Rey travelled for miles along rocky terrain until she reached a large pond. She looked in the water and was shocked. There was a Y-wing buried underneath!
"How do I get it out?" she thought to herself. She was startled when she heard a calm male voice in her mind tell her,
"Use the Force to pull the ship out of the water."
"I can't! It's too big!" Rey replied back. She could move little things like rocks, but not a spaceship!
"Size does not matter. You can do it. Concentrate. Feel the Force flow through you."
Rey closed her eyes and extended out her hand. Slowly, the submerged ship was lifted out of the water, and was moved onto dry ground.
"I did it!" she exclaimed happily. Her smile turned into a gasp when she felt a hand touch her. She turned around and saw Little Ren!
Rey tried to run, but Ben had frozen her in place.
"Don't be afraid," he said to the beautiful yet frightened young woman. "I do not mean you any harm."
"I don't believe you!" she snapped angrily. "I know who you are!"
"You do? Then why would I tell you to use the Force to lift the ship from the water?"
Ben gazed at the feisty young woman. She seemed familiar to him, even though this was the first time they met.
Rey wondered that herself. She was afraid. She knew he was Little Ren, the son of the Supreme Leader, Kylo Ren. The man who wanted to capture her father. He was handsome, with black hair and hazel eyes.
"I don't know!" she moaned desperately. "Please let me go!"
"I will let you go on one condition," Ben insisted, as he drew closer to her. "You need to promise that you will not kill me."
"How did he know that?" Rey wondered to herself. She trembled when she heard him respond back to her thought,
"Because I have the same power as you."
Rey stared into his eyes. She sensed that he was telling her the truth. She nodded her head in agreement, and he unfroze her.
"Please don't go," Ben pleaded with Rey, as she took a cautious step back.
"Why should I stay? You're the Supreme Leader's son!" she shouted back.
"I may be his son, but I am not him."
Rey sensed resentment on his part towards his family. She softly sighed and said,
"No, I guess you're not." Rey imagined how she would feel if everyone assumed she was just like General Hux. She would not like it.
"What is your name?" she asked, taking a step closer to him.
"Ben," he told her, delighted that she was slowly starting to trust him. "And you are...?"
"Rey." She noticed that his face changed when she said her name.
"Were you named after Rey of Jakku, the Resistance fighter?"
"Yes." When he heard her response, Ben shed a tear. Rey was confused by his emotions.
"What a beautiful name," Ben finally managed to say. "I always wanted to know about her."
"You mean Rey of Jakku? I can tell you about her," Rey offered. She saw Ben's eyes lit up when she said this.
"She was a brave warrior, yet kind and compassionate. She was strong in the Force, and she died saving my father and their friends from the Order," Rey explained.
She was curious to see Ben turn his back on her. Then she realized why. He was crying!
"That's not true!" he managed to say through his tears. "She died giving birth to me!"
Rey's eyes widened. Ben was the son of Rey of Jakku and Kylo Ren? How was this possible? Ben knew her thought and replied,
"I was conceived by the Force, when they touched hands, not too far away from here."
"I am sorry, Ben," Rey consoled him, as she stood next to him. "I thought Empress Tessa..."
"She is my mom, even though she didn't give birth to me."
"I see. You are sad, because you blame yourself for Rey's death." She closed her eyes and added,
"Your father thinks it is his fault she died."
Ben raised his eyebrow in surprise. Rey was powerful in the Force. Untrained, but stronger than she knew.
"My father knew Rey," the young woman continued. "He loved her, but he was heartbroken when she died. He thought your father..." She paused, not wanting to finish her statement.
"You gave him a reason to live," Ben confessed what he was feeling in the Force. "But you feel guilty, because he gave up everything to look after you."
Rey trembled in fear as she opened her eyes. Ben smiled at her and stated,
"He does not blame you. He only wants to protect you... Duck!"
Ben suddenly pulled Rey to the ground, to protect her from the blaster shots being fired at them.
"I will kill..." he hissed angrily, as he extended his hand to freeze the shots.
"No! Ben, don't! It's my father!" Rey begged him.
"REY!" Poe screamed, as he continued to fire at the strange man that now held his daughter. To his horror, the shots were frozen in the air.
"No! Rey!" Poe shouted.
"Stop shooting!" Rey yelled at him. When Poe saw who she was with, his face went pale.
"Don't hurt her!" he pleaded with Ben, as he approached them. Ben froze him in place, so that Poe could not move.
"You were firing at us!" Ben growled, ready to take his lightsaber out.
"Ben, don't!" Rey told him. "He was only trying to protect me! He's..."
"Rey, don't say it!" Poe cried out in fear.
"My father," she blurted out. Ben stared at Poe, then at Rey.
"Poe Dameron is your father?" Ben asked.
"Yes," she softly replied.
"Go!" he commanded Poe, unfreezing him. "You need to get out of here!"
"I don't think so! Not without... Oh no!" Poe gasped in horror.
"No!" Rey moaned, closing her eyes. She did not have to see them. She sensed them in the Force. Stormtroopers were marching towards them!
"You did this on purpose!" Poe snapped angrily at Ben.
"No, I did not," Ben insisted, as two Stormtroopers seized Poe and handcuffed him.
"No! Let him go!" Rey cried out. Ben held her to try and calm her down. They all turned to face Kylo Ren, who had his crossguard lightsaber ignited. Ben never saw his father this angry before.
"Give me one good reason why I should not kill you for trying to kill my son!" the Supreme Leader snarled. Rey's eyes narrowed and she told him,
"He was trying to protect me, his daughter!"
Kylo raised an eyebrow when the girl said this. He could understand Poe's actions. He would do the same thing for Ben. But it didn't matter now. He needed to fulfill his promise to Tessa.
"Take them to the ship!" Kylo commanded. Rey tried to attack him, but Ben held her back.
"Let me go!" she pleaded, as Ben escorted her to the ship.
"I will," he spoke to her mind. "Once I figure out how you and your father can escape."
