Post # 14-12
The two imperial officers waiting by the turbo lift of the throne room deck, were unpleasantly surprised by a black fuming, very angry Sith, who stormed out of the lift. They stepped aside in haste not wanting to be fodder to his wrath. Once gone out of sight, they turned to the lift. It was filled with shattered glass and the control panel torn out and twisted. With a helpless shrug col. Mark, suggested to his colleague that they use the stairs.
"Your daughter! " Palpatine roared. He was very angry. How dare his apprentice confront him like this.
Anakin was kneeling on the metal floor, his head lowered.
"Think Darth Vader, the significance of that inch long piece of flesh compared to the power over the whole galaxy. I am not obliged to answer to my apprentice or any one for that matter for any of my actions.
"I have worked so hard, to prepare you, to make you strong. So that one day you'll be ready to take over my empire." He paused to let that sink in.
"But you disappoint me!" Palpatine added in a slow menacing tone. Vader knew that tone and braced himself for what was coming.
A blue bolt of lightning hit him square in the face, then another and then another. Vader gritted his teeth and weathered the torture but did not scream.
"Have you already forgotten the fate of your mother?" Palpatine said as he fried the younger man with more bolts of lightning.
"Have you forgotten your miserable past?"
"Would you want the same fate for your daughter or your wife that Shmi suffered,"
Vader's head shot up "No! Master, never!"
Palpatine cackled with glee. The boy had a hard life and harbored a lot of bad memories that he, his master, never let him forget. Reminding him of his harsh past always brought the worst in Vader.
"Very well then, from now on you will do just as I say. You will stay away from that cursed woman. How dare you cut your mission short to visit her without my approval,"
"Vader took in a deep breath. "Master I…I have my needs…I…"
"Enough!" Palpatine screamed in disgust.
Vader looked up. As he looked into his pleading eyes, for a moment Palpatine thought he saw again the wretched boy he'd found on Tatooine ten years before. But Vader composed himself again and his eyes regained its hard glint again.
"You will meet her at my discretion only. You have matters of much more importance than dropping in on your lady love or grooming your nest or protecting your brood." Vader gulped at his master's harsh tone.
"Master I will not go to her unless you ask me to," Vader said, lowering his head again
"You need to learn a lot of things. First and foremost is control of your base emotions. Those emotions belong to the weak-to ordinary men. You are no ordinary man, you are the chosen one, you will bring glory to the Sith." Palpatine said in a softer tone.
"The only thing that you should lust for is power, for there is nothing greater than power, total complete power over the galaxy, over all beings." A pale light glowed in Palpatine's yellow eyes as he said it.
Palpatine cursed again the fact that he'd found the boy too late, if only he'd discovered him while he was younger then his apprentice would not have been diseased with these accursed sentiments. Amidala would have to go.
Not only was she distracting his heir from the greater goal, which was the glory of the Sith and the decimation of the Jedi, but also she was slowly corrupting him with her weak minded ideas. As soon as she'd done her part, he'd get rid of her, but he knew now was not the time. Until then, thought Palpatine, it would be wise to keep the two apart.
The emperor took a deep breath. "There is trouble again on Woshe," He said after a short silence. "You will quell the rebellion there and stay there till further orders. You must ensure the non-stop supply of theoderone ore for our weapons factories in Correlia or this war could end very fast."
"Yes master," Vader replied in a servile tone.
Palpatine raised his hand. Raise my friend. Vader rose to his feet but did not meet the emperor's gaze.
"Now go!" He said dismissing him with a flick of his hand
The two imperial officers waiting by the turbo lift of the throne room deck, were unpleasantly surprised by a black fuming, very angry Sith, who stormed out of the lift. They stepped aside in haste not wanting to be fodder to his wrath. Once gone out of sight, they turned to the lift. It was filled with shattered glass and the control panel torn out and twisted. With a helpless shrug col. Mark, suggested to his colleague that they use the stairs.
"Your daughter! " Palpatine roared. He was very angry. How dare his apprentice confront him like this.
Anakin was kneeling on the metal floor, his head lowered.
"Think Darth Vader, the significance of that inch long piece of flesh compared to the power over the whole galaxy. I am not obliged to answer to my apprentice or any one for that matter for any of my actions.
"I have worked so hard, to prepare you, to make you strong. So that one day you'll be ready to take over my empire." He paused to let that sink in.
"But you disappoint me!" Palpatine added in a slow menacing tone. Vader knew that tone and braced himself for what was coming.
A blue bolt of lightning hit him square in the face, then another and then another. Vader gritted his teeth and weathered the torture but did not scream.
"Have you already forgotten the fate of your mother?" Palpatine said as he fried the younger man with more bolts of lightning.
"Have you forgotten your miserable past?"
"Would you want the same fate for your daughter or your wife that Shmi suffered,"
Vader's head shot up "No! Master, never!"
Palpatine cackled with glee. The boy had a hard life and harbored a lot of bad memories that he, his master, never let him forget. Reminding him of his harsh past always brought the worst in Vader.
"Very well then, from now on you will do just as I say. You will stay away from that cursed woman. How dare you cut your mission short to visit her without my approval,"
"Vader took in a deep breath. "Master I…I have my needs…I…"
"Enough!" Palpatine screamed in disgust.
Vader looked up. As he looked into his pleading eyes, for a moment Palpatine thought he saw again the wretched boy he'd found on Tatooine ten years before. But Vader composed himself again and his eyes regained its hard glint again.
"You will meet her at my discretion only. You have matters of much more importance than dropping in on your lady love or grooming your nest or protecting your brood." Vader gulped at his master's harsh tone.
"Master I will not go to her unless you ask me to," Vader said, lowering his head again
"You need to learn a lot of things. First and foremost is control of your base emotions. Those emotions belong to the weak-to ordinary men. You are no ordinary man, you are the chosen one, you will bring glory to the Sith." Palpatine said in a softer tone.
"The only thing that you should lust for is power, for there is nothing greater than power, total complete power over the galaxy, over all beings." A pale light glowed in Palpatine's yellow eyes as he said it.
Palpatine cursed again the fact that he'd found the boy too late, if only he'd discovered him while he was younger then his apprentice would not have been diseased with these accursed sentiments. Amidala would have to go.
Not only was she distracting his heir from the greater goal, which was the glory of the Sith and the decimation of the Jedi, but also she was slowly corrupting him with her weak minded ideas. As soon as she'd done her part, he'd get rid of her, but he knew now was not the time. Until then, thought Palpatine, it would be wise to keep the two apart.
The emperor took a deep breath. "There is trouble again on Woshe," He said after a short silence. "You will quell the rebellion there and stay there till further orders. You must ensure the non-stop supply of theoderone ore for our weapons factories in Correlia or this war could end very fast."
"Yes master," Vader replied in a servile tone.
Palpatine raised his hand. Raise my friend. Vader rose to his feet but did not meet the emperor's gaze.
"Now go!" He said dismissing him with a flick of his hand
