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Vader came out of his corner, seeing the room empty of everyone, except his quarry. The game, for him, had just begun. Kirk's destiny was about to be fulfilled.

"So, you are Kirk," he rasped out.

However, before anything else could be said or responded to, Han Solo staggered back into the room, wounded from his surprise attacks on the Stormtroopers. He was clearly overwhelmed by the number of guards and the failed kamikaze attack. He fell into a shadowy corner and did not reappear.

Vader paid no attention to Han Solo's somewhat drunken entrance, if he had even noticed it, and continued. "I have the one person standing in the way of my quest for complete domination of all of the worlds! You cannot stop me now, Kirk!"

Confused by Vader's statement about him, Kirk asked him, "Why do you want me? I don't even know you or your ways."

Vader just stood there and laughed as well as he could. Kirk obviously knows nothing of these plans!

Kirk was about to puzzle it out when Han Solo reentered, except it wasn't exactly Han Solo. The man Kirk knew as Han Solo had disappeared and someone named Indiana Jones (as he introduced himself to both present in the room) had taken his place. It was a minor distraction to both battling by their wits, but Kirk was relieved to see the man side with him.

Vader, in the meantime, was tired of waiting for Kirk to stupidly figure out what was happening. He flicked on his lightsaber and made for Kirk. Indiana Jones, who saw the movement, yelled, "Watch out, Kirk!"

Kirk ran and ducked beneath some pipes, as Darth Vader sliced the air where Kirk was and sent sparks flying as the lightsaber hit the pipes. Jones then tossed him Luke's dropped, forgotten lightsaber. Kirk, trying not to think of what happened to the lightsaber's previous owner, flicked it on and blocked Vader's next attack with skill.

For what seemed like an hour (Jones not being a help), the two battled it out with the lightsabers, with no one having a clear advantage over the other. Finally, Vader knocked away Kirk's borrowed lightsaber, which fell down the depths of the multi-leveled center of the Death Star. He even kicked Kirk into a corner where he couldn't escape, seeing the clear advantage: anytime, the captain could slip down, along with the lightsaber, to his death.

Kirk looked for someone, anyone, from the group to help him. The much-hated Han Solo would have been fine, but even the newly transformed Indiana Jones had abandoned Kirk. Nobody was in sight. After the Stormtroopers extras came in, the "rebels", their bots and even Arthur and his knights vanished into thin air.

Vader finally spoke to Kirk for the first time since the duel had started with Han Solo/Indiana Jones' warning and lightsaber toss. As Kirk looked to him and the long trip down, he said to the depressed captain, "I will reveal myself to you now, you ignorant man. Then, you'll remember who I am and why these worlds have come together for me."

The Shadowed One removed the cumbersome helmet of Darth Vader and stepped into the light. It was none other than Kirk's arch-nemesis (thought to be exiled on Ceti Alpha V still), Khan.

Stunned, Kirk couldn't respond, until Khan told him something that he thought could not be imagined. "Kirk, I am your father."

Kirk screamed he Khan kicked him, sending him flying down through the levels of the dreaded Death Star. "NNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

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Kirk woke up in a sweat, sore from perhaps the exercise he remembered doing with McCoy the previous day. He sat up and looked around. He was in his bedroom in the captain's quarters on the Enterprise, all right. There was no Death Star within sight, as far as he knew (unless Spock paged him and he missed it). There was no fight to the death with Darth Vader, who was really Khan. There was no beautiful princess named Leia or a hated rival named Han Solo.

Or was it Indiana Jones? Kirk thought, shaking his head, while trying to remember through the hazy cobwebs of sleep. No, no, there was no Han Solo or Indiana Jones or a hairy boy (girl?) named Chewbacca.

Best of all, he continued to think, Khan isn't my father!

Kirk got up from his bed, filled a bowl of water from his washroom and put it on the sink. He then splashed some cool water on his face. Returning to his bed to turn on the light, Kirk reached over his nightstand, to read some papers to help him fall back asleep.

That was when he stumbled across Luke's lost lightsaber.