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Chapter 3: Jedi or General Solo?

General Leia Organa sat at a console, wondering just what was going on. Though her training with her brother before his disappearance was almost minimal, it had given her enough perception to know that whoever was aboard that Sorosuub Yacht was strong with the Force, but it couldn't possibly be who she had thought she felt try to access her mind not too long ago. She heard the soft footsteps of Lieutenant Connix approach her. Leia smiled as she beheld the young woman, wearing the similar style buns she had worn years ago. She looked like the daughter she never had.

"General Organa, the ship that appeared in the system has just landed," Connix reported. She had always been a formal one, especially for one at her age, though her vast intellect was one reason why she was rising through the ranks swiftly.

"What did the scanners say was within the craft?" Leia asked, though her gut (and the Force) already knew the answer.

"In terms of living organisms, there are two females and one male human within the craft," Connix answered dutifully. "In terms of weaponry, scans indicate several hidden laser turrets capable of countering snub fighter pursuits and missile launchers that show recent use, as well as a Z-95 Headhunter within the aft docking bay. Their hyperdrive is showing signs of strain, suggesting that the craft had been in a recent engagement with an unknown foe and received damage to the hyperdrive. They've made hasty repairs, which is why they're in one piece, but more extensive repairs will need to be done to ensure they don't explode when next they try to jump to hyperspace."

Leia nodded, thoughtfully. "Well then, looks like we'll have to get some technicians out there to repair their hyperdrive."

Connix blinked in surprise. "General, are you sure? We don't know what their intentions may be. We should have a security team ready."

"There's no need for that," Leia said gently, standing up. "The Force is telling me that these people mean no harm. Now, let's go greet our guests. Do you have anything else to report?"

"The First Order has put out a massive bounty for the capture of the BB-8 droid that Poe reported missing during his trip to Jakku and for two refugees reported to have aided BB-8 in escaping Jakku," the Lieutenant said.

"They're looking for the map to my brother," Leia said solemnly. "Since they've put out a bounty, I think it's safe to safe they haven't found BB-8 yet."

Connix nodded. "That is a correct assessment. We need to find that BB-8 unit before the First Order does, so our spies are out looking for the droid right now. We're waiting for the usual updates for more news."

"Very well, you're dismissed Lieutenant," Leia ordered. The young woman bowed her head respectfully and turned to go monitor another station. She had a good heart, she just needed to loosen up just a little. Now to go and see who these mystery guests are. With that bit of business concluded, she made her way out towards the landing strip. Several Resistance soldiers waited outside the modified Sorosuub Star Yacht, blaster rifles at the ready.

"General, you sure we should let these people know about our secret base?" one of the pilots asked, a young woman with almond shaped eyes and olive skin. Young Jess Testor, if Leia recalled correctly. A brilliant pilot, not quite as skilled as Poe Dameron, but few pilots could claim to rival Poe in terms of piloting skills.

"Not to worry Jess," the General said reassuringly. "I've got a good feeling about this." With a hiss, the hatch to the Jade Shadow opened and a ramp extended downwards. Despite her reassurances, the pilots aimed their blaster rifles towards the hatch. Leia saw a slender figure in a black robe appear at the top of the ramp and slowly descend. Despite her regal composure, she couldn't help but gasp as she recognized the woman in the Aleemian sunlight. "It can't be…"

"What's the matter Leia?" Mara Jade Skywalker asked, "You look as though you've seen a ghost."

The pilots around Leia were murmuring. They had seen the lightsaber hanging from Mara's hip. "I thought all the Jedi were dead!"

"Except Luke Skywalker of course," another pilot pointed out, "Why else are we trying so hard to find him?" The murmurs only intensified when the two Knights Mara had brought along came down the ramp. Though they weren't as intimidating as Mara was, since they left their cloaks on the Jade Shadow, the lightsabers on their belts were just as indicative of their status to the Resistance fighters as Mara's was.

"Master, is there a problem?" Katerina asked, eyeing the blaster rifles warily. She then spotted Leia and surprised the General with a bow. "Master Organa Solo. A pleasure to meet you."

Leia flinched ever so slightly, which didn't go unnoticed by Mara, but she managed to smile at Kat nonetheless. "Dear child, while the pleasure is all mine, I'm afraid I'm no Master. Just the General of the Resistance."

"Resistance?" Both young Jedi repeated, confusion on their faces.

"Maybe we should have this discussion inside," Mara offered, taking a glance around at the bewilderment on everybody's faces. "Where we don't have blasters being shoved in our faces."

"That would probably be for the best," Leia agreed, turning to one of the pilots. "Comm ahead and tell Admiral Akbar to prepare the conference room with refreshments. I have a feeling this could take a while."

Ahch-To

Luke Skywalker, Jedi Master in exile, alone on one of the few islands on this mostly ocean covered planet, turned his head skywards. He sensed a massive tremor in the Force, though what had caused it he wasn't sure. It had shades of his wife in it, but that wasn't possible. His wife had been killed years ago by Kylo Ren, his own nephew. It couldn't be… Luke was uncertain, but he knew that whatever it was would seek him out when the time was right.

Hidden First Order Facility

Supreme Leader Snoke growled as he felt the tremor in the Force. There was a new champion for the light side in the galaxy, and it wasn't the hated Luke Skywalker. No, this presence was different, but Snoke couldn't put his finger on it. He began to tap the buttons on his throne to make his call to his prodigy, Kylo Ren. He had to be warned of this new threat.

"The light side must never regain control of the galaxy," he growled, contemplating this new turn of events.

Aleemian System

"So who wants to begin, you or me?" Mara asked the conference table, "Because I have a feeling that I'm not going to like what I hear." Her gaze fixed upon the Mon Calamari admiral sitting next to Leia. "As nice as it is to see you again Gial, it's still unsettling to see someone whose funeral I attended after the Yuuzhan Vong war." The reaction that Mara got would've been to amusing to her if it weren't for the fact that she could sense the alarm from those in the conference room, puzzlement permeating throughout the Force. It was only her, the two Jedi that had come with her, Leia, Admiral Ackbar, and a young woman wearing the same buns Mara could remember the Princess wearing back in her youth.

"I wish I could say the feeling is mutual," Ackbar said in his gravelly voice, "But I'm afraid I can't recall who you are, though that might be due to my old age."

Mara had always had trouble deciphering the facial expressions of Mon Calamari, despite the amount of time spent around Master Cilghal over the years. "Admiral, my name is Mara Jade Skywalker, Jedi Master in my husband's New Jedi Order. Your niece is also a Jedi Master."

The Mon Cal Admiral blinked. "Cilghal? Impossible. She's a great doctor back on Mon Cala, but she's no Jedi."

Leia was giving Mara an unsettling stare. It wasn't in anger at Mara's claims, but more like one trying to remember another who had been long gone. It was a bold claim, to be the wife of her brother in this day and age, but somehow it didn't seem too far out of the question. She did look like an older version of the Mara she remembered. But Leia had seen the body and how it had crushed her brother's heart. "Mara, why don't you explain what happened after you married my brother nineteen years ago."

Mara narrowed her eyes, getting a sinking feeling in her gut. "Leia, I married Farmboy nearly twenty-two years ago. Shortly before the Vong war began."

"There you go again with this Vong war," the Admiral said, turning his head so that one bulbous eye was staring directly at her. "Can you explain to me what this war was? This is the first I've heard of such a conflict."

"Admiral, you helped lead the campaign to take back Coruscant!" Mara countered, a sinking feeling in her gut.

Ackbar leaned back in his chair, folding his webbed hands together thoughtfully. "I did lead the campaign years ago, when we finally pushed the Galactic Empire out of Coruscant. But that's been the only time I've had to lead an assault on the former capital."

Kat's eyes were wide as she grasped his words, leaning forward quickly in her chair next to Mara. "Former capital?!"

"Yes, the Senate for the New Republic now convenes in the Hosnian system," the woman informed them. Mara read the name Connix on her name tag. "Mon Mothma made the decision years ago to make the move after encountering several Imperial sympathizers on Coruscant, sympathizers that were all too willing to destroy themselves if it meant destroying the Senate."

"How long were we in hyperspace?!" Mara asked, that bad feeling in her gut spiking into fear, fear that she quickly clamped down on but it was still there, gnawing away at her insides.

"Mara, I'm going to tell you about the situation we're in, but I don't think you're going to like it," Leia said gently. Mara braced herself, expecting something like ten to fifteen years due to the hyperspace accident. That wouldn't explain the fact that Ackbar was alive and Leia wasn't trained. "The Mara I know has been dead for nearly fifteen years. Yet the Force tells me you are her, but not her."

"Her but not her?" Ackbar repeated, giving Leia that curious Mon Calamari glance. "Do you know what you are saying General?"

Mara had tensed at one important word in Leia's statement. "Dead?!" Out of all the things she could have been told, that was the last thing she had been expecting. "What about Luke? Ben?" Leia winced and turned away, which prompted Mara to lean forward, a dangerous look in her eye. "If they're dead, then you just tell me who killed my family and I promise you they won't be alive by the end of the week."

Leia took a deep breath, shuddering as if recalling some horrible memory. Mara waited patiently as she felt Leia's resolve tighten. "Luke went into exile after his New Jedi Order was betrayed and destroyed by the dark side, by Snoke and his Knights of Ren. As far as I know, he is the last Jedi left and was searching for the first Jedi Temple. He hasn't been sighted in years though…"

"And Ben?" Mara asked, fearing for her son. She didn't know what these Knights of Ren were, but since they were of the dark side, there was no doubt that they were not good for the galaxy.

Leia looked at her with tears in her eyes. "Ben…he…"

Mara met her look, dead serious. "If he's dead, then tell me who killed him. I'll take it from here."

"It's worse," Leia said slowly, each word twisting the knife in her heart. It never got any easier admitting what her own flesh and blood had done. "He turned to the dark side and is now known as Kylo Ren. He's leading the First Order forces against us."

Kat could feel the sudden jolt of emotional pain that struck Mara's heart through the Force. She looked at the Former Emperor's Hand and was stunned to see the look on her former mentor's face. It was the look of someone who had had her heart ripped out. "Master?"

"My son," Mara began slowly, each word filled with the pain and the cold rage she was feeling, "Would never. Never! Turn to the dark side." She looked at Leia, who returned her glare with a bewildered gaze.

"Mara, you never had a son," Leia stated, pain in her voice. "It was my son who betrayed us…"

"Jacen!?" This time the exclamation came from the other Knight in the room, Dan. "He saved the galaxy, he wouldn't go dark!"

Leia glanced at him. "Who's Jacen?"

"You had twins!" Mara said, standing up in sheer frustration, "Jacen and Jaina. You had a third child, Anakin, who died during the Vong War, but his sacrifice helped us win the war!"

Leia laughed gently, but there was a lot of pain behind that laugh. "Han never stuck around long enough for us to have another child, let alone a third. No, we only had Ben, our only son." The silence that followed was deafening. It was several moments before anyone spoke again and it came from an unexpected source.

"You're not the Mara that Leia knew," Connix spoke up, getting everyone's attention.

"And yet here she stands, claiming to be Luke's dead wife," Ackbar growled.

Connix nodded. "Yes, that is true. However, you arrived here due to a hyperspace accident, did you not?" At Mara's nod, the lieutenant continued. "Accidents in hyperspace have always been volatile, ever since galactic civilization discovered faster-than-light speed millennia ago. There have been stories about what happens when the hyperdrive fails or is damaged. Some have been of time travel, where ancient cruisers were lost on the way to battle, only to arrive centuries later. Others have been of dimensional travel, where people have claimed to remember a different version of history. I suspect the latter in your case, though the most recent recorded occurrence was nearly five hundred years ago." She typed a few words into her datapad to pull up the report. "According to the report, it was a Jedi who had no recollection of the old Jedi Master despite Yoda having made a name for himself centuries before that. That Jedi had traveled forward in time nearly one thousand standard galactic years. The report didn't detail on what became of that Jedi, but that may be due to simple integration into then-modern society." She put down the datapad and looked at Mara. "How long ago was the Battle of Yavin 4?"

Mara blinked, surprised by the sudden inquiry. "It's been nearly forty years since that battle, why?"

Connix furrowed her brow at that, reminding Mara of the old holos she had seem of Leia when she had been caught deep in thought. Her buns did nothing to dissuade her of that notion. "So we're dealing with dimensional and time travel here. Wonderful."

"Time travel?!" Kat's eyes were wide with shock and fear. "How much?"

"The first battle of Yavin, where my brother destroyed the Death Star," Leia began slowly, "was only thirty-four years ago."

At this point, Mara was starting to become numb to the revelations she had been hearing. That didn't stop her from saying "Well that's not as bad as jumping into a dimension where I'm dead, the Jedi Order is pretty much dead, the New Republic is still alive but struggling against this new threat, this First Order you've mentioned. Leia, I want you to start over and explain to me everything that's happened in this new timeline."

The General nodded, smiling at Mara. "Certainly. I know you're taking a lot in, but I just want you to know that it's great to have you back."

Mara returned the smile, though Leia could tell that it was forced. "It's good to be back from the dead I guess." She looked at her sister-in-law with face that told Leia just how much these revelations were hurting her spirit, but despite the pain Mara was maintaining that Jedi calm Leia had seen from her brother, even as his Jedi Order was destroyed by Snoke and his damn Knights. "Just tell me what I need to know."

And that's chapter 3! Here's where we see Mara getting some answers into her predicament. Next chapter is when we'll finally see some action. Hope you all enjoyed it!

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