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Years had passed.
After he had hidden his original body and tricked the rebels into believing that he was just a scared, lost child, (he had barely kept from gagging at the indignity of it all), he had caused a distraction by blowing up every rebel ship in the area from by rigging them from the inside.
He'd somehow dragged his body into a ship too.
It was a minor skirmish, but it made enough talk in the universe to drag attention away from his disappearance for a few weeks. That gave him just enough time for him to reprogram his black suit into a droid, with the designation code V4-D3R, which he had found somewhat humorous at the time.
The hard part was duping the Emperor. It wasn't easy tricking Palpatine. But his old body came in handy after all, having a significant Force signature that the Emperor could sense, despite it being in a coma. He had put the body inside the robotic shell and set it on autopilot. Perhaps the old bag was suspicious of something, but so far, he had yet to confront Vader- -or rather, the droid- -and all was well.
Vader himself chose to bide his time, hiding out in his own quarters when he was on the ship, and keeping out of sight whenever he chose to venture out. An easy task as, to his utter disappointment, his nine-year-old clone body simply refused to grow, regardless of any supplements he took or the time that passed. He was seriously considering genetic engineering, but he would have to work on it alone and he really wasn't the best with chemicals.
Oh well. At least it would be significantly amusing to watch the universe's reaction when a child was crowned the next Emperor.
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