Chapter 4: The future of the Jedi


Rey and Luke sat across each other before a fire.

"….I have to ask, were you well taken care of on Jakku?"

"Lor watched out for me, let me stay with him until I was fifteen, after that I insisted on trying to live alone. I didn't want to burden him."

"Was he good to you?"

"Yes, he was."

"Good….Mara gave him a map, a map to Tython, she knew I'd be here…..She put you there to keep you safe from Snoke." Luke said shaking his head.

"Rey, I'm sorry. I should have known, I should have felt you through the force, I should have known. But I let my grief blind me to the galaxy and what was going on, I should have known Mara was in danger, I should have known Han was in danger, I should have been there for you, for everyone, instead I ran and hid like a coward." Luke said holding his head.

Rey gave the same emotional look as she came over and hugged Luke again.

"I don't care, my entire life I wanted to know who I was, who my family were. I finally have it." Rey said tearing up as Luke hugged her back.


Back on Canto Bight, Finn, Rose, and Chewie were in a large restaurant.

The restaurant had multiple levels with glass floors each a different color.

The three sitting at a crystal table as a droid in the center took their orders.

"I'll have the nerf ribs, well scorched." Finn said before pressing something else.

"What are we doing here?" Rose asked.

"What, we need to eat." Finn said before a bottle of wine shot up in front of them, Rose giving Finn a certain look.

"And drink." He said as Rose shook her head.

"Ever since we got here you've been more interested in enjoying yourself then finding DJ." Rose said as Chewie growled.

"I've tried to find him, we're on a mission, I'm taking it quite seriously." Finn said as the droid on the table poured the wine into Finn's glass.

Rose shook her head.

After eating, Rose and Finn made their way with BB-8 and Chewie to a casino in the center of the city.

The patrons in the casino were of various species, many human, some twi'lek, Chiss, Umbaran.

The casino was covered in gold and guided metal. Various screens with collection machines by their side. Patrols putting credits in as the screens lit up and dozens of images appearing, the patron using a glass stick to try and connect various images.

As a woman got three connected, a larger amount of credits coming out.

"Well he could be in this Casino, we should start asking arou-" Rose started before she saw Finn at a pazaak table.

Finn had nineteen as the dealer had set at twenty.

Finn smiled as he put down a plus two card.

"Winner player 1." The dealer said as he put down a trey with stacked credits on them.

"Woah!" Finn shouted in excitement as he put the credits in the case of credits.

Finn felt Rose grab him and pull him out of the chair.

"What are you doing?"

"What? These uh, could come in handy."

Rose gave almost a disgusted look.

"Look at you, we're on a mission to save the Resistance and all you want to do is have fun. You're not a hero." Rose said as she walked outside to a balcony.

Finn heard Chewie growl at him and BB-8 give an un-approving beep.

Rose went to the balcony where she saw a large race track.

"Hey." Finn said as Rose turned to him.

"You don't know anything about me, who I am , what I've been through." Finn said sounding angry as he reached Rose.

"Do you know what my entire life was, as early as I can remember it was nothing but barracks, drills, physical training, mental reconditioning, being broken down and built back up so many times I didn't think there'd be anything left to build. All I ever knew was the Stormtrooper crops, the First Order military. I never once saw life outside Starkiller base or other training centers. Even when I did get out , all I did was run, get attacked, almost killed, and then back into another fight that I never wanted any part of."

Rose's expression changed.

"This is the first time in my life I have ever felt any kind of freedom. So I'm sorry if I got a little lost in it."

Rose grabbed the case from Finn and took out a hologram protector from inside.

"Do you know why that man we took this from is rich, why all of these people are so rich and powerful." Rose said before activating the protector.

Finn saw schematics for a new model of Tie fighters and First Order Corvettes.

"These people are fueling the war, they sell weapons and machines to the First Order so they can keep their conquest going." Rose then motioned Finn to look over.

Finn saw large four legged furry creatures each wearing a different colored leather marker over them as they raced across an intricate obstacle course. Including obstacles that were deadly. One of the creatures trying to leap over a gap before missing and crashing into a grinder.

Finn was horrified as he saw this hearing a few spectators cheer or give disappointed sounds.

Rose and Finn could also see the pens where small children wearing collars were tending to the creatures who were being whipped and put into cells by older alien overseers.

"This entire planet represents the First Order, the few oppressing the many. Just like on my home." Rose said.

"Your home?" Finn asked.

Rose sighed.

"It was a colony established by the First Order, our people were miners, working long hours to meet the demands of the First Order. Before we joined the Resistance, my sister and I were part of a miner's guild that went on strike to protest our treatment.

This caught Finn's attention.

"Was it at Pressy's Tumble?" Finn asked nervously.

"Yes…..How did you know?"

"I heard stories from other Stormtroopers."

"Anyway, a Stormtrooper captain in chrome armor came with four others, she told us that the First Order considered our demands before her stormtroopers gunned everyone down. I never saw anything so horrific in my life. My sister and I were the only ones to escape alive. After that we swore to bring the First Order down." Rose said sounding sadder thinking about her sister.

Finn took a deep breath and looked down at the pens again.

"Hey." Finn said as Rose turned to him.

"I saw screw these people and screw DJ. Let's go put a stop to that."

"What? But what about the mission?"

"We can ask everyone in this city if they're DJ, maybe never find him, or we can do some real good for some real people."

Chewie roared in agreement as BB-8 beeped.

Rose had an excited look on her face.

"You're right, let's do it."

The four got out of the casino and got to the pens, each having a blaster in hand as they waited for a pair of troopers to pass.

"I need to transfer out of here, the other day one of these drunks snobs threw up on me and then tried to bribe their way out of a night in a cell. I swear it took a hour to get my armor clean."

"Could be worse, we could be on Ubor-X. I hear the rebels there have been sticking bombs in bodies , killed a dozen men so far with them." The other trooper said.

"Come on." Finn said as they ran to the door.

BB-8 rolled up to the terminal and linked in.

Chewie heard footsteps approaching.

"I hear Lieutenant-Fours is being promoted to captain this week."

"He has made the company far more efficient since he took command." Chewie heard the troopers approaching and growled at BB-8 who kept working.

"Come on droid." Finn said before the door finally opened and they rushed in before closing the door.

"Did you hear something?" One of the troopers said.

"Could be one of those kids who works here."

"Speaking of which , one of those Knights of Ren visited last week, she left with four of those kids."

"Think they're better off?"

"Can't be worse than being stuck with these zygerrians, two days ago I tried to give one of those kids one of my extra ration bars, the damn alien took it from her."

"Be careful, those zygerrians have an in with the city officials here."

Once the troopers had passed the four went deeper inside the pens.

As they did, they saw a small human child look at them.

The child looked afraid before Rose came down in front of him.

"Shhh, it's ok." she said taking his hand before showing a ring with the sign of the original rebellion.

"We're friends." She said as the child stayed quite.

Finn and Chewie looked over into a pen and saw a pair of children trying to get a collar off one of the beasts who looked like she was in pain.

An young adult human ran in.

"Stop, they're coming." She said before Finn and Chewie saw a pair of zygerrians in black uniforms come in.

The furry , pointy eared aliens growled as one bared his fangs before taking out an energy whip and hit the children.

"What do you think you're doing?" He growled as the other took out a whip and forced the beast back into its cage.

"We." One of the children started before the zygerrian grabbed him by the neck and held him up.

"It seems you need to be made a lesson of." He said raising the whip before he felt something grab his hand and almost break it.

The children and young woman watched in amazement as the zygerrian slowly turned to see Chewie standing behind him.

Chewie roared as he grabbed the zygerrian by the neck and held him up, the alien dropping the child as the other tried to whip Chewie only to be smashed across the face by the end of Finn's gun.

As the Zygerrian tried to recover and slash at Finn with his claws, Finn ducked under his strike and grabbed his arm before trapping his foot under the zygerrian's leg and flipped him onto the ground before shooting the alien in the face.

Chewie roared again as the zygerrian tried desperately to break free, but Chewie snapped his neck before dropping the body onto the ground.

A third zygerrian ran in before an energy whip was hurled around his neck , Rose pulled him to the ground before shooting him.

The children watching them in amazement.

"We're getting you all out of here." Rose said.

"How? There's overseers everywhere." The young woman asked.

"A little distraction." Finn said smiling as BB-8 rolled up to a terminal.

More zygerrians came to the pens before they heard something.

"What is that?" One asked before the doors opened and their eyes widened.

The aliens were trampled by the beasts as they ran out of the pens without their collars on.

Many in the streets were also terrified as they saw this, quickly running out of the way, several dropping money in their hands or other pleasures.

In a transport speeder, a trio of troopers were watching this from above.

"…..Well you don't see that everyday." One asked before another trooper saw the zygerrians getting trampled by the beasts.

He gave a smile under his helmet before seeing the children lead by Finn and the others rushing through the street riding the beasts.

Finn and the others shouted in excitement as they reached the spaceport.

The children and their heros dismounted as the beasts ran free away from the city.

"This way." Finn said as he and Rose lead the children to a back area of the spaceport while Chewie and BB-8 kept leading the beasts away.

Finn and Rose saw an empty supply shuttle on a back platform and open the ramp, the children rushing inside with the young woman waiting with Finn.

Finn handed her the case with the money inside.

"More than enough for you all to start a new life somewhere safe." The young woman hugged him.

"Thank you." She said before rushing inside.

Finn and Rose saw the ship with the freed children lift up before flying into orbit and leaving the system safely.

"We caused a lot of trouble, and diverted from the mission. We may never find DJ now." Rose said.

"Maybe, but it feels good, helping them." Finn said as Rose smiled.

The two's expressions changed as they turned to see five First Order troopers with their blasters aimed at them.

"Hands up." One said.


At Crait, Poe was in the hanger. The new squadrons from the republic remnant had arrived, but the Resistance were still on the edge of oblivion.

He was with his pilots who kept asking him what the plan was.

"And we hope that more show up." Poe said.

"That doesn't sound like a plan." One said.

"Why are we sitting here, we should be out there fighting the First Order, not waiting for them to come to us." Another said.

"Yes, attack them."

"Guys enough, you know I'd love to out there and fight them more than anyone. But we have to think in the long term, we're low on manpower, supplies, and morale. We might win some battles, but we'd lose the war. Back at D'Qar, we took out the dreadnaught, but we lost all of our bombers, and half of our pilots, Hawkins, Garcia….Our fuel, half the fleet." Poe said in a hard tone as his pilots gave sad looks.

"We have to play it smart. Now is not the time for heros." His pilots went off as Poe got back to work before he saw a shuttle land.

He saw Ackbar come out and walk towards the command center.

Leia was with Maz.

"Can you sense it?" Maz asked.

"Yes." Leia said looking at the sky.

"Something has changed in Rey, Luke as well."

Maz looked at Leia.

"I have thought it was true for some time, now I know it." Maz said as Leia gave a confused look.

"Do you remember, Luke's old lady love."

"Mara Jade." Leia said still sounding confused before she started to put the pieces together.

"Rey." She said.

Moments later Ackbar approached her.

"General." He said as she turned.

"What is it?"

"I have news, about the republic remnant."

"Yes!" Leia said optimistic until she saw the look on Ackbar's face.

"It seems several systems combined their local fleets into a larger fleet to try and help us. But they discovered by the Eclipse….." Leia looked back outside.

"Luke, we need you, now more than ever." She said.


Meanwhile on Tython , Rey and Luke were practicing Djem So again, Rey showing great improvement and even moderate proficiency in the form as Luke sparred with her.

Rey had a very happy expression on her face as it mirrored Luke's.

After a few hours of lightsaber combat, they did their usual training schedule.

After finishing the texts, Rey put the books back before she noticed Luke looking at her differently.

"Rey." He said as she turned to him.

"Yes , father."

Luke laughed a little.

"Still getting use to that. Anyway, I think you should pack your things."

Rey had an interested look on her face.

"Why?"

"Because tomorrow we're leaving, we're going back to Leia to fight Snoke, you and I are going to rebuild the Jedi order, we're going to do it right this time."

Rey smiled and tried to breath before her expression changed.

"But what about the X-wing."

"I don't care anymore."

Rey gave a determined look as she left the tree.

"Rey?" Luke said as he saw his daughter run.

"Where are you going?" He asked before he saw R2 beside Rey at the cliffside.

Luke's eyes widened as he saw Rey with her eyes closed and hands raised.

He saw her lifting the X-wing out of the water and setting it into the island.

Rey turned and saw her father's look of amazement.

"There, no you can't say I don't keep my word." Rey said.

Luke shook his head as he laughed.

"You truly are the greatest student I've ever had Rey."

"Are you just saying that because I'm your daughter?" She asked playfully.

"No, I really mean it." The two walked together with R2.

"It's going to be good to see Leia again after all these years, Chewie too, even 3PO. I don't even know what I'm going to say to them, or how to explain you to them. Here's your niece you never knew you had."

"We have time to think of something."

"In any case, I'm glad you were able to at least meet Han. He was my closest friend."

R2 beeped.

"I meant besides you R2. Geez he get's so sensitive." Luke said shaking his head.

He took a deep breath.

"It's been so long since I've been off Tython."

"The galaxy will have a symbol of hope to rally behind. Luke Skywalker." Rey said as Luke smiled.

"Not just me, but Rey Skywalker, the first Jedi knight of the new Jedi order."

"Maybe one day." Rey said.

"I really mean it Rey." Luke said as Rey turned back to him.

"You've done in week what it takes many years to do. I know this seems much, but after seeing what you're capable of and how fast you learned. I'm as confident as I've ever been." Rey was almost overwhelmed as she saw Luke had lead her to the tree.

Rey knelt before the symbol of the Jedi order.

Luke had his hood up as he took the blue lightsaber and ignited it, placing it by Rey's shoulder.

"As the last Jedi master in the galaxy, I hereby name you , Rey Skywalker , a Jedi knight. The first Jedi knight in years. Rise , Jedi knight" Luke said as Rey slowly rose before Luke handed her lightsaber to her.

"I will live up to and exceed the expectations of the Jedi father."

Luke hugged her.

"I know you will." Rey looked at her lightsaber.

"According to the texts, a Jedi's final trail before knighthood is building a lightsaber."

"I'm a bit short on lightsaber parts and kyber crystals. Besides, that's a family heirloom, it was built by your grandfather, then passed down to me."

Rey's expression changed.

"It's hard to think of the infamous Darth Vader as my grandfather."

Luke have a more serious expression.

"Darth Vader was not your grandfather, your grandfather was Anakin Skywalker, a Jedi knight. Darth Vader was someone else."

"The galaxy doesn't see it as such."

"Maybe not, but the truth is the reason I'm here, and you by extension, is because of your grandfather. Both of my masters told me he was beyond redemption, but I knew there was still good in him. Sidious tortured me, he would have killed me, but my father sacrificed his life to safe me, it was in that moment, Anakin Skywalker returned. I was with him when he passed, I sensed the hatred lift from his spirit."

Rey felt uplifted by this story.

That night, Rey had her things packed in preparation for their departure.

Rey had never been happier than she was now, she had found out who she was, who her family was. She found her father , she was a Jedi knight, and she was going to bring Luke back.

"So , you're a Jedi knight now, cousin." She heard Kylo say.

Rey saw Kylo in his chamber again.

"And I was having such a good day Ben."

"Ben Solo is dead."

"So was Anakin Skywalker. He destroyed the monster Darth Vader, a monster like you."

"All you see me as is a monster, the First Order, the dark side, all of us agents of evil. Just like the dark side." Rey saw him get and approach a metal crib.

Rey's eyes widened as she saw Kylo hold a baby girl in his arms.

"My daughter Allana, I love her more than anything in this galaxy. Yet she was spawned from myself and another warrior of the dark side. Does that make her evil, when she grows to become a warrior of the dark side like her father and grandfather before her, will you strike her down, as your father tried to do." Kylo said as he put his daughter back in her crib.

"What?" Rey said.

"He never told you did he. Why I left that night with Tratha and the others, he never told you how he betrayed me. How he feared me, what I was capable of." Kylo said in an emotional tone as Rey's vision got blurry.

She began to see a vision , through Kylo's eyes.

She saw herself on a grassy planet, a temple near a lake and a mountainside.

She saw Ben Solo in a white robe asleep in a smaller hut away from the temple.

He looked like he was having a rough night of sleep before his eyes opened and Rey saw none other than Luke standing over him with his green lightsaber ignited.

Rey's eyes widened as Luke came down with the lightsaber, Ben pulling his own lightsaber to his hand as he ignited the blue saber and blocked Luke's with it.

Ben held his hand up as he collapsed the hut around them before emerging.

He had face of rage and betrayal before marching into the temple.

Rey saw him wake over a dozen students.

"Skywalker betrayed us, he tried to kill me!" A young woman his age with long red hair came up first.

"We don't need Skywalker, or the Jedi."

Rey breathed harder as she saw Kylo back in his room.

"Your father, my uncle was afraid of my power, afraid of what I might do. He and all the Jedi always feared what they could not control, the Sith, the dark side. That they cannot control, they destroy, they manipulate."

"Ben, let me help you." Rey said sounding sincere.

"I don't need your help. You need mine." Rey felt Kylo's influence come closer to her. Rey saw Kylo no longer on the Eclipse but right in front other. Rey didn't know what to think anymore, she saw Kylo extend his hand out as she reached her own out to meet it.

Luke was in his own hut as he felt it.

He sprinted out into the rain before using the force to rip the door open before he saw Kylo in front of Rey.

"Rey no!" Luke screamed as he used the force to push Kylo out of Rey's mind.

"No!" Rey screamed turning to Luke with an enraged look before Luke felt the entire hut burst apart from a blast of force energy from Rey.

She got up and came at him.

"Rey." Luke said before seeing Rey ignite her lightsaber.

"What did you do?" She said.

Luke confused as he took out his own lightsaber.

Rey slashed at Luke as he deflected her strikes.

"You betrayed him, you betrayed Ben!"

Luke forced Rey's lightsaber out of her hand and held her in place with force stasis.

"You need to calm down." Luke said before Rey unleashed another blast of force energy that shattered the stasis and hurled Luke onto the ground.

The rain coming down harder as Rey stood over her father.

"He showed me what happened, you tried to kill him because you thought you couldn't control him. Is that what all of this was, training me to resist my emotions so you could do the same to me?"

Luke's expression changed.

"Ben." He said holding his face.

"He showed you what he thought he saw, but it's only a half truth." Luke said sounding incredibly sad and shameful.

Luke got up and slowly took Rey's hand.

"See it, see it with your own eyes." Luke said as he guided Rey's hand to his forehead.

Rey felt another vision appear.

She saw herself back on Ossus, seeing Luke slowly walk towards Ben's hut.

"I had felt it for years, despite my best efforts, the dark side continued to take control of Ben more and more. I went to his hut to tell him this, I hoped maybe if he could admit it, it would be the first step to helping him. But when I reached him, I saw it, the dark side surrounding my nephew, the same darkness I saw in Darth Vader." She saw Luke looking very conflicted as he looked down at sleeping Ben.

"I don't know how, but somehow I saw all the pain , death and suffering that would come at his hands should he be allowed to fall completely. All of it preventable, and then somehow." Luke looked down and in horror saw somehow his lightsaber had ignited, he didn't know how, but it had.

Ben was awoken by this, Rey saw the look of fear and betrayal on his face.

"That was when I didn't see a sith lord, but a frightened boy, only fourteen years old with his master, his uncle standing over him, his lightsaber drawn."

"Ben no!" Luke pleaded as Ben pulled his lightsaber and blocked Luke's saber with his own before bringing the hut down.

When I emerged, ben left with a dozen of my most gifted students, some already Jedi. Five years later they returned as the Knights of ren, but they were more than a dozen then, they were now dozens of dark force warriors, they slaughtered my remaining students to the last padawan."

Rey backed up as Luke almost teared up.

"After that, I couldn't bare the shame , the guilt. Ben , the Jedi's destruction, it was all because of my fear. I saw the good in a man who slaughtered thousands, but I couldn't see the good in a frightened fourteen year old boy." Luke said as Rey came down.

"There's still good in him. You said it yourself, you saved grandfather, we can save Ben from Snoke, him, the Knights of Ren, your grand niece."

Luke looked at Rey differently as she nodded.

"Rey, this isn't going to go the way you think it is." He said before Rey came forward and hugged him.

"I know, but I have to try." She said almost crying before she rose up and pulled her lightsaber to her.

She turned to Luke with a sad look.

"I'll come back for you father, with Ben, we'll stop Snoke together. We'll be a family, and we'll rebuild the Jedi order together."

R2 came up beside Luke chirping.

"Go, she's going to need your help old friend."

R2 gave a sad chirp before Luke put his hand on him.

"You traveled with my father, you traveled with me, now the next Skywalker needs you." R2 turned to Rey before following her.

Luke saw the Millennium Falcon lift up and gave a hard look as it flew off.

"May the force be with you, my daughter." Luke said before he saw a bolt of lightning crash into the ocean and took another deep breath.

Luke gave another hard look as he turned to the tree.

Luke walked towards the tree with a lit torch in hand.

Luke was about to step into the tree when he sensed a familiar presence, one he had not felt in years.

Luke slowly turned and saw the small blue force ghost below him.

"Master Yoda, I'm going to end it. These Jedi texts, I'm going to burn them forever." Luke said in a serious tone as Yoda's expression didn't change.

Luke stayed where he was , slowly raising his torch up before he looked a the sky and saw a bolt of lightning come down.

Luke jumped away as it crashed into the tree and set it ablaze.

Luke desperately tried to get up and reach the Jedi texts, but another bold of lightning hit the tree.

Luke gave a horrified look before the ghost of his Jedi master came up beside him and laughed.

"So far have you come young Skywalker, and still so much to learn you have." Yoda said before laughing again.

Luke lowered his head.

"Wrong what is, plan on destroying the texts already you were."

"I was wrong, I equated my own failure with the Jedi's. Now I've lost my daughter" Luke said.

"Still looking to the stars you are Luke. The answer, before you it is. Start over, the Jedi must."

"I failed Ben, I can't lose Rey too."

"Fail Dooku I did, fail Anakin, Obi-wan did. Fail Ben, you did not, fail Rey, you will not." Yoda said as Luke turned to him.

"Strong in the force, is your daughter. Train her well, you did. Train her better than I, even could have. A new type of Jedi, is Rey Skywalker. Wrong you are not, time it is, for the old Jedi order to end. Begin, a new age of Jedi must. Through Rey , begin it will."

"I need to have faith in her, have faith in the force." Luke said.

Meanwhile onboard the Falcon, Rey sat in the captain's seat as R2 helped her pilot the ship.

Rey carefully looked at a bag she took with her.

Rey carefully opened it and looked at the texts from the first Jedi inside of it.

"I hope father doesn't look in the tree before I return." Rey said as she began reading about the dark side and how to help other's resist it.

"Ben, if you can hear me. Tell me where you are, I need to see you, in person."


Author's note

Rey is now a Jedi knight, but not like the ones of old,

Finn and Rose saved the children, not just the animals, and Rey learned the truth, but, did she learn all of it?

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