Part I: Awakening in the Cantina
"HAAAN SOLOOO!" Maz Kanata admonished the newcomer from across her cantina. The man she addressed stopped and gave an exasperated sigh as every eye in the cantina was directed at him, all eyes but two. Those eyes belonged to the Stranger at the bar who hadn't even turned to face the new spectacle. As everybody slowly returned to their own business and Han Solo and what looked like his crew followed Maz to a table near the back of the cantina. There was something different about the girl though. The Stranger turned slightly to catch a glimpse of her as she went after the other younger crewmember and started speaking hurriedly with him with a broken look on her face. As the leather clad crewmember walked out the door, leaving the girl staring after him, there was a disturbance in the Force.
No. The Stranger realised, it wasn't a disturbance, it was an Awakening. The girl descended the stairs into the basement of Maz's cantina as the Stranger tapped his empty cup and got a refill of blue milk. Maz and Han were embroiled in an argument about the girl who went into the basement. Maz said something that made Han recoil with his hands in the air, he looks at the Wookie who slightly ashamedly nodded, confirming whatever point Maz was trying to make. The Stranger chuckled at the gobsmacked look on the mythic smuggler's face before suddenly turning to face the stairs. Out of the corner of his right eye, he saw Maz Kanata stop laughing and do the exact same thing.
"Rey, these are your first steps"
The Stranger felt, rather than heard these words, cutting through the din of Maz's Cantina as he reconsidered taking another sip of his blue milk and put his cup on the bar. He held out his hand and saw it tremble, felt chills crawl over the nape of his neck. He looked toward Maz to find she had gone, probably downstairs to confront the girl. He heard a young woman shout, "I'm never touching that thing again!"
A tall, pretty, young woman leapt up the stairs leading to the basement and flew through the throng of patrons, not crashing into anyone, expertly weaving between various drunk patrons, not hearing Maz Kanata's left behind huff of exasperation as she burst out of the main doors and continued into the woods nearby, desperately trying to get away from something in the basement. As soon as he saw her, he felt the fabric of the Force tremble, and not subtly. This was no normal Force user.
The Stranger watched the young force user flee from Maz's Cantina. He chuckled to himself, as he peered at Maz and Han Solo across the room quickly discussing something that made Han gasp and quickly look to the door from which the female force user departed.
Hollow, the lean figure felt, as there was suddenly fire in the sky. He didn't bother rushing out of the cantina with everyone else, he just slumped in his seat as he felt the Hoznian system, five worlds teeming with the worst and best of alien kind and humanity, turn to dust. Maz returned leading Han Solo, their Wookie companion, who must be the mighty Chewbacca if the stories were to be believed, and another person with clad in a smart leather jacket and the four of them descended into the basement after Maz. The new man in the leather jacket was little more than a boy, maybe into his early twenties? The Stranger caught one word from his quick whispering to Solo: "First Order".
The Stranger took out his communicator and looked at it for a moment. He took out a few credits and left it on the bar. Activating his communicator he said, "Juno, there's been an awakening in the Force. The source is a young girl." he paused for a moment and felt the girl's fear as she fled further into the forest before continuing, "I have felt nothing like this in my lifetime. And she's going to need our help." He glanced upward as he made his way towards the exit of the cantina, still on the communicator, "Be advised, there will be a battle in a matter of minutes." He could already feel the young and powerful Dark Side Force user approaching in his giant black-winged shuttle.
"Alright, Galen, I'm on my way. " Far above the cantina, in orbit, a ship just smaller than the Millennium Falcon began to fall to ground and then vanished as Juno activated stealth mode, speeding to the ground at a prodigious rate. At the helm was one of the greatest pilots to ever fly for The Galactic Empire, Juno Eclipse.
Galen Marek's clone, who goes by the name of his long-dead progenitor stepped into the sunlight, clad in a combat-ready light armour adorned with the insignia the Rebel Alliance adopted in their original campaign against the Empire. After all, following the death of the first Galen Marek, Leia and Bail Organa organized a meeting in the run down hut of the deceased house of Marek. It was the young Leia who suggested they use the family crest to represent their Alliance, to honour the memory of their mysterious friend who sacrificed his life so that the Rebellion against The Emperor and Darth Vader could live.
Han Solo and Chewbacca appeared at the top of the stairs as Marek opened the door. Explosions rang out as the TIE fighters made their presence known. Reconsidering going outside just then, Marek closed and bolted the doors, then he turned to face the eclectic group of rogues who had just emerged from the stairs to the basement: two humans, a Wookie, and the ancient, passive, force user Maz Kanata. The boy in the leather jacket, Galen noticed, carried a lightsabers that he hadn't been holding before, probably the catalyst for the girl from before to cause a pulse in the living Force. Before they could all do more than give each other curious glances, the roof opened up in a burst of emerald light as everything started crashing down.
Author's Note: I know there's a glut of new stories because of The Force Awakens, trust me, I've been reading them too and they're awesome. If you could spare 13 seconds, a review or follow would be very much appreciated.