The group had made their way to Pasaana to find the clue for the Sith Wayfinder. This was last location Luke Skywalker was at before he disappeared on Ach-To. The four heroes managed to find the way to where the clue was.

"You sure this is it?" Poe asked.

"These are the exact coordinates that Master Luke left behind." Threepio replied. But when they got there, there seemed to be a festival going on.

"What is this?" Poe asked.

"The Acky Acky festival of the ancestors. This celebration occurs only once every 42 years." Threepio explained.

"Well, that's lucky." Finn said.

"Lucky indeed." Threepio said. "This festival is know for its colorful kites and its delectable sweets." He explained to which all four of them turned to him irritated. Though, Threepio couldn't see that as he turned around himself. They made their way deeper in the crowds where the party was getting louder.

"I've never seen anything like this." Rey said.

"I've never seen so few wayfinders." Finn retorted.

"That's because you're not a Jedi sweetie." Kira said. Though, Finn was taken aback, because he wanted to tell Kira something important.

"There's always random First Order patrols in crowds like these. So keep your heads down. Chewie." Poe explained to all of them. Chewie crouched down to a really low level. They all decided to split up to find out where the clue was. Rey was looking at all the different people there, celebrating at a time like this. They didn't care about what was happening, they were just living their lives in peace. Rey then felt a tug at her leg. It was one of the aliens there.

"She is saying, 'Welcome.'" Threepio translated. The alien continued to speak to Rey. "Her name is Nambi Ghima." Threepio said.

"That's an excellent name. I'm Rey." Rey said. The alien spoke again.

"She would be honored to know your family name too." Threepio translated. Rey didn't want to though. She remembered what her family name really was. She remembered what Caden told her, before he truly turned. That she was a Palpatine. The granddaughter of Darth Sidious. No one in the Resistance really knew who she was, Rey chose not to disclose that information. She shook her head at the alien.

"I don't have one. I'm just Rey." She said.


That's when she felt that familiar presence she hadn't felt in a long time. She turned around, the area looked as if it was in night. Then she saw him. Or rather, a creature in a mask.

"Palpatine wants you." Kadus said.

"Just like your cousin, you serve another master?" Rey asked.

"No, I have other plans." Kadus replied. "I offered you my hand once. You wanted to take it. Why didn't you?" He asked.

"You could've killed me. Why didn't you?" Rey asked back.

"You know I care for you, Rey. You can't hide from me." Kadus said.

"I see through that mask. You're haunted. Conflicted, you can't stop seeing what you've become." Rey said.

"Do you still count the days since your parents left?" Kadus asked. "There's such pain, such anger in you. I don't want to see you harmed. I don't want to kill you. I'm going to find you and I will show you the true power of the dark side. When I offer my hand again, you'll take it." Kadus explained.

"We'll see." Rey retorted. Kadus reached out with his hand and managed to use the time he had the connection with Rey to grab her necklace. Rey was stunned that this happened and the connection dropped. She decided to warn her friends. "We have to go, back to the Falcon now!" She shouted.

"Why?" Finn asked.

"It's Caden." She said. This shocked the whole group.


Meanwhile on the command ship Kadus and Pryde were waiting to find out where they needed to go. An officer appeared with the necklace in her hand.

"Sir, we had this analyzed. It comes from the Middian System. Pasaana, Forbidden Valley." She reported.

"Prepare my ship. Alert the local troops. Send a division, Allegiant General." Kadus said making his way to the hanger.

"Yes, my lord." Pryde said.


The group was making their way to the Falcon to get out of there before the First Order arrived. Unfortunately they came across some trouble.

"Freeze!" A stormtrooper shouted. "I've located the Resistance fugitives, all units report to—" He started to say, before he could say anymore he was hit with an arrow to his eye. The trooper fell down dead. All four heroes turned around to see two figures with masks on to hide their appearance.

"Follow us." One of them said. All of them made their way to a transport. "Hurry. Leia sent us a transmission." One of the figures said something in an alien language to one of the drivers who confirmed it with an okay.

"How'd you find us?" Finn asked. The two figures then removed their masks to reveal an older man and a Twi'lek female. The four of them already knew who they were. Lando Calrissian and Hera Syndulla.

"Wookies stand out in a crowd." Lando joked.

"Not that hard to find." Hera added. Chewie then let out a cheer hugging Lando.

"It's good to see you too old buddy!" Lando exclaimed.

"This is General Lando Calrissian and this is Captain Hera Syndulla." Threepio started to explain.

"We know who they are Threepio." Rey said.

"It is an honor general." Finn said to the old Rebel general.

"I'm such a huge fan, Captain." Kira said not being able to hold in her excitement. "With what you've done against Thrawn and the Empire in general." Kira trailed off.

"General Calrissian, Captain Syndulla, we're looking for Exegol." Poe said.

"Of course you are." Lando said. He drew up a hologram of a Sith Wayfinder for them to see. "Only two were made." He explained.

"Luke Skywalker came here to find one." Rey said.

"I know, we were with him." Lando said referring to himself and Hera.

"Sabine Wren and Ahsoka Tano as well. We were trailing an old Jedi hunter." Hera explained. Lando hit a button to reveal an alien.

"Ochi of Bestoon." He said. "He was carrying a clue that could lead to a Wayfinder. We all followed his ship halfway across the galaxy here. When we got to his ship, it was abandoned." Lando explained.

"No clue, no Wayfinder." Hera said.

"Is his ship still here?" Kira asked.

"It's out in the desert where he left it." Lando said.

"We need to get to that ship. Search it again." Rey said. Then they all heard ships approaching, TIE fighters.

"I got a bad feeling about this." Lando said.

"Ochi's ship is out past Lurch Canyon." Hera said to them.

"Thank you General. Captain." Poe said to the two of them. Chewie let out a growl saying goodbye to his old friend.

"You too, Chewie." Lando said.

"Leia needs pilots." Rey said before leaving.

"My flying days are long gone." Lando said.

"Mine too." Hera said.

"But do me a favor, give Leia my love." Lando said.

"You should give it to her, yourself." Rey said.

"Hey." Hera stopped Rey in her tracks. "I knew Caden when he was a little one. He and my son used to play all the time. He may have his father's skill with the Force, but there's a lot more of his mother in him than he knows. He will come back." She said. Rey just nodded her head, but took Hera's words to heart. The group made their way to two speeders where Poe got to work on it, starting them up.

"How do you know how to do that?" Finn asked.

"No need to worry, I made it!" Threepio said. The locals didn't seem to like what they were doing, however.

"We gotta go!" Poe shouted. The group were in two different speeders. Poe, Finn and Threepio were in one, while Rey, Kira, Chewie and BB-8 were in another. They were then being chased by stormtroopers. Rey and Kira fired back at them, but they had shields on their speeders. Suddenly both of the troopers launched their partners in the air revealing that they had jetpacks.

"Great! Now they use that on us?" Kira asked. They decided to split up. Rey and Kira would handle the jet troopers while Finn and Poe would deal with the speeders. They were being chased for a while before BB-8 started beeping at them.

"Not now, BB-8!" Rey shouted. BB-8 however hit a cannister that went up in the air letting out a puff of yellow smoke blinding one of the speeder troopers. Kira saw an opportunity and blasted the speeder when it flew into the air. "Never underestimate a droid!" Rey exclaimed. Chewie shot one of the jet troopers before Rey and Kira came across the ship they were looking for.

"Ochi's ship!" Rey exclaimed. But she knew that ship. "I've seen that ship before."

"Rey! Kira!" Finn shouted. "You get all of them?" He asked, to which the last jet trooper blasted both speeders sending all of them flying into some black sand. All of them recovered quickly and began to shoot at the trooper eventually hitting him and sending the trooper flying into a rock. But then the sand started to move and they found themselves sinking.

"What the hell is this?" Poe asked.

"Sinking fields! Grab onto something!" Rey exclaimed.

"Will this agony ever end?" Threepio moaned. Everyone starts sinking deeper into it.

"Kira! Kira I never told you!" Finn started to say.

"What? Finn, I—" Kira started to say herself but all of them sunk. But they didn't die. Instead they all found themselves underground.

"You alright?" Poe asked Rey.

"Yeah." Rey said.

"Well, this is not any better." Kira commented.

"What is this place?" Finn asked.

"This isn't the afterlife is it? Are droids allowed here?" Threepio said, mostly to himself.

"How do we get out of here?" Finn asked. That's when Rey and Kira activated their blue and green lightsabers to shed some light. Poe pulled out his flashlight, which sort of didn't have the same effect as the blades.

"We have to hurry." Rey said.

"So, what were you going to tell me?" Kira asked Finn.

"About what?" Finn asked.

"Well, when we were in the sinking sand, you said, 'I never told you…' What?" She asked.

"I'll tell you later." Finn said.

"You mean when Poe's not here? Or Rey for that matter?" Poe remarked.

"Yeah." Finn replied.

"We're gonna die in sand burrows and we're all keeping secrets?" Poe asked sarcastically.

"I'll tell you, when you tell us about all that shifty stuff you do." Finn said.

"Alright, guys enough." Kira said trying to defuse the situation.

"I do not want to know what made these tunnels." Poe said.

"Judging based on the circumference of the tunnel walls—" Threepio started.

"I said I do not want to know." Poe emphasized. They eventually found a speeder.

"Is that a speeder?" Finn asked.

"An old one." Rey said.

"Perhaps we will find the driver." Threepio said. BB-8 beeped out something.

"Yeah, I think dead too buddy." Poe said.

"Oh, my. A hex charm." Threepio commented. "A common emblem of Sith loyalists." They all put the pieces together as to whose speeder's this was.

"This was Ochi's?" Finn asked.

"Luke sensed it, Ochi never left this place." Rey said.

"And he ended up down here." Finn said.

"He was headed for his ship. Same thing happened to us happened to him." Poe said.

"So how did he even get out?" Kira asked.

"He didn't." Rey said to which the group discovered the remains of Ochi.

"Bones. I don't like bones." Poe said disgusted.

"Really? All the things we've been through and bones creeps you out the most?" Kira asked. BB-8 then discovered something metallic under the sand. He blew away some of it and Rey picked it up to reveal a dagger with some writing on it. But when Rey touched it, she started feeling darkness within it.

"Horrible things… have happened with this." she shuddered.

"You gonna be alright?" Kira asked putting her hand on Rey's shoulder.

"Yeah." Rey said.

"Looks like there's some writing on it." Poe commented.

"Perhaps I can translate." Threepio offered. They gave him the dagger and he looked at it. "Oh, the location of the Wayfinder is on this dagger. It's the clue that Master Luke was searching for."

"And? Where's the Wayfinder?" Finn asked.

"I am afraid I cannot tell you." Threepio replied.

"20.3 fazillion languages, you can't read that?" Poe asked incredulous.

"Is fazillion even a word Poe?" Kira asked.

"No, I have read it." Threepio responded. "I know exactly where the Wayfinder is. Unfortunately it is written in the runic language of the Sith." Threepio said.

"So what?" Rey asked.

"My programming forbids me from translating it." Threepio responded.

"So, you're telling us the one time we need you to talk, you can't?" Kira asked.

"Irony, ma'am. I am mechanically incapable of speaking translations from Sith." Threepio said. But as he was talking a large creature was coming behind him. Everyone readied their weapons but Rey gestured for them to lower them. She then gave her blade to Finn. The creature began to hiss at them, but it didn't move any more forward. That's when Rey saw there was a wound on the creature. She stepped forward with her hand and placed it on the wound. Then she closed her eyes and reached out into the Force. Then, the wounds started going away, Rey could also feel that a bit of strength was leaving her. As soon as it was healed the serpent moved away from them knocking the wall in the process leaving an opening for the heroes to escape.

"How did you do that?" Kira asked.

"I just transferred a bit of life into him. Force energy." Rey said.

"I heard the Jedi never found out about it before they fell to the Empire. After that, I think my father talked about the possibility of it." Kira said.

"You would've done the same." Rey said.

"Maybe." Kira said. All of them made their way out of the cave, but unknown to them, the Knights of Ren had landed nearby. However, Kadus was not among them. the group went toward Ochi's ship to find out what clue was left behind.

"We cannot possibly fly that old wreck." Threepio commented.

"We gotta keep moving. Find someone who can translate that dagger. Like a helpful droid." Poe said.

"I suggest we return to the Millennium Falcon at once." Threepio suggested.

"They'll be waiting for us at the Falcon." Kira said.

"Yeah, and they'll throw us in the pits of Griq." Finn added.

"And use you as a target droid." Poe added.

"You both make excellent points at times." Threepio said. But Kira could see that Rey was focused on something else.

"Rey?" She asked. Rey then handed her staff to Kira.

"I'll be right behind you." Rey said. That's when Kira felt what Rey was feeling.

"You need help?" She asked.

"No, I'll be fine." Rey said. "It's okay." Rey moved closer into the desert waiting for something while the rest of the group made their way to the ship.

"Let's see what we got. Let's get those converters fired up." Poe said flicking some switches making the ship operational. "There we go." Poe said.

"Chewie, tell Rey we gotta go." Finn said to the Wookie who quickly made his way to where Rey was.

"Wait, no." Kira said. "Rey will be fine." She said but the Wookie was already long gone. "Damn it!" Kira grumbled. Poe managed to get the ship's thrusters on.

"What the hell's she doing? Where's Chewie?" Poe grumbled. That's when Finn figured it out.

"It's Caden." He said running out of the ship.

"Finn, wait!" Kira said running after him. They both ran to find out that Chewie had been taken prisoner by the First Order and were loading him onto another transport.


Meanwhile, Rey was preparing herself for the inevitable confrontation with Caden. She drew her saber and activated it. Kadus was heading in his TIE Whisper fighter, going at a fast speed. Rey then turned around ready to start her move. As Kadus approached closer to her, Rey started running away from the fighter. Kadus moved closer and closer until Rey vaulted into the air and quite gracefully sliced off one of Kadus' wings sending him flying across the desert, crashing his ship.

"Rey!" Finn shouted. "They got Chewie!" He pointed to the ship that was carrying Chewie.

Rey decided to act fast and used the Force to pull the ship down. Kira was about to do the same when she saw her best friend step out of the wreckage of the fighter with his mask off. She froze, not knowing what to do. Kadus made his way toward where Rey was and used the Force as well to push the ship into space. It was a struggle between the two young Force users as they tried to push or pull the ship. That's when Kira sensed it as well, they were both equally matched, they had power in them that balanced each other. But then she saw something unexpected. As Rey was trying to pull the ship closer to her she shot out Force lightning from her hand blowing up the ship. Kira's heart stopped.

"CHEWIE!" Rey shrieked.

"NO!" Finn screamed. Even Kadus was surprised at what he saw. What remained of the ship fell to the ground.

"Rey!" Poe shouted from the ship. "We gotta go, they're coming!" He shouted. Kira could see that Rey was frozen in place for a moment. Kadus could see her looking at her hand in shock before turning to him. Rey eventually went toward Ochi's ship with Kadus in awe at what he saw. Now he knew what he had to do.


Whew, that was a lot to digest wasn't it? And I figured if I'm gonna have Sabine be Caden's mom, I might as well include Hera as well. I'll hopefully get the next chapter soon, I have a few days off work so I'll use that time to write.

Reviews:

MerlockVonBaron: Yeah, a little bit.

avengersendgame426: No worries. I've always been healthy and clean all my life thanks to my mother, so there's no need to worry. Plus it's getting warmer now, so it should be dying down. And whenever I'm off work I just stay home. Well, as you saw, even Kadus was surprised at how Rey used lightning. Kira's reaction will come next chapter.

suppes1: Thanks!

ABEBOABDU: I get it. Actually, Sabine was born two years before the birth of the Empire, so she's two years older than Luke. But again, Anakin and Padme were different ages too, so it kind of rhymes almost like Lucas said. I'll consider doing a prequel series, but I'd need a lot of time to do that, and frankly I don't have that right now. Though, I seriously want to do it though, and see the journey between 6 and 7, especially with Caden as a child training with Ahsoka.

Mr Guest: Yeah, it's just to show the Knights of Ren as more than background characters, add a bit of depth before the climax. Kadus is more like Vader, so he only uses Force Choke, but I'll see what I can do.