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The Rebel Sith Lord- Pt 2

When they arrived back at the Rebel Alliance, Mon Mothma demanded an immediate meeting of the members of High Command to brief them on the changes and needs to the current strategy to the plan to destroy the new Death Star outside of the Endor moon. The need to sacrifice a ship was the most upsetting part, but she did understand the necessity. They couldn't just ask something small to be a target, and they couldn't afford to lose Home One. Admiral Ackbar and the other Admirals would need to be part of that plan, and it would affect the entire operation, currently being planned. Leaving the part about Darth Vader being their person on the inside was something she wanted to keep secret as well. They did not need to know, and she wondered if it would affect their emotions and morale. Many beings in the Empire had personally had a reason to distrust and hate Darth Vader, and Mon Mothma did as well, but she remembered who he had used to be, and felt him to have changed.

"Thank you all for joining me here. I have a matter of great importance. I know that you are are preparing for our attack and getting your individual teams and troops prepared, but I needed to speak with you all on a matter that may be of help in our mission. We have an Imperial on the inside who has agreed and pleaded with us to allow him to aid our operation, and will have others working under him to help our goal. His goal is to destroy the Emperor, and our goal is to destroy the Death Star, so both of our missions will correlate. The next point is very important. The Death Star, though not finished, will be operational. It was suggested that at first it will be used on our ship. Our Imperial insider has stated that sacrificing one of our larger more important ships will be of most importance, as he is sure that the Emperor will want this as a demonstration. Admirals, I hope you can collect yourselves together and figure out a ship and a way to have this happen, without the loss of life. It will have to be a decoy, in the middle of many ships."

"How will we know that will be the ship targeted?" asked Admiral Massa.

"We are to give a full description of the vessel to our insider. The team targeting the ship are working with him." Mon Mothma answered.

"I am a bit skeptical of allowing members of the Empire to help us." stated General Dodonna.

"I must admit myself that it was hard for me to agree to this, but I feel that working with this individual is a good decision." Mon Mothma.

"If I may ask, who is the individual or individuals aiding our operation?" asked General Rieekan.

"I am afraid that only members of High Command who will know will be myself, and Princess Leia. It is important to keep his and those helping him in the Empire a secret." Mon Mothma replied.

The admirals all gathered in the corner, and discussed quietly. Admiral Ackbar spoke up. "It would be a terrible loss, but the Liberty is capable of being piloted on automatic pilot remotely. It's one of our larger ships, and the home to many, but if the sacrifice helps our case, we may have to use that ship."

"I think that is the kind of ship that would make a good demonstration for the Emperor. I just hope they don't realize that it's unmanned." She answered. "I'm willing to sacrifice it, if it will help save others in our fleet." She answered.

There was some grumbling and whispering. The head generals and admirals were talking among themselves.

"Do you trust this individual, your Highness." Asked General Cracken directing it towards Leia.

"No, I do not trust him, but I believe he is sincere, and he wants to help us." She said.

"Believe me, I would not bring this meeting together if I believed it a trap. In fact, this person has stated that they believe that the Emperor is setting a trap for our fleet knowing that we are planning to gather every ship we can to attack the Empire. We will know exactly when the Emperor himself has landed on the Death Star, that is when we will make our attack. It's imperative that we get all our troops ready, both on the moon and in the air. Feel free to come to me with any questions. Does anyone else have anything else to add?" Mon Mothma asked and waited. "Good. You are dismissed."

"General Madine, a word please." Mon Mothma asked.

"Yes, Madame?" He asked.

"Just a moment please." She waited for everyone to leave.

"General Madine, it is important that Princess Leia be on the moon of Endor during the battle. I wish for her to be kept safe though. The other generals and admirals will demand she stay elsewhere in a safe location, however, there is a reasoning for this. I myself am not sure. However, it is imperative. You have your commandos assembled?" She asked.

"I do." He stated.

"And a strike team?" She asked.

"My pathfinders group will be the strike team. I have been given a leader for the command team, who will be actually disabling the shield, I don't know him, honestly, not sure who he has gotten on it. I will be meeting him later today. They will be the group breaking into the bunker to lower the shields. My pathfinders are up on it and will be aiding them. Cracken laughed when he told me, so I don't know what to expect with this man. General Solo. Do you know him?" He asked.

She laughed and said. "Yes, I do, he must have joined up, finally. He has been a kind of a free agent with us for the past few years. That is the most dangerous part of the mission, but I imagine that is where the princess will be. I don't think we have anything to worry about, though."

Darth Vader was transmitting messages to Luke through R2-D2 with a private channel system he had rigged with another droid on his ship. After he landed on the Death Star though, it became difficult because bringing the droid would have been suspicious. Admiral Piett was familiar with the system and what to do, so Vader was depending on him to relay what he needed. It was all in code, so anyone who was listening would not understand it, but the droid, and Artoo. Piett didn't even know what the codes meant. Vader had been given a description of the ship and a designation that the Rebel Alliance had given him of the Liberty, knowing that would be the target for the demonstration during the battle. He passed this information on to Moff Jerjerrod, who was to supervise operation of the weapon. Darth Vader was even impressed that they were willing to sacrifice such a ship, as it would be quite a loss to the rebellion, due to it's size and usefulness. He hoped it would be enough to appease the Emperor, and Jerjerrod himself was going to stall or do what it took to keep them from attacking the actual moon. Darth Vader suggested having shuttles ready. The way the new Death Star was set up, the exhaust point was much larger, but had not been finished. The use of shields were expected to make up for that, and in the event of a breach, that would give anyone inside the chance to excape. Vader made sure that Jerjerrod was aware of this, and gave him instructions on the event of an evacuation. The Emperor must not know they had an evacuation plan in place, as the Emperor had no concern of that, and he took the sacrifice of servants of the Empire very lightly. Vader knew he could would not be able to rely on Jerjerrod if he did not state that, about the evacuation plan, Jerjerrod basically being a man of principal.

Yoda, Luke and Leia had gathered in Yoda's temporarily quarters. Yoda wanted to spend some time with both of them, and to give Leia a lesson in mediation and feeling the Force. Though he did not want to or believed that training her as a Jedi would be in her best interest, it would still be useful for her and to help her control her own use of the Force. There was always the danger of the darkside taking over. Leia was so strong willed though, Luke could not imagine her letting anything change her without her allowing it.

"Calm. Feel the things around you. Feel the Force in everything in the room." Yoda said.

Leia just sat there. It was hard to be calm when so much was going on. Her mind was drifting. Yoda was losing patience with her, but she did try. She could not feel the Force in Yoda, or Luke, but she did sense Luke, like she always had. Yoda told her it would take time, and that she would have to practice. Meditation was good for anyone. After the exercise, she did feel relaxed some, but it didn't seem to work for her like it did for Luke. Maybe they were wrong, maybe she wasn't as strong as they thought she was. She went to go look for Han, as she hadn't seen much of him, with everything going on. As she was on her way to where the Falcon was, assuming he may be there, she ran into him in the hallways.

"I was just on my way to see you. What are you up to?" She asked.

"I have a meeting with some general about something." Han responded.

"What general?" She asked.

"Madine. I don't know him, never met the guy. What is he like?" He asked.

"Oh, no you wouldn't know him. He is good. A bit overprotective, he didn't want me taking some mission I took while you were gone, but he's a good man. Why are you seeing him?" She asked.

"I don't know, I have to meet him. Where you been?" He asked.

"I was with Luke and Yoda." she said.

"Yeah, Luke. With Luke. Figures." He said kind of annoyed.

"Will try to find you later, OK." She said. "It's been so busy around here."

"Yeah, Yeah. Right." Han replied and walked off.

Leia wonder what was his problem.

Madine looked over the Alliance's records of General Solo. On paper seemed like a fine leader, only recently joined, but had worked mostly as a kind of supply man/blockade runner, but had been part of and had lead several missions. He had gotten involved after being hired to transport a couple of individuals to Alderaan who were carrying the plans for the Death Star, which led to the rescue of the princess on the Death Star by shear accident, and aided in the destruction of said Death Star. Was known to take risks and seemed to be good at breaking into things, and was also known as a great pilot, though usually he used his own personal ship, accompanied by his wookiee co-pilot. He wondered why someone would hang around for three years, and only just now join. And he had a questionable record, but then so did a lot of other people in the ranks, after all, being in the Rebel Alliance itself was a criminal act. Soon there was a knock on the door.

"Yes, may I help you?" Madine answered.

"I'm Han Solo, was told to come meet with you about the strike team?" Han answered.

"You are not in uniform." Madine answered.

"Yeah, I don't do that. Can I come in?" He replied.

"Yes, Sir." Madine answered.

"I don't do that either." And he just sat down. No wonder Cracken was laughing when he mentioned this man.

"Do you have a command team assembled yet?" Madine asked.

"Um, well, I'm working on it." Han answered.

"Right. Well, let me go over some of the specifications. I have a team of pathfinders, they will be with you and your command team, by giving you cover. Your team is to break into the bunker, and to shut down the shields. There will be Imperial troops inside. Gettting into the bunker will be the hardest part. I do have codes, but they may be old." Madine informed him.

"We can try to hot wire it, I know a droid that is good with that kind of thing too, we can bring him along. Either way, I can get in." He said.

"So sure of ourselves are we. Well then, something else. Mon Mothma told me that Princess Leia was to somehow be part of the crew on the ground, and when I mentioned you, she told me that she would probably be on your team. Is she?" Madine asked him.

"If she wants to be." He answered. "I don't tell her what to do."

Madine just shook his head, what is it with this man? "Well, I just hope that she can be kept safe."

"You know she killed a Hutt with her bare hands don't you? I'm the one you have to worry about." He answered with a grin.

Madine didn't know what to say, but this man was certainly different than most of the people he had worked with. Still, it seemed his record with the Alliance was pretty good. He just hoped it would work out.

"I will be in contact with you shortly. We are having a briefing of all the commanders in the Rebel Alliance soon in the war room. Be prepared to attend. We will all be given all of our orders at that time. I myself will be speaking as well as some of the others of High Command. You are dismissed." Madine said, and he stood.

Han got up and just casually left the room.

On the Death Star, Darth Vader was inspecting the throne room for the Emperor's arrival. He moved his way down to the hanger to make sure that all of the troops were organized to greet the Emperor as he arrived to the new Death Star for the first time, Jerjerrod was good at taking care of that, he did the same for Vader when he would arrive himself, but for the Emperor, they would have to go all out. The Emperor must not suspect that any of his trusted people were against him. He was a powerful man, and had powerful people working for him. Spies were everywhere. The Emperor had been suspicious of Vader for some time, but that was something that just was the way it was. He would never see this coming. The Emperor was to believe that everything was going towards his plan. He could sense when it would not. The Emperor, relied on those around him more than Vader did. While the Emperor was strong in the Force, and a powerful Sith Lord, he was not as powerful as Vader was. However, the Emperor had the resources that Vader did not, but Vader was just learning that perhaps he had his own resources, a few that the Emperor did not suspect. He hoped that the Emperor would not see what was coming for him. Piett had informed him that the shuttle, that had been previously stolen, was asking for entrance on the moon, and Darth Vader commanded him to let them land. They both looked at each other and hoped this would work. The rebels were starting to make their move.

General Crix Madine wondered if Cracken had it out for him. They had made it to the Endor moon with his strike team, and the command team, consisting of Solo, Princess Leia, Luke Skywalker, Chewbacca the wookiee, a protocol droid and an astromech droid. A little green alien that was described by Solo as 'a secret weapon' was riding along as well, and would not be part of the team. It was if he just needed a ride and they let him on. He left when they all departed the shuttle, and went off on his own. They did have a few run ins with stormtroopers, nothing they couldn't take care of, and there were plenty of places to hide in the lush landscape. It actually was a quite beautiful moon. He found Solo's crew quite reckless. He didn't think he would have to worry about the safety of the princess, because Solo seemed quite clingy with her, probably why Mon Mothma had said she wouldn't worry about her if she was part of that crew, but then at one point Skywalker and the princess had gotten away from the group. Skywalker came back, and the command crew, freaked out, dropped everything to go look for her, which caused yet another delay. Madine wondered if Cracken was playing a joke on him, getting this guy to be the one they would count on to take out the shield. Cracken himself had decided that he wanted in on destroying the Death Star, and was going to be a gunner on one of the ships planning to blow it up. So much for his assistance. Overall, the mission didn't seem to be going well. That evening though, they got word that the whole command group found themselves some native Ewoks, a tribe of small furry creatures who were willing to help their cause. The protocol droid, who Madine was a bit skeptical as to being brought along on the mission, turned out to be a great help. The troops all converged on the small Ewok village, and even though they were quite primitive, they knew a lot about the operations of the invading Imperials, and the locations of the bunkers. Solo was actually working out a strategy with the Ewoks via the protocol droid on taking the bunker. Madine was starting to get a better feeling about the whole situation, and the Ewoks all shared a meal with the entire crew, with a place to rest for the night. It actually worked out to his surprise, and he was actually starting to like Solo.

Luke left the group quietly hoping that no one would see him, but Leia followed him out. He had told her that it was time for him to join Yoda and meet Darth Vader on the Death Star. Leia was frightened for him, and wondered if she should come as well, but he told her that she may be needed if it didn't work out, and that one of them would come to her. Perhaps he or Master Yoda. She knew it was possible that this was the last time she may ever see Luke. She gave him a hug and a peck on the cheek, and Luke went on his way. It was then that Han had realized that they left and he was quite angry. She seemed to be spending a lot of time with Luke lately. Leia was crying.

" Aww I'm sorry. What's wrong?" He asked.

"I can't tell you it's classified." She answered.

"But Luke knows?"

"Yes." she answered.

And she followed him back to the Ewok party.

At the landing pad, Yoda and Luke walked together to the stormtroopers, informing them who they were and that they were surrendering to Darth Vader. The stormtroopers were rough and called them rebel scum, bound their hands and pushed them down, with guns pointed to their heads.

"Lord Vader, we have two rebels here surrendering, and they requested to surrender to you personally. It's a Commander Luke Skywalker, and a small green alien who calls himself Yoda." He commed in.

"Good, good, I am bringing my shuttle and will escort them personally. Detain them until I arrive." Said Darth Vader.

Darth Vader was pleased that everything seemed to be going according to plan. He demanded his shuttle be prepared immediately, informed the Emperor, that as he predicted, Skywalker was turning himself in and was arriving shortly on the Death Star.

"Good, good." He said in a sinister manner. "Bring him here as soon as he arrives."

"Yes, My master." Vader responded, then headed towards his shuttle.

Darth Vader, went to Moff Jerjerrod to tell him that he was about to board his shuttle to the Endor moon and that things in the air would commence soon. He gave him the description of the decoy ship, but other than that, it would be a true battle, and tie fighters and star destroyers in the sky would be part of the battle, and they had no control over that aspect of the fighting, nor did they with most of the rebel forces. He told him to prepare for the evacuation though, and to make it as less obvious as possible. Jerjerrod had informed Lord Vader that many inessential personal had already been dispatched in the air. Darth Vader wished him a good luck, and Jerjerrod wished him otherwise. On the shuttle, Vader contacted Piett on the Executor, that the plan was starting to be put into place. He urged Piett to clear from the area as far as possible without making it look as if he were fleeing, and to fire only when necessary. If he had to make a show of it, he would leave that to his discretion, as he was not to make his staff not in the know suspicious. Vader's only wish was that peace would be coming to the galaxy soon.

He arrived at the landing pad on Endor, and left the ship alone. There were AT-STs, tanks and the like waiting for battle. Darth Vader walked to the detention center on the moon's Imperial base and was met by an officer, Yoda, Luke, and Stormtroopers pointing weapons at them.

"They have insisted that they were alone. I do not believe that to be true. Both were armed only with these." And the officer gave Vader their lightsabers. Vader looked closely at Luke's. He could tell that he had made this one himself. It made him quite proud and that it appeared to be well made. He lighted it. He was quite impressed.

"I see you have detained the prisoners. I will take them personally to my shuttle. Do I make myself clear? You two" pointing to two stormtroopers. "Come with me and escort the prisoners." Darth Vader commanded

"The stormtroopers led Yoda and Luke to Darth Vader's shuttle. Vader slipped Yoda his lightsaber, and Yoda hid it in his robes, so that the stormtroopers would not see. Vader knew that the Emperor would know he had it, but he hoped to distract him by showing him Luke's thinking that he had done his part to bring Luke to the Emperor and he would be impressed by the presence of Yoda.

Admiral Ackbar was preparing the fleet to go into hyperspace to all converge outside the Endor moon outside of the area of the Death Star. Ackbar knew about the decoy ship, and had a team who were deploying it, and then shuttling out after it arrived. He himself would be in Home One, and the shuttle was to meet him there. They would pilot the ship on automatic from Home One. The Liberty would be a heavy loss, but a loss they were willing to take to save most of their fleet. He did not know that the person they would putting their faith in was Darth Vader, only that Mon Mothma had given this order. He was to keep in close communication with her, but was in the dark about much of the operation. His strategy and main job was to protect his fleet in the air, outside Home One, and hoped that the ships who were planning to infiltrate the Death Star would be able to if the on ground crew were successful in lowering the shields. He knew it was a trap, however, he knew as well, that the trap would be lifted. So much was classified in this operation, and he wasn't clear on all if it, but he knew his part was to keep up the ruse that this would be a hard battle to win, and in many ways, it would be.

General Cracken found himself in the most unlikely place in the battle he thought he could find himself. In the gun well of the Millennium Falcon. There was a team in the ship, lead by newly appointed General Lando Calrrisian, guiding the crew of X-Wings and Y-Wing starfighters of gold squadron, green squadron and red squadron, with Wedge Antilles as a commander. Lieutenant Blount was the other gunner, and Nien Nunb, a former smuggler turned soldier as co-pilot for General Calrissian. He couldn't stop himself from wanting to be in the thick of it. Something about being able to be part of the assault and possible end of the Empire was too appealing for him. For so long, he had sent so many intelligence men and women into the field, sitting behind a desk, when he could just taste a moment like this. High Command was surprised by his wish to be part of the action in this way, but he could not deny himself the thrill. He knew it was dangerous, and he knew it was crazy, but he felt it was right.

The Emperor was quite pleased when Darth Vader arrived with Luke Skywalker, and very surprised to find Yoda with him.

"Welcome Young Skywalker." And The Emperor undid both the binders of Yoda and Luke. "It's funny that I did not sense your presence, Master Yoda. What brings you to my throne room. It has been quite a long time, since I defeated you so many years ago." The Emperor said.

"Long time it has. Defeated me you did not. Stand here now do I not?" Yoda replied.

"Oh don't worry, you will meet your end soon. I will be sure of it. And if young Skywalker thinks that you will be able to help him. Very surprised he will be. You both underestimate my power." Replied the Emperor.

"And underestimate me you do." Yoda told him.

"Guards leave us." The Emperor commanded, just as Darth Vader told them he would.

Darth Vader gave Luke's lightsaber to the Emperor.

"Young Skywalker, it is time to complete your training. You will unlearn everything that this, ignorant troll has taught you, and you will learn the ways of the darkside. In time, you will call me master."

"You will not turn me like you did my father." Luke replied. "I am too powerful for you."

"Oh no, Jedi, you are mistaken. It is your destiny, search your feelings, your destiny lies with the darkside, and it's power. You will not believe it's power. It will change you. Like your father, who can never be turned. He is my servant, as you will be." The Emperor commanded.

Vader felt anger. He was taking a lot of power to mask his feelings, as to not reveal himself to his master. It was too early to act. The time would be right. He hoped that Luke and Yoda could sense this as well.

"Soon we all will be dead, and you with us." Luke responded.

"Oh, we are quite safe. No need to worry about that." The Emperor said.

"And your over confidence is your weakness." Said Luke.

"And yours in your friends. Look at them lining up out there, soon they will know the power of this battle station. It's all going according to my plans. The shield will be operational when your friends arrive."

The ground crew at the Ewok village found themselves alone without the Ewoks when they awoke from their temporary camp. The Ewoks had gone and were up to something, but what? They collected themselves, went over the strategies with only the small number the Ewoks who remained. They showed them where they should go and created a distraction, which caused a large number of the stormtroopers to follow. It seemed too easy to the command crew, and they took out the stormtroopers who were left. The crew was able to infiltrate the bunker with no problem, intending to take it out with the explosives, but it was a trap. There was a large number of Imperials waiting for them, and as Darth Vader had warned them, he had no control as to what the Emperor had planned, and this was apparently part of the Emperor's plan. As Solo and crew had infiltrated the bunker, they were ambushed by a larger squad of Imperials coming from the other direction into the bunker and taken out with their hands up. Surrounded by hundreds of Imperial troops, AT-STs and Tanks.

The Fleet had arrived, assuming that the shields would be down, but it looked as if it wasn't. The trap was set, as was predicted. Admiral Ackbar alerted all by yelling "It's a trap!" and to take evasive action. The action was taken, and they were on a full on battle against the Empire. Back at the command center, General Rieekan and Mon Mothma took in the communications from the fleet and those in the field. Madine was hiding behind some trees, but told them what happened with the command team and the pathfinders, his other troops holding back. Admiral Ackbar told them that the shields were operational. Mon Mothma knew that this would most likely happen, per Darth Vader's warnings, and she was worried. Not as worried as General Rieekan, who was more in the dark. The command center was nervous. Was it the end of their rebellion? Was all lost?

In the throne room, the Emperor was relishing it all. Vader was still confident that his plan would still succeed, and the Emperor was still wanting to play games with Luke.

"Strike me down, show your anger! Take your lightsaber, I am unarmed!" He told Luke.

Luke just stood there, strong, but worried, that the plan would not work. It was Yoda who came up and questioned the Emperor.

"Turn him you shall not. For the darkside may be powerful, it is only quicker, and not as powerful as the lightside. Strike me if you shall. My ally is the Force." Yoda baited the Emperor.

"You foolish man. Did I not defeat you many years ago, and yet, here you are again. You know how powerful I am. Do not tempt me, for you will find your days are at an end." the Emperor threatened.

"Afraid I am not. Numbered are your days as well. Hours I should say." Yoda replied.

The Emperor just shrugged.

It was after Threepio created a distraction that some of the stormtroopers were distracted that the Ewoks attacked, allowing the ground crews to fight back and take on those troops who had imprisoned them. Madine was impressed with the little guys. Here they were, no advance technology, yet they were taking on the stormtroopers and the Imperials with swift and clever tactics. He saw that Solo and the princess went right to work on the side of the bunker to try to break in again so that the shields would be lowered. And then he concentrated on working with his other troops on helping the Ewoks defeat the Imperial forces. As amazing as it was, the Ewoks were even taking over some of the AT-STs, and even if they didn't seem that they knew how to use them, they were doing it. With all the training that both sides had, these little guys who were used to fighting with sticks, primitive traps and pulleys and battering rams and all kinds of things, were pretty successful. The Imperials really did not know what hit them. How lucky it was to have such help on their side. It really brought it all together for him. He had been an Imperial officer once, because it was expected of him, then he joined the rebellion when he got disillusioned by the atrocities that the Empire was committing. And here were just a group of simple creatures who basically only wanted to protect their own home, and would do anything to keep it. It simplified everything really they were doing here in the rebellion, making the galaxy a better place, one village at at time. He hoped that feeling would always be part of the New Republic when it was established, and he hoped they remembered their purpose.

In space, the fleet was occupied by trying to protect their ships while waiting for the shields to be lowered. They had faith in the ground crew, and at this point it was all they had. The Star Destroyers were not attacking. It was a strange thing. And then it happened. The Death Star took out the decoy ship, The Liberty, as Darth Vader had instructed Jerjerrod to do. While Ackbar and some of High Command were in on this, most of the fleet did not. Their orders were still to only protect the ships. In the throne room, The Emperor was relishing in the destruction of the Liberty, thinking that he had taken out a ship of importance. Many of the rebels were shocked. High Command knew it was staged. They wondered if they should retreat. Calrissian had faith and knew that those shields were going to get down, Admiral Ackbar told them all to hold steady. Retreat they would not do. They started to fire at star destroyers that they felt as a threat.

On the Executor, many of Piett's crew were confused, they were not firing on the ships.

"Hold your fire. We are not to fire on the ships. Emperor's orders." Admiral Piett told them. "Back away from the fleet."

"Shall we send out some tie fighters?" An officer asked.

"Negative. Hold your fire." He said calmly.

A group of lieutenants were in the hanger maintaining control. Many were eager to join their comrades in the air. They were all grounded. Piett was determined to save the Executor and moved further away from the Death Star.

On the Death Star, Luke felt something. Leia had been shot, he could feel it. Vader sensed this in him and tried with the Force to distract the Emperor. The Emperor though could feel his anger. Vader was afraid that Luke would reveal his sister because of her being injured. Yoda felt it too. Luke's anger got the best of him and he struck out towards the Emperor with his lightsaber. Vader afraid that Luke would be tempted to join him in the darkside, blocked his aim. The Emperor laughed, thinking that Vader was protecting him, and that Luke was starting to come to a place where he could be his apprentice.

Madine and the troops were helping the Ewoks keep the Imperials away from the bunker so that Solo could get the shields down. It was then that he saw that the princess had been shot, Solo had been ambushed by some stormtroopers arms in the air, and a AT-ST was coming towards the bunker. Madine ordered his men to cover, then slowly move, to help the operation, however, the stormtroopers were shot when Solo ducked by Princess Leia, and the AT-ST turned out to be Chewbacca. Solo signaled for Madine to come over and they ordered the soldiers and the Ewoks to surround the bunker. Solo climbed in the AT-ST, pretended to be an Imperial wishing help from those inside the bunker. The bunker was opened and all those inside were ambushed by the rebel forces and the Ewok army as they came out and the shields were lowered. The team put detonators all over the bunker, and running out of the bunker, Solo set it off and it blew up.

Back in the throne room, the tension was getting deeper. It was then that the lightsabers came out. Yoda, Luke and Darth Vader. At first Darth Vader appeared to be fighting Yoda and Luke. The Emperor was tickled with glee. Luke threw down his lightsaber and said he would not fight, and he jumped up out onto a scaffolding. The Emperor still laughing as Yoda took defensive action. It was then that both Vader and Yoda went for the Emperor. He didn't sense it coming, it was so unexpected. He diverted them with Force lightning. Both Yoda and Vader pushed it back with their lightsabers on to him. The Emperor was writhing in pain. Luke jumped down and diverted it as well with his. The Emperor found an opening, and then started on Luke with the Force lightning, defenseless, as Yoda and Vader watched. They both came at the Emperor, but he pushed them back. Yoda jumped again towards the Emperor, still with his fingers aimed at Luke, causing him pain. Yoda lifted the Emperor with the Force, Vader went to him with his hands and carried him. As both Yoda and Vader worked, with Luke defenseless on the ground. The Emperor was thrown down the shaft of the Death Star to his death. They had defeated him. Yoda was very feeble, and Vader was weak. Luke was able to stand and walk a bit. He tried to help Darth Vader walk as he picked up Yoda. Vader called to Jerjerrod and told him that the Emperor was gone and to evacuate the ship.

"Good Luck, Jerjerrod. You have done well. Find your way to the garrison on the Endor moon, and I will see a good word has been put in for you." Vader told him.

Vader then commed Piett. "The Emperor is gone. Go to the designated coordinates which we have already discussed."

Vader, walking very slowly, barely able to walk, collapsed. Yoda was being carried by Luke. Vader very weakly tried to get up again, and Luke held him, doing a fireman carry on his back. Luke was grateful that Yoda did not weigh very much. They worked their way to the shuttle.

The Millennium Falcon, and a few of the other ships flew inside of the Death Star. They were still being followed by tie-fighters, and Wedge instructed Lieutenant Susser in the Y-wing to protect the Falcon, while Wedge himself went straight to the main reactor as did the Millennium Falcon, while Susser and the others shot the following tie-fighters, to protect the ships. As high as they felt after having accomplished their mission, they knew they had to get out of there as fast as possible, and flew out of that thing only to see it explode behind them.

Luke on the Imperial shuttle with the injured Darth Vader, and the frail Yoda. Started getting fired at from a rebel ship. He called out to it. "This is Commander Luke Skywalker piloting an Imperial Shuttle, hold your fire."

The ship let them through and escorted them to the moon. Luke called the command center asking for medical help, and to talk directly to Mon Mothma. They put him right through.

"Skywalker, this is Mon Mothma. Any update."

"The Emperor is dead. I guess you know about the Death Star." He answered.

"Yes, that I got the word on. Quite the victory."

"The reason I wanted to talk to you though, is that I have Yoda and Darth Vader on this Imperial Shuttle I used to escape the Death Star. Both are in severe need of medical attention. I know it is a delicate situation with Vader, so I wanted you to advise on how to go about this?" Luke responded.

"Bring them to Home One. It is still in space over the moon. I will inform Admiral Ackbar, and he will handle everything."

Madine was proud of his entire crew of ground crew personal, the pathfinders and the command group. He went to look for Solo, but he seemed to have disappeared. One of the pathfinders had mentioned having just seen him sitting over there giving the princess medical attention on her arm, as she had a mild wound from a blaster shot. Madine walked in that direction, and found the two of them making out in the forest undergrowth. He slowly walked away in the other direction.

Calrissian landed the Falcon on the Endor moon, Cracken, Blount and Nien Nunb all gave each other kudos and pats and then Calrissian gave the ship a good look over. He knew that dish fell off. He just hoped that Han wouldn't kill him.

Luke got up to Home One. Admiral Ackbar was waiting for him, with the medical team. Yoda did not look to be in great shape. Luke was very worried about him. Vader was hanging on. The team was shocked by who it was on the ship, but Admiral Ackbar assured them that Mon Mothma was the one who had ordered that he be cared for on the ship, and that they were to treat him as any other patient. Luke went back with them as they were being worked on. Yoda held his hand very weakly.

"Luke, remember to pass on what you have learned. You are the last Jedi." He said.

"Yoda, don't talk like that, you are going to make it. You can't die." Luke responded.

"My time is ended. Gone I soon will be." and Yoda held his hand tight.

Yoda drifted as if he were going to sleep, and then he faded away to nothing, much like Ben had on the Death Star. None of the other medical staff could believe it.

"He was a Jedi." Luke said sadly. "He has become part of the Force." The staff patted his back.

Vader was another matter. First they didn't know what to do for him. He had so much of him that was machine and not human, and what was human was not in great shape. He was able to speak, and he spoke to Luke.

"Luke, my breathing device isn't working well. I may not last." He said.

"You can't die. What can I do for you." He said.

"Piett, my chamber. If you can get me to my chamber." Vader responded.

"Mon Mothma, I will get her. They can hook you up to something now. Will help you breathe." Luke told him.

The medical staff got Vader a breathing machine, and it did help. They wondered what kind of weird scientist had cared for him when he first was severely injured, because it seemed there was so much more that could have been done for him. Maybe they didn't realize it had been over 20 years that he was like this, or perhaps the Emperor wanted him to suffer for his own needs, Vader did not know.

Mon Mothma came to the room to check out on things. She came as soon as she could as soon as she knew that Luke was bringing them to Home One.

"Yoda passed on" said Luke. "He was ready. I will brief you on everything that happened with the Emperor. He is dead. We succeeded in that."

"Indeed we did, and on a great many things, Luke. Lord Vader, I must thank you for your help. It was very helpful. We will do what we can for you. Luke has told me you have a chamber on your ship that may be of help to you. If you will allow me, I can contact your Admiral for you. In the meantime, we will do what we can for you. I am prepared to give your Admiral a full pardon, if he is willing to work with us." She said.

"Will I be on trial?" He said.

"Few know you are here, now. We will decide that later. Your help here at this battle will go greatly towards your case though. Just get better." Mon replied. "Luke, you have friends asking for you. I suggest you go join them, and then return. Let the staff do what they can for him."

Luke didn't want to leave, but he figured that Mon was right. He should go check on his friends and celebrate. He almost thought that medical should check him out as well, but he actually felt pretty well considering. He felt really good in fact.

Luke shuttled down to the Endor moon and joined the others at Bright Tree Village. He was sure everyone was worried about him. Everyone was dancing and singing and celebrating. Luke was sad that Yoda was gone and he was worried about his father. He felt his father was Anakin again. He looked for Leia and she saw him and smiled.

"I knew you were ok, I felt it." and she hugged him.

Han came up and hugged him as well, and Luke hugged him back.

"I told Han everything, I hope it was ok, after the battle. No one else knows. He knows you are my brother and about Vader. How did that go by the way? I heard that the Emperor is dead. They want me to make an announcement for the holos. Admiral Ackbar made one for immediate release already." Leia said.

"I was just on Home One. I saw him. I took Yoda and.." he didn't want to say it out loud and whispered. "our father there." He paused. "Yoda died. The other is in bad shape. Mon Mothma is working out the details."

Leia kind of paused and shook a bit. "I don't know if I can ever see him as that. But I appreciate that he wanted to help us. I am so glad you are my brother though, and I don't care if anyone knows about that." And the two of them went back to the party, so that Luke could speak to his crew mates and friends.

Luke walked away and bit, and looked out into the trees. It was quiet. Then Ben and Yoda appeared to him with a smile. He felt he had done well. He walked back to his shuttle and flew back to Home One.

Vader was still there, and they had him hooked up to a machine. The machine was helping him breathe.

"I'm back. I wanted to go check on Leia and everyone else. Why did she need to stay on the moon?"

"We would have come to her if we had died. Told her what to do. It would have been a last resort, but it was important. We would have been able to channel ourselves through her. The Emperor would not know what she was. I am glad that wasn't necessary." Vader answered.

"I don't even want to think about if if that were to have happened." and Luke shivered. He didn't want to see Leia used in that way.

"Son, if I make it out of here. I don't know what is going to happen. I don't feel I have long, but I do want you to learn a few things. Maybe we can go off somewhere quiet, like Dagobah, and maybe even your sister will come around." He coughed. "Maybe you can teach me a few things, too."

"Maybe, but I can think of a lot of better places to hide than Dagobah." And Luke held his hand as Anakin Skywalker drifted away into nothingness.

Luke knew he would always have them all with him. He knew that because he had Ben in that way. It was different though than really having them. He thought about the day he found the droids and then found Ben and then hired Han and Chewie and how Leia rescued them from her rescue on the Death Star and how they all became his family. And then they were actually his real family. And how he lost his father when Darth Vader cut off his hand and how he got him back when he redeemed himself. He thought about these things, and he thought about the responsibility he now had being the last of his kind. He would teach what he had learned. He owed it to Yoda, he owed it to Ben and he even owed it to Anakin Skywalker.

When Luke returned to Endor's forest moon. Most everyone went to sleep. He found Artoo and talked to him a bit. Then he opened the flimsiplast his father told him to open after the operation was over. He gave the codes to Artoo and a holo appeared over Artoo. It was a young couple on a balcony kissing, with C-3PO standing nearby.