Chapter Twelve: Not Planned

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By the way, I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but this chapter isn't going to be that long. If I had gotten more reviews, it would have been longer. The more reviews I get, the longer the chapters are. That's how it goes.

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Han didn't know how Vader had figured out where they were, and he didn't care. All he cared about was getting Luke away from Vader.

"Let him go," Han repeated, holding his blaster steady.

Vader thought for a moment. He couldn't fight and hold on to Luke at the same time. Vader pulled Luke closer, and stood coolly in front of Han.

"You would shoot while Luke is in front of me?" he asked. Vader could tell that Han was furious.

"That is low, Lord Vader. Using a kid as a shield."

Vader would have cared less about what the young man, Han, said, except for the fact that what he said seemed to have an affect on Luke. The boy's anger rose steadily. Apparently Luke wasn't too thrilled about being used as a shield.

"I wouldn't have to if you put your blaster back in its holster," Vader said, just to see what Han would do. "We can talk this over like gentlemen."

Han laughed. "I'm the gentleman. You're just a man." But talking it over seemed like the only way he could possibly win. Right now, he saw no advantages. He complied, and put away his blaster.

"That's better," Vader said. "Now perhaps we can talk about this little misunderstanding."

This got a sarcastic laugh from Luke. "Misunderstanding? You are squishing me!" Vader relaxed his hold on Luke, but he was nowhere close to letting go. "That's better," Luke approved.

"Okay," Han said. "What do you want with Luke?"

There was a long pause. Vader didn't know what to tell this man. Should he just tell him the truth? That Luke was his son, and so he rightfully belonged to him. Or should he think up something else? If he lied now, the boy may never trust him, even if Vader was just lying to his friend. Maybe the truth was the best route to take.

"He is my son."

When they heard this, despite the situation, Han and Luke started laughing hysterically. This wasn't exactly the reaction Vader had imagined he'd get after giving such a blunt answer.

"No, seriously," Han and Luke said, simultaneously.

They didn't believe him. How could Vader make them believe him? They thought that it was just a joke! Well Vader was not joking!

"You should know enough about me to know that I never joke. I am completely serious."

This time, the boys stopped laughing. Somehow, they felt that there was much more to this that they were missing.

Vader felt his son stretch out, searching for the truth. Vader let him search his mind; he wanted the child to know the truth. After a few minutes, Luke spoke.

"But… that can't be true."

"It is," the Force whispered to him. "The truth that we warned you of. Beware, beware…"

The voice faded away like it always did, leaving Luke in utter shock. How could Darth Vader, the second in command of the Empire, the evil being that he'd always feared, be his father?

A memory came to mind. This time, it was one of his own memories…

"Father, where are you?" It was him, as a little boy. Back when he was five. He was in an imaginary world, playing hide-and-seek with his father.

"Here I am, Luke."

The voice, deep in tone, it was his father. He was talking to him. Little Luke gasped.

"Father?

"Yes, son it is me," his father answered, amusement evident in his voice. "Are you surprised?"

The conversation went on. His father asked where he was, and said he didn't know. Later, Obi-Wan had told Luke that it was Darth Vader he was talking to. But… could it also have been his father? Yes, he knew now that he had been talking to Vader, but if Vader was his father, then…

"I can't believe it," Luke said. But even as he said it, he knew that he certainly did believe it. "You're actually telling the truth."

Vader smiled. Luke was taking this well. Maybe this would go well after all.

"Kid, he can't really be your father!" Han declared. Then he thought about it for a moment. Vader had always been interested in Luke, but he never seemed to want to hurt him. "Or maybe he could…"

Suddenly, a huge explosion was heard. Luke wanted to go see what it was all about, he pulled against Vader.

"Would you mind letting me go for a second?" Luke asked in a frustrated voice.

Surprisingly, Vader let go, and followed the two boys down to the first floor, and out the front door.

They headed toward the landing pads, because that was where the explosion seemed to have come from. When they finally came to the landing pad, they saw the last thing the expected:

Nothing.

There was nothing there. Vader's shuttle and the boys' ship were both missing. The ships couldn't have been the things that had been exploded, because there would have been pieces of the ships scattered around the spot where the ships had been, but it was as if the two ships had never been there.

"Okay, what did you do, your Lordship?" Han demanded, looking suspiciously at the Dark Lord.

"I assure you, I have nothing to do with this," Vader said. "I am in shock as much as you."

Luke looked around, but saw nothing but forest. "But if you didn't do this, who did?"

Vader would have sighed if he could. "That is a good question, young one. For now, I will contact my ship, and see if they know what happened."

Vader turned away from the other two while he talked to the captain on his com. While he talked, Han and Luke contemplated the strange events that had taken place ever since they had gotten to Kayoa.

Han thought all of this was more then strange, and he didn't even know what had happened to Luke in the secret room. Luke, on the other hand, knew that there was something strange about the planet they were on. Someone or something was warning them. He knew that for sure. But was it a friendly warning, or an unfriendly warning? Luke guessed the latter.

"Han, I've got a bad feeling about this," Luke commented.

Han brushed his hair back nervously. "Yeah, me too."

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Meanwhile, not too far away from Kayoa, Boba Fett was musing over a forgotten memory. There was something about that planet, Kayoa, that he knew that he just had to remember! But what was it? He had been to many places in the universe, and lots of places made him uneasy. But something about that particular planet just made him feel nervous all over.

"Gods of the Suns! How could I forget!" Boba suddenly cried out. He remembered! Of course, how could he forget!

"Boba?" Bella asked, looking at her husband quizzically. "What is it?"

"We have to go to Kayoa," Boba said, starting up his ship's engines. Bella was used to Boba making sudden decisions, but this seemed different then the others.

"Why?"

Boba looked at her gravely. "We have to warn them."

Bella had no idea what he was talking about. She had never needed to go to Kayoa, so therefore, she had didn't know what was going on.

"Warn them? About what?" Bella wondered what had suddenly possessed her husband to cause him to act so strangely. He hardly ever cared about what happened to others. Why was it all different now?

"We must warn them about everything!" Boba Fett declared. "We may already be too late."

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A.N: I couldn't help doing another cliffhanger! In case you didn't notice, I've dropped a few hints about this throughout the earlier chapters. I just wanted to let you know if you hadn't caught that.

So anyway, review, and maybe next time, I'll give you a longer chapter!