Luke began to catch on to fighting the double-bladed saber, but he was certainly no expert. The duel continued into the shadows of the room, the glow of the sabers the only light source.

One side of Suoidis' saber attacked Luke's feet. Luke blocked the blow, but the other end of the Sith Lord's saber came down upon Luke's head. Luke just managed to jump out of the way. This man was too strong for the Jedi. Hoping to hide so that he could catch his breath, Luke turned off his lightsaber. The shadows engulfed him.

"Very clever, Jedi," Suoidis said. "But you underestimate me." The New Emperor turned off his lightsaber, put one hilt of his lightsaber into the other, and clipped the weapon on to his belt. Suddenly he raised both of his now ungloved hands toward the ceiling, and out of his hands came lightning that spread throughout the room, shedding light on everything. The lightning went after the metal of the nearby poles and the staircases, sending sparks everywhere. Some machines exploded.

Through all of the smoke Suoidis saw the silhouette of a kneeling man. The Sith Lord had found his prey.

Suoidis stuck his right hand out at Luke, and lightning flew at the Jedi Knight. It sent Luke across the room and into the light. Suoidis followed him.

Luke lay on the floor, trying to not let his pain show. That lightning had been more intense than Palpatine's!

"Are you ready for death, Luke?" Suoidis asked as he looked down upon his foe. "Are you looking forward to seeing Obi-Wan and Yoda again? Yes, I know all about your secret training. The Dark Side told me of it. Why didn't I tell Sidious? Why would I want to help a man with blind judgment? Why would I want to help a man who thought he could rule an Empire?" Luke tried to stand, but he collapsed. He writhed in agony on the floor.

"Now, young Skywalker…" Suoidis grinned. "You will die."

…………………………………………………………….

The outside of the Millennium Falcon's cockpit was a veil of green. The ship was dying, and there was no escape. Back and forth the Falcon rocked as it was hit again and again.

"Han, what are going to do?" Leia asked. Han turned to her, and she was shocked to see tears in his eyes.

"I have an idea…" he said, trying to sound strong.

"Well use it!" Leia snapped.

From the sense of direction he still had with all of the madness, Han headed towards the Star Destroyer's docking bay, shooting down as many TIEs as he could.

The Falcon reached the docking bay and landed.

"Get out." Han ordered.

"What?" Leia gasped.

"Get out!" Han said again, and he exited the cockpit, lowering the landing ramp. Leia, confused, followed him.

When she reached the docking bay floor, she was shocked to see Han heading towards a high-class Imperial shuttle.

"Han, what are you doing?" Leia asked.

"She's too damaged to get us out of here alive." Han said, referring to the Falcon.

"We're going to leave the Falcon to the Imperials?" Leia cried.

"It's our only choice." Han said, and he entered the shuttle. Leia, in a state of shock, followed him.

Han turned the shuttle on, and it exited the hangar. None of the TIEs shot at it in fear of shooting down an Admiral or the Emperor himself.

Han watched the docking bay get smaller and smaller as he flew away.

"Goodbye, girl." he said, and the shuttle jumped to lightspeed.

…………………………………………………………….

Blue lightning went through Luke's body, causing him unbearable pain. Palpatine's lightning could not kill. Suoidis' lightning could.

Luke screamed and screamed, but he knew that nobody would help him. Nobody even knew that he was here.

While he was killing Luke, Suoidis' laughed. Victory was his…

But what was that sudden disturbance in the Force?

With his last ounce of strength, Luke called his dropped lightsaber to him and he ignited it, putting it in the lightning's path. The lightning shot back at Suoidis, and the Dark Lord went flying across the room, crashing to the floor. Suoidis' lightsaber rolled away from its owner, igniting when it rolled on the ignition button. In an instant, Luke had his lightsaber blade at Suoidis' throat.

"It's over Suoidis," Luke said, looking down at the Emperor. "The Force is with me."

Suoidis looked at his lightsaber.

"My weapon says otherwise!" he shouted, and in less than a second, the Sith lightsaber was in Suoidis' hands and it's blade was going through Luke's chest.

Luke looked down at the red blade, then at Suoidis.

"You know nothing of the Force!" Suoidis laughed, and he turned off his weapon. Before Luke could fall to his knees, a Force push from Suoidis sent the Jedi down the room's elevator shaft. Luke fell and fell and fell…

…………………………………………………………….

Leia screamed, making Han jump.

"What's wrong?" he asked, but the pain in the Force was too great to describe. Luke couldn't be… Leia prayed that once, just for once, the Force was wrong.

…………………………………………………………….

The heat of the elevator shaft burnt Luke.

The walls of the elevator shaft bruised Luke.

The Force of the Jedi kept Luke alive. Barely alive, but alive.

Yes, the pain from Suoidis' blade was just as bad as death, but the Force comforted Luke and assured him that he would be safe.

And so the Force made Luke grab on to a metal pipe sticking out of the shaft's wall.

Luke hung on for his life. How would he get out of this? With each second his life slipped away more and more.

…………………………………………………………….

In the shuttle, Leia felt Luke's pain.

"Move, Han!" she suddenly shouted. She pushed Han out of the pilot's seat and took the shuttle out of lightspeed. She turned the ship around and made it jump to lightspeed again.

A few minutes later, the shuttle came out of lightspeed. They were at Korriban again. At the Star Destroyer again. The TIE fighters were gone.

"What are you doing?" Han yelled.

"Be quiet, Han!" Leia snapped. "I'm saving Luke!"

Leia landed the shuttle in the Star Destroyer's docking bay and quickly exited the ship. Luckily, all of the stormtroopers were resting. Leia focused her senses. The Force told her where Luke was.

Leia, using the Force, opened the docking bay's elevator doors. She looked down the shaft and saw a body dangling from a pole.

Luke. She thought. She tried to stay calm. Suddenly, she got an idea. She pressed the elevator activation button.

A few seconds later, an elevator rose from the shaft's shadows, and it picked Luke up. Before it reached her floor, Leia grabbed Luke from the elevator's roof and carried him over to the shuttle…

"Leia." Came a cold voice. Leia turned… and saw the man she had seen in her dream. His torso looked just like Darth Vader's, and his bottom half looked like something a dark warrior would wear.

"Who are you?" Leia asked.

"I am the New Emperor Suoidis." The man smiled. "And I must say that today is my lucky day. I get to kill both the children of Darth Vader." Suoidis took from his belt his regained lightsaber. He ignited it, not bothering to take out the other end.

BANG!

Smoke filled the room as two cannons from Han's new Imperial shuttle just missed Suoidis. Once the smoke cleared, Suoidis stuck his right hand out towards the shuttle. Slowly, the shuttle began to back out of the hangar. It was going to fall into space!

Suoidis pushed harder and harder with the Force, and inside the ship, Han was too confused at what was going on to do anything about it.

Leia took Suoidis' distraction to ignite her lightsaber and charge toward the Sith Lord.

One second later, Suoidis' right arm hit the floor. Suoidis stared at his new stump of an arm and then growled at Leia, who was running toward the stolen shuttle with Luke in her arms. Leia entered the shuttle and it took of, immediately jumping to lightspeed.

Inside the docking bay, Suoidis screamed with rage.