DISCLAIMER: How many times do I have to say it before ye remember it?!!!
AUTHOR: See disclaimer.
Omigod it's the ending! Noooo! No, wait a minute, that means I wont have to sit in front of the computer typing anymore. Yeeessss!!! But that also means I don't get any more brilliant reviews. Booooo!!!!! How about you guys review one, just one I swear it, one more time and I'll write more, er, other stories? Or not, as your opinion goes. Oh who cares! Ye're stuck with me! Read on regardless.
Oh yes! And to that annoying person who keeps telling me that Vader would appear as Anakin because he does at the end of ROTJ: I BLOODY WELL KNOW!!! Does the word "repentance" mean anything to you?! He's in the suit because he's repenting!! (clears throat) Anyway.
Enjoy! (Sob)
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'This is not good,' Mace Windu admitted. He and Yoda were watching from the Force.
'Devious bastards, the Dark Side are.'
'I think it's time for plan B.'
'Wait,' Yoda said. 'Stronger than that, Skywalker is. Give him time.'
'Father! What are you doing?' Luke shouted as Vader deactivated his lightsaber and let the Sith up.
'Its Padme.' Luke looked at the Sith. It looked exactly like his mother, but something wasn't right. Something didn't fit about the eyes.
Padme/Sith smiled at Vader.
'Anakin,' she said softly. 'What have you been up to, causing all this trouble?'
'I, I,' Vader stammered. He couldn't believe it, after thirty years she had come back to him. (A/N My mental arithmetic is not the best as one has pointed out, so if the figure 30 is wrong then I'm sorry!)
'That's not Padme,' Luke shouted at him. 'Father, that's not Padme. It's the Dark Side taking her form.' Padme/Sith looked at him, then Luke realized what disturbed him about her eyes. They were as blank as a dead mans.
Padme/Sith turned back to Vader who was still in shock.
'I've missed you so much,' she said to him, reaching up to touch his mask. 'Now why don't we take our grandson and go away for a while, just the three of us.'
'Look at her eyes father! Don't listen to her!' Luke didn't know what to do, Vader wasn't listening to him and he couldn't go out to him because if he dropped the barrier for even a heartbeat the Dark Side would be on him and he knew that he couldn't hold it off and keep the kids' barriers up.
Vader heard his son, but he didn't make much sense to him. He was looking at her eyes, they were just as lovely as he remembered. But as he looked he got a slight sense of something not being right.
'Come on Anakin,' Padme/Sith pleaded, a note of desperation seeping into her voice. 'Lets go from here and take Ani junior with us.'
'Why? What's the rush?' Vader heard himself say.
'There's no rush.' But the agitation in her hands told him she was lying. 'I just want to be alone with you for a while.'
'And Anakin.'
'Well, yes of course.'
'Why?' Vader was openly suspicious now, but he still didn't know why. It was like some instinct made him wary for no apparent reason.
'Because he's our grandson.' Vader shrugged.
'Luke's our son, Leia's our daughter. Why not bring them along?'
'Because,' Padme/Sith faltered. Panic was clear now in her voice.
'Because?' Vader pressed. Now he knew what was wrong, he couldn't feel her presence in the Force, because she wasn't there, it was just an illusion created by the Dark Side.
'Do I have to have a reason?' she countered. Vader sighed and activated his sabre.
'Sometimes.' He lobbed the head off of the illusion with one stroke. A shockwave of energy picked him up and threw him into Lukes Force barrier. A terrible sound erupted at the same moment, a shriek combined with a howl at maximum volume. It trailed off and utter silence followed.
Vader groaned and rolled over.
'Force, but that's a strong barrier,' he groaned.
'Father?'
'Yeah?'
'What the hell just happened?' Vader picked himself up and retrieved his lightsaber.
'The Sith put so much energy into the illusion of Padme that when I destroyed it the power backwash sapped too much power,' Vader explained, in a tightly controlled voice. 'It'll take them years to recover their strength.'
'Yes, unfortunately only Palpatine and Maul were behind that one,' Qui-gon said, materializing beside Vader. 'There are many more out there.' He glanced at Luke. 'You can drop the barriers now.' Lukes' eyes flicked to Vader who nodded. With relief he dropped the barriers.
'Well done Anakin,' Obi Wan said, appearing by the door to Han and Leias bedchamber. 'You too Luke, you even kept Yoda out.'
Luke heard a familiar humph come from behind him.
'Keep me out, he did not,' Yoda denied. 'Want to go in, I did not.'
'Oh so that wasn't you I saw kicking the barrier and cursing?' Obi Wan asked innocently. Yoda humphed again and ignored him.
'What's the mater Yoda?' a female voice asked from the corner. 'Cat got your tongue?' Luke turned to see who it was. A Chiss female in Jedi robes had materialized there. Though she looked no older than he, Luke got the sense that she was ancient.
'Master Hackr'ian,' Yoda said respectfully. Luke gasped. Master Hackr'ian was one of the founders of the original Jedi Temple on Coruscant. That was over five thousand years ago!
Master Hackr'ian laughed at the look on Lukes face.
'The centuries fly by after the first millennium or two,' she confided.
'Master Hackr'ian,' Luke began. The Chiss held up a hand, cutting him off.
'I can't answer any questions about the founding of the old Jedi Temple,' she told him.
'Why not?'
'Because you should move forward into the future, not keep to the past. That is the nature of things.' Luke thought about it for a moment then nodded. 'Good. Besides I'm not here to brush you up on your history. I'm here for someone else.' She turned to Vader. 'Anakin Skywalker, I presume?'
'Yes. Master Hackr'ian,' he added when Yoda Qui-gon and Obi Wan all gave him a Force-belt over the helmet.
'I have a little something for you.'
'Goody.' He shot a filthy look over his shoulder. 'Master Hackr'ian.'
A young woman in simple dress stepped out of thin air. She took Vader by the hand and the whole black suit and helmet ensemble faded to reveal a young man in Jedi robes.
Anakin Skywalker gave Luke a cheery wave as he and Padme, the real Padme, disappeared. Luke looked around. The others were gone, except for Yoda, who was gazing at Anakin Solo.
'Yoda, where'd they go?'
'Three decades, they have been apart,' Yoda replied. 'Some time off, they took. Want to see that, you do not.'
'I think you're right on that,' Luke agreed hastily. 'So what now?' Yoda shrugged.
'Safe, the kids are, for now. But never easy, is the path of a Jedi. Trouble is in your way.' Luke sighed and grinned wryly.
'Same old, same old.' Yodas laugh faded with his image.
Luke looked at the chronometer, wondering whether to go to his own bed. A lung-bursting yawn settled the issue and he slept on the couch.
Anakin and Padme Skywalker watched over their family til the morning came. The Dark Side wouldn't stay away forever, or even for long. But for now all was well, and nothing else mattered.
Don't that just wanna make you go aaawwww! Or not, as the case may be. I hope you enjoyed this hectic helter-skelter through time and space and, everything else. Your reviews have been great, thanx!
This is not the last you hear of me! I swear it! I will write more! Until the SW Universe is mine! All mine! (enter guys in white coats and they carry ihadanepiphany away kicking and screaming, never to see a keyboard again)
Audience shot: Yay!!!!
AUTHOR: See disclaimer.
Omigod it's the ending! Noooo! No, wait a minute, that means I wont have to sit in front of the computer typing anymore. Yeeessss!!! But that also means I don't get any more brilliant reviews. Booooo!!!!! How about you guys review one, just one I swear it, one more time and I'll write more, er, other stories? Or not, as your opinion goes. Oh who cares! Ye're stuck with me! Read on regardless.
Oh yes! And to that annoying person who keeps telling me that Vader would appear as Anakin because he does at the end of ROTJ: I BLOODY WELL KNOW!!! Does the word "repentance" mean anything to you?! He's in the suit because he's repenting!! (clears throat) Anyway.
Enjoy! (Sob)
=============================================================
'This is not good,' Mace Windu admitted. He and Yoda were watching from the Force.
'Devious bastards, the Dark Side are.'
'I think it's time for plan B.'
'Wait,' Yoda said. 'Stronger than that, Skywalker is. Give him time.'
'Father! What are you doing?' Luke shouted as Vader deactivated his lightsaber and let the Sith up.
'Its Padme.' Luke looked at the Sith. It looked exactly like his mother, but something wasn't right. Something didn't fit about the eyes.
Padme/Sith smiled at Vader.
'Anakin,' she said softly. 'What have you been up to, causing all this trouble?'
'I, I,' Vader stammered. He couldn't believe it, after thirty years she had come back to him. (A/N My mental arithmetic is not the best as one has pointed out, so if the figure 30 is wrong then I'm sorry!)
'That's not Padme,' Luke shouted at him. 'Father, that's not Padme. It's the Dark Side taking her form.' Padme/Sith looked at him, then Luke realized what disturbed him about her eyes. They were as blank as a dead mans.
Padme/Sith turned back to Vader who was still in shock.
'I've missed you so much,' she said to him, reaching up to touch his mask. 'Now why don't we take our grandson and go away for a while, just the three of us.'
'Look at her eyes father! Don't listen to her!' Luke didn't know what to do, Vader wasn't listening to him and he couldn't go out to him because if he dropped the barrier for even a heartbeat the Dark Side would be on him and he knew that he couldn't hold it off and keep the kids' barriers up.
Vader heard his son, but he didn't make much sense to him. He was looking at her eyes, they were just as lovely as he remembered. But as he looked he got a slight sense of something not being right.
'Come on Anakin,' Padme/Sith pleaded, a note of desperation seeping into her voice. 'Lets go from here and take Ani junior with us.'
'Why? What's the rush?' Vader heard himself say.
'There's no rush.' But the agitation in her hands told him she was lying. 'I just want to be alone with you for a while.'
'And Anakin.'
'Well, yes of course.'
'Why?' Vader was openly suspicious now, but he still didn't know why. It was like some instinct made him wary for no apparent reason.
'Because he's our grandson.' Vader shrugged.
'Luke's our son, Leia's our daughter. Why not bring them along?'
'Because,' Padme/Sith faltered. Panic was clear now in her voice.
'Because?' Vader pressed. Now he knew what was wrong, he couldn't feel her presence in the Force, because she wasn't there, it was just an illusion created by the Dark Side.
'Do I have to have a reason?' she countered. Vader sighed and activated his sabre.
'Sometimes.' He lobbed the head off of the illusion with one stroke. A shockwave of energy picked him up and threw him into Lukes Force barrier. A terrible sound erupted at the same moment, a shriek combined with a howl at maximum volume. It trailed off and utter silence followed.
Vader groaned and rolled over.
'Force, but that's a strong barrier,' he groaned.
'Father?'
'Yeah?'
'What the hell just happened?' Vader picked himself up and retrieved his lightsaber.
'The Sith put so much energy into the illusion of Padme that when I destroyed it the power backwash sapped too much power,' Vader explained, in a tightly controlled voice. 'It'll take them years to recover their strength.'
'Yes, unfortunately only Palpatine and Maul were behind that one,' Qui-gon said, materializing beside Vader. 'There are many more out there.' He glanced at Luke. 'You can drop the barriers now.' Lukes' eyes flicked to Vader who nodded. With relief he dropped the barriers.
'Well done Anakin,' Obi Wan said, appearing by the door to Han and Leias bedchamber. 'You too Luke, you even kept Yoda out.'
Luke heard a familiar humph come from behind him.
'Keep me out, he did not,' Yoda denied. 'Want to go in, I did not.'
'Oh so that wasn't you I saw kicking the barrier and cursing?' Obi Wan asked innocently. Yoda humphed again and ignored him.
'What's the mater Yoda?' a female voice asked from the corner. 'Cat got your tongue?' Luke turned to see who it was. A Chiss female in Jedi robes had materialized there. Though she looked no older than he, Luke got the sense that she was ancient.
'Master Hackr'ian,' Yoda said respectfully. Luke gasped. Master Hackr'ian was one of the founders of the original Jedi Temple on Coruscant. That was over five thousand years ago!
Master Hackr'ian laughed at the look on Lukes face.
'The centuries fly by after the first millennium or two,' she confided.
'Master Hackr'ian,' Luke began. The Chiss held up a hand, cutting him off.
'I can't answer any questions about the founding of the old Jedi Temple,' she told him.
'Why not?'
'Because you should move forward into the future, not keep to the past. That is the nature of things.' Luke thought about it for a moment then nodded. 'Good. Besides I'm not here to brush you up on your history. I'm here for someone else.' She turned to Vader. 'Anakin Skywalker, I presume?'
'Yes. Master Hackr'ian,' he added when Yoda Qui-gon and Obi Wan all gave him a Force-belt over the helmet.
'I have a little something for you.'
'Goody.' He shot a filthy look over his shoulder. 'Master Hackr'ian.'
A young woman in simple dress stepped out of thin air. She took Vader by the hand and the whole black suit and helmet ensemble faded to reveal a young man in Jedi robes.
Anakin Skywalker gave Luke a cheery wave as he and Padme, the real Padme, disappeared. Luke looked around. The others were gone, except for Yoda, who was gazing at Anakin Solo.
'Yoda, where'd they go?'
'Three decades, they have been apart,' Yoda replied. 'Some time off, they took. Want to see that, you do not.'
'I think you're right on that,' Luke agreed hastily. 'So what now?' Yoda shrugged.
'Safe, the kids are, for now. But never easy, is the path of a Jedi. Trouble is in your way.' Luke sighed and grinned wryly.
'Same old, same old.' Yodas laugh faded with his image.
Luke looked at the chronometer, wondering whether to go to his own bed. A lung-bursting yawn settled the issue and he slept on the couch.
Anakin and Padme Skywalker watched over their family til the morning came. The Dark Side wouldn't stay away forever, or even for long. But for now all was well, and nothing else mattered.
Don't that just wanna make you go aaawwww! Or not, as the case may be. I hope you enjoyed this hectic helter-skelter through time and space and, everything else. Your reviews have been great, thanx!
This is not the last you hear of me! I swear it! I will write more! Until the SW Universe is mine! All mine! (enter guys in white coats and they carry ihadanepiphany away kicking and screaming, never to see a keyboard again)
Audience shot: Yay!!!!
