Max awakened in the Dark Room, where the plays with the Force started. And still in force shackles. But this time, there were drastic changes: The maps were replaced by view of battle - Imperial Forces assaulting Arcadia Bay, along with TIE Fighters in the skies. The room was still dark, but this time there was a little more light. And there was more room to move.

Before she could somehow observe the room, the dark voice questioned her, now with a sprink of tension.

"You are a resilient one, Caulfield. But everyone can be broken." Max did know already whose voice it was.

"That's me, Vader." Max answered without hesistation and, to her own surprise, without fear.

Vader stepped a little back. Since their last meeting, Vader put on his long dark cloak and also his chair was away. It seemed their HQ moved elsewhere.

"Your courage may be bold. My master will arrive soon to subjucate your rebel will, Hand." Vader replied with inner hatred. Although Max wasn't much of Star Wars expert, she knew there were almost no secrets between his dark master and his twisted apprentice.

Max, wanting to buy some time, tried somehow to persuade the Dark Lord: "Please, Lord Vader...I will not harm you...Release me, these shackles hurt..."

The Sith Lord took a closer look on the time heroine and noted: "They are sufficient enough to hold you intact. Nice try, Hand."

Then, without either Vader or Max expecting, a click of firing pin sounded behind the Dark Lord of the Sith. He was too tall to hide the person, so Max was "blind" at the moment.

A familiar voice, a voice too familiar to Maxine, then spoken: "Release her!"

"CHLOE!" Max shouted all over the room. It was right, it seems Chloe was not killed either by Jefferson or anyone. How did she get here, Max asked to herself. If Arcadia was swarmed by the Imperials, how could she- Nevermind.

Vader slowly turned on the rebel and saw the gun pointing at him. He did not move a muscle. "You are reckless enough to die here, rebel scum. You are an example of your kind's stupidity!"

"At least I will die for my friend. Loyalty, Love, Friendship...You will never learn these traits!" Chloe replied to the Dark Lord's threat and pulled a trigger.

"Chloe, wait!" Max wanted to stop her best friend from firing, but too late. The bullets were fired on the Dark Lord.

Vader just raised his right hand and turned the bullets into a small firework when it hit his pointed arm. Chloe was absolutely stunned by how the Sith could stop the fire from her gun, but there was no time in asking. In another second, Vader raised his left hand and "pulled" the weapon from Chloe's scared arms. And in final, he Force pushed her with his right hand right against the wall. The punk was not killed, only stunned for a moment. A crack was made into the wall. Then, the Dark Lord crushed the gun by his hole hand like it was made of snow.

"Now, where have we been..." Vader asked and began to turn to Max. Her courage was replaced by fear about Chloe Price.

The mentioned punk was recovering from a head hit into the wall hardly. Chloe checked her head if she is not bleeding and was relieved that the hit didn't make a hole in her own head. Looking around her and watching not to be spotted by Darth Vader at the same time, Chloe was searching for a weapon. She searched every hole, every corner, but nothing. Until she found a strange baton...

"Hmm, this looks interesting." she picked up a baton, stood up and pointed it on Vader. When he was still investigating Maxine, Chloe noticed a small button on the weapon. She pressed it...

And a blue light reminiscent of a saber came out of it. Luckily, towards the Dark Lord. When Chloe realized what is she holding in her hands, she grabbed a weapon with both hands and stood as an amateur swordsman.

When the voice of the activation sounded, the Sith turned on a rebel girl and noticed what was she holding in her hands. He pointed a finger on her.

"That lightsaber belongs to me, rebel! Hand it over!" Vader warned Chloe and started to reach her, but the punk swished with the saber a few times to fend the Dark Lord back.

"Well, it seems it is mine now!" Chloe replied with her rebel accent and swung with the lightsaber again.

The Dark Lord did not move and put his hand under his cloak. "You are playing with fire, girl." And drew out his lightsaber. When activated, a sharp red light came from the hilt. Unlike Chloe Price, Vader was holding his weapon with one hand. "Let me show you how it burns."

And the Dark Lord of the Sith charged on Chloe and their lightsabers clashed and luminated the room for a while. Max was nearly blinded from the light coming from the clashed sabers.

The clash emerged into the fight. After a few seconds, Vader pushed Chloe back with all of his strength and stroke several strong hits. Luckily, Chloe managed to parry all of them, despite she is holding the lightsaber for the first time in her life. It was an excitement and dance with death at the same time for punk Price.

When the Dark Lord slashed from below and Chloe blocked it as well, Vader tipped her off balance and she fell on ground, still holding a lightsaber. Then the Sith smashed with all his strength into the rebel, but it was a close call - Chloe dodged the deadly saber in the last second. The mark of Vader's lightsaber on the floor very clearly to see.

"You cannot win!" The Dark Lord stated and swang with his saber all around him, cutting the old wardrobe near him and Chloe in half and nearly hitting her. Chloe parried next set of Vader's attacks and then she tried to attack.

"Die, you robotic motherfucker!" Chloe cried and attacked wildly on the Dark Lord, but Max had to be the witness of a terrible view: Vader dodged masterly Chloe's charge and without losing time, he stuck his lightsaber through her belly. The punk gasped in pain as the Dark Lord of the Sith lifted her in the air and then throwing her on the other side of the Dark Room, where she died in pain and agony.

"NOO!" Max shouted and tried to free herself from the restrains, but without any success. It was too much painful to see Chloe dying again, and by such a terrible way. Seeing her killed by Jefferson, by Nathan Prescott or even smashed by train or "killing her from mercy" was too much for Maxine Caulfield. If she could only...

Yes. She could rewind to warn Chloe not to attack and save her life. But if she rewinds, won't Vader notice it? If it is truly the creation of the Force, as Yoda mentioned, it could be a threat and a weapon for the Dark Lord. Or even worse...the Emperor.

Fuck it!, Max said to herself and decided not to let Chloe die. Even before Vader could reach the time warrior Caulfield, Max managed to rewind few moments before Chloe's fatal attack.

"Die, you-" Chloe shouted, but Maxine stopped her in time.

"Chloe, wait! Do not charge off like that!" Max shouted on her partner. Chloe should have been amazed, but she only nodded, said "Yes, sir!" and continued in blocking and parrying Darth Vader's attacks. The attacks became more brutal and vicious, but Chloe was getting into the lightsaber dueling like it was in her blood all the time.

Then, for a second, the Sith Lord halted the attack and looked on Max and then on the blue-haired rebel. "Hm, something is amiss." The Dark Lord noted with deep scary mechanical voice.

Vader's note feared young restrained Maxine. Could he think...or know...God. Max thought and started to panic if the Dark Lord didn't find out what is going on.

But it didn't matter for the time being - Sith stroke upon Chloe Price again and now, when their lightsaber clashed again, Vader's blade was slowly reaching Chloe's neck. She wasn't strong enough to stop it, but at least slow it down as much as she could.

"You should have stayed in your pit, rebel!" Vader claimed and continued to push. In a second, Max had to turn the sight away along from the painful last scream of Chloe Price...

"Not again..." Max said sadly to her and really doubted in rewinding again. Not for Chloe, but to keep it secret from Darth Vader. Who knows what would happen if the Sith controlled time...

So Max, scared that she could die, rewinded again to the moment when Chloe's and Vader's sabers clashed. When Max finished with rewinding, he alerted Chloe with a really disturbing and sharp cry.

"Chloe, knee kick!" Max shouted and her rebel friend again listened to her will. Chloe's knee hit Vader's belly so hard he had to step back a little, which gave her a chance to strike. It was a master stroke. Chloe swished through Dark Lord's mask from above, torn apart the left side of Vader's mask and left a part of his burned face uncovered. The Sith Lord has been struck down...until he rises up again, of course.