Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Jul 22, 2022 19:12:46 GMT -6
Ovoid red lights, stacked, indicated the floor of the lift was climbing toward the tower spire where the Emporer Sheev Palpatine reclined, patiently waiting for the lift door to slide open.
The door opened and in walked Vader and his son Luke. As his Luxuriant throne sat sideways to them, Vader's mechanical wheeze echoing through the chamber atop the Second Death Star, father and son walked down the aisle and slowly up the ascendant stairs to the waiting Sovereign.
Emporer Palpatine, former senator of Naboo and Supreme Chancellor of the Old Republic, turned his throne to face his Apprentice Lord Vader and what he relished with gleeful hope his younger and far stronger replacement, once a farm-boy from Tatooine.
"You no longer need those." He gestured and with a click-click and a clatter the manacles on Luke's wrists fell off. "Guards, leave us." The two red-clad Praetorian Guards left the room.
"I'm looking forward to completing your training,"Sheev, or Lord Sidious, Dark Lord of the Sith, former apprentice to Lord Plaguis, said with seducing relish. "In time, you will call me, Master.
Luke looked him straight in the eye. "You're gravely mistaken. You won't convert me as you did my father."
Palpatine arose from his throne. "Oh no, my young Jedi." He started walking forward. "You will findthat it is you who are mistaken. About a great many things."
Darth Vader handed his Master his son's laser sword hilt. "His lightsaber."
Sideous took it. "Ah, yes, a Jedi's weapon. Much like your father's."His voice turned gruff as he scowled. By now you must know that your father can never be turned from the Dark Side. So will it be with you."
"You're wrong," Luke said confidently. "Soon I'll be dead, and you with me."
Sheev cackled with delight. "Perhaps you refer to the imminent attack on your Rebel Fleet. Yes, I assure you, we are quite safe from your friends here."
(I'll return to this later. After a while the story starts diverging majorly from canon.)