A/N: Just so all you guys know, I started this story a long time ago. I think it's the second story I ever tried to write, so that explains why the first chapters were all so crapy. This chapter, is quite new, but I've followed along with the story. Therefore, there will be unrealistic aspects, times when characters are slightly out of character, and so on. But I've written it to make it very enjoyable just the same.
Oh yeah, and this chapter contains the biggest, longest, and the funniest insult ever. I had tons of fun putting it together!
Chapter Thirteen: The Final Chapter
The Falcon landed in the docking bay of the Death Star just as they had planned. They quickly let down the ramp and filed out, shooting at every storm trooper in sight, slowly inching their way out of the main docking bay. Han felt nervous about leaving his precious ship all by itself, but he knew that right now, he couldn't worry about it… no matter how much he wanted to.
As soon as they had made it into the wide corridors outside the docking bay, they split up. Luke and Leia went off to find the throne room so they could face the Emperor while Han, Gezra, Chewie, Jack, Will, Elizabeth, Gibbs, and the rest of the Black Pearl's crew went in the complete different direction to create a diversion and hopefully distract the guards so that Luke and Leia would have less trouble on the way to the throne room.
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Luke and Leia ran down a few corridors and then finally stopped.
"Okay," Luke said. "Where would they put the throne room?"
Leia took a second to catch her breath, then responded, "I'm guessing they would put it at the top of the Death Star so that Palpatine could observe the fleet and whatnot."
Luke nodded quickly. "Good point. Let's go then!"
They ran until they found an elevator. Unfortunately it was guarded, but shooting down the troops in the way didn't prove to be much of a problem as they shoot from around the corner so they couldn't see who was attacking them.
Once they had those troops out of the way, they entered the elevator, and Luke pressed the button for the highest floor.
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Meanwhile, on the other side of the Death Star, the group was making as big a distraction as possible. Usually, a rebel would be trying not to draw attention to themselves while in a high-security Imperial infested facility, but in this case, the more attention they got, the better. At least, that's what they thought until they became way outnumbered.
"What are we to do now!?" Will yelled at Han.
"Uh…" Han hesitated. "I'm guessing we should run."
And run they did.
The whole group began running as fast as they could down the corridor, turning back occasionally to shoot at the pursuing troops. They seemed to be doing quite well until they saw troops coming at them from the other direction. They were blocked off from any possible escape.
"What now?" Gezra asked.
"Ay, it be bad luck to be caught in a situation such as this," Gibbs announced to his fellow Death Star invaders.
"Don't tell me about bad luck," Han said, pointing his thumb at himself. "No one's had as much bad luck as me."
Jack made a face. "You'd be surprised."
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Finally, the elevator reached the final floor. When it opened, Luke and Leia both gasped. They had expected to find themselves stepping into another corridor, but instead they were walking right into the throne room. It was a huge room, completely black. Up ahead, there were stairs leading up to the viewport where the Emperor sat, with Darth Vader standing next to him.
"Well at least we found the throne room," Luke whispered to Leia.
Leia wasn't half as nervous as Luke was. After all, it hadn't been her who had had the bad experience with Vader on Bespin… well, not as bad an experience as Luke at least. Leia glared at Palpatine. She had met him once before while she had still been a senator, and she still hated him just as much, if not more.
"Welcome, young Skywalker," The Emperor said in a crackling, and almost annoying voice. "We've been expecting you." He then turned his head to Leia. "But it is a surprise to see you here, my dear Princess. I would have thought you'd be with your smuggler lover."
Leia couldn't help herself. "How did you find out about that!?"
The Emperor laughed. It was an old, evil laugh that made Luke shiver. "I know everything." Now he turned his attention back to Luke. "I look forward to completing your training, young Jedi."
Luke lifted his head. "Ah, yes. See, that's what I am: a Jedi. And I don't plan on being anything else."
Palpatine never paused. "In time, you will see reason."
"What reason?" Luke retorted. "Being evil and killing innocent people on a daily basis just because they made an itsty bitsy mistake?" Luke looked right at Vader when he said this.
If Vader got angry at this, he didn't show it. He remained silent while the Emperor laughed again as if in amusement. This only caused Luke's anger to rise, which was exactly the Emperor's intention.
"Good… I can feel your rising anger."
Luke took a second to calm down and the Emperor decided to ask, "Why did you bring the Princess with you? Protection?" This was supposed to anger him more, but the insult went right past him.
"No, insurance," Luke answered readily.
Another laugh. "And what would you need insurance for, young Jedi?"
"Living. Duh."
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Gezra hated to leave her friends in a spot like this, but she had to complete her part of the plan. She said the traveling spell and ended up at one of the Imperial training bases. She planted a thermal detonator at the base, and quickly left to do the same at another major Imperial spot.
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The troops were going to take them prisoner… Han couldn't let that happen. But he couldn't think of any plan that could possibly get them out of this. Suddenly, Jack started running wildly at the troopers, yelling like a maniac. The troops actually got frightened at the sudden charge, and backed up a few steps.
While the troops were preoccupied with Jack, the others began shooting at them. When they finally saw a way through the massive amount of storm troopers… they ran.
"I guess he does know what he's doing," Will commented as they ran.
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The Emperor decided to use a new tactic. "Do you know how your mother died?" The Emperor asked Luke. He forgot for a second that Vader was in the room since Vader had been so quiet. "She was killed by your father. He killed her heartlessly."
"But that's only after he went to the Dark Side!" Leia said, butting in. "And it was you who turned him, so therefore, it must be your fault!"
Luke gasped and glared straight at the Emperor. "Why you two faced, idiotic, empty headed, ugly looking, annoying, over confident, feebleminded, double crossing, scum brained, buck stuck, half witted, stupid headed, snot nosed, nerdy, scum bagged, buck faced, lame brained, freakish weirdo!"
This was too much for the Emperor to stand. With a flash of blue lighting, he attacked Luke, sending him sprawling on the floor.
"STOP IT!" Leia screamed when she saw what the Emperor was doing to her brother.
But the lightning kept coming, and slowly, Luke's life was fading away.
Leia turned to Vader. "How can you just stand by and watch this!?"
Vader wasn't looking at Leia, he was looking at something that hung around Luke's neck… it was the chapor snippet that he gave to Padme all those years ago. The memories all rushed back to him.
He looked from Palpatine, to his son. Making his decision, he chose Luke. Igniting his lightsaber, Vader strode to the Emperor. Palpatine was so distracted with his attack on Luke that he didn't notice Vader's sudden mind change.
Before he could react, Vader cut his entire body in half. The lightning instantly ceased and Luke finally stopped screaming.
Vader rushed to Luke's side. Luke looked up at him… then at Leia. "The plan actually worked?" he asked, addressing his sister.
Leia looked around the room as if she didn't believe it. "Yeah… I guess it did!"
"What plan?" Anakin asked. (For we cannot call him Vader anymore, can we?)
"The plan to bring you back to the Light Side," Leia answered.
Anakin was confused. "Why did you come then?" He asked her.
"Because," Leia laughed. "I'm your daughter!"
A/N: This was the final chapter. An epilogue will be added soon. Please review! Reviews mean everything to me!
