Chapter 6

Darth Vader watched his control consol as he tracked two unidentified individuals, who have been walking around the ship for over five minutes. Then Vader again felt Palpatine come behind him.

"What has taken your interest so, my apprentice?" Palpatine asked.

Vader moved slightly, so that the Emperor could see the consol.

"We have somehow brought on stowaways, my master." Darth Vader said.

But instead of seeing the normal look on Palpatine's face, Darth Vader was again surprised to see utter shock.

"This cannot be…" Palpatine said to himself. Then he started to walk quickly out if the room. "Vader, I want you to accompany me." Palpatine said, and Darth Vader quickly followed.

Count Dooku and Darth Maul had been talking quietly as they walked through the recesses of the ship.

"They will have spotted us by now, Dooku," Darth Maul said, not looking at Dooku, "and I suspect that they will be here soon."

And as Maul suspected, they started to here footfalls coming towards them.

"Guard your back." Count Dooku said, raising his lightsaber for any kind of attack.

But instead of laser shots, both Dooku and Maul heard a very familiar voice.

"My, my, my…" The voice said, and they both could see the outline of two figures appear, "I have to admit this is quite a surprise."

Then Palpatine came into the light.

"Master," both Darth Maul and Count Dooku said, bowing down to one knee, "It is an honor to see you here." Then they both stood up. "What is happening?"

Then they saw Darth Vader.

Dooku visibly started, and Maul turned his head slightly. They both could hear the raspy breathing of the man in metal.

"What is this… creature?" Dooku said, his hand making a threatening motion towards his lightsaber.

"I would ask same of you," Darth Vader said, pulling his own lightsaber out.

This was the first time that Dooku or Maul had heard Darth Vader speak, and they both were slightly shaken at the majesty and power that the voice held.

When Darth Maul pulled out hi two-ended lightsaber, recognition came to Darth Vader. Or rather, it came to Anakin.

He remembered when he had first left Tatooine, and last seen his master Qui-Gon Jinn. This was the man that had killed him.

He knew just by looking at the other man that it was Count Dooku, the man that he had personally killed over twenty years ago.

But Palpatine put two fingers up, stopping both Maul and Vader from attacking each other. "He, my friends, is Darth Vader, my apprentice for over two decades."

At this, both Dooku and Maul looked greatly startled.

"How is that possible…?" Darth Maul said in a voice that he had never used before.

"Follow Vader and we will try and find out." Palpatine replied, and then put his hand out towards the main control room. Both Dooku and Maul watched Vader in suspicion, but they both trusted Palpatine to a certain extent.

Then they all started to walk up the halls.

Both Serros and Grgjrs were forced to the floor in Anubis's throne room. "You have been defeated." Anubis said, looking from captain to captain. "I have control of both of your fleets. Now that I have you at my mercy; I expect you to answer my questions."
Then Anubis leaned down, and looked Serros in the eyes. Serros was terrified of the god, and turned his head.

"Now I ask you: who is the Goa'uld system lord here?"

Serros shook his head. "I have no idea what you mean; we lead ourselves, and are not leaded by any lords."

Anubis hissed. "Impossible, for there is no place that the Goa'uld system lords don't rule, let alone don't know about."

Serros smiled, despite the danger. "Apparently, my lord, it appears that you don't know everything."

Anubis growled. He started to say something, when a load noise ensued in the room. It was so loud that Serros and Grgjrs covered their ears. Anubis turned to his followers. "What is it?"

The second-in-command turned to his lord.

"There appears to be a giant fleet not far from our position." He said. Anubis looked down at his prisoners. Then he snapped his fingers. One of the followers pulled out a staff weapon, while one of the others pulled Serros and Grgjrs to their feet.

"Kill one of them," Anubis said, before he left the room, "But remember that I want one of them alive and unharmed for questioning... for the moment, that is."
The second-in-command turned to Grgjrs, who took his last stand. The staff weapon end opened, cackled, and fired an orange bolt of energy, which went right through the body of the Klingon. Grgjrs stared at his chest, and then fell to the floor, dead.

Serros stared at the body of his dead comrade, and then wondering what fate awaited him…

Anubis glided into the operation chamber of the giant mothership. Anubis looked out of the ship's visual screen, and saw that two fleets were fighting a deadly space battle.

"What are the fleets' origins?" Anubis asked the pilot.

The pilot said in a chagrined voice, "Unknown, my lord. The only distinctive thing I can see about the fleet is that one of the ships are cubes, while the other..." The pilot stopped. "My lord, the other fleet is Replicator."

Anubis was thoughtful. Could it be that this whole thing was a plan of the Replicators?

Whatever the plot, Anubis knew that he must act immediately.

Suddenly, one of the unknown ships from the unknown fleet stopped shooting at the Replicators, and bore down on Anubis's ship.

Then Anubis heard multiple voices, which were speaking the same thing:

"We are the Borg. We will add your biological and technical advances to our own. Resistance is futile."

Anubis had seen that whatever the "Borg" was, they could stand their own against a full attack from the Replicators.

This Borg fleet was definitely a threat.

"Fire on them," Anubis ordered. The pilot answered by shooting orange balls of energy at the approaching cube.

The coming cube was hit, but it somehow absorbed the energy, and kept coming. "Resistance is futile, resistance is futile, resistance is futile," The Borg continued uttering.

Then the Borg cube fired green bolts at Anubis's fleet.

Anubis watched as, one by one, his fleet was decimated by the fire. Then one of the bolts hurled at Anubis.

Anubis's ship rocked from the impact, hurling Anubis from his throne. Panting, the evil system lord got up, and looked at his pilot, who was lying on the floor in a pool of blood.

Anubis went over to the controls; but before he could do anything, dozens of Borg transported in the room.

Anubis took one step back. Even though the Borg couldn't do anything to him, they still gave enough of a menacing presence to make Anubis stand down.

Anubis looked at the door, which just opened, revealing some of his super-soldiers and Serros, the prisoner.

Suddenly, Anubis saw what had happened to his people. Serros had black metal implants one the left side of his face, while the rest of his face was pale white.
The same was for the rest of his soldiers.

"Resistance is futile." Serros stated, in unity with the other voices. Anubis raised his left hand. "Nothing can harm me, for I am ascended!" He roared, and then suddenly disappeared.

The Borg looked at where Anubis had been, and then again spoke in unison. "Subject: no longer a threat." They said, and then went to each of their jobs of controlling and learning about the Goa'uld ship.

Anubis traveled to one of the other ships, one of seven ships that hadn't been taken by the Borg. He appeared on the bridge, in front of a startled Jaffa pilot.

Anubis grabbed the pilot by his neck. "Get the ships out!" Anubis commanded.

The frightened pilot managed a weak, "Yes, my lord," and Anubis dropped the pilot. The pilot quickly told the other six ships to follow. Then the ship, and the six others that had not been assimilated, turned and was gone, leaving Goa'uld, Romulan, and Klingon ships in the hands of the Borg, who continued to fight the Replicators.

The Borg watched as each ship that they destroyed repaired itself, and came back into the battle. "This is not a winning battle," The Borg said, and then turned their fleet, with that of their new Klingon, Romulan, and Goa'uld ships, and retreated towards a nearby planet that looked enlightening…

Dr. Doom looked through his ship's viewscreen. It didn't make any sense. And Victor Von Doom hated to lose control of any situation.

And for one of the first times, he had done so.

"XGF-154, is there any close planet in proximity?" Doom asked the piloting robot.

The robot replied, "There is one planet exactly 104,658 million miles from our position, majesty."

Dr. Doom nodded. "Take us there." He said.

At that moment, Doom wondered what he would find when he got there…

Minutes after transportation

"What?" Darkseid uttered, as he regained consciousness. He had only felt that sensation once before, and that was when the two entities that created all life battled for supremacy.

He saw that he was is space, but surprisingly, a starless space.

He also saw another figure, one who he had not seen since the two-entity war: Kang the Conqueror, king of the parallel universes, coming towards him, flying through space.

"Where are we?" Kang spoke, when he saw Darkseid. "I do not know, but I do not think that it is the same as the last time we met." Darkseid replied.

"Where are all of the planets?" Kang demanded.

Darkseid was about to speak, when he stopped. "There is life on the planet below…" He said, pointing towards the planet.

"I suggest that we go there." Darkseid agreed…

Dormommu stared into the empty space of time. He knew what there was out there, and what had happened to all the other universes. "No matter," He thought, smiling, "All that has to be done is to get to the fallen Line before any of the others do." He remembered what he was doing before he and others appeared at this place.

He had no idea about this universe then; but the minute he came to this universe, all the knowledge of what had transpired had filled him.

He would use the power of the Line to create anything he wished.

Then he started towards the planet below.

Carnage looked into the eyes of the maniac that had him at his mercy. The man that had said his name was the Joker.

"What can I do to get out of here...?" Carnage thought, analyzing the situation again and again.

He kept coming up short at the explanation for why he had been transported here. Why had he been sent here?

For that he had no answer.

But this Joker was definitely someone that couldn't be ignored. But Carnage felt that he respected the man enough to give him a painless death.

Or not.

Either way, he would find what the heck is going on.

Then he saw something in the sky, coming down to them. He saw Joker, who must have also seen the arrivals, look up. "Ah, some company." Joker said thoughtfully. Carnage had a sneaking suspicion that behind that silly grin and purple tux laid a devilish mind.

One capable of coming on top of any situation.

Finally, two figures came down. One was of Kang the Conqueror, someone that Carnage knew of, and then another, whom Carnage had never seen before.

Then another figure came down. This one had an orange head that was on fire. The other two looked surprised to see this latest guest. "Who are you?" The unknown one said, looking down at the unusual being with fire flowing through his head.
"I am Dormommu," The fire-man spoke. Carnage saw him look at the other two, and then turned to Joker and himself.

Carnage felt the stiffness leave his body, and he stood up. He remembered that Joker said it would temporary. Carnage found that he decided to let Joker live… at least for now.

Joker looked gleeful at Dormommu's arrival. "I'll go get the tea and crumpets!" He said, and then laughed, a laugh that sent chills down even Carnage's spine…