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Accidental Meeting
Chapter Two
I'm in deep Bantha fodder now. Luke thought as he spun away from the screen and began to run back the way he had come.This is impossible! How in the Sith did this happen! I've got to get out of here before I'm discovered!
The whole concept was inconceivable. The very idea would have been met with complete ridicule on Luke's part if someone had mentioned it to him a week ago. However, he had to now accept it as a truth. Luke was stuck in an alternate reality and apparently things had not gone quite along the same track as his.
Calm down Skywalker and think!
Luke thought to himself as he began to slow down from his mad run through the city. He began searching for a secluded place where he could sort out his new dilemma. Finding a convenient alley, Luke ducked into it and hid himself in the shadows.
No wonder that little girl was terrified of me! She thought I was that other version of me, a Sith. Okay, think. First off I have to leave the planet as soon as possible. I don't want to risk my other self or Leia discovering me. I'll just have to chance that the Firestar's engines will hold out long enough for me to get into hyperspace and that I can figure out a way to get back home.
While Luke was deciding what to do he felt a dark presence reach out toward him. His whole body went rigid with shock and he quickly shielded himself from the other's probe. Luke's eyes went wide and he whispered one word, "Father."
There was no mistaking it. The presence had been Luke's father. And Luke noted with dismay that it was still entrenched deeply in the dark side of the Force. Luke felt that his situation had just gone from bad to worse. The only bright spot it appeared was that Luke did not sense the Emperor's presence at all. This of course only meant that he had one less darksider to deal with if he got captured.
Great just great. If the Emperor's dead and Vader killed him then he's even more powerful here than he was back home. I've got to get back to the docking bay quickly before Vader gets the idea to come after me.
Thinking thus, Luke left the alley and began to make his way back to his ship at a fast steady walk.
Aboard a shuttle heading toward Coruscant, Lord and Lady Vader were discussing the strange Force disturbance they had sensed while on board the Executer.
"Sister, I think you are wrong in your theory. It is not possible for the Force to just rip a whole in our universe and then instantly patch it up again." Lord Luke Vader said to his twin sister, Lady Leia Vader.
"Yes, but," she replied, "that's exactly what it felt like was happening out there."
Daughter, Son.
Immediately both siblings halted their conversation and responded to Vader's call.
Yes, father? They said together.
There is a Jedi Knight here on Coruscant.
Shock and anger flowed through the two young Sith.
There is still a Jedi alive! Luke sent to Vader through the Force.
Yes, my son. I only felt him for a moment, but he is extremely powerful. He has shielded himself from me and it will take all of us to locate him. Both of you come to me immediately as soon as you arrive.
As you wish, Father. The twins sent.
We will help you track down and destroy this Jedi. Leia said expressing the feeling both she and her brother felt.
As Luke Skywalker made his way back across the city, he found himself caught up in a huge mass of people making their way toward a landing platform. Well, perhaps not making their way there, but being herded was the more appropriate description based upon the Stormtroopers at the back of the crowd.
I wonder why everyone is being forced here. There are too many people and Stormtroopers for me to make a hasty exit. Maybe I can slip out if I slowly make my way to the back of the crowd.
Luke thought as he began pushing his way through the people around him. Just then he heard the roar of a ship's engines and looked up to see a shuttle landing on the platform above him. As the ramp began to lower Luke's eyes widened as he sensed the two dark familiar presences waiting to descend the ramp.
Just stand still Skywalker. If I keep my shields up, they won't sense me.
Around him Luke heard someone start a cheer for the two cloaked figures walking down the ramp.
"It appears the bureaucrats have done another fine job of rounding up a welcoming committee for us, brother." Lady Vader said to her brother sarcastically as she heard the cheers being started by planted agents in the crowd.
"Yes, indeed Leia." Lord Vader replied to her, but he felt himself become distracted by a feeling in the Force. He stopped walking and stared down into the crowd below him. His gaze stopped on a hooded man.
"This man I know him..." Luke Vader whispered to himself.
He searched the man with the Force but found nothing unusual. However, a feeling kept nagging at him.
"I must see his face." Lord Vader said and used the Force to pull down the hood, revealing the man's face. By enhancing his vision Lord Luke Vader saw an unbelievable site, a face that looked exactly like his own.
"Oh shit." Luke Skywalker said as he stared up into his counterpart's face.
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