Disclaimer: I don't own Star Wars or KOTOR but I do own Kala muwhahahahhah
A/N: This story came to mind because I always wondered what would happen if one of the original characters tried to find Revan after KOTOR 2, I wondered what would happen if it was his daughter and this story was born. I will update Defiance I just wanted to see how this idea goes down.
What He Left Behind
Chapter 1: How to slice an impenetrable navputer
The door to the apartment opened and Revan stepped through the door. He smiled at the two figures that stood ready to welcome him home. He kissed his wife Bastila and hugged his daughter Kala. There they were one big happy family.
Of course that isn't real, it is only a dream I have. A dream that I like to think about when I'm having a hard time coping when I realize it isn't real.
My name is Kala Shan, my mother is Bastila Shan and my father is the famous Revan, former dark lord of the Sith and savior of the galaxy. But we aren't a family, because he isn't here with me and my mom.
In fact he doesn't even know I exist. He left a year after saving the Republic and a month after that my mother found out she was pregnant. She raised me herself along with the rest of the Ebon Hawk crew. And I grew up waiting and hoping he would return, but years went by and he didn't come, and he never has.
So here I am on my fifteenth life-day staring out the window at the view of Telos. I should get up, I should go outside and celebrate with my mother, I should be happy. But I'm not.
"Kala?" I heard my mother calling my name, but I didn't move. "Kala?"
I heard her come up behind me, "Hey, why don't you come out so we can celebrate your life-day."
A worried look came on her face, "Kala, what's wrong?"
I sighed and turned to look at her, "Did Carth say any ships were coming in, are any ships lined up to land?"
A sad look came on her face, "Kala…" She was going to start lecturing me, but I wasn't in the mood.
"Mom, I know he'll come today, I just feel it!"
"Kala, listen to me…He isn't coming not today," She looked wistfully out the window, "He isn't coming any day."
I stood up exasperated. Anger shot through my veins like a disease, "How can you say that! It's like you've given up!"
She stood and looked at me with those deep blue eyes that reflected years of loneliness. Her eyes stared straight into my emerald green ones, a gift from my father. "I have given up." She shook her head, "I know that sounds horrible but what other choice do I have."
"You could go out there and find him, if you love him like you say you do, you could find him!"
"Kala, if he wanted to come back he would but he doesn't why else he would stay."
"Maybe he will come back if he knows about me!"
"And how will you find him? Where would you look? That galaxy is huge and you wouldn't find him even if you had the resources to."
It just made me even angrier, because I knew she was right. I was so upset I stormed out of there and fled.
I sat in the cockpit of the Ebon Hawk, one of my favorite places. It was found a few months after the Exile left to find my father, obviously he did. I spend a lot of time there thinking about how my father had flown many missions in this ship. Sometimes I can almost see the entire crew together on the fateful mission to destroy the Star Forge.
I felt my mother's presence nearby, soon I heard her footsteps. She sat down in the copilot's chair beside me, neither of us speaking.
She sighed, "I guess it's harder on you than I can understand. I mean you are a teenager and you want your father to be here."
I turned to look at her, "But why can't he be here? When will all of my wishing and hoping be enough for him to come home?"
She hugged me just like she did when I was younger. "I miss him," She whispered, "I miss him so much."
"It's just I feel like I'm missing something, and he is the only one who can fill it."
She leveled her eyes to mine, "I love you very much, and I want you to know that regardless if he ever comes back or not, I always will love you."
I smiled at her, "I thought Jedi weren't allowed to love."
She smiled back, "I'm not your average Jedi now am I?"
We laughed, but it seemed hollow, we both felt missing pieces of our hearts.
She sighed again, "Kala, I want you to have something."
To my astonishment, she pulled out her lightsaber. She had taught me the ways of the force and I had my own lightsaber now.
"Mom…" I began.
"This is my first lightsaber, the saber I used to fight your father when he was the dark lord, the saber I used during the Sith War. I used it to fight Malak; I even used it to fight your father on the Star Forge even though I had changed the crystal. It has meant a lot to me… and now I want you to have it."
"But I already have one."
"Keep it; you may need it if something happens to your own."
"But what will you use?"
"I have another, and it isn't like I need to have one right now anyways, the last Sith invasion was ten years ago.
She stood up and started to walk away but turned at the cockpit door, "Come on, we've got some celebrating to do."
"I'll be there in a bit," I told her, she nodded and walked out. I stared at the controls around me. I got up and looked at the Navputer. I punched in a command but the words 'unable to comply' flashed on the screen.
That wasn't a surprise, every time I tried to get it to tell me where the Ebon Hawk had been, those words had always showed up. This time I wasn't so willing to let it go this time.
I began to kick and punch at the buttons, even swearing a little but nothing worked. I finally gave it one final kick before stopping, breathing heavily, I sat down letting my head rest against the Navputer. Why can't I just get what I want?
Suddenly I heard the voice of my friend, the late Jolee Bindo, Come on kid, you got half a brain from both your parents, which means you must have something in your head. Now use it!
I stood up and began to fiddle with the wires.
Physically I looked almost exactly like my mother, except for my eyes. My personality I got from my father I'm told, along with my ability to fix things.
I started splitting wires and the next thing I knew the Navputer came to life. It began showing planets like Tatooine and Menaan, then it showed planets I had never seen before, planets that were beyond the Outer Rim!
I had done it! I had found out where my father had gone! Now all I had to do was tell my mom and we could go find him.
I ran out of the ship, but on my way home, her words rang through my head. If he wanted to come back he would. She had given up, and I had only turned fifteen that day, there was no way she would let me go.
But that didn't mean I wouldn't, I was too stubborn to give up now. I was going to find him that much I knew. But I was going to have to do it alone.
I snuck out of my home that night, with some of my clothes packed and a bag filled with pictures and holovids of me growing up. I figured that when I told him that I was his daughter he would want see some of those things, and I would tell him stories about my childhood on the way back to Telos.
I was sneaking into the control deck in order to clear the Ebon Hawk I decided it would be best if I took that ship in order to use the information on the Navputer. Then I heard a voice behind me.
"Where do you think you're going?"
Uh oh, busted, were the thoughts racing through my head as I turned to look at the frowning face of Carth Onansi.
Carth had been the closest thing to a father I had ever had, usually I could get by him, but it didn't look like I would now. I was ready to lie but I knew he would see right through me, just like the time when I told him that the speeder had always had the dent on its fender. He didn't believe me then either.
"Carth, I…"
"Why are you sneaking around trying to steal the Ebon Hawk?"
"I'm going to find my father."
He rolled his eyes towards the sky, "Not this again."
"I can do it Carth, I was able to slice the Navputer into telling me where it had been."
He put his hands on my shoulders, "Kala, listen to me, you can't go, it wouldn't be safe, for you or him."
"And why not?"
He sighed, "I didn't tell your mother this, but the Exile told me that Revan couldn't bring anyone he loved with him."
"The Exile came back for Visas." I reminded him.
"But this is Revan and he wouldn't want to endanger anyone he loves."
"Then it doesn't apply to me." I stated.
"You are his daughter."
"He doesn't love me!" I yelled finally venting the horrible truth, "He doesn't even know I exist, which means he can't love me!"
Carth was silent, he knew I was right. "There isn't any stopping you is there?"
"No," I said quietly.
He seemed to think for a moment, "Then take HK and T3."
"Why?" I asked.
"We will all feel safer if they are with you, we'll know you are not alone."
I smiled at him, then became serious, "Tell mom that I'm sorry but that I have to do this."
"I will," I began to walk towards the Hawk when he yelled, "Kala." I turned around, "If this is just about proving you can do this don't go."
"I'm trying to prove anything," I told him, "I'm going to find my father so that I can bring him home."
"Then may the Force be with you."
I walked onto the Hawk with HK-47 and T3-M4 behind me. I settled onto the pilots chair and powered the converters.
My search to find my father had begun.
TBC
A/N: I added the Exile and Visas because my sister begged me too and I didn't know what else to do about them. (my sister adores the Exile and Visas pairing to an obbsession)
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