Star Wars (Starring the Doctor) Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

by blade0627

The dark times for the Rebels are here. After being forced out of their base by the Empire, the Doctor, Jennara Oswin, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Luke Skywalker split from the Rebels and go to Dagobah to begin Luke's training to bring about the return of the Jedi Order. But a shadow creeps over the four Jedi, and at its center is a plot to turn Luke to the Dark Side! I don't own DW or SW.

1. The Worst of Times

Prologue: The Worst of Times

The Rebel Alliance had entered into a dark period in their war against the evil Galactic Empire. After their resounding victory against the Empire at Yavin, the Rebels were routed from their home base in a devastating counter attack by Imperial forces. For the next three years after the Battle of Yavin, the Rebels have been scattered and broken, trying desperately to recover from their defeat.

Alliance High Command thought it necessary to build a main base of operations in an even more remote location than before. They found their site for a base in Hoth, the sixth planet in the Hoth system, and there was a base soon set up there. Stationed on Hoth were key members of the Rebel Alliance, including the Gallifreyan Jedi Master known as the Doctor. The Doctor served as a general in the chain of command, having triplel leadership over the Hoth base with General Carlist Rieekan and General Obi-Wan Kenobi. Alongside the Doctor, Obi-Wan and General Rieekan were Jennara Oswin, the Doctor's former Padawan and a colonel in the Alliance ranks, Princess Leia Organa, one of the Alliance's central members, Han Solo, a captain in the Alliance ranks after his heroics during several battles were prominently displayed, Chewbacca, Han Solo's first mate and best friend, C-3PO and R2-D2, two droids who held a lot of Alliance information in their heads, and Luke Skywalker, a commander in the Alliance ranks and a developing Jedi.

Obi-Wan Kenobi had taken Luke under his tutelage after the Battle of Yavin. The young man had made considerable progress in his training during the last three years. Even though it was unorthodox because of his age, Luke had already mastered basic Force powers, which actually took most people a lot longer to learn. Obi-Wan, Jennara, and especially the Doctor continued to be amazed with his progress, but all three Jedi knew he had a long way to go before he was even close to being ready to face Darth Vader and Darth Sidious, both of whom continued to try and weed out the Rebellion and rule the galaxy with an iron fist.

The Doctor and Jennara Oswin had grown rather close recently. The eleventh incarnation of the Doctor had struck up quite a friendship with the young woman whose training he had finished three years ago, but he could sense, just faintly in the back of his mind, that something more was going on in his head. He couldn't get a read on what Jennara thought of when she thought about him, but the looks on her face when she looked at him would have tipped him off had he not regenerated to be completely oblivious to that sort of thing.

Besides, the Doctor couldn't think about his growing feelings for Jennara. He sensed troubling times ahead. They were getting closer and closer each day. Soon, the Rebellion would be plunged into the worst of times, and what the Doctor said to Princess Leia after the Battle of Yavin would ring true. She would have to lead through the darkest hours of many of the people involved with the Rebellion, including herself and Luke, her still-unwitting twin brother. The Doctor had the utmost confidence in her. She could do it, or so he hoped.

This is the story of the Doctor during the darkest hour of the Rebellion, when the Alliance would take its heaviest losses and when the ultimate truth about Darth Vader would be revealed.