Star Wars: The Other Side
(This story is rated M for Mature. Star Wars is (c)1977-2005 Lucasfilm Ltd. All other characters are mine)
Chapter 3: Anakin meets Mara and Luke discovers Darth Bane
Mustafar:The Future: Anakin Skywalker walked among the stormtroopers as his shuttle landed on Mustafar, the planet where "Darth Vader" had truly been born, where his body had been burned by 80 left only with his artificial hand, one leg and his head partially unscathed. He remembered months ago where Palpatine had sent him to Mustafar to kill the leaders of the Trade Federation to signal the end of the 3-year Clone War that had been designed not as a drama, but as the final revenge against the Jedi by the greatest Sith Master ever, to destroy the Jedi Order of which Anakin Skywalker had previously pledged allegiance to but had more recently pledged himself to the Order of the Sith Lords in order to save his beloved wife Padme from dying in childbirth. He had known about the birth was unaware of the fact that Padme had been carrying Force-capable twins. The Commander of the Stormtroopers turned to him.
"Lord Vader, we find no one here since the end of the clone wars," The Commander said. He turned to the commander and just stared at him.
"Well someone was living here, as you can tell. Widen your search, Commander," Anakin said. He eyed the Jedi Starfighter that he had landed here so many years ago to end the war started by Darth Sidious to destroy the Jedi.
"Who are you, and where is my husband?" Spoke a woman who came in from one of the adjoining rooms that Anakin came into. She had red hair, and bore Anakin's Jedi Lightsaber. He raised his own Sith blade.
"Are You the one called the Emperor's Hand?" He asked. She raised her weapon, given to her by her husband Luke Skywalker all those years ago, when Grand Admiral Thrawn had tried to rebuild the Sith Empire some 5 years after the destruction of the Death Star and the death of his Master. She looked at him.
"Who are you, and how do you know my code name?" She said stepping toward him.
"I am Darth Vader, Dark Lord of the Sith sent by your husband, Luke Skywalker, my son and Jedi Master," Anakin said. She lunged at him with the speed and grace of a jedi. Anakin quickly raised his weapon in a defensive manner and defended himself.
"You claim to be Lord Vader, yet you wear the robes of a Jedi Knight, killed by the Emperor some 50 years ago. You also bear a striking resemblance to a holonet image of Anakin Skywalker, the last of the Fallen 20," Mara said.
"I am both, my Apprentice," He said. She then stopped. She remembered. All those years ago,shortly after the deaths of Master Shryne on Kashyyk, and her own parents killed by the Empire's Stormtroopers and herself taken as a young girl and trained by a hybrid between man and machine, much like General Grievious had been to the Separatists, a leader, a commander. Except this hybrid between humanity and Machine had claimed to be a Lord of the Sith, a being so deep in the Dark Side of the Force, that he was completely married to the Dark Side. He had called himself by his Sith title, Darth Vader. She had never known Vader's previous identity as Anakin Skywalker.
"Why have you sought me out?" She finally asked as she stopped attacking the young Sith Lord.
"Your husband sent me a message through my armored self to find Bail Organa or his daughter Leia Organa to start the rebellion," Anakin said. Mara nodded.
"Come with me, Lord Vader. Leave your troops to guard us. We will search for Luke's Sister," she finally said. The two entered the main building that once housed the Separatists confederacy that Palpatine had started in his guise as Darth Sidious.
Coruscant, The distant past: Luke Skywalker walked into the inner chamber of the Jedi Temple. He saw the Holocrons of the Jedi that bore the last millinia of history of the great Civil war that had became known as the Great Sith War. He used the Force and accessed one and one holographic image caught his eye. It was the image of the Sith reformer known as Darth Bane. He then called up the ancient prophecy of the Sith that would rise up to wage war against one of their own. He then saw Bane's holographic image as he had squared off against his apprentice, 50,000 years prior. The Sith Lord had screamed, before his apprentice had cut off his head with his lightsaber, "I will return!"
"What is wrong, my Son?" Vader said as he then recalled the more recent prophecy of The chosen One who would bring balance back to the Force.
"Go back to your Master and warn him that there is a disturbance in the Force that harkens toward the era of time I came from. Darth Bane will fight against the younger version of you, that is right now trying to find my wife to help start the rebellion. The three of us, Sidious, you, & Myself must travel back to the Era I came from to help the part of you that was separated to fight the greatest Sith Lord that ever lived. It was Darth Bane who inspired my own son to become a Sith Lord!" Luke said. Vader nodded. He then turned back to his son.
"What does that mean, my son?" Vader then asked.
"It means, Father that if Bane wins this fight then the prophecy concerning you will never take place. You are the greatest warrior that both the Sith and Jedi Order has ever had. Anakin Skywalker must destroy Darth Bane. He has been resurrected in the time era I came from. Surely your master knows of the legendary Jedi Time Keepers? Ask him to confront them at once or the very Empire he controls or the New Republic in my own time will cease to be!" Luke said. The Dark Lord of the Sith moved quickly for a physically scarred man in a life sustaining armor...
To be continued...