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Later back at the Falcon Rey and Axel were outside while it started to rain. Rey stuck out her hand and she smiled as she felt the cold water splash on her palm.

"You've never seen rain have you?" Axel asked.

"No" Rey replied. "It feels refreshing"

All of the sudden the two Force sensitive felt the force connecting them to Kylo as the saw the darksider appeared infront of them. The two friends glare at Ren as he spoke.

"Why is the force connecting us?" Ren asked "All three of us"

"Murderous snake" Rey hissed. "You're too late. You lost. We found Skywalker."

"Did he tell you what happened?" Ren asked.

"What the hell are you talking about?" Axel asked "He didn't do anything to you! You betrayed him!"

"That's what he wants you to believe Axel" Ren said."The night I destroyed his temple, did he tell either of you why?"

"Axel told me what you did" Rey said "So I know everything I need to know about you."

"You do?" Ren asked Ah, you do. You have that look in your eyes, both you and Axel. From the forest. When he called me a murdering bastard and you called me a monster."

"You are a monster and a murdering bastard." Axel growled

"Yes, I am" Ren said before the connection was broken.

"Don't let him get inside you're head Rey" Axel "He'll try to use your emotions to his advantage. Such is a way with the darkside.


Later Axel was watching Rey train with her staff as she swung it back and forth. Then Rey stopped and looked at the saber in her bag then she took it out and ignited the blade.

"It's beautiful, isn't it?" Axel said as he stood next to her "This maybe the last saber from the Jedi Era"

"How do you know so much about the Jedi anyway?" Rey asked.

"My Grandmother Ahsoka Tano was a Jedi in the old Republic" Axel said "When a child she would tell me stories about her and my Grandfather on how they fought together to defeat Separatist Alliance durning the Clone Wars. That saber belonged to her master"

"Luke's father was your Grandmother's master!?" Rey asked with a shocked look on her face.

"Yeah, but we'll get to that later. I'm gonna help you train with that" Axel said as he stood in front of Rey and ignited his purple blade. Both force wielders then took ready position.

"Block high!" Axel said as he attacked Rey but she blocked the attack as blots of electricity sparked between the blades. "Do you feel that pull?" He asked as Rey nodded "That saber is old, heavy but powerful and you must respect it's strength"

"Alright, I will" Rey said.

"Block low, now high, low, high, middle" Axel said as Rey blocked all the attacks. "Good, now let's work on a series. Are you ready?"

"Yes" Rey replied.

"We'll start slow" Axel said as he started attacking " 1,2,3,4,5,6" Rey blocked every strike "Faster! 1,2,3,4,5,6 again! 1,2,3,4,5,6! again! 1,2,3,4,5,6!" Rey blocked every strike perfectly.

"The blade feels lighter" Rey said.

"Good that means you are connecting with it, but you still have much to learn" Axel said "Let's go meet up with Luke for your next lesson."


Later Rey and Axel met up with Luke inside the temple for Rey's second lesson.

"Lesson two" Luke said "Now that they are extinct, the Jedi are romanticized, defied. But if you strip away the myth and look at their deeds, the legacy of the Jedi is failure. Hypocrisy, hubris.

"That's not true." Rey said as she and Axel walked up to the old master.

"At the height of their powers they allowed Darth Sidious to rise create the Empire and wipe them out. It was a Jedi master who was responsible for the training and creation of Darth Vader"

"Yeah and that Jedi master spent 19 years of his life protecting your ass!" Axel said as he kneeled infront of Luke. "And he also helped train you, the Jedi who saved him from the darkness because you saw conflict in him. You believed that he could be turned even when my father stopped believing in him you believed he could be saved and he was"

"And I became a legend" Luke said "For many years, there was balance and then I saw...Ben. My nephew that that mighty Skywalker blood. And in my hubris, I thought I could train him, I could pass on my strengths. Han was... Han about it but Leia, trusted me with her son. I took him along with Axel and a dozen students and began a training temple. By the time I realized I was no match for the darkness rising within him, it was too late."

"What happened?" Rey asked.

"I went to confront him." Luke said "And he turned on me. He must've thought I was dead. When I came to, I saw that Axel was unconscious"

"Because of Ben" Axel said as Rey looked at him "I heard a crashing noise outside my hut. When I went to check out what happened I saw Ben walk out of the rumble, I when to make sure he was ok but then he Force pushed me into one of the other huts so hard I was knocked out. When woke up, I saw the temple burning and halve of the students were dead"

"Ben vanished with the other students and slaughtered the rest." Luke said "Leia blamed Snoke, but it was me, I failed. Because I was Luke Skywalker. Jedi Master. A legend."

"The galaxy may need a legend" Rey said as she stood up "I need someone to show me my place in all of this. You didn't fail Kylo, Kylo failed you. I won't."


Later that night Axel and Rey were going for a walk when suddenly they felt their connection to Ren.

"Now is not a good fight for this." Axel said

"Yeah, me too." Ren said.

"Why did you hate your father?" Rey asked as she and Axel turned and saw him, he wasn't wearing a shirt. "Do you have a shirt or somthing you can put on?"

"Why did you hate your father?" Axel demanded. "Give us an honest answer! You had a father who loved you, he gave a damn about you!"

"I didn't hate him" Ren said

"Then why?" Rey asked as she started to cry. "Why did you kill him?"

"You're parents threw you away like garbage" Ren said "You can't stop needing them"

"Don't listen to him Rey" Axel said "He's just trying get in your head"

"Did Axel ever tell you about his sister?" Ren asked which made Axel really angry.

"You have no right to talk about her!" Axel yelled.

"Very well" Ren said "Did Luke tell you what happened that night?"

"Yes" Rey replied

"No" Ren said "He had sensed my power, as sense yours and Axel's. And he feared it"

"Liar" Rey said.

"Luke would never attack anyone without a good reason" Axel said.

"Let the past die" Ren said "Kill it if you have to. That's the only way to become what you were meant to be." The connection ended and left both friends confused as Rey turned to Axel in concern.

"You never told me you have a sister" Rey said.

"I had a sister" Axel said with venom in his voice as he walked away. "And I don't want to talk about it..."


Later Axel was outside the Falcon remembering what happened to his sister.

"Selena..." Axel said as he looked up at the stars. "What happened to you was because of me. I'm so sorry" Just then Axel felt a disturbance in the force.

"Rey" Axel said as he saw her all wet and ran up to her. "Rey what happened?" The two friends say inside a hut and Axel lit a fire for Rey as she explained what to both him and Ren.

"I should've felt trapped or panicked" She said "But I didn't. This didn't go on forever, I knew it was leading somewhere. And that, at the end, it showed me what I came to see. I thought I'd find answers here. I was wrong. I'd never so alone."

"You're not alone Rey" Axel said.

"He's right" Ren said.

"Neither are either of you" Rey said to the two men in front of her. "It isn't too late Ben." Both Rey and Axel held out their hands while Ren gently touched them. Those few seconds felt like forever until Luke enter the hunt and saw what was going on.

"STOP!" He yelled as the hut collapsed around them and Ren was gone.

"Is it true?" Rey snarled "Did you create Kylo Ren!?"

"Leave this island now!" Luke growled as he started to walk away but Rey hit him with her staff causing him to fall. "Did you try to kill him?" Rey them swung again while Luke used the force to summon an antenna to block Rey's attack. The master and scavenger exchanges blows until Rey summoned the Skywalker saber with the force then she was about to attack until a purple blade blocked the blue blade. Rey saw that it was Axel who stopped the attack.

"Not this way" Axel said as the two force wielders deactivated their blades.

"Tell me the truth" Rey said to Luke.

"I saw darkness" Luke said "I'd sensed it building in him. I'd seen it in moments during his training. But then I looked inside, and it was beyond what I ever imagined. Snoke had already turned his heart. He would bring destruction and pain and death, and the end of every I loved because of what he will become and for the briefest moment of pure instinct, I thought I could stop it. It passed like a fleeting shadow and I was left with shame, and with consequence. The last thing I saw were the eyes of a frightened boy who's master had failed him" Both Rey and Axel were left in complete shock after hearing what happened and Axel felt regret about what he said about Ben.

"You failed him by thinking his choice was made but it was wasn't" He said .There's still conflict in him. If he were turned from the darkside like your father was that could change everything"

"This is not going to go the way you think" Luke said

"It is" Rey said "Just now when we all touched hands, I saw his future. As solid as I'm seeing you. If well go to him, Ben Solo will turn."

"Rey, Axel, don't do this" Luke begged. Rey stood up and handed Luke his family saber but the old master refused to take it.

"Then he is our last hope" Rey said.

Axel and Rey gathered their belongs and got on the Falcon and flew off to do the one thing Luke couldn't do. Save Ben Solo from the darkside.


AXEL AND REY HAVE TRIED TO CONVINCE LUKE TO COME BACK BUT IS WAS ALL IN VAIN. NOW THEY MUST CONFRONT BEN SOLO AND SAVE HIM FROM SNOKE'S CONTROL. WILL THEY SUCCEED? FIND OUT AS STAR WARS: REBELLION REBORN CONTINUES.

R&R FULCRUM OUT.