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Four men sit apon four chairs. The night sky falls apon them, and although they don't realise it, night is apon us.
"Hail Brother Ant." SHEEPY said. "What does thou bring us in this time of woe?"
"Hail Brother." Ant replied. "I bring news of a game."
"What game is this you speak of?" Said I.
"It is the one true game. The one that will bind us all." Ant reached into his sack, and withdrew thy press release.
"It is what I've always dreamed of, and yet, my dreams never seem so real." Said I.
"It is of true beauty." Said Ant.
"An online RPG?" Inquired Snipe. "What's so good about an online RPG?"
Ant and I gave Snipe an evil look.
"You do not see the whole picture, misguided one." I remarked.
"Certainly not." Ant stared at the game again. "Lord Lucas would not be pleased to hear of such blasphemy."
"Lord Lucas? What the hell are you lot blabbing on about anyway?"
"Behold. The Star Wars Online RPG is being developed, and you can now sign up for the beta testing."
"I shall not wait to do so. Goodbye gentlemen." Said I.
Snipe continued to argue with Ant and Sheepy well into the night, until Ant withdrew his +5 attack Lightsaber, and Sheepy attacked Snipe with his +15 force grip.
"Hail Brother Ant." SHEEPY said. "What does thou bring us in this time of woe?"
"Hail Brother." Ant replied. "I bring news of a game."
"What game is this you speak of?" Said I.
"It is the one true game. The one that will bind us all." Ant reached into his sack, and withdrew thy press release.
"It is what I've always dreamed of, and yet, my dreams never seem so real." Said I.
"It is of true beauty." Said Ant.
"An online RPG?" Inquired Snipe. "What's so good about an online RPG?"
Ant and I gave Snipe an evil look.
"You do not see the whole picture, misguided one." I remarked.
"Certainly not." Ant stared at the game again. "Lord Lucas would not be pleased to hear of such blasphemy."
"Lord Lucas? What the hell are you lot blabbing on about anyway?"
"Behold. The Star Wars Online RPG is being developed, and you can now sign up for the beta testing."
"I shall not wait to do so. Goodbye gentlemen." Said I.
Snipe continued to argue with Ant and Sheepy well into the night, until Ant withdrew his +5 attack Lightsaber, and Sheepy attacked Snipe with his +15 force grip.
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Crap, that was supposed to be Epilogue.
Never mind.
Never mind.
Prologue.
Sheepy had managed to work his way down the shafts and chasms to the large hall deep under Endor. The hall he had been meaning to come to for some time.
He turned the key in the keyhole under the desk, and the west wall opened, and thousands of blue containers were stacked on shelves, all full of one thing.
Snipers.
He walked towards the blue glow, from which the heating system made, that kept all the Snipers alive.
Wondering about the Army of Darkness he had created, or rather, Army of Sniper, he wondered if he should actually release them all, and use them to destroy the jedi...
"Nah." He thought. "Now is not the time. They aren't quite ready yet. And besides, the enraged group above should kill them off.
Darth Sheepy turned around, and headed back to the desk, when suddenly, his foot got trapped in a lead. He tripped to the ground, and the lead sprung out of the wall.
He trailed the cable back to a empty socket, where the plug was... He trailed the other end, and it went to the heating system.
Darth Sheepy could do nothing, as he watched 1,000s of Snipers suddenly explode in their jars on the shelves...
"Whoops." Was all Sheepy could manage.
Sheepy had managed to work his way down the shafts and chasms to the large hall deep under Endor. The hall he had been meaning to come to for some time.
He turned the key in the keyhole under the desk, and the west wall opened, and thousands of blue containers were stacked on shelves, all full of one thing.
Snipers.
He walked towards the blue glow, from which the heating system made, that kept all the Snipers alive.
Wondering about the Army of Darkness he had created, or rather, Army of Sniper, he wondered if he should actually release them all, and use them to destroy the jedi...
"Nah." He thought. "Now is not the time. They aren't quite ready yet. And besides, the enraged group above should kill them off.
Darth Sheepy turned around, and headed back to the desk, when suddenly, his foot got trapped in a lead. He tripped to the ground, and the lead sprung out of the wall.
He trailed the cable back to a empty socket, where the plug was... He trailed the other end, and it went to the heating system.
Darth Sheepy could do nothing, as he watched 1,000s of Snipers suddenly explode in their jars on the shelves...
"Whoops." Was all Sheepy could manage.
I think this is a wrap now. The Jedi's and Ewok army obviously win, pacify the film buffs, George Lucas makes a brief appearance to apologise for the Binks stuff, Sheepy and Grix make up and trade Krixt Mass presents, the SSD Red Splat disintegrates in space when Moff Ali drops his pencil into the force-field generator, and everyone lives happily ever after.
Roll credits.
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Meanwhile, in a remote part of another Galaxy....
Roll credits.
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Meanwhile, in a remote part of another Galaxy....
Lol!
993 men stood still. Lost.
Darth Sheepy called out for the radar, which was immeditally placed on the table that 10 of the stormtroopers were carrying around.
"WTF?" Sheepy had noticed the rather large blob on the radar...
"It's coming from the west." A stormtrooper noted.
"No. It's coming from the east." A more intelligent stormtrooper noted.
They could hear it now... like... it was like millions of people, all crying out in anger...
"Oh my god. I've just worked out what it is." Sheepy ran for cover, pushing over the table in the way. The radar landed on the floor. The blob on the screen started to change.
"IT'S THE F.D.W.E.O.G! TAKE COVER!!!" Sheepy shouted out, but no-one seemed to understand him.
Sheepy quickly got into an underground bunker, which was nearby, thankfully, and locked the door.
The blob on the radar broke up into millions of pieces, as it headed towards the stormtrooper mass...
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"Where are they?" Asked FM.
The five waited on speedbikes.
"I don't know. But I'm going to find out." Ant sped off, Grix followed shortly behind.
"Lets go." The rest sped off to join.
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The battle between the F.D.W.E.O.G and the Stormtroopers continued. The anger and tension built up inside the members of the F.D.W.E.O.G was incredibly high...
"WHAT THE **** ARE MEDICHLORINES!" They shouted, as they beat a stormtrooper to death with the bones of Ewoks.
Ant and Grix arrived.
"OH CRAP! It's the F.D.W.E.O.G!"
FM pulled up by their side. "The F.D.W.E.O.G? What's that?"
"The Fans Disapointed With Episode One Group. They're insane."
"I'LL GIVE YOU JAR JAR ****ING BINKS!" One shouted as he ripped off the head of a Stormtrooper.
"I've got a very bad feeling about this Ant." Grix looked on...
Darth Sheepy called out for the radar, which was immeditally placed on the table that 10 of the stormtroopers were carrying around.
"WTF?" Sheepy had noticed the rather large blob on the radar...
"It's coming from the west." A stormtrooper noted.
"No. It's coming from the east." A more intelligent stormtrooper noted.
They could hear it now... like... it was like millions of people, all crying out in anger...
"Oh my god. I've just worked out what it is." Sheepy ran for cover, pushing over the table in the way. The radar landed on the floor. The blob on the screen started to change.
"IT'S THE F.D.W.E.O.G! TAKE COVER!!!" Sheepy shouted out, but no-one seemed to understand him.
Sheepy quickly got into an underground bunker, which was nearby, thankfully, and locked the door.
The blob on the radar broke up into millions of pieces, as it headed towards the stormtrooper mass...
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"Where are they?" Asked FM.
The five waited on speedbikes.
"I don't know. But I'm going to find out." Ant sped off, Grix followed shortly behind.
"Lets go." The rest sped off to join.
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The battle between the F.D.W.E.O.G and the Stormtroopers continued. The anger and tension built up inside the members of the F.D.W.E.O.G was incredibly high...
"WHAT THE **** ARE MEDICHLORINES!" They shouted, as they beat a stormtrooper to death with the bones of Ewoks.
Ant and Grix arrived.
"OH CRAP! It's the F.D.W.E.O.G!"
FM pulled up by their side. "The F.D.W.E.O.G? What's that?"
"The Fans Disapointed With Episode One Group. They're insane."
"I'LL GIVE YOU JAR JAR ****ING BINKS!" One shouted as he ripped off the head of a Stormtrooper.
"I've got a very bad feeling about this Ant." Grix looked on...
Think how long it took us to WRITE it!
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Speaking of which, better get going...
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Speaking of which, better get going...
It's taken me ages to read this!
The Ewoks had stealthily gathered all of FM's bodyparts from the forest and had gathered them in a pile outide the Shaman's hut. The Shaman regarded the little band of Ewoks, with their furry faces and imploring eyes, then he regarded the pile of bone and sinew that lay before his feet.
"Well," he said, rubbing his chin. "I'll tell you this much, it's gonna cost. It's the parts you see...."
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Grix sat motionless in the undergrowth. Had there been any outside observers, they would have thought he was a stature, albeit with glazed eyes. But there were no witnesses to the internal battle that was raging inside Grix's mind. Inside his head, deadly forces were having a battle to the death, there could only be two survivors: Grix's brain and the good side of the Force, or the more sinister alternative, Grix's brain and the dark side of the Force.
"Your own MOTHER tried to KILL you!" The Dark Brain lunged at Grix, who had by now learnt to control the 3rd wall, which explained why he was smiling a lot.
"No, Dark Brain, you are wrong, she tried to kill us all!" Grix parried the incoming blow with his light saber. Britney Spears squealed with delight at his deftness with the weapon.
Grix's brain watched from beside her, logically analysing the possible outcomes, and trying to ignore the way Britney wobbled as she jumped up and down.
The battle raged....
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A searing bolt of laser light screamed through the bushes ahead, completey severing the top off C-chea-P0 and making it fly up into the air like a twisted frisbee.
"Ambush!!" yelled Darkness as he and Dan_UK dived for cover into the undergrowth. Ant tucked his sugar inside his tunic before drawing his laser gun and returning fire, but the forest was so dense that he could not see any targets.
More bolts of laser started to perforate the air around them, whining and sizzling through the trees and branches.
"GRIEF!" yelled at, as another bolt singed past his head, "This is no good, we've got to make a run for it!"
The three of them started laying down covering fire as they ran off to the left of the path, hoping they had acted quickly enough to avoid been outflanked.
"There they are!" yelled Darth Sheepy to his battalion of StormTroopers. "First one to get a confirmed kill gets triple pay and the next two weeks off!"
1000 StormTroopers grinned at what they could do with the spare cash, and instantly gave chase.
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"There can be only ONE" Dark Brain charged, hoping to catch Grix off balance. Grix had seen it coming. He stepped to one side and through his cape over Dark's head as he flew past, and watched as he fell to the ground entangled in the fabric of his Jedi uniform. Britney jumped in the air and cheered, Grix's brain blushed, and Madonna seriously considered dumping Guy Richie at this point. Grix walked over to the tangled mass on the ground, and ended the battle.
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"There you go, good as new!" The Shaman stood back and admired his handiwork. FantasyMeister stood, a little unsteadily, and checked himself out. All seemed to be in order. He had all the bits he had before he got ripped apart by the Mogalonth in the forest, and felt that if he could only have a nice shower he would feel right as rain again. He felt a tugging at his leg and looked down.
An Ewok was pulling him towards the forest and pointing agitatedly. Then some more Ewoks surrounded him and started pushing him towards the trees, and the sounds of battle.
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"Wow, that was lucky, wasn't it?" Darkness grinned as they ran into a clearing and stumbled across three deserted hover bikes. Instantly they started to put a big gap between them and 1000 outraged StormTroopers. They whizzed off into the forest, the trees becoming a blur as they zoomed in and out of them.
"Where to?" yelled Ant from behind as he fired his laser gun over his shoulder in the hope of taking out a few of their pursuers.
"Haven't a clue!" yelled Dan_UK as he ducked under a thick branch that whooshed over his head. All of a sudden, there were figures in front of them. "Woah!" yelled Dan_UK as he swerved to avoid the Ewok army assembled in the woods in front of them. He just made it.
Darkness dismounted and yelled at them: "What are you doing here! Don't you know that there are 1000 Stormtroopers coming this way?"
"992," said Ant, smugly. "I think I got 8 of 'em!"
"Whatever, we've got to get you out of here."
The assembled Ewok's parted to allow to humans to walk to the front.
"Grix! FantasyMeister!" The three Jedi's couldn't believe it. Their friends were back. They could be the 'Famous Five' again, except there was no dog this time.
"Had you worried?" quipped Grix.
"Nah," Ant pretended it was all in a day's work. "But we've still got these StormTroopers to worry about.
The five Jedi's and the Ewoks quickly organised themselves, and turned to face the direction from which the onslaught of bloodthirsty StormTroopers would come.....
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Back in the comms room of the SSD Red Splat, Grand Moff Ali was a worried Moff. Webmaster had just reported for the second time that there was a large object heading straight for the Stormtroopers. Very large. Moff Ali wondered whether it would be prudent to inform the Emperor as to what was going on. But he hated to be the bearer of bad tidings. Maybe he could blame it all on the Webmaster if something went wrong. The stress was getting unbearable. Another bead of sweat coursed down his brow, and landed on the console before him with a
*click*
"Well," he said, rubbing his chin. "I'll tell you this much, it's gonna cost. It's the parts you see...."
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Grix sat motionless in the undergrowth. Had there been any outside observers, they would have thought he was a stature, albeit with glazed eyes. But there were no witnesses to the internal battle that was raging inside Grix's mind. Inside his head, deadly forces were having a battle to the death, there could only be two survivors: Grix's brain and the good side of the Force, or the more sinister alternative, Grix's brain and the dark side of the Force.
"Your own MOTHER tried to KILL you!" The Dark Brain lunged at Grix, who had by now learnt to control the 3rd wall, which explained why he was smiling a lot.
"No, Dark Brain, you are wrong, she tried to kill us all!" Grix parried the incoming blow with his light saber. Britney Spears squealed with delight at his deftness with the weapon.
Grix's brain watched from beside her, logically analysing the possible outcomes, and trying to ignore the way Britney wobbled as she jumped up and down.
The battle raged....
______________
A searing bolt of laser light screamed through the bushes ahead, completey severing the top off C-chea-P0 and making it fly up into the air like a twisted frisbee.
"Ambush!!" yelled Darkness as he and Dan_UK dived for cover into the undergrowth. Ant tucked his sugar inside his tunic before drawing his laser gun and returning fire, but the forest was so dense that he could not see any targets.
More bolts of laser started to perforate the air around them, whining and sizzling through the trees and branches.
"GRIEF!" yelled at, as another bolt singed past his head, "This is no good, we've got to make a run for it!"
The three of them started laying down covering fire as they ran off to the left of the path, hoping they had acted quickly enough to avoid been outflanked.
"There they are!" yelled Darth Sheepy to his battalion of StormTroopers. "First one to get a confirmed kill gets triple pay and the next two weeks off!"
1000 StormTroopers grinned at what they could do with the spare cash, and instantly gave chase.
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"There can be only ONE" Dark Brain charged, hoping to catch Grix off balance. Grix had seen it coming. He stepped to one side and through his cape over Dark's head as he flew past, and watched as he fell to the ground entangled in the fabric of his Jedi uniform. Britney jumped in the air and cheered, Grix's brain blushed, and Madonna seriously considered dumping Guy Richie at this point. Grix walked over to the tangled mass on the ground, and ended the battle.
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"There you go, good as new!" The Shaman stood back and admired his handiwork. FantasyMeister stood, a little unsteadily, and checked himself out. All seemed to be in order. He had all the bits he had before he got ripped apart by the Mogalonth in the forest, and felt that if he could only have a nice shower he would feel right as rain again. He felt a tugging at his leg and looked down.
An Ewok was pulling him towards the forest and pointing agitatedly. Then some more Ewoks surrounded him and started pushing him towards the trees, and the sounds of battle.
________________
"Wow, that was lucky, wasn't it?" Darkness grinned as they ran into a clearing and stumbled across three deserted hover bikes. Instantly they started to put a big gap between them and 1000 outraged StormTroopers. They whizzed off into the forest, the trees becoming a blur as they zoomed in and out of them.
"Where to?" yelled Ant from behind as he fired his laser gun over his shoulder in the hope of taking out a few of their pursuers.
"Haven't a clue!" yelled Dan_UK as he ducked under a thick branch that whooshed over his head. All of a sudden, there were figures in front of them. "Woah!" yelled Dan_UK as he swerved to avoid the Ewok army assembled in the woods in front of them. He just made it.
Darkness dismounted and yelled at them: "What are you doing here! Don't you know that there are 1000 Stormtroopers coming this way?"
"992," said Ant, smugly. "I think I got 8 of 'em!"
"Whatever, we've got to get you out of here."
The assembled Ewok's parted to allow to humans to walk to the front.
"Grix! FantasyMeister!" The three Jedi's couldn't believe it. Their friends were back. They could be the 'Famous Five' again, except there was no dog this time.
"Had you worried?" quipped Grix.
"Nah," Ant pretended it was all in a day's work. "But we've still got these StormTroopers to worry about.
The five Jedi's and the Ewoks quickly organised themselves, and turned to face the direction from which the onslaught of bloodthirsty StormTroopers would come.....
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Back in the comms room of the SSD Red Splat, Grand Moff Ali was a worried Moff. Webmaster had just reported for the second time that there was a large object heading straight for the Stormtroopers. Very large. Moff Ali wondered whether it would be prudent to inform the Emperor as to what was going on. But he hated to be the bearer of bad tidings. Maybe he could blame it all on the Webmaster if something went wrong. The stress was getting unbearable. Another bead of sweat coursed down his brow, and landed on the console before him with a
*click*
A lone man sat in the undergrowth, waiting to pounce...
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Meanwhile, Darth Sheepy felt that maybe getting away from the SSD Red Splat for the moment may be a good idea, so decided to go down to Endor, to watch the massacre.
The shuttle landed at the landing docks, where the Ewok village used to be, he left behind, and shut the door behind him.
Unfortunatly his cape got stuck in the automatic door, and he was pulled back, and slipped over and fell on his back, and ripped his cape.
Stormtroopers quickly came over to tend to Lord Sheepy, and he quickly got himself up again.
The journey from the SSD to the dock had been a long, and tedious one. But it had got Sheepy thinking... thinking about times past... about the future... but most of all... about his son.
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Sheepy entered the medi-lab, his beautiful wife laying in bed, holding his son.
Sheepy sat down next to his wife, and hugged her. They had pulled through well together, living off the moisture farming business. Looking at how hard it was to make money back then, Sheepy managed a small smile through his grim face.
"Can I hold him?"
"He is yours as well Sheepy..." His wife passed him his baby.
"Hello Grix." He said.
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Sheepy, after falling to the dark side, after his father died, trained his son in the dark side making him work side by side with him.
Grix grew strong in the dark side, even more so than Sheepy did. Such a strong past, to be ruined by a simple action.
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Sheepys wife grew ever more concerned by the power of her son, and what damage he could do to the world if he ever tried to rule it.
Sheepys wife decided she would do the thing that would probably save mankind, and stop Sheepy from continuing his reign of terror.
She decided to kill Grix.
She placed a cocktail of drugs into the boys food, enough to kill 50 men.
Grix died instantly.
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Sheepy was devastated at the news. He went to find his wife, but couldn't find her. She had left, and took everything with her. Including his son.
But Sheepys sadness was not to last long. Five years later he heard that Grix was still alive, and had managed to cheat death and rose from the grave!
Unfortunatly, Grix had seemed to be totally involved in the light side now. Almost has if his death had changed him...
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Sheepy stepped down from the platform, onto the grass below. He had never found his wife, but was told that she has died less than a year later, for unknown reasons.
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Strangly enough, a woman had died on Dagobah that year, shortly after giving birth to a boy, which Yoda took in as his own...
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Meanwhile, Darth Sheepy felt that maybe getting away from the SSD Red Splat for the moment may be a good idea, so decided to go down to Endor, to watch the massacre.
The shuttle landed at the landing docks, where the Ewok village used to be, he left behind, and shut the door behind him.
Unfortunatly his cape got stuck in the automatic door, and he was pulled back, and slipped over and fell on his back, and ripped his cape.
Stormtroopers quickly came over to tend to Lord Sheepy, and he quickly got himself up again.
The journey from the SSD to the dock had been a long, and tedious one. But it had got Sheepy thinking... thinking about times past... about the future... but most of all... about his son.
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Sheepy entered the medi-lab, his beautiful wife laying in bed, holding his son.
Sheepy sat down next to his wife, and hugged her. They had pulled through well together, living off the moisture farming business. Looking at how hard it was to make money back then, Sheepy managed a small smile through his grim face.
"Can I hold him?"
"He is yours as well Sheepy..." His wife passed him his baby.
"Hello Grix." He said.
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Sheepy, after falling to the dark side, after his father died, trained his son in the dark side making him work side by side with him.
Grix grew strong in the dark side, even more so than Sheepy did. Such a strong past, to be ruined by a simple action.
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Sheepys wife grew ever more concerned by the power of her son, and what damage he could do to the world if he ever tried to rule it.
Sheepys wife decided she would do the thing that would probably save mankind, and stop Sheepy from continuing his reign of terror.
She decided to kill Grix.
She placed a cocktail of drugs into the boys food, enough to kill 50 men.
Grix died instantly.
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Sheepy was devastated at the news. He went to find his wife, but couldn't find her. She had left, and took everything with her. Including his son.
But Sheepys sadness was not to last long. Five years later he heard that Grix was still alive, and had managed to cheat death and rose from the grave!
Unfortunatly, Grix had seemed to be totally involved in the light side now. Almost has if his death had changed him...
_______________
Sheepy stepped down from the platform, onto the grass below. He had never found his wife, but was told that she has died less than a year later, for unknown reasons.
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Strangly enough, a woman had died on Dagobah that year, shortly after giving birth to a boy, which Yoda took in as his own...
Darkness threw up in the undergrowth, Dan_UK went very pale, Ant reached for a backup bag of suger and tried very hard to stay cool. The sight before them was horrendous to say the least, so we'll leave it at that. Suffice it to say, FantasyMeister would not be playing any further part in their adventure.
Ant looked around and noticed that Grix had not followed them to the scene of slaughter. He turned to Dan_uk.
"Something's up."
"You can say that again," said Dan_uk, retching as he did so, "I think that's one of FM's hands hanging from that branch over there...maybe it's a foot, hard to tell."
"No, I mean with Grix, he's not 'part of the team' anymore, haven't you noticed?"
"Come to think of it," interjected Darkness, "He hasn't been the same since we fixed him up on the Millennium Ant from those bullet wounds. Think something happened to him whist he was out for the count?"
Unconsciously, they were talking in whispers. Their nerves were frayed, losing FM was a big blow. And Grix was the only other capable pilot amongst them, and that was saying a lot.
Ant had a bit more sugar and felt calmer, but their mission had to continue. They had to find out what was disturbing the fragile ecology of the Ewoks on Endor. He signalled for them to carry on, keeping a wary eye out for Grix, whereever he may have gone to, and turned his head in one last gesture of farewell to his old comrade, who was dangling from various parts of various different trees, in various different parts of the forest, such had been the ferocity of his attacker.
C-chea-P0 brought up the rear.
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"Our plan is working." Darth Sheepy paced up and down the length of the elegant marble conference table on the deck of the SSD RedSplat, currently in orbit around the planet of Endor.
"All the rebels have converged onto this worthless ball of a planet, and my StormTroopers await their arrival at the Ewok's main centre of habitation. It will be a massacre. A glorious massacre."
Emperor Tony gazed at Darth Sheepy from his chair at the end of the table. "And your son?"
"WHAT OF HIM!!" Sheepy whirled in his step, his cloak flying out behind him. "He his NOTHING to me! Ever since his mother attuned him to the good side of the Force, he has been no son of MINE!"
"Remember who you are addressing."
"Yes.....master, forgive my outburst."
"This time....yes."
Darth Sheepy recognised a veiled threat when he saw one, and backed down.
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Down in the SSD RedSpats communications centre, Grand Moff Ali was supervising preparations for the support of the impending attack to be launched by the StarTroopers. On the screen in front of him he had a large, green display, and a big mass of white on the right represented the 1000 troopers ready to spring into action. On the left on the screen, he could see the Jedi's, marked in red, moving towards the white mass. "This will be too easy," he thought to himself.
"Grand Moff!"
Moff Ali turned in his chair to face the Webmaster.
"Yes! What is it! Can't you see I'm busy!"
"Yes, Grand Moff, of course, but it's just that we are picking up deep sonar signals, something is down there moving about on the planet's surface that you can't see on your screen, it doesn't show up there, only on the sonar screen."
"What is it?"
"It's a screen that shows sound waves transcribed into a light spectrum which then bombards a screen with particles so that we can view what it looks like."
"NOT THE SONAR SCREEN, IDIOT! What is it that is moving about on the SURFACE!"
The Webmaster cringed. "We just don't know, Grand Moff, but it's big, very big indeed."
Grand Moff Ali dismissed him with a wave of his hand, and turned back to his screen. The battle was close, the red dots moving slowly towards the white, they could only be a few hundred yards apart. A bead of sweat broke out on his brow. He couldn't afford to fail the Emperor again. This had to go right. He felt the muscles of his face tighten with the pressure and strain he was under, and his jaw went
*click*
Ant looked around and noticed that Grix had not followed them to the scene of slaughter. He turned to Dan_uk.
"Something's up."
"You can say that again," said Dan_uk, retching as he did so, "I think that's one of FM's hands hanging from that branch over there...maybe it's a foot, hard to tell."
"No, I mean with Grix, he's not 'part of the team' anymore, haven't you noticed?"
"Come to think of it," interjected Darkness, "He hasn't been the same since we fixed him up on the Millennium Ant from those bullet wounds. Think something happened to him whist he was out for the count?"
Unconsciously, they were talking in whispers. Their nerves were frayed, losing FM was a big blow. And Grix was the only other capable pilot amongst them, and that was saying a lot.
Ant had a bit more sugar and felt calmer, but their mission had to continue. They had to find out what was disturbing the fragile ecology of the Ewoks on Endor. He signalled for them to carry on, keeping a wary eye out for Grix, whereever he may have gone to, and turned his head in one last gesture of farewell to his old comrade, who was dangling from various parts of various different trees, in various different parts of the forest, such had been the ferocity of his attacker.
C-chea-P0 brought up the rear.
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"Our plan is working." Darth Sheepy paced up and down the length of the elegant marble conference table on the deck of the SSD RedSplat, currently in orbit around the planet of Endor.
"All the rebels have converged onto this worthless ball of a planet, and my StormTroopers await their arrival at the Ewok's main centre of habitation. It will be a massacre. A glorious massacre."
Emperor Tony gazed at Darth Sheepy from his chair at the end of the table. "And your son?"
"WHAT OF HIM!!" Sheepy whirled in his step, his cloak flying out behind him. "He his NOTHING to me! Ever since his mother attuned him to the good side of the Force, he has been no son of MINE!"
"Remember who you are addressing."
"Yes.....master, forgive my outburst."
"This time....yes."
Darth Sheepy recognised a veiled threat when he saw one, and backed down.
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Down in the SSD RedSpats communications centre, Grand Moff Ali was supervising preparations for the support of the impending attack to be launched by the StarTroopers. On the screen in front of him he had a large, green display, and a big mass of white on the right represented the 1000 troopers ready to spring into action. On the left on the screen, he could see the Jedi's, marked in red, moving towards the white mass. "This will be too easy," he thought to himself.
"Grand Moff!"
Moff Ali turned in his chair to face the Webmaster.
"Yes! What is it! Can't you see I'm busy!"
"Yes, Grand Moff, of course, but it's just that we are picking up deep sonar signals, something is down there moving about on the planet's surface that you can't see on your screen, it doesn't show up there, only on the sonar screen."
"What is it?"
"It's a screen that shows sound waves transcribed into a light spectrum which then bombards a screen with particles so that we can view what it looks like."
"NOT THE SONAR SCREEN, IDIOT! What is it that is moving about on the SURFACE!"
The Webmaster cringed. "We just don't know, Grand Moff, but it's big, very big indeed."
Grand Moff Ali dismissed him with a wave of his hand, and turned back to his screen. The battle was close, the red dots moving slowly towards the white, they could only be a few hundred yards apart. A bead of sweat broke out on his brow. He couldn't afford to fail the Emperor again. This had to go right. He felt the muscles of his face tighten with the pressure and strain he was under, and his jaw went
*click*
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