Stepping In (Star Wars AU)

Chapter 26

------Three Years Later------

Obi-Wan's P.O.V

"Good. Good. Enough training, you have had today."

"But master! I can do more!"

"No. Exhaust yourself, you will not."

"Yes, Master Yoda." Luke says as he bows. He turns around and walks out of the training room. Obi-Wan enters and takes Luke's place.

"Master Yoda. Another successful training session. Our apprentice is coming along well. He will be ready soon."

"Soon? No, no. Ready now, he is. Ready now, he has to be. The Force, wait for him, it will not. Either ready or not ready, he is. Soon, come the battle between father and son. Soon, Luke will either pull the galaxy from the darkness or fail and seal it's fate to forever dwell in it."

"That's... unnerving."

"Unnerving? Yes, yes! Unnerving, it is, but the truth, it is. Good thing I came or never kill his father, Luke would have."

"Yes, I agree. You've instilled much patience in him. He is... calm."

"Yes, yes! The best pupil I ever had, is him. Frustrating, he is, but-"

Blaring alarms sounded throughout the base.

"This is not a drill! This is not a drill! The Empire has found us! Princess Leia has ordered a full scale evacuation! Repeat, this is not a drill!"

"Found us, the Empire has." Yoda mutters. He closes his eyes and furrows his brows. He suddenly opens them. "Coming down to the surface, Vader and his master are. Surrounded, the planet."

"We are in for a fun time, aren't we?" Obi-Wan asks, taking out his lightsaber.

"Yes, yes! Fun time, it will be!" Yoda exclaims, taking out his lightsaber.

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Yoda and Obi-Wan walked through the crowded hallways of Echo Base. Many were heading to the hangar but the two Jedi Masters moved in the opposite direction towards the spot where the two Sith Lords have landed.

"We are going to be in the fight for our lives."

"Our lives, matter not, they do. Served our purpose, we have."

"I would still like to live, Master Yoda."

Yoda chuckles.

"As do I, but many years left in me, I do not I think I have."

"So you live for about nine hundred years and then you die? I thought you would at least live until a thousand."

"Maybe, maybe not. The plans the Force makes, I do not know. Live to be two thousand years old, I may well do!" Yoda laughs.

"I will pray that you live until at least a thousand years old." Obi-Wan smiles.

"Content, I am. Lived a long life, I have. Full of happiness and sadness, it was."

"But Master Yoda, we still need you. The Jedi still need you. There's not many left and you need to be here to help train and guide them."

"Get it, you do not! Intelligent and vigilant, you are. If die, I do, then rebuild the Jedi Order. It's only hope is you and Luke."

"Master Yoda..." 

"No time to argue! Die, the Emperor and Vader will." Yoda says, walking faster towards the beacon of darkness that is emanating from the two Sith.