A/N: Well...I regret how long it takes me to update my stories. I seem to be really horrible at it. For all of those who reviewed the last section of this story I thank you greatly for your enthusiastic reviews and wish I could have continued this sooner so that you could enjoy it. As I looked back at what I first wrote I realized that I should do some editing on the former posts. Hopefully, now they're a little easier to read but I haven't done any real rewriting of the story so it's not much different. Therefore, if you've already read the first few chapters then there's no need to reread them. You can continue on from here. However, any newcomers to this story ought to be able to read it easier than its original format.

Well, I hope that you like the next installment of this story. Oh, and I hope it's understandable which Luke is speaking. Sometimes it's easier imagining in your head than writing it down on paper.

Disclaimer: I do not own Star Wars but I like to imagine and play in its wonderful universe.

Accidental Meeting

Chapter Four

"A Jedi Master?!" Leia said incredulously. "Don't make me laugh. You are nothing more than a mind conditioned clone."

"I tell you no lie, Lady Leia. I am who I say to be." Luke intoned calmly.

Leia still stared at him disbelievingly while Darth Vader glared down at him on the bunk. Luke refused to shrink under the stares he was receiving regardless of who were giving them.

I am a Jedi Master. I can handle this. I must control my emotions and try not to provoke them.

While Luke Skywalker was struggling to maintain his outward appearance of calm Luke Vader was having no such qualms. Instead he was intently studying the lightsider sitting before him. The words the Jedi had spoken were preposterous but he could feel no deceit in them. This situation was not preceding the way he had predicted.

I need to question this Jedi myself. It is the only way to ensure that he speaks the truth.

"Father?" Luke Vader queried as he walked over to him. "May I question the prisoner? I feel that I may be able to gather the answers we seek from him."

"As you wish my son," Darth Vader replied, "but be wary of Jedi tricks. Your sister and I will remain here in case you have need of us." Luke Vader nodded and his father and Leia moved to the back of the cell never taking their eyes off of the self-proclaimed Jedi Master.

"Tell me the truth. Skywalker is a dead name. No longer are there any alive that carry it. You cannot be what you claim to be. Where did you come from and what is your purpose here?" Luke Vader demanded to his counterpart.

"I am speaking the truth I am not from this universe. I was traveling to Coruscant when there was a disturbance in the Force and I was knocked unconscious. When I awoke, I was just outside of the planet and believed it to be my version of it. However, I discovered that was not the case when I landed. Trust your feelings Lord Vader they tell you what I say is true." Luke spoke solemnly to the Sith in front of him finally regaining control of his roiling emotions.

Luke's choice of words came back to him and he thought wryly that those were nearly the same ones his father had spoken to him when making him confront the truth. Not able to resist the urge Luke quickly stole a glance at the healed form of his father standing at the back of the room.

I never imagined in all my years that I would see my father again until I became one with the Force. It was unsettling for Luke to look upon him and see only disregard and contempt whereas the last glimpse of his own father had shown feelings of pride and love.

Focus, Luke. I must convince them that I mean them no harm and merely wish to return home. Hopefully this will prevent them from killing me. I couldn't bear it if I died here unable to see Mara, Leia, or Han again. He thought privately to himself.

Luke Vader narrowed his eyes at the Jedi but could not deny what he had said. This could go on no longer. He needed answers and needed them now. In order for me to believe this Jedi's claim I must take extreme measures.

"This questioning is going no where. I require proof of what you are saying and I know of only one way of having your tales validated."

Luke Skywalker was puzzled by his counter part's statement and didn't understand his intention until he felt hands being placed on either side of his head. Pain rippled through him as he felt a barrage of dark energy attacking his mental shields. Normally he would be able to repel such an attack but he found himself weakening to the other's force assault. It was almost as if his mind felt the other's presence belonged there as well.

"No, please stop." Luke whispered.

The Sith's attack was targeting his memories. Luke held no control as he felt all of his barriers collapsing. The memories of his life began to flit around inside his mind and he could feel them as vividly as the first time he lived them. Luke was not prepared for this and knew that the memories would overtake him.

"No!" He shouted but could do nothing as his last barrier melted away and he succumbed to the maelstrom his mind had become.

Luke Vader smiled triumphantly as he felt all of the lightsider's mental shields crumble before his assault. However, he did not expect the turmoil the Jedi's mind would be in and found himself being sucked into the whirlpool of memories his attack had unleashed. His breath hitched as he felt his mind link completely with his other on the bunk and he fell into one of the past memories of his doppleganger.


It was hot, very hot. Twin suns were beating down on him but Luke didn't notice, didn't care. All that did matter as he raced home aboard his speeder was that he get back in time for Aunt Beru and Uncle Owen...


Smoke was billowing out from the homestead. Panic gripped Luke as he looked frantically around calling for his Aunt and Uncle. His voice left him when he spotted the charred black skeletons sprawled out on the sand. He had been too late, too late to save them. Grief washed through him and then quickly following it was anger and then a cool determination. He would avenge them, the people who had raised him and the father he had never met. He would leave with Ben and fight to stop the senseless killings the Empire bestowed upon its citizens.


Flying down the trench and quickly closing in on the target. There was no time to grieve over Bigg's death, no time to worry about the TIE fighter closing in on him. Just that exhaust port and the voice of Ben telling him to let go...


Luke smiled widely at Han back at the base. Han had come back to help him when he needed it most and now the evil Death Star was destroyed. All of the fighter pilots who had lost their lives had not done so in vain. The Rebels had achieved their first major victory over the Empire and Luke felt proud to have been a part of it. He may have lost all of his old life but maybe here in the Rebellion he could build a new one.


It was cold, so very cold. Luke had not liked the frozen planet ever since they first started setting up the Rebel base on Hoth, but now that he was out exposed to the raw elements of the unforgiving climate he wished he could be back home with his Uncle Owen scolding him and his Aunt Beru calmly comforting him. Maybe if he closed his eyes, he could see them again, maybe he could pretend to be back on Tatooine where it was nice and warm. "Luke...Luke" A voice was calling him insistently when all he wanted to do was rest. Luke slowly struggled to lift his head to see the speaker and surprisedly whispered "Ben?"


Searing pain flowed through his arm and mind. He had lost not only his hand but the only link he held to his father, his lightsaber. He had to get away. Away from the black demon before him who had caused him so much pain. First his father, then his Aunt and Uncle, his mentor Ben, and finally Biggs. He'd never join the evil Sith Lord before him no matter what he said. That is until Vader uttered five simple words which shattered his entire universe. "No, I am your father."


His sister, his dear twin sister didn't understand why he was leaving. "There is still good in him. I felt it. I can save him. I can turn him back to the good side." Leia's eyes still held confusion and shock. He knew that it would take her time to realize the truth he was speaking of their father. He himself had needed that same time after Bespin to adjust to the knowledge of being Darth Vader's son. But he knew now that inside Vader was not just a monster, once he had been a man known as Anakin Skywalker. A man that had been his and Leia's father. And he knew that somewhere inside the black shell of darkness Vader wore some light of his old self still existed. Luke was determined to reach it to save his father from the evil that the Sith Lord had succumbed to even if it cost him his life. "I have to try."


"You were right. You were right about me. Tell your sister you were right..." Luke knew his father was dying could feel it in the Force that surrounded them but he still pleaded not wanting to lose the man he had fought so hard to save. "Father please! I won't leave you!" Luke bowed his head as his father's presence faded fully and knew that he was gone. Tears trickled down his cheeks but once again now was not the time to mourn. He would not break the last vow he had made his father though. He would not leave him to the fiery destruction of the second Death Star. Determined Luke struggled up the ramp of the shuttle taking the body of his beloved father with him.


"Father! What's happened to him!" Leia Vader cried as she hurried over to where her brother stood frozen, his hands holding tightly the head of the Jedi Master on the bunk. Both men's faces an exact mirror of the other with their eyes shut tightly while movement could be detected of them moving rapidly underneath.

"When he broke through the shields, his mind linked completely to the prisoner's. Luke was too rash in his attack." Darth Vader said quietly as he came to stand by the pair on the opposite side of Leia.

"We must separate them father! Who know what that Jedi clone's mind could be doing to him." Leia spat as she reached forward to move her brother's hands off of his double on the bunk. Vader quickly seized her before she could carry out her action and placed her hands back at her sides.

"I know, Leia but we must not jump into this." Vader admonished. "The force bond between them is so strong that if we upset their link it might cause damage to either of their minds. We cannot simply pry them apart."

"But father!" Leia spoke in protest, however, Vader silenced her with a look.

"Right now your brother is not in any danger. I would sense it if he was. Together you and I will have to slowly work to separate both of their minds. Otherwise, the consequences could be disastrous."

Even though Leia was still seething over the foul trick the Jedi had pulled her twin into she took a calming breath. Storing her anger for later use, she refocused on her father with a determined air.

"Yes, father. Tell me what I must do."


A/N: Looks like the Lukes are on a trip down memory lane. : ) I promise I'll get around to revealing how Leia and Luke went all evil in this universe and what happened to their respective spouses. It's just taking me longer than I thought. Well, if you enjoyed please review!