- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jgX6EeUf4U
 - “What the hell do you mean you're a ‘pony’?!”
 - >”At least I have a name, what the heck are you supposed to be?!”
 - ”You also appear to be sentient, despite the fact you’re clearly not a humanoid or-”
 - >A bloodthirsty roar is followed closely by a boulder being thrown in your direction
 - >You and the ‘pony’ manage to dive out of the way quite clumsily, the little horse tripping over herself while you fall flat on your face
 - >”Ugh- We don’t have time for this!”
 - >You scramble to your feet and begin chasing after the mysterious local as the bear closes in from behind
 - >Leaping over downed trees and avoiding thorny patches, you struggle to catch up to her
 - >Why the hell did she have to be so damn fast?
 - >You’re practically falling apart back here; you couldn’t match that speed in your condition
 - >The ground shaking stomps of the pursuing predator behind you fuels your drive to keep running
 - >A Sith running away from a mere animal... while receiving the aid from an even smaller one
 - >How pathetic.
 - >Your anger and bitter resentment for your fallen state allows you to clear the gap between you two
 - “Where are you taking me?!”
 - >”I already told you, we don’t have time to-!”
 - “You tell me where we’re heading right now or that thing behind us will be the least of your worries”
 - >Your threat startles her and she turns to face you while still running
 - >”Why the nerve! What do you think gives you the right to say that to me, after I just saved your stinking-?!”
 - >You’re unable to make out the last bit of her sentence when you are successfully clothesline by a thick branch
 - >The impact sends an electrifying jolt through your body
 - >Dammit, you should have sensed that!
 - >Oh wait, you couldn’t sense anything here to begin with
 - >Fuck this planet
 - >”Get up! We can’t stay here!”
 - >The voice cries to you, but right now you just felt like taking a nap..
 - >Suddenly, you feel a chilling cold on your bare skin
 - >You look up half expecting to see blood, but instead you see a glowing blue film wrapped around your body
 - >In front of you stood the pony, her horn glowing with a similar aurora
 - >Was she a Force user too?
 - >To your dismay, the blue mist begins to fade and she opens her eyes in disbelief
 - >Great. Looks like she wasn’t strong enough to pick you up
 - >You let your head fall backwards as you close your eyes
 - >What a pathetic way to die
 - >Now the only hope you held was that the bear would focus on hunting her down instead and forget about you
 - >Your shaken from your delusional hopes when you feel the little horse trying to nudge you up by herself
 - >Stupid. Now both of you would die here
 - >Reluctantly, you pull yourself to your feet with the encouragement and resume following the pony
 - >Your blurred vision and bleeding side slows your pace
 - >Another thunderous roar sounds like it was right above you
 - >”Come on, just a bit further!”
 - >Shut up
 - >Finally, you’re able to make out some sunlight breaking through the foliage ahead
 - >Using the last bit of your strength, you throw yourself into the light
 - >Your not-so-well-planned leap of faith sends your body on a direct collision course towards your guide
 - >The two of you tumble together for a bit, scuffling up dirt and reopening clotted wounds
 - >When you come to, you find yourself in an open field of green grass, a single Sun shining down on you from overhead
 - >A quick shake of your head convinces your ears to stop ringing
 - >”Ouch... Was that really necessary?”
 - >The white pony gets to her hooves next to you, shaking off the dirt that had gotten in her mane
 - “I had no plan on slowing down for that thing to catch me”
 - >You turn back to face the forest, trying to piece together why it had stopped
 - >”Don’t worry, it can’t reach us here. Ursa Minors only come out at night”
 - “I see”
 - >Your hand again falls to your side as you try to stop the bleeding
 - >”Oh my, you’re hurt...”
 - >Her tone is soft and compassionate
 - >It pisses you off
 - “Its none of your concern”
 - >”None of my concern? Why, wherever did you learn such ungrateful manners?”
 - ”Kamino”
 - >”Excuse me?”
 - “I need to get back... to Kamino... now”
 - >You feel your head getting lighter by the second
 - “Bring me... a starship... now”
 - >”What on Earth are you talking about?”
 - >The pressure in your head finally becomes too much and your body goes limp, falling to the side
 - >”Oh dear, Hold on!... err, Mr. Ki-mean-o. I’ll go get help, stay right here!”
 - “That’s not my....”
 - >She was already too far away to hear your whispers
 - >Leaving you to lay there helplessly, exposed to the elements and open to any attack
 - >It was unacceptable
 - >You had been hand chosen by Lord Vader to do his bidding
 - >And yet, here you were, dying in the middle of a grassy field without having taken any enemies with you
 - >Pathetic
 - >You stare up into the baby blue sky, loathing every square inch of it
 - >When the Empire finally completes construction on the Death Star, they should test it out on this worthless piece of rock
 - >Eventually, the blood loss and warm sunlight is too much for you
 - >Before you can try and fight it, you drift into subconsciousness and fall asleep
 - >”Where did you find... it?
 - >”In the Everfree Forest, not too far from where me and Spike were digging. I heard the roaring and went to investigate. I was sure I was going to run into Zecora but...”
 - >Rarity had gone straight to Twilight, thinking she’d know what to do
 - >Twilight, in turn, then decided to go talk with Fluttershy, seeing how she had the most experience when dealing with animals
 - >Before long, all of the mane 6 had become involved
 - >Now their whole group was staring down at unconscious creature, not knowing what to do next
 - >”Well I’ll be, he sure is a keeper Rarity. Whatev’r he is. Ya’ll got any ideas?”
 - >”Beats me. He’s got some cool threads though”
 - >”I’d beg to differ, Rainbow. Though they probably WOULD look nicer without all the blood...”
 - >” poor thing ”
 - >”I’ll have Spike take a letter as soon as we get back. We need to inform the Princess about this immediately”
 - “...You’ll do no such thing”
 - >Your voice comes out a lot more grittier than anticipated
 - >Slowly, you open your eyes to see the semicircle of ponies huddled around you
 - >The white one from earlier was there, though now joined by five more equally flamboyant equines
 - >Colors ranging from Orange to Pink
 - >Two of them even had wings
 - >You bring your hand to rest against your holstered lightsaber
 - >Killing them now would be a waste, you’d still eventually bleedout , just surrounded by adorable little corpses
 - >But if they were trying to go notify their Princess...
 - “You will tell no one of me... Understand?”
 - >”Um Twi, Ah’ think its talkin’ to you”
 - >The purple horned one shows no sign of backing down
 - >”Who or what are you?”
 - “I have... no name”
 - >With every breathe, your body becomes colder
 - >”Ok, then. What is the name of your species?”
 - “I refuse... to answer”
 - >”Twilight, we can’t just leave him out here”
 - >The white one continues to plead on your behalf
 - >You’d kill her last and quickly
 - >”He doesn’t look so good... Maybe we should throw him a party!”
 - >”That will have to wait, Pinkie. Applejack, care to lend a hoof?”
 - >Before you know it, you're being dragged down a dirt road, one shoulder slung around the orange pony’s neck
 - “How far... from the nearest... Imperial Medic Station?”
 - >”Twi, whats he talkin’ about now?”
 - >”I don’t know, I think he might be disillusional”
 - >You give up your questioning, these things clearly had no idea
 - >What the fuck were they anyway?
 - >The white one had briefly introduced herself to you as a ‘pony’
 - >You had heard of the ponies on Alderaan before but they were much, much different
 - >As the little group marches on (dragging you to who knows where), you do your best to survey the surroundings
 - >Grassy hills, blue skies, tall purple mountains, fluffy green trees
 - >No planet you knew from his memories fit the description
 - “Where... am I?”
 - >”You’re in Equestria, just outside Ponyville. Where are you from?”
 - “Where... are you taking me?”
 - >You begin to involuntary slide off the orange pony’s back but she catches your sleeve with her teeth and pulls you back on
 - >”Wow there big fella, just hush up and sit tight, aight?”
 - “Who the hell... do you think you-”
 - >Darkness consumes your vision once again
 - >”An’ he’s out like a light. What are we gonna do with him, Twilight?”
 - >Applejack looks to her friend, equally puzzled by the whole situation
 - >”I’m not sure I know either. First, he needs medical attention... but do we bring him to a doctor or a veterinarian?
 - >”Well, he is wearing clothes. Maybe he’s one of those different kind of ponies like Zecora, and we’d never take Zecora to a vet!”
 - >”I don’t think so Pinkie Pie, I mean, look at him. He’s as much pony as I am... as I am, um?”
 - >”Wonderbolt?”
 - >”Yeah, Wonderbolt! He’s as much pony as I am- HEY!”
 - >Pinkie Pie giggles at Rainbow’s frustration and continues bouncing down the road
 - >”We ain’t got time to be playin’ games ya’ll. I think we might be losin’ him”
 - >”Rainbow’s right, a doctor would be more familiar with a pony while a veterinarian has a wider array of knowledge on different animals. Its our best bet”
 - >”But Twilight, what exactly is it? And why was it acting so rude?”
 - >Rarity sticks her nose in the air and huffs
 - >”Clearly not a gentlecolt”
 - >”He’s probably just scared and far away from home. As for what he is, I haven’t the slightest clue. I took an Honors course in Zoology at school and the only thing that comes close to him is a bonobo... and he’s clearly NOT a bonobo”
 - >“Not to be the bearer of bad news but isn’t the Vet’s place on the complete other side of town? Ah’ don’t know if he can make the trip... besides he’s kinda heavy”
 - >”You’re right. You girls make sure he gets to the library, I’ll go on ahead and see if the vet can come to us”
 - >Twilight takes off galloping down the road, leaving her friends in the dust
 - >”You know for an egghead, she’s not very smart. I could’ve flown there and back by now”
 - >”She probably wanted to describe the situation herself. We don’t need the Vet showin’ up with only a thermador and band-aids”
 - >” oh dear... what could have done this? ”
 - >”I told you Fluttershy, it was an Ursa Minor. I saw it with my own eyes”
 - >” but they almost always keep to themselves ”
 - >”Don’t ya remember the Trixie incident, Fluttershy?”
 - >” that was nothing as serious as this! ”
 - >”Calm down, Fluttershy. All I remember was that it was really, really angry. On whether this ruffian did something to provoke it, I wouldn’t exactly doubt it”
 - >”We better hurry than ya’ll, we don’t got much day left. He’ll tell us what happened after he’s all fixed”
 - >”Good, I definitely have some questions for him. Especially concerning his behavior”
 - >The ponies continued on their way to Ponyville, towing along their strange guest, without a clue of the consequences that would be sure to follow
 - Meanwhile in a galaxy far, far away...
 - >The Executor had been created as Darth Vader’s personal flagship, constructed during the early years of Galen Marek’s apprenticeship
 - >Coming in at nearly 10x the size of a traditional Star Destroyer, the Executor was a symbol of the Galactic Empire’s power
 - >Its mere presence was enough to convince a whole planetary sector to conform to the Empire’s will
 - >So why was it here, drifting in the middle of the Kamino system, when there were perfectly good rebels to find and destroy?
 - >The masked man in black was alone on the observation deck
 - >Staring out into the void of space as research drones probed the area
 - >Hyperspace was a delicate and dangerous thing
 - >Initially discovered by the Rakata, the first true Siths more than thousands of years ago, the phenomenon had yet to be scientifically explained
 - >Some said it was an alternate universe, others an extra dimension of space
 - >For the majority, it was just a thing that made you go really fast and thats all they carried to know about it
 - >Though the technique made tracking and communications difficult, there were always signs left behind by the initial jump
 - >Unprecedented gravitational phenomenon, atomic curvature of light, spikes in radiation levels... There were numerous signs that existed a good number of days after a jump
 - >Given the correct measurements and time for calculation, educated guesses could be made to what galactic system the jump was made to. Though they were hardly consistent
 - >The last flight log and Tie Fighter eyewitnesses reported that this was Darth Vader’s Apprentice’s last location before jumping into hyperspace
 - >However, there was nothing here. No abnormalities... and no word from Dantooine on the arrival of your Imperial “diplomat” you had sent nearly 16 hours ago
 - >Darth Vader was not the one to succumb to stress easily, if at all
 - >Or the mask just did a good job of hiding it
 - >If this would have happened with any other clone months before, he wouldn’t have bothered to even search at all
 - >The Sith Lord is able to spy a single drone retreat from the investigation, either low on battery or had just given up entirely
 - >Vader’s newest Apprentice, his newest asset, had grown much more powerful than originally expected
 - >The clone had also been conditioned to be much more loyal to him as well
 - >Vader’s training and limited exposure to outside influence had made him the ultimate puppet
 - >But it was not a perfect design
 - >Even if it had been the whole duration of his life, four months was not a sufficient amount of time to fully indoctrine him to the Empire’s cause
 - >Now that he was missing, the fearfully realization of what could happen was troubling
 - >If he were to be picked up by rebels and turned against the Empire, just as the other two had, it could led to some undesirable outcomes
 - >This one had a remarkable connection to the dark side of the Force
 - >The one before him, Starkiller, had gone for 11 days in isolation without food or water by living off the Force
 - >He himself had gone a full month and had showed no signs of faltering
 - >If he could be turned... convinced to abandon Vader’s mission and embrace the memories as his own... it would be the Empire’s undoing
 - >Darth Vader soon grows bored of watching and proceeds to leave when the door behind him screeches open
 - >A bumbling, middle aged Imperial Admiral stumbles out, flanked by two Stormtroopers
 - >”My Lord, please grant me pardon but they believe they’ve found something”
 - >”Have they found the starships location?”
 - >”No, my Lord, not yet. But-”
 - >”Then do not trouble me with irrelevant updates”
 - >”Yes, my Lord. Sincerest apologies, my Lord.
 - >The Admiral departs as quickly as he came, not wanting to stay a second more in Vader’s presence than he had too
 - >But before the door closes, Vader catches a glimpse of the Admirial’s mind
 - >This ‘something’, it seemed, was actually quite indeed... interesting
 - >Most interesting.
 

