AN: DARKNESS RISES AND LIGHT TO MEET IT! Oh wait...where is Rey...that kind of is the problem here, isn't it? And is she really the light? Or both...?
Chapter thirty four - A little darkside meltdown
"You haven't done anything...?" His uncle scoffed, as he could see destruction of his office, just through the corner of his eye. "You don't kidnap people. Not even think about it. And you want to to marry someone who is barely born...sounds to me like arranged marriage." Luke shook his head, as this deal sounded worse by the time and put him in the naughty chair. "Stay there and think about how wrong that is." He pointed at the corner. "Face forward."
"Erm...she will have choice of course...but I feel that we are meant to be together..." He turned his head towards his uncle, who moved it back to face the corner. "I'm not going to kidnap her...like you kidnapped me...master," snapped Ben at him and glared at the corner, as he hoped it would get destroyed if he stared hard enough into it.
Luke leaned over the chair and said in dangerous whisper: "I did not kidnap you. Don't be ridiculous...do you honestly believe your parents would allow me to do that...? Can you just imagine your mother's rage if I did attempt that...?"
"Oh...right...what about dad...?" Ben looked over his shoulder with hope in his eyes. Like he hoped his dad would come immediately and rescue him from his rancor uncle. "Master," he added in a fake respect.
Luke frowned at him, like he could see the real image he had of him in his head, through his innocent brown eyes. "Eyes forward."
Ben grumbled and turned back with folded arms. He changed his imagination and now he was the rancor. In his mind he was eating his uncle, who was screaming for his life as he crunched him beneath his teeth. He chuckled evilly.
"You know, what he thinks and I send Balatik home because he was a troublemaker, more fit to be a pirate then a Jedi. While you are my precious family..." Luke said the last part softly, since couldn't see the horror Ben was imagining, or rather if he checked into his mind he would be very unhappy with him.
"Family...I thought I was your padawan...master." Ben turned around and smirked, when could throw Luke's own contradictory rules in his face.
Luke drew in a deep breath and stormed. "Okay, that's it Ben. You are both, okay! So you can call me both...no need to spit out master after every sentence...it's creeping me out, to be honest. Nose in the corner."
Ben gloated evilly over that small victory, when he turned to face the corner. "I'm a troublemaker, you call me that...master," He said with a creepy voice to spite his uncle. "But, I want to be a smuggler not a stupid Jedi...who has to follow the stupid code..." The minute his mind drifted to Rey, his evil grin vanished as if it had never existed and turned into a deep frown, like he wanted to cry on her behalf. "And can't even save an innocent life from loneliness...my poor innocent Rey..." . He kicked at the wall, like he could get out that way and rescue her from her impending loneliness.
"We have been through this over and over again, it's far too dangerous for you to leave and you have to learn to control the force...and your temper..." Luke put a stern hand on Ben's leg and lowered it into a sitting position. "Stop kicking."
"Screw the force! It is it's fault that I'm stuck here! Instead of being with my Rey. I wish I was never born with it! I hate it!" The moment his uncle let go of his leg, he used both to kick as hard as possible at the wall.
KR: You hate the force? That's so stupid.
Well, it gives me a lot of trouble...and no, I don't hate it now...it's cool.
KR: Exactly, it's so cool! And Rey has it...you don't hate her...
Of course I don't hate her! Don't be silly. I would never hate her! And I don't care who she was in past life...even Vader...if that is even true...plus I love my grandfather...no matter what he did...he made amends for it...
KR: She will hate you...
No, she won't! Will she...? I thought...I was someone extremely special to her...in past life...wait...grandmother...?! He kriffing turned for her to try and safe her! No one could be more special than that, except Luke who he sacrificed his life for...
KR: I'm still mad that he did it...
You talked about Naboo...politician...even Naberrie family, you weren't just messing around...?
KR: That was me and that was past life. This is another life and as soon as Rey finds out you are her maker...in this life...
I'm not her maker! And you and me are the same idiot! Am I...my own...grandmother...?
KR: You are not and if you are not her maker, then the darkside made her! To create another Vader! I mean, make her into Vader again!
What...then I would rather be her maker...
KR: Such prejudice against the darkside...and Vader...
But I love Vader.
KR: Nice.
I mean Rey...I love Rey...
KR: Same thing...
Are you really my grandmother...?
KR:...? I'm Vader's...future and past partner.
So...grandmother? Padmé...?
KR: That name has no longer any meaning for me.
Oh...this is confusing as...!
KR: NO SWEARING, YOUNG MAN!
You are nothing like I imagined...
KR: I learned..from the past...not to be such a pushover! Let the past die! And to make the right decision this time. Don't say no to darkside! That doesn't end well for anyone! Wait...were did that come from...? Who am I...?
This is getting weirder by the minute!
KR: Tell me about it...I don't know who I am any more...
Me neither...
Luke sighed and petted Ben's head in comfort or to make him think more positive. "I know this is hard...and you can't hate the force, it's in everything. You don't hate everything, do you?"
"No...I...don't know...I don't understand why did dad...do this...why did he leave me here...? I knew it...the dream was too good to be true...it was too nice...maybe I should just go back to sleep so I can keep dreaming that nice dream and more about Rey. Instead of being stuck in this...this...living nightmare...without Rey..." said Ben sobbing, as to him a life without her, he could just well as be living dead. A zombie.
"Come on, don't be so dramatic. I'm not that bad am I?" scolded Luke and turned the chair, so he was facing him and not the corner. He smiled at him, as if the smile would chase away the darkness building in Ben's soul.
"Yes, you are. You have tried to kill me multiple times..." said Ben accusingly and narrowed his eyes at him.
"It was an accident..." muttered Luke, unconvincingly.
"You hurt me...you threatened to hurt me," pointed Ben out.
"Erm...I was bluffing, son. Sorry." Luke patted his head again, like that would make up for everything.
Ben gives him a disbelieving look. "I really just want to go home...and get Rey...she needs me..."
"You don't know what this...Rey...really wants..." Luke stopped as a brilliant plan came to him, a thing that was rare. "Wait, maybe we should go and get her, than you would be forced to babysit her...and learn some patience." He grinned, when he found a plan to make Ben stop thinking about Rey.
"Babysit...?" Ben looked afraid and a little disgusted by that idea. He had doomed look as he thought about holding a screaming baby, that he had no idea how to calm down. Or worse, he had to change her. Nothing terrified him more, as he had already had his share of cleaning up after animals and that stink was enough to turn him to the darkside.
"You don't like that...? Do you? "Luke smirked smugly, as he was sure he had finally won the great get Rey-debate. He had the look of a parent who had agreed to give its child a puppy to teach it responsibility, after the said child had begged for it, without knowing what it really entailed.
"It's Rey, I will do anything for her..." said Ben with great conviction, like he was ready to fight through fire for her. "Anything..." He focused on Rey's future happy smile. He would do anything to give that to her. Even make great sacrifices. Nothing but she mattered.
KR: Woah...I'm a bit impressed by that commitment...
How dare I compare my sweet Rey to an animal?! And thinking about her this way..well, today she most likely smells of flowers and...
KR: You know just as well as I do, that she probably hasn't even bathed. She lived in a desert...she probably smells of sand and...
I DON'T CARE ABOUT THAT! I mean the bath part, it's sucks that she was living in dirty desert, not her fault. She can take a bath in the ship...and...
KR: You were thinking about her in shower...weren't you...?
Don't interrupt my Rey imagination!
KR: I'm in your head. That's all I do.
GO AWAY!
KR: We are stuck here.
Oh...right...must think of...Rey...like that...later...
KR: Pervert...
Hey! I'm not a...it's just natural to think...you make fun of me being an virgin and for having fantasies! You suck!
KR: Just telling the truth...
As it wasn't the answer his uncle was looking for, he thundered: "Ben! Is there no way to get it through your thick head, that is is not possible. That she might be dangerous...please..."
"NO! I want to go home and get her! Master...!" shouted Ben at him, red in face, as nothing could make him change his mind about Rey. Nothing, not even being forced to babysit her, was enough to stop him.
Luke looked at his pocket were the holoviewer rested, hoping for a call back so he could let either of his parents deal with his Rey obsession, but when it didn't call, he sighed. "I know, you want to go home, son. Your parents love you very much...We love you very much and we didn't like doing this...but this is for the best, trust me. We would never had done this otherwise. I wouldn't be doing this...if I didn't think this was the only way. You have to trust me. You are the chosen one, like your grandfather was..."
KR: Ironic..
Is that the only thing you can say?
KR: Well, there are a lot of ironic things in this conversation...like the fact that you want to go and pick up...Vader..
She is not Vader! I think...I mean...maybe only part...but mostly Rey...
KR: Then she is stupid Anakin...who used to be Vader...
Sigh...you are never going to let this drop...
KR: No.
Do you want me to call you...darth Padmé?
KR: What, no I like my name. Padmé and Ren both mean lotus.
...? Say what...?
KR: Why would you want to call me...Padmé...?
Snoke must be messing with our brains...I mean my brain...
KR: That's doesn't need much...
HEY!
"But wasn't grandpa killed by Vader..master?" asked Ben suspiciously, as if he thought Luke wanted him to end the same way.
"From a certain point of view..." mumbled Luke.
"Huh?"
"It doesn't matter as you won't be killed by any masked darksider," said Luke sternly, like otherwise he would hunt him down and end him to bring him back...erm the darksider who killed him, even though they were one and the same, which made the feat impossible.
"Of course not. That's stupid. This is stupid!" Ben shouted.
Don't you dare say it..
KR: I didn't say anything...
And I wasn't killed...I only fell asleep..
KR: So irresponsible...
And I won't again...
KR: We shall see..we shall see...
I want to hit you so much!
KR: You want to hit your own grandmother...?
What...the...no...I...argh!
KR: Hehe, what a fool...
Why are you so mean to me...if I'm your grandson?
KR: Because you are being naughty.
That's doesn't excuse...
KR: And hindering the greater good of the galaxy...
The greater good...?
KR: To allow it to be ruled by me and Vader...
That's...I can't believe what I'm hearing!
KR: You never do...to be fair I'm not sure about anything...except wanting to rule the galaxy with future and past Vader. That's solid!
"Good boy, you are finally beginning to understand..." Even thought Ben was neither calm or over Rey in the slightest, Luke took the small victory of him not wanting to end up like his grandfather and wanted to call it a night. "No more Rey or Vader talk. Let's just go to sleep, sleep now...my son... He said in hypnotising voice to lull him into a sleep.
No, I don't understand anything!
KR: That's nothing new...one tantrum coming up...
It was not a tantrum...was it?
KR: A meltdown then...
Big tremors ran through Ben's small body, like he was about to boil over or explode like a volcano.
"Ben...? Are you okay...?"
Luke tentatively lifted up a hand to give him a comforting touch on his shaking shoulder, but before he could touch him, Ben jumped off the chair like he been electrocuted and he snarled:"NO! My parents can't treat me like this. They can't just leave me here! You can't treat me like this! I have to save my Rey! And since you won't help me I will do it on my own."
"What...Ben...how...?" His uncle just stared after him, despite him leaving the corner without permission.
Furiously Ben grabbed his bag and went over to the desk to get the notebook. "I will run away for real this time! I will get lost in space! I will wreck the galaxy! No, better yet I will find Rey and we will rule the galaxy together! We will elope and have children again, which none of you will never ever meet! Yeah, that will show you! Stupid adults that know nothing!" He slung the bag over his shoulder after retrieving the notebook and calligraphy set and stormed to the door.
KR: Elope...? Have children...as a child...? Again...? My children...?
Sheesh...what was I thinking...? Your children...?
KR: You had more clearer view of the future back then...and still as obsessed with Rey. And ruling the galaxy is always nice.
Well, nothing has really changed with her...as long as she wants me that is...and not to the rule the galaxy...just to be...with me.
KR: Loser...it is your birth right...to rule...you are Vader's heir...
Maybe, but unless Rey is with me, nothing matters...
KR: Well, I want to rule with Vader...so...
Will you shut up already!
KR: So rude...you are grounded!
You can't...what...!
KR: This was fun...and this is even more fun!
Ben turned the knob, but it only rattled and didn't open. He tried to open the door with force and when that didn't work, he turned to his uncle with a hateful glare. "Open up!" He commanded.
"It's dark outside," said Luke, who hadn't moved to stop him since there was no need. The door was force locked and only he could open it.
"Open up, stupid Jedi!" thundered Ben. He turned to Luke and lifted his hand up like he was trying to force choke him.
His uncle just stared annoyed at him when nothing happened and Ben lowered and gazed at his small hand, stunned that it hadn't worked.
Luke shook his head sternly. "Stupid Jedi? No, means, no Ben. Do you have any idea what time it is? BEN!" he shouted when Ben used the force to throw the desk at the door with mighty crash.
If Luke hadn't put a force-shield over his office to make sure no one could come in or out, plus it muted the sound so nothing could be heard outside, the other padawans would've come running to ask what the kriff was going on, long time ago. However Luke hadn't been foresighted enough to also to put a shield inside his office to protect it from a possible threat inside and cursed himself for it, since it was too late now. The descruction had already begun.
"Not Ben, Kylo. Ben is gone. You can have Kylo, but Ben is...lost. He went to save Rey." Ben rammed the door over and over with the desk. "I'm going to help him go and get her!"
KR: So mean! You went before and left me alone with stupid Luke...or well, that's what you said anyway...
So...you really did exist from way back...since this is a...real memory...this is real...you really came...out...?
KR: That's what you take from this tantrum? But, yes, you did made me...when you were a wee little child...just like how you made Rey...from Vader...
I didn't make her...but I made you...from my grandmother? Why?
KR: You must have been seriously drunk...on blue milk, if you thought Padmé was darkside and a handsome and well dressed dude...she was beautiful and well dressed though...and with a impeccable hair...like us...I mean me...
But Anakin wasn't a girl...I mean Vader wasn't...he...she was still born in a desert though...poor thing...
KR: He is a she now...it doesn't matter, we can still be together...and she is beautiful...
Hands off Rey!
KR: And so powerful...
I said, hands off!
KR: We can share.
NO!
KR: Cheapskate.
But that sure explains the pictures with me dressed as you when I was a child...this is a real memory...this is...the truth...? This is the real truth? Or one of them...?
KR: Yes...but this is not me.
Oh, it isn't...?
KR: Nope, but I will appear later.
Oh no...when I was a kid...?
KR: Yebb...a very...dangerous kid...with a saber!
Shit!
Luke fore pulled him from the door, into his arms and held him firmly. "I am looking right at him..." He turned him around to face him. "At you...so stop fooling around this minute, Ben Skywalker!" He clamped down on his shoulders firmly and stared hard into his eyes, like he was willing him to be someone else.
"Skywalker? I'm Solo!" Ben stomped his feet and tried to break free of his hold.
"I know that..." Luke's voice trailed off, like he didn't really believe his own words and broke the eye contact, which might otherwise have broken the spell...or curse Ben was under.
Skywalker...? He's back to that, why does he keep calling me that...? I thought he would only use that if he was happy with me...or well, kind of...why is he scolding me, by using it? Is there something more...? It's the same name...his kid had in his...dream world...
KR: Ah...I wonder...if that...really is the truth about your origin...incest...
No! Stop it! I'm just Skywalker through mom, but she only ever uses Organa...or Organa-Solo...still strange...he keeps calling that, like it's his second nature...
"Then why did you say that...?! And why do you keep calling me son? I told you to stop that!" Dark Ben forcepushed him away and crossed his arm, defiantly.
Luke gave up on holding him or trying to calm him down and just let him went. "I don't know anymore...tired...go back to bed. Maybe your parent's will call tomorrow and then we can figure this out. I promise." However he looked at the holoviewer in his pocket, as he prayed for the force to make it call now, since hearing from them might be the only thing that could stop his out of control nephew.
"NO! You don't know anything...You don't understand shit! I hate you! Hate you!" Ben yelled like he was possessed and tried to break the window with his fist. When that didn't work, he threw a chair against it, but it slumped harmlessly down because of the force-shield. He was completely trapped, which did little to help Ben's dark mood. But despite him being so angry, he hadn't used the force to break the room anymore, but instead attacked physically. A testament to his great rage, he needed to destroy stuff himself, not only with the force.
"Watch your language. Remember, the Jedi, they don't hate...or love...except their old family, they can't have a new family...except you might if she is real...and not dangerous, have your parents adopt this Rey...but you can never marry her..." said Luke sternly, as Ben tried every possible way he could think of to get out of this locked room.
"I don't want to be a stupid Jedi that can't marry! Get me out of here!" Ben tried to jump into one of the cracks in the floor and crawl out that way, but it wasn't very deep so he couldn't get very far. And despite trying to make the force enlarge it, it never went of out the permitters of the room and in fact stayed the same, as if Luke has only allowed that size of cracks to appears in his office, though it was weird that even allowed crack to appear there. Must be because he assumed Ben would try this.
"Stop being so dramatic..." scolded Luke as he lifted him up from the hole, put him on the floor and swatted him. "Behave." He shook a finger sternly at him, like he was naughty boy, instead of a dangerous darkside user. "Go, to bed now, sooon...Ben?" He asked hesitantly and got very frightned, when he felt he was staring into the eyes of someone else, not his nephew. Someone...far more dangerous. Someone who had been awakened.
With a dark look, little Kylo used the force to get the ancient saber and at long last, after Ben's many pathetic attempts to get it, it ended up right in Little Kylo's open palm. Like a good doggie being called to his owner.
"Oh, no you don't!" Luke's eyes widened when Ben grasped the saber threateningly and he gasped, when the red blazing light shot out of the black cylinder. "Turn it off, this minute! I'm warning you!" He said, but not with the same conviction as before. He looked terrified by the little creature in front of him, like he was about to die at the hands of him. "Please..." he pleaded, both for his life and for Ben to come back.
"Shut up! I will break everything to pieces. I will escape this place! One way or another!" Little Kylo turned away from him and slashed through the desk with the ignited saber, like a laser saw. The humming of the red saber, sounded like an angry kitten meowing and it slashed through, like an furious cat clawing its way through the desk.
KR: Hey, my saber sounds and is way more threatening than that!
Does it...?
KR: You are not sure?
I'm not sure about anything right now...
Luke breathed a big sigh of relief when he didn't swing the saber at him, but at his furniture, but then he woke up to even more destruction of his room and shouted:"Ben, this a priceless artifact!" he scolded in the vain attempt to get to his naughty nephew, when little Kylo used the historical saber so carelessly.
His uncle grabbed his head in anguish when saw the desk begun to split slowly in two in front of the door, instead of Ben just moving it away with the force. "My desk! I'm going to kill you for this!" He looked at the safe where he had locked his saber inside. He never expected to have to use it to stop his own nephew's destruction. But Luke decided against getting it at the last minute, since was he was still traumatised by how he had nearly killed his nephew with it. He was never going to use it to attack his nephew ever again.
"I didn't mean it literally..." he added in remorseful voice. "I don't want to harm you...please...stop."
He was traumatized by it?
KR: That stupid narrator doesn't now anything...it's very Luke centric...like calling me little Kylo, instead of the super awesome little one. What a wasted opportunity.
Oookay...
"I'm not Ben and I don't care!" Little Kylo continued to try to break through to the door. "I need to get to MY VADER!"
"Vader...? Don't you mean Rey...? Wait...my...?" Luke gaped at him. "Are you nuts?"
"VADER! I'M COMING!" shouted Little Kylo at the top his lungs, as the hacked feverishly at desk, like Vader was waiting for him behind it with his open arms.
KR: Finally! There is the coolest part.
This is the cool part...?
KR: You...I mean me, are using our lightsaber! For real! That's always cool! PLUS CALLING AFTER MY VADER!
I guess...
KR: And darkside! I'm so proud of mini us! MINI ME!
Looks like full blown tantrum/meltdown to me...not that I can blame mini me/you/us...it involved Rey's happiness after all...
KR: Well...darkside...kind of...can be like that...I mean tantrum/meltdown like...
It can...?
KR: Why do you think you went to the darkside in the end..?
Hey, that's unfair...it's way more complicated than that! Wait...did that also involve Rey in some way?
KR: Maybe...we shall see later...
Later...?
KR: Stupid Luke is so deliciously angry with mini us...lov...like it.
You are such a creep...
KR: Making life a hell for the Jedi, is kind of my MO.
But...I thought he was your son...
KR: DON'T CALL HIM THAT!
"Stop it! This minute! Ben, I'm warning you. I will call your mother! She's gonna call back at any second now!" Luke looked desperately out the corner at his eye at the holoviewer, willing his sister to call, all the while muttering. "Leia...Leia..." Hoping that saying the name of Ben's mother, would bring Ben back to his senses.
"I'm not BEN! I'm Kylo!" Little Kylo, couldn't care less about anyone called Leia getting so mad at him and giving him such a scolding that he wished he could back in time and undo whatever bad thing he did or even wished he was never born. Finally Little Kylo reached the door and started slashing at it.
"BEN SOLO!"
"I do not answer to that name any longer! I'm the mighty Kylo Ren! What's up with that stupid door...why can't I get through!" Little Kylo slashed viciously at the door, but it didn't budge not matter how many red streak ran across it, no one of them went through and vanished instead, like they were holographic but not real.
"It's lightsaber...and naughty nephew-son proved, now stop this," said Luke and hoped that would stop his folly.
"Well, then I will just ruin everything else in here, until you let me out!" Little Kylo slashed at everything in sight. The precious Jedi items split into million pieces.
"Ben, what the...!" Luke looked horrified as more things broke around him with the saber. "BEEEN!"
KR: Hehe...nice destruction.
I don't remember doing this...
KR: You don't seem to remember anything...or maybe you only choose what you want to remember...except the Rey/Vader parts, really weird that you didn't remember any of that...
Yeah...but weren't you the one who did all this...?
KR: Maybe...it sure was fun to do...
Okay can we go now...?
KR: Go?
Yeah..I don't need to see Luke kill me..or you for this...again...
KR: Oh, but you will like the next part...
Like it...?
KR: Well...from a certain point of view...
I really hate that line!
Next up: A forceful parental attention...
