LEGEND OF THE SORAI
LEGEND OF THE SORAI
A/N: The idea for this story came from watching too much StarGate SG1 and reading The Never-ending Story it's an idea that I've had for a while now, but I needed to watch the first movie of Never Ending and then read the book to make it work………while the idea comes from Never Ending, there are no character references whatsoever or any relation to the story or the books, in fact the only thing related to the genre is the werewolf Gmork who does make an appearance. This story is of course a crossover, a mega crossover for that matter. A couple of years ago I tried doing a Star Wars massive crossover, but that failed supreme, just because I couldn't muster the whole idea across the three oldest and then do the three prequels. However Legend of the SORAI is a Star Wars cross over with talents from Star Gate, Atlantis, Star Trek, X-men, Cowboy Bebop, Halo, plus a few others as I see fit.
Chapter One: In Darkest Day
The rebel cruiser blew through space running as if its life depended on it, which in fact it did, since it was being pursued by a much larger ship, both ships were trading laser fire, but the smaller ship was going to end up captured.
All of a sudden, a wormhole appeared out of nowhere, and two ships appeared out of the wormhole.
On board Prometheus, Commander Ellis looked a bit perplexed. "Someone want to tell me where we are?" he asked, "Or for that matter, where we aren't?"
The tactical officer checked the star maps, but wasn't able to figure anything out.
"I don't know sir," she said, "But that small cruiser looks to be in trouble, it doesn't look Tokra, but who knows, the bigger ship is causing them some damage, and they aren't going to last long."
"Hail the bigger ship," said Ellis, "and ready the rail guns, and stand by first and third torpedo bays."
On board the Emperor's Glory, a boarding crew was getting ready to jump into action, when the sirens went off. The captain, one Admiral Tirgis looked at the two ships and frowned at the readings.
"Interesting," he said, "They aren't rebels, but I don't know who they are."
"Sir," said a tech, "We're being hailed."
Admiral Ellis's face appeared on the screen, "Attention unknown ship," he said, "This is Admiral Ellis of the Earth Defense Fleet Capital Ship Prometheus, state your intentions to the reason as why you are firing on this smaller ship."
Tirgis wasn't sure if he wanted to laugh or laugh some more.
"Mr. Ellis," he said, "That ship is part of the Rebel Alliance, on board is the Princess of Alderaan, a member of the Imperial Senate, but now a traitor because of that, she has secret plans that she shouldn't have. If you help us capture her, we will consider you allies."
Ellis knew that this guy was no good, and made a motion with his hand; the guns came online and fired across the bow of Glory.
Then Ellis realized, that the Prometheus and Daedalus had somehow gone through a slip in their transit and come out in the Star Wars Universe.
"Daedalus," said Ellis, "pull out, scanners show another ship on the way."
Tirgis realized as soon as the Prometheus had fired that he was going to need help, he looked at the directory of cruisers in the air, the Rashider an interdictor would be helpful enough, Commander Rasorider was that ships captain.
The Daedalus cloaked and bugged out to a safer location, Tirgis watched and was amazed, realizing that the Empire was about to be dealing with a superior force.
"Mr. Ellis," said Tirgis, "You have five minutes to surrender yourself and your ship over to the Imperial Navy, which if you do peacefully we will not harm you for associating with Rebels."
Ellis smiled, "No Captain," he said, "But I must hold to my beliefs, if you were to surrender, it might have made things easier for you."
Then the ship fired three more rounds and a torpedo before cloaking and bugging out.
"Damage report!" said Tirgis.
"Superficial damage, a few cracks here and there, but otherwise we're still operational," said a tech, "the torpedo took out life support systems in the detention level, but no prisoners or staff were in that area."
"Get that area fixed," said Tirgis, "I want the Princess comfortable when she's arrested."
"Sir," said another tech, "We've gotten the blockade runner, she stopped to witness the action and we managed a tractor beam on her."
"Someone find Vader," said Tirgis, "I want him to be updated."
Then a chilling voice appeared behind Tirgis and he practically jumped out of his skin.
"I have been up here in the shadows since those ships came out of the wormhole." He said, "I am not pleased with you Captain, though I find it a bad idea to remove you from captaincy with the princess needing to be captured."
Tirgis gulped, he knew very much how pissed off Darth Vader could be when things were going against them.
"And further more," said Vader, but was interrupted by another tech shouting something.
"Repeat that again lieutenant!" said Tirgis.
"Rashider isn't responding to our hails," said the tech, "Long range scanners show nothing in the distance, but she isn't responding."
"Send out a probe," said Tirgis, very fed up with what was going on.
Half an hour later, the princess had been captured, but the plans had not been found, however an escape pod had drifted off, they were close enough to a planetary system, Tatooine that the plans could have landed there.
"Send in a contingent of troops," said Vader, "I do not want those plans getting into the wrong hands."
In another part of the system, a probe was analyzing the remains of the interdictor cruiser that had been the Rashider. Energy weapons, but not weapons that it was familiar with, the probe then noticed the black box, it was still intact, and it had recorded everything.
An hour later, on max propulsion drives, the probe made its way back to the ship. This type of probe was not the standard planetary but a modified area probe used mostly for space. Essentially it was a glorified tie fighter with robotic couplings.
The findings spooked the science techs, the vid replayed three large ships and one flat large ship. They had come out of a wormhole, much similar to the one that the two Defense fleet ships or whatever they were had come out of. The Rashider had hailed the lead ship and asked them to identify themselves. Then the captain had asked them to surrender since they were not of the Imperial Navy, guns had been trained on all four, and had been fired, but the shots weren't that effective, and in return all four of the ships lashed out with laser weaponry, powerful enough that it blasted the shield generator and then decimated the rest of the ship. The ships registries were as followed, NC 1701 USS Enterprise, NC1702 Enterprise B, NC1703 Enterprise C, and NC 1704 Enterprise D, also there was some interference along side of the ships as well, could have been a stealth device, but the techs couldn't figure it out, and as such there may have been one more ship out there as well.
"This is disturbing," said Vader, "Relay this back to Imperial Headquarters, the Emperor must know about this as well."
"What about the Senate milord?" asked Tirgis.
"They are officially disbanded," said Vader, "The Emperor feels it is necessary that he make all the decisions without the bureaucrats second guessing what he wants."
Tirgis smiled, that was something he had hoped would happened, but a memory of something that his father an Admiral during the Old Republic, sprang to mind.
"Lord Vader," said Tirgis, "My grandfather was an Admiral during the Old Republic, during the end of the Jedi and beginning of the Emperor."
"You have a point commander?" asked Vader, who had known of Admiral Bensoria, an exemplary man who had led his forces with distinction.
"There were people during that war that helped both sides, they were supposed to be a myth, a legend of an older period, called The Sorai," said Tirgis, "What if they've come back again to aid these rebels?"
Vader growled and Tirgis backpedaled a bit, realizing he may have just signed his death sentence, but nothing happened, which was unexpected, because if Vader were mad, someone died.
"I will discuss that with my superiors," said Vader, "Once we reach Project: Death Star."
"We're taking her to the Death Star?" asked Tirgis, "I take it then that my posting was accepted if my ship is delivering her?"
"There are complications to that," said Vader, "You can discuss them with Tarkin when we reach the base."
Tirgis dropped the question and nodded, and pressed a com, "Navigator," he said, "Set course for the following coordinates."
Vader then returned to his meditation chamber.
In her chamber, the Princess sat and contemplated her future.
In deep space, more wormholes opened and other ships appeared, some were small, others were larger like the Imperator Class.
One small ship, that looked like horse, blazed through space. The Serenity, a firefly class transport was from a universe that felt so similar to this one, that Captain Malcolm Reynolds almost thought that they were in the same universe, but that the stars weren't the same.
"What do you think Walsh?" asked Mal, "What was that we went through?"
"I think it was a wormhole," said Walsh, "Nothing was damaged, and as far as I can see, everything is operational."
A blinking red light went off, and Walsh checked something.
"Sir," he said, "A firefight occurred here earlier, a ship was destroyed by laser fire of uncountable imagination that our ship doesn't even have."
"Any survivors or escape pods?" asked Malcolm.
"No," said Walsh, "But we can salvage, some parts still look complete, scanners show that a few weaponry systems are complete."
"How complete?" asked Malcolm.
"We could pirate them to our systems, they'd stick out, but if we got a couple of power cells that look to be complete and anything else we could potentially be a lot more powerful, there are sections there that we could make the Serenity bigger."
"Do it," said Malcolm, as he turned to hit the ships speakers, "This is the Captain, we're about to go into a ships debris field and collect it, there are weapons systems which we are going to pirate to the Serenity."
Shepherd looked up from his readings, and mused. Since when did the Captain go and salvage weapons systems.
Coming out of his room, he looked at the stars, saw the ship debris and cursed, not his universe, not the same stars, but the ship, it looked familiar, they couldn't have crossed over could they, the last time this had occurred, Shepherd hadn't been born yet, but his great grand father had left him a message about an incident that he had been involved in that involved crossover and conflict.
Rushing up to the control room, Shepherd gazed out at the hunk and wreak that was the Rashider.
"Captain," he said, "My great grand father was in an escapade like this once, long ago, a crossover, about a couple hundred years ago or so, I can tell you now that what happened was not a good thing, but that he and his people got out alive back to their, our universe."
"I've seen this ship in a movie before," said Walsh, "Warriors of the Stars or something like that, set in a future ruled by a very evil emperor and rebel warriors fighting for their freedom, it may be that somehow that universe exists and we are in it."
"Somehow," said the Captain, "I believe you, it makes sense, and whatever we were brought for here, it means that things still need to be set right, probably the people here are faced with the same situation, a Mega station, a tyrannical and evil ruler person, and a destiny."
"Nice speech," said Shepherd, "Lets do it.
Epilogue.
Artemis Fowl looked at his creation, Butler his protector looked at it as well. "This is the only way that we can get richer," he said.
Holly Short glared at him, "Only you Artemis would do that," she said, "I hope it works, because if it does then things could change.
"The Preservers aren't exactly going to like interference," said Mulch, "they didn't like it when First Contact was observed by the second crew of the Enterprise," referring to the movie First Contact.
Foaly laughed, "The preservers, they shouldn't have interfered ever, now look at the various messes that have happened."
"This version of Earth hasn't been destroyed yet," said Artemis looking at Holly thoughtfully, "And I won't let that happen…..Ever."
"The Sorai," muttered Holly, "the legendary name for humans, deviated from the Tauri form that the Goulds called you humans, this is because of the last crossover, because of what Kirk did, and what happened."
"He interfered," said Foaly, "Much like Artemis did with our world, but the Preservers don't count this as interference, cross multiverse interference is unacceptable to them, even time travel."
"The Guardians, The Chosen One, and Phoenix Rising," said Holly, "They abused the crossover powers as well, they knew the rules, as did the dark hungers that arose from the other multiverse, but they broke it, and as such this is the last mess that needs to be cleared up. The Clone Wars brought the first crossover, which lasted to when Vader rose to power, then everyone got out of dodge."
"Now it's up to us," said Artemis, "To fix this mess."
END CHAPTER ONE.