AN:
FB: WOO FINALE DAY ONE! Prepare yourself for epic cliff-hangers every chapter. :D
TD: Cromians! Magic! TARDIS! OH MY SO MUCH AMAZE!
GM: HAPPY NEW YEAR! WELCOME! GOOD MORNING! 12:0something or other MT! WOOT! I am tired, lost, and a bit stupefied. HAHAHAHHAH. WHEEEEEE FAHN. I think I've revised this well enough at this point… but whatever. But hey, HAPPY 2016 EVERYBODY! (what follows was the original AN of GM which was written a few days ago)
Well. At long last. We have arrived. The end of January is upon us. The future is coming for us all dudes. You will see familiar faces come together, to face a crisis the likes of which the galaxy has never seen. At long last, we reach the climax of the Fleet's plot. The end is coming soon.
Of course this is just the Finale of January. More will come.
Saturday, January 28: Insurrection
~:DAWN OF THE FIRST DAY:~
Darth Vader awoke, groggy. He blinked. Staring down at him were the faces of his son, his daughter, and his apprentice.
"He's waking up." Luke said, smiling.
Ahsoka waved her hand in front of Vader's face. "Wakey wakey…"
Leia just frowned.
Darth Vader stood up, holding his hand to his head. "Ugh…" He groaned, trying to stand up. His weak legs didn't listen to a thing his mind was telling them.
"Woah woah… take it easy dad…"
Darth Vader muttered. "I am perfectly capable of standing up." Vader pumped serious mental strain into his legs, standing up, before falling back down onto the bed. "Gah. Stupid legs."
"You need to get used to it…" Ahsoka said, helping Vader back up. "After all, you've been living a very different life for a long time."
"Don't I know it…" Vader said, looking at his hands.
His hands.
He hadn't actually seen them in…well a long time.
And it had been even longer since they'd looked... normal.
The holographic Doctor of Voyager walked over. "You are welcome mister Skywalker. Reconstruction surgery is not the easiest thing to accomplish. You may experience the loss of a few recent memories, but they'll probably return with time. The Emperor really had your brain in a technology death grip. Here." He said, handing the newly restored dark lord a mirror.
His face.
It had been eons since he'd seen that face.
Vader simply stared, a smile coming to his face. Then he began to laugh, laugh years of pent up emotion out of his system. He collapsed to the ground laughing more, tears streaming out. Ahsoka and Luke ran to comfort him as he let out years of turmoil, slavery, and the dark side of the Force.
At long last… it was over.
He was free again.
He was Anakin Skywalker.
He stood up. "Thanks." He said, turning to everyone. "I thank you for trying so hard to get me back."
Luke smiled. "I always look for the best."
Ahsoka nodded as well. "And I know full well what the dark side can do… To be under its influence for so long…" It hadn't taken that long to explain to Ahsoka what exactly Anakin had been through, and she quickly turned to his side. "We can set things right."
Leia said nothing, simply frowning.
Anakin frowned. "Setting things right…" He looked to the side, where his red lightsaber stood. He reached for it with the force. "This thing… This thing will go."
"It will not, no." The diminutive figure of Yoda said. "Keep it, you will."
Anakin stared at Yoda. "Why? Why should I keep the weapon that slaughtered hundreds? Why should I keep the corruption of the dark side?"
"Balance, you represent." Yoda answered. "Both sides, you will use." Yoda said, handing Anakin another lightsaber. The once sith lord activated it, a blue beam appearing before him. He activated the red one beside it, holding one in each hand. He looked between the two blades.
"I am destined to bring balance…" He said, staring between the two blades.
"Satisfied with both sides, you were not. Find the balance, you will." Yoda smiled. "The prophecy is coming to fruition, at long last."
Ahsoka pouted. "Great. Now I'm not the only one with the dual blade style…"
"Kara uses two gunblades." Luke observed.
"Not the same."
Anakin gripped his two sabres. "I'm scheduled to be back with the Emperor in two days. He is not going to be happy about this… he used that suit to keep control of me. Now that I don't need it.. He'll feel threatened."
"He should feel threatened." Leia said, speaking for the first time. "You have betrayed him."
"He doesn't know that yet. I hope." Anakin responded.
Leia frowned. She wasn't ready for this. Not yet.
"Now…" Anakin said, turning. "I believe I am going to spend the next few hours regaining my strength. Then I'll teach your jedi in training some skills."
"You won't be ready in a few hours!" Luke protested.
"Watch me." Anakin said, smirking. He paused, noticing how alien that movement of his mouth felt. He turned to look at everyone once more. "I thank you all. You have redeemed the unredeemable. The slayer of millions has returned from his dark path."
"Return, you have not. Finding balance, you are on the road to."
"Even after all these years I still can't understand a word that you say."
That resulted in a good hearty laugh from Luke and a giggle from Ahsoka. Anakin frowned, looking at his daughter. He would have to talk to her later.
He walked out, ready to rejuvenate. He could feel the dark age of the Force fading. He knew it would end soon.
Though if that were true, why did he also have a sense of impending doom...
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VWRRRRAP VWRRRRAP VWRRRRAP. And with that, a blue phone box appeared inside the Central Tower of the Metropolis. The tenth Doctor stepped out, adjusting his coat. "Well this is interesting!" He said, grinning. "I've never been here before… I wonder why. Seems very peculiar." He walked around, poking his nose around. The planet seemed to be predominantly human, though he saw a few oddities. The Vulcans were rather surprising, and he saw a Betazoid or two hanging around.
He flagged down a man. "Hello there!" He said, flashing his psychic paper. "May I ask a few questions?"
"Of course inspector!" The rather enthusiastic man said, smiling. "Anything you need!"
"Right. So let's just pretend like I'm an utter and complete moron okay?"
"Um… why?"
"Preliminary questions to see if you're ready for the real ones."
"Um… okay?" The man said, becoming somewhat baffled.
The Doctor grinned. "What planet is this?"
"Terra?"
"Ah. Boring name. Totally uninteresting and bothersome. What city is this?"
"Only city on the planet… Metropolis… Are you one of those people from the Empire?"
"Yes yes of course... "
"How could you become an inspector then?"
"Well I uh…" The Doctor blinked. Oops. "You know how things are, we've been here for a while-"
"Only a few weeks…" The man said, suddenly suspicious. "Who are you?"
"Uh… a secret inspector?"
The man looked skeptical.
"Yeah you aren't buying this at all. Shame." The Doctor pulled out his sonic screwdriver. "I'm warning you to let me go or else-!"
The man blinked.
"You're not buying this either are you?"
"Nope."
"Blast." The Doctor paused. "Well then I'm an alien visitor from a far away planet. Take me to your leader."
The man rolled his eyes. "Yeah right. That's a good one."
"I'm serious! I travel around in a big blue box exploring the stars and- and this sounds like more gibberish to you."
"Yep."
"Meh. Fine take me wherever. I'm still curious about this place. Like why I've never heard of an advanced civilization within these uncharted territories in this timeframe..."
"I'm not answering any more of your questions." The man said, pulling out his phone. "Yeah security? Got a crazy man here pretending to be an inspector. … What do you mean you don't know what an inspector is? Just get someone over here." The man looked at the Doctor. "Why aren't you running away?"
"Step one in learning about a place: get captured."
"Huh. Maybe you are an alien."
"Yep. Now what are we going to do while we wait for them to get here?"
"Checkers?"
"Sure."
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"Everyone!" Lightning walked into a room in the middle of a random meeting, "The Normandy and company should be arriving sometime today! PREPARE YOURSELVES!" She yelled, frowning as all the people just stared at her. "Oh come on! REMEMBER PEOPLE! Normandy? The Cromians? Hoseki? Dimensional Alliance? Anyone?" Lightning threw her hands into the air in exasperation.
"I remember, Lightning." Spock said, looking up from his papers, "Gather a group and we'll go meet them."
"If Spock's going, I'm going!" Rainbow Dash stood up on her chair, forgetting that it wasn't like the chairs in Equestria, resulting in her faceplant. "I'm fine!" She shook her mane and started flying, her burn mark visible for a few moments.
"I'll come!" A few random Terrans in the room said.
"Which ship should we take?" Lightning asked.
"The Defiant! It has some weapons, warp drive, and cool stuff!" Rainbow Dash said, grinning.
"Ask Worf first. He is not going to just let you take his ship…" Spock warned.
LATER...
Worf slightly inclined his head. It might have been a nod.
"Thanks." Rainbow Dash said, rushing past Worf into the ship. The rest of the group trampled him.
"Umph." Worf muttered from his position on the floor.
EVEN LATER…
"Jump into hyperspace, and head to the coordinates Lightning's database provided." Captain Worf said from the bridge of the Defiant.
The ship jumped into warp shortly thereafter, and they were off! A few minutes later, they arrived at the coordinates.
"Lightning, Spock, and Rainbow Dash, come to the bridge, we have arrived." Captain Worf said on the com.
"We never left the bridge."
Worf blinked. "Then stay put." He said, deadpan.
Spock just shrugged.
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After they finished their hyperspace jump, Gim'ran clutched his armrests in anticipation. "On screen." he said. This had better be our galaxy, or else.
"Aye sir." random Cromian #75 answered as he pulled up a starchat of the surrounding star systems.
Gim'ran blinked. This was not the Cromian galaxy, but he had to be sure, "Cross check with a Cromark star chart." he growled.
"No matches sir."
"Well then, send a message to commander Shepa'ard to have him meet us on the Oxlya for a little chat with commander Ethyr" A very large hint of annoyance in his voice.
A few minutes later…
"WHERE THE HECK IS MY GALAXY!?" Gim'ran raged at Ethyr.
"Likely in another universe entirely, Gim'ran."
"Well then. WHERE. IS. IT?" Gim'ran yelled again.
"Given the star charts you gave us? Right were this patch of nothing is in this universe."
"You have technology capable of jumping dimensions yes?" Gim'ran accused
"Yes. We're performing the calculations now. We have to take your ships with us, so it isn't instant."
"So… how long will that take?" He said suddenly calm and collected.
"Fifteen minutes to half an hour, unless something comes up. Like, oh, someone contacts us or something."
"Seems reasonable. Something better not come up or-"
A low-ranking Hoseki officer ran up. "We're being hailed."
Shepard ran out of the room quickly.
Gim'ran looked at the officer. "Is that so?" he said, rage in his eyes.
"Uh…" the officer shivered, "yes sir?" He backed away quickly in fear, his arms up protecting himself.
Gim'ran held up a hand, used a telekinetic flip to pin the officer on the ceiling, promptly forgetting about him, then taking the data pad and handing it to Ethyr. "Answer the stupid hail."
Shepard slowly walked back into the room, ready to bolt at a moment's notice, but then he saw the officer on the ceiling. Gim'ran certainly didn't go as far as I thought...
The transmission came in. "***ell***** **** *************o this is com**** Thi*** Connection****** RAINBOW GET OFF THE CONTROL PANEL. **************** Hi…" The face of an old, pointy eared humanoid greeted them. "I am Ambassador Spock, and I welcome you to the galaxy. We have been expecting you."
"Expecting us?" Ethyr said, squinting. She instantly didn't trust this man.
"Yes we were told by a friend of yours… come on up."
Spock's face left the screen and then a familiar face showed up.
Shepard's jaw dropped. "LIGHTING?"
Gim'ran gaped as well, subconsciously forgetting to keep his spell in place as the officer fell from the ceiling and crashed onto Ethyr. Shepard watched this, and then chuckled at the officer's and Ethyr's little predicament.
"Hi there Commander, long time no see." Lightning said smirking.
Shepard smiled. "So, lemme guess, your long search to get yourself home brought you back here? Quite a long way around trip don't you think?"
"Yeah yeah…" Lightning said, rolling her eye. "Come. I've got an entire planet ready to welcome you and your Hoseki friends."
Gim'ran simply glared at the screen more intensely. Lightning noticed she was ticking him off..
"er… and Gim'ran too. Yeah. They want to meet him too. Very important." she said quickly
Gim'ran simply stared at the screen skeptically. "This reminds me of talking with Verona..." He muttered under his breath "darn politics..."
Lightning smiled at them all. "Well, anyway, welcome Shepard. It's good to see you."
"You as well." Shepard noticed her eyepatch. "What… happened to you?"
"Long story. Come to Terra, we can talk there."
Shepard turned to Gim'ran and Ethyr. "Sound good everyone?"
"I suppose… this better not impede calculations." Gim'ran growled.
"It will." Ethyr said. "But I think it's definitely worth investigating for a few hours."
The officer got thrown to the ceiling again, this time breaking his nose. "Oh." Gim'ran said, literally steaming. "I'll be on my ship firing some subordinates." He left, a few seconds later shouting as many expletives as he could think of in his enraged mental state.
Gim'ran was not a patient man.
Lightning blinked. "Just as festive as I remember."
"You knew him for all of a few hours." Shepard observed.
"Exactly." Lightning said. "Anyway, follow us to Terra. We may have some problems but everyone's interested to see you."
Then Gim'ran walked out of spell range and the officer fell back on top of Ethyr.
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"So…" Lightning said, looking at the people sitting around the table in the middle of the Central Tower. "This is quite the reunion." Shepard, Wrex, Tali, Gim'ran and a few other Cromians, Ethyr, Lampkin and Spock were all sitting at the table.
"That it is. What are the pnals?" Gim'ran questioned.
Shepard blinked. "What are pnals?"
"Er… They're pnals. Ya know… um... Darn untranslatable words..."
"Try describing it in another way." Spock suggested.
Gim'ran thought for a moment, "They're like gescin only more thought out."
"Gescin? Are you just making words up on the spot?" Ethyr accused Gim'ran.
Gim'ran. Face. Table. In no particular order occurred.
"I believe I am right then?" Ethyr tilted her head to the right.
"All of you just quit it." Wrex muttered, obviously not in the mood. "Lightning, why are you here and what's going on in this galaxy?"
Lightning put a more serious face on. "I was abducted by a cute ghost bent on world domination and came back here to look for Serah and tell the people here about their departed captain."
Silence fell.
"Who?" Ethyr broke the silence with an oddly apropos question.
Somewhere less than a mile away, the Doctor felt his dignity get insulted. Though it felt odd, so it probably was out of sync with time.
Somewhere really really far away the eleventh Doctor had a heart attack.
Elsewhere, the thought "pudding" resonated. For some reason.
Deadpool interrupted the flow of narrative to stop this insanity. "ENOUGH WITH THE DOCTOR'S SUFFERING. There's a story to be told here nitwits!"
Lightning sighed. "How I came here isn't really important. What you should know is that a race known as the Replicators are infesting this galaxy, slowly eating it away. They were recorded in the Hoseki database as a major threat."
"I read about those." Shepard commented. "They are pieces of work…"
Tali got excited. "The technology they use is amazing! Self-replicating machines is an impressive feat! It's an astounding feat of technology!"
"And a very deadly one…" Ethyr said, shaking her head at Tali's praise of the Replicators. "We are aware of their… capabilities. I think our scientists were working on weapons against them last I knew."
"We already had weapons like that, but then they became ineffective after the Replicators adapted." Lampkin said.
"I am feeling very much left out. what are Repli'ators?" Gim'ran interupted.
"Bugs." Lightning said. "Mechanical bugs that become immune to every pesticide you throw at them within a few minutes. And they keep multiplying."
"Would you prefer the sciency part of that, or just leave it to the easy to understand version?" Ethyr asked.
"Don't make me drop another officer on you."
"You wouldn't dare." Ethyr glanced up, ready to punch any falling officers.
Gim'ran let out a chuckle.
Lampkin let out a sigh of annoyance. "Quit your bickering. We Have. Things to do. Places to go. Things to accomplish. What are we going to do here?"
"I say we stay for a few days." Shepard responded. "Seeing what we can do to help. I owe Lightning a lot, and the Replicators are our enemy as well."
"I believe we were already doing to do that." Wrex said, finally inputting something into the conversation. "I mean, did anyone really expect us just to say hi and get going?"
"Well… we're stuck here unless someone fixes the darn calculation to the dim drive." Gim'ran growled.
"Calculations are complete." Ethyr said. "But we aren't going anywhere until this is resolved. We don't want to keep running back here. And the more universes we enter, the more problems we will come across. It's just the way things are.
"Grr…. on one condition I will not blow you up in a million varied ways… I will get to blow up lots of Replicators."
"That'll be difficult…" Lampkin said. "They tend to learn very very quickly. The only sure-fire way to deal with them is to hit them really, really hard. Preferably with something big.
"I have big. And I haven't come across something that can withstand a bullet that goes thousands of times the speed of light."
"That… would probably work…" Lightning said. "But there's a lot of them. They like to come in force and repair themselves."
"So we've got to take them out as quickly as possible with as much force as possible." Gim'ran concluded.
"Yep." Lightning said.
Lampkin leaned forward. "We are also working closely with a despotic Empire to find an ancient device that can hopefully rid the galaxy of Replicators. To be honest this is kind of plan B, but since plan A has so little chance of succeeding we're putting a lot of resources into it."
"Wouldn't plan A have a better chance of success if you put all resources into it? Or vise versa with plan B?" Gim'ran questioned.
Lightning snorted. "Plan A is to hope they somehow stop adapting to our weapons. It's kinda hopeless as it is."
Ethyr frowned. "There must be other plans…"
"There were." Lampkin said. "The one successful one no longer works. They became resistant."
"Yes… but now you have a better chance because of the advantages my ship and the Hoseki's give us."
Ethyr smiled. "We do have some… unique weapons."
Lightning nodded. "Perhaps there is hope now. Anyway, let's bring you up to speed on the boring politics that nobody wants to hear…"
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Lampkin stepped into the room Anders was in.
"He is coming." Anders said, falling silent for a moment.
"I know this already. WHO though?" Lampkin questioned. "What is the big threat here?"
"Conversion is coming. Everything will happen. The stargate will open, bringing the one outside time. Slaughter will come, the Countermeasure will fall. The Entity of Spacetime will face his own defeat. End of line." Anders stared right into Lampkin's eyes. "Anakin must not fall."
"What?"
"Anakin must not fall."
"Why? Why not?"
"Anakin must not fall."
"Oh you're useless."
"Anakin must not fall. Anakin must not fall. Anakin must not fall. I AM ERROR! ANAKIN MUST NOT FALL! DO NOT LET HER- end of line."
Lampkin slowly backed away. That. That was creepy.
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"You know you should just go talk to her." Lightning observed.
"I thought that at first. Then I realized she doesn't want to talk to me." Anakin retorted.
"She is your daughter."
"And I blew up her planet."
Lightning paused. "That is a pretty hard rock to climb over…"
Anakin nodded. "I'm not sure I ever should be allowed back."
"Your apprentice and your son accepted you." Lightning observed. "Heck, even I did. Sorta."
"My apprentice has experienced the pull of the dark side personally, she knows what it's like. And Luke… Luke is a bit naive and way too trusting"
Lightning frowned. "I suppose. But you have to admit he is good at what he does."
"Which is?"
"Be rather trusting and naive but still be a good leader and hero."
Anakin chuckled. "Good leader and hero. That could describe you."
Lightning stared ahead, a blank look in her face. "A leader and a hero… I was once. I saved the world. But I lost so many."
"Sacrifice…" Anakin sighed. "I've gotten used to it over the years. It feels… unusual to feel something about it again. I wonder how much of me was changed by the dark side… by the Emperor…"
Lightning frowned. "I don't know. I didn't know you before you were Darth Vader like Ahsoka. But, I know who you are now. And it is much different from the man who killed millions. Just like the people of Terra in the mob, you weren't fully in control."
"What caused them to do that anyway?"
"Nobody knows for sure. It started with Baltar's cult, but it seemed to spread like wildfire."
Anakin frowned, deeply concerned. "Not even the dark side of the Force is able to spread that quickly… Something sinister lies beneath us."
Then a sound that could only be described as scissors cutting through the fabric of reality interrupted them. A young girl's voice cheered from the other side. "There you are!"
Then Serah was dumped onto the floor, and the portal closed behind her. She stood up. "That girl… That girl is crazy." She blinked, looking around. She saw a strange man she didn't recognize and-
"LIGHTNING?" Serah gaped, staring.
"SERAH?" Lightning stared, gaping.
The two sisters stared into each other's eyes, motionless for a moment.
Then Serah ran forward, tackle hugging her older sister. "Ack! Serah! I need to breathe!"
"I've been looking all over for you!"
"I know! So have I! Dying from hugs here!"
Anakin laughed, smiling. "Hello Serah."
"Um… Hello." Serah said. "Who is this Lightning?"
"Anakin Skywalker. He's been through a hard time lately- NO he does not need a hug too."
"Is he your boyfriend?"
"WHAT? NO!"
Serah giggled. "Oh really?"
"I do not have a boyfriend! Seriously Serah!"
Serah rolled her eyes. "Yeah yeah- oh my gosh what happened to your eye?"
"Psychotic puppet in a house of creepy stuff." Lightning said. "Things have been weird."
"Tell me about it…" Serah muttered.
Then Lightning remembered something. "Serah. I have to know. Are you planning on doing anything crazy?"
Serah tensed. "What? No why?"
"I've been told that I have to stop you from doing something… I don't know what." Lightning sighed. "Something you try to do can cause catastrophe."
"Really?" Serah said, trying to sound ignorant. "I… I wouldn't know…"
Lightning frowned. "Just… come to me if you think of anything okay? I don't want something to come between us after we've been apart for so long…"
Serah nodded. "Of course!" She smiled. "Aren't you going to tell me what happened to you?"
"Well see I ended up in the middle of a conflict and starting blowing magic everywhere, and then a man known as commander Shepard saw me…"
Anakin smiled as the two sisters walked off, chatting away. He'd had a hard time believing Lightning knew how to chatter, but he supposed that a sibling bond was strong enough to bring out the best in people.
A sibling bond…
Perhaps he should talk to Luke first…
Then he frowned further. He couldn't quite place it, but he felt like he remembered Serah from somewhere…
Anakin had to hold that thought when he saw a man in a brown trenchcoat being dragged into the Central Tower.
"Okay okay no need to be grumpy about it!" The man shouted.
"We're only shoving because you wouldn't move."
"I was admiring the architecture!"
"For five minutes?"
"Why yes!"
The security guard rolled his eyes. "Yeah. You are a nutjob."
"Who is this?" Anakin asked, walking up.
"Some guy pretending to be some inspector of some sort. Disturbing the peace."
"Hello there! I'm the Doctor!" He said, grinning, shaking Anakin's hand. "Who're you?"
"Anakin Skywalker." Anakin said, happy he could give his new name.
However, it triggered a response in the Doctor. His face clouded. "How… that's impossibly you are… no… there's no way…"
"What?" Anakin asked.
"You… in the correct timeline you became Darth Vader…" The Doctor backed away. "And if I'm not mistaken should be dead already… Who are you? How are you?"
Anakin frowned. "I know not how you know that secret, but that is behind me. I was taken away from the dark side of the Force. I was redeemed."
"I have no doubt about that and I congratulate you on a successful heel-face turn." The Doctor said while in deep thought. "What I'm worried about is what kind of alterations this will cause the timeline… Hopefully not too much..."
Somewhere far, far away the eleventh Doctor laughed a bitter laugh.
Anakin asked the rather obvious question. "You're a time traveller aren't you?"
"Yes guilty as charged." The Doctor said, grinning, all worry gone from his face in an instant. "Doing a bit of exploring you might say. Found this place, was curious why I'd never heard of it."
Anakin shrugged. "I'd never heard about this place until a week or so ago, so I'm in the same boat."
The Doctor nodded "Yes yes… Oh am I still supposed to be going to a holding cell?"
Anakin shook his head. "Though I have a feeling some people are going to have a lot of questions to ask you."
"Oh questions. How… fun."
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Ty'al punched a console. She was on the bridge of the Bern, doing her "commanding duties." Which composed of a whole lot of standing around doing nothing. She cursed to herself.
She had tried, time and time again, to contact her other selves on the surface. But they must've moved their location from what she remembered when she arrived. Stupid stupid….
She had to warn them. Even though her knowledge of the future was now a bit skewed, she knew that Hera's plans were still occurring. She had to stop her. Ty'al growled. But she couldn't go down to the surface without a set of guards and she no longer knew how to contact her other selves.
They really, really needed to think of a contingency plan for time travel.
Wait…
She could wait for the temporal displacement signature. If memory served, he'd be showing up sometime tomorrow…
A bit of a close shave for her comfort, but it'd have to do.
She sat down in her big comfy chair and set the ship to scan. Then she waited. She ordered some coffee.
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Ma'al cracked his knuckles. "So, we will begin the operation within the hour. Is everything in place?"
"Yes." Caprica responded. "The teams are ready to spread the force of God out to everyone."
"Good." Ma'al said, giving Mi'al a knowing look. "The alien scum shall be purged. Control will be ours."
Spirit Caprica smiled at everyone. "Today, we triumph in the name of God. This world shall be his. When the being known as Q interfered with the destiny of your people, he made it so you would never reach what you were meant to be, but rather infused with corruption from all sides. Today, we right that wrong, setting ourselves on a new path, a new destiny. The time has come!"
"The time has come!" Everyone else echoed.
Caprica set a timer. 60:00
59:59
59:58
Ma'al, Ty'al, and Mi'al left the room together, and began talking amongst themselves.
"Are our plans in place?" Ma'al asked Ty'al.
"Yes. Ko'al is confident she can take on the Spirits when the time comes. And we have received word that we have a new sister coming to us."
"Oh? What's she called?" Mi'al asked, hair flipping around.
"Py'al."
"Hrm… Pie…"
"Just because you are really really fast doesn't mean you have to get distracted so easily."
"I'm not easily distrac- OO SHINY!"
Ty'al facepalmed. "Hokaythen… We must stand firm brother and sister. Now… what about the unknown?"
"The ships or the girl?" Ma'al responded.
"The girl. Hera." Ty'al frowned. "She has some power, but we do not know the full extent of it. There is a risk there…"
"Which is why all of us will be present."
"Of course." Ma'al stared at the horizon. "This world will become ours, and we will use it to spread ourselves throughout the universe."
Ty'al grinned. "And of course there is no danger to us whatsoever. I absolutely love this resurrection technology."
The others nodded, grinning to each other.
They didn't suspect anything else.
After all, "God" didn't actually exist. That would be silly.
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"Oh. Hey Doctor."
"Ah Rainbow Dash!" The Doctor said, grinning. "What a wonderful surprise! How have you been?" The two greeted each other like old pals, to Anakin's surprise.
"Wait. You know each other?"
"Of course!" Rainbow Dash said, hovering above them. "In my travels-"
"-which are much less extensive than mine-" The Doctor interjected.
Rainbow Dash glared. "I came across him a few times. Nice guy. Goes around saving things."
"You give me too much credit."
"You don't give yourself enough, Doctor." Rainbow Dash grinned.
"The same could be said of you. Now!" The Doctor said, whirling around. "What is going on around here?"
"Well I'm a jedi now, Anakin here is a nice guy, we've got a new civilization that came from nowhere, and I'm best buds with an Ambassador Spock!" She grinned. "Oh, and Applejack's decided to stay here a while and farm, keep a friend of hers, Lightning, company."
The Doctor's eyes widened. "Applejack and Lightning are here?"
"Who's askin'?" the unmistakable country voice of a certain mare entered the Doctor's perception. He turned around to see the two in question (and Serah) walking towards him.
"Ah Applejack! Lightning! It's so good to see you!"
"Ah Doc!" Applejack said, lightning up. "How you faring?"
"Oh Spooky's was a few years ago nothing to worry about. All recovered. Though I do have you to thank for it."
"Twas nothin' Doc."
The Doctor turned to Lightning. "And how have you been? Found your sister yet?"
"Actually yes." Lightning said, stepping aside to reveal Serah. Serah waved before leaning into Lightning's ear and whispering "Who's this guy?"
"The Doctor. A weird time-travelling alien."
"Is he your boyfriend?"
"Will you drop that?"
"No."
Lightning rolled her eye. "So Doctor, have you found out what happened to any of the others?"
The Doctor frowned. "Haven't seen Spooky anywhere. Left Springtrap to rot in his restaurant. Mulder and Wendy got out and went home last I saw them. And now I found you two. So that's everyone who survived."
Rainbow Dash blinked. "Wait. This guy was with you in that creepy house?"
"Eeyup." Applejack affirmed. "He was mighty helpful as well. Knew a lot of thingawhatsis. Though I did have to save him from a mind creature first."
Everyone shuddered at the memory of Specimen 7.
"Hey... " Lightning asked, something coming to her. "Do you happen to know where Cocoon would be?"
The Doctor shook his head. "I've never been to such a place. I'm so sorry, I can't take you home."
Serah visibly saddened and Lightning sighed. "It's okay. We know which galaxy it's in. I suppose you can take us to Earth then."
"Oh I have no problem at all doing that!" The Doctor said, grinning. "Come, My Tardis is a few floors down."
Lightning raised her hands. "I don't mean right now. We know a lot of people here."
"Uh. I don't." Serah commented. "I just showed up a few hours ago."
"I know people here." Lightning responded. "Give us a chance. I also believe Spock and Lampkin aren't going to let you go yet…"
"Indeed." Spock said, walking up. "Doctor, would you have any explanation for why I was ripped from a time that no longer exists?"
The Doctor frowned. "What would you mean?"
"I mean that actions that occurred recently in the timestream have wiped the existence of the Federation completely from history, if Q is telling the truth."
The Doctor's eyes widened. "Wait. Wiped from history? Q? What on earth is going on in this place?"
"Something, Q claims not to know what, wiped out the vast majority of godlike beings. A result of this was to completely rewrite history to where his favorite Federation never existed. He had to reach into the changing timestream to drag the Enterprise, Voyager, Defiant, and Deep Space Nine along with a few other mismatched ships for his amusement. The result is what you see here, the Terrans."
Spock turned. "But he never brought me personally. I was aware of a bright light, a strange feeling, and then I was standing next to Rainbow Dash here in a strange temple several miles from the Metropolis."
"LIVE. LONG. AND. SWAG!" Rainbow Dash yelled. Spock's eyebrow simply twitched.
The Doctor began pacing. "This is a poser indeed… What could cause such a thing…" The Doctor pulled out his screwdriver and began to scan Spock. "No ridiculous readings… You seem to be a normal aged Vulcan displaced from time. What brought you…"
"We were standing in ancient ruins."
The Doctor grinned. "Well then, I say we hop into the Tardis and have a look see don't you?"
A twinkle appeared in Spock's eye. "That sounds like a brilliant idea."
"Well then! Allons-y!"
But they wouldn't have time to make it.
For in that moment, chaos erupted.
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Shepard, Wrex, Tali, two Cromians named Jar'err and Sei'lap, Ethyr, and a Hoseki Gari known as Frostfire stood in the Central Tower's lobby.
Jar'err was playing Frostfire a game of checkers. "You cheat."
"I do not."
"Your checkers have ice on them."
"Well, yeah.. I use ice as magic. There is no way I'm cheating." Frostfire stated at Jar'err.
"Well if you can slide your checkers around with ice, I can move your pieces with my mind!" Jar'err said, moving several of Frostfire's pieces into positions he liked.
"You feel like doing that?" Frostfire used telekinesis on the pieces and they moved to a position she liked.
Jar'err grumbled, flipped the board and stomped off across the room. Wrex gave off a hearty laugh. Sei'lap sighed. "You are a disgrace to Cromians everywhere."
"But I'm not a Cromian, so technically I'm not." Frostfire said with a sly smile.
"Are you stupid? I was talking to Jar'err!"
"You want to play then?" She asked, motioning to the board.
"What? No! I will not play a petty Hoseki game!"
Shepard blinked. "I've played checkers on my world before though. How is it a Hoseki game?"
"It's not! The Earth humans have it too!" Frostfire responded.
Tali blinked. "Quarrians have a similar game as well."
"See? NOT HOSEKI. Even though I wouldn't mind if the Hoseki claimed the game as their own."
Sei'lap blinked. "Now I'm more concerned how so many races throughout the cosmos can come up with the same eltram game."
"Eltram?" Shepard, Frostfire, and Tali said at once.
Wrex groaned. "You don't want to know."
Tali blinked. "How do you know?"
"You don't want to know that either."
"I do!" Frostfire said to Wrex.
Wrex mumbled something into Frostfire's ear. She passed out.
"Well that happened." Shepard said.
Then they heard an explosion outside, and the red light flooded through the window. "Huh?"
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KABOOM! The first bomb went off, crippling the market. Vulcans calmly collected what wares they could and ran for their lives. Everyone else just panicked. Fire rose up from the market, a few more explosions ringing out from explosive commodities catching fire. The commerce of the Metropolis had been decimated. People ran for their lives, children screamed, and the world burned.
Then the farms were hit. Flash flame explosions after flash flame explosions rippled through the fields. Applejack's trees, which were finally starting to bear fruit after all the hard earth pony magic she had put into them, started to fall, contorting into heaps of ash. The water in the apples screamed as it evaporated, giving the entire field an eerie sound of death.
Next the Federation district of the city was hit, fires burning through Starfleet's ranks. People tried to run, to hide, to grab their families and get away, but the explosions were too well timed. They were enveloped.
Then a bomb went off in the Central Tower, blowing out a major wall. The ginormous building began to shudder and tip over.
"BLIZAJA!" Lightning yelled, solidifying the destroyed section. "PROTECT! SHELL!" She yelled, fortifying the the ice. The Tower creaked and groaned, but stopped its descension. Lightning cast more ice, encasing the outside of the tower in a hefty iced base. She took a deep breath. "That's… a lot of ice…" She muttered.
Spock frowned. "We have been attacked. Who was responsible?"
The Doctor frowned, looking out the window. "I'd say a large chunk of your population…"
The assorted people walked to the window and looked out to see hoards of people streaming from buildings across the Metropolis.
A few floors below them, Jar'err groaned "Greeeat. The first time we find alien life and we end up getting caught up in an intergalactic war AND a civil war. Oh boy. I love my life."
Sei'lep slapped him.
Jar'err just glared at him. Then his balance was rudely upset by another bomb going off somewhere in the Metropolis.
People - enraged people - stormed out of the buildings, mobbing every alien they could find. They seized the offending non human races and began to tear them limb from limb. Sometimes weapons were used, making it quick. Other times it was nothing more than a heavy beating, smashing skulls and slowly killing them. Many fought back, killing many in the mob, but it was no use. The non humans were falling by the dozen.
Then the mob began to bang at the doors of the Central Tower.
Wrex quickly uprooted the reception desk and blockaded the main door with it. Everyone else followed his example, using whatever skills they had to block the gigantic doors beyond just bearing and locking it.
Sie'lep sighed "Well regardless- we need to help out. Crystal gyro defence pattern omega 74 sound good?"
"I'm not doing this to help them. I just don't want to die. So fine." Jar'err said, reluctantly.
"Very good then. I'll take the east side you take the west side" Sei'lep said, conjuring a few dozen invisible magitech walls to start rotating around the base of the tower to keep the mob out.
The mob suddenly found it rather difficult to even get near the Tower. So of course they increased their efforts, ineffective though they were.
The violence didn't stop. It just increased.
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Lampkin yelled. "What are we going to do?"
"It took a full invasion to snap them out of it last time." Lightning reminded him. "And I could do that level of attack myself, but that would mean a lot of casualties."
"They're more organized this time. I'm willing to bet some of them fully believe in the actions they are carrying out and will continually rally the others…" Lampkin muttered. "I increased security! I had people look out for secret meetings! Why did this still happen? How did they plant those bombs?"
Serah looked out at the burning landscape. The fires were going out in the city, since the buildings themselves weren't flammable, but the smoke remained. "I sense… magic coming from the bombs."
The Doctor blinked. "Magic exists in extremely minor quantities in this universe. How on earth did they get enough to rig an explosion?"
"How should I know?" Serah responded, angry. "I just sensed it."
Lightning frowned. "Calm down Serah."
"...fine."
The Doctor frowned. "Can you jedi do anything?"
Djehuty spoke up. "I do not have mass mind control and I doubt you would want to use it anyway."
Luke shook his head. "None of our powers can effect something on this scale…"
River spoke for the first time. "And Q has tried to change their minds before, failing much to his surprise."
The Doctor stared at River with fear in his eyes. "How… Nevermind how you know that. A Q is an immensely powerful being capable of shaping the fabric of existence itself. If one of them can't change this we have a serious problem…"
"God…" Lampkin muttered.
"What?"
"I was warned that this "God" that the cult serves isn't some abstract construct their minds came up with. It is an actual being."
The Doctor shook his head. "A Q is a godlike being. Nothing in the universe could just stop his influence like that without a heavy and very specifically calculated shield, which I would be able to detect… This shouldn't be possible…" He paced back and forth. "I don't know. This is both troubling and exciting."
Lightning twitched. "What can we do?"
The Doctor grinned. "Amplify a psychic link through the Tardis! That might work!" He turned to the group. "Who's the most powerful psychic here?"
River raised her hand.
"Good. Come with me. The rest of you might as well come too." He ran to his blue box, threw the door open, and walked inside, dragging River.
Lampkin blinked. "It's a blue box. A tiny blue box." He said, staring at the open doors.
"It's bigger on the inside…" Luke said, agape. Everyone stepped in, looking around at the giant room hidden inside a tiny blue box. "How?"
"Spacial dimensions technology." The Doctor muttered. "I've got an entire star in here somewhere. Now, River, stick your hand in this strange console device."
"Okay…" River said, for the first time not sounding sure of anything. "The times… are muddled in here…"
"That's because the Tardis has the potential to change just about anything! Any sort of precognitive abilities will be very, very skewed in here unless you have some kind of super skill…"
"You don't want to go, but the drums will come for you."
The Doctor slowly stood up and turned, staring into River's eyes. "What?"
"I don't know!" River said, fear in her voice.
The Doctor frowned, but shrugged it off. "Everyone ready?"
"Sure…?" Lightning said, skeptical.
"ALLONS-Y!" The Doctor yelled, pulling a lever.
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River's mind was everywhere. She felt everyone on the planet. Thier pain. Their sorrow. The grief of a burning city. She would have cried if she was connected to her body. She focused, sending a message of peace and prosperity into the populace of the world. Their inner lights changed, flickering from the red of rage to the blue of calm. The city began to slow, to relax, to feel at peace.
The attacks slowly stopped, people began to wonder what they were doing. Why they were doing it. What was the point? Why all the violence?
Only one mind resisted, a mind River came to know as Hera.
Why are you so hateful inside? River asked directly.
I do not have more or less hate than anyone else. Hera responded. I am just your equal.
I do not want to force you-
You will have to.
River resigned, attacking Hera full on with the force of herself and the immense power of the Tardis backing her. Hera never stood a chance against the combined power of the two.
However Hera didn't have to face them.
Something else stepped in. A giant sleeping being deep beneath the bowels of Terra, shoved it's mind onto River and the Tardis.
River screamed as the mind tore at her own. She had often thought that her mind was broken enough that it couldn't be shredded. She was wrong. Oh so wrong. She screamed, and she could hear the Tardis screaming as well. The minds of the Tardis and "God" collided, resulting in a space-time ripple echoing across time. Across time and space, minds collided, beings formed and annihilated themselves in a manner of instants.
The Tardis kept backing up it's intelligence in other time states, increasing its power. "God," however, could not be countered. He was an impossible being, a being that should not exist but did. And he did not appreciate a major assault on his mind.
He roared, shaking Terra to its core.
One word echoed through River's mind.
A name.
Ottankdoe.
Ottankdoe.
Ottankdoe.
And with that River retreated to her body, and the Tardis gave up the assault.
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"OTTANKDOE! OTTANKDOE! OTTANKDOE!" River screamed, before passing out. Then the Tardis's center console finally gave out, igniting in a pillar of fire.
"Okay everyone out out out!" The Doctor yelled, grabbing River and running out. The Tardis turned on it's anti-fire mechanisms, putting out the flames, but the inside was already a charred husk. The Doctor groaned. "That's going to take a few days for it to repair…" Then fear entered his eyes. "What in the universe could possibly manage to fight the Tardis on a mental front and win?"
Lampkin frowned. "Ottankdoe, apparently."
Odo grunted. "Well if it defeated Q, what did you possibly think your blue box could do?"
The Doctor looked ready to retort, but then paused, realizing he had nothing to say. He simply glared. "We have a problem." He said. "This being, whatever it is, is controlling the minds of many, slaughtering this place. We are up against something of immeasurable power. What I don't know is why this thing wasn't wiped from existence with all the other godlike beings."
A lightbulb went off in Anakin's head. "It's power must be localized only. Nothing like this has ever happened off this planet. Which means…"
The Doctor blinked. "It isn't godlike at all. It's a localized power! All we'd have to do is get everyone off the planet!"
Everyone blinked.
"Okay that's a stupid idea…"
Lampkin stood up. "We will get who we can off. We have ships and troops in orbit. We can coordinate an effort."
The Doctor glared. "I suppose you're just going to kill everyone to save us?"
"Doctor." Lampkin said. "Their rage will eventually turn onto themselves. They will kill each other till the end. We must save who we can."
The Doctor growled. "Fine. Give the stupid order to those ships in orbit. I will not be part of this."
"You don't have to be." Lampkin said, walking over to a terminal. He gave the orders to the ships in orbit.
From the Enterprise Picard sighed. "Order the Cylon Basestars to begin loading off troops. Tell the ships capable of teleportation to beam up any sane people the Cylons save. Make it so."
Cortana nodded, before vanishing in a puff of code.
"What have we done…" Picard said, sagging.
The order would never be carried out, for in that moment, hundreds of Covenant ships leapt out of hyperspace.
"Attention inhabitants of Terra!" The Prophet of Loyalty announced. "Your lives are forefeit. Turn your planet over to us peacefully."
The planet undergoing a civil war was suddenly caught in a religious war.
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AN:
FB: This is the first chapter with my own made character Frostfire! WOOOO.. See you next chapter
TD: *engage epic battle music*
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GM: The meteor is falling. in Four days, it will come. It will come for us all. In four days, I will be impacted like normal.
Until then, I do not get destroyed. I will live through the finale, until the very end. Until the very. End.
I shall survive.
*comet impact*
OR NOT. SURE. THAT WORKS TO.
It's a new year. I'm up way too late. Fun…
TD: *Kitten impact*
