"I- it's not true." Padmé said, with tears threatening to from from her eyes. "Vader had to be lying! That's what the Sith do right?"
"No...I do not think he is...", Shaak Ti uttered reluctantly..
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The screen then shifted within a control room of a fiery planet, with bodies scattered around. The robed figure held a blue lightsaber before he turned around, revealing it to be the face of Anakin Skywalker.
But his eyes no longer held the clear blue color of the Jedi Knight. Instead replaced by yellow-crimson color of a Sith Lord.
Yoda closed his eyes, accepting the worst out of the truth of all this. "Gone the Chosen One, Anakin Skywalker was", Yoda somberly admitted. "Consumed he is, by Darth Vader."
Padmé felt her world shatter as the revelation of the future of the man she loved, who was responsible for the galaxy's sufferings. She began to sob uncontrollably as Ahsoka tried what she could to comfort her.
The rest of the Jedi were mortified to say at least. The Chosen One who was destined to destroy the Sith, turned out to be the opposite that Qui Gon envisioned.
"There has to be a reason why...", Kit Fisto said, he just couldn't see Skywalker falling at all, not after all that he did for the Order.
Luminara realized as she placed her memory in action. "Palpatine..."
"Luke. We can destroy the Emperor." Vader told him, seeing him weakness. "He has foreseen this. It is your destiny. Join me, and together we can rule the galaxy as father and son." Luke looked around him, trying to find a way out, but found none. He looked back to Vader, his hand outstretched. "Come with me. It is the only way.
Instead, Luke let go, falling down the abyss. Vader did not see it, but Luke fell into a series of tubes that wound their way under the city. His momentum carried him through them like a slide until he came to a stop.
He tried to stand, but the floor opened beneath him, causing him to fall into the open air and land roughly on an antenna under the city.
He tried to climb back into the hole, but with only a single hand he wasn't fast enough, and sunk back onto the thin metal bar under his feet. He called out for Obi-Wan to help him, but remembered what he had said on Dagobah. Instead, he thought of the only other person she could.
"Leia." he called out with the Force.
In the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon , Leia's eyes widened.
"Luke." She whispered. "We've got to go back."
"What?" Lando asked, bewildered.
"I know where Luke is." Leia told Chewie.
"What about those fighters?" Lando protested while Chewie growled.
"Chewie, just do it."
"What about Vader- " Lando tried to point out before Chewie growled at him. "Alright, alright!"
Back at the city, Vader walked through the halls with some of his troops and an officer.
"Alert my Star Destroyer to prepare for my arrival." he ordered, hismood obvious in his tone.
At the same time, the Falcon came up on the city.
"Look," Lando pointed to one of the antenna under the city, "Someone's up there."
"It's Luke." Leia said with certainty. "Chewie, slow down and try to get under him. Lando, open the top hatch."
Carefully, Chewie and Leia maneuvered the Falcon so that it sat directly under Luke, giving him plenty of room to land if he fell. As Lando rose up to the hatch, he clipped one end of a nine foot length of rope to a belt he had put on, and the other to a railing just under the hatch itself. Luke allowed himself to fall when he saw the unfamiliar form coming out of the familiar ship, feeling that it was someone he could trust.
"Lando?" Leia asked, noticing a trio of TIE fighters approaching them.
"Go, we're in." she heard Lando say and Chewie immediately turned away from the Imperial fighters as Leia hurried back to Luke, letting Lando take her place.
Leia got Luke to a medical station near the common room and hooked him in as best she could. The ship rocked as it dodged and took laser fire from the fighters still on their tail.
Leia kissed Luke on the forehead. "I'll be right back."
"Alright, Chewie. Ready for light speed." Lando said once they had left the planet behind them, altering their course to avoid the Super Star Destroyer in their path.
"If your people fixed the hyperdrive." Leia commented. "All the coordinates are set. It's now or never."
"Punch it." Lanso ordered. Chewie pulled the switch, but they only heard a powering-down noise in return. Leia and Chewie looked at each other, before looking to Lando. Chewie roared in rage.
"They told me they fixed it." Lando said, "I trusted them!" Chewie growled back at him. "It's not my fault!" Chewie pushed Lando aside as he left to fix what he could
Piett walked up to Vader as the Dark Lord walked onto the bridge. "They'll be in range of the tractor beam in moments, my Lord."
"Did your men deactivate the hyperdrive on the Millennium Falcon?" Vader asked.
"Yes, my Lord."
"Good. Prepare the boarding party, and set your weapons for 'stun.'"
Chewie cursed loudly as she lifted more plates off the floor.
"Noisy brute." Theepio commented, almost fully fixed, with only one leg left to attach, "Why don't we just go to light speed?" Artoo beeped at him while he worked on his foot.
"We can't?" more beeping. "How would you know the hyperdrive is deactivated?" beeping and whistling. "The city's central computer told you? R2-D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer. Ouch! Pay attention to what you're doing."
As the Falcon made a pass in front of the Super Star Destroyer, Vader reached out through the Force.
"Luke."
"Father."
"Lule, come with me."
Luke did not answer him. "Ben, why didn't you tell me?" he whispered to himself before he climbed out of bed and made his way to the cockpit. He sat down behind Leia, his eyes haunted.
Obi-Wan looked down somberly. He realized that the reason why he kept the truth about Luke's father, was to protect him from Anakin, who had fallen to the Dark Path.
Luke, it is your destiny." Vader told him through the Force.
As the fighters harried the Falcon,the Destroyer began to gain on them.
"Alert all commands and ready the tractor beam." Piett ordered.
Back on the ship, Chewie was having no luck with the ship's hardware, while Artoo rolled over to a computer terminal on the wall behind Chewie.
"Artoo, come back this instance. You haven't finished with me yet. You don't know how to fix the hyperdrive. Let Chewie do it. I'm standing here in pieces, and you're having delusions of grandeur!"
Despite the rantings of his counterpart, Artoo jacked in to the terminal and worked his magic. Immediately, the entire ship lurched as it jumped forward into light speed.
"He did it...", Ahsoka lowly called out, relieved that Artoo saved the day once more.
Vader turned away afterward, looking back almost with longing before he left for his meditation pod, leaving the bridge unnerved by the lack of anger and carnage the Dark Lord was famous for.
Days later, the Millennium Falcon sat underneath a ship amongst a sea of vessels massing together for safety. Luke was in the larger ship's medical bay, being fitted with a prosthetic hand covered with synthetic skin. He was laying in his bed as the medical droid did its work, Leia, Artoo and Threepio nearby, while he spoke to Lando over a communicator.
"Luke, we're ready for take off." Lando reported. The two had grown close since they had met officially.
"Good luck, Lando." Luke replied.
"When we find Jabba the Hutt and that bounty hunter, we'll contact you."
"I'll meet you at the rendezvous point on Tattooine."
"Princess, we'll find Han. I promise."
"Chewie, I'll be waiting for your signal. Take care, you two. May the Force be with you."
The line cut off as Lando and Chewie, now on much better terms since the former had volunteered to rescue Han as penance, detached from the ship, left the fleet and made the jump to hyperspace.
Leia watched them leave, while Luke's medical droid made sure everything in the new hand worked by pricking two of Luke's fingers, his palm. Satisfied the work was done, Luke closed everything up and walked over to stand next to Leia, who now admired the swirling mass of light that was a galaxy in the distance.
The holovid ended there. The audience were struck silent, the sobs of Anakin being heard around them.
The memories of him murdering Obi-Wan and Ahsoka as well as slaughtering helpless rebels at Scariff in addition to torturing Leia and Han coming back to him.
All of a sudden, he felt the Force pinning him to a wall. Initially pained, but he didn't seem to care at all, he continued weeping at what he had done.
The audience then saw Mace Windu outstretched his hand as pinned Skywalker. His eyes were furious and full of anger towards the Jedi Knight. Those around him stood shocked to what just transpired.
Mace ignited his lightsaber, an amethyst blade coming to life as Ki-Adi Mundi and Saesee Tiin draw their lightsabers, but haven't activated yet, they are just conflicted as the rest.
"What... have I done?", Anakin wailed as everyone looked horrified at the situation. "What have I done?"
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