The Many Adventures of the Avengers and Friends

💛💦 Across the Stars (Part 4)

Far away on Utapau, Thor rode his giant lizard (he wasn't totally sure what it was) creature along the side of the cliff. Octavious was defeated and he had to get back to the Temple to help put an official end to the war. Though, suddenly and confusingly, his Clone Troops aimed their tank right at his lizard and blasted it. The rocks started to fall around him and his lizard lost it's footing.

Down they plumetted to the pools of water at the bottom of the crater. The lizard died on impact, but Thor managed to hit the water safe enough. It didn't make him any less confused, though. Why had his troops turned against him?

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On a distant planet covered in snow, Steve Mundi led his troops into battle against hundreds of Battle Droids. Steve gestured for his troops to continue their pursuit and he charged forward. But his troops didn't. Rather, they cocked their blasters right at him.

Steve only had one moment of confusion before he was shot down.

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Felucia was a jungle planet covered in exotic plants and flowers the size of Banthas. Jedi Master Carol Secura led her Clone Troops through the dense flora, flanked by two large tanks. They hit a small clearing and Carol stopped, sensing something... Off.

She heard her troops activate their blasters to her shock. Carol barely had time to react before she was hit repeatedly and collapsed to the ground.

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On Kashyyyk, Valkyrie suddenly felt a terrible pain in her chest. The amount of life she could feel being lost was overwhelming. Jedi were dying all over the galaxy all around the same time. She clutched her chest in shock and fell to her knees, unable to fathom what was happening.

She had felt a disturbance in the Force not that long ago, something about Loki. Surely this couldn't be tied to that... Right?

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Riding a speeder, Jedi Master Carson Ambrose scouted the terrain of Box Pity for any signs of hostile activity. His two troops rode speeders on either side of him, scouting as well. The one to his right got a message in his communicator, but Carson didn't think too much of it. The two troops slowed down behind his speeder in a mutual agreement.

Carson barely knew what they had done before they used the blasters on the speeders to shoot his speeder, exploding on impact.

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On an Arial mission, Pietro Koon tried to narrowly avoid the buildings and firing droid ships on the city planet. His Clone Troops aided him on the latter task. Until their shots got a little too close for comfort. He glanced behind him to see what the issue was, thinking it was some kind of accident; his troops had never failed him before.

A few shots hit his starfighter head on, causing the cockpit to explode and crash into a nearby building.

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Back on Kashyyyk, Valkyrie heard one of her troops get a message. She could only hear bits and pieces of it, but clear as day, she heard the trooper say "It will be done, My Lord." before he shut down the communicator. He approached Valkyrie with another trooper and they both raised their guns.

Valkyrie lept up and decapitated both of them before they could kill her. Her Wookiee companions, Tarfful and Chewbacca, gestured for her to follow to safety.

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The Jedi Temple was in utter chaos. Clones shot down any Jedi they saw. Young, old, it didn't matter. They all had to go. Few clones fell during the skirmish because the Temple was caught so off guard. But most of the Younglings were missing, the children too young to be full Padawans quite yet, most between 3 and 10 years old. Loki figured out where they were hiding. He took an elevator up to the Council Chamber and the door slid open.