Welcome back to part number 2 of what if Darth Vader upgraded his suit.
Thank you to those of you who watched the first part of this video!
To recap what happened in the first part, if you haven’t seen it, Vader disobeyed
the orders of Sidious, by travelling to an old Republic medical station, then Kamino
to build his new suit.
Returning to Coruscant, Vader’s restored potential gave him the confidence to duel
Sidious, and claiming the throne of the Sith Lord, he wasn’t satisfied with any of the
Inquisitors as his next student, so is now travelling off world, to search for someone
worthy of a place at his side…
As Vader engaged the autopilot system aboard his ship, his guide was not a pre-determined
set of coordinates, but his new and enhanced connection to the Force.
Once Vader retracted himself from his intense Sith meditation, he found that the ship had
left the Core Worlds and Coruscant, and he was heading for a maze of hyperspace lanes,
and buried amongst them, was the world of Bracca.
A historical account from the onboard database, revealed that the world had been the subject
of a battle at the end of the clone war, that had been won by the 13th Battalion.
But as the world moved into the sight of the Sith Lord’s increased vision, he could only
see the remnants, of what had been a destructive battle between the Jedi and the clones.
Vader was disgusted at that the status of the Jedi had yet to be confirmed, but the
Force had not brought him to Bracca for such insignificance, so he glided onto one of the
platforms, which had been used by the local guild, to bring scrap to be broken down and
sold.
Whilst word had not reached the guild about the new leader of the galaxy, the patrolling
guild members did not hesitate in moving to one side, as Vader marched down from the ship,
took several menacing steps forward, then locked his head onto one of the abandoned
Venator class star destroyers.
Without his new suit, the journey to his target would have needed a land speeder, but now
he moved from one abandoned destroyer to another, with the cold elegance of a Force ghost.
Finding the bridge he had locked his focus on, Vader used the Force to sweep all the
irrelevant debris, and found a box of cylindrical data devices known as computer spikes, then
used them to infiltrate the ship’s database to find a list of missing Jedi.
As he started to scroll through the missing masters and knights, towards those who had
left the Jedi, he received a transmission from Governor Wilhuff Tarkin on Kamino, who
had been searching for him, since the fall of Sidious and the interrogation of Mas Amedda.
Whilst Vader had tolerated the admiral’s more active method to fighting the war, during
his former life as a Jedi, Vader saw him as a tool for Sidious, and sneered beneath the
layers of his helmet, as he heard that an elite squad of clones, was arriving on the
world for their own mission.
This had obviously been a continuation of Sidious’ Order 66, but given his enjoyment
in killing the Jedi, he now felt insulted that someone else was taking his job, and
wanted to take the mission for himself.
As Vader attached the data cylinder to his belt, he saw three Nu class attack shuttles
hover overhead, then descend into the nearby wreckage of a Venator class star destroyer.
The Sith Lord followed the elite squad from a distance, before hearing the names of the
Bad Batch through the comm chatter, and he sensed a chance to find the Jedi he had wanted.
Lifting a small segment of a destroyer’s bridge, Vader threw it to the other side of
the graveyard, and its landing caused a small crate of photonic charges to detonate, and
Crosshair’s squad thought that it had been caused by the clones.
Vader’s mask hid his amusement, at how he had tolerated such inferior beings as a Jedi,
who had been deceived with such ease, and he decided to break the clones’ initial
target into two.
Vader heard shouts of fear in the Force, and used his agility to move to the broken artillery
deck.
Through the falling embers of a once heroic destroyer, it was Echo and Tech that had the
misfortune of facing Vader, and the Sith Lord showed no signs, of his connection with the
clones during the clone war, by lifting them into the air.
Vader used the dark side ability of Force invasion, to discover that the clones had
recently been in contact with Commander Rex, as he released them to ignite his lightsaber.
As the Sith Lord is about to draw the clones into the scolding blade of plasma, he is thrown
back by Crosshair’s elite squad, who had discovered Vader’s distraction, and had
launched a crate of thermal detonators between Vader and the clones.
As Echo and Tech ran back into the broken half of the Venator, Vader casually held his
hand in front of him, and deflected all of the shots from the clones.
One of the clones foolishly told Vader that they did not accept him, as the new leader
of their squad, and the Sith Lord reacted by clenching his fist, breaking the neck of
the clones, and squeezing all life out of him as he fell to the floor.
Crosshair gnawed at his toothpick as if nothing had occurred, and gesticulated to his clones
to terminate the traitorous clones, rather than attack Vader, as he was a good soldier
who followed orders.
The Sith Lord had achieved his goal on Bracca, and thought it was a waste of his valuable
time if he chased after the fugitives, so he walked back to his ship, and ordered the
remainder of the guard on Coruscant, to hunt for the fugitive clone CT-7567.
At the footsteps of the decaying Jedi home, Commander Fox knew that Rex would be difficult
to catch, but with an obsession to serve Darth Vader, he decided to take one of the beaten
Low Altitude Assault Gunships, and with several of the Coruscant guard, set course for the
outer rim world of Utapau.
Eventually arriving on the world rebuilding, after its war that it didn’t even want,
Fox and his small band of clones, are greeted the ground clone commander Cody.
The de facto leader of the 212th Battalion, had already finished his work clearing the
sublevels of the city, and hearing for the search of Commander Rex, he turned away from
Fox and back to the direction of Oddball.
For the first time since the execution of Order 66, Fox started to fight his control
chip, as unlike the traitorous Jedi Kenobi, Cody still viewed Rex as a clone and a brother.
As he struggled to fight against his programming, the Coruscant guard look bemused by his behaviour,
and Cody scurries to one of the lower levels, claiming he was unwell.
The Clone Commander crawled and struggled his way to a holotable, which was in a secret
room that General Grievous had used, and found an old code that he knew Rex would use.
As time seemed to be in a standstill, Cody could hear Fox in the background of his obscured
hearing, and the flickering figure of Rex finally greeted him.
The hooded Rex looked visibly weathered from Order 66, but his sombre demeanour changed
when he saw the fight within Cody, and he instructed him to find a way to hide from
the chasing clones, whilst Rex travelled to Utapau.
Aboard his BTL-B Y-Wing bomber, Rex knew that saving Cody was an enormous risk, but having
seen so many clones fall, he could not let Cody join the graves, and using his vast knowledge
of all the hyperspace lanes, he made it to the Outer Rim largely untroubled.
But as he entered Utapau’s system, he knew something was amiss, and as he glanced at
the onboard radar, a large fleet was closing on his location.
Rex knew that he was being caught by Fox’s forces, so tilted his controls downwards,
and the bomber dived downwards as well, before Rex chose the rim of the sinkhole to rest
the ship.
Silently exiting the Y-Wing, Rex crouched onto his elbows, and used his macrobinoculars
to find the signal from Cody, and saw he had moved closer to the surface, but was limited
in his movement, by the influence of his control chip.
To avoid the clones led by Fox, Rex used an ascension cable, to slide down the sinkhole,
using the cover of the levels and the buildings, to hide himself from view.
Arriving at the 10th level, he saw Cody crawling onto the floor, next to a number of the clone
helmets of the 212th Battalion, and Rex assured Cody that he would soon be relieved of the
suffering.
Dragging the struggling Cody to a hidden stretcher in the vicinity, the former clone also had
the foresight to send the native varactyls, to cause chaos on all the levels, giving the
chance for Rex to recruit several astromechs to remove Cody’s chip.
Once he had awoken from his surgery, Cody looked dazed as he couldn’t believe he had
thought about killing Rex, as they are disturbed by the voices of Fox’s battalion.
Rex realigned his ascension cable for their final climb, and as the clones continued their
search, they were near the top, when the rockface started to slide.
Cody threw his own ascension cable onto a different section of the cliff, but the clones
found themselves being drawn back to the floor.
Angling their necks against the attack, they find that there was only one enemy moving
on the ground, and it was Darth Vader, who had only recently been announced to the galaxy.
Rex had seen enough of the Force, to know it was useless to resist, so both clones decided
to give into Vader for now, as they were allowed to stand when they hit the ground.
Commander Fox offered to execute the rogue clones, but Vader asked them to move aside,
and once they had moved back into the skies, the Sith Lord invited them to join him, as
their knowledge could be useful to hunting any insurgents.
The clones saluted in unison, but not for Vader, rather for what they believed in, and
Vader soon began to invade the minds of the clones.
It was only then that Rex could see the man behind the mask, as he recognised the actions
belonged to his old General Anakin Skywalker, and his head was almost taken off of his neck,
such were the Forces from Vader and his shock.
Cody begged for Vader to at least give them honourable deaths, and to their astonishment,
Vader relented and ordered for Commander Fox to return.
But as the clone gunship started to return to the floor, Vader was forced to shield himself,
as it detonated into thousands of shards.
Through the fiery remains, Vader looked to see a T6 Shuttle, and at its helm was the
one he wanted to be his Sith student, and it was his old padawan Ahsoka Tano.
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