Finally, the Blastboat that Mother had stolen via possessing Corran Horn's body dropped out of hyperspace for the last time to end up in the very system where her sister awaited.

Ahead, the nameless jungle planet that had held Abeloth for countless millennia orbited at a relatively safe distance from a standard yellow star that was destined to collapse into a black hole and swallow the world up within a few thousand years. And had it not been for the forced deconstruction of Centerpoint Station in the Corellian system years ago, combined with the most recent destruction of Sinkhole Station - caused by Abeloth herself through Mara Jade Skywalker's body - Abeloth would have most likely experienced her end thanks to the efforts of the long-forgotten ancient people who had constructed those stations to keep her imprisoned.

Now she was free; through the Force, she could spread her influence throughout the galaxy, throughout the universe, and possibly beyond. And Mother would help her sister see her glory on a physical, personal level by taking her off this world... and maybe ask her sister if she knew what her (Mother's) real name was.

In a matter of minutes, Mother had Corran's body breach the Skipray Blastboat through the planet's atmosphere before settling down on the shore of one of the world's jungles' beaches, where Abeloth had asked her sister, through the Force, to set down as the sun blazed over this section of the planet. Not long after, the Blastboat's boarding ramp was lowered, and Mother shuffled her host's feet down the boarding ramp, a twisted smile that was supposed to be loving on her face as she saw her tentacled sister mere meters away.

She was beautiful, Mother thought, and she wished that she could look just like her sister once she was free of the body that she was currently inhabiting. Abeloth was a grey, octopus-like creature with tentacles for limbs; deep, well-like stars for eyes, a deep, curving grin that reached to where her ears would be on a regular human; sharp, needle-like teeth to accompany that smile; and a lack of a nose, a feature that Mother found quite disturbing in all of the creatures that she had encountered since escaping that prison station of her own.

They approached each other and Abeloth enfolded Corran Horn's body in a slithery hug with all of her tentacles.

"It is good to be reunited with you, Akalanh," Abeloth purred.

Akalanh. So that was her name, the being once known as Mother thought with glee. "It is good to see you, too, Abeloth, my dear sister. And thank you for giving me back my name."

The two of them pulled back from each other, and Abeloth observed the tiny, bloody cracks that formed around the human host's form before her.

"Your host is dying," Abeloth remarked.

Corran's head nodded. "I need your help, sister. I need your help to get out of this body so that I may be like you."

"I understand," Abeloth replied. "But I am afraid that now is not the time. I will heal you, as I want you to be in that body for a longer time."

"Why?" Akalanh asked incredulously. "The Jedi are coming for us; and you know this, as well. You must give me my own body so that we may destroy them together."

"It is because the Jedi are coming that I want you to still be in that body, Akalanh," Abeloth stated. "After all, you are possessing one of their Masters. And their Grand Master will come after you specifically to rescue the spirit of the body that you inhabit."

"Other Jedi might very well do the same," Akalanh pointed out. "I know that Corran Horn has Jedi children; they will try to save him, just as Jacen Solo will."

"And with my help, we will destroy them together, sister," Abeloth promised. "We will destroy all of the Jedi together, and everything that could possibly exist will be ours to control. If you agree to do this for me, Akalanh, I promise that you will be just like me, and you will not have to be bound to mortal coils any longer."

Akalanh's incredulity persisted on Corran's face, but she uttered a human sigh in response. "Very well. sister. We will wait for the Jedi to come to us."

"Good," Abeloth said.

Then she raised a tentacle, gently prodded it into Corran's mouth, and began feeding her sister healing energies that began to restore her host's health.

.

A few days later, the Jedi fleet, after having lost five Jedi - two apprentices and three Knights - on the journey because of miscalculations that brought them down into one of the Maw's innumerable black holes, dropped out into the system where Abeloth and Akalanh waited.

And once that happened, the combined voices of Abeloth's numerous and Mother's one echoed through the minds of everyone present in the system: Come, Jedi.

Seated in the copilot seat while Seha was seated in the Blastboat's passenger compartment and Mara had the helm, Jacen allowed himself a hesitant sigh, knowing that Abeloth and her sister already knew what the Jedi had in mind. Those two entities, he thought, were like predators who were simply playing with their prey; Jacen only hoped that the predators' arrogance would result in the preys' victory.

"Alright. Jedis Horn, I want you to follow this Blastboat down to the planet. There, we can help your father break free of the control that his body is under," Jacen commanded.

"Understood," the siblings replied simultaneously.

Jacen then cut the transmission and saw that Mara was looking at him gravely. "It's a trap, you know," she said.

Jacen's lips became a thin line in apprehension. "I do. But at least we know there's a trap."

"That doesn't sound like it'll be enough, Jacen."

"You got any better ideas?" Jacen asked. "If we try anything psychic or purely Force-related from here, we won't stand a chance, especially since they've been expecting us. The closer we are to them physically, we may have more of an advantage, and it'll be more likely we can defeat them... somehow."

"Somehow," Mara said with a sarcastic nod. She then looked back at the world ahead and uttered a preemptive defeated sigh. "I suppose there's no going back now."

"At least you and Ben reconciled," Jacen remarked.

Mara smiled. She and Ben were able to meet prior to Jacen's fleetwide transmission that acted as the fleet's precursor to jumping for the Maw.

By then, Ben had boarded the Blastboat that Jacen and Mara used to return from the Maw, and in an instant, mother and son had wrapped each other in a vicious hug that was followed by Ben's joyful sobbing and Mara's silent stream of tears.

"I'm so glad to have you back, Mom," Ben had told his mother.

Mara had given her son a sad smile. "So am I, Ben. So am I."

The same had gone for Jacen when he had been reunited with his mother, father, sister, and brother-in-law after they boarded the Blastboat via connecting its airlock to the Millennium Falcon's. Even C-3PO and R2-D2 were present for the happy reunion.

"Hey, Mara, whatever happened to the Shadow?" Han asked, referring to Mara's ship.

"It was piloted while Abeloth and Palpatine had control over it," Mara explained darkly. "I had Jedi Seha Dorvald bring it back to Denon as soon as we left the Maw; I don't wanna pilot that ship for a while, not when Abeloth is still out there."

Han had nodded in understanding. "Well, it's good to see you're still alive at least, and that we came all the way out here to see that you were still alive."

Now, both Mara and Jacen thought, Ben could lose his mother again, and for good this time; or maybe it would be the other way around... or maybe the last of the Skywalkers would be lost in the coming battle. As well, the same could go with any of the Solos; they had lost Anakin during the Yuuzhan Vong War, so who knew if this would be the conflict that would bring one or all of them down forever?

But since they were still alive, there was hope that they, along with every Jedi remaining, could emerge from this victorious and alive.

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The Blastboat piloted by Mara, followed by the near-invisible StealthX fighters flown by Valin and Jysella Horn, landed on the shore of a beach near the Blastboat that Corran's possessed body had stolen. Once all five Jedi - including Seha - disembarked from their shutdown vessels and stepped out into the harsh daylight that shone down upon this part of the planet, they looked around their surroundings, seeing nothing but a clear sky above them, a wide and distant ocean behind them, and the grey, sandy beach before them that preceded into a dark, dense jungle.

Yet, now that they had all landed and set foot on the planet itself, there was no sign, either through the conventional human sense or through the Force, of either Abeloth or her sister who was controlling Corran.

"Where could they be?" Valin asked once all the Jedi had joined up, looking for any clue aside from the other Blastboat.

"Probably hiding in the jungle," Seha suggested warily.

"It must be their trap," Mara piped in. "Why else would they allow us to know that they knew we were coming for them and not show up for an open confrontation?"

"Fair enough," Jacen said. "So, if we go into that jungle, chances are that we'll never know what hit us before we get killed."

"Then what are we supposed to do?" Jysella asked. "Just stand around here and wait for them to get impatient and come out?"

"I think we can do better than that," Jacen said as he brought out his personal commlink from his belt and activated it. "Master Hamner?"

"Yes, Master Solo?"

"Take a squadron of StealthXs and commence a raze over the jungles," Jacen commanded evenly.

"A raze, Master Solo?" Hamner questioned. "You mean like a low-orbit bombardment?"

"Yes," Jacen uttered.

"Wait, wait, wait," Jysella said, immediately cutting in. "With all due respect, Master Solo, you might get our dad killed!"

"Not if Abeloth and her sister are as powerful as I think they are," Jacen countered. "As I said, we're just going to smoke 'em out." He returned his attention to the commlink. "You got that, Master Hamner?"

"Affirmative, Master Solo. I will commence the raze right away."

"Good. Solo out."

Two minutes later, the five grounded Jedi looked up, not seeing anything in the way of the StealthXs - as that should be - but they did see barrages of lasers begin raking across the landscape before them, beginning instant fires that would spread across the worldwide foliage in a day or so.

Again, Jacen activated his comm to contact Hamner. "That's enough, Master Hamner. Return to orbit with the rest of your squadron until I say otherwi-"

The last of Jacen's command was lost in the dual screaming caused by both Abeloth's multitude of voices and the one voice of Corran Horn, amplified by the power of his possessor.

Two seconds later, their Force-presences appeared in the five grounded Jedi's senses, and they all looked up to witness, and simultaneously feel, a wave of the Force flowing over them, blowing out the fires that would have spread through the rest of the jungle.

The next thing that the five Jedi knew, the grey-tentacled form of Abeloth and the regular human form of Corran Horn leaped through the air from within the jungle before Jacen and the others. The two entities then landed in cat-like crouches before standing up to their full heights meters from their five foes.

Corran, possessed by Akalanh, then unhooked the lightsaber from his belt and activated its regular-length silver-bladed lightsaber while Abeloth bared her tentacles, just as she had when she confronted Mara in the latter's mind.

After Jacen shut off his commlink, not bothering to address Hamner, he and the other four free Jedi then unhooked and activated their own lightsabers from their belts, staring down their opponents for several long, silent moments before Valin and Jysella both screamed and rushed for their possessed father.

"No!" Jacen cried.

But by then, Abeloth had lashed two of her tentacles out for Valin, snatching him up and pulling him in toward her while Jysella had suddenly met her entity-possessed father halfway, as he appeared to her as if Akalanh had commenced an Aing-Tii teleportation technique. Immediately, the two of them launched into a duel from which Akalanh was driving Jysella back.

"Mara, Seha, save Valin!" Jacen told the subordinate Jedi.

Mara and Seha then charged toward Abeloth, who had just gotten Valin up close and personal, his lightsaber held uselessly in his hand as he was unable to move it an inch thanks to the grasp that the tentacled entity held upon him. She was about to slip a tentacle into Valin's mouth to suck out his life-force, only to growl in frustration once she took notice of the two charging Jedi and lashed her free tentacles out at them. Both Mara and Seha ducked and rolled out of the way of the tentacles and kept heading toward Abeloth and Valin.

Meanwhile, Jacen had reached Jysella's side and added his own lightsaber to the younger Knight's as they dueled off against her possessed father, immediately setting a solid stand that stopped Akalanh's advance against Jysella. The entity increased the viciousness of her attacks, but Jacen and Jysella continued to stand steadfast - that was until Akalanh activated the dual-phase mechanism of Corran's blade, lengthening it to double its size while simultaneously changing its color to purple. From this, both Jacen and Jysella were forced to flip back three times before landing in graceful crouches; a second later, however, they both had to block the long purple blade, as Akalanh had pursued their flipping forms, but this time, knowing what to expect, Jacen and Jysella continued to hold their own against the possessed Corran, not giving Akalanh any new ground.

As for Abeloth, she continued to lash out towards the ever-approaching Mara and Seha, growing more and more frustrated that the two women wouldn't leave her alone long enough to drain Valin's life away. That frustration then spiked once Mara and Seha each finally severed a slithery limb from Abeloth's body, and the entity emitted another angry, pained roar, prompting her to fling Valin away before diverting her full attention to Mara and Seha. She thus began to increase the rapidity of her attacks so that they were forced to move out of the way in time instead of slashing at the tentacles even as the ones they slashed away grew back.

Valin, however, stood back up and looked between the raging fights that Abeloth and Akalanh were waging; and while he did feel grateful to Mara and Seha for saving his life, he knew that his side was with his father, sister, and the Grand Master, as was the original plan.

The original plan that he and Jysella had compromised when they allowed their emotions for Corran to come over them and charge toward their father against Jacen's orders. Regardless, there was still a chance that this plan could work, and he charged for Jacen, Jysella, and Akalanh.

As for that fight, Corran's possessed body seemed to be gaining an advantage on her own opponents, for she was now very steadily forcing them back across the shore of the beach and to the water behind them; it was a slow, grinding process, and Akalanh could feel it in the pains and aches of the shell that she occupied. But she had to do what she had to to get her body from her sister, and that meant holding onto this body until Abeloth said that she could be released from it.

Akalanh's advantage soon vanished, however, once the first small wave of water hit Jacen and Jysella's heels; having tired out his and the young Knight's opponent just enough, Jacen finally executed a Vaapad maneuver that caught Akalanh unawares, resulting in such an unexpected parry that it allowed Jysella an opening to kick the lightsaber out of her possessed father's hand and send it sailing through the air and off to the side.

Akalanh prepared to Force-recall the lightsaber to Corran's hand, only for her host's body to be slammed by a combined Force-wall from Jacen and Jysella. The entity's shell went flying back to land and scrape against the grey sand beneath her; and before she was able to use Corran's arms to stand back up, Jacen and Jysella, their lightsabers already deactivated and replaced on their belts, had tackled Corran back against the sandy ground.

Then Jacen grasped one hand to Corran's right side while Jysella grasped one hand to his left, and Valin, who had just reached them, clasped his own hand at the crown of his father's head, resulting in the three of them plunging into the mind that Akalanh held onto for her own.

A white flash then appeared over the sights of the four of them, and the bright, sunny background of the beach shore upon which they were all just fighting upon was replaced by the darkness that had been the background of Jacen and Mara's minds when they fought Palpatine and Abeloth.

On one side of the darkness was Jacen and the Horn siblings with metaphysical lightsabers lit, and across from them was Akalanh, who appeared as a twin to Abeloth.

And within her translucent torso, the faint face of Corran Horn could be seen.

Akalanh gazed back at the three Jedi with an impossibly wide smile.

"Strike me here," she proclaimed as she leveled a single tentacle to the area with Corran's face, "and my presence will depart from his body and he will return."

"Deal," Jacen said.

And this time, Valin and Jysella stayed on Jacen's side, and they followed him as they charged toward Akalanh.

But as her tentacles lashed out at them as expected, her presence started to recede from the three Jedi, as if a hoverbus from three pedestrians rushing to catch it.

Akalanh laughed a laugh that, though absent of the horrifying multitudes that consisted of her sister's tone, was still nevertheless shrill and horrifying on its own.

Nevertheless, Jacen, Valin, and Jysella slashed at the tentacles, slashing away at them, but unlike the pained screeches that Abeloth emitted in the physical world, the cuts didn't seem to faze Akalanh one bit, and the tentacles merely grew back, just like Abeloth's.

"What hope do you have of reaching me, Jedi?!" Akalanh roared. "My sister and I are greater than all of your Order combined together!"

In spite of the circumstances that he and the Horn siblings were now in, Jacen couldn't help but smirk and say in a low tone, even though he thought he should shout to carry his message across to Akalanh, "Yeah, as if your sister weren't defeated in the realm of the mind already."

Jacen then allowed his metaphysical lightsaber to disappear from his grasp and grabbed both hands to an incoming tentacle so that he pulled himself in, allowing himself to rocket toward Akalanh.

Seeing what he was trying to do, Akalanh lashed her tentacles out at his incoming form, and Jacen promptly batted them away with his Force-enhanced punches and kicks, and as he did, he could feel Valin and Jysella rocketing toward Akalanh from behind him, doing exactly as he was doing.

And soon, they all finally reached the entity, their metaphysical lightsabers reappearing in their hands and striking right where Corran's face was.

A white flash replaced the reality of the mind back to the reality of Abeloth's prison world, and the four Jedi - including the now-free Corran - rose from their lying positions on the sand. They then looked up from their positions and found Akalanh also lying on the beach ahead of them, only she was more transparent, as if a ghostly specter, and she was writhing in agony, her shrill voice more pained than her sister's ever was.

Akalanh's scream was so great that it even caused Mara and Seha's fight against Abeloth to halt as they, too, turned to see Akalanh reeling from the pain of being ejected from her host's body without a proper form; like a premature infant that didn't have suitable time to develop all of its necessary organs and vital functions, Akalanh, for all of her power, did not have the power to live in the physical world like her sister thanks to her time aboard the ancient station in the Unknown Regions, and she was thus dying.

"Sister, no!" Abeloth cried. She then flew through the air, unbound by the laws of physics, to reach Akalanh's side.

But it was too late; Akalanh emitted one last cry of pain, and her form disappeared, only to be replaced by an explosive, grey flash that signaled that her life had been permanently exiled to the Force.

Akalanh was dead.

"Sister!" Abeloth cried in mourning.

The sole surviving entity then emitted a roar that was different from all the times that Mara and Seha slashed her renewable tentacles away; it was the cry of anguish instead of agony.

And the six Jedi were scared now more than ever.

Abruptly, Abeloth's multitude of screams died away from her throat, and she raised all of her tentacles in the air, as if preparing something.

And before any of the Jedi could do anything, the planet turned into hell.

.

Hamner and all of the other Jedi in the fleet above Abeloth's prison planet watched in astonishment and horror as they watched the world turn dark brown and red from the eruption of all the globe's volcanoes. The massive ash clouds that followed began to spread quickly, covering the entire surface like a cancer.

"We have to get down there!" Ben Skywalker's voice cried through the fleetwide transmission. "We have to help the others!"

Hamner was about to object, only for his reply to be shouted down as other Jedi across the fleet announced their agreements. Even most of the Masters voiced their assent to Ben's opinion.

By the end of the Jedi Order's verdict, only Hamner had yet to give his approval.

"If we go down there," he pointed out, "our ships may very well be overwhelmed from all that debris."

"We have the Force," Saba Sebatyne countered. "If we have that, we can make it."

"Let's be rational right now!" Hamner nearly shouted. "Our ability to use the Force may not be enough to make it through that planetary ash cloud to help Master Solo and the others! We could all die! And even if we could, we're dealing with an entity whose power in the Force is immense." Although it was a slight comfort that Abeloth's sister was gone, what was happening now seemed to outweigh whatever positive connotations that the sister's death might have meant.

"Alone, we may all fail," the voice of the Mon Calamari Cilghal, who had previously branched away from the Order to open up a clinic, carried through the transmission. "But if we put our powers together, we could defeat this evil."

A long, silent moment passed as the world ahead continued to roil in fire and death, even as the presences of Master Solo and the other Jedi - including the returned presence of Corran Horn - also continued to exist.

Then Hamner sighed in a defeat that didn't really feel like a defeat in this instance. "Very well. Together, we will make it and help Master Solo defeat the entity known as Abeloth; and so long as we believe that we can succeed, we will, for we are Jedi. And so long as we don't lose our way... we will prevail!"

Hamner's shout was greeted with a chorus of cheers throughout the transmission.

His mouth firmed in determination as he and the rest of the fleet piloted toward the flaming planet, a gathering of the Force brewing on the side of the Jedi.

"Everybody," Hamner muttered before cutting off the transmission for good, "may the Force be with us, and just... don't lose your way."

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Jacen had seen fully-rendered, colored pics of the lava world of Mustafar, which, during his tenure as Grand Master of the Jedi Order, he had learned was where Darth Vader had truly been born. But somehow, the resemblance of the hell that Mustafar and this world were now matching still created a feeling of deep, uncomfortable unfamiliarity mixed with the terror and horror that pierced through Jacen's heart. Not even the sight of what the Yuuzhan Vong had done to Coruscant during their occupation of that planet had been as horrifying as this; at least then, there had been life, even if it was the Vong's twisted, artificially-created version of life.

The sight around him and his fellow Jedi was just pure death now; an apocalypse that Jacen hoped that he and everyone else in the Order would be able to stop Abeloth from continuing to the rest of the galaxy.

The ocean before the Jedi boiled over to become flowing with lava, and the sky turned into an astounding mix of dark, blood-red and ash-black. Obviously, the air and the atmosphere became significantly warmer, though to levels that humans could survive well enough on without sufficient hydration for a while; nevertheless, Jacen linked up into a Force-meld with Mara, Seha, Corran, and the latter's two offspring that strengthened their own Force-shields and each others' to protect against what would no doubt be increasing warmth and humidity.

At the time that the mass eruptions occurred, Abeloth's physical body all but completely disappeared from sight, though the Jedi could feel that her presence had all but spread out through the planet. And now, from the lava ocean before them, a several-story version of Abeloth rose from the super-hot liquid rock, bearing down upon the insignificant Jedi with the same twisted grin, now mixed in with the wrath for their murder of Akalanh.

"You will all die!" Abeloth proclaimed, her multitude of voices now all but god-like.

And as she made this statement, a massive tentacle slithered up from the lava beneath her and splashed against the surface, creating a tidal wave of super-heated material as great as her toward the shore that the Jedi were on.

Even with their Force-meld, Jacen knew that he and the other five Jedi wouldn't be powerful enough to stop that wave of plasma heading toward them; and they didn't have enough time to reach their ships and get off the ground in time to avoid the tidal wave.

Which left only one other option.

"Run!" Jacen said.

And with Force-assisted speed, he turned and headed into the dark, dense jungle, hoping against hope that it would be enough to get away from the lava. Without hesitation, the five others followed suit behind him.

In their wake, as they vaulted and dodged through and beneath dense foliage, the lava overtook and burned away all in its path even as it simultaneously flattened, yet began to increase in speed. Desperately, so did the other Jedi; and once they felt some of the intense heat through their Force-shields behind them, they knew that they had to get above the super-hot tidal wave behind them.

So they each found a vine and used it to swing up and into their respective trees above. The volcanic wave beneath them immediately started to burn away the ground, causing the trees and other foliage to burn away, but the six Jedi continued, leaping forward across tree to sinking tree until they finally reached the middle of the jungle, where the super-hot tidal wave had finally died away, and they landed (relatively) safely on the ground meters from where the lava had stopped.

They turned at the sound of Abeloth's renewed, god-like roar.

"You will burn!" Abeloth declared.

And from the lava before them, humanoid figures, sizzling from their super-hot origins, arose and walked resolutely toward the six Jedi.

Brandishing their lightsabers, Jacen and the others began to cut the fiery figures away, performing various acrobatic moves and intensifying their collective Force-shield to protect them from the heat of their volcanic enemies. And at every turn, they were able to avoid physically touching their enemies, as their Force-shields weren't necessarily strong enough to resist direct physical contact with Abeloth's plasma minions.

After a while, however, when it seemed that their fiery foes would just keep coming, the six of them then pooled their collective energy and sent a large-enough Force-wave back against the next incoming wave, making them collapse against the other lines of lava minions behind, where they dissolved back into their original plasma forms on the broiling ground.

In lieu of another angered roar, Abeloth gave a relatively simple frustrated sigh.

"That is it. I have had enough. It is time that I make sure that you will all perish."

As if the six Jedi didn't think it were possible, Abeloth's form grew ever so bigger that her whole being encompassed the entire red-and-black sky, casting an even darker shadow over this section of her former prison world.

"When I am done with you and your entire Order," she vowed, "I will find a new way off this world; I will cast my influence out through the galaxy, demand that I be taken throughout, and I will make all into my image!"

Abeloth raised the same massive tentacle that she used to make the volcanic tidal wave and sent it straight down toward the six irritating Jedi.

But distracted by her vengeful drive against them, she was unprepared for the launch of non-Force-related physical projectiles that peppered her from behind. Growling more out of continued annoyance, her form shrunk ever so slightly so that she could turn against the sky, where near-invisible StealthX fighters and clearly visible Skipray Blastboats piloted by Jedi - as well as a certain legendary YT-1300 - went on to fire more lasers, concussion missiles, and proton torpedoes against her. Naturally, she began swinging her two primary tentacles against the sky, swiping away StealthXs and Blastboats as if they were flies.

Jacen braced himself against the deaths of so many Jedi then, just as the others with him on the ground were doing right now. Nevertheless, they were now dividing Abeloth's attention against the six of them here, and that gave them time to come up with a plan as to how they could possibly destroy her now.

And before anyone in the small group could ask, it struck Jacen, as he felt his Uncle Luke's Force-voice say, You must all be one.

Jacen felt himself emotionally backpedal, and he looked around to see if anyone thought there might be something wrong with him.

But everyone, especially Mara, looked at him with hopeful approval in their eyes.

"We have to join," he said. "All of us, through the Force. Every single Jedi that's left... and possibly more."

They all nodded, and he felt the approval of the Jedi who continued to struggle to survive against Abeloth's tentacle onslaught above.

And so, with a great, concerted effort, every single Jedi, whether above or below the planet, allowed themselves close their eyes and completely immerse themselves in the Force. From there, as they surrendered the detriments of individualism, yet retained the positivity of who they were - as who each of them were was what brought them all to this moment - the Force guided their actions, strengthening the connectivity that ran throughout all of them.

And as they did, Abeloth found herself even more hard-pressed than before in trying to kill the Jedi, for her tentacles were unable to bring down anymore Jedi from the sky, no matter how hard she tried.

Before, when two of the greatest threats in the galaxy - Onimi and Darth Krayt - were defeated by Jacen, he had achieved states of oneness that had been achieved by him as an individual. Now, in the face of Abeloth, who must have been the greatest threat poised against the universe, if not all of reality itself, the Jedi had to be one with themselves, the Force, and each other.

That collective oneness was one that connected ever deeper back to Denon, where the junior apprentices who weren't even in the double digits of their ages, instinctively lent their own power in support against Abeloth. And that strengthened oneness connected even deeper into the Netherworld of the Force, where they sought strength from Jedi who had died so many millennia earlier to the ones who had just died under Abeloth's wrath.

Yoda, Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Mace Windu, Anakin Skywalker - Jacen's grandfather, who helped him achieve oneness to defeat Onimi - the Masters who had lived prior to Palpatine's Jedi Purge, all the Knights, apprentices, Padawans who had ever lived... Vergere was there, too, lending her strength as she had when she taught Jacen how to be strong... Anakin Solo, who was a rock of confidence and assurance when Jacen lacked both of those before Vergere came along... and Uncle Luke, one of the most powerful and greatest Jedi who had ever lived.

All of them, all of the Jedi, alive and dead, who had not fallen to the ways of the Sith or any other Force-ideology that went against the goodness that the Jedi and other Force-sects stood for, throughout all of the galaxy's history, had been summoned for this one special moment; the defeat of its truly greatest threat.

With that combination of strength through the Force, it overwhelmed Abeloth's own power; from that connectivity throughout every single Jedi ever, a great white light emerged before Abeloth, all but blinding her, promising her that she would never threaten the galaxy again.

And with that great, unified push throughout the Force, that light went forth and exploded into a righteous fire against Abeloth's form, destroying every single part of her, down to the subatomic and wiping away any traces of her, as if she had never existed.