The Liberator

by Xaf

CH 3: The Call of The Dark Side

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2 hours after the battle, Mike POV

After the battle and going back to our base, I and my Mandalorians have been busy treating the wounds the diamond dogs have caused to the slaves. It was late when we finished so I decided to go to sleep after all this day was very exhausting. I made a "room" for me since we mined more into the cave with more and more resources. It was not luxury: just a bed and an armor stand where I can place my armor. Before going to sleep I see a hole in my room from which you can see the moon and all the stars of this beautiful night. After starring at the sky I walk toward the bed and lay down on it and close my eyes.

Dream world, Princess Luna POV

After rising the moon I decided to go on a dream walking to stop the nightmares the ponies can have. Afterward, I've seen a dream of a creature I've never seen before so I try to enter its dream but it was impossible and that shocked me, normally I can always enter a dream of any creature but not that dream. How is that even possible?, I thought. But suddenly the dream let me go inside of it. What's going on? What I can enter this dream now? Anyway, I walk toward the creature and decided to talk to it.

At the same time, Mike POV

I wake up in what looks like a forest strange but maybe I'm dreaming. How do I know because this forest is different from the forest where the cave is. The differences were the trees were bigger and there were creatures you can only see in one forest in all Equestria, The Everfree forest, I thought. It's strange because it's was there when I end up in this world but the first time I didn't remember the name. Why? Maybe my memories start to coming back or the Force maybe? I don't know but it's not very a big problem now but the question is why here in all of the places in this world? Why- My thoughts were interrupted when I sense something, no, someone trying to enter my dream. Princess Luna, was the only one who can do that but there was something I didn't understand, why can't she enter my dream? I decided to sit down and meditate trying to know if the Force was the thing who stop Luna to enter this dream. More seconds passed and I began to sense something, I was right this is the Force who stop Luna to enter the dream but how it was possible? I never saw or heard the Force can do something like that! I'll think of this later but now let's see what the princess wants maybe I can have information on the situation and take advantage of it plus I don't think she will see I'm a human, why? For some reason, I have my armor on me don't ask "why?" I don't know myself. For her to enter this dream I make sure the Force stops the protection of the dream and after some seconds I heard a voice.

"Greetings creature, I am Princess Luna co-ruler of Equestria and Princess of the Moon. Can I ask what are you?" I turned around

"Greetings Princess, I am what you can call a Mandalorian, and why are you here exactly? Are you not supposed to make the nightmares of your ponies disappeared?"

"You're right but I never saw somepony like you even if it hurts a little to think I let eventually my ponies have nightmares I need to know what are you."

It's me or she acts a little like Twilight? In reality, I can understand, even the humans I have saved asked what I was before I take off my helmet., I thought, but here I will not take off my precious. Why precious? Because if she sees my face she will immediately attack me and I don't want that. I need to have any information and start a fight will not help my plan and if what I've read in the fanfiction is true then if she is hurt in the dream she will not die or be in a coma and after she wakes up she will tell everything to Celestia and I will be chased so no, not a good idea.

"Okay, I can understand that. But you do not look great I can see that on your face." You can indeed tell she was sad and a little angry and I think I know why.

"Yes, you right. It's because this 3 past day we try everything to catch a creature."

"And why do you want to catch it?"

"Because this creature attacks a convoy and killed all the guards and liberate the slaves. Why it free the slaves I don't know but when we will catch it this monster will be brought to justice and face the consequences of its actions."

It's what I thought, they know of the attack but nothing of who attack the convoy., It helps me to know they don't know it was me the "monster" like they call me. The problem of that is now an attack on another convoy or a town will be more difficult. But there is something I need to know.

"Hmm, I see but I need to know something. You see when I travel and I see slaves I don't see their children why?"

"For the answer, the human's children are separate from their parents but we need to control the amount of human so Celestia makes specials camps where some of the children are killed even if I don't love it it's necessary."

WHAT!!!, was my only thought. How can they do this to the children? Separate a mother of her son or daughter is cruel but killed them?! And the worst is the mother doesn't know if her child is dead! Now she can't see it but I want to try to kill her even if it doesn't work.

"Killed her. Let your anger take control, use your hatred toward them." a voice said.

What was that? What could it be? Am I hearing things now? What's going on?!

"It seems you are going to wake up. It was a pleasure Mandalorian."

"The pleasure was all mine." I lied. Who wants to say that to a child murderer?

"Why did you let her go? You could have killed her! If you have let your anger and your hatred helped you you could have more power than her!" After that, the voice stopped and I wake up.

Mike room

I wake up with a jump. This voice scared me. What was that? What did it want with me? Wh- My thoughts were cut when one of my soldiers walk in my room.

"Sir your presence is needed in the war room."

"Okay thank you. You're dismissed."

After I say that the Mandalorian left the room and I began to put on my armor. When I left my room something catches my intention, it was dark coal with a blue lava thing on it. I decided to remove my right gauntlet and with my hand, I try to sense if any heat comes from the stone. Nothing. I decided to take that with me and see what it could do later.

I walk in the war room to see Aaron, Emma, and another person inside.

"So why do you make me come here?"

"We need to make something about the resources we have." Start Aaron.

"We have enough resources to make more armor or weapons or something else." Finished Emma.

"I know but we need the best quality for the weapons and the problem is the forge is too primitive to make this quality I talk about plus if we need to make a lot of armors or weapons we need people to work at the forge. I can't be a leader and at the time black-smith." I said.

"I know who could do this." Said the other person.

"And you are?"

"I am Astrid Emerson. I'm the chief of the tribe you free before we were enslaved."

"Nice to meet you, Astrid. I'm the leader of this group. So can you tell me who can work at the forge?"

"Yes, follow me."

We follow her to the group where all the humans we free were. She called two-man to make them understand to come to us.

"Sir this is John and Jack. They were our two blacksmiths before the dog's attack."

"Perfect. Can you let us alone?" I ask and all of them except John and Jack leave.

"What do you need us to do?" one of them demands.

"Follow me."

We walk toward where the forge was. After we enter inside I place the stone I find earlier on a piece of furniture. These two will be very important if we want weapons and armor but you certainly ask "But why do you want to continue to make weapons or armors if it's not the good quality?" for that I have the solution. Do you see the forge in the series the Mandalorian? I will upgrade our forge like the forge of the series and how it's simple you remember the minerals I used to make the armors? I will use it again to make plates and make the forge. Well, it looks like I'm going to be here for hours.

Timeskip, 6 hours later.

Well, it was very long but thanks to John and Jack it shorter than expected. When they have seen what I was doing they decided to help me. In the beginning, I was not sure about that but they have proved me wrong, they were talented, the plates were perfect! I ask them how they have learned to do that and they said to me before the attack they have learned how to reinforce their construction with iron plates, the difference was this metal was more difficult to make but we did it and the forge was looking great. ( forgot the Armorer on the image). You certainly ask "How have you succeed to make the blue flames?" well you remember this stone with the blue lava thing? We used it to make the blue flames and how it works is simple, you need to expose this stone at a certain temperature for the thing to work but I didn't know the temperature needed for that so I try to put the stone in the fire and it works so now we know the temperature we needed can be produced by a simple fire. Plus thanks to the proprieties of this stone the fire can "survive" a longer time than a basic fire and it's faster to do weapon or armor with this fire so it's a big improvement for us. Oh, and another detail me and my two black-smith make sure we can disassemble the forge if one day we are found by the enemy so we can flee to another place with the forge and reassemble it so our enemy can't improve its technology if they can't use it.

I decided to make armors for the two black-smith so they can be protected from the flames and we can recognize them.

(In this story these flames will be really dangerous if you work with it without the armor needed so our character has to use the old forge for making this armor because it's not logic I say you need this armor to work with the blue fire but the character work with it without that armor. I decided this for the utility of the armor and because there are crystals in it who work like a shield but not the shield where you protect yourself from an attack plus like a shield who can resist at the fire. I don't know if it's clear, tell me if you don't think so, so I can explain to make this more clear to you.)

After all of this, I decided to let them make weapons of the best qualities and armors so we can replace the old armors, jetpack, blasters, and detonators. I walk toward my room and sit down in it so I meditate for understanding the Force the much I can, after all, it's not every day you are granted a power like this so you need to understand everything of this power because if you don't then you will never how to use this at its full potential. But it was not the best meditation I have because I hear IT again.

"You should've let your anger helped you to be more powerful and kill her. It was your chance to avenge the children who were dead but no. You have decided to let her go". When the voice finished the sentence a lot of vision appeared before me where I see a mother cry with her dead child in her arms after a moment she looks at me in the eyes.

"Why have you done nothing? WHY?!" She asks with anger and sadness in her voice.

After that I see another vision with all the children who could have been killed, it was horrible, there were a thousand of children before me all of them brutally killed, blood was everywhere, I couldn't take it plus there were voices who demanded mercy and the cry of a little girl.

"You could have avenge them but you decided it a loss of time now listen to their cries and tell me are you not angry to see this?! Let your anger and your hatred help you and I will grant you more power!" After that I blackout with the most terrifying things before me.

Timeskip 2 days later.

I woke up with the worst head ash of history, my eyes hurt and I can barely sense my body. After a long moment, my eyes and my head stopped hurting and I can sense my body. I look around me to see I was in my bed and all around there was Aaron, Emma, and another Mandalorian I don't recognize. Her armor was like the armor of Bo Katan but with all black and the marks were red (what is on the white part of the helmet if you not see of what I talk about.).

"Finally, you're awake." Proclaim Aaron.

"Wha... What happened?"

"One of my troops found you unconscious," Emma explained.

"How long I was unconscious?"

"2 days." Answer the third Mandalorian.

"Who are you? I don't remember seeing you here in this cave."

She takes off her helmet to reveal it was Astrid. I was surprised. After all, I didn't think she wanted to fight, I thought after what happened she wanted to have a new life and not that but who am I to say what she wanted, it's always good our cause grow so we can attack at multiples location or a big target like a town. After that, I decided to see what as changed since these two days, and man they work hard. First of all the cave was larger than before so we can have more humans in there. Second, they have made what looks like a medical wing with all the plants with medical properties that are used to make bandages, a room where there were 15 beds. And third, each squad has new members, and a third squad as been created its called the Dark Avengers for symbol a red-black skull with 2 swords in it. (forget the words on the image). I decided to take a good look at each squad.

Death Watch: 10 Mandalorians: 6 men and 4 women. The most versatile group in terms of weapons use. (dark-blue and sometimes white) (I include the leader of each squad)

Snake Eyes: 10 Mandalorians: 3 men and 7 women. The support group with some of them who knows a lot of things in medicine. (colors: grey-green)

Dark Avengers: 8 Mandalorians: 5 men and 3 women. It looks like they are the assault group because of their weapons. Since we have improved the forge we have not only improved in quality but in new weapons to I see. Two of them have the blasters plus one wrist rocket launcher for each one of them. And one with a... Z-6 rotary blaster cannon?! Okay, I need to talk to the blacksmiths. And his armor was different. (colors: black and red)

The colors of the Dark Avengers remember me of my... vision and I can say I remember everything of what happened, only the thought of it makes my head hurt. No. I will not let this vision control me and if what Luna said is true then I will avenge them but I need to control my anger if I use this I will not be better than the ponies because I will become cruel and I don't want it. I need to think about all of these voices and know what it is.

Timeskip 5 minutes later.

Okay, I think about all of it and I made a theory. I think it's the Dark Side who talks to me. I know what you will say, how it is possible the dark side can talk to you? This is where my theory takes place. You see when your angry or you want vengeance you become more powerful and since I have the force the only thing who can make that is the Dark Side. It wants a reason to exist why? Because I'm pretty sure I'm the only force user in this world so the dark side needs me to have a reason to exist. And like sugar why? It's simple when you eat sugar you are more energetic for a moment it's like an exchange, and with the dark side it's the same thing, it feeds with my anger and hatred and in exchange, it gave me more power. That my theory and I think it's the most plausible for now.

I decided to talk with the blacksmiths to know how they have to do the new weapons.

"Hello, John and Jack I need to ask you. How have you doing these two new weapons?"

"Oh, hey sir. To answer your question the missiles were simple since we used the thing we have in the thermal detonators for the explosion and for the propulsors we use special gunpowder we made when you were unconscious." Answer Jack, John was occupied to make a new weapon and I recognize what it is but I ask later.

"And with what have you take to make the gunpowder so special?"

"With the stones, we used to fuel the forge."

"It's not dangerous when you activated it?"

"Not really it seems when it's become powder the dangerous properties disappeared but we don't know why." John answer.

"Strange indeed but how have you turn it into powder?"

"Follow me." Jack says.

I follow him and we walk toward something who looks like a grinder. They will never cease to impress me.

"It's thanks to that we can turn the stone into gunpowder."

"Interesting. And for the minigun how do you make it?"

"We have found a crystal who was not like the others we used for the blasters. It's more... unstable if we can say that."

"Unstable?"

"Yes. The crystal was a little bigger than the crystals who were used for the snipers but we decided to put it in one of the snipers and test it and when we used it the snipers fired too fast so we stopped the experimentation and thanks to the help of you friend, Discord was his name, we have succeeded to make these weapons."

Wait what? Discord help them but how? At the same time, Jack gives me a letter.

Dear Mike

I send you with this later all the files to make new weapons. Do you remember when I said I watched you when you were on Earth? I took advantage of that to watch all this star wars thing you watched back on Earth. When I saw all these weapons I immediately thought of you and I decided to give you a little help. Enjoy your new toys!

Discord

Well, that was... unexpected. But in reality, it will help a lot plus there were the files for an RPS-6 rocket launcher. There were a few stapes before the minigun and the rocket launcher were made. You need to make each component separately before assembling them and have the final result.

After that, I leave the forge and walk toward my room to relax a little.

??? POV

As I watch the human I decided to leave and tell everything I've seen since the attack on the convoy. He can be a great ally for us.

With this mysterious creature leaving toward where it belongs. What does our character do? Be their enemy? Or allied them? (I don't want you to answer this question. I just wanted to make like the series or manga who made that. It will be the only chapter with that.)


Author's Note

Hello everyone. In this chapter as you can I try to put more action with the Force. Tell me if you think I need to do this like that again or talk about the force more. I think you have an idea of what the creature was. Hope you enjoy and see you soon.

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