Chapter 5-Loose Ends Fixed

Before Luke and Vader left the home of the Amidala's they used to the Force to wipe their presences from their sight and minds. That way no one could trace them back to the Amidala's or why they came to their residents in the first place. "When we get back I'll have the medic droids repair your lost hand with a prosthetic one. It will look like your old hand, but will have a much stronger grip like mine does," said Vader as they got on board the shuttle and headed back to the Executor for more repairs and training.

"That...and I need to make myself a new Lightsaber since I lost your old one in out little skirmish back at moms old home," said Luke feeling the pulses of pain echoing from his wrist that was hidden under his Sith robes.

"Of course and with the proper tools you will make one that reflects who you are and not what I once was," said Vader as they sat down in their seats as the Imperial pilots of the shuttle took off back to the Executor.

(Dagobah)

The 900 year old green dwarf named Yoda, who was once a member of the Jedi Council and a full fledged Jedi Master. Of course that was no longer the case anymore as he sat in meditation secretly following the current of the Force without the Emperor realizing it. To him his heart had been filled with hope and regret when he first sensed Luke entering the ways of the Force with the intensity he had not felt since the boy's father. Much to his dismay that the son had fallen to the Dark Side of the Force like his father even if wasn't ironically the Dark Side of the Force that drew him to it. No for it was the knowledge he wanted to learn involving his family legacy that did it. That and the hatred for the man who Obi-wan claimed murdered the boy's father who was in fact his father. It was more then enough to give the old Jedi Master a Death Star sized headache as he stayed focused in his meditation. "Most troubling this is. Luke knowing that Vader is his father he now knows. Makes the two even stronger with this bond it does. More dangerous, then before I sense through the Force. Such strength goes beyond the Emperor I believe. What to do?" said Master Yoda out loud only to sense Obi-wan's spirit appear before him.

"I'm sorry Master Yoda I should have told Luke the truth about his father," said Obi-wan knowing he was mostly to blame for this outcome.

"Not your fault it is. Had young Skywalker learned the truth seek out his father he would. Then galaxy would be in greater trouble sooner...then later," said Yoda as he got up with his cane in hand and walked over to his escape pod he used to get to Dagobah.

"You can't fight them all Master Yoda you've been away too long and do not have the strength that you used to," said Obi-wan as if he knew what Yoda was thinking.

"Size matters not Obi-wan. I taught you that I did. During your years as a young Padawan I remember those words to you I said," said Yoda as he checked the power cells on his space pod to see it still had enough power to get to his destination.

"I know Master Yoda, but still Vader and the Emperor were bad enough, but now you have Anakin's son thrown into the mix will make this near to impossible to fix," said Obi-wan wishing he still had his body in its prime so he could fight beside Yoda.

"Do what I can I must. Assist the Rebel's I shall on Hoth I will. Help them against the impending attack that is to come at them I must," aid Yoda as he checked punched in the coordinates of Hoth before sealing up the pod with him in it.

"Hoth? But if they are going to be attacked Master Yoda then Vader will most likely lead the campaign! You don't even have a Lightsaber!" said Obi-wan who couldn't believe an Old Republic Jedi Master and General without a Lightsaber, whose power in the Force had declined, and credentials that were nearly 20 years old would help the Rebel Alliance in anyway.

"Trust in the Force I do Master Obi-wan. Just as should you trust in me that you should," said Yoda as the pod sealed up all the way before taking off.

"The last time you said that Master Yoda was when we decided to make Anakin a Jedi Knight and look where that got us," said Obi-wan knowing this was going to be a coin toss of a win with only a half chance of actual success.

(Space-Executor)

R2D2 was still at the plug-in terminal he was at when he first got on board the Executor for the past 3 standard days. He had secretly up-linked himself to the COM area of the Super Star Destroyer and given himself the name dubbed 'The New Guy'. He set up a program to make it look like there was a rookie COM officer at the control of one of the primary or secondary COM stations not knowing that supposed officer named 'The New Guy' was really an astromech droid in the hanger of the Executor. 'So far so good now I just have to make sure the Alliance picks up the ships coordinates so they know where it is,' thought R2D2 though the Super Star Destroyer he believe was much more tricky then the Death Star was when he sliced his way through that system.

R2D2 was so deep in his thoughts that he didn't realize that a certain shuttle caring two specific individuals had just arrived in the hanger he was in. "I will have the necessary components needed to make your new Lightsaber for you when you get your prosthetic hand is secured to your wrist my son," said Vader as he walked down the ramp first with a small legion of Stormtroopers standing at attention on either side.

"Thank you father I will see to that afterwards and..." aid Luke, but stopped when he felt something in the back of his skull pin pricking him saying something was wrong.

"What is it my son?" said Vader who noticed his son was troubled by something from the look on his face.

"I don't know I have this annoying pain in the back of my head I can't get rid of that has just appeared. It's almost as if something in this hanger is out of place," said Luke as he now started looking around past the Stormtroopers looking for what was out of place.

'Uh oh! I think I'm busted,' thought R2D2 as he swiveled his head around slowly to see Vader and Luke looking around for what was wrong.

"Lord Vader. I need a moment of your time," said an Imperial officer that looked to R2 like the rank of a Lieutenant.

"What is it Lieutenant I am busy and have NO TIME for incompetence nor does my son for that matter," said Vader making the officer pale into a new shade of white.

"Yes...I...I understand Lord Vader, but it...it seems we have a small...communications type breach on board the Executor...my Lord," said the Lieutenant who was slightly glad he wrote out his last wishes before coming on board before it had gone into space the last time it had docked on a planet.

"What type of communications breech are you referring to?" said Vader as his vocoder like voice dripping with venom.

"The COM station as the recording of a 'The New Guy' listed as the one responsible, but no one on board is new to the ship and everyone in the COM unit of the station as been checked and found that none of them are this 'The New Guy'. We've been trying to work on it since you left sir since it was discovered shortly after you and your...son left for the planets surface," said the Lieutenant who knew that lying to the Sith Lord was a one way trip out the airlock without a pressure suit on.

"How long has this been going on?" said Vader as Luke was using the Force to locate the source of the irritation he felt in his mind that he was feeling and was moving closer to it.

"About 3 standard day's sir including today," said the Lieutenant who mentally braced for the pounding to come from the Sith Lord.

As luck would have it Luke found the source of the problem in the form of a cornered, scared, and caught red handed astromech droid named R2D2. "Father! I found the source of the problem and you won't believe who or rather what it is," said Luke with a smile on his face behind the Sith robes hood that went over his head.

Vader walked up to where Luke was and discovered what he meant when he recognized the astromech droid from the days of the Clone Wars. "I see what you mean my son. It has been some time R2D2 I wondered where you were after Mustafa, but here I find you're here. I hope you weren't doing anything as to give away the position of this ship now? Were you?" said Vader as a few technicians came up to the two with translators in hand so they would know what the astromech droid was saying.

R2 let out a few beeps and whistle as he shook his head from side to side as if to say 'no' to them. "He's saying: 'No I didn't do anything please don't hurt me masters,'" said the technician looking down at the translator before looking at R2.

"You're lying to us R2. You sliced through the Death Star's system when we tried to find Leia and you told Obi-wan where to disable the tractor beam that held the Falcon in its place," said Luke shaking his head slightly at R2's lie.

R2 beeped and whistle again with more frantic head swirling left and right then before as I he were going to have a massive heart attack (if droids could have heart attacks). "He says: 'I'm sorry I lied, but I'm just doing what I thought was best since I thought you wanted your friends to know where you were all right,'" said the Technician who raised an eyebrow of curiosity that didn't go unnoticed by Vader.

"Leave the droid to me my son I suggest you go get your hand fixed while these two technicians get you the required Lightsaber parts you need," said Vader as he took the translator from one of the technicians and the other who was too afraid to argue left without a word while other did the same shortly after.

"Of course father. Just don't destroy R2 yet he may be of some use to us. Besides I think C3PP would miss him," said Luke as he left with a small Imperial escort to the med lab for treatment.

When Vader saw Luke was gone he turned his attention to R2 who was slightly vibrating as his own version to a humans shiver when they know fear. "Now my friend you and I are going to have a little...talk and if you lie to me or disobey me...(ignites Lightsaber) I'll have to destroy you like I do the practice droids I use for Lightsaber practice," said the voice of the all mighty Darth Vader that made R2 do a droids version of a standard type human whimper.

'I miss C3PO. Why couldn't he be here instead of me?' thought R2D2 as the shadow of Vader as well as the bulk of Vader's body blocked his dome shaped droid body from the view of others.

(Hoth-One Standard Month Later)

It was one thing to have Meteorites coming down and blasting the icy planet of Hoth on the far spec like areas of the planet away from the Rebel base. But it was another when a space pod that came down with the force of one of them right outside their base was an entirely different thing all together. Especially, when inside of the space pod was a green dwarf of an alien with a slightly twisted cane being used as a crutch to get across the icy and harsh frozen landscape. Yoda was not surprised they thought of him as a hostile before lowering their weapons at the behest of his old friend Chewbacca who verified that Yoda was in fact a Jedi Master from the Clone Wars. "I don't like it," said Han as he thought of one religious hermit was bad enough, but now the friend's religious alien of a dwarf was even worse.

"What do you not like about him Han? According to Chewie he was one of the best of the Jedi Master from the Jedi Council. He is possibly the most wisest and oldest out of all of them considering he's lasted this long," said Wedge who were in the cafeteria, which was possibly the warmest part of the entire base.

"Yeah well if he's so wise and powerful then why wasn't he around when the Empire took over? I mean according to Chewie he's about 900 years old! For all we know he could keel over at anytime during a skirmish from a heart attack. I don't know about you Wedge, but blaster in hand, Chewie getting my back, and I can come out of any fight unscathed.

"Except when it comes to the Princess right?" said Wedge getting in a cheap shot as he remembered how Chewie told him how Leia shoved him out of her room aboard the Enlightener.

"Why you little..." said Han only to mumble something in the tongue of a Hutt.

"Han I need you in the conference room Master Yoda needs to talk to all of us in regards to Luke," said Leia.

"All right let's see what 'Master Yoda' wants with us then?" said Han sarcastically as humanly possible as he got up from his chair and headed to the conference room.

(Corusant)

The Super Star Destroyer Executor docked at the Corusant's private Imperial spaceport where all Super Star Destroyers as well as other Imperial ships docked. Vader and Luke went down the auto-ramp where the Emperor and his red royal guard escort were now patiently awaiting them. "Ah Lord Vader and young Skywalker walking to together side by side like father and son. Is sense BOTH of you have gotten stronger while away on missions when not training. Good I am most pleased with you both," said the Emperor as his two loyal Sith kneeled before him.

"Yes master it was a most enlightening experience for the both of us and I believe my son is ready to be now taught under your great care," said Vader who knew the reason why Luke had gotten stronger at such a quick amount of time, which was due to his ever growing son constantly wanting to train with him and pushing himself so hard to receive his approval.

Needless to say he had ten fold and even the Emperor had to admit the boy's thirst for approval impressed even him. Not only did the boy grow stronger, but somehow Lord Vader did as well as if the bond between the two worked both ways making them both more powerful then before. "Indeed Lord Vader I sense he is more then ready however, this also means that he needs a Sith name to go by before he can begin his training under me," said the Emperor as the two Sith rose from their kneeling position to face their dark master.

"What name will I have my masters?" said Luke addressing both the Emperor and Darth Vader as to show he was loyal to both and not either one.

"From here on your Sith name shall be...Darth Vicious," said the Emperor smiling at the newly named apprentice who bowed slightly towards the Emperor.

"Now that my son is under your care master I assume you wish me to pursue and locate the Rebel's in hiding," said Vader knowing his son was in the capable hands of his Sith of a master.

"Yes Lord Vader and you will start with the backwater planets that make idea spots for rodents such as these. I have found another tremor in the Force, but unlike your son it is a familiar presence that I have felt and fought before," said the Emperor frowning.

"Who my master?" said Vader who was now curious as well as Luke was.

"That old fool of a Jedi Master Yoda, who I fought before I saved you from death on the planet Mustafar. His body was never recovered after our fight so I had assumed he was still alive. His Force signature appeared for a brief moment of a flicker in the Force, before masking itself on some unknown backwater planet. No doubt he is trying to fight beside the Rebellion to give the hope no matter how hopeless the cause they fight for is," said the Emperor angrily at the fact the Rebellion now had that particular Jedi Master in their ranks.

"When I find Master Yoda I will defeat him my master. He will not get away from me," said Vader as he bowed and left to take care of the matter by sending out probe droids from the slowly scattering Imperia fleets as well take to the Executor to pursue his own leads that come to him through Imperial Intelligence.

"Father should be careful. I'm sure there was a reason Yoda has lived as long as he has," said Luke who turned to see his father leave him and the Emperor's presence.

"Indeed Darth Vicious. I know first hand how dangerous the Jedi Master Yoda is and even I was most fortunate to survive the battle we had. Darth Vader maybe strong, but like all living things is not invincible," said the Emperor who motioned his apprentice to follow him with the Royal Guard.

(Hoth)

"WHOA WHOA WHOA! You're telling us...ALL of us that Luke is Darth Vader's pride and joy of a SON!" said Han who couldn't believe what Yoda had just told them in the conference room.

"Believe what you should if you will. Luke the son of Darth Vader he is," said Yoda calmly despite Han's angry demeanor.

"But Luke's father was suppose to be a Jedi Knight not a Sith Lord," said Leia hoping that this Jedi Master made a mistake.

"Jedi Knight Vader once was. Anakin Skywalker is name used to be. Till seduced by the Dark Side of the Force and became Darth Vader. Only in the last month has Luke known and since then has their bond grown," said Yoda with dismay in his voice.

"You sound disappointed," said Leia.

"So much alike the two Skywalker's are. Both have lost people close them they have. Twice over in fact. It is these things that brought them together through the Force. Unforeseen this was even by the Emperor. Now he will have a new apprentice now that Luke's training with Vader is complete," said Yoda even more disheartened then before.

"Whoa! Wait a minute! Are you saying that the Emperor is a Sith Lord too? Like Darth Vader?" said Han as no one in the room could breathe for a moment.

"Yes. Sith Lord the Emperor is. Hid it from the public he has since the Old Republic he did. Always two there are. A master and an apprentice there always are. The Emperor was the master and Vader...was the apprentice," said Yoda making everyone realize that Vader was the Emperor's second for a reason.

"Wait you said was? What's changed?" said Han who still didn't get it.

"With the Emperor now training Luke, Vader is a Sith Lord in his own right. Yet he is still loyal to the Emperor..for now he will be. Soon he will use his Sith rite in tradition and fight the Emperor for control of the Empire as in accordance with the ways of the Sith he will. Then, Vader will be the master and Luke will be his Sith Lord enforcer...till Luke finds an apprentice that one day he will. Then...the Sith like process will repeat till both are dead I foresee," said Yoda seriously.

"What do you want us to do Master Yoda?" said Leia who wanted to do something to help out.

"First, components I will need. New Lightsaber I will need to build for the fight that will come to us. Sense Vader I do. Soon he will discover us I sense. Must prepare we must. With my help get ready you shall," said Yoda finally smiling at them all.

(A/N: What did you think? Too much Yoda? Next Chapter: Battle of Hoth, Yoda fixes up a Lightsaber though I won't go into too much detail on that since I want to focus on Luke's training with the Emperor, and if I can get it in...Vader VS Yoda.)