Glitter & Gold (Marvel/Star Wars Crossover)

Chapter 6: Cronal's Laboratory

Areria, Loki, Gida, Maya, and I returned to the village where Luke, Tarom, Hilna, and Kina were at. They were relieved to see us with Areria, who wore a smile upon seeing Kina and Tarom. 

"Kina, Tarom. It's great to see familiar faces." Areria commented. "What have I missed?"

"Well, where do we begin?" Kina asked.

"We'll have plenty of time for that later. First we need to find Cronal and end this madness." I advised.

"It's deep in the jungles, but it's heavily guarded." Areria warned.

"Not to worry. Luke, Kina, Tarom, and Hilna, did you bring all the villagers here?" I inquired.

Luke nodded. "We managed to bring all of them back to their senses from whatever brainwashing mechanism was on them."

"Good. Then this will make matters easier." I replied with a smile.

Areria raised an eyebrow. "How so?"

"Uh-oh, she's got that look on her face." Kina commented. 

"That never means anything good." Tarom chimed in.

"Oh come on when have my plans ever failed?" I asked, earning looks from Kina, Maya, Gida, and Tarom.

"Oh alright, so occasionally my plans fail...but this time it'll succeed. I've learned from my past." I assured them. 

Areria wore a smile at my words. "I remember all those crazy plans of yours."

Areria turned to Luke, Loki, and Hilna. "You should've seen us whenever my master and I teamed up with Anakin Skywalker and his padawan, Ahsoka Tano."

I smiled, remembering those bittersweet memories. "We were quite the dream team."

Kina snickered. "More like the mischievous team. You all caused trouble, yet despite your plans being unique they nevertheless worked."

"Speaking of Anakin and Ahsoka, where is Anakin?" Areria inquired as she looked around. "I hope he survived along with the others. And where's Rex?"

Luke, Tarom, Gida, Kina, Maya, and I all exchanged looks, wondering how we were going to tell her the news that devastated me. However before any one of us could speak up, Loki intervened.  "You never told me you were mischievous, darling."

I smirked. "Not as mischievous as you, love."

Before Loki could lean in and give me a kiss, Kina cleared her throat. "Alright enough chit chat. We have to free these innocent people."

Loki glared at Kina before she continued to speak. "Storm, tell us what your plan is."

"Alright, so here's what I got." I began.

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"This is a terrible plan. What if it Cronal discovers I'm not under his command anymore?" Areria asked as I sensed her fear rise. 

"He won't hurt you again." I assured her. "I'll make sure of it."

Currently Loki, Maya, Kina, Luke, Areria, and I were near Cronal's fortified laboratory. Tarom, Gida, and Hilna stayed behind in case there were more brainwashed Trailians heading towards the peaceful villagers. The plan was that Areria pretended to be under Cronal's control and once we were face to face with Cronal, we'd end this awful experimentation once and for all.

"Why can't we just fight our way in?" Loki inquired. "There's enough of us to take them out."

"We want to help them, not kill them. And the best solution to that is to find Cronal to reverse what he's done to these poor peaceful villagers." I explained.