Harry Potter: Son of Darth Vader

Chapter 16: Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer

The Rogue Shadow's sublight engines whined in protest as the spacecraft hovered over the dilapidated graveyard. The ramp extended as a squad of black armored troopers filed out, grabbing the unconscious or some-what conscious death eater's. Terra Rose, Darth Starkillers' apprentice, walked lightly over to her master. "Master?" She began until Starkillers arm latched onto her shoulder as he slowly pulled himself up off the ground. Terra immediately moved herself under his arm, allowing Starkiller to put some of his weight on her.

"Master, you need to get to the bacta tank-" She began to say, but stopped when Starkiller growled.

"No, not the medic bay bacta tank," He said softly so she could only hear. "I need to get to my personal bacta tank."

Terra nodded as they slowly moved to the gathered death eaters. Terra used the hand that covered the gaping hole in her master's stomach and motioned one of the troopers over to help carry Starkiller. The trooper run over and got under his lord's other arm, Starkiller grunted in pain but didn't say anything. "Report DT-4324," Terra ordered the commander, who saluted.

"Ma'am," DT-4324's gruff voice sounded even gruffer through his helmets mic. "4 dead, 20 are either unconscious or are still dazed from the explosion-" He was cut off when his helmet com beeped, DT-4324 put his hand to his helmet and answered.

"Yes? Uh huh...uuuhhhh huh…..yes I'll tell them. Squad Charlie just reported in and have the three teenagers in tow."

"Good, tell them to meet us at the rendezvous point." Starkiller ordered as he used the force to hold himself upright. DT-4324 nodded and relayed the order to Squad Charlie before turning to face the captured death eaters. Terra walked a step behind her master, using the force to add to Darth Starkillers own force energy. "Wake them up." Starkiller grunted and the troopers went to work, pulling smelling salts and putting them under their prisoners noses.

One of the Death Eaters, Terra assumed he was either stupid or completely ignorant of the danger he was in, stood up and shouted "You will let us go now , Muggle, or you will di-" Terra smirked as she felt her master's lightsaber fly from the ground, activate, and stabbed the Death Eater through the heart without Darth Starkiller moving a single part of his body. The lightsaber then returned to its owner's hand and Starkiller put the deactivated lightsaber back on his belt.

"Shoot them and then burn them."

"Yes my Lord." The trooper's raised their blasters and mowed down the Death Eaters.

The troopers then lowered their blasters and raised their arms, the flamethrowers on their wrists ignited the corpses. Then Darth Starkiller, Terra, and DT-4324 walked slowly up the ramp into the Rogue Shadow, the rest of the squad following afterword.

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"NOOO! NOOOOO!" Susan Bones screamed as the dark figure closed on her. A crimson blade showed Harry Potter, his eyes burning bright yellow, they were full of hate and pain. "NOOO! Harry please don't!" Susan tried to reason with The-Boy-Who-Lived, but he raised his lightsaber and brought it down on her…

She woke up, gasping for air and pulled her legs up to her chest. Sweat drenched her skin, making her clothing cling to her skin leaving nothing to the imagination. "So, our little spy awakens…" Susan lifted her head so she could she who spoke, then immediately regretted it. Darth Starkiller stood in her room (Ceil? Quarters? She forgot what her captor had said it was) and stared at her. "What do you want?" Susan hissed, hearing Starkiller chuckle.

"I heard your screams, was it the nightmares again?" Susan lowered her head back onto her legs, not answering. Darth Starkiller walked over to her and cupped Susan chin, raising her head. Susan glared at the dark lord, before admitting "Yes, they keep getting worse." Darth Starkiller moved his hand from her chin and sat next to her. "Who was it this time? Your Aunt? Your parents? Malfoy?" Susan shook her head, tears started forming at the corners of her eyes.

"It was Harry." Susan whimpered, the nightmare still fresh in her mind. Starkiller put his clawed hand softly on her back in a comforting manner. He then pulled a Holo viewer from his belt and handed it to Susan. "This is everything we've recorded of this 'Harry Potter' over the past year and a half, I made sure it wasn't altered in anyway." Susan held the circular device in both of her hands as Starkiller pressed a button on the side. "I hope this helps stop the nightmares." Susan hugged the dark lord and thanked him before she started watching the blue hologram. Darth Starkiller got up and walked out of her room.

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"I watched the entire thing, Master." Terra said as Darth Starkiller walked into the observation room that was invisible to Susan. "She is starting to see you as a father figure." Starkiller looked down at Susan, who was watching from her bed as the holo viewer projected a fully colored 3d video of the first task. "I'm starting to see that myself, how did visiting the twins go?" Darth Starkiller asked as he saw Susan wince as the Veela didn't watch her and had her dress catch on fire. "The twins see me as their adoptive mother, after I told them that their family was killed."

That was a lie, of course, Pavarti and Padma Patil's parents were still alive. But Starkiller knew that if he and his apprentice could have the girls see them as their adoptive parents, they could make it so that they would forget the past and fight, as they said, for a more peaceful future. But they had encountered problems, when Squad Charlie had brought the teens in, their trackers that cover their real souls had been fused with the earth's core and the girls bodies had started to disintegrate.

Darth Starkiller had to put the souls of the girls into the 8 year old version of their bodies because it was a failsafe so they could retain their memories, but they were still impressionable because the Kaminoans had put in a code into the 8 year old body so they would latch onto people that they saw as a father and mother figures. This was the reason that he was playing the father figure to all three of the girls. "We keep switching for one more week, then we start going together when we meet them." Terra nodded and smiled as she also looked at the future of the Empire.

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