Obi-Wan ran back to the castle to tell the Queen of Senator Amidala's and Luke's kidnapping. Both the Queen and Bail were shocked. The Queen tried to help.
"We must help them! We can gather all our troops and send them…"
"No," interrupted Obi-Wan, "This is something personal, I must go at it alone."
"Very well," continued the Queen, "You can travel in one of the regular cargo ships, that way it's safer from being detected."
"Thank you, Your Highness," said Obi-Wan as he turned to leave, but then he stopped to ask one more favor, "Oh, and there is one more thing. I need you to do. I need you to take care of Leia while I'm gone."
"It will be done, Master Kenobi." The Queen said. With that being said, Obi-Wan rushed to the cargo ship with C-3PO and R2D2 by his side.
Meanwhile, Padme finally gained back consciousness, and looked around. Complete darkness surrounded her. Where was she? Was she blind? What happened? She tried to remember the last thing she saw. She remembered a storm trooper coming towards her and jerking Luke away from her. Luke, where was he? Is he alright? What do they want with them? A door opened and two storm troopers grabbed her by the arms and carried her off. As they walked to somewhere, she began to look around. This place was unfamiliar to her. They had to walk down a long, dark hallway into a fancy room decorated in black and red. She was brought before a figure in a dark cloak, half-man, and half-machine. It was her husband, Darth Vader. Padme wanted to gasp, but she knew she had to be quiet in a situation like this.
"Hello, Senator Amidala."
"Hello, Anakin."
Vader paused, as he knew she still referred to him by that name. He corrected her,
"My name is Darth Vader now. Anakin is the naïve, underappreciated Jedi of my past."
"It is also the name of the brave hero I married." She said with a smug look.
"I am still the same man who loved you; I am just not the one who pledged his life to the Jedi."
"Anakin, why are you doing this? It is the Emperor, not the Jedi Order, who was corrupt. Don't you see? He's taken justice away from the galaxy!"
"The Emperor has brought peace and order to this galaxy! And I do not want to remind you again that you will address me as Darth Vader."
Padme realized she wouldn't make things any better by calling him Anakin, so she decided use "Darth Vader" for the time being since the Anakin she knew wasn't here before her now. She continued,
"Very well, then, Vader. I will not let Emperor Palpatine tell me what's right and what's wrong like you have let him. I can determine that by myself."
Vader chuckled as he said, "Oh, so sure are you? Little do you remember you already have let Palpatine influence your decisions. I seem to remember a time where a 14-year old queen was advised by Senator Palpatine to take Chancellor Valorum from office so he could take the position himself. So you have made the same decision I have. Therefore, you have no right to judge."
Padme froze for a second as she realized he was right. She had let Palpatine control her thoughts. However, she has learned from those decisions, and she learned never to trust Palpatine again. She said confidently,
"Well, I have learned from my mistakes. So you just tell your precious Emperor that I will not become a part of this unfair government."
Vader chuckled again as he responded, "The Emperor doesn't want you. He wants something else from you."
Padme was stunned for a minute. She wondered what the Emperor wanted then if he didn't want her. Suddenly, she heard an infant's faint cry from the distance. It got louder and louder as a storm trooper put a baby in Vader's arms. She gasped as she realized what he wanted. He wanted her son, Luke!
"Take her away; I have no use of her now." Vader said coldly as he kept his eyes on the boy.
Before Padme could react, two storm troopers dragged her away as she struggled to reach her crying child.
"No! No! Let me go! You can't take him from me! Let me go! Luke, Luke! NOOO!" she screamed at the top of her lungs with tears pouring out her eyes as she lost sight of her evil husband holding on to her son.
Obi-Wan had attached his datapad into the programmer and the tracker he put on the ship located where they were. He followed it towards the spot far away. Finally, the tracker led him to what seemed to be a deteriorated moon. He got closer and realized that was no moon. It was a space station, in progress. His ship all of a sudden fell into a tractor beam and was heading towards the station. No matter how much he jiggled the controls, the ship continued into the station. When it finally landed, a few storm troopers were waiting outside to see who was in the cargo ship. Obi-Wan was prepared for this. As the latch opened, he jumped over the troopers and sliced them all with his lightsaber. Now, he had to find Padme and Luke.
