Chapter 5: Imprisonment of Luke Lars

Vader had taken Luke to a cell aboard the Devastator, he was heading speedily to give the Emperor himself this good news. Quickly he strode through the hallways of the star destroyer headed for the communications room which was thankfully not very far away. He came up on the door and walked in. The room was huge, directly in front of him was a comm control panel, behind that the camera pad so the other person he was speaking with could see him and behind that was a pit. A huge pit with several holoprojectors embedded in its walls, the image they all cast together was twice as big as the escape pods used on this ship.

Vader walked up to the control panel and keyed in a private Coruscanti frequency, he stepped onto the pad which glowed slightly under him and kneeled then an image of a hooded head materialized above the pit. It's face scarred and deformed.

"Lord Vader, rise." The Emperor said, the word rise was stretched long and raspy. Vader stood. "Have you captured the princess?"

"I have sent three legions down milord and we are searching, but I have found someone else who you will find interesting. A Force sensitive boy, he is around the Princesses age, I found him at my step brother's farm, he seem so familiar, almost like I was."

The Emperor's face looked almost fearful for a moment, almost, but it faded so quickly Vader actually had to question himself as to whether he saw it at all.

"Force sensitive? Do you have him with you?"

"Yes master."

"What is his name?"

"Luke."

"You will bring him before me."

"But what of the Princess."

"Station Admiral Griff on a different star destroyer and bring the Devastator to Imperial City, Griff can look for the princess while I meet your… nephew."

"Yes my master."

"Set your course immediately, I will be expecting you."

XxX

The Emperor switched the hologram of Vader in front of him off with a button on his chair. He seriously doubted Vader had discovered a nephew. But there had to be something Vader sensed that was similar to himself in the boy. Once he met him then things would become clear.

"Milord?" A woman asked from the corner, she carried a standard storm troop blaster rifle holstered on her back and wore black tight fitting pants a matching shirt and a brown leather belt with a number of thermal detonators clipped to it.

"Leave me Mara. I have much to think about."

XxX

Luke Skywalker sat on the cold metal bench of the cell he occupied. The Empire really took pride in giving each prisoner a separate lonely cell, without even the smallest comfort, there was not even a toilet. Just a hole in the floor to one side that led to a tank at the bottom of the ship and just barely big enough for Luke to sit on. He found himself twirling his thumbs around each other, board from the quiet solitude, then the cell door flew open letting in a nice draft of warm air since the cells barely had heating, and to top that the prisoner uniforms were thin, grey jumpsuits that were so thin Luke seriously had to be careful of twisting to hard one way, lest they rip. And then the dark armored Lord Vader stepped into the cell just as the ship jolted into hyperspace. Luke looked up at the dark lord in confusion.

"Where are we going? Where are my… parents?" He asked.

"I am bringing you before the Emperor, he is very interested in you, your parents will remain well for now. Like you they each sit in a cell, waiting."

"Why are you here then?"

"I want questions answered."

"No."

"I would hate to call in the mind probes."

"Do your worst."

"You don't even know what the mind probes can do, do you?"

"No."

"First they inject you with serum that induces the feeling of fear, and pain, and suffering. Then I ask you questions and you answer, otherwise the droid activates a different function. It will spray you with acid, or sear your flesh with it's pincers. I find it much easier to have prisoners answer willingly though more fun when the mind probe is used and this will be short. So answer my questions or feel pain beyond comprehension."

"Fine."

"In exchange for the release of your parents might I find anything interesting on Tatooine? Wanted criminals for the Empire? What about the princess."

"You might as well forget about your princess, she's probably dead and was abducted when she first set foot in Mos Eisley by some gangsters. No one will tell you anything else."

"Alright, is there anything interesting you can tell me?"

There were a lot of things Vader might find interesting, ships coming and going of the alliance of rebels against the Empire, the old Ben Kenobi who was one of the Jedi Vader missed on his rampage. A lot of things.

"No, Tatooine is dull. There's nothing going on there that would interest you."

"Yes I thought you would not tell me anything." Vader said slipping a pair of binders out from behind his back. "So in that case we will go to my shuttle and wait until we have exited hyperspace."

"No."

"I thought you might say that, if so we will strap you to a torture stretcher that you can lay on until we come out of hyperspace."

"What exactly does the stretcher do?"

"It periodically zaps you with electricity, or if you try to move and it tends to make it really hot, we usually put a wool blanket over the person."

"I think I'll just go in those binders instead."

"I thought as much."

I know, this is nothing like Unknown Son at all, which is probably a good thing, the first version sucked.