Heart of Death

Karel's Story

Karel was with Bora when they worked on the imperial starship after the Battle of Beacon. He just learned about a number of things. The empire can reach him, Ruby might be able to become a Jedi, Bora killed the man who tried to kill a number of hunters in training, and the Jedi used to live on Remnant. He was currently working on a sector of the ship that held a very new technological item…

Karel 1st person

I walk into the downed imperial star destroyer. Atlus, Vale and the grimm brought this beast down to Remnant, and now we're going through the thing trying to learn everything about this ship and the empire as we can. My mandalorian girlfriend and I are leading the search through this, and are getting paid handsomely for it. I thought I was making bank before when I was Weiss' bodyguard but no, the governments are paying a pretty penny for our services, since Bora and I are the only ones on this planet who can read galactic basic. People are calling me a hero, but they should be saying that to Bora. She's the one who killed the second inquisitor.

I take out my lightsaber, the blue one. I have three, this blue one that's a very basic design, a green one that I run my ship with, and a new purple one that I built here on Remnant. I lent my purple lightsaber to Ruby, since she was force sensitive. I was walking down the hallway, it looks like every other. I was the fastest one in the ship, so I was rushing past many things. I was in the engine room and saw a closed door, so I walked over to it. I took out my lightsaber and cut a hole into this wall. I walk into a small room and see a device. I've never seen anything like this before. I get on my comm and tell Bora "I've found something. Something weird. It's metal, and it's glowing, but I don't know what it does."

"Don't touch it." She said "I'm coming down, so don't do anything." She commanded me, But…

Okay in my defense I wasn't really paying attention to her when I saw a button on it. Yeah I pushed it, and it sucked me into what I think was a black hole. When I woke up I was in a room. My eyes hurt for some reason, and I had to use the force to see. It was a small room I was in, about the size of the room on the star destroyer, so at first I thought it was the same room, until I realized that the door didn't have the hole in the door that I made. With that I immediately sat up. I heard running coming towards this room. I looked up and saw something that I could use to hide for a time. I have been trained as a jedi shadow, so I can be stealthy. Three men walk in, they wear black armor, though I think that it makes them slow. I jumped down very quietly and see the three looking at whatever brought me here. I run out of the room, locking it behind me.

The hallways are just like the ships from his galaxy, but these had windows everywhere. Red, that's all I could see. Great that means that I can't leave without a ship, especially with an Oxygen well and a gravity well being placed. I see something moving, so I use the force to cloak myself and saw a trooper walking past me. He went into this one room, and I followed him. The door closed behind me. I saw the only person in the room looking at a monitor of a docking bay, my ticket out of this place, and hopefully to a more hospitable, and less metal. I see a data chip on the desk next to the person and I use the force to bring it to me. The man started to turn, but I used the force to cloak myself again, and when he turned around he couldn't see me. Thank you master for every bit of training that you made me do.

After I have the chip I look out of a window and see a ship that looks like an arrow, weird but it's better than nothing. The bay in right below me, so I knew it had to be a way to get down there quickly, and I sense the force dragging me down a path, so I follow the feeling and find a staircase out of this tiny room. I must be the stealthiest jedi left, and have the force on my side because no one found me. I get on the ship and hid in a compartment, maybe a closet. I sit down and start to decode the data chip.

The force works in very mysterious ways, but even Yoda would be horribly confused about this, since I was on a planet called Mars. It's a part of a solar system called Sol, and this was the fourth planet in that system, called the red rock by people on the third planet called Earth. I read further and read about a quick history about where we were going, a place called England. I hear something that tells me that we're landing, and I get out. I use the force to hide myself again. I go to the exit, and get out. I jumped down to the ground but my force cloak stopped working right as the ship took off.

Three troops looked at me, but I didn't realize yet that the cloak stopped working, and they all look at me. I looked down and saw myself and swore out loud. I heard the familiar sound of guns being raised. I sigh and use the force to push the troops onto the ground. They hit the ground with a thump, so I ran after the first one, and had a feeling to kick off the helmet so I did, and quickly stabbed the man in the head. Normally I wouldn't do anything like this, but I had a feeling that I needed to keep this armor intact. The second hadn't even gotten up yet so I grabbed the gun from the first one and I rushed over to this person and pulled off the helmet as well. They punched me and sent me back, and to make matters worse the third one got back up, and started to fire. I jumped behind the second troop and used the force to thrust the two together. I fired one bullet killing the second troop, now I just had to end this last one. He got up when we both heard a voice, and the third one's head was cut clean off. I look at where the blast of energy came from and I see a man in all black, with black hair. "Who are you?"

He looks at me trying to size me up I assume. This happened a lot during the clone wars, the limited amount I was in them for. People didn't think much of a young boy with dyed blue hair could do much, and then I kick their behinds. If I got paid for every time I beat someone who thought they were the force's special gift I would be richer than a Hutt.

This guy says one thing "What is your name?" in a very creepy voice… not that I was scared of it or creeped out. I told him my name "Karel, and you?" trying to sound confident, though I can't tell if he bought it.

"That has to be earned, and if you live, I will reward you with knowledge." He gets out a stick, and shot out a blue stream, I jump out of the way of it, and get my lightsaber ready. He shoots out a few more shots of this weird thing but I avoid them all, until I blocked the last one, knocking it back to the stick, hitting it out of the man's hand. I get my lightsaber and jump swinging my saber down, but the man got out a sword, and the sword deflected the lightsaber.

"How…?" was all I got out before he punched me. That's two people that punched me in one day; I'm starting to feel like Obi-Wan on a good day. He whispered something and something invisible flies towards me, almost hitting me, but since I was paying attention I was able to avoid it, well that and the force. He sends another, and it hits my arm, causing some blood to fly into the air. I use the force to send a force wave to knock down the name, and I do it. He gets up and looks at me.

"You've passed my first test, now you've earned something. My name is Snape." He looked at me and started again.

"I have to admit that you are strong, and we need help. My order has lost almost everyone, and lost everything. An Empire arrived headed by one who we thought was one of us, but he betrayed us. He walked right up to where we were and killed almost everyone. We need help, and we're almost completely exhausted, we need someone like you, someone who has those quick reflexes. I beg of you to join us." He holds out his hand. "Please." Was all he could say.

His story was like mine. There was an empire here, and I assume that the people on Mars are connected to this, so they could soon be able to attack my home. It's been through enough already. I can't believe that an Empire has destroyed anyone's home again. I shake my head. "Yes Snape, I will join you." Snape smiles, "Thank you."

He got a bag out "We're going to get those sets of armor, and weapons. After we do that we need to leave." He says, and I do it immediately. After we get everything somehow into this bag, without it growing in size. I don't ask him and we walk to this place. It's old and I'm sure that there hundreds of spiders in this room alone. He walks him and I into the fireplace and grabs dust. He says something that I can't understand and we burst into flames. We are teleported to somewhere. The feeling on my stomach was terrible and I almost threw up, until I realized that I haven't actually eaten anything since breakfast back at Beacon. The place where we land next to a house or what I think is a house. It's so dark down here that I can't tell, and I can tell we're underground since there is no natural sunlight, nor a sky. Instead the "Sky" is concrete. I hear something coming that sounds like metal scrapping against metal, and I see dust falling from the ceiling. Snape opens the door to this building, and it's dark green brick, with some, but very little visible metal. "Fancy" I say

"We are a small group Karel. Less than fifty I would say." Snape walks to a door and I feel it, it's small. I walk in after Snape opened the door for me.

"Thanks" I say. Hey at least I have manners, which is a lot more I could say then those soldiers. They didn't even have the decency to tell each other that I dropped in. I look at the old man in front of. He's wearing gray with a gray hat, and he has a very long white beard. His glasses were in his hand when he asked

"Who's this Snape?"

"He's a solution to our problem. He can fight Darth Kadabra." The man tensed at the mention of this person's name.

"Call him Harry. That's his name."

"Alright my old friend, this is someone who can help us get close to Potter."

"Does he know what we are doing?"

"Yes, I've told him our story, and he agreed to help us, now the next thing is that we need to get him into the army, maybe that rumored group."

"I'm still here guys" I say. "I'm not chopped liver here."

"Yes, how rude of us my dear boy. Come in, come in. Now what can you tell me your name?"

"My name's Karel, and what's yours?"

"Albus Dumbledore. I lead the Order of the Phoenix and I have a task for you. We need you to save a woman to get into her inner circle. She will be attacked by the Portuguese rebels at the cave of Schist One hundred with a few war hounds. They will attack in three days, and we need you to go to there and stop her from being assassinated. You will have four others follow you, but you need to get there in three days or you will fail."

I didn't fully understand it, but I had the Idea. This woman must have been important.

"Also she is the enemy, but you can't kill her yet, or at all." Great it's one of these missions. Great. I always hated missions like this when my master was alive. Now I have to deal with keeping up appearances of who knows how long.

"So how long will this task be?"

"We don't know, but you need to get close to her."

"I think I can do this. I'm going to need more information, but right now I need food, something to drink and sleep." I say realizing that I'm extremely tired, hungry and thirsty I am.

"Of course, well get you a bed and a meal quickly." Albus says and I leave the room. I find a couch and fall on it, almost falling asleep quite literally.

Author's notes: This is my Collab story with SonicXBen, and this is the story of my character going through a war that was never supposed to have him. From all of my readers, this isn't the same Karel in the current story; multiple universes are great aren't they. Karel is a Jedi from after Order 66 in a different universe, but he gets thrown into this strange new place. How is he even going to survive the next fight, let alone enough time to get him back home?

This was being planned by my friend SonicXBen and I for a while. I'm glad he agreed for this to happen. It's a great chance to improve myself, and this isn't even the only collab I'm doing with people. Keep an eye out for Karel in other stories.

May the force be with you

-DragonZlayerX12