A/N: I'm in the process of re-writing the story, because Andrew McDerson is a little too trusting and out of the character I have planned for him. Little has changed in the prologue, though I have added some stuff.

Prologue: Where it all started

Journal Entry 1…playback commencing…

Teenage human male voice If you're listening to this recording, there are several reasons how you got a hold of it.

One, you found it. Either in deep space, or on some planet somewhere, or something.

Two, it was in my grave. Now that could be an animal's stomach, or a pit in the earth. Or even next to a jar of ashes.

Three, it was in the Jedi Archives. If that's the case, then this has some great lesson from my life, so listen up, or you'll miss something important.

Four, it was in the Sith archives, and I was incredibly evil. Now, right now, I desperately hope that this is not the case.

Five, it was in the Coruscant Library. That would mean that I was a very important non-Jedi figure.

Six, this is a family heirloom. That of course means that I was nobody in the great scheme of things. But that's OK, because it's nice to know about your ancestors, whether Father, Mother, Grandfather, etc.

Whatever the case, I'm dead. I died, and now I'm dead. No way about it, so stop crying. I'm not crying. Do you see me crying? You know what? Never mind. Just quit your crying, pull up a chair, and get comfortable, because I'm about to tell you my life story, so it might take a while.

First off, you should know a little about me. I was a normal kid growing up on the planet Earth. I was in high school, though I was a little eccentric for my classmates. Well, all except for this one kid, whose name was Henry Austin Nolos. He was OK, but I got on his nerves a lot, and my uber-geek mode annoyed him immensely, but we were close.

Not as close as me and my sister though. My parents were Mr. and Mrs. McDerson. They had two kids, me, and Cassandra. She was amazing. Smart, athletic, beautiful. All the guys at school wanted to go out with her. Or most of them anyway. Few actually did anything about it though.

She was a year older than me, but we were as close as twins. We looked like we could be twins too. Unfortunately, that wouldn't last. When she was fifteen, she mysteriously disappeared. I haven't seen her since.

Two years later, to the day, something happened that would change my life, forever. I was sitting in my room, doing nothing, but pretending to study for tomorrows Physics test. And I am a physics genius, if I do say so myself. But that's why I hated it. It was too easy. I like a challenge, and High school physics wasn't it. Football was a bit of a challenge, so I enjoyed that some. Until I was benched that is. I just didn't have what it took to be a great running back. So I turned to the skate park after school.

Anyways, I should have been studying. But I wasn't. And now I'm glad that I wasn't, because I spotted something crash into the woods behind my house. It was bright, and glowing, and moving at an incredible speed. It was shaped more like a fighter jet, than a meteor, but there were no air bases anywhere around, and nobody ever flew small aircraft over our neighborhood.

I suddenly went into science geek mode, trying to estimate the speed of the aircraft, the force that was driving it, and adding the acceleration of gravity. Basically, I came to the conclusion that the Force that it would inflict upon the ground would be magnificent! And of course that the equal and opposite force that would occur to the object would damage it almost beyond repair. And possibly mash anything or anyone that might be in it. And that was if it was made of the strongest earth materiel. I figured that if was extra-terrestrial, then it might survive the crash. So I decided to check it out. That was when my life changed forever. (See? I told you that it might take a while! It took me five minutes just to give the back story!)

A/N: That's the prologue, the first chapter will be coming as soon as I can get it up. This story takes place in during a series of stories by Padme Evenstar called War of the Dimensions, the first of which is called Shadow. There will be numerous references to events that happen in her story in this one.