The Rising

Branches

Darth Vader glared at the medical droids as they worked on Lil. 

"We have only a small amount of information from the invasion, my lord if we wish to gather more information on the Jedi we need to go deeper" 

"what about my wife?" the sith asked the droid as his hands tightened slightly. 

"We were only able to gather minimal information on the topic of senator Amadala, though we were able to confirm that she did give birth to twins" 

Vader huffed annoyed at the droid. 

"How can you not know the location of my wife!!!" 

"you have been poking and prodding around in her head for the last week!!!" 

Lord Vader seethed at the droid, quite unable to contain his anger at it, and in a fit of rage backhanded the droid so hard that it crushed upon impact with the wall ten feet away. 

Lord Vader turned to the other droids who shrunk away slightly from a mix of fear and uncertainty. 

"YOUR JOB IS TO GATHER INFORMATION, SO YOU WILL DO SO. NOW, I DON'T CARE WHAT HAPPENS TO THE SUBJECT JUST GET ME WHAT I WANT!!!!" 

The droids seemed to scatter almost immediately after the mess of "Yes Lord Vader" and "Yes, sir", leaving the rath fulled sith to stew on his own in the observation room. 

"you are becoming distracted by your own obsessions with this woman" came a raspy voice behind him. 

Vader turned slightly to see who was talking, slightly surprised to find he was not alone. 

Darth Gorr stood in the shadows half chuckling to himself half coughing. 

"I see you're recovering well....." Vader hissed at the sadistic sith. 

"I have to, I need to get my revenge on the little tail head and her clone husband. besides pain is kind of fun" Gorr replied happily showing his now filed to a point teeth. 

"you are sick" Vader hissed as his face twisted in disgust. 

"I am the product of the pain that I have endured, I just learned that pain feels so much better than love. Especially when inflicted upon others". 

Vader shivered slightly in disgust "you need your head examined" 

"Oh come now, you will agree when it comes time to train your wife and kiddies, after all, that is the only reason Sidious is letting you do this pathetic hunt of yours" Gorr replied lazily. 

"They will not be touched in any shape or form" Vader hissed. 

Gorr ignored this and kept talking "do you think Siduius will let me play with her brain as he turns her into another one of his robotic pup-"

Vader cut Gorr off by forcefully grabbing his throat and slamming him into the wall so hard that it dented the metal. 

"YOU WON'T EVER TOUCH HER. DO YOU HEAR ME, YOU CRAZY BASTARD!!!!" 

Gorr coughed barely able to breathe, yet he still managed to smile slightly at his sith brethren. 

"you're still so soft Vader, you will never protect your pathetic little family this way" It was barely a whisper but Vader could still hear him. 

"I'm strong enough to kill you" Vader whispered back as his hand tightened around Gorr's already fragile neck. 

Gorr began to laugh at Vader before his eyes widened slowly realizing that Vader was no longer kidding around. 

He began to struggle and claw at Vaders hand, desperate to get air back into his lungs. 

"ENOUGH!!!" A strong voice echoed around the room seconds before lightning erupted towards them, shocking and disabling both of them. 

They crashed to the ground before a familiar figure stepped out of the shadows. 

Count Dooku. 

His form towered over the two sith, dark and intimidating as ever. Though now there seemed to be something much more terrifying about Vaders new superior. 

Dooku rolled his eyes at the two before he spoke. 

"Our master has given me the task of......collecting your offspring and wife.........You two are to go collect a new weapon.....one that Gorr has previously held in his posession" 

Gorr looked at Dooku confused "I've only ever held force-sensitive women...... you're not telling me that one of those things is our new weapon are you?"

Dooku rolled his eyes before he gave Gorr another shock, "your behavior is positively barbaric.....". 

Vader held back a small laugh before Dooku tossed him a data stick. 

"your assignment, I would take great caution if I were you. The girl might have been born blind but she can still feel almost everything around her." Dooku said as he turned to leave. 

"and Gorr.....do try not to mutilate her, Luminara's transition was already difficult enough without your touch"

Gorr hissed at the retreating form of Dooku as Vader, for the first time in his life, was thankful that Dooku was being sent to collect his family rather than someone like Gorr. 

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ok guys newest chapter, I hope you enjoy it. Please let me know what you think. And as always props to my readers and fellow writers <3.