A/N: So, I had a request for Admiral Thrawn to show up. As such, I've made a chapter dedicated to the Imperials. Well, the non-Sith among them, anyways. Enjoy!

Published: 4/13/2016

Warnings: None really. There are EU references some of you might not get, though.

Chapter 4

Empire vs the First Order

Grand Admiral Thrawn was not pleased. In fact, he was downright furious.

This…

What the hell…

What even was this?

Beside him, Ysanne Isard was equally furious.

Thrawn had walked in expecting to find his counterpart. He and Ysanne had wondered who had kept the Empire intact in the alternate reality.

Instead…

"Are you telling me," Thrawn's red eyes flashed as he glared at General Hux and Captain Phasma, both of whom were visibly disturbed to be under his gaze, "that you blithering idiots somehow managed to lose the war only a single year after Endor?"

This was just…

The Galactic Civil War, the true Galactic Civil War, in Thrawn's opinion, had spanned decades. And, it had ended more or less with a stalemate since the Imperials still held a section of the Galaxy that the Rebels never managed to conquer.

A mysterious figure suddenly appeared.

"Who are you?" Ysanne snapped out. Phasma and Hux, it seemed, were too paralyzed in fear to counter anything.

"I am Thrawn's true counterpart." The figure revealed. "It was I that ordered the Imperial retreat into the Unknown regions, were we coalesced our power-"

"I didn't ask for a biography. I asked for a name." Ysanne snapped. She had Rogue Squadron members to kill. This was, quite frankly, a waste of her time.

Silence.

"Well?" Thrawn demanded.

"They never gave me one! I'm just offhandedly mentioned in the Aftermath novel as a rouge Grand Admiral that fake his death."

Thrawn's glare, at the moment, could have matched the Death Star's.

Ysanne and Mas Amedda stared at one another.

"You tried to keep the Empire together after his majesties' demise."

Amedda nodded, pleased.

"... And you failed utterly as the Empire collapsed less than a year later on a Tatooine rip off inside the Core Worlds."

Amedda truly had no counter for that.

Internally, Ysanne screamed. All that work, all that effort, for this?

Daala and Phasma faced off.

"First female admiral?"

Daala grinned.

"Of course. I think they invented a few after me that brings that into question, but whatever."

Phasma blinked.

Silence.

"You aren't going to yell at me?"

Daala blinked.

"What for? It took me over 40 years to actually do anything significant. I have patience that you'll return, try again, and fail epically, as I did before you."

Phasma could only twitch.

TR-8R, who shall be further known as Nines, glared.

Boba Fett, still annoyed at how own refilling, could only brood.

"Filthy bounty hunting scum."

"I was Mandalore. The Mandalore! I was one of the greatest of my kind alive! I survived until the very end! I fueled with Sith Lords and the children of Yun-Yuuzhan and lived! But now-"

With that, Fett pulled an assault rifle out of nowhere and began to blast a wall to pieces.

Nines could only continue to glare while contemplating Finn's assassination. His brother had betrayed them all. Nines would make sure Finn paid for it with his very existence.

Jagged Fel could not help but glare.

"What, exactly, did the Empire do in the Unknown Regions?"

Hux could not answer.

"I have no idea actually. Disney has yet to say and the Great Mouse has made most of the Unknown Region threats non canon."

Jag raised a single eyebrow.

"Most?"

"Rakata Prime is canon."

Jag was surprised to hear the news. "So, instead of fighting Vong and Killicks, you fought Rakata?"

The idea sounded insane. Then again, the Rakata predate the Sith in use of the Dark side, so maybe-

"The planet is canon. We don't know about the species."

Jag nearly fell over twitching.

"Besides," Hux continued, "how in the nine Corellian hells did you miss the lost tribe of the Sith? No, seriously, how? And the Vong, who you barely helped in fighting against?"

Jag brittles at the accusation.

"We helped!"

"Right," Hux replied sarcastically, "'Helped'."

The two Imperials could only glare at one another.

"Shut up!"

Jacen and Anakin, however, would not be deterred in their snickering.

"Jaina and Hux," Jacen sang.

"Sitting in a Tree," Anakin continued.

"K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" They both chanted.

Jaina roared, spun, and blasted them both back, storming out of the room. Hux? Seriously, Hux was her husband's counterpart? She just hopped Rey never learned this shocking revelation.

Unknown to Jaina, Rey could only state in horror.

Hours later, Finn and Poe found their wayward Resistance member crouched down, shaking and muttering about how she would never fall in love with an animal like Hux.