CHAPTER TWO: THE OTHER SKYWALKER

"I wonder if Leia is Force-sensitive too. If I am and my father is, she could well be." Luke said to Yoda and the spectral form of Obi-wan Kenobi.

Yoda and Obi-wan had both thought of this. However, Yoda had thought training Luke to be a Jedi at his age to be risky enough due to his age, as his father's fall to the Dark Side had proven the danger of training past the youngling stage, let alone both of the twins.

"Master Yoda, this might be the will of the Force. I've always had my doubts that just one of them could defeat Vader and the Emperor. With both of them trained in the ways of the Force, we've got a better chance at defeating the Empire." Obi-wan's ghost said to the aged Jedi Grandmaster.

"Twice the risk we would be taking by training them both at such an age." Yoda replied.

"I think it is a necessary risk."

"If believe so you do, train them both I will."

Meanwhile, at a base in the Polis Massa asteroid field, Princess Leia Organa arrived with C3PO. She looked around at the base, which she had visited on three previous occasions, it being a hideout for the Alliance, and said to C3PO "Threepio, I tell you that there is just something very familiar about this place. I just don't know what."

C3PO had been here the day that Luke and Leia were born, but as he had had his mind wiped, he wasn't aware of this. "I'm afraid I don't know either, Madame." the droid replied.

A Twi'lek male approached them. "I've been looking for you Princess Leia." he said. "I was sent a message by your father, Bail Organa, right before he died. I'd planned to give it to you, but I was captured by Imperials before I could do so. They never got the message as I'd kept it hidden, but I wasn't able to retrieve it until a day ago, after I'd escaped from an Imperial labor camp."

"What was in the message?" Leia asked.

"I do not know. He only said that it was urgent and that it must not fall into the hands of the Empire."

He handed Leia a hologram projector, which she turned on. The image of the man she believed to be her father, the late Senator Bail Organa, appeared before her. "Leia, by the time you get this, I'll be dead. The Death Star has arrived over Alderan so I'll say this as quickly as I can. My wife and I have raised you for years as a daughter. You had been led to believe that you were our daughter, but in fact you are the daughter of Senator Padme Amidala of Naboo and Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker. You and your twin brother were hidden since birth. You were each taken to separate planets to hide from the Empire. It was especially important that you were kept from Darth Vader, who is in fact your real father, and Emperor Shiv Palpatine. You and your brother, whom I won't name in case this falls into the wrong hands, are the last hope of the Jedi Order." The sound of the Death Star firing could be heard in the background of the hologram. "I love you Leia." The hologram turned fiery red and enveloped the man that she had long thought to be her father. After crying for several minutes upon witnessing Bail's death, she tried to make sense of what she had just heard. "I'm the daughter of Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker and Naboo Senator Padme Amidala? Anakin Skywalker, my father, is Darth Vader?" she said to herself. She wondered if this was some kind of prank. "You received this from Senator Organa?" she asked the Twi'leek.

"Yes, ma'am. It was the last message that he ever sent out to anyone." he replied.

"Wait, if I'm the daughter of Anakin Skywalker, then that might mean that I might have Jedi abilities." she gasped. She had thought all of this time that he ability to seemingly be able to read people and be steps ahead of her political opponents in the Galactic Senate had been just mere luck. Now she was wondering if she was Force-sensitive and could somehow predict the future. She also recalled being able to sense that Luke was in mortal peril on Bespin. At the time, he had called out to her with the Force and had given her some idea of where he was, but she still had been able to find him in time before he had fallen to his death. It was almost as if the Force had guided her exactly to where Skywalker had been.

Skywalker! Why hadn't she ever bothered to ask before if he was related to the famous Jedi Knight? Sure, there were others with that last name in a galaxy this big, but to think that she hadn't bothered to ask in the time that they'd been together made her suddenly feel very foolish. And if Luke was indeed the son of Anakin Skywalker, that would make them siblings.

At that moment, a ship began to appear on the radar of the base. It was an Alliance X-wing. It soon landed on the surface of the asteroid that Leia was on. She didn't pay it much attention at the moment, too lost in her thoughts of possibly being a sibling of Luke Skywalker. However, when Luke and R2D2 suddenly entered the room a few moments later, her thoughts quickly returned to the real world.

"Luke, there's something I've got to ask you. I can't believe I never thought to ask it before. Are…." she began, but Luke interrupted her.

"Leia, we're twins. We're the children of Anakin Skywalker and Padme Amidala. Our father is actually Darth Vader." he said.

Leia gasped. "Well, you answered what I was going to ask you."