Author Note: I said I would never do this, and then I did. I am briefly visiting the timeline of The Force Awakens and the Last Jedi. Note: for those of you who liked the final trilogy, you may not enjoy this one!

Achc-To

Luke Skywalker, Jedi Master, looked down at his own form and let out a long sigh of relief. He had clothes on.

Clothes were normal enough, of course, but given that he had been in the shower when the Force yanked him into another timeline, it wasn't a given thing. However, the Force had, as usual, bestowed mercy upon him. He was wearing his typical dark Jedi garb, and his lightsaber was hanging at his waist. He was ready for whatever this timeline threw at him.

The next thing he did was look around, and his shoulders relaxed in relief. He knew this place; it was Achc-To, site of the original Jedi Temple, and it was beautiful. Most of the planet was water, which was totally awesome. Even after many years away from Tatooine, he could never spend enough time near oceans. Also, the cute little islands of Achc-To were very relaxing. In addition, he was fond of the adorable porgs, which squeaked and sang and dove happily into the shimmering blue waters.

Well, he had best figure out what he needed to do. He recognized this island as the one which held the Jedi Temple so perhaps...

"Luke!"

He looked up in surprise which morphed into delight. "Mara! Leia! I didn't know you were here!"

His wife and sister were standing at the top of a narrow path which led to a rocky embankment, and he took a few steps toward them, only to stop as both held up their hands towards him.

"Wait for us to come down, Luke," Leia said in his mind.

Within a minute, both women had joined him as neither seemed inclined to walk like normal people, but instead made leaping jumps from the top of the hill to the level area where he had been deposited.

"So," Luke said, "what's going on? What do we need to do?"

His favorite women in the world exchanged glances, and then Mara said decidedly, "You need to help us stop this timeline."

Luke blinked and his forehead wrinkled in confusion. "Stop it? What do you mean? Who do we need to stop? Palpatine? Vader?"

"They are both already dead," Leia explained, her eyes narrowed. "This is actually a future timeline, except that everything went to the rancors after Endor, so everything is seriously messed up."

"The future?" Luke demanded in astonishment, looking around. "How far in the future?"

"Like twenty years or so," Mara said. "But like Leia said, everything and everyone is a mess. The Luke of this timeline is a mess, and so is Leia, and Han, and basically everyone."

"A mess in what way?" Luke demanded in a dismayed tone. "Did ... did I turn to the Dark Side? Did Leia?"

"No, we didn't, but Han and Leia's son did, but it isn't any of our kids. Ben Solo was born nine months after Endor, and he turned to the Dark Side a few years ago. The Luke of this timeline then ran off here in a total funk and cut himself off from the galaxy. Like I said, a mess."

Luke's mouth dropped open incredulously. "I ... I what?"

"Not you!" Mara said indignantly. "Not you! I mean, this guy – wow, he is just...go ahead and reach out in the Force. You'll have to work a little to get past his shields because he has sort of cut himself off from the Force, or so he says, though realistically he hasn't, because he knew I was a Force sensitive, so if he really had cut himself off from the Force he wouldn't have known that..."

"Just reach out, Luke," Leia suggested and turned to Mara and said, "You're babbling."

"I know, I'm just stressed," Mara said, throwing her hands in the air. "He is just so...so... lame!"

Luke felt a slight shift in the Force, spun around, and looked up; a man stood on a flat area of rock some ten yards above him – a man who looked at least sixty years of age, with a graying beard and scraggly locks, wearing tan robes.

Luke squinted. The man was, the man was...

"Is that me?" he gasped in horror. He recognized the chin, and the nose, and the eyes; he saw them in the mirror every day. But this man wore a ragged beard and his locks were unruly and indeed somewhat greasy.

"Yes," Leia said wearily.

"No," Mara riposted angrily. "That is not you! That is some totally boring facsimile of you!"

"My other self is so scruffy!" Luke said in dismay.

"Scruffy is not the right word," Leia returned indignantly. "Han is scruffy, in a handsome, debonair kind of way. That human male up there is just boring."

Luke had, by this time, reached out through the Force and entered the mind of his Alter who had, to his credit, not tried to stop him. He stood stock still for a full minute and then withdrew with a noticeable shudder.

"I see what is in his mind," he said grimly, "and it is stupid!"

"Yeah, I mean, wow, it is just crazy!" Leia said indignantly. "You are a lot of things, but you aren't the kind of person to just go off into exile and cut yourself off from the rest of the galaxy."

"Yoda did," Luke admitted reluctantly. "So I guess I kind of ..."

"Not you!" Mara yelped. "Not you! The Luke of this timeline..."

"Ok, fine," Luke said wearily. "Not me. Anyway, but Ben and Yoda withdrew from the galaxy, so I guess this Luke was just following their examples."

"Kenobi was watching you," Mara pointed out indignantly.

"And Yoda was waiting for you to grow up so he could train you. I'm not saying that was his best call, but at least he had a purpose. This bozo is just waiting around to die."

Luke cringed a little and said, "Not so loud, Leia. He might hear you."

"I don't care," Leia returned angrily and turned to stare up toward the disheveled figure high above them.

"You suck!" she yelled.

"Leia!" Luke remonstrated. "That's so mean!"

"He deserves it! He abandoned my Alter!"

"Toes tingling!" Mara exclaimed. Luke stared up again and for a brief moment, his eyes met his older self, whose eyes were dark with sadness.

Then all three time travelers disappeared.

/

Organa Solo Apartment

Delaya

Four months after Endor

Alternate Timeline

Princess Leia Organa, heir to the throne of Lost Alderaan, staggered into the refresher, leaned over the toilet, and vomited.

"Yuck!" she muttered once she was finished. "I hate hate hate hate throwing up!"

As usual, she felt better now that her stomach was empty, and she wandered over to stare at herself in the mirror. She looked pretty bad, but at least she didn't have any meetings today, so she didn't have to put on makeup and pretend that she was fine. She did, of course, have ten million reports to plow through, so she had better get to it.

She really did feel better. The last few days, she had thrown up in the morning and the rest of the day had been pretty decent. She was nauseous but not hideously nauseous. Maybe she was finally getting through the worst of the morning sickness.

She wandered into her living area and then froze in wide eyed astonishment. In the five minute since she had fled to the refresher, her apartment had been invaded by...by...

"Hi!" the woman said brightly. "I know this is confusing. I am you, from a future, different timeline."

Leia blinked at the woman who looked like her, except older, and then turned her attention on the male intruder.

"And I am Luke, your alter twin," the man said with a smile. "I know this is weird, but life is weird sometimes, don't you think?"

Leia blew out a slow breath and stared. The logical assumption would be that these two interlopers were clones or something, but she while she was no great shakes with the Force, she sensed they were telling the truth. She wished Luke were here – he was actually trained – but he wasn't. She'd have to cope with this on her own.

"Would you care to join me for a little refreshment?" she asked.

Older Leia shuddered noticeably and said, "Um, that particular phrasing reminds me of Bespin. What's the timescale here? Has Endor already happened?"

Leia stared in wonder and nodded, "Um, yes, four months ago..."

"I'll find something to eat and drink," Luke said, striding toward the kitchen. "You like blue milk and Wookiee cookies when you're pregnant, I know."

Leia stared after the older version of her brother and then waved a hand at Older Leia. "Shall we sit down?"

"Sure, thanks. Um, so where are we?"

Leia blinked. "Delaya. But could you tell me again what is going on? You are from the future?"

"Yes, from the future, and from a different timeline. The Force does this to us periodically; sends us somewhere to fix a timeline. In this case, we went to the future of this timeline, and it was dire, so now we are back, I hope, to fix things up. I am confused about Delaya; I certainly didn't visit Delaya the year after Endor."

Leia frowned and said, "Well, a large remnant of the Alderaanian diaspora has settled here, and since I am the heiress to the throne of Alderaan, I'm working to organize a safe home for my people."

Older Leia frowned back. "Huh. Odd. In my timeline, the diaspora was so freaked out about me being the biological daughter of Darth Vader that they spent two years yelling and screaming before anyone would talk to me."

"You told them Vader is your ... your sire?" Leia demanded incredulously. "Why would you do that?"

"You mean they don't know?" Luke asked, stepping back into the room and bringing over a glass of blue milk and a plate of cookies for his younger alter. A moment later, two more glasses of blue milk floated into the room and deposited themselves tidily on another small table.

"Of course not!" Leia exclaimed. "The last thing we need is the galaxy knowing that Luke and I are the children of a genocidal Sith Lord."

The future twins exchanged thoughtful glances and Luke said, "Well, that's a big change. In our timeline, everyone knew pretty much right away, though I don't quite remember how it got out."

"I remember," his twin returned with a roll of her brown eyes. "I told Han on Endor, the very night Palpatine and Vader died and the Death Star blew up. He got drunk on that weird Ewok liquor and blabbed it to Lando who in turn got drunk two days later in that tiki bar on Home One and told everyone in the place. We had to make an official galactic announcement one week after Endor."

"Oh yes, I do remember that!" Luke exclaimed, and then turned his attention on the younger Leia. "So Han must not have let his loose lips talk after Endor?"

Leia took a bite of Wookiee Cookie, swallowed, and said, "Lando was injured at Endor, and he bunked next to Luke in the med bays of Home One for a full two weeks while both recovered from their various injuries. He wasn't at the Ewok celebration and certainly never gossiped with Han about our crazy paternal parent."

"Injured?" Luke demanded. "How was Lando injured?"

The younger version of his sister sighed and said, "After Lando and his crew succeeded in shooting the main reactor inside the Death Star, the Falcon was hit with some debris and lost the starboard engine. Lando just barely got out of the Death Star before losing partial control. He crashed on Endor and he survived, but he was a mess."

"Oh, no!" Older Leia exclaimed. "How much of a mess?"

"His legs were crushed. They had to be amputated and now he has prosthetics."

The older twins exchanged solemn glances and Luke said, "That is really sad."

Young Leia shrugged and took a sip of blue milk. "Well, you know Lando; under that debonair façade, he is a tough guy. He was pretty upset for all of three weeks, and then he decided the prosthetic legs were cool; he even had a special alternative set of legs made for water skiing."

Luke blinked. "That is actually genius. So…was the Falcon really badly damaged?"

"Yeah, she was, and is, a mess. Actually, Han is coming back from Corellia right now and will land here tomorrow. He has been collecting parts to fix his precious ship, but it is going to take some time. For now, the pieces of the Falcon are in a big warehouse about five minutes from here. He and Chewie keep toiling away, and we hope the Falcon will be spaceworthy by the time the baby is born."

"So, did you tell Han about…?" Older Leia asked.

"Luke and Vader? Yes. He was happy about Luke, kind of freaked about Vader, but much of his attention was on his poor ship, which he loves."

"He does love the Falcon," her older counterpart said fondly.

"So anyway, we were thankful Luke survived, and the Death Star was gone, and Vader and Palpatine were gone, but Han was sad about the Falcon, and I wanted to cheer him up, so we asked the Ewok head chief to marry us that night. This baby was conceived a few hours later."

The twins exchanged shocked glances and Luke demanded, "You did what?!"

Author Note: I haven't seen Rise of Skywalker because I really didn't like TLJ. So I have some vague knowledge that Lando appears and still has normal legs. Creative license. Also, did anyone catch the line from the Matt the Radar Tech video from SNL?