On Ahch To, the battle intensified as Luke battled the more powerful Knights of Ren. Tahiri, Brakiss, Lumiya and Kyp all battled him at once as their weapons clashed against his blade.

As Luke backed into the village, he reached forward with his lightsaber and flicked his wrist, sending the long blade flying towards Lumiya.

The female warrior was unable to avoid the green rod of energy as it ran through her stomach.

Brakiss, Kyp Durron and Tahiri advanced on Luke as he stood weaponless.

Just then, the three of them simultaneously dropped their staffs, reached for their throats, and started choking.

As Luke reached out to his opponents with his flesh hand, he concentrated on not only his rage at the situation he had damned himself to, but at the monsters who had committed such atrocities.

"The Knights of Ren end today," Luke spoke directly to Kylo as the trio of dark warriors began to lose conciousness, all three crumpling onto the grass in defeat. "You have underestimated me and my connection to the Force. Your army of dark warriors was defeated by their overconfidence, just like all users of the dark side

Kylo seethed with hatred as he waved his red blade of hell, illuminating his face. His Knights of Ren may have failed him, but he would prove that he himself was capable of murdering his uncle without mercy.

As Luke reached his hand to Force-choke Kylo, the younger warrior summoned Luke's blade that was impaled in Lumiya and summoned it into his other hand.

Holding both his own three bladed red lightsaber and Luke's singe bladed green one, Kylo Ren let out a yell and launched himself at Luke.

Luke waved his still-outstretched hand and sent Kylo tumbling to the side with a push.

As Kylo shouted out in fury and regained his footing, Luke reached out to his lightsaber and summoned the activated blade back into his metallic hand.

Before Luke could attempt to use the Force for attack any more, Kylo rushed to him to make up the lost ground, striking at the old Jedi Master with all his hatred. Luke's green blade deflected the deathly stroke, but Kylo's aggression sent him stumbling backwards.

Luke brought up his blade again to clash against Kylo's.

The two fueled their way through the village down the hillside, towards the stone steps leading down to the hill.

"You always feared my abilities!" Kylo said as the duel continued, "You knew that I'd be capable of killing you."

"I never thought you ever could for a second!" Luke shouted back at his nephew, "My fear was that you would think you could!"

"I know I can, and I will!" Kylo's next blow came with such aggression that Luke found himself tumbling backwards down the hard steps.

The landing send a strong, rocky sensation jabbing into his back. The pain searing through him, Luke stood up as Kylo charged again.

Kylo moved to deal a blow to Luke's head, so Luke immediately swung his lightsaber upward to defend it against the blade of hell.

Kylo changed directions at the last second, and, rather than bringing his saber up to meet Luke's, caught him in the leg.

Luke could not help but to cry out in pain as the slash cut through his thigh.

Kylo brought up his boot and kicked his uncle in the chest, sending the still-agonized Luke falling down the slope.

Forced once more onto his back, Luke raised his lightsaber to ward off the blade crashing down towards him.

This time, Kylo was forced backwards, allowing Luke to spring back up to his feet, ignoring the seeping pain running down his leg.

As Luke reached out once more to Force-choke Kylo, Kylo extended his own hand and seized Luke's throat at the same time. For a moment, both uncle and nephew stood on the steps of the first Jedi temple, using the dark side to strangle one another.

Then, channeling all his rage toward his uncle, his parents, and the galaxy, Kylo squeezed at Luke with tenfold the intensity, and Luke's face changed color as he collapsed onto the hillside, lifeless.

Kylo cautiously stepped over to his uncle, gazing down at his form. Luke's bearded face had lost its color, his eyes were closed.

Kylo picked up Luke's lightsaber, then deactivated both blades. He was detecting no life signs from Skywalker. It was almost too good to be true, after his Knights of Ren had all fallen to Skywalker's power, Kylo had singlehanded triumphed and brought his saber back as proof.

"The last Jedi is finally dead," he muttered. Then, without sparing Luke Skywalker another thought, Kylo turned and started backup the stone steps towards his transport.

After several minutes, Kylo's shuttle lifted off back out of Ahch To's atmosphere. Only then did Luke allow his life signs to return, and he opened his eyes slightly as if to indicate that he was in fact alive.

Both Finn and General Organa were strapped to a Vice as they were brought into Hux's personal chamber. The First Order general stood as Phasma and two additional stormtroopers brought the prisoners in.

"General Organa. FN2187. You don't know how pleasurable it is to have you as my prisoners, your lives in my hands."

"Armitage Hux," Leia glared at him directly in the eye as she stared him down with her classic defiance, "Its a shame that they used a boy like you for this."

"Don't use your royal nobility on me, old hag," Hux spat, "Your friend will come to us, traitor," he spoke to Finn now, "I know all about your precious Force bond."

"Just kill me!" Finn yelled desperately, hoping to annoy the commander in chief just enough, "You're a piece of bantha fodder, you belong in a pauper's grave on Jakku, you..."

Slap. "That's enough from you, traitor."

"You don't know anything about the Force," Leia informed him, "You can't begin to imagine what it is capab..." Leia stopped as her throat began to close.

With horror, she realized that it was in fact Hux holding up his hand, depriving her of air.

"It's just that easy," the First Order general said furiously, "Don't tempt me. Your son is not the only one the Supreme Leader has trained in the Force, as you can see."

Then he let go and Leia only then realized how badly they had underestimated the dark side.

Turning her head towards Finn, Leia murmured, "If there was ever a time my brother's help was needed, this is it."

"Rey," Finn muttered, squirming in the restraints enveloping him.

As Rey reached out with her mind, she tried to penetrate Finn's mind, to get a feel for where he was, she could sense him, calling out to her. "Finn."

"What's that?" Poe had been working on fixing BB8, while Chewie sat beside Rey in the copilot's chair, "You can tell where he is."

"I can feel him in the Force," answered Rey, "I can follow him by feeling, General Organa too."

"I've nearly got this little guy fixed," Poe said absently as he returned to work on BB8.

Snoke awaited eagerly on his large throne as Kylo Ren entered, carrying two lightsaber blades in his hands. One Snoke recognized as Ren's own, the other he surmised belonged to Skywalker.

Kylo wasted no time or words and held forth Skywalker's constructed saber as he knelt before the feet of his master.

"Well done, my apprentice," Snoke commended Kylo, "You have killed the last of the Jedi Order, and there is nothing to stand in our way any longer." He took Skywalker's lightsaber from Kylo's hand and set it on the arm of his throne.

"Supreme Leader..." Kylo could not hold this back, he hoped the Supreme Leader would be more forgiving now that Skywalker was dead. "The Knights of Ren. All of them are dead now."

"Their lives matter not," Snoke replied dismissively, his deformed features forming a smile, "All that matters is that the Jedi Order is no more. You have succeeded where both Vader and Sidious failed."

The elevator entrance slid open once again, and a party that included Hux, Phasma, Finn and Leia entered.

Kylo had not sensed his mother nearby, and was completely caught off guard by her appearance as Hux's prisoner. He looked away to avoid her gaze, which was very much on him.

Leia knew of the animal her son had become, but seeing him for the first time since he'd gone away with Luke was something else completely.

Before her was not the boy she'd held, the boy who she'd hoped to save.

This was a man consumed by darkness and the training of Snoke.

"Hux, Phasma, leave us."

The two of them obeyed, exiting through the turbolift.

Leia Skywalker," Snoke's interest was now entirely on her as she faced him down, "Heiress to Lord Vader, failed Jedi. By now you must know that your son can never be turned from the dark side."

Leia's heart wrenched as she stared at the back of Kylo Ren, then she looked back at the revolting being on the throne.

"Snoke. You've created a monster out of my son and the galaxy."

Snoke stood from his throne and slowly moved his frail body towards the prisoners. "You know what is coming next, don't you? Kylo Ren!"

Very reluctantly, Kylo turned to face his mother for the first time, taking in her appearance all at once. She was not afraid to look at him, and she regarded him, as he expected, with disappointment and shame.

"Now, my young apprentice, you will face your final test of killing the mother of Ben Solo, and you will be totally one with the dark side."

Kylo said nothing, and remained standing where he was. He twiddled with the lightsaber in his hand as the possibilities gnawed at him.

"There is no Resistance or Republic to run back to," Snoke taunted the prisoners as he paced the throne room, "Victory is mine, and you are nothing."

"As long as the Jedi way survives, there will always be hope," Leia would not be defeated so easily, if only in a battle of words.

Kylo's feet were planted on the throne room floor. They all stood there, the pressure piling onto him; Hux, Phasma, his mother.

For the first time, Leia spoke directly to her son. "It's not too late, Ben. There's still a place for you in the universe, away from the man you think you've become."

Kylo gritted his teeth as he forced out a reply, still unable to look at his mother directly. "You don't know what I've become. You don't know what I've done."

Leia found it difficult to go on. Yes, he had killed his father, her Han, but he was still her son. He was still worth saving, as Han would have wanted, no, as Han still wanted.

"That wasn't you, Ben," she gulped, resisting the urge to burst into tears, "You're still a good person inside. I know you want to let it all go. It is not too late to save yourself."

At that moment, Snoke reached to Leia, seizing her by the neck.

"Enough of your fork tongued witchcraft," he snarled, "Kylo Ren, you will do it now!" The Supreme Leader was growing furious.

Kylo took a slight step forward, pointing the hilt of his weapon. Now, with more emotional willpower than he humanly possessed, Kylo tilted his head to look his mother directly into her pleading, hopeful eyes. Hopeful that the darkness would not consume him infinitely. That he could still come back, despite the heinous crimes under his name.

"THAT'S ENOUGH!" Snoke screamed, raising his gnarled fingers.

Lightning aimed straight at Leia, sending her flying across the hangar.

The effects of Snoke's dark energy left the princess and General lying limp on the floor of the hangar.

"Perhaps a demonstration is in order," Snoke sneered, now turning to Finn.

Reaching out to the young man, Snoke grabbed him in the Force and lifted him into the air.

Kylo watched from his appointed vantage point as Snoke hurled another round of dark energy into Leia as Finn dangled in the air.

As Kylo looked away in sorrow, Leia was now totally lifeless and still.

"Do not worry, young apprentice," Snoke taunted, using the Force to lift up Leia's body, "she is not dead. You see, I have the power to stop people from death, even when nothing else can save them. That is a power you too can learn, if you prove worthy as my Sith apprentice."

Kylo now looked questioningly to his master as Snoke went on. "Yes, I am a Sith Lord, and I have brought about all that has transpired through the will of the dark side. I alone have the power to hear death. I cannot be defeated, as I am the master of the living and dead! So now, grandson of Vader, you will execute Leia Solo or you will suffer most grievously by watching her die AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN!"

Unable to stand it any longer, Kylo let out a scream and ignited his lightsaber. It was not Leia whom he attacked, but Snoke. He brought his blade through Snoke's golden robe, deep into his chest.

As Kylo pulled the blade out, Finn dropped to the floor unconscious and Leia stirred feebly.

Snoke gaped at his apprentice, then, the wound that had formed disappeared and the blood clotted.

"You see? I cannot be killed, for only I, the true dark Lord of the Sith, have unlocked the secrets of immortality. And you, Ben Solo, are nothing but a little boy too afraid to seize what could have been his."

A brutal round of lightning sent Ben flying across the throne room, the seeping agony rippling through him.

Snoke picked up Skywalker's green bladed weapon and ignited it, stepping forward.

At that moment, the sound of a lightsaber above them sounded, and a gaping hole in the throne room ceiling came crashing down in front of them.

With that, seemingly appearing out of nowhere, Rey, the Last Jedi Padawan, dropped down onto the metal floor, wielding her blue blade of power.

"Ahh, I have been expecting you, young Rey," Snoke said eagerly, "I have long watched you, thinking you had what it took to replace Kylo Ren and be the perfect apprentice. If you kill this weakling here..." Snoke pointed with the green blade towards Kylo Ren, "I will have been proven right."

Back on the island world of Ahch To, Luke Skywalker stood on the sand, at the bottom of the cliff, hand raised. Artoo Deetoo stood excitedly beeping at his side as a small, yet seemingly large amidst the bottom of the ocean, X Wing fighter emerged.

With no effort except for the power of his mind, Luke levitated the soaking ship out of the ocean where it had been abandoned for a dozen years, and gently guided it towards the sandy shore. Sighing with fatigue, Luke set down the X Wing fighter and patted Artoo on the domed head.

"Ready to fly again, old buddy?"

As Rey took in the scene, Finn lying helplessly, Leia barely alive as she recovered from Snoke's deadly attack, Skywalker having abandoned her and lied about it, the dark emotions inside her began to take effect. She wanted nothing more than to unleash her powers on those who had wronged her.

With a yell, Rey impulsively charged at Supreme Leader Snoke, who blocked her strike with Luke's blade.

"Perhaps you need a lesson," Snoke said as he and Rey clashed blades.

Reaching behind her, Snoke lifted Finn up into the air.

"NOOOOO!"

Rey lashed out harder, striking at Snoke again and forcing him to take the defensive.

"Good, Force child," commended Snoke, "Your feelings for your friends are strong. Unleash your fullest potential and fulfill your destiny!"

With that, Snoke reached his hand and sent Rey flying across the chamber. He held her suspended with the Force, probing in her mind.

No, no, Rey tried to block out the Supreme Leader's influence as she hardened her resolve.

But she could feel him prying into her deep, dark nature, influencing her towards the dark side.

It was all over.

But then Snoke's concentration was broken, and he allowed Rey to fall onto the floor.

Gazing up, to her disbelief, Rey could see Kylo Ren attacking the Supreme Leader with his red lightsaber, engaging him in combat.

"You won't touch her again!" Ben was shouting as he and Snoke locked blades.

"This is only the beginning, my former apprentice."