Subject: Grand Admiral Thrawn vs. Q
From: ryanwolf@erols.com (MKSheppard)

Q suddenly appears on the bridge of the ISD Chimera, scaring the hell
out of Pellaeon and his crew.

The Stormtroopers attempt to shoot Q, but he blinks out of existence
just before the blaster bolts hit him, and reappears next to Pellaeon.

"Pellie, your goon squad is even stupider than that Klingon oaf Worf."

"How dare you talk to an Imperial Admiral that way! Get this idiot off
my bridge!"

"Yessir!" shout all the Stormtroopers in unision.

Q once again blinks out of existence, then reappears in the uniform of
a Grand Admiral, but Q's eyes are glowing and his face is blue.

At the sight of this, Pellaeon bugs out.

"How dare you degrade the Grand Admiral with your nincompoompery! You
don't even deserve to wear that uniform! You're nothing but a arrogant
spoiled child who mocks the memory of the great Grand Admiral!"

Q get's visibly pissed at being called an arrogant spoiled child. He
transforms himself back to normal.

"Could a 'spoiled child' do THIS?" and with that, Q snaps his fingers.
In a flash of light, Grand Admiral Thrawn appears on the bridge, in a
state of shock. He clutches his chest, as if searching for an
imaginary knife. 

"The last thing I remember is that betrayal by the Noghri, and then
now, I'm here. Hmm....I must assume that by the state of shock on your
faces, that I was dead, and I've now been brought back to life. And,
by Pellaeon wearing Admiral's insignia, that it's been a long time
since my death."

Q claps his hands. "Excellent. You know, for a mortal you're actually
quite good."

"Hmm...I've heard rumors that there existed a race of beings composed
purely of the Force, who were able to play with time, space and
reality. I can tell you're one of them, from your spoiled, arrogant
posture."

"You _dare_ call me _that?_ After I bought you back from the dead?!? I
can reverse that!" Q begins to snap his fingers.

"Execute Order Thrawn-One!" shouts Thrawn.

Suddenly from the floor next to them, a container containing a
Ysalamiri frozen in Carbonite rises up, already beginning it's
reanimation sequence.

"NO! Not those blasted things!" screams Q, his mind beginning to be
torn apart as the Ysalamiri begins to revive, creating a null-force
area on the Chimera's bridge. As the Ysalamiri recovers more and
begins regaining it's strength, Q is put into more and more pain. 

Finally, Q fades from sight a la Michael J. Fox in "Back to the
Future_, with a horrible, blood-curdling scream.

"How...what...?!?" stammers Pellaeon. 

"A little surprise I had installed secretly in case Skywalker came
knocking around. The Carbonite kept the Ysalmiri from exterting it's
null-force area, to trick Skywalker into thinking it was safe. Even
this all powerful-omniscient Force-based being never saw it. But
enough talk about the past. What's happened during my....leave of
absence?"

"Sir, we're down to eight sectors and 200 Star Destroyers!"

"That will be more than sufficient for our purposes Admiral."

To make a long story short. Thrawn with the assistance of civil wars
in the New Republic, manages to reclaim the galaxy for the Emperor's
New Order. Peace, enforced by the Empire, replaces the chaotic
infighting of the New Republic.

Of course, there are a few Base-Delta-Zeroes conducted along the way.
<g>

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