Darth Vader braced himself for an unpleasant meeting with his master. His son had just destroyed the Death Star and his master would be mostly displeased. Vader memories shifted.
A boy inside a ship blowing up a clone station…./that was Anakin/Then his thoughts shifted again. What argument to use to keep the emperor's wrath from destroying his son?
Luke, Han, Chewbacca and Leia were celebrating. Luke was the hero of Yavin. While his comrades were celebrating he walked off and stared at the stars.
"You have done well, young Luke," said a voice.
Luke turns and sees the glimmering ghost of Obi Wan.
"Obi Wan.." Luke started to say but Obi Wan lifted his hand as to stop.
"You must go to the Dagobah system, there you will meet Yoda the Jedi master who trained me."
"Yoda…" Luke repeated.
"Hey Luke?" Han approached. "What are you doing here?"
Luke turns to speak to Han then he notices Obi Wan had vanished.
"Oh, nothing, just looking."
"Come on, kid. Let's have some fun."
On Coruscant the emperor sat on his throne. Vader kneels before his master.
"Your son has done quite an act, lord Vader."
"Yes, my master."
"He is powerful indeed, you must find him and bring him before me. I sensed a tremor in the force."
"I have felt it, master."
"He must not become a Jedi, he could destroy us. I have foreseen it."
"But he is just a boy, Obi Wan can't no longer help him."
"He must be found, lord Vader it is now your main priority. The rebellion would be crushed if young Skywalker become one of us. Go, my friend, find your son."
"As you wish, master."
Dagobah…
"Master Yoda, is the dark side stronger?" Luke asks
"Clear your mind, rest you must."
"Can my father return from the dark side?"
"Once the dark side you embrace, forever will dominate you."
"But he was going to kill me in Tatooine, he didn't." Luke pondered. The image of the dark lord getting ready to give him the fatal blow never left his mind. Yoda helped him to calm down but the nightmares kept haunting Luke.
"There is no death, one with the force we will be, real death losing your soul is." Yoda replied.
"Losing my soul?"
"Vader your soul wants, if you accept him control you he will."
"He is my father." Luke didn't want to believe. "There is still good in him."
On board of the Executor Vader had sent for bounty hunters.
Boba Fett was among them.
"No desintegration." Vader ordered the bounty hunters "I want them alive."
"As you wish" replied Fett.
Vader sent probe droids throughout the galaxy, his son had to be found.
Dagobah…
Luke was sleeping….
There came a dream…
Among the clouds.
Screams and sorrow…
Han! Leia! He wakes up startled.
"Master Yoda, I see a city in the clouds… I saw Han, Leia they were in pain."
"Umm, the future you see?"
"Will they die?"
"Difficult to say," Yoda replies. "Always in motion the future is."
"I think I must go to them."
"Finished your work is not, complete your training you must."
Luke goes to rest.
Another dream…
A woman crying at childbirth. Two babies. The woman turns to the first child.
"Luke," she says tenderly…
The second child…it is a girl..
"Leia," she speaks with her eyes full of love.
/Hold your strength, Padme…/
"Anakin!"
The babies cry. The woman dies.
Luke wakes up crying.
"Master Yoda, I believed I just had dream about my birth…but there
were two?" Luke wipes his tears.
"Master Yoda, is Leia my sister?"
"Your sister, she is."
Hoth
Han started to pack. Chewbacca fixes the Millennium Falcon, Leia approaches Han upset. "Han, don't leave just yet. Without Luke here we need you to help to lead?"
"We need you?"
"Yes, you are a great commander!"
"How about you?"
"I don't know what you are talking about," Leia blushes.
"Why don't you just admit your true feelings about me?"
"You nerfherder!" Leia walks off.
Chewbacca growls.
"Oh, sith Chewie. Let's fix this bucket and get out of here. If we don't get help from Lando we will be in trouble."
On board of the Executor Vader observes the stars.
/My father's name is Anakin Skywalker…/ The pleading eyes of his son had cut through his darkened heart.
/Luke/
No answer to his mental call.
It has been 3 years since he had seen his son. He finally could be the master and
his son an apprentice.
/There is only two sith, a master and an apprentice./
He sensed a commotion among the crew. He stepped towards Admiral Piett.
"Milord, we have detected movement on the 6th moon of the Hoth system."
Darth Vader watches the image sent to the monitor.
"Set the course to the Hoth system."
"Yes, milord."
Hoth
A signal is detected.
C 3 P O listen. "This may be some kind of imperial code," he mentions it to Han, Leia and general Riekan.
Han picks up his helmet. "Whatever it is doesn't sound too friendly. Let's go Chewie to check it out."
Han goes out in the midst of the snow. He spots a giant droid but the droid self destroys.
"The empire knows we are here," Han says into the comlink.
"We better start an evacuation." General Riekan says.
Dagobah
"Let the force flows through you…" Yoda says as he stands on Luke's feet who is upsidown. While Luke is training, his mind drifts.
Cloud City. Screams.
"Han! Leia!"
Luke drops every object around him, including Yoda.
"Control, you must!"
"I can't get out of my head that vision. I must go to them."
"You must complete your training.
Luke prepares to leave.
Obi Wan appears.
"Luke, you will be tempted, don't give up to hate."
"If you face Vader I can't interfere," said Obi Wan
"I understand."
Luke departs. Yoda is saddened.
"He was our only hope,"
"No, there is another," says Yoda.
The X-Wing departs Dagobah.
Hoth…
The Millennium Falcon jumps to hyperspace.
Boba Fett follows it with the Slave I
"Where are you taking us, Han?"
"Bespin."
"A mine land?"
"It is a trip long overdue. I got a friend there who may be able to help us. His name is Lando. He is a gambler, cardplayer a scoundrel, you will like him."
Leia smiles.
When the Falcon was approaching Bespin, Bobba Fett who was diligently following the Falcon contacts the Executor.
Admiral Piett approaches Vader's pod.
"What is it, admiral?"
"Milord. We have them."