Hello everyone! Had another idea swimming in my head. No clue where this is going to go but I wanted to read it lol. Let me know if you like this or what you want to see from this and again I apologize for typos as I am just typing this out as I go and posting. I can edit it going forward if you prefer. Also, as I always mention in my stories, I am more of a reader rather than a writer, if you could do me a huge favor, if you are interested in this story could you comment or PM me and tell me of some star wars fanfics that you have read that you think are really good! I'm dying to read some new stories and don't know where to start.
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Luke and Leia laid passed out on the hard and hot floor. They did not know where they were only that they were no longer at home. Each had only met a few days ago after Obi-Wan had taken Luke on the run due to the fact that their newly discovered father Darth Vader had found out about the boy's presence. They had come to seek refuge with the Organas. Leia was excited to know that she had a twin as she had grown lonely believing that she was an only child of Bail Organa.
But they were not where they remember being last. They were in a hot place, they could pick up on the negative force presence as well. They were not really sure how to react to this as they were still processing the events around them. They were laying on rocks. Their skin was warm to the touch and they felt dizzy. They began to stand and supported one another. They had just begun their training as Jedi Padawans of Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and both could tell that they had their lightsabers clipped to their belts.
Leia was the first to speak, "Luke do you know where we are, this place its so hot and negative, I'm sweating and all I see is a river of lava and a dark castle back there. Do you see it?"
Luke then rubbed his eyes and wondered if he was seeing things right, "Um yeah I see it. But how did we get here, is this a dream?"
"No I don't think so, maybe we should go up there and see if we can find anyone and ask for help." Leia stated.
"Ok, I don't see why not, we just need to find out where we are then find a way back to Alderaan." Luke stated.
They both then began to climb the lava banks and headed upward, they did not see anything other than layers and layers of Lava. They headed up to this castle? They were not to sure, they passed a landing platform for where a ship could land but did not see any ships? How strange they though as they made their way to the door of what they thought was a castle. There was no sign of a doorbell, anything they could use to get the occupants attention. This was just strange.
Luke got out his green lightsaber and was getting ready to carve open the door. Then Leia placed her hand on his arm in protest. "Luke wait, what if this is someone's home. Don't you think we should do the polite thing and knock first?"
He then looked at her in confusion. He highly doubted anyone was here and if they were, wouldn't they have made their presence known by now? "Leia I would but can't you see that nobody is here. Lets just go in and see what we can find. I'm starting to think this is a place that is occupied by the empire and I don't want to stick around to find out. Maybe there is a commlink in there that we can use to call master Kenobi or maybe a small ship or something we can use to get out of here."
He then began to carve through the door and then they both entered. Leia did not have a response for this as her brother made a valid point. She was not sure what they would find but figured her brother's methods were the best to be followed as of right now.
They entered a long extended hallway and cautiously walked down on guard for any signs of danger, they walked for what felt like a millennium until an army of battle droids came out of an entry way to the side and started shooting at the two nine year olds. This did catch them off guard and they began to shield themselves with their lightsabers and deflect the blaster blots.
They each then lunged forward and began to slice through the droids one by one. They were excelled for their age as Luke had been training with Master Obi-Wan for the last six years and Leia with Master Yoda when he would make frequent visits the Alderaan. However, as of recent Master Yoda had decided to go back into hiding because of the resurface of Vader and had now turned Leia over to Obi-Wan for the time being.
The twins had excelled through their curriculum and were now at the stages of become official Padawans at the tender age of nine years where as traditionally during the time of the Jedi Order it was at least 13 or 14. The twins were trained in the ways of the force and being the offspring of Vader himself had no doubt been the hand in that. The twins both contained a highest midichlorian count to date even outdoing Vader himself.
"Luke watch out!" Leia yelled as she blocked the blaster bolts of two battle droids then turned and sliced through two more that were ganging up on Luke.
He was becoming out numbered when Leia came to his side and they both sliced through the remaining droids that were circling around Luke.
Luke then turned to look the other direction but did not see anymore droids. He then gave the signal and he and Leia then proceeded down the long hallway until they reached a large metal doorframe that slowly opened.
They did not know what was going to be on the other side but had their lightsabers activated and ready. By now they had concluded that this was the work of the empire and that they needed to find a transport and get off this lava infested planet.
Once the door was open the twins were met with a group of tall aliens who wore fancy clothing and almost looked as though they were politicians or perhaps representatives for the emperor himself.
"Why you're not who we were expecting! This is not Lord Vader!" one alien stated as he walked forward towards the twins in disgust.
"They must be force sensitives, we must save them for the arrival of Lord Vader then we can turn them over to him and he will reward us with great gratitude said another as he came up from behind the twins and placed a hard cold hand on both of their shoulders.
"LORD VADER?" the twins nearly shrieked at the same time as they could feel the alien from behind them digging his fingers into their skin.
They deactivated their lightsabers at this point as it was no use to kill these aliens, they could not kill living beings, at least not yet. They would need to find the opportune moment to escape. Now that they just got the confirmation they needed in order to make their blood run cold. Lord Vader was on his way here? They had to leave now! Some how and some way.
They were then ushered off to the side of the room and Leia was about to speak as the diplomat she was when the aliens got side tracked with a beeping sound from their control panel.
"Ah Lord Vader is early! Wonderful, now we can greet him and hand these two brats over to him." One alien off to the side stated.
Luke and Leia then exchanged looks with one another. It was official they were now truly panicked. He will no doubt pick up on the fact that they are his children, for force sake he already knew what Luke looked like and it probably would not be that hard to place Leia even though they were fraternal twins.
They then tried to think of anything to do to get out of here. They would be left with no choice but to kill. They then activated their lightsabers, they knew they had mere minutes before Vader would come storming through those metal doors. The twins then sliced off the arms of the alien who was gripping their skin and then stabbed through the heart of the one at the control panel. The began to scream out in terror and they were not fighting back. Was this a mistake, they were pleading for their lives and the twins did not know how to react to this. They then deactivated their lightsabers and then headed for the air vent. They would crawl through their and find their way outside and somehow break in and steel Vader's ship. It was their only chance. The three remaining aliens that the twins left alive did not try and stop them as they then turned their heads in pure terror to the metal entrance.
There in the doorway stood a tall figure that had glowing yellow eyes and wore a long black cape. The twins could only make out this much as they could not see the face and they were now behind the air vent. "Lord Vader we can explain, I'm terribly sorry! This is not the greeting that we were planning on giving you." One of the frightened aliens stated.
The twins eyes then grew large in shock as they exchanged glances with one another. This was Lord Vader? But how? Where was all of the armor and why was he not wearing that intimidating breathing mask. They had never seen him in person but had seen pictures of him on the holonet and yes he was frightening. They figured he must be a cyborg or just an evil metal droid. This was why they were completely and utterly shocked to find out that he was their birth father? That had to be impossible, unless he was secretly a human under all that mechanical armor.
When the twins had asked Master Obi-Wan he had refused to tell them anything as he said it no longer mattered. He had told them he would tell them the story of what happened perhaps when they were older as the were to young to be exposed to the horrors of how he had become the half man, half machine that was now wreaking havoc on the galaxy as the emperor's right hand.
The twins were then pulled from their thoughts and their blood ran cold as they observed this cloaked figure believed to be lord Vader plunge a blue lightsaber through the chest of the alien in front of him. He used his hands and guided the force to shut the blinders over the windows darkening the already depressing room. He then proceeded to use a militaristic fighting style and viciously killed the remaining two aliens as they pleaded for their lives.
Luke then tugged on Leia's arm signaling that they needed to go. Leia could feel her heart beating out of her chest at this horrific sight. She did not protest as they began to quickly crawl through the air ducts to an unknown destination. All they knew is that they had to get out of here fast or they would be next. The could since that this suitless Vader had already picked up on their presence and was heavily searching for an entrance into their minds.
They had no idea what dimension they were in but maybe this was Vader without the suit, perhaps he just wore it for a dramatic effect. They could feel him trying to close in on them as they quickly moved through the vent system until they had managed to make to a point of contact outside of this labyrinth of a castle, they could now smell the sulfur and the salty nature from the lava outside. Had they made it? Had they made it to the outside.
Luke then kicked open the metal frame that was separating them from the outside. They both then crawled out and where now standing on a bridge that was overlooking the large pool of lava below. Ok, this was good. They just needed to find their way back to that landing platform and then they could get Vader's ship and leave. But god only knows where Vader was now. They knew he was hot on their heels and was most curious about their presence as he could already tell that they were something unique, something that might just be as strong as him.
They would kill him if they needed to, they were hoping for this day to come much later like 10 maybe 12 years from now as the mere idea frightened them half to death. But they would do what they must just as Master Obi-Wan and Master Yoda had trained them to. Neither of the Jedi masters had confirmed it to the twins faces, but they knew that this was the plan from the get go. Except it was the plan for when the twins were much older, much stronger and more experienced.
They were then pulled from their thoughts as they began to race down the metal bridge and climb down to the lava banks once more. They could see that they were close they had to take a long hike up all these mountains and rocks. They had to hurry they could tell that this suitless Vader was after them and attempting to send messages to them through the force as well as connect himself to them through the force but they continued to shut him out by shielding their presences just as their masters had shown them.
They moved fast climbing on rock after rock for what seemed like forever out of breath. Both of the twins were out of breath and could feel the dryness in their mouths. Oh what they would do for a cold glass of blue milk at this point.
They continued to climb until finally they reached what looked like a landing platform and sure enough they saw a medium sized ship. They quickly scanned they area for any signs of the suitless Vader and reached out in the force to see if he was nearby. Luckily, they could not pick up on his presence as they both bolted towards the ship. They would have to break into it but how. They began to brainstorm ideas when their worse fear came to life.
Out of the corner of her eye Leia saw the suitless Vader slowly walking towards them coming from the direction of the castle, he did not have his lightsaber activated and he reached up to pull down his hood. The twins then began to panic they began to quickly back up and headed back down the way they came. They could not fight him. Not yet. There had to be another way the were now in a sprint as they could hear him coming up behind him.
"Stop!" He demanded. But they did not they continued to run until Leia turned and force pushed him towards the lava. He was then caught off guard as he was flung backwards but then grabbed ahold of one of the large rocks that stood tall right before the flowing lava. The twins kept going as fast as their small legs could carry them heading back to the direction of the large bridge. They could maybe get back into the vents of push him over the side if he followed them.
Which they knew he was, they darted up to the bridge and could hear him once more coming up behind them. They could feel his anger and it made their stomachs churn. They both felt as thought they wanted to vomit. Oh know here it comes….
They then stopped dead in their tracks and headed to the side of the railing and let the waste pour from their bodies. It was toxic, he was toxic and now they felt dizzy and faint. He would get them now it was only a matter of time. They would soon be dead and that made them feel sick.
The vomit kept coming up, more then more. Was this ever going to stop! They now felt dizzy, he had them now they could feel him coming up behind them and there was nothing they could do about it.
They felt dead they would soon be dead and then it happened. They felt two gentle hands on their shoulders. They felt someone shaking them slightly, but they closed their eyes they could not bear to look at him.
Leia then fainted and this snapped Luke out of his sickly trance, "Leia!" He screamed then he could feel the warm hands on his forehead. He dared to look up and saw two identical blue eyes looking back into his own. It was him, it was Vader. Luke then pulled out and activated his lightsaber only to have it quickly propelled by this suitless Vader.
Vader then attached it to his belt and clutched the boy by his shoulders, "Did you say Leia? Where are you children from?" he questioned in a surprisingly gentle voice.
Luke looked down and then did not answer right away. Vader then turned to Leia and used one arm to scoop her up and hold her to his side in one arm as he clutched Luke with the other. He began to sweep his flesh hand over Leia's forehead and brushed her sweaty brown bangs out of her eyes.
He then looked to Luke and spoke again, "You should not be out here it is too dangerous, you both are very ill and need medical attention. Please young one tell me your name?"
Luke looked down once more refusing to answer the question when Vader used his free gloved hand to gently cup the boy's face and bring him up to eye level.
"My, My name is… Luke" Luke managed to choke out.
"He then turned to look at Leia in concern. Vader then looked to the girl then back to the boy. "Luke, she will be alright, but you must come with me now, we need to get you both out of here."
Without waiting for a response Vader scooped up both the unconscious Leia and Luke much to his protest and shielded them inside his dark cloak.
He then moved back down the bridge as he clutched the twins to his sides and made a b-line for the back entrance to the castle, he punched in some codes and then went inside. Luke then lost track of his thought process as he began to lose track of his thoughts and fell into a deep dark sleep. Vader had most likely put him to sleep using the force.
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Anakin Skywalker made his way down the dark hallways of the large fortress on Mustafar. He no longer knew what he was doing. He had to save Padme but he had killed so many people in order to do so. He was lost and was unsure of what to do now.
These two children, these force sensitives sparked something within him, he felt connected to them and was not sure why? Luke and Leia were their names, the same names that he and Padme had thought to give their baby. The boy Luke looked like a spitting image of Anakin when he was that age and the girl named Leia looked like a spitting image of Padme. They were so familiar, and they were connected to him. He could feel it. He needed to find out more about these children as they were not just Jedi younglings as they were so much more than that. He knew they were in pain, deep and utter pain, perhaps more pain than he was in.
He quickly made his way into a bedroom suite and laid each child out on the bed and simply studied them. The girl was small and wore a smile white dress and had long brown hair that reached her shoulders, but it was tied on either side of her face in two braids and she had bangs that swept across her forehead and rosy read cheeks. So much like Padme, he thought to himself.
He then turned his attention to the boy who was now sitting up and staring at him. He had bright sandy blonde hair and wore a brown tunic and pants. He also had electric blue eyes that Anakin felt could burn right through him.
He slowly made his way over to the boy and knelt down to look at him eye level. The boy then attempted to get up but Anakin then placed his hand on the boy's chest restraining him from getting up.
"No you must rest now, you and the girl have been through quite an ordeal. Did you kill those men?"
Luke then looked down once more not meeting Anakin's gaze, "Yeah, we had no choice they were going to turn us over to you but its too late. Jedi don't kill. What have you done with our lightsabers? And what are you going to do kill us?" Luke questioned in a bold tone well beyond his nine years.
Anakin then looked taken aback by the boy's bold statement. "No I'm not going to kill you! Where did you come from? How did you two get here? And what is your last name?"
Luke then knew it was no use but he had to stay strong, how come Vader was not recognizing him and was actually acting concerned for the two children's wellbeing.
"I'm, nobody" Luke stated still not making eye contact.
Anakin's eyes then widened as he read through the boy's thoughts. "Your name is Skywalker? But how can that be, Padme has yet to give birth, you both are fraternal twins, Luke and Leia, my, my, my…..Children! my children from the future!"
"How can this be?"
Anakin then jumped backwards unable to contain his feelings. His children from the future, how was this possible. Had this been the work of the force? Then at that moment he felt a weakness in his stomach. Something terrible had just happened. It was… Padme!
Oh force she was in such pain she was dying. His dreams had come true but how? His mind began to race a mile a minute. Was this Palpatine was he doing this?
He had shown his true colors days before. Luke then looked to Vader in shock, where they no longer in their timeline? Was this Vader right before the fall.
This Vader in front of him was now holding his stomach as tears began to stream down his face. He was howling out in agony for someone called Padme? Was that their mother? If this was their father before the suit and before the true formation of the empire.
Had the force sent them back in time?
At this point Leia was awakened and sitting up frightened by the scene that was now before them.
She had no clue what was going on then looked to the Suitless Vader that was howling and holding his stomach now resembling a fetal position looking utterly helpless. Then looked back to Luke who looked just as clueless as she did.
She then nodded to him, when she noticed out of the corner of her eye their lightsabers that were resting on a table across the room.
Luke caught on, they would attempt another escape as this Vader in front of them was now essentially helpless on the floor. Maybe he would not notice.
Both of the twins then quickly bolted upright and made a b-line for their lightsabers and the door.
But this did not go unnoticed as Vader looked up and used the force to bring both child into his arms. They did not have any time to react as they were now too on the floor and sitting on Vader's lap being pressed into his chest in a rather deathly grip. They could feel the salty tears dripping down his neck and onto their heads. He was now cradling them. They were now really confused; wouldn't he want to just kill them and be done with it? Weren't they considered to be a threat?
As if on cue he answered their question with a deep plea, "No, No, No don't you dare leave me too! I can't lose you too! You must stay with me, I need you, please don't go. I would never harm you, I love you just like…." More tears then he sobbed out "Just like your mother would have loved you. You must stay now."
"I'm your father."
The twins knew this but, needed more answers, Leia especially did not have a clue as to what was going on as she was pressed harder into his chest. Then he kissed the tops of their heads and continued to cradle them.
Was he ever going to let go? "Please don't go, please don't leave me!" he said again.
The twins then concluded they would let him hold them until he got himself together then they would need some answers for this bizarre behavior. They were beginning to think that they were no longer in their timeframe but somewhere else. This had to be the work of the force but why?
They were determined to find out.
