The Frozen One, Chapter 3: The Awakening
[with loose tie-in to Baron Sluggy...]
The metaverse had changed.
The previous statement is a great understatement--
and so is this one.
The metaverse had changed, a lot.
Following the destruction of the GROSS/Freedom Force clone factory, the Freedom Force had changed its name to POSSE and officially joined GROSS. Time passed, things changed, the freared pirate Pontius gave his life to destroy the Baron Sluggy, the POSSE left once more, the ANZACs rose to power and fell back down again.
It is in these latter days of change that the following tale took place.
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Kryo was on his way back to MWC space after a pitched battle against the evil ANZACs. The MWS Blizzard was heavily damaged after battling the ANZACs for days on end, and repairs were not going well.
Suffice it to say, Kryo was not happy.
"Uhhh... errr, sir, umm.." stammered a pitiful lackey as he cowered towards Kryo's command chair aboard the Blizzard's bridge.
"What now!" Kryo boomed.
"Uhm. It seems that, err, repairs are, uhh, well, sort of--" mumbled the lackey.
"WHAT??!!" Kryo boomed even more angrily.
"Uh. Delayed. By five hours." finished the lackey, who immediately shrunk down and tried to cover his face.
"Fool! You will pay for your incompetence!" boomed Kryo. "Step forward! NOW!" As Kryo raised his fist toward the lackey, the crackling of breaking ice crystals could be heard.
The lackey whimpered and fell on the deck.
"You will pay for your incompetence AND your impudence!" Kryo boomed as he further tightened his fist and, somehow, became even angrier.
Something strange then began to happen.
As the lackey lay curled up on the deck cowering before Kryo, he suddenly became very rigid.
Kryo did not notice this, and continued to grow angrier at the lackey's noncompliance.
The lackey became perfectly still, and his skin started to turn blue. Then Ice crystals began to form all over his body, and his skin began to stretch as the water in his body froze and expanded.
Suffice it to say, the lackey was very, very dead.
Just as the lackey finished becoming very dead, another lackey shouted from across the bridge. "Admiral! A GROSS ship just dropped out of hyperspace dead ahead!"
...at this point, as the reader is probably already aware, the MWS Blizzard (already heavily damaged from battling ANZAC) was easily destroyed by the GROSS ship. After this, Kryo was drafted into the fight to destroy Baron Sluggy; the fight culminated in Pontius's apparent demise, and ended with Kryo alone in a GROSS fighter and with no ship...
Kryo had plenty of time to think as he floated alone through space in the GROSS fighter.
He considered the events that unfolded aboard the Blizzard just before its destruction, and came to a conclusion.
Things had changed, and so had he.
His decision was this:
He must go to the Jedi Academy to discover if his conclusions about the preceding events were correct. If so, he will have even more power than ever before--and all who stand in his way will either step aside, or lay shattered in his wake.
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