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UA: Forest Training Ground
It was a normal day for class 1-A. Well as normal as it can be for them. They were out in a clearing in the forested training area in UA testing new gear courtesy of Mei Hatsume and Melissa Shield, who was currently staying at UA on an internship with power loader, well not really that was just a cover story for her because of the whole I-island incident.
“Alright what does everyone think of their upgrades?” Melissa asked, looking around at the students of class 1-A that could make it to this testing of gear, each of them stretching and moving around in their new costumes.
Bakugo examines his new gauntlets, testing the weight and looking at a new modification. “What the hell did you do to my gear?” He asks, curious as to what could have been changed. Melissa smiles and walks over, taking his hand and directing his attention to his new gauntlet on his arm “I designed these after the old M32 Grenade Launchers used by The US military.” Grabbing her tablet and pulling up an image of one.
“As you can see I took inspiration from the revolving cylinder and up scaled it to go around your forearm, even made it so you can modify the nozzle for a more concentrated blast. Kind of like how an old RPG works.”
Bakugo admires the changes and tries out the smaller blast with a smaller nozzle adjustment. Firing an explosion like his AP Shot attack. “NOW THAT’S MORE LIKE IT!”
“Now remember Bakugo, they are only to be used on heavy hitters, all right?” said Midnight who was there to observe and help the class, and knock them out if their quirks go out of control due to Eraserhead helping Eri with her quirk on another site today.
Melissa giggles and shows him a container now on his belt. “You can also store your sweat into these containers. Basically like you’re reloading. Using them as a quick swap for a full storage blast again, or use them in grenades.” With that Melissa started to walk to the next person but before she could… “AHHHHHGHGHGHGHGHGH?!?!?!?!”
She and everyone were hit with something knocking all but one out.
“AHH!” Denki exclaimed as he was knocked on his ass from the electro net. ‘WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED?!?!?!?!!?’
Looking around he could see everyone else down and out, then he heard leaves ruffling, looking towards the sound he could start to see a group of about 8 figures coming out of the forest into the clearing.
(in Huttese) “He he he looks like we got a big haul today boys.” The lead individual said, smirking at the unconscious forms of class 1-A, friends, and Midnight. “All right guys you know the drill, bag em” he said as he was going to the nearest unconscious body.
‘Shit shit shit! Who the hell are these guys!?!?!?!’ Denki exclaimed in his head as he was watching the unknowns taking his classmates one by one, until for some reason it’s only him left ‘I have to do something! But what?... 💡 THAT'S IT, MY QUIRK! I can use it to send a sos signal through my head gear!’ as he thinks this he sees one of the kidnappers approaching him ‘come on come on come on workworkwork!!!!’.
As he's doing that, the kidnapper that was approaching him goes to pick him up “ahshhgadfghfsg” Denki finally managed to get his body to respond to him and use his quirk to incapacitate him.
“I don’t know who you fucks are but you messed with the wrong class!” Denki exclaimed as he got up. “Now give me back my classmates or you’ll know what it feels like to have over 1,000,000 volts kicked up your ass!!!!” ‘I've got to get a message to the teachers without them noticing, I could try using my quirk to send a beacon through my ear piece.’
(in Huttese) “Hehe looks like we got a live one, boys!” one of the other kidnappers says behind him as he brings out a blaster pistol and stuns Denki, but before it could hit him Denki in a last ditch effort to alert the staff used his quirk to send a beacon through his ear piece before being hit by the stun blast…
which makes him flop onto his side, Peter Griffin style.
(in Huttese) “Alright that's enough Gawking, get him on the ship and let's get outa here.”
UA: Main Building, Nezu’s office
Back at the main building in Nezu’s office.
“Hmm hmm hmm” Nezu was doing some paper work when a red blip accompanied by a beeping sound from his computer startled him, “An emergency beacon…” he said as he brings up the cameras in the site from which the beacon came from, and what he sees shocks him.
Seeing several unidentified individuals intruding in the forested training grounds and kidnapping his students and staff member, Nezu slammed his paw down on the alarm button putting the school into lockdown mode and then grabbed a mic for the PA system.
“WE HAVE INTRUDERS IN THE OFF SITE FOREST TRAINING AREA!! I REPEAT WE HAVE INTRUDERS IN THE OFF SITE FOREST TRAINING AREA!! ALL FACULTY GET THERE AND STOP THEM!!” He then got off his chair and ran like hell to find a teacher to carry him.
A little later back at the off site forest training area
We now find Nezu with a tablet in front of him and the other hero staff in 2 UA APCs driving toward where the cameras are watching the kidnappers hauling Denki towards a ship of some kind.
“Ok they are taking him to some kind of craft. I can't get a good picture of it because of the camera angle, but we should be there within 2 minutes, they already have the rest of the Class and Midnight in there, Hatsume and Shield as well." Nezu says, looking at the footage on the tablet. “Hopefully we aren’t too late.”
Then the gruff voice of Aizawa is heard “How the hell did they get past the barrier and the sensors without triggering the alarms?”
“My best guess, superior jamming technology or stealth tech, possibly a quirk of some kind.” Nezu said with a hint of fear as he just looked back at the tablet. “They just brought Kaminari-Kun aboard! Step on it!”
And Aizawa did, putting pedal to the metal, getting to maximum speed, and breaking a fair few UA Speeding Laws to get to the training grounds.
As they approach the site of the ship they see it’s starting to take off and finally get a good look at it.
“What the hell?” Aizawa asks in somewhat disbelief.
“Who cares!? Shoot it down!!!” Snipe shouted as he opened the top hatch and got up, pulling out his gun and shooting at the craft. Unfortunately they did nothing to it besides scratching the paint job.
Nezu quickly took as many pictures as possible of the craft, and the insignia on it.
After that he went into the glove compartment and got out a magnetic tracker. “Quickly Aizawa! Take this and use your scarf to launch this at the ship! It should magnetize to the hull!” He said as he gave it to him.
Aizawa nodded to him and got out. He then wrapped the device in his scarf and began spinning it like David’s sling from David and the Goliath, once he released it the device went soaring towards the ship and magnetized onto its hull as it was starting to ascend at a fast speed.
“The press are going to eat us alive for this blunder.” Vlad King said, the Blood hero already seeing how the press will spin this to make UA seem worse than it was.
“I’m afraid this is much worse, Vlad. The device still shows the craft climbing in altitude. It's already in the mesosphere and still climbing. It’ll break through orbit at this rate.” Nezu said with a fearful almost dreadful look on his face. “Either the villains have a secret space station which I find very unlikely, or worse, they aren’t even from our planet.”
“Are you implying that 22 Students and a Teacher were kidnapped by aliens?” Thirteen asked, finding the prospect hard to believe.
“Nothing is impossible, Thirteen.” Nezu said, still watching the tracker continue past satellite range, and disappear entirely. “The signal is lost. They went beyond the range of the satellites. The tracker had a small camera on it and sent a video before it got out of range.” he said as he pulled the video up.
And this is what they see before it goes black.
“...What… is…” Thirteen stammered out.
“If I have to hazard a guess, whoever those bastards are, they seem to have some sort of FTL Technology.” Power Loader answered.
“FTL?” Present Mic asked.
“Faster Than Light travel, The only instance I’ve seen of this, was from the old pre-quirk Star Trek films, And even then, those were only Visual Effects made by CGI.” All Might said
“So we now know aliens exist. But what we don’t know is why they kidnapped them.” Cementoss said, still staring off at where the ship left their view.
“And we don’t know if there will be more… this just got a whole lot bigger then what we thought possible, we need to get to the Prime Minister and have him call a UN meeting.” Nezu said with fury in his eyes.
Mindscape of One for All
Izuku opens his eyes to find himself in a dark void, looking around he sees one of the vestiges of One for All, a blond man with two scars over his left eye, wearing a dark ragged body suit torn at the shin, with a torn green jacket, and two knee braces.
“Izuku Midoriya we don’t have much time, you and your class have been kidnapped. We don't know where they took you, luckily you are far along enough to unlock one of the quirks stored in One for All: Danger Sense.”
Izuku tried to talk but he couldn't. Some sort of black substance was covering most of his body.
“Remember, you are not alone. You’ll have us, and we’ll always be with you.” He said as he was pointing to Izuku's chest.
HCT-2001 Dragonboat-class Reugeot 905 Freighter “Cargo” Hold, in hyperspace 2 hours after the kidnapping
Izuku wakes up in a start, looking around in a panic, noticing the cage he’s in. 3 meters wide, and 1 and a half meters tall, over what appears to be a hatch that Danger Sense was alerting to certain death if it is broken open. (And in a way, he is right. It would lead to him being sucked out into the vacuum of space.)
The air was stale with recycled dusty oxygen, and full of similar metal cages. Across from him was Uraraka, lying down unconscious. “Uraraka? Uraraka! Wake up!” He shouted, making her stir.
“Mgh, Deku? What… Where are we?” Ochako asked drearily, finally awaking from unconsciousness.
“No idea, but I think we’ve been kidnapped. No idea who is behind it. Are you hurt?” Izuku asked worriedly
“No, Deku. I’m fine. Just a little jittery from whatever hit us.” she said now looking around at their conditions. “What do we do?”
“Well, we obviously cannot let them do anything to us. Who knows what they have planned for us. I think the best bet for our survival, and to return home is to break out of these cages and take control of this vessel. Whatever it is.” Izuku said, looking at his fist. “Luckily, whoever these guys were are amateurs. They haven’t stripped us of most of our gear.” Izuku then positioned himself to grip the top grate of the cage. ‘One for All, 15%.’ Izuku then pulled apart, causing the top of the cage to snap apart with a loud screech of grinding metal then a bang as the metal bars were ripped apart, the noise waking everyone else up.
“WHAT THE FUCK!? WHAT HAPPENED?!” Bakugo shouted as got up and looked around
“Kaachan! Keep your voice down! We don’t want to alert them of the escape! Hold still! I’ll break you all out!” Izuku whisper-shouted, as he climbed out of his cage. But before he could get any of them opened, a door opened, and two individuals came walking out, spotting Izuku free, and turning their blasters towards him.
Izuku wasted no time, and rushed towards them, dodging red beams of light that left scorching holes in the metal thanks to Danger Sense. As he got close, he backhanded one Squid-faced individual to the side, and followed that up with a punch to a dark-skinned wrinkly individual, who flew backwards, crashing into a console with several lights on it, getting knocked out.
As the person crashed into the console, everything shook as red lights flashed across the ship. From his position, Izuku saw the light blue of Hyperspace make way for the Inky Darkness of space, and a planet primarily dominated by water, which they were approaching fast. Alarmingly so.
“Oh, Crapbaskets.” He said as he look through the Viewport into space with dread.
“Midoriya! What happened!?” Mineta shouted, voice shaking with fear.
“Nothing good! Everyone hold on tight! We are going down!” Izuku shouted, running towards the Cockpit, and attempted to slow the descent of the ship as much as possible. Grabbing the Flight Controller, he followed his instincts with Danger sense, and pulled as hard as he could without One for All. He didn’t want to risk breaking it and them all dying in the crash.
“Pull on the Flight Controller to slow our descent! And find us a good spot to land!” the Squid-faced individual said, jumping into the other cockpit seat, and pulling on the other Flight Controller, after getting up from the backhand Izuku hit him with, Surprisingly speaking Japanese fluently.
“This wouldn’t have happened if you hadn’t kidnapped us in the first place, ya Bastard!” Izuku surprisingly swore at the man.
“To be fair, we thought you guys were easy marks! You guys don’t even have Hyperdrives! You were a Backwater World!” Squid-Head explained.
“If we survive, I’m tearing answers outta your damn tentacles! Even if I have to peel your skin off one strip at a time!” Izuku said angrily.
“And you’ll get them! But focus on our task at hand!” Squid-Head retorted, before screaming in exertion as he pulled his controller back with all his might. “We're entering the planet's atmosphere! And the shields are only partially working! Grab onto something!”
“YOU HEARD HIM!! GRAB ONTO SOMETHING!! THIS IS GOING TO BE A BUMPY RIDE!!!”
Everyone, even Bakugou, all grabbed onto the sides of the cages, and some of them were already getting sick from the turbulence. Around the ship. Panels around the ship begin shaking loose from the turbulent force of Re-entry, some of them striking the cages.
“There! An island! We can try to crash there! PREPARE YOURSELVES!!! IT’S ABOUT TO BE A ROUGH LANDING!!!” Squid-Head shouted, finding an island on this water-world. He starts working to angle the ship in a way to ease the crash, by having it crash a bit away from the island in the water, and having the speed carry them to the island in semi-safety.
The ship descends, hitting the water once, twice, thrice, four times before fully hitting the water, the speed making the ship glide towards the island. Though it was slower now, the ship was still approaching the island at alarming speeds. Izuku knew this through Danger Sense, and jumped out of his seat, and pulled Squid-head out of the cockpit, and into the cargobay, leaving Mr Wrinkle there.
Izuku shoves the guy into his cage, and jumps in, landing on top of him to shield him from the crash, pulling the ends of his cage opening as close together as possible. “EVERYONE BRACE FOR IMPACT!!!”
After several agonizingly slow moments, the ship finally crashed into the island, and stopped abruptly. Once everything settled, Izuku slowly rose, and used his quirk to open his cage again. “Everyone alright?!”
“AAARRRRRGGGHHHHHHH IT HURTS!!! MY ARM! I CAN’T FEEL MY ARM” Mei shouted, before another voice also screamed.
“MY HAND! MY HAND IS GONE! FUUUCK!!!” That was Midnight.
“MY LEG!! I LOST MY LEG!!” Uraraka shouted, before crying out in curse words that would immediately get even the most kind-hearted soul cancelled on Hero-Tube.
“I’ve got a headache, but other than that, I’m alright!” Momo said, groaning in pain.
“My Quirk helped cushion the blow!” Mineta said, from behind his barrier of sticky balls.
“Deku! Get us the fuck out of these cages!” Bakugou yelled, but not as strongly, due to the ringing in his ears and his broken arm.
“Alright, Gimme a few moments. Sato, do you still have your reserves of sugar? I’ll need your help breaking the cages open!”
“I’m still at full capacity, but my Liquid Sugar tank is cracked to high hell. But I might be able to get a few cages open!”
“Get Todoroki out first, then get him to Uraraka, Midnight, and Hatsume! He can cauterize those injuries with his fire!” Izuku shouted, before looking down at Squid-Head. He’s unconscious, but still alive. “Once everyone is out of the cages, I’ll find us a way out of this ship.”
One by one, Izuku and Sato went and freed the rest of their comrades, and brought another round of screams from Hatsume, Uraraka, and Midnight, as Todoroki used the Fire side of his Quirk to cauterize their injured limbs. Then with Yaoyorozu using her quirk to make gauze, bandages, splints, and whatever else they needed, then they wrapped the missing limbs of the injured, and provided precautionary tourniquets to prevent possible blood loss.
Once everyone had been treated, Izuku looked for a hatch to beat down, finding one near the cockpit on the ceiling with a ladder. Izuku climbed the ladder, and pushed up on the hatch door, but it wouldn’t budge due to a Magnetic Seal.
Looking around he could see the button to release the hatch from the magnetic lock was destroyed. He then charged up 10% of OfA, and landed 3 hits on the hatch, knocking the door off the ship, and it landing off to the side after a few seconds.
Climbing out, he could see that there was water everywhere. The island they were on was relatively large, enough trees to start a fire. And a few plants with berries he didn’t know were poisonous or not.
“Alright, everyone out of the vessel! Yaoyorozu! Prepare back harnesses for the critically injured! Whoever is able-bodied, please help carry them out of the ship carefully!” izuku said, before jumping back down to help carry Uraraka, who passed out with Mei thanks to Midnight using her Somnobulist Gas on the two girls. As Yaoyorozu worked on making those harnesses, Izuku dragged the tied up (courtesy of Yaoyorozu) Squid-Head out of the vessel after getting Uraraka out, and to the beach, Jiro following him.
“Jiro, I want you to keep an eye on him. If he tries anything, use your quirk like you did with Mineta in the Locker Rooms.” Izuku said, urgency overriding his nervousness.
“You can count on me, Green. Go get everyone else.” Jiro nodded and kept watch over their prisoner.
“Hopefully we can get back home after this.” Izuku said worriedly.
“The heroes will find us, Green. We’ll get through this.” Jiro said trying to cheer him up.
“Something tells me they won’t be able to.” Izuku muttered, before making his way back to the ship, and helping everyone out of the ship one by one, and onto the beach using his quirk to leap between the beach and the ship at 5% power.
Bakugou had to be knocked unconscious by Midnight, as he was being obstinate and an ass, despite his broken arm. Stupid little Bomberanian thought he could fly down with his explosions one-handed.
Midnight was the second to last one besides Sato, who was helping carry everyone out of the ship. “Alright, kids, Survival lesson time.” she said as she looked around at the class. “First thing’s first, establish a base camp. Yaoyorozu, please make two axes for Midoriya and Sato to chop down some Lumber. And prepare some Fishing Spears so we can hunt for fish. And make a bow or 2 for hunting game. Hopefully we can survive until the heroes find us.”
“I don’t think they can, Midnight-Sensei.” Izuku said, looking downtrodden.
“Midoriya-Kun, Nezu has the most advanced satellite tracking on the planet.”
“BUT THAT’S JUST IT!! WE’RE NOT ON OUR PLANET ANYMORE!!!” Izuku exclaimed with tears in his eyes.
“...What?”
“When I fought those two individuals, I saw we were in some sort of FTL until I punched one of them into a console and that dropped us out of whatever FTL they use. Then I could see space above a planet not like our own. I couldn’t find any of our continents on this planet. We have no idea where we are now.”
“Wait…” Yaoyorozu interrupted. “Are you saying that we were kidnapped by aliens?” Yaoyorozu asked with dread in her voice.
“It’s very likely, Yaoyorozu-san. And we have no idea how to get home even if we knew where to go.” Izuku said downtrodden
“...This was not how I thought our First Encounter with alien life would play out.” Ashido said, her leg in a splint. “I was thinking it would have been peaceful. A dance battle probably, but…”
“To be fair, I doubt anyone would have known that this was going to happen.” Ojiro said, covered in scratches from the crash.
“Still, being kidnapped?! Why would people do such a thing?!” Hakagure shouted in disbelief.
“I don’t know, but I'm about to find out.” Izuku said as he walked to the unconscious squid-head, and slapped his face to wake him up.
“Gah! What the Kriff!” Squid-head shouted, before seeing a glowing and glowering Izuku staring at him in contempt.
“Alright, Squid-Head, you’re going to explain a few things. If your answer is not truthful, and yes, we will know if you lie, you will learn what acid feels like as it eats away at your skin. Am I clear?” Izuku said, sparks from One for All providing a menacing aura around him.
“C-crystal.” He said in fear.
“Alright. First question: Who are you and who do you work for?”
“My name is Jerrot Hepht, I’m a Quarren, and I work for, or at least now used to work for, the Hutt Cartel as a slaver. Our crew finds random individuals and takes them to Nal Hutta to be conditioned as slaves.”
“And why did you target our world?”
“We didn’t, we stumbled upon it and saw that you all had no hyperspace technology, so our boss thought it was a backwater planet with easy pickings.”
“And where is your boss?”
“He was the Weequay you punched into the Navi-computer of the console.”
“What planet are we on?”
“No idea, when you punched my boss into the Navi-computer, it dropped us out of hyperspace and I couldn’t identify the planet due to the damage. As it stands, the coordinates to your world are also likely lost as well.”
“So we’re stuck here?!” Mineta exclaimed in the background
“Not exactly. There’s a distress beacon in the ship we can use to call for help.” Jerrot explained.
“We?” Izuku asked suspiciously.
“Look, I'm not going to sugar-coat it. You don’t know our technology, and I'm likely not going to survive without you. The way I see it, we need to work together to get off this water-world. I help you find the Distress beacon, and we can get off this planet in a few days at most. If I rig the frequency, we can make it so anyone can hear it, and send help.” Jerrot explained in some detail.
“Not these Hutt's?”
“Look, I’ll be honest, they’ll throw me to the Rancor's for such a devastating profit loss. I’m already a dead Quarren walking. With you, I’d likely live to see another day.”
Izuku contemplated this, and figured he was right. They don’t have enough supplies to last long, even if they ration food. Getting off this planet would be the best course of action. “Alright. I’ll trust you, for now. But if you try anything, there are twenty trained individuals who will make your life hell.” He said, grabbing the Quarren by the front of his tunic, bringing him to eye-level.
“Crystal, sir.”
“Good” he then goes around him and unties him.
As Jerrot searches for the beacon, Izuku rips off the paneling of the ship's interior to help create some temporary shelter, which Momo helps tie together with nylon rope. After a few hours, they have a functioning shelter big enough to house all 24 individuals.
“So once you juryrig the distress beacon, who do you think will be listening?” Jiro asked.
“Probably the Galactic Empire, or the rebellion.”
Hyperspace heading from Skystrike Academy to Atollon aboard a CR-90
The crew of the Ghost (-Zeb and Hera) were returning from a successful mission at Skystrike Academy, where Sabine Wren managed to save Wedge Antilles and Hobbie, barely escaping with their lives thanks to Kanan and Ezra’s timely arrival saving them from a tie interceptor piloted by Vult Skerris, the Empires best pilot besides Darth Vader.
“That was way too close. Somehow, they knew that Wedge and Hobby wanted to leave the Empire.” Sabine said, relaxing into one of the chairs.
“We should thank whoever Fulcrum is. If it weren’t for them, we'd never have known about possible defectors.” Kanan said, his damaged eyes hidden behind his mask.
“Sir, we’re picking up a distress beacon from planet Daluuj.” A rebel pilot announced.
“The water world? Why would there be a distress beacon there?” Ezra asked.
“Someone could have crashed onto the planet, and it’s not fully water. There are some islands spread throughout the planet.” Kanan explained
“It could be an Imperial trap.” Sabine argued, skeptical about the timing of it.
“But what if it’s genuine?” Ezra argued back. “I mean we’ve had crazier situations.”
Kanan stayed silent during this exchange, weighing the pros and cons. Finally, he came to a decision. “Let’s scout it out first. If it’s genuine, we’ll help them. If it’s a trap, we flee. Contact Commander Sato, let him know we have a distress beacon we’re checking out.”
Planet Daluuj, Crash Site, 2 days after the crash, and 1 hour after the Ghost Crew received the signal
Despite the rocky start, everyone was adjusting to this new reality, learning a little about both the Galactic Empire and the Rebellion. Unfortunately, this includes Mineta being Mineta, which earned him plenty of times being hanged upside down from the tree by his tiny nuts. Courtesy of Sero. His screams of pain were music to the girl’s ears, but phantom pain for all the guys assembled, even to Jerrot.
“That guy has serious issues.” Jerrot stated, watching Mineta hanging from a tree again. “You’d think he likes the pain with how often he does this sort of thing.”
“No, his mind is so perverted, you’d feel unclean if he even thought about you.” Jiro stated
“Anyway, we’re running out of the ration bars. We’ll have to start hunting and foraging soon.” Midnight said, sitting down on a bed of leaves.
“Not you, Sensei. You’re missing your left hand. Let us hunt.” Izuku said, before Jiro raised her hand asking for silence.
“Shush! I hear something!” she says as she moves her jacks aiming at the entrance to the temp shelter.
“What do you hear?” Midnight ask’s
“Engines. Powerful ones.”
Izuku stood up and walked outside, to see a CR-90 Corvette carrying a smoking TIE Bomber approaching the crash site, landing near the shelter after depositing the bomber next to it.. “I guess someone detected our beacon after all. Gather the wounded and bring them out. I’ll speak to our rescuers.” He said, before walking out.
As he walked to the ship, the boarding ramp lowered down to reveal three individuals. A young woman wearing a black uniform with dark hair, a young man wearing an orange flightsuit, and a bearded man wearing grey pants, a green tunic, and wearing a mask on his face. Next to them was a strange moving machine with a white body and an orange head.
“Oh thank goodness. I was afraid we would have had to start hunting today. My name is Midoriya Izuku. I have a total of 24 individuals that need rescue. Several need immediate medical attention.”
“Huh, so it wasn’t an imperial trap.” the young woman said, staring at Izuku skeptically.
“Look, 2 days ago 23 of us were kidnapped by slavers and crashed on this planet. I literally have no idea what you’re talking about. All we want is refuge while we figure out our next course of action.”
“He speaks the truth, Sabine. We must help them. How many were injured?”
“We have three with severed limbs, some with broken bones, and the rest are covered in cuts, scrapes, and bruises. We’ll pay in any way we can for whatever aid you can provide.” Izuku asked pleadingly.
“No need to beg, sir. Let’s get you all on board. We’ll take you to our base of operations so we can relocate you all.” The bearded man said, before turning around to speak to the pilots. We have 24 injured individuals, three in critical condition, several with broken bones, and pretty much all of them are covered in cuts, scrapes and bruises. Provide what first-aid you can, and let’s bring them back to Chopper Base. I’ll question them along the way.”
It took about 30 minutes, but with help from the crew, everyone was able to get onto the Corvette and into some usable accommodations. Once they were all aboard, the Corvette took off, and grabbed the TIE Bomber before making their way off planet. Though, even Kanan and Ezra winced at seeing Mineta’s predicament.
“So, where did all of you come from? And what species are the Pink girl and Invisible girl?” Ezra asked, sitting down in front of Izuku.
“Other than Squid-face there, we are humans from the planet Earth, a planet I assume is not on any galactic map. Squid-face, or Jerrot Hepht, as he calls himself, was part of what he called the Hutt Cartel. We were victims of kidnapping for the purpose of being turned into slaves.”
“Wait, if you are all humans, why do so many of you look different? I mean, one has a rock-like head for an appearance.”
“That’s a long story. But over 200 years ago, humanity on earth didn’t develop any advanced interstellar tech. But we did start developing powers. The girl with pink skin and hair? She has the ability to secrete acid of any type. The invisible girl is just that, invisible. The boy with a rock-like head has the ability to talk to animals, and even understand them. Though he has intense entomophobia, or fear of insects, as it is. As it stands today, you can find 80% of our population having any sort of power. Only 20% are powerless. We call these powers Quirks, as each power is just a fraction unique. The eldest among us has a quirk that can put people to sleep. The boy with dual-colored hair can emit fire from his right side, and ice on his left. One of my teachers on earth has literal black holes on her fingers.”
“A whole world of powers? By the force.”
“Using my Super Strength, I was able to break out of my cage when I woke up, but before I could free the others, two of the slavers appeared, and the resulting scuffle led to the crash. If it weren’t for the Quarren helping me stabilize the ship and control the crash, we would likely have died that day. The rest of the slavers didn’t make it. I helped save the Quarren just because we needed answers.”
“Hmm… that would explain why most of you resonate with the Force on a frequency I’ve never felt before.”
“The Force?”
“A mystical energy field provided by all living things. It surrounds us, penetrates us and binds the galaxy together. Life Energy, so to speak. Few across the galaxy have a unique sensitivity to the force, and are able to channel its power. To think a whole planet has powers that resonate with the Force, it boggles the mind.”
“Although, I must warn you about one of my people. Mineta Minoru, half a meter tall, purple balls for hair.”
“Is he dangerous?”
“More like he’s got a reputation towards women. An unhealthy perverted reputation. Keep your women away from him. Whatever team you put him with, make it all male.”
“We’ll keep that in mind. What are all of your ‘Quirks’, as you call them?”
“22 quirks in total. The eldest of us, Kayama-sensei, has the Somnobulist Quirk, which lets her emit a gas that causes people who breathe it to fall asleep. The Girl with pink dreadlock hair, Mei Hatsume, who is also missing her right arm, has Zoom. It allows her enhanced eyesight, able to see further, and more closely. She makes support equipment for us. The one with a brown bob-cut hairstyle, missing her left leg, Uraraka Ochako, has Zero Gravity. Anything she touches with five fingers on one hand loses the effect of gravity. The drawback for that causes her to feel queasy due to motion sickness.”
“That would help us with construction of our base. What else?”
“Ayoama Yuga. His Quirk: Navel Laser, allows his to shoot lasers from the bio-gem on his navel. But it gives him really bad stomach aches after using it for too long.”
“The Empire wouldn’t expect that unless they knew of him before that. Perfect for undercover work.”
“Kirishima Eijiro. His quirk, Hardening, makes his skin take on a stone-like quality and durability. Stamina based ability to stay that tough.”
“How durable?”
“He’s taken point blank explosions and came out unscathed. The pink girl, Ashido Mina, has the ability to secrete acid. Every type from neutral to extremely corrosive.”
“Sabotage missions to make imperials leave some outer rim worlds if their tech starts to slowly degrade.”
“Hagakure Tooru has an invisibility quirk, but the drawback is that she’s always invisible.”
“Stealth missions. Being able to enter a base without detection would make information gathering so much easier.”
“Ojiro Mashiro’s quirk is just the large tail he has. Not that impressive. But he’s one of the best fighters in our class. Martial Arts, hand to hand.”
“He can help train our rebels.”
“Bakugou Katsuki is one of the more powerful people. His quirk allows him to sweat Nitroglycerin from his hand, and ignite it by tensing up the muscles in his wrists, causing explosions. The only drawback is his aggressive nature and readiness to fight.”
“Front-line fighter. Preferably where he can let loose.”
“Mineta’s Pop-Off quirk allows him to remove the spheres from his head, and use them to trap others, as they are a very adhesive material. But if he pulls too much from his head, his scalp starts to bleed.”
“Ambush squad. Perfect to trap Convoys.”
“Yaoyorozu Momo’s Creation Quirk allows her to burn Lipids to create anything non living. All she needs is plenty of high calorie foods and knowledge of the Atomic Structure of what she's trying to create.”
“That would be perfect for restocking our Armory, and providing spare parts when needed.”
“Kaminari Denki’s Electrification Quirk allows him to absorb, generate and expel electricity. The max he can expel is about 1.5 million volts, but If he uses too much, though, his metal faculties take a heavy hit, making him appear stupid.”
“That would be perfect to charge our blaster power packs, and overload Imperial Reactors.”
“Fumikage Tokoyami has a sentient shadow, named Dark Shadow, that fights alongside him. He becomes more powerful the darker it gets, but it comes with the trade off of dark shadow becoming more aggressive and uncontrollable, they have been working on that.”
“Sero Hanta’s Tape quirk makes him create and dispense any kind of tape from his elbows, which is perfect for a quick capture, if cuffs are not available.”
“Jiro Kyoka has the best ears in our class, thanks to the Headphone Jacks she has attached to her ears. Connected to specialized omnidirectional speakers, she can also weaponize her heartbeat.”
“Asui Tsuyu has frog-like qualities, such as secreting mucus, extra-long tongue, the ability to stick to walls, and the ability to regurgitate items from her stomach. However, she’s weak to the cold, and is also prone to freeze in the face of a powerful predator.”
“Mezou Shouji can make multiple arms and have them have eyes, mouths, noses and ears.”
“Koda Kouji can communicate to animals, and control them “
“Rikido Sato can buff up by consuming straight sugar. However, the drawback is a decrease in greater thinking.
“Todoroki Shoto can use fire from his left side and Ice from his right side.”
“Iida Tenya has engines in his legs allowing to run at greater speeds than most people.”
“And what about you and the other?”
“Melissa is Quirkless, but a well reputed engineer.”
“And why does your quirk feel different in the force from the others?”
“That’s a long story, but I wish not to speak of it. I still don’t know if we can trust you fully.”
“That’s fair. Do you have any questions?” Ezra asked
“Yeah, what’s this Empire you speak of? Jerrot told us a little about it but not a whole lot, just the basics”
*sighs* “The Galactic Empire is a fascist and imperialist dictatorship that replaced the Galactic Republic at the end of the Clone Wars. Though the Empire rose to power by promising to bring order to the galaxy, it oversaw a period of military rule and aggressive expansion.” Ezra explained
“Not to mention that they are a tyrannical government that silences anyone that speaks out against it. And then there’s the fact that the emperor is a Sith lord.” Kanan jumped in
“Sith lord? What’s that?” izuku asked
“To put it simply, for the force, there are two factions. Jedi and Sith. Jedi are, or rather were, peacekeepers. During the time of the Republic, until the end of the Clone Wars, we were well respected heroes and peacekeepers. And the Sith are Warlords, who care about only what power they can take, with no regard for who they hurt.”
Izuku gained a hardened expression, and fixed his gaze upon the two Jedi with such intensity it made them nervous. “Tell me everything.”
And so they did. The Clone Wars, Palpatine, the fall of the Republic and order 66 that almost wiped out all of the Jedi, the rise of the Empire, and the atrocities the Empire committed against the common people and covered up. And during the whole conversation, Izuku listened with rapt attention, taking in all the information he received. He even was writing all this down in a notebook that neither of the two Jedi could figure out where it came from.
Chopper Base, Atollon
By the time they landed on Atollon, Izuku had filled 1/3rd of his notebook with everything he learned about this Empire. And all of it paints a very damning picture.
Xenophobia, slavery, rebellions, genocide, bribery, even fatal ambition was present in the corrupt government, and too many war crimes to count. But the fact that the Empire still stood despite the highly ambitious captains and admirals and other high-ranking officials in the Empire being incompetent… it simply boggles the mind.
After Sabine introduced Wedge and Hobbie to Commander Sato, Kanan did introductions for the 24 individuals that they rescued.
“Commander, the Distress beacon we detected yielded 24 survivors from planet Daluuj, one Slaver, and 23 kidnapped individuals. Three of them will need prosthetics. One right arm, one left hand, and one left leg. Human Compatibility. Do we happen to have any prosthetics?”
“We do, yes. Take them to the medical tent. A long Bacta soak and some surgery should get them back on their feet. We will try to bring them to their home if we can.”
“They aren’t from any world on our star-charts, sir. They come from a planet called Earth. Unfortunately, the slaver ship lost its Navi-computer, so we cannot get them back there. But it’s likely in wild-space.”
“And what of the slaver?”
“Considering the brutality of the Hutt's for lost profits, he’s willing to do anything to prevent being sent back to Nal Hutta in chains, waiting for execution by beasts.
“Get them settled, and tell us about them after. You’ll know where to find me.” Commander Sato said, heading back to the command table.
Daluuj, Crash Site
An Imperial Star Destroyer, the Chimera, hangs in orbit as several Lambda-Class T-4a shuttles land on the beach near the wreckage of the crash site.
From them, several troopers and one officer emerged searching for survivors. All they found were seven dead Hutt Cartel members, all dead in the crash. The officer, a blue-skinned red-eyed man in a white Imperial officer uniform with the rank of Grand Admiral, surveyed the wreckage.
“While unfortunate, whoever piloted the ship crashed it in a way that minimized casualties. This speaks of skill.”
“Sir, there’s no survivors.” A stormtrooper reported.
”There were, actually. Look at the shelter, and look at how 23 of the cages were broken out of. That is not a sign of no survivors. And the footprints. Easily 24 unique prints. One Quarren, and 20 humanoid prints. The deeper prints indicate transportation of injured individuals to their rescuers. Likely the rebels.”
“Sir.” Another trooper interrupted. “We’ve managed to save some footage from the crash. It’s damaged, but it might tell what was being transported.”
“Show me.” Thrawn said, before being shown footage of a green-haired boy gripping the cage and with a flash of green lightning, tore it open, before climbing out. Then the two pilots entered, the scuffle, the navi computer being destroyed, and the resulting crash. Then it went dark. But before it went dark, Thrawn saw the boy throw the Quarren into the cage, and jump in after him, and closed the bent bars as best he could.
“Now, this is interesting. Someone who could rip open metal with his bare hands. This will require looking into.”
“Sir, we found 3 limbs in 3 of the cages. One human arm, one human hand, and one human leg. The arm and leg appear to be from adolescents from the size alone. Female, too. Looks like some of them were injured in the crash.”
“Judging by how cleanly they were cut, and the streaks of blood on some panels, high impact from interior paneling due to the crash. A DNA test should help identify them on the civilian Database. Check the manifest if it’s still intact. We should see if there’s any clue to how many people were here.”
“Manifest is a bit spotty, sir, but according to this, 22 adolescents and one adult female were taken from an undiscovered world, and were bound to Nal Hutta for slavery.”
“Sir The Navi-computer was destroyed, no data from it survived” a technician in the cockpit adds in, working around the mangled corpse of the Weequay that didn’t survive.
“How unfortunate.” Thrawn noted in his eerily calm tone.
“But that does lead to an answer, does it not? These slavers somehow managed to find a world in the unknown regions, not on any map.”
Just then, one of the officers trapping the hand fell to the ground, asleep. “I tell you people to get plenty of rest.”
“Sir, there’s an odd pheromone emitting from the hand.” A trooper said after sniffing it, and falling asleep as well.
“Fascinating, very fascinating.” Thrawn says as he looks at the hand with growing fascination.. “A pheromone that induces instant sleep. These aren’t normal humans.” Thrawn said, thinking of all the possibilities, and with a growing smile on his face. ‘This just got a lot more interesting.’