Vader felt the cold embrace of a Forceless world as he awoke in the plastic bubble around him. He remembered little of the event that got him placed here. He sat up and took a look around the room. He lifted the remote with his hand and turned the primative viewing device on.
He knew Doctors were watching him as he flipped through the channels. He passed a talk show, some televangelist screaming at the top of his lungs, a cooking show he knew as "30 Minute Meals"
He stared for a moment at the cheeky woman on the screen as she spoke in rapid fire English. He flipped the channel again to find CNN recording live as NASA launched the Space Shuttle Discovery.
For a moment he began to remember how he got here...
He
remembered laying in the sand, the granules trying to clog his air
filter. He turned over in the sand to see an unfamiliar star in the
sky. Tattoine? Was this the sands of Tattoine? He tried to find what
was wrong in the Force but he felt nothing, he tried harder, nothing.
He concentrated so hard that it began to hurt... Nothing. He
got onto his feet and looked around the desert, sand whipped his mask
and he began to walk. He walked as his respirator helped him breathe
in air. He came to a row of buildings at last. But they were diffrent
than anything he had seen before. And that strange
flag... "FREEZE!!" Someone roared at him, he
whipped around and reached for his lightsaber. He flicked it on and
leveled his weapon at the young soldier, "Attack me and you will
wish you never had." "Put your weapon down!!"
More soldiers in tan and brown gear appeared around him, weapons
raised. He knew he could take them all, but he felt no Force... He
raised his hand to the soldier in front of him, the soldier gasped
and dropped his rifle as he grabbed his neck in pain... They tried to
fight back but he made short work of them. He breathed easily
as soldiers hobbled away with limbs missing or bleeding profusely.
Suddenly one stopped and pulled out a strange looking blaster. He
pulled the trigger and strange objects came out. "What
in-" Vader barely slowed it enough to keep it from piercing his
organs but not fast enough to keep it from penetrating his shoulder.
"AGGHHH!!"
