Before I get in to this I just want to be absolutely clear that none of the Characters or Star Wars material is mine. Just wanted to put my own spin on the series and take it in a different direction.
The biggest reason for this story is that I wasn't quiet happy with how Luke turned out to be and I felt like he should have been much different than what the movies 7 and 8 portrayed him to be. No disrespect to the directors but I had a different version come to mind and wanted to share that out loud. Plus this got me in to writing and hopefully everyone who comes to my story finds it entertaining!
Thanks so much - SK
Chapter 1: The Start
A pair of pale blue eyes were closed in concentration as the enemy silently made their way through the forest. He saw low and quiet as they walked past him. He was hunkered in a tree trunk making no noises. Listening and feeling in the Force the men walking past him, he held himself still and waited.
"I don't see any signs of Skywalker." Someone yelled as another confirmed that the foot prints just stopped. They weren't Force Sensitives, if they were they would have known that he had managed to jump up this tree and hide inside the ruins of the trunk that had been hollowed out by rain and terminates. Perhaps even birds at one point as Luke calmly looked down to see remnants of nesting material. He waited a few moments to sense and hear the men walking away. There he peaked his head out and in the distance heard gun shots.
"Oh no." He said worried but ready. He came up with a leap and ran towards the noise. Grabbing his light saber out, he ran for a little while before coming across the men he had evaded and saw his companion being surrounded. A shaggy head of dirty blonde almost light brown hair wearing simple clothes and a dark vest popped out every so often to shoot at the Storm Troopers who were slowly starting to surround his position.
"Han!" Luke yelled gaining the attention of the all two closest storm troopers. With their guns pointed at him he stopped their attacks and go out of the way to let the beams hit the trees behind him. Using the Force to grab them and make them pass out, they fell to the ground and the Jedi looked to see his friend and brother in law battling three who were trying to shoot him out of his hole. Luke tried to calm his breathing and lift their weapons out of their hands, failing as he was shot by an additional storm trooper who had been out of his visual range before. His arm stung but he grabbed all four of the troopers and lifted them in to the air before throwing them to the ground and successfully knocking them all out.
"It's about time you got here. I didn't think I'd be able to leave enough of them for you if you showed up later." He said grinning from ear to ear from his sarcastic remark. Luke approached him and gave him a hug.
"Well you weren't supposed to come out of the hiding spot. But what's the situation?" He asked and Han filled him in that another fleet had come and surprised them. They were being slowly over run and Luke grimaced as they made their way down the empty tree trunk which lead to their base, this was a scouting spot not meat for attacking. Walking further down and then locking the door behind them, Luke could feel Leia some distance away and they watched as people were carrying things and making their way down the hall in front of them.
"I think we're evacuating." Luke said widening his eyes a little bit and Han scoffed.
"You'd think after a few dozen evacuations we should have this routine down and be gone within a handful of minutes." Han said with a slight hint of irritation.
"We have so many new recruits these days, it's hard to train them in evacuations to your precise standards." Luke joked with him and Han shook his head as the joke passed. The tension went away for a moment for Han as they approached a new corridor and his eyes landed on a woman he deemed more beautiful than anything else. Luke watched as his friend was star struck for a moment as the General before them was giving commands to other men around her to leave the base and meet up at a new point. Han leaned up against the door way and when she looked up at them he gave a large smile.
"Hey there beautiful, where have you been all my life?" He said sweetly and suddenly oblivious to the others around them.
"Not now Han. You can try and sweet talk me later but now we need to get moving." She said with The Tone, which they both knew she meant business and there was no talking her down at the moment, definitely it was because they were evacuating. Luke smirked at the scene and smiled slightly in Han's direction.
"Man your sister is scary when she's like that. But I kind of like it." He said straightening up with a cheesy grin. Luke smiled back.
"You better, it's too late to annul the marriage. Let's get our stuff and everyone on to the Falcon." He said and the two men sprang in to action. Han grabbed his things and loaded them on to his ship, Chewy was griping about having just sealed up a couple of split engine blocks and rewired some of the hyper drive's connections. Han chimed back they had no time to allow the new modifications to be tested before using them. Throwing his hairy arms in frustration, the Wookie followed his friend hoping for the best. Luke loaded on to his ship with R2D2 who was already loaded in the back in the droids hole. C3PO in the back seat and Luke began to get the engines warmed up for take up.
"Master Luke? You should know that we have an extra passenger aboard our aircraft." He said as Luke's eyes widened and he quickly turned the engines off and looked back. Before he looked back he sensed a small life form and when his eyes met with the small figure, any nervousness left. Instinct and concern washed over him.
"Ben Solo, what are you doing in here?" He said trying to keep his temper cool so as to not startle his nephew.
"I wanted to join you. I want to help." He said shyly but adamantly enough. Luke breathed out and nodded.
"Okay, well get buckled in to C3PO's lap and that will help." He said turning around and grabbing the radio to let Leia know. After a moment of waiting for her to answer and then her hastily saying she couldn't talk, looking for his extra passenger. He calmly told her that Ben was with him and he could feel her anger in the Force knowing she was probably throwing something at a wall in frustration. But when it ended he heard the radio turn on.
"Okay, keep him safe and meet me at the rendezvous point." She said sounding calmer than before. Luke turned around and looked at the nervous youngster.
"Will do. We will see you guys soon. Let Han know for me please, we're taking off." He said and they exchanged May the Force be with you to each other before Luke switched the engines back on and took off. As they got away and flew past the atmosphere of the planet, Luke saw on his radar, the enemy was on the other side of the planet. He was able to clear out of the area without interaction from them which he was thankful for at the moment and as he took off in to hyper space he felt the tension fall off of his shoulders. He was able to relax for a bit.
"Uncle Luke, C3PO is uncomfortable." Ben whined as Luke shook his head.
"Well if you had stayed with Uncle Chewy then you wouldn't have to sit in his lap." Luke said as he typed in the coordinates of the next destination in to the computer and it would be a minute before the system was able to adjust to bring them to the new location.
"Also how much longer till we get to the new place?" Luke heard and guessed roughly how long it would be.
"It'll be a couple of hours buddy. What's wrong?"
"I have to potty." He said and Luke pressed his lips together. Oh the joys of children, he thought to himself before trying to handle the situation at hand.
"Ben Solo!" Luke cringed in his seat as he sat across the seat from his best friend and watched as his 7 year old nephew looked at the floor in shame. Leia yelled at him for a moment about the dangers of leaving Chewy when they were doing an evacuation. Ben continued to look at the floor with no response other than a simple "I'm sorry mom." Leia calmed down and took a deep breath out before kneeling down and holding her son to him.
"Young man, I love you more than anything else so it makes me very scared and upset when you do that. If you going to do something stupid at least be smart about it. Like finding your Uncle Luke when you don't want to be with Chewy." She said, first being stern and then her voice coming down to a calm tone. Ben looked at her nervously and Han spoke up.
"So long as one of us can keep an eye on you is all we want kid." He said as Luke smiled and nodded. Leia kissed the top of Ben's head before leaving to settle the equipment and everyone coming to the new rendezvous point.
Luke looked at Ben who was still ashamed of the tongue lashing he had received in front of his family. Standing up and heading towards the door, Luke suddenly felt the Force jolt his senses from behind him. He turned his head and watched as Ben started to cry but noticed as some of Chewy's tool began floating a couple of inches off of the ground. Han watched as his son was lifting the tools effortlessly and called out to him.
"Ben?" Han said simply but sternly and the tools fell down which caused Ben to jerk in a moment of curiosity.
"Ben, do you know what you just did?" Han said sitting up straight and looking at his son. They youngster looked at him nervously, more so than when his mom yelled at him. Luke came up to him from the door way.
"Ben I'm going to take a look at something. It won't hurt but it might tickle." He said and knelt in front of Ben. He wiped the tears away first and then put his hand on Ben's head. His adult hand covering the top half of Ben's little mess of black curls. When he closed his eyes and focused, he used the Force to bring him inside Ben's soul and search for the Jedi source power that all Jedi's had.
When he found Ben's it was alike to sitting next to a well. One that looked vaguely like the one on Yoda's planet where he crawled in to face his fears. This one showed that well and when he looked down inside of it he saw a crack at the bottom. This made him excited as the crack meant his powers were seeping through. A sign of development and once he reached puberty, he'd be able to see just what Ben was capable of.
Taking his hand off of Ben's head, he looked down at the young boy and smiled.
"What's wrong with me?" The seven year old asked nervously waiting for the answer.
"Absolutely nothing. But I did see something inside of you. I saw that you are a Force Sensitive. Like me, which means you could be a Jedi one day if you wanted." He said and grabbed his still sheathed Light Saber out and showed Ben. A smile started to spread across his nephew's face and in response Luke smiled.
"I think one day, I will be able to teach you the ways of the Jedi and how to use the Force to become strong. You were telling me earlier that you want to help more didn't you?" Ben nodded excitedly.
"I think I know a way that we can make you grow stronger then. Han is that okay with you?" Luke asked as he knew his friend had always been slightly jealous that he couldn't connect with Ben the way Luke and Leia could. He breathed out deeply and shrugged.
"I suppose, what the heck." He said as Ben became excited. Soon after a while he tried moving the wrench again with his mind but was unable to, quickly coming to a temper tantrum. Luke watched and laughed out loud as he told Ben it would take time. He had to learn patience and every he was patient he would be rewarded for it. But first they had to tell his mother, who took the news well and allowed Ben to Luke's new padawan.
"Can I really be a Jedi like you Uncle Luke?" His new apprentice asked him. His smile widened and he nodded.
"Of course, on one condition that is very sacred to a young padawan like yourself." He said and the boy asked what that was. "You have to call me Master Luke now." He said and they walked down the hallways towards his room. Talking about what was to come, Luke's thoughts about taking on his first official student was exciting. His own family at that too! This would be exciting and it made him giddy as he felt proud of himself as an Uncle in this moment.
It began with Luke teaching Ben at first, followed by another Rebel's child wanting to learn the Force after discovering she had her own powers. Another who was an orphan from the war came to them as he also had it. And after a couple of years, children one by one came to Luke for advice and help, leading Luke to the decision to start a school. He moved his students to an island on a planet far from the war, and was able to effectively teach his students the ways of the Force.
Unlike some of the other students who were learning to control their powers as puberty came to them, Ben was having a hard time controlling his. Like as if his powers were unable to be tamed and intense. Luke watched closely above anyone else with his first student. Even going as far as teaching him separately from the other students a few times a week.
"Concentrate Ben." He said sternly as the now 15 year old sat still on a rock. Levitating several large rocks around him. Each weighing at least forty lbs or so.
"I'm trying." He said straining himself. Sweating and the rocks slowly descending, Luke used the Force to help Ben but when Luke's Force intertwined with Ben's, he saw a darkness there. He had seen this with Vader and for a moment he was scared. For a moment he was unsure of how to help him, what would Luke do for him? But for a second he heard an old voice behind him.
"It is not balanced, the force in him. Patience you must teach him." Luke heard from Master Yoda, who's ghost appeared for only a moment before disappearing back.
Looking back to his nephew, he saw the darkness pulse inside his heart and he backed away. Ben opened his eyes and he was furious that he couldn't concentrate the way he wanted. But he was taken from his thoughts when he looked at his Uncle.
"Master Luke?" He asked as a look of terror was on his face.
"Ben, you need to rest. You're over exerting yourself. Our lessons will pause for the rest of the day." He said and walked away trying to act normal but was rushing back to his room. Something was wrong, he had never seen dark energy like that in someone so young. He would need to meditate and go to the Deep Force tonight. He wanted to speak to Master Yoda before he continued on.
Author: Hey everyone, if you made it this far thank you for reading it! I gladly welcome feedback, I'm doing this solely for entertainment purposes and I like writing. Trying to develope a writing style of my own and anyone who wants to help by giving me tips and tricks I welcome the advise. Thank you again for giving this a chance, I don't own any Star Wars property or the characters in them, just putting my own spin on the series. That is all! :)
Also let me know what you're liking about the series, what you didn't expect, or just a comment about this. I want to grow as a writer since I've done it for so long for my own personal entertainment and this is just a fun hobby that I'd like to expand on. So if someone has advise please send me a PM or write a comment and I'll read it. :) Thanks! - SK