HA, you probably all thought I was dead, but unfortunately for you that is not the matter, I shall not be giving up on this story, or my other story, I just needed a break to think, and to get into the right mindset to write the rest of this story. A lot of t
Hello, well this is going to be going up late, how late I could not tell you, but it shall indeed be late. I state this before the actual writing which is why I wouldn't know.
I'm going to try and write a chapter based almost entirely around the Relationships between different characters, resolving hopefully the Wendy hating Pacifica plotline? But heck this is me anything could end up happening.
The Lies we tell:
Pacifica watched the glances she still earned from Wendy, hateful, mistrusting glances. They were different now than they had been not so long ago, when Pacifica had first joined the crew of the MRE-HAC she had been giving looks of suspicion mixed with hatred, because when she had first joined her secret had remained unknown. When she had first joined her secret was a secret, but now it was revealed to everybody, which meant that everybody was treating her differently, except the droid. SO-OS was clearly oblivious to everything that was going on around him, his circuitry was obviously malfunctioning, and it made him a good person.
Pacifica's thoughts once more returned to the crew, she knew they thought of her differently, she could feel their feelings, not much more than that though. Wendy was angry, cold, annoyed, Mabel was confused and optimistic, Stan was somewhat oblivious to her secret, but she got hints from him of his own secrets, his own fear, guilt, and frustration, Dipper was. Dipper was complicated, she could tell that he loved her. That much was clear, but beyond that he was just confusing. His ability to shield his mind from her wasn't helping her at all. That left her. Pacifica Northwest, Pacifica Palpatine, the Emperor's Grand Niece, relative of the most powerful Sithlord in the galaxy, the Heir to the Empire, keeper of secrets, and apparently the being that a Sithlord wanted as an apprentice.
So what did that mean for her. What were her emotions?
Pacifica's mind flashed back to the present, her state of crisis being broken by the ship's leap to hyperspace. Pacifica left the others who moved across the ship, sneaking back to her room and closing the door.
She slumped to the floor in front of the door. She was exhausted, she hadn't realized it until then, but she was. She'd been questioned for hours, only after spending hours wandering the city looking for a Jedi who had turned out to be crazy, and beyond that she felt incredibly alone.
It wasn't a new feeling. It had always been there vaguely, a dark pit of loneliness that ate away at her often. She hated it, and then she'd started training as a Jedi, and she'd met Dipper, and for a while it was gone, the pit, replaced by something warm, bright, maybe it was family, maybe it was love. It could have been a thousand things, but it was nice.
She relaxed, crossing her legs in front of her, she breathed in and out in deep slow breaths. She felt everything around her, the floor, the ship, the stars, space, and the people. So many thousands of people shining in the darkness, breathing in and out, glowing ever so brightly in an ever dark universe. So Pacifica looked further, and she heard it, she felt it, it filled every sense she had, a song dancing so beautifully in the universe that it felt right, like it was always there. The song seemed perfect to Pacifica, calling to her, crying out to her from far away. Then there came the darkness and the song faded, the lights around her were snuffed out, disappearing as the shadows grew ever closer, surrounding her. Pacifica felt her chest tighten, her eyes darted across the darkness, when the voice cried out from behind her, in its voice that somehow made her hair stand on end despite it's high pitch, and general ridiculousness.
"Hello there my Apprentice, or apprentice to be." The creature commented stepping from the shadow's, its single yellow eye shining in the darkness.
"I'm not going to be your apprentice you creep. Now back off or I'll-"
"You'll what?" The creature said with a laugh, "Scream at me, swear? Cry? Try and punch me? Or are you forgetting your not a proper Jedi yet, or ever. Anyway of course you'll be my apprentice, after all me and your family made a deal."
"I'm not my family, and I'm never going to work for you."
"HA! Right, like you really have a choice, everybody onboard your current little vessel hates you. Anyway the deal is old, very old, very powerful, meaning I will get my apprentice, of course that apprentice might not be you, if there's someone else you'd like to offer up in your stead? Not like you have many options, the old man is too old, of course he's quite interesting of one, after all he's a very good liar, your friend Mabel, she's a bit too kind right now but maybe with the proper motivation she could be a good apprentice, or your beloved Pinetree, that is his codename isn't it? Too much of a Jedi already, he'd be hard to get his talons into, but perhaps, yes, perhaps what's about to happen will shake him enough to, sorry I'm saying too much. Anyway out of those choices who are you going to give me?"
"None of them. I'm not going to give you one of them to save myself, and your not getting me either, so go back to plotting in your dark evil fortress."
"Ha. Maybe you'll change your mind after what's about to happen, it doesn't matter, one of you will eventually end up as mine."
The giant thump pulled Pacifica into awareness, she had apparently been meditating, or sleeping for hours, whatever the answer was it was annoying, some unknown force had thrown Pacifica into a wall, and she was rubbing at a bruise that was on her forehead. As she opened the door to her room, she saw the others moving towards the front of the ship. All except Stan who was probably already there.
Pacifica quickly caught up to Dipper, who seemed as surprised by the abrupt, whatever it was, as much as her. "What happened?"
"We got pulled out of Hyperspace."
"How? I mean, what can pull ships out of Hyperspace?"
"Interdictors can, so can planets or blackholes, or other large gravitational fields."
"Interdictors being a thing that we all know about clearly, but the best way to summarize them would be?"
"Pacifica, they're reasonably well known, I thought you would know, but hey ignoring that, they're imperial vessels designed to pull ships out of Hyperspace, the New Republic has some as well, I think almost every faction has some of them, or ships like them, they're like Star Destroyers except less heavily armed, they help prevent ships from escaping through hyperspace."
"Right. Well then, I'm guessing it's an asteroid or whatever since we aren't in Imperial Space, and the New Republic isn't searching for us anymore."
"You're probably right, we should still go and check."
As the two teenagers reached the front of the ship, the viewport, opened up onto wide empty space. Or it would had a strange star destroyer not blocked the view.
In fairness calling the vessel a Star Destroyer was not quite right, it was about the same size, but it's shape was far more curved, and there were bulking bulbs across it, Blue lines danced across their surfaces. More noticable than anything else was the lack of the usual bridge, in stead of the curving neck holding up the bridge of the ship, there was an ovoid hill in the vessel where Pacifica could only presume the bridge actually was. The strange shapes were something far unlike what Pacifica had seen before, and the ship was most certainly not imperial.
"What is that?" Wendy said in a whisper, a whisper that felt necessary for some reason despite the fact that the ship obviously could not hear them.
"No idea. Obviously an interdictor, but I've never seen anything like it. Unless we stumbled across a New Republic weapons test?" Dipper said.
"Errm. Not quite kid." Stan said, with the scratching of the back of his head.
"What do you mean not quite?" Dipper asked with a little anger bleeding into his voice.
"Well, we're not quite in the New Republic anymore." Stan answered.
"Where the hell are we then?" Dipper yelled.
"Well, we call it the Unknown Regions, more specifically Chiss space." Stan replied, clutching at the steering yoke.
"Chiss Space? Chiss as in Thrawn?" Pacifica asked, blinking in surprise.
"Yeah, Chiss like Thrawn." Stan said, waving it off vaguely.
"Right, I'm glad even the Sithspawn here gets why this is a bad situation!" Wendy said, glaring at Stan.
"Soooo... Why are we in Chiss Space?" Mabel asked.
"Listen kid I've got my reasons you've just
got to trust me, alright?" Stan answered, or rather deflected.
"Sure thing Gruncle Stan." Mabel said with a cheerful smile.
"How are we getting out of here?" Dipper said, looking at Stan.
"Shouldn't be difficult, just got to fly around the thing, and hide in those asteroids. Then it's a simple jump into hyperspace." Stan answered.
"Fly around it? You mean once we get out of range of the tractor beam, that oh wait now it's active!" Dipper commented his voice frustrated, as he shoved open the doors behind him and walked out.
"Wow, he's stressed over nothing, we can get out a tractor beam easily, can't we?" Mabel said smiling at Stan.
Stan shook his hand in a wavy uncertain way.
"I'll take that as a yes!" Mabel said beaming.
"Right, while that happens I'm going to go surrender." Pacifica announced, opening the doors.
"Of course you're going to surrender." Wendy commented, angrily as ever.
"And what does that mean?" Pacifica asked spinning around at the Twi'lek girl.
"It means that you're a coward just like your family." Wendy replied.
"Fine, we'll you're an idiot, because this isn't a fight we can win! We've got nowhere to hide, nowhere to run, and an Entire Star Destroyer filled with Chiss! Anyway why should we run, as long as we weren't doing anything illegal we'll be sent back on our way." Pacifica replied.
Dipper sat on the ground inside his room for a moment, breathing in and out slowly. His mind whirled, too much had happened for him to focus. First on the list being the fact that his (sort of) girlfriend, had turned out to be an Imperial Princess, then the fact that he had been invited to a Jedi Academy on Yavin IV, which was his dream. There was also the fact that the only lead he had on the Writer of the Holocrons had been a crazy old man in a junkyard. Now they were in Chiss Space with no explanation, and he couldn't deal with it. There were too many secrets, too many lies, and they all seemed to circling around him. The last factor was the Sithlord. Someone unexplained who was clearly powerful, the question was how powerful. The answer remained unknown, but still, it wasn't a great situation to be in.
Dipper breathed out, letting go of it all in a single breath. Then he heard Pacifica and Wendy yelling. Wendy had started to get on his nerves as well, he could understand that she was reluctant to trust Pacifica, after all Pacifica was an Imperial Princess, but she seemed to outright hate Pacifica, with a deep zealous passion that Dipper couldn't understand, he knew the Empire had hurt Wendy's family, but Pacifica wasn't the Empire. It was unfair.
That was the galaxy though, of course it was unfair.
Right, I considered writing my Monster Falls story this week but decided to take a break, I'll return to it when I think I can focus enough to write it out properly. I have such a love of Star Wars that writing this was far easier.
Anyway as always Review.
(If any of you cared, I liked the Last Jedi, I don't care if you did, it had a solid plot, it said something, it made fun of Hollywood Cliches, and I've never required Science to actually work in Star Wars.)