//------------------------------// // Chapter 3: Greetings and Meetings // Story: Star Wars: Among Terror // by RadioBug15 //------------------------------// You already know that MLP belongs to Hasbro and Lauren Faust and that Star Wars belong to George Lucas, let's get to the story! When they reached Twilight's castle, everypony introduced themselves to Deimos and Sana. Deimos was personally interested in Twilight, Pinkie and Fluttershy; Twilight was beaming with intelligence and questions, asking him about where he's from, but he wouldn't answer her until they got somewhere safe, Fluttershy was very shy and just as kind, Pinkie was... something different, she had the ability to talk constantly without breathing and could appear out of nowhere when he wasn't looking. He looked as ponies were giving him weird looks, some even of fear and curiousity, but they then got to the castle "We're here, is there anything you want to know?" Deimos pulled up a seat in the throne room between Twilight and Applejack, while Sana took the opposite side between Fluttershy and Pinkie. All of them staring at the two creatures in Twilight's castle. "First, what are you?" Twilight asked Deimos. "My species name is called Human, we're a common species around the galaxy found even in the Outer Rim, Sana is a Miraluka, they are closely related to humans with the exception of lacking eyes." Deimos replied simply, everypony then looked at Sana. "What are you all looking at?" she asked them, annoyed; all of them startled by the fact that she still sees them even without her eyesight. "How does she see?" Twilight asked. "The Miraluka moved to Alpheridies after their original planet wasn't habitable anymore, but the planet's red sun gave off infrared energy instead of visible light, so they adapted to using the force to see their surroundings, their eyes were useless in a completely dark environment." Deimos explained. "That leads to my next question, what is the Force?" Twilight asked. "The force is an energy that exists in all living things, it also gives the Jedi and Sith their powers, enabling us to do extraordinary things." Sana beat Deimos to the answer. "May you please give us a demonstration?" Twilight asked, some of the others nodding in agreement. Deimos sighed, "If you insist, I just need something to test it on," he stood up from the chair, Twilight nodded and levitated glass jar that she found. What are they using to levitate it? They are not force-sensitives, what is it?, Deimos thought in frustration, it had to be something plausible. Deimos then raised a hand towards it and concentrated, he raised his hand a little bit more and the jar began to rise three feet off the floor. "Pfft hahahahaha," Rainbow began laughing. Deimos turned to her, "Is there something funny?" "I-haha- it's just that Twilight can do that! You're using magic," Rainbow said. "No, it's not," everypony turned and faced Twilight with surprised looks on their faces. "What do you mean?" Rarity asked Twilight. "Deimos and Sana aren't giving off any magical signatures, their force powers are something else," she concluded. "I can say the same with what you did earlier, you are not a force-sensitive, how do you do that?" Deimos asked. "We use magic, all unicorns can use magic and pegasi can fly, earth ponies rely on strength, while alicorns like Princess Celestia, Luna, and Twilight, are the most powerful magic users." Rarity explained, Twilight turned red at the compliment. "Anyway, I'll give you another demonstration if you don't mind, Ms. Dash," Deimos smirked while talking in a false Coruscant accent, he then raised his hand, this time lifting Rainbow off the ground. "Wait!" she yelled angrily, flapping her feathery wings to try to get out of Deimos's invisible grasp, but she couldn't, no matter how hard she tried, Deimos then lowered his arm, but she was still suspended in the air. "Now any more questions?" he asked. "Let me down!" a certain rainbow-maned pony yelled. "That wasn't a question." "Can you let me down?" she tried to sound polite, but he heard a very small hint of anger in her voice. "What's the polite word?" Deimos grinned, earning a glare from Twilight. "Errr, please?" Rainbow gritted her teeth. "Please what?" the former dark lord asked, trying to make this last as long as possible. "Can you please let me down?" Rainbow asked, almost to the boiling point. "I suppose so," he lowered Rainbow to the ground, she immediately charged at him, only to find out she was still stuck in place with her legs running in place. "I knew you would do that, you're still being suspended, but you're just on ground level," Deimos said, inches from her face. "Let. Me. Go!" she yelled angrily. Deimos slowly waved a hand in her face, "You will sit down in your seat and act normally," he then released her, she then trotted over to the seat with her cutie mark and sat down with an emotionless look on her face, which then turned to confusion. The other ponies watched the entire scene in shock and awe, Sana only looked at Deimos, shaking her head in disappointment, Deimos looked at her in confusion, "What?" Twilight looked at Deimos with a bewildered look on her face. "The Jedi Mind Trick, used to influence the mind of anything sentient," Deimos informed them. "You didn't have to do that," Twilight replied. "But I thought it was necessary... and fun," Rainbow glared bloody daggers at Deimos. "Ahem, anyways, you already saw the Lightning and Repulse techniques, so onto something different," Deimos then lifted the jar again, this time shoving his hand at it's direction sending it hurtling it a wall, so he pulled his hand back, this time the jar headed the opposite direction towards him, he raised his hand slightly and it stopped in mid-throw, he then squeezed his hand into a fist and the jar caved on itself, forming a small, crushed spiky ball of glass Fluttershy was then reminded when Twilight told her how the timber wolf was crushed into wood splinters, she then began to tear up, everypony caught the sound of her sniffling, they turned and saw her trying to cry. Pinkie Pie walked over to Fluttershy and hugged her tightly, trying to comfort her. "What's wrong?" Deimos asked, concerned. "Before we met you, we ran into some timber wolves, all of them killed for reasons unknown," Twilight explained. "I-it was horrible," Fluttershy stuttered between tears. "Timber wolves?" Deimos wondered. "Ya know, big scary wolves, large teeth, glowin' eyes, made of wood, you can't miss 'em." Applejack described them. "Oh okay, never seen them but I'm sure you can't miss them," Deimos lied, Applejack then furrowed her eyebrows at him. "Okay, this was interesting, anyway, third question, what are those things hanging from your belt? You used them to fight those other white creatures, were they swords?" Twilight asked. "In a way, yes. This is a lightsaber, a weapon created long ago before the Sith and Jedi ever had that name, it is a simple yet complex design, requiring specific parts during the trials of initiation, each part varied for each saber as it was made for it's specific owner," he said, setting down his lightsaber on a table he brought in front of him. "This is my old lightsaber from long ago, it is made of Mandalorian iron, titanium, and several other things that make up the blade," he then took out another lightsaber and set it beside the other one. "This is my new reconstructed lightsaber that I made after we crashed here," Deimos said, then he reached out from behind his long robes and pulled out a longer saber hilt, longer than the first two put together, Sana looked at it in surprise. "But I thought you said you needed t-" "This is my emergency saber, in case the need ever arises, I must use this one if the danger is too great," he said, he put away the emergency blade and lift the other two off the table and into his hands, he then activated them both, giving off low hums of energy, he twirled them around, everypony was staring at them. "Saber colors are very diverse, each one coming from a power crystal from a certain planet, unless you are a sith, then you have to forge red crystals from machines and meditation." "What happens when it makes contact with something?" Twilight asked. "Watch," he only said as he swung both lightsabers down the middle of the table, cutting it in half. Fluttershy then realized it as she saw the wood on the table burn but it didn't catch fire, the crushed jar, the burning wood, his brutality when they watched them fight those soldiers, she stepped off her seat and approached the Sith Lord with a look of anger on her face, Deimos turned and saw Fluttershy walking towards him. She finally put two and two together, this will not end well... for her, Deimos thought. "You monster, you killed those timber wolves, even if it was to protect yourself, you killed them so cruelly, so mercilessly." Fluttershy accused, using the stare on him "'Shy ain't lying, it was Deimos." Applejack realized. He then grabbed Fluttershy by the throat and looked at her straight in the eyes, the ponies were about to fight, even Sana reached for her saber, but Deimos raised his hand, stopping all the actions. "What I did was my business, I am a Sith Lord, it's what I do, nothing can change that!" he yelled, he closed his eyes, when he opened them, Deimos created a stare of his own, one of pure, raw, unrefined terror, as if Fluttershy took everything she was ever afraid of and increased it tenfold, but Fluttershy still tried to use the Stare, a battle for dominance, until Deimos pulled out his secret weapon, a force technique that he had mastered, he then loosened his grip on Fluttershy, his eyes softened to that of a warm and friendly instead of cruel and cold, he began stroking Fluttershy's mane, trying to tame her anger and surprising her all at once, she began to lose the battle, until the last ounce of the Stare left her body. "Now sleep," he spoke in a tempting, almost seductive voice, she couldn't do anything but obey his command for she had lost all dominance in the fight, her eyes started to droop and she began to snore softly in her sleep, she's going to have both good dreams and sleep, he then walked over to the throne of her cutie mark and lay her there, he then walked to the center and he lowered his hand, Sana and everypony had witnessed what just happened and were at a loss for words. "One: What I did in the forest was what I did and not Fluttershy's problem, it's for me to care or not to care about, so please respect that decision, and two: what I just did was a technique I developed, the Force Charm, similar to the mind trick only it's more... voluntarily," he explained. "And we're done, I think you should pay a visit to Princess Celestia's castle," Twilight concluded, getting all the information she needed from him to report to Celestia. Oh no, Deimos thought, he had to meet more royalty.