The Lost Blade

As Arvikang entered the bridge he noticed that all the crew members were gone. Except of course the Jedi master standing at the command console. Arvikang cleared his throat, and the Jedi whirled around.

"Sith! But thats impossible, my padawan should have defeated you!" the Jedi exclaimed in shock.

Without even answering Arvikang launched himself at the Jedi, attempting to kill him with a single strike. With a grunt the Jedi deflected the blow, while at the same time launching a force push at Arvikang. It slammed into him with a large cracking sound, meaning it had broken some ribs. As he landed Arvikang threw himself at the Jedi again attempiting a feint. The Jedi only dodged to one side and sliced his lightsaber across Arvikangs belly. Fortunately, Arvikang leaped backwards only getting a nick on the stomach. With a grunt of pain Arvikang renewed his efforts, but it was futile, as the Jedi was a master of the light side. Now the Jedi went on the offensive, attacking furiously and with all his power. The only reason Arvikang wasen't cut down was that he had two lightsabers, therefore enabling him to block two postions at once. Suddenly, there was a deep rumbling and a laser blast struck the bridge with a glancing blow. A side of the bridge exploded sending debris every where. A sharp piece of shrapnel flew out, and struck Arvikang on the forhead. It easily sliced through his skin, and began bleeding very badly. Some of the blood then ran into Arvikang's eyes, momentarily blinding him. Thats when he felt the Jedi's lightsaber stab into his gut. With a low groan he fell to the ground in complete agony. Suddenly he heard a voice over the radio. It was fuzzy, but it said something about dropping a seismic charge onto the ship. He managed to raise his head slightly to see an Imperial bomber coming in hot. He saw the bay doors open and various bombs and torpedoes fall out and slam into the destroyer. Then a seismic charge came out, just as an anti-air gun hit the bomber. It caused the seismic charge to go off target... right into the bridge! With pain in every movement Arvikang struggled to his feet and ran as fast as possible. then the charge detonated sending a wave of energy out that smashed through everything it hit. A shockwave hit Arvikang and sent him spiraling out into the sky! With bitterness he thought of the padawan and how he had died. Arvikang was sure he would die too, when he saw a large metal plate. Using the force he managed to grasp onto and even stand on the plate. Suddenly the Jedi slammed down right in front of Arvikang, who was very shocked. With a roar the Jedi charged Arvikang, but he had other priorties, like say staying alive. He signaled his ship, which was currently on auto-pilot and jumped off the plate. Just as he did his ship swooped under him, catching him neatly. Just then the plate crashed into the ground. The Jedi was now a pancake. With a grunt he entered the interceptor, still in pain. He managed to patch up his gut wound with Kolto a rare healing medicine found only on a few planets, although it still hurt. BEEP BEEP! Arvikang whirled around when he heard the warning that signaled someone had a lock on him. He ran to the console just as a missile exploded against his ship. With a hiss of frustration and no time to plot a hyper jump, he randomly pressed a button allowing him to jump immediately. Just before he jumped though a rogue blast of energy hit his ship causing Arvikang to lurch forward and alam his head against a chair, sending stars across his vision and making him go unconscious.

When he awoke he saw a small planet, with many patches of green. Bam! Something slammed into his ship, sending Arvikang flying sideways. He looked out the window expecting to see a Republic fighter, or maybe a pirate ship. Instead it was a large rock that had come from the planets small moon. Next a larger rock hit his ship practically crippling it, as he was sent spinning out of control down to the planet. Unfortunately, without shields and very little power he barely survived the decent itself, his ship's interior heating to a dangerous boil. Then with a wrenching of metal his ship slammed into the ground throwing Arvikang forward, and once again knocking him unconscious. When he came too, the first thing he registered was that he felt like hell. The second was that he was in a forest of some sort. The third was that six strange creatures were outside his ship. They appeared to be equine in nature, though more intelligent. They studied the craft until one approached his ship -apparently after encouragement from another- and gently tapped it. The equestrian jumped back, and began talking to its companions. With a pained chuckle he pressed the button to engage the landing gear. He staggerd to the entry ramp, but just barely, seeing as he felt he would pass out again. The ramp lowered and the door opened and he staggered down the ramp. The equestrians were farther back than before. Arvikang then late out a moan of pain and then collapsed to the ground, as blackness swallowed him up.

--Three hours later.

Twilight and the girls were worried. The biped was still out cold, though it was stable. Meanwhile Twilight decided she wanted to find out more about this thing. Finally after ten minutes of searching she found a book on bipeds. She searched and searched, but nothing could be found on the one that she and the girls had found. Then she came to a strange looking sketch. It was weird because all of the previous pictures had been clear, well detailed photographs, but this looked like it came from a cave painting or something. The entry called it a "human", a creature from myth and legend. According to the entry, thousands of years ago strange beings came from the sky calling themselves "humans". These creatures brought an era of peace and prosperity to Equestria. Then a different type of human came to Equestria, bringing war and chaos in their wake. Thousands were killed and hundreds more were recruited on both sides good and evil to fight their war. Finally in desperation the ruler of Equestria united earth ponies, pegasi, unicorns, griffins and every other inhabitant on the planet and drove both factions off of Equestria. Supposedly these factions called themselves Jedi and Sith. Though few believed these legends some scholars speculate that there might be some truth to them.Suddenly a low moan came from the bi... no human. Fluttershy bent over the human with concern. She opened her mouth to say something when his eyes popped open. With a roar he grabbed Fluttershy by the throat. She let out a squeak of fear as the human growled into her face.

"Where am I!? Tell me now!" he growled. When he didn't get an immediate response he threw Fluttershy against the ground.

"Hey what do you think your doin- ack!" Rainbow tried to say, but was cut off when the human raised his appendages attached to his arm and she began choking.

"Stop this, please!" Twilight begged.

"Very well, but I command you to take me to your leader." he said coldly while releasing Rainbow.

"I can't just take you in unanou-" Twilight began, but before she could finish the human pulled a strange tubular device from his belt. He pressed a button and a long blood-red blade sprouted out. "Okay I'll take you to the Princess." she said immediatly, fear melting her resolve away.

But Rainbow was still up to resisting. " Come on Twi we can take him. Its just a harmless glow stick."

In response the Human sliced the his weapon over Rainbow's head sending lots of hair down to the ground.

"Yes a harmless glow stick." he said coldly bringing the weapon around so that the tip almost touched Rainbow's throat. " Unless you want your friend to go about without a head purple creature I suggest you lead me to your ruler now!" the Human growled to Twilight.

Without another word Twilight charged up a burst of energy to teleport herself and the Human to Canterlot.

-- Arvikang's POV

Finnally he were making progress. After... reasoning with the equestrians the purple one who the others refered to as Twilight, agreed to take him to this Princess Celestia.

Then Twilight spoke to him "Do you have a name?" she asked quietly.

Arvikang hestiated then shrugged "Mabye I'll tell you later, mabye I won't."

She seemed satisfied with this answer and they continued walking in silence. As they passed diffrent members of Twilight's species they stared at Arvikang. It made him uncomfortable, but he didn't know why. Finnally after what seemed like hours they reached a large castle. A squadron of guards stood in front of a large golden gate.

"Halt in the name of the Royal Guard." one guard demanded.

"Please Captain this... human wishes to speak to the Princess." Twilight said cheerfully.

"Sorry Ms.Sparkle I can't let you pass with that thing." the captain nodded to Arvikang.

"Captain this "thing" can hurt you very badly." she begged.

"Well even if it tries it will not get to th- hey you stop, don't come any closer!" the captain ordered as Arvikang approached him. Then gently he reached over and touched the captain on the forhead. Immediatly he became Arvikang's slave. Turning to the other guards the captain commanded in a mindless voice. "Let the thing through now."

One of the guards tried to reason with him, but was silenced with a sharp "follow my orders" fron the captain.

After Arvikang and Twilight walked past and into the castle a ways the captain snapped out of his trance

"What happened?" he groaned.

"You let Ms.Sparkle and that "human" thing through." one guard explained.

"Oh no! That thing must have controlled my mind we have to hurry, before he harms Princess Celestia!" he shouted.
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Later as Arvikang and his escort were walking Twilight asked how he had controlled the guard. Arvikang merely said that he pesuaded him. Finally as they arrived at the thrown room he noticed two more guards at the entrice. Before they could say anything Arvikang lunged forward. Now on a good day he might have just intimidated a guard into letting him in or use mind control, but this was not a good day and he had already been nice. The sooner he could treat his wounds and get off this planet the better. The first guard tried using a spear against him. Arvikang quickly ducked under it and stabbed one lightsaber into the guard's chest. The second guard, Arvikang choked to death with the force. Twilight looked in horror at the corpses.

"How could you!?" she cried in shock and confusion.

Arvikang said nothing, just returned his lightsaber to his belt. Now he would get to meet Celestia...