Luke sighed happily as he took a seat on a log. "It's been a long day. I don't know how you real Jedi did it." "Neither do I." His mother joked. "What do you mean real Jedi?" "Well, Yoda said I'd only be a Jedi after I defeated you. And I didn't."

"What Yoda more than likely said was after you confronted me and the Emperor. And even if he did say defeat. You not falling to the dark side and rescuing me I'm pretty sure that counts."

"Wait what are you saying?"

Anakin smiled at his son. Pulling Luke's lightsaber to him with the force and igniting it.

"Luke Skywalker, by the right of the council, by the will of the force, I dub thee Jedi knight of the Republic." Anakin recites as he motions the lightsaber from one of Luke's shoulders to the other. Luke's eyes were beaming, he was a Jedi and knighted by none other than his father.

"I'm sure you could borrow some of Luke's clothes for the meantime," Leia suggested to her father. "There's a problem. I'm trapped in the suit."

"You're what? What do you mean?" "It's complicated, but there are three layers of armour I can take that off, but under that is what the Emperor is using to control me. It's a synthetic layer of skin with a control chip inserted into my brain, it sends electrical pulses throughout my body," Anakin explained.

"We need to get you out of this thing," she said. "The fleet, the medics on there could try and help you," Luke suggested. "Yes, yes that would work. Leia, contact the fleet and prepare them for our boarding." Padme instructs. Leia did as she was told.

The Skywalkers made their way into the imperial shuttle and up to the fleet. Luke exits first. "What's wrong, we got the transmission from the princess." Admiral Ackbar looks up to see Anakin, Padmé and Leia exit the ship. "Long story short we need to get him out of that suit." Luke turns back to Admiral Ackbar. "Say no more." He lead Anakin into the med bay.


All the layers of armour had been removed except for the one Anakin had mentioned. He lay on a medical table as droids flew around him, hooked up to machines to make sure he was still alive.

Padmé and Luke stood outside as they watched, Leia was at the other end of the ship with Admiral Ackbar and Mon Mothma.

Padmé had been in a similar situation before when she was giving birth to Luke and Leia. The humming and beeping of the machines brought back the memories, she remembered the pain, feeling like her life was being drawn out of her.

She took her final breath to say, "There is still good in him, I know there is." Reassuring Obi-wan that he was still able to save Anakin, as it turned out Obi-wan had given up hope on saving Anakin. She closed her eyes as she felt her life ripped from her. The machines stopped beeping as her heart stopped beating. Obi-wan looked at Luke in his arms. A few minutes later the machine started beeping again. Obi-wan rushed in. "She's alive, her hearts beating." Her eyes flutter open. "Obi-wan." Her faint voice croaks. "Wh...what happened." "I can't explain it other than you died but now you're not. It's quite confusing."

"Mother." Luke pulls Padmé out of the memory.

"Oh sorry, just brought back memories." They were interrupted by a painful scream from Anakin. A droid comes out to them.

"We will be able to remove it." "That's good." Padmé sighed with relief. "Unfortunately it will cause him great pain and it's possible to cause paralysis or it could kill him." The droid continued.

"What?!" Luke said shocked. "How come?" "There is a needle inserted through the tip of his skull directly into his brain it. When he thinks or does anything rebellious it sends the message to the rest throughout his body, the shocks range from just slight to fatal. He has a 5-10% chance of survival."

Silence falls between them. No one knows what to say. Luke had just saved him from the Emperor but now he could die.

Padmé finally breaks the silence. "Can...can I see him." Her voice cracked. The droid nodded and returned to the room, Luke watched in silence as his mother entered.

"Anakin," Padmé said breathily. Her hand ran through his golden locks.

"Angel, I have to do it, I have to." Anakin looked into her eyes as if reading her mind. "I'm not going to stop you it's your choice, I just don't want to lose you, I only got you back," She said tears in her eyes. "I love you," he replied. "Ani, I don't want you to die, I can't live without you." "I deserve this Padme. All I've done to the Galaxy, I'm a monster." Tears streamed down her face, she couldn't find any words to say. Luke appeared beside them, tears in his eyes too.

"I want to thank you both for believing in me when no-one else would." He smiled, his eyes moving between his wife and his son.

"Father you can't do this we'll find another way please don't you can't die." "It's a fitting punishment for a monster, to want something so much, to hold it in your arms and know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you'll never deserve it." Anakin's eyes shimmered as he smiled at them both, tears streaming down their faces, Padme and Luke were both trying to be strong. "Tell Leia I'm sorry." His hands slipped out of Padmè's.

He lay back. "I'm ready," he said to the droids. One escorted Padme and Luke out. The other began to prep him.

They watched on in horror, Anakin screamed in pain as they remove each needle. His arms and legs flailing. Padme's eyes were fixed on her husband, tears still streaming, she was so concentrated on him, she didn't notice Luke was gone.

Luke walked into the room with Leia, Mothma and Ackbar. "Luke we were discussing a punishment for..." Leia said before she was cut off by Luke.

"Why weren't you down there with him. He's your father he wanted to see you." "He's a monster, he's only my biological father. My father is Bail Organa, he and all my people just happen to be dead because of him and Tarkin!" She replied back stubbornly.

"Who's more deserving of your hate, the one who fired the gun, the ones who built the gun or the gun," Luke said softly. "He's a monster, he's evil!" She shouted at her brother.

"You don't even realize how much you are like him." "Don't compare him to me I'm not evil!" "Neither is he!" Luke shouted, his emotions getting the better of him. Leia looked into his eyes, watching as the tears threatened to fall.

"He is still a monster Luke! He stood there behind me as Tarkin blew up Alderaan. My father, my mother, everyone, all gone in seconds. He's a monster." "All monsters were once full of light, but it was taken from them by despair, then the darkness seeped into their veins, like a deadly disease without a cure, and once hope betrays you, you can't help but let the devil inside, that is how a devil is born." Luke recited, his voice calm once more. "Stop with the riddles Luke," Leia said her voice softer.

"Leia, he wanted you to be there." She just looked down. "No, he didn't, he can sense my anger towards him."

"He wanted to see you, Leia. He wanted to see his daughter." Padmé spoke up she had been standing behind them the whole time.

Leia stayed silent and looked down at the floor. "You're just like him, stubborn, hard to change your mind when it's set on something, but a true heart." No one spoke. "He wanted a daughter, he picked your name, he's proud of you, everything you've done." Padmé paused collecting herself. "He's not evil, he didn't turn for power."

"He didn't?" Leia finally spoke with the question. "No, he didn't, he was having visions of me dying in childbirth. He was looking for a way to save me, Palpatine told him he could help him, he had been manipulating him since he arrived at the temple. He turned to save me and the both of you. I hope you two realise he overthrew two governments just to keep us safe," Padmé said her face stern and her voice soft.

Padmé pulled a book out from her cloak. "Read this." She handed it to Leia. "What is it?" "It's your grandmother's journal, it'll help you understand everything that led to your fathers turn." Leia took the book. Leia hands a card to Luke. "What is this for?" "It'll let you into the Holocron volt in the Imperial Palace, he said if you take those you'll learn everything and be able to build a new Jedi order. He wasn't sure if he would make it so he wanted you to have it." Luke nods.

"Wait, make it?" Leia questioned.

"He's undergoing surgery that may paralyse or kill him." Leia's eyes widened. She hadn't forgiven her father but she didn't want him to die, he was their way to defeating the Empire. "He said to tell you that he loved you." "And, Luke, he said go now and use his shuttle you will get into Coruscant without a problem." Padmé turned and left.

Mothma and Ackbar break the silence looming in the room. "We'll just go." "I hope you can forgive him, Leia," Luke said, kissing her on the forehead lightly before heading to the ship.


As predicted Luke entered Coruscant without a problem. He walked up to the doors of the Imperial Palace. Entered and roamed the halls not knowing where to go.

Suddenly he heard a voice:

"The force will guide you, use the force, Luke."

"Ben is that you." He asked before closing his eyes and using the force to reach out to the holocrons. He started to walk. The force guiding him to the doors of the vault.

He took out the card and presses it on the Holopad.

Skywalker, Anakin.

Knight, special access.

The holopad read. The door opened and the blue glow of the holocrons reflect on Luke's pale skin. It was mesmerising. The light energy Luke could feel of them, he entered and walked around. Suddenly he felt a dark presence and turned around to see what it was: another door.

"Luke," Obi-Wan said. "Ben? What's in there."

"Dark side, that room is full of." Yoda's voice could be heard.

"In there are the Sith holocrons. Kept there so he could grow stronger." "Is it dangerous to go in there." "If control you have, no, it is not." Yoda and Obi-wan appear.

"Control?" Luke questioned. "Yes, control of your emotions." "Surely a Jedi knight can handle it, as I believe you were knighted by Anakin." Obi-wan's force ghost sighed. "He always wanted to knight someone but Ahsoka left before he could."

"Who is Ahsoka?" Luke asked. "She was your father's apprentice."

"What happened to her?" He asked once again, curious to know more about his father's life at the temple.

"She was blamed in the wrong and expelled from the order, your father was the only one who believed she was innocent. In a way like you were the only one that believed in him. He was the one that proved she was innocent and caught the real bomber. When we asked her to come back, she refused, which left Anakin feeling like he had failed her, it was one of the last strings that caused him to turn. Then the Emperor killed her because Anakin could not."

"Wow." Luke sighs.

Luke suddenly felt a dark presence. He turned quickly but couldn't see what it was. Whatever it was it had been close.

"Luke leave now, you need to keep those safe." Obi-Wan gestured to the holocrons. Luke nodded quickly and exited the vault. He searched the rest of the Imperial Palace.

Finally, he found this dark source, it's a woman. Force sensitive too. She removed her cloak, preparing for a fight."

"Luke Skywalker, you will pay for killing the Emperor." She said igniting her lightsaber. Luke ignited his own, taking a defensive stance.

She launched at him, each strike of her blade meant to kill. Luke parried as best he could, he wasn't formally trained after all; some teaching from Yoda but apart from that, he was self-taught.

This woman, on the other hand, was highly trained and skilled with a lightsaber and the force.

She was clearly dominating the fight using a fully offensive style pattern forcing Luke to go on the defensive. He tried to recover with two quick movements he'd seen his father do, he hadn't quite mastered it and he was pushed back with the force.

The woman walked towards him confidently. "I shall have your head for the Emperor's." She raised her blade. Luke force pulled his lightsaber to him quickly blocking her attack. "Not today." He jumped up quickly taking the offensive.

"You're a self-taught Jedi, you can't beat me I've been trained since I was a child by the emperor. I'm the Emperor's hand." She taunts. The fight continues.

"Retreat, I order you to retreat." Her comm buzzed. "Not now, I have a mission." "As do I." "I can finish him now." She stops fighting.

"Mara I order you to retreat, you aren't seeing the bigger picture he's only one, we can have them all, not now." "Grand Admiral Thrawn. You have your mission from the emperor, I have mine." "I order you to retreat." He said angrily. He very rarely got angry he always seemed calm, and this made Mara listen.

"Yes, sir." She deactivated her lightsaber, let go of her force hold on Luke causing him to abruptly fall to the ground and used the force to sprint off. Leaving Luke highly confused.


"Well, I surely need some practice. But it's been a long day." Luke groaned to himself. Getting up off of the ground. He pulled out his holoprojector and called Leia.

"Luke, what's wrong?" Leia said worriedly.

"Nothing, just checking up, I'm coming back to Endor, how's dad." "I haven't heard from mom yet." She sighed. "Luke I want to forgive him, how can we prove that he isn't evil anymore, I need proof." She pleaded. Luke sighed.


"You defied strict orders from me. In future when I tell you to retreat it's for the greater good, I see the bigger picture."

"I wanted to get revenge for him killing the Emperor," She pleaded. "Mara, if your fight really went as you said it did, he didn't kill the Emperor. Most important if all; he's a Jedi, he wouldn't strike down the defenceless Emperor." Thrawn recited in an almost poetic tone.

"How would you know what the Jedi were like." She said stubbornly. "To defeat an enemy you must know them." "How did you know he was at the imperial palace."

"I was alerted that Lord Vader's shuttle had entered the system." "You mean he stole Vader's shuttle?" Mara questioned.

"You said you got a look at the Holocron vault, the only Jedi with special access can get in there." "Yes, I got a look at the holopad, he got in with the ID of Anakin Skywalker."

Thrawn began to ponder. "So somehow he got hold of his ID, and knew exactly where to go." "Interesting isn't it."

"Yes, but the answer is simple. Clearly, there is another Jedi out there." "Well yeah, but who exactly, who could have escaped Vader."

"There's a bigger picture here. I'm just not seeing it," Mara said.

"Yes, we just need the last pieces of the puzzle," Thrawn said before walking off. "You're not gonna tell me then...like at least tell me where did Vader go, did he die?" She called after him.

"I'll just find out myself." She muttered to herself as she left.

Thrawn was in deep thought as he stared out the viewport of his star destroyer. The other admirals that were still around were waiting for him to speak.

"Admiral Tambora." Thrawn turned to the admiral.

"Yes, sir." "I want you to keep an eye on Mara, make sure she stays loyal, we don't want any more traitors." "Yes sir," Tambora said before leaving.

"Admiral!" Mara calls.

"What is it?" Tambora turned around to face Mara.

"I need to learn everything about the Jedi purge."

"Why would you need to know that?"

"There's a surviving Jedi out there, I need to find them. I need to finish my master's mission, to kill Luke Skywalker."

"I can't do that for you, I'm sorry." Mara nodded and walked off.

"I guess I'll do it all by myself then." She sighed.


Lando and Han were sitting down relaxing after everything they've been through they deserved it. "So how do you feel about your best friend and your girlfriend's father is Darth Vader.

"To be honest I don't know, Leia seems to be struggling with it as well. She only sees him as evil when Luke and her mother see him as redeemed, I don't know what would change her mind."

"But you two are bound to clash heads, he did freeze you in carbonite."

"That was your fault."

"I know, I know and I'm sorry, but I'm helping the rebellion now does that not make it ok that I betrayed you, I'm making it up to you aren't you," Han smirks.

"Kind of like how Skywalker senior is going to lead us into every battle and is trying to fix his mistakes."

"I suppose you're right."


Mara was leaving the Imperial Palace, thinking over her fight with Luke. Vader was the best duelist she'd ever known, through their many sparring sessions, she had liked to test her limits. See how long she could hold against him.

Mara had always been jealous of Vader, she'd once been tasked with tracking him, and seeing if he was planning on betraying the emperor, but she found nothing, which annoyed her, she wanted to kill him and take his place as the Emperor's apprentice. Although she was jealous of him she had a good amount of respect for him, and on some of their missions together, he had taught her things about the force that the Emperor had not.

There was no way that Luke kid had beaten Vader when he was just holding his own against her so maybe, just maybe, Vader was out there. If he was she needed to find him.


No one could enter or even see into the room.

Padme was waiting, listening as her husband struggled in pain, screamed in agony, it was heartbreaking to hear. She wondered if Leia would ever forgive her father, he had done some terrible things, no one could deny that, but he was forced to by the Emperor.

She thought back to when she and Anakin were younger and planning on running off and raising their family. She was brought out of it by the loud beeping of machines, indicating his heart rate was dropping.

All the needles except for one had been removed and Anakin had passed out with the pain. The droids had taken this opportunity to sedate him fully as well, with a stronger dose as the last dose didn't seem to work. And the droids were working on keeping him alive and removing the one in his brain.

His heart rate slowed, even more, his brain activity was slowing as well. The droid finally removed the last needle. They tried giving him more oxygen, counteracting the sedation, anything that might help.

Nothing was working.

The droid came out to Padmé. "We have removed the needle from his brain, he is not paralysed but we are unable to get his heart rate and brain activity up. He is dying. Slowly and in extreme pain." Padme nodded. "Am I allowed in to see him." The droid gestures for her to follow. She sat down and touched his head with both of her hands.

She fell into a deep meditation, calling on the force, and filling his brain with the light. She began to recall memories feeding them into Anakin's brain. The first time they met on Tatooine, their first kiss on Naboo, her confession of love on the brink of death, their wedding, the times during the war when they were happy, the baby. Tears began rolling down her cheeks, she didn't want to lose him now, she was determined.

Anakin's heart rate was falling rapidly and his brain activity fell into an almost coma-like state, Padmè watched from the outside, he was dying. Though his heart rate was lowering and his brain activity was low he was having a vision, a dark vision.

He was standing surrounded by a thick black cloud, the darkness was prominent. He began to hear a voice talking to him. "You're weak, a pathetic life form that is destined to be a slave forever! You cannot be free while you are him, you're weak with the light, the dark side is stronger, feel it."

Anakin became engulfed in the darkness. He was being swallowed up. "No neither is stronger." Anakin protested. "Foolish boy! You don't even realise who I am." The deep voice growled. "I am you." The voice bellowed followed by silence. Anakin stood surrounded by the cloud feeling more and more smothered by it every second.

Suddenly he sensed the light, memories flooded his mind, him and Padmè, there future with their children everything he would be leaving behind. The darkness soon pushed the light out filling Anakin with darkness.

Padmè stepped back from Anakin, as she was forced out by something dark. Seeing no immediate changes, she became worried but she hoped the swarm of memories would help him. She sits down away from the bed but still close to her husband.

Anakin gathered all the energy he had and used the force to push away the cloud. As it came back together it formed a man, which took the form of Anakin, not just Anakin, Anakin's dark side.

"You think you can stay in the light. You can't control me." The figure cackled. It drew a lightsaber and ignited it, its blade crimson. "To fight you, would be purposeless," Anakin stated his voice calm. It walked towards him eager to fight him. "It is unavoidable, to be free I need to kill the light." Anakin drew his saber and ignited its blade as black as where they stood.

"You will not win." The two began a deadly duel. Parry after parry neither of them was getting anywhere. The duel had been going on for what seemed like ages and no one was winning, that was until now. Anakin found himself being pushed back, being overwhelmed. The being hammered down hard, forcing Anakin to his knees.

Just as his dark side was killing the light within his brain, machines started beeping rapidly indicating his heart rate had dropped, he was dying. Droids flew around him, doing everything they could. Tears streamed down Padmè's face as she watched her husband slip away from her. She was escorted out by the droid and she sat crying in the hallway. She had been strong for long enough. Here in this moment, she let her barriers down and she wept and wept.

Mothma appeared around the corner. "Padmè, oh no, what's wrong." She sits beside her. Padmè throws her arms around Mon Mothma crying, "He's dying, I'm losing him, I don't want to lose him again." She wailed louder.

Anakin felt the pain coming from Padmè. He had to win this battle, for her, for his children, to take down the empire, he had to but he was weak and tired. Anakin force pushed him away and rose to his feet.

"You will not take all this from me, I was a monster and I am going to fix everything I've done wrong in the Galaxy!" Anakin says confidently igniting his blade once more. Anakin charged towards him and began striking hard, down, over, from the right, from the left, he was striking anywhere he could fit his blade.

A look of horror appeared across its face as Anakin began striking harder and harder. Faster and faster. Parrying every strike, gaining the advantage. He hammered down on him with more force every time, he drove it to the ground. "Today, I am set free." Anakin breathed heavily his energy low.

Padmè ran into the room running past the protesting droid. If her Ani was dying he would die with her beside him. She stopped by his head and placed her hands on him, stroking his hair. "Don't go on me Ani, you can do this, we need you, the galaxy needs you." She whispers tears falling from her eyes and onto his face. "I need you, I can't live without you. Pull through, for Luke and Leia, for me please."

With a quick strike, Anakin was struck in the side and pushed back. He knelt holding his side in pain. His anger grew. He looked down at the black blade of his lightsaber, he knew what he had to do. "I will always be a part of you! I will always control you!" It walked towards him.

"You are a part of me..." Anakin breathed slowly and deeply, "But you will never control me!"

Anakin rose to his feet and dropped his lightsaber, using the force to push on the being. It began to scream in pain.

"Not anymore!" He pushes and pushes using all the energy he has left, the being becomes the cloud it originally was, Anakin keeps pushing all the darkness into a ball, pushing more, and harder, giving it everything he's got until eventually all that's left is in his hand, he clenched his fist, causing it to disappear.

The darkness left him and he's left in the light having defeated his dark side. It may always be a part of him, but it will no longer control him. He picks the lightsaber up off of the ground and ignites it, this time, however, the blade was pure white, he smiled. The black of the blade before reflected the darkness controlling him, but the white of the blade now reflected the pureness and light of his soul. To defeat his dark side he couldn't do it using the blade that represented it, he used the force, the light within, the light now represented in the colour of the blade.

Anakin caught a shimmering blue in the corner of his eye. He turned to see master Yoda standing in front of him.

"Master Yoda." Anakin fell to his knees in front of the former grand master. "Forgive me, please, forgive me for everything, everything that I've done." Tears fell from Anakin's eyes. Anakin lifted his head when he heard the little grand master chuckle.

"Forgiven, I, need to be." Anakin looked at him confused. "My responsibility, the Jedi Order was. The Padawans before a mission, always, it should be." Anakin blinked rapidly, he had to be dreaming this. He was inside his head, after all, maybe he'd just gone completely crazy. Master Yoda was apologising to him.

"Corrupted, was the Jedi Order, corrupted was the Republic. Careless, were we. Allow one of us to be misguided, we did. Apologise I do."

Anakin began to cry again.

"Forgiven you are." Anakin looked up to see all the spirits of the Jedi appearing before him. "How?" "Only retain our identity, Obi-Wan and I did. But mysterious is the force." Yoda smiled.

One of the Jedi younglings that he'd so brutally murdered ran up to him and wrapped him in a hug. Tears freely fell from Anakin's eyes as he hugged the little boy. "I'm so sorry."

"Master Skywalker, we've forgiven you."

"We all forgive you, Anakin."

"For something so terrible, how can you, how can you all even look at me."

"For it was the fault of the Jedi Order as a whole, not yours individually," Mace Windu said.

"Forgiven you are with us." Obi-Wan placed a hand on Anakin's shoulder.

"Forgive yourself, you must, next," Yoda concluded. Anakin looked around at everyone, taking in a sharp breath he nodded.

"Thank you," he muttered gratefully and everything went black.