I am now finally getting into the plot. It was, at first, some stupid pranks, but now I hope that things will begin to come together. Sorry it took me so long to update. I've been settling into college, and this was a convenient thing to procrastinate and forget about my stress with for a little while. I hope that I can update soon. Thank you so much for reading and being patient with me. Please review and tell me any mistakes I made, if I got something wrong, or if you have any ideas for pranks that the Skywalkers can pull together.

I also want to note that I mention things from the time before the Empire was created. I am not following the Clone Wars at all, so I don't want any confusion there. A Final Plot that is mentioned later on is a plot to discover the Sith Lord, and obviously it went wrong. That is all that you need to know about that.

1.5 ABY

The Imperial spy, whose name will go unsaid, sat back and listened to the talk of the bar that many Rebels visited when they were not working. He was listening for rumors that were going around about the Empire so that he could know how to respond to these things in real life if they ever came up. Some of the ones he hears are spoken ironically and laughed at, but some are believed. One of the ones that people laugh at is that Vader and Palpatine hold an underground karaoke club and dance to stay in shape. The real reason he is here tonight is that he had heard a whisper of a rumor that Vader had a child who was in the Rebellion. It was absurd, and yet it kinda made sense if one looks at how Vader had been treating the Rebellion lately.

"Hey dude, got a weird rumor for ya!"

The spy started listening more to this conversation that was happening behind him.

"What is it this time? You know I'm not into that kind of stuff."

"Yeah, but this one is Weird to the max, bro! I heard someone say that Vader and Palpatine are homosexual and in a relationship with one another. It would explain why Vader doesn't have an official rank in the military and why Vader's armor appeared in Palpatine's closet during that one video."

The men chuckled at the fond memory while the spy went still. They had cameras in the Palace?

"If that were true, I would feel somewhat sorry for Vader. No one deserves to put up with that wrinkled prune."

"Some say the prune is not a man at all, which is what makes that rumor even weirder."

The spy decided that his life was not worth listening to the rest of the conversation, and got up to leave, but even his dedication could not keep out the words that followed as he tried to leave.

"Some say that Palpatine is a demon straight from hell."

When the spy stumbles in his room, dizzy from too much alcohol and strange tales, he collapses on his bed and hopes that in the morning he will remember everything that happened, because it will be quite the story to tell his handler.

(Naturally, the spy tells more people than just his handler. Luke and Leia are super glad that their plan worked so well.)

15 days later (the twins have been busy)

"Why am I hearing rumors that Vader is not actually a machine OR a human, but rather 3 Ewoks stacked on top of each other, and that Vader and Palpatine's love child is in the Rebellion?

The Skywalker twins looked at everything that wasn't Mothma as they stumbled over themselves to tell her that it was a prank and not anything to be taken seriously. In that moment, the leader of the Rebellion longed to put her head in her hands or scream from frustration (or both), but she reminds herself that she's dealt with weirder things. She was in the Senate with Padme Amidala, after all.

"Just leave my office and close the door on your way out. You both know that this is unacceptable behavior. Do not go about spreading rumors like this ever again."

Luke Skywalker and Leia Skywalker Organa leave, still not looking at her, but also not looking sorry at the chaos they created. One the door closed, the lady pulled out a bottle of gin that she kept for special occasions, hoping that a drink will giver her the strength she needs to get through this whole debacle. Silently, she thanked the forces that were that no one else would see that the Skywalkers were driving her to drink. Again.

10 days later

"When I told you both to stop spreading rumors, I expected to be taken seriously. I did not want to hear that Vader cross-dresses to… please Palpatine." Lady Mon Mothma takes a fortifying breath as she wipes that image from her mind. Yesterday had been a brutal one. "What are you planning that involves telling rumors of Vader? You two are targeting him, and I believe that the reason goes far beyond having fun or simply pranking the Empire, because I have never heard of Vader being more mad than he is now."

Luke and Leia look at each other for a few seconds, but when both look back at Mothma, there is a seriousness that she hadn't seen in a Skywalker since The Final Plot, the one that lead to the creation of Vader and the death of her friend.

Leia breaks the now tense silence, and says, "We want to draw Vader to a place determined by us, so that Luke can surprise him by already knowing the truth. Luke needs to talk to Vader to see if he can be turned away from the Dark Side. This war cannot be won without him either dead or with us, and we cannot kill our father."

"We've been using the rumors to make this personal. That way Vader goes to defend his honor and Palpatine does not get mad at him disappearing for a while to find the perpetrator. If we do this right, we hope that he will join us in taking down the Emperor."

As Luke finishes, Mon Mothma stares at the two in a kind of silent horror as she realized just how right they are and how much thought they put into this. In her memory, not even Anakin has pulled off a plan that incorporated as much genius as stupidity, although he came close one time.

"And you think this will work?" Incredulity stains her voice as she asks the question.

The twins look at each other before Luke answers.

"The first part already has. But this is our only chance to test the waters with him." He looks at Mothma again. "We cannot let him stay in the Empire, and that is the only thing we know for certain right now."

Yoda was waiting for Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan to come back with news of what the twins were doing, and while he was waiting, he called up spirits from long ago to keep him company so that he would not fret about the impending report. Any Skywalker worth their salt would be able to overthrow a single world in a week, a star system in two, and a quadrant in 4, so it is fair to say that Yoda despaired for the state of the galaxy. (What Yoda doesn't know, although he will soon, is that tearing apart the galaxy is not their plan right now. If it was, they would be behind schedule.)

When Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon reappear on Dagobah, Yoda and the ghosts who are with him know that the twins were up to something worse than simply overturning the Empire. The way they could tell is that Kenobi has not been this hysterical, or Qui-Gon this serious, while they were living or dead.

Qui-Gon Jinn takes a breath and starts talking.

"You all have heard of the Skywalker twins' great pranks against the Empire, correct?"

The others nodded or murmured their consent while a couple of Jedi go to try and calm Obi-Wan down (which, at this point, is a fruitless task, as he's been on the edge of hysteria for quite some time).

"Turns out they are building up to something bigger than simply taking over the Empire and creating chaos, and they are almost ready to put this bigger plan into motion." Qui-Gon pauses here, trying to figure out what he will say next, because the truth is ridiculous even to him. If he hadn't been in the room when they explained it to Mon Mothma, he wouldn't have believed it.

"The twins are trying to lure their father into a meeting where they will tell him the truth and hopefully bring him back to the Light, something no one has ever gotten a Sith to do."

Silence reigned for a good solid minute (excluding Obi-Wan continuing to freak out) as everyone there tried to process what they had been told, and it is only broken by Yoda asking a question.

"Send them to me for training, why did you? Stop them now, we cannot, from this plan of theirs."