Chapter 1: Death and Reincarnation

It was all over in an instant, our lives, our past, our present, and our future, the instant that my wife and I were killed.

But I am getting ahead of myself, perhaps some introductions are in order, my name is David Cuay I am a 25-year-old high school mathematics teacher who is married to the hottest high school English teacher I know, Mrs. Emily Cuay. I first met her in college two years ago when we were going through our teacher credential programs. Aside from our common age and interest in teaching we also shared a love for the online MMORPG called Star Wars the Old Republic. My wife and I each have played the game when it was first created and have become 6-year veterans as a result. I played all of the force using classes as I clung to that traditional Jedi and Sith feeling. My wife, on the other hand, chose to play as the non-force using classes, stepping into the legendary shoes of Han Solo and Jango Fett. Any arguments that we've had were typically related to Star Wars, as we would debate silly things, such as which class and play style was better.

Flashback:

Emily Cuay: You don't understand my Bounty Hunter Powertech could totally defeat your Jedi Guardian. After all he defeated the Jedi Battlemaster before him, Jun Seros. There is no reason why he couldn't do the same to your precious Jedi.

David Cuay: No way, Jun Seros isn't anything like my Jedi Knight Guardian. My Jedi could defeat Emperor Vitiate. Are you telling me that your Bounty Hunter could do that?

End Flashback

That's typically how our debates/arguments would start and end. We didn't make many characters compared to other veteran players but the one's we did make were extremely strong. We loved our characters almost like children, unfortunately we couldn't think of very creative names for them. I made a total of 5 characters in the game, each of which had been brought to the maximum level and abilities.

My characters are:

Knight – A large framed, athletically built human male Jedi Guardian tank. He has brown hair which is parted in the middle and a brown beard. I made him to look around 25 years old and be incredibly handsome. I made sure to give him heroic armor as well as a very cool looking lightsaber which had a lightsaber resistant finger guard. In my head I imagine that he has mastery over Soresu, Shii Cho, Shien/Djem So, and Niman.

Berserker - An average framed, athletically built cyborg male Sith Marauder. He has raven black hair combed back, is 25, and handsome looking even though his face shows Darkside corruption. I imagine that he has mastery over Juyo, Ataru, and Makashi.

Shadow - An average framed, athletically built Zabrak Sith Assasin. He wields an iconic double bladed lightsaber and is able to turn invisible. I imagine that he would have mastery over the combat aspects of Niman as he mixes the force with lightsaber techniques to bring about maximum damage.

Sage – A small framed female Miralian that is a Jedi Sage healer. She has long black hair which is neatly combed and styled to flow over her shoulders.

Sorceress – An average framed Rattaki woman that is a Sith Sorceress, damage spec. Her Darkside corruption makes her look like she put on way too much mascara.

My wife's characters are:

Agent – A small framed black haired and blue skinned female chiss imperial operative. Complete with stealth belt, knives, and blaster rifle. My wife liked the idea of making a gorgeous looking imperial agent, one that could seduce their targets if necessary to gain the information they need.

Hunter – An average framed tan skinned male bounty hunter, Powertech tank, with a tattoo on the left side of his face.

Commando – a large framed male commando. Complete with Assault Cannon to bring about heavy damage.

Rogue – an average framed handsome looking male gunslinger.

It became a tradition among us to set aside time to play SWTOR together on Saturday. We had many adventures together, going on flashpoints, warzones, operations, playing the expansions, and leveling our characters to 70. There is a saying among gamers that couples who play together stay together. I think that is definitely true for our case, we love each other dearly and the only arguments that we have been in have been about the game. Eventually though, even the most exciting activities become boring. After we both leveled our characters to the highest degree possible and played all of the content we just felt like there was nothing left to do in the game. That is until we came up with a wonderful idea, we decided to role play our characters, creating our own unique adventure. What initially started with ordinary role play soon turned into erotic role play, as we used our characters to express our real life love for each other and play out our different sexual fantasies, this resulted in more traditions being added to our routine. Every Saturday at 6:00 pm I would take my wife out on a date to some nice restaurant, (that hopefully isn't too expensive). When we return home for the night we would make passionate love to each other.

The Saturday that we were killed occurred just like any other night. My wife and I played SWTOR and did a few flashpoints and warzones together before starting our erotic role play session. This time I role played as my Sage, a gorgeous woman who was making passionate love to the dashing rogue smuggler. While being content with my gender and sexual identity as a man, I had always been curious what life would be like as a woman. When I told my wife about my curiosity, she suggested role playing as a woman more often, as a means to satisfy this curiosity of mine. Another reason she suggested this was because she wanted to understand how the other half lives as well. I think role playing as the sex opposite to our own has brought us to an even greater understanding and appreciation of each other. After our role play session came to a close we took a shower, I had to resist the urge to make mad passionate love to her there, changed into a nice set of clothes and went to a local Japanese restaurant.

After we finished eating, we started driving back home, that's when it happened. While on the highway, a driver that was pushing ninety miles per hour, rammed right into our car from the opposite direction. In an instant we were dead, our bodies destroyed by the extreme forces applied on them, our dreams and the future that we were going to share together, gone in an instant. People typically don't think about death until they reach the end, my wife and I were no exception. We weren't certain if there was an afterlife or if we would just become worm food, what we did experience after death though was unlike anything we were expecting.

My eyes open and adjust to a blinding light; it was almost as though I had opened them for the first time. I look around my surroundings and find that I'm in a large metallic spaceship, a spaceship which looks in every way like the one the Smuggler class would use in SWTOR. Standing before me is a handsome looking man who appears to be the spitting image of my wife's gunslinger in-game avatar. My mind started filling with questions as I tried to rationalize what happened. Did we get reincarnated into our SWTOR avatars? Is that my wife Emily before me? I take the leap of faith and ask the stranger before me what would probably be an absurd question.

"Emily is that you?" I immediately clasp my mouth upon realizing that the voice which escaped my mouth was now feminine. I looked down to my chest and saw a pair of perky breasts, confirmation of my newly acquired femininity. After glancing at my green Mirialin hands and noticing the lightsaber which was clipped to my waste my mind came to the full realization that I was now in the body of my Jedi Sage avatar in the Star Wars universe. The stranger before me spoke, breaking the flood of thoughts and feelings of existential horror which were rushing into my head.

"David? Oh my God! What the hell happened to us? Last thing I remember was being in a car accident." I watched as she, or rather he, clasped his mouth, still in denial that he was now male.

I try to collect my own thoughts and emotions before answering, remaining as calm and as logical as possible. "It appears as though we were killed in that car accident and somehow reincarnated as the real life avatars in the game that we play. From what I gather this appears to be the smuggler's ship and you my love are the captain. While it may be difficult to accept we both have to adjust to our new lives in this universe. I am now a woman and you are now a man." Upon hearing my voice again I realized that it did sound quite pleasant, it was gentle, warm, and sounded like it was filled with wisdom.

"What's to become of us? What are we going to do?" I could tell that my wife, or should I say my husband now, this could get confusing, was still panicked about what happened. I, on the other hand, seemed to calm down quite well, perhaps a result of my years of training in the Jedi temple ever since the age of 4. Wait, what am I thinking, I was never trained as a Jedi, at least the male me wasn't. When I examined my thoughts I realized that my memory was filled with the experiences and memories of all my avatars both Jedi and Sith. It was surreal remembering events which I played in the game as real life experiences that different people have experienced. I will have to explore this later; in the mean time, I must be there to comfort my partner.

"We need to get our bearings and understand what is going on. Let's take an inventory of the ship, maybe we will find some answers." We examined the ship and found it to be entirely vacant, a most peculiar outcome considering the companions and crew that Emily amassed on her avatar. It seems as though some things aren't exactly like the game. When we entered the ship storage room we found it filled to the brim with galactic credit chips, if I had to guess the amount it would be in excess of 1 billion, enough to buy a small fleet of ships if one wanted. I then reasoned that this amount is approximately the same amount of credit chips that one would have if all of our avatar's resources were pooled together into one spot. I was at first surprised that I was able to recognize these chips as currency at all, that is until I remembered that I now possessed the memories and experiences of my in game avatars. When we examined the ships computer we discovered a couple of interesting things. First, there was a password to the system which Emily was able to instinctively input, indicating to me that my wife also acquired the skills and knowledge of her avatars. When we logged into the system we found a comprehensive timeline of galactic events as well as an indicator explaining that we were towards the very beginning of the SWTOR galactic events. Callef hasn't made his move against the order yet, Tarnis hasn't been exposed as a Sith, and Vitiate hasn't made his move against the galaxy. As far as anyone in the galaxy is concerned the Republic is still in an uneasy peace treaty with the Empire and the war hasn't officially started yet. This left us with much to think about.

We walked over to the largest room of the ship and sat down on one of the couches. A moment of silence passed between us before my wife spoke.

"So what are we going to do now? We are dead; we've been reincarnated into the Star Wars the Old Republic universe with the bodies of our in game avatars, we have 1 billion credits, and our sexes are flipped. Is there anything that I'm missing?"

I thought for a moment before answering.

"There is one other thing that I've noticed; you seemed to naturally know the password to the ships computer and when I examine my memories I also remember living my life as them. I wonder if we each have the skills of all our avatars."

Surprise reached Emily's face upon hearing my revelation.

"You know your right! I already knew what the password was for the computer and I also seem to have the memories of my avatars."

"Well there is only one thing left to do then, I'm going to try to use the force. I must know whether or not I acquired the powers and skills of my avatars. You don't mind if I lift you with the force do I?"

Emily looked excited at the idea of being telekinetically lifted by the force.

"Not at all go right ahead."

I lift my hand toward Emily and watch his body gets lifted to the air effortlessly. I was amazed by how easy it felt.

"Look at me I'm flying."

I let out a chuckle at 'his' comment before setting him back down on the couch.

"Well that answers that question." I said.

"Honey, you said that you had the memories of all your avatars, does that mean that you have all of their skills as well? Try performing a light saber sequence, maybe you'll find that you inherited your knight and warriors martial prowess."

"Yeah, that's a good idea." I ignite my consular green light saber and give it a couple of clumsy practice swings in the air. I wasn't surprised by my lack of skill, Jedi Sages are primarily force wielders and aren't nearly as practiced with the blade as the Jedi Knight or Sith Warrior. I don't know why but something urged me to perform an Ataru flip, as I began my flip something very strange happened, my body felt like it flickered for a moment, in a split moment my single green lightsaber had been replaced by two red ones, that wasn't the only thing which changed though. As I landed my flip I found that I was taller, a brief examination of myself confirmed that I was male again and that I wore distinctive Sith battle armor.

"You, you, just transformed!? You're now your Sith Maurader." My wife said with a mixture of shock and excitement.

"Yes, it appears so. Apparently using powers and skills of a certain avatar will transform us into them. That means."

"That means that I don't have to be male!" My wife said with excitement that she could be female again.

My wife pretended to hold a blaster rifle while performing stab and slash maneuvers, she transformed into her imperial agent the instant that she started.

"I'm back, I'm a woman again!"

I smiled and said: "Yes you are my love."

My wife then said with a smile. "You know, this body switching thing could be rather fun."

We cycled through our different avatars abilities and skills before I finally decided to transform into my male Jedi Guardian and my wife transformed back to her female imperial agent, it was the only female character she had. We also discovered one other interesting thing about our avatars skills and abilities; they weren't limited by the same mechanics of the game. My Jedi Guardian, as an example, only had mastery of Soresu in the game but here I have mastery of Soresu, Shien/Djem So, Shii Cho, and Niman. My wife noticed similar attributes to her respective avatars abilities as well. What had initially started with shock and horror was quickly becoming filled with joy and fun. We realized that we were living the ultimate Star Wars fantasy; I was the ultimate force user and my wife was a commando, spy, gunslinger, and bounty hunter all rolled into one beautiful and deadly package.

"Do you want to spar?" My wife curiously asked.

I chuckled at her question before answering.

"If we spar here we would likely destroy the ship in the process, best to land on a planet before doing that."

"You're right; I don't know what came over me. I'm just so excited by these new powers and abilities that we have."

"As am I, my love."

My wife continued with her excited musings.

"With these new powers there is nothing that we can't accomplish together. We can conquer the galaxy if we wanted, raise empires or destroy civilizations."

My wife's comment had me a little worried, I never heard her be quite so megalomaniacal before.

"Yes, that's true we can do those things with the powers that we have, however the ability to do something does not imply that it should be done. This isn't a game anymore; real lives are on the line. We must temper our great power with wisdom."

The atmosphere of our conversation went serious quickly, as the reality of our situation began to sink in further.

"Your right David, we must use these powers wisely. I just got taken by the moment. What if these avatars of ours are giving us more than just power and memories, what if they're also changing our personalities?"

My wife said what we were both thinking, what we feared the most out of our current situation.

"We are going through an extraordinary life altering situation. It's only natural that this would change us, let's just hope that this situation will change us for the better and bring us closer together."

"I'm already seeing a positive change in you David, you seem wiser than you once were before, more mature."

"And you seem to have become stronger and more confident of yourself." I lean in and give my wife a kiss.

My wife then commented with a seductive tone in her voice.

"You know it is still the weekend as far as I'm concerned, and you still owe me a night of un-ending passion."

I wanted to take my wife right there and make mad passionate love to her in the bedroom but something was keeping me. Memories of being a Jedi clashed with my identity as Emily's husband.

"Believe me I want to, but the Jedi code is keeping me, I need your guidance."

My wife looked sympathetically at me before answering.

"Honey, forget the Jedi code and its order, you are beyond them and you are also beyond the Sith. You are a master of both the Light and Dark sides of the force and have become an embodiment of the force itself. You need to forge your own path, one which utilizes the wisdom of the Jedi and the passion of the Sith. I married you David Cuay, not a Jedi Master or Sith Lord, don't let those personalities that are in your head boss you around, you are in charge."

"Your right my love, thank you for your kind words. There is one other thing keeping me from fully embracing you." I pause for a moment before continuing, my mind searching for the right words to say. "I don't know how to say this but we did technically die, I won't really feel like your husband until I restate my marriage vows to you."

"Your sweet my love, I would love to restate my marriage vows with you."

She decided to go first.

"I Emily, take you David, to be my husband for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health until death does depart."

"And I David take you Emily as my husband for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health until death does depart. However I don't even think death will separate us my love. We will forge our path together in this new life and new galaxy that we have found ourselves in."

We kissed and that very night made passionate love to each other, however this wasn't anything like either of us had experienced before. We found that we had practically infinite physical stamina as we would feel physically recharged every time we switched out our bodies; we didn't require sleep and were able to spend the entire night enjoying each other. I also discovered that my force powers could be used to please my wife in more ways than I imagined. To keep our story rated teen I will just leave the rest of the details of our night together to the imagination of the reader.