Leia came onto the bridge and addressed the bridge crew. "It has been an honor and a pleasure to serve with all of you but all good things come to an end. Admiral Holdo is next in the chain of command. Serve her well as you have done me. You are the fire that will burn the First Order down," Leia said to them all.

The bridge crew gave Leia confused expressions wondering what she meant. Leia turned to C-3PO and then to Holdo. She gave the bridge one last look and then walked towards Holdo. Suddenly, Holdo fired her pistol on Leia stunning her. Leia dropped to the floor unconscious.

"You can't die. You're the symbol of the Resistance," Holdo said to her.

"Take her to the infirmary," Holdo ordered.

The Resistance cruiser exited the nebula and then entered hyperspace towards Crayt.


In the evening, Kylo entered Rey's mind. "Why did you hate your father?" she asked him angrily.

"I didn't," Kylo said flatly.

"Why did you murder him?" Rey demanded. "I don't understand."

"I asked him if he could help me," Kylo said softly.

"How does he dying help you?" Rey asked confused.

"Snoke is a threat to the entire galaxy. He is only growing in strength. Soon, he will have the power to consume all life according to his will. Only by embracing the Dark Side fully can I stand up to him, to defeat him," Kylo explained.

"There is another way," Rey argued.

"No, there isn't. Do you know what happened that night I burned down Luke's temple?" he asked her.

"Yes," Rey said accusingly.

"He sensed my power as he does yours. I knew that the only way to defeat Snoke was for Luke and I to join forces but only as light and darkness. He refused dogmatically believing in ancient beliefs of the Jedi, the same beliefs that failed my grandfather," Kylo said.


He then showed her a vision of the two of them running through the Supremacy with light sabers blazing. Ben was a teenager in Jedi robes and using a blue light saber. He took the lead in front of Luke slashing down Storm troopers. He aggressively deflected their pistol blasts as he tore into them. Luke was noticeably disturbed by the carnage and instead pushed Storm troopers to the floor with the Force.

Luke raised his hand and slammed two Red Guards against the wall knocking them out. Ben came up to the fallen guards and slew them. "Ben, don't lose yourself," Luke lectured him.

Ben nodded calming himself down. "Cover me," Luke said as he used the Force on the blast doors.

Ben kept guard as Luke forced the blast doors open allowing them inside the throne room. As they entered, the blast doors closed behind them. Snoke sat on his throne and gave them amused expressions. His Red Guards readied their weapons to defend Snoke.

"My guards will fight to the death to defend me…as long as I remain living," Snoke smiled.

"We're not here to fight you, Snoke," Luke said boldly and turned off his green light saber.

"Then why are you here, Skywalker?" Snoke sneered.

"To draw out the good in you, the conflict in your soul," Luke said getting closer.

"You will not turn me like you did your father," Snoke smiled confidently. "Lord Vader only did what any apprentice would do. He killed his master as my apprentice tried to kill me."

"You're wrong," Luke said strongly.

"Do you intend to bring me to trial? A jury of my peers?" Snoke mocked.

"I will have you face justice," Luke replied.

"Let's kill him and be done with him, uncle. We can do it together," Ben said.

"No, that isn't justice," Luke told him.

"Your uncle is too afraid to do what must be done. He doesn't understand that conflict can only be settled with war. The Jedi didn't understand this, and they were nearly extinguished from the galaxy," Snoke said to Ben.

"Don't listen to him, Ben. Focus on me," Luke told him.

Snoke stood up from his throne and walked towards the two Jedi. His Red Guards proceeded forward as if directed by Snoke's mind. The guards went past Luke and went after Ben. He went to a defensive stance as the guards surrounded him.

"Don't worry about your young apprentice. I will not harm him. He will join me soon enough," Snoke said confidently.

"No," Luke rebuked him.

"I have foreseen it," Snoke said to him.

"The last person to say that ended up down a reactor shaft," Luke shot back.

Snoke smiled and used the Force to push Luke back a step. Luke resisted the push and kept his ground with his light saber ready. Snoke then let loose Force lightning that sparked off the entire room. Luke deflected the lightning with his light saber but it deactivated his robotic hand making it useless. Snoke chuckled as he saw Luke's disabled right hand.

Luke smoothly changed hands to his human left hand. He then Force pushed Snoke against his throne blasting it to pieces and throwing Snoke up against his red curtained wall. Snoke laughed painfully as he got back to his feet. "I expected nothing less from the great Master Skywalker," he mocked.

Snoke fired more Force lightning at Luke only to have it collect around Luke's light saber. The electricity buzzed around the light saber as Luke controlled it. He then whirled his light saber and threw the lightning back against Snoke tearing into his body. Snoke cried out in pain as his own lightning hit him.

Luke then threw his light saber into the air and allowed it to spin around the room. Using the Force, the green light saber spun towards the Red Guards hitting their knees and dropping each of them to the floor. The light saber then spun back into Luke's left hand.

Ben watched in amazement as the Red Guards fell to the floor still struggling to raise their weapons against him. Ben looked at his uncle in awe and decided not to kill the helpless Red Guards. Luke then engaged Snoke directly and with perfect strikes sliced at Snoke's left leg and right arm disabling him. Snoke fell before Luke with fear in his eyes.

"Kill me. Do it. It's what you want isn't it?" Snoke said to Luke.

"I am not going to kill you. I am going to put you in a cell where you cannot escape," Luke said deactivating his light saber.

"He's too dangerous to keep alive. He must die," Ben interjected.

"No, Ben. He's coming with us," Luke rebuked him.

"Listen to your young apprentice, Master Jedi," Snoke sneered.

"The Republic will decide your fate," Luke said resolved.

"No!" Ben shouted and charged Snoke to spear him through. Snoke smiled madly as Ben rushed towards him.

Luke quickly Force pushed Ben against the wall knocking him unconscious. The last thing Ben heard was Snoke's laughter.


Rey opened her eyes as the vision faded. She could still feel Kylo's presence in her mind. "Liar," she doubted. She couldn't believe that Luke Skywalker had failed to kill Snoke plunging the galaxy into civil war and causing the deaths of countless people.

"Search your feelings. You know it to be true. He couldn't do what had to be done," Kylo told her. Kylo then removed his gloved right hand and reached out to her.

Rey reached out to him as well and in that moment they could feel each other's touch as if they were in the same room together. Luke entered the open doorway. "No!" he shouted at her.

Rey withdrew her hand disconnecting from Kylo and turned angrily on Luke. "Is it true? Did you have a chance to kill Snoke and not take it?" she demanded of him.

"You're just like him," Luke shook his head. "Leave this island," he said disappointed.

"Stop!" Rey shouted as he walked away from her.

Luke ignored her and kept going in the night stormy rain. Rey angrily took her staff and swung it at his back. The staff passed right through him as if he weren't there. Luke turned around to face her. Rey couldn't believe what she had just seen in the rainy darkness. She attempted to hit him a few more times but missed each time. Frustrated, she summoned her light saber and turned it on.

"Tell me the truth," she demanded of him.

"You think your light saber scares me?" Luke asked unimpressed. He then walked towards her light saber and allowed his body to be pierced through.

Rey gave Luke a horrified look as she thought she had killed him but then realized the light saber had simply gone through him as if he were an illusion. She deactivated the light saber and gave him a confused look. The rain wasn't dropping on his body but going right through him.

"What are you?" Rey demanded of him.

"I'm Luke Skywalker...and I'm also dead," he said simply.