> Star Wars: Among Terror
>  by RadioBug15
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> Chapter 1: Crash Landing
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“A Jedi’s strength flows from the Force. But beware of the dark side. Anger, fear, aggression; the dark side of the Force are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will, as it did Obi-Wan’s apprentice.”
- Yoda

I do not own MLP: FIM or Star Wars, both are owned by their respected owners Hasbro and George Lucas.

A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away...

All was quiet in the Galaxy, usually because you can't hear sound in space, but it was the silence of the Jedi, slaughtered under the order of Emperor Palpatine by his army of clones, there were few who survived and are desperately trying, but that silence was fragile.

*WHOOSH*

Even the sound of a damaged transport ship flying through space can break that silence.

A man was sitting in his quarters, meditating silently to himself. This man was Kane Leumai, a Master of the Jedi Order, one of the very few. It was the middle of the night, but he couldn't sleep; as wise as he already was, he was still curious about the Force, an invisible manifestation that was, yet, everywhere, capable of doing the impossible; but the Jedi limit it because of it's more... darker side, the Dark Side of the Force; clever name right? It left those who have fallen under it with an unending hunger for power, but he wanted to find a way to harness it without submitting to it's will.

What followed was more ships, Imperial TIE Fighters they were called.

The footsteps of a Jedi Sentinel resonated throughout the halls of a Jedi Temple, this one particular Shadow-Class Sentinel sensed darkness within the very Temple, and it came from one of the training rooms. The Sentinel watched in shock as Jedi Master, no, Former Jedi Master Kane Leumai, had began creating the basic form of Force Lighting, intimidating bright but silently crackling blue energy; the Sentinel's first reaction was to ignite his lightsaber and face this fallen jedi, but he had the intellect to turn and warn the entire Temple.

"Don't bother, they know what I'm doing, any second a group of Jedi Knights will storm in and attempt to arrest me," a dark voice spoke to the Sentinel, "But in the meantime, let's have some fun."

Former Master Leumai stood up and turned to face the Jedi, looking straight at him with sadistic yellow eyes, the light of a green-hued lightsaber piercing the darkness.

"Deimos, we have trouble," the woman aboard the ship shouted to Lord Deimos.

"What kind of trouble?" 

"The Hyperdrive is broken." 

Kane's first mission to learn to harness the Dark Side of the Force was to find Darth Sidious, but the way to find him was to find his associates, an apprentice for example. 

Someone like Count Dooku.

Damn, Deimos mentally cursed himself, this transport ship was barely intact and needed repairs. He couldn't use a TIE Fighter because the girl, Sana, owed a debt, he saved her life shortly after he was betrayed by Sidious. 

"Do we have enough power to get to a nearby planet?" the former Sith Lord asked her, desperate for solutions.

"We might have enough but we're too far from any civilized planets, we'll have to land somewhere in the unknown region of the galaxy, it's either that or we're blasted to pieces from Imperial ships," Sana informed me.

Silence filled the entire ship at the options.

"Take us in," Deimos answered.

5 years have passed after Emperor Sidious had secretly taken in Kane Leumai, renaming him Darth Deimos, he was capable of  such promise and power, learning quickly to utilize the Dark Side; even replacing his former green power crystal with a synthetic red crystal to prove that he was indeed a Sith.

"Master Sidious," Kane said, bowing before his master after finishing his training.

"Rise Leumai," Palpatine ordered the fallen Jedi.

Kane got up and stood at full height, "Yes, my lord."

"It is time, you are no longer the broken shell of the man Kane Leumai, you are reluctant, you are ruthless and strong in the force. You will now and forever be called Darth Deimos, an embodiment of death," Sidious announced.

"Thank you Master, but what exactly does 'Deimos' mean?" Kane asked curiously, questioning his master.

"It is an old word from a place far away, it is the name of one of their pagan gods, it means 'terror', for you will strike fear into the very souls of those around you. Now, I have an assignment for you, to test your worth."

"Anything and I will accomplish it." Lord Deimos said.

Sidious cackled, "Such confidence, but you still have much to learn, even as a Sith Lord. Now, your mission is to capture a Jedi Knight on the Outer Rim, a young one, fairly an easy assignment, but she has been causing trouble with my plans; when you have her, bring her and I will see to her personally."

"If I may ask, who is my target?" 

"A Miraluka named Sana Un'iomen."

"Is it working?" Deimos asked Sana.

"I think, I'm not a mechanic!" She yelled at him.

"Just be quiet and get back to working on repairing any damage, we're about to enter the atmosphere!" He yelled back.

Dooku was dead, Order 66 has been initiated, and Lord Sidious has a new apprentice, someone named Vader; all of this was 5 years ago. Deimos was meditating in a large private room, a habit he used to do as a Jedi, but he actually liked it when he wasn't doing the usual 'crushing any resistance against the Empire'.

The doors slid open revealing Vader, Lord Sidious and three his Royal Guards, only something was different about them.

They wore black.

"Deimos, there has been a... change of plans, the Sith code stated that there can only be two sith, and Lord Vader is much superior in the Force than you," Sidious grinned maliciously.

"What do you mean?" he demanded, suspicious of his intentions.

"There can only be one of you," Sidious cackled his deranged, raspy laughter

Deimos understood now, he was to be eliminated, Vader now knows of his presence now, given that he is standing ten feet in front of him. Deimos's anger began rising to the brim, he then stood up and faced him. The Sith lord took one of his lightsabers and turned it on, the blade ignited, giving off a red glow. Vader did the same.

"We're entering the atmosphere!" Sana yelled at Deimos.

"I can see that, I'm not blind," he said to her.

"That is not funny," Sana snapped, readjusting the blindfold over her lack of eyes.

"I don't see how it is offensive, your species is born without them."

"But-" Sana tried to say.

"Just get back to fixing the damned ship!" he yelled at her, she was about to speak until she considered the other option and got back to repairing the ship.

Vader was an impressive fighter, but Deimos had the upper hand in lightsaber combat due to Vader's motor function limits; Vader swung hard trying to vertically slice him down the middle, but Deimos lifted his blade to block and tried to stab at Vader, only to be blocked, he then slashed at Vader, but the Sith had barely moved aside.

Deimos instead just managed to clip Vader's cape.

It was Vader's turn for the advantage, he used the Force to lift him up into the air and began suffocating him with the Force Choke, Deimos was struggling for air, he used a Force Push to temporarily distract Vader. Deimos then reactivated his blade and brought it down only for Vader to make a cut in his leg.

Enraged, Deimos resorted to Force Lighting, catching Vader off-guard, the black-masked Dark Lord began kneeling over in pain.

Sidious however did not like how this battle was turning out, he motioned to his Shadow Guards, who then activated their Lightsaber Pikes and began approaching Deimos, who was caught off guard by their sudden lightsaber additions. He Pushed Vader aside and began to deal with these new foes, Pulling Vader's lightsaber into his other hand and activated it, the Shadow Guards then began slashing at him.

As each one of them clashed against the sith, Deimos came to the conclusion that their fighting techniques were almost primitive, Deimos could easily dodge their blades, toying with them, they could have such potential, but what stopped them?

Deimos finally killed one by stabbing it through the chest, switched to a reverse grip, spun around and performed a Sai Cha on the second, or as he liked to call it: beheading, he then used the weight of both his and Vader's lightsabers to slash down on the last's lightsaber, weakening his stance, he then knocked it out of his hand and performed an x-slash starting at the base of the neck, killing him instantly, Deimos then walked over to each of the guard's sabers and picked them up, fitting trophies.

Deimos then looked at Sidious, pointing a saber at him, "Your turn." 

But Vader's lightsaber was then pulled out of his hand and into it's original owner, fully recovered and standing at full height.

"Figures you would get back up, but anyway, ready for more?" Deimos challenged as Sidious left the room, cackling to himself.

"BRACE FOR IMPACT!!!" Deimos yelled as the metal that protected the ship from high atmospheric temperature flew apart, the ship crashed into a forest, leaving a smoking wreck as TIE Fighters retreated back to the Death Star.

Deimos regretted the rematch against Vader, he was covered in burns and cuts and he had to retreat while being chased by Stormtroopers who had suprisingly terrible accuracy. He had to run to survive or he would have to face Vader again.

Minutes later he managed to get far enough, but he felt something in the Force, not the Darkness that shrouded the Emperor or Vader, but of light, but it was fairly weak; he began following it through twists and turns through the space station of planetary destruction, avoiding Stormtroopers and hiding his Force presence if he felt Vader getting near.

Deimos opened one of the doors, it was a torture chamber, how fitting, if it was a Jedi, then this would be the second easiest place to find one, the first easiest was six feet underground in a coffin, according to standard burials that were not Force-related. Inside was a woman wearing tattered prisoner clothing, her hands hung by shackles and wearing a dirty blindfold and a neural headband that blocked force abilities, she lifted her head and looked straight at him.

"You," she said.

"I sensed a presence in here, are you a Jedi?" he asked her. Deimos wasn't like other Sith Lords, always using torture as means of getting what they want, he usually decided to use more alternate forms, disguising himself as a kind and polite man when he's actually a cold-blooded murderer working for someone much worse.

"I was until I was captured and tortured repeatedly by those torture droids, I was taken by a Sith Lord, do I look familiar?" She asked me in a rough tone.

Deimos looked at her and realized she DID look familiar, she was the girl he had captured on one of his earlier missions.

"My name is Deimos, formerly Darth Deimos, I'm now a criminal, I will spare your life and help you escape if you help me," he offered.

"What do you want in return?" She asked.

"All in good time, I will decide when your debt is finished," Deimos removed the headband and unlocked the chains that kept her imprisoned, he was about to remove her blindfold until she stopped him.

"I'm a Mariluka, I would like to keep the blindfold," she stated, Deimos simply shrugged his shoulders, handed her one of the Shadow Guard Lightsaber pikes and continued their means of escaping.

"We have to get off this ship," Deimos told her.

*BOOM*

Parts of the ship exploded, leaving behind nothing but rubble and ash, Deimos and Sana stepped out the ship, Sana was fine but Deimos had a horrible migraine, clutching his head in pain, when the pain resided, he looked around at his surroundings.

"Where are we?"


> Chapter 2: Much to Learn
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I do not own MLP or Star Wars, thank you very much, just my own characters.

"Where are we?" Sana asked.

"I have no idea, but we must move if we want to survive." Deimos told her, he then walked back into the ship, pulling out a crate.

"What is that?" she asked.

"My lightsaber was damaged in the crash, I collect spare parts from every lightsaber I collect from my old missions," he said, while getting two smaller boxes, he opened one, which contained dozens of lightsaber crystals, and the other, which contained just a handful of red synthetic crystals, he then took out a damaged lightsaber and used the Force to begin taking it apart, throwing away the damaged pieces and using any accurate pieces needed for his lightsaber, the crystal was fortunately unharmed so there was no need to replace it, when he finished, he looked it over several times before holstering it into his belt, he then opened the small box and took out a red crystal.

"What are you doing?" Sana asked.

"Building another lightsaber, just if the need ever arises," he more pieces out of the box and began constructing a second, using the Force to focus on which pieces went where and how it should be constructed, when he fit the last piece, it floated into his left hand, he stood up and activated both blades, feeling the shape and texture of the hilts, both seeming right, he deactivated the blades, strapped them to his belt and began walking into the forest.

"Where are you going Deimos?" Sana asked.

"Into the forest, I need to search for any resources in case we run out from our already broken ship, you seem to be lacking a lightsaber, I have enough parts for more lightsabers," he informed her while walking into the forest

Meanwhile...

In the shining city of Canterlot, Equestria's capital, sat Princess Celestia and her sister, Princess Luna, both were doing their average princess-ly duties, watching over the citizens of Equestria, receiving letters from her star pupil, Princess Twilight Sparkle, etc.

But something was wrong.

Something so very, very wrong.

Celestia sensed something, something dark that vanished in an instant, nothing like Discord's shenanigans, who was a being of pure chaos, but nothing compared to the corruption she sensed in the Everfree Forest.

Celestia then got a quill, paper and a bottle of ink.

Dear Princess Twilight Sparkle...





So far Deimos had filled some canteens with water from a nearby lake and some bags of possibly edible fruits, nuts, and berries.

The former Sith was on his way to the ship until he sensed something far away, but something powerful, it was not the Force, but it had similar properties, enough similarities for him to block his presence, he continued walking, only more cautiously, not to disturb whatever creatures this place had, but from the fact that something had sensed him and it had power, almost enough to rival Sidious himself.

*Chkk*

Deimos whipped around at the sound, reaching for his lightsaber, but nothing was there, he turned around and continued walking.

*Grrrrr*

Deimos once again turned and saw ten irregular growling shapes surrounding him in a circular fashion, on four legs, and made of wood, covered in branches and had glowing yellow eyes.

"These animals are hungry, too bad I'm not prey," he thought to himself, on his face was a small, almost unnoticeable grin.

finally, fun.

He unstrapped one of his lightsabers, activating it, some of these wooden predators backed away from the sight of foreign technology until one of the animals barked at the others, who seemed to have new courage.

The first one lunged at him, Deimos easily dodged and swung the saber down in mid-jump, severing the wooden wolf down the middle, two more leapt out, baring razor sharp teeth, Deimos got his second saber, activated it and stabbed the wolf in the head and burned the other with Lightning, three retreated after the sight of his power, the rest then charged at him, Deimos acted fast, throwing one saber at one of the wolves, slicing it down the middle, he slashed another across it's side, he grabbed the next one's head and twisted it sharply, giving off an audible CRACK!!! He then levitated the last off the ground, ferociously barking at him, Deimos then balled his hands into fists, the wolf breaking and splintering, collapsing in on itself, forming a smaller wooden spike ball, he then spread his hands apart, the ball exploded into a mass of wooden shards and splinters.

"That was fun, this place is getting interesting," he said to himself as he began walking away to the ship.




South of Canterlot was a small, humble town called Ponyville, also home to six extraordinary ponies who were the bearers of the Elements of Harmony:

An apple bucking farmer named Applejack, the Element of Honesty. 
A rainbow-maned pegasus with a dream: Rainbow Dash, the Element of Loyalty.
Pinkie Pie, a party pony and the Element of Laughter.
Fashion designer Rarity, the Element of Generosity.
Animal loving Fluttershy, the sweet Element of Kindness.   
And last but absolutely not least, Princess Twilight Sparkle, the Element of Magic and star pupil of Princess Celestia.

Twilight was in her newly created castle after the defeat of Tirek, in the library part of the castle, the only place that remained the same in the entire grounds, writing a letter to her mentor Celestia

"Twilight, can I go to Rarity's?" Her assistant Spike, a baby purple dragon  asked with enthusiasm in his voice.

"Are you finished putting up the books?" 

"Yes."

"Dusting the shelves?" 

"Yes."

"Buying more paper, ink, and quills?"

"You did that." Spike reminded her.

"I did? I'm sorry Spike, but I haven't been feeling well as of late, yes you may go to the Carousel Boutique with Rarity," Twilight sighed

"Thanks Twilight, you're the best!" Spike smiled as he closed the door behind him.

But Twilight wasn't feeling "the best", ever since Tirek's defeat, she had began having nightmares, dreams that were out of Luna's grasp, dreams that didn't belong to her, her nightmares had started her depression, but not knowing why or how, she had trie-

"TWILIGHT!!!" Spike yelled as he burst through the room, momentarily startling her.

"What is it Spike?" She said, trying to calm down.

"I got a letter from the Princess," Spike handed the scroll to Twilight, who opened it with her magic.

Dear Princess Twilight Sparkle, 

I have sensed something in the Everfree forest, something dark, dangerous even, I ask of you to gather the Elements of Harmony and investigate for any strange happenings, I fear it may be a danger to the citizens of Equestria.

Princess Celestia.

Celestia's urgency snapped Twilight out of her sad state, one: that Celestia kept the letter short and the handwriting was in hasty as if in a hurry, she had to figure out what was keeping Celestia on her hooves.




"This is all I could find." Deimos said as he set the food on an empty crate, he looked up and saw that Sana wasn't there, he frowned and reached for his lightsaber, he quickly turned around just in time for a blue-colored blade to slam down on his red saber, he then lifted Sana up by the neck, the pain caused her to drop her newly-made lightsaber.

Deimos then scowled at her, "Oh please, I could sense you from that tree a mile away, admit it, you're losing your edge, you put up a better battle the last time we fought." He then let go of her, she fell to the ground, gasping for air, she then stood up after she recovered

"That's because I was kidnapped by you and tortured by the Emperor and his stormtroopers, how do you think my training would've been if I was strapped to a bed for hours and chained to the cell for years, I'm surprised I was even alive for this long!" She yelled.

"I unknowingly did you a kindness at the time, I kidnapped you for the Emperor, but while you were imprisoned, Sidious executed the Order 66: when the Jedi have become a danger to the Republic and must be terminated, meaning while Jedi were being slaughtered, you were spared, I. saved. your. life!" I yelled at her.

"I should have been there," she whispered.

"Excuse me?"

"I should have been there! I should have helped them, I could have saved at least some of their lives," her face contorted into that of sadness.

"You don't understand, the clones had it all planned from the beginning, they caught the Jedi by surprise and off-guard, making them easy targets, you would've been among the dead," I told her, furious from her lack of self-worth.

"At least I would have died honorably instead of being a prisoner," she said.

"There is no such thing as an honorable death, it's being alive that matters, your survival kept us both alive ever since I rescued you." he said, then laughed at the fact that this statement was coming from a Sith Lord.

Sana then tried to find something to counter the argument, but she couldn't find a thing to say, she just threw her hands in the air in frustration and went into the ship.




Twilight and the rest of the Elements had just begun their trek into the Everfree Forest, they have been in the Everfree forest numerous of times, so they were aware of the dangers ahead of them, they were brave to walk the forest, even Fluttershy has built up even the smallest of courage to traverse the very woods ahead of her.

"So Twilight dear, could you explain why Princess Celestia has sent us to find out what was in the Everfree forest?" Rarity asked.

"She said that there was something dangerous here, something 'dark and dangerous' she said." Twilight explained.

"Well it's a good thing she sent us, the Elements can beat this monster." Rainbow said with a smile on her face.

"T-twilight never said it was a monster, it could be a rock for all we know." Fluttershy whispered.

There was an awkward silence.

"Like Tom?" Pinkie teased, everypony burst into fits of laughter, everypony except Rarity who turn red in anger.

"I said to never speak of it agai-" 

The sound of Fluttershy's sudden gasp and scream broke caught everypony's attention and stopped Rarity's argument.

What lay before them were several dead Timber Wolves.

Fluttershy whimpered, "What could have done this?", she was almost on the verge of tears, Pinkie tried comforting her while Twilight was fixated on the injuries.

"This is really strange, the wounds are burn marks, yet none of them caught fire, what happened to them?" She asked no one in particular.

"What about that one?" Pinkie pointed at a pile of wood branches and splinters.

"Another Timber Wolf probably, crushed by some unknown entity, but how? Seriously how could something do something like this?" Twilight strained to understand, but when Fluttershy heard how it died, thats when she broke down in tears.

"H-h-how can something so cruel do something like t-this, even if it was defending itself?" She sobbed, this time everypony tried to help her recuperate from the sight of dead animals.




A few minutes later...

Fluttershy managed to calm down a little bit but was a little bit teary-eyed.

"Wait Twilight, could it be magic that killed the Timber Wolves?" Rainbow whispered to Twilight, low enough so Fluttershy couldn't hear her.

"Rainbow that's- wait... your right, that must've been it," Twilight said, she mentally slapped herself, how could I not see it? The answer was right in front of me, it must be what happened to me after I fought Tirek, she sighed.




Deimos sensed it, close, very close, the beings with force-like abilities. He picked up his lightsabers and jumped into the trees to hide, raising his hood to cover his face to seem more menacing, surely he could have the chance to surprise them, just to give them a little scare.

He watched from a distance as six quadrupedal creatures emerged from the unscathed part of the forest and spotted his ship, one with a horn on it's head, two with wings, two without either, and the last with both a horn and wings,  but each one with a look of surprise and shock upon their faces.

"I knew it! Aliens are real!" One of them said, flying off the ground and doing some sort of gesture with her hoof: throwing it into the air and moved it forward, as if punching some thing. (Author's Note: We all know this as the fist pump, or in MLP, the "hoof pump.")

"M-maybe we should leave it alone, it could be those things that-" the yellow-colored one said before she stopped herself, it seemed that she was in deep sadness, as if something haunted her.

"Maybe we should throw a 'Welcome to Equestria' party for it, with lasers and little spaceships, and-" the pink one continued.

"Assuming it's still alive," the purple one said, this one was smart.

"Oh, okay," the pink one, it's hair flattening slightly, wait- did it's hair actually move by the pink's own commands? These creatures just keep getting stranger and stranger.

Well, they seem sentient, I'll see if I can find out more about this place and see if I can get anything to repair my ship, if they have adequate technology.




The ponies tried to figure out what to do with the ship, leave it, search it, or report it to Celestia, each of them had a different opinion on what to do.

"Wait, sometin's comin' out of the ship." Applejack said.

Out emerged a creature that was walking on two legs, wearing strange clothing, with some sort of metal rod strapped to her (it looked like a her, telling from her features looking rather feminine), and wearing a blindfold around her eyes.

But suddenly the creature looked straight at her, then it spoke.

"Who are you?" She(it looked like a 'she') said with a strange mix of confusion and concern in her voice.

"You speak Equestrian?" Twilight asked, dumbfounded by the creature's ability to speak their language..

"You speak Galactic Basis?" The creature said.

Then suddenly another creature dropped in out of nowhere, a more masculine and a lot more menacing, and looked at the other one, the rest of the group were startled by his sudden appearance, mostly Rarity because she thought his robes looked horrible.

"Go back inside the ship Sana, I can handle this," he said to the one named 'Sana', he then faced them.

"Hello, my name is Twilight Sparkle, one of the Princesses of Equestria," She introduced herself.

"My name is Lord Deimos, a former Sith and apprentice to Emperor Sidious of the Galactic Empire, I am now a fugitive trying to run from him and his other apprentice, Darth Vader, this is Sana Un'iomen, a... friend of mine." he introduced himself to her, Applejack raised an eyebrow at Deimos's claim about Sana.

Why must I be so honest? I could easily lie to them., Deimos thought.

A few of his words caught Twilight's attention.

"E-emperor? Of an entire galaxy?!" She almost yelled in shock.

"Correct Princess, an entire galaxy," he said as if it were something completely normal.

"B-but-" 

*PEW PEW*

Some sort of red lasers came out of nowhere, but Sana and Deimos were prepared, they activated the rods that were strapped to their belts, causing a blue and red light blades to come out, and deflected the lasers.

Suddenly dozens of more strange creatures wearing white armor emerged from the trees.

"Stormtroopers." Deimos growled.

"Storm-what?" Twilight wondered.

"You have to leave, we'll take take care of this, we'll answer any of your questions when we're done," Sana said, twisting her lightsaber into a fighting stance, Deimos did the same.

Twilight and her friends hid behind the trees and witnessed what was going on, there were exactly 46 of them, possibly soldiers or law enforcement telling from their weaponry, she watched as the battle started, both Sana and Deimos fighting at the same time individually and together.

Sana's fighting was a sight to behold, not swinging a sword around like a fool, but with grace and elegance, anticipating the soldiers' movements and striking them down with precision and aim, but then there was Deimos, whose fighting was a sight of malice, while fighting with expertise like Sana, he used more brutal strikes, relying on anger to fuel his fighting, he jumped into the air and slammed his palm into the ground, creating a sort of shockwave that made all of the soldiers around fall back, he laid waste to those around him, he then did something spectacular and terrifying at the same time, he leapt back, raised a hand, lightning then shot out of his hand and began to cause the soldiers to convulse and fall over dead.

Could this be the darkness that Celestia sensed?, Twilight wondered.

Deimos struck down the last soldier, stabbing it through the heart, Deimos and Sana deactivated their lightsabers, they then turned to looked at the 6 ponies that were behind.

"You were supposed to leave, not take notes on our fighting," Deimos scolded.

"It's just that-"

Deimos straightened his robes, "Nevermind it, now that that's finished, any questions?"
> Chapter 3: Greetings and Meetings
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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.



> Chapter 4: Assassination attempt.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Habro= MLP. LucasFilms= Star Wars. Among Terror= me motherfucker!

(I did some research and decided that Among Terror takes place in 1 BBY, since he was taken in by Sidious in 23 BBY, he was trained by Sidious for 4 years, served with the emperor as an assassin and bodyguard for 13 years, and was on the run from him for 5 years, leading to 1 BBY.)

The Death Star was a weapon of unlimited power, the ability to annihilate entire planets, but inside was Emperor Palpatine, sitting in his throne, frowning as he heard the news of Deimos's disappearance instead of death.

Lost him in the unknown regions, he had thought to himself when the retreating TIE pilots returned and reported that Deimos's cargo ship and a transport Imperial gunship containing dozens of armed stormtroopers.

Sidious was infuriated, Deimos was always clever, managing to survive a battle against Vader and three Shadow Guards, this had to call for more extreme measures.

"Mara Jade..." he called out through the force.




Day five in Equestria.

Through years of training by Sidious himself, he has harnessed the power of fear into his enemies and respect through the T-Legion (a division of gray-armored stormtroopers that Deimos had lead before their rumored murder by Vader) , but nothing prepared him for meeting the Princess of the sun.

Chariots were pulled into Ponyville, the chariot door opened and a tall, white, slender Alicorn emerged from it, her rainbow mane flowing despite the lack of wind, she looked down on him and Sana, he sensed the same power that he felt earlier five days ago, so he masked his Dark Force aura.

"Welcome to Equestria, I am Princess Celestia," she introduced herself, her guards wary of his presence.

Sana kneeled in respect, "I am Sana Un'iomen, Jedi Knight of the former Galactic Republic."

Deimos instead stood perfectly straight, not wanting to bow, "I am Darth Deimos, former Sith Lord of the Galactic Empire."

A Lord and a Knight? Almost brings me back to the age of chivalry, Celestia smiled, but she turned her head to see the elements, each of them sporting a negative emotion across their face: sorrow, fear, anger, and annoyance.

"What's wrong?" Celestia asked them.

"Not to be rude but-" 

"He's is a jerk!" Rainbow interrupted, causing him to grin slightly.

"He's a liar," Applejack stated with disapproval in her voice, his smile widened.

"He's so... cruel," Fluttershy whispered, Deimos's smiled increased enough for the Princess to notice it, she frowned at him.

"Is what they say true?" she asked him, no more secrets, no more lies, Deimos thought, he had to rely on fear to control others around him.

"Unfortunately yes, but I mean no harm to you or your subjects, I give you my word, and I give you the word from my former Jedi roots, not my most recent faction," he said, dropping the mask that disguised his force powers, he couldn't help it, he loved playing a game of chance, of risk and danger, it was why he was also a former Jedi scientist.

"And mine," Sana said, readjusting her blindfold after it almost fell off.

Celestia had managed to do everything in her power not to flinch, he was the one that had given off the dark energy, this time he bowed to her, she had many options that she could do: trap him in stone, but not in front of her subjects, banish him, or learn more from him, he did give her his word, she then looked to Applejack.

"Is he lying?" she asked the earth pony, she shook her head.

"No, ah think he was just toyin' with us the first time," Applejack concluded, earning a dark smile from Deimos and a frown from Sana.

Learning it is then, Celestia mentally sighed, one was of the light while the other was of darkness, but it wasn't darkness like Tirek, who was cold and corrupt, but of authority and necessity, not evil.

She then forced herself to smile, trying to ignore his dark presence, "Why don't we take this to the castle, I would like to ask you some questions besides the ones that my pupil Twilight has already answered, can you assure me that you won't cause a scene in the kingdom?" 

"We won't," Sana said, answering the question for Deimos.

"Good," Celestia replied.




One hour later...

Deimos asked no questions in the castle, he just admired the place: a throne, stained glass windows showing pictures of history, the sun princess walked over and sat on the throne with another, possibly a sibling at her side; he faced them both with guards at his sides. 

"You'll need to remove your weapons, Twilight's letter stated that your sabers were dangerous," Celestia said, Deimos growled under his breath and removed his lightsabers, levitating them to a guard, who set them in box, Sana did the same.

"Now, why are you here?" Celestia asked.

"We were here by accident, our ship was being attacked by Imperial Stormtroopers, this was the closest planet that we could land on, we have no intention of causing harm, well probably not Deimos," Sana explained.

"I actually take that as a compliment, I have been in many wars," Deimos replied.

"Thou also said that you were a Lord, and she was a Knight, how hath thou taken part in war?" the sister said, Luna asked Deimos.

Deimos now understood, "Our names mean nothing of royalty, but of honor and fear, well fear on my side actually, I formerly served both the Jedi Order and the Sith Order, Sana formerly only serving the first."

"What are the Jedi and the Sith?" Celestia asked.

"The Jedi Order is a group of Force-sensitives that use the light side of the force, using it for peace and justice, they believe that personal attachments and emotions will lead them to the Dark Side of the Force, which is the path of the Sith, while compassion, described as unconditional love, is what they live by," Deimos explained.

Sana then spoke, reciting the Jedi Code:

There is no emotion, there is peace,
There is no ignorance, there is knowledge,
There is no passion, there is serenity,
There is no chaos, there is harmony,
There is no death, there is the Force. 

The Mane 6, looked at Sana in awe as she recited the glory of the Jedi Order.

"That is the code we live by, for peace, knowledge, serenity, harmony, and the light side of the Force," Sana bowed.

"The Sith order, on the other hand, uses the dark side of the Force, a more submitting and almost seductive opposite compared to the light side, does that remind you of anyone Fluttershy?" Deimos turned and looked at Fluttershy, watching her blush furiously.

"So in a way, you're evil?" Celestia concluded, her guards tensed up at the statement.

"'Evil' is a word used by the ignorant and the weak. The dark side is about survival. It's about unleashing your inner power. It glorifies the strength of an individual, Darth Zannah said that, although I tend to disagree about the term Evil, which is actually pretty normal, for the Force is not evil, only it's user is, she got the rest of the description right," Deimos explained.

Celestia had frowned at the idea of the Sith, but what made it worse was this.

Deimos inhaled and spoke: 

Peace is a lie, there is only passion,
Through passion, I gain strength,
Through strength, I gain power,
Through power, I gain victory, 
Through victory, my chains are broken,
The Force shall set me free.

Reciting the Sith Code, he looked at Celestia, her eyes filled with concern.

Celestia concluded that the Sith and Jedi led different philosophies, one of peace and the other of passion, but Deimos was formal and orderly, despite his views on the Sith and the fact that the Elements rightly accused him of cruelty, it was as if he enjoyed risks and had little to no fear.

She liked the Jedi better.

Deimos then looked at the ceiling, he looked at Sana, "Did you feel that?" 

"Yes," Sana answered.

"What is it?" Celestia asked them.

"I sense something dark heading straight towards us, get ready Sana," Deimos then used the force to retrieve his lightsabers, but the blades within the box didn't move an inch.

"What the-" 

"The box is enchanted so that anything in there is isolated from the rest of the world," Celestia explained.

"Well? Unlock it!" Deimos yelled, but before Celestia could respond, a ship broke through one of the windows, a smaller Imperial ship floated above them until several Shadow Guards emerged from the ship and finally a red-haired girl.

"A land where animals are dominant? Quite pathetic?" she said, she turned and looked at Deimos, she removed her lightsaber and activated it, giving off a purple hue, the rest of the Shadow Guards did the same, only this time instead of wielding staffs, they used normal lightsabers.

"Mara Jade, the Emperor's Hand I presume?" Deimos said, mockingly bowing.

"Lord Deimos, Sidious's old apprentice," she said, getting into a fighting stance.

"Leave this planet Mara, you don't want to fight me," Deimos said, Sana walked over to him and stood at his side.

"You've gone soft with the natives I see, this will be easy," Mara taunted

"Whoever you are, please leave this planet, you are a threat to the Equestrian Kingdom," Luna yelled.

"Stay away from this princesses, this is my fight and mine alone," Deimos informed Luna and Celestia.

Deimos then took off his robes, revealing his full appearance, dressed in light battle armor and gloves, but revealing some civilian clothing, his face was pale, eyes burning a dangerous amber, black hair with some graying in it while sporting a goatee, 57 years old and was still in peak condition as a Jedi Master and a Sith Lord.

"I highly doubt that," he said, taking out his elongated saber hilt, "Sorry Celestia, I had to hide this one if the need ever arises like this," he activated the lightsaber, giving off a red glow.

Deimos launched force lightning at her, but she blocked with her lightsaber, Mara then attacked, trying to strike at him, which he dodged with ease, trying to force choke him, which he shrugged off with ease, he then struck at her, which she managed to block.

"You've gotten better Mara Jade, but you must always remember that I was trained personally by Sidious himself, you are just his assassin, sent to do lowly jobs for him," Deimos then lifted his lightsaber to block a Shadow Guard that attempted to kill him from behind, but he flicked his wrist and the Guard's head turned with a sickening CRACK, 1 down, 4 more to go, he took the lightsaber and handed it to Sana, who grabbed it and began striking at the Guards, Mara then shot force lightning at him, which he absorbed into his right hand.

"You forget dearie, that I am a pure embodiment of terror, you cannot kill fear," Deimos taunted, she then struck at his lightsaber then delivered a swift kick to the knee, causing him to bend.

"But it can be suppressed, permanently," she scowled, she raised her lightsaber to deliver the killing blow.

"Stand down," a voice said behind her, holding a lightsaber to her neck, she had finished off the Guards.

"Sana Un'iomen, one of the last Miraluka Jedi since Knightfall, I don't have time for you," she flicked her hand back, Sana went hurtling into a box, the same one that held the lightsabers...

"You would be surprised Mara, I am full of surprises," Deimos scoffed, Mara raised an eyebrow.

"Well it would have to take a miracle to save you," she said and brought her saber down on him, but there was something wrong, very wrong, for her.

Deimos had grabbed the lightsaber blade with his own hand, he lifted the blade from her grasp, taking the hilt along with him, he then used the force and took apart the lightsaber and took the crystal.

"Huh, violet is very rare these days," he said, taking the crystal as if nothing had ever happened.

"How-" 

"Mandalorian steel gloves can't do much, but it can block lightsaber attacks, now-" he then lifted her off the ground and brought her towards him, "-You will go back to Sidious and report to him about your encounter with me, tell him that you failed and deserve whatever punishment he sees fit, the only thing I like about him now is that he is very cruel," Deimos commanded, using his makeshift Stare and Mind Trick, she only nodded got on her ship and left the planet.

Deimos sighed, at least nopony and nobody died, this one of the first battle he had in years that didn't result in unnecessary deaths, well except the Shadow Guards, they had it coming for them.

Sana then handed him his lightsabers, she had used the force to open the box, he took the rest of the lightsabers and added them to his collection, he then walked over to Celestia, who had a priceless look of shock on her face.

"Now that that's been taken care of, do you have any questions?" he asked her.

And she did have questions, a lot.
 
> Chapter 5: Chaos within Harmony
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Hasbro to MLP, Star Wars to LucasFilms and LucasArts.

"Villains who wear black hats are easy to spot. Villains who twirl their mustache are easy to spot. Those who cloth themselves in good deeds are well camouflaged.

-Captain Jean-Luc Picard, "Drumhead".




"You have failed Mara, Vader will oversee your punishment, I am too busy dealing with other matters," Sidious said with anger in his voice.

"Forgive me master, I found out that the Stormtroopers that were chasing Deimos were carrying precious cargo, war prisoners and a weapon that could turn the tide of the war," Mara explained.

"And you have not told me? Foolish girl, why have you not retrieved it?" Sidious demanded harshly.

"It resides near the pit of a Sarlacc," Mara Jade answered.




"Who was that?" Celestia demanded.

"The Emperor's Hand, an assassin named Mara Jade, a force-sensitive who I have gotten... acquainted with, I have a personal vendetta against her because she killed someone close to me," Deimos said, Fluttershy gasped in shock.

"Who?" Twilight asked.

"It's personal and I tend not to talk about it, but the past is behind me, is there anymore questions?" Deimos replied nonchalantly, he looked back to see the six ponies look at him in sympathy, Celestia cleared her throat, trying to think of what to say.

"Who is the Emperor? And what does he rule exactly?" Celestia asked him.

"Emperor Sidious is the ruler of the Galactic Empire, just like in the name, it was an empire that held complete control over the galaxy," Deimos simply answered.

"The entire galaxy?" Celestia whispered in shock, how can one pony-er, man, rule an entire galaxy?

"Yes, the whole galaxy, he was a Sith Lord as I was but he was an embodiment of pure evil worst than Tirek," Deimos replied.

"How do you know about Tirek?" Rainbow said, glaring at him.

"The Unifying Force, it had shown me your past," Deimos said.

"The Unifying Force?" Twilight wondered.

"Yes, the force takes four forms: The Light, the Dark, the Living Force, which exists in all living things, and the Unifying Force, which allowed me to see a glimpse in your past," Deimos explained.

*Rumble*

"What was that?" Deimos asked, suddenly a school bus crashed through another one of the windows, the doors opened and a certain Draconequus walked out, wearing sunglasses, a golden tooth, and a shirt that said 'Diss-cord!', he snapped his claw and he was back to his normal old self.

"Thanks Magic School Bus, I'll call you if I need a ride again," Discord said, the bus's wheel raised as if saluting and flew off.

"Who is this?" Sana asked, Discord had a look as if to say 'excuse meh?'

"This is-" 

"I am Discord, master of disaster, dictator of disharmony, Spirit of Chaos, and Sultan of Sweets, and who might you be kind lady?" Discord asked, wait a second, when was there a mustache on his face?

"Sana Un'iomen," she said, holding out a hand, which was shook by Discord.

"So milady, if you need anything, just talk to moi," Discord winked, his face suddenly painted white, wearing a striped shirt, black pants with suspenders and wearing a beret on his head.

"Deimos, Darth Deimos," he said, Discord's eyes widened, the air literally dropped several degrees.

"D-darth?" Discord stuttered, his eyes filed with fear.

Celestia was afraid, the fact that Deimos's very title changed Discord's happy-go-lucky mood to that of fear was of her concern, did they have a personal history?

"Yes Discord, I am Deimos, the Patron Sith Lord of Terror, the successor of Darth Phobos, who represented fear," Deimos cackled, the guards looked at him in bewilderment and shock, unable to keep their nerve.

"You wouldn't happen to know who I am?" Discord said, raising an eyebrow, trying to build up enough courage to muster a normal conversation, Deimos looked at him.

"No, but your voice sounds familiar," he answered, then the thought came to Discord,

"Come to think if it, yours does too, have we met before?" Discord asked Deimos, the ponies and Sana were looking at them both in surprise; two living embodiments of Chaos and Terror claiming that they have had history.

"We just met, how could I know you?" Deimos went through every memory that he could recall, but none seemed to have a mismatched creature that can bend reality, Deimos threw his arms up in frustration, dropping his cloak in the process.

Discord then saw his face, pale and yellow-eyed but still the same person he knew before in a different life.

"Kane?" Discord whispered, Deimos spun around and looked at him, his eyes no longer a passive yellow, but a blazing red that could set fire to the whole Everfree if he had the chance, he activated his lightsaber and lifted his hand up, force-choking Discord and levitating him to eye level, but Discord snapped his claws to escape the grasp via teleportation.

"That is not my name, who. Are. You?" Deimos growled.

"It's me old buddy, Jonothen Doscrid," Discord said, snapping his claws, turning into a man with mismatched clothing, as if poorly stitched squares of fabric, "Er, sorry," Discord snapped his claws again, this time in grey Jedi robes.

"Don't play tricks on me Discord, I've seen enough illusions to drive a man insane, if you are the real Master Doscrid, then tell me something that only both of us would know," Deimos growled, Discord thought about it, then spoke.

"When we were both in our teenage years as Padawans, I came up with an idea where we put dung mites in both of our Masters' bedsheets, no one found out who did it until they somehow moved into Master Yoda's quarters, when he found out, we swore this to secrecy and to take it to the grave," Discord said without missing a beat, Deimos deactivated his lightsaber and holstered it.

"It really is you, I now recognize that snarky sound you make when you try to prove something, oh what was it called? Your voice," Deimos scoffed, subliminally teasing him.

"It's great to see you too Kane," Discord said in his Jedi body, who immediately shut up after he mentioned Deimos's old name.

"So... what happened to you Ka-er, Deimos?" he asked.

"Curiosity and the Dark side make a deadly combination," Deimos said, he turned to see the Princesses and the Mane 6's jaws almost dropping to the floor, with the exceptions being Sana and Fluttershy.

"How do you two know each other?" Twilight asked.   

"It's a very long story," Deimos and Discord said simultaneously, who was still in his human form.

"We're all ears," Twilight said, the others agreeing with her, especially Fluttershy.

"Ahem, in the beginning, the universe was an empty vast nothingness, all but a small little-" Discord said in a strange deep calming voice (AN: Morgan Freeman voice!!!).

"How about you guys's history back then?" Fluttershy asked.

If I had a heart, this would've been adorable, Deimos snorted, Discord shot him a look.

"Fine then, be that way; when I was imprisoned in stone, my body stayed on Equus, my spirit still moved freely and could leave the planet, so I sought out different realities to hang out in, I met a large black demon creature that had some sort of hatred towards a sort of samurai, a crocodile-looking dark wizard person with a ridiculous name, Rumple-something or whatever, I was even an omnipotent mischievous entity that made friends with people on a spaceship, but that's another story. Anyway, I had decided to be like the good Discord you see today and return to our universe, I used my magic to reincarnate myself as a Force-sensitive child, trust me, being born twice while fully aware of it was something I didn't want to experience again in my life, so I was taken in by a Jedi named Master Yoda, a Jedi today who is almost just as old as you Celestia, only he was better looking," Discord snickered, Celestia turned red in anger at both Discord's insult and her lack of knowledge of Yoda's appearance.

"I was trained as a Jedi Consular since I was quite surprisingly strong in the Force and no, I didn't alter myself in any way to become attuned to the Force, I actually have decent amount of Midi-chlorians in my body right now, so it wasn't until the Naboo incident that led me to meeting Deimos, he was a Jedi Knight at the time, we were both caught in a firefight between Gungans and battle droids, it was me that save us, so through the council, I became an apprentice to Deimos, back when he was Kane; yes Sunbutt, I was actually being taught by a mentor, surprising right? Anyway, I rose to the rank of Jedi knight when I was 25 in Jonothen years, I then went on to Jedi Master when I completed the Trials of Knighthood again, but Deimos and I became good friends, until you disappeared, I wonder if it had something to do with the murder of 3 Sentinels and 20 Knights..." Discord glared at Deimos.

"So I assume Deimos became an acolyte and eventually a Sith Lord, while I was killed in Operation Knightfall AKA Order 66," Discord's glare intensified.

"What is Knightfall?" Luna asked.

"It was the destruction of the Jedi order itself, a rule created in case the Jedi become a threat to the Republic, but it was a a scheme," Deimos answered.

"How many were killed?" Celestia questioned.

"Hundreds, if not thousands, tens of thousands," he said, everypony's faces filled with fear, shock, and anger, Deimos then turned to Discord.

"I had nothing to do with Knightfall, it was Sidious's idea and Vader carried it out, I was busy searching for an apprentice at the time, until Vader was aware of my presence, Sidious had no choice but to set us against each other, I would've come out victorious due to my skill of Lightning and Vader's lack of knowledge of it until the Emperor set the Shadow guards on me, who I managed to kill with mine and Vader's own saber, which was pulled out of my grasp and was forced to rematch; I managed to escape with only one major injury and several cuts and burns, then I met Sana, a former Jedi turned slave and prisoner, who I freed, we boarded an Imperial Victory-class ship and left the star destroyer ship, we hid in secret for years until we stole a transport/cargo ship to avoid raising suspicions, we manage to survive until we accidentally intercepted four TIE Fighters, 2 being standard class, the others being cargo and transport, we tried to get away from them but we ended up crashing here, with the TIE Fighters flying back to the Death Star, the Transport ship landing near the Everfree and the Cargo ship somewhere far out away," Deimos summarized. 

"What I want to do is find repairs and leave this rock, nothing more, but I have seen enough of your civilization to figure out you are FAR from this advanced technology, I must return to the ship to check on the inventory that I brought with me," Deimos said, swishing his cloak behind him and walking away.

"What did you bring with you?" Princess Celestia asked, Deimos looked at her.

"I brought food, spare parts, and lightsaber crystals," he said.

"Well perhaps I can provide a faster means of transportation," Discord said, snapping his claws, everypony and everyone was transported to the ship.

"You guys do realize there are still the dead bodies of Shadow guards," Sana pointed out, Discord sighed and snapped his claws again.

"There, now they're six feet under," he said, Deimos entered the crashed ship, he pulled a rather large crate and opened it, revealing hundreds of glittering crystals, from the deepest of blue to the bright of magenta, Deimos walked inside and came out with a very small glass box, Celestia looked at Discord, who had a look of excitement in his eyes.

"You actually kept it all this time?" Discord whispered, Deimos nodded and opened the box, inside was the most beautiful lightsaber a Jedi could ever set his eyes on, a hilt made of pure white marble and pitch black ebony, glittered with rounded cut jewels of ruby, sapphire, emerald, pearls and onyx, the hilt was curved similarly to Count Dooku's, but was meant for the elegance of a Jedi.

Discord carefully grasped it and admired it's beauty, he then tossed it up three feet into the air and activated it; the blade was pure white, humming in radiance.

"It's beautiful," Fluttershy admired, she looked at the Dark Lord with a small smile on her face, as if thanking him for keeping it for all to see.

"It's very beautiful, it's crystal reacts to force users so only Jedi and Sith can use it, it also changes it's color according to force alignment," Discord explained, he handed it to Deimos, who refused.

"I prefer not, you will not like it," Deimos said.

"How bad can it seriously be?" Discord said.

Deimos sighed, "If you insist," he grabbed hold of the lightsaber, it faded from white to a menacing pitch black, Discord frowned at this, he truly was a Sith!

"I told you Discord," Deimos replied.

"Well... now that I have my lightsaber, are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Discord said, popping into human form, holding two pickles and dish soap for some reason he looked at what he holding and made them disappear, "Sorry, Same Equestria, different heroes."

"If you're considering fighting with your newly found lightsaber, then I accept your little challenge," Deimos said with a fiery look in his eyes.

"Magnifico, let's get started!" Discord snapped his fingers, they were then warped to a large Geonosian Coliseum, thousands of Geonosians cheering on, the Princesses and the Mane 6 among them, who were confused. 

"Set your saber to low power so we don't get hurt to bad," Jonothen Doscrid said, Deimos was still surprised Discord used his own name as an anagram for his Jedi last name.

"Sounds fair," he said, he set his own saber to minimum power, as did Discord.

They walked around in a circular motion until Deimos struck, Jon blocked, using the force to push Deimos back.

"Woah! It still work- gah!" Discord yelled as Deimos delivered a kick to the abdomen, he grunted and shook off the pain, each of them delivering strikes and blocks, blows and defenses,

Deimos resorted to lightning, knowing that Discord will block it, he raised his hand and sent a flurry of lightning at him, Discord panicked and blocked with his saber, Deimos walked over and attempted to strike with his lightsaber, but Discord ended up still blocking the blade.

"Are you crazy? That was messed up even by my standards!" Discord yelled, he raised his saber to strike, but Deimos caught the hilt, he twisted it out of his hand, the blade turned black, Deimos was uncomfortable with the tilted style of the hilt.

Note to self: perfect curved hilt fighting, Deimos mentally added.

"Surrender Discord," he said, Discord snapped his fingers and reansformed into his original self.

"No thanks," he said, the saber appearing in his hands, "I use magic, your argument is invalid." 

Deimos grinned evilly at this, "Clever Discord, I suppose you get the first point on this... for now," his smile faded as Discord snapped his fingers and the world returned to the same old Everfree forest, Deimos walked inside the crashed ship, minutes later he came out with his own curved saber, he activated it, glowing an intimidating red, he swished it around before deactivating it and sheathing it into his belt.

"So now do you want me to show you 'round the place?" Discord said, Deimos looked at the princesses and the bearers, who looked at them both after the small rival fight, Sana just had a look of annoyance.

"No thanks, I prefer Twilight to show me more of what the place has to offer," he said, Twilight looked at him with excitement in her eyes.

"It would be my pleasure," she said, the purple alicorn trotted over to him, both walking beside each other as she began asking him questions, Princess Celestia looked at Sana in disbelief.

"Is he always like this?" she asked.

"His emotions are debatable, you can describe as crazy," Sana said normally.

"Guess it's time to take Luna and Sunbutt home," Discord said, snapping his claws before Celestia could respond to her nickname, along with Sana and the rest of the bearers to Ponyville.

This will be an interesting day...



> Chapter 6: New Arrivals
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

*Sigh* You probably already know what belongs to what, let's get to the story...

At the same time when Deimos's ship crashed in the Everfree, several Stormtroopers on the Transport ship had escaped, taking a different path whereas the rest were slaughtered by the Sith Lord and Jedi Knight-turned Consular, who now focused more on the Force. The survivors consisted of Gale, Scrap, Hunter, De'ien, Cameron, Hano, Warren, Trooper LE-193, LE-204, LE-884, etc., each of them had taken a similar path leading to more forestry.




Day 10 in Equestria

"When the hell are we getting out of this damn jungle?" De'ien complained, all the troops have been trained to rely on survival instincts to make it out of harsh environments like the ones they see.

"Quiet, we must keep moving," LE-193 said, focused on his curiosity on what lay ahead of them.

"What's his problem?" Cameron asked Hunter.

"Eh, spent too much time on a Star Destroyer to figure out when there was something actually dangerous," Hunter replied, getting a stifled laugh from Gale, Warren, and Hano, Scrap put his fingers between the 'nose' of the mask in annoyance while the other numbered designates gave them a look.

"I said be quiet," 193 hissed at them, he raised his pistol at the sound of a twig snapping, he pointed it in the direction of the sound, he looked down and saw a lizard scurry past them.

"Idiot," Hano chuckled.

"Clone," 204 scowled at them.

"And we're proud of it," Gale said.

"Our mission is to locate the crash of the cargo ship, thankfully I left the signal beacon on, after that we report to Vader and receive our paycheck," Warren said, the nicknamed troops nodded in agreement.

"Money and humor will get you nowhere," another trooper said.

"Then I might as well quit my job," Gale earned more laughs from the others.

"Just... be quiet," 884 said, he stepped forward until a tentacle shot out and grabbed onto him.

"AAAAHH!!! Help me!" he yelled, every stormtrooper sprang into action, holding down the trapped troop and the tentacle, De'ien took out his vibroblade and handed it to Hunter, who swiftly sliced off the tentacle from the ensnared Imperial soldier, who then got up after his unfortunate situation.

"T-thanks," he said, straightening up and continuing to walk deeper into the forest.

"(sigh) I have a bad feeling about this," Gale said, the other soldiers nodded in agreement.




Hours later...

"This was not what I expected," Scrap remarked, looking at what lay before them.

A giant maw of teeth hundreds, if not thousands of meters across, filled with spikes protruding from the pit, tentacles surrounding the mouth, which lay a solid tan beak in the center, and on the other side from where the troops stood: the cargo ship, slightly damaged and smoking, but still in one piece.

"There it is!" Warren yelled, Hano still remained silent.

"It's been a while since I've seen a Sarlacc," Gale remarked.

"Is that supposed to be a good thing?" 193 wondered.

"Depends if you want to feel nostalgic, but right now we're in an unknown planet, no knowledge of possible civilization on this rock, or if they are even technologically advanced." he explained.

"Good thing we have a common goal," 193 smirked.

"So what do we do now?" 

"We wait," Hunter would've said, if a Sarlacc tentacle hadn't come down and squashed 204.




Meanwhile...

Deimos had been given a tour of Ponyville five days before, Sweet Apple Acre, Carousel Boutique (Rarity insisted on making some new clothes for him), Sugarcube Corner (where he was treated by a rather large party, courtesy of Pinkie Pie) and many other places.

But even though he had been reintroduced to the six Bearers of Harmony, they still didn't trust him.

He had been sitting in his quarters, meditating, a habit he still couldn't and wouldn't break, he used the Force to concentrate and clear his mind, such things could have a Jedi or Sith perform such acts as seeing the future, but Deimos did it because he wanted to, not because of things that could deem important. 

But this was an important event, he cleared his mind to make way for anything possible in the future.

He waited until he had gotten a glimpse of something, almost like a picture; The Sith Lord saw himself standing over at the edge of a Sarlacc, wielding his lightsabers, at his side there were three small ponies standing beside him, but what shocked him most of all.

His wife.

A female Sith Pureblood from Moraband, Cera Lai, they had been married for 5 years under Imperial consent before he witnessed Mara Jade killed her right in front of him, helpless in Vader's grip the last time they fought.

But yet he saw her in his vision right in front of him, this was a foretelling of the future, he just knew it.

Reluctant, he walked over to Twilight's room and opened the door, he then slammed the door, waking up Twilight, she wake up startled by the noise as she was covered in cold sweat, breathing heavily, and had a look of both fear and gratitude upon her face, as if thanking him that she was woken up; probably a nightmare.

"Deimos? It's 4 in the morning, what are you doing here?" she asked him.

"I need a map," he ordered, she sighed and levitated a map over to him, which he took into his hands, he opened it and inspected it. His eyes scanned the paper until he saw the Everfree, he then traced his finger downward until it rested on the San Palomino , a desert... the place of the Sarlacc.

"San Palomino? What about it?", she said, looking over the map as Deimos placed his finger on it.

"I have to leave, has the map been completed by a cartographer?" he asked her, she shook her head.

"No, this is only a map of Equestria, half of the desert is Equestrian territory, the other half is a wasteland, where some explorers go in but never come back," Twilight explained.

"Then pray to whatever gods you believe in and hope that those explorers died quick deaths," Deimos whispered, Sana opened the door, apparently listening to their brief conversation.

"Why do you say that?" Sana asked.

"I have seen a vision in the Unifying Force, a Sarlacc in the desert, I also saw my wife in the vision and I plan to be reunited with her," he replied stoically, rolling up a map and Force-pulling a rather large bag into his hands.

" Visions in the Force can be interpreted differently... wait a minute, you're married?" Sana raised her eyebrows in surprise.

"Yes I'm married, I'll get into the details of that later, and I don't care, I will do everything in my power to see her again," he said.

"What's a Sarlacc?" Twilight asked them.

"A Sarlacc is a plant-like beast that exists in few worlds, they are worm-like and very large in size, they are feared because of their methods of eating," Sana explained.

"How?" Twilight asked.

"When something unfortunate lands into it's mouth, that animal or person, or in this case, pony, is slowly digested for over the course of a thousand years," Deimos said, shaking his head, the Sarlacc was one of the only things that personally made him uncomfortable, but since the older ones are immobile, he had nothing to fear.

The look of Twilight's face was saying many things: shock, worry... fear, "And what about the victims?"

"They feel everything, the agony, the pain as it's acid slowly dissolves your skin away over the course of a millennium," Deimos answered, a look of horror spreading across her face.

"That's why I must go, I have some personal things to take care of," he finished, and with that he turned and walked to his quarters, getting ready to pack for his trek to through the desert.

"I'm coming with you," Sana said, Deimos smirked.

"No, this is my mission and mine alone, you will stay," he replied harshly.

"You are not my master-" Sana said, but was cut off by the activation of a lightsaber, one specifically pointed at her.

"I said you will stay, I may not be your master, but I can show you who's in charge," Deimos said, twisting his newly-made curved hilt lightsaber, finally comfortable after enough Makashi practice.

"Enough! The both of you, you two are acting like children, please just agree with him Sana, it will benefit all of us!" she yelled, creating two magenta colored bubble shields around the both of them; Sana looked at her in shock, even earning a surprised look from Deimos.

"I-I'm sorry, it's just been sleep, just some nightmares, nothing special," she sighed, removing the spell , explaining the situation to them both.

Deimos raised an eyebrow before finally turning to leave.




Food, check, water, check, desert clothing, check, he was finally finished, enough food and water to last him a month, he walked out until he forgot something, he dropped his bag now and walked back inside.

5 minutes later, he came back eating an energy fruit bar that Twilight gave him, he picked up the bag and walking towards the desert that had laid out it's plans for him as well.

Sighing, he walked in the direction of the San Palomino.




Hours later...

Nothing but the Force guided him, whispering in his ear where to go, the long treacherous path ahead of him.

But the isolation in the desert made him feel... at peace, as if the Dark side's hold was loosening ever so slightly, Deimos decided to rest near an oasis he had found after a few more miles, he set the bag down as he sat on a mid-sized rock.

"Ow!" the... bag said? Deimos eyes filled with confusion, he opened the bag.

And three fillies tumbled out of the bag, their manes ruffled, the got up and looked at Deimos, one was of white color and had a mane of different shades of violet, the second was orange with a purple mane, and finally a yellow one with a red mane and bow in it, they all lacked Cutie marks.

What the hell? Deimos thought, how did these three even get in the bag in the first place, then he remembered when he went back inside Twilight's castle to get his other lightsabers and Twilight gave him that (rather delicious, he admitted) fruit bar.

"What are you doing in my bag? Scratch that, why are you even hear? How can you three be so stupid as to do something like this?" Deimos demanded, the three's eyes filled with fear, until the yellow one stepped forth.

"We know what we were doin', we were just trying to get our Cutie marks!" she said, Deimos put his hand in between the bridge of his nose.

"And climbing into a bag would help you?" he sighed, walking over to the water that the oasis offered.

"We were trying to be, drum roll please... Cutie Mark Crusader Ninjas!" the orange one, Scootaloo declared, Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle face hoofed, obvious that Scootaloo convinced the both of them.

"What does that have to do with the bag?" he said, unaware of what a ninja was.

"You haven't seen us for the past 5 hours," the white one, Sweetie Belle pointed out.

"How did you even manage to survive in there?" he said, pointing at the bag.

"There was food and water in there," Scootaloo said, Deimos face-palmed, "That was my supplies, and since you managed to survive in there for 5 hours, you probably had to relieve yourselves while you were in the bag?" he frowned in annoyance.

"Nope, we... didn't... uh-be right back!" Apple Bloom said, the others running behind several different trees after they realized their 'restroom situation'.

The next few minutes consisted of Deimos filling up his canteens and the Crusaders relieving themselves over a 5 hour period of water.

The ponies came back and looked at Deimos in curiosity, who was sitting cross-legged, holding a floating lightsaber in his hands, he began twisting his hands in a graceful sort of way, the saber began to pull apart piece by piece until it was a floating mass of metal and a singular red crystal, he then reassembled it into a curved hilt and stood back up.

"I would tell you to go home, but we just went through a very long journey, I would like all three of you to stay at the oasis," Deimos commanded sternly.

"But what if there are monsters in the desert? Just waiting to eat us when you're not here?" Apple Bloom pouted, Deimos had thought about it, she was right, he read up on the Equestrian bestiary, there were several animals that would like a pony to eat.

"Fine, but you must keep up with me," Deimos answered, earning smiles from the Crusaders.

"Promise," Scootaloo said.

"But remember, my mission is dangerous, lethal, and will lead to some injury, specifically towards me," Deimos explained.

"We'll take that risk," Scootaloo said defiantly before the others could protest.

"Well that's that, let's go," Deimos said, walking off into the desert, the others following him.




"Can we take a break?" Sweetie asked.

"No."

"Can we-" 

"No."

"-have some water," she continued, Deimos sighed, opened a canteen, and offered it to them, still continuing his walk.

He then noticed the scenery, how it changed to a more fleshy look, he then decided to glance down, he put his hand in front of the Crusaders, "We're here," he said.

What he saw as he glanced down was a pit filled with sharp spines and a beak, a Sarlacc in Equestria, carried by spores long ago, but by what?

"It's at the end of its youth, just several thousand years old, I must find my wife," Deimos said to himself.

"So yer just here to look for ya wife? And did you say JUST several thousand years?" Apple Bloom asked him with traces of confusion in her voice.

"Did I stutter?" Deimos said in annoyance.

"I-uh, no..." Apple Bloom admitted, a small smile played upon Deimos's face.

"AAAHHH!!" a voice yelled out, the Sith turned his head and looked to see several stormtroopers being attacked by the Sarlacc's tentacles, he quickly pulled out his lightsaber (his original one) and ran to assist them. 

"Don't touch the tentacles or the beast will sense you!" Deimos yelled at the Cutie Mark Crusaders, as he was running, several creatures crawled out of the pit and leaped at him, Sarlacc parasites.

Deimos quickly dispatched them with his lightsaber, the 10-legged insects were too slow-witted to understand a lightsaber's excessive force.

He then ran in the direction of the troopers, using the force to push them back before they could be flattened by a tentacle, but in the process, the fleshy arm came and knocked him into the pit, the stormtroopers got up, dazed by the push; the Crusaders on the other hand went to help Deimos, they looked down to see him holding on to a spike, Apple Bloom stretched out her hoof to try to help him.

"Ah could just barely touch 'im, we need something to longer to get him," the Earth pony filly said.

Scootaloo tried thinking of a way to help him, she looked around in panic to see his emergency saber that was knocked out when he was hit by the Sarlacc, he took it and threw it to Sweetie Belle, who gave it to Apple Bloom, she then took the saber by the hooves and held it out to him, he grabbed on without hesitation, until he let go of the spike, when that happened, Apple Bloom felt the change in weight, Scootaloo and Sweetie rushed and grabbed by the legs to try to help her back up.

"Yer... too... heavy!" Apple Bloom yelled, gritting her teeth at the pain.

All seemed lost until one of the stormtroopers came in and grabbed Deimos's other hand, the other's helped Sweetie, Scootaloo, and Apple Bloom, until Deimos slipped out of their hands and hooves.

"NO!" she yelled, extending her hoof as if reaching out for him.

Deimos opened his eyes as he felt the sudden change in speed stopped, he looked and found himself floating, he glanced at Apple Bloom, who was reaching out with her hoof as she was surprised as well, he was then levitated over to ground level where he was dropped.

They can use the force? How have I not seen this? Deimos thought in shock, he then got up and brushed the dirt off of his clothes, Apple Bloom gave him back his lightsaber, he then turned to the troops.

"Thank you, but why are you here?" Deimos asked in concern.

"We left the original group of troops, took a different rout, ended up in a different part of the forest, where you rescued us," one of them said,

"Your welcome," he said.

"By the way, what is your name? You look familiar?" one of them asked.

"Darth Deimos," he replied, the then bowed in respect.

"My lord, you are alive?" one of them said,

"Who are you?" it was their turn to answer now

"We are the remained of the T-Legion, we serve under your command," one of them said, Deimos's eyes widened.

"I thought you were killed by Vader," Deimos wondered..

"That's true about us fighting Vader, but Yara sacrificed her life to protect us, we then reenlisted under false names and have been biding our time," one of them said sadly, the other's bowing their heads in respect for Yara.

After a considerable amount of time later, Deimos spoke up, "I see that ship over there, what is in there?" 

"It's a cargo/prison ship, there are carbonite prisons containing the prisoners and a droid." 

He walked inside, and saw the casket, each person in carbonite. He then looked at the first one.

A Zabrak male with a scowl upon his face, what lay at his sides were two lightsabers, one looking like a standard lightsaber and the other looking like the hilt of a physical saber, like the old swords during the time of the Je'Daii Order.

Deimos then moved on to the next one in shock, a female Sith Pureblood, by the looks of the ridges on her cheekbones, it was his wife, Cera Lai, he ran his hand across the metal that covered her head, he had found her, he had found her!

He then focused on the rest of the prisoners and turned to the next one, a Togruta female, possibly in her 30's, what lay at her sides as well were two lightsabers of her own, similar to the Zabrak.

Deimos had a sudden shocking realization, these were Force-Sensitives captured for purposes unknown.

Brainwashing, execution, WHAT IS IT!!! Deimos said in frustration, he then moved onto the next one.

A Kaleesh warrior, still wearing a skull mask and tribal clothing, fitting for a creature of his culture, a lightsaber hilt made of rock, metal, and bone strapped to his side, also a force-sensitive as well, but of what allegiance.

And last but not least was a deactivated droid that wasn't covered in carbonite, humanoid by the looks of it, it had a skeletal appearance with a menacing looking face as if it wanted to gun you down if it actually ever saw you.

"The droid put up one hell of a fight, it killed over 50 troopers with only the minimal reserve power it had left, I'm no archaeologist gotta say that this thing has to be over 3000 years old by the looks of it," Gale said.

"The engine's busted beyond repair, she'll never be able to fly again," Scrap observed, Deimos mentally sighed.

"Let's take these back to civilization, the village is only a five and a half hour walk from here," Deimos said, Gale nodded and informed the others, they activated the carbonite prisons, causing them to levitate off the floor, each of them took a prison and began pushing them along as they followed the Sith.

The Cutie Mark Crusaders walked beside him as they restarted their trek.




5 hours and 50 minutes later...

Applejack and Rarity were panicking, they couldn't find their sisters anywhere, it had been hours and they could find even a single clue as to where they could be.

"Gosh darn it! Where could they be?" Applejack almost yelled in frustration and desperation.

"Sweetie dearie? Where are you?" Rarity whimpered, almost on the verge of tears, she couldn't believe she lost her sister.

They both then saw several figures in the distance, it was Deimos.

The two galloped towards him, but as they kept getting nearer, the figures got more clear, they then saw Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle.

"Applejack!" the young yellow filly said.

"Rarity!" Sweetie Bell cried out.

The two ponies caught up with them, embracing the two in a hug.

"Where were you two?" Applejack said.

"We were trying to earn our Cutie Marks," Scootaloo admitted, Applejack and Rarity then turned to the other two, about to give them a serious lecture until Deimos stopped them both.

"I do not think a rather loud argument is necessary, they did save my life at one point, let them learn this as a lesson," he pointed out, giving the three an almost unnoticeable smile, the three gave him much more obvious grins.

"Err, fine, I'll let you go this time," Applejack said.

"Thank you," Rarity said to him.

"It is fine, miss Belle, but right now I have more pressing matters to tend to," he said.

"Well I will not stop you then," she replied, the three fillies then regrouped together again, glancing at the Sith Lord in excitement before going back to their normal routine.

Deimos, along several renegade stormtroopers eventually made it to Twilight's castle.

"So what do ya think of the inhabitants Scrap?" Hunter asked him.

"I've seen stranger, this doesn't surprise me," he simply said, Twilight opened the door, she looked up and saw the Deimos.

"Hey Deimos and... I see you brought friends," she opened the door for him, he walked inside and sat on one of the chairs.

"This is my group, the Terror Legion, made up of 1000 troopers, now reduced to just seven; meet Gale, the squad leader, Scrap, the engineer, Hunter, their best sniper, De'ien, the medic, Cameron, heavy weapons, Hano, the assassin, and Warren, sabotage," Deimos introduced the soldiers, who greeted Twilight, who returned the favor.

"And who are these?" she pointed to the carbonite units.

"Carbonite prisons and storage units, used to transport prisoners," Gale explained.

"So should we open one up?" Hunter said, a little excited at the idea.

"We will, but we have to make sue we open the right one first before making any hasty decisions," Scrap said.

"We open the one with my wife," Deimos ordered, there was a pause at first.

"You heard the boss, open it!" Gale yelled, causing Twilight and Sana, who was sitting beside her, to jump.

Scrap pressed a few buttons, the metal slowly began to turn red and disperse, her face started to become more and more visible, until she dropped off the plate, but was caught by Deimos, who carried her to a bed and lay her there, she was unconscious. 

"She seems to be asleep, let's open up the Zabrak," Warren said, they did the same with the Zabrak, his features were now completely visible, he sported Sith tattoos all over his body and had metal legs, Deimos took his lightsabers and studied them, activating the first one, a brilliant red, a Sith, he then took the next one, the odd shaped one and activated it, what surprised was not the fact that the blade was shaped like an actual physical blade, but it was the fact that the blade was completely black!

He swung it around, it gave off a strange sound almost similar to lightsaber swinging, but was off a pitch, he deactivated them both and put them next to the Zabrak Sith, who still lay on the floating metal plate.

The Togruta female came after, when she was finished, Deimos also inspected her lightsabers, he activated one, a brilliant green, he then took the other and activated it; the blade was half the length compared to the first, a Shoto saber with a yellow blade, she was then placed in a separate bed.

The last prisoner was thawed out, he sported many scars, with the bone mask covering his face, he took the saber and activated it, he was surprised, it was grey in color, possibly one of the only crystals in Kalee, the remained on the plate.

Sana walked up to the droid, eager to inspect it, she ran her fingers along it's smooth surface, it suddenly activated, it's eyes turning a bright yellow.

"Declar...As... prot... onli..." it said in a strange voice before slowly shutting off.

"Damn! How do we get this thing working again!" Sana said in frustration.

"I may be able to help you with that," Scrap said, "With both of us, we may be able to get this scrap heap up and running again," Sana grinned at the statement.

"Ugh..." they heard a moan, they turned to see Cera getting up, she turned and looked at Deimos.

"Kane? Is that you?" Cera quickly got off the bed and ran towards her husband, she tackled him in a hug, attacking him with kisses all over his face, who returned the favor to her as well.

"Cera, I've missed you too, but my name is Deimos," he corrected her.

"I don't care, you'll always be Kane to me," Cera grinned, she always was a feisty one, she pecked him on the cheek.

"What the...?" they then turned to see the Zabrak and Togruta awake, Deimos sensed the Dark Side in him and the Light in her, the Sith possibly also betrayed by Sidious.

The Zabrak paused for a minute, looked at Deimos, then the rest of whatever he was seeing.

"How did...? What..?" the Togruta said, she then saw the Zabrak, she reached for her lightsaber, as did he, they both were about to strike, until Deimos interfered by blocking both moves with both of his lightsabers.

"Both of you calm down, now I know you are both confused by what happened and where you are, but I will give you a brief summary: My name is Deimos, Darth Deimos, the Miraluka over there is my assistant, Jedi Knight Sana Un'iomen, we were on the run until several TIE fighters attacked us, including a cargo and transport ship, you were prisoners inside, so after a long while we freed all of you," Deimos explained, the two seemed to calm down, but still glaring at each other.

"Now can you both please tell us your names," Twilight said, the Zabrak and Togruta stepped forward, their lightsabers sheathed to their waists.

"My name is Ahsoka Tano, former padawan of Anakin Skywalker," the Togruta said, bowing in respect, but uncomfortable as to bowing to a Sith Lord.

"I am Darth Maul, former Sith Assassin and apprentice of Darth Sidious," he said.
> Chapter 7: Killer of Stars
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

I'm just going to skip what owns what, okay? Thanks!

Sidious was infuriated, he had felt through the Force that Deimos had discovered the cargo ship, he walked over to the projector, where he summoned a hologram of Vader kneeling to him.

"Rise Vader, Lord Deimos is still alive and has found the ship, our prisoners and our only chance of finally ending this stalemate have been stolen," Sidious said, obviously angry.

"What is thy bidding my master?" Vader asked his master, standing up.

"Not what you can do, I am aware of your intentions to clone your old apprentice, what was his name? Oh, Starkiller," he grinned at Vader's reaction, stiffening muscles and a very long pause.

"Yes master, I have made a clone of Starkiller completely obedient to his superiors, but at the same time a flawed copy had also escaped, but what do you want of it?" Vader was curious as to what his master wanted.

"If you want to keep your apprentice, then you will send him to Deimos's last known location, a medium-sized planet in the unknown regions. If the apprentice lives, you can keep him, but if he dies, then I will see the rest of your projects unworthy and will order the elimination of every clone in Kamino," Sidious instructed, about to turn off the projector, "Oh, and use a Star Destroyer to send the clone, I want Deimos to know that what he fights will be a challenge."

"I understand, my master," the black clad Sith said, Sidious then turned it off, returning to the seat that represented his power over the galaxy.

I very much hope you are ready Deimos, for you will not survive this, Emperor Palpatine smiled evilly.




Day 10 in Equestria

Deimos looked at them both in surprise, he didn't expect two people he had heard of to actually meet him, they then heard a third groan to see the Kaleesh start to wake up, but he fell back asleep for some reason.

"Darth Maul? The Sith who was bisected by Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi?" Deimos remarked with surprised in his voice, Maul scowled.

"Kenobi... where is he?" Maul growled under his breath.

"Order 66 has been activated long ago, he's probably dead along with hundreds of other Jedi," Deimos explained.

"There is a slim chance that other Jedi can survive," Sana pointed out.

"I survived the Jedi Purge because I renounced my allegiance to the Jedi Order long before Order 66," Ahsoka Tano explained.

"How does that explain the lightsabers?" Deimos said, raising his eyebrow while looking at her Saber and Shoto.

"Souvenirs," she simply said.

"What about you Maul?" Deimos said, Ahsoka glared at both Sith Lords for a brief second before looking back in her general direction.

"I was tortured by Sidious after he killed my brother Savage Opress, I was then taken to a holding cell, they attempted to starve me to death, but I managed to survive using my hate for both Sidious and... Kenobi," he said with malice in his voice.

"Now that the introductions are over, welcome to the land of Equestria, where the country is dominated by three subgroups of ponies: Earth Ponies, who rely on strength and Stamina, Unicorns, who used magic-" Maul growled at the word 'magic', reminding him of his encounter with a certain Nightsister.

"-And Pegasi, who use their wings to fly and manipulate the weather, Equestria is ruled by two princesses: Princess Celestia and Luna," Twilight explained.

"(I have overheard the conversation, who are you?)" the Kaleesh finally woke up and spoke to them in his own native language, luckily Deimos could understand his language.

"I am Deimos, this is Sana, Darth Maul, Ahsoka Tano, and Twilight Sparkle," the Sith introduced the others.

"(Hello, I am Jeyeva Mi, a Kaleesh warrior,)" he explained.

"What about the lightsaber?" Deimos asked him.

"(I am a self-taught Force-Sensitve, I had built this lightsaber when I was younger,) he explained, unhooking his lightsaber and activating it, the blade glowing a quite intimidating grey, then deactivating it.

"Okay, NOW that the introductions are out of the way and the greetings to Equestria as well, what about all of you getting home?" she asked.

"We don't have a home, just the rest of the galaxy, besides some of the ships are broken beyond repair, especially the cargo ship with it's engine," Scrap explained.

"Why can't you fix it?" Twilight asked.

"Did you just hear me say 'beyond repair'? The engine might as well be bomb shrapnel, we can't piece it back together," Scrap scowled.

"Oh...right, so any-" the doors flung open with Rainbow Dash flying through.

"Twilight, you're gonna wanna see this," she said in panic, Twilight immediately followed her, Deimos looked at the rest of the group, the T-Legion started for the door, Sana, Maul, Ahsoka, and Jeyeva followed behind him as he also started leaving the castle.

"This is where the fun begins," he grinned as he felt another dark presence from far away.

He opened the door, feeling the cool breeze that billowed past him, he then looked up to see a giant ship, triangular in shape, floating right over the planet.

"What is that?" Twilight, obviously afraid, asked Deimos.

"A star destroyer, no, a super star destroyer, much bigger than the standard size," Deimos explained, taking out his lightsaber.

"What good will that do Deimos? You can't touch it without another ship," Darth Maul said, Deimos put away the saber, suddenly Discord appeared out of nowhere sitting on a chair wearing a monocle, reading a newspaper, Celestia and Luna appeared with him as well.

"Well there seems to be high amounts of- wait what the- DEIMOS! What happene- oh my gosh," he said as he looked up and spotted the destroyer.

"I know, have any ideas?" Deimos said.

"I could make a, oh nevermind, seems the fight is coming to you," Discord pointed at a lone ship that differed from TIE Fighters.

"I sense a fight," Ahsoka said, she took out her lightsabers and activated them, Maul did the same with his Lightsaber and Darksaber, Sana activated her Lightsaber as well as Deimos and Jeyeva.

The ship touched down, the doors opened, revealing a man with very short hair wearing red robes with metal chest plating, gloves and boots, Deimos immediately recognized the man.

"Starkiller?" Deimos asked, the man smirked at him.

"The Starkiller you knew is dead, I am better and more improved than he ever will be," he said.

"Would you like to test that?" Deimos said, twisting his lightsabers around into a dueling stance, to be honest, the only things that he feared was Sidious and Vader, Starkiller and he knew each other as acquaintances until Deimos was discovered by Vader, Deimos left and had never heard from Starkiller again, but he now knew of his fate if there was a clone of him standing in front of him, and if this was a really a clone who claimed he was superior, AND if he was right, then he had something new to fear.

"Gladly," Dark Starkiller, he and Deimos then glanced at the sky containing the Super Star Destroyer, Starkiller raised his hands towards it and brought it together; slowly the ship began to creak and turn until it eventually caved in upon itself, turning into a massive ball of metal and death, Starkiller then let go of his force influence, the ship began to leave the plant's orbit and drift off into space, the apprentice then activated his sabers, glowing red.

"The old Starkiller can bring down a standard Star Destroyer, but I can crush a Super Star Destroyer even in the far cold regions of space.

Discord snapped his fingers, turning to human form as Jonothen Doscrid, he unhooked his curved hilt saber and activated it, twirling the white blade around.

"Five against one? Hardly seems fair...for you at least," the Dark apprentice smirked, ignoring the former Storm troopers.

"Incorrect dear clone," Deimos turned to Maul and Ahsoka, "Get the civilians to safety, we'll handle it from here," Ahsoka nodded and ran back to the town, Maul paused to consider it before growling and walking off, with the T-Legion to assist them both, taking the Element bearers along to safety.

"What were you saying clone?" Deimos said, grinning sadistically, leaving Discord, Sana, and he to fight this copied apprentice.

Deimos and Starkiller let loose volts of lighting at the same time, engulfing the place in light and thunder before the both of them fell backwards, they both then got up and ran towards each other with Discord and Sana close behind.

Deimos swung but Starkiller flew over him and tried to swing at him, but the Sith LORD blocked with his saber as he kept slashing at Starkiller, but both were equally trained regardless of the fact that Starkiller is only an apprentice.

The apprentice then brought his saber down on Deimos, who barely managed to block the downward slash, Deimos then managed to get them both in a saber lock, Deimos then unleashed lightning onto the clone, who stumbled back in pain.

Sana and Discord then came into the fight, Dark Starkiller then used the Force repulse to knock back the Jedi and Sith alike, Deimos was the first to get up, activating his second lightsaber and jumped back into the fight, he then attacked him with a flurry of hacks and slashes, the Clone Apprentice managed to block them all with ease, but then came Discord, who finally began his assault on the Sith clone.

Discord used his chaotic power to teleport and dodge the Sith's attacks, using his curved hilt, he began using Makashi to dodge and elegantly strike with ease and near-perfection.

"Enough!" Starkiller yelled, he force pushed Discord, Sana then rose to her feet and began attacking Starkiller, the blue blade shining among the fiery red, she pulled him closer to stab him, only to dodge certain impalement from the Dark Apprentice himself, who brought his hand back and smacked her across the face, she fell over in pain.

Deimos then ran and struck Starkiller in the leg, who counterattacked with a strike to the shoulder.

The Sith Lord hissed in pain as he blocked another attack by Starkiller, getting into another saber lock.

"Soon I will kill you and bring your head back to my master, who will reward me for my accomplishment to kill a survivor like you,' he spat at Deimos, Starkiler raised his second blade and knocked both of Deimos's sabers out of his hands, he then switched to his curved hilt lightsaber, Deimos then dodged a second strike and rolled out of the way, he aimed for the apprentices right lightsaber, aiming for the hilt, he brought it down, only to touch air, the sound of a lightsaber pierce the rather brief silence, he looked down to see that a red saber had pierced his abdomen, the saber then left his body and he fell to the ground.

"NO!!!" Discord yelled, Starkiller let out a few bolts of lighting upon him, and the Miraluka Jedi for safety measures, the Spirit of Chaos then crumpled to the ground, defeated.

Deimos opened his eyes only to be greeted by pain, he saw that the Sith lay over him, lightsaber drawn, he raised his saber to deliver the killing blow.

Only to be blocked by a certain Kaleesh Warrior; Jeyeva rolled off the platform he was hiding above and blocked the blade to protect Deimos and continued to attack Starkiller, who struggled to get up, reaching for his emergency saber, only to find it missing.

The Kaleesh was pushed back and was ultimately knocked to the ground, Deimos then force pushed the Warrior out of an oncoming blade.

Starkilled then turned and set his sights on Deimos, the Apprentice raised his blade as he was already weak, but then Deimos unleashed the Force Choke, Starkiller immediately grabbed for his throat, he then brought the blade down to strike Deimos.

But the saber never came, Deimos looked to see Starkiller had been stabbed through the chest to avoid his demise, the Apprentice then fell to the ground, dead before he hit the ground.

Deimos then turned to see the attacker, his eyes widening in surprise, it was his wife Cera, holding his emergency saber over  her head and shouted triumphantly.

Maul and Ahsoka returned with the T-Legion and Elements of Harmony, who looked at the results of the battle.

"Did you win?" the Togruta female said,

"Yes," Deimos then staggered and coughed up blood.

"But right now, I need a doctor," he said as he collapsed onto the forest floor.

Fluttershy then attempted drag the human to the hospital.

"He needs to go to a hospital, help!" she yelled before the rest of the six finally effectively helped bring the mortally wounded person to a hospital.



> Chapter 8: The History of Leumai
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Vader had felt it, his apprentice was just killed by an outcast Sith Lord and his master was about to visit Kamino for a little 'cleanup'. He looked at a stormtrooper. 

"I want you to move the cloning facility's operations to the old, abandoned clone factory just a a few thousand miles from here, my master will be here to destroy this one facility, do not question my motives, get it done," he informed the trooper.

"Right away sir," the trooper said, Vader turned, receiving a hologram of Sidious.

"Your assassin failed, I will personally see to the destruction of Starkiller's clones," he said bitterly.

"Yes Master," Vader said, the hologram shutting off.

Sidious turned from the stand and walked over to a control panel, he pressed a few buttons, paused, and walked over to his throne, sitting down.

Deimos must stay on that planet, he will not be my undoing! he thought in hatred.




Blurs were all Deimos could see; he looked to his side, looking at a pony in white with a light pink mane as he was being wheeled in on a gurney, he coughed, the pony looked at him in shock.

"He should be unconscious! What happened to him?" the pony asked the pony on the right, a purple-colored pony; Twilight.

"It's really hard to explain, but in the short of it, he was impaled by a weapon similar to his own," she said, reaching over and taking his sabers from his belt (Deimos growled as best as he can from the pony's actions), handing them to Maul, who was standing behind her, looking at the Sith Lord in wonder.

"I am quite surprised he survived an injury like this, I cannot say the same for my brother," he said, the nurse-pony raised an eye at his statement, as if she had an eyebrow to raise.

"Barely alive," Ahsoka pointed out, standing next to Maul.

"Be more positive Padawan Tano, at least he's still alive," Sana said, pushing past the Element bearers to closer inspect him.

Deimos's vision faded when he suddenly felt the feeling of unconsciousness overcome him.

"His vitals are dropping, he needs medical attention!" was last thing he heard before he completely fainted.




Day 13 in Equestria

Deimos suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes scanning the room he was currently in, a white room, ponies on gurneys, yep, definitely a hospital.

The weakened Sith looked down to see himself in a hospital blanket, he lifted it to see his chest completely bandaged up, wearing only his pants. His robes, shirt, and boots, were removed, possibly to provide comfort.

"Oh, you're awake," he turned to see a white pony with a light pink mane wearing a nurse's hat.

"Who?-" he coughed, his voice raspy, lacking moisture.

"Oh sorry," she ran off only seconds later for her to come back with a glass of water. Deimos reached with his hand, the glass levitated to him, he lifted it to his lips, savoring the taste of the water.

He exhaled, "Ahem, who are you?" he asked her.

"I'm Nurse Redheart, your friends brought you here after your... injury, what happened to you?" she asked him.

"Did you see what happened in the sky?" she nodded.

"The entire town was afraid of what was going on," she told him.

"Well I met a clone of an acquaintance who I then fought with several of my allies, but he gained the upper hand and stabbed me," he summarized the entire fight in just one sentence.

"I... have no idea what to say about that," Redheart admitted, she then straightened up, taking the clipboard from a tray, "Well, you're healing pretty fast, but you still have to stay in bed for the next couple of days, but in the meantime your friends are hear to visit, should I send them in?" she asked him.

"Fine, send them in," he said, she then trotted away.

Minutes later, the Elements and the others had arrived.

"(Hello, Sith Warrior,)" Jeyeva greeted.

"Greetings Jeyeva," the Sith greeted.

"Deimos," Maul and Ahsoka said.

"Maul, Ahsoka," he said, turning to the others, "Sana and Cera," Sana nodded at him, Cera just knelt over and kissed him, smiling at him.

"Good morning Deimos, how are you?" Twilight asked him, smiling at him, Rainbow kept glaring at him because of his last experience with her, Applejack gave him a slight smile, Pinkie was bouncing around the room, earning an angry glare from the Nurse, Rarity said nothing, but Fluttershy looked at a specific spot on the blanket, where his left hand is. 

"I'm fine, I guess there are more questions you'd like to ask, assuming you didn't finish all your questions" he then sat up, Fluttershy kept glancing at the spot on the blanket where his left hand is, he raised an eyebrow at her, but then ignored it.

"Well yes, with your permission of course," she said, Deimos sighed.

"Fine, ask what you want, I have nothing else to do, unless they're personal questions," he said.

"Well, umm..." Twilight blushed, giving away her intentions. Deimos scowled at her.

"Why do you want to know about me, of all people, why?" he asked her, who looked down at her hooves.

"Out of all you guys that we have met, you're the most mysterious of all of them. You served a supposedly evil empire, yet now you fight against it, making allies wherever you go and they know nothing of you, I want to know who you are," she explained to him.

Deimos sighed, "I guess so, I'm stuck in bed rest so I technically have have nothing else to do," he put his fingers on the bridge of his nose with his left hand, Fluttershy gasped, annoying Deimos.

"What the hell is your problem?! It's just-" Deimos yelled until he looked at his hand, he hadn't noticed that  the doctors had removed his gloves as well.

Oh, he realized why she was frightened of his hand.

A souvenir of Vader, his left hand was a prosthetic, it was sliced off by the dark lord's saber blade during their battle hours before he met Sana, who fashioned it out of several protocol and torture droids. The machinery in his hand softly whirred and clicked as he flexed it, he waved it around, Fluttershy's fear passed a little after she witnessed his passive behavior.

"Does it hurt?" she asked him.

"It did at first, but the pain has been gone for years. But look on the bright side, I'm ambidextrous now," he said in a flat, monotone voice, he looked at Fluttershy, who seemed to have calmed down. Twilight coughed, politely asking him to start his back story, the mane 6 leaned in closer (except for Rainbow) as if they would hear it better, the others remained, the others just stood and waited to listen.

"(This should be good,)" Jeyeva chuckled.

"You're not listening," Deimos said.

"And why not?" Ahsoka asked.

"Because I said so. Everyone out!" he said, the T-Legion were the first to leave, then Jeyeva, Sana, Ahsoka, Maul, who growled at him, and then Cera, who received a kiss and a forced apology from Deimos for yelling at them, Twilight took a mental note that Cera seemed to be the only one that calmed him.

"Ahem, how should I start this... my story started with my mother and father, from what I could tell from my birth records, my father was a Tatooine smuggler named Rein Leu and my mother was a Mandalorian bounty hunter named Hana Mai, a former member of Death Watch," he started, earning a surprised look from Twilight, as if it were unexpected on how he would start his past life.

"What's a smuggler and a bounty hunter?" she asked him.

"A smuggler is a person who illegally transports goods across different locations, a bounty hunter are mercenaries who track down people with a price on their head, usually capturing or killing them," Deimos explained.

The looks on their face: priceless, traces of fear across their face at the description of the bounty hunter, but he hid his grin under an emotionless mask.

"They had met during a deal, my father worked with the Hutt family, who hired my mother as a bodyguard, but the deal went wrong, the Hutt had died along with several of his guards, but they had both managed to survive with their wits and weapons. They had both went their separate ways, but after several coincidental times, they had begun to take they same missions unknowingly, when they had notices, they decided to work together as a time, mutually working with one another. Over time, they had began a relationship, even going so far as to get married. Neither of them wanted to change their last names, so the name Leumai was created," Deimos continued, waiting for them to ask any questions, none so far.

"A few years later a child named Kane was born, the couple were in a bad deal with several gangs, they didn't want the child to be raised in a life of danger, so they sent their child into a pod to the nearest planet with civilized life, hoping that he would find a good home with a good family, but unfortunately, Kane's pod was heading for a planet formerly known as Korriban, the home planet of the Sith," he paused, seeing the look of horror on their faces at the fact that a child was abandoned to a desolate planet.

"Korriban was dead, but there were few people that had taken residence on the planet, Dark Jedi and slaves for example. the pod landed near a slave labor camp, two Sith Pureblood slaves that didn't have the Force in their veins had found the pod, they took the child and raised him as their own for the next three years in secret, when the child was three years old, the Jedi sensed the child from Korriban, it was felt as faint change in the force, regarding the amount of Dark energy that enveloped Korriban, they sought him out and when they found him, he was already friends with another Pureblood, a girl named Cera, they rescued the slaves, killed the Dark Jedi, and took the two to the Jedi council, where the boy and girl were to become Jedi," Deimos said.

"So you met Cera at a young age?" Twilight asked him.

"I can tell you're taking notes of this, but regardless that my history actually matters, yes I had been friends with her when I was three, but please let me continue. Where was I? When the boy became older and Cera disappeared from the Council for reasons unknown, he had never known his actual name, so he was given one: Ky Narec, who had began training by Jedi Grand Master Yoda, he was then granted to build his lightsaber, but had built another due to controversy in it's design; by the time he was fifteen, Ky was commended to Jedi Padawan, who's master was a man named Hedwa Laek. But as the years pressed on, he then became a Jedi Knight after the Battle of Naboo, when he saved his newly acquainted friend Jonothen Doscrid, a practicing Consular. Ky was eager to become a Jedi Master by passing the trials of Knighthood again, which succeeded, granting him the title of Master. Ky was then assigned an apprentice, Jonothen, who was reluctant to learn from him and quickly became a true Consular faster than Ky had become a Master, so he searched for another apprentice, one who was eager to learn, but he was assigned a mission to Rattatak to investigate criminal activity, when he had arrived, he was in the middle of a bloodbath, a battle between Rattatak criminals and Weequay raiders, there he had rescued a young girl who had also saved his life as she was strong in the Force, so he trained her until she was old enough to be a padawan, but she never finished her training, when we were saving Rattatak from crime, Ky was shot in the back, but he used the Force to barely cling to life, but he watch helplessly as his padawan fell to the Dark side and began killing those that had attacked him," Deimos stopped as he saw Fluttershy sniffling, he looked at her.

"Did I do something wrong?" he asked Twilight.

"I-I never knew you had been through so much," she said, sniffling through tears of sadness.

"This is only half the story," he told her until returning to the story, "Anyway, Ky was nursed back to health and had left to the Jedi Council, this time more reluctant to live, but during a meditation he had a vision of his mother and father, so he set out to find out more about himself, he searched any clues of their whereabouts, until he saw that they were in Tatooine, in a peaceful little home, so he traveled to Tatooine, to a home just a few miles away from Mos Espa, the man Rein Leu and Hana Mai were in their old ages, being looked after by droids, so they then recognize their son almost immedietly and tell them that his real name is Kane Leumai, so he stays with them during their final days alive, when they pass, he buries them and returns as Kane Leumai, he then returns to the temple, where he studies and trains vigorously in the ways of the Force, until one day he then thinks about the concept of the Dark side, seeing it as not necessarily evil, but it's users corrupted, he then studies in the ways of the Dark Side, where he is then discovered and flees the temple. Kane then attempts to learn the ways of the Force, so he searches for another Sith, Lord Tyranus, also known as Count Dooku, where they fight until Sidous reveals himself to Kane, Sidious tells Dooku to leave, the Dark Jedi and the Sith Master then talk about Kane's need for learning the ways of the Dark Side, so he is trained personally by Sidious, mentally and physically until the Clone Wars end. So he then becomes a full fledged Sith named Deimos, me. I then begin my days as an assassin just when Order 66 is initiated, carrying out orders until I lose my arm to Vader, rescue Sana, leave the star destroyer and hide, so we hid for years until our story begins with you," he says, his eyes closed, he then opens them to notice that he had gotten a bigger crowd, a group of sick patients from around the place, listening to the story, eager to hear more. 

"And that's my story," Deimos finally says, the group groans in annoyance and trot away to their rooms. 

"Well, that was a long story, but ah have to help Big Mac with the farm," Applejack said.

"Agreed, I must tend to the shop darling," Rarity nodded.

"Wait! There us something I must tell you two," he then gestures for the other four to leave temporarily.

"What is it sugarcube?' Applejack asked him.

"I don't know how to break it to you but (sigh), do you remember when I left for a while to investigate the Sarlacc incident, but your siblings and Scootaloo were in the bag, they saved my life; they are force-sensitives," Deimo said.

Applejack and Rarity's jaws almost dropped to the floor immediately after he said that.

"B-but, they don't even have their Cutie Marks yet!" Applejack exclaimed.

"Why I haven't discovered their presence sooner was because your princess was hiding all Force presence around her entire country, but now that it was off temporarily, I sense everything that is the Force," he explained to them with excitement in his voice, and for a brief second, they swore they saw his eyes flash from their normal yellow to blue in the blink of an eye before returning to their original yellow color.

"So if you were to train them, would they get their Cutie Marks?" Rarity asked him.

"There probably hasn't been one for Force abilities, but their's a first for everything."

"Would they become like you?" they asked.

"I will teach them how to use the basics of the force, neither Dark nor Light, and how to use a lightsaber, but it is their option whether to follow the path of light," he raised his left arm, several quills floating in his hand, "Or the road to darkness," he lifted his right arm, holding a ball of lightning.

Applejack lowered her head, Rarity closed her eyes, "We'll have to think about it," they said.

"Take all the time you need, I will have to get more acquainted to these lands, but right now, I have to follow a doctor's orders," he scowled, his eyes turning a shade darker, "You four can come back!" he yelled, the others returned with Applejack and Rarity, Twilight nodded to them and they left, leaving her and him.

"You have one more question, do you?" he asked her.

"Yes, who was your last apprentice?" she asked, his eyes softening and gazing out the window.

"A girl named Ventress, Asajj Ventress."
> Chapter 9: The Dark
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

I do not own MLP or Star Wars.

Day 30 in Equestria

The forest was still as a rock, silent as a calm wind, for someone dark had entered the very woods.

Deimos had come to the Everfree to concentrate. It has been 17 days since he has healed up and the Emperor didn't bother to send more troopers, sith, assassins or bounty hunters to come and kill him.

Good.

The Sith lord was performing a one-handed handstand, his legs slightly apart to maintain balance. Maintaining physical and mental stability was important.

Since those seventeen days, surprising things have happened very fast very quickly.

After Deimos's speedy recovery, they would've used Starkiller's ship to leave the planet, but he quickly found out that the Emperor had set it to explode if such an occasion happened, Sidious was trying to isolate them.

Besides the bad news, other interesting things had sprung up as well; Sana and Scrap almost managed to get the war droid working, but again it had failed, Ahsoka Tano and (surprisingly) Maul had both volunteered to be some sort of law enforcement of Ponyville, giving them some sort of respect, despite Maul's frightening appearance, Deimos had thought that this was unusual of their behavior.

Deimos then slowly lowered his arm, his toes and fingertips only touching the ground.

The T-Legion carried on normal drill exercises each day for a few hours before getting to know the village more and more. Twilight and Cera had gotten to know each other as well, sharing common interests in each other's work. 

"Feel the force feed your strength, give you power and control," he exhaled, looking to his left, he saw Apple Bloom imitating his posture exactly (impressive...); to his right: Sweetie Belle straining to get mimic his stance; Scootaloo, who was behind him, was struggling to maintain posture; then he looked to his front, he saw Jeyeva overlooking the scene, impressed with how they were doing. 

Oh, and he had gotten permission from Rarity and Applejack to train the girls in the Jedi and Sith ways.

Deimos sighed and got back up, walking over to the tree and put on his shirt and robes.

"Training dismissed," he said, Sweetie Bell and Scootaloo collapsed in exhaustion, breathing heavily, Apple Bloom exhaled deeply and got back to her hooves, Deimos nodded at them, they smiled back ad left.

"(I am impressed by why you want to train them, Sith,)" Jeyeva said.

"Sidious killed the Jedi and is the only ruler of the Sith, I take it upon myself to preserve the ways of the Force, whether I like it or not," he explained to the former Kaleesh warlord.

Jeyeva nodded in approval, "(Good, it is best to secure the future, to train the younglings into warriors so they may stand as a beacon of hope for those who cannot protect themselves.)"

"You do not sound like a Kaleesh Warlord," Deimos replied.

"(I only fought for the throne and for the good of the people, I ruled through peace but was not afraid to show that my warriors were mighty back when I was younger,)" he replied.

"Walk with me Jeyeva," and so he did, keeping the same pace as the Sith lord.

"(Yes warrior?) Jeyeva asked him.

"How were you aware that you could use the Force?" he asked him.

"(It was when I was in my fourth year that I started noticing that I could feel the very ground beneath my feet, the life that was above, around, and beneath, I had heard the legends of the Jedi and the Sith, and decided to be of neither allegiance, to serve my people, for they came first. I decided to forge a blade that I have seen in my visions. Then the Empire rose, their stormtroopers occupying Kalee, my people were eager to join, but I had seen the Empire's true nature, I tried to flee before I was captured and stuck in carbonite, and I thank you for freeing me,) Jeyeva bowed in respect.

"You're welcome," Deimos answered, Jeyeva then walked away from the conversation to take part in something else.

Deimos had one more thought that troubled him.

They were ponies, lacking hands, they could not use a lightsaber.

He had to find a solution to this problem.




Day 36 in Equestria

Deimos looked at his new students, again in the Everfree, only in a more rockier area. 

"Your training has advanced, you will now lift these stones as part of your training," he announced, seeing the looks on their faces.

"But these rocks are huge! How could we lift them up?" Apple Bloom asked him.

"Size does not matter when using the Force," Deimos said, he then walked over a boulder, he then turned to face them, focusing on his anger and clear concentration, the Sith slowly began to lift a single hand until it reached the approximate height to his neck.

As he was doing this, the rock began to slowly rise off the ground and hover in mid-air, until he lowered his hand, the rock mirrored his actions.

"Impress me," he said, walking over to another rock and sat on it.

He watched as Apple Bloom walked over to an average-sized boulder, she closed her eyes and lifted her hoof towards it.

"Focus on it, don't survey it's size, clear your head and ignore all distractions," he said to them, watching as Apple Bloom struggled to pick it up, until she eventually gave up, her breathing labored from the training. 

Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle's situations were different however; they had managed to lift it, Sweetie Belle lifted the rock more with ease, Scootaloo struggled but still held firm.

Deimos suddenly sensed a dark presence, his head whipped to their direction, "Training dismissed, go home," he said quickly.

"But we just star-"

"I said now!" he yelled as he took off running, the CMC close on his heels.

They finally made their way out of the forest, Deimos stopped, the Cutie Mark Crusaders panting as they caught up with him, they then obeyed his orders and began trotting back to their homes.

Deimos had lost the presence, so he decided to clear his mind and search for the source of the dark force.

Sitting down cross-legged, his palms together, he began to concentrate.

His mind had entered a trance-like state, his mind opened to the entirety of the force. Deimos's mind quickly spotted it; small, unnoticeable, but it was there, hidden in Twilight's castle...

Deimos quickly snapped out of his trance and ran as fast as he can to Ponyville...

20 minutes later...

Twilight had just woke up, she walked over to the kitchen and made herself some cereal. She then looked around to see that Deimos was not there, finally remembering that he said something about training.

Finally, peace, she thought to herself.

She concentrated her magic on the spoon, it lifted off the table, it then lowered into the bowl dug itself into the grainy food, it rose back up with the food, Twilight then brought it to her mouth and-

(*Crash*)

The sound of a door slamming into a wall resonated through the halls.

"TWILIGHT!!!" she jumped in fright as she heard the sound of a certain Sith Lord screaming for her, the spoon clattering to the floor.

The violet alicorn quickly ran to greet him, but she suddenly felt a force shove her behind him, Deimos quickly drew his lightsaber.

"Twilight, there's a dark presence in this place, what happened while I was gone?" he asked her.

Deimos could almost literally smell her fear, but it was obvious she was trying not to look the part, the shrunken pupils, sudden twitchy attitude, and the frantic look on her face.

"W-well, I just woke up, I was just going to the kitchen for breakfast now, you woke me up to tell me what you were going to do, train Apple Bloom, Sweetie, and Scootaloo?" she asked him.

"Yes, it went good, but that's not important right now," he then cleared his mind again, but to see that it was right behind him.

Twilight.

Deimos whipped around and activated his lightsaber, pointing it at her, she jumped back a few feet, "Who are you?!" he yelled at her.

"What are you talking about?" she was about to panic.

"The dark presence that I felt was you, and I haven't felt any dark presence from the real Twilight, who are you?" he demanded.

"I am Princess Twilight Sparkle, who else would I be?" she questioned him, her voice now in sudden annoyance, but with a slight hint of fear in her voice.

"I have met a changeling bounty hunter, attempting to impersonate me, I made sure his death was excruciatingly painful," he growled in malice. 

"I'm not a changeling, I could prove it!" she pleaded.

Deimos raised an eyebrow, putting away his saber, "What happened when we first met?"

Twilight answered immediately, "Your ship crashed in the Everfree forest, we were sent to investigate, you surprised us via tree and you fought a group of soldiers that serve your Empire."

His stance became more passive, "You're still Twilight, good, but why does the darkness reside in you?" he asked.

"I... don't know, I don't even know what it is," she admitted.

"Have here been any changes to you, anything at all?" 

"I- no it's too ridiculous."

"Tell me, I need everything that might help," he said.

"Fine... I've been having bad dreams," she responded quickly, Deimos took time to ponder this.

"Bad dreams?" he said.

"(Sigh) I told you it was ridiculous," she said.

"What do you dream about?" Deimos asked her, she then closed her eyes.

"I... see a large castle, maybe a temple in the night. I watch as an alien of your species begins walking up a large set of stairs as hundreds of troopers walk in, matching each others hoofsteps, behind him, his face is concealed by a hood and he has a saber similar to yours in his hand; I sometimes see the death of many... Jedi? Is that what you call them?" she asked him.

"You're seeing Knightfall," he said, surprised and fascinated by her dreams so far.

"I also see two human males fight, an unconscious female splayed across the floor, I feel the heat of hundreds of volcanoes as i watch them fight, ending with the older man's victory as he stands atop his opponent, missing three of his limbs and burning from the ignited fire; but out of those dreams, I see something that gives me a new hope, I watch as a child, taken from the mother who had already passed is taken and given to another family, relatives probably, and the other is taken by a darker-skinned human," she finished.

Deimos's eyes were wide, she had seen the past of Knightfall, there must be something wrong. Deimos dropped to his knee to face Twilight, his face filled with concern, his hands outstretched across her head.

"What are you doing?" she asked.

"Something I have never tried before, I will attempt to find this darkness's source," he then pressed his hands across the temples of her head, focusing the Dark Side of the Force into her head, acting as a conduit.

Damn Nightsister magic, he said, during his travels as a fugitive, he, on occasion, had to hide on Dathomir, learning from whatever remained of the Nightsisters and Mother Talzin.

He entered the recesses of her mind, doing his best to avoid memories and find the darkness. Light surrounded her mind, the Element of Magic embedded into one of the parts of her mind. 

He then spotted the flaw, a small little black sphere.

What are you, you little virus?

His mind reached out and touched it, it violently shook and forced itself at him. Deimos acted quickly and decided to leave her to leave her mind, gasping for air as he released his grasp from her.

"What did you see?" she asked him.

"Your mind is of light, making it easy for me to spot your certain anomaly, it tried to block me out, but I managed to find it's source," Deimos turned to the door, "Follow me." 

The Sith Lord opened the door with Twilight at his side.

They were then greeted by sunshine, the air cool and crisp, but Deimos did not regard it and continued walking, making a beeline towards the source.

Twilight noticed that the ponies had seemed to calm down at his presence (probably something to do with saving Ponyville from an impending attack...).

Deimos had been walking at a normal pace until he saw Maul and Ahsoka walking through the streets of the small village, "Maul! Tano!" he called out. The two had heard him and walked over to him.

"What is it Deimos?" Ahsoka asked.

"Twilight and I are going to be gone for a while, we are on an important mission. Can you defend Ponyville?" he asked the two.

"Sure thing Deimos, but it will be tough with horn-head here giving me a hard time," she nodded towards Darth Maul, who simply growled at her before slightly nodding at Deimos.

"Good, I will see you two later when we get back."




Deimos and Twilight have been walking for hours, following the dark's source; he looked at Twilight's exhaustion, knowing what she was going to say.

"It has only been a couple of hours, we must keep walking, just another mile," he said, more to himself than to her. The two have been walking for hours, surviving on small portions of whatever the former Sith Lord carried and whatever they foraged. 

Twilight then collapsed, "I can't, I just can't," she wheezed.

Deimos rolled his eyes, "Don't be such a child," he then lifted the purple alicorn with the Force and began walking with her floating right beside him; he took out a canteen of water and handed it to her.

"Thank you," she whispered.

They had continued walking for the rest of the mile before reaching a large dark cave, he could feel the dark side radiating from it.

He then lowered his hand, Twilight landed on her rump with an "oof!"

"I sense darkness from this place, what should we do?" he asked her.

"You're the one who decided to walk here, you decide!" she protested in disbelief, he was asking her?!

"We report our findings to your ruler, in the meantime, we introduce the newcomers to the princesses when they arrive," he decided.

Twilight was running several different scenarios on how this could work out until she reached a final decision.

"Good idea."




Deimos sprinted back to Twilight's castle, carrying her with the force. When they reached the door, Deimos slammed it open, revealing a certain purple dragon sitting on Twilight's chair.

"Oh, hi Deimos!" he said.

"I need you to write a letter to the princesses..."

"Spike, we haven't been officially introduced," Spike replied bluntly. 

"Okay, anyway, I need you to write a letter to Celestia and Luna since I haven't really studied how your alphabet works," Deimos explained.

"No problem, what should it say?" Spike asked the Sith.

"' To Diarchs Celestia and Luna, I have some news to inform you that there is something in the Everfree forest that strongly radiated the Dark side of the Force, I must ask you to come and investigate this issue.

Your associate, Lord Deimos.'" he said, Spike wrote furiously onto the paper and blew it away with his magic flames.

"How long do you think it'll take for them to arrive here," he asked the baby dragon.

"From the urgency in that letter, ehh, give or take 10 to 15 minute," Spike said.

"Is that a bet?" Deimos asked.

"It could be," he grinned.

"Ten credits or whatever currency you use say that you're wrong," the Darth said.

"Deal."




20 minutes later...

"Dang it," Spike grumbled as he silently handed Deimos a small bag of bits, who was grinning in triumph. They stood outside with the others as they watched the chariots opened up, revealing the princesses and several royal guards.

Celestia stared directly at Deimos, her eyes filled with concern, but Deimos then glanced at one of the royal guards, who was glaring daggers at him as well as another pony not dressed in guard attire.




Deimos stood in the center of the circle of seats, the Elements in their appropriate seats of harmony along with the princesses and the others.

"I will explain the issue as politely as I can," Deimos straightened himself, he concentrated on the Unifying force, seeing their past.

"It has been six months since you fought the centaur Tirek, a creature of malice and evil, when he was defeated, Twilight developed a dark foreign object in her, but don't be afraid, it has nothing to do with her, the anomaly is tied to a cave, a cave overflowing with the dark side of the force, Twilight is just a mobile conduit that channels the caves hunger," he explained, some of the ponies's eyes filled with worry, concern, or suspicious, the others frowned. 

"And how do ya suppose we get this thing out of there?" Applejack asked him.

"I was just about to get to that part, but it's quite simple, we enter the cave," he replied casually, the whole room was silent.

"Are you crazy, if it has so much of that dark side stuff, why would you go in there?" Rainbow protested.

"One: yes, I am crazy, two: I am a Sith Lord, Darth Deimos, I thrive on the darkness, three: this darkness hasn't felt my power yet," Deimos answered, grinning evilly.

"Are there any volunteers?" he asked, the room was silent, no one breathed a word or raised a hand or hoof.

Suddenly Cera raised her hand, a reluctant smile on her face, "I'll go with you, my love," Deimos silently turned red, shifting his hood so no one would notice.

Jeyeva rose his hand as well, "(I will follow the Sith Warrior with honor)."

The Terror Legion then raised hands as well, "We'll follow our leader's commands to the ends of the galaxy."

Sana, who replaced her dirty blindfold with linen wraps, raised her hand, knowing she still owes Deimos a debt. Ahsoka raised her hand as well, but when she rose hers, Maul's hand immediately shot upwards (note to self, keep a closer eye on those two), the same thing happened when two of the guards saw that Twilight and the others rose their hooves.

Deimos nodded in satisfaction, "Then it's settled, let's go."

And with that they will soon step into the secrets of Equestria...


> Side-Story: Murder in Manehatten
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

I do not own MLP or Star Wars!

Day 29 in Equestria, several days before the discovery of the cave...

After Deimos's recovery, Maul and Ahsoka had started their jobs as "vigilantes" of Ponyville, although they were already well known.

While Deimos regularly trained the girls, the two made sure that nopony would get hurt. Although Maul didn't like the idea, he stuck with it anyway, hoping that he would eventually kill some criminal pony.




Maul watched from the roof of the Mayor's place, surveying the entire town, his broken lightsaber cautiously in his hand, although the village seemed all innocent and sunshines, there is something bad waiting to happen. Always.

He heard light footsteps behind him, he quickly slashed at his target, only to stop as soon as he saw that it was Ahsoka.

Ahsoka Tano, a former Jedi padawan: she was an aggressive fighter on some occasions after an "unexpected" sparring match, yes , that was something that he was content with, but she was reckless and overconfident, even a former Sith such as himself knew his own limits.

She had an almost frighteningly similar personality to Savage.

"Tano."

"Horn-head," she smirked, Maul growled and sheathed his lightsaber, "What do you want?" 

"I'm just here to help," she replied casually, this bothered Maul.

"I don't need your help," he quietly snapped at her.

"Hey, we both agreed on this, we work together," she fumed.

Maul chuckled darkly, "On the contrary, padawan." 

"Maybe you should remember that you were an apprentice as well," she remarked, her features were clearly distinguishable, the carbonite that both of them had been trapped in kept their bodies fresh, only Maul was kept longer, making them the same age in appearance; he was tortured by Sidious for a year before being frozen in Carbonite for the next 19 years, making him, in appearance, 36; while Ahsoka hid well until she was eventually caught at the age of 34, tortured and frozen for two years before being rescued by Deimos and his fellow Terror Troopers.

The zabrak warrior rolled his eyes and turned to look back down at the town.

Only to get hit by a speeding grey and yellow pegasus. Maul fell off of the railing, plummeting to the second platform and finally hitting the green grass that didn't feel so soft after hitting it from a 30 foot drop.

The pegasus clumsily rushed to his aid, "Are you okay?" she asked him.

Maul looked up to see Ahsoka doing her best not to laugh, he quickly stood up and brushed the dirt off of his shorts, "I'm fine," he snarled at her, but this mare didn't seem to get the hint.

"Well I gotta letter for a.... Mall? and Uh-so-ku Tonno?" she tried to pronounce their names with no success; luckily Tano dropped to the ground and took the letter before the Zabrak Sith could do any real damage.

"Thank you..." the Jedi trailed off.

"Derpy, Derpy Hooves," she said before fake saluting and flying off.

Ahsoka hastily opened the letter and read it.

"What does it say?" Maul said, walking over to her.

"It's a letter from a place called Manehatten, apparently there has been an incident and they need our help, just us specifically," she said, confusion in her voice.

"How did they know about us this quickly, it's not like some..." Maul trailed off, coming to a sudden realization.

"What is it?" Ahsoka asked him.

"That pony, the human fanatic, Lyra or whatever had to go on a trip to Manehatten. I think that she had spread the word of our appearance, and they sent a letter to us about this 'incident' because they're probably skeptical about our presence," Maul concluded, Ahsoka only shrugged.

"Regardless of that, we have a train to catch," the Togrutan Jedi grinned.




Maul had never felt claustrophobic in his life, but today was first; the train was small by his standards, the worst part was that this was around a five to seven hour ride to the city; just great.

He looked to see that Ahsoka was already sound asleep on one of the seats, Maul decided to do the same, he sat down, actually trying to relax, he closed his eyes with one thought on his mind.

Far above, far above. We don't know where we'll fall... 




Maul and Ahsoka stepped off the train and into the metropolitan city of Manehattan, the sprawling buildings challenging to be taller than the other.

But neither Ahsoka nor Maul found these buildings as impressive as the cities of Coruscant.

"Where to now?" Maul asked, Ahsoka took out the letter and read it, "It's suppose to be at the Manehattan mayor's office, we're actually pretty close, just a few blocks away."

Maul and Ahsoka continued walking to the office, which they managed to get through after a few flights of stairs, but receiving frightened stares from passing ponies, usually because Maul ended up glaring at most of them.

"Quit it," Ahsoka said, Maul was on the verge of reaching for his lightsaber and darksaber before they found the place; Maul opened the door and closed it when Ahsoka had walked inside as well, he looked to either side to see two guards blocking his path with spears, pointed directly at him.

"You will let us i-" Maul waved his hand in front of both of the guards's faces.

"Let them in!" a voice resonated through the room, the guards lowered their spears; the Sith and the Jedi walked into the room to see an aged unicorn sitting on a chair
facing a desk, using magic to fill out papers with a quill.

"So, Lyra was right after all, you actually exist," he replied casually.

"With all due respect sir, were you the one that sent the letter?" Ahsoka asked.

"Actually no, it was a Royal Guard who took Lyra's advice and sent you the letters, she spoke highly of you two specifically," he said, looking back down at the paper before sliding it away to face the unlikely duo. 

""Just explain why you have sent us," Maul replied, obviously annoyed.

"The thing is, there's been several murders," that caught Maul's attention.

"I'm listening," he said, intrigued by where this was going.

"It's been a long time since a murder actually occurred in Equestria, can't say the same about our neighboring countries, gryphons, dragons, changelings..." the Mayor reached into a filing cabinet and pulled out three photos, each one depicting a different style of death.

Maul picked up the photos and looked at each one of them; a unicorn stallion, his neck torn open, blood everywhere; a pegasus mare, her head caved in on a sidewalk, strangely with little blood; and lastly an Earth pony stallion with three long cuts along both of his sides and along his spine, clean cut with no blood.

Maul paused, glancing at each of them, "Do you have a morgue nearby?" 

The mayor nodded, "Yeah, it's pretty far, just a quarter of a mile away, it's not really used since Equestria has a low death rate, but the bodies are there, just talk to the mortician."

"Thank you," Ahsoka said, Maul was silent.

Maul took the photos and stuffed them into one of his pockets and walked away; Ahsoka following.

They reached the main floor and left the building, "So why do you want to go to the morgue?" Ahsoka asked him.

"I need to examine the bodies," he said.

"Wow, I didn't know you were such a detective," Ahsoka attempted to tease him, but he seemed to take it literally.

"My master did not just teach me the ways of the force. He taught me about using forensics to hunt down targets, which I refined that skill at the Orsis Academy when I was younger," he explained without missing a beat.

"I heard about that place before, what happened to it?" 

"I burned it to ashes," Maul said, grinning at the memory.

...

...

"Um, okay," Tano said, her voice made up of mixed feelings.

They spotted the morgue, Maul and Ahsoka walked over and opened the doors.

The two watched as the mortician walked over to them, "Oh, hello, you must be Maul and Ahsoka. My name is Lifeblood the mortician, you could say that I have been fascinated by the dead all my life, ironic isn't it? But enough of my backstory. So what can I do for you?" he chuckled weakly, but it disappeared as he stared at the sheets that covered the obvious.

"We have to examine the bodies," Maul said, pushing past him.

"Wait! Who gave you the authori-" Lifeblood protested until he felt something around his throat and saw Maul with his hand as if it was grabbing at something, then he felt himself pushed into the wall.

"I did, I am here to examine them whether you like it or not," Maul snapped, he walked over to the sheet and removed it, looking at the pony with the torn neck, Ahsoka had to cover her nose from the smell.

"Too... sloppy," Maul covered the body again in disgust. He walked over to the second one with the bashed in head.

"Too primitive," he once again covered the body and moved onto the last one.

"This is an interesting case," Maul remarked as he ran his fingers along each hollow cut, there was no blood, just dried bone and muscle.

"What're you trying to get out of this?" Ahsoka asked, Maul turned to face her with rare amusement plastered on his face.

"The bodies tell a story. If I am correct, then each body, if in chronological order, display the constant refinement and need for perfection of his or her murders. The unicorn's death was to prove that the killer can take on a tough challenge; then the pegasus, who's head was caved in, was just a need for practice; and finally the last one, surgically killed, the cuts look pre-mortem, but the draining of the blood was post-mortem, so the killer was enjoying the constant agony of his or her victim, the blood was just withdrawn carefully to remove evidence," Maul deduced.

Ahsoka's jaw almost dropped, Lifeblood was impressed at Maul's skills, "Is that all?" he said.

"Of course not; I can tell you that the killer is male and a unicorn; I will need access to the victims's personal belongings," Maul explained.

Lifeblood nodded and took out a small set of keys and tossed them to the Iridonian, "Knock yourself out."

Maul nodded and headed to a door and opened it, the room was an evidence locker that stored all of a ponies belongings.

"What were their names?" Ahsoka asked the mortician.

"The unicorn was Friar, a merchant from Saddle Arabia; the pegasus was Midnight Blues, a singer and weather pony; the last was Torque, a construction worker and blacksmith. They were good ponies, they didn't deserve it," Lifeblood sighed and turned away.

Maul's cybernetic legs caused the room to resonate sound within each step; he walked over to three bags containing the names of each victim, he Lifted all three of them over to a table and opened each one of them.

"How would these three be connected? Couldn't it just've been random?" the Togruta Jedi wondered.

Maul worked with precision, carefully inspecting each belonging with a thorough eye until he stopped, taking something from each bag.

"The only connection was where they were going before they were killed," he said, holding three cards; two were passes ad the last was probably a business identification card.

"Mares of the Night Club? That sounds like a kind of.... oh..." Ahsoka trailed off.

"And to think that this place was innocent of societal corruption," Maul snarled, he looked at pony, "Where is this place?" 

"Here is the address, you can't miss it," he explained, quickly scribbling the address down and handed it to Maul.



Both the Sith and the Jedi were disgusted at the sight of the place. Mares dancing on stage, stallions watching with the look of a pervert in their eyes, bouncers at the entrance. 

How can a world like this house such perversion? Maul thought.

"What do we do?" Ahsoka asked him.

Maul paused, "Search for anyone who may know them. In a place like this, it will be easy."

The former Sith walked over to a door and opened it, immediately knowing it was the back room. 

He walked over to one of the dancers who was looking at herself in the mirror, who wasn't paying any attention to him.

"Answer my question and answer it good. Are you familiar with the names Friar, Midnight Blues, and Torque?" he demanded.

"Honey, I'll do anything for paying customers onl-" she was about to say until she faced him, looking up at the scowl on his tattooed face.

"Last chance, do you know Friar, Midnight Blu-" 

"Hey! You're not allowed in here!" he heard one of the employees say, but Maul quickly turned and held out his hand and balled it up into a fist.

The bouncer suddenly fell to the floor gasping for air, the mare looked in fear as she saw Maul's face was filled with anger and satisfaction. 

"Please stop! I-I'll tell you!" she whimpered, Maul glanced at her and let go of him.

"Damn, and it was about to get good," he whispered to himself as he let the stallion go, who collapsed, gasping for air, "Tell me everything."

"Friar was here on a business trip and vacation, he wanted to get away from the hardships for a while, turning to my services. His accent didn't match his appearance, he had a Manehattan accent, as if he was raised here; Midnight Blues was a singer at a club right by here, but it closed down when she died, she usually came here when she needed a drink; Torque was a construction worker who was cheatin on his wife with one of my girls here," she explained quickly.

"Thank you for your assistance," he growled as he left the room, leaving the frightened mares and a single stallion trying to stand up on all four hooves.

Ahsoka turned to Maul, "Did you get anything?" 

"Only that Friar was raised here, Midnight Blues came here for drinks, and Torque was unfaithful to his family. What did you find?" he asked.

"Where each of them died," she said.

Maul gave her the smallest of grins.




The location was behind a dark alleyway, each particular spot was outlined in tape to show the positions of the victims, the three outlines were each around twenty feet away from each other.

"The three victims knew each other somehow, some sort of secret meeting I guess," Ahsoka hypothesized.

"The probably were dealing some sort of drugs, but no such drugs exist in Equestria. The killer must have set the meeting for them and killed them when they were in one area, but the kills were not quick or slow telling from the distance each pony was," Maul said.

"So it was personal?" Ahsoka wondered.

"Precisely. It had to be someone they knew closely but they hate them as well," Maul closed his eyes and concentrated.

"What're you doing?" Ahsoka asked him, but Maul ignored her.

He then quickly opened his eyes and began running.

"Wait for me!" she yelled.




Maul quickly opened the door with Ahsoka managing to squeeze through the small crack that the door had made before it had closed.

"Oh hi! I see that you two are back, how was the investigation?" he asked them.

"We're fine mortician, but what about you? Who were those ponies that you killed?" Maul growled, but Ahsoka stepped in front of him.

"Are you kidding me?!? He can't be the murderer!" she yelled at him, but he pushed her aside.

"Yes he is," Maul stepped forward, "The clues were obvious, each pony did not have a tag anywhere where their ears were, so how can you assume that you knew their names?"

"They were pretty popular," Lifeblood stated.

Maul scoffed, "One was a construction worker, the other was a singer, and the last was a merchant, how could they be famous?" he smirked before continuing, "And you wouldn't know their secrets, with Torque cheating on his wife  being one of them in the club. How would you know that?" 

"I-ummm- die!" he yelled and fired a magic blast at Maul, who quickly activated his lightsaber and blocked the blast.

Maul then Pulled the stallion towards him, "Are you ponies that stupid? I accused you with insufficient evidence and you immediately reveal yourself?"

"Why did you kill them anyways?" Ahsoka asked.

"Friar was one of the students in the the Manehatten University who always teased me with my small physique, Midnight was my marefriend until she cheated on me several times unbeknownst to me for six months, Torque was my brother who always seemed he was more important than everypony else; so I taught them a lesson," he glared at the two.

Maul rolled his eyes, "I have been betrayed by an emperor and a Sith Lord, my own brother killed in front of me, and tortured for years. Do you think that your petty matters rival the pain of the entire galaxy?" he yelled, the stallion shrunk more and more as he heard every word.

"W-what're you going to do to me?" he asked.

"I would execute you," Maul grinned, unsheathing his light and darksaber, holding them both intersecting across the pony's neck, but Ahsoka raised an eyebrow at him.

Maul unsheathed the sabers, "But that is not how I work anymore, you will be handed over to law enforement," he said, grabbing the stallion by the neck and dragging him away.




Later...

Maul and Ahsoka waited for the train to take them to Ponyville.

"You really showed restraint on the murderer back there," Ahsoka replied sarcastically, but the Zabrak knew she was faking the sarcasm and dry humor.

"I will not become what Sidious wanted me to be, that was my first mistake; making the same mistake twice with my brother was my second, but will not be who I was before," he responded stoically.

"A Nightbrother with a nasty attitude?"

"I am not a Nightbrother. I will be a man with a fierce sense of justice, nevermore vengeance and pointless bloodshed, I am not Sidious's puppet," he snarled.

"Ah, because you can make your own decisions now?" Ahsoka teased as if he was a child, but Maul snarled at her, his fingers anxious to reach his lightsabers.

"The train is here!" she replied quickly before Maul could do any harm, Sheesh, sensitive much?

The steam locomotive stopped and the door opened, each pony entering their designated areas, with Ahsoka and Maul taking the second-to-last train car.

Ahsoka ran to the car, "Hurry up slowp-whaa!" she said, thinking that Maul was far behind her before turning around to see his tattooed face, surprising Maul, but he did not flinch.

She momentarily lost her footing, pulling Maul's shirt, and Maul along with it. The two fell on top of one another.

With Ahsoka Tano's lips meeting his.

... ... ...

The two stood in shock for the longest time before Maul stood up and pulled her up with him.

Ahsoka cautiously sat onto her seat.

"This did not happen."

"Deal."

Maul knew that Jedi were no allowed to form attachments with other people because it could seduce them to the Dark side, and Sith romance was a taboo because love made them weak.

Maul watched as Ahsoka drifted to sleep, he decided to do the same.

He closed his eyes and began to succumb to sleep with only one thing on his mind.

Far above, far above. What once was great is rendered small.
> Chapter 10: Nekros
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

I do not own MLP or Star Wars.




Day 38 in Equestria

They had made it to the mouth of the cave and finally decided to enter the cave all at once to ensure strength in numbers, they each took their first steps into the cave and will soon learn a dark secret thousands of years older than even Celestia herself.

Celestia and Luna were persuaded to stay behind and let the others deal with it. Besides, how can Equestria rule without their main figureheads.




Deimos led the way as they trekked through the tunnels, his hand at his lightsaber if anything were to attack them.

"My, it's very dim," Rarity observed.

"Well we are in a cave, of course it's going to be dark," Cameron said, carrying his oversized weapon.

"Wait, I see something," Deimos said, he looked closely to see a small dimly lit lamp hanging from the ceiling.

Twilight charged up her horn to light the lamp, but her power faded as soon as she cast the spell.

"Strange, magic doesn't work here," Twilight whispered to herself. 

Deimos then decided to shoot force lightning at it, which flew up and struck the lantern, the lightning was then transferred to the next lantern, and like a current the lightning began chaining itself to each nearby lantern until the entire cave was surrounded by crackling blue light.

"Let's keep going," he responded, Twilight stared in shock.

"How were you able to do that?" she asked him.

"I guess magic is nullified here, clearly meant for force users only."

They spotted a small altar at the end of the cave, Deimos walked over to it and spotted a note in old galactic basis.

"What does it say?" Twilight asked him.

"It requires a drop of each of our blood," Deimos said.

"That can be arranged," Hano took out his vibroknife and handed it to Deimos, who made a nick in his hand and squeezed it into the empty bowl.

Hano activated the vibroknife to clear off any blood and did the same with his hand as well.

The process repeated until it was the ponies turn. The white and yellow-orange stallions did not hesitate until it came to the six mares.

"N-no," Fluttershy whimpered, Deimos sighed and concentrated on the six.

"What're ya do- OW!!!" Applejack yelled as a small cut appeared on leg, a drop of blood hovering to the bowl, the same things happened with the others.

"What did you do!" Rainbow said, hovering at Deimos.

"Just a mild use of Shatterpoint, it allowed me to see any weak points in your body, so I temporarily exposed them and acquired a drop of your equestrian blood," Deimos explained to them with a smug grin on his face.

As the last drop touched the rest, the bowl emptied and the entire place shook.

"Earthquake!" Pinkie screamed and hid under a bowl too small for her but she somehow managed to fit inside (another mental note: attempt to understand Pinkie will result in total brain failure).

A blue figure appeared over one of the projectors, revealing a man wearing a long black cloak and a hood, along with a lightsaber strapped to his side. 

"Greetings, I am Darth Nekros, council member of the Sith Empire during the Great Galactic War, if you are watching this then I am already dead. I leave this message to those who find this place and discover where I have been buried," the man spoke.

"Interaction Mode on", a voice blared out, the man looked at each of them.

"Well well, I see. From the DNA samples that you have given me: Deimos, the fallen Sith; Sana, the forsaken Jedi; Cera, the wife; Maul, betrayed by his master; Ahsoka, forbidden by the council; Jeyeva, the deceived king; the Terror Legion, loyal to the end; the Elements of Harmony, Equestria's greatest champion since the rule of Queen Faust; Flash Sentry, the romance of Twilight; and Shining Armor, the brother, ruler, and former guard," he announced, Deimos was dumbfounded by two things.

Twilight has a brother?!?

"How? This had happened three-thousand years ago, how can you know of us?"

"I assume you have asked about my logic, but that is for you to find out as you pass my trials of knowledge," Nekros said, waving his arm. 

As he said it, several doors opened.

"Each one takes a different path, oh and the Elements (and guards) are ineligible to pass the trials, so-" another door opened.

"They take the easy way out," he said, "If anyone else tries to take this path, then they will perish."

Suddenly each door suddenly possessed the names of each person who will take that path.

"What are you waiting for? Enter," Nekros said with a grin on his face as he watched each one walk their own paths.




Jeyeva:

The Kaleesh kept walking through the path that he has been given, contemplating the man's words.

How had this man known about my past? This must be some sort of trickery! he thought.

"No trickery, no games. Just the Force," an elderly feminine voice whispered nearby, Jeyeva's hand reached for his lightsaber.

"No need for that, here let me see," a pair of glowing eyes and a hand appeared, floating over.

"(Why?)" Kaleesh growled in his native tongue.

"My master has spoken of your past, 'the deceived king'. And a king must always have a symbol," it spoke.

Jeyava squinted his eyes at it until he finally unhooked his lightsaber, the hand took it with the eyes inspecting it.

"My, this weapon has seen much death and yet it was used to rule with peace, quite ironic is it not?" the voice began coughing until he realized it was laughing.

"(Quite so, but I kept myself from the curse of tyranny)," he argued.

"I will believe you, but I also have something to show you," the hands snapped their fingers and they suddenly formed into a magnificently beautiful woman wrapped in Sith robes.

"(Beauty will not deceive me,)" Jeyeva said. 

"Oh this? Ah, this was when I was younger, but this is not it," she said, her voice more clear and matching the appearance of her age. 

She beckoned to his, "Follow me."

And so he did. 

They continued walking until they reached a small shrine matching Kaleesh architecture.

"My master had told me to build these shrines but I did not know why, perhaps you are the reason," she pointed to a long box that laid in the center of the place.

"(What is in here?)" he said as he walked over and investigated the box.

"Each person who is to enter the trials of knowledge is to receive a gift if they pass," she replied.

"(And I passed? We only talked the whole way through,)" he said, dumbfounded.

"You are one of the easy ones, your mind is clear but your fighting has rusted. Take Deimos as your master and he will train you in the ways of the Force along with his other students," she said.

Jeyeva hesitated, but he had given it thought, Deimos is a fine warrior and I have respected him, maybe I do need to learn some things from him.

"That's correct," she smiled.

"(I do not tolerate you hearing my thoughts,)" he said.

"I'm not hearing them, my master is. I am just saying what he wanted me to say," she then disappeared.

Jeyeva stared at where she used to be until he focused on the box, he carefully opened it and stared at his gift.

It was a staff about as tall as him. It was black and made of polished metal..

He lifted it up and tested its weight until his finger slipped on a button at one of the ends of the pole.

Immediately a lightsaber blade appeared out of the end of the staff.

No, a saberpike.

Jeyeva smiled, Every king must have a scepter.




Ahsoka:

"What is on your mind, young one?" Nekros appeared before the Togruta Jedi.

"Leave me alone, and I am not young," she grumbled at him.

"That is true in body, but what about in mind?" he floated towards her.

"What are you saying?" she looked at him in annoyance.

"You are still the same child that left the Jedi council, the same as your when you were with your old master, Skywalker," Nekros snickered.

"What are you laughing at?" she demanded.

"Just his fate to this day, but that is none of your concern-" he said.

"It is my concern. He was killed in Knightfall wasn't he?" she asked..

"Keep telling yourself that, Tano," he cackled.

"What happened?" 

"Why should I tell you?" he asked thoughtfully.

"Just tell me!" she yelled.

""There is no emotion, there is only peace'," the Sith lord mocked.

"I'm not a Jedi anymore!" she yelled at him, who just grinned. 

"Well you have finally admit that," he said.

Ahsoka's eyes widened, "Hey I didn't mean-"

"What? That you won't abandon it's teachings and philosphy? Bah! You're a Jedi without an allegiance!" he accused.

Ahsoka calmed down, "You may be right about that," she mused.

"And for my first statement against you?" he asked.

"What do you mean?" 

"You are still clinging to the past like a spider on a shredded web, you think you can fix it but it will always stay the same no matter how hard you try," he pointed out.

"I do not!" she yelled out him, her fingers itching for the familiar hold of the lightsaber in her hand.

"Yes, you are," Nekros said.

"And how would you know this?" 

"Oh Tano, I'm surprised you don't know: 'there is no ignorance, there is knowledge'," he continued to mock the Jedi code.

"I just said I wasn't a Jedi!" she finally took her lightsaber and began slashing at him.

"Such fire, such passion. Speaking of passions, Maul..."

"Shut up!"

"'There is no passion, there is serenity'," he continued as he was dodging all of her swings.

"'There is no chaos, there is harmony'," Nekros used the force to shut off her lightsaber and lifted her into the air.

"I thought you said you were dead!" she yelled as she was high in the air.

"What I do here will affect your present time, my abilities are extraordinary beyond any Sith in my time, I am Lord Nekros, the patron Sith of time," he announced.

"Wow, narcissist much?" she rolled her eyes and she was let go.

"You're not surprised by my abilities? Even in your present status?" he asked.

Ahsoka looked at him and grinned, "There is no death, there is the Force."

She is a clever one, Nekros thought as he looked at her, "You have passed the test so far, but what have you learned from this?"

"Not to trust crazy Sith time-wielding holograms?" 

Nekros chuckled, "No, you have admitted that you have no allegiance to the Jedi anymore, yet you recite the code. You no longer are tied by the burden of a strict group, their code is your philosophy and therefore your freedom, goodbye."

And with that he shut off.




The Terror Legion:

When the doors opened, there resided one name for each person.

But for this door, it was the entire T-Legion. For they worked as one.

"We best be on our guard, this place can spring a trap any minute," Gale commanded.

"Oh is there a problem?" Nekros appeared out of then air, prompting them to point their weapons at him.

"Don't be absurd, those things can't hurt me, I'm already dead," he cackled.

"What do you want?" De'ien asked him.

"Oh just nothing really, I want you to pass a test for me and I will let you go," he responded.

"How will we know you're not lying?" Hano asked him.

"I give you my word, just solve this mission professionally and you will be free. If you don't then my task will kill you," he closed his eyes and disappeared.

As they walked on, they saw a metal door that stopped them in their tracks.

"Is this a joke?" Cameron asked the others.

"I think not, I think he's trying to test how we will get through; for all we know, there could be a hundred Old Republic Sith acolytes waiting for us on the other side if we went in blasters blazing," Warren hypothesized.

"Good call, I say we stick some explosives and kill whatever resides on the other side of the door," Cameron said.

"Guys."

"How about we just weld it open, it'll be more silent and less wasteful of resources," Scrap replied.

"Guys."

"How about I just hardwire this thing so we don't have to do either," Warren decided.

"Hey guys?"

"That's stupid, how can you even-"

"GUYS!!!"

"WHAT IS IT!!!" everyone yelled at Hano.

"The door was unlocked," Hano said, opening the door.

... ... ...

"Why didn't we open the door in the first place?"

"He did say that this was a test," Hano pointed out.

"Nevermind that, we must keep moving," Gale said, leading his group forward beyond the door.

Hano, the last clone of the Sa Cuis genetic template, joined the Legion to protect his identity, Nekros thought to himself.

The group was instantly transported to a large rocky and volcanic area, they immediately knew where they were.

"Mustafar, our first mission as the T-Legion," Gale whispered.

"When we fought alongside the 501st to kill Gizor Dellso," De'ien said.

They immediately went to work, shooting down any droids in sight.

"Scrap, get closer and fire your scattergun at those battle droids, Hunter will fire and provide long range support, the rest of you will hold our positions and draw fire and attract them," Gale commanded, lost in the memory.

"Seems a little risky sir," Cameron said.

"That will be noted, but concentrate on the remaining CIS droids," he yelled.

"Sir yes sir!" they shouted and began their commands.

Scrap tore apart the droids with his scattergun while Hunter began picking off droid heads, De'ien, Cameron, and Warren added as backup support while Hano silently picked off the droids and geonosians one by one.

Gale's group fought fiercely for hours until they heard one of the clone troopers say, "Dellso is finished Lord Vader."

The entire scene disappeared, leaving them in the cave again as they continued their trek throughout the tunnels.

Gale Yahn, former Corellian Bounty hunter, now leader of the Terror Legion through rising of the ranks.

Their next mission was to fight against rogue clone troopers, De'ien saved the Legion from several blaster wounds using vast medical knowledge to fix their injuries.

Former doctor De'ien Rotasha, signed up as medic to help those that have been wounded in the battlefield, fortunately ended up being assigned to the Terror Legion.

Cameron held back rebel threats using a torn off blaster turret and chain gun while the others were forced to hide.

The heavy weapons soldier Cameron, bullied in school and built himself to be an immovable rock, the Imperial Army was perfect for him.

Scrap quickly fixed a broken transport ship to help his fireteam leave a failed mission gone wrong using only a fusion cutter and a wrench.

Engineer Scrap, taught by his father to take apart and put back together broken speeders and make droids of his own, his knack for mechanics proved invaluably useful during several battle situations.

Warren used his abilities to hack into a pirates droid's central  relay system and ordered them to attack their own crew.

Saboteur Warren, The most ruthless out of all of them, his lust for deception to his enemies and ambushes have proven useful despite the fact that he was faithful unto his allies and served them with respect.

Hunter fought against corrupted stormtroopers and hesitated to fire after they had used a little girl as a bodyshield, but he fired anyway. This girl was now his foster daughter living with his wife in Imperial Center since she was a homeless orphan.

Hunter was the most kind of all of the soldiers, his reasons for joining the army was unknown but was still a excellent marksman and loyal soldier to his superiors.

Nekros stood at the last door, awaiting them.

"Take off your helmets," he said.

Gale took off his helmet, revealing a man in his early 30's with buzz cut brown hair and thin face.

Scrap was next, a man with pitch black hair and a goatee, his face showing a scar over his prosthetic eye.

Hunter's face was that of a clone's face, but the same age as in the Clone wars.

Cameron had red hair with scars covering the majority of his face, yet it had looked as normal as any other man.

Warren had mismatched eyes, blond hair, and a missing right ear lobe.

Hano was bald, his face expressed in a permanent sneer, but a loyal member of the crew.

Finally Dei'ien took off the helmet, revealing a Zabrak woman with brown hair up to her shoulders and the recognizable horns that jotted across her head.

Nekros looked at each of them, "I have been studying you and have found you all quite fascinating, but now here is your final test, pass it and you may go."

He waved his hand at the door and disappeared.

Instantly the entire cave seemed to have melted down to form an Imperial room.

"This isn't..." Gale said, at loss for words.

"No, not this memory!" De'ien yelled.

"Be ready guys, I hope we survive this one," Hano said.

It's the memory, this is my fighting chance! he thought.

The door burst open and revealed a figure clad in black, wearing a helmet that made his breathing resonate throughout the entire room.

Vader.

No one moved, no one even breathed. 

Until Gale fired.

Vader immediately activated his lightsaber and brought it down, but Gale leaped out of the way, the others opened fire on Vader but to no avail, for he blocked and dodged every move they made.

The Sith swung at them, each trooper barely missing the blade.

They remembered this memory, the elimination of the Terror Legion after Lord Deimos's exile.

Vader cut down several other troopers around him.

"Men, over here!" Gale shouted, the group took cover behind some construction equipment.

"What should we do?" Cameron asked.

Gale ran the scenarios through his mind, knowing who was to die to protect them from Vader.

But this was a vision, they could control their futures.

"Alright, I need Warren and Scrap to rig some of the explosives to disorientate Vader, Cameron has to distract Vader with heavy fire, Hunter and De'ien will provide secondary fire, Hano, you need to fight Vader directly, we'll help you," he said.

"Sir yes sir!" they said.

At once they began their plan, but so far none of it had succeeded.

Warren and Scrap had riggen the explosives, but Vader used the force to survive the blast, Cameron fired mercilessly at Vader with a heavy cannon, but Vader blocked with the force, and Vader merely blocked their blaster bolts as Hunter and De'ien fired at him.

But what he failed to notice was Hano leaping off a box and sucker punching him in the mask, causing the dark lord to stagger.

Vader force pushed the soldiers away, personally dealing with Hano.

"So you have survived the slaughter I have caused against your brothers, you will join them in death," Vader replied in a monotone voice.

"I plan to survive this Vader," Hano said, dodging a strike from Vader.

Darth Vader had swung his saber at him several times, but fortunately Hano dodged every move out of pure luck until Vader had him trapped in a corner.

"You are mine now," he said as he finally brought down his lightsaber on Hano.

But the blade never touched him, as it was being blocked by another.

And it's wielder was Hano himself.

"You forget Vader, I am a clone of Sa Cuis, I never leave this behind," he said as he pushed back Vader, striking and blocking Vader's every move.

Hano spun and kicked Vader in the chest, narrowly avoiding Vader's control panel, Vader then lifted him and slammed him into a crate full of thermal detonators. Hano grabbed a grenade, pressed the button and threw it at him; Vader grabbed the explosive with the force and crushed it, but what he didn't know was that this gave Hano enough time to take his blaster and fire it at the rest of the grenades, causing each and every one of them to explode on impact, causing Vader to fly across the room with several of his mechanical parts damaged. Vader's anger was the only thing keeping him alive, knowing that Hano was just extremely lucky, he would never let him get away with that again. 

Hano finally leaped and brought down his blade to finish Vader once and for all, but the dark lord grabbed him with the force and slammed him into the wall. He walked over to him with his lightsaber in his hand.

"I will enjoy torturing you, Sa Cuis," Vader muttered.

"My name is Hano!" he yelled, but Vader had brought back his blade to strike.

But someone new entered and attempted to tackled Vader, which ultimately failed.

Vader grabbed the newcomer by the throat and stabbed her, giving Hano the opportunity to punch Vader and push him back, he grabbed the soldier's dog tag and ran, the other soldiers finally regained their senses and followed Hano out of the room.

Hano closed the doors with the force and used his lightsaber to weld it shut, taking his blaster and shooting the controls.

That should hold him in there for a while, he thought.

The door bent at an odd angle.

Or maybe not, he thought again, "Guys, let's go!" he yelled, running to the hangar bay that held their spacecraft.

He looked at the dog tag that he plucked off the soldier that saved his life.

Yara Nanio.

The memory literally faded and the team stood in confusion, Nekros suddenly appeared again.

"What was that?" Gale asked the Sith.

"An important lesson that you will know later on, 'no matter what you do, some things are just meant to happen, even with the interference of others'," he observed each of their emotions; confused, puzzled, angry, "In other words, some things are just meant to happen," he said to each of them.

Hano looked down and suddenly realized that he was still holding his old lightsaber, a gift from Nekros.

"Commander Gale, you may be the leader, but your assassin plays a big role in this game of chance," he said, finally disappearing for good.

"Keep the saber, it'll do you good," his voice echoed without a body.




Sana:

Despite her lack of eyes, eyesight was nothing compared to the force.

She saw a man behind her, she unsheathed her lightsaber and swung her lightsaber at him.

Nekros grabbed her lightsaber and deactivated it, she looked at her lightsaber in surprise.

"Why do all my meetings with you people start like this?" he asked, annoyed by her actions.

"I will not ask how you did that," she replied.

"Quick to the point, I like it," he grinned at her in admiration, he waved his hand and a vision of a younger Sana at the center of the Jedi Council, awaiting what they were about to say.

"You have learned much about the force haven't you, Sana?" Master WIndu asked her.

"Yes, my master," she said, her face showing no emotion.

"Aware of your completion of the trials of knighthood, are you?" Master Yoda asked.

"That as well, master," she answered.

"What should we do with her?" Master Kenobi said, puzzled about the circumstances. 

"Well she is one of the youngest to ever reach knighthood. At the age of 12, I am impressed," Master Plo Koon complimented, but she still showed no emotion.

"I only aim to support the Republic and the Jedi Order," she responded.

"Well that settles it," Plo Koon said.

"But we still must decide if she is ready to become a Jedi Knight," Ki-Ad-Mundi said.

"Very well, padawan, you are dismissed," Kenobi said.

"Thank you masters," she said, walking away.

Nekros looked at the memory in his hand, "You really were a bright young student, weren't you?"

Sana looked at him, "If you are trying to sway my allegiance to the Jedi, you are poorly mistaken."

"No, but you have changed, and what caused that change?"

"Deimos," she replied.

"You have become his ally despite him being a Sith, and earlier you tried to kill him in the woods where you first crashed," Nekros said.

"He was only temporarily an ally. Besides, you just said he was Sith," she smirked.

Nekros shook his head in regret, "The Sith in my time were backstabbing traitors, I never knew the Jedi would stoop so low," he said.

"But he was Sith, it's not the same!"

"But you have no idea of who he was before," this time he smirked.

"Are you saying he was a Jedi before?" Sana said.

"How else would he recognized Discord if the spirit of chaos was a Jedi himself."

"How-"

"Blood sample, current biography, remember?" he gave her a malicious grin.

"Right, but how?" she asked.

"You have heard of curiosity? And do you know what happens when you put that with the dark side?" he said as if he was talking to a baby.

"He became a Sith, I get it," she looked at him in annoyance.

"Now you're catching on quick, I can tell that we'll get along," he clapped his hands.

"Not happening," she said.

"You're correct, and for that, you will not require a gift of mine. You will find the exit as you keep walking, farewell," he said as he disappeared before she could ask, leaving her in the cave.

Irritable Jedi, how worst can this get? Nekros said to himself as he watched and observed Sana's behavior.




Cera:

Nekros watched as the Sith Pureblood woman walked through the cave.

This will be interesting, he thought to himself, he vanished and reappeared near Cera.

"Cera Lai, an endangered species and wife of a Sith Lord," he observed.

"If this is your idea of greeting a Sith's wife, then you have a lot to learn," she said, frowning at his attempt.

"I do not care, but it has been a pleasure to make your acquaintance," he said, bowing in false respect.

Cera raised an eyebrow, "Just get to the point."

"You were with Deimos for a very long time, from Korriban to your disappearance, correct?" he asked her.

"Yes, but not intimately until the formation of the Galactic Empire, but Kane was my best friend until my disappearance," she said.

"And what caused your disappearance?" 

"I feel you already know the answer," she answered.

"Indulge me then," he said.

"I was kidnapped by Sidious, who had persuaded me to help him as an acolyte, but that changed when I was reunited with Kane, but he was Deimos at that point. The last thing I remembered was seeing Deimos held against a wall by Vader and I was fighting Mara Jade until I was impaled," she replied.

"But do you remember why you're alive, much more how?" 

"No."

"You were leverage for Deimos if he were to turn against the emperor and you were brought back from the figurative dead with medical surgery," he breathed.

Cera scowled at his confession to her fate, taking in his words one at a time before shouting, "I am going to kill Sidious!" she growled in anger.

"Not in your condition," he said, grinning like a madman. 

"What are you talking about? I'm perfectly fine, " she asked in suspicion.

"Nothing, we are through, take this," he responded quickly, tossing something to her.

She caught it, it was a lightsaber. She activated it, the blade glowed yellow in the dim cave.

"Are you giving me this to distract me from our conversation?" she demanded, sheathing the lightsaber.

He quickly turned around "Yes and no, but I must get going now, goodbye-" he turned his head to face her one last time.

"Oh and congratulations," he said as he disappeared.




Maul:

Maul cautiously walked through the cave's stone floors, his hands at his lightsabers, aware that something could come out and attack him at any moment.

He was half right.

A woman suddenly appeared out of nowhere in mid-air, she floated down the steps and stood just a few feet away from Maul.

"Hello Maul, I am Lord Junus, apprentice to Darth Nekros," she greeted him.

"Get out of my way, I do not need your help," he replied in anger.

"I came because out of all these people in this cave, you are the most conflicted," she said to him.

"What are you talking about?"

"You think that you find yourself surrounded by enemies, but you are unaware that you are in the presence of allies that will help you as you will help them," she answered.

"I do not need your pity," he responded with a growl.

"I'm not pitying you, I am here to help you, to fight against those that seek to oppose you," she said.

That caught his attention, he raised an eyebrow, "Tell me more."

"To pass this trial, you must confront your past, your grief, anger, and regret," she waved a hand and suddenly the cave's surrounding's disappeared and was replace with a large metal rectangular room.

Maul turned to inspect his surroundings, but he saw four silhouetted figures behind the shadows, he drew his lightsaber out.

Out emerged a man with reddish-brown hair and beard, wearing Jedi robes.

Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Darth Maul had a look of pure hatred, "Kenobi."

"Maul, it seems you're alive, what a surprise," Kenobi said with a mischievous smile on his face, angering Maul further.

"I will make you suffer as I have suffered, Jedi," he growled as he swung his lightsaber, connecting with Kenobi's.

"I don't think so," Obi-Wan smirked.

Maul kicked Kenobi, launching him into the wall as he brought it down, only for the Jedi to block it; the Sith kept striking at Obi-Wan, but kept blocking his every strike with a single swish of his saber. Kenobi struck at Mau, but Maul parried the blade and knocked it out of his hands. Kenobi dodged Maul's swings until he managed to reach for his lightsaber and block a near kill strike, he caught Maul off-guard and delivered a blow to the face, causing the Zabrak to stagger until he regained posture. Maul then ran at Obi-Wan and struck, his blade connecting with his, caught in a saber lock, Maul let one of his hands swiftly reach for his Darksaber and activated it.

The black blade pierced his abdomen, causing the Jedi to fall over as he slowly began to die.

Maul took his lightsaber and activated it, he held the blade about his head and brought it down.

But when he looked down, he had struck nothing, Kenobi was gone, vanished into thin air.

He turned around to see the second figure emerge from the shadows.

"Brother?" Maul exclaimed in disbelief as he saw his brother Savage Opress walking out, his lightsaber activated.

"You are not my brother!" the Dathomirian Zabrak roared in rage as he swung at Maul, who narrowly missed the blade, "You left me to die in the hands of Sidious!"

Maul couldn't think of what to say, his mind unclear of what to say.

But he then found his voice, "Sidious disoriented me and you had to fight him alone, there was nothing I could do."

"But what happened to your training?" the third shadow emerged, revealing Darth Sidious, "You have become weak, you are saving the helpless and those that cannot fend for themselves, that is not the way of the Sith."

"Then I am no longer Sith, I am Maul and nothing less," he answered.

"So naive. Savage, finish him off."

"Gladly. Master," Savage replied, swinging at Maul, who had kept dodging his brother's moves.

He has joined forces with the Sith Lord? I am sorry but I have no other choice, Maul thought in regret, he threw himself at Savage, dodging his strikes until he ducked a blade and activated his lightsaber, running his blade through Savage's chest.

"I am sorry brother, you have forced my hand to do something I did not wish to do," Maul whispered in regret.

Savage's eyes rolled up in his head and collapsed, dead.

Maul heard a cackle behind him, he turned to face Sidious, "You have struck down your brother in cold blood, you are ready to become my apprentice again."

Maul looked at his cybernetic legs, then at Sidious.

"No, it was not Kenobi that did this to me. It was you! You took me when I was young, trained me to be a weapon to do your bidding, but in the end it was your fault!" Maul roared in rage, activating his lightsabers and charging the Sith.

Maul acted on pure anger to fight Sidious, dodging and weaving through his attacks and attacking where he was open.

Finally Maul knocked Sidious's lightsaber out of his hand and decapitated him before could resort to any torturous forms of the force.

Maul turned to face his last challenger, who finally stepped out of the shadows.

Maul's eyes widened in shock, "No, it can't be-"

The man that was facing Maul was... Maul.

Maul looked at the man that was him, who unholstered his lightsaber and activated both blades.

It came to his realization that this was Darth Maul before the 'incident' on Naboo.

Maul dodged the impostor and activated his sabers as well to block both of the impostor's blades at the last second, he sent a kick at the impostor, but he caught it and flung him into one of the walls, he shifted to the right to dodge an oncoming blade, he grabbed the hilt and smashed it against the impostor's head, but he regained his senses and sent a swift kick to his jaw, sending him to the floor. Maul grabbed and activated the nearest blade, the Darksaber, and blocked another swing.

He couldn't keep this up forever, he was bound to make a mistake since he was literally fighting himself.

The impostor finally force pushed Maul into a spike that impaled Maul in his stomach, causing him to yell in pain.

The doppelganger walked up to Maul, kicking away his weapons and pointed his blade at his neck, he raised it above his head, ready to strike.

The blade came down, but it was blocked by an outside force.

Maul looked up to see Ahsoka, no- a vision of her.

"Need some help horn-head?" she replied casually, a very accurate vision of her.

"Surprisingly, yes," Maul grabbed Ahsoka's hand as she pulled him up, Maul ignored the pain in his stomach.

They both ran at the impostor, each of them both struck with each of their lightsabers, but the copy blocked them both. Ahsoka leaped over his head and attempted to strike, but the fake Maul turned around and deflected the blow with a slash from behind. Maul activated his Darksaber and began savagely striking at the impostor's lightsaber, hoping to lessen his grip and quickly kill him. 

Maul finally made a cut into the other's shoulder, but he ignored it, he slashed at his lightsaber hilt, but the fake quickly moved it so it would strike against it's red blade. 

The impostor finally kicked Maul into another.

"I will finally finish you and present your head to my master, weakling," he finally said as he raised his saber to strike him down, but a yellow saber emerged from his chest, he looked down at it and fell to the floor as the blade retracted.

He looked up to see Ahsoka holstering her Shoto saber; she smiled, nodded, and vanished.

The room dissolved, leaving him and Junus, she nodded to him, "You have passed, you have finally let go of your conflict."

Maul turned to face her, "What do you mean?"

"You killed Kenobi, proving that you can beat him, but he was not one of the main sources of your conflict; you were forced to kill your own brother, not out of pleasure, but you knew that you couldn't save him, that the Emperor is too influential that no one can escape his powerful grip; you killed a weakened form of the Emperor, but you are not ready to face his full wrath as a single individual; and you finally fought against your inner demons, who you were before against who you are now fighting against who you were before, but you needed to rely on your most trusted friend, Ahsoka Tano," she explained.

"Ahsoka is not my friend," he replied coldly.

"No, but you are something more, and you can be more than that," she said.

"What are you talking about?"

"Do you... love Ahsoka?" she laughed.

"What kind of question is that?" Maul growled.

"A perfectly rational answerable question, now answer," she demanded.

"But we have only met!"

"Yes, now I am no believer of 'love at first sight', but you two have been the closest since that Nautolan girl at the Orsis Academy," she said.

Maul thought about her, Kilindi Matako, and how he killed everyone there.

"Now answer my question," she said.

"I prefer not to tell you."

"Excuse me?"

"I will not tell you, I have been imprisoned by a Sith and I will not be interrogated over feelings," Maul said, his emotions unreadable.

"And why not?"

"Because I am a monster, I killed and butchered innocents and you expect her to forgive me if I did love her? And if you were alive, I would kill you for asking such a question," Maul said in anger.

Junus sighed in annoyance, "Please don't be dark and brooding, it gets on my nerves, but you will learn to see past that very soon."

She spread her arms so that they pointed towards the cave walls.

"And since you are the most conflicted, you will receive the greatest of honors," she said, holding out a lightsaber that floated just a few inched off of her hand, Maul carefully took it out and inspected it.

It was Savage Opress's lightsaber.

"Go on, test it out," she said.

"I prefer not to, at least not yet."

"If you insist, now for my personal final gift, but you must answer my question, there is no right or wrong answer," she grinned darkly.

"Then ask," Maul said impatiently.

"Do you wish to be redeemed?" she asked.

Maul was confused, "Excuse me?" 

"I asked you a question. Do you wish to be redeemed?"

"What for?"

"You have slaughtered hundreds to get what you need or even what you want, you insist that this was the work of your master, now that may have been true until your fatal injury on Naboo. Even then you killed just for your missions while serving no master just for personal revenge against those who wronged you. Now, I give you one chance, on my word as a Sith Lord, do you wish to be redeemed?" she asked finally.

Maul thought about it. Those he had killed were gone, but every time something new appears; Pre Visla, Sidious, how long until someone new appears? He had no other choice.

"Yes," he said.

"Good, nothing of your emotions will change, but you have accepted the burden to be lifted from you and start anew," she said, concentrating on the force until a violet aura appeared around Maul, it lifted him off the ground while enshrouding him in it until it finally dispersed.

Gravity returned and Maul fell, dropping to one knee.

Pain shot up his leg.

Maul's eyes snapped open, Pain?

He finally processed the thought that he had felt pain in his leg, he lifted one of the pant's sleeves that he was now wearing.

Maul looked and saw a tattooed red and black leg. 

The Zabrak was in shock, contemplating what had just happened to him. His entire lower half of his body was back, as if it was never separated from him in the first place.

He looked at Junus, but she was gone.

He got up but he tripped and fell, he cursed himself and got back up, trying his best to walk normally until he finally succeeded, which only took a matter of minutes.

Maul strapped the lightsaber to his belt and continued to walk throughout the cave.

I may have been forgiven, but I will find you, Kenobi.




Deimos:

It was finally Deimos's turn in this forsaken cave.

The Sith Lord trudged through the rocky ground, eager to leave the cave.

Nekros appeared before him sitting cross-legged near a small cliff, "Salutations, Lord Deimos."

Deimos unhooked one of his lightsabers, the curved-hilt variant, and turned it on, the saber just inches away from Nekros's face, but he didn't seem to care.

Instead the lightsaber flew out of Deimos's hand and into his own.

"I thought you were just a hologram," Deimos replied normally.

"True, but sometimes a hologram isn't always a hologram," he said, inspecting the saber before snapping it into several different pieces. 

"Hey!" 

"Be quiet, you were never meant to use this, besides, never had use for Makashi, you always favored Juyo did you not?" Nekros asked.

Deimos looked at him with intrigued eyes, "True, but it's always good to practice," he said, activating both of his other lightsabers.

But those lightsabers flew into Nekros's hands, but instead of breaking them, they disappeared.

"You will not need lesser blades to assist you in your trial, but there is one you need," Nekros said with a evil grin on his face.

Deimos grabbed his emergency saber from the back of his belt and looked at it, "I refrain from using this one."

"Why, terrible accident with the blade?"

"More or less," Deimos said, activating the blade.

Nekros stared at the blade, watching the red saber glow in the darkness of the cave.

"That's better, now-" Nekros unhooked his lightsaber, activating it glowed in an unsettling red-black hue.

"-We fight," Nekros said as he swung down on Deimos, who brought it up to deflect the blade. Deimos tilted his blade so Nekros's saber would fall from the momentum, Deimos then kicked Nekros to the floor and stabbed him through the chest.

Nekros then died, but his body shimmered turned into that of a combat droid.

"You killed a low powered droid," Nekros said, he snapped his fingers and a dozen new droids appeared.

"Let's see how long it will take to break you," Nekros cackled.

Deimos raised his long-hilt lightsaber to equal level with his arms, "I'm willing to test that as well."

Each droid had their own individual hand-crafted lightsaber, each made up of different blade colors and designs.

All of them ran at him at once, but Deimos did not hesitate. He rose off the ground, his body curled up and released a powerful wave of force energy, knocking most of them back.

Deimos threw his lightsaber at the ones that kept standing, bisecting each of the five droid from their waists. He watched as the other seven got up, eager to face the Sith Lord.

"Would you like to know a little bit more about me? I'll take that as a yes. Let me begin my story. I was a Sith Lord, Darth Nekros, after the death of one of the Sith, I was offered a seat by Darth Imperius, Dark Lord of the Sith years after he had defeated Darth Thanaton," Nekros began, watching on a small cave in the wall as Deimos blocked three different saber strikes simultaneously. 

"I honestly had been incompetent during my seat of power at the time, so I was sent on a mission to assassinate a Republic officer in the unknown regions, little did I knew that they had just wanted me to die so they could fill in a new seat for power, so I crash-landed here because one of them rigged one of the propulsion engines to explode, so my story began when I landed here," Nekros said, Deimos caught one off guard and vertically cut it into two.

"The natives, the Equestrians, were a primitive race, lead by King and Queen Alicorns, Faust and Crag," Deimos shot lighting at one of the droids until it short out, collapsing into a pile of machinery.

"Faust and Crag were eager to meet me after some ponies had spotted me fighting a dragon, thinking I was a knight of some kind," he continued, watching as Deimos continued blocking and striking to protect himself.

"They were first nervous of my sudden appearance, but after some days later, they had gained my trust and I did with them as well. But over the years there was tension between some of the neighboring countries that bordered Equestria; nothing happened until a small band of Griffins attacked the new city of Canterlot, so Faust and Crag dispatched me to handle the situation as a peacekeeper, but as you can tell, I am a Sith," Nekros said, repeating what happened before.

"I attacked in self-defense after they tried to impale me with a spear, so I did what came naturally, use my lightsaber. When I came back, they were disappointed in what I did, their sadness even managed to pierce my heart with guilt," Deimos impaled a droid quickly and continued fighting.

"But their reign came to a short as King Crag died during the battle of the Changelings, so he was given a hero's funeral. That's when I was no longer hired as a peacekeeper, but an assassin," he closed his eyes as Deimos swept his blade and slashed two other droids.

"Faust was a heroine back before her rule as Queen, leading a battle against the dark force Tirek, but the death shook her, leaving her as a corrupted shell of her former self, but that again all changed when she had birthed two fillies," Deimos blocked another strike and decapitated the droid, watching as it's head clattered to the ground.

"Her heart was thawed after a temporary reign of terror, becoming the leader her people wanted her to be. Now as for me, I had been redeemed from my Sith ways, but I knew my time would sooner or later come to an end. I took the liberty of training Faust's children, not in the force, but in magic. I studied the arts of magic and found that a species such as I or anything else in our galaxy are incapable of using Equestrian magic, but it can be applied to subject of runes, magic can be applied not by the non-magic individual into his or herself, but into the rune artifacts commonly found around the world that were hidden in plain sight. With my knowledge and with Faust teaching her children as well when she wasn't ruling her country at the time, they rivaled even their own mother." Nekros exhaled, as if thinking of the memory instead of just explaining it.

"They had reached nearly the height of their power before an evil had reached this country centuries later, his name was Discord, a force that even I had to wary of, so with permission from Faust, I was sent to investigate this anomaly of a creature," Deimos blocked another saber attack until he and the droid were stuck in a saber lock. Deimos quickly reached and grabbed the droids head with his left hand, and with little effort, crushed the droid's head, the droid froze for a moment until it toppled to the ground with it's head deformed and flickering with little life.

Deimos looked up at the Sith, "But Discord could've been redeemed."

Nekros looked down at him, little interest in his eyes, "But this was not the Discord you knew in your present time, he was a cruel monster who abused his abilities and stopped at nothing just to entertain himself in disgusting, macabre works, they were too sickening for even I to describe. I went to his location and met him, but he was expecting me; I informed him that if he did not leave this place, then I would have to end him, but he laugh at my threat, so he stepped down and quickly fashioned a embarrassingly crude version of my lightsaber but still functioned somehow. We had dueled over the rights of this kingdom, but by the time I was defeated by his dark arts of magic, the two princesses had already found the Elements of Harmony and used them against him, sealing him in stone. I had lain on the battlefield, brutally beaten, but they had saved me from death once again. But I learned that Queen Faust had died from a terminal disease that had taken her into a coma. They were devastated by grief and had considered suicide, so I had no other choice than to wipe their memories of their mother's death and replaced their memories so that she had died heroically in battle in honor of them, giving them a spark of hope, to be like their mother. So at the end of my life, I ordered my apprentice to make this cave in honor of me and those such as you who have come now."

Deimos was bewildered by this man's long history in Equestria but there was something he left out.

"What about your recordings?"

"What recordings?" Nekros grinned.

It finally hit him, this man was no recording, he was a ghost! That explains why there was no flickering or distortions of a hologram.

"You have not transcended into the force?"

"No I have not, but that does not make me a fraud in your forecoming, I have seen you and your group in my dreams and visions."

"But why us?" he asked the ghost.

"You are unlike any other I have seen before, you possess both Sith and Jedi characteristics but swear no allegiance, making you a near-perfect leader like those in my time."

"But why pretend to be a hologram?"

Nekros scrunched his face in thought, "I really don't know, maybe that I have a little bit sense of humor and decided to trick you into thinking I was a hologram just for effect."

Deimos looked at him in amusement, "Well you did fool us."

Nekros then pointed his hand towards a large box that was held by a lock, the lock twisted and turned until it finally opened, revealing a holocron enshrouded in a gray mist, "This is the Nekros Holocron, I want you to view it when the time is right, probably during your apprentices' final training, take good care of it."

Deimos nodded and began to walk off.

"Wait! You forgot these!" Nekros said, holding out his two lightsabers. Deimos walked back and retrieved them.

"Why don't you use your original saber more often?" Nekros said, staring at the elongated hilt hanging from Deimos's belt.

"It's controversial," Deimos simply replied.

"But you are no longer Jedi," Nekros pointed out.

"But I will only use it only in emergencies."

Nekros stroked his wispy beard, "You will need it soon, when your padawans' are in trouble, I foresee it."

Deimos slowly shook his head and left the cave.




Deimos obsevered as each person had left their caves with each of their own personal gift, everyone but Sana, who was a pain in the neck for him.

He looked and expected to see the ponies to be waiting for him, he was right.

What he didn't expect was the oncoming hoof that had met his jaw.


> Chapter 11: Jedi Training (Part 1)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

I don't own Star Wars or MLP, just my characters.

Day 157

"My Lord, the Death Star is within firing range, might I suggest that we fire on the planet?" one of his advisers asked.

Palpatine responded with Sith lightning until the man died his painful death.

"I will not fire upon this wretched planet, the prize on it is too great," he snarled.

"And what might that be, mi'lord? The planet's resources?" another asked.

"No, the cargo on that ship contained important prisoners."

"But my lord, what shall we do?" 

The Emperor looked out thoughtfully before coming to a conclusion, "Send Inquisitor Naero."

"Are you sure my-"

"I am the Emperor and my word is law. Send him to Deimos."




Present day

The force of the punch sent Deimos reeling back several feet, knocking him onto his back. Deimos groaned at the pain, he dulled the pain with a Force ability and stood back up on his feet.

Deimos activated his lightsaber, dragging the blade across the ground and looked at the assailant in malice.

It was Shining Armor, Twilight Sparkle's brother.

Deimos kept his lightsaber pointed at the pony, "What the hell is your problem?" he yelled angrily

"Twilight told me about what you did to her and her friends, I'm just returning the favor," Shining glared angrily, ignoring the red blade that was just inches away from his face.

Deimos wiped the dirt off of his sleeves as he deactivated his lightsaber, "Let's not fight just yet, I don't want to fight in an unfair battle."

"Why? Afraid the Elements of Harmony will beat you?" Rainbow Dash smirked.

"No, just my friends," he snapped his fingers and Jeyeva, the T-Legion, and Cera activated their weapons.

He once again looked at the pony, "You reek of fear, stand down and we'll settle this like men later."

Shining glared at the Sith before blinking and reasserting his mission: keeping the Element Bearers safe.

"Are you girls okay?" he asked them, they nodded simultaneously.

"Yeah we're fine," Twilight said.

"If you're fine, then let's get back to your house," Deimos said, examining his lightsaber before putting it back in his belt.




A few hours later...

Deimos opened the door for his comrades and the guards, he followed behind them and closed the door behind himself.

Celestia quickly turned her head to see that they returned from their mission.

"Greetings Deimos, what have you learned from your quest?" Luna asked them

"Princess , I can assure you that-" Shining Armor was about to say.

"Celestia and Luna, Sparkle's just fine, her life was not in danger but she was just acting as a conduit for someone special that resides in the cave."

"Tirek?" she asked, Deimos could sense the slight tinges of fear in her.

"No, rather a man who actually fought against him, your old guardian Lord Nekros," Deimos said, waiting for their reactions.

This was what he expected, their jaws almost literally dropping to the ground, trying to contemplate what he said, then suddenly hit him with a very loud WHAT!

He was partially right, "How can Nekros be alive? It's been many millennium and he should be dead!" they exclaimed.

"Here's the kicker, he is dead," he said, his face completely emotionless.

'WHAT!", never mind, there it was, "H-how can- I-"

"Take it easy Princess. Let me explain, when a force -sensitive dies, whether they are either Jedi or Sith, they do not always transcend into the Living Force completely. On some occasions, they are tied to this world for personal reasons or some other, they are known as Force Apparitions. Technically Nekros is a ghost," Deimos explained. 

"But that's-"

"Impossible? He was a Sith, we can achieve the impossible," Deimos boasted, Sana put a hand to her forehead in disappointment at the Sith's claim.

"Like when you got punched by Shining?" Rainbow remarked, snickering until she felt something tighten around her throat slightly and saw that Deimos's irises start to redden.

"I wasn't expecting that," he admitted, he released his invisible grip and his eyes faded back to a normal yellow.

"But why Twilight?" Flash Sentry asked.

Deimos stared at him, "Oh, now you talk? Well that has been a while. But to answer your question, she had a run-in with Tirek; Nekros had a run-in with Tirek, see the picture yet?"

Flash nodded, "Both of them fought him and they are somehow linked?"

"From what I can tell, both of them had to have been hurt during their individual fights, possibly with some sort of dark energy," Sana said.

Deimos looked at her, "Somebody's getting smarter by the minute," he teased.

"Shut it Deimos," she said.

"What?" he asked, he then turned back to the princesses (excluding Twilight), "Nevermind, Nekros used Twilight as a conduit to lead us here because there's some sort of three millenium old prophecy regarding the Jedi and Sith."

Celestia looked up thoughtfully, "I think I may remember something about that, I need to return to the castle and search for anything that might hold any regard on that."

Deimos raised an eyebrow.

"After I attend to my duties as a princess," she said.

Deimos walked over to the door and opened it, "Then may I escort you to thy carriage milady?" 

Both princesses saw through his sarcasm, but Luna was the one that smiled at him for at least being friendly, despite the fact that he was trying to be a jerk.




Day 60 in Equestria

"Recite the Jedi Code," Sana said to the three initiates: Sweetie Belle, Applebloom, and Scootaloo.

They each spoke simultaneously,"There is no emotion, there is peace."

"Can you explain what that means?"

Jeyeva watched and studied from afar as Sana was teaching them the basics of the Jedi.

Scootaloo raised her hoof.

"Scootaloo?"

She got up on all four hooves, "It means that we must stop our emotions from getting in the way of peace."

Sana nodded thoughtfully, "Your partially right, it actually means-"

"-That we mustn't conquer or suppress it, but to face it and understand it, emotion is a common trait in almost every being in the galaxy, possibly even the universe, but I will count your answer as correct," Deimos said, walking over to all three over them.

Sana looked over to see him before facing them again, "The second verse?"

"There is no ignorance, there is knowledge."

This time Sweetie Belle raised her hoof.

"Padawan Belle?" Deimos called her out.

"It means that we must know what is around us, even the smallest bit of ignorance could lead to danger," she responded.

"Correct, so if ignorance is a part of life, then does that mean everyone is in danger?" Sana asked.

"Only if they put themselves in danger," Sweetie answered.

Deimos was impressed, she studied more about the Jedi code.

"Alright, next."

"There is no passion, there is serenity."

Applebloom raised her hand before any of the two "masters" could say anything,

"Okay, Acolyte Applebloom?"

"It means that we act with passion, then we will not become Jedi and will be drawn to the Dark Side of the Force."

"And what will you be if that happens?" Deimos asked.

"Sith," Scootaloo whispered.

"Give me an example of a Sith."

"Maul," Sweetie Belle said before quickly covering her mouth.




Maul was walking through the town of Ponyville until he got a strange feeling that someone had just called out to him.

"Hmm, must be losing it," he mumbled.




"There is no chaos, there is harmony," Deimos said, all of them rose their hands.

"No, this has nothing to do with the Elements of Harmony," Sana said.

They still kept their hooves in the air.

"(Impressive, they seem to know the code better than you think,)" Jeyeva said, twirling his new Saber Pike.

"We'll see. Okay, all three of you, explain."

"That everything happens for a reason-" Sweetie Belle said.

"-That one thing will set off a chain of events and lead to another until it comes to an ultimate conclusion-" Applebloom continued.

"-Where chaos is seen as a jumble of things that just occurs randomly and just come to some unknown end," Scootaloo finished, content with her explanation.

Deimos raised his eyebrows at this, They had been studying!

Sana looked at the expression on his face until she coughed, "Ahem, and the last?"

"There is no death, there is the Force."

"Explain," Deimos said.

"That when we die, we become one with the Force," they said.

"Pretty obvious huh?" Deimos said to Sana.

"I guess so," Sana replied.

"Alright, training dismissed. Off you go," Deimos said, the three fillies left immediately when the words left his mouth.

"Never thought you had students act this professional," Sana remarked.

Deimos shook his head, "They're faking their professionalism, the three are still children, but so far they completed the First Pillar of the Padawan Trials. As for the Second Pillar, I may have to ask Discord to help move our crashed ship here, it contains some stolen holocrons and Imperial datacards on our current star systems, bestiary and whatnot. The Third Pillar would also require the ship, although I will have to postpone that until evolution kicks in and they suddenly grow hands and walk on hind legs; in their current form they can't even perform even the basic moves of Form I."

He then turned to face Jeyeva, who stood straight and tall while clutching the Saber Pike in his hands.

"But you, my new apprentice, will be a perfect candidate for the trials," he said, activating his lightsaber.

Jeyeva activated his Saber as well.

"Let's start with your abilities in a duel," Deimos challenged.

"(I accept this challenge Master,)" Jeyeva said as the two charged at one another.




While the Master and the Apprentice fought, Nekros' spirit watched from the cave.

"Do you think he'll do it?" he asked.

Another form appeared, this one was Discord, who was already aware of Nekros' presence.

"It's Kane, who else would it be?"

Nekros raised a brow, "Deimos may not be the Chosen One for the Force, but for Equus, he will be either it's savior or it's destruction."

Discord floated up to Nekros', "He'll do it, I know he will. After all, he's rebuilding the Jedi Order, right?", and with that, the misshapen being disappeared.

"Not exactly, but if he saves this world, it'll be the day I forgive you for our battle."

Discord returned, but only as a head, "Hey! I won that battle fair and square!"

"Hmph, you used a parody of my lightsabers and used trickery as your advantage."

"Whatever floats your boat gramps."

This time both beings disappeared as the fight ensued between the Sith and the Kaleesh.




There is no ignorance, there is knowledge.