Rey flinches away as sparks shoot out from the compartment above her.

"What's going on?!" Ben asks, also flinching away from the sparks.

"Electrical overload." Han answers.

"I can fix that." Rey says standing up in her chair and opening the compartment, fanning her hand as smoke billows out.

"Coolant's leaking." Han says.

Ben looks over at him, "Try transferring auxiliary power to secondary tank." Han finishes the last part with him "I got it." Han says.

As Ben watches Rey and Han try to fix the Falcon, he hears Finn, "I need help with this giant hairy thing!"

Ben has to roll his eyes, "I'll be back." He says, turning and walking out of the cockpit.

As he makes his way to where Finn and Chewie are, he hears Chewie roar and BB-8 beep in a horrified manner before rolling away, Ben passes him in the hallway, "BB, you alright?" he asks, BB-8 beeps out "Just terrified" before rolling into the cockpit.

"You hurt Chewie, you're gonna deal with me!" Han yells.

"Hurt him?! He's almost killed me six times!" Chewie grabs Finn and pulls him closer in a threatening way, "Which is fine." Finn adds.

Ben rushes up and elbows Finn out of the way, "Finn move, I know what you're doing wrong!"

Finn backs up, "He's all yours." He says, sitting on the lounge.

"Chewie, Chewie, calm down, look at me, look at me!" Ben says, picking up a roll of bandages, Chewie looks over at him.

"Okay, now, let me see-" Chewie begins to struggle again, "I'm not gonna hurt you! Just let me see your wound so I can help!"

Chewie reluctantly calms down and let's Ben look at his shot wound. "Okay, I see, it's not that bad, now, I'm gonna patch it up-Don't worry!" He adds as Chewie pulls back.

"Look," Ben rolls up his sleeve, his arm is just as banged up as his hands are, "I've been patching up my own wounds for years, I know what I'm doing, but you have to trust me, okay?"

Chewie looks at Ben, even though his face is covered my his mask and goggles, Chewie got a good vibe from him, he relaxes and lets Ben wrap up his wound.

"Don't say that. You did great. Just rest." Han says to Chewie

"You did a good job of patching him up." He says to Finn.

"That wasn't me. That was him." Finn says, pointing to Ben, who shrugs. "Well, thank you...Kylo was it?"

"Yeah," Ben replies, eyes shifting behind his goggles.

"So..." Han begins as Rey walks into the room "Fugitives, huh?"

"The First Order is after the map." Rey says, leaning against the lounge.

"I found Finn at Niima, he's a Resistance spy." Han and Finn look at each other for a moment, Han seems to know something in that split second. Then he looks at Ben, "I'm just a scavenger." Ben says with another shrug.

"Let's see what you got." Han says to BB-8.

BB-8 looks back at Rey and makes a few questioning beeps, "Go ahead." Rey reassures him.

BB-8 looks back and rolls to the center of the room and a hologram of a map appears

"Wait, Rey I hate to burst your bubble but this map is incomplete, it's just a piece." Han says. Rey looks incredibly disappointed.

"Ever since Luke disappeared people have been looking for him." Han explains, still looking at the map.

"Why'd he leave?" Ben asks, tilting his head.

Rey speaks up, "He was training a new generation of Jedi. But one," Her expression turns sour "One boy, his first apprentice turned against him, destroyed everything!"

Han nods, "Luke felt responsible. He just walked away from everything."

"Even his own daughter! I knew her…she was devastated!" Rey snaps, praying her inner feelings didn't show.

"Do you know what happened to him?" Finn asks, standing up from his spot on the couch.

"There are a lot of rumors, stories," Han says, still not taking his eyes off the map "People that knew him best…think he went looking for the first Jedi temple."

Ben stands up from the sofa too, "The Jedi were real?" He asks, eyes going wide.

"I used to wonder about that myself. Thought it was just a bunch of mumbo-jumbo." Rey rolls her eyes, "A magical power holding together good and evil, the dark side and the light. Crazy thing is…"

Han's about to finish his sentence, but Rey beats him to it, she walks up to Ben and grabs his shoulders lightly "It's true. The Force. The Jedi. All of it." Han nods again, "It's all true."

There's a sudden beeping. Han walks over to a control panel, Chewie stands from the small bed and offers to help.

"No, you rest." Han tells Chewie, "You want my help? You're getting it. We're going to see an old friend. She'll get this droid and you home."

BB-8 beeped a little.

"You don't mean-" Rey starts. "Oh yes Rey, I mean." Han says with a slight smile.

They walk to the Cockpit and drop out of lightspeed.

"Welcome to Takodanna." Han says.

Ben's eyes nearly brake his goggles.

"Oh wow..." He whispers, "I had no idea this much green could be on one planet!" he didn't notice the sympathetic looks Rey and Han gave him.

When they land, Han turns to Chewie, "You stay here and see how bad she is." Chewie nodds, though reluctantly. The minute the door to the ship opens, Ben races outside, BB-8 following him.

He looks at the lake that's in front of him and closes his eyes calmly as the gentle breeze sweeps by him. Ben had imagined lakes, trees and gentle breezes for years, but now he was finally experiencing them.

He hears someone walk up to him, "You might need this." Han says, handing him a small white blaster.

"You know how to work it?"

"Yeah, pull the trigger." Ben says, pretending to aim the blaster. Han lets out a huffed laugh, "Well, it's a bit more complicated than that." Han says, pushing Ben's hand down so he didn't shoot anyone's eye out.

"Kylo I've been thinking of bringing on some more crew. A second mate, someone to help out, someone who can keep up with Chewie and me, appreciates the Falcon."

Ben looks at him "...Are you offering me a job?" He asks.

"I wouldn't be nice to you, it's not the safest, doesn't pay well." Han lists.

"You're offering me a job!...Do you travel?" Ben asks.

Han smirks, "Everywhere kid."

Ben's smile gets, if possible, even wider, "Yes! Yes I'll take the job!" He exclaims.

Han chuckles, "Well that's good, 'cause Chewie really seems to like you." He says, patting Ben's shoulder as Rey, Finn and Chewie walk out of the Falcon.

As Han, Rey, Ben, Finn and BB-8 make their way to what looks like a castle, Finn asks, "Solo, why are we here again?"

"To get you and your droid onto a clean ship."

"Clean?" Ben repeats.

"You think it was a coincidence Chewie and I found you. If we found you on our scanners, then the First Order isn't far behind. Wanna get BB-8 back to the Resistance? Maz Kanata's our best bet."

"She's helped us so many times." Rey says, smiling.

"Maz is a bit of an acquired taste, so let me do the talking and whatever you do don't stare?" Han says as they walk up a few stone steps.

"At what?" Ben and Finn ask in union.

"At any of it." Rey says walking past them.

When they walk in...Ben is so glad he has his mask and goggles on.

"Uuuhh…" he says. Okay, forget the trading post, this was something else.

"Han Solo!" Is heard and the whole bar goes quiet, "Oh boy." Han says uncomfortably, "Hey Maz.' He raises his hand in a wave.

The noise begins to start up again as Maz makes her away over to them. She looks at all of them for a moment, "Where's my boyfriend?" She asks.

'Boyfriend?' Ben thinks.

"Chewie's working on the Falcon." Han says.

"I like that Wookiee." Maz says, before returning to her serious "I assume you need something. Desperately. Let's get to it." She says, gesturing them to follow her.

As they make their way over to a table, Ben's eyes scan the room; At all of the years at Niima, he has never seen this many...species, in one place at once.

Aboard the Finalizer, Darth Caedus is in his semi-dark quarters, pacing back and forth, hands behind his back.

'Could it have been him?' He thinks, making another round of pacing, 'He's been missing for 13 years.'

He stops pacing abruptly, then he reaches up and takes off his helmet and sets it down, his face still unnoticeable due to the shadows.

'I've felt that before, I know I have.' He runs his hands through his short hair frustratedly.

Then he remembers the words Supreme Leader Snoke has been hammering into him as of recent.

'Get the droid! Find Skywalker! Don't get distracted!' Ha! That's all the Supreme Leader wants, but, he shouldn't have overshadowed 'The Awakening'.

Caedus knows who has been awakened (or he thinks he does) and he doesn't care what Snoke, or General Hux for that matter ('Dumbass goody two-shoes!' he thinks to himself) want him to do! He has matters of his own now!

"And nothing will stand in my way!" He says aloud, throwing his mask back on and storming out of his quarters.

"A map. To Skywalker himself? You are right back in the mess." Maz says to Han with a laugh.

"Maz, I need you to help these guys get this droid to Leia." Han says.

Maz makes a little 'mm' sound, before "No."

Finn and Rey both look at her, and Ben, who was about to bite into his food, stops mid-bite, and his eyes shift over to her.

"You've been running away from this fight for too long. Han," She says something in a different language, "Go home."

Han shakes his head, "Leia doesn't wanna see me."

"Please, we came here for your help." Finn speaks up.

Ben sets his food down, "What fight?" he asks Maz.

"The only fight, against the dark side. Through the ages, I've seen evil take many forms; The Sith, The Empire, today it is the First Order. Their shadow is spreading across the galaxy. We must face them. Fight them. All of us."

Finn leans forward suddenly, "There is no fight against the First Order! Not one we can win!"

Rey's head snaps over and she gives Finn a look of disbelief, Finn continues.

"Look around, there's no chance we haven't been recognized already. I bet you the First Order is on their way right…" Finn looks at Maz, who is enlarging the magnifiers on her glasses. "What's this?" he asks, "What are you doing?"

Maz doesn't answer, but she crawls up onto the table and toward him, knocking food and drinks off of the table, Ben reaches forward and grabs his plate and cup off the table.

"Solo, what is she doing?" Finn asks.

"I don't know but it ain't good." Han says, leaning back in his seat casually.

"If you live long enough, you see the same eyes in different people. I'm looking at the eyes of a man who wants to run." Maz says.

Ben furrows his eyebrows, 'Run?' he thinks.

Finn leans forward, "You don't know a thing about me. Where I'm from, what I've seen. You don't know the First Order like I do."

Ben and Rey exchange glances. (Though Rey couldn't see Ben's eyes due to his goggles.)

"They'll slaughter us, we all need to run." Finn finishes.

"Hm," Maz says, climbing back into her chair, "You see those two?" She asks, pointing to two…things in the back, "They'll trade work for transportation to the Outer Rim. There, you can disappear."

"Finn!" Rey says, "What about BB-8? We're not done yet! We have to get him back to base!" She says.

Ben's eyes dart between the two of them.

"I can't." Finn says finally, standing up. He hands Han the blaster, but Han shrugs and says, "Keep it."

Finn looks at Rey and Ben again, then he walks off.

Rey watches after him for a moment before she stands up and rushes after him, Ben swallows his food before standing up and taking off his goggles, then running after his friends.

Han glances at Ben when he takes his goggles off...And promptly does a double take. It didn't take someone like Maz to see that those eyes were the exact color of Leia's.

"You see it don't you?" Maz asks him.

"Those were Leia's eyes." Han breathed. Now that he thought about it; he has a very similar nose, his hair kinda curled like his own used to, his knowledge of parts, his knowledge of medical skills, Leia had pretty good medical skills, and Rey found him on...Jakku!

"Dear God." Han breathed again.

"You know who he is, don't you?" Maz asked.

"I do, but I don't think he does."

Ben walks through the room, looking for Rey and Finn, when he feels someone grab his shoulder roughly, he let's out a shocked cry and whirls around to see who it is.

He feels himself go pale.

"Hello, Ben." Unkar says coldly.

"How in the name of-" Ben starts, pulling away.

"Let's just say I put more than a compressor on that scrapheap of a ship." Unkar explains, grabbing Ben's wrist.

"I suggest, kindly, that you let me go." Ben says, pulling away again.

Unkar grabs him again, this time Ben winces "And I suggest, less kindly, that you come with me!"

Ben pulls away for the third time and this time he grabs the blaster that he put on his belt and points it at Unkar's face.

Unfortunately, Unkar grabs it from his hand quickly and points it right back, "You have no idea how much trouble you're-"

Just then, Chewie appears and snatches the blaster from Unkar with a slight roar and gives it to Ben, who smirks at Unkar.

"Hey." Unkar says to Chewie, annoyed, "I'm not afraid of you," Unkar steps closer and begins to jab Chewie in the arm, the injured one, "Half a Wookiee isn't much!"

Chewie lets out another roar and grabs Unkar by the arm, then he pulls.

Both Unkar and Ben let out yells; Ben a shocked one, Unkar's a pained one.

Chewie just ripped off Unkar's arm.

Ben watches as Unkar and his removed arm are dragged outside, then he looks at Chewie, his face even paler than it was a minute ago.

"Thanks, Chewie." He says, his voice cracking slightly. Chewie just growls and pats his head before walking over to Han and Maz.

Shaking himself from his shocked trance, Ben continues to look for Finn and Rey. He found them quickly, they were talking in a corner.

"You can't just go I-" She glaces at Ben, "We won't let you!" Rey says, looking at Ben again, who nods.

"I'm not who you think I am."

"Finn what are you talking about?" Rey asks.

"I'm not Resistance!" Finn exclaims.

Rey is taken aback by this, she looks at Finn with a look of disbelief.

"I'm not a Resistance spy…I'm a Stormtrooper. Like all of them, I was taken from a family I'll never know, and I was raised to do one thing. But on my first battle, I made a choice, I wasn't gonna kill for them."

"Why?" Rey interrupts, "Why did you lie to us?" She asks, her face a mix of anger and betrayal.

"Because you looked at me like no one ever had. You and Kylo both. I was ashamed of what I was. But I'm done with the First Order, I'm never going back."

Rey wants to scream, wants to slam him into a wall and pound questions into his head, demanding answers, but all that comes out was a weak,

"Don't go…"

"Take care of yourselves…please."

Ben watches as Finn left and Rey went back to Han, Maz and Chewie.

"Nooo!"

Ben turns around, that sounds like...a child. He blinks, then begins to follow the sound, it leads him to a stone staircase. He hears BB-8 try to follow him but he turns around. "No BB, I don't know what's down here, and I don't want you getting hurt. Go back with Rey and the others, I'll be back." He says.

As he descends the stairs, the sound gets louder.

"Where did you go?" Is a child lost down here?

"Please Mommy come back!" The voice is coming from a room in the very back.

"Hello?" He calls.

"Please come back!"

He walks into a room, there's no child, just a room full of junk.

"Daddy!"

The voice seems to come from a small wooden crate. He slowly walks over and opens it; there was something underneath a cloth, he carefully moves the cloth, then he sees some sort of metal object.

'Wait, Didn't I see one of these things on Rey's belt?' he thinks to himself. He looks back at the metal object, then he slowly reach down and grabs it. But when he does; Chaos.

He lets out a shocked sound as he hears a sound, like some sort of weapon igniting, he stands up and the dark room turns into a hallway, at the same time he hears a voice say, "Find him...Find him..." over and over again.

He begins to run but there's an explosion behind him, sending him flying onto the wall, but the wall became the ground. He looks up to see someone with a robotic hand and an R2 Unit sitting in the middle of a ton of rubble, then it begins to rain very hard, he's lying in a bunch of mud.

He hears another sound and whirls around to see a towering figure in front of him, about to bring his weapon down on him when there's suddenly a bright red bolt through his chest. The figure screams and falls to the ground.

Ben scrambles to his feet and looks at the people standing in front of him. The one that saved him, the one with the glowing sword looks at him and begins to walk over. Ben begins to back up, but then he finds himself looking down to see a little boy screaming after something, "COME BACK! Mommy! Daddy!" Wait...that was...HIM! He turns around to see what he was screaming after and he gasps.

Then he finds himself standing in a forest, it's covered in snow he begins to run again only for a masked man (the same man that probably saved him)to jump out from behind a tree right in his face, weapon ignited!

Ben stumbles out of the room with a yell and falls over backwards; he was panting and crying, his heart beating out of his chest.

He lifts himself onto his elbows and turns his head. Maz is standing there, a sympathetic look on her face.

"I-I shouldn't have gone in there." Ben says, standing up "What was that?" He asks.

"That Lightsaber, so you know who it belonged to?" Maz asks. Ben blinks and shakes his head.

"That Lightsaber, belonged to Darth Caedus himself. He created it, before he threw it away. And now, it's calling to you."

Ben looks at her, slightly confused, "What?"

Maz stops in front of him, then takes off her goggles and puts them on her head. She holds out her hand and Ben takes it then sits back down.

"Dear child, I see your eyes. I can see that memories that have been long forgotten, are coming back."

Another tear falls from Ben's eye before he speaks, "I was...I was abandoned, by my parents," He bites his lip slightly, "I didn't know I was abandoned, I thought I was always on Jakku."

"Do you remember who your parents were?" Maz asks.

Ben nods slightly, more tears falling from his eyes. He feels his emotions rising rapidly, Maz sees this.

"You cannot go back and change your past, because the belonging you seek is not in behind you. It is ahead. I am no Jedi, but I know the Force. It moves though and surrounds every living thing."

Maz closes her eyes, "Close your eyes. Feel it. The light, it's always been there. It will guide you." She opens her eyes. "The Saber. Take it. Do what Darth Caedus did not, follow the path of the light and hold what's dear to you close. Do not throw it away like Caedus so foolishly did!"

"No, I'm sorry I can't!" Ben says, standing up and letting go of her hand, "I'm not getting involved with this!" He walks around her before breaking into a run, up the stairs, out of the castle and into the nearby forest.

"Han, did you see-" Rey's cut of by Han giving her a hug. "You did it! You found him. Thank you." Han breathes out.

"Found who?" Rey asks. Han pulls away and looks at her "Ben! You found Ben!" Rey looked confused "What? When?"

"When you found Kylo!"

"...You're serious!" Rey says, when it dawns on her, "Oh my god! Of course! How did I not see it-" The grin slipped off her face.

"What is it?" Han asked.

"I-I don't know, I feel some sort of…disturbance, like something's off."

General Hux stands before thousands of Stormtroopers and Officers. The officers and Captains standing behind him.

"Today, is the end of the Republic. The end of a regime that acquiesces to disorder. At this very moment, in a system far from here the new Republic lies to the galaxy while secretly supporting the treachery of the loathsome Resistance. This fierce machine which you have built, upon which we stand, will bring an end to the Senate. To their cherished fleet! ALL REMAINING SYTEMS WILL BOW TO THE FIRST ORDER! AND WILL REMEMBER THIS AS THE LAST DAY OF THE REPUBLIC!"

All of Stormtroopers their left hands, and the officers salute before Hux gives the command,

"FIRE!"

AN: Very proud of this chapter, took me all day to write. And, Uh-oh! A lot of stuff went down in this chapter, see what happens to Ben and the others in the next chapter! (And go Chewie!) I hope you enjoyed ;D