Rey looked up and saw Admiral Ackbar on screen. "First Order fleet: stand down while we evacuate Republic forces from the planet."

"You may not land on the planet until our envoy comes back," Rey said to him.

"And who am I speaking to?" Admiral Ackbar demanded.

"My name is Rey…Rey Palpatine," she answered.

Admiral Ackbar gave her a shocked expression. "We will never return to the time of Emperor Palpatine's reign."

"There will be a new order in the galaxy. One founded on peace and justice," Rey said confidently.

"Words I have heard before," Admiral Ackbar said skeptically.

"Wars between the Sith and Jedi end today. From this time hence, there will only be two, one from the light and one from the darkness," Rey told him.

"I believe you are stalling, Empress," Admiral Ackbar said disdainfully and signed off.

"The Republic fleet is moving into attack position, Empress," the admiral told her.

"Raise shields but do not attack," Rey ordered.

Republic Mon Calmari cruisers fired their guns on the First Order armada targeting the Star Destroyers and ignoring the Super Star Destroyer. The First Order Star Destroyers were hit with small explosions on their hulls as their shields weakened.

"Why aren't we firing back?!" an enraged First Order captain shouted to his bridge crew.

Leia gave a determined face as she pulled on the trigger. She felt blinding hatred as her enemy stood before her. With one shot, she could end him. Kylo didn't even try to defend himself.

"Do what you have to do," he said to her.

"You make it so hard. I can never stop loving you," Leia said still aiming for his chest.

"I'm sorry…mother," he said looking down.

"Let go," Luke's voice was in her head.

"I'm not like you. You see the good in anyone, even father," Leia said in her head.

"Leia, trust me," Luke said to her.

Leia lowered her pistol and wiped the tears from her eyes. "I'll call off our allies and surrender to you," she said finally.

Kylo stared at her speechless. Leia gave him one last look and then turned back to the bunker.

A hologram appeared on Admiral Ackbar's bridge. "Stand down, admiral. I have surrendered to Supreme Leader Kylo Ren. The war is over," she said sadly.

"We can still fight, general," Admiral Ackbar protested.

"But we can't win. There will be another time," Leia said to him. "I am ordering all Republic ships to leave this sector and go back home."

The other Republic ships heard Leia's voice on the intercom, turned around, and disappeared as they went light-speed. Admiral Ackbar's Mon Calmari's cruiser remained behind with his fighter squadrons. The admiral turned to his bridge crew. "It has been an honor and a privilege. May the Force be with us," he said to them. The Mon Calmari bridge crew nodded to him.

"That cruiser is going to engage us," the admiral informed Rey.

"Stop him," Rey ordered.

First Order Tie fighters immediately attacked the cruiser and the Republic fighters. X-wings fired on the Tie fighters but quickly became overwhelmed. The First Order Star Destroyers eagerly fired on the Republic cruiser slicing deep into it.

Rey watched with hurt eyes as the cruiser was hit on all sides until it became a fiery ruin. The last Republic fighter was destroyed by the Tie fighters. Admiral Ackbar closed his eyes as his bridge exploded in fire. The cruiser broke apart but the Star Destroyers kept firing at it.

"That's enough," Rey said softly.

"Cease fire," the admiral repeated the order.

Kylo Ren's Imperial shuttle arrived on the Supremacy with rows of Storm Troopers and First Order officers there to greet him. The admiral came before Kylo Ren and knelt down. "Supreme Leader," he addressed.

"Where is Rey?" Kylo Ren asked wondering why she wasn't present.

"She is in the throne room," the admiral said softly.

Kylo nodded . "Carry on," he said simply and left to find Rey.

Kylo entered the throne room where the dead guards lay on the floor. The body of Snoke remained next to his throne. Rey was in the middle of it all staring off into space. "Rey?" Kylo said as he entered the ruined room.

"I sentenced heroes of the Republic to their deaths," she said to him as she stood before him.

"You did what you had to do," Kylo said coldly.

"I want this war to end, Ren," she demanded of him.

"It will when the whole galaxy bends the knee," Kylo replied.

"What did you do to Leia, your mother?" Rey asked of him.

"I let her live. She will live in exile on New Alderaan," Kylo told her.

Rey sensed he was telling the truth. "Thank you," she said sincerely.

"She meant a lot to you. Pity, I can't say the same," Kylo said bitterly.

"There is more to the Dark Side than hate, Ren. There is also love and passion," Rey said to him.

"This was never something Snoke taught me," Kylo admitted.

"Then let me teach you," Rey said and kissed Kylo. He accepted her kiss and the two embraced with their mutual enemies destroyed before them.

On a blue gas giant planet, there was an old Imperial facility. Inside the facility were tubes filled with fluid and bodies. Red Guards stayed at attention in front of these tubes. One tube opened and steam was released into the air. The young man was bald with blue eyes. He looked around and then felt his forehead. Finding it smooth, he smiled and then began to laugh.

End

Author's Note: If there is an interest, I'll began working on Star Wars IX script. Otherwise, I just wanted to throw in my expectations for Last Jedi out there. Feel free to review or send me a PM on Last Jedi or how it should have stayed the same or changed from my version.

Luke: So, honestly I felt like I was being Sixth Sensed while watching the movie and figured his lack of motivation to help was because he was already dead and didn't want to reveal it for most of the film until Rey gives him a smack down. Visually, in my version, I would have had Luke with two human hands and see how many in the audience would catch it. Last Jedi didn't allow me to do any action scenes with Luke, so I invented some flashback scenes. Luke also knows early on that Rey is from Palpatine and thus doesn't want to train her.

Kylo Ren: He always wanted to kill Snoke the entire time. He just felt he could do it using the Dark Side and being close to Snoke. He assumed killing all he knew and just being pure evil would give him the power to kill Snoke. The ideological conflict between Kylo and Luke is how they view justice, due process, and rights of a criminal in war.

Knights of Ren: I wanted to do more on them because I felt they were dropped. If I do IX, the Knights will make an appearance.

Snoke: I latched onto the fan theory he was Darth Plagueis hard and seeing as how Rey is the granddaughter of the apprentice (Sideous) who tried to kill him, there's a special connection between them. When Luke realized Snoke couldn't be killed physically, he tried to stop Ben from doing so. The Red Guards continue to fight even after Snoke is dead, because he's actually still alive and the connection is still there.

Leia: I thought the tracking device plot line was lacking, so I made it more mystical where Snoke was tracking the Resistance fleet by sensing Leia's Force presence. I wanted to give her some Force powers but not have it being overwhelming.

Admiral Ackbar: His suicide charge against the First Order served to show that Rey would faithfully protect the fleet from an enemy and also show the lengths an old Rebellion hero would go to keep fighting. This was in contrast to Leia who surrendered. I thought this was a better tribute to him than getting blown the heck out of the bridge.

Lando: I thought it obvious he should be on the casino planet. What say you, Internet? I also wanted the reader to wonder whether Lando would go full blown betrayer or hero.

Rey: I mixed Last Jedi's "nothing parents" with the fan theory that she belongs to a powerful blood line. Hopefully, it was obvious as I tried to hint at it a few times. The deal to save the transports by joining Kylo Ren (true or not) seemed obvious to me.