Chapter 10:
Duel of the Fates Shortened
Approaching the throne room of the Death Star, the Emperor turned in his seat. "Welcome, Masters. It seems I have been betrayed by my former apprentice, Lord Vader." Anakin stood firm. "I am no longer your apprentice, Sidious. I am Anakin Skywalker, son of Leia Shmi Skywalker; father of Luke and Leia; husband of her excellency Padme Naberrie Amidala Skywalker. And to quote an old Master, 'You are under arrest, Chancellor'". Sidious crackled. "You don't know the power of the Dark Side, my former apprentice. It seems to me that you will die." Sidious raised his fingers and blue lighting flew from his fingers. Yoda stood in front of the group, with lightsaber ignited, blocking the bolts, "Not if anything to say about, I have! At an end your rule is, long enough it has been." Anakin signaled the Jedi, "Gentlemen, your swords, please. We don't want to make mess of things in front of the Chancellor; but we do want to make an example of him." Sidious rose from his seat, "It seems we are repeating history, my little green friend. After today, the Jedi will be no more." As if lights were being added to the rooftop, blue figures of men appeared with their bodies restored as if they never died, all with lightsabers on and at the ready. "You want to repeat that, Chancellor?" Anakin asked. 10 Lightsabers were pointed at Sidious and Sidious had no thought of surrender. "I'll fight you all one by one." Just then shots came from the back and a bolt entered the brain of Sidious, "Not today, scum-bag". Everyone turned to see Han holster his weapon. "What?" The Jedi exchanged glances at each other. "That wasn't part of the plan, Captain," Kenobi said. "To kriff with the plan. Let's get out of here." Everyone followed Han to the Command Center. Storm troopers were falling down as blaster bolts were being deflected by lightsabers. Blasters being fired by Han, Chewie and Lando, who came in early. Commander Jerrjerrod raised his hands, "Stop, please. We surrender." "Yeah, right!," Han said as he aimed his blaster, he was stopped by Anakin. "He wants to surrender, let him." Han retrieved his blaster. Anakin looked at the commander. "I was once Lord Vader. You will still obey me as General Skywalker. Is that clear?" "Yes, General," said a frightened Jerrjerrod. "If you wish to keep your lives and the lives of your men, you will order the evacuation of the station, immediately." Jerrjerrod swallowed a lump and turned, "Leuitenant, order the evacuation. Now!" Blaring alarms sounded as men made it to their escape pods. "Go, go, go!" Turning to Skywalker, J said, "I am ordering a self-destruct for 7 minutes. That should be long enough to escape." Anakin acknowledged. "You will be in the custody of Captain Solo and Chewbacca aboard the Falcon." "Yes, General." Han grabbed the man, "Come on, Imperial scum. Let's go."
As the crews were making their way to escape pods, Millennium Falcon took off, with the Emperor's shuttle falling in behind. Victory at last!