"Entire planets? So that's what we're dealing with..." Aang said, slumping onto the ground, head in hands. "Is it possible to stop them?" Zuko asked, Luke looked at him considerately "In this world, with these weapons? I don't know, I just don't know...". Aang stared at the ground, he scowled as he felt anger building within him "Why?" he wondered "The war had just ended, there was finally peace, why? Bah, there's always something". Aang stood up tall, as Luke noted that, while he had the body and appearance of a boy, the boy almost had the wisdom and knowledge of a man. Aang glanced at Luke "I will not just let these people suffer, my people, the Avatar is supposed to protect the world...".
"You seek the Avatar's help? Why, the 100 year war is over, what could possibly be wrong?" Chief Arnook questioned the young man that stood before him. "I seek his guidance, I am looking for a spiritual guide" Arnook noted the look in the man's eyes, there was something sinister behind them, something dark, he was not all he appeared to be. "Well, we have many spiritual masters here, in our city..." Arnook began, only to be interrupted by the young man "I am sorry, but it is adamant that I meet the avatar, he is the only person capable of helping me". Mistrustful of the man, Arnook began walking out of his throne room, and out his palace "Come with me, we have many priests and shamans in our kingdom, perhaps, one shall suit you" he motioned the man to follow. He watched as the man glanced at the two individuals he came in with, bodyguards? All of this was making Arnook feel very uncomfortable, very uncomfortable indeed. Walking to one of his advisers, he ordered him to send a message to the avatar, that the Northern Water Tribe may be in danger.
"How?" the Doctor asked, "you can't just use air to blast it out of the sky, fire won't work, rocks? Pfft, and water, what do you plan to do, rain on it?" "WELL WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO!?" Aang shouted. "Come with us" the Doctor told him "it's your only hope...". Aang looked to Zuko for guidance, but he could tell, Zuko was just as stumped as he was. Aang turned to storm off, only to see Katara in the doorway. "What happened, what's going on?" she asked. Aang simply looked at her with a grave look "Something bad, worse then we ever faced before, even worse than Azula, or Ozai, or all of the Fire Nation...".
Jinn walked through the icy streets beside Artook, as well as both men's respective guards. He had been through three "shamans" by now, and grew angrier with each wasted step "So, the old fool seeks to distract me, eh?" Jinn thought to himself. He thumbed buttons on his wrist gauntlet, signaling his troops into combat positions inside the city. He stopped in his tracks, and Arnook turned to face him. "What's wrong, why have you stopped?" he asked. "I TIRE OF THIS, OLD MAN, TELL ME WHERE THE AVATAR IS NOW!" Arnook looked at Jinn, his face showing anger, and a hint of fear "You dare address the Chief of the Northern Water Tribe with such disrespect!? Guards seize-..." the words stuck him Arnook's throat as he felt an invisible hand begin to crush his windpipe. His feet left the ground as he was lifted into the air "You will tell me where the Avatar is, now!" Jinn growled as he choked the life out of the feeble old man. Jinn listened behind him as his stormtroopers effortlessly gunned down Arnook's guards. "I-I will, I will never t-tell you..." Arnook whispered, the words beginning to taper off. "Fine, such things are unnecessary anyway" Jinn shot at him, as he discerned the Avatar's whereabouts through the force. "Hmm...Fire Nation, you people call it? You're thoughts betray you, old man" Arnook looked down at the young man, as darkness filled his vision, and his universe was no more.
Jinn sneered at the old fool's corpse "I'd have let you live, old man" he thought to himself, for a moment, seeing Old Master Kenobi's face, seeing the old man smiling at him and his family, as he and Anakin were gunned down by a coalition of stormtroopers and Palpatine's personal apprentice, a woman named Mara Jade... Jinn thought deep to himself, however, razor sharp shards of ice being flung towards him brought him back to reality. He deflected the ice shards with his saber, but what happened next caught him off guard. The water around him seemingly came to life, seizing him up into the air, and flinging him away. "So, these are the special abilities the natives here possess? No wonder the Master wants them so badly, I wonder what this 'Avatar' is capable of". Jinn's thoughts were cut off again when a tentacle of water smacked him onto the floor. Using the force, Jinn pulled his assailant towards him, impaling them on his blade. In a split second, he dislodged his weapon and slashed through another opponent. "Even with these two, there are many more, and it looks like it may be too much for the troops to handle" he dashed towards some endangered stormtroopers, cutting their would be murderers to ribbons. "This is bad" he thought to himself, "I need, ZORG!" he shouted, looking up to see Zorg's shuttle coming down to provide support, cavalry in tow.
"Honey, I, I know it's hard, believe me, I do, but-" "BUT WHAT KATARA!? These people...I failed the world once when I ran away from the air temples, and I failed again back at Ba Sing Se...now, now that I have finally fulfilled my duty as Avatar, I, something's happening, and I can't do anything about it..." Aang said, wiping the tears from his eyes. "Excuse me, but, a Miss Bei Fong has arrived, she would like to see the Avatar..." one of Zuko's servants whispered sheepishly. Zuko nodded to have her let in. "You see that, Twinkletoes?" Toph asked Aang, pointing towards the sky, "Two of my students saw it from a telescope and told me about it, I figured I should go to you". "I can't believe this, they give Toph an introduction, but not us" Sokka whined as he walked in, along with Suki. "Oh hush, Sokka, it's not that big a deal" Suki said, trying to calm him down "NOT A BIG DEAL!? We saved the world to, ya know..." Sokka complained. Becoming serious again, he looked at Aang "You saw it, Aang, some kind of UFO, or something..." "Yeah" Suki added "they landed on Ember Island and a bunch of armored guys climbed out and searched around". "Seems they've been doing that" Toph said "while I was coming over, I saw some of those guys raiding a small village, they were looking for you AANG" Toph said, pointing to Aang without facing him. "You have any idea who these guys are? Some weird spirits or something? Some weird advanced people from before the war?" Sokka asked "They call themselves the Empire. They ruled the world, well, galaxy, rather, from where I come from" Luke answered him. Sokka scanned the young man up and down "Aaand you are?" "My name's Luke Skywalker, I come from the same universe as the men looking for Aang, I've come to recruit him for my mission", Sokka relaxed upon hearing this "Oooh, I SEE, so what, you guys are going to take Aang back to your place and train him or something?" "Not exactly" Luke explained "we come from the same place, but we are not allies. Long story short, all of reality is in grave danger" Luke explained "And we need his help" the Doctor finished, pointing towards Aang.
Harry sat sipping tea at a table in San Francisco. Ever since arriving here, he had been left with the Federation, apparently it was agreed he'd be safe here, along with both his and Luke's friends. "Sigh" he thought to himself "I wonder what crazy adventures the others are off on?".
Aang stepped away from the group, this was just too much to digest all at once. "Aang-" "No Katara, I need to be alone for some time" Aang said, as he stormed away from the group. Hours later, Aang found himself in deep meditation in the Western Air Temple. He had told the group where he was headed, at least, and had left Appa with them, if they needed to reach him. While meditating, he called forth the spirit of Avatar Roku. "Greetings, Aang" "ROKU, boy, am I glad to see you, I am in need of guidance". Roku looked at Aang "What's troubling you Aang?" "Well, some very bad guys have come to the world, worse than the Fire Nation. However, when they came, so did some others, and they tell me that I have to go with them if I wish to save the universe, it's, it's just...even if I can trust them, I CAN'T ABANDON THE PEOPLE HERE" Roku looked on at the young Avatar with sympathy. "Aang, I know you are but a young avatar...but, sometimes we must do something that is hard, because it is the right thing to do. You may see yourself as forsaking these people, but, your calling is to more than just this world. You have a higher calling than any Avatar before you, your true destiny is upon you Aang, I offer you this wisdom, those that are willing to make the toughest sacrifices and commit the most selfless acts, they will lead the way to peace...". Roku's essence faded to reveal Luke standing in front of him. Something was wrong, however, Luke was wearing something different, and there was a strange blue man standing beside him, clad in military attire. "Hello, Avatar, my name is Admiral Zorg, I have come to recruit you, me and my associate here, seek everlasting peace, and we believe that you, the avatar, should join us in bringing it about" Aang simply glanced at Luke "Luke, what's going on? Who is that, where are the others, where's Appa?" Luke simply blinked at Aang "...Luke?" he asked. Suddenly, sharp rocks jutted out from the ground beneath him, as he leapt away, he was thrown into a pillar. "GET AWAY FROM HIM, AANG!" Aang looked back to see Luke, along with his friends and Appa.
Luke glowered at the man getting up behind Aang "So, both Jinn and Admiral Zorg?". Zorg looked at Luke and began to grin "So, you did find your way here after all? As did we!". "Ha, why so smug, Zorg, there are seven of us and only two of you" Luke shouted at Zorg. "Oh really" Zorg spat back, as three imperial assault shuttles rose behind him. Realizing the danger, Aang and Toph rose a rock wall, and the group began to run. "How'd those guys find me!? What happened!?" Aang shouted at Luke as they raced through the corridors of the abandoned Air Temple "They arrived at the palace not too long after you left, we escaped, but they must
of followed us and took an alternate route when they learned you were heading here!" Luke replied. As the group made their escape, they heard an explosion coming from the outer courtyard, Luke looked back to see Jinn walking through a hole blasted in the rock barricade Aang and Toph had put up. Luke stopped in his tracks, "You guys take Appa outside, the Doctor had to make some upgrades to the TARDIS" he shouted, before tossing a small device to Aang "take it, the doctor will be able to track you with that". Luke pulled out his saber, and turned to see Jinn, sword in hand "Time for round two?" Luke asked "Certainly" Jinn replied.
As the gang rushed down the corridors of the temple to reach the next opening courtyard, the walls began to collapse under the rate of fire. Aang and Toph earthbended the walls of the temple to create supports for the crumbling building, though they all new it would collapse. As the group ran down, they suddenly found themselves being blasted at, by, what appeared to be, lights, like lasers or something, turning to see a group of soldiers rushing at them. Zuko managed to knock them away with a massive fire blast, with an air last from Aang knocking away the rest of them, Toph closed up the corridor using earthbending. The group kept running down the corridor as they began to see a light signaling the courtyard. Upon reaching the courtyard, they found themselves surrounded by soldiers "Not a problem" Katara thought, as she used a nearby waterfall to knock them off the terrace.
Jinn dashed at Luke, slashing at his legs, a blow that Luke blocked, before countering with a diagonal slash. Jinn blocked this attack and shoved Luke backwards, with this, Luke spun, meeting Jinn's blade. During the movement, he noted that the group had safety reach the courtyard. Luke flipped backwards, causing Jinn to leap after his, attacking him with a downward slash. Jinn fell onto Luke, sabers clashed, pushing the two blades ever closer to Luke's throat. Mustering his strength, Luke sent Jinn into the ceiling with a force push, further damaging the structure of the building. After standing back up, Luke again used the force to shove a Jinn backwards towards the wall of the corridor, as he began to sprint towards the courtyard. Jinn gave chase, striking at Luke whenever he got close, the two spinning and flipping their way down the hallway to the courtyard. Luke noted the light suddenly around him, realizing he was now at the courtyard. Jinn spun towards Luke, slashing at him multiple times in the span of a few seconds, the two momentarily became a blur, before Jinn made his first mistake. He went to stab at Luke, and, seeing his opportunity, Luke knocked the saber out of his grasp, before leaping to kick him in the jaw, knocking him back for good measure. Luke ran to the edge of the terrace, only to see nobody there...Jinn arose, and used the force to call forth his lightsaber, just then, Aang appeared on Appa, with the TARDIS materializing not too far behind him. Before Aang could get close enough to help Luke climb in, stormtroopers swarmed the terrace, firing at the boy and his pet, a mighty force push knocked down all but Jinn, and Luke leapt off the terrace. However, as he jumped, so did Jinn. Luke flew, ever closer to Appa, while Jinn, saber in hand prepared to finish him off, Jinn swung his blade at Luke's back when a mighty wind gust suddenly hit him mid-air sending him hurtling back towards the collapsing air temple. Aang grabbed onto Luke's hand and pulled him up as he began to descend towards the earth. Luke's relief turned into terror as he realized Appa would be unable to fit in the TARDIS, he looked back to see Jinn riding atop a shuttle, saber in hand, towards him and Aang. Suddenly, a yellow beam of light engulfed the three, and they were inside the TARDIS again.
The Doctor walked towards the three of them, Aang grinning to himself. "Yup, sorry about that, folks, just had to finish installing my new teleporter, yes, that Federation tech really can be useful, believe it or not". For the first time, Luke was grateful to see the Doctor, and gave the peculiar man a hug. Looking to Aang, Luke began to speak "Look, Aang, I know this is truly painful, what we ask of you, I really do, but-" "I know what you're saying" Aang said, cutting him off "I know what I must do...I must join you, and help you save the universe from whatever is coming...". The TARDIS dematerialized, further in the distance, stormtroopers marched through the Royal City, declaring the entire planet to be under martial law. On the Fire Nation Royal Palace, a new banner his put up, the Imperial Flag. Admiral Zorg stands before a large crowd "Hello, people of the Fire Nation, and any other nationality you may hail from, rejoice, for today is a new day. Today, you begin your lives as citizens of the Empire".
To Be Continued...