Vader doing his creepy thing [OPEN]

[sin-and-misery.livejournal.com]

[OOC: Time is an illusion, and also very bendy]

Vader, upon his return to Stacy, has found the Sensoriums.

He's been absorbed in them for the better part of an hour- first fighting numerous lightsaber duels with a holographic Obi-Wan Kenobi, ending each duel with a triumphant and increasingly violent killing stroke, then simply dismembering the hologram through various means. He was currently on Mustafar, kneeling by a river of lava and shoving Obi-Wan's face in and out of the flow, pausing to evaluate the various shrieks and gurgles of the simulated man.

It was beginning to bore him. It was not nearly as satisfying as he knew the real thing would be.

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[thewunderkind]

What a week. Lash was expecting to get some relaxing time in the sensoriums.

It was only a matter of time before she spotted Vader inside by the river of lava.

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She froze.

No.

No it couldn't be! Stacy had actually kept him of all people?! Slowly she raised a finger at him.

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Lord Sturm! It's so good to see you sir!" Her tone was joyful.

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Oh. Oh that wasn't him at all, the costume, while similar at first glance, was much darker than she had expected (the reflection from the lava pools certainly hadn't helped), he had no badass hat on top, and while they were about the same height, he simply wasn't her old Commander. Plus the man he was killing didn't look like anyone she'd know. It wasn't Sturm. Dang. She let out a sigh of disappointment.

"...Nevermind. I thought that you were someone else." She turned around, and began to walk out of the sensoriums. "You...keep killing that guy."

[sin-and-misery.livejournal.com]

"I am the same person you bothered before--" Vader threw up his hands, accidentally dismembering Kenobi even further. "I forget. You are not quite sane."

[thewunderkind]

Same person she had bothered before? Lash had bothered a lot of people before the voice was so twisted and robotic she had no idea who it was until he mentioned something about saneness.

Oh. Oh. Well, at least he had arms and legs and looked somewhat better with his suit gig.

"Hey! I'm not the one who's throwing a guy into a river over and over again!"

[sin-and-misery.livejournal.com]

"He has earned this!" Vader snapped. "I will have vengeance one day, and when I do it will be the most satisfying experience of my life-- and the end of his."

[thewunderkind]

"You know, I don't tell this to a lot of people," she idly scratched her nose, watching the fake Kenobi flail around with a lack of leg after Vader's accidental cut. "But considering I once obliterated an entire village, I just wanted to point out that you have a serious vengeance problem."

[sin-and-misery.livejournal.com]

Vader scowled.

"This is the man who resulted in my condition, which you seem so keen on mocking. He stole my infant son and daughter from me and lead me to believe they were dead."

[thewunderkind]

Okay that made a bit more sense. Wait...

"You...had kids?"

Somehow imagining this guy cuddling babies broke her brain a little.

[sin-and-misery.livejournal.com]

"I have my children. We are reunited once more," Vader said. He was visibly standing taller, radiating with pride. "My son Luke, and my daughter, Leia. He took them from Padme's cooling body and raised them against me."

[thewunderkind]

The last thing Lash needed to hear was some guy telling her about his wife/girlfriend/whatever his relationship with the woman had been's cesarean (or what she assumed had been one because how else do you take something from a cooling body, oh god why was she even thinking about it.) Her imagination had taken over and Ms.Vader looked exactly like him but pink, and gave birth to tiny little masked creatures with tiny little lightsabers. Thankfully, Luke sounded familiar, and she recalled the old man she had met roasting marshmallows in the sensoriums. Wooha, those two were family? Unconsciously, a package of marshmallows fell from the sky and right into the lava.

"Well..it's nice that they are here then," was all she managed to say after she watched the mass of sugary goodness dissolve into nothing right next to the still-shrieking legless man.

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Vader stared at the marshmallows in disbelief.

"All of the worlds at your fingertips, and you conjure that?" he asked. "And yes. My son is stronger and more talented than I ever could have imagined. He is worthy of my legacy. Leia remains elusive, but I will find her soon enough."

What do you mean late tags (sob)

[thewunderkind]

"Hey! I didn't even do that on purpose!" She pouted a little before trying to think of something more suitable.

CLANG! This time it was a large Neotank that appeared in the riverbanks of the lava pools.

"Hmmm..." Well if Vader was all about throwing people you hated into lava, she might as well do something similar. Lash knew just who she wanted to do that too, and closed her eyes to concentrate again. In a small flash, the form of one of the people she hated the most back in her world, Kindle, flew overhead, before letting out a small cry of surprise and falling right into the lava, slowly melting into the pool not unlike a certain terminator did in the 2nd movie. "My beautiful face!" was all she managed to say before gurgling to her death. Lash let out a few giggles from observing the spectacle. At least it drowned out Kenobi's own cries for a few seconds.

"Tee hee hee! Okay, now that was funny."

lmfao

[sin-and-misery.livejournal.com]

"You are a sick individual," Vader said. He's a huge hypocrite, don't mind him. "Has everyone on this ship been trained from infancy in the art of war? Is there no Galaxy of civilized beings to be found anywhere?"

[thewunderkind]

"Hello? Who's the guy that's been chopping off hands and legs from some guy? The guy who's still under your foot?" Yeah, if he was going to be a hypocrite, she was going to call him out. "It's only fair I did that to her, she sent gigantic oozium monsters after me and Hawke!" There was a pause when she realized he might not know what oozium was. "Just imagine huge sentient jellos that are made of acid and devour everything in their path."

Then she just started at him for his second comment. "Yeah because if we got fluffy bunnies from the happy-peaceful lala land, I'm suuuuure they'd survive fighting the Ohm. What would you want them to do, hug the critters to death?"

Later, Lash learned about the Carebears and died on the inside okay no.

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"This man," Vader hissed, hauling the smoldering ruin of Kenobi up by the back of his tunic and enjoying the subsequent wimpers, "stole my children, let my wife die, and only ever called me brother when he left me to die by hours. This is not a petty squabble. This is a matter of justice."

He dropped Kenobi, but re-planted his foot before the hologram could crawl away.

"I do not know of jellos, but I know that so-called warriors who do not come of age are only used for one thing- living shields. There is no other reason to allow infants on the field of battle."

Vader goes through them like a hot knife through butter.

[thewunderkind]

"OH YEAH?! Well infant this!"

Next to the Neotank, another Tank fell from the sky. Rocket launchers. Piperunners. A bomber. A black submarine. A gigantic Black Bomb fell on top of everything, forming some sort of war pyramid.

"I made all of those." She told him in a slightly angry tone. "I was Black Hole's weapon specialist, along with being a Commanding Officer. All the other nations stole my designs to use them. I didn't even bring out the 500 feet tall Death Ray to show you either, it's too huge even for this place. The only reason Kindle threw us out is because they wanted to take over and they were...jealous stupid heads!"

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"Are you listening to anything I am trying to tell you?" Vader said, on the verge of shouting. "Should you even live to be as old as I am, will you have anything to live for other than the process of war? You will grow weary of it, and it will never end should you make it a profession- the ones who made you into a weapon ruined your life. They used you!" Vader massaged his temples.

[thewunderkind]

She looked back at him about to scream something, finger raised when she realized she wasn't sure how to reply to that. There was a pause, before she actually talked again.

"Well...uhh..." She hadn't know a life of peace at all. The prospect almost seemed frightening. "We'll see when that times comes, okay? It's not important right now. We've got Ohm to fight." Would she turn like Olaf? Bitter and old? "Hachi runs a weapons store, I can't see why I can't do that." She crossed her arms in a feeble attempt to look like she knew what she was saying.

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"You have much anger in you," Vader said, as Kenobi vanished and Mustafar began to fade away, "hate as well, perhaps."

Instead, a more comforting view took its place- the observation deck from his flagship, the Star Destroyer Executor. He clasped his hands behind his back and firmly, gazing out across a sea of stars.

"You would do well to turn your anger to those that deserve it- those that would use you to their own ends. Clearly, your gift for destruction is great, why waste it? Empires die. The Ohm will be gone, and if you are still alive, and your galaxy is restored- will you resume your place at the end of a leash?"

None of this hits close to home at all with Vader ,wtf are you talking about

[thewunderkind]

It was odd how a change of scenery could affect her mood. Without the constant screaming, she could think more clearly and managed a grin. Despite everything that had happened to her in Orange Star and in Black Hole, there was something which set her apart from a lot of others commanders and soldiers.

"Nuh-uh! Anger maybe I do have a short temper teehee but not hate against others! Volcanoes maybe. Only four people have ever come on that list, and one of them is dead. The other three are...also technically dead now, I guess. Unless they are in tubes. Maybe the first one isn't really dead. Damn! It's so stupid, I'm not sure how it works, but I don't think Stacy wouldn't allow overgrown asparagus ketchup head in here. ANYWAY--" she stretched her arms. "-I once told someone I wouldn't be doing all this if I didn't like it, ya'know? I'm not an easy chick to push around. I do what I want...because I want to."

She might be someone that had been a cruel boss her soldiers. She might be someone who created weapons of mass destruction that used to kill thousands. She might be someone that used to have a disregard for human lives that weren't hers. She might be someone who had only recently started to care about other people.

But Lash was a free spirit. Her anger was there, but many times it was infantile and rather petty. Stacy hadn't given her a reason to hate anyone. In a strange way, it was her greatest strength...and weakness. Without a core of hate, there weren't many reasons for her to be angry at the world, and in return, her situation.

"They can try to put me on a leash, but they'd find me quick to escape it, tee hee hee!

It's okay Vader, Lash is just weird.

[sin-and-misery.livejournal.com]

Vader didn't turn around, instead choosing to let his thoughts drift out over the stars.

"Then I cannot give you any direction," he rumbled, finally. "Not until you are able to see the chains that bind you for yourself. Return to me when you grow weary of living under the illusion of freedom and decide to choose it for yourself."

Not that Vader knows anything about that, really. He's much worse than Lash ever was.

[thewunderkind]

Sorry Vader, but Lash wasn't leaving. At least not yet. The stars were pretty to look at, and even made the perky goth philosophical (oh no).

"You know, you're not all that bad," she admitted to her bizarre companion (even if she was just as strange herself) "You still kinda want to help people out, in your own way."

There was a tiny grin creeping up on her face.

"So when you're not out there trying to deal your own branch of justice, what do you do for fun? Even the most evil mastermind lets loose once in a while. Sturm didn't like peace very much, so when the headquarters were quiet, all five of us would end up joy riding the neotanks or playing a wargame." Okay so Hawke wasn't having all that much fun when they went neotank riding and she is pretty sure Adder got sick from it, but she was trying to prove a point. "Even a guy like you has hobbies, right?"

Come on Vader, you totally wanted to let loose a bit. I bet the call of Pod Racing was getting hard to ignore. :|

[sin-and-misery.livejournal.com]

Vader finally turned around, and had he still had eyebrows one they would have been furrowed deeply. The lines stood out clearly among the fragile skin.

"Good and evil are irrelevant concepts," he said, "netiher truly exists. There is only power- those strong enough to rule the Galaxy will. This Sturm-- he would continue to make war during peacetime? I do not cut loose, as the Rebels never cease their attempts to erode the Empire- there is enough time for mediation and repairs before returning to the field of battle to keep the Galaxy from tearing itself apart."