Cryos sat like a statue aboard Draco as they starburst out of the Cooperate sector. He hadn't said a word since Kentra had given him the news.

"I understand that you're upset," Kentra said, "but you have to mask your power or she'll find us."

"Maybe I want her to find us…" Cryos muttered.

"There's time enough for that later. I've left Pahrac in charge of the resistance, but I need to get back there in case something has happened. You showed up at the perfect time, we're planning our final attack."

"Attack? Your own kid?" Traitin asked. Then he suddenly looked afraid. "I didn't mean to imply anything, I mean, I'm sure she's a monster, uhh, what I mean to say is… I'm gonna stop talking…"

Kentra looked at him and for the first time seemed to really notice him. "Has Cryos been training you? You seem strong."

"Yeah, I was a street thug, he saved my life when I was hurt and he's started teaching me how to fight for good now."

Cryos looked up. "If anyone is going to do this, it's going to be me. I'm the only one nearly strong enough. But if she's immortal like me…"

"She is." Kentra said. "We knew she had healing powers before you left, since then they've been amplified by her other powers. She's very strong in the Force."

The starburst abruptly ended, dropping them back into normal space near an asteroid belt. Draco began maneuvering them towards a larger one in the middle.

"We've been using this as a base of operations for a few months now, Skywalker and the handful of Jedi he's managed to train are there too. They're all going to be involved in the attack."

"You obviously haven't been listening. If anyone has a chance to do anything useful, it's me. Maybe a few of the others like you and Skywalker could help, but this is going to come down to a fight between me and her. And anyone who comes along is just going to be in the way."

"So who are you going to take along?" Traitin asked.

"I'm not sure yet. There are a few things I need to check on first anyway. At this point, Draco was landing in a hanger inside the large asteroid. "Everyone out! I'm taking Draco, I'll be back in a few hours." Cryos announced.

Kentra, Traitin and Mazzark climbed out of Draco in confusion.

Cryos called after them. "Kentra, you put my gauntlets in the vault, right?"

"Yes." She responded.

Draco lifted out of the hanger and barely cleared the asteroid field before he starburst into the void.

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In the highest tower on the planet that was once known as Courosant, a solitary figure stood in the darkness.

A voice echoed from the darkness. It came from every direction, with no source, but there nonetheless. "What do you see my apprentice?"

The figure responded in the voice of a teenage girl. "A great warrior comes from beyond the boundaries of space and time. He has the power to defeat us. He is blind to the Force, yet guided by it in ways he does not yet comprehend."

"Can he be corrupted by the dark side? Turned to our devices and made a slave to the dark energies?"

"It's unclear, I said he is guided by the Force, but he does not serve it. Neither the light nor the dark holds complete sway over him."

"Everyone contains aspects of both sides of the Force." The voice responded, sounding slightly irritated.

"I know, but this one is different. He combines the aspects into what appears to be the perfect warrior. I don't know if he can be beaten."

"Do not worry yourself about that." The darkness of the room seemed to contract. Shadows shrank and slid across the floor to a single point on the far side of the room. They formed a dark shadow of a man in a cloak, a shadow not cast by anyone physically in the room. "I have fought this warrior. Your father is powerful, but he is not unbeatable…"

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Draco landed back in normal space deep in the uncharted territories. This was the place where Cryos kept things that were too dangerous to leave around. Draco swooped in to the tiny camouflaged base on the surface of an insignificant moon, circling an insignificant planet, all circling an equally insignificant star. The tiny star system barely formed a speck in a galaxy as large as this one. But this speck contained a few items that most of the rest of the galaxy would go to any lengths to lay their hands (suckers, tentacles, or whatever their species traditionally grabs things with) on.

Once inside, Cryos wandered past various things on pedestals.

A jar of the deadly death seed plague bugs, plus a few vials of various viruses produced and released by the emperor during the end of his reign, they had decimated the populations of hundreds of worlds.

An almost working sun crusher, a tiny, nearly indestructible one man ship that fired concussion missiles capable of setting off a supernova in otherwise stable stars. The original had been destroyed years ago, but Cryos had discovered a plot to create another and foiled it.

A crate containing datadisks detailing some of the Hutts more lucrative business deals. Cryos had used them as blackmail to have them take the prices off the heads of his wife, daughter and some of the New Republic congressmen.

An experimental blaster that drew upon the life force of its user to fire a devastatingly powerful beam. Unfortunately, firing it more than three times in a day was generally fatal for an average person, and anyone powerful who tried to use it would cause an explosive overload almost instantly.

A cloning machine containing the dormant clone of Grand Admiral Thrawn. The Chiss Grand Admiral was a military and tactical genius unrivaled in all of Cryos's travels. He had waged a militant and propaganda war against the New Republic that had almost been successful. He had even managed to turn popular opinion against Cryos, limiting his ability to stop the invasion. He was finally betrayed by one of his own bodyguards and killed. This clone had been his backup plan. Cryos had found it however and set it to hibernate, keeping it alive but safely out of trouble.

Cryos spent several long minutes finding the items he was looking for.

First were his gauntlets, made by Washu so many years ago. One contained a mini-hologram generator and the other a tiny inter-dimensional wormhole generator. The other item was a mangled metal box delivered to him by Boba Fett. It had held a message from Darth Posh, informing Cryos of his plan to kill billions of people if Cryos couldn't stop him. Having Fett deliver the message was a calculated insult designed to rattle him before the battle. Cryos's first encounter with the bounty hunter had been when he defeated masked man in a tournament and had almost gotten Kentra killed over the winnings.

Cryos put on the gauntlets and was about to open a wormhole, when he remembered something. He went back to the crate of datadisks near the entrance and filled his pockets. Nodding to himself he opened a wormhole and grabbed Draco before hopping through into another Universe.