Author's Notes:

This is my first time writing a fanfic. I decided after reading so many fanfics of so many different genres, I'd give my own shot at making a story. Anyway, give as much criticism as you want cause it'll only help improve my work in my new hobby.

“AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH! Help me! For the love of god, someone help me!”

All I could see in front of me was a void of absolutely nothing. Darkness, blackness, just nothing could be seen! Not even the hands that I knew were waving in front of my face were visible.

‘Why is this happening? When did this happen? I can feel my eyelids blinking but I still can’t see my hands in front of me? Am I blind? Am I dead?’ My thoughts were filled with questions with no answers being given, and my panic seemed to grow ever stronger the longer I fell into this void. The sensation of falling was all I could feel and it seemed as if it would never end. I never kept track of time but no fall should be taking this long, and I have most certainly hit terminal velocity by this point.

‘So even if this falling ever ends I’ll still be dead. Damn it no, please no.’

As I kept falling, I started to feel something new. A feint burning pain stretched across my body and I had no idea where it originated. This pain grew greater until I felt an intense heat cover every part of my body. I screamed, and new sensations that I knew shouldn’t be possible began to wrack my body. My muscles burned the most as they grew and spasmed. I somehow felt my own bones itch as they grew as well.

When the pain seemed as if it would cause me to fall unconscious, it ended suddenly. I breathed heavily for a few minutes, and my costume strained even further from all of the stress forced upon it by my sudden growth.

“What’s going aaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAHHHH?” Suddenly I could finally see something. A golden light filled my peripherals, and I craned my neck to see the source. I looked thru the lens in my helmet to see the light engulf my costume and watched it start from the end of my toes and move up to my torso. When the light filled my vision, I knew I my helmet was engulfed now as well. Just as suddenly as it began, it vanished and was replaced by a now feint red tint. The tight straining I felt from my costume was gone now and my sight was filled with something new. The glass lens looked more like a computer screen and from the top left corner of my sight I could see a bit of text scroll across the screen.

SYSTEM REBOOT. BEGINNING DIAGNOSTIC.

Text scrolled all across my vision in a blinding speed and ended with more text spreading across the top let again.

DIAGNOSTIC COMPLETE. SHIELDS OPERATING AT MAXIMUM OUTPUT. GENERATING HUD.

Familiar blue icons appeared at the very top of my sight, and a circular object with its own icons underneath it now appeared at my bottom right. I didn’t have time to comprehend what these icons were as a very new sensation filled my mind. In this case literally.

I closed my eyes as a raging headache threatened to split my head open. My hands flew to my head in a vain attempt to appease the pain, but of course, it didn’t help. Thankfully, like all the other strange occurrences, it ended abruptly with no explanation as to why and how it happened. Despite all of these strange phenomena, the only thing that remained ever present was the feeling of falling. I opened my eyes to still see the light red tint along with the icons and the circular object remaining just as they were. However, a new line of text scrolled across the top left again.

NEURAL LINK DETECTED. CONNECTING…..
LINK ESTABLISHED. AWAITING INPUT

‘What the hell, none of this still answers my questions about what’s happening,’ I thought angrily.

After what seemed like a minute passed by, another golden light caught my attention, this time it came from a distance in front of me and I was quickly closing in on it. I closed my eyes from the sudden intensity of the light and when I opened them again I was quickly assaulted with all kinds of stimuli. I could feel air rushing beneath me with the robe portion of my costume violently fluctuating underneath my waist. My nose and mouth felt the cold air thru the filters in my helmet. But, the processing of all these stimuli was put on hold when my eyes fully adjusted.

“AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!” I screamed yet again as my eyes showed me the land masses and wide ocean spread out before me.

‘I knew it! Even after all that hell I’m still just going to die when I end up a red paste splattered all over the ground,’ I dreaded as my thoughts continued to spiral into panic and despair.

Suddenly, air stopped passing by me and I began to take notice of a transparent purple veil surrounding me. When this strange veil finally enveloped me, I finally noticed where I was falling towards. A large island some distance away from the main continent seemed to be my destination, this island also seemed to be surrounded by four other smaller isles.

I was quickly closing distance with the larger island and I was beginning to accept my fate when the veil started to get harder to see thru. Eventually, all I could see was the color purple, and then...

I groaned in pain as I slowly got to my feet and tried to get to my senses. ‘Nothing feels broken, hell this feels just like trying to get up in the morning, how in the world did I just survive that….’ My train of thought halted for a sec.

“I’m alive?"

“He he he he he HAHAHAHAH! I’M ALIVE! HOLY FUCK I’M ALIVE! FUCK YOU GRAVITY! HAHAHAHHAHAH! NEWTON CAN SUCK MY BALLS!”

I continued to laugh with glee until I began to settle down and actually notice that my voice had changed. It sounded heavily synthesized and dark like my character from the game. ‘I didn’t put a voice changer in my helmet when I went to the Con, so what the hell, did that light add new additions to my costume as well?’

I began to examine my surroundings and noticed that I was definitely in a crater if the burning raised rock wall and fallen trees surrounding me was any indication. So I definitely should have ended up as paste if the impact left a crater this big. ‘Did that purple veil save me somehow? Just more and more questions, fantastic!’ I thought sarcastically.

I continued to examine my surroundings and the foliage nearby confirmed that I did indeed fall onto that large island I saw from the sky. I was no botanist, but this foliage reminds me of the types of plants and trees I saw when I was vacationing with my family at Hawaii. When I was finished plant watching, my curiosity over what that light did to me and my costume took precedence and I quickly took notice that I seemed to be bulkier than usual. The gauntlets that originally were made out of plastic felt like a dense metal when my hands passed over them. Even the claws that extended from the ends of my fingers were metallic, and from the look of it, they were extremely razor sharp. The red buttons on my wrist, that were supposed to be for show, actually did something when I pressed them. I heard a soft click in my ears and then a constant near silent humming, like the static I would hear from a radio. I clicked off the button on my wrist that started the static and decided to leave the other buttons alone for now.

My eyes roamed now to my chest and legs and my costume seemed to have made significant changes there as well. The black and white painted Styrofoam that made up most of my torso armor seemed to have been replaced by the dense metal as well. My legs were covered by my robe and it seems that even the cloth was changed. What was once a constricting non-stretching polyester was replaced by what seemed to be flowing silk. I took a few experimental overextended steps and the robe stretched and parted with virtually no resistance to my short walk. My hands groped around my legs and I found that my pants and boots underneath my robe were replaced by some sort of armor as well. I, of course, couldn’t get a good look at my helmet but I knew that it had obviously been given an upgrade as well if the HUD was any indication. Overall, I looked just like my character from swtor.

‘Wait a minute, if my costume was this dramatically changed, then that means that my… Oh god please let it be so.’ I thought excitedly, as I felt around my waist and felt what most certainly was a hilt. I brought the hilt into my sight and let out a gasp at first and then a childlike squeal of excitement. The lightsaber hilt had undergone major changes as well but instead of the generic looking plastic toy it once was, it looked just like the Descendant’s Heirloom Saber from the game.

My squeals got even higher pitched until I stopped abruptly and looked around in embarrassment. I then realize that there is still nothing around me but plant life.

‘Oh who the hell is going to judge me for fanboying? The trees?’ I shrugged and began to descend into a fit of happy giggles for my new possession.

As I got a hold of myself, I decided it was time to see if this glorious piece of technology in front of me was the real deal. I moved the hilt out in front of me and slowly passed my clawed thumb over the activation button and moment of truth was soon upon me.

A familiar hiss signified the blade’s awakening, and before me came to life a blade people have only dreamed of seeing in real life. The blade was a menacing pitch black color with a blood red shade surrounding it. The pure malevolence that radiated off the blade displayed to the world around it that only a Lord of the Sith may wield its power.

‘And it’s all mine,’ I thought with delight.

Suddenly, something almost instinctual took place. My feet parted and took a stance with my right foot in front of my left and both my hands grasped the hilt and held the saber in front of me. Images passed thru my mind of people wielding lightsabers in defensive movements that showed tight blade work and subtle dodges. I began to imitate the image’s movements with little effort and I couldn’t believe how easy it came to me.

“Form 3, Soresu,” I whispered.

More images passed through my mind again and my stance shifted into a new stance with my feet kept evenly apart and my arms raised the blade up a little. The images shown to me were of people using the lightsaber with fluid but highly randomized and unpredictable movements. I again imitated these movements and the lightsaber hummed through the air with no resistance.

“Form 1, Shii-Cho,” I said with an excited tremor in my voice.

Images passed through my mind once again and I hardly needed to focus on the images as the movements began to come naturally to me. My movements became highly aggressive and fast-paced. I felt a deep sense of energy that gave me strength and I leaped into the air and began to perform acrobatics such as somersaults and leaping strikes that in no way should have been possible for a human being.

“Form 4, Ataru,” I said in hesitation.

‘How did I do that? Wait, what was that energy that I felt? It couldn’t be…’

I didn’t have time to think as more images passed through my mind and my body gave voice to them as it imitated a variation of defensive and aggressive movements. These movements seemed designed to use an opponent’s attack against them but they seemed to split off in focus to different opponents. The first focus seemed concentrated on deflecting and returning projectiles while the second focus seemed to have an emphasis on blade-to-blade combat.

“Form 5, Shien and Djem So,” I said with glee starting to return to my voice.

Finally, the last images appeared in my mind and they represented complete aggression. The movements I used were utterly chaotic and erratic, with a heavy focus on offense. My movements were definitely more open and kinetic than Form 5 and appeared less elegant and elaborate than Form 4. I even let angry growls reach pass my lips as I imagined enemies daring to oppose me. This was by far the most vicious form of lightsaber combat.

“Form 7, Juyo,” I growled and the dark synthesized voice sent a wave of goosebumps across my body.

I stood still with my lightsaber raised above me and the only sounds I heard were my own breathing and the hum of the blade. I pushed the button on the hilt and the energy within the blade retracted back into its housing. My breathing quickly turned into hyperventilating as the rational part of my mind told me that this shouldn’t be happening.

‘How did this happen? How did I just do all of that? I didn’t learn nearly enough of what I just did from fencing class. Ok, think, what happened before all of this madness? I was at the Con with my sister, and then that vendor…

“Hey, Jack check this out,” my sister called me from a stand a few feet away.

I was brought out of my admiration for a cool piece of fan art some lady did of the Power Rangers in another booth and walked over to my sister. My sister was standing at a vendor stand that seemed stock full of all sorts of miscellaneous props form different TV shows and games. The vendor himself was short in height and was in what seemed to be an alien volus suit from the Mass Effect franchise and I had to admit it was one of the coolest cosplays I’d seen yet. My sister was dressed up as Undyne from Undertale and she was looking at what looked to be a spear. The spear was just about as tall as my sister but the unique feature about it was that it was entirely covered in a bright blue paint.

“Isn’t this cool, this is just what I need to complete the look. What do you think Jack?” she asked me curiously.

“Yeah, it does Katy,” I paused for a moment and looked at the vendor inquiringly, “What made you get a prop like that? Seems a bit more random than all your other stock?”

“(hiss) You see, I make some of my own props and that little spear ended up getting splattered with a lot of paint from an accident. (hiss) So I decided to just go all the way and paint the entire thing. (hiss) I can’t say that I was expecting to actually sell it, but it seems like it’s my lucky day (hiss).”

‘Dang, the hissing feature really sells the outfit. With how small he is, I’d actually think this guy is an alien,’ I thought to myself.

“How much for the spear?” my sister asked the vendor.

“(hiss) Considering how perfect it is for you and how I never really expected to sell the thing. (hiss) I’m feeling generous and will sell it for…(hiss). Five bucks and I’m already losing money off that so that’s my final offer. (hiss)”

“Deal,” my sister handed him a five dollar bill from her wallet and grinned from ear to ear at her new possession.

The vendor turned to me, “(hiss) So what are you supposed to be?”

I laughed as this was so far the seventh time someone has asked me what my costume is supposed to be. “It’s my own original costume from my character in the MMO Star Wars The Old Republic. My character was The Empire’s Wrath and I outfitted him with a random assortment of gear to make him look cooler and it was the inspiration for the costume you see before you.”

“(hiss) Ahh, I’ve played that game before too. (hiss) If you’re interested, I do have some Star Wars props for you. (hiss) Actually, hold on, I have something just perfect for you (hiss).” He turned around and dug into a neatly stacked pile of Star Wars memorabilia and pulled out a starship model box. Except, this wasn’t some TIE fighter, no this was the Fury. The very ship used by Sith characters in the game.

“(hiss) Now some assembly is required, but it is just like the Fury from the game. (hiss) I’ll say this is worth about 25 bucks, what do you say (hiss)?” He asked me stretching his little arms to show me the box.

“Sold,” I immediately reached into my robe and pulled out enough cash to buy it from my wallet. What can I say, I’m a sucker for models and statues.

“Enjoy your purchases you two (hiss)” He said as we walked away, and then everything went dark after that.

‘Did that vendor have something to do with this? Wait where is my model?’ I quickly panicked and looked around only to not find it around me or on my person.

“Damn it,” I cursed as I figured it may have been lost when I was in that void, or it got lost when I was skydiving.

I didn’t have long to mourn the loss as I looked up into the sky and realized it was sunset and I realized that I needed to find shelter soon. I looked around and I knew I did not have enough time to scavenge enough wood and vines to make my own shelter. I didn’t take the time to look for signs of civilization when I was falling so that was a bust too. I looked at the mountain that seemed to dominate the landscape and quickly realized that it was instead a volcano when I took notice of its flattened top.

‘Maybe there are natural caverns to take shelter in. Well, it’s all I got, better start walking,’ I thought as I began my hike. I also realized that I should keep an eye out for any sources of water while I’m on my way. Water sources such as rivers are great ways to find civilization as most towns or cities are made right next to them. As I was walking I made another realization that my skill at measuring distances from sight was shit and it may take until the middle of the night till I make it to the base of the volcano.

I decided I’ll take the risk and waste some energy jogging to the volcano to at least make up some time. As I was jogging thru the lightly thick foliage I took care not to trip and fall and get dirt all over my new and improved armor set. The forest surrounding me held trees that nearly blocked sight of my goal.

‘Whatever happens, I must keep going in this direction. With the sun going down I’ll have to rely on the stars for directions if I get lost. However, I may not even know any of these stars if I’m not even in the same hemisphere anymore,’ I thought worriedly.

I didn’t recognize any of the isles from my memory when I consulted the world map in my mind. Then again, it’s been about 5 years since my last class on geography, so I’m not exactly an expert. But I know for certain that none of these isles are in the western hemisphere, so I might be in the east. Yet another question to add the list.

After jogging for what seemed to be a few hours, I began to wonder just how much of a change did my body undergo. I definitely felt taller and way more muscled than before all this madness. I won’t know how drastically my body changed from the transformation until after I find the time to take all this armor off and place myself in front of a mirror. My body before was kept in shape but it certainly was no marathoner body. I had been jogging for hours and I haven’t felt any increase in air intake since I started. I started to wonder if I should increase my speed and test my stamina.

However, when the sun did a complete duck and cover beyond the horizon I stopped dead in my tracks to stare in bafflement at what just happened. I noticed a silvery glow beginning to rise behind me and I turned around to see the moon rise at impossible speeds across the horizon.

‘Can we get this question counter up to 100 before I fall asleep tonight?’ I thought bitterly.

I decided that it was time to pick up the pace and sprint to the volcano. When the sun goes down, more predators are likely to follow. After sprinting for a couple minutes I stopped yet again as a new feeling pinged in my mind. This feeling felt dark and dreadful and it told me that if I kept going in the same direction I would meet danger. This sense of danger told me to veer off and find an alternative route to the volcano.

I decided to trust this sense and sprinted off to the right a bit into a more densely forested section of the forest. I doge and weaved past the trees and came across a fallen tree trunk that looked small enough to jump over. As I got ready to jump, I felt energy fill up in my legs and my head quickly broke past leaves and small tree branches when I jumped. I saw that I had jumped way past the tree line and I was free falling as I reached the pinnacle of my jump. I yelped briefly in my descent, and when I landed back on the ground my mind quickly tried to analyze what just happened. These trees looked nearly 3 stories high if I’m comparing them to a building, shouldn't my bones be in pieces right now? Also, when I jumped I felt that same energy again when I was using those lightsaber forms back at the crater. I decided that I would analyze this further when I completed my first priority in finding shelter.

I continued to sprint deeper into the forest and when I decided that the sense of danger was far enough away I continued on my path directly towards the volcano. The denser trees covered the volcano completely from view, yet despite this, my senses told me that my destination was currently where I was headed. This was a different sense than that sense of danger I felt. No, this sense told me that a mountainous structure was ahead of me and that led me to believe that it was the volcano. As I fell deeper into this new ‘sixth sense’ I started to feel everything that I was passing. I could feel the trees as I passed them, I could feel the insects burrowing underneath my feet, and I could even feel what seemed to be the moon above my head.

All of this nearly caused me to lose my footing as I lost focus on running, but I quickly regained my original speed and soon I began to see what looked like a clearing ahead of me. I slowed to a stop at the edge of the tree line and I gasped in surprise as to what was in front of me. Directly ahead of me was the volcano, but it was the treasure that stretched beneath it the caused my surprise.

A river stretching as far as I could see to my right, and to my left the river stretched long before it began to bank left behind the tree line and hid from view. I quickly ran to the edge of the river and cupped my hands together to gather the water. I realized however that the helmet will be in the way and I quickly reached around my neck to where the release was originally before my transformation. Thankfully, the release was still there and when I clipped it with my claws I felt air pressure release down my neck and the HUD disappeared when I began to pull off the helmet. When the helmet came off I could feel my skin breathe when it was free of its covering and I sighed in bliss at the little freedom.

I turned my focus back to the river and I dropped to my knees then cupped my hands once more to gather as much water as possible and brought it to my mouth. I didn’t drink a single thing all day and my mouth readily welcomed the liquid. The water was lukewarm but still drinkable and I forced as much as I could down my throat. When I used up all the water I rubbed my wrist across my mouth to get the water out of my beard and then…

‘Wait a moment, I never had a beard,’ I thought.

I felt around my mouth with my hands and noticed that I did indeed have hair on my chin. I looked into the river in hope that it could at least provide me with a reflection in the pale moonlight. I gasped at what the river revealed.

The intense golden eyes stared right back at me and I couldn’t believe what was happening. That wasn’t my face, it was the face of my character from the game.

“That light even took away my face,” my voice started off bitter but quickly turned to surprise. I still had my original voice, and I thanked the universe for that small comfort. I guess I wasn’t able to tell before because of the voice changer in the helmet.

‘And my mind is still mine, that will always be mine,’ I thought cheerfully.

That sense of danger pinged in my mind again as it told me that whatever it was, it was getting closer. I gulped down another handful of water and latched the helmet back on my head. The river obstructed my path to the volcano and I couldn’t see any natural bridges around me. Not wanting to get wet, I decided it was time to test out just how far I can jump and moved back a couple of meters from the river.

I got into a running start and that same energy from before filled my legs with strength. As soon as I got to the edge of the river I released that energy with a jump that sent me far above the river. I was prepared this time and the jump didn’t catch me by surprise this time as I landed a couple meters away from the river on the other side. I laughed as I imagined how much fun I’m going have with this later. A roar sounded off in the distance and I started running up the side of the volcano.

So far I couldn’t see any natural crevices that looked like they could house something my size and I was starting to think I fucked up. That sense of danger kept warning me that the threat was getting closer and suddenly it occurred to me that I could use this sense to find a cave.

‘If I can feel the freaking worms making little caverns underneath me, then maybe I can find a cave around this volcano,’ I thought hopefully.

I stopped running and focused on this new sense and I began to ‘feel’ what was around me again. There was less life around the volcano but I could still feel some plants and moss latching themselves to the side of the volcano. I willed the sense to search further and it did with gusto. I felt around some more and my sense even reached across the river and further into the forest. I started to get a clearer picture of what this threat was and it gave me chills. Air filled large lungs and was exhaled into throaty growls. Muscles filled with some sort of energy reveled in its might as it pushed aside trees that got in the creature’s way with ease. Some weird energy enveloped nearly every part of this creature and I could tell that it was also quadruped.

‘Whatever this thing is, it’ll definitely take more than a few lightsaber cuts to take it down if it even lets me get close enough to try,’ I thought fearfully.

I focused more on finding a cave and my sense stretched across the volcano to find a rather curious phenomenon. Plants and moss covered what seemed to be a large fissure at the base of the volcano. The sense also told me that plant life was the only thing inhabiting the large fissure and I began to make my way towards it. When I reached the mouth of the fissure I reached into my belt and activated my lightsaber to allow the feint red glow to light my path. When I felt that I got in deep enough, I decided that rock floor here was as good as any and sat my butt on the floor and put my back to the wall.

Thinking that I was safe enough to finally shift thru my thoughts and actually try to figure out what was happening. I thought back to the vendor at the Con and wondered if my sister had suffered a similar fate.

‘Oh please don’t be here, please be safe at home and yelling at the police to find my sorry ass. But given how all of this started I can say that it’s possible that she’s here as well,’ I thought sadly.

“Please be alright at least, I don’t know what I would do without my best friend,” I quietly prayed.

My stomach rumbled at the lack of food all day and I made it a priority to find a food source tomorrow. I already found a water source and I can follow that river to see if there is civilization on this blasted island.

Another question that really boggled my mind was what that energy was I felt earlier when I was doing those lightsaber moves. Then that same energy came to me again when I jumped like the hulk over the trees and river. This all led me to my first conclusion. If I’m in possession of all the items my character had on when I last played swtor and even have his own body.

‘Then does that mean that I have…’ I thought giddily, just daring to hope that I was living the dream.

“The Force”

Do I really have control over the Force? A mystic energy thought up by a person’s imagination. Does that mean that this is all just a dream?

‘No all the shit that happened today was too real to be a dream, despite all the weirdness. I could smell the grass and I could feel the solid earth beneath me. This is no dream,’ I thought with finality

I decided that I wanted to test out if I truly had the Force by performing the most common thing a force user can do. I kept the lightsaber on and placed it on the ground directly in front of me. The blade just barely touched the ground and I was grateful for the fact that the hilt kept the blade just barely away from the ground. I then stretched my right hand toward the lightsaber and breathed in deeply for what I was about to do.

‘Alright, time to do some telekinesis,’ I thought in anticipation.

I focused on one thing, and that was to make that lightsaber float. In my mind I imagined the lightsaber floating up in the air defying gravity. After a few seconds passed, energy began to flow into my hand and I lost focus on the strange feeling. The energy was gone and I quickly got back to focusing on the lightsaber. Energy flowed into my hand once more and the impossible happened. The lightsaber lazily floated in the air, and my sense of happiness erupted with joy.

‘I have the Force. I have the fucking Force,’ I thought with glee.

I got a hold of myself and then began to focus on the lightsaber floating into my hand. The lightsaber slowly floated into my hand and I think I was beginning to cry at my discovery for my newfound powers. My left hand reached towards the release on my helmet and I quickly pulled it off to rub my eyes. I took care not have the claws on my gauntlets pierce my eyes and once I had successfully wiped away my tears of joy I began to laugh.

“Hahahaha, out of all the craziness that’s happened today, my lightsaber and powers more than make up for it all.”

I decided that it was time to get some sleep and I turned off the lightsaber. I was immediately surrounded by darkness and the only light came from the moonlight shining thru the mouth of the fissure. I closed my eyes and got ready for a much-needed nap.