The thing that was making Harry Potter's life really infuriating was that someone had tried to bind his very soul as soon as he dropped out of hyperspace in front of Earth. He treated the binding as he would any enemy, he blasted it with the full might of force lightning, destroying the cursed piece of soul magic. Letting himself drop into a force meditation state, Harry watched the golden binder disintegrate as the lightning sparked and sizzled down its length, until it reached a goblet. The goblet was aflame and was attached to the golden string, Harry grinned as he watched the expressions of horror as the goblet shrieked and melted into slag. Pulling himself from the force, Harry looked out the view port and sighed. Hadn't he been through enough already?
Harry Potter had been taken from his relatives, thank chaos for that, to be trained as weapon for the Sith. But, that didn't work out for the kidnappers, Harry had created a path of death through his captors and to freedom, that turned out to be short lived. He was found by a Jedi and his apprentice, Aayla Secura, and was then indoctrinated by the fools, because he hadn't been careful and learned that hindsight was a pain in the butt. That was until, at the age of 16, he and his secret girlfriend, Aayla, were assigned to Geonosis with 200 other jedi. Harry had been blasted to shreds by the bounty hunter, Jango Fett, until Mace Windu cut off the man's head. Aayla had taken him to the medics and he found out later that the only parts of his body that could be saved were his torso, right arm, and head. He had worn the suit, Aayla helped him by drawing what he wanted the suit to look like, ever since.
That was when Skywalker entered the picture, making his life a living nightmare. Anakin was jealous that Harry, who now called himself Darth Imperious because he wanted to tick off the Jedi Council, got an apprentice. The togruta, Ahsoka Tano, was a quick learner, much to Imperious's chagrin. He, Aayla, and Ahsoka were the 'Trio with no fear', the name that the Holonet gave them after the battle of Mandalore. That image then was torn down when Skywalker had told the Council about his relationship with Aayla, but by then he had married Aayla on Naboo by, surprisingly, Senator Amidala. The few that knew about it(Master Yoda, Ahsoka, Shaak Ti, and Kit Fisto) defended the married couple with such fierceness that the council told them that they were allowed to return to the temple, but would be stripped of their rank. Ahsoka refused to become Anakin's apprentice and stuck to Imperious's side.
"Troubling, this is...Padawan Tano, refuse to be apprenticed to Skywalker, she does. Remain Imperious's padawan, Padawan Tano will." Yoda had said on the matter of his apprentice's new master, the council agreed with this. Obi-Wan had dragged his padawan out of the room, by the ear, and word had it that he made Skywalker, the hero without fear, feel what fear was for the first time. After that fiasco though, Imperious, Aayla and Ahsoka packed and left the order, heading back to Earth. His droid, BB-8, the last of his type came with them. He also found Hk-47 in a junk yard and bought the assassin droid, the droid had a fondness for calling anyone but himself, Aayla, Ahsoka and BB-8, Meatbags.
"Query: What just happened, master? Observation: You seemed to be really pleased about something." HK said from the doorway.
"Nothing much, excepted the fact that I turned a piece if jedi history into slag when it tried to bind my soul." Imperious said without turning to the droid.
"Statement: Of course, destroying jedi history always puts you in a good mood, master." HK stated before he asked "Query: Master, what is the final destination of this vessel?"
"That, I do not know." Imperious said before he let the force guide him.
The ship sped smoothly through Earth's atmosphere, under Imperious's touch, and headed towards a bunch of hills. That was when Imperious sensed that there was something being hidden from view, he hated when someone tried hiding something from him. HK took the copilot's seat and checked the scanners for anything useful.
"Observation: Master, the scanner is picking up multiple life forms behind that hill." The assassin droid reported as he looked up from the scanners.
Imperious nodded before letting the force lead him, right into Rome. Wait...he was in America, how did he get to Rome from the USA? "HK, what is our location?" He asked as he stared at the roman buildings.
"Answer: Location of this craft is San Francisco Bay, California, USA. Query: Master, what is the problem with this location?"
Imperious grabbed the assassin droids head and turned it to the view port. HK said "Observation: This architecture is not of the same time period that we have observed before. It is older and more ridged, marking this in the era of the Roman Empire."
"Thanks for stating the obvious, Captain Obvious."
"Ojection: I am not this 'Captain Obvious' that you are referring too. If I was then I was be making observations that would be unhelpful and negative to the situation, Master." HK retorted.
"I know that, begin the landing sequence. I'll get the others ready for what is to come." Imperious stood up and left HK to land the ship. Walking at a brisk pace, Imperious let himself be lost in thought until he reached his quarters. The doors opened with a soft hiss, revealing the blue Twi'lek form of Aayla reading 'The Entire Works of H. G. Wells' on the bed.
"Hmmm, these martians are like the Mandalorian's. They play it smart when it comes to attacking." She said, not looking up from the book.
"Yes, though they are weighted down by gravity. By the way, we are going to land in a few seconds, Aayla. Hk and I are going to look around and see if its safe." Imperious said before leaving. Imperious found HK standing next to the open ramp, holding his blaster rifle in one robotic claw.
"Lets find out what the force has in store for us then HK." Imperious said to the assassin droid before moving down the ramp and into the sunlight.
Percy looked out at the flashing red lightning, an uneasy feeling settling in his stomach. "Well, it looks like Octavian is almost finished for the day," Hazel said quietly, the only thing she had said after the gemstone had appeared out of the ground.
"Hazel, I know that you may not what to talk about it but I have to ask..." Percy started to ask, his instints were guiding him,"Are you a daughter of Hades?"
Yes, thats how you ask the only friend you've made in camp, you ask about her godly parent in the bluntest way possible.
"I, er...oh." Hazel stuttered.
Percy quickly said "Sorry, I...forget I said anything."
Hazel stared at him before she said "No, really, its fine. I am a daughter of Pluto, but my dad won't claim me or I'll be taken back to the underworld..."
Percy looked at Hazel before lifting her head so he could look into her eyes. "Hazel, you're my friend and if your dad does try that, he'll have to get through me first to do it. I swear it on the Styx." Thunder rumbled in the distance the moment he made the oath. Hazel gave the son of Neptune a look of shock.
"You'd do that for me?" Percy nodded at Hazel's question before they heard a very high pitched girly scream come from the temple of red lightning.
"Was that a girly scream I just heard?"
"That must be Octavian..." Hazel muttered under her breath.
The two ran up the hill and into the temple to find a robot and a black figure, the figure holding a skinny teenager in the air. Percy felt like they shouldn't interfere with this or they would get hurt.
"Hazel, don't do anyhting."
Hazel gave him a confused look but she nodded, her hand on her dagger just in case.
"So, your the auger? But, your just a legecy and legecies only get one of the godly parents ablities. I could tell you that today was Wednesday without having to gut a stuffed animal." The black man's deep chilling voice said, making the hair on Percy's neck stand up.
"Obersation: Master, this meatbag is only faking his 'appearent' auger craft to his fellow meatbags. If it might be of use, let me handle the interagation." The robot said before turning to the pale boy.
"Query: Meatbag, what is your real ability? If you don't answer this query then you will find out how the Romans really did their sacrifices to their gods!"
Octavian's eyes went wide before he squeiked "I have the ability to tell how bad and what type of wounds a person has but I can't cure it like the children of Apollo!"
"Thought so, thats why you said I had some damage to my body, you could tell because you have that ability of Apollo but you are not an Auger. Too bad, may your soul find peace where ever your soul goes." The black figure said before the unmistakible sound of bones cracking could be heard, Percy guessed from all over the camp.
The body of the false auger fell to the floor in a heap, The figure turned and faced the two demigods, Hazel gasping at the man's apperance. The man wore a black suit that covered almost every part of his body. There appeared to be some kind of gray harness around his waist, and a belt. There were multiple hilts of some type of weapon on the belt, probably some type of trophies that the man had earned. On his shoulders, near his head, were some kind of bronze platings, and next to them were real silver shoulder pads. His feet had heavy boots on them, and his legs were wrapped in some kind of cloth that moved as he walked. His hands had many prosthetics on it, with sharp claw-like structures on the fingers. But the scariest part was the helmet. It looked similar to the mask that Darth Vader wore in the Star Wars movies, with the visor and mouthpiece. But the visor was T-shaped, like the mandalorian helmet of Jango Fett. On the sides of the helmet were outward slanting metal plates that appeared to protect the neck.
The man looked at the demigods and then said "So, were you expecting that or not?"
Hazel and Percy glanced at each other before Percy said "So...you killed the auger that wasn't an auger...and you are you?"
The man looked at the limp body of the skinny teenager then back at them. "I am Darth Imperious, but if what my real name, you have to promise not to tell anyone what it is."
The demigods looked at him before they swore on the Styx not to reveil his true name, Imperious nodded before he said "I was Harry Potter, but that was a long time ago."
Percy looked at Harry before he spun and saw Reyna with her gold and silver dogs at her heels. Imperious had his hand on one of the odd hilts on his belt, the robot lifted its gun at the praetor.
"Hazel, Percy, out of the way." Reyna ordered but the two didn't move.
"I can handle myself, you two, don't worry." Imperious spoke and the two moved to the side, to hear a sound like Snap-Hiss. Imperious held one of the hilts in his right hand, the blade that extended from the hilt was pure black with a sharp white edge. He aslo held the weapon so the blade was behind his back, reverse style Percy guessed from the way that Harry held his 'sword' expertly.
"Who are you and what have you done to our auger?" Reyna demanded, her dogs snarling at Imperious.
"I am Darth Imperious, miss, and your auger is dead. I killed him because he was playing you like a fool, he never had the gift of seeing the future, only children of Apollo have that gift. Legacies do not."
Argentum and Aurum looked at each other and sat down, whinning in earnst at their master. Reyna looked at her dogs and then back at Imperious. "Your not lying or my compainions would have torn you to shreds."
"Objection: Your dogs would have been turned into slag before they could even touch my master, meatbag." The Robot snapped at Reyna.
"HK-47, enough." Imperious said to HK-47 and the robot lowered it's gun slightly.
"Uh, could we take this somewhere else?" Percy asked, looking from the black sword that Imperious held and to Reyna.
"Agreed, Percy and Hazel, escort Imperious and HK-47 to the my office. We'll talk there." Reyna sighed before turning and heading out of the temple.
"So, uh, I have no Idea where Reyna's office is. Hazel, could you lead us there?" Percy said, rubbing the back of his head. Hazel rolled her eyes, but she was smiling.
"Don't worry, just follow me you three."
Imperious stood in Reyna's office, his arms crossed over his chest. HK was standing in the shadow of a corner, Percy and Hazel were sitting in the seats in front of the praetor's desk. The leader of the camp was intresting, her dogs were made of silver and gold, as well as lie detectors. But HK was right about one thing, if the two dogs attacked they would have been turned into slag.
"Imperious, I need you to tell me everything you know, since the 'auger' is unavalible at the moment." The girl said crisply.
"I am human, married and have only my torso, head and right arm left on my body from a trigger happy mercinary. I weild power that you can barly understand and will not survive without this suit for longer than a few hours." Imperious summed up all about himself.
Everyone was staring at him, mouths agape. The dogs looked shocked as well, but didn't attack because he didn't lie. Percy was the first to recover "Whoa, thats...something."
Reyna narrowed her eyes at Imperious, "Your weapon, it looks like the weapon used in the 'Star Wars' films. I would say that your a son or legacy of Vulcan, but children of Vulcan would not be able expertly weild a sword in the reverse-grip style that you use."
"Thats because I'm not a son of any God or Goddess, my parent are both mortal."
"But, thats impossible! You have to be a legacy then because you wouldn't have seen the camp other wise." Hazel said.
Imperious chuckled "You would be correct, execpt for one detail. I'm what you would call a wizard, not a child of Hecate or Trivia, but a full on wizard from Britain. Reyna, if you want to hear my real name then you have to swear not to tell anyone what it is."
Reyna swore on the Styx and the Imperious said "I was Harry Potter."
Reyna stared at him before she said slowly "Your the one that lived from that killing curse. The children of Trivia have been trying to figure out how you survived that night."
Imperious spoke gravely "That curse rebounded because of my parents sacrifice to protect me, the ritual is one of love. But, I was taken when I was five from this planet to another, to be molded into a weapon for the Sith."
Percy raised his hand before saying "So the Sith and the Jedi, they're all real then?"
"Yes, they are."
"Thats sweet, but you got the short end of the stick, didn't you?"
"Yes, but the Sith that kidnapped me are now all dead. But, I was still young when I was found by the Jedi. I met my wife when I was found by her master and herself. I sent most of my life as a Jedi with the powers of a Sith, and secretly going out with my future wife behind the council's back. Then the battle of Geonosis happened, the merc that shot me nearly to death was Jango Fett. The only thing that stop him from killing me was Mace Windu beheading him. The rest of the battle was a blur, I was dragged by my wife to the medic's but they could only save the body parts I told you of, but my wife drew the suit as I described it in my state in the hospital."
"I then took on the title, Darth Imperious, one to annoy the jedi and two was because I was following Sith tradition. I married my wife on Naboo and the few that knew about it defended us from the rest of the council after Anakin Skywalker told them. I had a padawan before I got married and I suspect that Skywalker wanted my padawan to be his own, but my padawan refused to be his padawan. The council took it up and decided that she would stay with me. We then left the jedi and came here, any questions?"
Reyna looked thoughtful as she took in his story before she asked "Imperious, if you can use both magic and the force, did the jedi ever get a count of those midi-things that are needed to use the force?"
"I have zero midiclorians in my blood." Imperious said bluntly.
The three demigods stared at him before Hazel said "Well, Imperious can use magic, so maybe that is the subsitute for the missing midiclorians in his blood. After all, children of Trivia can use magic as well as telepathy in battle, so why not the force as well?"
Reyna nodded at Hazel's explaination before turning to look at Imperious "Imperious, I hate to ask this, but would you like to join the war games tonight? Only you however, your robot compainion can be watching for any foul play."
Imperious chuckled "I would love to join you tonight. May I bring my wife and padawn so they can see these war games?"
Imperious stood, watching as the cohorts six and seven told the fifth cohort that they were being thrown at the defences. Shaking his head, Imperious walked away from them and towards the massive wall with high-powered water turrets lining the wall at ten foot intervals. When he was a good fifty meters away from the wall, Imperious waited for the demigods to notice him.
"Look, its that guy in the suit!"
"Lets soak 'em!"
Imperious grinned behind his helmet before raising his hands, letting the force flow through him in a bloody tide. The brick, cement, pipes, stone and wood that made up the first defence of the castle started to vibrate, then wiggle and then shake. The pipes were the first to go, exploding and making the pressure drop, making the turrets useless. Then the cement started cracking and breaking, that in turn started a chain reaction that cause the bricks to loose their binding to one another.
Then the internal structure was reveiled, the wood that held the wall up started creaking. The wood started bending and creaking, releasing energy slowly, it was as strong as but not as brittal as metal. The wall tossed and turned like a boat in a raging storm, the defenders crying out as the wall shook. The stone and brick fell, leaving the wood behind. Clenching his left fist, the supports at the back of the wall snapped and fell, but he wasn't finished yet.
The final supports finaly gave way as he clinched his right fist, falling with a resounding crash in front of him, splitting open like an over ripe fruit. Imperious didn't flinch, then he saw the ninth, tenth, and eleventh cohorts come after him like an army of ghosts. Imperious raised his right hand and blasted all three cohorts with lightning, their bronze armor acting as conductors and amplifying the pain to new hights.
The cohorts fell to the ground, twitching and spasming. Imperious walked pasted them and into the next area, his lightsaber lite and ready to cut anyone down. The twelfth cohort was shocked to see him, so shocked in fact that he took their standard and walked out of the ruined fort.
If Imperious looked back at the fort, he would find that everyone was staring at him. That was until someone shouted about for help. Imperious found the source of the commotion, Gwen the leader of the fifth cohort, had a spear through her stomach. Something was defiantly off about this, the spear had the initials of the twelfth.
"Someone from the twelfth cohort did this." Imperious snarled as he grabbed the spear, only for Gwen to gasp in pain.
"What?! How is this possible!?" The medic asked.
"The doors of death are open and Thanatos has been chained!"
Everyone turn and all of the romans knelt before the man in american army clothing. A oversized M16 rifle was in his hands, and he had a bundle of grenades at his waist. The man had a pair of shades covering his eyes, Imperious could sense that this being was slightly less powerful the he was.
"Lord Mars, it an honour." Reyna said respectfully to the roman god of war.
"Its good to be back, praetor." Mars said before pointing at Frank "Hey, son, sorry about the late birthday gift, you'll get three charges out of it until you learn your family's gift."
The god tossed the oversized M16 to Frank, but Imperious used the force to pull the weapon to him. Upon catching it, Imperious noticed that the gun had changed to a spear, from what Hazel had told him about Frank, he would be unable to use it.
"You should know that your son is not a spear wielder, Mars." Imperious stated, Mars had a look of surprise on his visage.
Mars then chuckled "Yes, my son is more of a bowman then a spearman." Then his expression turned sour "And who are you?"
Imperious glared unflinchingly at the war god and roared "I am Darth Imperious, Dark Lord of the Sith, Master Jedi, defeater of Grand Master Yoda and Darth Sidious."
The war god stepped back and then started laughing "So you are the one that I could feel that had more power then me in both of my forms. I think that you and Percy there will join my son on his quest to unchain Death."
"That remains to be seen, Mars. Where will this quest be heading?" Imperious said.
"You will be going to the land beyond the gods, Alaska!" Mars boomed, Imperious notice that the romans had looks of terror at Mars' proclamation. Why did the mention of Alaska bring terror to the romans?
