adagio said as she deactivated her blade. “Quite right.” Ella said as she sat down to relax from the combat. “Ha, for a second there we all thought you would go into labor during the battle.” Rex playfully taunted. “But do you think we should take the fight to them?” Sonata asked. “That would be a terrible idea.” Admiral Yalutarian said over a holoterminal. “I agree, we don’t know what could be on the other side like Imperial walkers or Separatist tanks.” Commander Wolffe agreed. “We don’t have to worry because right now the Empire is leaving, and the Separatist forces have retreated to the planet called Korriban. Anyway attacking any Imperial troops will start a space battle and we’ll be on the losing side this time because the Imps brought a massive vessel with them.” Yalutarian said. “That does seem scary, but what should we do?” Sonata asked. “Right now? We do nothing, but allow them to leave, and Ozzel says that the Emperor has deemed Equestria as forbidden territory because of our persistence and he respects us as competent adversaries, so he’ll be leaving us alone indefinitely.” Yalutarian explained. “Ha, I guess Palpatine always did know when to give up.” Ganch said. “Wait where’s Vicarn?” Ella asked. Yalutarian’s hologram was silent for a moment. “I see, well led a very promising and full life. May he rest in peace.” Ella said as she realized that Vicarn was KIA. Then a battalion of Stormtroopers marched from behind with Vader and Palpatine behind them. Vader had fixed his hand, but his helmet, vocabulator, and respiratory functions were still in need of repair. As the two Siths walked past the Rebels, Palpatine smiled a little knowing he wasn’t going to leave the Rebels on Equestria without a serious blow to ensure that the Empire is still as powerful as when he executed Order 66. “Lord Vader, you know what to do.” Sidious said as Vader turned around to face the Rebels with his own eyes and activated his red blade. “The Rebel alliance will fall, beginning with you.” Vader spoke as he swung his blade to cut Cody’s armor and left a heated gash across his chest. “I now know… Anakin Skywalker is... truly dead because... he would never... kill his friends.” Cody said as he drew his last couple of breaths before dying in the arms of Rex, Ganch, and Wolffe. “As I’ve said before Anakin Skywalker was weak, I destroyed him.” Vader said to the now lifeless Commander Cody. “Then we’ll avenge his death.” Ganch said as he rose up with Rex and Wolffe. “So be it.” Vader said as he swung to kill the clones only to be blocked by Aria. “Just leave, you got what you wanted, it’s beneath you.” Aria stated as she pushed Vader back. “You’re right, but I need something to entertain me.” Vader retorted. The clones began firing at the Sith, but each shot was deflected and the Sith rose over to attack the two other female blade wielders. “Oh no you don’t rust bucket.” Starkiller said as he blasted Vader with Force lightning. Vader deflected some of the lightning and redirected it to Adagio as she was now being electrocuted by Starkiller. Starkiller stopped his lightning. “Sorry about that.” Starkiller said. “I’ve had worse, let’s not forget that I died while grieving for my friend a few hours ago.” Adagio said as she stood up wobbling on her feet a bit.

While Starkiller was distracted, he made a fatal error to always stay vigilant and felt a lightsaber pierce his chest. “A failed apprentice, would make a terrible master.” Vader said as he retracted his blade from his cloned apprentice and he fell to the ground lifeless. Vader then turned his attention on the other three blade wielders and began attacking them with confidence. The three girls held their own, but unfortunately for them Vader had more experience than them. Vader disarmed Adagio and cut off her right arm from the elbow down. Aria failed to see Vader sweep at her legs and she lost both of her legs up a little past her knees. Sonata was almost ready to give up and she took one swing and got her left hand removed for her efforts. As they all fell Rex, Ganch and Wolffe had no choice but to fall back since they were no match for the Sith. Vader approached the vulnerable sirens with his lightsaber still illuminating a red glow. “Lord Vader, enough, otherwise you’ll overclock your cybernetics, respirator, and I don’t have any prospects for a new apprentice.” Sidious said with a reprimanding tone. “Yes my master, I’m on my way back.” Vader said as he deactivated his lightsaber. “Next time if we meet, I will finish what I started to you and don’t expect any mercy from a Sith.” Vader said as he left the crippled sirens.

(Space over Equestria, 3rd P.O.V)

As the two sides over Equestria remained in a ceasefire while the Empire retrieves the Emperor and Vader, Admiral Ozzel received a transmission from Lord Sidious himself. “How can I be of service to you my Lord?” Ozzel asked. “Admiral, the Rebels had attacked me and Lord Vader as we were approaching our extraction in an attempt to cripple the Empire.” Sidious reported. “What do you wish me to do My Lord?” Ozzel asked with a cautious tone. “Cripple their fleet and make sure you save their flagship for last and if you dare question my orders, you’ll have Lord Vader to deal with, Am I clear Admiral?” Sidious asked with an angry expression. “Yes My Lord.” Ozzel replied. The transmission ended leaving Ozzel with a difficult decision to make, either face Vader’s wrath, or live and see tomorrow. “Maybe I can obey his Majesty’s orders, and spare the Rebel Fleet.” Ozzel thought as he was about to give his new order. “Open a secure, encrypted comms channel, that’s an order Captain.” Ozzel said with an authoritative tone. “Yes sir.” The Captain responded as the channel opened up to a secure encrypted channel. “Comms are ready sir.” the Captain informed. “Admiral, Grand Moff, I have grim news for you, I think that the Emperor has undermined our ceasefire, but I have a solution: evacuate a few ships and have the rest go to another planet to avoid destruction.” Ozzel suggested. “I see, the Emperor will do what is necessary to eradicate us.” Yalutarian said. “Agreed, but Ozzel is giving us a chance to deceive the old codger.” Byron said while insulting the Emperor. “I recommend you make your decision now, Vader and the Emperor will be arriving soon.” Ozzel warned. “Right, so Byron thoughts?” Yalutarian asked. “I’d rather have our troops live, so leave for a bit it is.” Byron said. “Ma’am another transmission is hailing us.” An officer said. “Sorry Ozzel, Yalutarian, but I can’t have you guys included for this conversation.” Byron said as she left the transmission and answered her new one.

“Yes?” She asked. The new projection showed Darth Vader to her surprise. “What do you want?” Byron asked still in shock. “I only ask for the location of the Rebel base otherwise, your fleet will become a debris field.” Vader said calmly. “How stupid do you think I am to betray my allies?” Byron asked the wounded Sith lord. Vader only stood as she then felt pressure being put around her neck as she began suffocating. “I find your lack of cooperation disturbing.” Vader said as he watched her gasp for air. “It’s in the Dromund System.” Byron managed to croak out. “Do you take me for a fool? I can sense your lies, give me the exact location or die trying to cooperate.” Vader ordered as he slowly added more pressure. “I truly don’t know, the other’s don’t tell me anything about their bases, locations as well, they say I’m too Impish for them.” Byron said truthfully. “Then you are of no use to me or the Empire.” Vader spoke flatly as he then did something only Malachor could pull off in a heartbeat, He released Byron from the telekinetic Force Choke and destroyed the Rebel ship’s Bridge windows to try and suck the personnel out into the vacuum of space. Byron being quick on her wits shut the emergency window covers saving what was left of her command crew. “6 were lost Ma’am including your second-in-command.” An officer said as he got up from the ground. “Halson will be remembered, but today we saved a lot of lives from the Empire.” Byron said clearly at peace with herself.

(Kamino, Secret Cloning Facility, Malachor’s P.O.V)

It has been quite a while since I needed to get a new body, but at least I could see if all of my vessels were still in pristine condition, or destroyed. I found the body I wanted and as expected I opened my eyes and the fluids in the tank drained and the tank opened up. The cold from my new body meeting the outside world was nothing new to me, so I just moved on with my business. “I know you’re there Lama Su. I’m glad you’ve kept your ancestors’ oath and kept the existence of me and Ella’s clones a closely guarded secret.” I said as I turned to see the Kaminoan. “The pleasure is all mine. Your clothes are in the compartment to the right, and a shuttle is ready for your departure on the Western landing bay.” Lama said as she knew that this was nothing new to her. “Thanks, see you, or your descendants sometime in the future, perhaps when the Empire is gone, I give them permission to destroy the remaining clones.” I said as I finished putting on my clothes. Lama simply bowed her head and smiled. “May the Force be with you my Lord.” She said as I left the chamber. I made my way through the facility and found a few interesting things, like troopers training in hand-to-hand and melee combat. “That’s a first.” I said to myself as I continued my journey to the shuttle. After about twenty minutes worth of security checkpoints, I finally made it to my shuttle and started the take-off procedures. “Hyperdive, check, engines, green, life support, nominal. Ok everything’s good.” I said as I gave my quick list of things to check before making a hyperspace jump. “Hold on love, I’m coming home.” I said as I engaged the hyperdrive.

Aboard the Executor, Vader and Emperor Palpitine had just arrived aboard the SSD and arrived on the Bridge to see Ozzel had not destroyed a single ship. “Admiral, Explain why you had not crippled their fleet as I ordered you to?” Sidious asked as he approached the Admiral. “My Lord, I hate to say this, but it’s immoral and unethical to betray a ceasefire when there’s no provocation.” Ozzel replied as he expected to die any second. “You should know Admiral, no ceasefire goes without my authorization. You disobeyed a direct order from your leader and showed weakness by not setting a proper example to these traitors.” Sidious said as he walked past Ozzel towards the bridge windows. “Concentrate fire on these pre-selected targets, then jump to Coruscant.” Sidious ordered as he then turned to Vader. “Lord Vader, teach this incompetent man what happens when you disregard a direct order.” Sidious said to Vader as Ozzel had to come to terms what would become of him as turbo lasers fired upon the fleet and already a ship explodes from a magazine detonation. After that, another ship exploded from the sheer amount of fire it took, then two more ships were destroyed by crashing into one another as they got their engines shot out. “Ma’am we need to go, That SSD is targeting us next.” An officer shouted as some personnel ran out of the bridge. “Prepare to abandon ship, or abandon hope.” Byron said as she accepted the fate of her ship. With a few minutes, The Malachor’s Wrath was bombarded with heavy Imperial fire before igniting a mass explosion that consumed two escape pods from the blast. After the explosion the two Imperial ships jumped into hyperspace leaving ten ships, eight undamaged and two lightly damaged. Byron’s escape pod made it to the Freedom and was greeted by Yalutarian. “Welcome aboard Byron.” Yalutarian greeted. “Save the pleasantries Yalutarian, I lost my betrothed, second-in-command, my ship, and super weapon, also Vader contacted me and tried to get me to betray us, so save it.” Byron said as she went to a nearby room to cry it out.

“Make contact with the ground, the Empire has fled.” Yaltarian told Gregor. “Yes sir.” Gregor said as he left to a holoterminal to contact anyone. Meanwhile on the ground, Maul had escaped back into the war-torn town of Ponyville and saw his ship completely unscathed in the Everfree forest. He got inside and took off from the planet to retreat to Korriban knowing someday he’ll return and this time with some new tricks up his sleeve. Shortly after leaving the atmosphere, he punched in the coordinates to Korriban and made the jump to hyperspace.

Author's Note

Hello a Ponies and Bronies, Obsidian here and hopefully you enjoyed this epic battle that was tons of fun to write and even though many brave and iconic characters were injured or killed, the story will continue to it's end and the characters will honor them as the soldiers they were. I like to thank Randablitz for editing as always and leave us some feedback for improvements.

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Aftermath of Battle

(Space Over Equestria, 3rd P.O.V)

In the orbit around Equestria, Mass amounts of debris drift from destroyed Imperial, Separatist, and Rebellion ships. A few escape pods were seen from one place to another, but most were hit and fatally damaged by the space debris. Approaching from hyperspace was a small ship, piloted by the Sith himself, Malachor, who was surprised by the destruction of so many. Malachor shook off his shocked expression and opened a comms channel to the Venator Freedom. “Admiral? Admiral are you there?” Malachor asked almost in a whisper. “Admiral Yalutarian here. Who may I ask is contacting me?” The Republic Admiral asked. “I think you know, who else has a voice that speaks wisdom, experience, sympathy, and logic?” Malachor asked sounding like his normal self again, while trying to hide his anger, and sorrow. “Are all Sith so sly?” Admiral sighed in annoyance. ”Depends on who you ask, so what’s happened did we win, or are we at a stalemate with our enemies?” Malachor asked with a slight chuckle. “A little of both, The Empire brought a new and enormous toy that obliterated half our fleet and left Equestria as “forbidden territory”, and the Separatist did a number on us as well, but they fled after their command ship was destroyed.” Yalutarian replied. “Good work. Are Grand Moffs Vicarn, or Byron available I want to talk to them, and if one has perished don’t hesitate to tell me so.” Malachor requested as he felt a disturbance in the Force earlier, but wasn’t sure about whether it was true or not. Yalutarian on the other hand was quite certain that Vicarn had died while aboard the Emperor’s Inquisition, but he had to say it. “Grand Moff Byron is well and I’ll send someone to retrieve her, but unfortunately, Vicarn is no longer with us as his life was cut short from an ion beam.” Yalutarian replied with a sorrowful tone at the end. “So it is true. Don’t worry Admiral, he was a strong, brave, and noble man he will be missed, but he knew the risks of his occupation and accepted them, and for that he has become part of the Force. When Byron arrives, I hope she will understand.” Malachor replied as he took a deep breath and released it as he knew his friend would never truly die as long as his memory is remembered. “You may want to check the planet, it’s a complete war zone down there, Yalutarian out.” Yalutarian said before ending the comms.

Upon arrival to the surface, The land was scorched in warfare. “This truly is horrendous, but we can rebuild our home to be better equipped to outlast invaders. I don’t see this as just a tragedy, but an opportunity to learn from and grow stronger.” Malachor said as he picked up a destroyed droids head. What seemed to be awfully quiet, no one would ever expect something to still remain on an abandoned battlefield, but an AT-ST that had somehow survived the battle walked towards the Sith. The walker stopped and the top hatch opened. “Who’re you? You’re not Lord Vader, or the Emperor.” The vehicle commander said. “Oh, I think they’ve left the planet a while ago, so.” Malachor simply replied as the two pilots looked at one another. “They abandoned us here?!” One of the pilots asked in disbelief. “It would appear so, and you can stay and serve the Rebellion seeing as your Emperor doesn’t value you in any way, other than being cannon fodder.” Malachor replied. The pilots and commander were whispering to one another until all three of them nodded in agreement. “We’ll gladly turn our guns on the Empire. What are your orders sir?” The commander asked. “We need to organize a clean up and rebuild the town with the remnants of these droids, their vehicles and the remains of the Imperial walkers so we can rebuild our fleet later.” Malachor ordered. “Yes sir!” The commander said with a salute. Malachor saw the mirror was still undamaged and sighed in relief until a huge disturbance hit him hard. “I sense a great darkness, pain, suffering, and rage. Who or what would be giving off such a presence?” Malachor asked as he regained his footing. He heard the chirping of his personal holocommunicator on his belt. “Yes, oh Byron it’s good to see you, and I’m sorry about Vicarn. He really was a great man.” Malachor said. “It’s fine, I overheard your little speech about him and he wouldn’t want me to sit around and mope about it for the rest of my life, when I should go out find new love.” Byron said with a sincere smile. “Good now we have new converts who are organizing are surface clean up and we need as many volunteers as possible.” Malachor replied with a smile as he moved his body to show the lone AT-ST pulling the carcass of a destroyed AAT tank.”I see, could you check on the others, I’m sure they’d be glad to see you again, I need to assist up here, Byron out.” The transmission ends and Malachor was unaware of the great devastation that he was about to witness.

(Human World, 3rd P.O.V)

The streets of Canterlot City were littered with Imperial, Separatist, Rebellion, and Canterlot Police corpses lying on top of one another. “So much death, so much destruction, what can we do against such cruelty?” The mayor of Canterlot City asked as she stood at her podium. “We learn from our past and push forward. I won’t sugarcoat this ladies and gentlemen, we have been subjected to invasion, but thanks to the efforts of our police, and military reserves, and our newfound allies, we will rebuild our home and learn from this obscene event so it never happens again!” The mayor said with passion in her voice. Unbeknownst to them, a certain Sith lord came through the portal behind the Mayor. “Brilliant speech, I couldn’t have said better myself.” Malachor said earning gasps of surprise, shock, and happiness from his allies. The police Sergeant stood up from his seat. “Impossible! You’re supposed to be dead! How in the hell are you still alive?!” He asked in complete shock. “That particular body died, but my spirit remains, well that and I have several clones of myself for emergencies.” Malachor said making the sergeant fall back into his chair. But panting from Clone Commander Ganch approached as the clone ran up to Malachor. “Sir, Cody’s dead, Starkiller’s dead, Flynn is dead, the sirens need immediate cybernetic care, Eric is a complete emotional train wreck, and Ella’s gone into labor! Your presence is need immediately!” Ganch said as he listed out the casualties, and major goings on since his “death”. “Then don’t just stand there take me to her!” Malachor said. “This way sir.” Ganch replied as he and Malachor stormed off towards Ella at Canterlot High.

Ella screamed in pain as she went through another convulsion. “I will kill him when this is over!” Ella hissed with anger. “Remain calm, Mistress, I need you to breathe as I begin the procedure.” The medical droid said as he prepped himself for Ella’s childbirth. Rex, and Wolffe were standing guard and Rex’s communicator chirped. “Yeah? Oh Ganch it’s you. So you found… Ok great. Well the missus is very angry, and she looks like she’ll kill him if he’s not here soon.” Rex said as he heard Ella scream echo through the halls. “This is why I never married.” Wolffe sighed to himself, annoyed with the screaming ever since Ella got here. “Cut her some slack, you’d be screamin’ too if you were in her position, so we’re lucky that cloning wasn’t like this.” Rex reprimanded. “Yeah Rexy ol boy, this just happens to be the worst thing a man can hear. I’m going outside to get away from this and let me know when this is over.” Wolffe scoffed as he left his post. Wolffe was then knocked over by a frantic Malachor as he ran towards Ella. “Perhaps I was better off standing by Rex.” Wolffe said to himself as he lied on the ground defeated by the new father. The screaming stopped as the sound of a baby crying filled the room and Wolffe still got back up to leave another annoying sound that was way worse to him. Ella and Valrun/Malachor looked upon their newborn daughter. “I don’t believe it! She’s a Sith Pureblood! The only one left in existence!” Valrun exclaimed in both happiness and shock. “It must be because of our parents. I mean my mother was a Sith Pureblood, and your father was a Pureblood so I’m guessing that those genes made it to her.” Ella said with a smile as her daughter suckled on her breast. “Maybe so, even so, she’s a beautiful girl.” Valrun said as he kissed his daughter’s forehead. “Yes, now why don’t you check on the sirens, they look like they need some moral support right now.” Ella said as she started to fall asleep with her daughter in her arms.

In a medical bay across the hall, the sirens were just being patched up by a medical droid as their new cybernetics matched as closely to their skin color as possible. “It’s almost like you never notice.” Sonata said as she wiggled her left fingers about. “Yeah, and they synthetic skin feels just like the real thing too.” Aria said as she poked her new legs with her fingers. “This stuff’s amazing, why Equestria didn’t invest in this stuff before is a mystery beyond me.” Adagio said as she flexed her new limb as the medical droid requested. “It’s nice to see you three are still alive and adapting to your new limbs with little difficulty.” A familiar voice said as its owner entered the room with smile. “Malachor!” All three sirens shouted with glee at the sight of their friend and mentor. “It’s so nice to see you again, we thought you died for a moment there.” Sonata said in glee. “That particular incarnation of me did die, but I am reborn. Not to mention the deaths of Adagio, and Aria were reason that body died because even though my power is still extremely strong, my clone bodies still have natural limits.” Malachor explained as he sat in a chair backwards. “So what happens now?” Aria asked. “You have the option to stay here and teach yourselves how to use your new power for good, or you can come with me and help make the galaxy a better place.” Malachor said with a smile. “Oh, by the way my daughter is finally here, and she is truly something to behold, Doc when you deem them worthy to leave here send them across the hall please.” Malachor said as he turned to leave the sirens to think about their futures.

Down near the gym, An angered person storms the area, breathing heavily and stomping almost every step he took. Eric let his anger reach levels higher than he would ever allow it to go as Roseluck tried her best to calm her distressed husband. “Once I get back, I’ll kill that good-for-nothing outcast, slowly!” The angered Jedi said with an evil and dark tone. “Eric, please you’re better than him, don’t do this it’s not you!” Roseluck pleaded, but her pleas fell on deaf ears. The sound of a lightsaber ignited as Eric gripped his weapon tightly. “You don’t understand, He slaughtered the last of my family I ever had, I want justice and revenge!” Eric steamed furiously as he destroyed a sparring dummy for the Martial Arts team. “I will destroy him for what he did to me!” Eric hissed as he hacked away at another dummy by cutting off the head and repeatedly slashed the foam torso until the post it was mounted to remained. Roseluck was on the verge of tears as she saw her loving husband turn into something more vile and dangerous like a Sith Lord. “Eric please, you’ll turn if you keep this up, don’t make us leave you like what you saw with Vader’s past!” Roseluck screamed out nearly losing her voice. Eric stopped for a moment as he only shouted in one last cry as he threw his blade into four dummies, slicing each one in half before the lightsaber deactivated itself. The Jedi stood for a moment before turning around and storming out of the facility with pure rage and anger in his soul. Roseluck fell to her knees and crying along with her infant son. Rex and Ganch came running towards the gym to find the distressed mother and child. Ganch raced over to them to calm them. “Shh, it’s alright. It’ll be okay, just give him some time, losing one’s family provokes a storm of rage that must run its course. Trust me I know.” Ganch said as he helped Roseluck to her feet. Rex saw the lightsaber Eric threw and quickly retrieved it as he knew someone could accidentally kill themselves if used incorrectly.

Eric on the other hand, stormed through the school and not caring about anything but avenging the father he had always loved. He had just reached the foyer of the school with the exit in sight as Malachor soon approached from behind. “And just where do you think you’re going?” The Sith asked as his blade was already active and ready to cut any projectiles in pieces. “Seeking justice, I will avenge my father and show what happens when you mess with a Jedi’s loved one.” Eric said in his dark tone as his eyes slowly became yellow. “I can’t allow you to do that, if you kill him out of rage, your father and mother will be very disappointed in you.” Malachor said as he still held his blade at his side. Eric had just reached the door and was about to open it, when the Sith’s words entered his mind. An internal conflict waged itself, decided whether to pursue the Sith or stop before it was too late. Looking down at his robotic hand, The distraught Jedi took out whatever anger he had left and using the hate and anger to his power for once, Forced Malachor’s active lightsaber and crushed the hilt like a soda can. The Jedi fell to his knees and some tears had finally shown dripping from his face. “I know it’s hard because when the Eternal Empire invaded Tython, both of my parents were murdered, and I was frozen in carbonite for five years. How do you think I felt when I discovered that my home was nothing more than ruins, Ella and I are the very last of our families, so you’re not alone in this, but killing Maul won’t bring him back.” Malachor said as he approached the Jedi and knelt beside him and hugged him like a caring friend. “I can’t believe I was close to falling into the Dark Side, never has my anger ever got the best of me and losing my Father to a blade just pushed me over.” Eric sighed as he wiped his face and removed his glove to reveal his robotic hand. “At least you tried to help him, I couldn’t do anything because I was a trophy/prisoner for Arcann for five years completely unaware of the destruction he caused.” Malachor said as he wiped away his own tears and released his Jedi friend. Eric rose up as the yellow disappeared from his eyes and handed the Sith his crushed lightsaber. “Sorry about the lightsaber, but I just need some more time to recover.” The Jedi said as he walked away.

Roseluck was still holding onto John as she, Rex, and Ganch ran down the hall only to find Malachor sitting in the middle of the hallway putting a new lightsaber together. Roseluck was stupefied at the sight. “I-it can’t be, you’re supposed to be dead!” Roseluck exclaimed in shock. “You know that’s about the third or fourth time somebody has told me that, and how many times do I have to say that having clones comes in handy for emergencies?” The Sith asked as the final pieces of his hilt were assembled. Malachor activated his black cored red blade to see if the crystal was placed correctly. “So have you seen Eric? I’m really worried about him.” Roseluck asked as her smile faded. “I just ran into him, and I was prepared to dismember him to keep him here, but I told him that I know how he feels because when I lost both my parents, I was frozen in carbonite for five years, and couldn’t stop it. Just give him some time, he’ll come around.” Malachor said as he looked at the distressed mother and son with a comforting smile. “By the way, my daughter is finally here, and I’m anxious to see what her eyes look like, but for now I’m just getting aware of the current situation.” The Sith said as he started to go back to his wife and newborn daughter. “You’re more than welcome to come and see her if you want, maybe seeing my family happy will get you to smile.” Malachor said as he walked down the hall.

Meanwhile Ella was cradling her sleeping daughter with a smile. “Daddy and Mommy love you dear. We love you.” Ella whispered in her daughter’s ear. Their daughter awoke, opening her beautiful amber yellow eyes. “Is she awake yet?” Malachor asked. “She is and her eyes are a lovely amber yellow, just like her ancestors.” Ella said as she looked up from the baby nestled in her arms. “Just as we hoped.” Malachor said as he picked up his daughter. “So did you think of any names for her?” Ella asked. “I thought of one of our respected allies. How does Senya sound to you?” Malachor asked. Ella only smiled. “It sounds lovely. Senya it is then.” She said as Roseluck came into the room. “Can I see her?” Roseluck asked. “Yes. Roseluck and John Keteris, meet our daughter, Senya Zortek.” The Sith said as he turned around and presented his crimson skinned daughter.

The clean up process and rebuilding of the school began with the students volunteering and clearing away the destroyed battle droids and dead stormtroopers. The interior of the school had to be reworked and the damages to Celestia and Luna’s cars had to be completely reframed and refitted. Soon in a few weeks or months, everything will be back the way it was, but not everything can be normal as a few fallen comrades were to be remembered as heroes. Eric personally burned his father’s body as a symbol of an old Jedi tradition, The Clones buried Cody under a tree near the school and shot off four blaster shots in remembrance, Starkiller was also buried next to Cody, and Vicarn’s body may had been obliterated, but Byron still held onto the engagement ring he gave her. The next day the sirens had made their decision to return to Equestria and help defend it from any further invasions. Eric was stunned to see a Sith Pureblood in the flesh for the first time. Byron and Yalutarian got closer over time, and eventually grew to understand each other’s approaches to warfare, and most importantly: love. Eventually after three more weeks Yalutarian proposed to Grand Moff Elizabeth Byron. To say that she was happy would be an understatement, she was overjoyed and accepted. Eric then moved on from his emotional train wreck and began being the loving husband Roseluck always knew and became a caring father for his son, John. Gary the stormtrooper and Veronica, the school's secretary got engaged not too long after everything settled and eventually had started their own family.

Maul on one hand, escaped back to Korriban, where his new Separatist army began to increase. He may have lost the battle, but he knew a new war was just beginning. The outcast Sith may or may not return, but he is certain that he will avenge his brother and seek vengeance on all of his enemies. Equestria on the other hand had adapted to the ways of the Galactic community and upgraded its civilizations and created the Peacekeepers Council; the governing body when war was on their borders, basic law enforcement, and most importantly: matters that involved the Force. A new academy was built to accommodate students that wanted to learn both Light and Dark sides respectively. Equestria has been saved and a new age of peace begins, but outside the planet’s system, A new Hope is just beginning and it all starts on Tatooine.

Author's Note

Hello Ponies and Bronies, Obsidian here and I want to say that this is the end of one heck of a trilogy from the end of Episode 3 to the beginning of Episode 4. We saw great battles, had some laughs, lost some great people, but most importantly, we saw them grow. Though you may want a fourth story, I have to say that and Randablitz wished to take a break from Star Wars and move onto something different for a while and soon your prayers will be answered. I wish to thank Randablitz for editing as always.

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