#slowly

The mercurioverse is a universe where, no matter what, for whatever reason, nothing fully bad, evil or seriously world threatening happens

It all stopped one day and everyone from Team Sonic or otherwise is like ?????

Eggman, try as he might, can't get his plans to work as well as they used to anymore. Something always happens and it's weird and it sucks (he just keeps trying cuz he's bored)

So without anything world threatening happening anymore... what will our heroes do? What happens now?

I'll tell you what

And eventually Han starts making jokes and it prompts the most awkward conversation/small talk in the history of ever, and after lapsing into more awkward silence Vader just blurts out ‘you’re in the rebellion.’ and Leia’s about to start the whole ‘denying even though he knows she knows he knows thing’ but she can look into peoples souls and decides the best answer here is yes.

And so as they wait to get jumped (since when did the empire need confirmation they were the bad guys?) or are contemplating weather there was poison in the food, Vader just goes ‘what if I wanted to join the rebellion?’ and he’s just not really doing good enough to be embarrassed or awkward about that, but everyone else is gawking at him.

And even the non-force sensitives can tell that this isn’t a bluff and Vader’s actually had something crazy enough happen that he’s genuinely considering defecting.

And by this point the Death Star has happened and Leia’s very confused and starting to verge on her own (probably smaller than Vader’s) breakdown, Luke is slowly filling with hope, Han is pondering when the hell kind of situation he got himself into- and then C3PO breaks the silence, with some nervous comment

And it makes everyone in the very tense room to break into laughter and get that ice broken and emotions temporarily decreased enough to put personal feelings aside, they decide this could be a HUGE asset for the rebellion if he’s not lying (and they don’t think it is)

And so cue what they assume is going to be the most awkward hyperspace trip ever but in reality Vader’s in the worst mental state he’s been since Mustafar and doesn’t even feel up to insulting this absolute hunk of junk that should not be flying and seriously why do they trust this ship-

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