Here's chapter 10- Light or Dark- hope you enjoy ;-)

Light or Dark

Leia sat alone in the briefing room at the base; it had been over a week since they had attended the speech. Leia was still trying to come to grips with what she had seen, her brother bow in down before the Emperor, the announcement that he was now the Emperors new apprentice. The crew had been stuck on the planet with the rebel base, they had attempted to send out a signal to the remaining rebel forces over the galaxy, but the communicator was damaged and Chewwie was still working on it.

Leia rubbed her hand against her head trying to sooth the pain all the thinking was giving her. Then suddenly the door slid open, "It's finished Princess." Leia didn't turn to the door but she knew who it was, the only person who calls her 'Princess'. She turned to face Han, a new stroke of excitement running through her. "Han that's great. Come we need to send a message." Leia walked alongside Han back to the controls centre, she sat at the desk where the communicator stood, then switched a leaver that turned a large light from red to green. Using the microphone she sent a message throughout the galaxy to the bases. "Rebel alliances, all meet for a conference on the planet Hoth tomorrow. We will wait your arrival." Leia kept the speech short; she didn't want to alarm the others with news of Luke's capture. Anyhow she knew that the mission had to go ahead; there would be wars upon them in days.

Vader stepped back narrowly avoiding being bashed around the head with a metal pipe. The boy was weak but he could still manage to control objects, how? That trick required full concentration, to preform correctly, even so if Vader would have been a second later in his reaction, it would have hit him. "That's impossible; in your state you shouldn't be able to do that." Vader shouted to his son, "Guards restrain him and leave him to me." As the two guards secured Luke's hand behind him, Luke's eyes never broke away from Vader, only when they moved off did Luke look away to see the guards exiting the room.

Up on the throne sat the Emperor, he had witnessed Luke's attack on his father and it was impressive. Luke was strong, stronger than he could ever imagine, indeed the Emperor knew the boy was gifted with the force but not in this way. The training in both the light and darkside of the force had an effect on Luke, something that hadn't affected his father which puzzled the man, he was a master in both and a master in whatever force he controlled beyond the reaches of dark and light. This made him dangerous; the Emperor began to wonder if this could work as an advantage, he had come so far, the final plans were in place and the missing piece was Luke, if only he could get the boy to stay on their side.

He had been watching Vader punish the boy, trying his best to break him, it was slow work and The Emperor grew tired and stood up and walked down the steps to where the boy knelt gasping for air, the boy didn't raise his head, "Luke?" He questioned unsure if he had turned or not. Luke kept his head firmly against his chest. "Luke!" he shouted more determined to get an answer.

Luke drew a large breath of air, and then his breathing became normal once more. He could hear the Emperor shouting his name, but kept his head low; he had to think about his next move. He played out every scenario in his head, but as he puzzled his way through the possibilities a question rose in his mind, what side of the force was he on? Light or Dark? For the last few years he had spent in on the light but for the past week he had spent it on the dark, he knew how it felt to be on either one but this as different, he felt something new, he wasn't on either. Maybe that could explain his father reaction to his attack, had he learnt to master a new force. "Luke!" the Emperor shouted once more but still Luke sat still.

Luke knew that whatever they wanted him for it wasn't for good; he hated the feeling that something so horrendous was going to happen and he couldn't do anything about it, but maybe he could.

The Emperor had nearly lost all patience with Luke. "Luke answer me! Answer me your Master!" He shouted. Then he noticed a stir in the boy as he raised his head, for a moment they both looked at each other in complete silence, and then it was broke by Luke's voice. "You are not my master." Luke added, the Emperor looked down to him, "We'll see to that later, but now you will face the consequences of your defiance, I will see to that matter personally." With that Luke was once gain pulled to his feet, the door slid open as he and his father stepped close to it before proceeding down the corridor on the other side. After a minute or two they came to a split in the corridor, Luke's heart began to race as they turned left instead of right to where his chambers were. As they travelled further the amount of security increased, then they came to a large white blast door. Slowly it opened revealing a large room, in the centre stood large chamber. The chamber was black to match the rest of the room; the large light around the floor of the chamber lit it up with white light whilst red streaks of light surrounded the glass windows a few inches thick. On the side was a door, equipped with a keypad for the cell.

Vader marched Luke over to the door, and without unlocking his bounds walked Luke in before locking the door behind his son. As Luke looked around the room he noticed several cameras that focused on him as he moved from one side of the cell to the other. Without though he unlocked the bounds that fell to the floor behind him. Vader studied his son who looked at him through the glass. "Father this will not hold me. I will break free and I will return the resistance." Then Luke fell silent and focused his concentration on the glass that separated him from his father. As if lightning had hit it the window smashed into thousands of shards of glass before falling like snow to the floor. Luke stepped out of the cell and stood before his father. Vader looked down as the Luke's lightsaber began to rattle on his belt struggling to get free, then suddenly it did and it went flying into Luke's robotic hand.

Vader in reaction removed his own lightsaber from his belt and as he held it a red blade appeared before him, Luke followed the same procedure, then the fight began. Both men went bounding towards each other, lightsaber held high so to strike once the other same into range but fate made the two weapons collide, both weapons equally matched but the strength of one owner out-weighed the other. Both blades interlocked as the two men used all their force to lower the others weapon. Luke's new found strength built up in him, drawing the power from both the light and dark he managed to overthrow his father. Vader landed roughly against the wall, when he sat up he noticed Luke's blade held up against his chin, "Go on, do it, run me through. That's what you want isn't it."

"I will not kill you father." Luke lowered his weapon and stepped back allowing Vader the room to stand. Vader looked to the door of the room, "You should have killed me when you had the chance kid, now you will pay." Luke had only just managed to understand the meaning of these words as the door slid open and an fleet of stormtroopers entered the room. In just moments he was surrounded, "Drop the weapon!" One shouted, Luke looked around at every man, every man with a gun pointed at him, however he would not turn over his lightsaber. "That's and order. Drop the weapon now or we will shoot!" The storm trooper repeated. Then a voice entered the room, "You will not shoot, I want him alive." it was the Emperor. This distracted the men and Luke launched his attack, he went straight for the men closet to the door, he swung his lightsaber, the red blade disarming the men by cutting the nose of their blasters.

The numbers were dwindling and fast, and then Luke felt a sharp pain in his neck. He lifted his hand to the source of the pain, there he found something sticking out of his skin, it was a tranquilliser dart. In a matter of seconds Luke could already feel the drug taking effect before falling to the floor unconscious.

It was nearing noon,, Leia stood before the conference room full of the remaining rebel forces, she was good at making speeches, but at that moment everything slipped and she felt nervous. She was surprised that none of the had asked the question they were all thinking. As the room filled before becoming quite Leia rose to the stage located to the front. "Ladies and Gentlemen from all reaches of the galaxy, I am sorry to announce the destruction of the base upon the forest moon of Endor this has caused a small set back in our plans but I reassure you that everything is under control and the date for the proceedings remains the same before we get into details about the plan, is there any questions?"

Then somebody asked the question she was dreading answering, she turned to a man in the audience who held his arm upright but his elbow still in contact with the table, "Where's Luke?"

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