Tales of The Cosmic War EXE Vol: The Secret War Beyond Good and Evil!

by Darth Necron

Five years after Ben Auro saved the universe from Chaos Zannacross Necron he is still helping try to guide the people to a better place alongside his lover Lacus Raystar. However they must reunite with their friends Mario,Cloud Strife, and others as everything they work for is threatened to unravel at the hands of the reality-destroying Incursion at the hands of the Beyonder!

21. C 221:Crucible of the Divine Bloodlines

Chapter 221: Crucible of the Divine Bloodlines.

As the countdown before Star-Killer base fired was rapidly running out, Samus and her group had little time to dwell on that, mostly because with all the screaming going on it was too loud to dwell on anything but staying alive.

Despite having five times the Ridley she was used to dealing with, to the bounty hunters relief the Proteus Ridley's were all about as powerful as he was when Samus fought him on planet SR388, which was still a threat, but far less powerful then the state he was in when she and Ben defeated him on the Dämmerung.

Despite that each one still had the power to crush her, but as much as she preferred to work alone she was relived she had back up for this duel, and even more glad as she saw Ben Grim catch one of the dragon's tail strikes, and exert enough force to fling it around like it was a gecko before throwing it high in the air, so high that Jonny Storm was able to use his unique mastery over fire to unleash a controlled burst of flame as hot as an erupting super nova to vaporize the monster.

The other four Proteus Ridely saw their kin get vaporized and two fired energy blasts at the member of the Fantastic Four that was on fire, while the other two bombarded the "Thing" from the ground. Samus prepared to come to the aid of her rocky teammate.

Before she could she heard a tremor, and saw some rock's fall from the left. Suddenly she saw giant metallic orange arms with drills in them burst out of the wall, and jumped back as the giant robot, a Diggernaut machine that served as a mining robot for the Chozo race staggered forward.

Samus saw the Diggernaught casually vaporize one of the remaining Predator's with a laser from its round face before he could react before she winces, and quickly unleashed a barrage of missiles at the new enemy. In response the Diggernaut blocked the missiles with its armored arms, and tried to impale Samus with its drill arms.

As it ran up Wrex, Garrus, Snake, and Master Chief came to Ben's friends aid and bombarded the giant drill robot. The Diggernaught fired another barrage of red laser blasts to shoot down the missile projectile Master Chief fired.

But as the Spartan's attack was shot down, the Stinger Missile Snake also fired was able to get through, and hit the robot at the source of where it was unleashing its lasers. As the weapon got damaged Garrus aimed carefully, and fired a blast from his sniper rifle.

His aim was true and he was able to have his shot hit his target, and damage the Diggernaught's laser system. As sparks burst out of the digging robot's head it served that round head around as it unleashed its suction function at full power to try and suck in all the shooters.

Samus saw the others struggle to hold on and quickly jumped up and used her Screw Attack to slice through its arm, and then quickly turn in to her morph ball state, and unleash a Power Bomb with just enough time to transform back and latch on to something above with her grappling beam.

Just as the Diggernaught prepared to swat her, the Power Bomb went out inside it, causing the giant robot to shatter from the inside out. Snake saw Samus casually land on the ground before he chuckled." I take it you're a pro at busting as many of those junk-heaps as I am with blowing up Metal Gears?"

"Not really." The bounty hunter casually retorted." I seen the specs on those before on some Chozo ruins like Tallon IV and Elysia, to get the general ideal. Including the most effective way to take them out."

Master Chief looked at the sparking remains of the Diggernaught before he looked around."I thought the Chozo were a peaceful race Aran. Well…I suppose the rules did not apply in Battle-World."

"It's not just that Spartan." Samus retorted." I know sometimes the Chozo could have gone mad, like when they encountered the Phazon. However, its more than that. With all my, spare time in recent years I uncovered some information about the Chozo…and found out that there was a splinter group that were far more war like then what they are known for."

Snake chuckled before throwing out a wry," A inner circle of "True patriots" eh? Seems every species has their shadow."

"Seems that way. This schism might have happened before I was even born, but either way, I highly doubt they are around now. In the end, it just shows that no race is perfect, even the ones with the most saint like legacy have their shadow.

Still, it does not matter. It might explain why Old Bird and some of the others felt so solemnly about cleaning up their" messes" but other than that it really does not change anything.

Even if there were a few corrupt Chozo it does not change what they did for me, and for the universe. Learning this, is just, useful for how to move forward. Finding out what went wrong with them, is the best way to make sure things move forward properly, so that people won't have to lose their parents to pirates like me.

I'm not big on dreams but, the kid, Ben Auro's dream does sound like a very nice one, one that he, James and the other big idea guys might be able to pull off as long as they don't lose their way, and all of existence does not fall apart. That's why no matter how many monsters are in the way I'll blow up every last one of."

Before she could finish the ground around her cracked, before a giant set of jaws devoured her. Her comrades instantly tensed up as they saw those jaws belonging to a creature that looked like a massive crocodile with a height of twenty feet and length of thirty-six feet.

The monstrous entity with a cluster of four eyes on each side of the head, the most evolved of all Metroid's, the Queen Metroid, glared at all the hostiles and roared before instantly unleashing a stream of fire at everyone. Chief, Snake, and the others all opened fire, only to see their shots not have any effect.

The Queen Metroid had the crystals on its neck glow red before it unleashed a barrage of green energy orbs to bombard everyone. It looked like it was going to unleash an even more powerful blast, when suddenly a flash of yellow light came out of the creature's mouth. Suddenly a massive explosion erupted from its underside. The Queen Metroid roared in pain, before Samus casually rolled out of its ruptured gut.

The bounty hunter got back up, and as the most evolved of Metroid race roared again Samus casually blasted it in the face. As it died, Samus saw Snake, Garrus, and the others looking at her she shrugged." Sorry to alarm you all, but the easiest way to take out a Queen Metroid is from the inside so once my scanners picked up familiar energy signatures I lured some bait. It seems that despite my reservations the monsters here are not showing, oh?"

She was cut off by a piercing cry as everyone saw another Ridley racing for them. The women with the green visor covering her face just remained calm, before right as this incarnation of the monster that killed her parents opened its mouth to prepare and unleash its attack, when Samus swiftly unleashed her Hyper Beam.

The bounty hunters most powerful energy blast collided into the Proteus Ridley before it could unleash its own, and the backlash vaporized its entire upper region. Just as everyone felt a moment of relief, that moment unfolded to dread as another Ridley dove at Samus from the right to tackle her, and hurl her into the air.

Samus felt her bones rattle as her enemy grasped her hard enough to prevent her from turning into her morph ball state. But as she saw the others firing on the Ridley, and saw the dragon creature ready its tail to stab her in the face she grit her teeth, and unleashed her thunder armor function to have a jolt of lighting crackle around her armor, with enough voltage to shock her target into loosening its grip.

The moment she was free she fired a rapid barrage of plasma blasts to hit Ridley in the face.

Being hit in the eye caused the monster to roar, forcing it to loosen its grip. As soon as she could move Samus jumped up and fired a super missile in its face. As the Ridley had its head snapped back, Samus unleashed her Screw Attack just in the same place were the missile hit him, unleashing enough combined energy to slice off its head.

Samus saw the light in the Proteus Ridley fade as it fell to the ground, and saw in the distance the mutated worm monster with a man's face have many glimmers of light burst out of its body, before it roared out." Atheos…must kill the enemies of the First Order! No matter how much the enemy struggles, they will fail!"

Samus saw a barrage of energy blasts heading her way before she sighed, and landed on the ground before having her speed booster kick in. As she swerved away from the incoming projectiles and dashed up with enough speed and force to tackle Atheos hard enough to make it stagger she threw out a controlled." Like hell we are failing this. My job was not to die to you, and as a professional I keep that reputation by getting the job done no matter how many turns it gets."

Samus swiftly unleashed her Wave-Burst combo attack to try and zap her massive target and short out its systems. As Samus casually evaded all of her target's efforts to resist Snake saw how effortless her movements were and chuckled." Well…was not sure what to make of you guys at first but, always feels good to not have to be the only ace in the, huh? Nice try ugly."

Snake heard footsteps, and felt something behind him before he quickly swerved around and used some of his Close Quarters Combat or CQC skills to grasp the incoming blade that the Yautja was hoping to kill him with and flip him on his back.

Wrex chuckled as he shot the Predator with his shot gun before he could get up and fired at a charging Xenomorph." I get what you mean pirate man. I'm not always on board with those Enji's sells pitch but they always give some fun jobs if you stick around them long enough."

Master Chief was firing at another Ridley with Vetra, Thane, and Jameson Locke. While none of their shots were inflecting to much damage it was frequent enough to prevent the dragon monster from firing many attacks. And after Master Chief saw Thane shoot his target right in the eye he ran past the drell assassin and took out a battle hammer that he took from one of his fights with a Covenant Brute.

Thane saw the Spartan's intention and used some of his biotic abilities to hold his target long enough for Chief to slam the Proteus Ridley in the head, landing a blow strong enough to send it flying, right into the Thing, who eagerly uppercut the dragon beast hard enough to smash it through the wall.

Master Chief just nodded at Thane before seeing an Omega Metroid coming for him and ducking under its energy blast." I agree that it's always good to have the best back up as you can in a mission. Never was in this for the glory, just wanted to do my job right. Even if I can't shoot down the primary threat, if I can keep the enemies away from those who can get the job down, I have no regrets."

The Thing heard this and just chuckled." Well I don't know just how many monsters are on this planet bucket head…but since we clobbered more monsters then in a Skrull zoo I think we gave the others some, huh? Oh cripes."

Everyone tensed up as they saw the Star-Killer Base start to shake, before they heard explosions in the distance. Everyone looked up to see some of the Gundam's, the Star Fox team, the Great Fox, Rouge Squadron and the rest of the forces that were working with Leia start to fly into the base.

As they started opening fire at the anti-aircraft defenses the Thing just cracked his neck." Well…everyone's showing up to the party at last eh? Too bad the party's almost over, but guess it's time for an overtime clobbering session, because no matter what I'm not letting Susy, Stretches, and all the others get blown up!"

Samus saw the sky get darker and darker before her scanners warned her of a surge in power, distracting the bounty hunter enough to get hit in the chest with an energy blast. The blast knocked her off but did only caused her enough pain to annoy her, causing her to swiftly fire a Super Missile-Plasma beam combo at Atheos's face.

Ben's armored comrade saw the mutant monstrously burn before its entire body started to combust before she glanced back at the energy pillar." James…we been through worst, but this is cutting it close. After all of those years of learning spells and mastering battle tactics, better find a way to erode the obstacles defenses before it's too late. Ugh…better just wrap this up and get over there to make sure that happens."

Samus heard another roar and saw the last Proteus Ridley was bombarding her from above and prepared to figure out the best way to kill him to do just that.

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As she did, little did she and anyone else in her group realize just how intense the ultimate commander of Star-Killer Base, and the First Order itself was.

Some of those standing before Darth Plagueis were still shocked at Snoke's true identity, and as Luke Skywalker saw the ultimate enemy of the Jedi gazing at him coldly before he grasped his head." So…after all this time…the curse of the Sith never ended with Palpatine like I hoped."

"You Jedi hope on too many basic things not just about the Force, but life itself, that's why you will always fail." Plagueis coldly uttered."

Guy saw the wings that once were part of the Sith Meditation Sphere begin to widen before he went over to Jade to whisper," Jade…how big a deal is this supposed to be? Was this guy supposed to be a big deal in the past?"

James sighed before he went over to his fellow Enji, keeping his bow on the target all the while." It's well known that the tyrant known as Sheev Palpatine was merely the alter ego of Darth Sidious, one of the lords of the Sith, the followers of the Dark Side, of Zannacross.

Someone had to train him in the arts of the Dark Side, and extensive investigation hinted that it could have been a male Munn named Magister Hego Damask II of the original of the InterGalactic Banking Clan who ended up having a history of interacting with Palpatine.

But, what happened to him was never found out. Most assumed Palpatine killed him, so if he really did survive its logical that he would want revenge on both him and the Jedi."

"Tsc…its arrogant to assume things boy." Plagueis retorted coldly." I was as surprised that my apprentice tried to kill me as my one-time master, Darth Tenebrous was when I killed him, and he was just amused at the timing. Yes…I bore no ill will to Palpatine, he performed it flawlessly, I fully admit I had gotten to self-absorbed in my decades of research on the Force and had lost sight of the physical world.

The plan was always that Palpatine would handle the political aspect of the grand plan while I devoted everything to master the art and science of midi-chlorian manipulation to bring about ultimate victory over the Jedi, and complete dominance of the Force itself.

The plan was also to discard the Rule of Two that Darth Bane had created, for there would be no need to need successors when we became immortals. That's why I overlooked that he groomed that attack dog Maul as his apprentice. However, I admit I got, conceited in thinking a man I goaded into killing his own family would really ever hold on to sentiment.

That's why I did not even realize he drugged me till it was too late to strike back. But…while I concede I was careless, he was careless thinking he could kill me so easily.

Oh, it was indeed quite close, and it took quite some time to recover from the state he put me in but like how he himself cheated death by creating hordes of clone bodies on his sanctuary world of Byss in the Deep Core, I had my own, contingency plans.

After all while I was focused on unlocking the mysteries of the Force, having all that I worked on nearly be eradicated by the nuclear bombardment that King Ars Veruna of Naboo unleashed on my base on Sojourn forced me to realize just how vital it is to have back up plans.

And since the plan was for my apprentice to overthrow the republic into a Galactic Empire I figured the best way to make sure no one would interfere was to have my back up base, and my reserve clone body be based outside the galaxy entirely.

Using the data I acquired from those cryptic Chiss, I was able to forge a path beyond the galaxy. I encountered the Yuuzhan Vong, and from there was able to find a place where I could hide without detection. Yes…a planet more entrenched in darkness than any other in space, Vandalgyon."

While Luke and the other Jedi were just indifferent to this revelation as James heard this he tensed up." What…the world where Chaos Zannacross Necron was sealed? So you were working with Damonus?"

"Ah…so you know enough to know that world's true purpose?" Plagueis mused out dryly." Between that and knowing about the name of the Overseer of the Sith it will be quite, amusing to pry just what you know. Yes, while the process of awakening was long, and even my body was damaged, it was worth it for none were aware of my rebirth. Alas, another cost of the process was that by the time I returned, my former ambitious apprentice was already dead.

It amused me that he too was killed by his Apprentice, by Darth Vader. But that amusement was not worth the price of his arrogance undoing not just what I spent my life working on, but the work of generations of the Sith.

Palpatine thought he was putting a leash on the masses to prevent them from interfering with the ultimate victory of the Dark Side, but he really had no need to waste time on such elaborate means of control to entice people to rebel. Still, I gave him some merit since he did outwit me, I merely focused on divided the strengths of his plans from his weaknesses, to realize the true ultimate victory of the Sith."

Mara Jade saw how smug her former boss's boss looked before she pointed her light-saber at him." So that's why your being such a pain? Because Luke screwed up your grand plan? I'd say I'm surprised but its par the course with egomaniacs like you."

Plagueis glanced at the former Emperor's Hand with a detached look, and then glanced at Luke, before he chuckled darkly." Mara Jade yes? You do have what they called spunk, for a mere fake.

I told you this was not for as something as banal as a grudge. I don't begrudge Luke Skywalker for what he did. As I said it was my apprentice's own arrogance that undid him. Besides, you did just what you were fated to do, what you were created to do!"

The Grand Master of the Jedi had his eye twitch before he blurted out,"C, created?"

Kyp saw how distraught Luke and Mara looked before he snorted." Don't be like Jacen and let a Sith's mind games trip you up! C'mon there is no way Obi-Wan lied about how you were born man, unless he's confusing you with another clone he's full of it!"

"Your true in a sense Jedi." The Sith Lord retorted." However, his father is another story. I can understand why some would think that the mother of Anakin Skywalker , Shmi Skywalker was just making up things to hide her shame when she told everyone that her son had no father and was conceived by midi-chlorians, by the Force itself.

But she was right, because Anakin Skywalker was willed into existence, by my power! And since the existence of the so called chosen one was only thanks to my efforts, your entire existence is due to me Luke Skywalker!"

Everyone, even the former collaborator Egil was shocked at this revelation. As Luke turned pale Tahiri saw both Mara and Rey turn pale the blond-haired girl blurted out," You, created someone? That's, to insane even for the Vong to have pulled off."

"That merely is because my mastery over life far exceeds those fanatics women. Still I don't blame you for being skeptical, for a while I thought he was not my creation but one the Force itself created to stop my plans. But even if for a time I thought the human slave-boy from Tatooine, the one that stood at a vergence in the Force and who had been born around the same time that my plan had saturated the galaxy with the dark side for a decade, was indeed the result of pouring my own will into the Force itself. It merely did not take the shape I expected. I concede I only realized this, after I returned from the brink of death.

While my process worked, by the time it did, the Skywalker bloodline had deluded far too much to reach my ambitions. Yes, Cade Skywalker had some power but only a fraction of the talent Darth Vader had. While it was enjoyable seeing that the Sith were ruling once more, they were so diluted under the former Jedi, Darth Krayt that it was useless.

Then I realized, that the only way to truly gaining what I sought was to go back from the start. And with the assistance of the purist forces of darkness, I was able to expand my powers even more to realize my ambitions.

Nothing would stand in my way, not even time. Jacen Solo used the Flow Walking power to look back in time, and feared the chaos of altering history. He was right to fear it, only because he lacked the power to do it properly. However, with the assistance of the demon of time, Demigra, I was able to successfully find the mystical plane known as the World Between Worlds.

It was a collection of doors and pathways that existed between time and space, linking all moments in time together. There were only a select few "passageways" in the entire universe, and I was able to go back in time to right before Palpatine killed me.

At once I made use of what I knew and pretended to force a confrontation with my apprentice to have him assume he killed me, this time with a much better outcome for me. I let him assume he killed me and go form his Empire, for the mundane affairs never interested me.

My apprentice had the chance to form an empire that would last longer than the reign of Sith Emperor Vitate, but he was too impatient to play the long game. But I let nature take its course, for now I was free to work on what mattered, creating a master piece that would surpass Darth Vader!"

James took in all that the Sith Lord was ranting about before he widened his eyes in shock." Wait…you altered the past? So, you were a time anomaly?"

"So, you know about even that? You do seem to be privy to many things, James Elrond. But even that won't save you now."

Luke took in all of the Sith Lord's rantings before he muttered,"No…this can't be true, it's impossible! You, you altered history? You, changed my life?"

"By quite a bit "Grand" master"." The leader of the First Order answered dismissively." I figured by now you are used to revelations that shatter your world by now. If you're wondering why I let you kill Palpatine, it's because his Empire meant nothing to me. I merely destroyed all his clones as you did to hasten his creations fall. What truly mattered to me, was influencing the birth of an even better scion.

As powerful as Jacen Solo may be, he and all of his siblings paled in comparison of the raw power that Ben Solo had, I made sure of it. I even made sure the New Republic entered a state of peace that lasted decades, to make the galaxy complacent, and soft.

I spent years subtilty planting fears in your mind Luke Skywalker, you and your sister both. Fears that made you cowardly enough to doubt your abilities as a Jedi, thus only rebuilding a smaller Jedi order in hiding. Yes, your terror eroded your will, allowing me to so easily push your sister's son to his rightful destiny.

It was far too easy, he was an unbalanced child, the visions I frequently sent him made sure of that. Of course, I did not want to trust everything in one investment, so I focused the midi-chlorians into another creation, the opposite of Kylo Ren. Like with Anakin Skywalker, this one was not known to me at first. But I realized my will once more manifested in ironic ways.

By causing Luke Skywalker to suffer, the Force responding by making their" answer" be his new child. I admit though, I did not think after your own upbringing you would have your own child be raised in, Jakku, a place even more isolated then Tatooine Skywalker. However, in the end I suppose I had a better effect on your mind then I even realized."

Luke felt a chill creep down his spine at the revelation Plagueis casually threw out before he looked below where Ray is." What!? No…I'm her father?"

Mara could hardly take in what she was hearing as he blurted out,"Plagueis, your even better at lies then Palpatine but there is no way you can fool me with such a lame joke! I mean, she does not even look a thing like me!"

"Tsc…do you still not get it women? She's not your child! In the new timeline, in the true history, you are not Luke Skywalker's wife. In fact, you never even met him because I made sure you died before the Rebel Alliance even formed. Yes…Palpatine thought you were just another failure.

I made sure to have all the ones that were Luke Skywalker's Jedi Masters in the future were killed before you ever left your world, to further isolate you."

Kyp had his eye twitch before snapping out," So afraid of us that you killed us with our backs turned eh punk? Let's see how,"Mara put her hand in front of Kyp before giving her husband a tense look." Luke, he's lying, right? He, did not erase me, everything we went through, right?"

The son of Darth Vader looked at Mara, before moaning in pain." Mara…I'm so sorry but he's right. The time together we had was real, you and my son are real without a doubt. But the memories of Rey, and the timeline where she exists feels just as real. I don't know what to say Mara, if I was stronger I could have prevented this.

In the other timeline, I was to wary to even rebuild the Jedi Knights. I felt they were to ineffective, and only started training again to leave a legacy. The moment I started training Ben...er...Ren, I knew there was a grave darkness in him. I felt, a horrible feeling from Ren, that he would cause disaster.

It was so horrible, I found myself prepared to kill him in his sleep out of sheer terror. I should have given him a chance to prove himself, but the feeling was so strong, that in a moment of weakness I was ready to stab him with my Light saber. I stopped myself, but Ren saw me, and attacked.

When I woke up, half the Jedi I was training left with Ren, and the rest were dead. I was not as strong without you Mara, I went to Ahch-To to hide. No, honestly, I went their to die. I, argued with myself again and again about to go through with it, all the way till I found myself up here. I was endlessly thinking of if the Jedi were worth it, if resisting the Dark Side just caused more pain.

Jacen, Kylo, Brakiss and Kueller and all the others, I failed again and again and,"

The Grand Master of the Jedi was quieted as Mara tenderly put her free hand over her husband's lips." Don't breakdown on me now Farm boy. I admit I don't know what it's like to have two memories in your head, though Palpatine did have some sick experiments with clones.

The point is Luke, it's not your fault! It's this Snoke, Plagueis, whatever the hell this scumbag calls himself it's his fault! I love you and Ben too much to let it all be erased for some sick joke! No matter what, never think that what you and the Jedi did were worthless!

Sure Yoda and his boys were a bit to stubborn but hey, you guys did mostly keep things together for thousands of years right? The Jedi were not wrong in principle, they just got to lax with how they trained people by the time your dad joined.

But what they did, protecting the innocent from the wrath of the Dark Side is never a bad thing, and anyone that has a problem with that is just a jerk trying to have their way!

That's why, lets end this nightmare once and for all, so we can at last return home ok?"

Plagueis chuckled darkly as he saw Luke look tormented." There is no home for you my dear, no past, no future. Your merely an aberration that's lingered on too long. Your feeble love can't save you, love was ultimately powerless to save Anakin Skywalker, his sentiment brought him only pain and despair. Love did not save your precious friend Han Solo either, he reached out with all his heart to save his wayward son, and he only got his heart crushed in return.

I assure you, while I gave him advise, despite his unstable emotions making him confused, Kylo Ren wanted to kill Han Solo with all of his heart, for he is the things he hates the most, weakness and things that deny him joy.

As useful as love is as a tool to control pawns, it really is such a useless emotion, one I will purge as my mastery over the Force grants me the power to remake life itself. It's already so close. It was so easy making the First Order, it almost felt to easy so easy that Palpatine must have rolled in his grave. I never had my apprentice's skills has a politician, but I soon realized I did not have to appear in public.

For how long it took to mold our decades long plan, when all it took was enticing people from the shadows a better world. I did not even have to provide many real things, just giving them, ideas was all it took.

I admit, this Battle-World was not part of my plans. However, it quickly provided to be a way to accelerate my plans. While the stakes are higher, the reward will be far greater."

James grasped his bow again and prepared to fire, when suddenly Egil snarled with rage and punched the ground hard enough to dent it." So, this is the true face of your ambitions Snoke? Or, should I call you Plagueis? There was never any future for us once we were no longer useful to you as pawns!"

"Come now are you really surprised Egil?" The Sith Lord chided out." I figured you would not be as naïve as my current apprentice, that men such as you and Davros understood how foolish friendships are, and yet I figured you and most of the others of the Conclave knew the practically of sticking to an alliance as long as it was useful. I would not deny you your chance for your ambitions out of spite like Palpatine. Of course, if you failed, then there was simply no reason to honor a failure's part of the deal."

Egil snarled before his eyes glowed, and he poured all the power he had left into Yaldabaoth, getting his golden mecha to at last stand up. Plagueis saw his former collaborator have wires attached to the ground before the metallic man roared out," I was not naïve enough to trust any organic being, but I did not think you would be inclined to sabotage us from the start! But, I was not complacent enough to not have my own contingencies installed! I implemented my own programs into Star-Killer base, to give me sole command of the base's systems!"

"Is that all? When were you under the impression I was not expecting treachery? As a Sith, I expect it. That's why I already know about your override, and can override that to."

"Damn you, they will fail if I kill you! Die!"

Egil swung his blade at the transformed Sith Lord to try and cleave him in half. However, the moment he the Supreme Leader's left wing had its veiny structure twitch before he flew back to evade the slash.

As the blade struck the ground its target sighed." That is indeed a ridiculously large blade Egil. Getting hit with that would likely cause considerable trouble. Its, a good thing your already so poorly constructed you're on the verge of falling to pieces."

"Keep mocking the strongest of all Mechon and you will die before you know it! I'm not one of your shabby automatons! Despite the injuries I endured to Jacen Solo I have more than enough, GUH!"

Egil prepared another slash, when everyone saw a flash of red light before suddenly Egil saw his sword arm suddenly bend and twist unnaturally and spin around, before it was suddenly ripped off.

As it fell to the ground Plagueis just sighed." True…your much more elaborate then the clunky cheap B1 battle droids that the Trade Federation mass produced. But at least those like 11-4D were not insolent enough to question their place."

"SILENCE!" The ruler of the Mecon roared out as energy surged into the center of his mech." I am not deluded, I am doing what must be done to secure the destiny of the Mecon! I sought to win this to claim final victory over Zanza, but it's the same for any who stand in the way of my people! No matter the extent of your tricks I will kill you! Catastrophe!"

Plagueis saw his former teammate fire a large energy blast at him and merely activated his light saber. As he batted away the blast with his blade of red light he narrowed his eyes." To think, such advanced machines would share the delusions of man. That's the price of trying to emulate such flawed things. Enough, I take no enjoyment in the thrill of the fight like other Sith. Just submit to fate."

The Sith Lord raised his hand and Egil saw his severed blade suddenly twitch before it swerved around and shot out, before it impaled him right in the chest. Egil yelled in pain as he stabbed in his own pain, and even though he was his enemy, Shulk saw how hurt the Mechon leader looked before crying out," No, Egil! Stop this you monster!"

This act of compassion caused Egil to chuckle bitterly." You show mercy, even to the man that caused you to suffer for most of your life? Foolish, wielder of the Mondo. If we were not fated to be enemies, I might almost have respected your, GUH!"

Plagueis showed just how much he tired of Egil as his entire body convoluted, before he kept twisting unnaturally. Everyone heard Egil scream, till his entire body looked like a crumbled can. As it exploded Mara just grasped her hand tightly as she tried to keep her anxiety from showing. " I figured whoever trained that brat would have immense power but, he ripped that droid man like he was nothing!"

Sam chuckled as he tried to play a straight face and got into a fighting stance." That fella kept ranting about how he was immune to all the tricks the Jedi had, and looks like he should have gotten a refund on that deal. Still…not to big on being ripped apart by my own sword."

James saw Plagueis was just gazing at Luke coldly with his yellow eyes before he stepped forward." I think it's fair to say we must be extremely cautious with our current enemy. Still, for all your power, your no god. I dealt with gods before, and I found out their weaknesses. I already deduced one of yours. For all your powers, your still covered in metal. And there is no time to waste on mercy, Magnetic Shockwave!"

The red haired Enji quickly had his aura explode as he unleashed his magnetic spell to try and crush the Sith Lord with his own armor. Plagueis felt his wings get tugged before he closed his eyes." I can respect an opponent who goes right for the kill. I can sense that your trying to crush me using the power of Magnetism. Not a bad thesis, but while it could have worked on a lesser being, such limited power has no effect over someone who has full mastery over the Force!"

Plagueis then had an aura of darkness seep around him before everyone felt a strong, chilly force knock them back, and James felt his arm paralyzed as he felt his throat being crushed by raw energy." Damn…he's powerful enough to overpower my spell? This…is…going to be even more difficult then I figured." James felt enough pressure to choke out blood, and as his comrades saw this Jade re-positioned his glasses before uttering a cold," Well…looks like this will have to do this the more direct path. Meteor Storm!"

Tear nodded before holy energy shimmered out of the Enji Knight's staff." We won't lose any comrades to this twisted game if we can help it! Fortune's Ark!"

The brown-haired women exploded with holy light, and moments later a magical glyph appeared above her target. Plagueis felt a disturbance in the Force and looked up to see not only a barrage of holy energy beams raining down for him as a result of Tear's Mystic Art spell, but a barrage of large meteors of raw energy from Jade's art. The leader of the First Order wasted no time flying backwards to avoid some of the holy pillars.

As he saw some of the meteors home in on him his eyes glowed, before his wings convulsed, and he willed the Sith Meditation Sphere that merged with his body to form cannons on those wings, cannons that fired miniature Proton Torpedo's to destroy them.

As more projectiles came his way he used the Force to freeze them in midair. Raiden was one of ones who saw their enemy was distracted before he grasped his blade and looked at the others. "C'mon, we are never going to win this just waiting for him to get a heart attack or something! Far as we seen he can't regenerate, so slice his head off while he's distracted! Even if he tries to do what he did to the Mechon, all it takes is one of us getting through!"

Shulk, Kyp, Guy, and a few of the others nodded before they all charged in various directions to attack Plagueis. Luke saw his new and old comrades alike prepare to attack before he blurted out," Don't be foolish! He's far too powerful, he's too far above the other Sith Lords to be defeated so easily!"

Shulk tried to steel himself to give it his all anyway, but as he prepared to attempt to strike Plagueis before the Monado glowed. The powers of the large red sword gave Shulk a vision of something attacking him from the ground, and killing him before he widened his eyes." Guys watch out he's right! The Monado's giving me a vision, and the gist of it is to watch below!"

As he said that he jumped back, just as a red and black spike erupted out of it. Kyp was shocked, and even more shocked as he saw one heading for him, and quickly used the Force to have a chunk of the wall intercept it.

Raiden saw one erupt for him as well, and tried to block with his arm, only for the spike to go right through it. The cyborg cursed and did not hesitated to slice his arm off, and got even tensed as he saw the severed arm condense and crumble up into a ball.

Guy saw one come for him to and unleashed the Demon Fang energy sword wave attack to knock it back before he jumped back to where Jade, Tear, and the others were. Luke Fon Fobre saw the result of the charge and just grimaced." Damn, guess this is another baddie that can sense energy or something huh? Guess he's one hell of a multi tasker, we are not going to be able to back stab someone who more or less eyes in the back of his head, and everywhere. C'mon guys if we keep thinking of half-assed plans we are going to be dead before we know it!"

James chuckled grimly at his fellow red head's remark before he eyed the remains of Raiden's arm, and noticed that Plagueis 's feet were veinily as well, and realized the ground around them were cracked. He quickly checked the remains of Raiden's arm with his scanner, and looked at the area before he cleared his throat." True enough but at least that venture was not entirely a useless move, for it got me to unravel the nature of some of his attacks.

While it seemed like he was just using an empowered variation of the Force Choke maneuver, but it's something entirely different. Using the powers, he gained from that sphered ship, he can extend parts of in a way that he's shooting out his nerves and hide them by having them move from within the ground.

Once the nerves make contact, they seem to allow are enemy to bypass all defenses and forcibly control their movements in a very brutal manner. The gist of it, just one moment of unprepared contact with his body, can turn fatal."

"You are quite sharp my red-haired friend." Plagueis threw out darkly." You're the first to live long enough to deduce the nature of my Compulsory Execution power. Of course, understanding means little without the means to change what you understand. Wisdom without power is just a cruel joke!"

Plagueis had the cannons on his wings transform to Gatling Gun like blasters before he caused a barrage of purple energy blasts to rain down on his targets. James flash stepped out of the way of the attacks and moved fast enough to be behind his opponent in the blink of an eye before he narrowed his eyes." I have the means, just have to figure out the best way to utilize them. First, let's see just how extensive your defenses are. I'll show you a bombardment Sith Lord, Licht Regen!"

James unleashed a barrage of energy arrows that was so massive that it was like a rainstorm of projectiles. But even though the Enji Master mixed in some larger energy arrows in the mix, to his dismay Plagueis showed his armor was strong enough to endure the bombardment.

As his wings covered his head the man who groomed Darth Sidious snickered." Desperately trying to hit every inch for a weak spot? You waste my time, after seeing how the Death Star was destroyed, I made sure to not have any such weak spots."

"Then I'll just have to make one. Seele Schneider!"

James dashed to the left and unleashed his piercing projectile for his enemy's head. Plagueis attempted to block it with his wing as well, only to see the Seele Schneider slice through it. The Dark Lord widened his eyes and used the Force to push the arrow back before James saw this and grasped his fist tightly." So, you are not invincible…good. With this I call check Plagueis! Final Eraser Arrow!"

The Enji Master once more unleashed his full power to enter the Letz Stile state. As a wing of energy formed out of his shoulder and he unleashed a massive blue energy blast.

Plagueis winced and used the Force to try and push the energy blast back, only to see that he was having trouble pushing back James's ultimate attack. Jade saw this and looked at his comrades." No need to play fair, overwhelm him! Just watch out for attacks from the ground! Indignation!"

The man with the title of Necromancer quickly unleashed his electrical Mystic Art as Tear, Natalie, and others unleashed their attacks from all directions. Plagueis saw all the attacks coming for him and saw James's spell get closer to him before he narrowed his eyes." I won't be foolish enough to take those who were chosen for Battle-World lightly. So be it, you forced me to play my final card, and will die horribly for it!"

James saw his target's armor glow with red light before he winced." Everyone be on guard he's attempting something! Try and finish him before, huh? Damn, to late!"

Ben's friend's shift in tone was caused as he saw a flash of light in the distance, and saw a massive pillar of red energy race for him. The Enji Master cursed as he was forced to break off his attack before the energy pillar collided right into Plagueis with enough power to blow away all the other attacks.

Everyone tensed up as the pillar of red energy blazed around the Sith Lord for a few moments, before it surged into him. Johnny Gat just reloaded his gun before muttering," I know I did not get the full briefing about what the Jedi or Sith could do, but when the hell could they do that?"

As Lando, Chewie, and his fellow Saints Row members all shrugged Tahiri grumbled out,"Even Jacen could not do something like that! It's like, he just willed power to come to him!"

James saw her say that, and looked at the new energy surging around him carefully."Can he cast full magic? Does not seem like it, so that means that was not his own energy beam. Wait, it's the same color as the pillar!"

"Once more, your only sharp enough to observe the nature of your death. Yes, I was not bluffing when I told Egil I made some, customization's to the Star-Killer base. One such function, was to directly direct all of the weapons power to myself.

After observing some of the other contestant's powers on the other planets, I figured it would be wise to have a way to enhance my direct power and it seemed that utilizing the Sith-Sphere has worked splendidly. Transferring the energy to me might delay the countdown, but since I have to eradicate all anyway, such a delay is more then worth the results."

Tahiri raised an eyebrow before blurting out," Wait…but the Sith Sphere was with Jacen, there was no way you could plan that!"

"You underestimate the length that I weaved the grand web women." Plagueis retorted coldly." I created the Sphere before I even met Palpatine as a way to seek out those that were strongly tuned to the Dark Side. I also was the one that worked with the original plans for the Death Star, even if I was not around to use it as it should have been. When I was "inactive" the Sphere became inactive as well, only now did it at last fulfill its ultimate purpose."

James eyed Plagueis carefully as he glared back at him." You made it quite clear you been plotting for quite a long time Sith Lord. However, you should be aware I and my comrades managed to overcome the plots of those who waited even longer then you. Maybe it's not quite destiny, but overall statistics show that the ambitions of your kind always fail sooner or later."

"Tsc…I'm curious at where you got that data from because your evaluation seems, naïve at best. Yes…maybe you been through a war or two and read history, but I lived it boy. With the combined history of the entire Sith race archived into my soul, I seen civilizations rise and fall, I seen legacies be born, and crumble.

And I seen what was the truth, and what was foolish, worthless, sentiment. The hope and faith in the common man that not just the Jedi Knights, but all of those heroic types make their creed is a nice sounding, but pathetic delusion.

The Jedi tried again and again and guide people to a better future, only to be rewarded with at best dismissal, at worst, something like Order 66. The masses enjoy having saps protecting them, but the moment they try to push them to do something they don't like, they are reviled. They will never be balance in the Force, because the masses are more naturally synchronized to the Dark Side then to the light!"

Luke winced before he tried to override the pain he was feeling to stand his ground. "Your wrong Plagueis. I know all too well the weakness of man, how easily they can be tempted by the darkness in their souls. I been dealing with that my whole life, if not two life times. But despite that, I seen time and again how strong the light can be, how people can rebound from even the darkest places to find redemption."

Luke saw Mara and a few of the others around him smile in agreement, before Plagueis broke his stoic demeanor to laugh cruelty." It still amazes me how people can learn so much, and still be so foolish. It takes, a serious amount of commitment to deluding yourself from the truth.

You think your father saving your life is proof of mankind's valor? Please, Darth Vader only killed Palpatine because of a combination of lingering guilt over killing his wife and knowing he was already doomed.

I said frequently that sentiment brought about my apprentices fall, but it also brings about the fall of people again and again who have been truly great, but succumb to their weakness. Yes, so many thought they were doing dark things for the sake of the light, that the ends justified the means.

Everyone from your broken nephew Jacen, to your father Anakin, to Qel-Droma, to that fool Raven, and even that pompous fool Skere Kaan man that would lead the Brotherhood of Darkness that Darth Bane would destroy, all of them thought they could bring true justice, true reformation by using the Dark Side for their own ends, and every last one of them was used in turn.

I and Palpatine were never like them, we were never naïve enough to be governed by such worthless principles. We were some of the lucky ones to be sharp enough to know that man mind's nature is one of weakness and chaos, and knew how to exploit them to control them, till things were ripe enough to at last create a better, superior state of existence. That time has come, to at last realize the ultimate ambition of the Sith."

James took a deep breath before he responded with a steely,"I'm sure you had many, many years to assure yourself about how right your logic is Plagueis. However, that still does not mean your logic is the judgment of god! We all refuse to accept that your judgment is the only path for history to take. Its true many people have failed and succumbed to their impulses. But for all that have sinned, just as many have wrestled control of their sin to do good.

It's true that things have been imbalanced many times in history, but all that's showed is that the ideal conditions for true evolution have yet to be met. But they can be, and we will realize said conditions to make a better existence, without having to resort to such, drastic measures as committing mass genocide!"

"Oh…so you have your own grand plan do you?" Plagueis chided out with icy amusement." You can plan as much as you like, but humanity and most other mortals are to irrational to stick to them, they are too weak. My, most recent apprentice is a prime example is he not Luke?

You and your sister worked so hard to rebuild, and then Ben Solo, because of his own emotions, eagerly caused it all to come crashing down. The best plans, will always be undone by such desires. You really have faith you can change anything when your committed to making the same mistakes again and again?"

"I did not say we were going to have blind faith, just stick to a balanced approach."

"I don't have time to humor more naïve delusions. Just submit to fate, submit to the wrath of the Dark Side."

He then glowed and raised his hands, before he discharged the energy he absorbed from the Star-Killer Base, and unleashed large red energy blasts in all directions Seeing the level of power in those blasts, James realized how little time people had to dodge and used his magnetic magic to have the ground around all his comrades move downwards.

The Enji Master was relieved to see his spell saved his comrades and as he jumped back up he threw out a dry,"We endured worst, you won't break us as easily as you think."

"Maybe, but it seems I at least managed to break something."

James heard an explosion, and cringed as he quickly got what his enemy met before he saw that the attack indeed blasted Ramathal's confinement. With a gesture the Sith Lord ripped James's magical metal flowers off the Black Swan's body, and mere moments later she recovered enough to take to the air. Guy saw the one who attacked the Great Fox look down on them and grimaced." Great, like we did not have enough to handle already."

Plagueis saw Ramathel had a blank look on his face before he chuckled." I'm not greedy Black Swan, feel free to have your share of death."

James saw the women he subdued look at him for a few moments before she closed his eyes." I decline. I am grateful for your assistance, but while I intervened to ensure that the will of Rabum Alal was not sabotaged, it's also his will to see which force is superior. Now that it's already come to this point, I will not take actions that will interfere with the result."

"So, you want to see who's will is superior puppet? So be it, the answer will become clear enough and I can shape the destiny that is rightfully mine."

"It's not yours no matter how long you waited Sith. After everything me, Ben and all the others have worked on, I won't let it all be for nothing! Despite the odds…I know it's not impossible evolve properly, and I'll do whatever it takes to be able to pull it off."

Plagueis merely snorted as he had various guns fire at everyone, while also having large bolts of Force Lighting rain down from the sky, while more of the Compulsory Execution spikes erupted out of the ground to try and impale the hero's.

James saw his comrades use all of their resources to not be overwhelmed by the Sith Lord's onslaught, and as he did the action he was trying to prove, humanity being able to rebound from its darkest state was unfolding below them, the showdown between Ben Solo and Ben Skywalker and the Solo twins.

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Despite it being three on one and Jacen clearly having superior skill, the three enemies of the deranged head Knights of Ren were finding out the hard way that the powers his" Brother" had gotten from the Vollständig were nothing to dismiss.

With his power up Ren was able to effortlessly swing the long-handled cruciform broadsword of raw red energy in his hand. While his targets were able to block the strikes, each blow knocked them back, and as Ren struck with the blade in his other hand Jacen and Jaina both found themselves being pushed to the edge of the platform.

Psychotic glee sprouted in the eyes of the man with the oily black hair as he thought he was about to secure his victory. He prepared to unleash a Force push to blown his opponents off, when Ben Skywalker fired a few blaster shots at the older Ben.

But his target just had his eye twitch as he blocked the shots with his new energy wings, and suddenly had his left energy blade extend to try and puncture the younger man's heart. As he did that he also tried to swing his other blade horizontally to slash apart Jaina and Jacen at once.

The two blocked together with their light-sabers, and while Ren though the could overpower them, Jacen narrowed his eyes and suddenly summoned a hidden light-saber to his other hand and slashed Ren just as it activated.

Ren's own senses alerted him to the danger, but he was not fast enough to avoid the blow completely and got slashed lightly across his face.

As another scar was burned into his body Ren yelled with outrage, and had his wings unleash a barrage of red energy blasts.

Despite being deeply in-tune with the Dark Side himself, Jacen could not help but feel weary as he fought back his enemies outpouring of rage. The power was fed by emotions so strong, they seemed almost to pollute the Force Around Kylo. Rage poured out of him, and a near malignant cruelty, a lust to deform and destroy everything around him, to blot it out and erase it.

Jacen then realized that the emotions of rage weren't the most powerful ones he sensed in his brother from another reality, as he focused his senses Jacen detected emotions stronger then anger in the depths of his opponent's heart. Even stronger then the anger was pain and fear, they filled him and were on the verge of devouring his mind.

Ren realized Jacen saw this weakness and attacked with even more fury, but his opponents made use of his rage to evade the strikes.

As the Dimensional Nihilo General saw the three before him dodge and deflect his attacks he screamed out." Your tricks won't save you! Your just disgusting eyesores, I'm the true successor to Darth Vader! And I will finish what he started, no matter how many heretics try and get in the way!"

Jaina just rolled her eyes before spitting out,"The hell are you even talking about? In the end, Darth Vader, no, Anakin Skywalker sacrificed his life to save Uncle Luke! Despite all he did, my grandfather's last act was to save the Jedi!"

"LIAR!" Ren shouted out as his rage exploded with enough force to nearly knock her off her feet."That's fake news! Everyone, including Luke and my, and Leia just made that up to look better! Don't use his weak name, Darth Vader is his true name! Yes, they lied to make there weak Jedi ways look good, but Vader was not weak! He was just tricked by lies! What Vader wanted more than anything else, was to kill the Jedi heathens, and all other weaklings so that the worthy would not have to live with parasites!"

"One way or another, your entire existence is based on alternate facts." Jacen uttered coldly." I used the Force to see the past, I saw Vader's final moments, and without a doubt his final moments were that of renouncing the Dark Side. For a time, I thought he was to bound by his emotions, but at the very least he chose to make his final moments not be bound by fear.

At the very least, I can respect not being bound by fear, not wanting your final moments to be that of failure, to end things on your terms so you're not a monster, like yourself "Ren". You understand nothing but yourself, and twist everything around yourself to justify your fantasy.

Maybe all men do that to some degree, but the level of delusion you have is just too aggravating to look at. All the more reason to rid reality of your disgusting face."

Ren snarled like a wild beast and unleashed a jumping strike. While Jacen intercepted the strike, the force of the blow brought him to his knees. The man who called himself Darth Caedus saw his opponent have veins form on his forehead." You're the one who understands nothing! No matter what you thought you saw, you're an inferior being so it does not count!

I am the true chosen one, that's why my understanding of what Vader wanted is the purist! Yes, and that's that why I know that Vader, just like me, was surrounded by inferiors! Just like how I'm letting Snoke do the mundane work till I can get what I want, Vader was letting the Emperor do all that ruling stuff, till he got tricked!

But it's the weak's fault he was denied his rightful destiny, just like it's all the inferior heretics that think they know everything but know nothing that I have been denied the respect that should rightfully be mine! All I have to do, is kill every last one of you and things will finally be how they should be!

Luke knew I was a threat to him, he tried to kill me in my sleep! But destiny made me be aware of it before he could strike, and so I struck back, broke his stupid order and everyone stupid enough to defend him, and went on to fulfill my destiny! No one will stop me, NO ONE!"

Ren gave a cry of bestial rage and unleashed a barrage of rapid smashing strikes with his sabers to try and overwhelm Jacen and slice him apart. Even with all of his power Jacen found himself just managing to keep his deranged brother from another reality from getting his blade through.

Jaina focused herself and tried to attack Ren while his back was turned. But to her shock her slash was parried by another lightsaber, and its owner was Rey.

The daughter of Han Solo saw that the woman scavenger was staring at her with grim defiance before Jaina grimaced." Girl what's wrong with you? Is Ren or his boss controlling your mind? Because that's the only excuse that I'll take for not being a idiot right now!"

"You, you don't understand!" Rey retorted." Ren, no, Ben Solo is just misunderstood!"

"You better just be saying that because you took a blow to the head!" Jaina snapped out." Because its very damn hard to see how killing my dad is a misunderstanding!"

"Your to emotional about it! Luke Skywalker is a fraud, a failure, I see it now! He failed him by thinking Ben's choice was made, that his fate was sealed! There's still conflict in him! I, I can reach out to him I know it!"

"You seriously having feelings for that nutjob? The only conflict that bastard is having is how he's going to die!"

"No, he's someone that knows me more then any other, I can't lose him!"

"You seriously so isolated that you think the person that mentally tortured you is the nearest connection you have? Damn it Rey, I don't have time to tell you how stupid your being so get out of the way before I have to hurt you!"

"Shut up! You don't know me! The Jedi are liars!"

Rey struck back and to Jaina's shock her blows had more finesse then she expected from the woman. As the Sword of the Jedi got slashed across the face she snarled." Damn it Rey, were you lying about never using a Light-saber? Because no novice can last long against me in a duel!"

"I realize now, as a side effect of that mind probe, by accident Ben inadvertently unlocked some of my dormant Force abilities by accessing memories of his own training which, in turn, served as my own training in the ways of the Force."

What kind of lie is that? The Force does not work that way!"

"It does now! Don't you get it " Sword of the Jedi?" You and all Jedi are out of date! Now that his thoughts have settled in, Ren was right! It would be best if society was forced to let the old ways die! The Skywalkers, the Sith, the Jedi, the rebellion? Let it all burn down so that everyone can be free!"

"You really are naive if you think it works that way Ray! Even if the conflict between the Jedi and the Sith, and the Light Side and the Dark Side has been going on for a long time, it does not mean that its time to just give up the fight! I'll never let the forces of the Dark Side win!"

Jaina unleashed a flurry of light-saber strikes and tried to end her combo with a force push to knock the younger woman into the wall. However to her shock Rey countered with a sudden surge of energy of her own, and in moments was pushing Jaina back. The woman from Jakku just had a wild look in her eyes as her hair blew wildly from the raw power she was unleashing.

As Rey saw Jaina look at her her eyes only widened further." Its pointless to fight fate Jaina! I'm a moment I was able to gain more power then you gained in your life time! You and your kind are just Legends now, irrelevant! Just accept your place and fade into history already!"

Jaina saw the madness in Rey's eyes and just rolled her own." Geeze, just a little power and you go full ranting like you been a Sith lord for decades eh girl? Damn it, dated or not, I'm not just going to roll over! I, huh?"

The child of Han Solo heard a explosion in the distance and glanced behind her to see the other children of Han and Leia still dueling furiously behind her. As Ren hacked another part of the Star Killer base his slash ruptured a power cable.

Jaina saw the entire cable rupturing , and saw that a segment was glowing right behind her before she narrowed her eyes." Rey, I might not be the " new girl" anymore. But I'm not just going to roll over! I may not be the most powerful Jedi, but I know what to do with what I got!"

Rey responded with a battle cry and jumped up to try and dive her Light-saber through Jaina 's skull. But Jacen's twin used the Force to dash backwards quicker then Rey expected. The scavenger slammed her light-saber into the ground, just as the ruptured cable discharged energy. Rey saw the raw energy prepare to collided into her and used the Force to freeze the energy. But as she focused on that Jaina grasped her own energy blade tightly." Sorry Rey...I'm not going to let your deluded feelings jeopardize everything!"

Jaina swung her blade at Rey's head, and her opponent parried the strike with her own blade and also attempted to push the energy from the cable into Jaina. As she did she grew more frantic." You can't win! Jaina Solo, your the past and I"M the Fut, GUHAA!"

Rey attempted to overpower the Jedi, but as she put more power, she unleashed so much power that the other end of the cable ruptured, causing a pillar of raw red energy to erupt into Rey from behind.

Rey tried to use the Force to push the energy back, but the energy was already burning her back, causing her to scream in pain." NO! This can't happen to me! I'm the future! I'M THE, GUHH!"

The pain broke her focus, and Ray was consumed by the energy. Jaina saw the girl that was her ally till just a few minutes ago have her entire upper section be vaporized before she winced." Sorry, sometimes its one step forward and two steps back. Not going to let someone so single minded decide everyone's future! Now, speaking about single minded."

The brown haired woman heard a frantic cry, and without another word ran over Rey's charred legs to help the others.

Jaina joined Ben just as he was preparing his own new strike, but as they both tried to attack Ren from the left and right, Ren just heard their footsteps and snickered before he spun his right energy broadsword, and once more had it morph into a whip like state to try and slice through them.

As Jaina jumped over the strike and Ben slid under it, Jacen took advantage of his opponent's moment of divided attention to unleash his own furious assault barrage of lightsaber strikes.

As he pushed Ren on the defensive the head of the Galactic Alliance guard hissed out,"Clown…unless you truly intend to remake existence to be it natures law to obey you, no one will respect such a deluded clown.

Some of the First Order storm troopers we captured said how while everyone feared your rage, no one respected you. I did not just use the Force to trick or force my followers to respect me, I earned their respect with my actions, not demanded it because of who I was related to.

Ren…despite the lengths I went to secure my desire, only the worthiness of its purpose makes it all mean something. Despite how fanatical you are, you're not even strong enough to mask how insecure your feeling. Yes, you wonder in your own broken way if you were making a mistake, and as you reach your last final moments I want you to know that without a doubt, such feelings are correct!"

"SHUT UP!" Ren roared out as he unleashed a surge from the Force to knock Jacen back. He had his eye twitch again before the lanky man hissed out," The only doubts I have are because of the pull of the light, because of the remnants of the weakness from that damn loser! I don't care who I have to kill or what has to be destroyed, I have no regrets if my new world can be built! I regret nothing!"

"That light is your broken consciousness you twit!" Jacen harshly retorted."And if that's the case, then say that again to your, to our father!"

Ren just gave a wild cry as he prepared to slice Jacen to pieces. Before he could go through with the move suddenly Jacen turned into Han Solo. As he saw the haunting look of his father Ren frozen in his tracks." What the? No…you, you're suppose to be dead! Why won't you just go aw, GUH!"

Han's image quickly transformed back to Jacen, just as the man stabbed Ren right through his left hand, and stabbed him through his upper lung with the other. As Ren yelled in pain Jacen merely closed his eyes." All too easy."

The man who trained to be a Sith Lord blasted the head of the Knights of Ren with the most powerful barrage of Force Lighting that he could produce. As Ren was blasted into the nearest wall Jacen slowly got closer as he turned on one of his lightsabers." Your thoughts betray you Ren, the mere image of Han Solo from the quick Force Illusion I conjured caused your regret to boil to the surface.

I'd say it will all be over soon but well…after all you have done you don't deserve a quick death. Tell me all I need to know about your master's secrets and I might hasten your execution a little but, only after you concede how inferior you are will I permit you to die."

Jaina and Ben saw how ruthless Jacen looked and slowly walked up to him, before Ren coughed up blood, and snapped out a fanatical," Damn you, Jacen Solo! I can say the same of you, for making me look so bad! You think you got me beat? You only think that because I have powers far beyond what you could even think of! Yes, the power given by Rabum Alal is not just for show! I'll show you true power, and make you beg for mercy! Now, may my Freund Schild switch the scales of fate!"

Jacen saw Ren's eyes glow red and assumed he was about to prepare to unleash some sort of attack and dived in with enhanced speed to try and stab Ren through the heart. Before he could the halo that formed around the Dimensional General's head shined with enough light to blind everyone.

As Ben shield his eyes he heard Jacen cry in pain. When he opened his eyes the son of Luke Skywalker nearly dropped his jaw as he saw blood burst out of Jacen as he suddenly had numerous wounds erupt out of his body.

Jaina saw her brother fall into his knees before she felt a chill down her spine."The hell just happened? How, could anyone injure Jacen so quickly?"

Jacen saw Ren eagerly get back up on his feet, and noticed his own wounds were gone before he looked at his own." My wounds, they are all the wounds he just had! Is, this some sort of Force skill I'm not aware of?"

"This is divine power you fraud!" Ren eagerly shouted out as he reformed his blades of raw energy." This is the power of the true chosen one! To be precise, my power as the of the Schutzstaffel with the role of the Balance is that my Vollständig can take the misfortune that occurs within my sphere of influence and disperse it to those that have experienced good fortune,

All the "misfortune" that occurs to me personally is redirected into my Freund Schild! From there, all "good fortune" that my opponent's experiences in inflicting wounds upon me will be wreaked back upon them in equal magnitude as "misfortune", and the "misfortune" that I experience merely gets deflected and absorbed into the Freund Schild, causing my opponents to experience even more "misfortune" as things are properly balanced, TO HOW THEY SHOULD BE!

Heh, this power belonged to some smug bastard, Jugram Haschwalth when Battle World started. He thought he was better than me, and thought he could look down at me, so much that he did not even think I would strike him, before I stabbed him when his back was turned! The Black Swan said that Rabum Alal was so impressed with my resolve that they let me take Haschwalth's power for my own! Do you see now how wrong you were to defy me? You will when I'm done with you!"

Ren eagerly walked up to Jacen, who was using the Force to repress the pain he was feeling before he coughed out a bitter," Well, this does complicate things a tad more than I expected."

Ben saw the energy surging around the man who shared his name before he gulped." So, wait, if I got all his ranting right the shinning magic thing on his head lets us transfer any damage he takes to us? Then, even if we kill him he can just make us die instead while he gets away without a scratch!"

"Tsc…don't lose it Ben it can't save him if his head is cut off!"

"You sure Jaina? What if it just takes off your head?"

"Well, only one way to find out but I'm going to at least try! Like my dad, don't ever tell me the odds! Because no matter how stacked against me things are, as the Sword of the Jedi, I'll find a way to break through!"

"The titles of a fake champion mean nothing!" Ren yelled out sadistically as he pointed his blades at Jaina." You dare call me crazy when you're the one who just saw I'm invincible and still think I can win?"

"Even gods fall Ren, there is always a way, the Force will lead to it!"

"Tsc…that's what your precious father thought, right before I made him see how stupid he truly was! Bah…you would be better off joining me, and be taught what matters! Why are you even siding with the inferior masses that despise you!? They either depend on you for everything or despise you because your better than them! The Jedi were fools to spend generations serving ungrateful scum!"

"You're the idiot here!" Jaina snapped back." Sure, there are plenty of people who respond to the Jedi poorly. Not just Order 66, but things like the Peace Brigade and all the other times idiots sold the Jedi out the first moment things got bad made me nearly go turn into the Dark Side myself at times.

But, while it would be nice if people had more realistic expectations, it's still not a reason for the Jedi to rule over them! First of all, even if that was not what the Sith would do, it would still be too much of a pain. Besides, the thing Han Solo, my father taught me even more then how to pilot and maintain a ship, was how to be a person worth respecting! Sure he broke a few laws and made a few enemies, but he never let the little guy down!

That's because he had his skills, but he never forgot what it was like to be helpless, and he made sure even if his kids had better lives they never forgot that either. For how much of a pain it can be, the Jedi never just give up on the weak! It's what any decent person does!"

"That's just more and more excuses!" Ren shouted out as his eyes twitched again." Him and m, and Leia made all of their excuses over my entire life! But it was all just because they were to weak, or too scared to do what should have been done! They spent all that time-wasting time on inferior beings, instead of me! But I'm not as stupid as them, I see things, how they should be!"

"Maybe you should stop making excuses for being such a miserable spoiled brat eh? No matter what power you got your hands on, your too weak to see or care about anything about yourself! That's why you will fail no matter what, your too weak to hold on to anything!"

"We will see who's weak when your dead! I don't care at all about the past, let the past die! I'll kill you and every single part of the past if that's what it takes, for me to be who I was meant to be! You're even more irritating then the scavenger, I won't stop till that look of yours is ripped apart!"

Ren let his blood lust consume him as he charged at Jaina to try and kill her. Ren was shocked to see Jaina attack with enough fury to keep him on the defensive before he snarled a cry of raw blood lust and tried to have his left blade morph again to impale her.

Ben jumped in to block the strike, and as the older scion saw the young man's glare of defiance and seethed out,"No matter how you try and attack me, you can't kill me! Stab me and you will be the one impaled, shoot me and it's you who will be blasted full of holes! It's useless, no matter what you do its useless!"

"Well…then guess we got to be creative eh?" Ben retorted drily as he tried to shoot Ren in the face. His target cried out with raw hate as he used the Force to crush the blaster before it could fire, causing it to explode. He prepared to attempt to slice off Ben's head, before he heard an explosion.

He looked up and saw the noise was caused from one of the power generators, Ben had caused the bombs Han and the others had set to go off, and him and Jacen used the Force to direct the wreckage of the massive machine right at Ren.

The unstable man had his eye twitch yet again before he pointed his wings of energy at the incoming wreckage and unleashed a barrage of energy blasts to destroy it.

As the wreckage fell into the depth of Star Killer base Ren saw another broken off machine segment coming for him from the right. With a yell he used the Force to freeze the machine in place, and as he saw it inch closer he glared at the Solo twins."

Thought you could cheat and crush me or knock me off or something? That won't work, nothing you do will work! You tried to make a fool out of me, so you have to beg for mercy before you die!"

Ren unleashed a surge of pure rage in the Force, which was powerful enough not only to blow away the wreckage, but also smash his three opponents to the ground. Ren saw them all try and resist and snarled like a mad dog before he had his wings of energy suddenly extend to stab Ben and Jaina in their legs.

The mad son of Han Solo slowly walked up as he saw them struggled before throwing out a detached,"Yes, this is the only way that defying the chosen one can end!"

Jacen realized his enemy was preparing to kill his sister and former apprentice, and while he had been focusing his energy to perform a Force healing trance to repair his injuries, seeing the Jedi's life in danger caused him to grasp his fist tightly." No…I refuse for things to end like this! The future, won't be one bound by your madness!"

Jacen unleashed all of his power to try and blow Ren back, but the man chosen as a Divergent Catalyst was pushed back a few inches before the broken infinity symbol on his head glowed before he unleashed a burst of wild rage, and had another part of his energy wings extend to slice right into Jacen's gut.

Ren's grin got even wider as he saw Jacen cough up blood, and suddenly flew above the self-proclaimed Sith Lord as he raised his right sword above his head." Oh it will, I'll make sure it will, I'll make sure things become as they should be no matter what! Give it up Jacen Solo, you said I was conflicted, when you were the one who could not admit you just wanted to rule over all, and gathered power to make sure no one could deny you what you wanted!

For how much you say you hate me, in the end we want the same thing, I'm just honest about it and am superior to you in every way! If you're too weak to even embrace what you are then your far too weak to stop me! So just die realizing you're a failure, die! DIE!"

Ren stabbed Jacen again and again with his energy wings, purposely avoiding lethal blows to prolong the suffering. Jacen saw Jaina and Ben were both to injured to help before he could not help but let the words of his enemy sink in." Your wrong, no matter what you think you know you're wrong about me, Ben Solo! I'm not some petty Hutt who just wanted to dominate everyone for the sake of it, regardless of how ruthless my methods are my ends are noble! I admit at times I got, impatient, but I just wanted to ensure I would get real results, no matter the cost.

I'm not like you, I don't care how the masses see me, I only care about the impact my actions will have on them. Even if it cost me every bond I had, I have no regrets submitting to the Dark Side if it will mean a better future. Yes, I want my child to have a better future then I had, I know without a doubt Allana is what I care about most of all! That is why…that is why I will kill you and your master, no matter what it takes!"

"Big words, but talk is cheap faker, they are as real as your petty illusions! That's right, every last trick of yours is useless in the face of my power!"

"Maybe…but is it the will of the Force itself? I become fixated with leaving my own mark, but to stop you, I'm willing to submit to the Living Force itself."

"If that's so then, just let me slice your head off already!"

Ren had his eye twitch before he had his sword extend again and try and rip apart Jacen's heart. Jaina gasped as she saw her twin was about to be stabbed, but Jacen merely closed his eyes as he realized the duel would not be decided over the knowledge of the Force, but as much as relinquishment to its will.

As the blade came for him Jacen shocked everyone by catching the raw blade of energy with his bare hands. Ren snapped with outrage, and was shocked further as Jacen stood up, and his eyes were now glowing with light. Ren saw Jacen was now a being of light, and groaned." Another trick? It's useless, nothing will save you because nothing can stop me! DIE!"

Ren unleashed another barrage of energy blasts from his wings to try and blow Jacen up, only for Jacen to raise his other hand, and use the same move Ren did to have all the blasts freeze in midair. Ren's anger exploded at this as he tried to overwhelm Jacen with projectiles.

However, despite how many attacks he unleashed in his fury it did not give Jacen pause. That is because upon the verge of death, Jacen had surrendered completely to the Force, and had attained the ability to cut through any resistance in himself; to sever the bonds of preconception; to open a gaping hole into reality.

He had broken through the opposites that concealed the absolute nature of the Force, and found his way into an unseen unity that existed beyond the seeming separateness of the world.

For a moment, all the cosmic tumblers had clicked into place, and light and darkness had briefly become something he could balance within himself, without having to remain on the one side or the other.

The consciousness that was Jacen Solo was stern across the vast spectrum of life energy. He had passed beyond choice and consequence, good and evil, light and dark, life and death.

Ren learned the hard way just how much power this maneuver had given his opponent as Jacen merely snapped the energy blade he was holding in half. The member of the First Order dived down to try and slice Jacen's new frighteningly serene face apart.

However, he was shocked as Jacen effortlessly dodged his strikes. His fury consumed him as he slashed at Jacen from all directions, but no matter how he changed his blades he could not hit Jacen.

Ben saw how easily his former commander was evading Ren and as he staggered over to Jaina he muttered." When could Jacen pull off something like this? He could have even beaten dad if he used this!"

"It's because he thought he could never use this move again Ben." Jaina answered bitterly." I saw him like this only once, when he defeated Onimi, the true supreme overlord of the Yuuzhan Vong that was hiding behind Shimrra.

Jacen told me he did not even know how he really did it, he just submitted entirely to the Force, and it answered. Till now, he could never replicate that power, and part of the reason he spent years learning every aspect of the Force was to be able to command this power at will.

But, even if I know far less about the Force then him I think the reason he could not do it again is because it's not something he could ever do, it's just what the Force could do! He had been trying to enforce his own will, till now. Guess, he surrendered to the Force, to give up his own ambitions. In the end this is something that prick Ren can never do, because every action he takes is entirely about himself."

Ren heard what Jaina said and screamed with fury as he tried to slice Jacen through, only for the shinning man to catch the blades with his hands, causing Ren to have veins form on his forehead."Damn you, DAMN YOU! You can't kill me with this lame trick! That's right, you can't run away forever, and your fellow fakes can't run away now!"

The head of the Knights of Ren aimed his other sword at Jaina and Ben, and had it extend to try and kill them while they were still weakened. Jacen's face was motionless, as he ripped off part of the energy blade in his hand, and suddenly swung the part he ripped off, to slice off Ren's other arm.

Just as Ren realized his arm was falling off Jacen punched him in the chest. With his new power, his hand was glowing like a light saber itself, causing him to impale Ren through the heart.

Ren coughed up blood, and cursed as he saw Jacen was still giving him a detached look before he spat out an erratic,"It's useless, ITS USELESS! Hurt me as bad as you want, it will become your pain soon enough! That's right, wrongs will be righted, with the Balance!"

Ben and Jaina tensed up as they saw the symbol on Ren's forehead glow once more. However just as the Freund Schild activated and prepared to unleash its power, Jacen used the Force to summon his lightsaber back to his hand. Ren grinned as he thought his opponent was preparing to make one last desperate strike, only to raise an eyebrow as Jacen spun around and stabbed himself in the chest.

The man Snoke/ Plagueis groomed for years as his champion had a moment of glee as he thought Jacen killed himself, only for that glee to shift to horror as the lightsaber burst through Jacen's chest, and hit him in the heart.

As the light of the Freund Schild grew brighter Jacen saw Ren's shock and narrowed his eyes."I told you before I don't run from pain. Now…if you and your opponent both share the same wounds, just what will happen? Let's see who truly has more resolve, Kylo Ren!"

The oily faced man had his eye twitch again, but before he could do anything the Freund Schild took effect, and Kylo Ren's injuries were replaced with Jacen's. However, since they were both suffering the same wound the effect of the Balance got stuck in a loop, and Jacen and Kylo Ren both found their injuries being healed, and then reimplemented again and again.

As Ren dealt with being impaled over and over again he nearly felt his head burst apart with pain. He saw Jacen wince as the cycle repeated itself, and while Jacen looked hurt, Ren just cursed as he saw Jacen holding up better then him.

The sight of this caused Jacen to throw out a wry,"A true Sith, makes pain his ally. But that's right, your neither Jedi nor Sith, just your own, pathetic adaptation. When the scales of justice are balanced with equal weights, the way the scales move depends on which substance gives out. Guess we will see who wants it more, who can endure it more eh Ben Solo?"

Ren saw Jacen was going through the same thing as him, but was able to hold it together before his composure broke from the pain he was feeling." No, your will can't be greater than mine! I 'll destroy everything and anything to make things how they should be! The Jedi, the Sith, the Republic, even the Empire, it all has to be destroyed! The past must be burnt down, so that there will be nothing but me! That is destiny, it will be destiny!

It has to be a trick, no human can be fine with this! Just break already! Someone, someone make him pay, he is cheating! Supreme Leader Snoke, make him cut it out already! Anyone, just end this! Please, make it stop all mighty Rabum Alal! He's cheating, punish him! It's not my fault, it's his fault, his fault! Anyone, make it stop! Make things how it should be almighty Ka…GUHA!"

Kylo Ren unleashed every ounce of will he had to make Jacen shatter, but the shinning man could not be overwhelmed. Now as a pure conduit of the Force, despite his wounds repeatedly healing and reappearing he stood his ground as a fulcrum. Ren had the energy given to him by the Beyonder surge as much as it could, but Jacen redirected all of that energy to burst through its owner's body.

At last the pain was too much and Ren's will shattered. With his focus broken, his aura became unstable, and with the backlash of power the Vollständig became corrupted, and the effect of the Balance did as well, causing the fractured surge of energy to rip across Kylo Ren's body, and explode. Ben Solo gave one last cry of outrage before he was vaporized by the explosion of energy.

Ben Skywalker saw the man that shared his name give one last look of shock before that face disintegrated before a surge of light blinded him and Jaina. The two Jedi used all the will they had left to stand their ground, and when they could see again they saw Jacen slowly land on the ground.

With all the harm her brother had caused still fresh in her mind she remained on edge as he slowly turned to the ground. But as he just smirked like he use to when they were growing up, and coughed up blood she could not help but run up to him.

As she and Ben caught Jacen they saw his right hand was attached but bleeding from the wrist, and as Ben saw the older man's bleeding chest he blurted out,"What is this? You were able to use a trick to not go down with him?"

"No, no trick." Jacen retorted weakly." It just seems that since the maneuver came from that twit, it backfiring affected him more. Still, I came out far from unscathed, I was left in an incomplete state, but I did not assume I would be walking out of this in one piece. Tsc…all my ambitions, all my plans, they all came crashing down by a fool. But…it's a price I'll pay, as long as Allana has a future."

"Damn it Jacen, you think you're so smart when you're such a damn idiot." Jaina cried out bitterly." I knew you were hiding something but this Allana is your kid eh? Damn it all Jacen, why the hell would you hide having a child from me and everyone else? This is so stupid, this is not the old Jedi order that was all dogmatic about family stuff no one would have cared about this if you just were honest about it!"

"Heh…maybe they would not have cared, but they would have cared about her mother. Yes…it was worth the risk, to keep my child, and Tenel Ka safe."

"Seriously, you just had to have a kid with Tenel Ka? All of this is because of those damn Hapan royals and their asinine politics! Whatever happened with you and Danni Quee? She was nice, and far less complicated."

"Maybe so…but I suppose I always did like the difficult path eh sister? I admit, as someone trying to enforce order, I did do very chaotic things. I admit I started a romance with Tenel Ka chiefly to get support to fight the Dark Nest. It was hardly like the romance my grandfather had with my grandmother, it just felt like, having a scion that would further the Skywalker bloodline was the only right thing to do. Everything I did, following in Vader's footsteps, working with Lumiya, killing my fellow Jedi, I did it because Luke and everyone else seemed unable, or unwilling to do what had to be done to truly bring peace.

But after being caught up in this Battle-World, were everything was a game to some god like being, everything I did seemed so trivial, so pointless, that everything really was too late."

Ben grimaced before he looked down."If nothing else Jacen, I know you were not like Palpatine."

Jaina looked conflicted before she glanced at where her father was last alive, before she patted Jacen on the shoulder." If nothing else Jacen, you avenged our dad, that is sure as hell worth something. I know you disagreed with him, and even tried to kill him but, but dad knew a few things. He knew that ideas sound nice but actions are what last. I don't know what the hell his actions were with that Ren bastard, but even for all his strikes, his actions mattered, they sure as hell mattered."

Jacen could not help but think of the times he had with his father before he sighed."I can agree to that at the very least Jaina, the actions Han Solo gave, mattered without a doubt."

"Well, glad we can agree on that, brother. So, what are we do from here? Still want to have a final twin showdown? It be real nice if you could call off those nutjobs you were working with to make ending this easier."

"I suppose it would be a tad…contrived for us to have a duel to the death. But the others like Relius, Brevon, and Full Frontal will gladly kill me the moment they see I can't further their own ends, I had no illusion what kind of alliance it was. I suppose, the most pressing issue is the force that whisked Luke, Mara, and their new friend away. I sensed a massive dark will behind that power, however brief. It was far more, focused then Ren. I…"

Jacen was cut off as they heard explosions from below, before the entire area around the three begun to shake. Ben looked around to make sure no one was coming to attack him before blurting out,"What is this? Did, those new guys with their human machines start attacking Star-Killer base?"

"Maybe. One way or another, looks like this affair is ending one way or another."

Jacen coughed up blood before he could go on, causing Jaina to shake her brother." Hey, don't give up now Jacen! I know you came back from worst!"

"Maybe, but beating Ren drained me totally, I already died many times in a moment." Then you already had your quota on death for the day alright? You still have to answer for what you done, but you can't just check out now! After everything you did, at the very least you can face what you did!"

"If it will calm you down, I'll at least attempt to see this through to the end sister. Though I don't know just how much say any of us have on the manner."

"You must be seriously hurt if you're being this defeatist about it. Then again, that is vintage Jacen. Anyway…you should know how good uncle Luke is at beating back the odds."

Ben grasped his lightsaber tightly before adding,"Between dad, mom, that Rey girl, and all the crazy stuff those other guys can do, they should be able to handle it. They better, after all this it would just be, so lame."

"It would also be lame for us to have gone through this just to die in a random explosion, so it would be best to leave this place."

Jaina and Ben quickly nodded before the three used their combined remaining strength to try and repress wondering about the fate of their comrades enough to vacate the chamber. As they did, they did not realize just how tense the situation above was.

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James and the others were still struggling to not be killed by the onslaught Plaguis was unleashing since before. The former member of Squad 7 had evaded another nerve spike from the ground.

But as he did suddenly the spike morphed to the shape of a light saber, and instantly had a red energy blade burst out to impale the Enji Master through the leg. James cursed as he swiftly unleashed an energy arrow to destroy what struck him with an energy arrow, only to see an energy blast heading his way.

Still reacting to his sudden wound James did not have time to react, but thankfully his comrades did as Tear cast a magical barrier to defend him. His attacker saw this and snorted as he unleashed a barrage of powerful Force Lighting to try and overwhelm the Enji mage's spell.

As he saw how many of his enemies looked pained around him his eyes brimmed with raw disgust." I can sense your fear, your despair. Your will's, and your very life is dwindling like a fire running out. It is the only outcome when facing the will of the Dark Side itself. It's time for everyone to at last embrace the true destiny of the, huh?"

At this time Plagueis, along with everyone else felt a disturbance in the Force, the result of Kylo Ren dying. The leader of the First Order focused to make sure it was not an illusion before he showed true disgust." Is this some farce? Did, Jacen Solo use some sort of illusion? No…I could feel his cry of outrage, before the entire Force Signature not just vanished, but shattered! And Ray's presence in the Force is fading as well? Damn brats…do I have to hold their hands the entire time? With his enhancements, he should have at least been able to handle those three. This…must be another glitch of sorts, unless killing Han Solo really unraveled his mind more than I expected."

Mara saw Luke looking more focused before she grinned."Face it, your grand experiment was wrong you pile of Bantha Folder! My son, Jaina, and even Jacen would not lose to that unstable punk! No matter how much power he got, those three were too well trained and went through too much to lose to the likes of him!"

Plagueis was about to retort when Ramathel closed her eyes and sighed."The one chosen to be a chosen as a Dimensional Catalyst has indeed perished. Odd…this was not expected, something changed things. There are still, missing variables that must be understood."

Plagueis saw the Black Swan looked confused before he scoffed at the observer and grasped his hand tightly."Bah…one way or another, something did not go as planned. No matter, I'll just have to take the data that caused this out come to correct things for when I forge the next, superior product! But first, I'll put you miserable vermin out of your misery. I suppose, Han Solo would want company after all."

Lando heard how much the Sith Lord was dismissive of his best friend and gathered all the guts he could before he jumped out of the rubble he was hiding to fire a missile at his target's wing. As the missile got intercepted by an energy blast Lando fired a barrage of blaster bolts at the cannon that shot the projectile down before the man who was in charge of Cloud City in the past shouted out,"Shut up punk, don't you dare talk like you know my buddy like that! Han was not the best at bets, but he cared about his friends more than anything! He would have wanted us to live, and I'll do all I can to make sure that we live the lives he wanted, lives were a man can be free!"

Chewbacca roared in agreement before he aimed his Bowcaster at the cannon and fired a shot at full power, which went through the cannon's barrel and caused enough of a chain reaction to cause an explosion. Jonny Gat saw his enemy look annoyed at the damage the Wookie caused and grinned before he and the other Saints Row gangsters opened fire.

As he saw Plagueis defend himself Gat throw out a crass," Suck it you bald bastard! Men like Han and me will never let some stiff like you, Zinyak and all the other melodramatic pricks have their way! That's because despite how smart you guys keep saying you are your too stupid to figure out your lame plans will never be accepted by most people out there. That's why you should just, GUH!"

The man in purple was cut off as a burst of Force Lighting shot down from the sky to strike him. As many others in the room were hit at the same time by the Force Storm the Sith Lord was unleashing, Plagueis just gave a cold glance to those screaming in pain." It's true that that is how most sentient beings behave.

Palpatine and most of the other Sith Lords thought merely an excessive amount of fear and brutality would keep the masses in check, but it's clear they all underestimated just how strong a desire to rebel burns in the heart of man. That is why, I'll destroy such flawed beings once and for all, and replace them with being that don't operate on delusions."

Mara glared at Plagueis and blocked an incoming lightning bolt with her magenta light saber before crying out," You're the one that's deluded if you think that, AHH!"

The red-haired women was cut off with a scream of pain as another burst of lighting came out from her enemies right hand to cut her off. As the former Emperor's hand fell to the ground Plagueis coldly unleashed even more attacks." Please…spare me the useless banter, it baffles me how even you lot are not sick of it by now. After all, it's all lies, falsehoods you heroic types blab out again and again to give your struggles meaning. But it's all a lie, after all the Jedi have not come any closer to accomplishing their goals since they started this vain crusade thousands of years ago yes? Just embrace your failure, and succumb to oblivion!"

As Mara screamed in pain she glanced at Luke, who still looked unfocused before she threw out a weak," Your…your wrong! I don't care how many more years you have over me I know it's not true! I thought your line of thinking was right at the start, spending years being raised by a Sith will do that to a gal.

But as I saw Luke keep doing what was right to help people, even when they hurt him, I realized how strong the Jedi really were. After all, you helped me even though we first met by me trying to kill you. The creed of the Jedi, it was not all useless right farm boy?"

Luke looked at his wife, and his widened as he realized how close she was to dying. Plagueis just had raw killer intent blaze across his eyes as he put even more power into his onslaught." It was useless you pathetic pawn, you will suffer till you embrace that truth. The compassion and kindness of the Jedi accomplished nothing in the grand scheme of things. Such emotions are unable to bring about true evolution. Be gone!"

Luke realized the Sith Lord was about to unleash a surge of power to outright vaporize Mara and most of the others in the room before at last he had one single though in his mind and uttered a stoic,"No…NO!"

The Grand Master of the Jedi pushed back all the conflicts he had from conflicting memories, and dug in to unleash all the power he could command. That power was enough to repel all of the Force Lighting in the chamber, and send it back at the one who unleashed it.

Plagueis widened his eyes at the sight of his attacks suddenly being reflected and focused to push the redirected attack before he hissed out," Still insisting this be dragged out even more Luke Skywalker? You're just a byproduct of my experiments, you don't have the power or the resolve to truly stop me!

On top of that, the Jedi Order itself is nothing but the delusions of all the old orders like the Order of Dai Bendu, the Followers of Palawa, and the Chatos Academy and more who deluded themselves into thinking there was a higher purpose between the Ashla and the Bogan.

But the only purpose was for the weak to justify their suffering, trying to deny the natural order has only caused even more suffering. Do you see now, how useless it is to be the champion of those who despise and fear you?"

Luke's face only hardened as he unleashed enough raw power to push Plagueis back a few feet. As the son of Darth Vader moved forward he raised his light saber." You think I don't see the things I do Plagueis, but it's just I don't see them the way you do.

I know full well how long the Jedi have struggled, and how short sited people can be. But unlike the Sith, the Jedi are not out to force our will or shape everyone to our desires, we just guide people to be able to live their lives as they want, and protect those who can't protect themselves so they can live in peace.

Call it naïve or foolish all you want but this is what I believe in. Even if many fear or loath the Jedi, I don't regret helping people. That's why, no matter how futile it is, I'll do whatever it takes to protect those I care about!"

Luke unleashed even more power to push Plagueis back, and as the Sith Lord saw his energy beams and Force Lighting blasts get repelled by the sheer power Luke was unleashing his eyes blazed with loathing."So, you're not even trying to hide that your driven by base emotions eh? Such passions won't save you, not to me! As powerful as you may be Luke Skywalker, your just another piece in my grand game, and you will die knowing how worthless everything you stand for is!"

Plagueis had tentacles burst up all around the Jedi to try and gain control of his nerves with the Compulsory Execution attack. Before they could strike Luke, Mara dashed forward to stab one of the tentacles with her lightsaber, and used the Force to freeze the others and crush them before she glared at the Sith Lord."You will not kill my husband Snoke! You may have tried to tear apart everything we care about, but I won't give it up with a fight!"

The man merged with the sphere ship repressed his rage as he shouted back," Your just a pathetic dog that Sidious spoiled with to much scraps!"

Plagueis tried to blow Mara away but the former Emperor's hand unleashed a surge of power to push him back. James saw Luke and Mara struggle to blast through his enemy's barrage and saw the clash of power was causing cracks in the ground before he winced."Damn him, I'll give this Sith Lord credit for covering his tracks very well. That being said, as long as he's not a god he has his weaknesses. I know the Force can't be sealed off as simply as casting a mute spell, but as vast as his power is it all comes from the Force. Thus…sealing him from that should be the path to victory."

Tahiri had gotten over to James to avoid getting blasted, and as she heard what the Enji Master said she sighed." There are ways to seal a Jedi off from the Force, but they are not easy. Jacen did have a few machines for prisoners but, it's not as simple as a special blaster but it's not that easy carrying ysalamiri around in a fight."

James raised an eyebrow and grinned." Ysalamri you say? That's right, they are creatures that have the ability to repel the Force by creating a Force-neutral bubble yes? Of course, I think I just figured out the missing piece to this puzzle."

"You have?" Tahiri blurted out." Maybe you got hit hard and misheard something, but I said we don't have one here! Besides, I'm not sure it could fully neutralize someone this strong in the dark side!"

"It does not have to, it just needs to weaken him enough for one crucial moment. And don't worry, lack of resources is not an issue. I have enough data and skill to produce a substitute."

Before the blond women could say more everyone felt a shockwave as a result of the clash between the forces of the Light side and the Dark got even more intense. James saw how determined Luke looked and quickly looked through his computer's database and cast an alchemy spell to reproduce the effects of the Ysalamari and crafted an arrow out of it.

He then aimed for the Sith Lord while muttering,"Fighting like Ben, Ezan, Doug, and guys like them is not really my style. This has gone on long enough, Magnetic Coffin!"

The Enji Master quickly had the ground around Plagueis burst up to form a giant iron hand to try and grasp the Sith Lord. The leader of the First Order saw this and just sneered."Pathetic, no matter your approach you will never be able to control the Force better than me."

With the wave of his hand the entire metal structure shattered. As it did a glowing arrow flew for his head. While the bald man instantly froze it in midair the arrow glowed sliver and exploded, releasing a shockwave.

Plagueis felt no pain, but widened his eyes as he felt his ability to exert any influence over the Force weaken. James smirked at this shock before throwing out a coy,"Maybe, but I don't have to be better then you in that area if I can do better in another."

Plagueis could not even waste time to retort as he saw Luke and Rey were closing in swiftly. The Sith Lord used all of his power to overpower the sealing effect, but Luke dashed at the architect of all of his suffering before crying out,"At last, this ends now!"

With the Sith-Meditation Sphere no longer responding to him as long as he was unable to use the Force, Plagueis franticly tried to strike at Luke with his lightsaber only for Mara to block the strike, allowing Luke to stab him right in the heart.

Before he could even put out a scream Mara stabbed Kylo Ren's master through the face."At last you're going to die in pain like all the people you caused to suffer you pale monster!"

Plagueis coughed up blood, and as he weakly glared at the women for a moment everyone wondered if the battle had been decided. However suddenly the one who trained Darth Sidious had his eyes glow red."I experienced death, dog, and it will take more than this to push me pass the abyss! Damn you idiots, I won't let you unravel my grand experiment for your base desires! If you force me to take a risk, then if I risk my life everyone else in this cosmic competition will be exterminated!"

Luke saw the Sith Sphere Meditation Sphere glowed bright red again and tried to cut the evil man's head off. However, his target released a surge of power to knock the two back. Plagueis then flew up to the air, and everyone saw pillars of energy flying for him.

Jetstream Sam saw Plagueis look maniac despite his injuries before he rubbed his chin."I don't know much about how aliens work but unless he has more robot parts to him then Raiden that dude should be dead by now eh?"

Jade eyed Plagueis carefully, and as he saw raw energy crackle through the wounds on his body before he tensed up." I suspect that are enemy's wounds would normally prove fatal, but he is using all of his energy to freeze his body. I suppose one strong push could settle this, we just need to push him before he pushes us for it could very well be a push into oblivion."

The others tried to launch attacks only for another pillar of red energy to head into Plagueis. As more wires burst out of the ground to merge with the Sith Sphere, the man fused to it hatefully cried out,"Now, may all who defy the Revenge of the Sith meet their fate! Starkiller Base, fire! Destroy all the other worlds!"

Despite all the damage done to the super weapon, James and the others were mortified to see the Sith Lord used his sheer will to cause his planet killer machine to fire. As everyone nearly became blinded by the massive pillar of red energy that shot from the sky Mara blurted out,"No…after all this it can't end like this!"

"Don't give up yet Mara." Luke answered warily. "Even in the face of power like this, it's not hopeless when one is with the Force."

As everyone in the group wondered if it was too late, the others in the other areas of Star-Killer base were wondering the same thing. Samus had been evading the bombardment of the last Proteus Ridley, and as she saw the massive pillar of energy coming she glanced at the Thing and nodded.

She then saw her draconic enemy try and extend its tail to impale her, before she suddenly latched at the tail with her grabbling beam and pulled on it, lowering the clone enough for the Thing to jump up and punch it.

Samus took delight in seeing the last clone of the monster that killed her parents get knocked into the red beam and get vaporized in seconds. Her moment of relief quickly turned to dread as she scanned the massive beam of energy, its level of power, and where it was going before the bounty hunter grasped her fist tightly." Damn it, guess we were too late. I doubt I can stop this by throwing a Power Bomb in the right place now, if there is any hope left then it's up to you guys. Oh? Looks like, they got a final play left, they better have thought it through."

Ben's friend said that because her scanners detected another surge of power heading for the path of the Star-Killer beam, and it was the Mortis Monolith.

The mystical object of the Force had at last reached its destination, and as the beam collided into it the crystal glowed, before it unleashed enough power to stop the massive beam in its place.

Plagueis saw his beam being blocked before he saw what caused his will to be denied, and scoffed. "So, you at last played your final trump card? Bah…I won't deny I was looking for it myself, but even if it's an object that is linked to the Ones, it alone does not have the power to defy me!"

The Sith Lord unleashed all of his power to try and shatter the Mortis Monolith, blasting the giant crystal of the Force back. As the massive red beam got even bigger and raced on to its targets General Hux onboard the retreating Finalizer saw the light and grew fanatical."YES! The Supreme Leader 's judgment is at hand! Give all the heretics what they deserve! Wait, why is the beam heading this way? Damn it, is Kylo Ren controlling this beam? Damn that unhinged piece of, GUH!"

The Star Destroyer, along with Hux and everyone on it got vaporized in seconds. As the beam prepared to divide and attack The Unicorn and Banshee Gundam both flew up to the Mortis Monolith before Banagher cried out."No…I won't let the flash of hate have its way! Do whatever it takes to stop it, GUNDAM!"

The newtype fully gave himself up to his machine before the Unicorn glowed green, and unleashed a green wave of raw energy to attempt to slow down the Starkiller beam. The Banshee Noir unleashed its own wave of golden energy, and the other Gundam pilots were shocked to see this display of power.

Amuro quickly checked his own mobile suit's scanners before he could not help but look on in awe."I knew theses were supposed to be new generation Gundam's to embrace the power of Newtypes, but this is more than even Char dreamed of! Still, despite how much electromagnetic radiation is being released, they can't hold on forever! C'mon guys, blow the target up already!"

"I'm trying!" Domon quickly uttered." But as powerful as the Sekiha Tenkyoken is, even in Hyper Mode I can only do so much when the target is a freaking planet! Even the Devil Gundam was not that big!"

"Damn it, with so many of our weapons damaged by Full Frontal's attack our options are limited. But we just have to think of one before it's too late!"

The ace Gundam pilot saw the Unicorn and Banshee have cracks form around them as they and the Mortis Monolith seemed to be slowly losing ground to the Star-Killer base. The one firing the beam refused to let his injuries stop him from pouring more and more power into his final weapon. His enemies tried to stop Plagueis but as the energy from the beam surged into him he blasted everything sent his way back with raw power.

James saw the energy around Plagueis get bigger before he saw with his enhanced lenses on his glasses the Mortis Monolith being pushed back before he felt a chill creep down his spine."Damn it, he has just too much power, and if I try again to cut him off from the Force he will most likely repel it. With how battered we are raw force is not an option either.

While if absolutely every one of my allies attacked him at once it might be enough, we simply don't have the time for that. Damn it, he's configured the entire base to be an extension of his will, if only some of the others were here we could have the power to, wait.

Maybe we do, albeit in a different kind of way. I, never tried to use my magnetic powers to this extent but, there is no time for a field test. Polaris, time to see if our training paid off. Guess I'll have to take out of Ben, Doug's and the others book after all and risk everything in one blow."

James had his aura explode before he flew above everyone. Plagueis saw the Enji Master crackle with power before he sighed."Must we as you say, keep beating the dead Gungan? No attack you can muster can overpower me, not now! At least die with some grace, hero."

"Sorry…not really my style to submit. I'm the kind of type to keep trying my ideas till the very end! And I'm going to wager that despite the extent of your power, the level of intensity means it's to spread out, far to spread out to prevent me from reversing the magnetic poles of this entire planet! I'm sure that will cause one system or another to go haywire! Uncle Magus, if you're watching this your big gambit is going to be my own, let's see if you knew what your grand Ultimatum was more than just a bluff! Grand…Disrupter…Pulse!"

James unleashed an explosion of power, before he poured all of his magical energy to unleash a magnetic pulse that swept across all of Star-Killer base. After a few moments there was a vibration that nearly ripped everyone off their feet.

Plagueis wondered if the member of Squad 7 was just making a bluff, till he felt his power weaken, and saw the Starkiller Beam's cannon shift. As he saw the planet busting gun fracture from being twisted the Sith Lord's eyes went wild."What do you think you're doing?"

"You're not the only one who's designed evolving the homo sapiens Sith." James threw out with a wry grin." But I refuse to let your kind of way of evolution win out."

"Regardless of if this is a bluff or not, I won't let you get the chance!"

Plagueis unleashed more of the power from Starkiller Base to try and vaporize James with a large red energy blast. However, as the blast went his way Luke Fon Fobre went up before yelling out,"Like hell we will let you kill our buddy punk!"

The red haired Enji Knight from Auldrant unleashed another burst of Hyper Resonance to try and neutralize the incoming energy beam. The Enji Knight from Inferia, Reid Hershel unleashed his own Aurora Sword Mystic Art to further push back the Sith Lord's attack. Luke Skywalker saw the Sith Lord look tense before he looked at his wife and those around her."This is our last, best shot. Give him everything you got!"

Everyone in the room complied, and Raiden, Shulk, Kyp, Dunband, Jetstream Sam, Enji like Guy and Asbel slashed at Plagueis from all sides while Jade, Tear, and even those like the recovered like Fiora and Vestara fired at Plagueis.

The leader of the First Lord had his aura of energy surge up to try and repel the attacks before shouting out," It's useless, your out of time! Your final moments will be of, GUH!"

Plagueis felt a surge of pain as Sonic introduced himself by spin dashing the Sith Lord in the face. As the villain saw who cut him off Sonic greeted him with a mocking grin." Someone say they were out of time fast? Sonic's the name, speed's my game! And your game's over buddy!"

Plagueis snarled and was about to try and stab the transformed Hedgehog before Shadow and Super Lilac blitzed into the area and hit the Sith Lord as well. As he staggered back Plagueis prepared to unleash an explosion of energy to knock everyone back, before Samus hit him in the back with her long distance customized Hyper Beam blast.

The Sith Lord was hit hard enough to lose his train of thought. As a result the Star-Killer base's planet destroying laser dwindled slightly in power. James's planet wide Magnet magic then caused a new crack in part of the Starkiller Base's cannon, just as the Star Fox team was flying up.

Slippy quickly analyzed the change before his eyes widened with hope."Fox, guys, that's a direct path to the canon's energy supply! Rupture it and you could shatter the entire weapon!"

Falco chuckled before he had his Arwing's thrusters blaze up."Sounds like it's time for a little high stakes demolish eh Fox? C'mon, you need someone to have your back."

"True that Falco. Slippy, Krystial, make sure we are clear of rubble during the run, we are only going to get one shot!"

Wedge saw where the Arwing's were going before he narrowed his eyes."And I thought the Death Star was a tight squeeze, get ready to depart the moment I get out guys!"

The ace members of the Star Fox team and Rouge Squadron flew into the improvised opening, and in one pass unleashed a barrage of Smart Bombs and Proton Torpedo's to blast away everything that looked even close to a target. Their actions caused a barrage of explosions, and as Fox flew back out where he came in part of the wall fell on his Arwing.

The ace canine pilot quickly saw his craft spinning out of control and as he flew out of the hole he saw he was about to crash into a wall, before he cursed and slammed a button before the Arwing cockpit raised upwards to form the a "head", before its two G-diffusers transformed to act as "shoulders" while the other two acted as legs with three wings as "feet". Fox was relieved to see the Arwing land safely in its "Walker" mode, and as his comrades saw him, Falco and Wedge fly out Slippy blurted out,"You made it! I was worried for a moment!"

"C'mon Slip, that was nothing compared to escaping Venom. Have to hand it to yah, that Walker mode saved my neck!"

"I told you it would be useful!"

As Falco flew out he chuckled out a coy,"Heh…and I thought you just had to much free time on your hands Slippy. Guess it was able to do more then make my bird look totally lame eh?"

Krystal sensed her teammates were about to erupt into a fight before she cleared her throat." Boys…lets bicker about the minor stuff after we are in the clear yes?"

Fox saw the Great Fox and some of the Gundam's fly up before he saw explosions break out all around him, and then saw the energy beam get even more unstable." Good call Krystal. Normally I would say this sealed the deal, but I'm not ruling anything out in this crazy place."

Everyone else stayed on edge as they wondered what direction the battle was turning. Meanwhile, in the center of power Plagueis felt his energy being even more unstable after the Star Fox team and the others blew up most of his weapon's firing mechanisms he poured even more of his will into keeping the firing process going anyway.

He then glared at James, and all the others that were attacking him before he hissed out."Damn you Jedi, damn all of you who deny my work for your own primitive emotions! You will not stop me, my power is too great to be denied by your kind, not now!"

Luke saw Plagueis was gathering all the energy from the base that he could to try and unleash an explosion of energy to try and vaporize everyone around him. The son of Darth Vader then focused as much as he could before he walked forward."Plagueis, someone who was truly wise told me size matters not. Even your apprentices apprentice knew that the Force was greater than any technological terror. You may have spent life time's understanding the Force, but for all that you discovered, you never understood the truth, what true power is. But since I know words won't reach you, my actions will!"

Luke resorted to all of the mastery he had over the Force to syphon the energy Plagueis had gathered around him, and condense it into a ball of blue energy in his hands. Plagueis saw in the distance the Mortis Monolith was doing the same on the other side of the red energy beam and sending that energy to Luke before a twitch of dread formed in his eyes.

He tried to strike the Jedi, only for James and everyone else to keep Plagueis back. Luke had the energy sphere of redirected power grow larger and larger before he looked at the Dark Lord in the Sith right in the eye."Plagueis, let me give you the answer to your grand experiment, once and for all!"

Luke put his lightsaber through the sphere of energy and ignited his long-time weapon. As the lightsaber went through the energy sphere it expanded to become a blade of light three times its original size. Plagueis found himself not only being stabbed, but also found his energy being siphoned away from him, to be discharged into his body.

Plagueis felt very cell of his body being shattered before he glared at Luke, Rey, and the other Jedi."No…this must be some sort of mistake! The light can never win, it can NEVER!"

Before he could rant further his mouth vaporized, and no matter how much he struggled Darth Plagueis saw beams of light break out of his body before he and the Sith Meditation Sphere exploded. Everyone made sure it was no illusion before Mara muttered,"Is this real? Is it finally, really over?"

James coughed up blood as the effect of his spell took its tool. As he caught his breath he repositioned his glasses and threw out a dry," I don't feel his energy, I think we gave him more power then he could handle. I'd like to say we can call it a day but, it would be a rather good idea to make sure it's not over for us as well. Everyone saw even more explosions erupt, and with Plagueis dead and no longer able to keep the base running entire sections of the planet begun to collapse.

Robotnik at last caught up to everyone, and as he looked around he winced." Sounds like you guys got the job done but this baby looks like she's going to blow! Trust me…I'm quite experienced with seeing giant weapons explode! Um Shadow, now might be a good time to use Chaos Control post haste!"

"It will take a lot of energy, even with the Chaos Emeralds to warp everyone to safety Doctor." Shadow snapped out."

Sonic saw the Great Fox in the distance before he looked determined."We don't have to warp them to the planet dude, just to the ship! We will have to move fast even for us because we don't have a choice!"

James saw how worn down everyone looked before he looked at his pockets, and realized he was out of elixirs before he cringed."That's right, even bad options are worth a shot at this point. We can't have made it this far only for it to be for nothing!"

James prepared to make a plan when suddenly he saw a cage of light form around him and everyone else. He realized the energy was coming from Ramathel before the Black Swan put her hands together." It will not end without a victor James Elrond. Rabum Alal will not allow for no champion to emerge from the match. The important part of the match has been decided, the rest of this is trivial."

The brown-skinned women waved her hand and everyone was blinded by a flash of light. When James could see again he was shocked to see himself in front of Leia and the group that stayed with her. The red-haired man quickly looked around to see all of his comrades were with him.

As he looked up he saw that Ramathel had transported the Great Fox and the rest of the fleet as well. Just as everyone begun to question what was going on they saw another flash of light above, and looked up to see the Star-Killer base explode.

As everyone was putting together what was going on Threepio ran up to his long-time master," Master Luke, you're alright! By the maker you all made it!"

Artoo then rolled up to his fellow droid and chipped out a few words, causing the protocol droid to throw out," Nonsense Artoo it was not because of you that it all worked out I severely doubt your hacking skills were what brought down Starkiller Base! I don't care if your efforts delayed the firing process, no one likes a glory hot bot!"

Luke chuckled at the sight but tensed up as he saw Leia walk up. The two siblings looked at each other in the eye before Leia saw Mara, and smiled bitterly." Luke, you found Mara? That's so great. At least, some things worked out today. Luke, I already know what happened to Han. I, I felt it in the Force. I just can't wait any longer, just tell me if it's over."

"Leia...I'm sorry."

"I know. I know you are. I'm just glad you're here, at the end."

"Leia...I know how much you wanted to save him, but he just sealed himself off from anything but his own rage."

Not long ago, she knew, this would have pierced her to her core. But now there was nothing but a dull ache." I know," She at last retorted." I held out hope for so long, but now I know my son is gone. Well, at least one of them is."

The Grand Master of the Jedi saw Leia gave Jacen a wary glance before he smiled." NO one's ever really gone," he said quietly, leaning forward to hiss her on the forehead as he took her hands in his.

As they had a moment of shared lament, Jaina cut in with a wary,"Its over mom, it's truly over. But at least you did not lose everyone eh?"

Leia gasped as she saw Jaina and Ben stagger over, but before she could say anything Mara looked relived at the sight of her son and cried out to him before giving him a strong hug." Ben, I knew you would not get killed by that prissy brat!"

"Thanks mom, but I admit, we only survived, thanks to him."

Everyone saw Jacen stagger over, and as Luke and Leia saw how pale he was Leia could hardly control all the conflicted emotions she was feeling before she pulled back a sob."Jacen…so you killed Kylo Ren?"

"That's correct…. mother." Jacen answered weakly." I did it because he was in my way, but I suppose, avenging father also had something to do about it."

Kyp raised an eye brow before throwing out," The hell is this? You have not called Han your dad in over a year. Wait, did he really see the light?"

"Don't make me laugh. I merely, acted on what disgusted me more."

"So where does that leave us then Jacen?" Luke answered warily." Do you still insist on settling this?"

Chewbacca roared in anger, and as Lando and the others got their guns ready Jacen saw James looking at him closely before he suddenly coughed up blood and got to his knees." Even if I could finish this, recent events have made me change my, perspective on things. I don't regret what I done, but I do wonder if I been truly taking the best approach. For now, I simply don't have a strong enough reason to kill you for it to be worth the effort."

Lilac eyed Jacen carefully before she rolled her eyes." Please…I saw you before dude you were totally crazy about having your way! Just trying to save face eh? Whatever, I'm tired of fighting to. That being said, what happens now?"

Luke looked at Jacen before sighing."Jacen, we still have much to discuss, but now is not the time to discuss it. Once we return home, we can figure out how to go on from here."

Jacen looked at Luke, and his family and was about to answer before his wounds at last caught up to him and just collapsed to the ground. As some in the group wondered to heal him or let him die suddenly the entire planet started shaking. As everyone got on edge Ramathel just sighed." What happens now, is the next phase of Battle World, for by the will of the Master this match has at last been decided."

Everyone quickly saw the Black Swan was not lying as just like with Ben and Doug's groups, the Beyonder boomed out," THE NEXT PHASE OF BATTLE WORLD HAS BEEN DECIDED! THOSE WHO REMAIN HAVE ENTERTAINED ME WELL! NOW PREPARE FOR THE FINAL PHASE! PREPARE TO PROVE WHO IS THE MOST WORTHY OF THEM ALL!"

James saw a stairway of light descend from the sun before he looked at everyone." Well, we made it guys. Good job, but keep your guard up, this just might be the prelude to the true battle."

As his fellow Enji nodded Lilac shouted out," All right, we won! Showed all of these jerks who's boss!"

"You showed them you're a real hero miss hero pants, just don't let it get to your head!" Carol threw out slyly as she patted her friend on the back. Sonic chuckled before he patted her on the other side of her back." Your moving up girl! Just don't let it get to your head or you will trip up in the next round with no second chances!"

Lilac blushed before nodding, and as she did

James saw some of the others were testing the energy stairs and slowly going up it before he gave Ramathel a wary look." You could have let us die, yet you saved us. Why would you do that when you made it clear you see us as obstacles to your master?"

Ramathel paused, before responding with a curt," Don't misunderstand my actions Enji. It would not amuse the Master for this match to have no worthy winner. Your no threat, so I did what needed to be done to fulfill his will. After all, it would be easy enough to kill you all outright, but Rabum Alal wishes to see just if you have the ability to make your ideas and ambitions reality, or if it's all just lies."

"So, your Master truly is that curious to have an answer? If he knows everything, why bother having questions?"

"I…seek an answer. The master, has been focused on the other areas of Battle World. It would seem, something has made him quite amused. See for yourself James Elrond, see if your reality can stand up to the judgment of the true god of all."

The Black Swan flicked her cape back before floating up the stairs. James decided to warily follow her up. As he saw Samus and the others follow him he tried to see if he could sense Ben and the rest of his friends, and felt so many different aura's he was nearly overwhelmed.

James then used his scanner to assist him. After picking up Ben's aura he smirked, but as it moved on to Doug's, and saw the energy start off as confirmed, before the readings went haywire. James tried to see if it was his machine that was malfunctioning or if something was wrong with Doug before he tensed up." I knew Ben and the others would not fall so easily. Still, is this another trick? Doug's reading, nearly looked like.

No…unless this is truly a sick joke that's all but impossible. Doug…. even though you made it seem like you were easy to figure out, in ways you were harder to read then Ezan and many of the others. Even when we roomed together, you easily shared tales, but would clamp up when I asked questions, and would never give a true answer during the entire Cosmic War.

After all these years…I do hope your darker nature did not consume you. I guess, that's yet another riddle to solve on the quest to solve everything. Yes…we have come this far, and I refuse to think there is no solution to this problem. It just takes patience, patience that just might be beyond most humans. But, for the sake of those like my uncle and all the others who lost their lives in the quest to see true progress, we will reach that solution to create the true Homo Superior with the right path, no matter how long it takes. But before we solve this riddle, let's see if the others managed to figure out how to solve this Battle-World riddle."

With one last look to make sure his comrades, new and old were ok, James walked up the stairs and braced himself for whatever would happen next, not realizing he was still not ready for just what was in store.

Next time we shift to Ezan 's group, as he, Cloud, Squall, Zidane, Aeris, Lighting and the rest of their group figure infiltrate the hybrid world of Eos out if they can trust Noctis Lucis Caelum and the Zero Squadron as challenges from all directions pop up in Chapter 222: The Fabula Nova Crystallis Headache!

Authors Notes: Well first for the Rancor sized Elephant in the room, once again I'm sure, some things will look silly after Episode 8 comes out, I might make a few changes once I see it depending on how it goes. Not the major parts though, I'm still having a hard time seeing how Ren will ever be redeemed.

I know Jacen was rather redeemable himself in the end of the Legacy of the Force series but, unlike Ren he WAS a hero for a long time so, I figured he deserved better then how he died in the Invincible book.

Also...sorry Rey fans but I really don't like her being a Mary Sue, and feel she's a insult to the female heros from the EU who had to earn their skille so, this time she's not a ray of hope for the Light Side.

Well, hope the conclusion of this arc was enjoyable enough to give at least some closure to the EU, more then Disney gave them. Sigh, could not even give them what the Star Trek movies gave the old series eh Disney? Oh well, either way, RIP Carrie Fisher.

As you might have guessed, next up is Ezan and co reacting to my adaptation of Final Fantasy 15 with elements of Type Zero and even 13 2 thrown in. After how much 13 let me down surely 15 would do better after taking nearly ten years to make, right, right? Hahahaha...you suck so much Square.

Anywho...I'll be on a trip but I'll try and make sure the next chapter is not to far behind. Till next time hope you like the chapter enough to leave a review and may the Force be with you, always.