A strange new world

The room was as long as it was wide stretching on for almost five hundred meters before abruptly transitioning into a wall completing the perfect cube that the designers of the room had strove to create at its inception.

Spread throughout the room were hundreds if not thousands of small crib like structures each one holding a single infant child.

Each one of these children were potential candidates and would be subjected to small tests by one of the three creatures walking between each one of the cribs. Occasionally one of the creatures would stop by a crib turning and facing the child that lay within. Even more rarely they would pick up the child holding two fingers against the side of the infants head for a moment before either replacing it in the crib and moving on or removing the baby to a cordoned off part of the room before continuing on their search once more.

Slowly, one of the creatures picked up a small wookie nestled within one of the cribs and placed his fingers against the child's temples as he had done with the other potential candidates that day. After a few brief seconds of consideration, he transferred his hands to the waist of the Wookie, cradling the baby in his arms before walking over to the side of the room, where two more similar creatures awaited, watching over the children that had already been picked out.

"A Wookie? Are you sure Darius?" One of the females asked.

"The force is impartial to species Amber." The male identified as Darius said, placing the tiny wookie down in a small play pen with three other chosen babies. "Master Frout can attest to that."

"Yes many members of my species are rarely force sensitive." The red skinned male mused.

"It's not that Devaronians aren't force sensitive." Amber said "Males never seem to be able to stay still for more than a few months at a time and females are almost as stubborn."

"As always your insight is most welcome Amber." The Devaronian bowed, before casting his gaze upon the children behind them. "Was that the last potential?"

"It was." Agreed Darius sighing as he looked over the room. "By the force. The number we select seems to shrink every time I oversee the proceedings."

"Maybe you're missing some in your advanced age." Amber smiled.

"Laugh it up. You'll get to my age one day." Darius shot back. "Are we ready to go?"

"I believe so. Darius, Frout, are you ready?"

"If this is it." Frout frowned, picking up another small infant and smiling down at it.

"It's really creepy when they smile like these." Darius smirked, picking the Wookie back up.

"Wait." Amber commanded, holding up a hand. "I sense something is coming our way."

The two other Jedi's looked at each other before looking back at Amber.

"I can't sense anything." Frout said slowly.

"No I can sense it to." Darius said, putting his hand to his head as if he was suffering from a headache.

No sooner had he said those words then the thing they had sensed arrived. In the centre of the room, a glowing sphere of light appeared, spreading out and engulfing all the cribs around it in its bright light.

In an instant the Jedi had placed the children back down in the play pen and had set off towards the light, Amber summoning her Lightsaber hilt from its position on her belt, holding the weapon tightly but not activating it yet.

Slowly the light began to fade and the three masters approached the fading light until it disappeared their eyes alighting on a small crater that had been formed in the floor and more importantly the tiny creature that lay within the crater.

"Darius, what do you make of this?" Amber asked, slowly sinking to one knee and placing her hand palm down over the small green and purple creature.

"I've never seen anything like it." Darius said.

"So is this a new species?" Frout asked.

"Brilliant. A new species, which may or may not be sentient, and the first thing it sees is a jedi." Darius laughed.

"Whatever it is it's alive. In seems to be in some sort of coma though." Amber said removing her hand.

"You can sense that though yes?" Darius asked.

"You seem to be much more in tune with the living force today." Frout observed. "What do you sense?"

"This creature is a child most likely between five to six galactic years in age. That means he is within the age for training." He explained.

"Ok and?" Amber asked.

"And surely you can sense the potential that he holds?" Frout continued.

Thinking quickly Darius placed his hand directly on the creatures head and closed his eyes as the small creatures eyes cracked open.

Spike slowly cracked his eyes open, groaning in pain as he tried to raise his right arm slightly and dislodged what felt like small pieces of debris from it.

Eventually his vision began to actually focus and he looked around staring at the odd shapes of several bipeds.

"Twilight?" He groaned. "Why are there Minotaur's here?"

One of the creatures spoke something in an unintelligible slur which snapped Spike out of his stupor.

His eyes finally came into full focus, locking onto the creature that spoke. Instantly he was on edge, scrambling about and managing to get out of the small crater he found himself in.

Edging backwards, he felt himself touch a set of legs and craned his head back until he was looking directly upwards and looking straight at the creature this one sporting bright red skin and a set of horns.

"Buh…ah…wha." Spike stammered, freezing up as the creature looked down at him.

The red creature opened its mouth and spewed out more of the unintelligible sounds that the other creature had made.

Spike slowly pushed himself away from the three creatures backing up until he hit a wall. The three creatures advanced towards him.

Spike tried to speak again but found himself unable to make a sound.

The three Jedi's looked at the odd creature as it backed up against the wall clearly terrified of its new surroundings.

"I believe it would be best if we talked to these creature."Amber said while reattaching her Lightsaber to her belt.

"Well it mumbled something when it first woke but I couldn't hear if it was any known language." Darius mused.

"Perhaps if we could get it to speak again and maybe one of us have heard the language before. We do know the majority of the galactic languages." Amber suggested.

"A great idea." Frout agreed before turning to spike.

"Hello, do you understand me?" He said slowly in normal galactic basic.

The small creature didn't move a muscle and his eyes staying glued onto the three Jedi's.

"Do you understand us?" Amber asked, slipping easily into the language of Selkath.

The result was once again the same and the Jedi's broke into a variety of different languages.

"How is this?" No response.

"This?" Again no response.

"Bothese?" Still nothing.

"This isn't working." Frout exasperated.

Spike suddenly focused on the red skinned alien before opening his mouth to speak.

Spike watched as the creatures in front of him all made unintelligible sounds going from odd mumbles to growls and barking noises.

Finally the red creature spoke.

"This is ridiculous." It said, speaking in near perfect ancient draconian. The language was slightly different than the language that Spike knew, but it was still similar enough for Spike to understand it.

"D-draconian?" He stammered and instantly the creatures fell silent as the red skinned one came forward.

"You speak Devaronese?" He asked.

"Deva-what?" Spike asked not taking his eyes off the alien.

"Devaronese." The creature repeated. "The language of Devaronians. Now I am assuming by your grasp of language you are sentient?"

Spike didn't understand what sentient meant but he simply nodded in confusion.

"Very well. What is your name and the name of your species?"

"Spike." Said nervously. "Dragon."

"Dragon?" The alien asked. "Does your species have any genetic relationships with the Arkanian dragon?"

"I don't know."

"You seem afraid." The creature asked. "If it makes you feel better I am a Devaronian. Jedi master Frout at your service."

"Frout?" Spike asked.

"Yes. With me is Jedi master Amber, Jedi master Darius, all of whom are humans of different planets. Specifically, Corellia, Coruscant and Alderaan."

"I am assuming you can speak to that creature?" Amber asked.

"I can. His name is Spike." Frout replied turning to Amber.

"Spike?" Darius asked. "And I am guessing he speaks Devaronese?"

"He calls it ancient Draconian but yes and he also might be able to speak other languages. His species is also called Dragon but it seems he knows nothing about the Arkanian dragon."

"That is interesting." Amber said before turning to Spike.

"Where do you come from?" She asked in her the normal galactic language to see if he could also speak that.

"Equestria." Spike said slowly.

"And the galactic coordinates?" Amber asked.

"What is that?"

"One question at what technological level is your species?" Frout asked.

"Well we have trains and they're pretty new." Spike said.

"And what do these trains run on? Magnets, electricity?" Frout asked.

"Coal." Spike said simply.

"Then I am assuming your species is at a relatively low technological state." Amber said softly before turning back to the others.

"This makes this an official first contact scenario." Amber said. "One of the first the republic has had to do for a while."

"I can sense it though." Darius said. "The potential of this child is significant."

"But his species has never been discovered or documented by the republic. Surely the senate would be interested in hearing about this development." Darius asked.

"The Jedi do not answer to the senate." Frout pointed out. "They make requests but they do not need to be heeded on everything. In this case I believe that our need for initiates is greater than their need to study a new species in depth."

"Then we are in agreement that this Spike will be taken back to the temple with us?" Darius asked.

"I guess." Amber said after a moment of thinking.

"Very well." Frout said before bending back down to Spike. "Spike I would like you to come with us. The order that I am part of is in need of potential initiates but only a few individuals in the galaxy have the potential to join. It seems you may have that potential."

"But…what about Twilight?" Spike asked while tears suddenly springing to his eyes.

"Who is Twilight?" Frout asked.

"My friend." Spike said sobbing. "She's the only family I've got."

"Family." Frout smiled. "As part of the life of the Jedi you must surrender emotional ties. You will be forbidden to marry but in doing so you will serve the Jedi and the republic as both emissaries and negotiators."

"But I've got to get home." Spike sniffed.

"I am sorry but I don't know a planet ruled by dragons." Frout said with a slight smile.

"It's not ruled by dragons." Spike sniffed again. "It is ruled by ponies."

"Ponies? As in an old Coruscant horse type ponies?" Darius asked.

"I…" Spike began, before Frout helped him out.

"I doubt that if even knows about hyperspace travel and the republic and that he will know about ancient creatures on a core world." Frout replied.

"Very well." Darius said standing up. "We should make our plans to leave. The Selareco is standing by to take us back to the temple."

With that Darius reached down and picked Spike up. Initially Spike struggled but after finding that he couldn't escape from the grip of the human and the fact that if anything it was comforting he than stopped struggling.

As it had before his mind thought back to Twilight and tears once again formed in his eyes. The reality of his situation hit him hard.

His friends didn't know where he was.

He didn't know where he was.

He had no idea how to get home.

He was alone.

With this thought dominating his mind he suddenly realised how tired he was and slowly went into a sleep.

Outer rim

Onboard a separatist ship the sith lord Count Dooku was mediating in his room when the hologram form of his master Darth Sidious appeared before him. Dooku got up and got on one knee bowing before his master. "Master what do I owe this unexpected visit?" asked Dooku.

"Count Dooku there is a disturbance in the force. I have felt a potential threat. He could be a problem to our plans if he gets in our way." said Sidious.

"He is that poweful enough to distrubt our plans?" asked Dooku wondering how one boy can ruin their plans.

"I can sense that he could be a problem. I want you to deal with him soon Dooku." said Sidious.

"As you wish my master." said Dooku as he bowed one more time to his master before Sidious disappeared. Dooku got back up and looked out into the emptiness of space when the doors slide opened and in came his assassin and apprentice Assajj Ventress.

"You heard what Sidious said?" asked Dooku not turning away from his view of space.

"Yes my master and should I deal with this boy myself?" asked Ventress as she got on one knee bowing before her master.

"Not yet I want to see how powerful this boy could become. If he gets strong then perhaps we can turn him to our side." said Dooku.

"And with him by our side we will be poweful enough to bring down the dark lord and control the galaxy" said Ventress realizing where her master was going with his plan.

"Yes he can be of some use to us but I wish to see how powerful he is first. First chance you get fight him and come back to me alive to tell me. If he is not worth it then kill him." said Dooku giving his apprentice her orders.

"As you wish my master." said Ventress as she bowed to her master before leaving.

Will I hope you guys enjoyed this new story and give me any tips or your personal opinions on this story.