Chapter Four:
Vader's Wounds
Darth Inves broke the bonds that strapped him to the table.
Droids and troopers shot at him, trying to hold him back, but he was intent on obeying his master's order.
He had enough.
He threw his hands out as if he was Christ on the cross, and screamed.
Everything around him exploded and the droids and troopers were either destroyed or thrown back and killed.
But the Emperor stood still, smiling at Inves's newfound power.
"Give me a mirror," Inves demanded.
The Emperor's smile dropped.
"What?" he asked.
"I'm sorry, Master. Master, I need a mirror, for I would like to see what I look like," Inves said.
Sidious pointed to a broken wall of broken chrome and he saw that his face was partially robotic.
"The droids will fix that with some Synod Gel, that will reproduce your old face. We are thinking of doing the same to your leg and arm. But it might be risky. By the way, your father needs to see you," the Emperor said.
Inves walked out and went to his father's quarters.
Vader had his helmet off and was looking through the window out into space.
"Father, you're helmet is off, I think you need to-"
"I'm fine," Vader said, then, he turned.
Vader's face was that of a 20-year-old. He was bald, but the face was reconstructed.
What Vader had said about the "final transformation" all made since.
"Can this work for me? Wait- first, what happened to my face? All that I remember is that this Jedi tried to kill me, got my chest, legs and my arm. What happened to my face?" Inves asked.
"Sand people tried to mutilate you. They started carving off your face, then the troopers arrived and killed… everyone," Vader said.
"I still have much to- Wait! There is other Jedi!" Inves said, realizing something he should have known from the first time he saw the man.
"Yes, that is what scares the Emperor. There might be hundreds of other Jedi, but we know the leader, we just can't seem to find him,"
"Who is the leader?" Inves asked his father.
"A Jedi named Yoda,"
Everything that had happened to Luke (he hated that name now) before he became Inves came back. Yoda had trained him, and then Luke left to save some old friends, then he became Inves after a series of events that he couldn't remember.
"Yoda is on Dagobah. He is hiding on these coordinates," Inves then fed his father the location of the most powerful Jedi in the universe.
"Good job, Darth Inves," Anakin said, turning to the window.
"My son, Lord Inves, 'The Most Powerful Jedi Ever'-" Vader started.
"I'm no Jedi, I'm a Sith, I'm ridding the world of scum that tried to trick me," Inves said.
"You are good at heart. You are doing horrible things, but you'll change… someday," Vader said.
"I'M DARTH INVES AND YOU UNDERESTIMATE MY POWER!" Inves yelled, his words spat in anger.
"I said the same thing to my old master," Anakin said with a smile.
He hadn't smiled in over 20 years. But this only made Darth Inves angry.
It was then that Vader knew it.
The young Luke Skywalker he had secretly seen grow up, was gone.
Darth Inves was alive and well, but Luke Skywalker had died a cold bloody death at his father's hand.
And Darth Inves was about to die as well.