A/N: I don't own Gravity Falls or Star Wars. Also this story takes place six months after the end of The Path of Destruction, which is set thirteen years after Revenge of the Sith and seven years before A New Hope.
Chapter One: Master and Apprentice
The nights on Tatooine were freezing cold as the days were unbearable hot. One could freeze to death out on the sea of sands as easily as they could die of heatstroke. Tatooine was no doubt a harsh, unforgiving world that rewarded that strong and savage and dammed the weak and forgiving. Here in hell of hot sands is where the heart of Jabba the Hutt's business operated without impunity of the Empire or the Rebellion to stand in the crime-lord's way. Tuskan Raiders laid siege to small outlying communities and moisture farms without fear of being stopped. This was indeed a planet that bred some of the worst scum and villainy in the galaxy.
It was here that such despots as Oslo Kreig and his band of marauders flourished. A native of the desert planet, Oslo was known as 'the sand devil' from Mos Eisley to Bestine, he ransacked moisture farms and small colonies for anything that stuck his fancy. Oslo considered himself a find man: if he found something he liked, he took it, and should someone get in his way well…he didn't mind getting messy. From, gold, credits to women, there always something the marauder wanted before moving onto something else. With his band of cutthroats, they plagued the people of Tattooine while staying away from any territory that was under the control of the Hutt.
As he and his men camped out in the endless sands of the dune sea, Oslo could almost feel an unnatural chill run up his spine—and not due the cold night's air. It was almost as if his inner primal instincts were trying to warn of an unknown threat somewhere out in the darkness. As Oslo sat near the fire, he kept one hand close to his holstered blaster in case of anything unexpected would befall him tonight.
The marauder was just about to shut his eyes when he suddenly caught a glimpse what looked like a figure making its way toward his group's camp through the moonlit covered sands. The figure in question was dressed head to toe in a black hooded cloak that was wrapped around the newcomer's body, concealing their true self under its cloth. The person kept they're head low, allowing the shadows to hide away the stranger's face as they approached the campsite.
As the figure moved closer to the marauder camp with every step, Oslo quickly roused his crew from they're slumber, ordering them to grab their weapons as he did. Soon, his band of Twi'lek's, Gammorans, Zabraks and other humans were wide awake and fully armed. They collectively aimed their weapons at the stranger who stopped just short of edge of the marauder's campsite.
"Take one more step, and we'll kill you ten times over before you hit the ground!" Oslo warned "Now take off that hood and show yourself!"
The hooded figure merely paused for a moment, as if inwardly wondering if it should comply with the order. A few seconds later, the stranger did as it was told and removed the hood, revealing their face to the bandits. The stranger was in fact a young woman that was a familiar face to the band of cutthroats.
"Well, well, look who it is boys?" Oslo said to his men "It's our old whore!"
The so-called 'whore' in question was a teenager girl known as Wendy Corduroy, and she had very painful history with Oslo's gang. Once she just the daughter of a moisture farmer and living a hard yet still peaceful life on Tattoine, But then the marauders came and destroyed her life. After murdering her farther and three brothers, Oslo and his men took the girl with them to be their personal slave whom they beat and raped for the span of two months until they finally sold her off to Jabba the Hutt to suffer the same torment they subjected her to before, only now it was day in and day out.
But Wendy's grim situation changed when she began to have strange dreams. The dreams were that of a young man who wielded great power and had a savagery in his heart that could not be tamed. The boy from her dreams reached out to Wendy and assured her that they would one day be together in real life. Soon after the boy's promise, he arrived at the Hutt's palace and liberated her from her captors after he displayed the raw fury and forced Jabba to release her to him. He revealed to her that she had the same power within her as well and offered to teach her to master it. Without giving it a second thought, Wendy agreed to become the boy's apprentice in the hopes that she would have her revenge of the galaxy that she had felt wronged her.
Shortly after taking her under his wing, her new master took her to the frigid and unforgiving planet of Mygeeto, where he began her training in the ways of the dark side of the Force. Wendy couldn't deny that the trails where beyond agonizing and left filled with a rage that surged through her blood like a red-hot poison, but through all the pain and angry she endured, the former slave girl learned to harness the power of the Force and tonight she would have her first taste of combat, and she would do so without a lightsaber.
"What? Got nothing to say to us, bitch?" Oslo continued "Well that fine by us 'cause you—"
Suddenly, Wendy threw her hand outward. Oslo was sent flying backwards by a blast of invisible energy. The other members of his gang were stunned by what they had just witnessed, but quickly opened fire with their blasters. The young girl smirked wickedly before Force-dashing out of the way of the hail of blaster fire.
Reaching out with the Force, she heaved two men into the air and slammed them together with the strength of a Rancor before tossing their bodies aside. As more blaster fire was launched at her, Wendy channeled the Force into her hands and began to block the bolts away, ricocheting the gunfire back at those who had shot at her, killing several in the process.
A Gammoran attempted to rush at her with an axe, but she ducked before Force-pulling the weapon at of the pig-man's hand and burying it in-between his eyes. Among all the panic and carnage, Wendy couldn't help but let out a laugh at the massacre she was creating. With every person she slew, the louder her laugh grew. Every bandit who had stolen any innocence and hope she had left in her was now being slaughtered by her hand and she loved every sound their dying breaths made. The dark side had given Wendy total clarity, through her rage she had gained strength and it was because of the very rage these men had forged within her that she was able to carry out her bloody vengeance.
Soon the camp became quite, the marauders were lying in broken, bloody heaps among their now ruined campsite. Wendy took in quick, sharp breaths as her anger began to settle down for the time being. She had done it; she killed them all, but yet she felt a sort of…emptiness once her rampage was over. She wanted at least some of them alive, for she wanted to subject them to new forms of pain as she gave them a slow and horrific death.
Just then, the Sith in training heard the sound of moaning not to far away. She followed the sound until she came upon Oslo's broken body writhing in pain in the sand. His rib cage was shattered from the impact of Wendy's Force-blast and judging from his haggard breathing, he didn't have much time left in this world.
"You know, I should thank you" she began in a voice devoid of sympathy "Had not been for you and all the hell you put me through, then I would've never been able to unlock my powers"
As she spoke, her hands began to flare up with electricity as look of cold satisfaction formed in her cold yellow eyes.
"But having said that, I have no intention of letting you die peacefully"
With outstretched hands and psychotic smile, the former slave girl unleashed a wave of lightning from her fingertips, jolting the source of her pain with a storm of electric Force energy that rivaled the great storms on Kamino. Oslo screamed out into skies above as his skin began to be burned away until his flesh turned to ash and he was nothing more than charred bones.
As Wendy looked down upon the burnt corpse of the scum who stole away any chance of a normal life she once had, she felt an odd sense of brief accomplishment before she started to feel the emptiness once more. Like with the other marauders she had slain, the apprentice wanted subject these marauders to even more torment before giving them granting them death. It was at that moment that the young Sith sensed the presence of powerful being behind her, whom she quickly turned and bowed before him.
The newcomer was young man dressed in a black cloak that draped over his shoulders. His body was covered in slimmer suit black and silver body armor then the one that once had wore in honor of the great Sith Lord Darth Malgus, but he had discarded it since it was only weighing his body down. He had also altered his Revan-like mask that helped him to breathe as well, changing it to a black helmet with a silver outline around the black tinted visor. His right arm had been replaced from the elbow downward with a skeletal robotic limb that had talon-like figure tips.
His name was Ren Pines, and he had dreams of creating a new Sith Order.
"You seemed troubled, my apprentice" he said to his older student in a deep synthesized voice "I thought this was what you wanted?"
"It was master, it's just…" Wendy replied as she tried to find the right words "I wanted to make them suffer much longer"
"Remember what I told you. You must move beyond these petty vendettas. You wanted to kill them, and now they're dead. That's all that matters" her teacher told her plainly "Now come along Wendy, it's time we went home"
With that, Ren turned and began to walk away from the carnage. Wendy took one last look of the hell she had rained down on the now dead marauders before catching up with her master.
To most people, Mygeeto was some place a person would not call home. The freezing cold and the rain that came down almost every day made it a dreary place to most. The snow covered mountains were rigid and slick with ice and snow, making it all but impossible to traverse for most people. Yet it was here that young Ren thrived, but also trained his apprentice in total secrecy, hiding her away from Vader and the Emperor's grasp. After becoming an Inquisitor, Ren was given everything Gideon had after killing him and taking his position, however, rather then stay in his slain enemy's penthouse in Coruscant, he opted to have all of Gideon's books, Sith records and even his Protocol Droid T9 transferred to his new home along the Mid-Rim.
It was here on Mygeeto that the former Padawan of Stanford Pines had his home private home built out in the side of one of the planet's many mountaintops. It was also on this harsh world that he began to train Wendy in the ways of the dark side of the Force. Ever since he had liberated her from Jabba's palace, Ren made it his goal to make Wendy into his desired new breed of Sith, but in order to achieve that, he had to subject her to pain and horrors that no person should go through. It was necessary for him to torture her, he needed to drive the anger out of her body and channel it through the Force. At first, she wanted to kill him for the agony he caused her, but soon she understood that her new master was only trying to teach her that the path to salvation is through life dedicated to darkness.
In time, the former slave girl started to trust her teacher and even began to relish the pain he inflicted upon her—so much that she once nearly climaxed while being blasted by his lightening. Ren once told her that the old Master/Apprentice relationship was one filled with lies and deceit between them until one slew the other, but in truth, she had no desire to overthrow her master nor did he have any wish of replacing her. The young Sith wanted to abolish the Rule of Two and reinstate a Sith Order, but unlike the Empire in the days of the Old Republic, this new Order would be one built on trust in both the dark side and each other. Gone would be the Sith's selfish desires and personal vendetta's, instead there would only be trust among one another and a united hatred that would keep the Jedi down forever and leave the galaxy under its thumb.
Wendy was totally loyal to Ren no matter what he subjected her to. No matter what he did to her both physically and mentally, she knew that he was only rebuilding her from the meek and broken girl from Tatooine into an unstoppable Sith that would gladly kill in his name, for her young master was the only person in the entire galaxy that showed her any kindness and wanted to see her become greater then she once was. It was thanks to his brutal training sessions that she her powers had grown to new heights in these past six months and her slaughter on Tattoine proved that she was excelling in mastery over the Force, and though she did not have a lightsaber yet, she knew it would only be a matter of time until that part of her training would come.
Currently, the boy once known as Dipper was lying in his circle-shaped bed within the darkly lit confines of his oval shaped room. Gone were his helmet and the rest of his clothing, only a silver triangle-shaped respirator was on his face, allowing him to breathe normally at night. He was looking up at the darkly lit ceiling with a coldly focused gaze in his eyes, as if he was trying to look past the ceiling above him and into the vastness of space itself. Even though he stated that his new Order would not be weighed down with personal quests of revenge, his mind couldn't stop thinking about the one person who betrayed him and left him for dead on in that canyon back on the forest moon of Endor. The one whom he swore he would have retribution on one day no matter how long he had to wait to fulfill it: his sister, Mabel.
Ever since their battle on the moon six months ago that left him damaged, Ren had gone back in secret several times before to find her and end her, but all he could find was wildlife and Ewoks that would fall to his red blade. At first he assumed that she was hiding in the deepest parts of the forest moon, but now he had a working theory that somehow she must have escaped the moon and was no hiding among the stars. He had such wild and fantastic dreams of strangling the life out of his twin sibling with his bare hands, but he had to resist his urge for vengeance, for it was against everything he stood for. So for now, he would focus on building his Knighthood, and then when the time was right, he would track down Mabel and kill her as slowly as possible.
"It seems something is troubling you, my master" Wendy's cooed seductively as she rolled over on her side of the bed to face Ren "Something on your mind?"
In their time together, Ren and Wendy started out as master and apprentice, but during the former slave's training, they slowly became something else. Over time, the two began to see one another in a different light, looking beyond they're intended roles and seeing each other as lovers. Love was not looked down upon among the Sith in the past—in fact, even the mighty Darth Malgus cared deeply for his Twi'lek concubine Eleena. Soon, they two became young lovers, each devoted to the other and to no one else. But despite the new found love they shared, this did not soften the horrors Ren would subject Wendy to, saying that if he treated her different during her time training, then her powers would wan as an effect. Through her love for him, the teenager found new strength to continue on in some of the most horrid conditions he put her through.
"It's nothing" her teacher replied firmly in a metallic tone through his respirator
"Well, perhaps I can take your mind off of that nothing that seems to be bothering you" Wendy whispered in his ear as her hand ran down his chest
The former Padawan let out a small groan escape his respirator as his student's hand under the satin sheets and down toward his lower regions. In response to her move, Ren began to trace his metallic hand down her bare chest and down toward her lower parts as well, making her moan as his touch. Wendy reached out with her other hand and gently removed her master's respirator from his mouth, giving her to seal his lips with her own. Her tongue slipped into his mouth as she climbed on top of her master and straddled him. He reached up and took a firm hold on her hips, ready to take as her did on this bed like he had months ago.
"Master Pines" came a robotic voice as T9 entered the bedroom announced "You have a in coming transmission"
Ren and Wendy broke the kissed to glare daggers at the droid. The robot was good at many things, but knocking wasn't one of them.
"Tell whoever it is to wait" his master ordered "I'm…busy"
"But sir, it's on your private line" T9 affirmed
Ren and his apprentice's eyes widen in surprise upon hearing that. There was only one person who used the young Sith's private line.
"Vader…" Ren said in an amazed whisper
He looked back up at Wendy, who already knew what he was going to do next. As much as she wanted to make love to her young teacher, the older girl knew that he had to keep up the ruse of loyalty to Darth Vader and the other Inquisitors.
"To be continued then" she sighed in defeat before she climbed off him
Ren put his respirator back on before climbing out of bed and quickly putting on his pants. He then headed out of the bedroom and made his way into another room where he kept to Holo-player. Ren had to keep up his appearances as a dedicated Inquisitor to the Empire, but ever since he was made one, the young Sith had not been given any assignments to hunt down any leads of a surviving Jedi. There was a part of him that was hoping that Vader had found whereabouts of his twin sister, but that may be for the better that he didn't, since he lied to the dark lord that his sister had died on Endor's Moon.
After activating the Holo-player, Ren was surprised not to see the visage of Vader, but of a different being all together. This being sat in a massive stone throne and was dressed in a dark robe that had a hood covering his face. At first glance, Ren thought that this was Palpatine, but he quickly sensed that this was someone new entirely.
"It's a pleasure to finally meet you, Ren Pines" the giant figure greeted in a deep yet ancient tone
"Who are you?" the Inquisitor demanded "And how do you know me?!"
"I have been watching you, my boy" the stranger explained "I have sensed your deep connection to the dark side and I wish to form an alliance with you"
"I don't make deals with those I don't know" Ren answered sharply "I don't know how you managed to find my secure network, but this conversation is over!"
"You seek to rebuild the Sith" the giant figure said "It is a passion we both share"
"How do you know—"the young Sith started but cut himself off "If this is some kind of test from Vader I assure you that you'll regret it!"
"I do not serve the Empire" the cloaked giant replied "I am like you Ren. I seek to tear down the Sith and rebuild it into something greater then any power in the galaxy"
Ren paused, clearly taken aback by stranger's words. He kept his plans for overthrowing Vader and Palpatine a secret to only a very select few, how did this creature know of his plans? Was this some test by Vader to see where his loyalties lied, but then how did Vader discover his schemes to begin with?
"I can see you do not trust me, so I shall show you a token my friendship" the figure continued
The hologram of the stranger suddenly switched to a massive map of the galaxy. It then zoomed in on a planet and displayed the coordinates to the mysterious world, making the former Jedi's eyes widen in total shock when he figured out what he was being shown. After several seconds of taking in the image of planet and the coordinates, the newcomer's image switched back on.
"Do you know this world?" the stranger asked
"Yes…" Ren answered, stunned by what he had seen "But how—"
"Meet me there" the stranger interrupted "Once you arrive, we shall talk further"
Ren still had his doubts over the stranger's offer, but upon seeing the image of something he thought we would never lay eyes on, he had to at least see it for himself if nothing else.
"Who are you?" the young Sith questioned finally
The giant slowly removed his hood to reveal a pale badly scarred face that looked down at him with deep cold black eyes. Ren began to truly sense the giant's power and his interest grew even greater.
"My name…is Snoke"