By Lord Sargas
Disclaimer: The Star Wars Universe and its residents are the property of George Lucas, new characters created here are the property of the author.
Part 1
Boba Fett was flying through the Hoth System with no particular destination to go. It had been a month since the Imperial’s Death Star was destroyed by the Rebel Alliance. Fett had no love for the Rebellion, who sought to overthrow what he felt was the rightful government. Palpatine had been lawfully elected chancellor those many years ago, and it was his lawful right to establish an empire to rule. Besides that, Fett had a kinship with the Sith, whose greatest enemy was at one time his own. When he served with the Mandalorians during the Clone Wars, he had learned to hate the Jedi. The Galactic Empire was his home, and it allowed him to follow his chosen path.
When he was known as Jaster Mereel, he was a young journeyman protector on Concord Dawn. After his banishment, he served the Empire as a stormtrooper, but he was his own man, and that didn’t last beyond his first enlistment term, although he served with distinction and honor and loyalty, he was allowed to leave the stormtroopers alive. Taking the name of Boba Fett, he had become the most feared bounty hunter in the galaxy. There were only a few who understood the name he had chosen. Boba Fett.
Emperor Palpatine, Darth Vader, and Fett himself, and maybe Mara Jade, understood the significance of the name. Boba was an ancient Sith word for hunter, in the context of a hunter who hunts for those who have wronged the society in which they lived. Fett was the god of justice that the ancient Sith race worshiped. Not even the Jedi Council of old knew that information, for the Sith were masters of keeping their identities hidden. Hidden even from the venerable old Jedi Yoda, who disappeared during the Jedi Purge, in which Fett assisted during his service as a Mandalorian warrior.
Fett had a special dislike for the old Jedi Kenobi, who was killed by Vader not too long ago on the Death Star. Kenobi had killed Fett’s old friend Khameir Sarin, the elder brother of one of his fellow mandalorians. Khameir was a servant of the Emperor before he was ruler of the Empire. He was the predecessor to Lord Vader. He was one of the best friends that Jaster Mereel had. Now, as Boba Fett, he had no room for friends. His one regret in his long life. That thought made Fett realize how old he was getting. Nearing his fifth decade of life. But he still fought like a man half his age.
Fett saw an imperial destroyer ahead. His scanners showed it to be the Zaratan. It was firing on a rebel blockade-runner. Fett decided to sit and watch the show. He had no love for the rebel alliance, especially since they allowed that fiend Solo to join their cadre. Fett glanced down at his wookiee scalps that hung from his shoulder. He couldn’t wait to add Chewbacca’s own. And maybe Solo’s skull upon the control panel. As the ships fired on each other, Fett’s warning alarm went off loudly. But why? No ship was firing on him. The Slave 1 received no hits at all. Something inside him told him to look to his starboard. Some kind of tear was forming in the black void of space. It took Fett several seconds to realize that his ship was moving towards it. The tear grew and the ship began to gain speed and just got closer and closer. Before he knew it, the star destroyer and Rebel ship were along side of him, moving into the tear. Fett gunned his engines, but to no avail. “Well,” Fett said aloud with just the slightest hint of fear in his voice. “I suppose if a destroyer can’t get out of the pull, what chance do I have?”
Fett strapped into the pilot seat and made sure he had his EE-3 rifle next to him. Fett had the nagging feeling that things were about to get weird.
*
The small shuttle left the space station and headed back towards the U.S.S. Enterprise. Onboard the shuttle, Captain James Kirk, Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy, Commander Spock, and the pilot Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott were glad to be going home. Although their homes were the planet Earth, with the exception of Spock, whose was the world Vulcan, they all felt at home on the Enterprise. After two years in space together, they felt like a family, or as close as you can get to one in the military.
“Scotty, full ahead as fast as you can get this thing. I gotta get back to bridge soon.”
“Aye sir.” Scotty would be glad to return to engineering as well. There his true genius would be used properly. Plus, he was tired of hearing McCoy and Spock argue. Actually, Spock never argued, but would make his logical comments and annoy McCoy, who would try to antagonize the Vulcan science officer.
Kirk looked at his ship. Ah, what a beautiful women she was, too. The curves, the lines. He needed no woman to make his life complete. It didn’t stop him from getting more than his share of the ladies. “Sir, look!”
Kirk turned to the window and saw a tear in space open. “Whaaat is thaaat, Mister Scott?”
“I dinna know sir. It is like nothing I have ever seen.”
“Captain, “Spock spoke. “I believe it is a rip in space/time. Perchance a wormhole of some kind.”
In the few seconds they took to speculate, their small shuttle was pulled in.
“Fascinating.” Spock said aloud. McCoy wanted to bean him in the head.
*
Scott Summers eased the controls of the Blackbird from the mansion. He and his companions were flying towards the stronghold of their biggest enemy, Magneto. Scott, who was also called Cyclops, for his mutant power of firing optic lasers from his eyes, looked at his friends, the X-Men. Henry McCoy, called Beast. Covered in blue fur, and possessing unusual agility and genius level intelligence. Storm, who could control and make changes in the weather. Logan, called Wolverine, who could heal instantly and had a skeleton covered with the metal adamantine, which was virtually unbreakable. He had claws in his forearms that he could at will make come through his knuckles. Three in each arm. Cyclops’s wife, Jean Gray, who had the gift of telekinesis. Rogue, who could absorb the life force from a person. Gambit would have come, but he and the professor were going after another nemesis called Mr. Sinister, who was attacking a military compound in Nevada. The heroes Captain America and Spiderman were helping the Professor and Gambit.
The Blackbird buzzed over the ocean and it was met halfway to Magneto’s compound by another craft, similar in looks, but a different design. Jean announced that it was Magneto himself, surrounded by a group of his own mutant followers. The evil mutant projected a magnetic field around the Blackbird and made it stop in midair. Jean countered with her own mind power. The two mutants locked power, mind vs. magnetism.
“Why don’t you just throw me out there and let me tear the wings off that heap?” Wolverine said in his growling, harsh tone. He extended the claws from his right hand. “Let’s see if that thing will stand up to these!”
“Calm down Logan!” yelled Cyclops. “We don’t need a berserker right now.” Wolverine knew the kid was right, but he didn’t like being talked to that way, but he let it go. Cyclops was the boss here, and Logan knew how to follow orders.
Jean broke off her power and fell down, and everyone noticed that Magneto’s jet started to shake and move vertically upwards. The Blackbird soon did the same. They moved up and out of the atmosphere. “What is it Jean?”
Jean moaned lightly. “I. I don’t.” Then she passed out.
Once in the void of space, they saw a hole in the middle of the black nothingness. Within a matter of seconds, both they and the enemy jet were pulled into the dark tear.
*
The ships from the three different realities all passed through the gates of unreality into what could be called an undimension. During their hovering in the blackness of the undimension, a lone being watched. Watched and smiled. The tests could now begin. And with luck, one of the groups would find the one thing that would give the being the power to leave this undimension and live anywhere in the cosmos he chose. He wouldn’t have to draw outsiders into his realm. He could leave this awful place and live anywhere. Live there and rule.
He only needed to find the Obsidian Triangle.
*
TO BE CONTINUED…