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Star Wars AU The Triumph of Darth Plagueis: Episode Thirty-One – New Hope Interlude: Negativius in Accession

By

Celgress

O BBY

Mortis

"She is no match for you, is she my dear Negativius?" Darth Plagueis mused watching his creation brutalize the Force entity known only as the "Daughter". In truth Plagueis was disappointed by how quickly Negativius was overcoming the vaunted entity from the legendary planet. Had the Force truly grown so weak that this represented it's best? If so his final taming of the Force would prove easier than he'd dared dream.

The Daughter shifted into her dragon like form. She unleashed a minute long torrent of blue force fire at Negativius. The lavender and neon green colored plasma form of Negativius disintegrated under the barrage temporarily losing cohesion. Once the assault had ceased however Negativius' body reformed in a matter of seconds. Negativius's arms extended stretching like taffy. One wrapped around the Daughter's neck while the other ensnared her torso in an inescapable grip.

"That is it Negativius my child, feed off her. Claim her energies as your own." Plagueis instructed with glee watching the drama unfold from his perch high atop a nearby outcropping of rock.

Negativius glowed, his form pulsing with barely contained energy. The Daughter's struggles became weaker and weaker. Her body reverting to her true form losing it's luminescent quality. In a matter of minutes the Daughter's struggles ceased. Her body nothing more than a dried up husk it cracked and crumpled into dust. Negativius roared in triumph his body crackling with pent up power. His scream of victory caused a minor earthquake shaking Mortis itself.

"One down two to go." Plagueis said cheerfully steadying himself against the tremor.

Next Negativius faced off against the "Son". The dark entity fared no better than his sister. His brutal nature proved no use against Plagueis' Force immune abomination. Fire, lightning, burying it alive nothing worked in short order Negativius always managed a full recovery. Negativius was the unmovable object and the unstoppable force rolled into one.

"You cannot defeat me creature of the Force nor could your sister." Negativius said in a low more menacing voice than the Son's own. "I am beyond your feeble capabilities. I am the void from which there is no escape if the Force represents life than I am death, everlasting peace. Embrace your destiny, embrace oblivion."

The Son poured everything he had left into a devastating force wave that leveled a nearby mountain chain. Negativius was literally torn to shreds, many being microscopic. Before the Son could gloat over his apparent victory however the small pieces of Negativius swarmed him. Penetrating his skin Negativius infiltrated the Son's internal system as would a virus. With painstaking patience Negativius coalesced over the course of twenty minutes eatting the terrified Son from the inside out absorbing his energies in the process. Plagueis watched the macabre spectacle unfold with grim fascination. Negativius' thin form sprang from the Son's torso discarding it as a butterfly would it's unless cocoon.

"These creatures of the Force bore me." Negativius declared. "In spite of their immense power they have thus far proven unworthy challengers. I sincerely hope the Father's approach is more creative than were those of his pitiful offspring."

"You are the one who has slain my children." The "Father" said eyeing Negativius half an hour later.

"I am." Negativius admitted proudly. His cold voice possessed a taunting edge. "Your children were pathetic. No doubt you did a poor job raising them. Mourn their loss not, you shall soon be reunited in death."

The battle between Negativius and the Father was an intense affair that last over an hour. The Father proved both more powerful and cleaver than either of his offspring. At one point the cunning old Force entity led Plagueis' prized weapon on a merry chase around Mortis. All the while the supreme dark lord of the Sith observed the goings on from the relative safety of his mountain perch.

"It will eventually destroy you." The Father said appearing next to Plagueis. "It is a wild beast. You cannot control it's power no one can."

"Don't underestimate my abilities ancient one." Plagueis said arrogantly recovering his composure from the initial surprise at the Father's unexpected appearance. "I created Negativius he is my tool, nothing more. I can handle him."

"Poor, self-deluded fool." The Father chuckled mirthlessly. "You have blindly sown the seeds of your own destruction. May the judgment of the Force be merciful."

"The judgement of the Force," Plagueis scoffed. "I am now more powerful than the will of the Force. Governing the power of Negativius shall set me up above the gods."

"You are insane." The Father said taken aback by Plagueis' blasphemous boast. "I cannot neutralize the unspeakable threat posed by your creature however I can end your miserable existence." The Father reared back readying a ball of crackling force energy when Negativius thrust his left arm through the Father's torso then sucked the energies from the Father into itself. Tossing away the Father's mummified corpses five minutes later Negativius eyed his creator.

"What now my creator, what are your instructions?"

"Is destroying this miserable world within your power?" Plagueis asked shaking with rage over the now deceased Father's threat.

"Easily," Negativius replied. "However I must be present on the surface to do so."

"Very well, I shall take my leave." Plagueis said turning his back on Negativius. "Once My shuttle has safely left orbit do your worse my dear Negativius."

An hour later Plagueis dispassionately watched a sphere of expanding purple energy riddled with sparks of green lightning consumed Mortis. Once the sphere totally encompassed the planet it collapsed in on itself releasing a massive shockwave of energy as it blinked out of existence. The Force screamed in pain liked a mortally wounded animal at the loss of a world richer in force energy than any other. The cry ripped at Plagueis' soul but he steadied himself against the buffering fury of the Force stoically ignoring it's pain. Today he'd taught the Force a valuable lesson. He was the true mater now not it. Thirty minutes later Negativius reappeared in a flash of purple and green light on the shuttle bridge having regenerated.

"That was simply, invigorating." Negativius said.

Imperial Center

The Force's scream of agony woke both Darth Vader and Darth Cyrin from their sound sleep. For some time afterwards Vader couldn't stop shaking. The impulse of indescribable pain, the sense of unrecoverable loss was like nothing he'd experienced before.

"Are you alright my love?" Cyrin asked Vader her artificially amplified voice cracking.

"I'm not sure." Vader said shakily. "Something has happened, something terrible beyond imagining."

"I know." Cyrin said placing her gloved hand in Vader's own and gently squeezing. "I I also felt it. Whatever this means we'll get through it together."

"We always do." Vader said.

Cyrin and Vader were not alone in their distress. All over Imperial Center Sith and Sith apprentices were in a state of disarray. Even the Force sensitive Imperial Guards felt off.

In his private quarters General Grievous couldn't shake the feelings that enveloped him. He felt a terrible sense of loss and sadness. It was as if his heart had been ripped from his chest than crushed beneath the boot heel of his enemy before his startled eyes. For the first time in ages he found himself questioning his choices in life. Was he on the right path? Had all the Jedi been evil, truly deserving of death? Could the murder of younglings ever be justified? Could their blood ever been washed from his hands? Could he be forgiven for his innumerable sins? What was wrong with him? Why was he entertaining these doubts? He never had before. Half way across the galaxy what remained of the Jedi Order was also in a state of extreme agitation.

Secret Rebel Base

"What was that?" Mara Jade asked surveying the chamber her eyes wild.

"I think it was the Force screaming out in pain," Luke said confused.

"A dark omen this be." Yoda said closing his eyes. "Gravely unbalanced the Force has become. Weakness I sense though something, else. A power never sensed before have I active now is. A new player entered the game has. The dark star ascended it has. Gape wide the void now does."

"The Force has been, hurt I can feel it." Obi-wan said.

"How could anyone or anything no matter how powerful hurt the Force itself?" Leia questioned.

"It doesn't make any sense." Katooni added.

"You're right it doesn't." Siri said holding her crying four year old daughter. "Don't worry little one." She soothed. "We're all here to protect you."

The chamber filled with an eerie red glow. "Darth Plagueis has made his move." The spirit of Darth Zannah said ominously. "His cruelest creation now roams the galaxy. Everlasting death is coming. Hi Siri what a cute child, can I see her?" Zannah said seemingly losing interest in her own speech.

"Seek not your counsel evil one." Yoda said pointing his stick accusingly at Zannah.

"Fine have it your way," Zannah huffed. "Perhaps my friend will be more to your liking."

A blue glow filled one side of the chamber as a familiar form appeared. It was slain Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn. The long dead master smiled warmly at his follow Jedi.

"I don't understand." Luke whispered to Mara. "Who's he?"

Mara poked Luke in the ribs, "shush."

"Master Qui-Gon." Obi-wan said excitedly. "You've returned to us, but how?"

"I have become a force spirit attaining unity with the living Force." Qui-Gon explained. "I have come to help guide you in your time of great peril. A threat unlike any other looms over the future of the galaxy. The fate of the Force itself hangs in the balance. What you felt tonight is only the opening salvo in a war, one you must win."

To Be Continued

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