Chapter 17-Taking the Throne

(A/N: Sorry this took so long to write I was conflicted on how I wanted this story to go from here on out and I had to go to an outside source of opinion. I'll probably explain later after I'm done writing this so till then enjoy! Also please review I miss all those reviews from the past and I wish you guys would review. That is why those who do read this and do review I'm calling in a favor as I need you to spread the word of this story to those who have read and haven't review recently and those who would read it and review it if they knew this story existed. In other words...HELP ME GET REVIEWS! After this sentence and the next you will currently be reading a chapter with nothing, but nearly complete solid combat and described to the best of my ability intense action so you better review. Sorry I just want reviews.)

To say that the broadcast of the epic Lightsaber battle within the incomplete Death Star was suspenseful in the least was clearly an understatement. At first it seemed the Dark Side Force powered Emperor was going to meet his end at the hands of his apprentices that both happened to be of a father son relationship. Then, it did a 180 degree spin and the Emperor wielded two Lightsabers and was now suddenly in control of the situation. Finally the opposition went on the offensive and it was now had the Emperor pinned down by the two enemy Sith Lords. "You think you have won? You think you are in control? Fools! I have only just begun to show you my power," said Darth Sidious in a very angry voice as he leaped back onto a Power Conduit Tower and then jumped into the air even hire before raining down Force Lightning down upon both Darth Vicious and Darth Vader who spun their Lightsabers to withstand the attack.

"That's the problem with the old Sith Lord generation...they are to afraid to DIE!" said Darth Vader smiling as he called upon the Force as he removed and then sent a piece of metal from the catwalk above at the Emperor who moved out of the way and landed on the ground, but had to disengage his Force Lightning to do so.

"When will they learn?" said Darth Vicious sarcastically as he jumped over the Emperor to engage him from one side while his father that was Darth Vader attacked the Emperor again from the other.

The Emperor found himself in quite a predicament as he realized that as power as he was in the Dark Side of the Force these two were stronger by far and they were both had their combined experience and youth on their side to overpower him 2 to 1 unless he could try and evened the odds he would join Darth Pleagus the Wise on the other side. It was then however, that the Emperor had an idea. "You think that just because you outnumber me now doesn't mean I will lose to you two. Don't be foolish! Combined you may have a chance against me, but apart you are both too weak to best me," said the Emperor who leaped away to the top of the catwalk staring at the slightly fatigued Sith Lords though he was fatigued himself at the moment with old age creeping up on him faster then the Force could put down.

"Is that so? I've never turned down a fight in my life so for now...it will you and me old man," said Darth Vader showing a smile on his newly restored face as he leaped up to one side of the catwalk opposite of the Emperor.

"When I get through with you my former apprentice you will wish you were still crippled by Obi-wan after your fight with him on Mustafar," said the Emperor who was half happy half furious at his apprentice he had spent so much time in the past training and nurturing to be stronger then him only to find that it was not the way he wanted it.

"You will try...old friend," said Darth Vader as he and the Emperor began their dance of death while Darth Vicious and the rest of the galaxy watched the two Sith Lords fight.

They fought each other like men possessed as they each blocked, spun, parried, stabbed, countered, struck high, struck low, swung at the middle, and used every bit of skill as well as power to out do the other. To Darth Vader it was just like all those years ago on Yavin 4 against that Force wielding assassin with Count Dooku's blades that he fought and beat all those years ago, only this time it was now a more skilled and more dangerous foe he was fighting who wield those same type of Lightsabers with better skill then the previous wielders of the blades. To Darth Sidious it was strange as he felt like he was back in time fighting against a Jedi Knight or Master like he did with Yoda and Mace Windu, but it was in the form of a Sith Lord that was once Anakin Skywalker that had become Darth Vader under his watchful eyes. The very same Darth Vader he was now fighting against right now with that red Lightsaber he had given the man shortly after being put in that armor. "You cannot win Lord Vader I will not die. I cannot die!" said Darth Sidious as he went on the offensive.

"Oh? I thought the Sith Lords of the past like you didn't know how to cheat death?" said Darth Vader Force Pushed the Emperor back an about 10 feet as they stared at each other for a moment.

"The Sith Lords of the past didn't have what I do my boy as I can transfer my spirit into a new body after my old one is gone. In an undisclosed planet I will be reborn in a body that is both young and strong when I reach it," said the Emperor smiling as he played his trump card that even if he were to be killed here he could get into a new body on Byss before long.

"You mean Byss don't you Emperor? I doubt that cloning facility will be up and running as I already knew about it and have taken care of it," said Darth Vicious calmly as he was now smiling at the now shocked Sith Lords.

"What? How?" said Darth Sidious who literally spit when the words came out of his mouth in disbelief.

While on the long ride here on the shuttle with my father leaving Endor I talked to Boba Fett on my communicator and asked for a quick progress report on the new Clone Army he's making me. It turns out the army he has been helping me with is currently now over 500,000 strong. All thanks to the advanced cloning process developed by the same race of cloners that used your unknowing services before I had Fett send half of them to Byss to wipe out your little cloning tanks their and even as I speak they are wiping it out right now down to the last liquid floating conscienceless body," said Darth Vicious smiling as he remembered slicing into the Emperor private records while on the Executor with the help of R2D2 who assisted him in the endeavor after talking about the Emperor with his father on how decrepit the Emperor looked.

(Flashback)

He remembered shortly after getting his hand repaired on board the Executor that R2 rolled in with Darth Vader shortly ahead of him. "How does your new hand feel my son," said Vader in his vocoder sound of a voice behind the helmeted figure.

"It feels natural to a degree, but I don't think I will get used to it no matter how long I have it attached to my real body," said Luke as he sighed knowing he was never truly going to get used to it.

"Take it from experience my son it never is easy as my hand like yours was once flesh turned cybernetic. Eventually you learn...to live with it," said Vader as he flexed his right hand beneath his cape that covered his arms as Luke nodded as he absorbed his father's words.

"I have a question about the Emperor father. I have seen him on the Holonet when I was younger and I always wondered why he looks so..." said Luke who dared not finish his response for fear of his father's...reaction to the final word.

"Old? Weak? Dying? That my son is the most unfortunate side effect and very weakness when using the Dark Side of the Force. It has plagued the Emperor after his fight with the Jedi Master Mace Windu and he has been like that ever since. He may not look it my son, but he is a master of the Dark Side and can move when he has to when it comes to using the Force," said Vader as he knew first hand his master's Lightsaber skills during their training secessions together in the Imperial Palace.

"What I don't get is that even though he calls upon the Dark Side of the Force I think technically he should be dead even now whether he relies on it to sustain him or not," said Luke and R2 whistled in agreement as he ran the calculations in his astromech dome confirming Luke's belief's.

"If you want you can investigate the matter when you have free time my son you can at your own discretion, but for now don't bother as your time will be spent training with me after you make a new Lightsaber. Understood?" said Vader, who got a nod from Luke before the Sith Lord turned and left.

"Father may not want to believe it R2, but I think there is something going on with the Emperor," said Luke who got several whistles and beeps from R2 in agreement.

'I never like that old Sith Lord of an Emperor,' thought R2 with disgust in his mind if that was possible.

"Were going to have to do our own digging, which means you will have to track the Emperor's movements when we dock on Corusant next. When that happens I will stall the Emperor as long as possible while you connect with the ship logs concerning where the Emperor has headed on more then several occasions. When we figure out where he goes we will figure out the Emperor," said Luke who got an excited several whistles and beeps from the astromech droid.

(End Flashback)

"What a surprise it was to me when that little astromech droid of mine and father's found that of every location in the galaxy you could have visited it was the planet Byss that you went to on nearly every single time you left Corusant. Needless to say Darth Sidious it got me a little curious so I took a trip their myself after the Hoth campaign and that was when I saw them with my own two Sith eyes. I knew then I couldn't attack the clones because if I did you would get suspicious of my behavior. My initial time getting back to Corusant would be off and you would suspicious of my actions. However, that no longer matters anymore now that the new Clone Army of the New Imperial Republic is doing the job currently assigned to them by Boba Fett through me," said Darth Vicious smiling even more while Darth Sidious could only look with shock, surprise, and horror on his face as his ability to be immortal through his standards was gone before his anger set in.

"YOU WRETCHED CHILD! HOW DARE YOU! HOW DARE YOOOOUUUU!" said the now yelling Emperor as he leaped off the catwalk and engaged the younger of the two opposing Sith Lords with both Lightsaber blades swinging like they were being used by a demon.

Darth Vicious was no longer smiling or confident at that moment as he had to summon all of his Dark Side power to block the now mad old Sith Lord's attacks from ending his life. "I maybe a wretched child compared to you, but at least I'm not an afraid to die like a true unlike you!" said Darth Vicious who blocked one attack and dodged another before jumping out of the way shooting Force Lightning as he gave himself some solid distance between him and the Emperor who spun one of his blades to repel the Force Lightning attack like his opponents did with his not to long ago.

It was then that when Darth Vader went on the offensive against the Emperor while the man was currently distracted with his own Sith Lord for a son. When Darth Vader did engage the Emperor Darth Vicious was forced to stop using his Force Lightning as to not hit his father. It was moments later that he assisted his father in fighting the Emperor yet again only to find that the Emperor's Lightsaber skills, style and the Lightsabers that the old Sith Lord was using created the perfect defense against him and Vader. "You will never defeat me and when I win I will destroy the Rebellion with this battle station and then I'll see to the capture, torture, and execution of Mara Jade for her betrayal to me as well," said Darth Sidious as he saw an opening on Vader and took it slicing into the Sith Lords side getting Luke/Darth Vicious angry beyond all means as he refused to lose his father to Sidious and have the love of his Sith Lord life be at the unforgiving hands of Darth Sidious.

"YOU WON'T LAY A SINGLE HAND ON MARA! SHE IS GOING TO BE MY WIFE AND WERE GROW OLD TOGETHER!" yelled Darth Vicious as he viciously (pun intended) attack the Emperor without pause, hesitation, and mercy driving the old Sith Lord into retreat.

(Endor-Shield Bunker)

"Whoa! I never thought Luke could wield his Lightsaber like!" said Han as he saw Luke single handedly knocking back the Emperor Vader could only cover his side wound as he stood their watching in awe like everyone else.

"Just seeing him do that really gets me excited," said Mara smiling as she saw her lover wield his Lightsaber like a man possessed by a demon and a very powerful one at that.

"We didn't need to know that," said Leia who was not exactly thrilled in her brother's ideal choice for a wife.

(Space near Byss-Imperial Republic Super Star Destroyer Flagship Devil's Hand)

It had been quite an odd site for Boba Fett to see during the broadcasting of the battle with Darth Vader and Vicious fighting the Emperor in an all out Lightsaber and Force assault. He had been ordered by his employer to send half of the current clone army that he had on the new Imperial Republic Super Star Destroyer and in two other slightly lower class Star Destroyers of the soon to be Imperial Republic to Byss.

When asked why Boba was told that unless he didn't want the Emperor to possibly rise from the dead after he and his father killed him, that he would do it. He was informed by Vicious to completely destroy the facilities down their and that they were filled with young healthy clone bodies of the Emperor. Needles to say Boba Fett got every trooper that filled up half the army that he could muster and set a course for Byss on the double. "This is insane on so many levels I better retire after this," said Boba Fett knowing it was bad enough having an aged looking Emperor that was Darth Sidious around, but a young, healthy, and fresh from death Darth Sidious looking for revenge was even worse.

"Daddy. Are you going to teach me to be a Bounty Hunter? Just like you and Grand daddy Jango was before he died?" said a young boy barely above the waist of Boba Fett that was his father as they watched from the Super Star Destroyer's bridge screen the intense battle that was being transmitted from the Death Star while at the same time seeing Byss being bombarded on all side by fleets laser cannons.

"Perhaps one day son, but or right now enjoy the show," said Boba Fett watching the Sith Lord show down while wearing his new Bounty Hunter uniform thanks to the cloners of Kamino who gave him a complete armor, jetpack, and weapons over haul thus making him even deadlier then before.

(Death Star-Throne Room)

The Emperor had never fought anyone with such power as well as fury like this before and couldn't understand how the younger of his two former apprentices could wield such strength. He had never faced power that would force him to retreat like this near the gap small space that led to the Turbo Lift elevator and below led to the Death Star Power Core...and of course certain death. "I...can't...die...like...this!" said the now struggling Emperor who had been deadlocked with his former apprentice.

Consider...yourself...dethroned...your...excellence," said Darth Vicious just before Darth Vicious cut off both of the Emperor's arms and kicked the old Sith Lord of a man down to the Death Star's Power Core below causing him to explode with Dark Side energy just before he died.

"Good riddance to old baggage," said Vader as he nearly fell to one knee in pain as blood fell from the side of his mouth.

"Farther! Are you all right?" said Darth Vicious turning off his Lightsaber and helping his father to the throne above the many steps that led to it.

"The Emperor in all his wisdom as well as arrogance got me pretty good with that attack of his, but a bacta patch and some meditation should fix me up," said Anakin Skywalker as it felt good to sit on the late Emperor's throne.

"Well now that everyone watching and listening now knows that you are now the new Emperor I suggest that you make a speech," said Luke who then activated the COM system on the throne and summoned a medic to help with his father.

"Ah yes the decree thank you my son. Very well let's get this thing over with this war has gone on long enough. People of races throughout the galaxy here my voice as it is the voice of the new Emperor of the Empire Darth Vader, which as of right now is now fully transformed into a new improved Empire by turning it into the new...Imperial Republic," Darth Vader as the doctors came with the necessary healing equipment to patch up Darth Vader.

'Imperial Republic?' thought everyone hearing and watching this news except for Luke, Mara, and Boba Fett as Vader made the decree.

"This new form of government will ensure that their will be no Rebel Alliance or any time of Rebellion because their will be nothing to rebel about. I am hereby reinstating the Imperial Senate and all previous senators with the exception of one. All others are being called back to their previous post as Senators to become part the new Imperial Republic Senate. A massive Clone Army is being made so that neither human nor any other species for that matter has to fight again in a pointless war or conflict. In fact to see that this complete and senseless civil war is further resolved I am granting full as well as complete amnesty and pardons to all Rebel Alliance members as of right now if they stop fighting. The Death Star is to be deconstructed and the resources used to make it will be used to help those in need on other planets. There was once dream I shared with someone special during the days of the Old Republic. I will have that dream realized in her name. All who oppose this new order with the concepts of the old know this...I WILL STRIKE DOWN WITH ANGER AND FURIOUS VENGEANCE!" said Vader yelling at the very end making sure his point got through.

"Admiral Ackbar! Mon Mothma! What do you want the fleet to do?" said one of the Mon Calamari officers looking at the leaders of the Rebel Alliance.

"Simple Lieutenant. Send a transmission to all ships to stand down and one to the Death Star saying that we agree to Emperor Vader's terms," said Mon Mothma sadly knowing they had no choice, but to do so and everyone around her knew it.

(A/N: Okay explanation time! The thing is I was conflict as I mention earlier in writing this. I was conflicted because I was unsure to let Vader live after the fighting with the Emperor or let him live to take the throne. I am actually glad I let him live, but I didn't know what anyone else would think so that's why it took so long. Sorry. In any case this might be the second to last chapter if you count the Epilogue as a chapter, which I do! SO that being said I want all you guys reading and reviewing. I intend to make the Epilogue a kick ass chapter with a possible...dare I say it...wedding or two. I'll try anyway, but I want and NEED your input, but I can't do that without REVIEWS! Those who have reviewed I will always appreciate you guys sticking along when others either said "forget it" or didn't like reading it. As for those who did and STOPPED I wished that you guys did continue reviewing. I don't mind criticism in fact I sometimes expected it and if you guys had SAID something I could have made it better then it already is. Till we meet again in the Epilogue may the Force be with you...always. Coming up next chapter: Epilogue...possible celebrations, weddings, ending to the feuds, and all that stuff. Maybe.)