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Luke was in shock. How could the Immortal Emperor look like his father? It wasn't possible! The Jedi didn't have long to contemplate his current situation. One moment he had been looking at the Immortal Emperor and the next he was face down on the ground, a lightsaber at his throat.
Venger glowered at the Jedi she held in her grasp. How dare this pathetic excuse of a Force-sensitive attack her master? She would make this Jedi pay in the best way she knew how. A slow and brutal death awaited the Jedi, but first she would make him pay for what he did.
Luke screamed as Venger dragged her lightsaber across his face. The crimson blade singed the delicate flesh of Luke's left cheek. The scent of burnt hair told Luke Venger had just stopped her blade just at his hairline. That would explain the sharp paint he felt in his eye and why he had trouble seeing.
"Venger, that's enough. I still want this one alive." snarled the Immortal Emperor.
Venger turned to her master. The Immortal Emperor had recovered quickly from the unexpected attack. From years of training as his apprentice, Venger knew better than to question her master's inhuman abilities. It was safer for her if she didn't question him.
Reluctantly, Venger released the Jedi. Luke shakily got to his feet, a hand instinctively shielding the damaged side of his face from further harm. The young Jedi turned to gaze the one the Force had sent him to defeat. He only had a few moments to take in the details of the Immortal Emperor's face before he slipped his mask back on.
It sickened Luke that the one threatening the very existence of the Force wore his father's face. Besides the scar his father had over his right eye, Anakin Skywalker and the Immortal Emperor had the same face. But there was one noticeable difference. Instead of having blue eyes, the Immortal Emperor's eyes were stained a sickly yellow from use of the dark side.
The Immortal Emperor's sickly yellow eyes glared at Luke from behind his mask. Luke tried not to flinch at the dark side energy radiating off the Immortal Emperor that began to encircle him. He couldn't show any signs of weakness. If he did, there was no telling what the Immortal Emperor would do to him.
The Immortal Emperor forcibly grabbed Luke's jaw, forcing the young Jedi to look him in the eye.
"I have been to twelve universes and never have I seen a Jedi with your determination. I've killed three other Luke Skywalkers and none of them had your strength. So tell me, young Jedi, what makes you so special that the Force would send you to defeat me?" questioned the Immortal Emperor.
The Jedi remained silent. Irritated at the Jedi's lack of cooperation, the Immortal Emperor backhanded the injured side of the Jedi's face. Luke cried out in pain. Reveling in the Jedi's screams, the Immortal Emperor hit Luke again. Luke was unable to stop the Immortal Emperor from beating him. It was as if every muscle in his body was frozen. All he could do was scream as the abuse of his body continued.
When the Immortal Emperor had had his fill of the Jedi's suffering, he stopped the abuse. Grabbing the Jedi by the front of his tattered tunic, the Immortal Emperor forced Luke back onto his feet. Unable to protest the manhandling, Luke stood on shaky legs knowing he could collapse at the slightest breath.
The Emperor seemed pleased when Luke remained standing. Even Venger had to admit she was impressed with the Jedi's strength. The other Luke Skywalkers they had interrogated in the past had all broken long before this point. Whatever made this version of her Master's son special definitely made him far stronger than any other they had come across thus far. If he became a Sith and joined her Master in their crusade, Venger knew she would no longer be of use to the Immortal Emperor. She would have to do something to deal with this Jedi quickly or she herself would be disposed of.
Ignorant of his apprentice's fledgling plans to kill the Jedi before them, the Immortal Emperor went back to interrogating Luke. Extracting something from his belt, the Immortal Emperor jammed a hypo into Luke's neck. Luke didn't even have the time to scream before whatever was in the hypo began to take effect.
"You have just been injected with a serum I invented. You will no longer be able to withhold the truth from me. Now, tell me why the Force chose to send you to defeat me?" snarled the Immortal Emperor.
With the serum flowing through his veins and his current weakened physical and mental state, Luke could no longer fight the Immortal Emperor.
"I don't know why the Force brought me and my father to this universe. He had just died killing Sidious to save me." muttered Luke.
This intrigued the Immortal Emperor. In none of the universes he had visited (and destroyed) thus far had any form of Vader died from protecting another from his Sith Master. The majority of the universes he and Venger had visited; Vader or Sidious had been ruling a galaxy spanning Empire. And in each of those occasions he had easily disposed of the ruling Sith (be it Sidious or Vader or, in a few rare chances, some other Sith), taken the resources he needed, gathered more troops and moved on to the next universe. In one or two instances he had come across a universe where the Jedi Order had fallen but Anakin Skywalker had stayed in the light. In those times it had been easy to locate his alternate self by attacking or killing someone Skywalker had been close to. It was in those cases that the Immortal Emperor had come across other incarnations of Luke Skywalker before easily disposing of them and any other Jedi he could find.
The Immortal Emperor pressed Luke for more information. Reluctantly, Luke revealed his entire life story to the Immortal Emperor from where it began on Tatooine to just before he was brought to this new universe. It shocked the Immortal Emperor and Venger both to that this single Jedi had managed to turn Vader back to the light side, something that was thought impossible. If this Jedi held such power, it was no wonder the Force had chosen to send him to defeat the Immortal Emperor.
Hoped you like the chapter. Sorry that it's a bit short. The next chapter will be more exciting. Comment if you like the story.