My Brothers Empire

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Summary: Darth Vader rules the galaxy with his master, Darth Sidious. His brother, Anakin Skywalker, lives with him against his will.

Prologue

The rows of Jedi knelt in lines in the halls that dignified their ranks. The younglings were often taken to the Jedi council chamber to die, or be tortured, so that the council could watch them suffer. The knights and padawans were killed in the rooms that they knelt in, bound by rope around their hands.

The once mighty Jedi order had been defeated by Order 66. The clones were going to kill the Jedi after Darth Vader became the apprentice of Darth Sidious, who was supposed to be the chancellor of the republic. But Vader had other plans, and he made them into his play things. The things that he could torture when he was angry or bored, the things that would justify that he was a sith, and not who he was in his quarters on his flag ship, the Exactor. A secret that he had tried, and failed, to keep from his master and the Jedi. They had read it in his mind and endlessly taunted him about it, trying to get him to come back to the light. But it was made that much harder by the fact that he constantly denied it, and killed people to make them believe it. But they knew the truth and it was the only thing left to turn him back to the light side.

This secret of Vader's lived in his quarters on board of his ship the Exactor, sleeping in a separate set of chambers and bringing out the only light that existed in Vader's soul.

The emperor was constantly tormenting Vader about the source of the light and had turned him from loving the source to becoming somewhat annoyed with it. But this was only when Sidious was nearby, or at least it used to be.

The secret that Vader kept was his baby brother, Anakin Skywalker.

The chosen one.

The force would not allow Anakin to die until he had fulfilled his destiny, which meant that he had to be under constant supervision. He could not be tortured as the force would find a way to free him and if any harm came to him the force would cause havoc for the sith. So Sidious had agreed that Anakin should be kept under the care of his brother, Vader. It was just the way that they treated one another that infuriated the dark lord.

They had been so close, and so friendly. But not any more. Since the emperor had paid a visit to the young boy, when he was still just a teenager, he had told him of what Vader had done to the Jedi, and the galaxy.

And their mother.

He even let Anakin out of the Exactor to go to the Jedi temple to see it for himself, and the result was more than Sidious could have dreamed for. But it did have one small side effect, which Sidious knew was not worth having Anakin and Vader despise one another.

The moment the Jedi council had laid eyes upon Anakin Skywalker and heard Sidious calling him the chosen one, they had made it their mission to tell him all that they could about the dark side, the sith, and the empire.

Whilst Sidious was out of the room, Anakin was told everything that the Jedi knew about the battle between good and evil. Anakin had not been on any side until then, but afterwards he was on the side of the Jedi.

He was promised that once the Jedi were free they would help him to get away from Vader and Sidious. They had told him that, if they could, they would make sure that he could fulfil his destiny and destroy the sith.

When Sidious re-entered the room, he found Master Yoda telling Anakin why his brother had turned to the dark side, and how to avoid doing the same. To the sith lords despair, Anakin was listening eagerly and eating up everything that they said. He was even telling them things that they wanted to know, such as what had happened in the outside world, and where he was staying, or being held as they called it, which meant that they could escape easier if they ever found a way to unbind themselves.

Sidious had been about to use force lightning on Anakin when Vader had walked in and been confused as to why his brother was there at all. Vader even had the nerve to save Anakin from the force lightning and thwart Sidious by attacking him, only to be defeated. Sidious was going to kill Anakin before he and Vader became engaged in a shouting match about how Vader was evil and Anakin knew what he had done to their mother.

Vader had killed her.

Sidious did not kill Anakin because he could sense his apprentices hatred and was pleased that all had gone as planned. The source of Vader's anger and hatred should not be destroyed, because there was so much more power for Vader to gain from having his hatred constantly fuelled.

Vader had become more angry than he had ever been when Master Windu had told Anakin to stop, and he had done so immediately. The man had been tortured to oblivion, just as the rest of the council had, though they always told him that his brother would be free one day, and he would destroy the sith.

The emperor would torture the Jedi too, he hated them more than anything he did could express. But the Jedi had become so resistant since they had discovered that their chosen one was alive, and well, and could be easily turned to the ways of the light side, whilst he remained resilient to the dark side.

They were so insufferable.

Sidious had seriously contemplated killing the boy, but then he remembered that killing him was impossible and simply resorted to letting him rot in his imprisonment, constantly bickering with his brother.

There was one thing that stumped the dark lord more than anything in the universe.

The boy, though he was no longer a boy, could use the force like no other, wield a lightsaber like Master Yoda himself and he had no training at all. He could not count the amount of times that he had gone over the prophecy of the chosen one to try and figure out why Anakin could do these things, but there were no answers in the original prophecy. It was rumoured that there was a book about the chosen one, written by the Jedi who recited the prophecy, that held all of the things that he would be able to do, or supposedly do, without any training.

Sidious had his spies looking for it, but it had been years and they had come up with nothing. No more than a rumour. So he had given up on it.

The Jedi, meanwhile, had done nothing but think of ways to help the chosen one since they had found out he actually existed. And, he was more skilled than any of them, whilst being only a child. Well, he had been a child the first time they had seen him fight. It had been against Sidious and he had displayed incredible skills even though he was completely untrained, they knew this from the sign of disbelief on the sith lords face; they could sense amusement from Vader, which surprised them.

The last time they had seen Anakin, he had grown up into a young adult. Impossibly, he had even more skill than before. He even fought of Vader when he made to kill a youngling in front of the council, and severed Vader's hand in the process. In fact, they had been certain that Vader was going to die before a battalion of stormtroopers had walked in and taken Anakin away, with the youngling.

The Jedi still have no idea what happened to her, though they presume that she was killed long ago, there was always hope for them when the chosen one was involved.

Anakin, however, had lived up to his title amongst the Jedi and the sith and had taken the youngling away from harm, to the one place that he could take her, though it was not very safe.

The Exactor.

Vader's flagship.

She was a togruta by the name of Ashoka Tano, who has since become something of a padawan to Anakin, though he is not a Jedi she always refers to them that way, as gratitude for saving her from the hell that the Jedi now lived in.

Ashoka was not permitted to have any lightsabers, though Anakin often allowed her to practise against Vader's wishes, and she soon learned not to speak out against Vader unless her master was present. Vader did not like the idea of her being in a position so close to him, being a Jedi, but did not kill her because Anakin had threatened to cause hell if he so much as touched her.

But the empires rule was about to come to an end, and now Anakin was twenty-five, Ashoka was sixteen. Together they could handle any opponent easily and the sith lords feared them more than they cared to admit, so they were both kept on the Exactor and carefully watched over...

Until they began formulating a plan to destroy the empire...

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