Chapter 10: The light side


Rey and the others carefully watched as they were raised up and into the station.

They were quite and stayed still as they arrived inside the station. The submersible was raised into a large chamber where they saw a series of Greartok craft held in suspension.

"Uhh, guys." Wolik said as they saw a craft in front of them being scanned by a Greartok behind a glass window. The scans showed everything inside the craft.

"I think they're going to know we're not friendly real soon." Poe said priming his gun.

"We have to fight?" One of the salvagers asked sounding afraid.

They could see over three hundred drones working around the area. Rey sensing the fear in the others. Even Taul had fear inside him.

Ben and Arkanes held their lightsabers up as Rey looked around trying not to look terrified.

He turned to Rey, seeing the expression on her face.

Taul took his helmet off and put his hand on her shoulder.

"Hey, it's going to be alright…..The force will guide us."

"You've never talked like that before." Rey said on the verge of tears.

"You've made me a real believer Rey."

Rey looked at Taul, Ben, Arkanes, her friends, her family… Those she cared about most, were they about to die? As it all came around her, Yoda's words began to ring to her again.

Rey exhaled.

"I'm sorry." Rey said before her expression changed.

Ben and Arkanes turned to Rey as they noticed something about her change. They felt all her emotions vanish. Inside Rey they felt nothing, only peace and serenity. She held her hand out as their craft was scanned.

As the group prepared themselves, the Greartok at the control terminal hold his head almost as if he were having a headache.

He moved their submersible to another dock and set it down.

"Follow me." Rey said, sounding almost cold and emotionless.

"Rey, what are you doing!?" Taul shouted as she walked out holding her hand up.

They saw in disbelief as all of the drones inside the hanger look at her but do nothing.

"What?" Wolik said as they slowly followed her out.

Rey continued walking as the team saw the drones do nothing.

BB-8 rolled up to the door when it opened, an eight foot tall Greartok with blue and tan armor stand over them.

They reached for their weapons, but the Greartok paid them no mind.

Rey continued to lead them further inside the station, as the Greartok inside continued to ignore them entirely.

"How is this possible?" Wolik asked.

"Rey has detached herself from everything, she's at true peace. She's gone all the way to the light side." Ben said in amazement and almost concern.

Taul not sure about this either.

Rey's powers continued to reach out further and further, eventually reaching a large chamber.

Inside the chamber was a Greartok wearing all red armor and a big shaped helmet. Around him were over a dozen droids. The droids were lager than humans and almost shaped like them. They had black armored exoskeletons. Their heads shaped like skulls with metal teeth and glowing eyes.

Each had a blaster rifle in hand. A massive terminal was in the center, the Greartok stepping away from it.

"That's the main controls, I'm going to shut the station's gravity controls down." Rey said sounding emotionless.

"Rey, what have you done to yourself?" Taul asked.

"What I needed to do." She said as she reached the controls.


Elsewhere, Yok-vor stood on the bridge of a carrier. He stared out at space until he sensed something. The war-master turned and saw Rey standing there.

"Jedi girl, why don't you." Rey reached out as Yok-vor felt her enter his mind deeper and deeper.

"What are you doing!?"

Rey saw things, all sorts of things. About Yok-vor, the Greartok. She saw Yok-vor with his people, them approaching metal beams with the living force around it. The Greartok feasting on it.

She saw a graveyard galaxy, the planets desolate and void of life, all light in that galaxy extinguished.

"You have a master. Show me your master, show me this Omni."

"Jakku, she's on Jakku!I" .

Back in the station, the Greartok in the chamber shouted as his armor ignited with energy spikes.

The androids began firing at them, Arkanes and Ben deflecting the blasts with their lightsabers.

"Rey!" Taul shouted as the Greartok continued to ignore her.

Wolik, his men, Poe , and Taul returned fire, the androids getting hit with the blasts but not stopping.

Arkanes used the force to pull one to him before slashing it. However, his lightsaber bounced off its armor as the android tried to kick him, Arkanes avoiding it before he was hurled away by the Greartok as he charged forward.

Ben saw the Greartok try to smash Arkanes with his energy spikes and used the force to hurl two of the androids into the Greartok. The Greartok smashed them away, disabling the two as Arkanes leapt back and away from the Greartok.

The Greartok slashed at the two, beams of energy flying from the blades as the two jedi deflected them and avoided the Greartok's slashes.

Taul, Poe , Wolik and his scavengers tried to get to cover, but three of the scavengers were hit and killed. Wolik and the other scavengers got into cover as Taul flew over the androids as they returned fire.

Taul fired a rocket at one, but it only slightly damaged the android.

He noticed another Greartok and a swam of flying drones rush towards their chamber with the door opened.

Taul quickly fired three rockets into the doorway, disabling it and forcing it shut.

Taul was hit in the arm by one of the androids and grunted as he flew backwards. Despite all of this , none of their enemies paid Rey any mind.

Wolik hurled a plasma grenade at the androids as Taul blasted it when the grenade reached the center. The blast enveloped the androids, but they kept coming.

Their fire forced Wolik and his men to stay in cover. Taul hurling a device into three of the androids. As they fired at Taul, he flew down and under the fire before firing a metal grapple around two of the androids' legs. The two androids were pulled off their feet and dragged across the floor. The three that Taul hurled devices into, turned to him.

Taul had been charging up a larger burst of plasma from his guns and fired them into the first android. The blast hit before bouncing off and into the second android, then the third, then the firs again, then the second. The three androids were hit again and again by the same larger bursts that their chassis's began to corrode and break apart before they collapsed.

Taul detached himself from the two androids he had been carrying, Wolik getting up as his men fired at the last fe still standing.

Wolik taking two plasma grenades and placing them under the chins of the two androids on the ground. He dove away as the grenades went off, the blasts taking the androids' heads off.

Ben and Arkanes kept deflecting the Greartok's blasts and his blades. However, they were knocked back again and again, both narrowly avoiding his attacks.

As Ben deflected another blast, this one went into the Greartok, making it grunt.

"Send them back!" Ben shouted as he used the force and his lightsaber to force as many of the blasts back at the Greartok as he could.

Arkanes began doing the same, the Greartok forced into a wall before he ceased fire.

The Greartok then shouted again as he simply ran at them.


Meanwhile Rey continued to push further into Yok-vor's mind.

Yok-vor grunting as she did.

"You have a master! Show me your master, show me this Omni!"

Yok-vor vanished as Rey saw the ship vanish as well. Instead she saw herself in a massive throne room. The throne room was a dark and desolate place, filled with what looked like mechanical plant life growing around a black floor and red walls. Along the walls were eight Greartok wearing red plated armor with robes around the legs and helmets that covered their entire faces. Each having a unique melee weapon in hand.

These Greartok stood around a throne made of the mechanical plant life. Sitting in it was a being that looked around seven feet fall. He almost looks human, but his body was wrinkled, damaged, and literally almost twisted. His left cheek was practically missing, with curved fingers. He wore a black and red cloak and had a ring with a black rock in the center. His eyes were pitch black, and he stared into Rey's soul with them.

Rey felt herself immobilized, unable to move, unable to do almost anything as she was lifted up and pulled within an inch of the being's face.

"So , this is Skywalker's daughter. Warmaster Yok-vor has been looking for you, now you have coming hoping to find me. Well, here I am." He said , his voice deep and ancient sounding, but booming and powerful. It almost seemed corrupted, as if more than once voice was talking.

"You, you're the Omni."

"I am, but that is just a title my dear, you may call me Snoke."

Rey did her best to contain her fear and emotions, but the sheer power she felt from Snoke was beyond anything she thought was possible.

She didn't sense the light or dark side in him, only a void. It was sickening.

"I can sense the light in you girl, you've gone all the way to the light." Snoke began laughing .

"Jedi, they never change. You believe that the light can protect you. So, predictable." Rey felt Snoke tear through her mind and the force inside her, Rey screaming in pain as she felt Snoke's influence.

"You can hide nothing from me girl. The Jedi, these Knights of Ren. The force, it will all be mine."


Back in the station, Taul saw Rey faint and fall over, several of the remaining Androids now turning to her.

"Rey!"

He flew down and tried to force them away, firing at them to no effect. He disabled one's blaster before the android smashed Taul back with his arm, the other two aiming their weapons.

Ben did his best to absorb the powerful slashes of the Greartok, using his Djem so to try and redirect his attacks.

"Arkanes!" Ben shouted as Arkanes hurled his lightsaber and guided it, the blade cutting at the back of the Greartok's neck. The Alien crying in pain as he turned and tried to face him only to have Ben hurl his own lightsaber.

Arkanes saw the Greartok's head come off before the disabled door burst open, Arkanes's eyes widening as they saw the Greartok from the space battle in the hyperspace lane fly through the air towards Rey and Taul.

Rey's eyes began to slowly open as she saw the Greartok coming at her with three androids over her, Taul the only thing between her and them.

With his guns gone, Taul had only one weapon left. Rey saw Taul taking the hilt out from earlier and activate it, Rey watching in amazement as it ignited into a glowing black lightsaber shaped more like a sword's blade.

Taul deflected incoming blasts before slashing at the android's to Ben and Arkanes's surprise, the lightsaber cut clean through the androids. The Greartok aimed his guns before Taul flew forward and slashed across the waist of the Greartok.

Arkanes's mouth dropping as he saw the lightsaber cut clean through the Greartok's armor before coming out the other side. The Greartok convulsing before falling onto his side.

Even Taul seemed to be in disbelief as he saw what his lightsaber could do.

Dozens of flying drones swarmed in with three other Greartok, Rey desperately trying to get up as she saw who was among them.

Yok-vor roared as he charged at Rey, several dragon shaped metal guns flying at her while firing.

Rey pulled her lightsaber to her before deflecting the blasts, a few being knocked back into the guns before Yok-vor reached Rey with his two double ended swords.

Rey was pinned into a wall as Yok-vor grunted.

"Die!"

Taul flew over and slashed, Yok-vor trying to knock him away, Taul being knocked further up as Rey slashed at Yok-vor's hand, making him let her go before he knocked them both into the wall.

Wolik's remaining men were gunned down by the swarm of flying drones over him and Poe, the Mon-calimari trying to cope as he sat in cover. Arkanes and Ben now facing two Greartok.

As Wolik shouted he heard something else. The scavenger looking up to see a pair of silver lightsabers flying through the air and cut down the drones.

Ben and Arkanes then saw her, a young Togruta woman pull the lightsabers back to her hands before she thrusted them at the two Greartok. In disbelief, the two Jedi knights saw the Greartok warriors get hurled back by a blast of force energy that didn't feel light or dark, but somewhere in between.

The two Greartok warriors also felt greatly surprised by this, the Torgruta woman leaping onto one as she slashed at his neck , lopping his head off.

She then hurled her lightsabers through the air as they curved around and slashed the back of the second Geartok's head, the Togruta using the force to hold him in place as the lightsabers cut through his neck.

Yok-vor saw this and roared as he charged at the Torgruta woman.

The Torgruta thrusted her hands at Yok-vor who grunted as he tried to push through the force attack, slowly coming closer before the Togruta gave a more determined look and pushed her hands forward again, Yok-vor getting hurled through another doorway.

Rey and Taul were in just as shock as the Togruta approached them.

"Rey Skywalker?"

"Who are you?" Rey asked.

"My name is Ashoka Tano, I came to help you."

"Are you a Jedi?" Taul asked.

"No." Ashoka said as the others rushed over.

"Who the hell are you?" Wolik asked.

"That doesn't matter, we need to get out of here." Ashoka said.

"What about the station?" Arkanes asked.

"Forget it." Ashoka said as she lead them out of the chamber.

Groups of drones attacked with the group fighting through them before they reached the hanger. Several of the Greartok craft firing at them only for Ashoka to redirect the blasts with the force.

They rushed inside the submersible before it began to drop.

"You had a lightsaber that could cut through Greartok armor! You had a lightsaber at all!" Arkanes shouted.

"I'm better with my blasts, and I didn't know this thing could cut through Greartok armor." Taul said was he took his helmet off.

Ashoka turned to Taul before pulling the lightsaber of his hand.

"Hey!" He said.

"Where did you get this?" She asked intensely.

"It's from Clan Jennis. It belonged to my family or something." Ashoka came closer and looked at Taul's face.

"Who are you?"

"Taul."

"Taul who?"

"I don't know."

Ashoka returned the lightsaber to him as she turned to Ben and Rey.

"Ashoka, who are you?" Ben asked.

Ashoka took a deep breath.

"Someone who needs to help you."

"Guys." Poe said as BB-8 plugged into the terminal.

The submersible hit the water and went further down before as series of blasts crashed through the water at them.

"Hang on!" Wolik said as the blasts came at them.

They saw a massive shadow cast over them. A Greartok carrier moving just over the water with dozens of craft around it.

"Come on!" Wolik shouted as they tried to get away, one of the blasts almost sending the submersible tumbling.

Rey was knocked into a window before she saw something and smiled, closing her eyes and holding her hand out.

Another shadow was cast as those inside the submersible saw it. The Leviathan burst out of the water and roared as it snapped its massive jaws around the Greartok carrier, using its jaws, eel heads and arms to crunch the carrier in half before dragging it underwater.

They watched as the carrier was dragged underwater by the sea beast.

Rey's happy expression changed as she sat back and held her head.

"Rey are you ok?" Taul said sitting beside her.

"They found out we were here because of me. Yok-vor saw right through those I should have cared about and protected… We failed because of me….Yoda was wrong."


Author's note

Ashoka returns, as does the darksaber

We meet the leader of the Greartok , and our heros' mission fails

Also in case any of you wanted to read it, I have recently posted a new story about the anime Gate; The JSDF fought here called Gate: The coalition fought here, check it out if you're interested

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