Author Topic: Shattered Mirror (post-TUF, Major AU, J/J, A/T, Kyle, Danni) **NEW THREAD OPEN**
Draconarius 
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Date Posted: 10/25/05 5:15am Subject: Shattered Mirror (post-TUF, Major AU, J/J, A/T, Kyle, Danni) **NEW THREAD OPEN** - Date Edited: 8/2/06 8:11pm (42 edits total) Edited By: Draconarius
Title: Shattered Mirror
Author: Draconarius
Genre: action/alternate universe
Timeframe: a little under a year after TUF
Characters: Jaina, Jag, Kyle Katarn, Anakin, Tahiri, Wynssa, Valin, Zekk, OCs
Summary: Jaina and Jag are hurled into an alternate universe where the Vong won the war.

Disclaimer: I own nothing! This is George Lucas’s universe; I am merely borrowing it to exercise my creativity.

First of all, thanks for reading! This annoying little plot-bunny has been jumping around in my head for months now, but I only just got now have gotten it done.

To give all readers an extended summary:
Jaina and Jag have just gotten engaged on Csilla and are now on their way back to Denon to break the news to Jaina's extended family. They are just about to arrive at Denon when, durnig a routine course correction, the fiances run into an ion mine. Since their ships are seemingly unaffected, they decide to jump to hyperspace. When they come out, they find themselves in an alternate universe where the unthinkable has happened: the Yuuzhan Vong won the war!

Anyway, I don’t want to give too much away here (and, trust me, the alternate universe thing is the LEAST of the surprises I have!), so I’ll stop rambling and let you all get down to the reading. Enjoy!

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Dramatis Personae

Anakin Solo; Jedi knight (male human)
Artran Kharran; Warmaster (male Yuuzhan Vong)
Azias Sharn; Jedi apprentice (male human)
Ben Skywalker; child (male human)
Cirila Keryln; Jedi apprentice (female Chiss)
Danni Quee Durron; Jedi knight (female human)
Denn Jerrevick; Bakuran military officer (male human)
Jagged Fel; CEDF officer (male human)
Jaina Solo; Jedi knight (female human)
Johnarath Ducaris; Bakuran admiral (male human)
Jysella Horn; child (female human)
Kittasallia "Kitty" Charlas; captain, Requiem (female Camaasi)
Kyle Katarn; Jedi master (male human)
Malinza Thanas; Bakuran military officer (female human)
Myri Antilles; child (female human)
Nom Anor; prefect (male Yuuzhan Vong)
Omini; Shamed One (male Yuuzhan Vong)
Riina Kharran; warrior (female Yuuzhan Vong)
Sharrvon Kharran; captain, Sunslayer (male Yuuzhan Vong)
Shimrra; Supreme Overlord (male Yuuzhan Vong)
Tahiri Veila Solo; Jedi knight (female human)
Valin Horn; Jedi knight (male human)
Wedge Antilles; captain, Lusankya (male human)
Wynssa Fel; fighter pilot (female human)
Yannik; captain, Archangel (male from Yoda’s species)
Zekk; Jedi knight (male human)

NOTE: The author (myself) reserves the write to add and/or delete characters at any time.

CHAPTER ONE


“You know, Jaina, I still think we should have taken a shuttle,” Jag said into the comm after he had successfully reverted to realspace.

“Only because you want to use me as a way to keep yourself occupied,” Jaina replied from her X-wing.

“No!” Jag snapped. “Do you have any idea how uncomfortable it is to sleep in a Clawcraft?”

“About as uncomfortable as it is to sleep in a X-wing?”

“You’re a Jedi, I’m not!”

“Stop complaining,” Jaina told him. “We’ll be at Ossus soon enough, my dear fiancé.”

Jag smiled as she said that. “I love hearing that.”

“What? We’ll be at Ossus soon enough?”

“No, the word fiancé. Spoken by you. In reference to me,” Jag corrected. “I’m so glad you changed your mind about us.”

“It’s been eight months since what I said on Sekot, Jag. And I never said I didn’t want to be with you!” Jaina replied. “I guess I was just more lonely than I expected I would be.”

“Are you saying you missed me?”

“Of course I missed you!” Jaina replied. “I love you, Jag. I think I always wanted to marry you. I’m going to do whatever it takes to make this work. I don’t care if I have to resign from—.”

“I won’t let you resign, Jaina,” Jag stated.

“We’ll figure it out later,” Jaina sighed. “Right now, I just want to get to Ossus and tell everyone. I can’t wait to see the looks on their faces.”

“Neither can I, Jaina,” Jag sighed, but more to himself. “Neither can I.”

“Ready to jump yet?”

“Just about—.”

Suddenly, Jag’s eyes were hit with a massive burst of pure white light directly in front of him, and he felt his Clawcraft get knocked hard to the left at the same instant. Over the comm he heard a cry of surprise from Jaina, just as he looked away from the Clawcraft’s canopy and covered his eyes with his hand.

“What in the name of the Force was that?” Jaina demanded. “Are you alright, Jag?”

“Yeah,” Jag replied, blinking to try and get the white spots out of his eyesight. “Oh, damn it…that’s better.”

“Is your ship okay?”

“Haven’t checked,” Jag sighed as he reached for the main console and started a diagnostic. Jag watched as each of the systems came up green. He thought he saw the hyperdrive safeties come up red, but as soon as he blinked it turned green. Jag dismissed it as his nearly blinded eyes playing up. He rubbed at them, trying to make them focus, before looking at the display again. Everything came up green.

“I’m fine,” Jag said.

“Same here,” Jaina replied. “Looks like that was an energy discharge. No source for it, though.”

“Oh well,” Jag said. “Weird things happen in space. Let’s get going to Denon, we can get a survey ship to check this out.”

“Right,” Jaina replied. “Jump in three…two…one…now.”

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“What in the name of…? Sir! Two fighters just—!”

Everyone on the Archangel’s bridge, including Jedi Master Kyle Katarn, ducked as two fighters flew over their heads, mere metres from the ship’s hull.

“What the?” Kyle sighed to himself as he stood again, watching the two fighters fly away. Kyle took one look around the ship’s bridge, which was identical to all of the other Star Destroyers in the now-wiped-out Imperial fleet, spotted the ship’s captain standing halfway down the walkway, and started walking towards him.

“Identify those ships!” Captain Yannik ordered as Kyle approached. The green, two-foot-tall alien didn’t take his eyes away from the two fighters as he ordered his crew. “Where did they come from?”

“They just…appeared right on top of us,” A crewman from the left crew-pit replied. “One looks like a XJ, the other looks like a Chiss Clawcraft.”

“Clawcraft?” Kyle repeated in surprise. “That can’t be right. There’s none in existence anymore.”

“Yet, one seems to have just flown past our bridge,” Yannik commented, looking up at Kyle.

“You don’t think I noticed?” Kyle replied.

“No, I am sure you noticed. I was just grabbing an opportunity to point out one of the few ignorant comments that come out of you,” Yannik replied. “Where did they come from?”

“You expect me to know?”

“You are the Jedi Master here, correct?”

“Doesn’t make me all-knowing, Yannik,” Kyle stated. “Comm, try and tap their comm system!”

“Yes, sir!”

“Are you sure that is wise?” Yannik asked. “They might not like us spying on them.”

“They have two fighters, we have a Star Destroyer,” Kyle said. “They have no say in the matter,” Kyle took a deep breath before he continued. “Might be a good idea to double check the cloak. Make sure the field wasn’t disrupted by that little flyby.”

“Yes,” Yannik replied, and then began ordering the crew again. “Perform a diagnostic on the cloaking systems! Get the Black Knights ready for launch!”

Kyle took one last look at the two fighters before leaving Yannik to his job and heading for the comm station at the back of the bridge. The officer there was already busy tapping the fighters’ comm systems. Kyle took a quick look at her progress before taking his commlink from his belt and activating it.

“Danni.”

“Yes, Kyle?”

“Get up to bridge at once,” Kyle ordered. “We have a little problem.”

“Sir,” The communications officer interrupted. “Got it…”

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“What in the name of the Force…” Jaina breathed as soon as the reversion to realspace was complete. She was staring at her destination, but at the same time, she knew it couldn’t be her destination. It couldn’t be Denon.

The planet slowly spinning in front of her ship looked more like Serpindal than Denon. What parts of the planet that weren’t burning were covered with city-size craters. Jaina couldn’t sense anything alive down there. The whole thing was dead. Beyond dead. There was nothing. No people, animals, not even plant life. The whole thing was just…empty.

“Jaina…what happened?” Jag stammered from his Clawcraft.

“Denon…” Jaina sighed. There was only one explanation for what the planet looked like; bombardment. “This isn’t possible. It would take weeks to do this much damage…we’ve been only been gone for two.”

“Coordinates are right,” Jag said. “This is Denon.”

“It can’t be,” Jaina sighed in astonishment. “Uncle Luke…mom…dad…”

“They’re alright, Jaina,” Jag said in his very-effective reassuring voice. “They would have made it off planet in time.”

“Jag…” Jaina whimpered. “Jag, they didn’t. I can’t sense them through the Force. Any of them! Mom, dad, Uncle Luke, Jacen, Aunt Mara…no one!”

“Calm down, Jaina—.”

Calm down?” Jaina screamed. “My family is dead, Jag—!”

“Jaya, you said yourself that this can’t be Denon! It isn’t possible!” Jag interrupted. “It’s probably the Force playing tricks on you.”

Jag—!”

“Jaya, stop it!” Jag snapped. “This won’t help anyone!” Something on his side of the comm suddenly got his attention. “Jaina…I’m picking up a ship. Bearing three-five-five mark four-seven.”

Jaina tore her eyes away from the burning sphere that used to be Denon to look at her sensors. Sure enough, there was a ship sitting there.

“Cappie, ID that ship,” Jaina instructed her Astromech.

[Class is unknown, but, judging by size, it’s a frigate] Cappie answered. [Its design is definitely Yuuzhan Vong in origin]

“A Vong ship?” Jaina asked in shock. “Here? Now?”

“But…” Jag stammered. “But…the peace treaty. The Vong should be…oh no.”

“What is it?” Jaina asked.

“I think it’s seen us,” Jag replied. “It’s coming at us, picking up speed.”

Jaina checked her sensors to confirm that. The Vong ship was flying straight towards them, and launching Coralskippers.

“Oh no…” Jaina sighed. “Not again.”

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“This can’t be a trap,” Danni stated quietly. “Not even the Vong would underestimate us like this.”

Kyle nodded, acknowledging that he had heard Danni, but he didn’t say anything. The Vong escort frigate was rapidly approaching the two starfighters, as was its force of Coralskippers. That kind of force would annihilate the X-wing and Clawcraft.

“We could help them, Kyle,” Danni whispered. “De-cloak, blast the frigate, and get the Black Knights to take out those skippers.”

“We don’t know if there are more Vong out there or not, Danni,” Kyle replied. “I don’t want to risk the Archangel like that.”

“You’d rather lose a chance like this?” Danni asked. “Those are two perfect-condition fighters out there, and, by the looks of things, they have experienced pilots. We could use them!”

“Danni…” Kyle sighed. She was right; opportunities like this were far too rare to be passed up. But the last time something like this had happened it had turned out to be a trap. Kyle didn’t want to make another mistake that would cost him ten Jedi knights. He didn’t even have ten Jedi knights, himself included. “It’s too risky, Danni. We can’t.”

“Kyle!” Danni said hurriedly. “Luke would agree with me! You know that! This is too small scale to be a trap. We should help them!”

Kyle folded his arms across his chest, deliberating on what to do. They were so close to Coruscant…if this was a trap, fifty Vong ships would be on them in a heartbeat. And, even if it wasn’t a trap, if they took too long to kill the enemy, just as many ships in would arrive just as quickly.

“Kyle, those Coralskippers will be on them in a few seconds!” Danni stated, almost pleadingly. “That frigate is in weapons range. We can kill it before they know we’re even here!”

Kyle didn’t reply.

Kyle!”

“Captain Yannik!” Kyle shouted.

“Master Katarn?”

“Lock all guns on that escort frigate and open fire!”

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“Damn it, they’re too fast!” Jaina snapped. “Since when can coralskippers move that fast?”

“They can’t!” Jag corrected. “Jaina, there’s only six of them. We can take them!”

“We can’t handle six Coralskippers by ourselves, Jag!”

“Why not? Uncle Wedge beat twelve by himself, and he wasn’t even a Jedi!” Jaina’s console beeped loudly, warning her that the Coralskippers were almost within weapons range. Jag’s console must have done the same thing, judging by the hurried tone he suddenly began using. “Jaina, we don’t have a choice! We either turn and fight now or get shot in the back!”

Argh…fine!” Jaina snarled, hauling back hard on her control stick. “Stay close, Jag!”

“Right with you, Jaya,” Jag replied.

The two fighters looped around and aimed themselves straight back at their pursuers—six fully armed and operational Coralskippers. The chunks of coral began to hurl plasma at the X-wing and Clawcraft, all of which Jaina had little trouble dodging. Jag was a little less fortunate; several blasts scraped along his shields. Both pilots began returning the plasma with energy, all of which was absorbed by the skip’s dovan basals. The skips broke away at the last second, letting Jaina and Jag fly straight past them, right towards the escort frigate’s cannon-covered bow. Jaina tensed, ready to start jinking through a hail of orange lava.

She didn’t need to. She and Jag weren’t even within weapons range when massive bright green hyphens on energy appeared out of nowhere from behind the Vong frigate. Caught utterly by surprise, the dovin basals hadn’t even begun to devote themselves to absorbing the incoming fire when the heavy turbolaser blasts slammed into the frigate’s stern, vaporising yorik coral and sending the ship into a lazy tumble. Blast after blast hammered the frigate, sending chunks of coral off into space and leaving gaping wounds in the ship’s back and belly. Behind it, space seemed to shimmer as the green hyphens appeared from out of nowhere, until finally the shimmering stopped and a massive, pure-white warship appeared in its place, starfighters already pouring out of its belly.

“What in the name of…” Jag sighed.

“This is Captain Yannik of the Archangel to the X-wing’s pilot,” Whoever was calling had a peculiar accent. Jaina had no idea what species he was. “Three Scorcher fighters will form up alongside you and your wingman and escort you both to our docking bay.”

“But what about the coralskippers?” Jaina demanded.

“They are already dead. Please follow the escort ships to the hangar, young lady. They are under specific orders to destroy you if you deviate from that course.”

Already dead? Jaina thought, looking back towards the coralskippers. There was no way that it could be that easy to deal with six supped up coralskippers!

As she watched and began to realise that she was wrong, the space around the enemy ships suddenly became full of burst of red laser fire. It was only then that Jaina spotted the pure-black starfighters that were ripping the coralskipper force to shreds. The black starfighters darted around the coralskippers, seemingly aiming for one skip before darting right and letting off a quick round at a different one. To the untrained eye, they seemed to have no discernable formation or coordination, but to Jaina…she could easily pick up the Force-bond between all twelve pilots as they darted around like a swarm of excited insects. Each pilot knew exactly what the other five were going to do before they did it, allowing them to coordinate and attack from three or four angles in just a split second. Jaina had never seen any squadron—including Jedi ones—fly like that!

“Attention, X-wing and Clawcraft!” That was one of Jaina and Jag’s three escorts, who were only know forming up around their fighters in a triangle. “You will follow me into the Archangel’s hangar bay, understood?”

“Wait a minute!” Jag replied. “Wyn? What the hell are you—how—what?”

“How the hell do you know my name?” Jag’s little sister replied.

“Wyn…it’s me!” Jag said, shocked that his own sister didn’t recognise his voice. “Your brother!”

“My brother’s been dead for four years, you impostor!” Wyn snapped angrily. “Now follow me to the Archangel before I decide to blow you both back to Coruscant!” The channel closed.

“Jaina…” Jag stammered. “Jaina…that’s not possible. Wyn can’t be here! She’s at Csilla! I saw her three kriffing days ago!”

“Jag, get a grip!” Jaina snapped. “In case you haven’t noticed, Denon is gone, there’s a cloaking Star Destroyer in front of us, and that squadron that just wiped out the coralskippers is full of Jedi! Considering all that, is your sister being here so shocking?”

“Jaina, none of this can be happening!” Jag replied. “We…I…they…Jaina, what the hell is going on?”

Jaina took a deep breath before she answered. Now was not the time to be trying to figure things out. Not when they had an entire Star Destroyer threatening to destroy them if they didn’t cooperate. “Look, Jag, the captain of that thing was serious when he said that he’d shoot us down if we didn’t do as he said. Maybe he can tell us what’s going on around here.”

“Jaina—.”

“Jag, what choice do we have? If we don’t land, we get blasted. If we do land, we might just get some answers.”

Jaina heard Jag take a breath himself. “Alright…alright, we’ll land. That’ll give me a chance to talk to Wyn, anyway. What the hell was she talking about? I’m not dead!”

“Ask her once we’re on the deck,” Jaina replied, following Wyn’s fighter underneath the Star Destroyer. “I’ve got a few questions for her, myself.”

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“We have them, Kyle,” Wynssa reported over the comm.

“Is something wrong, Wynssa?” Danni asked before Kyle could. He had also picked up the tidal wave of emotion surging through the girl. Wyn wasn’t the easiest person to read, especially over a comm channel, but when something really upset her it was as obvious as a charging reek.

“He…the clawcraft’s pilot…he said he was…was my brother! Jag!” Wyn stammered. “He can’t be my brother! Jag’s been dead for—.”

“Settle down, Wyn,” Danni said softly. “Just get back onto the Archangel, and then we can see if it is your brother or not.”

“But it can’t be—!”

“Listen to Danni, Wyn,” Kyle ordered. “She and I will meet you on the deck, alright?”

“Right,” Wyn said, finally getting her composure back. “Right. I’m sorry.”

“Just get back onto the Archangel,” Kyle repeated before closing the channel and turning to Danni. “I watched Jagged Fel die at Borleias. There was no way that he could have ejected in time. And even if he did, the Vong would have tortured him to death within a week!”

“The Vong frigate has been completely destroyed. Once the Black Knights land, we will cloak and jump to hyperspace,” Yannik reported as he approached the two Jedi standing at the comm station. He only then seemed to notice the look of puzzlement on Kyle’s face. “Is something wrong?”

“Wynssa—Lieutenant Fel just told us that the clawcraft’s pilot is claiming to be her brother,” Kyle announced. “He’s been dead for almost four years.”

“And the X-wing’s pilot?” Yannik asked.

“She didn’t say anything,” Kyle sighed. “But she’s a Jedi. Anakin told me that just before Wyn called.”

“Could any of the other knights tell?” Yannik inquired.

“No,” Kyle admitted. “Which is puzzling.”

“As puzzling as Wyn’s dead brother flying a fully-operational Clawcraft?” Danni asked.

Kyle nodded in agreement. “I’ll be in the hangar, Yannik.”

Yannik nodded and turned back to his crew as Kyle and Danni headed for the turbolift, hell bent on finding out who these two pilots were.

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[end of chapter]
Phew...just realised how long that was. Now, to wait and see if anyone posts.

 

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voxynking 
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Date Posted: 10/25/05 6:00am Subject: RE: Shattered Mirror (post-TUF, Major AU, J/J, A/T, Kyle Katarn, Danni) ** FIRST POST 26 OCTOBER **
Wow. That was truly amazing. This sounds like it's going to be an awsume story. Keep up the good work. Please post another chapter soon. If you get a PM list please put me on it.

 

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Date Posted: 10/25/05 8:49am Subject: RE: Shattered Mirror (post-TUF, Major AU, J/J, A/T, Kyle Katarn, Danni) ** FIRST POST 26 OCTOBER **
Very Twilight Zone-ish. It sucked me right in.

Great start Draconarius. I'll be keeping my eye on this one.

 

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Date Posted: 10/25/05 8:55am Subject: RE: Shattered Mirror (post-TUF, Major AU, J/J, A/T, Kyle Katarn, Danni) ** FIRST POST 26 OCTOBER **
Looks very interesting. If you could, please PM your story info to Jaina_Jag_Index so we can add your story to our database. Thanks happy

 

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Date Posted: 10/25/05 9:19am Subject: RE: Shattered Mirror (post-TUF, Major AU, J/J, A/T, Kyle Katarn, Danni) ** FIRST POST 26 OCTOBER **
Aah so cool! What an incredibly cool idea!
More!

 

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Date Posted: 10/25/05 11:26am Subject: RE: Shattered Mirror (post-TUF, Major AU, J/J, A/T, Kyle Katarn, Danni) ** FIRST POST 26 OCTOBER **
Sounds interesting. I haven't gotten around to reading, but from teh title, I'm hoping that Danni goes away.

 

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Date Posted: 10/25/05 12:30pm Subject: RE: Shattered Mirror (post-TUF, Major AU, J/J, A/T, Kyle Katarn, Danni) ** FIRST POST 26 OCTOBER **
Very interesting start, I once had an idea similar to this, but you look like you'll be able to makle something of it. Can't wait for more.

 

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Date Posted: 10/25/05 3:14pm Subject: RE: Shattered Mirror (post-TUF, Major AU, J/J, A/T, Kyle Katarn, Danni) ** FIRST POST 26 OCTOBER ** - Date Edited: 10/25/05 3:31pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Draconarius
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voxynking posted:
Wow. That was truly amazing. This sounds like it's going to be an awsume story. Keep up the good work. Please post another chapter soon. If you get a PM list please put me on it.


Thanks, voxynking. Looks like I will be making a PM list. Consider yourself on it. Anyone else want PMs?

Lola64 posted:
Very Twilight Zone-ish. It sucked me right in.

Great start Draconarius. I'll be keeping my eye on this one.


I suppose it is a little Twilight Zone-ish. Glad you liked it. Please sitck around.

BigFatty posted:
Looks very interesting. If you could, please PM your story info to Jaina_Jag_Index so we can add your story to our database. Thanks happy


You got it. One PM coming up.

SilSolo posted:
Sounds interesting. I haven't gotten around to reading, but from teh title, I'm hoping that Danni goes away.


Well, I do need someone for the Vong to kill off....we'll see.

stickster posted:
Aah so cool! What an incredibly cool idea!
More!


More is coming...slowly. As I said, don't expect them to be coming quickly. I've still got to finish that RelicHunters chapter....anyway, I will get a new post up as soon as I can. Please stick around

Jek_Windu posted:
Very interesting start, I once had an idea similar to this, but you look like you'll be able to makle something of it. Can't wait for more.


Thanks, Jek. I was worried that someone might have already done something like this, but apparently I didn't need to. I will try to get some more up soon.

Thanks for reading, everyone!!!

 

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Date Posted: 10/26/05 8:35am Subject: RE: Shattered Mirror (post-TUF, Major AU, J/J, A/T, Kyle Katarn, Danni) ** FIRST POST 26 OCTOBER **

I suppose it is a little Twilight Zone-ish. Glad you liked it. Please sitck around.


Ooh you also watch the Twilight Zone? *sighs* shame I haven't had the time to watch a whole lot of TV lately and thus don't know when it's on anymore.

 

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Date Posted: 10/26/05 5:02pm Subject: RE: Shattered Mirror (post-TUF, Major AU, J/J, A/T, Kyle Katarn, Danni) ** FIRST POST 26 OCTOBER **
I watch it sometimes, when I can find it. It hasn't been on here in Oz for ages, though.

 

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Date Posted: 10/26/05 5:46pm Subject: RE: Shattered Mirror (post-TUF, Major AU, J/J, A/T, Kyle Katarn, Danni) ** FIRST POST 26 OCTOBER **
Looks like this one will be a really good one. happy
Very curious to see what happened to kill Jag in what I'm assuming is an AU galaxy- and how Jaina and Jag will handle being there.
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Date Posted: 10/26/05 5:55pm Subject: RE: Shattered Mirror (post-TUF, Major AU, J/J, A/T, Kyle Katarn, Danni) ** FIRST POST 26 OCTOBER **
zettazofia posted:
Looks like this one will be a really good one. happy
Very curious to see what happened to kill Jag in what I'm assuming is an AU galaxy- and how Jaina and Jag will handle being there.
I'll take a PM, if you don't mind.
-Zetta


Alright, that's two on the PM list. All answers will come in time. And, yes, this is an AU galaxy.

 

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Date Posted: 10/27/05 5:03am Subject: RE: Shattered Mirror (post-TUF, Major AU, J/J, A/T, Kyle Katarn, Danni) ** FIRST POST 26 OCTOBER **
oooh i'm hooked. Add me to the pm list if u have one.

 

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Date Posted: 10/27/05 3:35pm Subject: RE: Shattered Mirror (post-TUF, Major AU, J/J, A/T, Kyle Katarn, Danni) ** FIRST POST 26 OCTOBER **
Okay, that's three on the PM list.

voxynking
zettazofia
The_Silent_One

Anyone else?

 

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Date Posted: 10/29/05 6:20pm Subject: RE: Shattered Mirror (post-TUF, Major AU, J/J, A/T, Kyle Katarn, Danni) ** FIRST POST 26 OCTOBER ** - Date Edited: 10/29/05 6:32pm (1 edits total) Edited By: SilSolo
“My brother’s been dead for four years, you impostor!”

Either this is like the Twilight Zone is an extreme understatement or Wyn must have mistaken Chak or Davin for Jag, and I'd say the former because Wyn's incredibly smart (though I gotta admit, I thought that I found a girl I was looking for once and it turned out that I pointed out her sister to the librarian).

I watch it sometimes, when I can find it.

It's so funny how I rarely watch TV and when I do, I ended up watching the same stuff as at least one friend more than once, and one of those times it was down to the same episode. Anyhow, this fic's especially like the TZ episode where this artist drew the girl who'd erase him from existence and the episode where those guys traded lives and one guy ended up changing his past by putting a baseball back.

Wouldn't it be funny if Jaina and Jag all of a sudden realize that they're not in their bodies? Just kinda suggesting that cuz the only type of humor fic that could keep my attention is the kind where all the characters wake up in someone else's body and things go haywire.

 

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Date Posted: 11/2/05 4:23am Subject: RE: Shattered Mirror (post-TUF, Major AU, J/J, A/T, Kyle Katarn, Danni) ** FIRST POST 26 OCTOBER ** - Date Edited: 3/10/06 9:33pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Draconarius
CHAPTER TWO


Jaina didn’t even wait for her X-wing to shut down properly before she tore off her crash restraints and pushed her canopy open and all but vaulted out of her X-wing.

The first thing that struck her about the Archangel’s hangar was that it looked more like a freighter’s cargo hold than a warship’s hangar deck. There were four fighters on the floor, all in various stages of maintenance and repair and all without tech crews. Equipment and parts lay scattered around the ships. Up in the racks that would, Jaina guessed, have supported TIE fighter craft at one stage, were dozens of the pitch-black fighters that had just wiped out the coralskipper squadron outside the ship. Jaina had never seen anything like them—Scorchers, Captain Yannik had called them. She instantly recognised that the main hull was that of an X-wing, but the wings were gone, replaced by blocky engine pods, one on each side. Each pod had two laser cannons installed in the front, in addition to what looked like two more built into the nose, above the torpedo launchers, for a total of six laser cannons.

Nice upgrade, Jaina thought. At the same time, she wondered how she could never have been told about a ship like that. Why would the Alliance keep a new fighter craft secret from their single best pilot?

Yet another thing that didn’t make sense. That made well over a dozen in the past five minutes. Denon blasted…cloaking Star Destroyers…amazingly good coralskippers…the war still on…Jag’s baby sister flying one of those Scorchers…she was already getting a headache trying to think all of those things through.

“Jaina!” Jag called as he jumped down from atop his Clawcraft and raced over to his fiancé. “Jaya, are you okay?”

Jaina let Jag wrap his arms around her. “I’m fine, Jag. My X-wing didn’t even take a scratch,” Jaina wriggled out of Jag’s arms and looked around the hangar, fixing her eyes on the three Scorcher fighters that had escorted her and Jag into the hangar. The lead one’s cockpit was already opening, and the pilot scrambled out before her cockpit had even opened halfway. Wyn, Jaina realised. She was about to point her out to Jag when she heard the unmistakable sound of a dozen blaster rifles loading.

Jaina turned to face the loaded rifles, and wasn’t too surprised to see a dozen stormtroopers advancing towards her and Jag, ordering them not to move. Wynssa saw the stormtroopers walking towards her brother and raced over, discarding her flight helmet like an empty blaster cartridge.

“Back off!” She yelled. “Lower your weapons, damn it! Back off!”

“Sorry, Lieutenant Fel, but Captain Yannik—.”

“I don’t care what Captain Yannik told you to do!” Wyn howled at the officer, shoving him back as she rushed past him and straight towards Jag. She stopped a few metres away from Jag, face covered in shock.

“Wyn,” Jag sighed, finally glad to see someone he recognised. He walked up to her and put his hands on her shoulders. “Wyn, what’s going on?” he demanded.

“Jag…?” Wyn asked softly. “Jag…it…can’t…you’re dead…”

“Wyn, what are you talking about?” Jag asked. “I’m not dead! I left you and mom and dad at Csilla three days ago! How the hell did you—?”

Csilla?” Wyn repeated in shock.

“Yes, Csilla,” Jag said. “You know, where our family’s been living for the past couple of decades!”

“J-Jag…” Wyn stammered. “Jag, Csilla doesn’t…doesn’t exist anymore! The Vong, they…they…”

“Csilla’s gone?” Jag snapped. “That’s not possible! I saw you and mom and dad there a week ago!”

“Jag, that can’t be right,” Wyn stammered. “Csilla’s been gone for almost three years! Mom and dad are dead. And so are you!”

Jag’s face screamed confusion. “Wyn—what—I—.”

Jaina was just as confused as Jag was, which was part of the reason why she hadn’t spoken up yet. As Jag and his sister talked, Jaina became increasingly aware of a large number of Jedi in the hangar. She glanced at the space near Wyn’s fighter and saw six more Scorchers landing near it. The pilot of one of them was out of his ship before it even touched down, flipping in the air with the ease that the Force granted and deftly landing, already sprinting over to Jaina and Jag, calling out Wyn’s name. Wyn pulled away from Jag and let the pilot enwrap her in his arms.

“Valin…” She whimpered into his shoulder.

Valin?” Jaina demanded, finally recognising the young man. She had seen him less than a month ago, on Ossus, but the young man who was holding Jag’s sister looked a lot different. He seemed…darker. His left hand was gloved, and Jaina could clearly see a pronounced scar running from his right eyebrow back up into the hairline of his pure-white hair. “Valin…what the heck happened to you? What happened to your hair? Where’d you get that scar?”

“Wyn, who the hell are these two?” Valin demanded, intently examining Jag.

“That’s my…brother,” Wyn answered.

“What?” Valin snapped, studying Jag all the more. “That’s not possible, you’re dead,” Valin glanced at Jaina. “And who the hell are—Oh. My. Force. You…that’s not…oh Force…”

“Valin, what are you going about?” Jaina demanded.

“You…you’re…” Valin’s eyes darted frantically from Jaina to Jag and back again. “You’re both dead!”

“Do I look dead to you?” Jaina demanded.

Valin just stared at Jaina and Jag in disbelief. “You…” He said to Jaina. “You’ve been dead for just under three years. And you…” he looked at Jag. “You died just over a month after she did. There’s no way you two can be alive!”

“Valin, what’s going on?” Yet another pilot pushed his way past the group of very confused stormtroopers. Jaina took one look at him—

And froze.

As did he.

Both their looks were identical; they were both staring at a loved member of their family who had died in front of their eyes.

“I think you already know her, Anakin,” Valin remarked.

Anakin didn’t even acknowledge the younger Jedi’s presence. The only thing he and Jaina could focus on was each other. Anakin was the first to move, taking the final few steps towards Jaina very slowly and laying a wary hand on her shoulder, as if trying to prove to himself that he wasn’t staring at a ghost or a hallucination. Seeing her long-dead little brother standing before her was enough to put Jaina into shock; feeling his hand on her shoulder was enough to make her mind just stop. Jaina didn’t even notice her vision begin to narrow or her legs begin to collapse.

By the time she did notice, Jag and Anakin were already trying to catch her as she fainted.

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Kyle shook his head as he stared through the glass at Jag Fel and his unconscious fiancé. “This isn’t possible,” He sighed. “Those two are dead. I watched Jagged Fel’s fighter get turned into a supernova at Borleias.”

“Jaina died in that torture chamber on Myrkr,” Anakin added from his seat. “She died in my arms, for heaven’s sake.” The young Jedi’s voice was getting increasingly choked by the tears he was fighting back. The only thing that was keeping Anakin from collapsing and breaking down completely was the loving embrace of his wife.

“It’s alright, Anakin,” Tahiri said softly.

“Tahiri, stop it!” Anakin snapped, a little too angrily. “Just…that’s my sister in there, damn it! That’s Jaina…but…she’s…she’s dead. The Vong tortured her to death.”

“And I watched them do it,” Wynssa sobbed from her place in her boyfriend’s arms. Kyle saw her flinch as she remembered the nightmarish torture session she and Jaina Solo had been put through on Myrkr. Both Wyn and Jaina had been horribly tortured; the only reason that Wyn was alive while Jaina wasn’t was because the Vong had used the former girl as a test subject for their torture methods, so they were reluctant to kill her. With Jaina, however, they hadn’t been as restrained.

“Shhh, Wyn,” Valin whispered into his girlfriend’s ear. “Stop talking about it.”

“I’m open to suggestions,” Kyle announced, looking around the observation room at the eight Jedi and two officers gathered there. “If anyone can think of a way this is possible, I’d like to hear it.”

“Clones?” Zekk suggested from where he was leaning against the wall.

“Why would the Vong go to so much trouble?” Captain Yannik asked. The green alien was standing atop the centre table so that he could look through the observation window at Jaina and Jag.

“Shimrra has been obsessed with destroying the Archangel ever since we…took it,” Danni added. “One of them might have a tracking device on them.”

“No,” Cirila Keryln said. The young Chiss woman was standing near Kyle, not paying much attention to Jaina and Jag. “The Vong had absolutely no idea we were going to be at Denon. They couldn’t have set this up. And, even if they did, why just pull out an escort frigate? Why not hide an interdictor and a few battleships around somewhere and jump them in when they lost contact with the frigate?”

“Cirila’s right,” Zekk said. “It wasn’t a Vong trap. Besides, them using a X-wing and Clawcraft is a little out of character.”

Kyle nodded in agreement. “The Vong wouldn’t break their hatred of technology, not even to kill us off.”

“Still, clones are a possibility,” Tahiri said. “They might have wanted to try to turn Jaina into a Vong warrior, or something.”

“But why clone Jag?” Azias Sharn said, putting an end to Tahiri’s argument.

“Let’s go through what we’ve ruled out,” Kyle said. “We know they can’t be clones, and we also know that they can’t be Jaina Solo and Jagged Fel. Jagged Fel was shot down at Borleias, and Jaina died on Myrkr. What does that leave us with?”

“Not much,” Yannik commented.

“Perhaps we should ask them,” Danni suggested.

“I’ll do it,” Anakin said.

“No,” Kyle ordered. “If Jaina has another reaction to seeing you like she did in the hangar, I doubt you’ll get very much out of her,” the Jedi master turned to Valin and Wynssa. “Wyn, you’re Jagged’s brother. You and Valin might be able to get something out of them.”

“I…I’ll try,” Wynssa said. Anyone could tell that the girl was shaken by seeing her long dead brother. Kyle had never seen her so emotionally stressed before. Well, he thought, except for when they brought her back from Myrkr. I’ve never seen another person that traumatised.

“We’ll give it a shot,” Valin agreed.

“Good,” Kyle sighed, turning to Cirila and Azias. “Cirila, take Azias and look at the X-wing and Clawcraft. Get some of the technicians to help you.”

“Yes, Master,” Cirila nodded.

“Anakin, Tahiri, you two can stay here and monitor Valin and Wyn, if you want,” Kyle suggested.

Anakin shook his head. “No, I…I need to work on…finish the MJS-01. I…”

Kyle nodded in understanding. Anakin needed a little time to work through the huge shock of finding a clone—or whatever this girl was—of his dead sister.

“Danni, Zekk, the three of us need to consult the archives and try to find anything that could explain this,” Kyle said as he pointed at Jaina and Jag.

“I will get us as far away from the core worlds as possible,” Yannik stated. “After our attack here, the systems will be littered with Yuuzhan Vong battleships within a few days. And if we run into Warmaster Rvarren’s ship again we won’t have any chance of escaping a second time.”

“We all know what we have to do, then,” Kyle announced. “Get to it.”

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Jag glanced back at the mirror behind him. He knew that someone was watching him and Jaina. He didn’t particularly care, though; from Wyn’s reaction to seeing him and Jaina, to hearing her talk about Csilla being gone, to seeing Jaina’s little brother alive, he was pretty well beyond caring about little stuff like that.

Jaina still hadn’t woken up yet; the medics here on the Archangel had said that she had just fainted in shock. Jag hadn’t seen Wyn since he had walked into the med lab. He hadn’t seen Valin either. The boy had seemed a little too close to Wyn for Jag’s liking. I swear, if he’s slept with her, I’ll break his neck, Jedi or not! He thought.

The door hissed open behind Jag. He turned, and wasn’t surprised to see Wyn walk in, her face still blanched, as if she was staring at a ghost. Jag could only see the left side of her face; she had the right covered by her hair. It looked…weird. Not altogether unattractive, but still weird.

“Wyn,” Jag sighed in relief. Finally, he thought, someone I can talk to!

Wyn reached up and touched Jag’s cheek as he put his hand on her shoulder, trying to see if she was indeed looking at a ghost or not. Once she confirmed that Jag wasn’t a spectre, she leapt into his arms, wrapping hers around his neck. “Jag…” She whimpered, sobbing onto his shoulder.

“Wyn, what is going on?” Jag demanded, giving Valin a distinctly evil look as the Jedi walked in and shut the door behind him.

“Colonel,” Valin began. “You might have figured this out by now, but you and Jaina there have both been dead for getting near three years now.”

“Yes, I gathered that much,” Jag replied. “And, if you hadn’t noticed, we’re not dead! What the hell made you think that?”

“You got shot down at Borleias,” Valin explained. “You tried to take on the Warmaster’s coralskipper. You lost. Badly.”

What?” Jag demanded. “We won at Borleias! We killed that Vong worldship, and Czulkang Lah! Jaina saved my life there! That’s how—.”

Valin let out a long sigh. “Colonel, Jaina was already dead by the time we tried to hold Borleias. She…she died at Myrkr.”

“No. No! Jaina didn’t die at Myrkr!” Jag tried to correct. “Anakin did.”

Valin opened his mouth to say something, but didn’t bother. “Colonel, I don’t know where you’ve been for the past couple of years, but you seem to have a lot of things mixed up.”

“What’s to mix up?” Jag snapped.

“Colonel, calm down,” Valin said. “Look, just sit down, and we’ll see if Wyn and I can bring you up to speed.”

Jag let out a long sigh and released his little sister and took the seat he had been in before Valin and Wyn walked in. Valin leant against the wall behind the chair that Wyn took.

“Alright, Jag, what’s the last thing you remember?” Wyn asked.

“Leaving you and mom and dad at Csilla three days ago,” Jag answered.

Wyn shook her head and brought her hand to her eyes. “That’s…not possible, Jag. Csilla’s been gone for years.”

“And I’m telling you, that’s not possible,” Jag replied. “Eight months ago, we won the war and—.”

Won?” Valin looked at Jag like the colonel was crazy. “Colonel, eight months ago we lost the war! The Vong took Mon Calamari and wiped out most of the galaxy in less than a week. The only reason any of us are alive is because Kyle and Luke stole the Archangel from the Empire!”

“We lost?” Jag demanded. Why was everything so screwed up all of a sudden? “That’s…I…damn!”

Jag’s outburst made Wyn flinch. “Jag, calm down!” She ordered. “Look, you said you left me and mom and dad at Csilla, right? Did anything happen between then and when you arrived at Denon?”

“No, nothing,” Jag replied. “No, wait! There was that…thing Jaina and I hit. An energy blast, or something. Then we arrive at Denon and find this!”

“Energy blast?” Valin asked. “What energy blast?”

“We dropped out of hyperspace to make a course correction, and we both ran into an energy blast,” Jag said. “It didn’t do anything to our ships. Except for…”

“Except for…what?” Wyn asked.

“I thought I saw the hyperdrive safeties come up damaged for a second, but they turned green again, so I didn’t think about it,” Jag explained. “Could that have done something?”

“Maybe,” Valin ran a hand through his hair. “I need to go talk to Kyle,” He reached down and put a warm, loving hand on Wyn’s shoulder. “Will you be okay, Wyn?”

Jag glared at Valin as he heard the Jedi use Wynssa’s nickname. Neither Valin nor Wyn noticed. “I’ll be fine, Valin,” She reached up and kissed him. “Thanks, sweetie.”

Jag waited for Valin to leave before he started talking again. “So…you and Valin.”

“Yeah, me and Valin,” Wyn replied. “You don’t like him?”

“The guy’s dating my little sister,” Jag said. “That means I automatically hate him.”

Wyn smiled briefly. “Jag, look…I…I know you think that all of this is impossible, but…I’m so happy o see you again. I really am. After Csilla got invaded and I got captured, I—.”

Captured?” Jag snapped. “The Vong captured you?”

Wyn nodded, slowly. Painfully.

“Wyn, did they torture you?” Jag asked carefully.

Wyn nodded again. The one eye that Jag could see closed as a tear forced its way out of it.

“Oh, Wyn,” Jag said softly, reaching over to his sister and putting his arms around her. “What happened?”

“The Vong attacked Csilla just before they took out Coruscant,” Wyn said, resting her head on Jag’s shoulder. “We never stood a chance. They had only half our numbers, but their admiral was incredible. As good as Thrawn, if not better. Our fleet was wiped out, and then they attacked the planet. Mom and dad and I tried to get off the planet, but we didn’t even reach our ship. Mom and dad were killed, and I was captured. The admiral…he made a special point of torturing me himself. I only escaped because—.”

Jaina let out a soft moan, interrupting Wyn and grabbing Jag’s attention. He turned to look back at his fiancé, then turned back to Wyn, and then back to Jaina. “Wyn, do you mind if—?”

“No, it’s fine,” Wyn sobbed. “Just go make sure she’s okay.”

Jag squeezed his sister one last time before he let go and went over to his fiancé. Jaina’s eyes fluttered open slowly, locking on the ceiling first before she looked at Jag. “Jag, where are we?”

“In a med lab,” He answered.

Where?” Jaina repeated.

“On the…Archangel,” Jag said.

“How my Force,” Jaina sighed. “It wasn’t a dream, was it?”

Jag shook his head.

“Jaina?” Wyn asked, joining Jag at Jaina’s side. “Are you alright?”

“I think so,” Jaina said as she sat up. “Wait a minute—Anakin! I thought I—!”

“Yes, he’s down in the hangar right now,” Wyn said. “Why?”

Why?” Jaina yelled. “He’s supposed to be dead, that’s why! He died on Myrkr! We brought his body back and burnt it!”

“Jaina, you’ve got things mixed up,” Wyn interrupted. “Anakin didn’t die at Myrkr,” The young girl took a deep breath. “You did.”

I did?” Jaina yelled. “What the hell are you—?”

“Settle down, Jaya,” Jag said softly. Calmingly. “Look, I know everything’s a little confusing right now—.”

Confusing—!”

“But I think Wyn’s telling the truth,” Jag continued, completely ignoring Jaina’s attempt at an interruption. “She told me that Csilla got wiped out, and that she got captured by the Vong. She’s not making it up.”

“Jag, what are you talking about?” Jaina snapped. “This—all of this is impossible! We must have been captured by—.”

“Jaya, we didn’t leave our fighters since we left Csilla,” Jag said. “Look, Valin said that he had an idea just before he left. He’s probably gone to confirm it. We just need to wait for him to get back.”

“Alright,” Jaina relented. “Alright. We’ll wait. But…look, this is really hard for me to…I just…some proof would be good!”

“What about this?” Wyn asked. Jag turned towards his sister, just as she pushed her hair back behind her ear, revealing—

“Oh Force!” Jag sighed as he laid eyes on the scars on Wyn’s face. Her entire right cheek was covered in scars of a dozen different lengths. The longest went from her jaw up to her ear, and it was surrounded by dozens of others. The whole thing looked like an intricately designed pattern, almost like someone had—Oh no.

“Wyn, where did you get those?” Jag asked softly, even though he already knew the answer.

“Myrkr,” Wyn replied. “They’re torture marks.”

“Oh my Force,” Jaina sighed. “You really aren’t making this up.”

“That admiral did that, didn’t he?” Jag asked, putting one hand on Wyn’s shoulder while he touched her scars with the other, just to make sure they weren’t fake. To his horror, they were all too real. Wyn replied with a nod.

“Which admiral?” Jaina demanded. “When did she get tortured? The Vong never even attacked the Chiss! How—?”

“Jaya, I know this doesn’t make sense,” Jag said comfortingly. “But…it does. Somehow. I don’t know how, but everything’s different. We’re the only ones who seem to remember anything otherwise.”

Jaina let out a long sigh. “Wyn, can I see Anakin?”

“Just let me—,” Wyn reached for her commlink, but it beeped before she could pick it up. She grabbed it and answered the caller, turning away from Jaina and Jag to keep them from hearing. A few seconds later, she turned back to Jaina and Jag. “Kyle and Captain Yannik have decided to give you two one of the guest quarters. I can take you right there, if you want.’

“We’re not doing anything sitting around here,” Jaina said. “Whatever.”

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