This next chapter will show a lot more of Von's story and why he wants to capture Ezra.

Chapter 11: A Mission to Change History

Third Person P.O.V

As Von followed the force signatures of Kanan and Ezra, he had a lot going through his mind. Was it all worth it? Will history be changed from what he was about to do? What if the future remains the same despite this? Those were three of the biggest questions that Von had, remembering the time when it all began: the future.

Flashback

It began 4 years following the end of the Empire. Von was one of the Jedi who helped bring back the Jedi along with the one who brought them back, Master Luke Skywalker. He was a Jedi master like Luke, helping train force sensitives in the ways of the force over the years as they went by. By the time of 5 years after the Empire fell, Von married the girl of his dreams, the one who made his bright blue eyes brighten even more at the sight of her when they first met on his home planet, Lothal. They both lived a happy life, and even had two kids a year later. They had a boy named Ephraim and a girl named Rook. Both of them inherited force sensitivity from their dad, and were able to speak Mando'a which they learned from their Mandalorian mother. Von even took his own son as an apprentice, while his old master took on his daughter. Time passed, and as Rook and Ephraim both reached the age of 20, now Jedi Knights, a new threat emerged.

Von had to respond to a disturbance in the force coming from the Jedi Academy, his children joining him. When they got to the Jedi Academy, what they all saw sent shivers down their spines. The Jedi and his children witnessed the slain bodies of several students. They examined the bodies, the first question coming into their mind. "Who could have down this?" Suddenly, they heard the sounds of lightsabers clashing.

"Master Bridger, we need help!" one of the Jedi called out. Von and his children responded, jumping into action. Von ignited his green blade, Ephraim ignited his blue one, and Rook ignited her blue one. The adversary looked at them, realizing under his helmet who showed up. As the dark robed figure approached them as two of his followers dueled with the other Jedi, swinging his cross guard red lightsaber. Under the figure's helmet, Von and his children sensed the presence of the dark side within the man he once knew as Ben Solo.

"Look how old you have become." Ben said under his helmet.

"Ben, why!?" Rook asked. Training at the academy, Rook became close friends with him, and they even almost got involved. But after seeing that what he did with his followers, she felt the darkness creeping up to her, a feeling of betrayl unlike anything the Jedi felt.

"You all betrayed me. And now, Ezra Bridger, you are going to join your fallen brothers and sisters, along with your kids! Men!" His two followers just took out a human Jedi master and his female twi'lek apprentice. His followers approached their master, swinging their red sabers. "Kill them."

"Ben, this isn't like you!" Von said.

"Ben Solo died. He died because he was foolish as he was weak. And Kylo Ren was born. You three are going to join him."

Kylo swung at Von, the Jedi bringing up his saber to block his attack. One of his followers engaged Ephraim, the other engaging Rook. The two Jedi Knights put up a good fight with these dark side followers, with the four of them going blow for blow. However, with Von and Kylo, their duel was even heavy as the two were going at it way more harder than the followers and the Jedi's children. After a rigorous fifteen minutes of all six duelists dueling, the dark siders got the upper hand when Kylo force pushed the Bridger family.

"And now, you will all understand that you have done nothing but evil!" Kylo yelled. He approached Von slowly as he swung his lightsaber, until he was met with the blade of Ephraim. They both grunted as they got in a blade lock, both combatants trying to break the lock as hard as they could. Rook jumped in and aided her brother, engaging one of his followers. As Von lay there, grunting, the other follower was approaching him, until a yell was heard, and his old master engaged the follower, a blue blade meeting with a red one in a blade lock. His master was going blow for blow with the follower, until the follower elbowed him in the back after dodging an attack, and then impaled his chest with one swift motion.

Von couldn't believe this is happening. His only fatherly figure that he's ever had is now gone, killed by a disciple of Solo. "No! No!" Von pleaded, begging for this to not be true. He began to tear up, and then he felt the rage and the anger boiling up in him as he attempted to get up. Just as he got up, he charged at the follower who killed his master, killing him. As his children engaged Kylo and the other follower, he ran up to his master's body, grabbing his hand tight.

"Kanan! Kanan! Please, don't go, Kanan!" Von pleaded. But it was too late. Kanan was dead. "Nooooooo!" he yelled as he got on his knees. He felt the anger boiling up within him more, charging at Kylo and his other follower. However, it was too late to do anything.

After a heated duel, his follower kicked Rook in the face and then impaled the Jedi through the stomach, killing his daughter. Von felt the anger boiling up even more, and Ephraim's anger boiled as well. His father taught him about the dark side and how it's dangerous, but this time, there was no escaping it after witnessing such a traumatic event. Ephraim screamed and as he charged at the one who killed his sister, swinging wildly at the dark side warrior. Von jumped in and aided his son in his duel, the Jedi master engaging Kylo. Von force pushed Kylo's follower into a wall of the academy, and he and his son took Kylo together. However, after an extremely lengthy duel with the dark sider, Kylo slashed Von in the leg, the master on one knee on the ground and groaning. "Dad!" Ephraim cried out, blocking Kylo's attacks. However, Kylo saw an opening in his opponent and took it, stabbing Ephraim in the back.

Now Von touched the dark side even more. They killed his master, his only father in his own eyes, his daughter, and now his son was about to die. Kylo smiled maliciously under his helmet, letting Von see his son one last time as the Jedi ran up to him.

"Ephraim! Please, no, no, no!"

"Dad. I'm not gonna make it."

"Ephraim, please come on, please, for me!"

"Dad, I love you."

Von let the tears run from his eyes. "I...I love you too, son."

Von cried into his son's chest as the Jedi Knight lay there on the ground on his back. Eventually, his son stopped breathing, and Ephraim Bridger Wren was no more. As he came off his chest, Von glared at Kylo, the dark side digging deeper into his soul. Slowly giving into his inner darkness, Von's eyes went from bright blue to piercing yellow. Von prepared for a final confrontation with Kylo, both of them drawing their sabers. However, when they heard explosions ring out from around the academy, they knew the academy was about to fall. They retreated, Von grieving as he made his way to his ship.

When he got back to Mandalore, where he and his wife had been living since they married, she too was grievous. As they grieved over the deaths of their fatherly figure, and their children, Von promised to make Ben Solo and whoever seduced him to the dark side pay.

He spent the next decade or so planning his vendetta against Ben and his master, Snoke. However, seeing how broken of a man he had become, consumed by darkness, his wife left him. Now he lost the last of his family, and Von gave into his demons even more, desperately wanting his revenge. But at around this time, around 30 years after the fall of the Empire, an organization known as the First Order was at war with the Resistance, a private New Republic military organization funded by now General Leia Organa. A war just as worse as the Galactic Civil War ensued, with Von and his wife reuniting to try to fight back for the New Republic. However, he knew in his mind that Kylo and Snoke were both responsible for this conflict, wanting even more revenge on the both of them. As they fought in the conflict, Von and his wife saw the rest of the galaxy go to hell. However, in the end, Von lost his wife to the First Order, and the galaxy was now ruled by the reborn Galactic Empire. Von became even more grievous and more heart broken, the darkness fully consuming him.

However, he had a new force ability.

He decided to rewrite history. In an attempt to save the future, he went on a one way trip back in time, back to 14 years after the rise of the Empire. During this time, he took "Von" as his alias, and spent the next couple of years watching his younger self grow in his power in the force. By the time the first rebel base had been established on Atollon, Von followed them there, unknowingly keeping a watchful eye on himself and his old master as he resided in an old freighter that he bought for his time here. However, wanting to get the message out to them as soon as possible, Von left the rebel base and headed to Coruscant.

There, he met Darth Vader while the sith lord was in the Imperial Palace. Von introduced himself as a dark side warrior, and he pledged his services to the Empire. Little did Vader know that this was more than meets the eye. Vader said so, the Emperor said so when Vader presented Von to him, and Von was immediately given the task of becoming an inquisitor like figure within the Empire, but with high class assignments on an even bigger classified scale due to his great power in the force. He was also given two new red lightsabers for his services. While he worked for the Empire, he kept on planning ahead for his meeting with his younger self.

Coming up with a new plan, he headed in secret to Kamino, and began developing clones. He used his DNA for the cloning process, cloning his younger self. He gave his own clones dark side training secretly, and when he informed Vader about his plan for wanting to capture Ezra Bridger, as well as his old master, referring to him by his real name of Caleb Dume, Vader gave him the go ahead, and more clones were developed. However, not all clones were successful, as he killed off at least five clones of himself in total. But, he did get other templates.

After the death of the secret apprentice Galen Marek, Vader sent Von a DNA sample of the apprentice and Von had him cloned, keeping him prepared for when he would need him in his future hunt for the padawan. He even took a DNA sample of his deceased wife and cloned her, her clones appearing as her younger self. He mixed it with his own DNA and gave the clones force sensitivity. He went on to train them.

Later, after he sensed his younger self and his future lover have a run in with the Imperial Mandalorian Super Commandos on Concord Dawn, Von thought that this was the time to make his presence known. Heading to Felucia after he tracked his younger self and his old master there, he caught up to them and dueled with them, letting them escape without them knowing. A few days later, wanting to attract himself, Von pursued his younger self to Tatooine, and showed him a vision of Kamino. When he retreated, he had a clone of himself find his real self on an ice planet, while Von went back to Atollon.

His mind was racing as he met face to face with his younger self, showing him a vision of the future. And now that he got the attention of all of them, all that they had to do was go to Kamino. And go to Kamino they did. And all that was left for Von was find himself, his master, his deceased wife, and warn them all about the future and prepare them to face it, to stop what he couldn't.

Present day

Could Von really achieve his goal? Could the future be saved from his mission to rewrite history? He kept on asking more questions as he walked slowly through the Kaminoan facility, preparing himself to meet his younger self.