A/N: I kinda want to start this series but I want to see how one this one piece does first. It is my first piece in this fandom so I’m a little nervous. This is a continuation from TROS but Ben lives.
Also this is an OC so I’m not going to write it as a name insert because I've already thought of a name and im super attached to it sorry :( , also let me know what you think pls thnx <3
A groan left my mouth as laid against the cold floor of the somehow survived star destroyer. Shards of transperisteel littered the floor. A sharp pain shooting through my skull. I pulled my hand up to where it hurt to be met with warmth. A red stain now making its presence on my fingers.
He really left me here. To basically go down with the rest of them. He left me here for her. I was only here with these first order idiots because of him. I fell for him when I wasn't supposed to.
“Where are they?” Kylo seethed. Almost too impatient for his own good. Hux rolled his eyes at the supreme leader already throwing tantrums so early in the day. They were waiting on a bounty hunter to whom they would bestow a crucial job upon. “Would you give it a rest for once!”
Kylo whined on for about five more minutes until he was interrupted by the General. “There she is.”
“She?”
I rose while kneeling over trying to cover the other wound on my abdomen. I took in the scene around me with more depth. I knew for a fact Hux was gone. He had been even before the destruction began. Who would have known that me choosing to lose my armor would be the day before the war was to end. How I was surprised that this big hunk of metal was able to survive the detriment of the fleets.
Finally I was able to rise to my feet. “Are there any survivors out there?” I questioned as loud as I could. I heard shuffling coming from various places surrounding me. Heads poked up and out with some gasps of air.
‘Good’ I thought. Ben Solo this war is not over.
Back at Base
Kylo and Rey just landed from Exegol after being cramped in Skywalker’s x-wing. The moment they shared was something they figured would come and there is was connecting them to each other with much more force than before. Rey greeted her friends while Ben followed slowly and cautiously behind her. He wasn't exactly the most loved person in these parts or any really.
Yet he received something close to a smile from Finn and got a hardy handshake from poe. He chose to stay out of their thoughts for his own sake.
“Listen we are going to make it through this,” Rey tugged on Ben’s hands. A grin retuning to his face. “I might need a new teacher,” wrapped his arms around Rey’s waist pulling her into him. She giggles and buries herself into his chest.
‘This is what life should have been plus somethings’ Ben thinks to himself.
Months pass and people gather creating unity. An alliance against anything evil if any sort chooses to arise again some day. That day is sooner than anyone had thought or hoped for.
Ben and Rey are walking through the newest addition to the new order. The reprise of the Jedi temple. Padawan recruited to rebuild and protect the galaxy. Rey stops to talk with two younglings having a friendly go at each other.
Admiral Akbar rushed through groups of Padawan with Poe behind him in search of Rey and Ben. He carried a message that he wasn't sure where it came from. The signals read could be from a dreadnought which meant possible trouble. “There you guys are! Come quickly,” Poe signaled for the pair to follow them. They walked quickly down a hall to meet in a room with Finn and alliance board members.
Poe stood with his hands on his head. “I don’t know how to say this but a destroyer made it out.” He raked his hair back on his head. “No there can’t be another one. I made sure of it,” Ben reassure Poe and everyone in the room. Ben thought back to the day all hell broke loose. He did, didn't he?
“Then what is this?”
Everyone drew closer to the table Poe stuck a chip into. A message began to read in regulator like voice to which everyone was familiar with. Especially Ben.
“Dear ladies and gentlemen of the free galaxy. I have only thing to say to you. kotir.” The message erased from existence. The chip pulled from out of the table by Maz Kanata. “This,” she held it up for all to see,” Is a threat. A death sentenced to us by someone bold and with no fear.”
Rey looked up at Ben, his face full of confusion as everyone else in the room. “They said ‘kotir’ what is that?” Maz shook her head sitting on a chair in the corner of the room.
She removed the glasses from her face placing them on her lap. “It means defeat, overpower...... this is a Mandalorian.” Whispers and conversation ignited across the room. Ben completely checking out as soon as Maz spoke ‘Mandalorian’.
He gently pushed his way through the crowd and out the door. Rey watching him closely getting ready to follow him. Ben finds his way through the doorway walking swiftly down the hall. He come to a halt sliding his back against the wall and down to the floor. He head falls into his hands. How could he forget. How could he forget about her. He actually left her to die with those miserable pieces of shit. But that wasn't her. She was not one of them and he prided himself on keeping her that way.
Cadence was always the bounty hunter not a first order delinquent. She needed the money so she killed for them. Not for her own personal sickly enjoyment. She was the Mandalorian and Ben knows that because she was the only Mandalorian he ever let step foot on his ships. What made everything worse was he knew how she felt about him. He let her dow-
“Ben is everything alright?” Rey was standing before him looking down at his distress. She crouched down taking his face in her hands. She could sense the regret oozing out of him. “The Mandalorian they’re talking about. I know her and I think I’ve made a huge mistake. I left her on the ship instead of getting her somewhere safe. Then the attack happened but I was on Exegol with you.”
Rey sighed and sat besides him. Their thoughts mixing holding silent communication while everyone inside the room were controlling what could turn into panic. “Is she dangerous like the others.” Ben nodded. “She is only one person, but if she lives that means there are other survivors on that destroyer.” They entwined their hands. Ben stroking Rey’s thumb with his own. His thoughts wandered and he's sure Rey’s did as well. Cadence was one bounty hunter, just one. But she was a dangerous one. They are lucky that is all she is.
Ben choked on his breath as an image flashed across his brain. It was her. Cadence and her gorgeous self. He could only see her face. “Ben Solo...this is most certainly not over.
Rey and Kylo walked the quarters as everyone prepared to mark up the plan that was written up. There would be no waiting this time around. Only to attack upon knowledge of a new threat. Rey refused to let this get out of hand once again. She didn't feel as she would have as much energy this time.
“Can’t believe we’re doing this again.” Rey clipped her lightsaber onto her belt. A sigh escaping Ben’s lips. His hand tucking a stray piece of hair behind her ear.
“I know,” Ben pulled her closer and her head tucked in his chest. They stood there for a couple more moments. Not wanting it to end. Clinging to each other like that day it almost ended months and months ago. Finally pulling apart they made their way into their own respected wings.
“Leaders check in.” Ben could hear the voices sounding through his helmet. A smiling Rey across the bay from him. He returned the smile raising his thumbs up. She giggled and started the check.
“Gold Squadron.” Rey lifted her machine into he air leading her team into the stars.
“Red Squadron.” Ben following right after them with his. He felt this sense of pride and excitement. The more he experienced the different ways of the light, the more he felt for his mother. The only thing that grows are his regrets on resisting the pull back to her. He would have had more time.
Ben’s mind continued to wander but quickly he returned to his senses with Rey’s voice coming through the speaker. “The landing is open. We are going in.”
“Wait Rey,” The star destroyer wasn’t hard to find. He knew they were waiting for them. Something about it all felt like on giant trap. Trying to talk Rey out of the confrontation was obviously unsuccessful. She was so stubborn and there was nothing Ben could say to change her mind.
He instructed his pilots towards the platform. Rey already in the midst of leaving her X-Wing. Ben was quick to land and jump out with his blue saber ready in his hand. He stalked up next to Rey both of them watching a figure emerge from the sliding black door.
A feminine figure stepped out with a mask over her face. That in which resembles a Mandalorian. It is lined in black in purple pigments. It is her Ben thinks to himself. When he last saw her she wore silver and purple. Her change of color prominently showing her change in attitude.
“Kylo Ren.” She speaks from across the platform. Storm troopers backing her all the way down. Ben shakes his head.
“Kylo Ren is gone,” Ben confidently states looking to Rey. Cadence the bounty sniffles a laugh. Her voice sounded mechanical and rigid like a certain Sith way before their time.
“Clearly.” She signals the troopers to back down. “Caden-,” She holds her hand up at Ben's voice. Rey hasn't said a word during the exchange. “Cadence is gone,” She interrupts him. A smirk playing on her face.
She walks slowly towards the opposing group.
“Its Cade.” One of the rebels makes a hasty movement in her directions and the troopers immediately ready themselves to fire. Her smirk falls and her eyebrow raises. “I’m bored with this. Kill them,” Cadence orders.
She walks towards the storm troopers as they run in the other direction towards the known to be rebels. At this point they did not know who they were. They didn’t have anyone to rebel against until this present situation.
Ben and Rey run head on into the troopers. The other combatants following in pursuit. Sabers are swinging and beams of light being shot at one another. Each side trying to gain high ground.
Cadence disappears into he background before getting one last glance of the man who changed his mind. He could feel her eyes but as he hastily searched she was nowhere to be seen.
“Ben! Behind you,” Rey shouts over the noise. He dodges the blasters sending them back where they came from.
Cadence picks up her walk heading toward the throne room. When she arrives the sound of battle is faint in the background. Every step into the room is loud because of the silence. Her eyes fall shut waiting for a voice.
‘You have the power
Kylo Ren was not ready
But you are’
Her eyes opened and she let out a heavy breath. Her chest pounding as she falls to her knees. Slipping her helmet off she feels a sweat encase her. Pulling herself to her feet she finds herself moving towards the empty throne. A pull is bringing her closer. Her right hand reaches out to the throne.
“Stop.”
Cade looks over her shoulder to see Ben. She turns back getting closer to the representation of power.
“I mean it Cadence.”
She spins around a scowl on her face. Ben walks to her with his hands reaching out. Cade screams in anger and pushes her hand out to Ben and he flies backwards. “I-,” Cade looks down to her hand. Running past Ben out the door.
Ben stays sat on the floor catching his breathe and clutching his lower back from the landing. Rey soon comes running in getting chills from her unwelcome time on starkiller. She runs straight to ben holding him to sit up.
“Are you alright?” She takes his face in her hand.
He doesn't answer her but stays panicking for he did not think the trouble could heighten. He shakes his head pulling himself up with Rey.
“She’s force sensitive,” Ben paces. “Wait I thought she was just a bounty.” Rey questions what Ben knows.
“That is what Hux told me and that is all she has made known. What if she didn't know?” Rey shrugs her shoulders and shakes her head. Her hands sit at her hips.
“Well from my experience that could defiantly be the case.” Ben ponders the idea more and eventually they make way to platform. An order by Poe is shouted to get all the teams on the ships and out back to base. Rey taking off with team and Ben as well.
Ben had one thought on his mind. What was he to do now?
