Resurrection

Rogue One completed their mission. The plans were successfully sent to the Rebel fleet just above Scarif's orbit, and they were ready to retreat to Yavin 4. However, on the other side of the planet was the Empire's Death Star. Because it was too far away from the Rebel fleet to approach and attack, and because there were too many Imperial air fighters in the vicinity, Admiral Raddus decided for his fleet to retreat. The Death Star's laser beam had incinerated everything and everyone in a 500-mile radius, including Jyn Erso and Cassian Andor. All of Rogue One was wiped out in the blink of an eye.

After what seemed like an eternity, Jyn Erso opened her eyes slowly. She couldn't feel anything nor see anything for a long moment. Jyn eventually opened her eyes and gasped at what she saw. She was "asleep" in bright white light. Jyn sat up quickly and looked around herself. She saw literally nothing but white.

"W-Where am...I!?" Jyn asked herself in great confusion. She stood up on her two feet as she examined herself. She looked as though nothing happened. "Aren't I...dead?" She wondered. She remembered her quick, inevitable death. She didn't want to think about it. Not now. Not ever. But she knew she just granted the galaxy a path to a better future. But then she remembered something: someone was there with her. Right there at the beach. She was embracing him like if there was no tomorrow, which was true. She tried to remember.

It wasn't long before a voice suddenly spoke behind her. A male voice. "Jyn!"

Upon hearing her name being called out, Jyn instantly turned around and gasped at who she saw. Her eyes widened even more. Cassian was standing in front of her with a handsome smile on his face, with no blaster wounds present on his shoulder. Jyn froze for a moment as she attempted to assess everything. She then ran up to him like the speed of lightning, wrapping her arms around him once again.

"CASSIAN!" Jyn exclaimed happily, almost bursting into tears. "I can't believe it's you!" She says, looking up at him her green eyes, smiling up at him.

Cassian smiles back as he hugs her back, embracing the exact same way they did at the beach in Scarif seconds before their death. "I know, Jyn. We're together again."

Suddenly realizing their presence, Jyn pulled away from their embrace and fell silent, looking down at the floor. "But...why are we here? I thought we died?" She asked, trying to think harder. Cassian shrugged his shoulders.

"Maybe it has something to do with the Force." Cassian said.

Those words sparked an idea in Jyn's mind. She suddenly remembered something at the beach. She remembered that she was touching her kyber crystal necklace while she was hugging Cassian just as they had died. Her mother gave her the kyber crystal necklace when she was nine years old. Jyn believed in the kyber crystal's extraordinary power to grant survival, no matter how dangerous the situation was. And Jyn believed in the Force just as her mother had.

Jyn pulled out her kyber crystal necklace from her chest and held it up to her face. She was touching Cassian when she was touching her crystal, nobody else. "I think we're still alive in this afterlife because of my kyber crystal. Does this mean that...we get a second chance?" She says, looking over to Cassian. Cassian keeps his smile, and chuckles.

"Jyn, whatever fate that lies ahead of us, we accept it. If a second chance is the case, then it is as the Force wills it." Cassian says, smiling at his Sergeant.

Hearing his words, Jyn smiles excitedly and embraces him once more. Eventually, she pulled away with her smile fading. "But...Cassian, what about the others?"

"Hm?" Cassian asks, tilting his head.

"K-2...Chirrut...Baze...Bodhi. They're dead...but we're not." Jyn stated her teammates' names. Tears almost burst from her eyes just as she said them. Cassian sighs and puts one hand on her shoulder.

"They are in a better place, Jyn. And they are with us wherever we go. We are Rogue One, no matter what. We are one with the Force, and the Force will be with us." Cassian says, trying to cheer up his closest comrade. Jyn nods silently.

"K-2...well, I can always steal another Imperial security droid and reprogram it." Cassian jokes, making Jyn chuckle in response and smile up at him.

Suddenly, an orange glow appeared behind the two Rebels. They turned around to see a shiny golden door in front of them. Jyn and Cassian look at each other in curiosity. Jyn noticed her kyber crystal was glowing bright white in her hand. "Our second chance..." She whispers.

Cassian pats her back. "We'll take it, Jyn. The other may not have it, but we do. It's what they would've wanted for us, Jyn. We represent them. And I guarantee you, it will make them happier the more we live it."

Jyn looks up at her Captain, gazing into his brown eyes. "I hope so."

"Your mother would've wanted it. And your father would've wanted it too." Cassian smiles, and Jyn nodded happily at those words. It was at that moment she brought his face to hers and brought her lips to his. Their lips locked deeply for a very long moment. It was that moment they knew they were to be together from that point on to the infinity of time.

"Well then...looks like we got a life to return to. Shall we, Captain?" Jyn asks happily.

Cassian chuckles and holds her hand, with her kyber crystal necklace in-between their locked hands. They walked closer to the golden door together, with Jyn leaning her head against Cassian's arm. They smiled as they walked. The closer they got to the golden door, the more visible a vision of a young man in tan desert robes became in their minds. The vision showed a young man named Luke Skywalker inside the briefing room of their base at Yavin 4, where they were just at the previous day. Skywalker was with other Rebel pilots, and Mon Mothma was explaining the Rebel air squadron strike on the Death Star's trench.

Jyn and Cassian both smiled at their visions, as they realized that was the result of their success in sending the Death Star schematics to the Rebellion in time. They were proud of themselves for carving a pathway to victory for the Rebellion, and shaving one less victory off the Empire's list. They had just seen a vision of the man who will destroy the lethal weapon they had feared all because of their sacrifice.

Jyn held tightly on Cassian's hand. He was her Cassian. He was her Captain. She was his Sergeant. Nothing will separate them ever again; even death will never do them part, for they were bonded with the Force and it kept them together spiritually.

"For Rogue One, Captain?" Jyn says, smiling up at him.

Cassian smiles back down at her and nods. "For Rogue One, Jyn. Always for Rogue One."

With those words said, they open the golden door and step through it. The bright white light fades away behind them, and they randomly enter the front of the Erso House on planet Lah'mu to continue their lives with their second chance the kyber crystal had granted them.