[ WP ] In a parallel universe , one of the most famous scenes in all of film goes a little differently

Vader flings Luke down on the platform, and pins him with his lightsaber. `` You are beaten. It is *useless* to resist,'' he says as he menaces Luke with his crimson blade. `` Do n't let yourself be destroyed as Obi-Wan did.'' 
 
 Luke's face twists, and he flings his blade defensively, knocking Vader's aside, and clambers up from the platform. Vader swings his blade down, missing Luke, and making more sparks fly from the platform's railings his saber cuts in its wake. 
 
 He swings over Luke's head, but Luke parries the blade away anyway. The red Sith blade comes down, and Luke ducks it. Vader's saber hits another rail, and Luke swings back from his left with his saber. To which, Vader deftly raises his blade to block Luke's blow that was aimed at *his* head. 
 
 Vader swings his blade again in an arc, and again Luke ducks the saber. Vader overreaches with his swing, however, and Luke, seeing the opportunity, swings at Vader, and catches him on his right shoulder pauldron, the sparks sending a message of sorts. 
 
 Vader clutches his shoulder, crying in more surprise than pain, and then utters a guttural sound as he swings back at his opponent. Luke is forced back onto a spindly antenna mount of the platform as Vader's swing connects with modules attached to the platform. 
 
 Luke then extends his blade, hoping to catch Vader in the chest, but he overreaches the thrust, and he is caught in a stretched position. Vader blocks Luke's blade, then with a twisting motion, causes Luke's extended blade arm to be spun away. The opportunity is here, the fight is over. 
 
 Vader thrusts his blade into Luke's chest. Luke drops his saber, and it falls into the abyss of the Bespin Cloud City's reactor shaft, never to be seen again. 
 
 Vader holds his blade as Luke blinks and looks at the imposing ebon figure. Vader speaks, and his voder carries the angry yet sad tones of a man with much regret. 
 
 `` You fool. You made me destroy you. My own son.'' 
 
 Vader simply turns off his light saber, the blade retracting into the hilt, and releasing Luke. Luke's eyes are wide in both horror and confusion... his lips move, but nothing comes out. 
 
 The son of Skywalker then lists to one side, and falls off the platform and into the pit, dead before he hits the bottom. 
 
 The Sith Lord's shoulders slump. He looks into the abyss for some time. A Stormtrooper eventually comes to find him. 
 
 `` My Lord, Calrissian has taken the prisoners, and they are trying to make their way to the Millennium Falcon and escape. He's called for total evacuation.'' 
 
 Darth Vader was silent for a few moments. Then he turned to the Stormtrooper, and said `` Do not lose the Falcon. At any cost. The rest of the people and city is inconsequential. Prepare my shuttle, immediately.'' 
 
 `` Yes, my Lord.'' And with that, the Stormtrooper hurried back to do Vader's bidding. 
 
 `` I sense something... else. Someone is here... someone I should know.... or should acquire...'' And he turned and went to discover who that person was.
