(Author's Note: Yep, its that time again. Time for another installment of Pilatus: Lord of the Random! Thanks once again to all my readers and reviewers out there who have been so kind as to offer input into this fic. Been working hard on what happens next here and I will tell you things will get more confusing before you can begin to comprehend it. This next chapter will see the introduction of two new characters, and they might not be what you are expecting, both thanks to drunk Kitsune playing with Pilatus, as promised last chapter. The plan since last chapter has been slightly altered, since I came up with a new idea I thought was even better. In fact, the title of the chapter should say it all, Doppelgangers. And uh, we get another slice of Sci-Fi thrown into this one. Also, yes, evil Keitaro has a stupid name. So without much more chitchat, I bring you Pilatus: Lord of the Random chapter three entitled Doppelgangers! Enjoy!)

(Disclaimer: I do not own Love Hina, because it belongs to Ken Akamatsu. I do not own Star Wars, because it belongs to George Lucas. No, I don't own Halo, Microsoft owns that. And of course, unless otherwise stated, I do not own any of the other products, objects or characters that are used in this story. So please, if you think some big bad corporate lawyers are coming to bust in my door, point them to this disclaimer, so I don't have to go to jail. Seriously guys, I won't last a day in the slammer! I have weak arms!)

Pilatus: Lord of the Random

Chapter Three: Doppelgangers

The past week in Hinata had been hectic, to say the least. With the introduction of Pilatus by Su, General chaos had gripped the normally quiet town. Okay, as quiet as you can be with Keitaro and company living in town, but still. One side effect of Pilatus was obvious, with all the things created by Pilatus; storage was a large issue. This fact was compounded by the large army Motoko and Su had raised in response to Darth Naru's. Housing and logistics became a huge problem for a few days, until Su had the brilliant idea to use Pilatus to solve the problem. Su used Pilatus to create several underground facilities to house starships, star fighters and the pilots that flew them, and various dimensions to house the vast army, not to mention several places to produce food and clothing for said army. Logistics aside, excusing the few mishaps after the return to Earth, Keitaro and the girls had been having it pretty easy. Until of course, one day of celebration.

Kitsune had just returned from SD-2 (storage dimension number two.), where she had spent a good six hours partying with the crew of the Battlestar Dionysus. Needless to say by the time she returned home, she was extremely inebriated, which in her mind immediately strikes her as a fantastic time to go and play with Pilatus.

"Okaysh. Pilatus." Said Kitsune, as she stumbled and sat down in a chair at Pilatus' controls. "Lesse, what should we do? Perhaps… Hey yeah! Do you know what would be really funny? If like, there was a good version of Naru. One who doesn't beat up on Keitaro. And with that, we have to have an evil Keitaro, but… But he has to pop up over where Darth Naru is, so they can have freaky, evil genius sex. Or something." Kitsune stopped for a moment and scratched her chin. "Oh yes, make the good Naru here, and send her into her old room. Yes… Execute that, Pilatus. And uh, while your at it, get me something to detox with quickly, I don't want to look hung over when I have to address my crew tomorrow."

As Kitsune walked off, Pilatus gave a familiar glow and the easy-bake oven ding. Upstairs, a new Naru was once again in her room.

Meanwhile… At Pilatus Base

Darth Naru was meditating in her chambers when suddenly she felt a strong disturbance in the force. She stood up and looked around the room.

"Who dares to disturb my meditation?"

"I do."

Darth Naru couldn't believe her eyes. Standing before her was a very stih version of Keitaro.

"Kei…Keitaro?" asked Darth Naru. "What trick is this? How did you get in here?"

"I am a creation of Pilatus, and I have come to serve you without question." Replied the new Keitaro.

Darth Naru allowed herself an evil smile. "From this day henceforth, you shall be known as Darth Taro."

Darth Taro kneeled at Darth Naru's feet. "What is thy bidding, my master?"

"I have a task for you, Darth Taro." Said Darth Naru. "I wish for you to go forth, and use Pilatus for a very special purpose."

"And what purpose would that be, my master?"

"There is one who needs to be brought into the fold, I want you to go to her."

"Who am I seeking?"

"You are seeking…"

The Next Morning…

Since he had moved into Hinatasou, Keitaro had become accustomed to waking up in strange situations. But not in his wildest dreams since Pilatus would he have thought he'd see Naru's head looking down at him from the hole in his ceiling.

"Good morning, sleepy head." Said Naru. "I take it you slept well?"

Keitaro was at a loss for words. His eyebrow quivered, he opened his mouth but nothing came out. A few sounds later a loud "WHAT THE HELL!" came out.

"Naru! But how? Why? When?" Keitaro was stumbling over his words. "But you're evil! At least, I think you are… but, really and truthfully, what is going on?"

Naru looked bewildered. "I am not evil! I am the good part of Naru, the one that was driven away by her twisted fantasies. Kitsune created me from Pilatus last night. I am all that is good and wonderful about Naru, without all the excess baggage. You know, the Naru you fell in love with."

"The… so you know?"

"Yes, I am not stupid. And shame on your for thinking so!"

"I wasn't saying you where stupid, I just…"

"Yeah, I know what you mean. Your kind of oblivious to everything."

Keitaro sighed.

Naru frowned. "Oh, I didn't mean to be mean or anything, I was just stating a fact." Naru plopped down the hole with a thud. "Aww, Keitaro, I'm sorry…" She walked over and sat down next to Keitaro on his futon and put her arm around his shoulder.

"No no, it's okay." Said Keitaro. "I have been rather oblivious for quite sometime, you could say it's in my nature."

"Oh well, everyone has that one quirk that makes them a little bonkers."

"Yeah I guess so."

Naru leaned over and kissed Keitaro. And of course, just as this was happening someone threw open the door.

"Oh Keitaro, I just came by to tell you that breakfast…. YOU! I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU TO GO AND NEVER RETURN!" Shinobu immediately dashed off for her room and came back with her scythe. "Get your dirty lips off of Keitaro this instant! He will not be turned to the Dark Side by your slutty ways!"

"Shinobu!" said Naru, pulling her face from Keitaro's. "Where on Earth did you get that scythe and learn such language? You used to be sweet and innocent."

"Yeah and you used to be a nice person… Oh wait, no. You where never a nice person, you've always been a stark raving bitch! Pilatus just enhanced your inner bitchiness!" Shinobu leveled her scythe in front of herself. "Come on, fight me. Let us finish what we started on the Star Destroyer."

"Wait please no!" pleaded Naru. "You wouldn't attack an unarmed opponent would you?"

"Don't give me that, you have your lightsaber, and your force powers."

"Wait no, Shinobu stop!" said Keitaro. "You don't want to hurt Naru, she isn't who you think she is!"

"Stop talking nonsense, Keitaro. She's brainwashed you."

"No Shinobu, he is telling the truth!" said Kitsune, who had come up to see why she wasn't being served breakfast. "You see, I used Pilatus to make doppelgangers of Darth Naru and Keitaro."

"Why did you do that?" asked Shinobu.

"Well, you see, I was on my way back from SD-2, and I had been drinking, and well… You know, I am not all entirely sure why I did create the non-evil Naru."

"Well, you can undo her, right?"

"Why would I want to do that?" asked Kitsune. "I finally got my best friend back, and she isn't batshit insane!"

"I am really starting to resent how everyone is painting my old self." Grumbled Naru. "Sure, I had some baggage but I was not as bad as you all make me out to be. I was a nice person."

"Yeah, just keep telling yourself that." Chuckled Kitsune.

"What? If I was such a mean and hateful person, Keitaro wouldn't have fallen in love with me!"

"Well, no one said that Keitaro was the brightest bulb in the box. Most caring and forgiving, but not a blinding brightness by anyone's standard."

"Guys…" said Keitaro. "I am standing right here."

Kitsune cast a glance at Keitaro. "Oh, so you are. Heh."

Shinobu cleared her throat. "Back to the matter at hand, what to do with new Naru."

"What is there to decide?" asked Kitsune. "We are keeping her!"

"Oh so now we are referring to me as if I was some sort of stray dog?" Naru smirked. "Oh please mommy, can we keep her? She's housebroken and much more docile than the old Naru we had!"

Keitaro laughed. "And she has a better sense of humor."

"Well, fine then. Lets all just go and eat. And introduce the new Naru to everyone." Sighed Shinobu. "I'm hungry and I know that no one else has eaten."

A Few Hours Later, 25 light-years outside Pilatus Base

Darth Taro had just been given his first command, that of a small fleet and the third army of the Collective Empire. His mission: Construct a base on the specified planet and put into effect Command S-13A. The course of Command S-13A is to create a means of infiltrating Earth so as to be undetected. Once this has been achieved, Darth Taro is to capture the mission objective and bring her back to Darth Naru.

"My lord, we have reached our destination. We are now in orbit around the planet Sterling."

"Very well, dismissed." Darth Taro stared at the vast expanse of a planet before him. 'Bless Her Lordship and her closet sci-fi nerd. Without her brilliance, this plan would have never come to light. It will take sometime before the opposition discovers the Stargate on Earth, but by that time I will have captured the mission objective.' Darth Taro looked to the captain of the command ship. "Order a full decent, and position Pilatus to make a full construction of the base. I will be gone shortly to update Her Lordship on our progress."

"Yes Lord Taro, it shall be done."

Darth Taro walked off to his personal chambers and opened a communications link with Darth Naru at Pilatus Base.

"Good news, Lord Naru, all is going as according to plan." Said Darth Taro, kneeling in front of the video screen.

"Excellent, I knew you would do fantastic in this job. Does the opposition have any idea of what we are doing?"

"As of yet, no, but we have not fully set up the Stargate, and the routine for Pilatus needs to be one hundred percent exact, or this whole operation falls flat on it's face."

"I have every faith that you will not fail, Darth Taro. But if you do, you know what I do with disappointments."

"Indeed. I shall notify you again when I have the mission objective."

"Good. That is all, Darth Taro. Onto finishing the task at hand."

The video screen clicked off and Darth Taro got up and walked off for the bridge of his command ship. 'Damn, I got to talk to Lord Naru about the whole kneeling thing. My knees are really starting to hurt!' As he came onto the bridge, Darth Taro was met with a respectful, "Lord Taro.", from the captain.

"We have successfully constructed the main of the base complex. As we speak we are on the ground and are currently working out the routine on Pilatus."

"Very good, but the routine on Pilatus will be completed by myself, as per instruction from Her Lordship Darth Naru."

"As you wish, my Lord. With your permission I will depart and begin at once setting up fighter patrols. The generals have all been dispatched and the troops are currently on patrol."

"Yes, you may go." Again Darth Taro stared out of his observation window on the hangar his ship now sat in. A smile came across his pale face. 'By some fluke, I stand here today following the orders of a woman who is about to start a war that will never end. Not as long as the technology of Pilatus is in existence. Reality itself has become so blurred that movies are reality. Pilatus truly is Pandora's Box. And I am on the side of the master of Pandora's Box. In the new universal order, I am now assured a place of greatness. Ah, job security!'

From here Darth Taro walked down into the bulk of the base, where his Pilatus was tucked into a bank of computers.

A technician spoke. "My Lord, is the routine ready?"

Darth Taro simply nodded and inserted a disk into the bank of computers. "Pilatus, execute routine 125-SG." He turned to look as in front of him a great flash of light filled the empty room. After a trademark ding from Pilatus, the light subsided and before Darth Taro sat a giant ring. The Stargate and its dialing device lay ready for use.

"My Lord, shall we test it?"

"Yes, call in 'Special Commando Unit Epsilon'."

"As you wish."

Darth Taro walked up to the dialing device and stared at the symbols. "Hmm, then I shall dial Earth." He reached down and began hitting symbols, with each symbol he hit; a chevron on the Stargate would light up. After he had entered all the necessary symbols, he hit the large red orb in the middle of the device and the Stargate let out a whooshing sound as blue, water like light jetted out and then retracted back into the gate. Looking at the shimmering pool in front of him, Darth Taro again smiled. He turned to face the commando storm troopers behind him.

"SCU: Epsilon, go forth through the gate and seek out the mission objective as outlined in Collective Empire Command S-13A."

The commandos all yelled "Yes, Sir!" and dashed headlong through the Stargate. The open wormhole with Earth was closed a minute later and Darth Taro walked off to his chambers.

Moments later, in Hinata…

The Hina girls and Keitaro all dashed off to CD-1 (command dimension number one) and into the main control center for the Hinata Operation.

"So Su, what was with all the alarms?" asked Keitaro. "It took us all a bit off guard."

"Moments ago, our scanners on Earth picked up a large seismic and energy anomaly somewhere in the South Pacific." Su pointed to a large map of the world projected behind her with a long pointer stick. "It has been centered on a small island, and we do not know the cause."

"A volcano, perhaps?" said Kitsune.

"That is what we thought at first." Said Motoko, who replaced Su in front of the crowd. "We also picked up a large amount of deep space energy pulses less than ten minutes before the incident in the pacific. We double checked the energy signatures and have matched them to a large scale us of Pilatus. There is no doubt that these incidents are connected and the work of Darth Naru."

"What do you suppose it is?" asked Kitsune. "Some kind of weapon?"

"No, but we are still working on ascertaining what it is."

"Oh it's pretty obvious what it is." Said Shinobu, gaining the looks from everyone. "Darth Naru has used Pilatus to construct a system on Stargates in our own universe."

"That is very impressive." Said Naru. "How is it that you where able to figure that out?"

"Oh, I am a fan of the Stargate movie, and both TV shows dealing with it. It's my… Closet obsession, just like the original Naru's was Star Wars." Shinobu laughed. "I just took a wild guess really, but when Su mentioned a seismic disturbance coupled with a large spike in energy in one area, I was pretty sure."

"As if this whole thing could get any more confusing." Sighed Keitaro. "I guess we are really lucky that nobody has an obsession with something truly horrifying. Else we might end up with a gigantic Jurassic Park. Or even worse would be just a gigantic explosion of mech anime. I swear I am still waiting for someone to get a hold of Pilatus and summon themselves up a Gundam or EVA unit."

"Yes… heh, thankfully nobody has even thought of that one!" chuckled Su nervously. "Oh on a totally unrelated note, access to SD-5 will be limited for a day or two, for some, um experiments and overhauls…"

"So what do you suppose Darth Naru plans to use the Stargate for?" asked Naru.

"I have a sinking feeling that they are planning a sneak attack." Said Motoko. "I will be sending a few detachments of troops to secure the Stargate and try to slow a sneak attack, so that we have ample warning to prepare."

End Chapter Three

Coming Next Chapter…

Things heat up as the mission objective is captured from Earth and then the Earth Pilatus Forces will have to once again meet the Collective Empire in battle. But when the smoke clears, will they all still be in one piece? Come back next chapter to find out!

(Author's Footnote: Really sorry if this chapter didn't turn out so great. Next one will be better. I am well aware of two things. First is that Darth Taro is a extremely stupid name, and Two, that I really didn't make for much of introduction of new Naru to the rest of the girls. Sorry if you wanted more! Uh, this update is long overdue and hope to see more work from me soon. So again, thanks for reading and I promise things will look up from here! Hope this isn't too totally confusing and or stupid!)