Chapter 17: The Start of Balance
-[Star Forge: Inner Sanctuary]-
Revan and Mission lowered their hands the orb of lightning disappearing as they did.
"That... was incredible." Bastilla said still in awe of the power the two held.
Revan looked at the fallen jedi and nodded, reaching down to grasp her mask and returns it to her face, pulling her hood up as she did. She walked back over to the console and pressed the com.
"This is Revan. Thank you all for sending the code. Now please listen to my instructions. All Capital class ships I want to dock in hanger one, Cruiser class in hanger two, Battleship class hanger three. All fighter ships into hanger four." She called into the com. "Judgement, Odin, Legacy. I want you three in the upper hanger of the Star Forge." She said stepping away from the com and turned to Mission and Bastilla. "Come we are going to the upper hanger." She said, walking down the platform towards the lift.
Mission smiled and got up next to Revan, taking hold of her hand as they walked, as Bastilla walked behind them.
They walked into the lift, the doors closing and began descending. Revan reached up and pressed her personal com with one hand, her other keeping hold of Missions hand.
"Canderous you copy?" She called out.
"I read you Revan." The mandalorian called back.
"I want you to coordinate the Battleships in Hanger three. T3 will aid you." Revan ordered.
"Yes ma'am." The man called out his com cutting.
"Jolee, you read."
"I hear you." The old man said with a huff.
"I want you to coordinate the cruisers at Hanger two. T3 will give you a hand."
"Sure thing." Jolee called back with a smile in his voice.
"This is Juhani. You want me to coordinate the Capital ships at hangar one correct?" The cathar called on the com.
Revan smirks. "Nice try but no. I want you to escort the jedi to the upper hanger. HK-47 is already heading to hangar one to coordinate the capital ships."
"Did T3 and HK already know the plans?" Juhani asked.
"They did HK knew my plans while I was training Mission, and he relayed them to T3." Revan said over the come. "I'll see you at the upper hanger." She said, cutting the com.
Mission looked over at Revan, her head tilted. "You had everything planned even before we hit Rataka didn't you?" She asked.
Revan just smirked under her mask. "I did."
-[Star Forge: Upper Hanger]-
Jane Callus walked off the judgement, several of her men following her out, lining up on the other side of the ramp they had used to walk off their ship.
Vandar looked over from the open doors of the Odin at Jane and her men lining up, loyalty showing true to Revan. He let out a sigh and walked down the ramp to the main platform.
Before the jedi master could say anything one of the lifts opened, showing Juhani and the five jedi he had sent. All five jedi looked relieved to see the master alive. The jedi looked to Juhani and she just smiled, allowing the jedi to go stand with the master.
"Master Vandar." Jane said, turning to face the short man. "Have you been thinking about what Revan said? Or what I have said." She asked the man.
"I have.. But... unsure what to think about it, truly." Vandar said with a sigh. "So much to think about..."
"What is there to think about?" Juhani asked, walking up. "The republic senate is corrupt. Revan has no will to actually rule, she just wants to cleanse the senate of the corruption and bring about a stronger republic."
Vandar looked up at the cathar. "That is all she wishes?"
"Not entirely but that is her main goal. Her other goal is to bring balance to the force. Myself, Mission and Revan all believe that, that path means no more light or darkness. Only the balance. I have yet to train in the balance, but I do plan to put everything I have into it."
"No more light... Or dark?" Vandar asked blinking. "You mean that she will end the jedi and the sith?"
"I will." Revan calls out as the second lift opens up, allowing her Mission and Bastilla to walk out. "To bring about true balance the fight must end."
-Lost Memory-
Revan smiled under her mask, bringing the blanket up over her young padawan. She had only just taken the young eight year old meetra as a padawan two months ago and the young girl impressed her to no end. She had ample knowledge of the force and on the first mission together to stop a slave ring it was an idea of Meetra's that lead to them successfully taking down the ring and those who ran it.
The jedi master turned and walked towards the door of the room, stopping in the doorway. "Sleep well my young padawan. I know one day, you will do great things." She said, turning the light of to the young girls bedroom and walked out to their shared living room.
Revan sat down on the small couch they had, reaching up to remove her mask placing it on the small table in front of her. She looked at the mask with a smile, before reaching into a small chest next to the couch and pulled out a holocron.
She twisted the holocron and activated it. Appearing in front of her was an ancient text that she smiled at.
"The holocron of prophecies. Why am I always drawn back to you?" She asks herself with a giggle.
She smiled as she scrolled through the prophecies left by the jedi sages of old. She stopped as she saw the one she wanted. She had spent years thanslating several of the prophecies, though most of the order through her crazy to do so, but it was a hobby of hers to translate old texts.
'She who is born in darkness will give birth to darkness.'
'A Chosen One shall come, born of no father, and through him will ultimate balance in the force be restored.'
'When the Force itself sickens, past and future must split and combine.'
Revan recalled the three of the prophecies she had been able to translate and smiled as she looked on the forth that she had only recently finished.
'Darkness will shroud the righteous, war and death, one of light shall lead the charge to push away darkness. Into the darkness they will go, only to return... As something else.'
Revan smiled at the prophecy she had translated. "My only question about this is why was it in ancient mandalorian? I didn't think mandalorians were ever jedi. I thought I was the only one and I'm only half."
-[Star Forge: Upper Hanger]-
"You speak of the ancient prophecies don't you Revan?" Vandar asked.
"No... I do not believe in them. I only looked into them because I found it fun to translate ancient texts, namely when so many were all in different languages." Revan said with a laugh.
"I see..." Vandar said, hanging his head down.
Revan turned to Jane, only to see the admiral smiling brightly at her.
"Revan.." Jane said, as she walked forwards towards the halfbreed. She kneeled down in front of Revan. "Revan. I pledge myself to your cause. I will fight for you so long as you shall need me." She says her head bowing.
Revan looked up to see all the others from the Judgement doing the same thing.
"Get up Jane. I won't have my friend kneeling before me." Revan says watching the woman stand up. "You will do as you did. Lead my personal ship, but more so... the entire fleet."
"I would be honored." Jane says bowing to Revan.
The once jedi master turns to Vandar. "Vandar." She says, taking a few steps towards the short jedi. "You heard what I said to the entire fleet, and you've heard from Juhani my plans. What will you do?"
"Before I try to answer that, I ask... do you remember the day you barged into the council chambers demanding to speak, and using the force spoke to the entire order at the temple?" Vandar asked.
"I do... It was the day I had the vision of the mandalorians destroying Coruscant and the jedi temple." Revan said, crossing her arms. "What does that have to do with anything though?"
"Do you know what we were discussing?"
"No, but from how your talking, it might have something to do with me." Revan said, voicing her thoughts.
"We were debating the pros and cons of offering you a seat on the jedi council." Vandar said, looking up at the masked woman only to see her arms fall to her sides. "I will not lie, there were many cons, but at the time you had barged in... we had far more pros than cons. You think outside the box and look at many things from every angle. You never make rash decisions unless you believe there is no other way. And... in the use of the force... you surpassed every master on the council. You had such a deep foundation with the force... It was unbelievable." Vandar said looking down at the ground. "We actually only had three cons."
"What were they?" Revan asked not really thinking due to her shock of hearing that they were debating on making her a council member.
"In some cases you are headstrong, but that is minoot when you think ahead so often. The council and you butted heads on many occasions, even to the point you openly defied us. And finally you were closed off. Ever since your master died at the hands of the dark jedi, you became something different. When you were a padawan, you were very happy and outgoing, and after that day you no longer were."
Revan looked down at the ground hearing Vandar talk about her.
Vandar lets out a sigh. "Will you kill all the jedi and sith?" He asked.
"No... I don't want to kill anyone. I wish to bring the jedi into the balance along with the sith. I plan to reform the sith academy on Korriban into one of balance." Revan said, picking her head up to look at Vandar. "Any who will openly join me in learning to balance the force, I will gladly train. It will take years, but in less than a week, Mission who had no prior force training is already beyond Bastilla."
"And those that won't join you?"
"I will use the force to cut their connection or... if I am forced to... I will kill them." Revan says sadly.
Vandar looks to his five jedi. "What about you five? Would you join Revan?"
The five jedi look to Vandar before looking among themselves. After a few minutes they turn to Revan and one of them speak. "May we ask... how do you use the force? We know the sith force it."
Revan smiled at the jedi. "Myself and Mission use the force the same way as a jedi. We call to it for aid and it comes. Then we use our emotions to fuel it to even greater heights. That is why we were able to destroy so many ships with one blast of lightning."
"But... lightning is the darkside." One of the jedi state.
"No... there is no dark side. Only the force." She says, raising her hand and points towards a wall. "This is the light." She says, sending a cracking blue lightning towards the wall leaving a small scorch. "This is the dark." She says, sending a bright red stream of lightning towards the same wall leaving another small scorch. "And this... is the force." She calls out, arcing white lightning extending from her fingers towards the wall.
The jedi gasp as they look at the wall. The blue and red lightning had only scorched the wall, while the white one had blown a hole through it.
"I have no doubt the sith will join me once they see the power I can grant them." Revan says with a smile under her mask. "The only one I worry about... is the jedi."
"I am old Revan. Several hundred years old. I am locked in my ways, but... I could feel something when I heard you speak this new code. So... I shall follow you and try to learn."
The other five jedi look among themselves again before nodding to each other. "We will also follow you Revan."
"Good... thank you all." She says with happiness. "Now... the time of the jedi and sith end. We shall bring balance to the force, and cleanse the republic of corruption." Revan states with pride.
THE END?