Blaze: yay! Time for chapter 9

Darth: is…?

Blaze: no

Darth: whhhhhhhhhhhhhhyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?

Blaze: oh for crying out loud (presses button on remote)

Padmé: what the…?

Darth: PADME!

Padmé: who are you?

Blaze: Padmé, Darth

Padmé: are you a Sith?

Darth: why would I be with that idiot Palpypie?

Palpypie: that's mean

Padmé: Palpypie? Ha, that's nice

Anakin: (growls)

Blaze: ANAKIN! (Tackles Anakin)

Anakin: um hi?

Padmé: (growls)

Blaze: (glares at Padmé)

Padmé: (glares at Blaze)

Blaze: here's chapter nine and I would like to thank Imperial warlord and She-Who-Has-A-Very-Long-Name for helping me with the description of Yuuzhan Vong ships, thank you (hands out Palpypie voodoo dolls to the two mentioned above)

Darth: and?

Blaze: and the other Yuuzhan Vong mentioned might not be exactly who they are or what they did in cannon and that's because, once again, I will never read that series.

Chapter Nine

The ship that was in orbit around Dagabah was an unusual ship, it was made entirely out of dark yorik coral. It was a large ship, very nearly as big as a Star Destroyer but the biggest of the ships was the one in front. The capital ship, known as the Worldship, was the ship that was currently transporting the Supreme Overlord of the Yuuzhan Vong, Shimmra Jamaane.

Shimmra was standing just outside of the viewpoint windows at the dark green swamp planet of Dagabah. He didn't remembered seeing this planet when he invaded the galaxy back in the future nor the time when he came to the past the first time in an attempt to stop the damn Jedi Master Luke Skywalker from ever being born.

It didn't work out that way and Shimmra realized that the only way to kill Luke Skywalker would be to do it before the Jedi Master turned into a Jedi Master. With Skywalker out of the way, Shimmra would have the galaxy for his taking and finally have complete control over it all.

The Yuuzhan Vong were a different sort of race, different from humans, from Twi'leks, from Togrutas, and from so many of the other species. Shimmra, at this moment, was a bit frustrated, the small blue sacks beneath his eyes were together from the frustration he was currently feeling. He couldn't seem to pinpoint the location of the future Jedi Master Skywalker and that Emperor Palpatine didn't help him at all.

I will have to take matters into my own hands, Shimmra thought as he continued to gaze through the windows. Though Yuuzhan Vong couldn't speak Basic, they were able to understand the Basic language and they were able to acquire a way to speak with humans in basic tongue in order to find the location of the future Jedi Master that caused his clan so much trouble.

It was Nom Anor that informed Shimmra the best way to find a Jedi he could use to find Skywalker would be a place most hidden from Force users. Nom had to research a lot behind this to find the right planet after they left Coruscant and he finally came up with a name, Dagabah.

Who would want to come here? Shimmra mused silently his eyes locked on the planet before him that he didn't notice when someone else approached him. "Supreme Overlord?" the Yuuzhan Vong member said in the language of the Vong clan and Shimmra turned his gaze to him.

"Yes?" he asked in the same language. He recognized the Vong as Nas Choka, one of the few members of his Clan to ever know the Jedi Master Skywalker and live to tell the tale.

"We have sensed two life forms on the planet, one is human but I cannot seem to determine what the other species is. I also sense that they are both Force sensitive but I cannot be sure if my information is correct," Choka replied.

"I see, send out a few Coral Skippers and flush these Jedi out, with any luck, they will be able to lead us to that dreaded Master Skywalker," Shimmra ordered.

"Yes sir," Choka replied before issuing the order to a lesser man in rank and the other Vong issued the order to a few pilots of Coral Skippers.

The blue sack beneath his eyes betrayed the delight Shimmra was feeling, Shimmra was looking forward to torturing and then killing the dreaded Jedi Master Luke Skywalker so that he may take over the galaxy. This time there will be no one out there to stop Shimmra from taking what he believes is rightfully his.

~*~

Obi-Wan narrowed his eyes as he spotted ships flying over the swamp, they were unlike any ship that he has ever seen before in his life. Yoda was also gazing at them, his beady little eyes narrowing slightly. "Grave this is," Yoda murmured. "Found us the Yuuzhan Vong have."

A blaster fire shot through the forest and Obi-Wan ignited his lightsaber and managed to send the blaster fire back at where it had come from. He didn't know where the blaster fire had come from but he figured it was from the Yuuzhan Vong ships.

"Go you must, warn young Skywalker you will," Yoda ordered.

"I am not leaving you, Master," Obi-Wan protested.

"Leave here I cannot, find me in the galaxy should I leave Palpatine and Vader will," Yoda said in a soft tone.

"Master Yoda, you can help defeat this group, or at least help to protect Luke. If Luke dies, the entire New Jedi Order will die as well. That was why Jacen, Jaina and Anakin were sent back in time, they are supposed to protect Luke and we are going to need all the help we can get. If we can stop the Yuuzhan Vong, we can prevent the Jedi Order from never being reborn," Obi-Wan pointed out his gray-blue eyes narrowing.

Yoda sighed. "Correct you are, stay clear of Palpatine I shall but go with you I will," he said. Obi-Wan nodded before kneeling down and helping Yoda onto his back, with that, he hurried toward his ship and quickly climbed into the Imperial shuttle. He was only lucky the shuttle had weapons or else he might never have made it past the Yuuzhan Vong blockade.

Placing Yoda in the co-pilot seat, the little green dwarf working quickly to try and get the weapons functional, Obi-Wan started the ship up before taking off into the sky. He noticed that the ships that were attacking them looked as they were made out of coral material. They had weapons that looked as though they were far more advanced than weapons Obi-Wan was used to but he managed to avoid many of the blaster fire.

"Are the weapons functional?" asked Obi-Wan.

"Weapons functional they are," Yoda replied.

"Ship coming in at .04," Obi-Wan said narrowing his eyes as he put the shuttle on its' side and Yoda let loose a blaster fire that got the coral like ship and it exploded.

"Flown in battle since the Clone Wars I have not," Yoda said his beady eyes narrowing before he blasted another coral ship, this one didn't explode but it did limp back the way it had come.

A series of fire caught the side of the Imperial shuttle Obi-Wan was flying and he swore. "Blast, I've always hated flying because of this," he complained. "I'm much too old for this."

Yoda let out a small chuckle. "Come, concentrate you will," he said.

"Yes Master Yoda, ship coming in at .05," Obi-Wan said pointing in the direction he had said and Yoda quickly moved the laser in the direction that Obi-Wan indicated and let loose a series of fire that caught the coral ship unaware and sent it spiraling into another ship, causing both of them to explode.

"Two for one, not bad, Master Yoda," Obi-Wan commented.

"Sit around doing nothing during the wars I did not, Obi-Wan," Yoda pointed out as he fired another shot that caught a coral ship and sent it spinning away, clearing a path through the blockade. Obi-Wan quickly flew the ship through the blockade before punching in the coordinates for the Alderaan system and pulling the hyperspace lever. The stars disappeared into starlines which in turn turned into the bluish white flashes of hyperspace as they left Dagabah behind.

~*~

When Vader's shuttle had left the hangar bay of the Super Star Destroyer in the direction of Carida, Luke watched his father go before turning his gaze to Jaina who was standing at his side. Anakin and Jacen were sitting nearby, talking with each other quietly and Luke didn't understand what they were talking about.

"You know, I would never have guessed you looked like this when you were fifteen," Jaina commented and Luke turned to look at her. "Well I guess that's because I'm used to the older version of you, you are a great Jedi in the future and I hope that I won't do something that will cause that never to happen."

Out of curiosity, you said that if we defeat the Yuuzhan Vong, everything will go back on the course it was meant to go on, what exactly does that mean? Luke asked silently.

Jaina stiffened but slowly relaxed and Luke figured she was still getting used to speaking to Luke through the Force. "I don't know, all I know is that when we defeat the Yuuzhan Vong, the future will return to normal. What I'm afraid of is if we defeat the Vong then someone we," Jaina gestured to herself and her siblings, "deeply care about will get killed."

The future is also in constant motion, isn't it? What if defeating the Yuuzhan Vong, driving them back into the future, will end up changing the events that led to your friend's death? What if, because I was born mute and my father wasn't burned, some things in the future will be changed and they can't be changed back? Luke replied silently.

"So you're saying that because you are mute and your father was never burned, something in the future will change and it will be unchangeable," Jaina said phrasing it as a statement.

I would guess so, replied Luke silently.

Jaina smiled. "Do you want to duel?" she asked curiously.

Okay then, Luke replied. He ignited his father's blue blade before facing his future niece and Jaina ignited her purple lightsaber before swinging it at Luke who blocked the blow. He quickly swung the lightsaber toward Jaina's legs but she flipped backwards to avoid the blow before thrusting her saber toward Luke who ducked and blocked the blow.

Anakin and Jacen turned their attention to Luke and Jaina as the two of them continued to parry. By the time Luke and Jaina managed to come to a stalemate, Jacen stood up before walking over to join them.

"You're getting better," he commented turning his brown gaze to his future Uncle.

Thanks, Luke replied silently.

Jacen smiled before stiffening slightly. "The Yuuzhan Vong are here," he murmured.

Jaina frowned and Luke felt her stretch out with the Force. "They are not close by but it would seem we managed to arrive in the past before they did," she said.

Why do the Yuuzhan Vong want me again? Luke asked silently.

Jaina sighed. "Like I said, you are the founder of the New Jedi Order and the New Jedi Order has caused the Yuuzhan Vong a lot of pain when they invaded the galaxy in the future," she replied. "So I figure they want to kill you so that the New Jedi Order never comes to be."

Luke frowned. But how am I supposed to defeat them when I don't have as much training in the Force as my older self? he asked silently.

"You forget that we're here with you," Anakin pointed out walking to his siblings side. "And you have your father as well as Obi-Wan to help you out and, from what your future self has told me, both of them were very powerful in the Force and I think they can help to defeat the Yuuzhan Vong."

I hope so, Luke replied silently.

"Do you want to keep sparring?" Jaina asked.

Sure, Luke replied silently.

As the two of them began sparring back and forth, their lightsabers flashing in the dim lit hangar bay, it wasn't long before Vader's modified Imperial shuttle landed in the hangar bay. Luke was still struggling to fend off Jaina's purple lightsaber when he felt his father's presence behind him. The brief distraction allowed Jaina to get the advantage but Luke still managed to hold his own against his niece.

Remember, Luke, don't let anything distract you, let the Force flow through you and guide your steps. Do not let anything or anyone near or around you distract you from your intended goal, his father's voice sounded in the vaults of his mind and Luke slowly calmed himself. He stretched out with the Force before letting the bright energy flow through him, his eyes narrowed and his lightsaber began flashing back and forth in furious strokes.

Jaina had to leap backwards to avoid the blade, her eyes widening with shock and then she smiled. "Looks like you're getting better at lightsaber swordsmanship," she commented. "Why don't we try a two on one attack?"

Sure thing, Luke said silently. He continued to let the Force flow through him as Anakin leapt into the battle, his blue lightsaber igniting and the blue blade quickly flashing toward Luke who managed to block the blow with his own lightsaber. While the three of them continued to fight, Jacen made his way to Vader's side and watched the fight as it continued to travel throughout the area around the hangar bay.

Luke found himself leaping onto droids and ships to avoid Jaina and Jacen and he was a bit surprised to find himself able to do such a thing. How am I able to do this? He wondered silently.

"The Force is guiding your steps," Anakin said in reply to Luke's statement. He leapt on top of an Imperial shuttle to attack Luke who quickly dodged and barely managed to escape Jaina who had managed to appear behind him.

Luke lost his balance and tumbled down form the ship before he crashed onto the floor of the hangar bay on his back. He got to his feet as Anakin and Jaina quickly leapt at him, their lightsabers flashing rapidly and Luke barely managed to avoid them but both of them caused him to lose his balance. He crashed onto the ground and Anakin and Jaina pointed their lightsabers at his throat.

"That was a good match," Jacen commented.

Jaina and Anakin deactivated their lightsabers before helping Luke to his feet. "This is the first time we've ever been able to best Luke Skywalker," Anakin commented.

Jaina smiled. "But then again, the Luke in the future is much more experienced than this Luke," she added.

I'm right here you know, Luke said silently.

Anakin laughed. "Don't worry, I'm sure you'll become the Jedi Master you are in the future," he commented.

If we can defeat the Yuuzhan Vong, Luke muttered silently.

He glanced up as his father made his way to his side. "You are going to be all right, Luke," Vader said softly. "I will not allow the Yuuzhan Vong to kill you, no matter what." Luke noticed there was something in his voice that made him narrow his eyes. His father was keeping something from him but Luke, for the life of him, couldn't seem to figure out what it was.

"Why don't we head back to Alderaan and check to make sure the Yuuzhan Vong haven't arrived there yet?" Anakin suggested. "I have a feeling the Supreme Overlord of the Vong is after Leia as well as you, Uncle. He knows that if Leia dies, we will never be born and that will be three less Jedi to oppose him when he returns to the future."

Vader stiffened at Luke's side. "Are you saying that my son and my daughter are prime targets of the Yuuzhan Vong?" he demanded.

"Yes, even Han Solo and Mara Jade are targets, if Han dies, we'll never be born, if Mara dies, Luke won't become the Jedi Master he is meant to be," Anakin replied.

What about Father? Luke asked silently. Jaina, Jacen, Anakin and Vader exchanged glances but none of them replied to Luke's question and that, alone, sent a shiver of horror go down Luke's spine.

~*~

Yoda narrowed his eyes as the Imperial shuttle came out of hyperspace near Alderaan before he turned his beady gaze to Obi-Wan. "Here why are we?" he asked.

"We need to think about Leia, Master Yoda," Obi-Wan replied calmly, turning his gray-blue gaze to the little green dwarf. "If Leia dies then the three Jedi that were sent to the past to prevent the Yuuzhan Vong from destroying the future of the New Jedi Order will never be born."

"And young Skywalker? Alive he must stay?"

"Yes Master, the Solo siblings said that if Luke dies then the New Jedi Order will never arise," said Obi-Wan.

"What of older Skywalker?" Yoda asked.

"That I do not know," Obi-Wan replied as he guided the shuttle toward Alderaan. He narrowed his eyes slightly as a Super Star Destroyer suddenly entered the system and Yoda narrowed his eyes as well.

"Here Vader is but why?" the little green dwarf wondered out loud.

"I can't say," the old Jedi Master replied with a slight shrug.

"Imperial Shuttle, where is your destination?" a voice sounded over the comlink and Obi-Wan let out a long sigh.

"He's bound to know we're here anyway," he murmured to Yoda.

"True that is," Yoda said with a sigh.

"Imperial Shuttle to the Executor, we are acquaintances to Lord Vader and we wish to speak to him," Obi-Wan said into the comlink.

"Please hold," the voice said and there was a long moment of silence before the voice came back again, "Lord Vader wishes to speak with you before you land, I will retransmit the communication to his private comlink."

"Thank you," Obi-Wan replied.

It was a long moment before Vader's voice sounded on the comlink. "What do you want, Kenobi?" he demanded angrily.

"You see? I told you he knew we were here," Obi-Wan murmured to Yoda.

"Need your sass I do not," Yoda snapped.

"Sorry Master Yoda," Obi-Wan replied before he turned back to the comlink. "We need to speak with you Anakin."

"My name is VADER!" Vader said angrily.

"Nonetheless, Anakin, things have become complicated. I know that you told me to stay away from you but the Yuuzhan Vong have made their presence known," Obi-Wan replied.

A loud string of swear words echoed through the comlink. "Very well, you may land in landing bay 3, I will await you there with the others," Vader said angrily and then he disconnected the transmission and Obi-Wan frowned.

"He never even questioned the fact that I said 'we' and not 'I'," he mused silently.

"Tell I'm here he cannot," Yoda said and Obi-Wan nodded before guiding the Imperial shuttle on landing bay 3. He shut down the shuttle before making his way out of the ship with Yoda just behind him.

Ben! A loud shout through the Force sounded just before a fifteen year old Skywalker cannoned into Obi-Wan and hugged him tightly.

Obi-Wan chuckled. "Nice to see you again, Luke," he said out loud hugging Luke back.

Luke stepped back before narrowing his eyes as he gazed at Yoda curiously, the little green dwarf was at the base of the ramp gazing around with narrowed beady little eyes. Who's that, Ben? He asked silently.

"That's Master Yoda, he's a Jedi as well," Obi-Wan replied, Obi-Wan could already tell that Vader was angry, the anger flew at him through the Force and very nearly knocked him over.

"Master Yoda," Vader said coolly.

"Darth Vader," Yoda replied his voice equally as cold.

"I am a bit surprised you managed to stay alive this long but then again, Kenobi survived so I figured you would," Vader said.

Yoda narrowed his beady little eyes. "The dark side I sense in you, become a monster you have, like Maul and Dooku before you," he said.

Vader scowled. "Dooku was an idiot who ended up dying and so was Maul," he snapped. "And its' not as if you don't have anger in you, everyone has anger in them. All I know is I am not ashamed for why I became a Sith, I am not ashamed for trying to save my wife's life."

"Caused her death you did," Yoda retorted.

Vader flinched and Luke gazed at him with fear in his eyes. "I tried everything I could think of to save her, I did everything, I sacrificed everything to save her and she resented me for it, she resented me for trying to save her life," he murmured.

"Anakin, Padmé knew from the very beginning that there was good in you, in her dying breath she said there was still good in you. If you would only let go of your anger and your guilt you would understand that," Obi-Wan said softly.

Vader snarled at him. "You know nothing of my life, Kenobi," he hissed angrily. "You turned her against me, you caused this to happen. You were always the perfect Jedi who did everything right and never broke the Jedi Code."

Obi-Wan's eyes flashed with slight anger. "Anakin, you know nothing, you make me out to be an emotionless Jedi with nothing to live for other than the Jedi but that's not true. I have been in love before but my love ended as tragically as yours did. That's why love is forbidden to the Jedi Order because sooner or later your love will end in tragedy," he snapped.

Vader snorted. "You've never been in love," he retorted.

"Siri Tachi."

"What are you talking about?" Vader said his eyes narrowing.

"I was in love with Siri Tachi, Anakin, just as you were in love with Padmé but Siri died just as Padmé died. I know the pain you felt when your wife died, I know it because I blamed myself for her death just as you blame yourself for Padmé's death," Obi-Wan replied.

"Fell in love you did?" Yoda echoed.

"If you do not mind me interrupting but we have other matters to worry about," Jacen said walking over to join them with Jaina and Anakin.

"Hello Solo siblings," Yoda greeted them.

"Hello, I remembered Uncle Luke told us about you," Anakin commented smiling slightly.

"Yes, he said you were a great Jedi Master who taught him much during the waning years of the Empire under Emperor Palpatine's rule," Jacen said.

"But we cannot talk about this now, we have to think about the Yuuzhan Vong. If Luke and Leia die then the New Jedi Order, as well as us, will never come to be," Jaina replied.

"Where are the Vong now?" Vader asked turning his angry gaze from Obi-Wan to Jaina.

"In the Dagabah system they are," Yoda replied. "Protect Leia and Luke we must, work together we must as well."

"I am not working with Kenobi," Vader snapped angrily.

"Then die your son will," Yoda retorted and Vader stiffened before lowering his head and not saying anything in reply. Obi-Wan realized though Vader didn't like him at this moment, his love and protectiveness toward his son will allow him to work with Obi-Wan, even though he didn't want to.

"If it will protect my son and my daughter's lives then I will work with him," Vader said.

"Hopefully enough that will be," Yoda said gravelly and Obi-Wan got the impression that Yoda didn't know if they will be able to win against this new threat and he couldn't help but agree with the wizened old Jedi Master.

A/n what do you think?

Blaze: yay! That was chapter nine

Darth: its' about time

Tigerstar: yup

Palpypie: must…destroy…something!

Tigerstar and Darth: (exchange glances) what's he talking about?

Vader: I told him that he can't use the Death Star for another three years

Palpypie: must…destroy…something!

Vader: well?

Blaze: oh yeah, we are going to start clashing with the events of ANH and the rest of the original trilogy but it will be very different

Vader: how?

Blaze: for one, Empire Strikes Back never happens and most of A New Hope and Return of the Jedi doesn't happen

Darth: what about?

Blaze: I'm getting to that, I do love Anakin very much, Anakin Skywalker that is, but some events in upcoming chapters are going to be hard to write

Darth: yeah, yeah, yeah

Blaze: so please review and I'll post the next chapter as soon as I possibly can