Epilogue
Karel made it back home. After all the time he spent on Gaia, he has finally come back on. He has defeated Darth Siren, and tried to bring her with him, but she was lost in the cosmos
I was shocked.
"What?" I asked. How could that be possible.
I was gone for an entire year! There had to be some time. What's happening?
"This isn't happening."
I fell to my knees. "I lost an entire year of my life in a minute."
"What happened to you?" Bora asked
"Where's everybody?"
"Why?"
"I need to tell everyone about what happened."
Bora just shook her head.
She was all I though about when I was in my darkest pits. She was my rock that kept me, me.
Bora got everybody, including Ozpin, Roni, and everyone else.
"Why do you look different?" Bora asked me.
"For the past year I was in a different Universe. It was during the clone wars. I fought for the Sith Empire, as a secret agent for a group of wizards called the order of the Phoenix. I fought against the Republic and the CIS. We captured many worlds and were able to do missions on the capital worlds of both the CIS and the Republic. I was known as Agent Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is a place on this world. I was one of the highest-ranking members of the imperial army, and one of the strongest." I started.
I took the bag off my back, and opened it. Ninalex, Lily and Jade came out.
"These three helped me, and fought along side me. These are Ninalex, Lily Hart, and Jade." I pointed to each of them
"Lily, Ninalex, Jade. This is your new home."
They looked around. Master Roni looked at me.
"You brought three people from that universe to this one?"
"Yes. I meant to bring one of the Darths who I defeated back, but she is lost in the cosmos. These three are all force sensitive. They will be great benefits to our cause. I have learned that there are Sith on this planet, and we have to destroy them, or all mankind will be lost."
Everyone looked at me now.
"This is a lot to take in." Roni said
"I know. But after we defeat the Sith we're going to have to go back. The purge hasn't started there yet, and we may just yet have time." I said.
Roni took hold of my shoulders.
"This is a serious matter, and right now you're not in the right mindset to talk about this. You need rest. We'll try to figure everything out." Roni said
"Rest, yes that seems good. I need rest. I haven't had a good night sleep in a year." I said.
The suggestion just overcame me. Bora took me back to our room at Beacon and took me out of my armor. I told her how to do it. It was easy. There were a few buttons. They unhooked the armor from me. Bora set me in my bed. I held my hand out to her. She grabbed it
"You made me stay who I was. Thank you. I love you." I say. She smiles.
I put my hand on her head and show her all the events of the past year. After I do, she falls to the floor.
The darkness of the past year was overpowering. I submitted to it a few times. I had days where it was easy to avoid, but I had days of weakness. Bora say the event of my life. She came up to me and I saw tears on her face.
"Great Darkness surrounded me. I let hate to overcome me more than once." I laughed "Look at me, talking like this." I said
I closed my eyes.
I jolt up in pain. I see Sander's universe again. I see him almost dying. I see him lying on the ground. His heart was slowing.
I reached out my hand. I tired to give him energy. I saw his skin turn pale. Caleb Dume was watching over him. He cried out in pain.
I hurt me to see this. Then I see Leia fighting Kadabra. She was out matched
The scene changed. I was watching Kenobi and Skywalker fighting Khione. She was using her ice magic to try to kill them. She was losing. It was strange. I could feel something about her, her mind was somewhere else.
I saw Windu discovering the Temple, then the empire descends on them.
The words rang throughout my head.
"He leaked the Location of Gaia and gave you a false hope of ending me. That is why I will award the name of Agent Pennsylvania a Golden Eagle of honor. For the Agent behind the name is responsible for leading the republic to its death."
No. That's not true. I didn't lead them to death!
But I left them. I left the first chance I got.
But I had to go home. Who knows when I'd have that opportunity to come back
But I failed them. I did this. Kadabra is right. I am just a tool of his.
We defied him!
But we aren't fighting anymore. We're the reason that Sander's dying
Shut UP!
Siren's dead. That's your fault. Your promised her a safe place to live out the rest of her days.
I know! I know!
Do you?
YES!
Who's to blame.
…
Exactly.
I'm not a good man.
No, we're not. We did terrible things. Do you really think Bora will love us now? She's seen what we've done. She's seen you murder people. She's seen you destroy a planet.
…I had a hand in it. I had one of the main hands in it. I don't deserve to live.
No… we don't.
I opened my eyes and I saw Bora standing over me. She had a concerned look on her face.
"Yes?"
"Stop thinking like that" She commanded me.
But… how does she know what I'm thinking. She held onto me.
"You aren't leaving me again. You hear me?"
Did I project my thoughts? Or did she see my thoughts from before?
She was my anchor. She kept me who I was. She kept me alive.
I owe her everything.
I hear Jade whisper to me
"You belong next to her." I looked, but I saw nothing.
I didn't realize I grabbed my lightsaber. Bora grabbed it and threw it away from me. When I saw it my eyes widened in shock.
I was about to do it.
Look at me. In this sad state. All I've been looking forward to for a year, and I was about to throw it all away. I was about to doom all of humanity.
I was about to end my life, and for what? What good would that have done? Would that have repaid for all the lives I've taken? Would that repay even a fraction of the debt I owe to life?
No. I know better, but… I'm weak. I shook. I started breathing heavily. The crushing realization came on me of what I tried to do.
Bora was on me, stopping me from moving. I couldn't let myself do anything like that again.
For her.
My arm started to hurt.
I screamed. Bora looked at me.
"My… Arm" I was able to get out. Bora rolled up my sleeve and saw it. I couldn't look. Too much pain.
She got up went to her scroll.
"His arm… It's black."
What?
I looked at my arm and saw it. It was dead.
I don't remember much after that.
What I remember was the continuation of that vision.
Leia was fighting Kadabra, and she was starting to win. I guess Siren and I did more than we thought we could, taking away so much of Kadabra's soul.
I saw the deaths of the Darths. Lancelot finally met his match, and Herpo didn't last long. Caleb Dume got him. That's impressive, but to be fair, he was distracted.
Even Khione didn't live. I was sad to see her death, since we were friends, but… it had to happen.
But one slipped away. The ISD head, and the man who but that bounty on my head. Never liked him. Always creeped me out, but when I learned about what he did to his 'test subjects' I was truly disgusted. There's evil, then there's him. Darth Drakon. When I return he's my number one target.
I saw Sander get healed, but then… I saw his hatred for me once again.
He got the idea that I ran off to sleep with Siren. I devastated me. And was very wrong.
And I saw Siren alive, in Atlas. What? It was Atlas, but not my Atlas. She got up and was freezing. I saw her life in Atlas. She became a museum director. I saw a decade pass by, and she didn't look very different.
How old was she?
Well, I was her in her job, but one day she went to the Schnee home. I saw... me? But it wasn't me. Siren was in another Universe. This universe was very similar to mine, but different too. For starters, My hair doesn't look like that. He didn't dye his hair blue. It was Weiss' idea to do it. I had fun when she did it.
He also didn't have a ridiculous haircut. He also didn't have a robot arm. That might have been a dead giveaway.
Well, I saw that it was my seventeenth birthday. I remember that day, but it didn't have her. Just a regular day. I saw this other me go to the museum the next say and help her. Then time skipped a few months, and I saw Siren expose herself to my other me. This is getting confusing. I hate this Multiverse stuff. Too confusing, and maybe paradoxical.
When I woke up, I was in a hospital room.
I don't know what's going on, but my team's here.
"How do you feel?" Vuren asked.
Vuren? What's she doing here? And why is Lily in the room
"I'm drugged up. I can't feel my arm anymore at least." I said
They looked at each other.
No. Please no.
I looked at my arm. It was robotic.
I held my head down and sighed.
"Well. Better this than nothing." I said. I somehow smiled.
"Weiss' family paid for it." Bora said
"I'll have to thank them after we deal with the Sith." I said
"About that… where did you hear there were Sith on Remnant?" Lily asked.
"I got some… help." Thank you Master Yadder.
"By the way, where's Ninalex and Jade?" I asked.
"Over here" Ninalex said. I looked over to her, and she waved.
The arm would need some getting used to, but I would be able to do soon. Once I'm out of this place, I'm going to search for the Sith.
I had a dream the day before I left this universe that may give me a clue. I hope I'm powerful enough to do this, I'm going to have to take down the Sith.
Then my mind came to Bora. I looked at her.
"Thank you." I said
She didn't say anything.
"We're not done yet though. We still have the Sith to deal with. After that… who knows? Maybe, I'll take you over there." She smiled
"You don't have to go back." Lily said
"No, I have to. You three won't be coming. We need you here." I said
"That's not for you to decide." Lily said
"You aren't going."
She looked at me, trying to see my resolve.
She backed off.
"Alright. I'll listen to you. Don't get used to it."
Trust me, I have expected to have to fight you right here. I looked at Ninalex
"You should join the order here. Finish your training."
She just shook her head.
"Bora, would you come with me?'
She smirked.
"I wouldn't miss it for the world."
That made me smile. Some good news for one is good. I need it. I yawn
"Guys, I'm tired. I still need rest… and I need to come to terms with this." I held up my robotic hand.
I looked at it and I got an idea. Bora looked at me but didn't say anything. Everyone left the room, except for Ninalex. Of course.
"How bad it is?" I asked
"If I got here a few hours later, no doubt you wouldn't be the only one with that kind of arm."
"I'm sorry." I told her.
"Don't be. I wasn't strong enough to take care of the problem. You saved me. Again."
We didn't say anything.
"I don't want to lose anyone else." I said
Ninalex didn't say anything.
"I know how you feel."
Bora came to check up on me, coming alone, but with a present.
She handed me a book. I opened it and it was empty.
"What?"
"It's a journal. You should keep one. It'll help you reflect on everything you've gone through."
She handed me a pack of mechanical pencils.
So, I started writing. I wrote my name on the page before it started. I wrote about myself.
Then I had to decide on when to start it. If I was going to start it today, or that day.
I chose that day, which was Yesterday. I decided for this one, not to write the date.
I wrote on the top of the page
Chapter 1
That was fitting.
I wrote down everything that I remembered. I wrote from the day that I was on the star destroyer till I met the Order.
Bora, Ninalex, and I started the process of determining what was real, and what wasn't, but since I don't have everyone here, it may not be entirely accurate.
And I may have embellished a few details…
But Bora helped me with not going too much… self-glorification.
Sometimes she asked me if what I wrote really happened, and I had to admit that sometimes… it may have been a bit off.
She even wrote a few of the lines in here. She also took a few away.
When Ninalex came in I finally had a second voice to help me.
But sometimes she would disagree.
Lily was even worse. She purposely lied about what I did. She tried to convince Bora that I was hitting on her.
Thank you Ninalex for standing behind me.
Then she said she just wanted to see her reaction.
That's neve a good idea to get her angry.
By the time I got out I wrote down everything except for this stuff.
My arm's doing much better now, and I can even fight better than I could before. But it is harder to call the force through it. I painted the arm with the colors of everyone here. It looked good to me by the end.
Now the Jedi have returned to Vale, and the Grandmaster sent me on a mission with Bora and a few other Jedi.
This is the last page so I'm going to just write a few things down.
Most of this is true. I really went through everything I wrote down. I've seen my old Jedi master Jade Yadder. I fought along side Obi-Wan, and almost killed Anakin.
I had one last vision.
It was Sander. He was grown up. He was around my age. I'd seen what he went through. I saw that he became a Jedi master, along with Yang.
I saw him sitting under a tree, his head on Yang's shoulder, both sleeping. I was standing by them. I saw Sander open his eyes, looking directly at me.
He was a bright light in that universe. I was going to go back one day. I must make this right with him.
I must stop Daniel and Drakon.
I have to right my wrongs in that universe, but first, I have to save this world. I was Agent Pennsylvania.
But I am…
Karel Allusis, Jedi knight.
Author's Notes: This is the last chapter, and it isn't really needed for the story. Now Heart of Death is officially complete. No more Is going to be added (I think)
The sequel to this story won't be out for a while.
The sequel to Heart of Death is out and finished.
If you like my story, then come on over to my main series Jedi Hunter
You will find it on the RWBY X Star Wars section, or on my bio.
See you soon.
May the Force Be With You
-DragonZlayerx12
