This takes place during the duel between Vader and Luke during the events of Return of the Jedi…
Both Q's appeared before a large room, strange in construction. Both Q's were wearing a black uniform, the same as the one Luke Skywalker was wearing.
The room everyone was in was rather large and dark, adorned with a large window that showed a space battle in the distance. Right next to the circular window was a person, a man of some sort that was wearing a black robe and sitting in a chair watching a battle taken place before him. Two people were dueling each other, adorned with respective swords of some kind, one green and the other red.
The person with the green light saber was a young man, perhaps around twenty years of age, wearing black clothing while the other person in question was wearing some sort of black suit and using a red light saber. Both seemed like they were in a struggle of sorts while the older man in the black robes just watched from his chair with a smile pasted on his crusted face.
Both Q's masked themselves from the three while they watched from nearby. The younger Q watched as the two people fought each other and leaned over to his father. "What's going on?"
The elder Q started to speak. "The person with the green light saber is a young man named Luke Skywalker while the person in the black suit with the red light saber is named Darth Vader."
"And these light sabers are weapons?" The young Q wondered.
The elder Q nodded. "Crude but effective. You see, if one of those touched the body, that person would be injured and could even die."
Luke Skywalker turned his light saber off after hearing a comment from the Emperor.
"Obi-Wan has taught you well," Vader replied before walking up the steps to meet Luke.
The young Q asked another question to his father, as he was very inquisitive. "So why is this Skywalker fighting Vader? And who is the wrinkled old prune in the background. He definitely needs to get out in the sun more."
"Vader is Skywalker's father. The old man seated before them is Emperor Palpatine, the ultimate ruler of the Galactic Empire and this universe," Q responded. Before his son could ask more questions, he explained to his son some more about what was going on. "You see, before Paplatine became the emperor, this galaxy was ruled as more of a democratic style, much like the Federation. But as soon as Palpatine rose up and grabbed power, he became the sole leader, much like earth's Hitler."
It was making sense for the young Q now.
His father continued. "Palpatine, Vader, and Skywalker belong in an order known as the Force, some sort of barbaric code of conduct that demonstrates thought, reason, yadda, yadda…..Anyway, there are two sides to this Force, a dark side to which Vader and Palpatine belong to, and the good side to which Skywalker belongs to. Any person who is drawn to the dark side becomes part of the species called the Sith, where as anyone who is drawn to the good side of this Force can become a warrior of peace called a Jedi, though their species remain intact."
"So if someone joins the dark side of the Force, they become a Sith regardless of species?" The young inquisitive Q asked.
The older Q nodded.
"Well that's preposterous if I've ever heard such an inane platitude of illogical thinking," the young Q seemed disapproval of how people can change to a Sith just because they follow a code of darkness. "Kind of sounds like the Borg."
"In a way, yes," the older Q had to agree with the logical point of view of his son. Q continued to conclude his lesson on what was happening. "Vader was once human, just like his son Luke, but the Emperor twisted Vader and turned him to the dark side. Vader then became the Emperor's apprentice and sworn his allegiance to him. It was not until a few years ago that Vader found he had a son. He also has a daughter who is also part of the merry band rebellion that are trying to overthrow the Emperor and Vader and bring order and peace back to the galaxy, but the fool doesn't even know his bloodline is connected to his daughter who so happens to be a princess. Vader thinks she's just some spoiled arrogant brat. But oh does she look good in a white silk dress, I kid you not."
The young Q gave an uncanny look at his father. "Sounds like you're fascinated by this princess."
The older Q dismissed his son's irrational line of thinking. "Who, me? Nah!" They both continued to watch what was going on.
At this point in the battle, Luke was angry that his father who now discovered that Luke had a twin sister would use her and turn her over to the dark side. He aggressively struck his light saber onto Vader's, both weapons making a clang sound as the hit one another, showing a power struggle over good verses evil. Sparks drew out on both light sabers as they hit each other.
The Emperor himself was pleased as to what was transpiring over his view. He was now halfway down the stairs from his command chair, watching as Skywalker and Vader fought each other.
Although the young Q was interested in the outcome of this skirmish he looked at his father. "You know what would make this more interesting?"
The older Q wondered what his son was thinking about. "What's that?"
"If we actually revealed ourselves to these three and see what they think of us," the young Q thought intervening in this battle of the wits would throw a clog in their skirmish.
Q smiled at the boy and then snapped his fingers. A flash of light dispersed for a second to reveal Q and his son to the Emperor, Vader, and Skywalker. All three had no idea what was going on and Vader and Skywalker stopped their fighting with each other.
"Who are you?" The Emperor gazed at the two men standing several feet before him.
The older Q gave a dumbfounded smile. "Who, us? We're merely spectators at this little game of barbarism. And to think, you all go about flaunting your limited viewpoint about bringing order to the galaxy and here you are, fighting amongst each other in this trivial show of dominance."
Although Vader and Skywalker were standing several feet from Palpatine, the Emperor himself moved slightly at the two new beings. "You will not speak to me in that tone!" Suddenly, the Emperor raised his hands toward the two Q and shot electrical volts at the two. But the volts passed through the two Q like there was nothing there to strike. The Emperor for the first time did not know what to do and looked flabbergasted.
The older Q started to laugh at Palpatine. "Good! That is what you say when you have the upper hand in controlling something isn't it?"
The younger Q walked over to the Emperor. "You really should loosen up more, Palpy." The young Q smiled and put his arm around the Emperor. "Mind if I call you Palpy?"
The Emperor shrugged Q's shoulder off of him. Vader quickly moved over to the young Q with his light saber and struck him, but as before with the Emperor, the saber merely went through Q as if there was nothing there. The young Q smiled at Vader, grabbed his light saber, and blew on the blade causing the it to vanish, much like one would blow out a candle to stop the flame. Vader tried to reactivate his light saber but nothing happened.
"I would expect that from such limited creatures," the older Q started to prance around the room. "Naughty, naughty my simple minded friend."
Palpatine stared at the older Q. "I have never encountered someone with such enormous power, power that far exceeds my own. To whom am I speaking to?"
The older Q snapped his fingers and the room darkened. A spotlight came on him and his son. Their clothing had changed to matching red and white stripped suits with red bowties, a small top hat for both, and two white canes. They looked like an old vaudeville act from the nineteen fifties. "We're the one and only Q!"
"It's short for Q!" Q2 added. "Ta-da!" The spotlight disappeared, the lights in the room came back on, and the clothing attire on the two Q's switched back to their black uniforms.
"Why did you come here?" Luke now joined in on the conversation.
The older Q smiled wryly at young Skywalker. "To show my son this galaxy and what little it has to offer."
"You mean to tell us that there are other galaxies out there?" Vader's thoughts started to ponder.
"Different galaxies, alternate realities, different dimensions," the older Q continued to speak. "You have no idea. It's endless with possibilities." Q's smile disappeared. "Too bad you can't get to any of them." Q flashed over to the Emperor and put his arms around him. "Too bad for you," Q gave a pity face at the man, delighting himself at the expense of annoying Palpatine.
A sparkle of amusement surfaced on the older Q's face. "You know what's about to happen?"
Skywalker, Palpatine, and Vader did not have a clue.
"The shields for this crackerjack of a dump in space are about to go down thanks to the rebel alliance down on the moon who were aided by those cute cuddly creatures known as the Ewoks."
"What!" Palpatine moved away from the older Q and displayed outrage. "I should have eliminated those furballs when I had the chance."
Q2 took part on the sorrow train the Emperor was riding. "But as Luke here would have pointed out, you underestimated everyone because of your overconfidence. So boo-hoo to you!" The young Q started to laugh. "And with the shields down, the alliance can now safely destroy this place to kingdom come!"
The older Q suddenly pulled out an antique gold pocket watch from out of nowhere. "Let's count all count down the seconds we have before this Death Star starts to blow up, shall we!" Q's face turned into one who just discovered something wonderful. "In five-four-three….."
"They're not counting," the young Q stopped his father's countdown.
"Oh pish-posh," the adult Q retorted back. He had made the countdown stop. "Now we're all going to do this together." As if Q had delayed the blow up of the Death Star, he started the countdown again at five seconds. "In five….." everyone was now joining in on the countdown by the forceful act of Q. "Four-three-two-one…." Q let out his arms. "Happy New Year!"
Suddenly the Death Star started to shake as the interior was blasted by the rebel alliance fleet.
"Not again," Vader groaned.
Within a few moments, the entire Death Star exploded and the flames engulfed Palpatine, Vader, and Skywalker as the flames were too powerful. The entire Death Star blew to pieces. However, thanks to the trickery of Q, all was not what it seemed.
"You all aren't dead," the young Q knew what the three men were thinking in their minds. The three beings, along with both Q's, were still in the Death Star as it had been apparent that it did not blow up.
The young Q looked around the darkened room, a disproval over his face. "This place could use some pizzazz, some color, some flare." He snapped his fingers and suddenly almost one-hundred different aliens appeared in the room. There were now strobe lights of green's, blues, and yellow's showering around the room along with several attractive alien women wearing very little while dancing to music.
"Stop this now!" The Emperor shouted. "Return my Death Star to what it was before."
"Temper, temper my good man," Q2 shot back. "Or whatever kind of gender you are. I just turned this room into one big party pad. No need to thank me."
Vader walked up beside the Emperor. "Do as the Emperor commands!"
"Or else what?" The young Q started to dance with one of the young ladies that was on one of the tables.
But Vader couldn't think of anything. He nor the Emperor could do much of anything at this point, only to settle into whatever kind of games these two Q were doing.
"Besides," the young Q spoke as he was now dancing with two ladies on a table, "you were going to lose this battle anyway. Skywalker would have turned Vader back to the good side, and Vader would have thrown you off of the ledge where you would have met your death."
The Emperor looked at Vader, his apprentice, with disapproval of his would be actions.
The older Q had grown tired of the club scene had snapped his fingers. The entire room appeared as it did before with everyone and everything else gone except the three beings and the two Q.
The young Q looked at his father. "But Q, why did you do that? I was having so much fun."
"Sorry son, but I can't stand that kind of racket," the older Q stated his opinion. "It's not good for my ears or yours. Besides, it was annoying the first time you did it to Janeway's ship."
"So I turned Aunt Kathy's engine room to my own personal club," Q2 thought the idea was solid. "It was changed back." The young Q decided to dismiss what just happened and looked back at the Emperor. "What's with the long face Palpy? You got your room back."
"Don't call me that!" Palpatine nearly yelled at the young lad. "I am Supreme Emperor Palpatine, and I demand that you address me as such."
"Yeah, whatever Palpy," Q2 dismissed what was just said to him. "Back to what I was saying, why do you care if Vader here betrayed you? You did the same to him, but he was too stupid to realize it, until now."
"What?" Vader was questioning what Q meant.
"Oops! Silly me," the young Q smiled at the Emperor.
"You see Anakin," the older Q spoke.
"That is not my name!" Vader wined. "That name is of a long forgotten person from the past. He no longer exists."
"Sure thing Annie!" the older Q rebutted, knowing the mad expression Vader had underneath his helmet. "The Emperor here lied to you and told you that your beloved wife had died because of you."
"And what are you trying to get at?" Vader was tired of these games these beings were playing.
"Oh come now Annie, don't be such a dud like you don't know," Q was toying with Vader. "Palpatine here said to you that you killed your wife, but you didn't."
Although no one could see the facial expression, everyone knew that Vader's face was written with the emotions of shock, surprise, and anger.
"But I think I will let her tell you in person," Q said. He snapped his fingers and Vader's wife Padme appeared before everyone.
For the first time Vader showed emotion that was more tuned to his human side, the side he lost to the dark side years ago. He walked over to his wife, awing and amazed at her beauty.
"Where, where am I?" Padme asked. "And who are you?"
"Padme, it's me, your husband," Vader was choosy in his words and decided to not use his given name of Anakin.
"Annie?" Padme touched her husband's helmet. "Oh Annie what happened to you?" She began to show tears as her eyes were becoming red with sorrow.
Vader lightly grabbed his wife's hands. "I need to know something, did I kill you on the planet where I battled Obi-Won?"
Padme shook her head. "No you didn't. I was alive Annie. Obi-Won took me to a hospital where I birth to our children, Luke and Leia, and then I died."
Luke, who had taken a vow of silence during this time, decided to walk over to meet his mother for the first time. "Mother."
Padme looked at the young man and recognized that he bare a similar appearance to his father. "Luke, is that you?"
Luke nodded. He and Padme hugged for the first time. Luke wasn't for sure if this was a hoax caused by Q, but he didn't care. He finally had the chance to meet his mother for the first time in his life. He didn't want to let go of her. He wanted to tell her everything that happened in his life.
Padme smiled at her son. "You look so handsome Luke." The compliment made the young Jedi give a bashful smile. Padme looked around the room and the first thing she noticed was Palpatine. "You," was the only word she could muster out of her vocabulary. "You were behind all of this."
The Emperor did not say anything but could only stand there. The reunion everyone was having with each other was an unexpected displeasure that Palpatine loathed.
"You turned my husband to the dark side and look what he looks like now!" She said before looking back at her husband and then back at Palpatine, her voice raised and filled with hatred. "He looks like a monster because of you!"
The older Q decided it was time for the family reunion to end. "Well, that's all for today kiddos." He walked over to Padme, Vader, and Skywalker. "Now that you know about what happened to your wife, how does that make you feel?"
Vader was now angrier more than ever. He had been lied to, tricked, and twisted by the Emperor all because he needed someone as powerful as himself in order to become a Sith and an apprentice to the Emperor himself. For the first time he wanted nothing to do with the man he called master. Vader was nothing more than a puppet, a pawn to the Emperor and had been used. He relished this new information and wished he could turn back time and change everything that had happened in his life. But he couldn't.
Vader looked at Q. "I feel angry and my body is now filled with sorrow I have for myself for being foolish into believing the Emperor here was the one who could bring me logic when I was lost. But now he has only shown me more confusion."
With the lesson learned, Q snapped his fingers and Padme disappeared from the room. Vader was quick to grab Q's shirt out of anger. "Bring her back Q." But Q could only manage to smile and shake his head, declining Vader's wish.
Q began to talk again to the group. "This little meeting of family counseling is adjourned for the day, and I must say this has been a fascinating experience."
"But Q," the younger Q spoke, "There's still more lessons they can learn, lessons that no doubt will put them in danger but pleasure us at the same time.
Q's son knew what he was trying to get at. "Quite right my dear lad." He turned his attention back at the Emperor, Skywalker, and Vader. "Since you three have been such good hosts to us in your humble home, my son and I will return the favor."
Suddenly everyone disappeared in a beam of light…………………..
Several people appeared in a large cockpit room, filled with all sorts of controls.
"What's going on here," General Han Solo was trying to figure out his surroundings.
Solo's co-pilot and friend Chewbacca growled in his native tongue back at Solo.
"How can we be back in the Millennium Falcon?" Han was messing around with the controls.
"I think I can answer that," Luke said from the back.
Princess Leia gave the man a hug while Ham got out of his chair.
R2-D2 simply chirped with excitement. His companion C-3PO was also glad to see the young man. "Oh master Luke, you're alright."
Luke smiled and gave 3PO a pat on the back. "Thanks 3PO and R2."
"We just got the shield generators down and saw the Death Star explode, and now we're here," Leia said to Luke. "Luke, what's going on?"
Luke started to explain. "I was in the Death Star fighting Vader, my father, while the Emperor was watching, and suddenly these two strange aliens appeared right before our eyes."
"These beings, are they part of the Empire?" Han wondered.
Luke shook his head. "From what they told me, they exist outside of time and space. They can go about to anywhere at any point in time for their amusement. They've been toying around with us for the past while before they brought in Leia's and my mother."
"Your mother?" Han could not believe Luke and Leia were related. "That means you two are both…"
"Yes Han, brother and sister," Luke finished his friend's though.
"So they brought in our mother," Leia wanted to know more about her. "Tell me, what was she like?"
Suddenly Chewie barked out some more for his friends to hear. Han looked at his friend with a confused expression and returned his attention to the controls. "What do you mean the Emperor and Darth Vader are right beside us on another ship."
"Oh dear," 3PO's response sounded grim.
"Chewie, full power to shields," Han punched in several buttons on his side of the controls. "Now's our chance to end this once and for all."
"I wouldn't do that if I were you," a voice said in front of the group. They all gazed their attention to the front window of the Falcon and saw the face's of Q and Q2.
"They're the ones who brought us here," Luke replied. "They're called Q."
The older Q smiled with delight. "Oh do tell what you've been a saying about little old me."
Han Solo had enough of what was going on. "Where are we anyway?"
"Another part in another galaxy, in another time period," the younger Q replied to Han's question. "This area of space is referred to as the Delta Quadrant."
"I have told the same thing to your companions on the other ship as what I'm telling you right now," the older Q said. "This is an unknown area for you all. Your little Jedi tricks that you could pull back in your home turf do not work here. You must all work together in order to survive what is in store for you all."
Leia gave a displeasure look at the two aliens. "And just what is that?"
The older Q smiled at the Princess. "That's for you to know. All I can say is what you'll encounter is beyond anything you can imagine. If you thought the Empire was bad, then what you will encounter here is far worse than anything in your nightmares I can assure you."
"Have fun!" Q2 winked at the party and both Q's vanished, leaving the group to contemplate what they meant.