Half a galaxy away on Coruscant a woman with fiery red hair sits at a kitchen table when she senses a wave of anxiety come over her through the force. Mara Jade Skywalker thinks, it can't be she's dead!

Feeling dark impulses rise in her gut Mara Jade Skywalker states in a cold tenor, "When I get my hands on Unkar Plutt… He told me she was dead"

Sometime later, on the planet Jakku Mara Jade Skywalker strides up to the kiosk belonging to Unkar Plutt saying, "remember me Unkar, something about my daughter being dead!"

"You do realize I used to be an Emperor's Hand right, I was his personal assassin!" Mara Jade said, "where?"

"I – I don't know, last I saw her she stole the millennium falcon and now she's dropped off the map." Unkar said.

The look on Mara's face let Unkar Plutt know she was not fooling around as she said, "farm boy may be squeamish about this but I'm not… show me!"

Mara started reading Unkar Plutt thoughts almost ripping them from his mind until she found the image of Rey's face amongst his thoughts as she told him in a cold dead voice, "if I find out you're lying to me, the Emperor's hand will make a command performance, and Unkar they will never find your body."

"You thought you could sell her to the empire as bait to lure me out." Mara Jade said, "Just for that!"

Mara Jade had a look of You have no idea whom you've made an enemy of... in a cold level voice Mara Jade said, I still have contacts in the empire, "all I would need to do is tell them your playing both sides…"

"Y-You wouldn't" Unkar Plutt… stammered.

"Again, former Emperor's Hand, and personal assassin, I don't mind using deception to get the job done and if it keeps my hands clean all the better", Mara Jade states walking away

Meanwhile back on Ahch-To Luke Skywalker, was talking to Rey.

In a soft quizzical tone Rey asks, "What was his name!"

"Your aunt Leia Organa named him Jacen", Luke told her.

"Is it- Is it wrong that I want to kill him", Rey spat….

Chuckling Luke said, "I'd be worried if you didn't, but I would still talk you out of it"

"D-Dad why don't you carry a Lightsaber anymore", Rey asks.

"Feels odd does it, that I'm your father, it was just as odd for me when I found out Vader was my father" Luke said…

"But getting back to your question, I no longer carry a Lightsaber because here I have no need of one"

Luke shot her a look that said hold on a moment, Luke told Rey, "At this point in my life I consider all life as sacred and to harm another is to harm myself"

Luke suddenly closed his eyes and concentrated telling Rey, I am sending a copy of your map to your mother

"Y-you can do that" Rey states.

Meanwhile back on Jakku Mara Jade Skywalker, heads to the spaceport and the cockpit of The Jade Shadow, where she sends a subspace burst to one Leia Organa, the Message was short and simple (Where is farm boy) Leia Knew that the only one that called him that was Mara Jade.

Thirty minutes later Mara Jade received her own subspace burst with a set of coordinates in deep space and a message "Nice to see your alive"

Knowing how to use Diplomatic channels to expedite things did come in handy

The lights of the Jade Shadow flickered for a moment as the data banks containing all the galactic space maps rebooted.

As the map to the planet Ahch-To came up on the screen Mara Jade thought, I know every map in this Database I've never seen this one.

Through the force Mara Jade heard Luke say, Our Daughter is safe, just follow the map…

The following night both Rey and Luke were out at meditation rock when Luke said, she just came into orbit and she is taking a stealth approach.

"Your mother" Luke said, "In order to become The Emperor's Hand had to train alongside the Red Guard"

A disembodied female voice said, "As part of my final test I had to fight and kill five of them"

Rey's head whipped round to the direction the voice came from and ran to her, for the first time in years Mara Jade Skywalker embraced her daughter

"It's alight Mama here…" Mara Jade said in a soft motherly tone, told her, "and Unkar Plutt will no longer be an issue"

"Relax farm-boy, having the reputation of an Emperor's Hand, and personal assassin, is useful sometimes"

Luke just shock his head at the comment…

In a flat matter of fact tenor Mara Jade said, "Luke if I'm going to train her properly you need to absolve me of my promise"

"Mom" Rey asks.

"The day we married she promised me to leave that life behind and never use the dark side again" Luke said with a voice full of sorrow because he knew the price she would have to pay.

"As soon as I go dark side they will know I'm alive", Mara Jade said.

"This is the first Jedi Temple it's very strong with the light side" Luke pointed out, "The reason I knew you were planet side, is because I am intimately familiar with your energy"

"DAD… the images that go with that statement", Rey states.

The following morning Mara Jade wakes expecting to see Rey where she fell asleep the following night only to hear Luke say, "Training Ground"

"Come On"

The arrive at the outcrop just above the training area a few moments later and Mara Jade said, "That Pillar looks like it's been sliced in half"

"She did that on her first day of training, but that's not what concerns me"

Mara Jade's brow rose to a speculative arch as she asks, "Then what does!"

Luke said, "As untrained as she is she can use both sides as easily as we can breathe Mara she is something the Galaxy has not seen in thousands of years"

"And what's that" Mara Jade asks.

"A Je'daii" Luke said gravely "I fear we must leave here soon and go to Tython"

Mara Jade knew exactly what Luke was telling her and she said, "Compared to any current force user their power was off the charts"

Ignoring the comment for the moment Luke states, "I just don't Know exactly were it is"

"I may be able to help with that", Mara Jade told Luke, "as The Hand I had Access to certain Dark-side Holocron's and I may have kept them"

Mara Jade walked down the path to the training area to where Rey was training telling Rey, "Lets see how you do against a real person, and Rey, I'm going to fight like I used to when I was "The Emperors Hand" I am not going to hold back"

Mara Jade's light-saber floats to her hand and a Magenta blade ignighted…