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A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away….Civil Wars break apart the galaxy, demanding people to join sides. However, the Empire is the popular choice to join. The Jedis were slaughtered long ago, however, two of them were protected and hidden away by the council. Ness and Lucas. They were informed of their goal, to take down the head of the empire, The Masked Man, to take the empire down with him, along with saving Princess Peach. The latter being the priority.. However, they were also told to keep their status as Jedi a secret, so as to not give themselves an unnecessary target on their back.
The two boys made it to Mos Eisley Cantina. They had brown robes on so as to hide their outfits and more importantly, their weapons. They did have basic blasters, but they also had lightsabers. They wanted to keep them hidden. They were looking around at the various different people from all over the galaxy. No one would ever really expect a simple bar in Tatooine to be so bustling. There was even some music being played. Lucas gulped.
"Alright, there has to be a pilot here somewhere."
"Just keep your saber secured, Luke, we don't want a repeat of last time."
"I already apologized, won't let anything go…" Lucas said as he started walking off. Ness simply shook his head as he followed him. "How will we even know who is and isn't a pilot? Seems pretty hard to decide based on looks alone." Ness stopped once again to look around at the people. He simply shrugged.
"Guess we'll need to talk to them." Lucas groaned before walking off. What's up with him, lately? Ness shook his head before going the opposite way to talk with some others. Most of them just brushed Ness and Lucas off as if they weren't important. Ness and Lucas soon met back at the bar and both sighed.
"I'm assuming you didn't find any?"
"Nope. I presume you got the same outcome?" Lucas nodded before motioning for the bartender to get him a drink. The bartender nodded before pouring him his drink and Lucas paying for it. "Hey, is something wrong with ya?" Lucas put the cup down and faked a smile, but refused to look at Ness.
"I'm fine, I promise." Ness motioned for the bartender to give him the same thing, and when Ness took a drink, he sighed.
"In my days, I've learned that promises are useless." Lucas stayed silent and simply finished his drink. There was some gasping suddenly, which pointed the boys' attention to the entrance, where there was a tall and buff man in a strange-looking outfit. The man scoffed as he walked off and sat at a table, with his feet resting on the table. "That uh….kinda looks like a pilot's outfit if I were to give them a specific outfit?"
"I dunno. He could be a bounty hunter."
"With his face uncovered?"
"You boys don't know him?" the bartender asked. The boys looked at him and shook their heads. "His name is Falcon, he's a famed greedy pilot. If you want him to fly you somewhere, it'll come at a price." Lucas stood up.
"And it's a price I'm willing to pay." He walked over to him without even talking to Ness. This left Ness alone for a moment. He finished his drink and just sighed. He paid for the drink and walked over. Lucas and Falcon were already having a conversation. Lucas growled a bit before slamming his fist into the table. "I said you'll fly us!" Falcon, who had taken off his helmet, rolled his eyes at the blond.
"I don't fly kids, more or less kids for free," Falcon said with a deep voice. "Now make like a bee and buzz off." Falcon took a drink from his cup, leaving Lucas's face an angered and twitching mess. Ness stepped forward and cleared his throat.
"Apologies for him. We really need to head to Endor." Falcon spat out the drink and looked at the boys as if they were crazy.
"What the hell? You boys trying to die? You do know of the empire right?"
"We're well aware. Now take us the-" Lucas was cut off by Ness putting his hand out.
"What's your price?" Ness asked. Falcon looked down at his drink for a moment before drinking some more.
"24,000."
"TRYING TO ROB US!" Lucas yelled as he shook the table?" Ness put his hand out and looked sternly at him. He grunted before leaving the place.
"Sorry. He's been acting strangely for a while."
"Uh-huh. So where's the Credit?" Falcon asked. Ness reached into a robe and brought out a pouch full of Credit. "There's 25,000 in there. Think of it as a tip." Falcon opened the pouch and looked through the contents and did see 25,000.
"Must be one of those rich boys to have this much on hand."
"We're not paying you to ask any questions."
"You're lucky I'm not asking why you want to go to one of the deadliest places to fly to. The empire is essentially stationed at Endor." Ness raised an eyebrow, which showed that was exactly why they were heading there. "Well shit, you boys are braver than I gave you credit for." Falcon stood up and stretched his back. "Don't let that turn to arrogance, that'll be the fastest way to meet your untimely ends."
"Duly noted." Lucas rushed in and grabbed Ness's arm. His angered expression changed to a worried one. "What is it?"
"It's Samus, she found us."
"Crap. Falcon, where's your ship."
"It's close by, come on, I know another way out." He grabbed both boys' hands and ran off, right as Samus came into the bar. Falcon led the two boys out, without notifying and alerting Samus to their presence. They ran off but soon enough, a Pigmask spotted them and notified every Pigmask in the area. "Crap, they saw us. They must be looking for something. Come on!" Falcon ran off with the two boys running after him. They ran through the streets and made it to a large ship.
"Woah!" Ness said.
"We have no time to ogle. Get in!" Falcon yelled. Lucas got shot making him fall over. He shot around into a sitting position and brought out his blaster as he shot at the Pigmasks. Ness ran over, not needing to worry about getting hit due to Lucas's immense aim. Before Lucas was picked up, he had already shot down all of the Pigmasks that had followed them.
"Man, you really are good with a blaster."
"You know it. Now let's get in before more come."
"Right." Ness helped Lucas into the ship and placed him onto a sofa. Falcon paid no mind to the boys as he closed the door and walked over to the control panel. "Hey, a little help here." Falcon's sigh could be heard from across the ship. He stomped back over and crossed his arms.
"You're on my Millenium Falcon, and yet you have the tenacity to not call me Captain Falcon?" Ness rolled his eyes.
"We picked…quite the guy huh…" Lucas said sarcastically.
"Please, Captain Falcon, can you help him?" Falcon smirked before walking to a cabinet. He started looking through it. Ness made Lucas lay on his stomach and showed off his back, which the back of his robe had torn and his bare back had a marking from the blaster, but nothing was permanent. There was some blood but it still wasn't too much. Falcon walked over and handed Ness some type of ointment as he walked off to the control panel. Ness rubbed the ointment over Lucas's back. "Lucas?"
"Hm?"
"Is something wrong? You've been…different." Lucas sat up after Ness finished with the ointment.
"I just want to save her."
"Yeah, she means a lot to you?" Lucas grew a small blush as he faintly looked away. "How come?" He blushed some more before sighing.
"She told me about the Jedi School…she took me there. She…." Ness saw a smile spread across his face. "She's the reason I met you." Ness smiled happily before grabbing Lucas's hand.
"We'll save Peach, I promise it." He leaned back and rested his head against Ness's shoulder.
"Thank you, Ness…" Lucas closed his eyes and sighed. Ness put his hand in Lucas's hair, messaging his head for a bit until Falcon came in and crossed his arms.
"So, tell me, why is Samus coming after two kids?" Falcon asked, with that judgey voice of his. Ness stopped messaging Lucas's head, prompting him to sit upright.
"Honestly, we don't know. But we have…a theory," Lucas said. Falcon's eyebrow raised, showing he was expecting an answer. "We believe whoever sent her, knows Ness and I are….are….Jedi."
"Jedi?"
"Yeah," Ness said as he looked down, rubbing his hands together. Falcon chuckled before walking off.
"Jedis don't exist. All of that 'force' stuff is just fake. But I commend you for not wanting to tell me, I have to appreciate that." Lucas looked at Ness, who just responded with a shrug.
"If he doesn't want to believe, that's up to him."
"We should be at Endor in about 10 hours. So get comfortable."
The Masked Man landed on Endor, a group of rebels having landed there to try and fight the empire. The Masked Man stood at their Endor base. The Pork Captain walked up to him. "My lord, the rebels, they're nearing the base."
"Calm yourself." The Masked Man walked to the window that allowed him to look out at the field in front of him, yet didn't allow the people out there to look in. The Masked Man smirked before grabbing his Lightsaber. "I plan to handle them myself." He left the safety of the base to stand in the open field by himself, allowing the Pig Masks to go around the moon, ensuring they still have full control over it.
He waited there, hand on his lightsaber. Soon enough Landspeeders rushed over and stopped before getting too close to The Masked Man. A group of Rebels jumped out of their Landspeeders and they instantly pointed their blasters at The Masked Man. "Drop the Lightsaber!" one of the men said. However, as one would expect, The Masked Man did not do that. Instead, he brought out his lightsaber and activated it, causing the dark, ominous, red glow to instantly send fear through the rebels. However, they didn't buckle down. They only held their blasters higher up and their faces looked more determined.
The Masked Man started to walk closer, he was slow but intimidating. The rebels started shooting, but either they missed or The Masked Man expertly deflected the blasts. Each deflected blast caused a spark on the lightsaber, which only seemed to show the deviously serious look on the part of his face that wasn't covered. The Masked Man's red eye matched the red of the Lightsaber. The emotionlessness of his face showed he had no remorse for anything he did.
When the rebels realized The Masked Man was getting too close for the blasters to really be useful, they grabbed some melee weapons and ran in, but this was exactly what The Masked Man wanted. He spun the Lightsaber around and continued doing so as he perfectly countered each strike from the rebels, slicing some in half, slicing some heads off, and slicing some arms off. He sliced a head in half, diagonally, and as the body fell, he saw a rebel further back than the others, blood all over them, and terror in his eyes. He dropped his blaster and melee weapon before running off. The Masked Man deactivated his lightsaber before whipping the blood off of his helmet.
"Shame…" He turned around and walked back to the base, yearning for something more than what he got. Yearning for a fight that was worth dying for. He stopped dead in his tracks. The Pork Captain walked up to him.
"My lord?" The Masked Man looked back out of the base.
"I feel a disturbance in the force."
The Millennium Falcon landed and Falcon made sure to run scans of the nearby location to make sure it was safe. He saw that no one was nearby so he walked into the main section of the ship to see the two boys lying next to each other. Falcon crossed his arms when suddenly there was a strange sound coming from Lucas. The noise clearing wasn't made by Lucas, but by something that Lucas must've had. Falcon's curiosity got the better of him, since the two boys were sleeping, and walked over and looked through his robe, finding a small object that he recognized as part of a drone unit named ROB.
The ROB unit was capable of taking in and projecting messages in a holographic sense. Falcon figured out how to work it and activated the message, and a hologram of a princess appeared. "Please, Lucas, I need your help. It needs to be you." The princess looked panicked and even slightly hurt. The princess looked around before stopping the recording.
"Wow, she was pretty," Falcon said before looking at Lucas. He tilted his head and started to think. The two boys were young, or at least, rather young. The Princess looked rather old, in comparison. He did like the way she looked. He smirked before pocketing the messenger. He then cleared his throat, which caused the boys to wake up, with Ness sitting up and rubbing his eyes.
"Did we make it?" Ness asked with his tired voice.
"Yup. Made it to Endor, the forest planet."
"Isn't it a moon though?"
"That doesn't matter. We're here. Get up, we're going." Lucas finally got up, feeling his back was better.
"Going? Going where?" Lucas asked. Falcon sighed.
"You two came here for a reason, right? Well, I'm going to help you. I can't expect two boys to do this alone." Falcon walked over to the door, while Ness and Lucas shared a look.
"Maybe…maybe he's not as selfish as we thought?" Ness questioned. Lucas simply shook his head.
"He's in for something else. Has to be." Despite feeling like Falcon had ulterior motives, they stood up and walked over as Falcon opened the door, letting it slowly go down and onto the ground. The air from the moon felt nice to them, but they knew that the "nice" wasn't going to last for very long. They were the first to step out of the ship. They looked around and saw nothing but trees.
"This place is quiet." Falcon walked ahead of the boys and brought out his blaster.
"Too quiet. The ship didn't scan anyone on the entire planet, yet it's supposed to be crowded with Pigmasks." The two boys gripped their lightsabers. "We need to traverse carefully. I don't trust this place as far as I can throw it." The boys kept a firm grip on their lightsabers as they walked behind Falcon, who was leading the way.
The forest was calm, but they knew it wasn't supposed to be calm. Soon enough, they came across a Speeder. Falcon instantly went on edge, holding up his blaster, and started walking with it high in front of him, ready to shoot. Then, a stick broke. Falcon looked back at the boys and confirmed….neither of them caused it. The three of them shared a single glance and instantly knew what to do. Both boys activated their lightsabers. Falcon stepped forward. "Get out here you asshats. You guys suck at hiding." And, the Pigmasks jumped out of the trees holding their blasters toward the three. However, they started appearing everywhere. Behind them, in front of them, to the sides of them, even above them.
However, they weren't going to back down. Ness and Lucas shot back and instantly sliced some of the Pigmasks. The Pigmasks instantly started to shoot, but the boys just kept deflecting them, some of the deflected shots would actually hit the shooters. Ness was kicked away from Lucas, causing Lucas to be surrounded. The Pigmasks, however, subsided their shooting so it gave Lucas the chance to scan the area and figure out how to handle it.
He started to spin the lightsaber around, creating what seemed to be a circle of constant movement. It didn't seem like a single spot around the circle was without the presence of the Lightsaber. The Pigmasks finally started shooting again, but Lucas was able to sense where the shots were coming from and deflected all of them as he spun the spinning lightsaber around. He smirked before stopping the circle to slash at someone then instantly resumed the circling. He kept doing this until the Pigmasks started to try and get into melee. They did get a few good strikes in, but when someone tried to attack Lucas from behind, he simply stabbed it behind him, under his armpit, and stabbed it right through the Pigmasks. "You guys are too weak." He took the lightsaber out before bashing into the person in front of him before using the force to push the others away, one of which was launched right into a slash by Ness right as Lucas stabbed into the one he bashed. Lucas turned around and smirked.
"About time." Ness rolled his eyes.
"I was busy with, oh I don't know, being kicked away."
"Excuses excuses-" Lucas was interrupted by a blaster shot, but Lucas simply deflected it again without even looking at him. "Shall we?" Lucas asked as he pointed the Lightsaber toward Ness. Ness smirked before touching their sabers together, causing the spark to appear. Both boys had an addictive smile on their faces.
"We shall."
Over on the other side, Falcon was having a little more issues with the Pigmasks, however, he was still doing a great job with it. His hand was shot, causing him to drop his blaster, but thankfully he had a glove that protected him from harm. But he wasn't any ordinary pilot. He was a brilliant hand-to-hand fighter. He slammed his head into the closest pigmasks before doing a jumping-backward kick at another. He then ran forward and rammed his knee into the gut of a Pigmask. It was so strong that it seemed like a small sparkle came from it. "FALCON!" Lucas yelled from the other side of the battlefield. Falcon shot around and saw a big wave of Pigmasks heading toward him. Falcon smirked.
"I've got this kid…." He put his right hand into a fist. He started to countdown. The Pigmasks grew closer and closer. Lucas and Ness could only watch. They saw Falcon's calm face as he looked upon the horde of enemies. However, they did notice one thing, there seemed to be some flames forming around his fist. The two boys looked at each other in confusion. Falcon was continuing his countdown and when the Pigmasks started to pull out their blasters, Falcon knew it was time. He ran forward as his fist slowly but surely got more engulfed in fearsome flames. The two boys watched in amazement. Falcon continued running and soon his entire arm was engulfed in flames, and the flames made the Pigmasks drop their blasters as they realized what they were going up against. Falcon smirked and stopped right in front of them. "FALCON! PUNCH!" He punched the first Pigmasks, causing the flames to shift and look like a bird directly on contact. The punch caused a pretty sizable explosion, sending the Pigmasks back and slamming into all of the others. The flames finally subsided to show the charred corpse. Falcon stood up and shook his hand. "Oh boy, haven't done that in a while." Ness and Lucas ran over, with sparkles in their eyes.
"WOW!" both of them said at the top of their lungs. Falcon chuckled.
"Never saw a mighty Falcon Punch, have ya?" Both boys shook their heads. Lucas was the first to stand up straight.
"And yet you don't believe in the force." Falcon turned away as he adjusted his glove.
"The force is a poor man's psychic powers. Calling it "the Force" limits what it actually is." Falcon looked back at the two boys and smirked. "You two are special."
"What do you know about it?" Falcon started to walk off, with the boys following.
"I had a friend. A very hairy friend worked with Pichu back during the Rise of the Empire."
"You knew Pichu?" Ness asked as he stepped in front of Falcon. He simply shook his head before grabbing his blaster from the ground.
"No, my friend did. I'm simply telling you what he told me." Falcon put his blaster in his holster.
"The Grandmaster never told us this," Lucas said, puzzled.
"It was an era all Jedi hated to look back on. I bet you two were only in training at that time."
"Yeah, our planets were being invaded when we were taken to the Jedi Academy," Ness mentioned. Falcon turned around and cracked his neck.
"Well, to make a long story short, don't let The Force hold you back. It's simply a ruse to hold back a user's true power." Falcon looked back with a sly smirk before snapping his finger and an ember of fire shot out of it. "That's what I did." The boys took in what the man said before walking with him further into the moon. They were met with the occasional Pigmask, but overall, it was a much smoother walk.
Eventually, they made it to a strangely open area. But they suspected, almost instantly, that it wasn't all that it set out to be. They got their weapons ready. Falcon was ahead of the others when he realized something. He looked down and stomped the ground a bit. It sounded oddly metal. Since it was metal, he looked back at the other two, motioning them to use their Lightsabers. They activated them before stabbing them into the ground, and sure enough, it was metal. The metal around the Lightsaber melted immediately. They retracted their Lightsabers and saw the hole. "Alright, make a bigger hole."
"Thank you, Captain Falcon, for everything." Falcon chuckled as he patted Ness's back.
"You can drop the Captain. We're no longer on the ship." Ness smiled before starting on making the hole.
"We should still thank you," Lucas said. Falcon shook his head.
"Don't thank me yet. We've still got a princess to save." Lucas's eyes shone as he looked at the man. He started helping Ness with the hole. Falcon was observing with a slightly proud smile on his face. You chose two good ones, Grandmaster, I'll give you that.
"Pichu Pi [Oh I know]," Pichu's voice came from behind the boys. Falcon looked and saw…his ghost? He couldn't say what it was, but he was there, he was light blue and slightly see-through. Falcon took a surprised step back. Pichu winked before disappearing. Ness turned his head.
"Swear I heard something," Ness said as he looked around.
"It was….just an Ewok. Come on, we don't have much time." Ness looked at him with a suspicious look on his face but decided to just believe him and resume making the hole. Soon enough, the hole was finished and the three of them gave each other a look before jumping down. When they landed, they held their weapons ahead of them, preparing for a fight, but when they landed they saw…..a huge wave of Pigmasks. The three slightly lowered their weapons. "Ah shit."
Some of the Pigmasks walked to the side and made a pathway for The Masked Man. He stopped right in front of the others. Ness took a step forward and growled.
"Just surrender, Masked Man-" before Ness could finish, The Masked Man raised his hand which made Ness's throat close in on itself, choking him. He fell to his knees as he fought to get a breath in. Lucas dropped his, now powered off, Lightsaber and grabbed Ness's arm. He looked pleadingly at The Masked Man.
"Please! Let him go…we'll comply," Lucas pleaded.
"That's all I wanted," Masked Man said with a grainy voice. Lucas looked back at Falcon, who was still holding up his blaster, ready to fire. Falcon saw the look on Lucas's face and sighed before putting his blaster in its holster. Lucas grabbed his Lightsaber and helped Ness up. He looked at The Masked Man.
"What do you want us to do?" The Masked Man smirked before turning around.
"Follow me, Jedi…"
"What about me?" Falcon said, loudly.
"Take him." A group of Pigmasks grabbed Falcon and started dragging him away.
"Let go of me, you filthy creatures." The Pigmasks dragged him away, leaving the boys with The Masked Man. He turned around and walked off, with the two following skeptically. They seemingly walked through the entire base before making it to a ship of some kind.
"Get on." Ness and Lucas were hesitant, but they listened to him anyway. They got onto the ship and followed The Masked Man into the control room.
"What do you want with us?" Lucas asked.
"I want cooperation. Now sit." Lucas gulped before doing what he said and sitting in a chair. However, Ness wasn't doing it. He crossed his arms.
"Why would I do that for you?" Ness questioned. The Masked Man turned around and force choked him once more.
"I find your lack of faith disturbing." Lucas stood up and grabbed The Masked Man's arm
"Please, I'll make sure he behaves." The Masked Man's one exposed eye met with Lucas's, and Lucas felt…weird. He felt like he should've known the owner of the eye, but he didn't. At least he couldn't remember. Lucas stumbled backward as he stared shaky-eyed at The Masked Man. It turned out that The Masked Man did let Ness go. Ness grabbed Lucas's hand.
"Hey, what's wrong?" Lucas shook his head before sitting down.
"N-nothing." Ness gave a skeptical look at The Masked Man before sitting down in his seat. The ship flew up and out, going off of the moon. "Where are you taking us?" The Masked Man didn't answer though, he just continued flying the ship. Lucas looked out of the ship and saw they were being taken off the moon. They even saw another moon. "Another moon? So close to another one?" Ness stared closer at this "moon". He noticed things about it that weren't like any ordinary moon. It was a space station.
"That's not a moon…."
"A space station," The Masked Man's stoic voice said. The ship flew closer and closer and the station showed itself to be covered in turrets and scanners, among many other things. The Masked Man flew to a very small opening. Inside the opening, the Pigmasks were ready, showing the boys that this was exactly what he wanted. The ship landed and the door ramp opened up. The Masked Man stood up and looked back. "You….will be taken to a special cell." Pigmasks then came into the ship and grabbed Ness, dragging him away. Ness struggled, of course, he tried his best to escape their grasp, but he couldn't. Even when Lucas tried to run after him, he was forced to stop by The Masked Man's force. He was lifted into the air. "I have a different plan for you…" Lucas tried to struggle, but couldn't.
The Masked Man walked through the station, making Lucas float behind him. "Where are you taking me?"
"Someplace you'll recognize." Lucas gave up on trying to fight The Masked Man's force and just waited.
"What are you doing with Ness?"
"Don't worry. He won't be harmed…as long as he doesn't fight back." The Masked Man continued through the station and soon made it to a door with a sunflower emblem on it. He opened the door and tossed Lucas into it. He recovered quickly, allowing him to scan the room as the door was closed. The room was filled with Sunflowers. The walls were painted a sky blue. The ground as a canyon brown. Lucas recognized this place. The place his mom would always take him. He smiled softly. "Recognize it?"
"What is this…?"
"Our childhood." Lucas stared at The Masked Man after he said that.
"Our?" The Masked Man sighed before walking over to a Sunflower.
"You don't know. That good-for-nothing 'Grandmaster' erased your memory." Lucas crossed his arms.
"I won't fall for your tricks so easily, Mashed Man," Lucas sternly said as he crossed his arms. Another sigh came from The Masked Man before he grabbed the sides of his helmet and took it off. He looked just like Lucas, just with orange hair, freckles, and different eye color. Lucas took a step back. "Y-you look like me…"
"We're twins Lucas. The name's Claus…" He walked up close to Lucas and placed a thumb to his forehead and all of a sudden, tons of memories came flooding into his mind. After the flooding of memories, he took a step back and shook his head. He looked at Claus.
"Claus…" Lucas ran up and touched Claus's face. "What happened to you?" he asked as he rubbed right below one of Claus's new red eyes.
"Doesn't matter," Claus said as he whacked Lucas's hand away. He put the helmet back on. "Come join me."
"Join you?"
"The Dark Side."
"Claus..why? Are you the one who….who go rid of all the-"
"Other Jedi? Yes, of course. I let you and Ness live. But now it's about time for you to join me."
"Claus, what got into you."
"I'm doing this for mom, Lucas. The Jedi killed her."
"She didn't die because of the Jedi, Claus."
"NONSENSE! You don't know what you're talking about! You're still the insolent little brother you were back then."
"I wouldn't call it Insolence…" Lucas stepped closer and their faces were very close to each other. "I'd call it optimism."
"Optimism is for pansies."
"The word pansies are for pansies."
"I'll give you one…last…chance." The Masked Man's voice was shaky and angry. Lucas could see him clutching his Lightsaber, and so he did the same. "Join the Dark Side, or you'll end up like your beloved Grandmaster."
"Don't you dare speak ill of Grandmaster Pichu!" Lucas grabbed his Lightsaber and hit Masked Man in the face with the hilt before turning it on. The Masked Man stumbled back a bit, but when he recovered he turned around and scoffed.
"And to think, I spared your life to believe we could be a family again. But just like dad, you're too dull to realize the truth of the matter." He brought out his Lightsaber and activated it, the red of his Lightsaber slowly showed itself, making an ominous red glow. "All Jedi….are monsters." The Masked Man rushed forward and slashed diagonally with his Lightsaber, but it simply collided with Lucas's blue Lightsaber, causing rays of red and blue light to shine around the Sunflower room.
"And yet you have Jedi powers? Quite the irony, is it?"
"I'm a Sith, you bastard!" Lucas leaned closer with a smirk.
"What's the difference outside of a differently colored Saber?" The Masked Man growled before kicking Lucas away. Lucas landed on his feet as he watched the normally stoic man he grew up with be full of anger.
"I GAVE YOU A CHANCE LUCAS! AND YOU'RE JUST THROWING THAT AWAY. I thought we could be a family again…"
"A family of murderers is not a family I want to be in." The Masked Man ran in again and slashed, but like last time, was interrupted by Lucas's Saber. They exchanged blows from their sabers for some time, having some nice tricks like spinning the sabers around, jumping and stabbing downward as they landed, among other things.
"ARRRRGGG! JUST GIVE UP LUCAS!"
"I can do this all day."
"OH SHUT UP!" He ran in but Lucas did something different. He kicked his knee into The Masked Man's gut. He hunched over, allowing Lucas to take off his helmet and destroy it but smashing it against the ground and melting it with his saber.
"I don't know what they did to you, but this isn't you." Due to the kneeing, Claus dropped his Saber. However, he wasn't willing to back down. He threw an uppercut to Lucas's jaw, making him stumble back and drop his Saber. Lucas rubbed his jaw.
"I didn't expect you to give up so easily. You of all people should know, giving up is not in our blood." Claus stood up and chuckled.
"Then come on. Stop the talking. Fight me." Lucas brought up his fists.
"Just like when we were kids."
"Except this time…you won't leave here alive." The two boys started exchanging punches, neither one of them getting too ahead of the other. It seemed like neither of them wanted to fight. Their punches weren't strong, they were only throwing punches, and they stared at each other the entire time. Lucas threw a punch at Claus's gut, making him hunch over. His breathing, his stature, everything about him….Claus was crying. Lucas crouched down.
"Claus, stop this fighting. I know you, you don't want to do this." Claus looked up with an evil face, but tears were still rushing down his face.
"Why couldn't you just join me? None of this would've happened."
"Because….Jedi aren't bad. They're the reason mom had hope in this cruel galaxy we live in. The Jedi allowed us to live a happy childhood….you enjoyed that time we were kids, didn't you?" More tears fell from Claus's eyes as the angered expression disappeared.
"Of course…"
"It was because the Jedi were protecting us." Claus lowered his head. He shook his head sporadically.
"No…that's not what I was told…"
"Oh, Claus…you've always been easy to manipulate. You allowed fallacies to cloud your judgment, to make you do horrible things." The tears in his eyes grew more and more as memories of everything he has ever done came back to him. He slowly and shakily looked up.
"I-I…..I killed so many….so many people….c-children…."
"It's never too late to redeem yourself." Claus's tears seemed to stop before the both of them stood up. Lucas had a smile when Claus nodded his head. "Come on, we need to get Ness." He started walking off, but….
"You really think I can be redeemed?" Lucas turned around and saw his motionless brother holding a Lightsaber.
"Of course I do." Claus turned the Lightsaber toward him and grew a somber smile.
"I don't think it's possible."
"Claus? What are you doing?" The tears returned.
"Kill the emperor. He's not on this station….you need to kill him."
"Claus?"
"Goodbye Lucas." Claus activated the Lightsaber and stabbed it through his chest. He coughed up blood before falling down.
"NOOOOO!" Lucas ran forward and picked his brother up, looking into his face. "Claus…" Lucas's shaky voice now said. Claus coughed before looking at a Sunflower.
"My entire life, I believed in the emperor's words. Now I…..I realize just how wrong he is. H-how wrong I am…I'm a killer Lucas….I-I'm a bad guy…" Claus looked at Lucas and life was visibly draining out of him. "You….please….be the good guy….like you have always been…" He reached up and rubbed Lucas's cheek, feeling the tears rush down his face. He gave a single chuckle. "I love you, lil' brother…." And then….Claus's hand fell. The life inside Claus's eyes no longer existed. He had died. Lucas hugged the body and cried softly.
"Claus…." He saw Claus's Lightsaber on the ground. He laid him down before grabbing it. "I'll kill him…with this. For you." He pocketed the Lightsaber before grabbing his own. Tears were still rushing down his face, but he knew he needed to leave. "Goodbye, Claus, I love you…" He then walked out of the room, activating the Lightsaber. He saw a pretty sizable wave of Pigmasks heading his way. "Oh, you unlucky bastards….I am not in a good mood." He rushed forward, deflecting all of the blaster shots, jumping off the wall and barreling toward the group like a torpedo, killing a good bit of them instantly, and when he landed he slashed backward and killed the final one.
He continued through the station before seeing a different Pigmask. It wore a blue uniform rather than a pink one. He believed that Pigmask needed to be higher up the ranks. He rushed forward and grabbed the Pigmask by the neck and pinned him against the wall, activating the Lightsaber and having it near inches from the Pigmask's head. "Tell me….where is Ness?"
"Why would I te-"
"Cause I'll kill you like I did your leader." Lucas's face, full of anger and sadness all at once. Nothing but seriousness could be read off of him. The Pigmask nodded and Lucas let him go. The Pigmask walked through the station, with the Lightsaber very nearly touching his back. Soon enough, they made it to some cells. Lucas smiled before saying, "Which is he in?" The Pigmask pointed at the very first cell. "Thank you for your cooperation." Instantly after that, Lucas stabbed the Pigmask in the back. "I won't be needing you anymore." He moved over to the cell and cut the door out, having it fall. Ness was there, lying on the bed. He shot up because of the door falling, and when he saw Lucas, he ran forward. He brought the boy into a hug.
"Oh God, I'm so happy it's you. I have no idea what they would've done to me." Lucas's heart rate was going much faster than normal. Ness backed away a bit. "What's wrong?"
"The Masked Man….he is–was my brother."
"You had a brother?"
"My memory was erased, I presume yours was too."
"Where is your brother?" Lucas's eyes fell a bit, his sadness towering his anger.
"Dead." Ness gulped. He wanted to say something, but he wanted to wait until Lucas said what else he wanted to say. He walked up and grabbed Lucas's hand before looking into Lucas's blue eyes. Lucas was also looking directly into Ness's violet eyes. The eyes of truth and justice. The eyes of someone he can trust. The eyes of someone he loves. "He wants me to kill the emperor. He's the reason he turned out to be the way he was."
"Then we'll do it, Lucas. We'll do it together, I promise." More tears appeared on Lucas's face as he hugged Ness tightly.
"Oh Ness….why…..why do you stay by my side like this? Why haven't you given up hope on me?"
"There's a very simple answer to that." Ness broke the hug a bit before rubbing Lucas's cheek. "I love you. I don't want anything bad to happen to you. So I'll be here, to protect you, to accompany you….I'll always be by your side." The tears fell faster, and Ness knew exactly how to prove to him what he said. He brought Lucas into a kiss. Lucas instantly melted into the kiss. The kiss ended and Lucas finally had a smile on his face.
"Ness….I love you too."
"Heh, I could tell." There was then a clearing of someone's voice behind them. Lucas shot around and instantly activated his Lightsaber, only to see….Falcon?
"Falcon?" Falcon had his hands up.
"If you could put down the saber, I'd appreciate that," he said.
"Sorry…" He deactivated the Saber.
"How'd you get out?" Ness asked. Falcon looked over and pointed at a weirdly masked person. However, they weren't masked forever. They took off their mask to reveal….Peach. Princess Peach. "Princess?"
"You boys were taking too long so I took matters into my own hands," She said in her dainty voice. Falcon took a step closer to the boys.
"She's much better looking in person," Falcon said, somewhat awestruck.
"Why did you guys come here? It's dangerous," Lucas asked.
"We came for you two, although now it seems that wasn't necessary," Peach started.
"Well!" Falcon said as he was stretching his back. After cracking his neck he smirked at the boys. "We have an emperor to kill."
"We?"
"You really thought I'd let you take all the fun? Impossible. I want to kick some good empire ass."
"What he's saying is that we won't let you two go there by yourselves," Peach corrected.
"A-are you sure?" Ness asked them. Peach and Falcon instantly nodded.
"The emperor's reign over the galaxy is over. And we're going to put an end to that…as a team." Lucas smiled widely. He looked around at his team.
"Ok. We'll do it as a team."
"Ok, now, I don't mean to rush….but this place is about to blow up. So I think we should, you know, get the fuck out of here." No one went against that. Falcon ran ahead of the other three, none of the Pigmasks paying them any attention, and only focusing on surviving the explosion. Soon enough, the four of them made it to The Millenium Falcon. They got in and didn't hesitate to fly off and away. They were going very fast and soon enough, a loud explosion happened behind them. They looked back and saw what remained of the space station, rubble. Nothing but rubble. Lucas sighed softly before sitting down and resting his eyes. Ness joined him, and the two finally had time to rest together.
"You've got this Lucas…" Claus's voice came from seemingly nowhere hours into their trip. Lucas shot up and looked around, but of course, he didn't see his brother. He let out a somber sigh, but when he turned to see Ness's sleeping body, he grew a smile. He laid back down and rested his head against his shoulder. When he was asleep, two light blue ghosts appeared…Grandmaster Pichu, and Claus. Claus looked down at Pichu with a smile, with which Pichu returned. They then looked back at Lucas and disappeared, the destiny for Lucas to kill the emperor and put an end to the Empire….was soon to be complete. He wasn't alone either…he was with a team. A team that'll stand in as his family. They were the start of the greater team….of Rebels.