Okay! I'm back. George Lucas. Gotta love the guy. He owns starwars. Me? I own nothing.

Dack moved, avoiding Luke. He parried, and then ran around the reactor shaft. Luke and Dack faced each other, both equally angry, the reactor shaft between them. Dack barely had time to wonder why the Throne Room was in the room with the reactor shaft before Luke lunged at him and started attacking him.

The darkside had made Luke powerful. Or maybe it was just that Luke wasn't actually trying to kill him the first couple of times. Luke was definitely trying to kill him this time. His eyes were flashing dangerously, and Dack just barely managed to avoid getting sliced in half.

"You see?" Palpatine's gloating voice echoed across the room. "He is better than you! But now you will die a violent death, Ralter!" laughing evilly, Palpatine settled down a little more comfortably. Terrible anger welled up inside Dack, seeing that old despot watching this as if were a spectator sport! He called on the darkside, on all his memories, particularly the last one. And as the vision of Luke walking away turned into Luke running at him, Dack could take no more. With a feral yell he charged to meet Luke halfway. Lighstabers clashed, limbs flailed, and hatred swirled around the room, a destructive cloud. Luke kept on hacking at Dack's saber. Somewhere in the middle of it all, Dack heard Luke repeating.

"You killed my parents, and now Leia and Han are dying because of you! I hate you!"

Hearing this, Dack backed away, laughing, almost hysterically.

"You idiot! You fool, Luke, you think I killed your parents?" laughing more, he shook his head. "You seriously think, I killed Darth Vader?"

"You know you did! Don't deny it Dack!"

"You know what? I don't care if Leia and Han are dying. And your dear dad? I did worse than kill him! I turned him back to the light side!"

Wedge was entering coordinates into his navi computer, but all he could do was shake his head. Hobbie, flying alongside him, turned on his radio.

"Something wrong with your computer, Wedge?"

"No, it's just…" He turned to look across at Hobbie. "I just…I have a bad feeling about this."

"So do we all. We'll be fine. We'll blow up the Death Star, kill Palpy and avenge the Princess and General Solo!"

"You do realize who else is bound to be on that station, don't you?"

"Who?"

"Dack!"

"You mean, Admiral Ralter, don't you? He's not one of us anymore Wedge, we can't help it if he gets in the way."

Wedge said nothing in response.

"Besides," continued Hobbie, "they'll have that shield generator down, and we'll be in and out in five seconds flat."

"That's another thing. It's not that I don't have faith in his abilities, but I don't think the Major's going to be able to take that generator out."

"Personally, I agree with you, but we'll find out when we get there. Gotta keep hoping, right?"

"Yeah. We could sure use Luke right about now."

"I know! I can't believe he bailed on us."

Just then his computer beeped. "Good luck, Hobbie," Wedge turned and gave Hobbie a smile.

"See you on the other side," said Hobbie, smiling back.

And then, in the blink of an eye, they were gone.

On Dagobah, Anakin sat meditating. Something big was happening, and that dark cloud at the back of his mind was about to burst. He was in a trance, trying to see what was going on. He didn't know, but he had a strange feeling it was something to do with his son.

The fleet came out of hyperspace. They could read nothing, absolutely nothing. It took them a few seconds to realize that the shield was still up. Somewhere in the large crowd, in two x-wings, two certain pilots cursed.

"What?" for a moment, Luke looked taken aback. He backed up a few steps.

"No!" screamed Palpatine. "He cold bloodedly murdered your mother!

"What?" It was Dack's turn to be surprised. In his lapse of concentration, Palpatine pulled Dack's saber from his hand and threw it at the carbonite slabs. It sliced neatly through the top of both slabs.

"NOOO!" Luke screamed.

OH! Cliffhanger! Oh! Originally this was part of the next chapter, but I decided to post this as a teaser! Muahahahah!