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This is the sequel to my Star Wars Rebels story 'Undoing Fate' and is set in that new timeline. It will cover the events of the first Star Wars film A New Hope and may continue into Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.

This story will be a mix of the new Canon and Legends

Chapter 1 – Chased

Above the planet Tatooine which was located in Hutt Space, an area where neither the Alliance nor the Empire had authority a small Alliance Blockade Runner named Tantive IV was under attack by a huge Imperial class Star Destroyer named the Devastator. Although the Corvette was the faster of the two ships it was clearly outmatched by the Devastator in terms of firepower with each blast of the star destroyer's massive guns hitting the smaller ship hard as it desperately tried to get away.

While two familiar droids moved through the Tantive IV not sure what to do, the bridge of the corvette was a scene of near panic, the crew were forced to shut down the main reactor when it was hit by a particularly hard blast from the enemy star destroyer. The only person that seemed to be staying calm or trying to control their fear was the nineteen year old woman standing at the back of the room. The unofficial commander of the ship for this most important mission, Leia Organa a high ranking official in the Alliance and a Jedi in training. Her white Jedi robes were stark against the orange coloured uniforms of the people around her but the crew took little notice as they went about their jobs. The captain of the ship, known only as Antilles turned to his young boss and told her with a concerned look.

"Princess, the ship is only moments away from being boarded. We need to secure both your safety and that of the Death Star plans."

"Captain I can't just leave you and the crew to die." Leia said. She knew in her heart that she must, this mission was too important they could not risk the plans falling back into Imperial hands. But she did not want to see all the brave men and women on this ship die on her account but Antilles was like stone in his decision unmoved.

"Princess it is time to go." And the bigger man gently grabbed her arm and pulled the half resisting Leia off of the bridge towards the escape pods when suddenly Leia felt a chill coming over her, she felt it not just physically but in the force like her master Depa Billaba had been teaching her. It took her a moment to place the feeling but when she did she almost wished she hadn't.

"Vader is coming, he must be on the Star Destroyer." Antilles stopped and then told her with fear in his voice.

"Then we definitely have to get you off this ship." He pressed the data disk carrying the all-important plans into her hand before they continued on.

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As they were moving to the escape pods the Tantive IV was being dragged by the unyielding tractor beam of the Devastator. Vader was standing in the landing bay waiting for his troops to first board the rebel ship before joining them himself. The Rebels had been a source of much frustration to him and the Emperor as their diseased ideals spread across the galaxy. Already the Outer Rim had fallen to their chaos as had an increasing area of the Mid Rim. The fact that the Jedi were the leaders of this Rebellion only made him more angry, his failure to slaughter the Jedi at the Temple nineteen years ago after he had first joined the dark side had been a mark of shame to him. The Emperor had not been pleased that day, especially with so many other Jedi surviving off world as well and he had found himself subjected to his master's anger in the form of lightning an experience he had not wished to repeat.

As he saw the rebel ship pulled into the bay and the docking collar secured his troops rushed forward to board and take the ship, he was distracted by a strange feeling coming from the force. On-board that ship was a Jedi he realised with a dark glee, a Jedi he could take his frustrations out on. His glee only heightened when he felt how powerful this particular Jedi was with a force signature that was almost as powerful as his had been during the Clone Wars although that last part made him hesitate in confusion. There were many force sensitives in the galaxy that were powerful he had killed many of them after all but as of yet no one had come close to his level of force sensitivity. This Jedi might constitute more of a threat than the regular rank and file knights. Seeing his men move out of sight into the corvette he went to join them.

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Feeling the dark presence of Vader coming closer and the death of her own men who were giving their lives to try and buy time for her to escape Leia and Antilles quickened their steps to the escape pods were they ran into two droids.

"Princess Leia, of my circuits what are we going to do? The Empire will have us melted down and melted into who knows what." C-3PO the golden plated protocol droid said in his anxious manner. His counterpart the blue and white astromech R2-D2 of course was calmer even if he could not speak basic and just warbled in binary. Leia pushed past them into the escape pod, big enough for four people and told her companions.

"Get in." C-3PO was about to protest when R2-D2 pushed him from behind warbling sharply and although he did moved into the pod C-3PO complained.

"Don't you call me an over anxious calculator." Leia then turned to Antilles waiting for him to board only to see him hit the door control sealing the pod before launching the pod.

Already seating in the small control chair Leia had only a second to prepared herself before the pod was violently propelled away from the captured ship and so she gripped the controls tightly as she took a very breath and opened herself to the force letting it guide her actions. She activated the pods thrusters at just the right moment to avoid a turbolaser blast from the star destroyer above. Then another a few moments later and then another and another until the pod caught in the gravity of the desert planet below was out of range of the smaller batteries.

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Vader was enraged when he felt the Jedi leaving the ship, his rage would only grow when he learned that the Death Star plans were not on the ship and realised the Jedi must have them now. Even as he choked the life out of the ship's captain with his own robotic hands he felt no satisfaction in it. He turned to the lieutenant that had dared report that a single escape pod had left the ship despite all their attempts to destroy it. The near quaking junior officer just stood there wondering if this was going to be his last moment until he was saved by the Devastator's captain who appeared at his shoulder.

"Lord Vader, Grand Moff Tarkin has ordered you make contact with him immediately." Vader turned to the Captain who had been with Vader long enough to know that showing fear was one of the worse things you could do with Vader so he held his ground and stared Vader right into the area on his mask where he eyes should have been defiantly. Vader was silent for a moment as he absorbed the captain's words before replying in a deathly calm voice.

"Does he now?" Vader felt his frustration rising as he realised he was not only going to have to speak to Tarkin which was a chore at the best of times especially given the man's belittling attitude towards the force but also that he was going to have to tell him that the plans had not been recovered yet. It would give the nasty little toad another failure to dangle in front of his face and then there was the Emperor's reaction which gave Vader another reason to worry. Vader would like nothing more than to strangle the life out of the man but the Emperor was too impressed with Tarkin to ever allow that. Turning to the holo communication terminal he activated the device a small blue hologram of the weasel himself appeared.

"Lord Vader report." Tarkin said with all the pompousness that he had built up from being a grand moff for all these years. Vader inside his mask gritted his teeth before answering.

"The plans have been ejected in an escape pod down to the surface of Tatooine. I would have left to recover them if it was not your untimely interruption." Tarkin sneered at Vader.

"You mean that you have failed to recover them and are trying to buy time. Spare me your attempts at deflection Vader, the Emperor has ordered that you come immediately to the Death Star maybe you can take it up with him."

Vader knew better than to argue against an order of the Emperor however much he might want too. Annoyed that he was deprived of the opportunity to hunt a Jedi especially one as powerful as this one he just shut off the transmitter and turned to the captain as told him.

"Send a detachment down to the surface and blockade the planet so that they do not escape off world, see to it personally Captain. I want those plans returned." He said briskly and went off to his Starfighter to make the trip to the technological terror of which Tarkin was so proud however much he might hate the monstrosity himself. The officers went to carry out his orders despite their concerns that it would irritate the Hutt Cartel by disrupting their smuggling operations and other such activities. The way the war was going at present the Empire could ill afford to anger the Hutts and only the thought of the Death Star made them bold enough to push on even though they knew it would be bad for the Empire.

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On the surface of the planet which had long been reduced to little more than sand and rock by the twin suns the hatch of the crashed pod opened revealing a white robed Jedi princess and two droids. Leia picked up the bag of emergency supplies and strapped them to her back before heading off into the desert with nothing more than the force to guide her.

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