Subject: PPC: An Alternate Crashing Down Ch. 11
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Posted on: 2011-07-11 23:51:00 UTC

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"Is it done?" Emperor Palpatine spoke to his new apprentice, Luke Skywalker.

"Yes, my lord. Grand Admiral Thrawn has offered his services to King Durran of the New Multiverse Freedom League. Although I may ask, hasn't the Dark King of the Multiverse given us enough? Victory over the Rebel Alliance and the Yuuzahn Vong, my services as your new apprentice..."

"Have you learned nothing, boy? Treachery is the way of the Sith. When the Dark King allowed us to fuse Yuuzahn Vong biotechnology with ours, his usefulness ended. Remember, no matter how powerful he gets, no matter what arts he has learned from other worlds, he is merely a clone of a Jedi Master I once decived." The old Sith Lord probed Luke's mind with the Force, searching for influence from out of his Universe.

"Even so, master," Luke spoke. "Is an alliance with the NMFL worth it? Remember the books the Dark King of the Multiverse gave you. They've read them too, and may be preparing for when you inevietably backstab them."

"Not while they're figthing with the Multiverse Lords. By offering Thrawn's services, I've made myself and my troops indespensable. Remember, the New Multiverse Freedom League and the League of Mary Sue Factories are still horribly outnumbered, so they'll need any help they can get."

"And even with our help, there's a chance they'll still be horribly gutted, perhaps enough for us to crush them both?" Luke asked.

"You are learning, my apprentice. Perhaps faster even than your father had." The Emperor then lay back on his throne, silently contemplating the opportunities ahead.

Apokolips

The attack came as a surprise. While the armada that was being amassed just outside the planet was vast, it was not yet fully organized for an assault. Especially when one-fourth of its numbers joined the attackers, firing at strategic positions throughout the fleet.

However, the Multiverse Lords did not have a lack of skilled (or at least semi-competent) naval commanders, and the counterattack was immediate. The massive guns of the Star Dreadnaughts unleashed withering salvos of fire, which took down some of the speeding ships.

But not nearly enough. Some of the enemy vessels were unarmed, and controlled only by nonsentient robots. These served as rammers that took down ships by crashing into them, causing them to explode and careen onto other spacecraft, or even the planet.

King Durran Illian, True Claimant to the Rulership of the Multiverse, watched the figthing from his new capital ship, the Mkellin. His Ultramarine-Grey Knight bodyguards stood with him, as well as his Paladins. Grand Admiral Thrawn and the Guardians of the Universe were conducting the battle like maestros, giving out orders to board the less corrupted ships.

"Should we take over that Star Dreadnaught on our left, or that Battlestar just below us?" said one of his bodyguards.

"Neither," said the King. "Once the Green Lanterns reach the shields protecting Apokolips' Palace from teleportation, we shall storm it along with our new Paladins. Our goal will be to kill Darksied in a surgical strike that will leave the Multiverse Lords here defenseless, strengthening our position even more."

"I look forward to it, your majesty." said the Bodyguard.

King Durran readied his weapon. The moment might come at any time, and he needed to be prepared. This engagement might prove to be the pivotal turning point of the war...

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Darksied fumed. That Palpatine had betrayed the Dark King of the Multiverse before he could! Now his Star Destroyers (hybridized with Vong technology, of course) were cutting holes in the armada the Multiverse Lords were gathering to destroy New Sirion. And of course, that Thrawn was commanding them. How else to account for the perfectly coordinated strategies of his enemies?

But he wasn't without cunning himself. He knew that the "King" of the NMFL was there, and that he certainly planned to teleport down to the palace and take him out. However, he had already prepared a careful ambush for the monarch and his troops, one that will see him take down the would-be Multiversal Ruler.

As the Green Lanterns made their blasts on his shields, Darksied gave the order to shut them down. Now was the time for him to play his hand.

However, the first people to teleport in his palace weren't King Durran and his troops. Rather, it was his son Orion, who belonged to the forces of good and was prophezised to destroy him one day. He was accompanied by Squirrel Girl, from Marvel Comics.

"So, Thrawn was right," said Orion. "You really didn't expect us."

Then the battle began.

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