(1-2-16: I...changed quite a bit though. On top of the normal grammar edits, I added a lot more of Luke's point of view and expanded on/improved the details. So this chapter should be a much better quality now.)

Here's part two of the big reveal hahaahahaha. I'm having so much fun finally getting to this part! I hope you guys enjoy! Thank you for all of the reviews once again, and please continue to review, I love getting your feetback. Well, Enjoy!

Luke stood in Sidious' office, lightning sparking everywhere around him as Master Windu struggled to keep the lightning bursting forth from Sidious' fingertips from hitting him. Luke stood frozen by his father's side, nauseous.

"He is the traitor!" Windu shouted, struggling to keep the intense lightning away from his body.

"I have the power to save the one you love!" Sidious told Anakin. "You must choose!"

"Don't listen to him, Anakin!" Windu called.

"Don't let him kill me!" Sidious begged as Anakin pulled out his lightsaber, still torn between the two. "I can't hold him any longer! I-I-I c-can't...help...too weak...Anakin! Help me! Help me! I-I-I can't...hold on...any longer..."

Sidious' words riled Luke to action, and he came to his father's side, wanting desperately to talk reason into the other Jedi's mind. "Father, he's lying, please, you must see that it's a ploy! He's perfectly capable, he's just trying to bait you."

Sidious' lightning stopped sparking, and Windu held his lightsaber level at Sidious' chest. "I am going to end this, once and for all!"

"You can't!" Anakin replied sharply, drawing everyone's attention to him. "He must stand trial!"

While a noble move, Luke knew it was misguided, and in this case it only caused him distress to hear his father argue in favor of the Sith.

"He has control of the Senate and the Courts! He's too dangerous to be left alive!" Windu argued.

"I'm too weak...oh...don't kill me, please!" Sidious gasped. Luke looked at Sidious in disgust, repulsed by his pathetic show to convince Anakin he was the one in the right.

"It's not the Jedi way! He must live!" Anakin snapped, and Luke could see that the other Skywalker was getting desperate, but Windu was no longer listening to him.

"Please don't!" Sidious begged.

"I need him!" Anakin cried, the desperation dripping in his tone.

"Please don't!" Sidious said once again as Windu went to strike him down.

"NO!" Anakin shouted.

"Father, no!" Luke cried out, trying to grasp Anakin's arm to stop him. His hands only went right through Anakin, as if Luke was nothing but a ghost. So, he was forced to watch as Anakin whipped out his lightsaber and fluidly cut off Windu's sword hand.

Sidious leapt at the opportunity, grinning evilly. "POWER!" he screamed, striking the defenseless Mace Windu with a fresh, deadly volley of Sith Lightning. "UNLIMITED POWER!"

Luke watched helplessly as Anakin stumbled backwards, coming quickly to his father's side and trying unsuccessfully to place a hand on Anakin's shoulder. Windu went flying out the window as all of this transpired, courtesy of the Emperor. "What have I done?" Anakin cried out, and there was such anguish in his tone that Luke felt tears prick at his eyes.

"You are fulfilling your destiny, Anakin," Sidious purred as he slowly got to his feet, coming to stand in front of Anakin. Anakin bowed his head, breathing heavily. "Become my apprentice...learn to use the dark side of the Force."

"Don't do it, don't listen to him," Luke begged his father, kneeling down beside the man.

"I will do whatever you...ask," Anakin panted out, much to Luke's despair.

"Good," Sidious hissed.

The pain and suffering was evident in Anakin's face. "Just help me save Padmé's life...I can't live without her!"

"To cheat death...is a power only one has achieved. But if we work together...I am sure we can discover the secret."

Luke watched helplessly as Anakin slipped off of the desk he'd been leaning on for support, looking frail and sickly as he kneeled before Sidious. "I pledge myself...to your teachings."

"Good..." Sidious replied softly, but Luke didn't miss how Anakin hung his head in shame and sorrow. He was only doing this because he believed it was the only way; he had never wanted this. "Good...the Force is strong with you! Henceforth, you shall be known as Darth...Vader."

Luke slowly rose to his feet, unable to help the pang of fear that went through him at the dark look that now covered Anakin's face as he gazed up at Sidious. "Thank you...my Master."

"Rise."

Luke watched with a growing sense of illness as Sidious and his father discussed their next move, how they would wipe out the Jedi and the Separatists. He shook his head vigorously, stumbling away; he couldn't watch this.

Lucky for him, the scene changed, but it ended up being worse than the scene he had just left. Luke found himself walking beside his father as Anakin led a legion of clones against the Temple. His heartbeat was erratic and he was nearly having a panic attack as he watched his father cut through the Jedi, helpless to do anything, to stop the endless suffering all around him no matter how desperate he was to do just that.

Anakin moved into the Council Room, where several small children were hiding. A little blonde boy stepped forward. "Master Skywalker, there are too many of them! What are we going to do?"

Luke leaned against the wall he'd stumbled into for support, looking away as he heard the hum of Anakin's now ignited lightsaber. "Not them, please no," he moaned as he slowly slid down the wall. He could feel his stomach churning violently in protest of the slaughter Luke was about to witness.

The scene went black just as the first terrified cry of surprise rent the air, fading away before Luke heard two voices; his mother and father to be exact.

"Are you all right? I heard there was an attack on the Jedi Temple, you can see the smoke from here!" his mother cried, and Luke felt his heart wrench; she had no idea what was happening, what her beloved had done...

"I'm fine, I'm fine; I came to see if you and the baby were safe," Anakin replied. Luke felt himself perk up slightly at that; even so immersed in the dark side, Anakin had still been concerned for his wife and child.

"What's happened?"

"The Jedi have tried to overthrow the Republic."

"I can't believe that!"

"I saw Master Windu attempt to assassinate the chancellor myself."

"Oh Anakin...what are you going to do?"

"I will not betray the Republic. My loyalties lie with the chancellor, and with the Senate...and with you."

"What about Obi-Wan?"

"I don't know. Many Jedi have been killed. We can only hope that he has remained loyal to the chancellor."

"Anakin, I'm afraid..."

"Have faith, my love, everything will soon be set right. The chancellor has given me a very important mission. The Separatists have gathered on the Mustafar system. I'm going there to end this war, wait for me until I return. Things will be different, I promise. Please...wait for me."

Faintly, Luke wondered if Padmé could hear the change in her husband, in Anakin, and had started to suspect the truth; from what he'd seen, Padmé was indeed a smart woman, so he just couldn't believe she'd been oblivious. Unless she hadn't wanted to see...

As Anakin's voice faded, Luke heard Obi-Wan's voice start to drift towards him.

"When was the last time you saw him?"

"Yesterday," came Padmé's voice.

"Do you know where he is now?"

"No."

"Padmé, I need your help. He's in grave danger."

"From a Sith?"

"From himself. Padmé...Anakin has turned...to the dark side."

As Luke had predicted, Padmé was quick to deny, her voice pitched higher than normal with hints of fearful outrage. Luke hung his head in mourning, heart crying out at his mother's obvious pain.

"You're wrong! How could you even say that?"

"I have seen...a security hologram. Of him...killing younglings."

"No, not Anakin! He couldn't!"

"He was deceived by a lie, we all were! It appears the chancellor is behind everything, including the war! Palpatine's the Sith Lord we've been looking for. After the death of Count Dooku, Anakin became his new apprentice."

Luke's head snapped up at that statement. No, that part wasn't true, that part was a lie. Anakin had just been named Darth Vader the day before...

Gradually, a pit of dread for what was coming began to settle in Luke's gut.

"I don't believe you! I can't..."

"Padmé, I must find him."

"You're going to kill him, aren't you?"

"He has become a very great threat..."

An image came into view, and Luke saw his mother boarding a ship. When she wasn't looking, he saw Obi-Wan slip aboard, obviously unknown to Padmé; he was stowing away as she went to find Anakin. Their conversation continued in the background.

"I can't..."

"Anakin's the father...isn't he? I'm so sorry..."

Yet again the scene changed, and Luke found himself watching another of Anakin's slaughters. Mercilessly, Anakin cut through the Separatists, and once again Luke felt he was about to be sick as Anakin turned a deaf ear on their pleas for mercy.

Thankfully the scene changed once more, and Luke watched his mother and father run into one another's arms, both united on Mustafar. As Anakin pulled away, he spoke. "I saw your ship. What are you doing out here?"

"I was so worried about you. Obi-Wan...told me terrible things."

"What things?" his father asked sharply, and Luke stiffened at Anakin's tone.

"He said...you've turned to the dark side. That you...killed younglings!"

"Obi-Wan is trying to turn you against me," Anakin told her smoothly and softly, voice like oil as he worked to convince his wife all was well.

"He cares about us."

"Us?" Anakin asked, his voice suddenly hard and dangerous, like a switch had been flipped. Luke couldn't help but shiver.

"He knows. He wants to help you." Anakin smirked, obviously laughing at the thought of Obi-Wan wanting to help him. Padmé saw she was only distancing him and tried for a different tactic. "Anakin...all I want is your love."

"Love won't save you Padmé, only my new powers can do that!"

"But at what cost? You're a good person, don't do this!"

Yes, please, don't do this...

"I won't lose you the way I lost my mother," Anakin said firmly, shaking his head. "I am becoming more powerful than any Jedi has ever dreamed of. And I'm doing it for you; to protect you."

Padmé placed her hands on either side of Anakin's face, and Luke went numb when he saw that the gesture appeared to not even faze his father. Luke ended up taking a seat on the ground because of how the world tilted dangerously around him, overwhelmed. "Come away with me. Help me raise our child. Leave everything else behind while we still can!"

"Don't you see? We don't have to run away anymore! I have brought peace to the Republic! I am more powerful than the chancellor, I-I can overthrow him! And together you and I can rule the galaxy! Make things the way we want them to be."

Luke shrank from his father at the power hungry, demented look that had appeared on his face, as did Padmé, who was shaking her head in anguish.

"I don't believe what I'm hearing. Obi-Wan was right: you've changed!"

A dark fury appeared in his father's eyes. "I don't want to hear any more about Obi-Wan. The Jedi turned against me: don't you turn against me!"

"I don't know you anymore!" Padmé cried, and Luke felt his heart break at his mother's pain. "Anakin...you're breaking my heart! You're going down a path I can't follow!"

Tears threatened to spill forth from Luke's eyes. How was he still watching this? All of this pain and suffering...

"Because of Obi-Wan?" Anakin asked threateningly.

"Because of what you've done! What you plan to do! Stop, stop now, come back! I love you!" Padmé cried, but Anakin wasn't listening anymore. His eyes were glued to something that had appeared at the top of the ship's ramp. Luke looked over and saw Obi-Wan standing at the top of the ramp and his blood went cold, his eyes swiveling to his father in fear. Rage filled Anakin's features as he turned on Padmé.

"LIAR!" he shouted at her, and Luke shot to his feet, instinctively stepping between the two of them even though it made no difference; he technically wasn't there.

"No!" Padmé cried, stepping back the same time Anakin stalked toward her.

"You're with him!" Anakin raged. "You brought him here to kill me!"

To Luke's horror, Anakin raised his hand and began to choke Padmé, his heavily pregnant wife, Luke's mother, with the Force.

"What are you doing? Stop, let her go! Father, please," Luke pleaded with the Anakin who could not hear him.

"Let her go, Anakin!" Obi-Wan demanded, but Anakin ignored him.

"Anakin..." Padmé gasped out.

"Father, stop!" Luke cried, his eyes stinging with unshed tears.

"Let. Her. GO!" Obi-Wan demanded.

Finally, Anakin let Luke's mother go, and she crumpled to the ground. Luke dropped to his knees beside her, hands hovering uselessly over her shoulder and back. "Mother..." he said softly, looking for any sign of life.

"You turned her against me!" Anakin shouted at Obi-Wan, drawing Luke's attention back to him.

"No Father, stop! You must see this is madness, think of what you're doing!" Luke begged him.

"You have done that yourself!" Obi-Wan with such harshness that Luke was startled; he'd never heard Obi-Wan take that tone, had never imagined such a tone could come from the man. Anakin shed his cloak, pacing furiously in front of Padmé like a predator protecting its territory.

"YOU WILL NOT TAKE HER FROM ME!" Anakin screamed at Obi-Wan, and Luke drew back, suddenly afraid of his father; he was arguably more frightening right now than in that black armored suit.

"Your anger and your lust for power have already done that," Obi-Wan responded, a hardened edge in his normally even tone as he too took off his cloak.

The two started to circle each other like caged predators, and Luke noticed that for the first time, in his mounting fury, Anakin left Padme's side, allowing Obi-Wan to gradually make his way to the fallen woman's side. "You have allowed this Dark Lord to twist your mind until now...until now you have become the very thing you swore to destroy."

"Don't lecture me, Obi-Wan. I see through the lies of the Jedi! I do not fear the dark side as you do!" Anakin replied snidely.

Obi-Wan leaned down to check on Luke's mother, and Luke wilted in relief when Obi-Wan seemed to deem her all right even as Anakin continued his spiel. "I have brought peace, freedom, justice, and security to my new Empire!"

Obi-Wan slowly rose to his feet. "Your new Empire?"

Luke stood nervously between the pair, unable to see his father's face as Anakin currently had his back to Obi-Wan. He didn't like where this was going, not at all.

"Don't make me kill you!" Anakin snarled.

"Anakin, my allegiance is to the Republic, to DEMOCRACY!"

Obi-Wan had started off quiet but Luke shrank back in shock and even some fear as he heard Obi-Wan shout for the first time.

"If you are not with me...then you are my enemy!"

Obi-Wan froze, and the brief silence was too much for Luke. "Only a Sith deals in absolute. I will do what I must."

Horrified, Luke watched as Obi-Wan unsheathed his lightsaber.

"You will try..." Anakin replied evenly. Obi-Wan ignited his blade and Luke watched in growing dismay as the two engaged in a furious duel. This battle...it was like nothing he'd ever seen. This made the battle's Luke had been involved in look like a stroll through the stars; the pair were like two hellions freshly released from their fiery prison. His father was merciless in his advances, and Luke had to sprint at points in the fight to keep up with them.

"Father, no!" Luke cried when Anakin grabbed Obi-Wan by the throat, bending the man over and slowly bringing Obi-Wan's own blade towards Obi-Wan's head. However, Obi-Wan was able to kick Anakin back, and Anakin leapt back to his feet, continuing to engage Obi-Wan despite the fact Anakin currently had no lightsaber, as it had flown out of his hand when Obi-Wan had kicked him. Anakin jump-kicked Obi-Wan to the table, causing Obi-Wan to lose his lightsaber too and leave them both weaponless. The two once best friends got to their, and Anakin ran at Obi-Wan again, though Obi-Wan was able to knock Anakin flat on his back this time.

Obi-Wan called his lightsaber to his hand, prepared to finish Anakin off. "Ben, no!" Luke cried, though it was a pointless gesture even if they could hear him as Anakin had already called his own lightsaber to his hand, blocking Obi-Wan's downward cut with apparent ease. With that the lightsaber duel was back on, and Luke followed them as if in a daze, unable to tear himself away from this terrible scene.

It became difficult to follow the pair when they started walking on the outside of the building, especially when that section of the building broke. To Luke's astonishment, Anakin continued his furious attempt to kill Obi-Wan even as they both struggled to avoid the magma raining down on them from all directions. Luke managed to cling to the building as it crashed into the lava below, climbing with Obi-Wan and his father. Anakin continued to lash upwards at Obi-Wan while Obi-Wan knocked the younger man's blows away from above.

When Obi-Wan jumped to a platform of debris floating in the magma, Luke followed close behind, turning to watch in horror as the building Anakin was still on started to go over the waterfall of magma they had jumped to avoid. Was...was this how Anakin had become Vader? Had he been lost over the edge of this river of magma and assumed dead?

Suddenly Anakin leapt off of the building, landing neatly on the remainder of a droid before he came to hover by the debris Obi-Wan and Luke stood on. Luke felt an odd mixture of relief and horror, torn as to how he was supposed to feel about this battle. Yet again, the two locked in combat, Luke standing as far back as he possibly could.

The pair stopped for a moment, and Obi-Wan gazed at Anakin, obviously breathless while Anakin simply seemed consumed by hatred and darkness. "I have failed you Anakin...I have failed you..."

"I should have known the Jedi were plotting to take over!" Anakin yelled.

"Anakin, Chancellor Palpatine is evil!" Obi-Wan cried back at him.

"From my point of view the Jedi are evil!"

"WELL THEN YOU ARE LOST!" Obi-Wan screamed.

The two were separated for a moment as they swerved to avoid a rock and some debris. When they came side by side again, Anakin's expression was full of a dark determination that chilled Luke to his very core.

"This is the end for you my master!" Anakin spat.

"Father, please, no!" Luke begged, though of course it was to no effect. Obi-Wan said nothing and simply readied himself for what was to come. Anakin leapt from the droid he'd been standing on and onto the platform Obi-Wan and Luke were on, and Luke scrambled out of the way as the lightsaber battle continued once again at much closer proximities.

When Anakin seemed dangerously close to winning, Obi-Wan broke away, jumping to the safety of a nearby shore and narrowly avoiding a deadly swing from Anakin. Luke stood on the platform with his father as Anakin brought it near the shore, feeling oddly at place at the same time it felt like that was where he belonged.

"It's over Anakin; I have the high ground!" Obi-Wan shouted down to him.

"You underestimate my power!" Anakin snarled.

"Don't try it," Obi-Wan warned.

"Father, don't—" Luke started to beg him, but it was too late. Anakin jumped, and Luke gave a cry of horror as he watched Obi-Wan cut off his father's remaining natural limbs, leaving only Anakin's cybernetic right arm. Luke leapt to the shore as Anakin tumbled downwards, and he ran to crouch beside him, heart in agony that he could do nothing. But there was someone here that still could.

Luke looked up at Obi-Wan. "Ben, Ben, help him!" he cried, but Obi-Wan just stood there, staring at Anakin as he deactivated his lightsaber.

Anakin struggled to pull himself up, and when his eyes fell on Obi-Wan they turned yellow; it took every ounce of Luke's self-control not to shrink away from his father, instead attempting to put his hands on his father's shoulder. "Father..."

Suddenly, it seemed Obi-Wan broke, and Luke watched in shock as the Jedi Master screamed full volume at Anakin, raw agony ringing in his voice. "YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE! IT WAS SAID THAT YOU WOULD DESTROY THE SITH, NOT JOIN THEM! BRING BALANCE TO THE FORCE; NOT LEAVE IT IN DARKNESS!"

"I HATE YOU!" Anakin screamed back at him as Obi-Wan started to leave, picking up Anakin's lightsaber from the ground.

Where those tears Luke saw in Obi-Wan's eyes? Luke could feel his own spill down his face, unable to take the torturous scene of what really happened on this dreadful day so long ago.

"You were my brother, Anakin...I loved you," Obi-Wan replied weakly, his voice breaking.

Luke saw his father pause, saw that these words actually broke through to him, and a flickering flame of hope rose in his chest; but in the next moment, Anakin was screaming in pain. Luke turned his attention a little further downhill to see Anakin had caught fire, and was slowly being consumed by the flames.

"Father! Father!" Luke cried. Obi-Wan was averting his gaze, unable to watch but frozen in place. "Ben, help him, please, don't just stand there! Help him! He needs help! WHY WON'T YOU DO ANYTHING?" Luke's cries were hysteric, and hot thick streams of tears fell down his face as Anakin was consumed by the flames, reaching for Obi-Wan as the elder Jedi simply...turned and walked away.

The scene darkened for a moment, and Luke only heard his broken sobs in the darkness around him before a different scene gradually came into view.

Anakin was in a medical capsule, somehow still alive. Immediately, Luke stood and watched as Anakin was brought into a dark room. A fresh wave of horror fell over Luke as the droids began their extensive and agonizing operation on Anakin without giving him any anesthetic, nothing to stop or even ease the pain. Luke's tears continued to fall in thick rivers down his cheeks as he watched the droids fit his father into that Force-forsaken suit. In the end, the familiar, dreaded breathing filling the room in a pattern as familiar to Luke as his own soul.

Sidious now stood beside...Darth Vader.

"Lord Vader...can you hear me?"

"Yes, Master. Where is Padmé? Is she safe? Is she all right?" Luke heard the soft, timid tone in his father's voice, surprised that it was still there after everything that had just happened.

"It seems, in your anger, you killed her," Sidious told him after only a moment's hesitation.

"I? I couldn't have! She was ALIVE! I FELT IT!" Vader roared. The room began to tremble, the machines caved in on themselves and broke, and Vader ripped free of his thick steel bonds, moaning in emotional agony as he stumbled forward in the suit he was nowhere near used to being trapped in.

"NOOOO!" Vader suddenly screamed out for all the galaxy to hear, and as the scene faded to black, Luke could feel the tears streaming down his face as he hit his knees. All he could hear were the sobs he almost didn't realize were his own before, gradually, snippets of the terrible night floated back to him.

"You were my brother Anakin!"

"You're breaking my heart!"

"Henceforth you shall be known as Darth...Vader."

"I HATE YOU!"

"Father, no!" Luke cried out, launching himself forward in his panic. He felt strong hands gripping him, one on his chest and the other grasping his shoulder, and for a moment he struggled violently to break free of his captor, his mind still in its feverish haze.

"Luke, it's all right! You're fine, you're safe! I'm fine!" Luke heard someone say. It took him a few moments to realize that the person holding him was Anakin. Not fallen Anakin; it was his father that was currently restraining him.

Luke could feel his face was slick with tears; he must have been crying in reality as well as in the vision. Curling into himself, Luke ran a hand through his hair as he struggled to regain control over himself and stop his intense sobbing.

Anakin's grip changed on Luke, and he was startled to find himself in Anakin's loving embrace while Anakin tried to sooth him. "It's all right...Son. I'm here."