Chapter One
On the planet Mustafar, Darth Vader, once known as Anakin Skywalker, is lying on a cliff overlooking a molten river of lava. The aftermath of the lightsaber duel that had taken place not too long ago had left him exhausted and injured to nearly the point of death. Almost every part of him had been severely burned, so he could not see or properly register anything happening around him.
He thought he heard a ship approaching and landing in the distance. He heard distant muffled shouting, then somebody feeling his forehead gently. Then as he felt himself being lifted off the charred, rocky ground and lowered onto a stretcher, several random images shot into his head, similar to the visions he had had about his wife's childbirth.
He saw a man dressed in a black cape and what looked like a battle helmet engaged in a lightsaber duel with someone who had long brown hair, was wearing a black robe over a Jedi tunic, and was wielding a purple lightsaber blade. He recognized Moona Jonstone immediately. She was one of the Jedi Knights that had been sent to protect the planet Nagob from invasion. As he watched, Jonstone cut down the man in black. He collapsed to the ground, clearly dead.
Then as he felt a downpour of cold raindrops descending onto his burned up features, Vader saw a young man wearing a black outfit and cape with brown hair. His lightsaber blade was green. This had to be Alku Justina, Jonstone's partner. They both dressed differently from the other Jedi, instead of the usual brown robes. They kind of chose their own dress code, like he used to. Justina was facing off with Palpatine on a platform in the rain somewhere. As he watched, a red bladed lightsaber flew into view and struck Palpatine in the chest. Palpatine fell backward off the platform and out of sight.
Then as he was being strapped to a surgical table and medical droids swarmed all around him, he saw Jonstone again, but she looked a lot older. She was standing with a green alien creature with what looked like stone bumps running up its thumbs, arms and neck in a bright white room somewhere.
As this vision faded away, he moaned in pain as the droids operated on him. After what felt like an eternity of painful hours, he saw something being lowered to his face: A black mass of metal. It connected to his face and he found it much easier to breath.
Then as the table he was on tilted downward, so that he was now facing forward instead of up, he heard Palpatine's voice say "Lord Vader? Can you hear me?"
Vader decided to keep his premonitions to himself for the moment. He responded "Yes, master." Then he remembered his wife. He looked over at Palpatine and asked him whether she was alright. Palpatine explained that she had been killed by his anger. Vader moaned in agony for several minutes and wrecked the medical equipment with the force.
A few hours later, after viewing the beginning construction of the Empire's new space station, the Death Star, he sat in his quarters. After thinking for a while, he realized now that he is the man in black who gets killed in his premonition and if he dies, apparently Palpatine will die too, then the Empire would be destroyed and the Jedi would probably be reborn. He knew now that he had to find a way to keep himself from dying somehow . . .