Fall of the Emperor

As the Emperor Palpatine prepares to strike his now-traitorous former apprentice the Lady Vader and her Jedi daughter Leia for planning to betray & refusing to follow him when Grand Admiral Thrawn appeared on the holonet to declare that the Empire's Fleet over Hoth has changed their loyalties...

The failure of the Emperor's attempt to generate Sith Lightening among with the distraction by Thrawn and the sudden appearance of two slithering lizards from hidden alcoves above the Emperor gave both Padme Skywalker Lady Vader and her daughter Jedi Knight Leia Skywalker the time to activate their light sabre and prepare to strike down the accursed Emperor before he could ignite his own......

--Pre-Prologue--

As shown in the first episode : [link]
Episode -
I Am Your MOTHER!

After Lady Padme Skywalker Vader finally calmed her confused & bewildered daughter, Jedi Knight Leia Skywalker, to a level where they could have a less than hectic conversation without verbally throwing invectives at each other,
Leia finally realizes that her mom, now found alive and well eventhough she is the Emperor Palpatine's most ruthless Sith Lord, the Lady Vader, wasn't planning to change her into the Sith nor even kill her.

" No Leia, my darling daughter, I am not going to try to sway you to the Sith, arrest you and bring you to the Emperor or even kill you.
I am going to explain to you what I am doing and what I want you do decide next, okay? "
-inquired Lady Vader as she watched her daughter, still leery and in shock, nod her head for her mom to continue.

" Good, I presume that Master Jedi Knight Yoda trained you, right? And no denials, Leia.
That style you exhibited against me is the very fighting stance and movement that Master Yoda would make a young Jedi go through, hmmmmmm?"

"Well, ah..."

" I can sense your thoughts, daughter, a fully trained Jedi or Sith can easily pull surface thoughts from anybody...
I got an affirmative from you from your own very memories... You did quite well against me, Leia. For a beginner, that is."
-stated Lady Vader as she sat two feet from her daughter whom was likewise sitting down and watching her mother closely...

" But... but.. MOM!? You killed BEN! On the First Death Star?! "
" You slash at him with your lightsabre and he disappeared?! You ... "

" NO, Leia... no. "
" What you saw and what everybody thought they saw was I cleaving a Sith induced doppelganger of my old mentor Ben Kenobi. "
" What nobody saw was my subterfuge actions beforehand where I stunned Ben when he had prepared himself for accepting what he thought was my death strike from my lightsabre."

" Once he went down, I used my Sith powers to generate a false Ben-figure and everybody believed in it... "
" I even had my people modify the video feeds to show exactly that so that no one was the wiser, Leia. "
" Ben is quite alive and well in a secret disclosed camp where I have captured and saved many of the Jedi from dying from the Emperor's General Order 66 to eliminate and purge all Jedi. "

" Sith I may be, fool I am most certainly not. "
" I knew that the then newly christened Emperor Palpatine had something done to your father, Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker,
" but my anger upon hearing of his death at the hands of unknown assassins had blinded me and led me down the path of the Dark side of the force."
" Just as he planned. "

" But... I saw ... I saw Ben's ghost on Hoth, telling me to go visit Yoda at ... ah ... go get training from Master Yoda."
-desperately trying not to reveal where the planet that she had trained for weeks with Yoda....

" Your training and skills have improved, Leia, but I got the place where you trained... But fear not! "
" I have no plans to follow nor implement General Order 66 to eliminate any Jedi that still lives. "
" Don't forget what I stated before, I 'rescued' many of the surviving Jedi from General Order 66. "

" But, ma ... mother ..., Ben, Ben's ghost ..."

" That was my Sith generated powers and Ben's abilities of his force skills to sense where you were ... "
" That is a Sith & Jedi skill that the Emperor Palpatine mastered soo well that he can easily communicate with his Dark Hands and some
of us Sith in private at long distance, light years away tho at great cost and intense concentration. "
" Ben didn't totally like the idea of us mediating together so that I could send an image of him to you via the Force so that you could gain more training with a surviving Jedi Master that was still alive ...BUT! "

" HE is very much alive and well tho, again, it did take me a very VERY long time to finally convince him that I was not a total lackey and fool of a Sith for the Emperor Palpatine's tool..."

" .... Ah ... so if you aren't going to kill me, convert me to the Sith or hold me captive and then show me to the Emperor in chains, what is your purpose, MOM? "
-asked a now perplex Leia.

" Daughter ... "
" I plan to take the Emperor down for what he did to your father and what he did to me that made me into a servant of the Sith. "
" Only when I was given hard evidence of what the Emperor did to my beloved Anakin was I finally able to break the hold that Palpatine had over me and allow me to plan his demise. "

" Ah, what evidence, mom and whom gave you that evidence, ehh? "

" Grand Admiral Thrawn ... "
-Lady Vader is interrupted by her astonished daughter...

" THRAWN?! THE Grand Admiral Thrawn that was exiled to the unknown regions?! "

" Yes, daughter... "
" Thrawn gave me video proof via his Noghri Commandos that Palpatine had ordered the assassination of my beloved Anakin and had later deceived me into almost believing that it was corrupt old Republic Senators and some jealous Jedi Knights that did the foul-deed."

" I was suspicious of his evidence but eventually ... "
-a strange smiling look on her mom's face left Leia slightly confused ... What is my mom recalling?
" I was able to confirm it through my own spy sources and some from my bounty-hunters contact that it was indeed the Emperor Palpatine that gave the order and not any Senators nor any Jedi Knights for those that he accused of the deed had either already been killed by his own minions or had been encased in carbonite before your father's assassination..."
-Lady Vader recalled the many arguments that she had with Thrawn before her feelings changed ... but back to the matter at hand...

" What you do not know yet is that many of the Imperial Moff Governors, Admirals & Generals are fed up with the Emperor for his constant and barbaric nepotism & tactics that has divided the Empire, the Imperial Fleet and the Civil administrators into personal fiefdoms for the corrupted and unworthy minions of the Emperor that is slowly crippling the very fabric of our society & economy."

" Sooo ... what is your, ah, plans, mother ...? "

" I shall tell you but you will now be training with me and BEN in that secret facility where many Jedi Knights have been rescued by me. "

" Thrawn and I have a plan but you and I are the essential parts in this that will cause the utter demise of the be-fouled Emperor Palpatine and rescue our civilization from corruption and self-destruction ... "

" This is our plan ..... First, this interesting creature that Admiral Thrawn found ... "
-shows her daughter a small hand device generating a hologram of a slithering lizard ....



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