Sith'ari
Squad
A/N: Welp here we are folks, arc two 'Vode An', it's a Mandalorian word for 'brother all'.
Also, no. The 'it' and 'them' in the last chapter was not Zerg or Flood...they are Tyranid from Warhammer 40k. I was planning on keeping it a secret that this story will turn multi-crossover a surprise till later on, but that Tyranid reference was too obvious I guess.
So no need to keep it secret anymore...in fact this will allow me to use some more crossover elements early on. Not too much though, I already planned it out when the multi-crossover will really come into play, but for now just a couples of minor cross here and there, mostly mentioning or races.
As for Kelly, well, she's from an adult text-based adventure game. I will not tell the game's name since it's an adult story and this story's rating is 'T'. So I will give you Kelly's full name and then you look it up on your own, ok. Her full name is 'Louise "Kelly" Epona', but what really disturbed me was many of you already know her...
Naruto slowly opened his eyes, then rubbed them. He looked to his left. Zedra was sleeping soundly in her seat, something he wished he could do. It was not easy to sleep when it was your first time on a spaceship.
After he had 'slayed' his master and encountered that strange feeling coming from the dead star, he came to the Mandalorian vessel. There, the two warriors were waiting for him. They were surprised by the amount of stuff Naruto wanted to take with him, which was mostly weapons of all kinds.
Naruto was surprised as well that they allowed Zedra to come with him with no objection. Though they did say she need to be separated from him for a while for vaccines and medical regulation. He would have to go through it as well, just not as complicated as his hound.
The recruiter gave him, Zedra, and other candidates a sleeping pill, the effectivity according to their perspective world time. This would help them adjust to the standard time above their commanding ship.
Naruto looked around the seating space of the ship. He observed other recruits. There were seven, excluding himself. Four looked like base-line humans, two were a near-human species, and two were not human-like species entirely. Right now only him and another two were awake.
One of them was an alien; bigger than a normal human in size with greenish-turquoise smooth skin, sharp teeth with extending twin fangs from the lower and upper teeth, and long fins for ears with no hair anywhere. When Naruto glanced at him, he glanced back.
The two stared at each other, seemingly challenging one another to see who would look away first. Then something drew both of their, and the third person who was awake's, attention.
They heard a loud yawn coming from a girl sitting in the front most seat. Then her arms and a pair of wings were risen up in a manner of someone who was just awakened.
She sat on her knees and turned around to look at all of them and likewise let them get a good look at her. Her face was identical to a baseline human with black hair and a headband, and she had talon-like fingernail.
"Hi," she greet them.
Naruto and the giant paid her no mind and went back to staring at each other, while the third recruit, a pretty much baseline human, went back to looking at his data pad. The girl seemed a bit shocked by the display of ignoring. She looked around awkwardly before sitting back down in her seat.
"Jerks," she muttered.
Naruto and his challenger continued to stare at each other. As both of them went on with their silent war, other recruits began to awaken, including Zedra. Finally, they heard a voice from the pilot cockpit.
"We are nearly there, everyone prepare your stuff," Davluc said from the cockpit.
Naruto and his opponent were forced to break the stare and prepare for the landing. Since he got a window seat, he looked through the window and saw the ship that would be his home for a while.
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Above the True Mandalorian flagship, in the hangar, several people were doing their duties. Some were fueling the fighter, bomber, and transporter, some were operating a laning panel, and some were just there. Two in particular, however, were there for other reasons.
"So your dad decided to give you your own squad, eh Jango?" a literally snow skinned woman said. [1]
"Yeah, Jaster probably thinks it's time to test my commanding skills," Jango Fett replied.
"And let's hope he was right," the woman said coldly.
"Are all Frostlings like this, Aegiria?" Fett asked.
"No, the others of my race are not so...warm," she joked, yet no smile appeared on her face. Jango sighed.
'And she had to be the only veteran in my squad, the joy,' Jango thought.
At least Silas would be in his squad, so he did not have to face the ice queen on his own. Jango shook the thought out of his head.
"Speaking of which, where's Silas? He should be here to see the rest of our team," Fett said.
"He was on kitchen helper duty today," Aegiria replied. "Now be quiet and observe, the ship is here."
Indeed, the ship had come and landed on the hanger. It was a transporter ship, so it was not hard to guess that that vessel was the one carrying the recruits and their new teammates. The door opened, and people inside stepped out one by one.
Jango and Aegiria were briefed on details about each recruit Devluc and Uvaqv brought in. There were eight of them, which when added with Jango, Aegiria, and Silas would make for a perfect standard squad.
The recruits came out of the transporter and were told to line up. Before they did anything further, however, Uvaqv spotted Fett and Aegiria and gestured for them to come closer.
"Here's your team, lad. Now it's time to show us what you're really made off," Uvaqv said.
"So you want me to take over from here?" Fett asked, a little surprised since he expected the pair to at least take them to inspections first before handing them to him. Uvaqv chuckled and began to walk away.
"He's right, Jango. This is your team now, big guy. They are your responsibility. After all it was your foster father's idea of giving you a squad," the green warrior said in amusement before walking away with his companion. Jango turned to his eight teammates. They were all staring at him. He took a deep breath before walking in front of the line to inspect each member of his team.
The first in line was a base-line human male teen with milky skin, black hair in a shaved head style, and amber eyes. He wore rather plain clothes except for his outer jacket that had a strange 'C' symbol and the word 'Caldari' on it. All in all, not many noticeable features, but he might have a hidden quality.
The second was a female teen, who, again, looked like a base-line human. She had long, dark brown hair, sand colored eyes, and dusky brown skin. She also wore plain clothes, but Fett had a strange feeling about her.
He noticed that she was looking somewhere else. He followed her eyes and saw that she was staring at the last recruit in the line, a teen, much younger than the rest of them, with blonde spiky hair. Jango would look into this later, he wanted to see all his squad first.
The third was a female human teen. She had green eyes, raven hair with a small part dyed purple, and milky skin. Fett was not one to judge people by their clothing, but even he could not help but think this woman was in some kind of gang judging from what she wore. He walked on.
The fourth was a big humanoid alien. He had mottled skin of purple mixing with white coloring with some darker purple patches on the arms and head. He had a long line of ridges on his head, starting at the brow and running over to the back of his head. He possessed multi-tentacled mouthparts and sharp claws as fingernails. He also had red eyes.
Jango nearly whistled at the sight. Now this was what he wanted to see as a Mandalorian.
The fifth was a female, and while her face and body was similar to a human, she definitely was not. She was slender and tall, though not as tall as that giant back then, with a body of normal human though her entire skin and her clothing was covered in various shades of purple with the exception of a small yellow diamond on her chest and another purple diamond of her her forehead. She also had violet eyes and purple bobbed hair.
Fett felt a small chill when he was near her. Then again, Aegiria also gave him the same kind of chill.
The sixth was a beautiful, female teen with black hair, brown eyes, and lightly tanned skin. She had a pair of wings and talon-like fingernails. Her clothing was a bit primitive compared to the others. Nevertheless, with her flight ability she would make a great scout. Yet he couldn't help feeling that she was not prepared to be a Mandalorian.
The seventh was a species Jango knew about, a Mandallian Giant.
"Briikase at haa'taylir adate ibac kar'taylir Mando'ade," Jango said to him with a small smile. The giant smiled back and replied.
"Elek, bic cuyir jate at akaanir par Mando'ade sa ner adate ruvaabir," the giant replied, much to the confusion of the rest of the team, except one.
"Tion vaabir gar gotal'ur burc'ya?" Aegiria suddenly asked behind Fett.
"Shi solus," he said and looked at Naruto, which caused both Mandalorians to look at him as well. [2]
On Naruto's part, he already understood what they were talking about. Apparently, the giant took their staring contest as a sign of friendship, but he should have expected as much.
Mandalorians respect strength and loyalty above all, people who did not back down from a fight were considered good people in their society. As long as it was not serious infighting or else they would be classified as a betrayer.
Now Jango moved in to inspect the blonde. He spent time on observing him the most. Then again, who wouldn't when he was carrying a bag twice his size with a hound at his side? Finally, Jango walked away from him and stood in front of all of them.
"From this moment forth, you all are part of my squad. You do your job to the best of your ability, that is all I ask for. And welcome to the True Mandalorian," he said.
"Yay!" The girl with wings screamed in excitement with both her arms up, though after she saw everyone, as in everyone in the hanger including other people in the area, staring at her, her face fell.
"I don't know what it's like on your world, but now as a Mandalorian, moreover one in active service, you should know that it is not appropriate to interrupt your officer when he is giving a speech or an order. If it was with me, then it's fine but not to other officers, got it?" he asked. She nodded in embarrassment. [3]
All her teammates, excluding Jango, muttered a word in their respective languages that could be translated into 'naive'.
"Alright, follow me. We will need to examine you for any disease or infection," he said.
"What about her?" Naruto suddenly said and pointed at Zedra.
"She will come with us for a scan as well, but after this, she will need to be with our beastmaster for a week or so to adapt with behaviour and other warbeasts in the army." Zedra whined quietly, but Naruto only nodded as a reply.
"Walk in a straight line. I will take the head. Aegiria, if you would be so kind, please take the back," Jango ordered before starting to walk, and his team followed.
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"Please open your mouth," the Mandalorian doctor ordered Naruto, and he obliged. The whole team was taken to the medical ward of the ship for inspection. The others were either already finished or were checking up with other doctors.
After a few more tests and injections on his part, Naruto's test was done, and he walked out. In the waiting area was him team, sitting. Everyone had finished their test and was waiting for him and Zedra, though she would take even more time to be checked on more than him.
He sat down with his team. They looked at each other in a little awkward manner, nobody was willing to talk with one another. Finally, the girl with wings mustered her courage and asked.
"So what your guys' names?" she asked and tried to put on a smile. It only faded from the sheer intimidation they all produced, including Jango.
"My name is Aegiria Banska," the snow skinned woman said.
"Jango Fett," their leader announced.
"Kandosii," the Mandallian Giant answered.
"I am Matis Baustian of the proud Caldari State," the teen male said.
"Isabmagd, no surname, but just call me Isab," the brown skinned teen said.
"Lanaal Winros," the dyed hair teen said uncaringly.
"Oorn Tagaar," the tentecles mouth said.
"Purple Diamond," the purple skinned girl answered.
"That's not a name," the winged girl stated.
"It is for my people," the violet colored girl said. Then they turned to him.
"Naruto," the blonde answered bluntly, then gestured for the questioner to answer as well.
"Oh, how rude of me. My name is Aleshanee, which mean 'she who plays all the time'," Aleshanee answered. In their heads, they thought.
'A fitting name.'
Then she asked again. "So where are your people come from?"
Matis was the first to speak this time.
"I hail from Caldari Prime, the sovereign world of the proud Caldari State which is located where you people would call 'Companion Esk.'" That surprised Naruto, Fett, Isab, and Aegiria.
"You are from another galaxy? The one satelliting ours?" Naruto asked.
"I am actually from the same galaxy as he is," Purple Diamond added. "You have no idea how long I had to stick with this guy rambling about his 'proud' economic dictator nations."
"Watch your tongue, Gems," he returned the hostility.
"You watch your tongue. I am seriously sick of your rumbling about your 'glorious' states," she countered aggressively. Matis was about to reply when Jango spoke up.
"Enough," Jango commanded, and the two stopped. Naruto was a little impressed. His leader certainly had that commanding aura, and he looked like the same age as he was.
"And where do you hail from, my friend?" Matis turned to Naruto and asked.
"I am from the desert world of Korr- Moraband, they changed the name," Naruto answered.
"I'm from the planet Oon Tien, the homeworld of my people, the Jarell, in the Kathol sector," Oorn answered.
"I came from Empress Teta in the Empress Teta system, couldn't miss it," Isab answered, though it seemed a little strange that both the system and planet name was the same as its ruler.
"I am from Taris in Ojoster sector," Lanaal answered, as uncaring as before.
"I hail from Mandallian in the Mandalore system," Kandosii said bluntly.
"That would explain how can you speak Mando'a," Naruto said.
"You know Mando'a?" Jango asked in surprise.
"Only the real basic words like number and time," Naruto replied. He saw some text written in the Mandalorian language, Mando'a, in the console back on Korriban, but it was so few that he did not get much out of it. "And what about you two?" he asked Jango and Aegiria.
"I am from Concord Dawn...I don't want to talk about it," Fett said with a hint of pain in his voice.
"I would rather keep my homeworld a secret. My people have barely invented air transportation," she said. Now they all turned to Purple Diamond. She looked back at them.
"Why are you asking me before Al-alesh-e-aee-"
"Aleshanee, but just Alesha is alright," Alesha corrected her.
"Thank you. And as I was saying. Why are you asking me before her?" she asked in a calm yet dismissive tone.
"Probably because you come from another galaxy," Naruto answered her. After looking around at her team, she sighed in defeat before answering.
"I came from Gem Homeworld," she said. The others seemed to be confused by this, but one caught up quickly.
"Let me guess, your people don't have the tradition of naming, correct?" Isab predicted, and Purple nodded to confirm it.
"I don't get why your people's culture has this 'naming'. We Gems just call thing as they are, like if you're human then you're human, but if you are 'Isab' then you are not human, you are 'Isab'." [4]
"Actually, I am not human," Isab stated and further confused everyone.
"But you look just like a human," Purple said.
"No, I am Vahla," she answered.
'A species of Force-sensitive,' Naruto thought.
Now that would explain why she was staring at him in the hanger. She might caught on to him. That was, however, okay. He could easily manipulate this situation in his favor.
"So how are Vahla different from humans?" Purple Diamond asked.
"Well, we are more slender and taller than base-line humans. Plus we have better flexibility due to our different skeletal structure, and while there is no proof, other species say we possess natural shrewdness. Also, we are all Force-sensitive," she finished.
"What is Force-sensitive?" Matis asked. Isab was about to answer, but then Naruto suddenly put his hand up to interrupt her. He'd just realized something very important about Matis and Purple Diamond. They were not from his galaxy.
"Can you two tell me what is Coruscant?" The two shook their heads. "Have you ever heard of Jedi or Sith?" They shook their heads again. "...ever heard of the Galactic Republic?" The two ominously shook their heads. He turned to Jango with a smirk. "Congratulations, lead. Looks like you have to teach them everything about our galaxy." At that, one of Jango's eyes twitched.
He knew he must take care of his team, but teaching them every basic thing about the main galaxy? That was ridiculous. He suddenly heard soft laughter coming from Aegiria, Lanaal, and Kandosii, low chuckles from Naruto, Oorn, and Isab, a sympathetic look from Alesha, and an embarrassed face from Purple and Matis. He sighed.
'This is a pain,' he thought tiredly.
"So how exactly do you two know Basic, but never hear of those things?" Naruto asked, being overly cautious as he was.
"From our world, around the galaxies to end up here was a rather long journey. Long enough for us to learn the language. Besides, my government didn't just pick me by chance," Matis answered.
"Why would your government make you to become a Mandalorian?" Jango asked.
"Because you people were the first to contact my people from outside our galaxy. So my government, and I presumed that of Purple Diamond as well, took this chance to establish a first contact with people from another galaxy. So yes, they chose the best in every field to come with the Uvaqv and Devloc, and that was me," Matis finished.
Naruto was secretly smiling. This had turned out to be better than he'd thought, not only would he gain Mandalorian as an asset, he would also have contact with an empire outside of his galaxy that could be of use to him. This day could not get any better.
"What about you Alesha, where are you from?" Isab suddenly asked her, and seemingly ignored the whole statement Matis just said.
"I am from Shar'Ack, my people's world, we are called Shaliz'Na. I am not sure what sector it is in, I am not really expecting that I will ever come off world in my life. Hey, why did you people come here?" she asked.
"To seek glory," Kandosii said proudly.
"To seek chances," Naruto said cautiously.
"To repay and uphold," Jango said strongly.
"To find power," Oorn said bluntly.
"To escape," Aegiria said bitterly.
"To change," Isab said hopefully.
"To uphold the bargain," Purple said indifferently.
"To represent my people," Matis said determinedly.
"To see the universe," Alesha said cheerfully.
"To get paid," Lanaal said uncaringly. She received glances from her team. "What? It's better than being stuck in a slum on Taris," she said.
"Umm sorry, but which one of you is Naruto?" a voice called from behind them. They turned around to see a Mandalorian doctor. He had a short, blonde bread and short, blonde hair with a red headband.
"I am," Naruto said and stood up before walking up to him.
"We finished injecting and examining your hound. But due to some vaccine having an effect of a mood swing on her, I would say leave her here for a week." Naruto nodded. "She is currently sleeping off the sleeping pill right now, so it would be best if you come visit tomorrow," the doctor finished.
"Thank you, doctor."
"Actually, I am the beastmaster, though I am a doctor as well. Leonzac Redeclim, but Leon or Zac would do," he introduced himself, and they shook hands. "Your hound was pretty impressive, even gave my old Naboon trouble."
"Naboon?" Naruto asked, and the houndmaster whistled. Walking up from behind him was a large, grey furred creature that resembled a giant cat with a pointing downward pair of tusks on its lower jaw.
"A Tusk Cat, eh?" Naruto said.
He had unfortunately read studies of several non-sentient and semi-sentient species from the text of his master's friend, Sorzus Syn, who did a thousand gruesome experiments. Their details were still giving him nightmares today. And whenever he thought about Syn would be the only time he would feel glad to have XoXaan as his master.
In any event, because of those texts, he knew of the Tusk Cat.
"Ha, so your Tuk'ata isn't just for show, you do know about beasts," Leon remarked with amusement. Then suddenly his Tusk Cat began to sniff the air. "What is it, girl?" he asked her. The feline began to walk slowly while sniffing into Naruto's team. She stopped at Alesha's backpack before trying to yank it.
"Hey! leave that a-" Before the winged girl could finish, a bird suddenly burst out of her backpack. It had one of the most elegant yet dangerous looking wings Naruto had ever seen along with its dark turquoise, majestic feathers, sharp claws and beak, and its threatening, predatory eyes.
As soon as it bust out, it tried to fly and collided with Oorn in the face. That caused him to lose balance and fall down backward onto an unprepared Purple, Matis, and Isab. As the bird rampage went on, it went close to Aegiria and caused her to swing her hand to chase it away. In one of the swings, her hand formed into a fist and punched into Lanaal's chin, knocking her out. Finally, it flew further away from the group and caused Alesha to chase after it.
"Was that a Kalidor?" Naruto asked with a little awe.
"Yes, yes, it was. The most perfect flying creature in this galaxy," Leon said.
"That's a bit subjective," Naruto told him.
"Better stop bird watching, lad. It needs to be examined and injected like every warbeast." Naruto nodded as he and the beast master went to help his unoccupied squad members to catch the bird. But as he walked pass Jango, who was rubbing the bridge of his nose, Horuset touched him on the shoulder and said.
"'Here's your team, lad. Now it's time to show us what you're really made off," Naruto rephrased what Uvaqv said to him and caused Fett to do the double facepalm. As his leader continued to wonder why this was happening to him, Naruto came to help catch the Kalidor.
'Oh, the joy,' Jango Fett thought. [5]
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Well that was the end of it folks. I don't want to do too much.
[1] Yup, our favorite blonde is going to team up with our favorite Mandalorian.
[2] Here's the translation, in order:
"It's good to see people who know the way of Mandalorian."
"Yes, it's good to fight for Mandalorian as my people once did."
"Did you make any friends on your travels?"
"Only one."
[3] I always liked this archetype of one naive, cheerful girl who got caught up in a serious thing. Like Ruby Rose or Starfire.
[4] I know several of you were not in the Steven universe fandom, but bear with me here.
It was clear to me that the Gems species do not have culture of naming. If you apply this logic plus the fact that Peridot had no idea that Steven meant name not species in the episode she appeared in, then this should be the case.
Also to safeguard myself from going too much outside SU canon, I set the current timeline to be the early stage of the Gems uplifting from their homeworld. Which means it was even pre-discovery of 'Earth' in the SU universe. But if there will be some kind of further plot twist to that species then I could not help it.
[5] Here's the game. There are totally 4 crossovers within this chapter, can you find them all?
Character profile:
Name: Jango Fett
Species: Human (Mandalorian)
Gender: Male
Sexual orientation: Hetrosexual.
Age: 14
Homeworld: Concord Dawn
Allegiance: True Mandalorian
Profession: Mandalorian officer
Birth date: 66 BBY
Religion: Mandalorian
Relationships: Jaster Mareel, adopted father. Arla Fett, sister.
Appearance: Short curly brown hair. Milky skin. Dark brown eyes.
Bio: Jango Fett was born into a family of Mandalorian famer on planet Concord Dawn. At young age his family housed soldiers of Jaster Mereel, the Mand'alor, leader of all Mandalorian, during their fight against splinter group of Mandalorian called 'Death Watch'.
Due to this action when the Death Watch caught up to the True Mandalorian, they attacked his home and killed both his parent, his sister fate was not confirm. Jango was lucky enough and was rescued then took in by True Mandalorian.
Now he is an officer within the rank of True Mandalorian, and his leadership skill is about to be put up to the test.