Dantooine: Crystal Cave near Khoonda: 13:06 hours Galactic Standard Time
Doom walked into the cave where the crystals were rumored to be. The entrance was dark and a green mist filled the air. Visually, he couldn't see more than 8 feet in front of him. Using the Force, he could see everything. It was a good feeling, being open to the Force. Being connected to her. It was like she was always there.
He walked around for a while. No crystals had revealed themselves as of yet, but Doom could feel them somewhere. He turned a corner, only to find several Kinrath standing together, seemingly doing nothing.
He remembered downloading information on these creatures, Viper's could poison you severely, but he didn't see anything that suggested a Viper Kinrath was among them. So he attacked.
The Kinrath looked over at him, and reared up making a shrill noise. Doom ignored this, shooting electricity from his gauntlets. The Kinrath flinched, but did not fall. Doom then proceeded to jump over them, firing lasers from each of his fingertips! Two Kinrath fell dead, leaving only one left.
It jumped on Doom, tackling him, and pinning him to the ground! Doom fought to keep the main fang from impaling him in the head. It inched closer and closer towards his skull! Doom knew there was no way he could stop it by his own strength. Once again, he called upon the Force, drawing the life energy into himself, and thrusting out of his being! The kinrath flew a few fet away, and fell limp.
Doom regained his composure, and stood up. When he regained himself, he felt an odd sensation. He turned another corner and found several green, purple, blue, white, red, and other color crystal growing in beautiful, glowing formations in a small enclave in the stone! Doom felt happy, which was very, VERY rare for him!
Manhattan: Baxter Building: 3:00 p.m.
Reed sat on his couch, watching the news for any new developments. Only things that caught his eye were Bullseye trying to kill Daredevil once again, and Stilt-man robbing a bank. Daredevil had taken care of Bullseye easy, and Stilt-man was no problem for A-Bomb and Skaar.
The intercom at the door beeped.
"Who could that be?" He asked himself.
He walked over to the intercom, but before he touched the button, the door exploded! Reed went flying backwards back into the couch! His back would have been destroyed if he hadn't softened his body!
As he began to get up, he saw Sabertooth, Helmut Zemo, Deadpool, and Taskmaster walk into the room!
"Knock-knock!" Deadpool chimed.
Reed sprung into action, stretching himself to attack, but his back cramped up, and he fell face down in front of Zemo.
"Now that we have your attention," Zemo said, in his thick german accent. "we want to know where those heroes went."
"W-why?" Reed asked weakly.
Zemo walked around him laughing.
"Why? The reason why is simple. Never before have so many heroes been together, and not fought each other! This will be the best chance to attack them, and get a glorious battle in return!" He said.
"Now we know you used that teleporter to send them somewhere!" Taskmaster yelled. "Where?"
Reed was struggling to stay conscious. "I sent them to another dimension for a mission!"
Zemo looked over at the teleporter.
"Very well." He said. "Let's use the last coordinates, and do this!"
Reed attempted to lift himself up. "Wait! It's only good for-"
But they were gone before he even started the sentence!
"...two uses..." He finished.
Super Planet Destroyer (formely Super Star Destroyer): Unknown time
Palleon watched as the Destroyer exited hyperspace near Coruscant orbit. Thrawn stood next to him as usual. The power of the Infinity Gauntlet had given him stronger confidence in his abilities. Even without Vader, the army was steadily growing stronger. He had tried resurrecting Vader again, but his spirit was somehow onto the process, and shielding himself from control.
"Do you have an invasion plan ready?" Thrawn asked Palleon.
"I wouldn't have brought you back if I did." Palleon said, smiling.
Thrawn smiled back. "Very well, here is what will be done. The small beasts, Kath Hounds, Kinrath, Tu'kata, and the like will attack first. Right behind them will come the soldiers. Then the big beasts like the Rancors and the Terententeks will go. Finally, the special troops will drop in."
Palleon knew the "special" troops were the people he had ressurected. He was looking forward to watching them fight.
They emerged from hyperspace above Coruscant, it's shimmering lights making odd circle patterns across it's surface. Palleon had always been fascinated by planetwide cities like this.
Before he could even turn to speak, a flash of light appeared on the bridge.
"Are you doing this?" Thrawn asked.
"No." Palleon responded, shielding his eyes.
When the flash disappeared, Zemo, Deadpool, Taskmaster, and Sabertooth stood in the middle of several Stromtroopers, blaster rifles aimed for them.
Zemo looked around. "Well, this is an odd problem."
Deadpool looked around as well. "I don't see a problem. All I see are Stromtroopers. And they can't shoot for chump change!"
"What are you blabbering about?" Taskmaster shouted.
"Can't you see?" Deadpool said. "We're in the St-"
"Enough!" Palleon bellowed.
The four villains turned to look at him.
"I don't know where you came from but I do know this." He said. "You are not from the Empire."
"No, of course not!" Deadpool laughed. "We're much cooler, and much deadlier. And we have great health benefits."
"Then you are with the New Republic, and you must die!" Palleon ordered.
The Stormtroopers fired, red lasers everywhere. Zemo and Taskmaster jumped away from the area, while Deadpool and Sabertooth took the shots without even cringing! Deadpool chopped one of their heads off with his katana, and shot a bullet through the eyehole of another. Sabertooth picked one of them up by the neck and started using him to bash around the other troopers, yelling his war cry as he did so.
Zemo ducked out of a blaster bolt, and came up with his rapier, slicing the trooper's armor in half, leaving enough room for Taskmaster to stab his sword into the trooper's soft flesh.
Palleon looked at Thrawn. "I'm going to end this."
He raised the Infinity Gauntlet up, but Thrawn pushed it back down.
"No." He said, cooly. "This is the perfect test for our secret weapon. Send him out."
Palleon looked nervous. That man was a loose cannon, barely able to hold it together. But if Thrawn said it was a good idea...
He raised the Gauntlet again, and summoned forth a thin man in tattered robes and armor, holding a blue lightsaber in each hand. His hair was buzzed, and his eyes, though blank, still held that subtle anger.
"Starkiller." Palleon said. "Defend the ship."
Vader's former apprentice was a blur as he ran for Sabertooth, stabbing him through the stomach, and cutting him in half within two miliseconds!
Zemo looked over at the Jedi zombie, and raised his rapier in defense. Starkiller came at him, barely visible. Leaving behind lots of afterimages, he dueled Zemo for a brief three seconds, and cut him down as well.
Taskmaster saw this, looked at Deadpool, and without talking, both agreed to run! But they too, were cut up before they even started moving. Starkiller turned and looked at Palleon.
"You would be next if not for that glove of yours."
Palleon unsummoned him, as he could feel the control slipping. He turned to Thrawn.
"Very good." He said. "Now, on to the invasion."
They heard a weird grunting sound behind them, and turned to see Deadpool's head chin crawling his way over to his torso! Palleon was amazed! Even Thrawn looked amazed!
He made it to his destroyed body, and reattached his neck, as the muscle and bone regrew and reconnected! Then he began shoulder crawling towards his arms.
"You guys really suck for Imperials, dude!" He yelled.
Thrawn and Palleon looked over at each other.
"We have use for this one." Thrawn said. "The Mind Gem will allow you to control him."
Palleon aimed the Gauntlet at the completely repaired Deadpool, and willed his mind enslaved.