Chapter 2

Darkness...

It was the only thing Kylo knew when he was pulled into the vortex, he did not know if he were alive or dead. He did not know how long he had spent in this endless nothing as his body refused to answer any command he gave it, even when he tried to reach out with the force all he felt was a cold twinge throughout his body.

Why had Mortis reacted violently?

Was it due to the both sides of the force coming together so violently? He had many questions but his thoughts were taken over by a voice he did not recognize.

Look was has become of you... It echoed in the back of his mind.

...Just a child in a mask. Came the voice of his former Master Snoke.

Remember the first and only reality of the Sith... Started another voice before it was silenced by another quickly filling its place.

Now do you feel the power of the Dark Side?

Now the voices were speeding up becoming a mass of voices piled onto one another into maddening shouts and whispers.

I hate you!

I slaughtered them like animals!

You failed!

Ben no!

Kylo Ren shot upward gasping loudly only to huddle over and began to vomit. His mind was still racing with the voices fading away instantly as he began to regain his sense of self, he wiped away the leftover bile from his face and raised his hands over his face. Yet only a single hand; his left hand touched his face while a burnt surface made contact with his jaw.

He brought his right arm to his face but his vision had a hard time focusing on what was right in front of him, but what his eyes could make out is the lack of a hand on his right forearm, that's when he remembered arriving on Mortis, his duel with Rey and despite blinding her, Rey still was able to defeat him with the guidance of the Skywalkers and her now empowered connection with the force.

Then he remembered the vortex and how he was swallowed up inside it. Though as he took a look around he did not see the endless void that he had been trapped in for however long, instead when his eyes regained their focus he saw that he was surrounded by tall trees and grass, nothing like the ancient world of Mortis. The air didn't feel thick with the sea of force energy, this air felt extremely pleasant like he was on a garden world in the Colonies.

How had Kylo end up here? Where was here?

Trees and grass was hardly any indicator of where in the galaxy he was.

That was until he heard something behind him, when he turned to look at the disturbance he saw a pack of five fat bulbous four legged creatures huddled around another gazing the grass without a care about the Supreme Leader of the First Order beside them. Dragging himself upward ignoring the pain shooting through body, Kylo stumbled over to the animals and began to reach out with the Dark Side of the force he began to focus it into the technique Tor Valum had shown him. A long tendril of force energy shot out of his hand splitting into a five separate arcs that stabbed into the animals' bodies causing them to jerk around violently.

The skin of the animals began to fate from a lively looking golden-brown into an ugly grey, their bodies even shriveling up going from lively to a withered, decayed state as the life energy was being sucked from them. Kylo himself began looking slightly more lively as this process went on, though the combined force energy was hardly a drip compared to what he took from Tor Valum, he did feel the wounds across his body quickly heal over from the force rejuvenating his cells. When the process was complete the tendrils of force energy vanished from the now smoking, decayed carcasses of the creatures that had been unfortunate enough to be the Supreme Leader's metaphorical Bacta.

A few tested movements of his limbs and abdomen showed that most of his wounds were now just slight aches, though when Kylo took a look at his hand he found that it had only slightly healed and that it had not grown back, which he expected as much as those animals had no great sources of force energy just enough to allow Kylo to find his way to a population center and call for a ship to come for him.

Pushing himself upward to stand Kylo reached out with the force, searching for life forms in the immediate area only to feel various lifeforms of animals nearby, however they were all panicking all of their instincts screaming for them to run away from something that was plowing through the trees.

His focus moved from the animals to what they were running from but instead of life he felt only the hum of advanced circuitry and its casing of cold metal that was forcing its way to its programmed destination, though he sensed no crew inside it, only a gathering of other smaller electrical signals that resided within its interior. Spreading his senses farther he found that it was not just this single machine plowing through the forest it was dozens of others just like it of various sizes, he couldn't see what they were exactly in the force, he knew however that they weren't foresters.

They were military vehicles and Kylo Ren intended to find out what kind of military they belonged too.

Though just as he took a step forward his boot kicked something metallic, his eyes moved down to see his mask and the remnant of his lightsaber. The mask itself was unharmed the Sarrassian Iron that had been used in reforging the mask showing its powerful durability. However his lightsaber looked further ruined with the metal being cut open by Rey, he saw the cracked Kyber crystal sat outside of it's housing on the ground, beside it the focusing lens lay shattered and pieces of the emitter falling out the moment he recovered his broken weapon.

He used the force to grab his mask, the seals hissing shut as he placed it back on his head, he then called the crystal to him which he stuffed into one of his pouches while placing the ruined casing in another pouch. Kylo Ren could rebuild his lightsaber and all these pieces and fragments would still be useful despite being broken.

Following the vehicles had been tedious for the Supreme Leader as they moved at an unrelenting pace, and not at a careful advance like they expected no resistance from the defenders. His efforts had been rewarded as the vehicles had finally came to a pause out in a massive plain allowing him to finally get within eye view of what he had been following, watching them from a small hill that he was able to take cover behind, and what he saw caused him great confusion.

The vehicles had turned out to be Separatist-era droid vehicles, everything from MTTs unloading hundreds of B1 battledroids that formed into columns that flanked waves of AATs that made up the centers. It looked like a massive parade rather than an invasion as the forces headed for the massive city without any blaster bolts flying from either side. When he took in the architecture of the assaulted city he noticed that it was of Nabooian design. Naboo was a firm believer in the Resistance cause due to Operation Cinder almost destroying the Planet decades ago, but what truly puzzled Kylo was that there should have been a Star Destroyer sitting over this planet and its legion of Stormtroopers garrisoned planetside to force it into complying with the First Order.

It was like he was witnessing a moment from his history classes as he recalled his lessons as a boy, the Trade Federation had invaded Naboo in what officially went down in history as their way of forcing the Republic to halt the taxing of Trade Corporations, but he recalled from his Mother that this had been instigated by Emperor Palpatine to finally break the Republic.

The lack of any First Order presence and the growing number of battledroids that emerged from the surrounding area made Kylo think back to the vortex. Had he been thrown into the past? Was the force that potent on Mortis that it was able to traverse time itself even if by accident?

Had he really been thrown into Naboo in the year 32BBY?

"Halt." Called a vocabulator behind him causing Kylo to quickly turn and see a single B1 battle droid standing atop a speeder with it's twin guns trained on him. "You are under arr-" The droid wasn't able to finish its sentence as it's torso suddenly compressed into a disfigured mess, it then fell from its speeder with a dull thump as Kylo pulled himself up onto the speeder, and with his only hand he took hold of the handlebar.

Yet right as he began to familiarize himself with the simple controls he heard more speeders approaching.

No time to get comfortable. Kylo thought to himself as he twisted the handlebar causing the speeder to shoot forwards as he began rushing to the city, behind him a squad of five droids on their own speeders chased after him.

Crimson bolts from blaster cannons flew passed him, throwing up dirt in the distance as the bolts exploded. Kylo Ren grit his teeth as with only a single hand his maneuvering skill took importance over trying to fight back against the droids, the city was growing closer as they sped through the open field he could force the droids to abandon their pursuit once he hit the narrow alleyway he was shooting towards. Swerving left he narrowly dodged another pair of bolts though as he avoided those shots more blasts missed him by inches exploding directly in front of him causing large chunks of dirt to be thrown into the speeder's turbines that sat at the middle of the vehicle. The engines began to sputter as they became clogged with dirt, the speeder lowering into the ground and once the lower spike connected with the ground the speeder threw Kylo forward, sending him flying forward to which he tucked himself into a roll as his short lived speeder exploded in a ball of flame.

Quickly picking himself up Kylo threw himself to the side as one of the Droids tried running him over, retaliating quickly he threw out his hand and the force sized the speeder and its pilot sending the droid crashing into the ground with a violent explosion from the power cells detonating. Infront of Kylo came the sound of the rest of his pursuers as they came for another pass, he grew aggravated of their persistence. The screams of their speeders grew in their intensity as the droids got closer and closer. Reaching into the Dark Side, Kylo stood his ground allowing the droid's programming to think they had him and once they were but a few meters away and closing the distance fast.

But just as the remaining four speeders lined their shots their speeders had suddenly stopped moving, throwing the droids from their speeders into the ground causing their frames to snap and break on contact due to the momentum they had been yanked from. Kylo released his hold on all but one of the speeders sending the ones released flying unguided away from him and crashing in various areas in the plains as he jumped onto the final one and turned it to resume his flight towards the city.

Reaching the small alleyways of the outer city took only minutes thanks to using the force to give himself a burst of speed. Kylo Ren now hid in the shadows of a tucked away private plaza and took some time to think about what he needed to do.

The most important thing that came to mind was his survival, without a lightsaber and missing a hand already put him in no position to take on an entire army by himself, especially since these droids were dangerous with their vast numbers and even if he survived the Trade Federation, he would not be able to take on the Jedi or Sith and their various power bases. He was alone in this galaxy with no First Order forces or Knights of Ren to call upon.

He needed to go back to his time, he needed to go back to Mortis.

Kylo needed a ship.

Luckily for him he recalled from his studies that the Naboo Royal Palace had a hanger built into the rear of the palace with a small fleet of starfighters that he could use to get back to Mortis, he would have to act fast though as he heard the sounds of approaching battle droids.

Again he reached into the force, pushing it into his legs allowing him to disappear into a blur of black deeper into the city.

Queen Amidala stood watching the beginning of the Trade Federation's invasion of her planet, from the window of the royal palace she could see the unending waves of battle droids and their assault craft began to take up positions around the city. She saw them march throughout the city, rounding up whatever local security forces and civilians before lining them up out in the streets.

She figured it was due to the series of explosions that happened at the outskirts of the city, she had ordered Naboo's security forces to stand down to prevent casualties but it seemed that someone had ignored her orders and took the fight to the Federation, now the droid forces were looking for them throughout the city as they began locking Naboo down.

The young Queen could only hope that whoever was out there was safe.

"My Queen they're here." Came the voice of Theed's Governor Sio Bibble quickly walking up the stairs red faced from exertion.

With those words Queen Amidala gave a slight nod and her Handmaidens formed up behind her as she heard the palace doors open, followed by the loud clanking of battle droids.

Author's notes.

Sorry for the long wait and the short chapter my readers however as I stated before I'm trying my hand at writing my own multi-chapter fanfic so I'm just trying to figure out the pacing of this story so please bear with me as I try to get everything in order!

Also as far as updates go I'll try to update this every week since with this Corona-Virus going on and I'm trapped at home 24/7 I work on this bit by bit. The issue is that I have a habit of hating everything I've written so this chapter was done last week I just deleted it because I didn't like where I was going with that version and started over again.

I hope all of you enjoy my modest work, please review and leave your opinions on this story and I hope you guys have a wonderful day/night.