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28 A.B.Y

Luke's Jedi Temple

There Luke stood, towering over his nephews sleeping form. His green lightsaber blazing with power as he held it over his shoulder.

He gritted his teeth as he tried to figure out what he should do. The visions of what his nephew would become, the force whispering to him to strike him down to keep the balance, and his own senses telling him that the darkness was growing in the boy.

Leia had sensed it as well, even when the boy was just a child. She had entrusted her son to Luke to try to help him, to try to stop the darkness.

Luke could stop it. Right here, right now. He could protect the Republic and his loved ones. He could prevent another Vader.

But unfortunately, he had waited too long.

"Uncle Luke what are yo-"

Luke came out of his thoughts at the sound of his nephew's voice. Looking down at him he saw the young man's look of horror and betrayal, as well as the glow of his green saber reflecting off the young man's eyes.

He had made a terrible mistake.

"Ben it's not what it-" He tried to defend himself, but the damage had been done.

Luke couldn't finish his sentence as Ben had already drawn his own saber and slashed at his uncle.

Luke angled his own saber to block the oncoming attack. Blue and green clashed as the dark side swelled around Ben, and with a roar, the young man unleashed it.

"Ben no!" Luke cried out as he tried to stop him. But a massive telekinetic blast rushed out of Ben and hit Luke.

"Arrhhg," Luke grunted as was flung back. The last things he saw was the building collapsing on him, and the betrayed look on his nephew's face.

Hours Later

'Damn, anyone have the number on the Rancor that hit me? The hell happened?' Luke thought groggily as he woke up and began to push ruble off him. Luke's robotic hand breached the surface of the rubble as he pulled himself out, the scene which he found was his worst nightmares.

The entity of the new Jedi temple was on fire, columns of black smoke rose into the sky as the pillars of the front entrance started to collapse. The scene contrasting eerily to the almost silent and beautiful night sky.

"No." He gasped, "What could've… Ben."

With a grunt, he pulled himself fully out of the rubble and stumbled down from the pile and made his way into the courtyard. But the scene was only worse up close, as not only could he see the temple burning up close, but also the bodies of several of his students who must've tried to fight Ben.

Luke fell to his knees, tears stinging the corner of his eyes. Everything that he had been trying to prevent, everything he had been trying to save… he had failed. He had failed his students, the Jedi's legacy, Leia's trust, and Ben. All because of one moment of weakness.

"Beep Beep Beep!" A familiar sounding set of codes sounded off to his left-hand side.

Luke flinched at the sound until he realized what it was. "R2." He said with a smile as he patted the Astromech, "At least you're alright. I'm surprised Ben didn't destroy you too."

"Beep Beep, Beep." The Astromech chirped.

"You hid in the hanger?" Luke looked around slightly puzzled, "But then where is Ben?"

*VOOM*

Luke and R2 were almost knocked over as a massive blast from above them the shattered night. A massive ship came out of hyperspace right in the atmosphere about a mile out, creating shock waves as it disrupted the atmosphere of the planet.

Luke looked up at the ship in horror. Despite emulating the design of an Imperial-class star destroyer, the ship was easily double the size of an Imperial and looked a lot sleeker.

'But that doesn't make any sense! The empire is gone and that ship is obviously relatively new. The hell has happened in the galaxy since I've been gone?' Luke thought as he stared up at the ship.

R2 frantically chirped in binary at Luke to get his attention, to which Luke just ignored. After repeated attempts, R2 gave up and resorted to his shock prong.

"Ow!" Luke snapped as he grabbed his arm before giving the Astromech a dirty look, "Little Bastard."

"Beep Beep Beep!" The droid chirped at him angrily.

"Right, we need to get out of here. My X-Wing fueled up?" He asked.

R2 gave him an affirmative chirp.

"Good then let's get-" Luke stopped as he felt at his waist and found nothing. His lightsaber was gone. "Go hook up and prep it for launch. I have to go grab something."

Luke took off into a sprint back across the courtyard as he went back to his nephews collapsed quarters. Afterall, he couldn't just leave his lightsaber.

Making it back to the pile of rubble he came to a stop and with a practiced flick of his wrist sent out a force blast that blew most of the debris away. The clear area revealed both his and Ben's lightsaber.

Calling them to him with force he caught them in his hands and stared at Ben's in curiosity. Why did Ben leave his saber? More importantly, how did he take on the temple without it?

'I can ponder this later.' He thought as he caught a glimpse of the Star Destroyers hangers opening, 'Time to leave.'

Luke broke into a sprint towards the temples hanger which was built into the side of the mountain near the temple.

Making it to the hanger in record time Luke spotted his X-Wing fully prepped for launch, with R2 already hooked up.

Hopping into the pilot seat Luke could only put the flight helmet on as he powered up the craft. No time to put on the entire flight suit.

"Hang on to your circuits R2, we're getting the kriff out of here," Luke said as he gunned the engines and blasted out of the hanger.

"R2 start setting coordinates for Coruscant. We have to warn the New Republic that the Empire is still around." Luke said.

He would mourn the loss of his students later at a more appropriate time. But right now Luke Skywalker, Jedi Knight of the New Republic, had a job to do.

*Voom*

Three more ship's jumped out hyperspace right in formation with the oversized Imperial.

"Sithspit." Luke cursed, "Seems my nephew has been making some calls. R2 try and hurry up."

R2 chirped at him in binary in a worried tone.

"Incoming fighters?" Luke said as he shook his head, "Don't bother powering up the weapons system R2, by the time we finish them those star destroyers will be on top of us. Put all power into charging the hyperdrive."

As the X-Wing soared out of the planet's exosphere the Star Destroyers primed their weapons and bombarded the burning temple. The area turning into molten slag almost instantly from the rain of lasers.

"90% and charging." The hyperdrive indicator read as Luke glanced down at it.

Unfortunately, it wasn't charging fast enough. The Empire esque fighters were closing fast on the X-Wing, the lead ship already charging its weapons and gaining a target lock on Luke and unfortunately for the old Skywalker, no amount of fancy flying was going to get him out of this one. The only thing between the fighters and his ship was empty space.

"96% and charging." The indicator flashed as a target lock warning started blaring.

"R2 you better have those coordinates ready. They have a target lock on us." Luke said.

"Beep!" R2 replied.

Luke took a deep breath and closed his eyes. Clearing his mind he reached out to the force. Asking it for guidance on what to do. His temple was gone, his padawans were gone, his nephew who had a power that even he feared had turned, and the darkness was rising once again. How was he to restore balance?

And for the first in the history of the galaxy, after millennia of giving cryptic visions and whispers to its disciples, the force gave a slightly straight answer.

In a thousand voices, it whispered, "You won't, but he will. For as the Dark champion rises, so will his equal in the light."

"Hyperdrive charged." Flashed on the console as the lead Tie Interceptor opened up with a volley of lasers, skimming the X-Wings engines. It was at that same moment that R2 kicked the starfighter into light speed.

Both Luke and R2 were shaken about as they slipped into an uncontrolled hyperspace jump.

Absolute's Bridge

"Sir! Our sensors have lost Skywalker. It seems that he was able to jump away before our interceptors could catch him." An officer reported.

"Tchh." Captain Canady snarled, "Of course he did. Skywalker has always been a slippery worm, even during the Galactic Civil War. But no matter, we've have completed our main objectives. Skywalkers little cult is dead and his nephew is on our side now."

"The Supreme Leader will be displeased, sir." The officer warned.

"He'll get over it." Canady said with a roll of his eyes, "Now alert the battle group that we are about to jump back to Starkiller base."

Unknown System

As the First Order jumped back to Starkiller base in a smooth hyperspace jump, Luke's X-Wing was having quite the opposite journey.

The damaged X-Wing was shaking violently as the hyperdrive started to give. The engines that had taken laser damage were starting to spark the stress of hyperspace continued to push on them.

"R2 cut power to the hyperdrive." Luke said as he held the controls tight.

"Veep?" R2 questioned.

"Yes I know we could stop in the middle of a star, but at least it would be better than breaking apart in hyperspace!"

With an indignant beep, R2 cut the power and the ship began to drop into normal space. The black and blue tunnel of hyperspace faded out as the glimmering of the stars replaced it, as well as the up-close view of a habitable world of a planet.

Luke gave a mental sigh as he leaned back in relief. At least they hadn't dropped into a star or a black hole. Though jumping straight into a planet's atmosphere in an uncontrolled hyperspace jump was little to close to comfort for Luke. If they had dropped a second later he would've slammed into the planet and caused a cataclysm.

Even a lump of metal the size of a speeder going at 99% the speed of light could kill billions on a populated world if it hit. It was one of the reasons planetary shields had become standard on worlds rich enough to afford them. Thank the Force the X-Wing had stopped in time, as Luke shuddered to think what something the size of his ship would do to the planet when going faster than light.

"R2, where are we? This isn't Coruscant and it doesn't look populated enough to be a core or mid-rim worlds. Where the hell are we?" Luke asked.

R2 made a whirring sound as it consulted it's internal star map and used the ship's intact sensors, "Beep."

"What do you mean you don't know!? We couldn't have veered off that much!."

"Beep Beep Beep."

"Well excuse me for not being a droid that was made to do these type of things. Huh, knew I should've upgraded to the Z series Astromechs. Seems your getting old you oversized trashbin."

"Beep!"

"47 is not old! I'm barely in middle age. My hair is even still blonde." Luke said.

R2 gave Luke a deadpan stare. Which was impressive seeing as the Astromech didn't even have a face.

"Alright, maybe there's a little gray mixed in. But my point still st-." Luke stopped talking as he noticed something about their position in orbit, it was decaying.

"R2… why aren't we keeping a stable orbit?" Luke asked.

"Beep Beep."

"The engines are dead!? Why didn't you say something earlier?"

"Beep Veep Beep." R2 chirped but then paused as it considered something, "Beep."

"You little smartass." Luke said before he jerked back in his seat as the ship started to dip faster toward the planet, "Better strap in R2! We're going to have a rough landing."

"Veep?"

"Well, then it's a crash landing."

"Beep Beep."

"What do you mean I sound just like my father?"

Arc Estate

Jaune Arc sighed as he looked up at Remnants night sky, which was lit up by millions of glowing stars. The site of the galaxy had always been calming to him. He was sitting on one of the outer walls of his family's estate like he always did when he wanted to be as far away from his family as possible at night.

When most eleven-year-olds get mad at their families it's for trivial reasons. Such as not being allowed to go play with friends or no dessert after dinner. But Jaune was mad at his family for more, mature reasons than the average eleven-year-old.

The young blondes family had once again denied his request to have his aura unlocked and to be trained as a Hunter. This wasn't the first time he had been told no either. Jaune had first asked three years ago when he was eight.

His father hadn't even considered it for a second before saying no, and it had gone the same with his mother and step-mothers. All four of parents saying that he was too young to start learning how to be a Hunter. Despite his sisters being allowed to when they were that age.

This time when he had asked earlier in the day the excuse was that he was too old to start training. That he wouldn't be able to catch up to his peers that had already started.

"What a load of crap. They just think I'm an idiot and will get myself killed. Probably just want me to be alive to carry on the stupid family name." The young Arc grumbled as he clenched his fist.

"My sister's get to do everything. They get to be Huntresses, skip chores because of training, get to travel while at the prep academies, build their own weapons, and even fight Grimm. Rogue's only two years older than me but she got to kill her first Grimm on her 13th birthday!" Jaune continued on his self-rant as he began to feel slightly more energized for some reason and clenched his fist a little tighter.

*Crack*

Jaune snapped out of his little tantrum at the loud noise. Looking around he didn't see anything that could have made the noise and shrugged, "Must've just been an animal or something." He said.

He returned his gaze to the stars, deciding to keep looking at them for a little longer before going back. But this time he noticed something strange. Something was shooting across the sky, a glowing trail of light behind it.

Jaune eyes widened, "A shooting star! I've always wanted to see one." Jaune said in awe at the site.

Indeed the objective looked like a shooting star as it burned across the night sky. But there was something very strange about this shooting the star. It actually seemed to be getting closer. It was also… wobbling?

"Uh oh." Jaune gulped as the objective seemed to be heading right toward him. It continued on its path getting closer and closer to the ground, still heading towards Jaune before it veered off to the west.

With a great boom, it smashed into a forest at least a couple miles away.

Jaune blinked as he saw the direction the object crashed at before looking over his shoulder at his house or mansion as he called it (seeing as it was far too big to be a normal house). Expecting to see his parents and older sister running out to see what the noise was.

'Really? No one heard that.' Jaune thought in bewilderment. It was then he felt a nudge, like something was gently whispering to him to go see what the object was, 'Well if no one else is going to check it… I might as well.'

With a mischievous smile, Jaune leaped off the brick wall and took off to where the object had fallen.

As the young boy took off toward the crash site, he had failed to notice something about the wall he had been

The ten-foot-high wall was cracked from the top to bottom. It was as if some force had damaged it.

Two Hours Later

"It should be just over this h-hill." Jaune huffed.

He had been hiking for what must've been hours to find the object. If he remembered right from where he saw it go down then he should be close. His suspicions were confirmed as he could see some sort of light glowing from over the hill.

Cresting over the hill Jaunes eyes went wide from the scene in front of him. A quarter mile of the forest had been completely destroyed. Where dozens of trees had once stood was no a charred clearing, the remnants of the trees were either burning or scattered in dozens of pieces At the end of a clearing though, was what really caught his attention. Some type of ship lay on the ground, it's right wings snapped off or bent.

Jaune approached the ship carefully as he came around its side. The front of the ship was slightly compacted from the impact. The area that Jaune assumed was the cockpit was wide open.

'Never seen a bullhead like this before.' He thought as he scrutinized it with all the deduction an eleven-year-old could have, 'Hopefully the cockpit being open means that the pilot got out safely.'

"Veep?" An electronic sound came from behind him.

"Ahhhhhh." Jaune jumped in surprise as he turned around to see what had made the noise.

"Veep?" R2 once again asked.

Jaune just stared at the Astromech, his fear having disappeared almost instantly upon seeing the little blue and white droid.

"Who leaves a trash bin in the middle of the woods?" Jaune asked.

R2's optical sensor gained a bit of a crimson hue at the comment, "BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP!"

Jaune gulped and raised his hands as a sign of apology. He had apparently ticked off the sentient trash can.

"Despite the uncanny trashcan like appearance, he's actually an R Series Astromech."

Jaune once again spun around, this time finding a man standing right behind him.

'Where'd he even come from! How did he get so close without me hearing him?' Jaune thought.

"Hey, there little guy. This might be a little sudden, but do you know what star system we're currently in?" Luke asked.

Jaune gave the man a blank stare, "What's a star system?"

Luke sighed, "Have you ever heard of a hyperdrive, the New Republic, or the Force?"

Jaune shook his head.

"Well ain't that just wonderful. Seems I'm stuck in the boonies." Luke said sarcastically before looking back at Jaune and than their surroundings, "Speaking of the middle of nowhere, why the kriff are you out here kid."

Despite not knowing what this guy was going on about Jaune answered, "Well I saw something crash and well… I wanted to see what it was."

Luke raised an eyebrow, "So you run into the forest in the middle of the night?"

"U-uhh well I couldn't really help it. As soon as I saw you crash it was like something was...was telling me to go look." Jaune said nervously, "Like a gentle push in that direction."

"A gentle push?" Luke muttered with furrowed eyebrows. That sounded suspiciously like the Force, 'Maybe the kid is a bit Force-sensitive.' He thought, 'Couldn't hurt to take a peek I guess.'

Opening his mind to the Force he began to probe Jaune. He felt the boy's presence in the Force. It was warm, like a roaring fire and it seemed to be almost completely attuned to the light.

Luke's eyes snapped open and he stared at the boy.

"Uh Mister, are you alright?" Jaune asked.

Luke couldn't have been more wrong. This boy wasn't just a bit Force-sensitive. He was almost a kriffing nexus for the light. How could he have not noticed it before? The boy was dripping so much unrefined Force energy into the surroundings that it wasn't even funny.

"For as the dark champion rises, so will his equal in the light." The words of the Force repeated in his head.

Luke already had a suspicion that his nephew was going to be the dark champion. It seems that he had just possibly found Ben's equal in the light.

'Can't be a coincidence.' Luke thought, 'Ben turns to the dark, the Force gives me a prophecy, my hyperdrive shorts out and sends to some random planet, and on that random planet the first person I meet is some kid who is like a beacon for the light? Force, I hate prophecies.'

He gave the young blonde boy a tired glance, 'Bet the Force also wants me to train him to."
A barely audible"Yes." in the back of Luke's head was all the confirmation he needed.

"Tell me, kid, what's your name?" Luke asked.

"It's Jaune, Jaune Arc." Jaune answered.

"Well then, tell me Jaune, how would you like to become a Jedi?"