A/N: yeah i'm lousy at updating, many apologies! Hope your all still reading :S
"Damn it!" Kaden swore over an hour later. "They have us completely cut off from the ship!"
"Could you launch it remotely? Set it down in the desert?" Luke asked pulling Kaden out of sight so they could stop for awhile.
"Sure. Would you like it to get you a drink at the same time?" Kaden muttered sarcastically.
"Very funny." Luke whispered.
"What was so important about that message?" Kaden asked.
"Later." Luke tried reaching out with the Force to locate their pursuers.
"We may not have much 'later'." Kaden argued.
"Bit busy now." Luke shot back. He went to start running again when a wave of Force energy knocked him to the ground.
"Kaden!" He yelled and tried to sit up.
Kaden tightened his grip and leaned over to pull the contact's datapad out of Luke's belt and flicked it on.
Luke watched his face go white.
Kaden tossed the datapad back at him and glared.
"When were you planning on telling me? Or was there no point seeing as your over-due to hand me back over to your rebel friends!" Kaden yelled.
"Kaden calm down! Of course we were going to tell you we just wanted to make sure!" Luke tried to calm him. He felt Kaden's hold on him slip and quickly got to his feet.
"'We' meaning you and Kyle? Was Jan in on it as well?" Kaden's had stopped yelling but his eyes revealed his true feelings.
"There is no emotion, there is-" Luke began.
"Shove it!" Kaden snapped.
"Well Master Skywalker." A rough sounding voice interrupted them. "You have given us quite the run around."
Luke turned to face the man speaking to him.
Four troopers flanked the tall man in a grey Imperial uniform.
"I hope we aren't interrupting." He continued.
"Well it's always been one of your many flaws." Kaden said sarcastically.
"You know this man?" Luke asked.
"Luke meet General Tythus, career focused bumbling buffoon who will do anything for a pat on the head." Kaden glared as he spoke his hand moving to his lightsaber hilt.
"It's Admiral now. And you're going to be stripped of your rank I'll see to that! I would have expected that the Emperor's kath hound would know better then to turn on his master!" Admiral Tythus snapped back.
"Oh no! Stripped of a rank I abandoned...What will I do?" Kaden snapped sarcastically as he activated his lightsaber.
The surrounding troopers lifted their weapons.
Luke was concerned to see that many of them where focused on nearby civilians.
"Hand over your weapons and no one will get hurt." Tythus smirked.
"Come over here and take it!" Kaden threatened.
Luke dropped his lightsaber to the ground.
"Kaden it's too crowded here." He said quietly.
Kaden gripped his saber tighter.
"Kaden! This isn't helping you." He said pointedly.
Kaden glared at Luke for a moment before he switched of his saber and dropped it.
"Good boy." Tythus gloated.
Two troopers stepped forward and cuffed their hands behind their back. Another retrieved their lightsabers.
Tythus walked forward.
"Sir look out!" one of the troopers called out.
Before he could react Kaden had kicked him hard.
The trooper holding him pulled him to the ground.
Two other's shot him with stun blasts.
"Keep him like that until we hand him over!" Tythus yelled.
During the commotion Luke had used the Force to pull Kaden's small remote from his utility belt.
At the very least he could launch the Relentless II and get some help.
"Kaden!"
Kaden sat up. He could see nothing except for the inky black clouds rolling around and the man opposite him. Sometimes his father appeared like this. But the speaker wasn't his father.
"Well stand up let me see you." The man said.
Kaden got up slowly.
"Your definitely her son even though you look like your father. I can see her in you." He said sounding a little sad. "You have her look of pride and defiance. Not Jedi traits."
"Could you…er…stop describing me? It's disturbing." Kaden muttered..
The man responded with a withering glance.
"Mind if I ask who you are?" Kaden asked a bit uncomfortably.
"Do you have to ask?" he asked sounding disappointed.
Kaden focused his thoughts.
"You're my grandfather, Count Dooku or do you prefer Darth Tyranus?" Kaden finally said.
"Even in death redemption is possible through the Force. I'm not entirely there yet." Dooku said to him. "I still believe in what I fought for, don't go thinking that I let Palpatine use me to that degree!"
"What are you doing here?" Kaden asked.
"Because no one else can reach you. That arrogant Imperial has employed some kind of device to make it difficult to reach the two of you. It seems that some of the paths I can travel are uneffected. Of course your friend will never be open to those ways." He explained.
"'The Dark Side leads to many abilities that some consider to be unnatural.'" Kaden quoted one of Palpatine's favourite teachings.
"Speak one of those sayings again and I'll be forced to strangle you with my own hands. Grandson or not." Dooku said firmly.
Kaden could feel the anger rolling off him.
"Kaden in under an hour you and Luke will awaken. And it will be too late. Palpatine will be there and you must kill him. I don't care why you do it or which die of the Force you use but he must die for what he has done. He won't be able to come back this time." Dooku assured him. "We can make sure of that."
"Welcome back young Kaden. It's been some time..." Came a familiar raspy voice.
"Palpatine…" Kaden said as he met the gaze of his former master.