p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Leia steps into view in the World between the Worlds. Leia: "By continuing to be as you showed yourself to be when you healed Ben, when you could have easily killed him." Luke: "Indeed, I failed Ben because I thought his destiny was already chosen for him by Sidious influence. Sidious planted the seeds of evil, but I made them take root and caused him to fall like my father." Anakin: "Just like me Ben believed himself to be beyond any hope of redemption, but you restored his sense of his true self." Leia: "When I learned the truth about Anakin being Vader and that he was my father. I refused to have anything to do with him. Until R2 showed me his unaltered memories of him through his life. After a certain period of time, I was ready to speak with him, and in time I was able to eventually forgive him. As you have forgiven Ben." Rey: "But how do I stop Sidious now that he is restored?" Serenity: "Remember Sidious thinks he is immortal and invincible because he is able to infuse his essence and transfer his soul into a clone body or another beings body by infusing and transferring his corrupt rotten soul into it, and he channels the spirits of all the Sith who came before into and through himself." Rey looks through another door to see her father's past. Serenity: "Your father, Rey, was one of his clones. As was Snoke, who was merely an extension of himself. Unlike Snoke, your father was not strong in the force, so Sidious cast him aside and left him to die. But he underestimated his resolve to prove he was not Sidious. That is when he found and married your mother. That is also why they chose to live on Jaku. To protect you, knowing full well that Sidious feared if there was even the slightest possibility that a child could be born of his blood. Such a child could not just overthrow him, but also could poses the power to destroy him. That is why your parents were taken and killed for refusing to reveal your existence and location. Sidious may have intended to use your father's body as just another eventual vessel for his soul, but the force gave him one with the intent of using Sidious own hubris against himself. Which is what has brought you here. In order to end the cycle, you need to permanently sever Sidious connection to the mortal plane. To do that you must learn the rite of cleansing that purges the essence of an evil force user from all objects that they have infused with their essence." Rey: "Then let's do it." Luke: "Not so fast Rey before you learn how to defeat Sidious you must pass one final trial. The test of spirit that is to face your greatest threat." Rey: "Greater than Sidious, who?" Serenity: "Yourself and the shadow within your soul." Anakin: "Yes, Rey, like what you faced in that vision you had in the remains of the death star. You must face your own potential for evil. This will prove to us, to the Force, and to yourself that you are worthy of the knowledge that will end Sidious and the Sith once and for all. Are you ready?" Rey: "I'm not sure but I'll do my best." Anakin rests his right hand on her left shoulder as she looks up at him, he says, "Then that's good enough for me."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Rey's spirit passes through another door that leads to the world where midiclorians come from. Rey: "What is this world?" Serenity: "This is the foundation of life in your galaxy. There is one such world in every galaxy. This is where the Living Force and the Cosmic Force are united." Her touch causes a mushroom tree to wither and die as its life energy leaves it to become part of the cosmic force. Then with a touch of her finger on a single spore, anew tree instantly grows in. Serenity: "When a living thing dies, its energy flows from the Living Force into the Cosmic Force, and then the Cosmic Force in turn creates new life in the living force by channeling its energy into the midiclorians to fill the void left when that old life ended so that new one that has never existed before can replace it. One defines the other. One strengthens the other. One is renewed by the other. This is the important truth for there is no light or dark, good or evil, in the force. Imbalance stems from twisted freewill. When balance is achieved, life flourishes. When there is too much of one or the other life is destroyed. Sidious is the embodiment of the imbalance that threatens to destroy all life. You need to stop him with that which ends the imbalance. You can only find that when you have found inner balance within yourself." They float to the island of darkness. Serenity: "On that island is all that is unconquered. Face your darkness and you will come out stronger and clearer on who you truly are and what you stand for. Otherwise, you will be corrupted and consumed by darkness and will die. This you must face alone. Before you go remember what I told about the Crondors. And that there are two forms of courage. The courage to stand your ground and fight or stand your ground and peacefully resist. Which of these is stronger only you can answer that. Also, you can either fight fire with fire or burn your opponent and yourself. Or fight fire with what extinguishes it. Rey: "How do I do that? Serenity: "That you must discover yourself. You will find that inside. And remember that you are never alone in the Force. It will be with you always." Serenity vanishes and Rey enters into a large chamber like an arena made of decaying wood./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"A voice speaks with Rey's voice, "Rey...Heh Heh Heh." She keeps turning trying to find the voice and doesn't see her own shadow become separate from the walls surface and move on its own. Voice: "Rey! Ha! Ha!" Rey: "Show yourself!" Voice: "Show what you already have within you." Then the Dark Rey, just like the vision she had on the Death Star, appears and attacks. (Standing over all twisted and corrupted.) Dark Rey: "Rey doesn't want to play with me. She thinks I am not important." (Punches and throws her around.) Dark Rey: "You reject my existence and have ignored me for years. Well, I'm not going to stay silent anymore!" Rey then attacks and pins her dark self just before she turns to mist and reconstitutes in front of Rey. Rey: "I choose not to give you power." Dark Rey: "Your own confidence betrays you. Do you hate me? For if you do, then that means you hate yourself." Rey: "You are a liar and a monster. You are not me!" Dark Rey attacks again while shouting, "I am part of you. I am part of all that can choose between light and dark." Rey throws her off into the wall and then declares, "You have no power over me!" Dark Rey: "Yet you spend your time in the decadence of war. Denying what you are and choosing to only believe the best of people instead of accepting that some can't be saved. Who don't even want to be saved. Choosing to blind yourself to the truth that some like Sidious are truly rotten to their core. Your denial is what strengthens mw, and with that I grow inside you. Face me now or I will devour your soul." She violently attacks Rey with greater ferocity than Rey match. Dark Rey: "To deny me, gives me hold over your mind. To hate me, gives me strength. To fight me, gives me power!" Dark Rey gives her a fast upper cut up into the air. Leaps and kicks her so hard into the wall she crashes through the wall into the next chamber." Dark Rey crawls along the walls as Rey staggers on the ground. Dark Rey: "Rejecting me is the worst mistake ever rather than accepting me. The weakness of the Jedi is what gives the Sith like Sidious our grandfather power. You do deserve nothing but death. And I will make the pain last forever because you are weak!" Rey then remembers what Serenity said and declares, "No! I will no longer continue this fight." Dark Rey: "What?!" Rey: "You exist here because I fight you." She then sits in a meditation pose and says, "So instead I choose not to fight you. If I fight you, I am not in balance. So, I will not fight you, and keep myself in balance. And since I choose not to fight you, you no longer exist." Dark Rey screams and leaps at Rey with primal fury only to be repelled by an aura of golden light. She fiercely tries to break through but only becomes weaker and weaker until she is barely able to stand as Rey opens her eyes and the dark one tries to flee but Rey grabs her with a force pull. Rey: "Your power comes from me not being in balance with myself and the force. But you will never have control over me. For it is I who controls you." She pulls the dark version to her so close they are almost touching noses. Rey: "I see that you are my dark side, and I accept you as a part of me. I accept you because if I try to deny the darkness within myself, I run the risk of becoming just as imbalanced as those who ravaged the galaxy. So, I am not going to hate you. Instead, I accept you because I love you. Because I love myself." The dark Rey fades out. Serenity then appears and says, "Well done Rey, you discovered a wisdom that even the wisest of Jedi often fail to discover. That in order to find balance within yourself you must accept with unconditional love your whole self. Especially the dark part you would prefer not to acknowledge." Rey: "The more I tried to resist and fight it by denying it, the more powerful it became until I realized what you said before about the story of the crondors." Serenity: "Indeed, the beast is a part of all sentients who are able to choose between selfishness and selflessness. That brings one's spirit out of balance with the universe and the Force around them and can make them agents of darkness, chaos, and evil. For the beast is you and you are the beast. To deny it only gives it power and a greater hold over you and makes you more vulnerable to being blindsided and consumed by it. For as long as there exists a will in this universe that is free to choose not to serve the will of the Force, evil will always find a way in." Rey: "I think I see now that the only way to fight evil and violence is with love and acceptance. And that the price of freedom and freewill is eternal vigilance both outside and within yourself."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Serenity: "One more test you must face is that you need to pass through the valley of illusion without emotion and without attachment." Then the other Wills appear saying as they become orbs of light, "You will see all our faces, for we are confusion, Anger, Sadness, Joy, and Serenity." And she hears Serenity say as she fades, "Do not trust what you see, but what you feel." As Rey enters the valley she is surrounded by a fog and then she sees that she is back on Exogal where the sky flashes with lighting but no star destroyers. She sees the landscape covered by the ships of her rebel friends. She finds R2 and BB-8 destroyed. She sees Poe lying dead. Then she hears someone coughing and turns to see its Finn. Finn: "Rey..." Rey holds his hands gently then asks, "Finn what happened?" Finn with a flush of anger on his face exclaims, "You failed to stop Sidious! The fleet left and is heading out to every inhabited planet across the galaxy to destroy all who won't submit. Trillions of lives are now going to be lost because of you. Because you failed!" Rey: "No!" Finn: "I hate you! I hate youuuuuuuuuu! And I wish you were dead! Our deaths! Our blood! And countless others are one your hands because you failed!" Rey: "No!" Finn: "I wish you were never born. We needed you and you failed us. I hate you..." He dies and Rey screams, "Nooooooooo! I failed, I failed." She then curls herself into a fetal position. Then she hears a little boy as he comes into sight. The boy: "Rey, you certainly have made quite a mess." Rey: "Go away...GO AWAY! You shouldn't be here. There is only death here, only death." The boy: "Is it. Look again." When Rey looks up, she sees she is in a plaza with fountains and beautiful trees and flowers and birds chirping all around. She sees all her friends restored and alive. Finn walks by saying, "Hey Rey, I'm going to go surfing with Poe and the gang want to join us?" Rey: "Maybe later." Finn: "All right suit yourself. See yah later, Reyalater." The Boy: "Is this not better." Rey: "Yes, so peaceful. Like the way it should have been before the war." The Boy: "Oh there is no war here. Only peace and tranquility." A man calls, "Cade, come here, and if Rey is with you tell her come as well, we want to talk to her." The Boy: "Well we shouldn't keep mom and dad waiting eh big sis." Rey: "Big sis..." The boy runs through people and Rey politely walks pass and through until she finds him with her parents. Rey: "Mom! Dad! No, this is impossible" Rey's Mom: "Darling what's the wrong? You act like you have seen a ghost." Rey's Dad: "Must be stress from training. How yah doing kido?" Rey is speechless as she begins to say, "You're not dead!" Rey's Dad: "Last I checked." The boy Cade is playing with three other children. (Around a man and a woman with their son about Rey's age.) Rey's Mom: "Kids come here please." Rey looks at them perplexed. Rey's Mom: "Whoa! You are really out of it. You act like you don't know your quadruplet younger brothers and sisters Cade, Jon, Amala, and Saline." Then the other family approaches and she sees its Leia, Han, and Ben. Ben: "You ok Rey?" Rey: "I don't know." Leia: "I told you not to over stress yourself." "Take it from me," says Luke as he walks in, "She is always right on these things even when I trained her." Then an older man walks up to them and Rey sees it is Palpatine. Rey: "Sidious!" Rey's father: "Rey is that anyway to address your grandfather?" Palpatine: "It's ok son she sometimes forgets about the time she helped me realize that my quest for power and control was meaningless and helped me find redemption and end the Sith once for all. I thank her every day for that and I am thankful beyond words." Rey's Mom: "As are we, Dad." Palpatine then picks up one of the girls saying, "Wait who is this giant? What have done with my grand-daughter Saline?" Saline: "Heh! Heh! I'm Saline" Rey's Mom: "Now, now let's take it easy with Grandpa." Everyone then starts walking into the building that looks like the chancellor's residence." Rey's Father: "Pays when your teacher is the supreme chancellor. Isn't that right Leia?" Leia: "Sometimes I wish there was a war. Because truth be told thinking military strategies is easier then dealing with politicians." Rey's mother turns back and says, "Sweetheart come and join us inside." Rey is about to follow them when her look changes to anger. Rey: "No! This is all a lie. An illusion, a false vision. This may be how I wish things were, but it is not true." She points at her parents, "I know you are already dead." She then points at Leia, Luke, and Han as she says, "As are you." She turns to Ben stating, "You murdered Han your father, but I healed you after I impaled you during our battle on Endor and then we stood together on Exogal," her attention then turns to Palpatine with his back turned, "against you grandfather Sheeve Palpatine or rather Darth Sidious." He then turns and his face is decrypted and deformed with sickly yellow/orange, black tinted eyes as he was when she last saw him. The sky turns dark. The residence collapses and everyone turns to mist and blow away except Sidious as he ignites his lightsabers and prepares to attack. Rey: "No, none of this real." She closes her eyes and Sidious has both sabers at her neck. Rey: "I'm not afraid." He slashes but the sabers go through her neck like all they hit was air and she opens her eyes to find herself back in the World between the Worlds. Yoda speaks, "Done well you have young Rey. Learned to see not with eyes you have, but with your spirit through the force you have." Rey: "What's next?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Rey's spirit passes through another door that leads to the world where midiclorians come from. Rey: "What is this world?" Serenity: "This is the foundation of life in your galaxy. There is one such world in every galaxy. This is where the Living Force and the Cosmic Force are united." Her touch causes a mushroom tree to wither and die as its life energy leaves it to become part of the cosmic force. Then with a touch of her finger on a single spore, anew tree instantly grows in. Serenity: "When a living thing dies, its energy flows from the Living Force into the Cosmic Force, and then the Cosmic Force in turn creates new life in the living force by channeling its energy into the midiclorians to fill the void left when that old life ended so that new one that has never existed before can replace it. One defines the other. One strengthens the other. One is renewed by the other. This is the important truth for there is no light or dark, good or evil, in the force. Imbalance stems from twisted freewill. When balance is achieved, life flourishes. When there is too much of one or the other life is destroyed. Sidious is the embodiment of the imbalance that threatens to destroy all life. You need to stop him with that which ends the imbalance. You can only find that when you have found inner balance within yourself." They float to the island of darkness. Serenity: "On that island is all that is unconquered. Face your darkness and you will come out stronger and clearer on who you truly are and what you stand for. Otherwise, you will be corrupted and consumed by darkness and will die. This you must face alone. Before you go remember what I told about the Crondors. And that there are two forms of courage. The courage to stand your ground and fight or stand your ground and peacefully resist. Which of these is stronger only you can answer that. Also, you can either fight fire with fire or burn your opponent and yourself. Or fight fire with what extinguishes it. Rey: "How do I do that? Serenity: "That you must discover yourself. You will find that inside. And remember that you are never alone in the Force. It will be with you always." Serenity vanishes and Rey enters into a large chamber like an arena made of decaying wood./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"A voice speaks with Rey's voice, "Rey...Heh Heh Heh." She keeps turning trying to find the voice and doesn't see her own shadow become separate from the walls surface and move on its own. Voice: "Rey! Ha! Ha!" Rey: "Show yourself!" Voice: "Show what you already have within you." Then the Dark Rey, just like the vision she had on the Death Star, appears and attacks. (Standing over all twisted and corrupted.) Dark Rey: "Rey doesn't want to play with me. She thinks I am not important." (Punches and throws her around.) Dark Rey: "You reject my existence and have ignored me for years. Well, I'm not going to stay silent anymore!" Rey then attacks and pins her dark self just before she turns to mist and reconstitutes in front of Rey. Rey: "I choose not to give you power." Dark Rey: "Your own confidence betrays you. Do you hate me? For if you do, then that means you hate yourself." Rey: "You are a liar and a monster. You are not me!" Dark Rey attacks again while shouting, "I am part of you. I am part of all that can choose between light and dark." Rey throws her off into the wall and then declares, "You have no power over me!" Dark Rey: "Yet you spend your time in the decadence of war. Denying what you are and choosing to only believe the best of people instead of accepting that some can't be saved. Who don't even want to be saved. Choosing to blind yourself to the truth that some like Sidious are truly rotten to their core. Your denial is what strengthens mw, and with that I grow inside you. Face me now or I will devour your soul." She violently attacks Rey with greater ferocity than Rey match. Dark Rey: "To deny me, gives me hold over your mind. To hate me, gives me strength. To fight me, gives me power!" Dark Rey gives her a fast upper cut up into the air. Leaps and kicks her so hard into the wall she crashes through the wall into the next chamber." Dark Rey crawls along the walls as Rey staggers on the ground. Dark Rey: "Rejecting me is the worst mistake ever rather than accepting me. The weakness of the Jedi is what gives the Sith like Sidious our grandfather power. You do deserve nothing but death. And I will make the pain last forever because you are weak!" Rey then remembers what Serenity said and declares, "No! I will no longer continue this fight." Dark Rey: "What?!" Rey: "You exist here because I fight you." She then sits in a meditation pose and says, "So instead I choose not to fight you. If I fight you, I am not in balance. So, I will not fight you, and keep myself in balance. And since I choose not to fight you, you no longer exist." Dark Rey screams and leaps at Rey with primal fury only to be repelled by an aura of golden light. She fiercely tries to break through but only becomes weaker and weaker until she is barely able to stand as Rey opens her eyes and the dark one tries to flee but Rey grabs her with a force pull. Rey: "Your power comes from me not being in balance with myself and the force. But you will never have control over me. For it is I who controls you." She pulls the dark version to her so close they are almost touching noses. Rey: "I see that you are my dark side, and I accept you as a part of me. I accept you because if I try to deny the darkness within myself, I run the risk of becoming just as imbalanced as those who ravaged the galaxy. So, I am not going to hate you. Instead, I accept you because I love you. Because I love myself." The dark Rey fades out. Serenity then appears and says, "Well done Rey, you discovered a wisdom that even the wisest of Jedi often fail to discover. That in order to find balance within yourself you must accept with unconditional love your whole self. Especially the dark part you would prefer not to acknowledge." Rey: "The more I tried to resist and fight it by denying it, the more powerful it became until I realized what you said before about the story of the crondors." Serenity: "Indeed, the beast is a part of all sentients who are able to choose between selfishness and selflessness. That brings one's spirit out of balance with the universe and the Force around them and can make them agents of darkness, chaos, and evil. For the beast is you and you are the beast. To deny it only gives it power and a greater hold over you and makes you more vulnerable to being blindsided and consumed by it. For as long as there exists a will in this universe that is free to choose not to serve the will of the Force, evil will always find a way in." Rey: "I think I see now that the only way to fight evil and violence is with love and acceptance. And that the price of freedom and freewill is eternal vigilance both outside and within yourself."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Serenity: "One more test you must face is that you need to pass through the valley of illusion without emotion and without attachment." Then the other Wills appear saying as they become orbs of light, "You will see all our faces, for we are confusion, Anger, Sadness, Joy, and Serenity." And she hears Serenity say as she fades, "Do not trust what you see, but what you feel." As Rey enters the valley she is surrounded by a fog and then she sees that she is back on Exogal where the sky flashes with lighting but no star destroyers. She sees the landscape covered by the ships of her rebel friends. She finds R2 and BB-8 destroyed. She sees Poe lying dead. Then she hears someone coughing and turns to see its Finn. Finn: "Rey..." Rey holds his hands gently then asks, "Finn what happened?" Finn with a flush of anger on his face exclaims, "You failed to stop Sidious! The fleet left and is heading out to every inhabited planet across the galaxy to destroy all who won't submit. Trillions of lives are now going to be lost because of you. Because you failed!" Rey: "No!" Finn: "I hate you! I hate youuuuuuuuuu! And I wish you were dead! Our deaths! Our blood! And countless others are one your hands because you failed!" Rey: "No!" Finn: "I wish you were never born. We needed you and you failed us. I hate you..." He dies and Rey screams, "Nooooooooo! I failed, I failed." She then curls herself into a fetal position. Then she hears a little boy as he comes into sight. The boy: "Rey, you certainly have made quite a mess." Rey: "Go away...GO AWAY! You shouldn't be here. There is only death here, only death." The boy: "Is it. Look again." When Rey looks up, she sees she is in a plaza with fountains and beautiful trees and flowers and birds chirping all around. She sees all her friends restored and alive. Finn walks by saying, "Hey Rey, I'm going to go surfing with Poe and the gang want to join us?" Rey: "Maybe later." Finn: "All right suit yourself. See yah later, Reyalater." The Boy: "Is this not better." Rey: "Yes, so peaceful. Like the way it should have been before the war." The Boy: "Oh there is no war here. Only peace and tranquility." A man calls, "Cade, come here, and if Rey is with you tell her come as well, we want to talk to her." The Boy: "Well we shouldn't keep mom and dad waiting eh big sis." Rey: "Big sis..." The boy runs through people and Rey politely walks pass and through until she finds him with her parents. Rey: "Mom! Dad! No, this is impossible" Rey's Mom: "Darling what's the wrong? You act like you have seen a ghost." Rey's Dad: "Must be stress from training. How yah doing kido?" Rey is speechless as she begins to say, "You're not dead!" Rey's Dad: "Last I checked." The boy Cade is playing with three other children. (Around a man and a woman with their son about Rey's age.) Rey's Mom: "Kids come here please." Rey looks at them perplexed. Rey's Mom: "Whoa! You are really out of it. You act like you don't know your quadruplet younger brothers and sisters Cade, Jon, Amala, and Saline." Then the other family approaches and she sees its Leia, Han, and Ben. Ben: "You ok Rey?" Rey: "I don't know." Leia: "I told you not to over stress yourself." "Take it from me," says Luke as he walks in, "She is always right on these things even when I trained her." Then an older man walks up to them and Rey sees it is Palpatine. Rey: "Sidious!" Rey's father: "Rey is that anyway to address your grandfather?" Palpatine: "It's ok son she sometimes forgets about the time she helped me realize that my quest for power and control was meaningless and helped me find redemption and end the Sith once for all. I thank her every day for that and I am thankful beyond words." Rey's Mom: "As are we, Dad." Palpatine then picks up one of the girls saying, "Wait who is this giant? What have done with my grand-daughter Saline?" Saline: "Heh! Heh! I'm Saline" Rey's Mom: "Now, now let's take it easy with Grandpa." Everyone then starts walking into the building that looks like the chancellor's residence." Rey's Father: "Pays when your teacher is the supreme chancellor. Isn't that right Leia?" Leia: "Sometimes I wish there was a war. Because truth be told thinking military strategies is easier then dealing with politicians." Rey's mother turns back and says, "Sweetheart come and join us inside." Rey is about to follow them when her look changes to anger. Rey: "No! This is all a lie. An illusion, a false vision. This may be how I wish things were, but it is not true." She points at her parents, "I know you are already dead." She then points at Leia, Luke, and Han as she says, "As are you." She turns to Ben stating, "You murdered Han your father, but I healed you after I impaled you during our battle on Endor and then we stood together on Exogal," her attention then turns to Palpatine with his back turned, "against you grandfather Sheeve Palpatine or rather Darth Sidious." He then turns and his face is decrypted and deformed with sickly yellow/orange, black tinted eyes as he was when she last saw him. The sky turns dark. The residence collapses and everyone turns to mist and blow away except Sidious as he ignites his lightsabers and prepares to attack. Rey: "No, none of this real." She closes her eyes and Sidious has both sabers at her neck. Rey: "I'm not afraid." He slashes but the sabers go through her neck like all they hit was air and she opens her eyes to find herself back in the World between the Worlds. Yoda speaks, "Done well you have young Rey. Learned to see not with eyes you have, but with your spirit through the force you have." Rey: "What's next?"/p