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Author Topic: amp;quot;No Leia, I am your father" A pass-around Vader/Leia AU **Mulitple Updates 6/22**
empressofjustice 
Registered: Apr '01
6011_Padme
Date Posted: 6/24/05 10:01am Subject: RE: amp;quot;No Leia, I am your father" A pass-around Vader/Leia AU **Mulitple Updates 6/2
(part 1 of 3....)

“The choice is mine.” Luke rejoined. “I can’t abandon my friends. They need to be warned if Vader is coming.”

Yoda only sighed once more.

**

“Lord Vader.” Captain Piett approached the dark lord, who had decided to begin his search for Skywalker in an effort to redeem the time that he would not have access to his daughter. He had warned Amidala never to bother him again. He could never be that man. Never live that life any more. She had to go away, like the other ghosts in his past.

“My lord; we have found an unusual tracing; the craft of the Emperors hand has been located on the sixth planet of the Hoth system. Further scans by probe droids indicate a settlement. Should we set course?”

*So, Palpatine knew about Luke as well….and wanted him dead.* “Without further delay.” Vader replied, hurrying to the command bridge. He reached out with the Force to his son.

“Luke…”

***

General Riekaan, per Luke and Hans advice, had ordered the evacuation. Han was repairing the Falcon, with Chewbacca’s assistance, and Luke was donning his pilot suit. Mara Jade had been taken prisoner, and Yoda watched things from the shadows. With Vader coming, it would not bode well for his presence to be felt, yet he wanted to keep an eye on Luke, and protect him from his Father, if possible.

Luke left his quarters to wish Han farewell. After hugging Chewie, he heard his friend’s calm farewell on the ship above. Apparently, the earlier incident had been forgiven. “May the Force be With You.”

“You too, Han.” Luke replied. “and Han, I’m sorry about…” the older man waved a hand in dismissal. “Don’t worry about it; you were nervy; you weren’t yourself.”

“Where are you going to go?”

“First, I’m going to pay off Jabba or I’m a dead man. After that, I don’t know.” Han mused. “Guess I’ll just have to look around.”

“Why don’t you return to the Alliance; they could use a good pilot like you and…” he swallowed. “We might be able to recover Leia.” Han laughed. “Kid, that girl’s colder than this planet. Why should I chase after her when there are women more willing to throw themselves at me?”

Chewbacca said something in Wookiee. Han scratched his head.

“Well, that bar-maid on Stylla, for one….”

***

Leia came before Palpatine, chained so that she could not move her arms at all, and her legs were chained so as to allow her to take steps shorter than her normal gait.

“Welcome, Senator Organa.” Palpatine’s corpse-like smile spread across his face. “It is a privilege to meet with you once more. I hope you didn’t give him too much trouble?”

“Not nearly as much as he deserves.” She quipped back.

“Indeed?” he asked with upraised brow. “He must have found your ‘conversations’most intriguing. He had never brought you before me, as I commanded him.”

“Perhaps he knew you would come to rue matching wits with me.” The Senator replied more confidently than she felt.

“Oh, I doubt that was the reason.” He watched her expertly. “I doubt it very much. Worry not, my dear; I will get the real answers out of you soon enough.”

 

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empressofjustice 
Registered: Apr '01
6011_Padme
Date Posted: 6/24/05 1:45pm Subject: RE: amp;quot;No Leia, I am your father" A pass-around Vader/Leia AU **Mulitple Updates 6/2
(part 2 of three...)


Luke left Han, his thoughts still weighing heavily in his mind. His reverie was interrupted with the evacuation announcement. “Imperial Walkers spotted on the North ridge!” They were here already? Luke made for his snowspeeder to join his compatriots, but before he could, there was a huge explosion. The generators had been hit. “Imperial troops have taken the base! All personnel…” the man’s words died as he did. Luke changed course, moving for his X-wing. A warning rumble told him the corridor would soon collapse; Luke began running to avoid the falling rubble, but too late. He turned on his comlink. “Wedge, tell the others to take off without me; I’ll try to get out on the Falcon.”

Was the Falcon even here? He worried as he made back to the main hangar, all the while trying to push a familiar dark presence from him. “Luke…son…come with me.”

“Never!” Luke swore.

***

Yoda continued feeling for his young padawan; the boy was trying to reach his friend Solo, but Vader had sensed the boy too, and was coming for him. He had to reach Luke before Vader did.

***

Mara noted that her prison cell had been demolished, but luckily she was still alive. Weakened, wounded, but alive. She attributed her good fortune to the benevolence of her master and rose, searching for young Skywalker so she could complete her mission. She knew just where to wait for him.

***

“Wait, wait for me!” Threepio called. Han glared back at the prissy droid. He’d sell him to some rich family in Corellia. Surprisingly, Artoo was following. “Why are you here? Where’s Luke?” he demanded. Threepio translated for Artoo. “He says that Master Luke was supposed to fly his x-wing, but was prevented from reaching him; Artoo believed Master Luke might try to leave through the Fal—”. Han held up a hand for Threepio to stop. “He’s not here.” He replied. *Darn it, kid, can’t you stay out of trouble for one standard day?* Han thought to himself. Just then, Luke entered.

“Ready, kid? C’mon, let’s go.” Han called. Luke followed, then froze. “There’s a force user on the Falcon.”

 

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anya Skywalker 
Registered: Jun '00
7836_Fan Force Portugal
Date Posted: 6/24/05 3:14pm Subject: RE: amp;quot;No Leia, I am your father" A pass-around Vader/Leia AU **Mulitple Updates 6/2
Argh! won't that woman just die? And stay dead? Sheesh! She could have been hit by a random block of ice or something.. No one would miss her, that's for sure. tongue

Ahem, sorry... Was just rambling.

[Kill her, Luke, jkill her! Or you, Han! Just blast her!]


Right, sorry, back on track. grin


Nice posts, Empress. It's a bit strange, having Vader and Yoda in there at the same time... It's almost as though he's bound to suffer the same fate Kenobi did aboard the first DS. I hope that doens't happen (please don't die, Yoda, pleeeease) because that would mean Luke would have no one to train hiim... And seing his sudden mood changes, that would be bad indeed. worried

 

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empressofjustice 
Registered: Apr '01
6011_Padme
Date Posted: 6/24/05 4:18pm Subject: RE: amp;quot;No Leia, I am your father" A pass-around Vader/Leia AU **Mulitple Updates 6/2 - Date Edited: 7/1/05 8:54am (1 edits total) Edited By: empressofjustice
Yoda descended the ramp. “Come quickly, you must.” Luke, Han and Chewie didn’t wait for a second invitation. They and the droids boarded the Falcon. “Punch it!” Han told Chewie.

The whine of the engine suggested that there was a malfunction. “We’re in trouble.” Han muttered to himself, racing to get to the hydrospanners. He had just opened up the appropriate engine and set his box of hydrospanners above him when he heard a voice that sent a chill down his spine.

“Perhaps it would help if you’d connect these wires.” A mechanical, dark voice intoned, gesturing to a set of wires that had been pulled out of their respective plugs. Chewie raised his crossbow, howling in anger and fright. Han leapt like a jackrabbit, his head colliding with the underside of the box. After fumbling about on his holster, Han fired several rounds of his blaster. Vader outstretched his gloved hand and Hans blaster landed neatly in his palm. He used the force on the battle-hardened Corellian. “Leave that pit of wires and tell Skywalker to come into this hallway, alone…”

Yoda had not been idle. Once Vader had revealed his presence the old Jedi had been moving closer all the more quietly. Anakin might possess more midichlorians, but midichlorians did not translate into more knowledge of the Force. “You will not go near the boy, if anything to say about it I have…”

Vader switched on his lightsaber, and Luke heard Yoda’s weapon give a familiar hiss. The Dark Lord released Han, who called to Luke, “get off this ship kid!” Confused, Luke hesitated. “That would be unwise advice Captain Solo.” Vader informed the Corellian. Han heard a series of laser blasts shooting up the ramp to his ship. *I hate it when Imperials board*. He swore to himself again.

Luke extended his lightsaber, and charged the invading stormtroopers, his lightsaber barely parrying their shots. Vader was darkly pleased. His son was strong in the force indeed. The stormtroopers fell back at Luke's aggressive assault.

"No, no! Fear leads to anger, calm, calm!" Ben Kenobi seemed to chide him. Luke tried to calm himself, but his fear of Vader, of his Father refused to fully leave him. He knew if he left the ship, he would eventually be caught and imprisoned, and if he stayed on board, his Father would kill to take him.

Yoda, meanwhile, was wearying. He had long felt the Force tell him that he would soon join it, and now he believed he might do so at Vader’s hand. The Sith's ability to wield a lightsaber was, if anything, greater than his ability to do so as a Jedi Knight.

Luke turned and saw the desperate duel; Yoda was jumping and wheeling to continue his battle with Vader, but Luke could sense that the old Jedi was fading quickly; his abilities in battle were no longer a match for a Sith Lord.

A third lightsaber joined the fray. Underneath his mask, Vader smiled. *You are more like your father than you know, boy…always rushing off to save the weak and helpless…* he mused to himself. “Well, Skywalker,” he hissed, “do you think yourself my equal?”

As long as he lived, Luke had no idea why he had joined the fray at that moment; he knew that he heard whispers from the Force in his ears, faintly, as though old Ben was telling him how the young Padawan could counter his former pupil. Surprised and impressed, Yoda leapt back. There was another on this ship; one whom he must dispatch. He was gaining a new respect for Luke and his abilities.

“I’m—I’m Ben Kenobi.” Luke replied.

For a moment, Vader seemed shaken. Had Obi-wan somehow learned how to channel his power through Luke? Had Obi-Wan's spirit entered Luke's body? Vader felt for the source of his son's force strength. Powerful and bright it was, and it repelled Vader. Indeed, the boy was powerful as the Emperor had foreseen, but not with Obi-wan's power. Yet, how could Obi-wan help the boy? He was dead. Perhaps the boy meant only to try to unnerve his Father.

Yet, Vader doubted this was the full truth.

“Ben Kenobi is dead, boy. I killed him myself.” Vader began driving Luke back, hoping to break his concentration, and thus, gain the upper hand.

“You are nothing but the son of a Tatooine slave.” Vader retorted. “How can you think yourself my equal?” Did his son know?

“Station matters not, Vader.” His son objected, “That’s something you never learned. You never had character to begin with.” Luke snapped; not at any prompting from Obi-wan, who whispered only how to execute the appropriate counterattack on Vader.

This accusation infuriated Vader. How dare the boy condemn him so? He had loved his beautiful, devoted Padme. Loved her more than he had loved any other person in the world, with the possible exception of his mother. He could not dishonor their memories by the words of the foolish youth. He wanted to make his son feel pain, regret ever saying such words.

“As opposed to the character you exhibited on Yavin? A pity that your character was unable to prevent your sister from joining me; indeed, you will join me as she has; willingly or no.” Vader noted that he appeared to have struck a chord with the young padawan, who tried to act as though the barb had not hurt him.

“We will see.” Luke brushed the threat aside. “I will never willingly join a monster with no love, no compassion, and no mercy.”

“You will join, or I will break you…” Vader vowed. “Captain Solo,” he called, reaching into the Corellian's mind. “Repair this ship, and take it to Coruscant.”

******

Yoda knew he would be little help to Luke in his weakened state, and besides, Obi-Wan was helping the son of Skywalker. He found where Jade was, handcuffed on the Falcon; he sensed in her memories that Vader had handcuffed her, wanting to protect his son. Well, perhaps he should take care of some necessary business….

******

With a sweeping arc, Vader scratched his lightsaber up the surface of the boy’s right arm. “Consider this burn your punishment for defying me, my son.”

“I refuse to call such a monster as you my Father!” Luke retorted angrily. He ignored Obi-Wan's mental rebuke, and the influence of his old Master seemed to have had little impact on him at that moment.

“You will, in time.” Vader observed. “You are much like me; enough so to nearly be my clone in temperament.” He continued, “there is much anger in you; anger you desire to nourish, but the teachings of Obi-Wan and Yoda have made you weak; even as Yoda is now too weak to fight me.” Upset at the insult to the elderly Jedi, Luke charged forward, waving his lightsaber around angrily. Vader gave his son another lightsaber burn; he didn’t want to damage the Emperor’s prize, just give him enough wounds to take the edge off his fight; make him fear his father's power.

The ship began rising up in the air, to Luke's despair and Vader's satisfaction. Yet, the ship had not gotten more than 10 meters from the ground when Vader felt a disturbance in the force. It was Yoda, back from his encounter with Mara Jade. Calmly, the old Jedi raised Vader up into the air, though he strained under Vader's resistance as the Dark Lord repelled him with Force lightning. Luke rushed in between them to block the lightning from Yoda, but the lightning soon became more powerful than the young Jedi could handle, hitting Luke and bringing him to his knees. The young Jedi fell unconscious. Yoda looked distressed, but knew he had to evict Vader. With a great effort, Yoda pushed Vader down the ramp with the force. Vader clawed desperately at the end of the ramp. As Yoda continued to attempt to repel his attempt to reboard. The old Jedi needed to protect Luke, but he knew that they would die if the ramp remained open when they entered space, and knew that he needed the Corellian pilot to be in his right mind so they could leave the planet safely.

Vader was finally thrown down the still open ramp with a final burst of Yoda's strength—but the Sith used the force to take Luke with him. Too late, Yoda called to Han to close the ramp, but Vader was cradling the unconscious Jedi in his arms, and Yoda rushed to the cockpit to try to free Solo’s mind before it was too late and Luke was lost to them all forever. He would need the roughened man's help to get Luke back.

 

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anya Skywalker 
Registered: Jun '00
7836_Fan Force Portugal
Date Posted: 6/24/05 4:31pm Subject: RE: amp;quot;No Leia, I am your father" A pass-around Vader/Leia AU **Mulitple Updates 6/2 - Date Edited: 7/3/05 5:25pm (1 edits total) Edited By: anya Skywalker
Oh my.. That was a slightly confusing post.And now Luke is in Vader's hands! shock (I should say arms, but that sounds naughty devil ) That doens't bode well...

I'm looking forward for the rest of Leia/Emperor confrontation and... to find out what the heck is going to happen now, obviously!


Also... Was Ben really channeling Luke? er... The other way around, I mean. If so... Low blows, Kenobi, really low blows. plain *kicks Obi's ghost*

Edit: Ah, thank you very much. The edited post makes everything clearer, and much easier to follow. Well done, Empress! grin *pats Obi-Wan to make up for her undue kick* whistling blush

 

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empressofjustice 
Registered: Apr '01
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Date Posted: 9/17/05 8:45am Subject: RE: amp;quot;No Leia, I am your father" A pass-around Vader/Leia AU **Mulitple Updates 6/2 - Date Edited: 9/18/05 7:08am (1 edits total) Edited By: empressofjustice
Luke woke in one of the detention cells of Vader’s Star Destroyer; warily, he looked around for the too-familiar black mask, but Vader was not in the room. Slightly relieved, he explored his surroundings. He was sitting on the only furniture in the room—a low bench that served as a bed; two feet away from the foot of the bench was a small round hole about the size of his fist. He guessed the purpose of the hole, and continued looking about for any ventilators in the room; he could see none. When he tried the locking mechanism on the door, nothing worked. He tried to hotwire it, and force lightning struck him in the chest. He staggered backward, crying out in pain, but as soon as he stopped fiddling with the mechanism, the lightning stopped. So, Vader was watching him after all, it would seem.

Obi-wan had taught him to meditate, to calm himself. He sat down on the bench and reached out for the force.

“A Jedi’s strength flows from the force,” Yoda instructed. Luke nearly broke out of his meditation.

“Concentrate, you must!” the green alien chided. “Feel the force around you.”

Weighing between anger and frustration, Luke reached out with the force. He felt as though his head had been struck with the gimer stick again. “No! No! It is the Dark Side that you feel.”

“How am I to know the good side from the bad?” Luke asked in frustration and confusion.

“You will know when you are calm, at peace, passive.” Yoda watched Luke’s mind as the youth struggled to calm himself. “Your lightsaber, have you?” the teacher pressed.

Luke felt for the familiar clip. Oddly, his lightsaber was still there. “Why wouldn’t he have taken it from me?” he asked in confusion. “Only a fool would allow me to have it.”

Yoda’s ears drooped. There could only be one reason Vader would have permitted his son to remain armed. “Touch it not, Young Skywalker. Meditate until I summon you through the force once more.” Yoda would need to meditate on his own to summon more energy from the force to help Luke. He had a feeling that Young Skywalker was mere minutes away from his worst nightmares.

***

Han left the cockpit and walked up to Yoda. “Well? Where is Luke now?” he seemed to have earned respect for the ‘hokey religion’.

“Currently they are at the Nabooian system.” Yoda said, sighing.

“I thought Naboo had been wiped off the face of the galaxy by the Empire 15 years ago.”
“No, Captain Solo; cloaked it was, so it cannot be found, except by those who already know where it is.”

“Well, what are the coordinates?”

Yoda sighed. “The only way to get there is through the help of two Force users.”

Han exploded in anger. “Oh, that’s just great….Vader has Her Worshipfulness and the kid, and you tell me we need another Force user? The Emperor wiped you Jedi out years ago.”

Yoda only smiled calmly. “Nonetheless, Captain Solo, where we can find another Force user, know do I.”

***

Vader stood on the bridge of his Super Star Destroyer, the Executor. His son was with him, at last. The Skywalker family reunion had only begun. It would be easy to push the boy over the precipice to the dark side. As he had noted, Luke was much like him in spirit; compassionate as a youth, determined to protect those he loved… He jerked himself out of his memories. He was a different man then, in a different time.

“Lord Vader?”

“Yes, Admiral Piett?”

“My lord, security informs us that the Rebel Skywalker has been attempting to break out of his cell. Should we drug him to keep him quiet?”

“That won’t be necessary, Admiral. He faces his punishment for defying my will even now.” He heard Luke’s screams as the force lightning struck his face and chest. It was a painful, but necessary part of the boy’s training. The first lesson he needed to learn was unquestioning obedience to his Father. He suspected the boy would learn that lesson quicker than his sister had learned it.

Luke’s connection and growing strength with the light side of the force disturbed him. Was Obi-Wan interfering from beyond the grave yet again? No, it was that annoying green midget Yoda. Well, he was more powerful than Yoda, as his son would soon learn. Before the new day dawned, he would teach his son to hate Yoda as he himself hated the revered Jedi Master.

(Editted for minor logic error.)

 

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Davedrag 
Registered: Feb '06
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Date Posted: 2/18/06 3:26am Subject: RE: amp;quot;No Leia, I am your father" A pass-around Vader/Leia AU **Mulitple Updates 6/2
is there going to be more

 

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