Kylo Ren's commanding vessel hovered over the lush Naboo greenery. He felt nothing emanating from the force in fact it it rendered rather dull to him.
"Is this place even inhabited?" he asked Hux.
"We did scan for life forms. There are nomadic gungans in the water way, but it appears that most of the humanoids moved to one of the moons."

As he stepped off with a tablet echoing the signal's beacon. The beacon directed him and the unit into the rubble of the Nubian capital, turquoise tiles snapping under their feet. It was exactly as Nyx described deserted,but that was long enough now. He was sure someone had to settle in the ruins. The palace was a shell of its former self half of it laying in an avalanche of orange clay. He ascended the remaining steps.

"Spread out and search the city." the supreme leader ordered.

It was when the unit separated from him the sound of the planet fell. He continued walking through the remnants of the palace until he couldn't deny the pull.
"Rey…" He breathed.

The scavenger had her back to him. She turned to him with a fierceness in her eyes that he'd seen in Snoke's throne room. There was something different. The Naboo palace backdrop seemed to phase in and out around the girl. Kylo Ren took a moment to focus letting the landscape form. His mind pushed forward through greedily taking in anything the girl didn't have nailed down.
"What are you doing!" She yelled in a panic.

He couldn't help himself from the grin that grew on his face, "It's growing ...our bond."
The landscape around her was a swamp and he could feel the force pulsating in great magnitude on the planet.

"Shall you tell me where you are?" He reached out a gloved hand, "Or shall we see how much this bond can give me on it's own?"

"I'm not giving you anything." She pushed back gritting her teeth and closing her eyes, "You-you….are on a pastoral planet. Somewhere you've been before…" Rey opened her eyes, they were shaking.

If she could tell that much about him. How much more could he sense? He wouldn't be bullied by her like before and he reached out in attempt to peel back the space that separates them. Images of a younger Luke Skywalker and the green exile that trained him. At the moment the stories his uncle had told him about the Jedi master who'd trained him were lost, but he would merely have to mediate.

Kylo Ren hid his findings. He wouldn't tell her he could see so clearly the jungle surrounding her, or she would hop to the next planet and it would be a wild goose chase.

He closed the bond himself portraying frustration and agitation to lead her on.
He then returned his attention to the tablet faintly beeping further inside the palace, but this message they received on a whim didn't matter anymore. He ordered the unit back to the vessel. Hux stood before the craft quiet and complacent. Kylo Ren shoved the tablet into his hands,

"The beacon here is merely a relay signal."

"I'm sure we can find the origin, Supreme Leader."

"No need. I'll have the location of the girl without us wasting resources bouncing around the galaxy." He began walking into the ship, "Fire on the ruins. I want to see complete rubble."


The Naboo hunkered in their carved out homes. Ashamed the Queen cleared the room trusting the force users as they monitored a destroyer and dreddnaught exit from hyperspace and hover over the planet. Calliope and Rey stood across from each other on the command center floor. Finn, Poe, Leia and Rose looked on. Leia's only part in the plan was to mask her force presence from her son. Everyone else had no part of their plan.

"Rey, I need you to clear all of Naboo from your mind."

She nodded closing her eyes and taking deep breaths.
"I'm right here with you. All you need to do is connect with him, and I will take care of the rest."
"Won't he know your there?"
"He didn't before, so I guess we just have to hope."

Both Rey and Calliope were thrust into the crumbling palace. Rey stood facing her, and beyond her was Kylo Ren. Calliope's heart hammered against her chest. She wasn't expecting his signature helmet...to not be on. It was also a fresh reminder of how much her son mirrored his father. The young Jedi turned to the fresh Supreme Leader. Rey's name fell out of his lips. Calliope could feel the rage bubble within the girl upon facing him. "It's okay Rey," she soothed. The girl's watched him focus. "Good." Calliope led him in to her own thoughts, careful to not allow him where he shouldn't be. She pulled from stories Luke had told told her. He followed the bread crumbs of her mind so willingly but so forceful it was a strange sensation. Once she knew the name of the planet, but that did matter. Calliope drew on the swamp bathing Rey's image in it.

"What are you doing!" Rey yelled.

Calliope clouded his mind wrapping him around the assuredy of her location. He was so enraptured that the Supreme Leader ended the vision himself. Both girls took stammering breaths and Calliope leaned against a command panel. She'd felt the raw power of darkness surge through her. Quietly she muttered her mantra. Kylo Ren's power had tripled since she had last personally encountered him.
The resistance huddled together feeling the shake of a Dreddnaught decimate the nearby city.

The stronghold remained hushed in the mountain for one month...