Chapter 2: Path of the Jedi


Luke sat against the stone hut holding his head as R2 stayed beside him, letting out a low chirp.

"He's gone, Ben killed his own father." Luke said trying to not break down.

Rey had a sad look on her face as she thought about Han. But her sadness soon turned to determination.

"The dark side has enveloped the galaxy, as Jedi it's your duty to stop it. You're the only one now Luke." Luke didn't respond, Rey looked at the lightsaber again before throwing it down in front of Luke.

"I'm told that once belonged to a Jedi named Anakin Skywalker, if only he were here right now." She said before storming off.

Luke looked at the lightsaber again with an almost longing look, he held it in his hand before taking a deep breath.

R2 beeped as Luke got up, following his droid companion down the island and to the Millennium Falcon.

Luke walked through the ship, looking it over with memories before he reached the cockpit and saw something hanging over the captain's seat. A pair of solid gold dice around a chain hanging.

Luke carefully took the dice and held them before closing his eyes.

R2 chirped again as Luke sighed.

"You always were the most stubborn of them all R2."

Rey got away from the temple and got to another part of the island. She sat against a rock and held her face as she broke down. Tears ran from Rey's eyes as she tried to breath. However, as she did Rey heard something. She looked around but saw nothing.

She heard familiar whispers and a feeling of enlightenment. Carefully following the feeling until she reached what looked like an ancient tree. The tree appeared to be dead, but still stood, Rey seeing an opening in the tree before carefully entering it.

Despite being inside the tree, the interior still seemed well lit and lighted. The whispers getting louder and more clear as Rey saw a strange symbol on the ground. The symbol appeared to be a pair of wings with what looked like a lightsaber in the center.

The lightsaber pointed to a shelf , where five ancient books sat, Rey carefully opened a book and saw the text written in an ancient language she had no understanding off.

"Be careful, that thing's older than the old republic was." Luke said as Rey nearly jumped seeing him and R2 at the tree entrance.

"You scared me." She said breathing again.

"Sorry, if there's one place you shouldn't be afraid, it's here, the light side of the force is strongest in this place."

"What is this?"

"This is the sanctuary, the very first Jedi came to Tython before the old republic. They all discovered that they could do things no others in the galaxy could. They discovered something truly special, but eventually they broke up into two factions, those who followed the light, and those who followed the dark side of the force. The light side won, they drove the dark side users from Tython and built the Jedi order. Those are the texts written by the first Jedi masters. I've been studying them for a long time."

He came over to Rey and carefully took the book from her before placing it back on the shelf.

He looked at her again.

"Who are you?"

"My name is Rey."

"Rey who?"

"I, I don't know. Who I am, or where I come form."

"Everyone comes form somewhere."

"Jakku."

"Jakku, well that's as close to no where as you can get." Luke said before walking to the exit.

He reached R2 and turned to Rey.

"Don't just sit there Rey."

"What?" Rey said before Luke tossed her the lightsaber, Rey almost missing it.

"You wanted to learn the ways of the Jedi, we start now. By the time we're done , you'll finally learn why , it's time for the Jedi, to end." Luke said as Rey felt a mix of hope and fear.

As the sun began to set, Rey and Luke reached a cave at the top of the mountain.

Rey saw a small pool of water with the symbol from the tree at the bottom.

At the end of the cave was an opening, a stone pedestal overlooking the island and vast ocean around her.

"Have you used the force before Rey?" Luke asked.

"Yes, back on Starkiller base, I used it to force Kylo Ren away."

"That's a start. What did you feel during that time?"

"I felt, emotion, power, understanding."

"The first thing you need to understand, is what the force is Rey."

"It's a Jedi's power, it's a weapon they use to protect the galaxy and-"

"Wrong." Luke said in a stern tone as he walked around her.

"The force is not a weapon, it does not belong to the Jedi, or anyone for that matter. Someone once told me what the force was, but I didn't truly understand until I felt it for myself, and that's what you're going to do." Luke lead Rey to the pedestal and had her kneel down on it.

"Close your eyes." He said as Rey did as such.

"Reach out." Rey held her hand out as Luke shook his head.

He pulled a long piece of grass to his hand and rubbed it against Rey's hand.

She smiled.

"I feel something."

"Yes, that's the force."

"It is!?"

Luke slapped it against her hand as she lurched back.

"Oh you meant reach out like-" She said embarrassed as Luke nodded.

"Sorry." She said before closing her eyes again.

Rey reached out with her spirit, it was difficult, but she felt as if something was guiding her.

"I feel something."

"Keep reaching."

Rey concentrated harder before she felt the energy around her and the island. She saw the various creatures on the island, the plant life.

"I see life."

Rey saw the ocean crash into the island as several plants were killed and creatures dragged into the ocean only to be eaten by predators.

"And death."

She then saw the remains of the animals an plants being scattered across the island before new plants grew feeding more of the creatures so they could thrive.

"Which gives birth to new life, there's a harmony, a balance."

Luke gave a slight smile.

"Yes."

"There's an energy around it, around all of it, I can feel it everywhere, around you and I, the whole galaxy."

"That's the force Rey, it's the life force that connects all of us in the galaxy. It surrounds us, it guides us. A jedi is guided by the force, and asks for its help, a Jedi does not command the force, for it is not a even a Jedi's to command. A jedi understands the force, and-"

"Wait there's more." Rey said, she could see the tree, and felt a great uplifting energy, she felt peace.

"I see light." As Rey kept looking she saw another part of the island, at the very bottom was what looked like a the remains of something, a hole with black mass surrounding it. Around the hole she felt great emotion, she felt a rush of power inside her.

"And darkness." This caught Luke's attention as he turned to her.

"Rey." He said as he noticed small pieces of rock floating around her.

"Rey enough." He said as Rey had a more frightened look.

"I feel, cold." She said, Luke seeing the rocks around them begin to split.

"Enough!" Luke shouted as he forced her off the pedestal.

Rey breathed deeply as Luke stood over her looking horrified.

"What was that, I felt cold, afraid."

"That was the dark side Rey, you went right to it."

"What?"

"This planet is strong in the light and dark side of the force. The dark side exists here as much as the light. At your first glimpse you were able to draw upon it."

Luke began to walk away.

"Where are you going?" Rey asked.

"I've seen this raw power before , it didn't frighten me enough then. It does now." Luke said as Rey held herself from the cold.


The Resistance fleet exited hyperspace above a large white planet.

"Crait, it seems like an eternity since we last saw it." Leia said as Ackbar nodded.

"Let's hope our old outpost is still useable." Ackbar said.

Moments later a supply officer approached the two.

"Report." Ackbar said.

"It's not good sir, fuel gauges for our ships were heavily drained by the long distance jump. I don't think our fleet can make another jump without more fuel sir."

Ackbar sighed as he turned to Leia.

"Then Crait it is, help will have to come to us. Start getting our people down there and unloading everything. Ackbar try to get in contact with other new republic remnant forces."

Ackbar nodded as he walked off.

Leia went down to the detention block where she saw Poe still sitting in a cell.

"General, come to free your favorite pilot." He said.

Leia shook her head.

"Poe, you never learn do you."

"I destroyed their new weapon, that ship would have blown up the entire fleet if-"

"Poe, it wouldn't have, if you and your squadron had done as I ordered, we would have jumped to hyperspace there and then, before it would have fired."

"And if we did that then that dreadnaught would still be out there." Poe said defensively.

"Alright, I suppose that's true, an experimental weapon like that, destroying it could be a great victory, but a tactical one."

"What?"

"Poe the First Order now has unlimited resources, they probably have another two dozen of those ships in their fleet. Destroying it might have given us an edge in that engagement, but now we've lost half of our remaining fighters, all of our remaining bombers, and half of our cruisers, some of those ships were irreplaceable. Because of you, if we're ever in a situation where we need to fight to win, we won't be able to. But more than that, because of you we're now trapped here on Crait."

"What?" Poe said.

"You left our supply ships unprotected, one was carrying all the fleet's fuel, now we can't leave Crait, but more than that we lost people Poe, good people, their blood is on your hands." Leia said before she turned and left, Poe sitting down as he contemplated what Leia said.

Leia saw Chewie waiting for her as she left.

Chewie let out a low growl.

"No Chewie I'm not going to let him go."

Chewie growled again.

"I don't care if he reminds you of Han Chewie, I can't have captains running around doing whatever they want."

Chewie growled as Leia heard BB-8 beep and roll in front of her.

Leia sighed.

Poe heard the cell door open as Leia stood there.

"The only reason you're leaving this cell is because I'm short on manpower, make no mistake Poe you're not going anywhere near a star fighter. You're going down the Crait to oversee the mining of the minerals in the caves."

"What?"

"Now that our supply ships are destroyed, we're going to need everything we can get." Leia said as BB-8 rolled up beside Poe who got up.

Meanwhile Leia went alone to a chamber and braced herself against a wall she tried to breath as she sobbed.

"General Leia." She heard before turning to see 3PO standing there.

"Oh dear, have I come at a bad time my lady?"

"3PO go." She said

"Oh dear oh dear." the protocol droid as as he left.

Leia heard someone else approach, hearing a comforting growl as she turned to see Chewie standing behind her.

She turned and hugged the wookie.

"They're all gone Chewie, my family. Han, Ben, Luke, they've all been taken from me." She said sobbing as Chewie tried to comfort her.

Elsewhere on Crait, Finn walked with BB-8 and Poe as they exited the shuttle onto Crait's surface.

The planet was a salty white, every time something moved across the surface, a cloud of red dust would come up around it.

They approached a massive mountain with a large brown-metal doorway over it. They had passed a series of trenches with old gun emplacements.

As Finn entered, he noticed a series of white fox like creatures covered in crystals.

"Alright let's get set up." General Madine shouted as they began unloading equipment into the hanger.

"I went from being the best pilot in the resistance to a mine overseer, there's no damn justice." Poe said as BB-8 beeped in agreement.

Despite having recovered from his injuries, Finn was still a bit sore from his fight with Kylo Ren.

"Could be worse, you could be dead." Finn said as they entered the mine.

The mine itself was filled with large red crystals coming out of the walls and ceiling.

"Alright get to work on these things." Poe said as several droids and soldiers began to mine the crystals.

Finn heard someone nearby crying and carefully followed the sound before he saw a young woman, perhaps eighteen years old sitting against an old mining crate as she sobbed.

She wore a tan uniform and had slightly tanned skin with short black hair and green eyes.

Around her neck was a necklace with half of a golden moon at the end.

"Hey, are you ok?" Finn asked.

The girl turned to Finn.

"Wait, you're Finn." She said.

"Uhh yeah."

"The First Order defector, the one who infiltrated Starkiller base."

"Well I."

"You're , you're a hero." She said.

"I'm not a hero." Finn said.

"Yes you are, you, you." The girl broke down again.

"Hey, what's wrong?" Finn said taking her shoulders.

"I lost my sister."

"What?"

"She was on one of the bombers shot down, Sarah was my only family left, and now she's gone." The girl said crying into Finn's shoulder as he tried to comfort her.

"It's ok, uh, what's your name?"

"Rose."


That night Rey was trying to sleep inside one of the stone hut's.

At the same time Kylo Ren was inside his chamber onboard the Eclipse, he sat on his bed with Tratha already asleep, Allana also asleep in her crib.

BB-9 rolled up beside Kylo as he kept staring at his daughter's crib.

As Rey tried to sleep she noticed something strange, she began to see herself inside a chamber with a black bed and a red haired woman asleep in it, as well as what looked like a black version of BB-8 in front of her.

Kylo at the same time saw himself in a stone hut with a fire by him.

The two looked up at the same time before Rey awoke and saw herself back in the stone hut.

She almost screamed as she did so, noticing several of the stone inside had been moved by the force accidentally.

She caught her breath, unsure of what just happened before laying back down.

"I can see you." A familiar voice said.

Rey frantically looking around.

"Who's there?" She asked drawing her lightsaber.

"You know who it is." The voice said.

Rey put on a serious face.

"You can see me as well. Strange, the force has connected us somehow." Kylo said.

"You're a monster, you murdered the last person in the galaxy who gave a damn about you."

"You don't know anything girl." Kylo said sounding angry.

"I see you've found Skywalker, has he started training you?"

"Soon, very soon, we're going to fight again, and this time it's going to end very differently." Rey said very determined.

"Soon you're learn what I did." Kylo said.

The next morning , Rey got up early at dawn. She came to a rock near the cliffside and moved the lightsaber around it. She was trying to practice the techniques Lor had taught her back on Jakku.

Rey eventually cut the rock in half before she heard a beep.

Rey turned and saw Luke standing there with R2.

Luke had a slight smile on his face.

"That's not bad."

"I had some practice from an old friend on Jakku."

"It's a start, but you're no Jedi knight, I can tell you that." Luke said coming down to her.

Rey saw the lightsaber from the box in Luke's robotic hand.

"Go on." He said as Rey came at him. The lightsaber ignited green as it caught Rey's lightsaber as Luke pushed her back.

"Again." Luke said as Rey came at Luke again, each time he moved almost effortlessly , knocking away her strikes before knocking her back.

"If you're going to swing around a lightsaber , you may as well do it right. There's two variants to form five. Shien and Djem So. These forms are very versatile, Shien is best used against a large number of blaster wielding opponents, while Djem So would be against another lightsaber user. It emphasizes power attacks and defense immediately followed by a counter-strike."

Rey smiled.

"Let's practice it then shall we." She said.

R2 chirped in delight as Rey and Luke began to practice the lightsaber forms together.

Onboard the Eclipse, Kylo stood in a chamber with his armor on. He saw four praetorian guards and a shadow guard in front of him as he drew his lightsaber.

Tratha, and a few other knights of Ren were also in the sparring chamber, each practicing against each other or sparring bots.

Tratha finished her daily training before she saw Kylo take a deep breath and rush at his opponents. He exchanged strikes with the four praetorians who used their red blades to battle his lightsaber.

Kylo made use of Djem So as he knocked away each of their weapons before striking back with his fists, feet, and elbow. He kept all four praetorians away before the shadow guard joined in. His lightsaber pike ignited as he caught Kylo's lightsaber. Kylo and the shadow guard exchanged a few strikes, the shadow guard moving faster and having more strength than any of the praetorian guards who rejoined the fight.

Kylo tried to keep up with them all, but he took a few hits from the praetorians' weapons, cuts going across his armor , a few in the gaps and one across his face.

Tratha watched with much reluctance, almost wanting to help him before another knight of Ren put his hand on her shoulder and shook his head.

Kylo managed to knock all four of the Praetorians back before he felt off, he saw himself training with Luke on a cliffside as he felt himself get lost in pain. Kylo's his lightsaber was forced up by the shadow guard who thrusted his off hand forward and blasted Kylo back with a blast of telekinetic force energy.

Tratha and the others could feel it as Kylo got up, his expression of rage and hatred , the yellow in his eyes getting worse as he got up and screamed.

Back on Tython, Rey didn't know why but she felt a rush of anger inside her as she fought Luke.

Kylo unleashed a furry of attacks, knocking each praetorian back before the Shadow guard joined in again, this time Kylo redirecting each of his attacks as the four praetorians came at him. Rey's fury increasing as she saw herself fighting the shadow guard and praetorians.

Kylo unleashed a repulse of force power that hurled the Praetorians back before he slashed the Shadow guard's lightsaber pike in half.

He lifted his hand and began to choke the dark force user with the dark side.

Only stopping when Tratha and the other knights reached him.

Luke finally caught onto Rey's rage as he forced her down, Rey breathing heavily and coughing.

"Easy Rey, breath, just breath." He said as Rey regained herself.

"What was that? That rush of anger?" Luke asked.

"It, it was nothing. I'm sorry, I was just thinking about Han and Kylo." She said nervously.

"Rey, a Jedi must never rush to anger or hatred in a fight, it will throw you off balance. A jedi must be at peace when they fight." He helped her up.

"Shall we continue?"

Rey nodded as Luke continued to train Rey.

As the sun began to go down, Luke took Rey back to cave they were in the last night.

Luke sat Rey down with several rocks placed around her.

"Look into the pool of water." Luke said as Rey looked at the symbol.

"What do you see?"

"The symbol, of the old Jedi order."

"That's right. Did you ever hear stories of the Jedi Rey?"

"Of course, Lor always told me about them. Great heros and protectors, guardians of the galaxy." Rey said smiling.

Luke looked less than enthusiastic.

"Yes, knights waving their laser swords around, commanding the force and saving the galaxy. The Jedi became heros, legends, and gods to the galaxy. The Jedi stopped being people, I became a legend not a person, the old Jedi, they became something worse. They became arrogant, decadent, foolish."

"How can you say that?" Rey said almost offended.

"The Jedi of old became so entrenched in their ways, they rotted from within, they refused new ideas, held onto their beliefs so tightly it left them weak and unprepared. They allowed Darth Vader and Darth Sidious to wipe them out and destroy the republic. They couldn't prepare their students for the hardships to come, they allowed them to be seduced by the dark side, turn against them." Rey could sense the guilt in Luke's tone.

"So many sith were fallen Jedi, the Jedi could never face the dark side, to them it was evil, they avoided it at all cost, and thus they were never prepared for when it came."

Luke came came up beside Rey.

"A Jedi's power comes from peace, and the harmony between them and the force. When you find that peace, the willpower, and the faith, your potential is unlimited."

Rey began to concentrate and tried to find herself at peace.

She let out a soft breath as she reached out with her hand.

Luke saw her aim it at one of the rocks, slowly lifting into the air with the force.

Rey aimed her other hand at the second rock, doing the same.

"Trust in the force Rey. Listen to it." Luke said as Rey put her hands down.

She continued this until it was dark, Luke soon seeing her lift all four rocks up without using her hands as a guide.

R2 chirped in excitement.

Rey opened her eyes and tried to catch her breath.

The two went back to Luke's hut where he had some fish prepared.

"Not a bad start, master Yoda would be impressed." Luke said.

"Master Yoda?"

"Yoda was my teacher, he the last survivor of the old Jedi order when I found him. He didn't look like much, but he was wise and powerful beyond comprehension."

"I wish I could have met him." Rey said.

"Me too kid." Luke said.

"So, does this mean you'll come back?" Rey asked sounding optimistic.

"Let's not get ahead of ourselves kid." Luke said as he sipped on some tea.

Rey had an uneasy look on her face as she was almost afraid to ask a certain question.

"Luke, when I first found this lightsaber, it showed me a vision."

"A vision?" Luke said.

"I saw a Jedi wielding it with soldiers beside him, the man fell to the dark side and became a sith before killing an older sith and saving a younger man."

Luke's eyes widened hearing this.

"The force, it showed you the past of the lightsaber, and it's master. You saw my father." Luke said.

"Anakin Skywalker, that was Anakin Skywalker." Rey said in amazement.

Luke nodded.

"It wasn't all I saw, it showed me this island, you, it also showed me a burning temple, a field of mud with dead Jedi."

Luke looked pained by this as he lowered his head.

"Luke, what happened to your Jedi order, why did Kylo Ren fall to the dark side?"

Luke raised his head back up.

"I spent years finding force sensitive students, old, young, I built a temple on the old Jedi colony of Ossus. I even trained a few Jedi knights, Leia and Han were concerned for their son, they feared he would fall to the dark side because of Snoke's influence, they sent him to me. I tried to help him, teach him to resist the dark side, but Snoke had gotten to him first, he corrupted Ben with the dark side, despite all my efforts, Ben was tainted by Snoke. When I went to confront him, he attacked me, collapsed the roof over my head, ran off with a dozen or two of my students. Five years later, they returned, as the Knights of Ren, I was away when they attacked the temple, by the time I returned, they'd killed everyone inside , burned it to the ground. The remaining Jedi I had trained tried to go after them without me, they confronted Kylo and the Knights of Ren in the unknown regions, Kylo and his Knights slaughtered them to the last man."

Rey realized this was the vision she saw, of the muddy field, Kylo with the other warriors surrounded by dead Jedi.

"Everything I ever worked for, everything I thought I could restore, gone. Because of my failed student. I thought if I came here, to where the Jedi first started, I could find the answer, find where I went wrong with Ben, but I found nothing." Luke said.

Rey was almost sorry she asked, but wanted to learn more.

"You said Snoke corrupted Kylo, who is Snoke, what is he?"

"Snoke is the dark side incarnate. For years I could sense his darkness, but I could never find him. Still I had to find out who or what he was. As I found more Jedi relics, texts and holocrons, I began to see Snoke was much older than I realized."

"And?"

"The legend of Snoke goes back over a thousand years, to the end of the last major sith wars. According to legend, Snoke was a Jedi master who was convinced the Sith never truly died out. So he went looking for them, he searched across the old sith worlds before he uncovered a sith holocron. He thought he could use it to find the remaining sith, but instead when he open it something else happened."

"What?"

"According to the legend, it activated a dark side ritual, releasing the spirit of four ancient sith lord trapped inside the holocron and infusing them inside Snoke's soul. The Jedi master couldn't withstand the corruption, it transformed him into Snoke, not a sith, but something else entirely. The dark side incarnate."

"What did he do?"

"The legend says Snoke had the ability to reach out with the force to people across the galaxy, corrupting them with the dark side, putting thoughts in their heads, manipulating them to his will and to the dark side. But then poof, he just vanished, I believe he went into a sort of force hibernation, that it was the destruction of the Jedi order and the rise of the Empire that finally woke Snoke up. He then waited in the outer rim for the right moment and when Leia became pregnant with Ben, that was when he saw his opportunity, even before Ben was born Snoke began corrupting him, his entire childhood, even when I trained him, Snoke was there, inside of him."

"How do we stop him?"

"That's the thing Rey, I have no idea."


Back on Crait, Leia was in her planning room with her generals and Admiral Ackbar over hologram.

"Any word admiral?" Leia asked.

"Not all that encouraging general, the remnants of the new republic still willing to fight the First Order are either already bogged down fighting them or in hiding. I've managed to convince some join us, but most are still too afraid." Ackbar said.

"So we show them we can win." Poe said as he came in with Finn.

"Captain Dameron what are you doing here, you having mining duties." Leia said.

"With all due respect general you need to hear this." Leia rolled her eyes and shook her head.

"These people are afraid to join us because they think we can't win, and I don't blame them. The First Order must seem invincible, but we just need to prove they aren't. By taking out their biggest weapon." Poe said before BB-8 plugged into the terminal.

The schematics for a colossal super star destroyer appeared.

"What is that thing?" General Madine asked.

"The Eclipse supreme leader Snoke's Flagship." Finn said.

"That's the ship that wiped out half our fleet on Hosnian prime on its own." Ackbar said.

"The Eclipse is bigger and has more firepower than old executor super star destroyer, but it also has something else, an axial superlaser capable of wiping out any ship in a single blast. No fleet can stand against it, but if we infiltrated it, and sabotaged the laser we could wipe out the ship, Snoke and send the First Order into chaos. Thousands of planets would rise up against them." Poe said.

"Poe enough, you're asking for the impossible." Leia said.

"Poe has a plan , we got someone who can hack their way past the ships outer defenses and then sabotage the laser from the inside." Finn said.

"And who could do that?" Ackbar asked.

"I know someone." Maz said as the Resistance commanders turned to see her standing beside Finn.

"Maz, I didn't know you were still here." Leia said.

"I'm not very big, it's an easy thing to assume." She said smiling.

"Who is this hacker you're talking about?" Madine asked.

"I know him by reputation alone, they call him DJ, he was once a first order computer technician who hacked into republic systems, collecting information, sabotaging systems, but has since forth left the First Order." Maz said.

"I don't like him so far." Madine said.

"The last I heard, he was on the planet Cantonica." Maz said.

"Cantonica is a First Order controlled planet." Ackbar said.

"It will be easy , we just send in a small team. Find the DJ, convince him to help us and-" Poe started

"No." Leia said.

"What?" Poe and Finn said.

"We're low on manpower and fuel as it is. You're banking success on the miracle that you could find someone named DJ, hope he's willing to help you, hope you can get aboard the most heavily guarded ship in the galaxy, and hope he can sabotage the super laser." Leia said.

"Rebellions are built on hope." Poe said.

"General there's no choice, no ship can stand up to the Eclipse. This is the only chance we have." Finn said.

"No." Leia said.

Finn left with Poe as Maz looked at Leia with disappointment.

Leia later returned to her chamber only to find Maz inside.

"Maz what are you doing here?"

"I was thinking about your denying of the mission."

"It's foolish, reckless, a suicide mission."

"The kind of mission Han would have undertaken." Maz said as Leia turned to her.

"I can't help but wonder if-"

"Don't you even say it Maz." Leia said angrily.

"Leia, Han's death was not your fault, Han had hope that he could bring your son back."

Leia sat down holding her face.

"And look where that got him."

"Leia , don't tell me you've given up hope too?"

"Han is dead, Ben's gone, Luke's never coming back. The new republic is destroyed, the empire is back, the Resistance is on its last legs, it was all for nothing. It's like you said, my son is gone." Leia said.

"Well then Leia, if you've given up on hope. Then Snoke truly has won." Maz said.


Elsewhere Poe and Finn were in a secluded area of the mine.

"I can't believe she's just going to have us sit here until the First Order finds us, when they do we're not going to get away this time." Poe said in frustration.

"So let's go anyway." Finn said.

"Behind Leia's back?"

"A few of us sneak away during the night, we find this DJ, get aboard the Eclipse, sabotage the laser, kill Snoke, Kylo Ren, and all his little knights, then boom, the galaxy will rise up and overthrow the First Order like you said."

Poe held his face looking unsure.

"Come on man, you know this can work. I know those ships inside and out, we can do this." Finn said.

"Not me, after my little stunt at D'Qar, Leia's going to be watching me like crazy."

"I can do it." Finn said.

"Are you crazy, you can't go alone."

"He doesn't have to." Another voice said.

The two turned to see Rose.

"Ohhh no, we weren't talking about- We were talking about supply shipments."

"Uhh huh, no. I know what you're doing, and I want to be part of it." Rose said.

"Why!?" Finn almost shouted , sounding annoyed.

"I want to be a hero. Make my sister's sacrifice worth something." Rose said.

"BB-8 should go with you." Poe said.

"I can do this, the less of us there are, the less the risk."

"If I'm not going, I might just have to tell general Leia." Rose said with an evil smile.

The two men shook their heads.

At night , Poe got onto a computer in the main hanger and slowly opened it as a ship lifted off from the hanger.

Poe ran as a pair of Resistance soldiers ran in and saw it.

"What's that ship doing?!"

The ship jumped to hyperspace as Finn sat in the cockpit with Rose and BB-8.

"Alright we're really doing this, we're going to save the galaxy!" Rose shouted in excitement.

"No we're not." Finn said as Rose turned to him.

"What?"

"BB-8 can you find Tython."

"Tython?"

"I'm going to find Rey, that's the only reason I'm here." Finn said.

"You, you can't do that. We're suppose to be heros." Rose said.

"I don't care about any of that, I just want to get my friend. If you want to try and find this DJ guy fine, but you're doing it without me." Finn said in a serious tone before Rose smiled.

"About that, you see we actually didn't come alone." Rose said before Finn felt a pair of strong arms grab him and heard a familiar growl.

Rose smiling at Chewie who was now behind Poe.

"Oh come on!"


Author's note

So yeah a little more training between Rey and Luke would have been nice, as well as Kylo training.

With that said, I have no idea what Snoke's backstory was and now I don't think we ever will, but here's my spin on it

So until next time,

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