Note: A big thank you again for Inachis for fixing up this chapter.

Chapter 3

Xander sighed in relief as he looked at the sarcophagus that stood before him. Lucky driving back to this cave with his Jeep took far less time than the walk before. The big question on his mind now was 'And now what?'

The sarcophagus before him looked like a 'normal' Egyptian sarcophagus except that this one seemed to be made completely out of gold, which was quite unusual as far as he could tell. Then there was the out of power droid 'HK-47' that stood behind it. This nearly blew his mind. How could a droid, one out of that old computer game -Knights of the Old Republic- he had played years ago, be here in a dark cave in the middle of Egypt?

He couldn't explain that at all and had to smile at the thought of the wild theories Andrew would be spilling out right now if he were here. He looked over the droid and the sarcophagus and went over his options. He could try to repair the HK unit or he could try to open the sarcophagus. Both options weren't really good. First, even if he could somehow fix the HK and power him up, he wasn't too sure if that was too wise if the droid was even remotely like the one he knew from the game. Secondly, he had no clue what he would find in the sarcophagus.

He sat down at the side of the sarcophagus and took a bottle of water out of his backpack to drink something and to think about what to do. After he put the bottle back again he leaned against the sarcophagus behind him and let his mind wander a bit. A few minutes later he slipped into a meditation technique Willow had taught him a while ago. After he had spend some time in it a strange feeling he couldn't place overcame him. He then knew what the right thing to do was.

He stood up, turned around and without hesitating a moment he pressed on one of the glyphs on top of the sarcophagus. He had no clue why, just the feeling that it was the right thing to do. The glyph started to glow for a moment and then he could press it down. He heard a small click and then the top of the sarcophagus split at the middle and both halves folded back to the side. Xander took a deep breath and then looked into the sarcophagus only to let out a surprised gasp.

What he saw surprised him quite a bit. In the sarcophagus lay a beautiful woman and from the looks of her, she had a slight European/Asian mix to her features. Her long black hair was bound into a braid and she was dressed in a fine black robe which his geeky mind classified directly as a Jedi battle robe. Both of her hands lay on two cylinders which could only be one thing if she was who he believed she was and if he wasn't hallucinating the whole thing. Her lightsabers.

The moment Xander gasped the woman before him opened her eyes and looked directly into his. Before Xander could do or say something more the young woman suddenly jumped out of the sarcophagus and landed behind him. As he turned around she stood before him in a combat stance with both lightsabers activated. She looked him over for a moment and then she deactivated both lightsabers again and clipped them onto her belt. "I can't sense one of those slimy bastards in you and you don't feel evil. Who are you, what did you do to HK and what do you want?" she asked.

Surprised that she spoke to him in English Xander was quiet for a moment and then replied, "I'm Alexander Harris, but most people call me Xander. I found you and your droid here while rescuing someone. Your droid helped us a bit and then ran out of power. My guess would be because of the hole in his side, but he is the first droid I've seen for real so I can't say. After I brought the two girls back to their tribe I came back here to find out more, because I recognized the droid out of a fictional story and was quite surprised to find him and now you here. You shouldn't even exist as far as I'm concerned. And what do you mean by you can't feel a slimy bastard in me?"

Revan was quiet for a moment before she replied, "I'll tell you about that a bit later. Can you explain to me the thing about the fictional story while I look over HK?"

+X+

Quite a while later, after Xander explained all he knew about the 'Star Wars' verse, Revan finally said. "Ok that really sounds strange. A lot, of the things you spoke about from my life happened just as you told me. I'm really curious how this man who 'created' all this knew about my life and all what happened before and after it." She checked over one last thing on HK. "Ok I think I should be able to fix him on the Hawk. I still should have all the parts I need on board."

"You have the Ebon Hawk here?" Xander asked, surprised.

"I hope so, but who knows. According to what you've told me, I was in that thing for quite a long while," Revan replied.

Xander just nodded. "So you still haven't told me about those slimy bastard things you mentioned before."

"If you have something to eat and drink, I'll tell you my story," Revan said with a smile that bedazzled Xander.

Xander pulled a few things out of his backpack and prepared something to eat. "This won't be a feast, but it will fill our stomachs for now," he said with a grin.

While they ate Revan told him her story. "I arrived here trough a malfunction in a new hyperdrive which I built on the Starforge. The drive should have tripled the current speed of the Hawk. At first all went as planned, but then the drive suddenly started to pull more and more power. It took T3 and me nearly 20 minutes to shut the drive down and as we dropped out of hyperspace we found ourselves in an area of space totally unknown to us. We picked the nearest star system, which turned to be this one. At first I felt we were lucky because we found that the system turned out to have a space faring civilization. Luckily we didn't try to contact them directly, because I was still a bit wary from the war. T3 and I collected as much data as we could and after we translated their language we found out that those 'aliens' weren't of the friendly sort. I landed the Hawk on this planet in secret to try to find out even more. I blended in with the population which luckily turned out to be human. I was surprised to find out that this planet was still quite primitive."

Here Revan paused a bit to take a drink out of the water bottle Xander held out to her and then she continued. "I spent quite a while among the people to find out what was happening. It turned out that those 'aliens' capable of space travel where small parasitic worms who took over the body of a human being. They presented themselves as gods to the locals and had enslaved them. Because I had no way home and didn't like what those worms had done I decided to stay and help the locals out. A few years later we started a rebellion to drive them out. Sadly my memories end somewhere in the middle of the last battle against Ra. Something must have happened because the next thing I remember is seeing your eyes looking into mine."

"Quite a story," Xander said after a few moments of thinking it all over. "And I would say your rebellion worked even if you weren't there in the end to see it, because I never heard of those worm things before."

They spent a few minutes in silence while finishing the rest of the army rations Xander had taken out of his bag. "So where did you hide your ship?" Xander finally asked.

"Not far from here, it's deeper down in the cave. I built a small hangar there for the Hawk," Revan replied, smiling as she noted the eager look on Xander's face. There were quite a lot of things she had to ask of him, mostly about the current state of his world, but she decided that that would have to wait for now. 'Look after the Hawk first and then see more,' she told herself.

"Deeper down the cave?" Xander asked with a frown on his face. Revan just nodded in reply and Xander continued. "Then we might have a problem. I explored the cave a bit and deeper down is nothing except a huge pile of rubble which looks like a cave in."

Revan smiled as she replied. "Then follow me, we will find the Hawk." She stood up and started to walk towards the rubble, using the force to levitate HK behind her.

Xander stood there speechless. It was one thing to know about the force, but another to see it in action even if he had seen Willow do similar things with her magic. 'But hey that was only magic and now I'm seeing the force in action,' he thought, letting out his inner geek a bit. He quickly followed Revan and soon they stood before the huge pile of rubble.

+X+

Xander let out a sigh as he looked at the huge builders that blocked their path. "That will be a lot of work," he said, pulling off his shirt and putting on some gloves he had pulled out of his bag and starting to work on the pile.

Revan couldn't help herself but to look at the young man who had freed her out of that golden thing. He was quite nice to look at, especially now that he had taken his shirt off and started to sweat while dragging away the first stones. His upper body showed nicely that he wasn't lazing around in his life and the play of his muscles made her mouth water and placed thoughts off other things in her mind. She enjoyed those thoughts for a moment before she used a meditation technique to clear her mind and then she started to levitate stone after stone away from the pile.

Xander shrugged his shoulders and started to watch Revan handle the pile much faster with the force than he could ever do with the pure use of his muscles. After a while he started to concentrate more on Revan instead of the flying boulders. He just had to grin. He did it again and found himself in the company of a beautiful and sexy woman, who could break him in two without much effort. After all these years, starting with Buffy, he should have gotten used to it, but luckily for him, he still enjoyed it every time. While he still watched Revan do her work he felt something tug at his mind. It was similar to what had happened before while he was mediating and so he concentrated on it. After a moment he could not only see what Revan was doing, but he could feel how she was directing the force to do it.

After Revan put down the last boulder that blocked the way she looked at the young man with surprise. While she was clearing the area she felt how his mind opened to the force and that had surprised her quite a bit. "You are sensitive to the force," she said to Xander.

"I am?" Xander asked back, more curious than surprised.

"Yes, I felt how your mind opened up to it while I directed the force. In all the years I spent helping out here in your past I never felt someone able to work with the force. You are the first and we will have to look into it later. If you have the ability to feel the force, you must be trained or you will be in danger. But for now let's see what awaits us."

A bit shocked by those news Xander followed Revan down the now opened corridor until they reached a big metallic door. Revan quickly entered a code into a keypad beside the door and with a squelching sound the door rolled to the side and gave Xander his first gaze on a starship. In the middle of the hangar stood the Ebon Hawk, waiting for his owner to return to her.