A/N: Here's a new story idea that I had, based a little before EP VI, and after SM Homecoming.
Update June 1st, 2019=(And full disclaimer the Thrawn I had used in this story is based off Timothy Zahn's newer books, in line with SW Rebels and the rest of CANON, that's why he isn't ridiculously OP and why he is prone to "acting out of character" from the 90's book series. I mean, according to the new books he was promoted to Grand Admiral over actions he didn't do, Pryce was the reason why he got credit for the attack on Batonn… Just saying.)
Eviscerator
Earth's Orbit
Admiral Garrick Versio stood on the bridge of the Imperial star destroyer Eviscerator. Looking at the blue green marble that floated in front of him, Versio muttered "How primitive," At the planet's inability to track the large destroyer.
"Admiral, the locals have not picked up our presence." Ensign Trask reported to the Admiral.
"Very good, do we have a probe through the vortex yet?" Versio asked.
"Yes sir, communications with the rest of the fleet have been established."
"Get a communication line to the Chimera." Versio ordered and turned to the right, looking at the monitor. Within a few seconds the blue face of the Chiss Grand Admiral appeared.
"Admiral Versio, I see that you survived your journey through the Event Horizon." The Chiss observed and spoke with his unusual calm voice.
"Yes, Grand Admiral, we've discovered several disturbances in this particular galaxy that we have been transported too. The Nav. Computer is still trying to calculate new hyperspace routes using the data we have barrowed from the local populous." Versio explained.
"Very good Admiral, I shall send additional ground forces to secure the planet." The Grand Admiral said.
"There's no need for that Grand Admiral. I have deployed Inferno Squadron to secure the world's government headquarters. I believe they call it the United Nations." Versio explained pulling up a hologram to show the Grand Admiral.
Thrawn pondered over Versio's plan. "You put a lot of faith into your daughter's abilities."
"She is not alone, she has Agents Hask and Meeko." Versio countered.
Thrawn smiled, "Ah, but that's what I am afraid of, but never mind that, I will be deploying two light cruisers with ground troop reinforcements. From what I have glimpsed from the local communications, you're going to need them."
"Grand Admiral-"
Thrawn held his hand up to cut Versio off, "Admiral, my decision is final, you have two rotations to secure the system, or I will personally handle the situation."
Thrawn cut the communication from his end and left Admiral Versio fuming.
Garrick took a deep breath before turning to Ensign Trask. "Trask, get me a line to the Corvus." Versio ordered.
Moments later Iden Versio's face met Garrick's. "Admiral, we are about to deploy." Iden reported.
Garrick nodded at his daughter, "Commander, we have been given a time line, we, I, need to secure the planet in forty-eight hours, don't fail me." Garrick ordered his daughter.
"Understood Admiral, Versio out." And with that Garrick was met with a blank screen.
"Trask!" Versio yelled gaining the attention once more of the young officer. "Get me the data reports on the individuals that the locals call the Avengers, and send them to my quarters." Versio ordered.
"Captain Daala, you have the bridge." Garrick told the red haired female captain.
"Yes sir." Daala replied and took Versio's spot on the bridge as he turned to leave the command deck.
TIE Phantom 1
Earth's Lower atmosphere
Commander Iden Versio sat at the controls of the newest Imperial stealth fighter, the TIE/ph or TIE Phantoms as Del would call them. Only a hand full were created and Inferno Squadron was lucky enough to get to field test three of them.
"So, how are the three of us supposed to secure an entire building without getting arrested, or killed?" Del asked over the comms.
"Did you seriously just ask that question? We've handled worse than some primitives who think they are some hot fly boys because they managed to hold off against some other invaders several years ago." Gideon retorted.
"Boys, can we please concentrate on the mission, the Admiral needs us to secure the planet, and since the planet is so divided the best way to do that is by capturing the world's government or as they call it the United Nations that is based in the city of New York." Iden explained.
"Some city." Gideon muttered.
"It's a large city by their standards. Don't expect anything the size of Vardos City or Federal Square on Coruscant." Iden replied.
Several seconds later the Phantoms started to lower themselves through the cloud cover.
"Dio, jam the local's radar dishes, Inferno go dark, we'll meet at the rendezvous." Iden ordered.
Iden flipped the switch on her toggle and the gray and black TIE fighter's panels started to turn invisible as the reflectors activated, making the small tri-fighter almost invisible.
Iden pushed the throttle as far and fast as it could go. Following the corrodents that Dio had given her she sped to the island city of New York.
The city confused the commander. The architecture reminded her of Vardos, just on a far smaller scale. When she heard that the planet was primitive she expected something like the small villages on Wayland or Dantooine. Not something that was still growing and could be as grand as a city planet… eventually.
"Dio, find a place for me to land this thing." Iden commanded and waited for the ID10 droid to create a landing solution.
A couple of beeps later a map of the buildings surrounding the United Nations came up.
"Is the roof of that building sturdy enough to hold the Phantom?" Iden asked.
Dio buzzed yes and Iden shot towards the large glass skyscraper that was directly across from the United Nations headquarters.
Activating the lower thrusters Iden carefully landed the TIE fighter on top of the glass building, while maintaining its stealth mode.
Iden grabbed her sniper rifle along with an E-11 and a blaster pistol. Dio grappled onto her back as she disembarked from the TIE Phantom.
Running over to the edge of the roof, Iden laid down in prone position and snapped the scope off her sniper to get a closer look on the UN HQ.
Zooming in, Iden saw several guards carrying large slug thrower weapons covering the lawn and the building's entrance. 'This is going to be more difficult than I thought to get over there without getting caught.' Iden thought to herself.
Iden turned to face the East side of the city to see Del in position. Iden then pointed down to see Gideon taking position in an ally on street level.
"Inferno, check in." Iden ordered.
"Agent Hask in position." Gideon said quietly.
"Agent Meeko in position." Del replied.
"Good, I'm going to deploy Dio to loop the motion and video surveillance, whilst disabling them in real time. Agent Hask I need you to create an opening on the east side of the compound, Agent Meeko cover Hask." Iden commanded.
"Commander, what are you going to do?" Meeko asked making Iden smirk slightly.
"I'm the distraction, so get it done." Iden ordered and put her black and red helmet on.
Iden snapped the scope back onto her sniper rifle and aimed it through the middle of two flag poles just inside the main gate. Taking aim at the fountain, Iden shot her rifle, but instead of a laser bolt a thick black grapple line was shot with a metal spike on the end that imbedded itself in the concrete in front of the fountain.
Before any of the security forces realized what was happening Iden attached herself onto the black line and zipped down at several Kilometers per hour. After a couple of seconds on the line someone finally saw her and started to shout about her presence.
Landing with a 'thud', Iden brought out her E-11 and switched it to stun, 'these men don't need to die, they haven't had the opportunity to side with the Empire yet.' Iden thought to herself as she shot two of the guys that held the slug throwers at her.
Another one started to shout something in their native language. Once he started to yell, the universal translator in her earpiece activated letting her understand what he was trying to convince her to do.
"Drop the weapon!" The guy kept yelling. Several seconds later Iden was surrounded by men wearing clothed armor and others wearing strange black and white suits.
After being surrounded Iden slowly dropped her E-11 and pulled out her blaster pistol and placed it next to the E-11.
"Inferno, I've been caught, that's your cue." Iden ordered.
"On the ground, with your hands behind your head, and take off the helmet!" Another security officer yelled.
Doing as she was told Iden slowly lowered to her knees and carefully took off her helmet. Iden could have sworn she heard a gasp when she revealed her face, almost as if they were not expecting a woman to be behind the mask.
Two men cuffed her hands behind her back and stood her up. The men dragged her in through one of the side doors of the compound.
They finally allowed her to walk on her own as the dozen or so guards led Iden to what she perceived to be as an interrogation room.
Casually tapping her wrist, Iden pressed down on her commlink to alert Dio on her current position, hoping the droid would keep to the plan.
Iden assumed that everything was still going as planned. No alarms had been tripped because of Hask.
While Iden was compilating on her team the guard removed her cuffs, and re-cuffed her to the metal table that was in front of her and the officer also made her sit on a metal chair. Looking up Iden saw her reflection stare right back at her.
'One-way glass, how retro.' Iden thought to herself as she analyzed the room. A man wearing a brown suit and had a red mustache and hair sat down in front of Iden.
"Who are you? And why did you attack the officers outside?" The man asked crossing his arms and leaning back in the metal chair.
Iden waited for the security officer to leave the room before clicking her comm on her wrist, Iden started to speak in Basic as the translator translated her words into the local dialect. "My name is Agent Versio, and why I am here, is not any of your concern."
The man gave a slight grin and scooted his chair forward making the awful screeching noise of metal on metal. "Actually sweetie, it is my concern when you come in and start shooting my men and threating the delegates of almost two hundred countries." The man said leaning in closer to Iden. "So, who sent you, the Russians, the Chinese, no better yet the DPRK?"
Iden only initially recognized the names of the first two countries, it took her a few moments to realize the last one was an acronym for North Korea.
"If I told you I would have to kill you." Iden said with a smirk.
"So, you work for HYDRA?" The man asked placing his slug thrower on the table.
Iden knew from reading the brief on the 'Avengers' that HYDRA was a terrorist organization led by Baron Von Strucker, but was disbanded after Von Strucker was killed by the android Ultron.
Iden didn't answer the man's questions, but she made sure that he kept talking to her. She needed to draw as much attention as possible until Hask and Dio could finish their jobs.
Iden kept nodding along until she heard a random assortment of beeps in her ear alerting her that Dio had finished its job and was flying through the vents trying to reach Iden.
Iden decided to interrupt the man, "Quick question, do you happen to know where they put my helmet and blasters?"
The man looked confused at Iden's sudden interruption, "In storage in the main security terminal, but let's get back to the important things here."
The man went back to 'interrogating' Iden when a thud could be heard against the one-way glass. "What the-"
The one-way glass shattered as Dio flew through it and electrocuted the man interrogating Iden.
Beeping proudly Dio snapped the chain that held Iden's wrists to the table and walked over to the unconscious man and grabbed his slug thrower and the keys to her hand cuffs and undid them.
"Did you get the buildings schematics?" Iden asked the seeker droid who chirped in response and activated a blue hologram showing the layout of the compound.
"There are too many people for the three of us to take over the General Assembly, where does the Security Council meet, apparently that is where the world's most powerful leaders meet, or at least their representatives." Iden said and a section of the blue hologram lit up about a dozen floors above her current position. "Send that to Hask and Meeko. We need to find the rest of my gear."
Another section, about two corridors down lit up on the blue hologram. "I am assuming that is the storage room?" Iden asked the droid who beeped a 'yes' in response. Attaching itself to Iden's back she slowly opened the door to see two guards knocked out on the floor.
"I assume this was your handiwork." Iden said, impressed with the little droid's combat ability. The ID10 seeker beeped in response.
Iden followed the hall and passed through a couple of corridors before she saw a wall made of glass. Inside were several more security guards sitting in front of monitors.
"Dio, take care of them." Iden ordered.
The ID10 droid detached from Iden's back and started to hover towards the glass office.
Iden leaned as far back into the wall as she could and watched Dio silently take out the guards that sat at the front desks.
Iden reached into her belt and pulled out a comm link. "Agent Hask, report your status."
"Commander, Agent Meeko and I have received the schematics for the building, currently securing the Security Council's floor." Hask reported.
"Understood, finishing up on the lower floor." Iden responded and placed the cylinder commlink back in her belt and slowly walked into the guard room. Iden looked down both hallways before running in.
Grabbing one of the guard's access card, Iden went over to a locked door and swiped it to reveal an evidence room. The room was no larger than a few meters, filled with boxes on shelves. Iden ran her eyes over all the boxes till she found the largest one. It was at the far corner of the room, running over she opened it up to reveal her E-11, blaster pistol, and her helmet.
Holstering her pistol, she put on her helmet and grabbed her E-11. "Come on Dio, let's finish this."
Walking out of the guard room Iden made sure her blaster was on stun before entering the slowest turbo lift ever.
"Agent Hask, have you secured the UNSC's floor?" Iden asked as she watched the floors slowly tick by on the top of the door on the turbo lift.
"Floor secured, but another lift is heading up." Hask said quietly.
"It's me, I'm three floors away." Iden responded.
Before Hask could respond the elevator dinged and the doors opened to reveal Hask and Meeko pointing their blasters at Iden.
"Commander." Hask acknowledge and stepped out of the way for Iden to walk out of the elevator.
"How are we going in?" Meeko asked Iden.
"Fast and hard Agent Meeko." Iden responded before walking down the hall towards the entrance to the UNSC.
"How long have they been in session?" Iden asked.
"About a half hour. It's a closed-door meeting, no press, only the delegates and a handful of aids." Meeko answered reading off a hologram.
"Good. Dio, disable the turbo lifts, no one gets in or out until I say so." Iden told the seeker who detached itself from the commander and went back to the elevators.
Iden knelt at the door and Hask handed her a thermal detonator. Pressing the activation button, the red light blinked on and the detonator started beeping. Running next to Meeko, Iden silently counted to five before the detonator went off.
Once the explosion went off Iden led the charge, as several suited men pulled out slug throwers and started to shoot at the black armored special forces.
Dodging the bullets Inferno stunned the suited guards.
Screams were heard from the delegates as several rushed to the door but were forced back by Meeko.
"EVERYONE, QUITE!" Iden shouted through the chaos as the last suited guard fell down unconscious.
It took several seconds before everyone was quiet and looking at the leader of Inferno Squad.
"Meeko, secure the stair case." Iden herd Hask mutter.
Once the attention was fully on Iden did she finally speak.
"My name is Commander Iden Versio of the Imperial Seventh Fleet. We are here, not to threaten you or your people, we do not come here to enslave, murder, destroy your people, and your world. But we come here as partners, as protectors. We come here to allow you to join our great Galactic Empire." Iden said, almost heroically, and it was no lie, Iden did not wish to destroy these people, she wanted to give them the chances that she had, she wanted the Earth to be the first Vardos for this new galaxy.
"Who do you think you are, to come here, shoot these men, to threaten us." A man with a strange accent said. Iden's Hud Identified him as Anton Gorev of the Russian Federation.
"Mr. Ambassador, I just told you, I am a Commander in the Imperial Navy, here to protect your world." Iden said, her tone starting to get annoyed.
"Protect us from what exactly?" A blonde woman, Ambassador Ellen Hill of the United States asked standing up. Hask walked up to the woman to try to make her sit down but Iden held up her hand to block him.
"From the Rebellion terrorists." Iden said.
"Commander, I hate to rush you, but the local security forces are starting to come from both the roof and the lower floors, I don't have enough battery charge left to hold them off." Agent Meeko reported as slug shots could be heard coming from the hallway.
"Blow the stair cases." Iden ordered.
Iden reached into her pack and grabbed a datapad and handed it to President Fellows, Ambassador to the United Kingdom.
"You are the leader of this council, are you not?" Iden asked Fellows when he would not take the datapad.
"What is it?" He asked, his accent reminded Iden of the upper-class in the core and inner rim worlds.
Fellows started to read the terms and conditions that were on the pad.
Queens, New York
Aunt May's Apartment
Peter Parker tried to avoid cable news when he could, the politics of it never interested him, MSNBC and Fox annoying the Hell out of him and CNN always reporting the same thing on repeat. He found working for the paper was the only way to truly connect with what really matters in society, even if it was just an internship at the Daily Bugle that Mr. Stark had gotten him.
That was what the fifteen-year-old was currently doing, going through all the photos he had taken of Spider-Man over the past couple of nights. He hated how he had to basically do a photo shoot of himself.
Though he was kind of glad that he could pick out the best photos of himself before turning them in. It made it even more difficult for J. Jonah Jameson to destroy Spider-man's character.
"Peter, I'm going out with Ms. Watson in 3C to the store, do you need anything?" Aunt May yelled from the kitchen.
"No aunt May, I'm good!" Peter shouted back.
"Okay, make sure you finish your homework before you go out on spider-patrol!" Aunt May yelled as she closed the door.
"I bet Hawk-Eye's aunt never made him do his homework before he went out to save people." Peter muttered to himself as he clicked through more images of Spider-man on his computer.
Peter clicked on the final image he had of himself before a red breaking news banner popped up on his computer. Clicking on it Peter saw the image of the UN complex and smoke coming out of one of the sides. Scrolling down past the photo Peter red the banner that said, "Potential Terrorist Attack at UN HQ".
"Sorry aunt May, no time for homework." Peter said to himself as he went to go change into his Spidey-suit.
Seconds later Peter was crawling out of his window and swinging towards the United Nations Headquarters. It only took Peter a couple of minutes to swing through the Queensborough Bridge and land within swinging distance of the side of the building that had smoke coming out of it.
"Hey Karen, can you zoom in for me please." Peter asked his A.I.
"Sure thing." Karen responded, and Peter's lenses zoomed in to reveal a hole on the eastern corridor of the building.
Peter attached a web to the building across from him and swung down to the UN.
Peter grappled onto the East side of the complex. Crawling up the side of the building. "Careful, the walls are extremely unsteady, and I am detecting one hostile on the floor where the explosion took place." Karen said activating Peter's hologram on the Spidey-suit.
"Thanks Karen." Peter said and shot a web to the floor with the giant hole in it.
Swinging up, Peter landed face to face with a person in all black leather, plastic looking armor and a weird helmet with red decals, and it had a permanent frowning face on it.
"Why so sad?" Peter asked mocking the guy's helmet before shooting a web at his hand holding a small laser weapon. The guy seemed to be taken off guard by Peter's web and hesitated long enough for Peter to take it away from him.
"Ah, too slow." Peter laughed, this time the guy grabbed a baton off his utility belt and swung it at Peter. Peter ducked before it could strike his head. "Swing and a miss."
Before the terrorist guy could swing again at Peter, he launched of volley of webs sticking the black suited guy to the wall.
Smiling, Peter walked up to the helmeted guy and started to interrogate him, "Who are you?"
The guy didn't answer him, he just starred directly at Peter through his mask, at least that's what Peter assumed he was doing. It was kind of hard to tell through the opaque lenses on his/her helmet.
"Spider-man, I am detecting two more hostiles in the United Nations Security Council chambers, they have taken all the delegates hostage." Karen informed Peter, drawing him out of his starring contest with the helmeted guy.
"Stay." Peter ordered, while pointing his finger at the webbed-up guy.
Peter turned to leave but an almost British voice stopped him, "I would run while you have the chance kid, she will not hesitate to kill you."
"I managed to take care of you." Peter said without turning around to face him and jumped onto the ceiling and started to climb towards the other hole in the wall.
Smoke was still billowing out of the doorway when Peter arrived. Using that as his cover Peter quietly dropped from the ceiling and crawled behind a desk.
"You must understand that I cannot sign this, I just represent my country and the UNSC, I don't represent the world." A man said from the other side of the room.
"That is UNSC President Fellows of the UK." Karen informed Peter.
Peter started to crawl to the other side of the room when he felt the hairs on his arms start to rise and his 'spider sense' start to tingle.
Peter jumped up in time to have a blue laser ring land right where he previously was.
Gasps were heard all over the room as the delegates realized that an intern Avenger was in the room.
"Commander, found the guy Agent Meeko warned us about." An annoyed voice said. Peter looked to see two other people wearing the same suit that the guy, Agent Meeko, was wearing pointing their laser weapons at Peter.
"Don't you guys know that Halloween only comes once a year?" Peter jokingly asked as he launched himself at the guy who tried to shoot him.
Peter kicked him through a wall. Peter's spider sense went off and he backed stepped just in time for a baton to be thrown at his previous location.
"So, are we police officers now?" Peter asked picking up the baton and throwing it full force back at the guy. He caught it out of mid-air and attached it back on his belt before aiming his laser and started to shoot red lasers at him. These laser bolts left singes where they landed.
"Stand down!" The masked… woman shouted.
"Um, how about you leave these nice men and women alone and we can settle this like adults outside." Peter offered.
The woman tilted her head, almost confused for a second, but brief hesitation was all Peter needed to shoot a web at her laser and yank it from her grasp.
The girl this time charged at Peter at full force, which Peter side stepped. Peter ignored his spider sense for the first time since the female terrorist mist him, but he felt a large wave of energy go through him knocking him down. Peter manage sit up ever so slightly and see the guy he kicked through the wall holding a blaster pointed at him.
"You should have ended it." Was the last thing Peter heard from the girl before he was knocked unconscious.
United Nations Headquarters
New York, New York
Commander Iden Versio stood over the unconscious body of the Spider-man.
"If there are no objections then I would really appreciate you signing that letter assuring that the countries of Earth do not retaliate or attack Imperial forces." Iden said.
"I cannot do that, I do not speak for the people of Earth!" Fellows shouted, trying to get his point across. Frankly Iden didn't care who signed the blasted letter, so long as someone did.
"Okay let's hurry this up, if you don't sign the order in the next five seconds then I'm going to start shooting people, and my blaster won't be on stun. Starting with this Spider-Man." Hask threatened, pointing his E-11 at the masked kid's head.
Fellows looked at Ambassador Hill before reluctantly signing the datapad.
"There, it's done." Fellows grumbled and shoved the pad into Iden's hands.
"Good, now everyone up, you all are coming with us!" Iden shouted and pointed her blaster at the Spider-Man.
There was furious questioning looks of bewilderment. "You didn't think that we would be stupid enough to leave without hostages. This world and its… heroes are too unpredictable." Hask explained and started shooting at the ceiling to make the delegates hurry up.
"Admiral, we have a signed statement of non-aggression, requesting Corvus pickup for the hostages." Iden said into her commlink.
"Understood Commander, Corvus enroute, stand bye." The Admiral simply stated and cut off the communication link.
Iden looked around as she and Hask herded the delegates into the hallway towards the hole in the side of the building that Meeko had created.
Once the group reached Meeko, Hask cut the spider webs off him.
"I still think that we should have brought him with us." Hask muttered quietly.
"Too risky, and rather not have to deal with the weird powers, what the Admiral doesn't know won't kill him." Iden whispered back.
"He has a right to know, and he should now." Hask shot back.
Iden narrowed her eyes at Hask, "I'm your commanding officer, and that is my final word on the matter."
"Yes sir." Hask replied and turned to make sure no one was trying to sneak out.
A few seconds later Dio attached itself onto Iden's back. "Good job Dio." Iden whispered to the droid.
"Agent Meeko, make sure the Phantoms get back to the Eviscerator, that is the last thing we can let the Terrains get their hands on is that advance stealth technology." Iden ordered.
Meeko nodded and turned back to facing the gaping hole, facing the dirty river that had several police boats in it. Looking up Iden saw the Corvus getting lower as the Terrain police hovercraft swerved from being slammed into by the considerably larger corvette.
'Here we go.' Iden thought to herself as the ramp to the Corvus lowered.
A/N: I hope you enjoyed, please review/fav/follow.
May the Force be with you cause Ep. VIII was freakin' amazing.