CONFRONTATION

PART 1. ROGUE FORCE

MARA

She had paid normal citizens to get the information to the Rebel spies and they had followed her instruction to the letter; now Revenant's troops are evacuating Chandrilla. The threat of the Death Star was too much to ignore. With her planet free of Revenant's forces and her revenge on Vader well underway it was time she left Chandrilla. When she got to her ship four Inquisitors and four Hands are waiting. "Darth Jade…We finally found you traitor…"

"Or I let you fools find me."

Lightsabers are drawn, "Surrender or die."

"I choose option three, where the eight of you die and I live." Using the force she force chokes three enemies at the same time. Two hands and one Inquisitor. The rest combine their power and try to hold Jade in place. She breaks their hold throwing them all to the floor, while still force choking the three enemies. Jade leaps up and unleashes force lightening on them all killing them. "A pity…If only they were stronger." She boards her ship and leaves.

CORELLIA

LEIA

"Is it me or is this one bigger than the last one?" Jan Ors asks

"Definitely bigger." Han replies, as Luke copilots the ship. Chewie is on another mission to help liberate his home world of Kashyyk from Vader's forces. He is in joint command with General Syndeulla.

"This is Station control to shuttle please identify and transmit your clearance codes."

Luke uses the force to alter his voice, "This is the shuttle Tyberius transmitting codes now."

"You're cleared for docking in hangar 4…Please be ready for inspection."

"Droids!" Leia says looking through the view port.

Luke nods, "Droids can't be manipulated by force. Mentally anyway." The inspection team boards the ship heavily armed to make sure that there are no spies on board. When it is done, Leia, Han, Jan, R2, and the Droid R5 which is carrying the bomb leave the ship. Luke stays behind to guard it in case there are Ysalamari on board.

The team had already been provided with a holomap by the anonymous source. They make their way to the security room. "Are you authorized to be here." A guard asks.

"We are authorized." Leia says using the Jedi Mind Trick she learned from Luke.

"You are authorized to enter." The guard repeats letting them into the security center.

"Your relief is here you may go."

Han takes the guard's place and Leia enters the security center with her team. Jan throws an ion grenade that disables the security droids in the room. Then she and her teams shoots down the human operators. R2 and 5 are shielded from the ion discharge. A tech soldier plugs a mini computer into the main terminal.

"Alright you now have clearance for main engineering." The tech soldier says.

"Right hide the bodies…R5 come with me." Leia makes her way to the sector 8 turbo-lifts. It will take her directly to Engineering and the main reactor. All critical areas of the Death Star are operated by humans and have Ysalamari in the rooms. The rest of the Death Star is populated with Droids. When Leia arrives in Engineering, she and R5 pass through the security check point and head straight for the main reactor room.

She secures R5 in area near the reactor and leaves. She gives a thumbs up in the turbo-lift to the holo-cam. When she arrives the team makes it way back to Hangar four. They are crossing the floor of the hangar when the alarms sound.

"We have an intruder…Red Alert we have an intruder…The Death Star is now on lockdown…No ships will be allowed to leave."

Leia and her team boards the shuttle. Luke has the ship prepped for takeoff. The ship hovers and they start firing at the Droids in the hangar and at the defense turrets. The main doors to the hangar are closing. Luke points his hand at the doors. "Size doesn't matter." He whispers. Suddenly the doors stop and they are able to fly out of the hangar.

"We got company." Han says.

"Switch over…" Luke says, "I can sense what they are about to do before they do it."

"Cheater." Han replies, causing Luke to smile as he takes the controls. He outflies his pursuers as they widen the distance from the Death Star. The COM beeps as they have cleared minimum safe distance. Leia presses the button on the remote and the Death Star explodes. Then Luke makes the jump to hyperspace.

DARTH REVENANT

The planet Taris had surrendered to Darth Revenant via threat of the Cinder Satellites. He kept his apprentice close because of her force sight. "Master I have news."

"What is it?"
"The Rebels have destroyed the Death Star…"

He frowns, "How?"

"Darth Jade has betrayed Vader as I told you. She supplied the Rebels with the intel they needed to destroy the Death Star…A strike team was sent to infiltrate the Death Star and plant a bomb."
His mind goes into hyperdrive, "We need to secure the Core Worlds or Vader will move in…" He presses the COM, "Admiral Versio."

"My Emperor?"

"Set course for Coruscant."

ENDOR

The Tyberius comes out of hyperspace and lands in the main hangar of the Freedom. Leia's team walks down the ramp to cheers from the Rebels. A feast is held and it lasts a week. Five days after Rogue Force's return the Alliance receives word that Kashyyk has been liberated. Luke watches Leia from across the room. He sighs, as it is time to tell her. "Leia…Hi Han…Leia may I speak with you in private."

"You're not trying to steal my girl are you Luke."

He smiles as Leia hits him, "Han you are one of my best friends and I totally approve of you and Leia." His response makes both Leia and Han frown.

"Thank you…I think."

They find an unoccupied room, "Luke what's wrong?"

He sighs, " Sit down, I have something to tell you. It's gonna rock you to your core. Do you remember your mother? Your real mother?"

"Yes and no…I mean I have seen holo-pics of her. The first time I saw her, I got these flashes…Visions of her. Sometimes she seemed sad, others happy. She was strong like me and fierce about those she loved."

He smiles, "I have no memory of my mother…I was raised on Tantooine…by my Aunt and Uncle."

"I know you told me."
"And I would have told you this upon my return, but there was the mission and I did not want you to be distracted."

"Distracted by what."

He sighs, "I am sure that you have noticed the connection between us."

"Yes I have."

"Leia…You and I are twins…Brother and sister. The force is strong in you as it is with me…Because of our father."

Leia stands up and then sits back down, "I knew we were connected through the force. I have always felt close to you, but I never thought…" She looks at him, "Luke…who is or was our father."

"This is the hard part…His name was Anakin Skywalker…He now calls himself Darth Vader."

"No…no…No!" He outburst causes the ship to shake from an uncontrolled force wave.

"Leia…" Luke warns, "Calm down…Remember what I taught you."

She slows her breathing and closes her eyes as the Freedom goes to red alert. She starts crying, "I want to be alone now."

He sighs, "I have more to say Leia."

"Can it wait?" She asks with teary, red, eyes.

"I'm afraid not. I am leaving again…I am leaving to face Darth Revenant."

She frowns, "Why?"

"Because…I think that by facing him I can turn our father from the Darkside."

"How can you be sure?"

"When I fought him…I felt conflict within him…He hasn't turned to the darkside completely…There is still good in him."

She grabs him, "You are talking like, you aren't coming back."

"Our father is very powerful. But as strong as he is. He has never beaten Darth Revenant…I am stronger than Vader, but when it comes to Revenant…I don't know. If I don't come back. Then you are the last hope for the Alliance."

She shakes her head, "If you are gone who is going to train me?"

He takes her hand, "I am leaving R2 here. He carries coordinates to a planet called Ahch-To. There you will find Jedi Master Yoda…I was with him learning the ways of the force after Yavin."

"Then let me train and then we can face Darth Revenant together."

"Leia…Like me you must learn to give yourself over to the will of the force…Be strong as you always have been." He kisses her on the cheek and leaves.

HAN

Han is talking to Lando when he spots Luke walking out of the room. "Excuse me." He runs after Luke. "Hay Luke! Wait up. What's the hurry?"

"I have a quest that I must fulfill."

"Jedi stuff?" He nods, "So what did you and Leia talk about?"

Luke smiles, "Han…Leia needs you now more than ever."

"Okay."

"Be patient with her…In her own time she will tell what we talked about. You are a lucky man Han and I am proud to call you my friend."

"Me too." He watches as Luke walks off. Then Han goes to find Leia. She is alone and crying, "Are you alright?"

She sniffs, "No." She replies in a whiny voice.

He walks up to her remembering Luke's words, "Come here." He says and holds her in his arms.

"Never let me go."

"Never…I…I love you Princess."

She looks up at him and they kiss. "I love you too…Flyboy."

PART 2. BALANCE

VADER - CHANDRILLA

Before he even received the report, Vader felt the destruction of the Death Star. Grand Admiral Thrawn was on board and so was Governor Tarkin. "Lord Vader our spies say that Revenant has moved his fleet to Coruscant…" Admiral Pallaeon says in a meeting, "If we do not act now we will lose what we have gained in the Core Worlds."

Just then Vader receives a vision of Luke fighting Darth Revenant. "Save our son." He hears the wife of Anakin Skywalker say. In the vision Luke dies.

"Emperor Vader?" Pallaeon says looking at the rest of the officers in the meeting.

"Leave me!" They all exchange glances and slowly leave the conference room. In his mind's eye he sees Luke, older with his former apprentice Darth Jade. They are married and have a son they name Ben. Then he feels a great disturbance in the force. A pain emanating from a familiar presence. "Princess Leia…" He whispers standing up. That is when Vader feels the connection and sees his daughter's birth. "Not baby…babies. Twins! Leia is my daughter."

He leaves the conference room and heads for the main hangar. When he boards the long-range shuttle he pauses as Obi-Wan's ghost is waiting for him. "She was right about you. There is still good in you."

Vader walks past him and sits down, "What are you doing here?"

"I would not be able to appear to you, if not for the ray of light in your heart. Anakin…Anakin…"

"That is not my name!"

"Padme's last words to me…were; Obi-Wan there is still good in you. Let go of your hatred…Let go of the pain…I know you blame me for your mother's death."

"I should have been there! I could have saved her!"

"Yes you could have…And she held on to hope that she would see you again."

Vader starts crying, "Why are you here? What do you want?"

"Even together…You and Luke cannot stop him. Revenant knows things about the Darkside that neither you or Luke are ready to face."

"His Sith Sorcery?"

"Yes but I know things about the force that he does not…Let us become one Anakin and fight him together…As brothers the way we fought side by side many years ago."

"Why are coming to me? Why not offer Luke this gift?"

"Luke was angry with me, after he learned the truth. He told me and Yoda that he never wanted to see us again."

He huffs, "Yoda still lives?"

"Yes he taught Luke the ways of the Jedi, after I became one with the force. Also this merging will kill us both…Luke is the future of the Jedi. So what is it to be? Anakin or Vader…The Light or the Dark?"

He sighs, "Vader is dead…I am Anakin Skywalker…"

Ben smiles, "We will merge when you reach Coruscant."

DARTH REVENANT – CORUSCANT

He is in the throne room. If Vader comes Revenant will be ready for him. His engineers are converting the Cinder satellites into Ion disruptors. Any fleet that attacks will be decimated. "Master…They are coming. Skywalker and Vader together."

He smirks, "Even together the two of them are no match for me. But the Sith must survive…I want you to leave Coruscant."

"But my training Master."

He hands her Darth Bane's holocron and a data-card, "If anything happens to me the Sith will live on in you…Use the holocron to finish your training and if anything happens to me…Use that to find the Temple of Two on the Unknown world."

"Yes Master I shall leave at once."

Revenant issues orders to allow any ship approaching to land in the Royal Hangar. He would kill Luke Skywalker and Vader. Many hours pass when he senses Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker. Guards escort Luke to the throne room. As ordered they do not take his lightsaber. He is alone. He smiles as the door opens. Luke and the guards cross the floor and stand five feet from the steps that lead up to his throne. "The Jedi who blew up my Death Star…Leave us!" He says to the guards.

"Your reign of terror has come to an end."

"Your father Darth Vader could not stop me, Palpatine could not stop me…What chance do you have little Jedi."

"Win or lose…I win…I will become one with the Force. You are doomed to die in darkness." Luke point his hand at a statue and rips it off it's base, hurling it at Revenant's throne. Revenant unleashes a lightning storm at the statue destroying it. Luke ignites his lightsaber and leaps at Revenant. He ignites his double saber and rolls to the side as Luke cuts the throne in half.

He spins low into Luke aiming for his legs. Luke blocks low and does a spin kick. Revenant twists one half of his saber up in the path of Luke's foot. Luke bends his leg at the knee to avoid the damage of losing his leg. They continue their fight as Revenant gets to his feet. Luke rolls to the left of Revenant and stops on one knee. He spins around swinging up and cuts Revenant's double saber in half. Then he leaps up, kicking Revenant in the chest, Luke flips as Revenant goes into a backwards roll and comes up on his feet.

"The ancient Jedi Master Yoda, has taught you well." His words cause Luke to hesitate, "Yes I know of your master…And after I kill you I will find him as well and destroy him."

"There is no emotion there is Peace. You cannot anger me with your idle threats…"

Revenant goes into a blind rage and unleashes force lightning at Luke. He blocks with his lightsaber.

ANAKIN

His ship comes out of hyperspace and flies to the royal palace. He feel Luke putting up a good fight, but the fight starts to change in Revenant's favor. "Anakin…its time." Ben says merging his essence with Anakin's life force and body. Through the merge Anakin gains knowledge of the force. Things he never even dreamed were possible. His eyes glow blue and there is a blue aura over his body. He teleports from his ship using the force.

He appears as Revenant cuts off Luke's hand with one of the tendrils from his ultimate Sith Spell. Anakin points his hand at Revenant unleashing a blue wave of force energy that dispels the darkside shadow spell. "Father!" Luke says on the floor cradling the stump of his hand.

"We are hear son…" Anakin points his hand at Luke and he grows a new hand. "Now leave son…We will handle this."

"We?"

"So you have forsaken the Darkside. How pathetic."

"Your reign is over Darth Revenant…Be gone!" He points his hand at Revenant. He starts to scream as his body glows. Light streams from his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. Blue fire consumes his body and he explodes into a shower of blue and red sparks. "It is done." Anakin says falling to his knees and then to the floor.

"Father!" Luke runs to his side.

"Son…You must leave here…"

"I have to save you.."

He smiles, "You already have…Tell your sister…Not to be afraid of her destiny or the past." His body fades away and as it does, Luke sees Ben. "Ben! No! Please forgive me."

"No…th…ing to for…give…T..he…F…orce…wi…ll…be…with you…always…"

Luke remains in the place he felt his father and mentor fade away for a long time. Then he feels stormtroopers enter the throne room. He summons his lightsaber. "The Emperor is dead…"

"The Emperor is dead.' Captain repeats.

"The Jedi is trying to escape catch him before he does."

"We must capture that Jedi…Come."

Luke uses the Jedi Mind trick to escape the palace and leave Coruscant.

LEIA

The rebel fleet assembles around Sullust. The Rebels are becoming more aggressive against the fractured factions of the Empire. Leia is having breakfast with Han. Then she feels a disturbance in the force. She feels her father die, "Leia are you alright?" Han asks when she stands up and walks to the view port.

With her back to him she says, "My father…my real father, was Anakin Skywalker." Han stands up and walks towards her, but she turns around and stops him by placing her hand in his chest. "He became Darth Vader after turning to the Darkside." He tries to speak, but she places her finger on his lips, "Let me finish…Luke is my brother…My twin brother. He went to face Darth Revenant, hoping that our father would sense it and turn from the Darkside. His plan worked. Vader…or Anakin turned from the Darkisde before he died."

Han waits for her to say more and when she doesn't he speaks, "I love you." He says, "And I don't care who your father was…You are not him. You are a good person. So is Luke…and I am here for you." She smiles and kisses him.